Taco tuesday. Look, im here for that, too. We can combine them, terrific taco tuesday. All right, well check the commute with mike in just a moment. Kari, how are we looking weatherwise . A cold one again . Yeah, its cold and its foggy, so were seeing the combination of two things well have to deal with heading out the door this morning. This is a live look outside in san jose and for the most part weve seen the visibility looking a little bit better near the ground level in the south bay but higher up weve seen some of those low clouds rolling by. We will see this clearing out for a mild day and theres still dry weather in the forecast, so well talk about that coming up. Mike, how is it looking as a lot of people deal with the foggy conditions for the commute . Well, kari, chp has two Traffic Alerts going on right now and one is near a foggy area over my shoulder. You see the yellow highlighting. Ive circled 121 which is closed for a crash up there in sonoma. No mention of fog in that crash report but still know it is there as kari is talking about around spots in the bay. The other Traffic Alert in brentwood on vasco road. Well talk about both of those. You see the green sensors dominate the bulk of our commute. Back to you, laura. Thank you very much, mike. There are now more than 150,000 confirmed cases of covid in the bay area. With more than 2,700 new infections just added. Around 800 of the newest infections are in Santa Clara County. Nearly 2,000 people have died. Bay area health leaders, some already bracing for even more critical cases. This as new steps are taken to add more restrictions, to help bring the numbers under control. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live for us in San Francisco where many hospital beds are already being filled. Reporter yes, good morning. As we continue to follow those numbers, that concern is exactly what you just mentioned, the number of hospital beds that are occupied. Right now in the state of california 75 of those icu beds are occupied, and the bay area its about 72 . But those numbers are pretty tame compared to what the Health Experts are predicting. Right now nearly 7,800 patients are hospitalized and governor gavin newsom says its increased by 67 in the past two weeks. The governor warned monday that without more restrictions the number of patients could double or triple in a month pushing the icu bed capacity into 112 by middecember. Thats statewide. 92 in the bay area by early january. So in an effort to slow the spread in some of the citys hardest hit communities, ucsf has opened Free Covid Testing sites. Today is the last day for testing with the ucsf sites. One of the locations is at 24th and mission, an area that saw covid cases four times higher than the citys numbers and around the holidays testing and knowing when to quarantine in the community is crucial. Take a listen. Part of not only supporting but preventing transmission by helping to isolate safely and give them help figuring out how to do in their household. Reporter again, today is the last day for that testing at 24th and mission, a walkup testing site and it is rapid. They also offer the other testing version where you would have to wait about 24 hours for your results. Again, at this time Governor Newsom says if those numbers do not slow down there will be more restrictive measures put in place to slow those numbers. Well keep you updated as that comes down from the state level. Were live in San Francisco, Cierra Johnson for today in the bay. Were all hoping for the slowing of those numbers. Late they are morning a panel of cdc experts will meet to determine who will receive the vaccines first. To today in the bays bob redell. Weve seen a lot of early reports and it seems the first in line will be the health care providers. Reporter correct, marcus. When the Advisory Committee on immunization practices meets later today, this is the cdc panel, we expect them to give priority to health care workers, doctors, nurses, other first responders, and people who live in places like Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities who are most vulnerable to catching covid19 and ending up in the icu. There are two vaccines in the pipeline, one from pfizer and its german partner bionntech and the other moderna. Both are expected to roll out within weeks for the first tier of people. It is expected the rest of us would be eligible late winter, early spring. An infectious epidemiology expert says the logistics for pulling off this mass vaccination is extremely complicated because of the low temps needed to store the doses. But believes our country can pull it off. When the shots are available he believes you would most likely go to your doctor. In some cases the local health department, two doses. Long term is to have the vaccine available at your local pharmacy. The trick is for us to not get infected and in the meantime overwhelm those hospitals and icus. And so thats the real message, while we take off this top little bit of people who have to be around to take care of the icu surge and who are most likely to die from this we need to tell everybody else to keep their mass be ks on and av crowding and mixing. Reporter coming up in a half hour, when we could achieve herd immunity and what it will take to achieve it. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. Waiting and watching. Thank you, bob. Attorneys for a defiant south bay church back in court demanding Indoor Services be allowed to resume. Calvary chapel racked up hundreds of thousands in fines for ignoring the restrictions on indoor gathering. Eventually a Court Granted an injunction requiring the church obey guidelines. Todays hearing will cover the same ground, albeit under slightly different circumstances. Newly seated u. S. Supreme court recently limited restrictions on indoor worship in new york, but leaders here have already submitted a new brief in california opposing lifting sanctions. Some relief coming today for Business Owners and unemployed workers struggling to make it in the bay. State launching a 100 million tax credit aimed at rewarding Small Businesses for hiring employees. A half billion dollar relief package for Small Businesses and nonprofits. Threemonth tax extension for those with sales tax. The transition of power focuses on the economy and groundbreaking appointments. Two women in roles never before held by women. But republicans already have their site set against confirming one of them. Tracie potts dives deeper into issues raised by the gop. Reporter president elect biden named his Economic Team today with two historic firsts. Janet yellen is the first female treasury secretary and neeratanden as white house budget director. Republicans are lining up against tanden calling out hundreds of deleted tweets criticizing republicans. What she did is just pretty reckless and, unfortunately, shes the one who will have to pay the price. Their complaints are better directed at President Trump. Reporter a looming Government Shutdown in ten days and stalled covid funding. Democrat and republican senators are trying to work out a compromise. Theres no reason, none, why we should not deliver another major pandemic relief package to help the American People through what is poised to be the last chapters. Lets not be afraid to vote. Reporter votes in wisconsin and arizona are now certiedfi despite President Trumps lawyer crying foul. I call this the mccarthy era on steroids. Reporter despite baseless claims of Election Fraud in georgia theyre insanity, fever dreams made up. The second recount should be done tomorrow. Reporter 27 of challenges have been dismissed, withdrawn, or denied and none found evidence of fraud. Tracie potts, nbc news. City councilmembers will discuss expanding a ban. The city wants to move to a Renewable Energy future. Hospitals, addons to homes and restaurants would be exempt from the new ban if it goes into effect. Last year the city passed an ordinance and any new residential buildings. 1,200 muni workers may lose their jobs. A grim assessment to board members. Those cuts would make up more than 20 of munis workforce. Muni could be more than 200 million in the red within two years time, even with recent cutbacks. Lets switch gears and get a look at the forecast. Meteorologist kari hall, weve had some cold starts to the morning. What are we looking at today . Yeah, the afternoons have been something to look forward to when you start out and see temperatures dipping below freezing in napa. Mostly some 40s as you get ready to head out along the peninsula. We will watch out for that patchy fog. Mike, youve been watching two Traffic Alerts. You see the yellow highlighting from the fog. One is over in sonoma and the other in brentwood. The deadly headon crash, reports closed between highway 4. Alternates to get around the area for brentwood and byron and discovery bay. Still watching highway 121. Ill bring you an update there coming up. Giving back to those on the front lines of the pandemic, the new holiday perk starbucks is launching for all of those heroes starting today. A marvelous month for your money. A november to remember. The best since i was in high school, wow. Okay, look, probably so many of you at home right now have been on zoom calls. Be honest here, are you really paying attention . Microsofts new idea aimed at making sure you are. Uhoh. Well talk about it when we get back. 5 12. Youre watching today in the bay. In a land not so far away. People are saving hundreds on the most Reliable Network with xfinity mobile. 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. Your way to stay closer together. Click, call, or visit an xfinity store today. At 5 15 through the trivalley, patchy, dense fog for the south bay and north bay, even around sfo. We are going to see temperatures very chilly, some upper 30s here. A nice afternoon. Well get a look at all of our microclimates and where is the rain coming up in a few minutes. Kari, we do have two Traffic Alerts on the map behind me. Thats not necessarily related to the fog, although that shows up here and it just showed up at the san mateo bridge. Once again chp warned about this overnight. There you go, trouble, a little bit, part of the roadway ahead. Do be careful as you travel across 92. Well, good morning, a very happy december 1st to you. Looks like its going to be a very good day for your money as we go out to the futures board showing green lights all around. Wall street pleased with what we might think of as old news. Janet yellen will likely be the next treasury secretary and two firms are asking the fda for emergency approval of their vacci vaccine. Markets fell monday, the last day of november, but all in all a very good month, very good like the best since the 1980s as far as novembers go. The dow up 12 for the month despite the negative numbers on your screen for the day. The nasdaq up 11 despite a midmonth battering. Steven mnuchin and the head of the fed jay powell will testify on capitol hill today, a routine scheduled appearance. But were eager to hear from mnuchin, there on the left, as to why he shut down a Credit Facility created by the fed that the fed thinks is helping. The two men have very different opinions about the wisdom of the move. Powell, there on the right, saying the Trump Administration is going to hurt our economy. The wall street journal this morning reports there may be as many as four more antitrust investigations to be announced againstoogl g and facebook. Among them the ftc is looking into whether facebook stifled competition by buying instagram and snapchat. The state of texas leading a team of states investigating googles dominance in the online ad market. This is an interesting metric. One of the Big Companies that manages key cards that let you into an office say the number of people going back into the office has stalled. Understandable as we deal with this new surge of coronavirus, arguably the worst its ever been. Castle systems says the number of people that returned to offices peaked around 25 or 27 , rather, in october but has been falling since. The alltime low came during the shutdown in april when just 15 of people it measured went into the office. As you know, marcus and laura, a lot of companies, twitter, for instance, saying, you know what, you can stay home as long as you want forever and others like dropbox saying were just not going to have a central office. We might have some meeting rooms but no central headquarters. A lot of Companies Moving that way. For sure. It certainly has changed so much. Thank you very much. You know what theyre noticing as well charities are really suffering right now and you know what today is . Its giving tuesday. Today consider supporting your favorite charity. Were helping make a wish greater bay area. You can text wish to 91999 am donate any amount. Would certainly bring a lot of joy to a child. The Makeawish Foundation of those battling critical illnesses. If youd like to be a part of giving text wish to 91999. So many deserving charities out there. And speaking of giving, starbucks is saluting all frontline workers and were talking about, get this, doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, firefighters, Police Officers, dentists and Mental Health workers and hospital staff. We cant forget those in housekeeping, security and active duty military. So many welldeserved there. Starting today through the end of the year all are eligible to receive a free tall brewed coffee hot or cold. Starbucks wants to show its appreciation for those keeping the Community Safe during this pandemic. Well deserved. New for you that morning have you ever found yourself spaced out while at work, maybe feeling a little bored . Microsoft has a new system that really measures your boredom. According to the new patent it would be called the Insight Computing system. The idea is to use cameras and software to look for signs of boredom and tiredness in employees. It would monitor time spent texting, checking emails and browsing the internet. Critics, of course, are calling it a little bit too big brother. It may help avoid scheduling nonproductive meetings. Look busy, friends. A lot of people say could this meeting have been an email . You hear that all the time. So now theyll now. Like a twoline email. Youre sitting there like this. Bored. Especially when im talking, marcus. What did you say . Youd better entertain us, kari. Take it away. All right. Hopefully i can deliver with this as we are talking about some cold weather and were starting out with those temperatures in some spots below freezing. If you want to know is this a record, thankfully its not because take a look at todays record in santa rosa. 23 degrees is todays record and 20 in napa. Weve seen some 30s in spots in the east bay as well as the south bay, even san joses record is pretty low. Im glad were not there yet. As we get a look at our visibility this shows you how far you can see in miles. Only a quarter mile visibility in santa rosa and San Francisco. Getting a little bit better in san carlos. And for the south bay, were down to about threequarters of a mile. Slow it down as we start out. Once this fog clears out we have sunshine in the forecast for today. Make some plans to get outside as we check out our hiking forecast for the south bay. We are going to see temperatures this afternoon reaching into the low 60s. I think the best time to go hiking will be between 1 00 and 4 00 this afternoon. As we go into the rest of the bay area and the forecast if youre planning to head to the beach be careful out there because weve had these sneaker waves and rip currents and we still have the beach hazard statement that continues until 10 00 this morning. And then weep should start to see the waves calming down. As we go into the forecast weve seen a couple storm systems approaching and then just weakening before it has a chance to bring us any rain. Were looking at the same weather pattern with all sunshine, chilly mornings, but at least we will have some mild afternoo afternoons. Mike, youve been busy tracking two Traffic Alerts. Yeah, kari, we have one in brentwood thats affecting the major surface street, vasco, watching for that effect. A deadly crash there. As we look at the map you see the green dominates the freeways. The bulk moving at speed. There is another concern in the north bay, another highway, the second Traffic Alert weve been talking about. This is over southbound highway 121 over to the winery. That is blocking the southbound side. Its only a couple lanes there so you can probably get by on the shoulder, but that is a crash and a car fire watching that as well. I do want to show you what we have over in the bay bridge toll plaza. I was tracking this and we had a disabled vehicle in one of your middle lanes. I dont know if its still there. There it is near the top of the screen. One lane on the approach to the middle lanes of the toll plaza will cause you to tap those brakes and theres more volume. Well track that closely. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Coming up on today in the bay, not closing up shop. One Southern California restaurant defiant and keeping its doors open despite Health Orders to close. The shade theyre throwing at the governor this morning. Welcome back to