Thats according to data from the covid tracking project. There is hope. Of course a vaccine is on the horizon. The fda could approve pfizers vaccine next week. Dr. Anthony fauci says life may be close to normal by summer if 70 of the public gets vaccinated. This morning bay area counties are working to make sure they have the specialized freezers to hold the covid19 vaccines once they arrive. Amy hollyfield is live in novato where one group is helping out with that process. Amy . Theres like a freezerererer Scavenger Hunt going on in the bay area. Counties across the bay area are looking around trying to secure freezer space wherever they can find it as they wait for vaccine shipments. Counties are doing what they can to find them now that the governor announced the state will be receiving the Pfizer Vaccine in a couple weeks. Alameda countys website said theyre still in the protest of purchasing freezers and dry ice for the vaccine. In Santa Clara County theyre still in the gathering of pro social security. In terms of the number of freezers, i dont have an exact number. Before coming to the press conference i was on the phone with a group who said freezers arrived on a truck as of yesterday. Dominican University Says they will offer freezers, and in novato, the Buck Institute for research on aging is rushing to clear out their freezers to make space for vaccine storage. The private sector is looking for cold storage. Sutter health says they invested 100,0 100,000 on 14 freezers. This is necessary because that vaccine is required to be stored at negative 70 degrees. Reporting live in novato, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. If the fda approves pfizers vaccine, marin counties expects van vaccinations later this month. They want to prioritize vaccinating health care workers. At this time the county doesnt know how many doses of the vaccine theyll get. Abc7 is committed to keeping you informed about the developments with the covid19 vaccine. We have assembled the abc7 vaccine team to stay on top of this. You can count on us for updates as new information comes in. A member of governor newsoms staff testeds 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 school are in quarantine after they tested positive for covid19. Five Staff Members and three students at del amigo school got sick. One of them is jan jimenez. She said she noticed two students who looked like they were running a fever. Im upset that we would be put in a situation with students to wear face masks or stay socially distanced. The school began inperson learning. Masks are required but some special education students cant wear them because of medical issues. The classroom where the outbreak happened has been disinfected and the school is open. 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. Two Stanford University students are behind in this mission and appearing on gma this morning. 11 Million Students dont have laptops at all. You can see the entire story and how they hope to expand their program across the country coming up on gma at 7 00. President trump has 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 lead lawyer combating trumps legal barrage calls the strategy frivolous and misleading. Public transport takes a hit during the pandemic. The cuts likely coming to muni in San Francisco. Wildfire season stretches into december. The fires now burning in Southern California. Plus the fire danger coming soon to the bay area. Yeah. We definitely have some gusty winds coming our way. Lets look. Most of sunday will be okay. But as you look at monday morning were starting to see them spread from the Central Valley into the north bay, then across all of our neighborhoods. Gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour to 35 Miles Per Hour bringing a heightened fire danger for 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 welcome back. In San Diego County firefighters in Rancho San Diego have been able to stop 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. There may be a threat for fire danger in the bay area this weekend. We want to check in with mike for more on that. All right. Yeah. We have about a 24 hour window from midnight monday to midnight tuesday for a heightened fire condition. Right now we dont have a fire weather watch or red flag warning like they have down in Southern California because were too far out and right now its marginal. So its something were going to keep an eye on. For sure through at least saturday, the worst fire conditions will be with the santa ana winds. Seasonal temperatures in the morning, warmer in the afternoon, beach combing is not recommended as the seas continue to be angry as the passing storms are producing high sneaker waves and the risk of rip currents. That goes through 4 00 today. Thats our Biggest Issue on your activity planner. Otherwise pretty nice weather. A little chilly this morning in the house if youre at home working or about to learn from home, if youre out exercising, its going to be a nice day. Youll need the sunglasses and probably will need a light jacket. This morning dress for 30s and 40s. More on the accuweather 7day forecast coming up. Lets get over to sue and talk about the traffic. Good morning. Hot spot as usual, bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights were turned on early this morning at 5 43 because of a stall on the span. So they slowed down the metering lights, that stall was removed rather quickly, but you can see the result here. Its about a tenminute delay back towards the macarthur maze. Looking at some drive times, jammed coming out of tracy up and over the Altamont Pass westbound on 580, less than 45 minutes. Highway 4 westbound is clear, looking good into concord. If your traveling take you from san rafael into San Francisco via the golden gate bridge, less than 20 minutes. Earlier problems eastbound on 580, the noncommute direction near north flynn, turns out a couple of incidents, one in the same ends up being that car that was a dodge pickup truck, its moved to the righthand shoulder. No delays headed eastbound. Sfmta could be forced to lay off 18 to 22 of muni employees as they face a 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. On the move, well show you what floated across the bay from Treasure Island to San Francisco overnight. And singers rock around the christmas stree at rotree at ro center. The introduction to one performance that sparked controversy on no one sees you need help. No one knows youre not okay. So when someone recognizes the importance of Mental Health and offers a hand, it means everything. My illness may be invisible. But thanks to covered california, im not. All covered California Health insurance plans are comprehensive with Mental Health coverage, and financial help for people who need it. Covered california. This way to health insurance. Enroll by december 15th. Crews are putting into place San Franciscos first of its kind fire station. New video shows the floating station at pier 22 1 2. This is 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. Happening today, the Holiday Season really gets going in the south bay mall. Santa claus arrives this morning at westville valley fair ready to hear the Christmas Wish lists of all the kids. Theyll be able to take socially distanced photos with santa. You have to make a reservation on the Shopping Centers website. Photo packages start at 40. Santa will be at westville valley fair every day until december 24th. Fans of the goo goo dolls are reacting because of what was said during the annual Christmas TreeLighting Ceremony at Rockefeller Center in new york city. This is video of the moments that the lights and tree went on. Things are going great. But then the goo goo dolls joined a bunch of high profile performers to celebrate the tree lighting. It wasnt the bands performance that caused people to lose their minds its when they were introduced for the second performance. The goo goo dolls were called a classic rock group. Fans couldnt help but suddenly feel old. Hurt feelings. I wish we could hear sue right now. Sue is our radio expert. Theyre not classic rock, right . No. How would you describe them . Very 90s. 90s rock. Yeah. Mmhmm. Also old, but not super sold. Thats the distinction. No. Not classic rock. Not classic rock. Got it. Not 60s and 70s classic rock. Not at all. All right. Lets talk about whats going on as far as sutro tower. You can see its clear out there, about 47 degrees. Our dry and quiet weather pattern tonights today. No definitive chance of rain the next seven days. The heightened fire threat sunday through monday. Lets talk neighborhood temperatures. 39 in alum rock, santa teresa, 37. Campbell, 39. Everyone else in the low 40s. Los altos and los gatos, 48 and 52. We have 34 in danville. 35 in fairfield. 35 in alameda and San Francisco. 40 in cupertino, sebastopol and na napa. Another storm passing us to the west. A few high clouds breaking off from it heading our way. High clouds and sunshine and temperatures about two to three, four degrees warmer than average. The average high is 59 this time of year. 61 to 66, so 7 degrees warmer than average. Tonight seasonal with mid to upper 30s inland. Fog in the usual spots in the north bay. High clouds keeping us from getting too cold tonight. Tomorrow, a little more sunshine. About a degree, maybe up to four degrees warmer. And then another passes us to the west and the north that will induce more of an onshore breeze. Morning clouds and cooler in the afternoon. Monday is really looking like the bullseye for our windiest day. Any heightened fire danger will happen then. Tuesday and wednesday, nearing 70 away from the coast. Starting to look more like spring. Were going the wrong way, kumasi. All right. Thank you. Now were going to check in with rob marciano who has a look at whats coming up on gma. Good morning to you, kumasi. Happy thursday. Lots coming up on gma. We start the show with operation warp speed rolling out the coronavirus vaccine. They have the first 20 million doses of the vaccine. Well tell you how theyll get it to americans across the country as states try to decide who will get it first. As the cdc forecasts that we got a brutal winter ahead. Theyre saying the next few months could be the most difficult in the nations Public Health history. All the details on that. Plus Holiday Shipping crunch. Delivery services are being pushed to their limits. U. P. S. Reportedly telling their drivers not to pick up packages from big retailers like gap, nike and macys. What that could mean for you to get your packages and gifts to where they need to be for the holidays. The queen of christmas is joining us live to bring us holiday cheer. Mariah carey is telling us about her magical starstudded holiday special. Nothing like a little mariah carey in december. Im a big fan. Hope you are, too. We have a great gma coming up on a thursday. See you soon. That beard keeps getting better. Okay. So, monoliths have come to california. Its officially a thing. A tall silver column is atop a mountain. Its the third mysterious shiny metallike structure to be found in nature. So last month a 2001 space odysseylike monolith appeared in the utah desert. Someone removed it. Another one was discovered tuesday in romania. That one has since vanished. I guess people are having fun. They are. Distribute the vaccines at the monoliths, 100 compliance. You have all the ideas. Still ahead, volunteers needed in the fight against covid19. The new product that Stanford University is trying to test out. And which celebrity would you want to play you in a movie . Former president obama knows and he is sharing the answer. As we get our day started. Lets take a live look outside right now. 6 20. Well be right back. On the most Reliable Network with xfinity mobile. In a land not so far away. People are saving hundreds they can choose from the latest phones or bring their own. And choose the data option thats right for them. They even get nationwide 5g at no extra cost. And since they are on the carrier rated 1 in customer satisfation, they live happily ever after. Again, again xfinity mobile. Your wireless. Your rules. 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Its the high to extreme those long reasunups that are issue, and then the risk of rip currents can keep you in the water for a long period of time. The newest data came in from the u. S. Drought monitor, nothing has changed. We still go from moderate in the south bay to severe and then from severe to extreme heading from the bay into the north bay. Theres no sign of rain coming up in the forecast. Theres a heightened fire danger. Well talk about that in the next half hour. Lets get over to kumasi for more news. Thank you. The surge in covid cases is proving to be challenging for Front Line Health Care workers. Especially for an emergency room doctor near sacramento. Dr. Taylor nichols is jewish and he recently encountered a covid patient who had a swastika and nazi tattoos on his chest. 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. Nichols is a bay area native and works parttime at ucsf when hes not at mercy san juan hospital. He said this wasnt the first time he dealt with this kind of issue but it took a bigger toll on him because of the strain of the pandemic. Volunteers are needed to try a covid19 test that is intended to detect a virus in a persons saliva. St stanford researchers developed the test and say it takes no more than ten minutes and you can do it yourself. Researchers say the test has an accuracy rate similar to to tests performed in hospitals. The saliva test is expected to cost 5. There was an intense rescue in pacifica. Firefighters had to hoist a person from overside cliffs last night along highway 101. Its unclear how the person got stuck over the cliffs or if they have injuries. Students in San Francisco can get free meals from the school district. Sfusd designated 18 school sites where families can pick up food for anyone under the age of 18. There are two days worth of prepared meals, snacks, fresh fruit, vegetables and milk.