Than yesterday. Temperatures warmer than average. 61 at Half Moon Bay to 66 today in santa rosa. Places like San Francisco, 62. Oakland, 64. San jose 65. Heres kumasi. Thank you. New overnight in San Diego County firefighters in Rancho San Diego stopped the spread of a fastmoving brush fire that destroyed one structure. It started just before 11 00 last night. It grew quickly to 25 acres fanned by santa ana winds. Residents in the area have been evacuated. Earlier last night San Diego Gas and electric shut off power to tens of thousands of customers because of the wildfire risk. In Orange County more than 240 firefighters are battling this 1,500 acre blaze. It is threatening homes. Mandatory evacuations have been issued for several areas this started with a house fire and the embers sparked new fires. More than 100,000 americans are hospitalized with covid19 this morning. In Santa Clara County a dire warning. It could run out of hospital beds. But there is hope as plans to distribute vaccines are now in the works. Heres dan ashley. I actually believe theyll be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Reporter the director of the cdc issuing a stark warning about the next three months. The surge coincides with the rollout of a vaccine. Any time several countries roll this out at once, it puts confidence in the population. Reporter president obama said he would take the vaccine if dr. Fauci says it is safe. Cnn says former president s bill clinton and george w. Bush are also on board and would do it on camera i was pleasantly surprised at the extraordinarily high degree of the efficacy of the vaccines. 94 and 95 is almost as good as it gets. Reporter states and counties are drawing up vaccine plans. The cdc says some Industries Like airlines and longterm care could ultimately mandate vaccination. Interpol is warning governments to be on the lookout for advertising and sales of fake vaccines. That was dan ashley reporting. This morning bay area counties are working to make sure they have the specialized freezers to hold the covid19 vacs once they arrive. Amy hollyfield is live in novato where one group is helping out with that process. Amy . Hi. This is the Buck Institute for research on a. G. , this is one place that has freezers. Theyre trying to clear them out and make space for the vaccine. Counties across the bay area are looking around trying to secure freezer space wherever they can find it as they wait for vaccine shipments. The Buck Institute plans to loan marin county two or three freezers pore vaccine storage. Dominican university of california says they will also offer freezer space. Santa clara county is still rounding up cold storage equipment even as they assess what they have, more opportunities are coming in. Before coming to the press conference i was on the phone with a group who said freerszze arrived on a truck as of yesterday. Multiple freezers have been installed in parts of the country, buildings that we own and operate and additional freezers are being purchased and installed by other private Health Care Providers as well. Alameda countys website says they are still in the process of purchasing freezers and dry ice for the vaccine. The race is on in the private sector as well. Sutter health says they have already invested 100,000 on 14 freezers. Some of which are portable. This is all important because the vaccines made by pfizer require storage around negative 70 degrees. Reporting live in novato, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. Abc7 is keeping you informed about developments with the covid19 vaccine. We have assembled the abc7 vaccine team to stay on top of all of it. Count on us for updates as new information comes in. The mayor of los angeles says the city is close to a devastating Tipping Point because of a surge in cases. Daily infections have tripled just since the beginning of november. Mayor Eric GarcettisDaily Briefing was met with a wave of confusion. The city issued a revised stayathome order telling everyone to avoid going out if possible. People thought this was new and garcetti was trending on twitter overnight, however the Mayors Office said no new restrictions were added they just changed the language. A member of governor newsoms staff tested positive for covid19. The unidentified staff member has not been around the governor or his family. Staff members who were potentially exposed are quarantining. Newsom and his family had to go into quarantine last week after three of their kids were exposed to a chp officer with covid19. Students and staff at one east bay alternative school are in quarantine. They all tested positive for coronavirus. It happened days after the class reopened for inperson learning. As cornell ber hard tearnard te despite the outbreak the school is still open. Reporter jan speaks to us at home from where shes been in isolation since contracting covid at dell we have 100 . Five students and three students tested positive days after those who chose to returned to inperson learning. Two of them had a fever temperature. Reporter temperature checks are not required at school. Masks are a must, but some special education students are not able to wear them due to medical issues. Im upset that we would be put in a situation with students to wear face masks or stay socially distanced. Reporter this womans daughter was exposed on the school bus to one of the students who tested positive. Mother and daughter now in quarantine. She says sending ellie back to the classroom was a tough choice. I want to protect my child, but its so difficult for her to be learning at home. Reporter the superintendent says the classroom where the outbreak happened has been disinfected, but the del amigo campus remains open. We know some of our students need to be on campus. We do believe we can focus on health and safety. Reporter he says special education teachers have been issued ppe through guidance from the health department, but jan believes with covid spiking across the bay area returning to school is not safe. Look what happened. Reporter cornell barnard, abc7 news. Two Stanford University students are helping to build a better bay area. Theyre helping students connect for Long Distance learning. They built laptops and put them in the hands of 400 individuals around the area. Well meet the two stanford students behind this mission coming up on gma at 7 00 after abc7 mornings. Our blanket of high clouds has kept us milder this morning. Temperatures up to 5 degrees milder than this time yesterday. Lets look at some neighborhoods. Along the east bay shore, 41 in fremont and castro valley. Most of us in the mid 40s until you get to alameda, 51 degrees. We have fog up in the north bay, not unusual. Mid to upper 30s there. We have 49 in San Francisco. 41 in places like mountain view, san jose, also los gatos and out towards brentwood and antioch. Pleasanton, 36. Heres what will happen today as far as your activity planner. Its chilly this morning, comfortable if youre exercising today. If youre at home whether its working or studying, i have a lot of sunshine today. And dangerous waves at our beaches. We still have high energy waves creating high to extreme risk of sneaker waves. So watch out if youre beach combing today. If you get caught in the water, it would pull you out quickly. Thats through 4 00 today. Heres our planner as far as temperatures. A few 40s inland by 9 00. Most of us 50 to 52 degrees. You can see some sunshine once the morning high clouds pass. Temperatures around 55 to 60. At 1 00, were looking around 57 to 62. At 3 00, our warmest temperature, 60 to 63. If youre out and about this evening, dropping quickly into the low to mid 50s with increasing high clouds. Well look at the sevenday forecast coming up. Here is sue hall with a look at the morning commute. Good morning. Looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, not much to look at here. Just a few cars headed in the s westbound direction towards the toll plaza and over the incline section through the tunnel and on into San Francisco for a tenminute drive. The san mateo bridge, we didnt need to have that, thats your bay bridge backup. That was yesterday. Just about a 14minute drive to get from 880 to 101. One problem spot, this is the noncommute, the eastbound direction of 580, near north flynn on the altamont pass. A truck and a car got into it. Its partially blocking the right lane. The car is stuck underneath the truck. So theyll have to get a heavy duty tow truck out there. All right. Thank you. Sfmta could be forced to lay off 18 to 22 of muni employees as it faces a projected 68 million budget deficit. Revenue has been devastated as people avoid Public Transit during the pandemic. Without more federal funding Officials Say they need to lay off up to 1,200 fulltime employees. President trump filed another federal lawsuit this time in wisconsin as he tries to litigate his way out of his loss in the 2020 president ial election. Last night the president called on the courts to respond within 48 hours to the case. His attorneys are challenging the broad availability of mailin voting for the States Residents which was granted because of the risks associated with covid19. A lawyer calls this strategy frivolous and misleading. Coming up, new pictures of captain cal and the rescue cub in his new home. A doctor in the bay area shocked at what he found while working to save a man battling covid19. Well hear from him. On the move, well show you what floated across the bay welcome to 15 days of saving up to 500 on fast, reliable internet and. Mobile with nationwide 5g on the most reliable network. Welcome to familyconnecting, holidayshopping, black friday awesome. Because, for a limited time, when you get xfinity internet and mobile together. You can get a 200 prepaid card. And up to 300 off select mobile phones. For up to 500 in savings. This sale wont last, so click, call, or visit a store today all right. Lets look at whats going on outside as were coming up on about 5 14. You can see just a few high clouds out there with our stars. 38 to 45 at 7 00. A little more sunshine at noon as we push 60, then the high clouds get thicker this afternoon. 57 to 63. Low to mid 50s as you head out at 7 00 this evening. Critical fire conditions continue in Southern California through saturday. So many days of having to bowor about the fire threat down there. As far as the waves, theyre a threat also the closer you are to the beach. 60s and 70s for us. Heres the sevenday forecast for tahoe, its stunningly quiet other than a few flurries possible monday and breezy conditions, temperatures will remain warmer than average with no snow. Kumasi . Thank you. We are hearing from an emergency room doctor who was shocked at what he found while battling a patient with covid19. The doctor is jewish and the patient had nazi symbols on him. He was significantly ill, we had to intubate him. Reporter dr. Taylor nichols is describing the moment he and his team worked to save a patient. A patient whose body was covered in nazi tattoos. Being jewish, seeing that symbol of hate, knowing that 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. Reporter dr. Nichols described the incident in 17 tweets on twitter that garnered thousands of views saying the swastika stood out boldly on his chest. Ss at tus a s chest. Ss at tus tattoos and other in that were covered by his shirt were obvious to the room. Everybody noticed, commented outside the room as we prepared, but none of us questioned what we were doing. Reporter while the nazi tattoos were not enough to stop them from doing their work, they did have an impact on dr. Nichols who is from the bay area. I knew that myself, my team, we were going to do the right thing. But i never quite had a moment like that where i did, physically paused. Reporter dr. Nichols says as they were working to save the man, he said dont let me die, doc. The hospital and doctor nichols are unsure if the man survived but say they did everything to try to save him. We did perform those lifesaving measures and intubated him, but that moment caused me to question i never felt quite so challenged in that way in my compassion before. Reporter j. R. Stone, abc7 news. Okay. We have a very cool thing to share with you right now. I actually just passed it not long ago on my way into work. That is the first of its kind fire station that is now here in San Francisco. It floated into place, can you believe that in this new video shows the station now living at pier 22 1 2 along the embarcadero and harrison street. Crews moved it across the bay from Treasure Island overnight. You can see here, this is the path this took. Sky 7 flew over it yesterday and that is where it now lives. The department decided to put it on the water instead of on land due to the effects of climate change. Its really exciting, its going to be able to go up and down with the tides. So we know that if theres going to be sea level rise, which were expecting, there will be resilience for that. Reporter because it floats the station will be able to withstand earthquakes. It opens for service this spring. Thats cool. The chronicles of captain cal continue. He is now at his new home with his adopted sisters. The oakland zoo shared these pictures of the three rescue lions saying success. The cubs arrived to columbus zoo safe and sound after a long day of travel by plane and car. The columbus keepers are excited to have these three musketeers. They jumped right into action continuing the cubs development. Staff at the oakland zoo have been caring for the trea yo since they were rescued from the zog fire in shasta county. Captain cal is not related to the two female cubs, but they have spent time together and now theyre basically brother and sister and thats that. Theyre family now. Theyre family. Mike, i hope that brings you joy this morning. Im sad and joyful. Its a ying and yang type of thing. Hes so adorable im happy for him. I had a perfect spot for all of them. They could have lived with me. What . Thats great. I hope he lives his best life. What . Im trying to understand what perfect spot you have for three Mountain Lion cubs in the house. I guess well never know now. I guess. All right. Lets look at at today we have dry and quiet weather, no definitive chance of rain the next seven days. Look at that, a heightened fire threat continues for sunday and monday. No fire weather watch. No red flag warning yet. Its a borderline event right now. Those wouldnt be issued until about 48 hours in advance. You can see a wall of high clouds coming at us after the one thats over us dissipates a bit this morning. But the bulk of that moisture heading to the north. So theyre going to misss once again. With High Pressure controlling us, even with the high clouds, temperatures a little bit above average today. 61 at Half Moon Bay. 62 in San Francisco. How about san mateo and fremont and san rafael at 63. Concord at 64. Livermore and san jose at 64. Tonight were back into the middle 30s, upper 30s inland. Low to mid 40s around the bay. A few high clouds hanging around once again or it would be cooler. Tomorrow well see more sunshine and a degree or two of warmth. The breezes start to turn offshore saturday and sunday as another cold front passes us to the north. That will induce more of a sea breeze. Thats why temperatures wont be quite as warm. Pushing the fastest winds into monday, which is good news, which means you should be able to sleep better sunday night. But monday well keep an eye on that for the highest fire danger. Thank you. Coming up next, the 7 things to know this morning. U. P. S. Pumping the brakes on picking up packages durin if youre just joining us, heres the 7 things to know this morning. Number one, a dire warning about coronavirus. Santa clara county says they could run out of hospital beds soon. More than 100,000 people are hospitalized across the country right now. The cdc says 200,000 people could die in the next three months. Number two, local counties rushing to secure refrigeration equipment wherever they can find it as they wait for covid19 vaccine shipments. Dominican university and the Buck Institute are offering space in their freezers. Five sta members and three Staff Members at Del Amigo High School are isolating this morning after testing positive for covid19. Number four, President Trump has filed a n lawsuit in wisconsin challenging mailin voting during novembers election. Last night his attorneys called on the courts to respond within 48 hours to the case. Keeping an eye on sunday night into monday. The increasing fire threat. Look at those winds, 25 to nearly 40 Miles Per Hour. Its not unprecedented, but its very unusual to have a red flag warning in december. Number six, following your thursday morning drive. We go back to the bay bridge. We have a stall westbound just before Treasure Island. You can see theres no delays here at the toll plaza and towards the other side coming off the western span, traffic is moving fine here as well. Be aware that stall is out there before the island. Number seven, look at this. San franciscos first floating fire station is at its new home this morning. Overnight it was moved to pier 22 1 2 near the bay bridge and it will open for service this spring. In todays gma first look u. P. S. Has told drivers to stop picking up packages from six major retailers. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, Holiday Shipping crunch. This morning possible cracks in the shipping system. U. P. S. Refusing to pick up packages from some stores after a record breaking cybermonday. U. P. S. Directing drivers to stop collecting orders from six large retailer