Received emergency authorization from the fda. This is a treatment President Trump received during his bout with the virus in october. Again, this is a treatment, not a vaccine. Three companies as tra sevtr pfizer and moderna have vaccines developed. Moderna expects to file before december that starts a week from today. Pfizer filed and on december 10th, the fda Vaccine Advisory Committee will discuss. If approved, distribution could begin almost immediately. We believe we can distribute to all 64 jurisdictions within 24 hours of fda authorization. One private sector, c havs heal expects to be vaccinate residents of Nursing Homes within 48 hours. When a vaccine is approved by the fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat coronavirus and build a better bay area. Weve assembled the abc 7 vaccine team. Kate larson, luz pena and Michael Finney and more. Today abc 7 News Reporter luz pena talked with vaccine trial participants what they experienced of getting injected with moderna and pfizer vaccines. Reporter as the race for the covid19 savaccine continues, ty are describing side effects. The first person in the u. S. To trial a covid19 vaccine. Reporter jennifer howler was injected on march 16th with the experimental vaccine by moderna. My arm was sore the next day. I had two doses of the vaccine, four weeks apart and each time my arm was pretty sore the next day. Reporter in september, daniel was injected as part of pfizers covid19 trial. The trial is double blind so he is not sure if he received the vaccine or the placebo but said it was similar to a flu shot. I got aching in the muscles like it didnt feel right. It went away after that day. Reporter for side effects, fatigue, chills, headache, muscle pain and pain at the injection site. Ucsf infection disease specialist says these are normal vaccine symptoms. 25 to 50 of people might feel some mild side effects after the first dose. Reporter are these vaccines safe . These vaccines, as we know, are safe. They are not live virus. They are bits of protein. Reporter both pfizer and moderna announced that Clinical Trials show the vaccines are more than 90 effective with 70,000 people on the trials combined. To longterm side effects. Usually these occur within two months and so far, they havent had any problems with either the pfir the moderna vaccine. Reporter in San Francisco, luz pena, a bbc 7 news. Nearly every state and territory u. S. Is seeing a surge in coronavirus cases and california is no exception. Our state came close to the record high number of new cases today. Bear in mind, the record was set this past sunday. Liz kreutz joins us with the latest. Things continue to be not so great in california. San francisco, marin and san mateo did not move into the purple tier today, overall the numbers everywhere continue to go up and another number on the rise hospitalizations. With thanksgiving two days away, californias covid19 cases are not showing any signs of slowing down. The 14day Positivity Rate is now 5. 6 , a 51 increase from two weeks ago on november 10th when it was 3. 7 . At that point, there were roughly 7,000 cases a day. Today, there is more than 15,000. Hospitalizations have increased since then, too, by a whopping 81 . Statewide i dont believe weve ever seen as many hospital admissions increased like we did just in the past 24 hours. Reporter this message critical ahead of the holiday season. Today californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley again desperately urged people to reconsider their thanksgiving plans. He even brought out a map of californias thanksgiving day forecast making the case that if you do have to gather, then do so outside. Never did i think id get to be a weather forecaster or weather person but here you go. Reporter the only good news, San Francisco, marin and san mateo counties did not move into the lowest purple tier. Dr. Galley said it doesnt mean it wont happen soon and take a look at this map, not a single california county remains in the yellow tier meaning the most minimal spread. For most counties, transmission remains wide spread. The truth is that even those activities which felt low risk, felt safer a month ago, today are higher risk than many of us realize. Reporter while cases are going up across the state, there are some areas hit harder than others when you compare the bay area to los angeles county, the difference is striking. L. A. Has a sevenday Positivity Rate of 6. 6 , significantly higher than most of the bay area. In los angeles because of unique and broad scale characteristics of how our communities are set up, you see a perfect sort of storm of where transmission can occur. Reporter and dr. Galley said household transmission there in l. A. Is a big factor and they also saw a spike in cases from celebrations following the dodgers and lakers wins. Another reminder that these gatherings can and do lead to increased transmission and we need to be vigilant this thanksgiving, ama. Liz, with these spikes, is there any sense another statewide lockdown could be coming . Is that being considered . Thats something dr. Galley was asked about today and made it sound like at the moment that is not something being considered. He said they are trying to be march targ more targeted by allowing specific counties to set guidelines and activities like indoor, Outdoor Dining considered to be high risk and allowing activities at lower risk to continue. Thats where things stand now. Well see if the cases continue to go up. Who knows. Thanks, liz. The state has more than 1. 1 million total diagnosed cases in coronavirus. Here were likely to top 150,000 total cases by friday. That would be a week after we reached 140,000. On this graph, were charting the number of new cases reported each day in our ten local counties. We include santa cruz county. The yellow line representing the rolling average that is rising and approaching local levels. All but three are in the states most restrictive purple tier. Only San Francisco, moran and san mateo remain in the red tier. And no bay area county has changed tiers in over a week, actually. San francisco says it is teetering on the brink of the most restrictive tier. Abc 7 News Reporter melanie woodro explains what would change. Reporter San FranciscoHealth Officials say were at a critical moment, covid19 cases and hospitalizations are up. San francisco is currently in the red tier but expected to move to the more restrictive purple tier before weeks end. Cannot let the virus get so far ahead of us or we will never catch up. Reporter director of the San Francisco office of economic and work force development, joaquin torrez. If and when that happens, it city will be required to rollback or reduce capacity of several activities within 24 hours. This will require us to stop the indoor operations at houses of worship, movie theaters, museums, zoos, aquariums, gyms, and fitness centers. Reporter for the limited stayathome order, torrez says all nonessential businesses will have to shut down at 10 0 ocho p. 0 p. M. And people will be prohibited from gathering after 10 0 0 p. M. They dont want residents to use city testing sites to travel or gather with people outside their household. A negative covid test is not a ticket to freely social lie l without precaution. Reporter they want everybody to stay home and celebrate with people they live with. We can crush this virus for a third time. Reporter melanie woodro, abc 7 news. The state has four tiers, yellow, orange, red apurple. There are three criteria, the case rate or number of new cases per 100,000 people. The test Positivity Rate, thats the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive and the Health Equity measure, which requires the Positivity Rate and high risk neighborhoods to not be significantly different than the counties overall number. We made it easy to keep track of where your county stands and why with this interactive map. A lot more to come, Scott Peterson is sitting on death row. Why are there Unemployment Benefits in his name . Prosecutors say this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to edd fraud perpetrated by Prison Inmates during the pandemic. Im Spencer Christian on this eve of thanksgiving eve, you may be wondering what is the weather going to be like . Ill have the answer in my Scott Peterson is one of tens of thousands of Prison Inmates with covid unemployment claims paid resulting in 1 billion perhaps worth of fraud since march, since the pandemic started. It being pegged as the largest case of taxpayer fraud in california history. The iteam first broke the story in october and 7 on your side has doggedly pursued edd issues that affected thousands of californians that found themselves out of work during the pandemic. Stephanie sierra is live tonight with the latest developments and an unbelievable case. Certainly is, dan. We heard from district attorneys representing five counties across the state including San Mateo County admitting this fraud is growing out of control and the vast majority that should be in the hands of struggling families will likely never be repaid. It is perhaps and will be one of the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in california history. Reporter 1 billion worth of unem ploelt bployment benefits pockets of tens of thousands of inmates across the state. To give you an idea of the type of criminals cashing in, Scott Peterson was a name used. Rapist, child molesters and human traffickers involved. Reporter from march to august, 35,000 claims have been filed in the name of california state Prison Inmates including 133 inmates currently on death row. To put it in perspective, 20,000 of those claims have been paid since august. Amounting to 140 million. Its scary how much money has been lost, not to it went the wrong way but stolen. Reporter the san mateos d. A. s office was one of the first to uncover the scheme where 21 inmates including these eight at a redwood city facility were charged for defrauding the state out of 250,000 worth of Unemployment Benefits. We figured its probably in some other county jails, too. To find out its a theft of hundreds of millions going throughout the state prison to death row even that have to stop that. Reporter how does it stop . And why didnt the state catch this . The reason stems from the lack of a crossexamining system that would ensure data is matched against edd claims. We need to turn off the speck et. Right now there is no cross matching between the data like its being done in 35 other states. Reporter an issue nine district attorneys across the state voiced in a letter to the governor requesting health on the you aurgent matter. It must be a priority. We need to look why were not cross referencing, if there is a statute that prevents it from cross referencing, clearly, that has to be checkanged. Reporter necessary to help hundreds of thousands of people like brittany and ben. All of my money on that card, i cant even go get food. I havent been able to pay octobers rent because of that. Reporter who need this money to survive. Meanwhile, the response from the edd has been consistently criticized as slow and nonex t nonexiste nonexistent. Weve reached out for further comment but have yet to hear back. For the iteam, stephanie sierra. Lots of this fraud is in the name of inmates but did some inmates actually receive benefits from multiple claims . Yes, we learned today some inmates received benefits from as many as 16 different claims. In fact, the highest claims paid went to death row unmatinmates amounted up to 20,000 each. Thank you. Many people have had problems with unemployment claims and Michael Finney and the 7 on your side team have been tracking issues closely. You can reach them and the iteam by going to our website, abc7news. Com. In san jose, were learning more about one of the survivors of that deadly stabbing inside a downtown church, which has been a safe haven for the homeless for a number of years. Chris nguyen spoke with a friend of a survivor. Reporter as the community tries to process the deadly stabbing inside the Grace Baptist Church homeless shelter, a story of hero wisdom is coming to light. There with volunteers to help provide support to that community and when i heard about this happening at grace, my heart sank. Reporter two people were killed but three remain in serious condition. Mayor sam lacardo said pham surviv survived. Last week pham was noticed for his work on the census team. A go fund me page had been set up. He had been volunteering at grace over the past month. Everybody has down time but for him, his down time was doing things for other people. Just a heart of gold. Reporter police are still investigating what led up to the stabbing and are in the process of interviewing witnesses who saw the attack. Sources tell abc 7 news that the suspect is a homeless man who is known to the church. Hes currently in jail awaiting the First Court Appearance on wednesday. The world needs less violence, more love. Reporter this pastor says more needs to be done to help tackle homelessness. We spoke to him this afternoon as he delivered blankets to the needy. There is a risk that comes with working with the unhoused. Very difficult environment. That is the only thing that will help solve it. You can throw money at it but you got to be boots on the ground and face to phatoface volunteering. Reporter words of encouragement. It breaks your heart but at the same time, its heroic. People that are every day servants in the mids trt of cri are the true heroes, always have been. San Francisco Police provided new details this afternoon about a shooting by a last week. During their briefing, they say investigators learned the person shot had set a fire at his apartment about 90 minutes before the encounter with police. The man identified as Antonio Estrada then got into some sort of fight with at least two other people. There is video of that incident. Poice say when they arrived on the scene, he was carrying a knife and frying pan. An offer tried to use nonlethal force to stop him but that didnt work. Mr. Estrada ran directly at the first officer with the knife in his right hand and frying pan in the left hand. The second officer then discharged his firearm at mr. Estrada. Mr. Estrada fell to the sidewalk and dropped the frying pan but didnt drop the knife. Ea strada is alive with life threatening injuries. We spoke with San Francisco district attorney. We asked him about his decision to file manslaughter charges against a former officer in a deadly shooting. We definitely need more training and better training and need the public to understand that we enforce the laws equally. That in San Francisco, on my watch, no one is above the law. That when Police Officers violate the law, they will be held accountable. Keep in mind, this is the first time an on duty officer has faced a homicide charge in San Francisco. That officer was on the job for only four days. Community and Business Leaders in oakland came together today with a demand that the city take action to address race and getter disparities. Oakland hired a company to look into inequality in city contracting. That study was given to the city in february. They came together to demand the findings be released and as Lauren Taylor spoke, he got word the city will release the research. This is an example of how us rising to the call, making our voices heard and advocating for ourselves and for others is being directly responded to. The study will be presented during a meeting on december 3rd for counsels approval. The research addresses disparities and provides recommended solutions. Cruel but not too cold. Its looking like well have very nice weather for thanksgiving. Spencer has your in honor of thanksgiving this week, lets give thanks for this beautiful weather. Plenty of people and plenty of birds were out and about. Another thing to be thankful for, lots of people wearing masks. Yeah. Which is good to see. There is a good deal of people out there, dan. Thats true, ama. People do seem to be heeding the warnings, which is good to see. Spencer christian is here with the thanksgiving forecast. We saw a lot of birds in the video but not big turkey birds, spencer, i think they are in hiding. They are in hiding, exactly. Thats what i was going to say. Youre right. Ill give you a quick look at Current Conditions and a little thanksgiving teaser. This is the view on the emba embarcade embarcadero. It is 53. In fact, virtually every location here is in the low to mid 50s, oakland, mountain view, san jose, gilroy and Half Moon Bay, 52 and 55. The view from the east bay hills camera looking westward. 51 degrees in santa rosa and navato low 50s and napa and fairfield. 60 concord. Thats the mild spot at the moment and 56 livermore. These are the forecast features as we look across the embark de em babarcadero and gusty winds tomorrow into early thursday but bright and sunny thanksgiving day and here is just a little bit of a day planner for thanksgiving day. Breezy and chilly Early Morning hours but sunny and mild in the afternoon. When i come back with big weather, ill give you a look at the forecast and breakdown overcovef conditions for dining outside. Thank you, spencer. Im Wayne Freedman with the size of the turkeys theyre selling they say a