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About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve, herd immunity. Blue ribbon Vaccine Commission may help ease some of those concerns. I would just expect that review would be fairly quick and give another layer of certainty to the results that were earlier today. I dont trust this. As i say, im not a person that like to take medications anyways. Im not going to take it until i see what the results were from the other people. If the response is good, only then ill take it. As early as next month frontline workers could be getting the vaccine followed by Senior Citizens who live in Retirement Homes but herd immunity depends on young people getting vaccinated, as well. Since front line workers and the elderly would be vaccinated first, the younger people wouldnt even be offered a vaccine until perhaps the spring. Reporting live here in pleasanton, bob redell, today in the bay. Interesting developments there, bob. All of this comes as covid deaths shoot past a quarter million and the pandemic explodes at a historic pace. President elect joe biden putting pressure on the white house to start helping with the transition. Alice barr live in washington. Ali alice, it seems like President Trump is still more focused on challenging those election results. Yeah, that seems to be the case, laura. Yesterday when we hit that marker point of 250,000 american lives lost to the covid19 pandemic President Trump did not acknowledge it on twitter or otherwise throughout the day. Nbc news learned behind the scenes a few Trump Administration members are starting to reach out to the the Biden Transition Team but biden Officials Say its not nearly enough to make up for the National Security and covid19 briefings that are still being denied. As the nation stares down more than 250,000 coronavirus deaths. My grandfather passed from it, my dad died from it. They died six hours apart. Reporter joe biden meant with Health Care Workers in a virtual roundtable. This is like going to war. We need a commander in chief. Reporter some current and former Trump Administration officials have privately reached out to the Biden Transition Teams. Signaling they believe he will be the next president. But with President Trump still not conceding and official channels stonewalling, the president elect says he needs access to realtime pandemic data and vaccine planning. I am optimistic but we should be further along. Reporter President Trump remains focused on swing state legal challenges now paying for a partial recount in wisconsin. One is already under way in georgia where three counties have discovered thousands of uncounted ballots narrowing bidens lead there to 12,000 votes. We knocked down wide spread voter fraud. With new numbers coming out today benefits expiring at the end of the year. Reporter lawmakers are under mounting pressure to reach a compromise for a new covid relief bill to keep struggling workers and Small Businesses from falling off a financial cliff. In washington, alice barr, nbc news. 5 05 for you this morning. Lawmakers are expected to leave town tomorrow for thanksgiving bre break and no sign of progress on a new covid relief bill. Another deadline looms. 12 million jobless americans will lose Unemployment Benefits the day after christmas. Congress is also moving towards a deadline three weeks from now to approve funding that would avoid a federal shutdown. Happening today, cal osha plans to new rules in covid19 in the workplace. The proposal would better ensure insurers follow better protocol such as social distancing. More than 45 organizations, union and Community Groups and work centers signed a petition asking for the new rules. The Holiday Shopping season will be critical for many Small Businesses now just struggling to make it in the bay. In San Francisco, supervisors are launching a new campaign. Its called we will recover. Its urging people to have safe holidays, shop local and help neighbors. Stores like just for fun are hoping the recent roll backs dont keep shoppers away even if some crowds drawing events are already off the table. The carollers have been canceled. Were not doing any of that and thats what they told us is to not do anything that would gather people in one spot and those are all huge events for us. The city is also suggesting more People Volunteer or donate to Food Charities during the holiday eztoen. Well, as the holidays approach, more people are showing up at food banks. This is at City Team Ministries in east san jose. As you can see for hours this week, the lines stretched for blocks and blocks. You can certainly help families in need. The next time that youre at a Safeway Store you can make a 10 donation. That money goes a long way. All go to local food banks. Our annual nourishing neighbors food drive runs through late december. You know what, it is beginning to look a lot like christmas in downtown San Francisco. So last Night Union Square held its annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. Macys sent us this video. Of course, this year there were no crowds. The retail chain says that the reusable 83foot tree is decorated with more than 33,000 l. E. D. Lights and 11,000 shiny ornaments. I wonder if you could see it through the fog. Lets take a live look outside near pleasanton this morning. Kind of a foggy start depending where you are in the bay area. Well check in with mike because that could certainly have an impact on your commute. Got to play it safe out there. Kari has a look at the forecast for us. Yeah, the commute is really going to be hindered by this dense fog that were seeing right now. This is a look at the dublin camera. And it kind of just looks like a blank shot there. But its going to be something that youll want to keep in mind as you get ready to head out the door with temperatures in the mid 40s and youll also need a jacket. But later on today youll see the sun peeking out and a slow warm up and id probably wear long sleeves all throughout today with the highs reaching into the low 60s as we go around the bay. Santa rosa as well as livermore will reach 61 and 60 today for a high in san jose. Well get a look to the rest of the forecast coming up. Mike, any issues with the morning commute . Yeah, kari, it is. It is the fog you are talking about. Chp is also talking about it giving the advisory they often give for the Golden Gate Bridge. The live look shows you light Traffic Volume but that is the key here as well as the map. I circled the Golden Gate Bridge on the map and the orange blob to the top of the screen more fog to the north bay and petaluma and be careful up there, also vallejo, many patches through that area. Now, were looking towards more issues for fog in the trivalley. Watch the areas coming in. A lot of traffic coming in out of the Altamont Pass and looking all right as far as speeds go. But lower the speeds when visibilitys tough. Back to you, laura. Canceled cruises. Still ahead at 5 25 on today in the bay the growing number of volunteers now signing up to try to help save the sinking industry. And a large chain raises the wages for some of its workers. Ill give you a hint. Theyre going from grande to venti. Dogs are excited. Save the world. Wonder woman still unstoppable following several delays, the release date is now set for the allnew sequel and how you can watch it from home. Youre watching today in the bay. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Good thursday morning. Right now at 5 12, we are starting out with Cool Temperatures and checking out walnut creek. Well see some clouds letting the kids get out and run around in the backyard in between homeschooling. Feel much more comfortable later on this afternoon once those sessions are done. Well get a look at all of our bay area microclimates and look ahead even into next week. Thats coming up in a few minutes. But, kari, coming up right now folks driving throughout the trivalley and weve been talking about this tough view from our dublin camera. Look the fog will creep over and fremont seeing low clouds and were watching 84 a tough drive coming into fremont and then the big bridge, as well. The traffic on the span moves very smoothly. Our view of the span is getting tighter as the low clouds descend down just touching the top of the tower. Well watch the commute and the fog as both will have some changes. Good morning and a very happy thursday to you, as well. We will get the weekly firsttime jobless claims here in just a moment. Speaking of jobs, a u. S. Government study says walmart and mcdonalds have the most number of employees who require some kind of government food assi assistance. The study done by the General Accounting Office shows walmart was in the Top Four Companies with employees needing snap, thats food stamps in all 50 states. Mcdonalds employees were the top five in at least nine states. Other companies with a lot of employees needing government assistance include burger king, amazon and fedex. Now, in a statement to the Washington Post walmart points out it is the largest employer in the united states. So, its always going to have big numbers no matter what kind of study youre doing. Mcdonalds says its wages are above federal minimum wages. Starbucks is going to pay its employees more money. We knew this was coming and now we know its coming december 14th. The company has been paying above minimum wage boosting the premium pays above that legally required floor. Employees who have been there for three years or more will start getting an 11 pay hike. Turning to high tech invidia which has been a wall street darling is pleasing investors. Makes chips for investors and video game machines. We have been using a lot of computers at home and when were not working, were playing a lot of video games. Nvidia up 57 . Delta says it will extend the ban of selling the middle seat until march. Some airlines like american have dropped this practice leading to very full flights. The u. S. Government says it will have its first meeting about emergency approval for that Pfizer Vaccine on december 8th. Now as we get more excited about this vaccine, i do try to put it in perspective. Honestly, maybe im doing it for me, marcus and laura. I got to thinking about something i said yesterday. I was trying to put that 50 million doses into some kind of perspective. It sounds like a lot, but thats only enough for california and texas. Everyone there in those two states and then i started to wonder if pfizer was using the word dose to mean the complete Vaccine Program because it takes two doses. Turns out, they dont. 50 million doses that can protect 25 Million People or slightly more than half of the population of california. That 50 million coming in this year, they say. Thats not a lot. Got to start somewhere. Thats true. Thanks, scott. 5 16 for you this morning. Former president barack obama is topping the best sellers list, once again. The first volume of obamas president ial memoir, a promise land sold more than 887 copies in its first day. On track to be the best selling president ial memoir in modern history. President obamas book is also outselling his wifes michelles memoir becoming which sold 725,000 compapies in its first. Trending this morning, taking comfort food to a whole new level. Pizza hut is now selling a limited edition pan pizza weighted blanket. The 15pound blanket looks as thick and toasty as a regular pizza, but with a much more comfortable crust. You can get it online for 150. Once you have your blanket and pizza ordered in, heres something you can watch. Wonder woman. 1984. The time will come. That looks good. Following several delays due to the pandemic, the movie now has a release date. Its heading to hbo max and some theaters on Christmas Day and for the first month, it will be offered on demand only on hbo max. Something to watch. Shes tough. Dont mess with that wonder woman. Well, wonder woman of our own meteorologist kari hall always getting the best when it comes to that forecast. You know whats going on, right, kari . Well, thank you. We are going to start out with some fog this morning as we use our laser beam eyes to see what is going on out there with our fog. And, of course, you are driving to work this morning. You wanted to use those low beams and dont turn on the high beams because it just reflects the lights off the fog and makes it harder to see and youll need that in the trivalley as were seeing visibility cut down to a quarter mile as we check out whats happening in the north bay. Dense fog advisories in the valleys and visibility down to about a quarter of a mile so that doesnt give you much stopping distance. As we get a look at whats going on. Going hour by hour. Checking out our temperatures. Were going to see our morning start mostly in the 50s and then as we take a look at our noontime temperature, 58 degrees in dublin and in the north bay, were also in the upper 50s. Then as we go into today, we only make it into the low 60s, which is about normal for the middle to end of november. And then we are going to dip back down, once again, tonight. Maybe even cooler tomorrow morning compared to this morning because that blanket of fog actually helps to keep our temperatures a little bit warmer. But i wanted to talk about warmer temperatures as we look at how weve changed with Climate Change over the past several decades since 1970. In San Francisco, our wintertime temperatures have warmed on average over three degrees. So thats part of the reason why we dont see as much fog because cooler temperatures condenses a lot faster and produces more fog. So, some people were asking, why dont we see as much fog in San Francisco as we used to. All right. So, as we look at what is coming down the line, we may have some more foggy mornings but overall not going to see much in the way of rain. Were going to see those storm systems staying to the north of us and temperatures staying in the 60s even into thanksgiving. Mike, youve been watching the fogs impact on the commute. Any issues popping up. Definitely. I mean, the fact that its there at all, kari. Thank you for the fog facts. That was fascinating. Looking over towards the roadways and we are looking at the maps where the traffic doesnt indicate a problem. We have green sensors over much of the area and also show a clear map. Look there are patches with the orange like over in the trivalley right here and highway 84 and folks cutting through that area and thats especially tough to see. We know from our live cameras weve shown dublin camera there and tough to see as that fog drifts around and also patches through the north bay. Look at the san rafael camera now. Clear before and now low clouds and fog id say from san rafael all the iwaup towards peta luma. Covid and the classroom. Coming up on today in the bay suffers a major setback in its return to the classroom. Changes that are happening effective immediately. Two airlines one refund and zero success getting it. Im consumer investigator chris chmura and a viewer takes this matter into her own hands. Thats next. But, first, be sure to join us tonight for our seventh episode of race in america, the conversation. It starts at 6 30 tonight. I actually sit down with Valerie Jared to talk about so many transitions and the monumental part of that election as well as social uprising. You dont want to miss that at 6 30 tonight. Ill see you then. Good morning. Victoria and her fiance planned a Beach Vacation in the bahamas. But like weve said so many times since the pandemic began, they can no longer travel. They had no trouble getting a refund from their first flight from San Francisco to ft. Lauderdale but the second flight from ft. Lauderdale to nassau was a different story. The airline canceled the flight but never issued a refund. Victoria kept calling and emailing and got zero response. Then she saw our story about pandemic travel trouble over the summer and she told us, i watched chris chmuras piece on International Travel and had my credit cart intervene based on his advice. All good. Our tip helped her get back 280. 75. Kudos. Heres that advice, again. When you pay with plastic and the seller refuses a refund, your Credit Card Company should be able to help you with the dispute or a charge back refund. Two finer points. Go in armed with a detailed timeline and dont wait too long. Some banks might close the window to dispute after a month or two. You can file a suit with us, too. Click the response tab at nbcbayarea. Com or give us a call. 1888966tips. Turning back to the pandemic and the new covid set back in new york. After eight weeks of inperson learning new york schools are closing and going all remote starting today. That move comes with the number of infections there soaring. Carnival says it nowance e canceled its cruises through january. The cruise line is depending a plan to meet requirements. At the same time, Royal Caribbean says 100,000 volunteers have signed up for its trial cruises. The Company Launched a volunteers of the sea Facebook Group to gauge interest in returning to the waters. Full house star lori laughlins husband has been ordered to begin serving his sentence today. He was sentenced to five months behind bars and she is serving her sentence in dublin. He is expected to report to a federal facility in Santa Barbara county. New details family members have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the death of glee actress naya rivera. She died while boating with her 4yearold son. The lawsuit blames Ventura County and management at the lake saying the boat did not have life saving gear and winds and currents pushed her away as she swam. Rivera managed to get her son back in the boat, but she drowned. Top stories were following for you this morning including a teenager with special needs forced off a flight for not wearing a mask. What her family is saying and why the airlines policy seems to be at odds with the cdc. Struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic. Ahead for you here on today in the bay the toughest cities across the world and the California City right now nearing the top of that list. Well be right back. Colgate optic white renewal removes ten years of yellow stains. Thats like all the way back to 2010. Whats that . Its a shake weight. Its a weight you shake. Remove ten years of yellow stains with colgate optic white renewal. Right now at 5 30, breaking news on another vaccine candidate. The major progress astrazeneca just reported overnight and the group it may impact the most. Plus. Definitely concerned and only celebrating with the people i live with. Testing before turkey. Some people are doing it before visiting family, but is that enough . Why experts say it doesnt guarantee your family will be safe. And possible cuts looming. B. A. R. T. Considers reducing Service Since slashing employees since it struggles with lower ridership. Today in the bay continues right now. First, lets take a live look outside on this thursday morning in pleasanton. Were talking about how foggy it is in some parts of the bay area this morning. Take caution before you head out the door, if thats part of your morning routine. Well check in with mike in just moments. Meteor also kari hall tracking all the conditions across the bay area for us. Want to say good thursday morning to you, first, though. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking that. Kari . We are starting out with that dense fog this morning behind that rain that rolled through and left the moisture on the ground and now thats condensing in a fog and seeing it in parts of the bay area. San jose is clear and we have to watch out for that as we go into the next couple hours. The sunshine returns and i dont have any more rain in the forecast at least through the next week which includes thanksgiving, as well. Lets get a look at our visibility down to a quarter of a mile in the trivalley as well as the north bay. Lets head over to you, mike. How is it looking for the commute . Well, kari, the look or the view is the concern. The fog you talked about. You can see that from our emeryville camera and the bay bridge and the beautiful tower lit up at night. Sometimes we cant see any of it because the low clouds drifted across our shot and that just changed over the last few minutes and catch a glimpse with lights on the span. The span moves smoothly but disabled vehicle there near the Treasure Island on ramp. Fog in the north bay and fog in the trivalley that will make it very tough for 580 getting down to the dublin interchange, perhaps, and 84 cutting through livermore and pleasanton. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Breaking developments overnight in the search for a covid vaccine. Phase two trials with the vaccine is working on with the university of oxford. Theyre safe and creates an immune response from the virus. Including in older adults over the age of 70. This is important as that age group tend to see the most severe cases of covid19. And those infections can lead to death. The testing did not assess the vaccines effectiveness, something the phase three trials should reveal. The progress is much needed. Here in california, the state has more than one million cases. Nearly 10,000 new covid cases were added. The Positivity Rate also rising. The sevenday average is 5. 3 . Health experts say the safest thanksgiving gatherings is the one that youre going to have at home with just the people you live with. But some folks are planning to gather with more friends and family and theyre turning to testing to try to ease some of that worry. Todays in the bay kris sanchez digging deep into the possible strategy. Kris . Well, hi, marcus. This testing site here in campbell is one of 17 testing sites today alone in santa clara county. Youll have to have an appointment and good luck getting one of those. People have been clamoring to get tests as the cases have gone up. Either because they dont feel well or they were exposed to someone who was sick or they want a negative test to feel better about getting together with family or friends for thanksgiving. But thanksgiving is a week away from today and doctors say that negative could give you a false sense of security. Theres a lot of lag between testing and resulting and there will be presumably a lag when you get the test and when you meet with your family members. Now, doctors remind us that with testing, timing is everything. The incubation period for coronavirus, covid19, is 14 days. So someone who is infected today could feel fine and test negative for almost a week and be contagious the whole time. Now, some rapid tests have higher false negative rates than tests that take a few days. So, the advice is if youre going to test before a gathering, self quarantine to limit your contact, your opportunity for exposure. And even if you get a negative test, they say wear your mask and keep your social distance or, better yet, stay home. In campbell, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Good advice. Thanks, kris. Family boarding the flight to san jose say they were forced to remove their daughter who has special needs because she was not wearing the mask. They gave us this video we want to show you here from inside the plane after discussions with the crew, 15yearold maya was told she had to get off of that southwest flight. The pilot was apologetic and the airline says it was just following cdc guidelines but the family pointed out the cdc guidelines says mask use may be exempt for someone with a disability, Mental Health condition or sensory sentivity like their daughter. We were looking forward to this and then everything just kind of went wrong. Just assumed it would be no different than if she had gone to a Grocery Store or doctors appointment. The family was eventually able to continue on to los angeles. Southwest says it cant comment on specific customers but says in part, quote, customers and employees age 2 and older, are required to wear face coverings or masks in accordance with Public Health guidance issued by the cdc. B. A. R. T. Leaders are meeting today to figure out how to close the budget deficit because of fewer riders. It includes voting on a possible early retirement buyout plan that may lower the work force as much as 40 . Another option is Weekend Service cuts. Everything is on the Table Including the possibility of layoffs. A former trash Company Executive is due to make his first appearance in Court Next Week in connection to public works scandal that rocked San Francisco city hall. Federal prosecutors yesterday charged paul giusti accused of laundering 1 million in bribes to the former public works director facing charges. Giusti was a communication Relations Manager and in one case sending 20,000 to increase city fees paid to recology. The Company Issued a statement saying that it is not or has not been charged of any wrongdoing. San jose leaders are reportedly taking another critical step in Police Department reforms. Mercury news reports a committee yesterday approved mayor sam liccardos plans for proposed department changes. Misconduct allegations reviewed outside of the department. Before any of the proposed changes happen, the Police Officers union will have to approve. New video we want to show you this morning and just take a look at this. Just a reminder to slow down on the roads this morning. So chp sending us this video of a nearby cars dashcam. This is from the nearbys cars dashcr dashcam. Distracted driver flying off the road and launching into the air. This was in modesto. That driver did walk away with just minor injuries. Lucky driver there. Glad theyre okay. Looked like a scene out of dukes of hazard. It did. Yeah, smoky and the bandit or something. We can laugh about it because they were just minor injuries. Yeah, minor. Exactly. Yeah, dont do that. No, Pay Attention to the road, especially this morning. Mike going to get to those roads in just a bit but talk about some of the problems theyre having weather wise. Kari talk about that fog we see right behind you. Yeah, you dont want to drive really fast when you have these conditions. Near zero visibility moving through the trivalley. This is not a blank screen. You can barely see those he headlights as theyre coming down 580. As we look at what to expect this morning, low visibility for the next several hours and temperatures in the mid 40s. We will slowly warm up today and will clear out by late morning as our highs today will reach near 60 degrees and mike, of course, that visibility of the main thing were talking about with the commute, too. Thats right, kari. In fact, that is exactly the camera i was going to so. No need to. You showed the camera is not helping us a whole lot. Just the glow for the lights is visible over on the maps. You see the arrow, that is where kari showed the camera and that is a problem. Down below it the orange blob is even tougher visibility for highway 84 and also heard from friends traveling down vasco road and Discovery Bay and byron and you have to lower the speeds even though you see green sensors all around the bay. A nice smooth drive along the peninsula and that fog is drifting over there and kicking in the north bay. Watch the Richmond San Rafael bridge over the last few minutes. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. 5 39. Vacation explanation. Next on today in the bay, california lawmakers explain why they went ahead with an annual trip to maui even though critics say it sends the wrong message during the pandemic. Meanwhile, all the trouble in washington lets add the fact that government should shut down very soon. Well show you the latest progress or lack there of coming up. And shot blocked. What we know about the warriors fan return plan that was denied and what we also know about Klay Thompsons injury. Youre watching today in the bay. 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Well, kari talks about a jog in the fog and we talk about a drive affected by the fog. The bay bridge toll plaza starting to show a little slower in the middle lanes and on the span visibility may be getting tougher and may have metering lights on a few minutes earlier despite the lighter volume now. The san mateo bridge over the last 15 minutes. Ive seen the low clouds drift across our shot and sometimes affecting our view of the flat section but i do think its still sticking around near the high rise and the peninsula. Leave early because you might want to lower the speeds. Thanks, mike. Breaking news for you this morning. New weekly jobless claims are in. 742,000 americans applied for firsttime benefits. Thats higher than experts predicted and blaming it on the resurgence of the coronavirus. Right now 6. 8 million americans are still receiving jobless benefits. Thats down from 7. 2 a week earl ier. President trumps team in pennsylvania now asking the whole states vote to be thrown out and the decision as to who won left up to the state legislature. Now, scott mcgrew that would disenfranchise nearly 7 Million People. 7 Million People. It is not going to happen say republicans on state legislature but it was remarkable to see the Trump Campaign even ask for it. The campaign filed an amended lawsuit in court asking that a judge order the republicanled legislator to instruct the people who vote for the president to vote for donald trump instead of joe biden who won the state. Presumably, they would not ask for this if the legislature had a democratic majority. The Trump Campaign will pay for a limited in wisconsin. It is not going to ask for a recount in the counties he won. In michigan, those Election Officials i was telling you about yesterday in wayne county, the ones that didnt want to certify the votes but ultimately did. They want to change their mind and uncertify the vote. The two republican members of the wayne county board said they were pressuring to voting to certify. Its not clear if there is a mechanism to uncertify or undo such a vote. So, thats the news on the election. There are other bigger issues. The government, of course, mark meadows the white house chief of staff says he cannot guarantee the government wont shut down in december as the two sides bicker over the latest funding bill. Seven states governors, including two republicans, have written an oped in the Washington Post asking or pleading, dont have big Family Gathering for thanksgiving. The governors of wisconsin, illinois, minnesota, indiana, kentucky, michigan and ohio ask you to picture the people around your table last year and then picture their faces laughing with you watching football and even arguing with you about politics. As hard as it will be not to see them this thanksgiving, imagine how much harder if their chairs are empty next year. Heres one of the authors, the governor of wisconsin. Its time, folks. We do not get any do overs here. Enough games. We need you to join the cause. Weve heard promising reports of vaccines on the horizon in the new year. But we need to buckle down and get through this together. Were watching everything that is happening in washington and with the states governors, as well. You can follow me on twitter im scottmcgrew. Good advice about thanksgiving there because the pandemic is approaching crisis levels in l. A. County. Just yesterday Health Officials confirmed more than 3,900 new cases. The highest since the summer surge. If the trend continues and cases rise to 4,500 per day, the county is threatening to impose a threeweek lockdown and curfew. Ahead of the holidays long lines at testing sites are persisting. Starting tomorrow new regulations plan to limit outdoor capacity at restaurants and shut them down at 10 00 p. M. Nonessential businesses will also see some capacity limitations. Starting today, more shops and restaurants are opening up in southern californias Downtown Disney and people will be able to access some parts of california vened adventure par. Fans will be able to take in some of the sights inside anaheim theme park for the First Time Since march. The area decorated for the holidays and covid19 Safety Measures are in place for all of those guests to visit safely. Theres still no timeline for disneyland or other california theme parks to reopen. Well, california lawmakers defending their trip to maui to meet with lobbyists during the pandemic. The event wrapped up today. It actually happens every year, but this year critics say theres more health risk and it sends the wrong message. Far fewer lawmakers went this year, but two lawmakers who did go tell l. A. Times they paid their own way. All safety precautions have been taken, they say. And they plan to quarantine when they get home. New for you this morning, if you feel like you need a fresh start during the pandemic, i want you to consider this. New research from a european Intelligence Unit puts paris, hong kong and zurich as the most expensive cities to live in worldwide in 2020. Singapore comes in at number four. Osaka and tel aviv tie for fifth. Now l. A. And new york are included in the top ten. The survey compares the cost of goods and services during the pandemic. 5 48 afor you this morning and warrior fans can see their future and it involves an off the charts big name. But in a gut punch, Klay Thompson is now injured. Thats right. Cierra johnson joins us at the chase center talking draft picks and injuries and whether or not fans will be allowed back in the stands, cierra. You know what, we cant hear you. Were going to check back in with you, cierra, in just a little bit. We want to get the updates on what is going on with Klay Thompson, as well. So, lets talk about james wiseman, though. Get this, hes seven feet tall. May motbe breaking news for basketball but for me that is like standing next to the salesforce tower. 15 players taller than seven feet. The tallest was 76. Thats e boston celtics. This morning im wearing my university of memphis cuff links to celebrate. You are . I am. Look at you fancy. Hey, look, im celebrating. Im bringing him here for you guys. Its all because of me. Yeah. Two tigers in town. All right. Watch out. Watch out. Lets get a look at that forecast for you, kari. Hey, lets start out with whats going on with the fog this morning. Thats something that is really going to cause a lot of problems. And also cause some low visibility as we move through the trivalley, as well as parts of the north bay where we have a dense fog advisory in effect. Visibility cut down to a quarter mile or less so be careful on your way to work. And if youll be home schooling, looking for those breaks to get outside, you will need a jacket at least through the next several hours. And then going into late morning, its going to start to feel a little bit better. You may want to head out into the backyard and get some fresh air after school today as we reach into the low 60s this afternoon. Lets go through all of our microclimates and talk about our highs for today reaching 62 in morgan hill, cupertino reaching 60 degrees and well see some low 60s for much of the east bay with oakland today reaching 62. Now, we will see some fog right along the immediate coastline and it may linger so daley city in the upper 50s and upper 50s in San Francisco today. And our north bay highs will reach up to 61 in novato and sonoma reaching 62. Lets go through the forecast because this weekend, we have some dry weather coming in and there will still be several storm systems moving across the region and they will stay away from the bay area. So, were going to head into some dry weather, even into thanksgiving. Take a look at the sevenday forecast. All 60s for highs into next week. Mike, youve been tracking the commute, has the fog caused any problems . Not directly attributed to the fog, but i would say slow it down and i think its a problem. The visibility. Lets take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, for example. The backup is here and oftentimes just before 6 00 we see the metering lights turned on as they are just in the last few minutes. The backup builds here but as i show you the map, also fog that weve seen and you see the slower sensors heading over towards Treasure Island and the visibility tough as the low clouds sunk down there. Be careful. Stay to your right. Now, the rest of the map does show mostly green sensors around the bay but, again, pockets through the trivalley are an issue and then look at the fremont camera. We see slowing in san jose as the volume starts to build and the fremont camera shows you traffic heading down there and the glow to the lights the low clouds drifting through this shot, once again. Just lower the speeds if its tough to see. Back to you. All right. Thanks, mike. Warrior fans listen up because we want to get back to the latest on Klay Thompson. Lets check back in with Cierra Thompson live at the center with all the news were waiting for draft picks, injuries and whether or not the fans can go in the stands. Tell us about it. Yes, good morning. There is a whole lot of news happening here at one warriors way. Before the draft even took place, the bigger talker guard Klay Thompson injuring his leg. That was a huge deal before we were even able to pick a new player. Right now were not sure of the extent of his injury but we know the 30yearold is no stranger to leg injuries. Klay tore his left acl after playing against the Toronto Raptors last june. He missed all of the season recovering from that injury. And while we arent sure about his next season or what the season will even look like because of covid, we know the team will resume games at the chase center. They were hoping to resume they were hoping to resume games at the chase center with a Live Audience but San Francisco has rejected the teams plan to use rapid tests for everyone including fans, staff and security. And the Warriors Front Office and the department of health thanked the team for planning but citing rising cases in denying that plan. So now for a little bit of good news from the warriors. The team has finally secured that muchneeded big man. James wiseman comes to the bay from memphis. The 19yearold was the top recruit coming out of high school and played just three games at the tigers before leaving to prepare for the draft. A lot of uncertainty. A little bit of disappointment and a lot of excitement really over this new guy coming to the team. 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Plus, for a limited time, ask how to get a 500 prepaid card when you upgrade. Switch today. Welcome back. 5 57 for you. Watching today in the bay. Lori loughlins husband is beginning to serve his prison sennance today. He was sentenced to five months behind bars and loughlin already serving her sentence in dublin. Now, her husband is expected to report to a facility in Santa Barbara county. New details family members have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the death of glee actress naya rivera. She drowned while boating with her 4yearold son. The lawsuit blames Ventura County and management at the lake saying the boat didnt have lifesaving gear and currents pushed it away as she swam. She managed to get her son back into the boat but she sadly drowned. Barack obama is topping the best sellers list, once again. The first volume of the obamas president ial memoirs a Promised Land sold more than 887,000 copies on its first day. Its on track to be the best selling president ial memoir in modern history. Mr. Obamas book also outselling his wife, Michelle Obamas own best selling memoir her 2018 memoir becoming sold 725,000 copies in its first day and has sold more than 10 million copies so far. As had ththe holidays appro more people showing up at food banks at City Team Ministries in east san jose. As you can see the lines and lines of cars stretched for blocks. You can certainly help families in need if youre able to this holiday season. The next time youre at a safeway, you can make a 10 donation. The money will go to local food banks. Our annual nourishing neighbors food drive runs through late december. Well, it is approaching 6 00 right now and breaking news. A triple dose of hope this morning. Not one, not two, but there are now three possible vaccines showing promise in defeating covid. Details on the overnight revelations next as the third hour of today in the bay continues right now. A very good thursday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Mike keeping an eye on the roads but we want to start off with kari because it is starting off foggy in some places today. That is going to cause a lot of problems for some of the commuters but right now in downtown san jose, it is all clear. But weve seen the fog nearby. Were watching out for that with the dense fog this morning that will clear out later today bringing back that sunshine and for the rest of the forecast, i am not seeing a drop of rain anywhere. But lets get to that visibility where were down to a quarter of a mile in the trivalley as well as much of the north bay where there are dense fog advisories now in effect. Ill track that and what is ahead in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mike, that fog may slow down a lot of people on the way to work. Thats right, kari. It should slow down, folks, because with tougher visibility you need to allow more stopping distance and more stopping time. Let me take you out to the bay bridge toll plaza where you have no trouble slowing down because metering lights