Away. Most laws in our society rely on us to do the right thing and do our part on a daily basis. Thats true of every law that we have out there. Reporter as tough as this may be, there are signs of encouragement. This week the county submitted its covid19 vaccination plan to the state detailing its plans for Community Engagement and Vaccine Distribution and management. Facility haves been constructed throughout the county to properly store the vaccines upon arrival that will be made available to Health Care Workers on the front lines with a high risk of contracting the disease. The decision doesnt begin and end with the first decision, we will continue to review the data on the effectiveness and safety of all vaccines coming through. Reporter dr. Grace lee from Stanford School of medicine serves on the Cdc Advisory Committee responsible for making vaccine recrecommendations. Well continue to reevaluate the vaccines in the population to ensure were protecting everybody. Reporter steps being taken uncertainty. In Santa Clara County, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Marin county could soon join the rest of the bay area in the purple tier. Marin remains the only county in the less restrictive red tier. Dr. Matt willis says infection rates are going up in his county but not as badly as other parts of the bay area. San may day oteo health off under purple many businesses are still open but the San Mateo County manager said instead of warnings, any businesses violating rules will get citations. The message were sending to everyone right now is that this is the time to be extremely careful, to really be vigilant and to make sure that you compile with all the regulations and requirements to operate businesses that are out there now. Reporter also, in the update today San Mateo Countys board of supervisors approved the purchase of two hotels to be converted to housing for low income and Homeless Individuals during the panpandemic. We know covid19 cases are on the rise but we have not surpassed the summer surge. This week that changed. So how does this holiday surge compare to the summer . Abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz has a look at the numbers. Reporter this is a graph showing daily covid19 cases in the bay area going back to march. It clear where we had the summer surge but the sobering reality is we surpassed it but by how much . Take a look at the numbers. During the summer surge the bay area as a whole hit a peak on august 17th with 1,419 new cases per day. Currently the bay areas rolling sevenday average is 1,731 new cases per day and growing. So what about specific counties . Lets first look at Santa Clara County, a hot spot here in the bay area. Over the summer santa clara hit a peak with 288 new cases a day. The new average is 456. Now head up north to napa county. Their summer surge peak was on september 2nd with new daily cases at 25. The current average is nearly 40. But not all bay area counties sure pass surpassed the summer surge. Marin isnt close yet. San francisco is essentially tied. The city had its summer surge peak on august 25th with a 14day average of 132 new daily cases. Right now the daily average is 131. So almost exactly the same. The problem there is no sign its turning around and of course, the increase in cases means more hospitalizations and more people in the icu. We do have a couple of thousand icu beds unoccupied but thats, you know, it will catch up pretty quickly. Reporter in almost every bay area county, hospital sailizati are on the rise again like the summer surge. Liz kreutz, abc 7 news. A major announcement from overseas encouraging news today. The United Kingdom became the first country to approve pfizers covid19 vaccine. Britains Health Secretary says the first 800,000 doses will be ready for use starting next week. Seniors and Health Care Workers will have top priority. That developed with a German Company biontech is 95 effective. Kris reyes talked exclusively to the chair of ucsf department of medicine dr. Robert about his list of concerns when it comes to Vaccine Distribution. The doctor has been outspoken about the confidence in the vaccines coming our way and feeling positive about it but expects there will be plenty of bumps on the road. He wants to point them out now before the first shipment gets here. Neither the cdc nor the state of california are likely to get more granular than to say Health Care Workers and people over 65 in Long Term Care facilities are the first two groups. Reporter the question then becomes which Health Care Worker goes first . Take ucsf unlikely to get enough vaccines in the first shipment to cover the entire staff of 30,000. The very complicated task of deciding when employee gets the vaccine first then falls on the hospitals management team. We then have to internally say okay, who goes first . Who goes second . What we will say is the group that will go first are people front line clinicians, nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, transporters. Reporter in a series of 24 tweets, he outlined concerns about the distribution of vaccines, the one that really keeps him up at night, misinformation. There will be thousands of people that get a vaccine and in a month or two have a heart attack or month or two have a stroke or in a monday or two they come down with cancer. Has zero to do with the vaccines. That has to be absolutely clear. Reporter he says he worries these stories will be used to discredit vaccines even after they have been approved by the fda and despite undergoing clinical trials. He says the messaging has to be clear and consistent from the president to local Health Officials. We have to have a really, really vigorous effective anti Misinformation Campaign and judging but how we blew it on masks, that makes me very worried. Reporter the u. K. Is the first country to approve a fully tested covid19 vaccine. Their expected to start giving out shots starting next week. What we learned from the u. K. Is about the same scale of california in terms of size and does not have the complexity of trying to figure out how to do this across 50 states and 330 Million People but there is certainly lessons from the u. K. We should learn from. Reporter the doctor added that Community Leaders should help with communication of Vaccine Information and that Health Officials need to reach out to influencers to help spread their message. Kris reyes, for abc 7 news. Kris, thank you. His twitter feed is must read material every day. Abc 7 coal mitted brks krrks b informed. We have our team to stay on top of everything. Count on them for updates. The surge in covid cases is challenging for front line Health Care Workers, especially one Northern California emergency room doctor. Dr. Taylor nickles spoke with abc news report eer linsey davi about his encounter with a covid patient with a swastika on his chest. He had a black nurse and asian respiratory therapist. In that moment, i questioned how i felt about it because being jewish, seeing that symbol of hate, knowing that, you know, that same compassion may not otherwise have been extended towards me if the roles were reversed really made me double down and look into myself and extend that compassion towards him, do everything i could to save his life. Nickles is a bay area native and works part time at us ev su. He says this wasnt the first time he dealt with the issue but took a bigger toll on him due to the strain of the pandemic. A hawaii couple that traveled from San FranciscoInternational Airport to kauai is arrested for boarding the flight when they knew they were positive for covid19. The mayor announced the arrest. The man and woman are residents of kauai tested positive for pretravel screenings. 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He thanked health care and essential workers and called business the greatest platform for change toting his companys 120 million donation to schools in San Francisco and oakland. On to consumer news, you need the family photos done in time for the holidays. Michael finney has his selfie light ready joining us with tips. Hey, michael . [ laughter ] thats what were all doing these days, right . You can always hire a professional photographer but how about snapping the photos yourself . With just a little practice and the right gear, you could capture beautiful portraits just about any time of the year. When david morgan isnt managing social media accounts, he uses photography as a powerful tool. I was 15 or 16 when i bought my first second hand camera. I was using it to explore blackness looked like and meant for me. Before picking up his camera, david says to capture beautiful portraits, he tries to built a relationship with the subjects. The most important tool is getting to know your subject and having this sort of pandoras box that can be conveyed on camera. With the sense of trust, consider lighting to make your subject shine. If youre photographing someone with a deep erskier ski, think about the ways the light is refliecting on their skin. Pay attention to if someone has dark hair. Think about where the light hits their hair and what you want to capture in the frame. You need proper camera gear. If you look for portability and swift photo sharing options, smart phone cameras are the way to go. The Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra 5 g and apple iphone 12 proa ar at the top of the smart phone camera ratings. Look to see if your smart phone has a portrait mode. It will create a shallower depth of field by blurring the background of your image helping your subject pop more. If you want to take your photography to the next level, Consumer Reports says digital slr cameras that take interchangeable lenses have the most features, the cannon eos 60 and nicon d 750 are top rated. For david, his holiday photographer advice is to embrace the holiday time. This week all the things that make the holidays because it can make a really great photo. Consuzoosumer reports says w photographing someone, practice social distancing and aim for over cast days or the golden hour when the sunlight is most flattering after sunrise and before sunset and you guys back there in the studio, we know when we were all general assignment reporters, you lived for over cast days because everybody that you interviewed looked better and you looked better, too. Back to you guys. Absolutely. Ive been told my golden hour is when the sun has gone down and there is no lighting. Thats optimal for me. [ laughter ] yeah. The National Weather service is warning of big sneaker waves hitting this week. Waves as high as 18 feet could sweep beach goers off their feet and carry into the ocean. Be careful. The warning extends from the sonoma coast south to big sir with monterrey county expected to see some of the biggest waves. The warning in effect through 4 00 tomorrow afternoon. Especially Spencer Christian with its going to be nice and sunny outside. A lot of people want to head on down to the beach to take a look but you have to be careful. Youre right about that, larry. You have to be really careful and watchful because these waves can be dangerous. Here is a look at the statement from the National Weather service as you pointed out. Its in effect until 4 ocho 00 p. M. Tomorrow. There is a high to extreme risk of the dangerous sneaker waves and a risk of rip currents, as well. Bare that in mind if youll be down along the coastline. Looking at our fair and milder weather, here is a lovely view from the sutro tower. Its 62 here in the city. 65 oakland and low 60s at mountain view, san jose and gilroy and 55 Half Moon Bay. Looking for the, searching for the setting sun as we look toward the golden gate from emeryville. It is 64 santa rosa, napa 63, fairfield and livermore, concord 65. Pretty mild in many inland areas and here is a nice view from the rooftop camera looking across the embarcadero. Chilly in many inland areas overnight with passing high clouds and some low clouds near the coast, as well. Dry mild days continue into next week and with an increase in wind over the weekend, sunday into monday, actually, there may also come increased fire danger and well keep monitoring that situation for you. The overnight conditions will look this way, 9 00 tonight increasing clouds at the coast, high clouds sweeping over 5 00 tomorrow morning into the morning commute some clouds will still be there. In the afternoon mainly sunny with a few high clouds tomorrow. Overnight low temperatures from mid to upper 30s in most inland areas to low 40s around the bay shoreline and on the coast. Then tomorrow, look for highs ranging from about 61 at Half Moon Bay to 62 San Francisco, oakland 64, 63 fremont, san jose 65. Inland east bay mainly 64, 65 degrees, up in the north bay 66 santa rosa 65 napa so still pretty mild and most inland areas looking ahead a bit this forecast animation will take us through the weekend. You can see numerous disturbances moving into the Pacific Northwest to produce rain and in some cases snow up in that area and some of those systems may skirt the northern most part of california over the weekend but doesnt look like any of that moisture will make its way down into the bay area. We may get an increase in clouds from time to time but no rain is likely so our dry mild pattern continues as you can see here on the accuweather sevenday forecast. Going to be quite mild at various pointing during the forecast period. Friday near 70 and next tuesday also near 70 degrees inland but its that critical period from sunday night into monday as the winds become quite gusty and dry over the hills where were looking at the possibility of increased fire risk and of course, well keep watching that, monitoring that situation for you. Larry . All right. Thank you, spencer. Bay area teen is meeting his idles and becoming a bit of a social media star for his paintings of Jennifer Lopez make your holidays happen. At ross surprise ahhh yes i love it you dont have to spend a lot to give a lot to the ones who mean the most. Youve got the holidays, and weve got you, with the best bargains ever. At ross. Yes for less for members like martin. An air force veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. 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