Rolling things back, taking a look at the numbers here. Alameda county has been a day to day increases in the number of new cases reported comments including a steady increase in the countys new covid19 cases. It is at 3. 8 across the county, right on the verge of forcing Alameda County to move from the orange into the red tier. I think the worst, people prefer the worst, they will have to move back into the purple tier, the worst one. No possibility of things reopening, standby for the possibility of things having to close up. Were talking about the potential for a lockdown here, as we are hearing more and more of that across the country. County health leaders, also sounding the alarm about holiday travel. Theres concerns about people going to some of these real hot beds of covid infection, and bring that back into the county. So, we will keep you posted in an everchanging situation. Go to our website, kpix. Com. Back to you. Thank you, aaron j. Scaling back restaurants after a spoken coronavirus cases. The Health Department is pleading with the community to take steps on their own and limited capacity to 25 of with the county slipping back into the red tier. Right now, this is just a recommendation. In santa clara county, a limited number of students are returning to the classroom for inperson instruction, as the case numbers there continue to rise. Today, a group of parents and union educators gathered in front of the District Office to air their grievances. They say, since the reopening process began a month ago, there hasnt been proper training, and on enough Staff Members in the classrooms. They also say they want more teachers to be able to work from home. Our students are unable to wear masks, but do not understand social distancing, are unable to manage their overall livelihoods or communicate that they are ill. We know this is not their fault. Because of that, they want the district to provide more face shields and tabletop sneeze guards. The countys office of education released this statement, saying, we have been engaged in a slow and gradual pathway to return to inperson instruction, taking all necessary steps to accomplish this goal with staff and student safety top of mind. The board of educators next trustee meeting is set for next wednesday. New at noon, maryland and greatest announced a new partnership between the city and sfusd. Disaster workers and district staff will work to dedicate their work with and inspect facilities. San francisco students in first grade or younger and those with disabilities can be back in the classroom on january 25th. Three board numbers in the district introduced the resolution. A vote is expected next week. In mill valley, a debate heats up over inperson learning. More than 400 people have signed an online petition to postpone the november 30th reopening date, where middle schoolers welcome back, until january. They say, the current Remote Learning model is not enough, because it doesnt include a zoom program for students who need to stay home for medical reasons. District truck trustees will talk about the issue tonight. Happening today, the three unified boards will vote to remove Police Officers from campuses. The School Police officer task force estimates 330,000 into proactive and preventative approaches to students safety, instead of keeping bullies in schools. This would include hiring and Training Mental Health Professionals and implemented Restorative Practices at all school sites. Santa clara county, taking the next steps to repurpose land. An hour ago, they released plans to build affordable and mixeduse housing across 180 acres. Supporters have been pushing to close the airport for years, citing thing crashes, lead emissions and noise pollution. Unlike alameda, san jose has no curfew and the fda would not allow the county to implement one. The countys board of supervisors will discuss the plans and next tuesdays meetings. U. S. Stocks are falling amid worries of increasing coronavirus numbers across the country. Right now, the dow was down about 450 points. This, as americans continue to sign up for an implement benefits by the thousands. According to the labor department, another 709,000 american sign up for benefits last week. 1 is an improvement over the prior week, claims remain stubbornly high. The coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of slowing down. The u. S. Reported a record shattering number of new infections yesterday, more than 144,000, and nearly 1900 people died. That is the most in a single day since may. David back no reports from indiana. Reporter the coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate and a record shattering pace. As the white house remained silent, governors are taking actions, reimposing restrictions and urging residents to get back to the basics. Governors like Indiana Republican eric holcomb. I will sign an executive order that will implement pandemic requirements for all hoosiers. Reporter s neighbor to the east, republican governor from ohio, mike dewine, warns that places could be forced to close if infections continue to spike. Is advancing cooking quickly, advancing in ohio. If you dont know any of its victims yet, sadly, i suspect we will her reporter it is seems like this, students rushing the field after notre dame upset clemson last saturday, that have renewed concern about spread on college campuses. Now, the university is mandating that all students get tested before they go home. We are all receiving exit testing before we leave. If we do not get exittested, they would be multiple strikes on our registration. We can be ready for classes to go back for next semester. Reporter of the universities have announced similar plans for mandatory exit testing, and are not bringing back students until next year. Realized it was actually dangerous, because we cannot come back to that, it was bound to be a massive spike of a virus when they go back. Reporter david begno, cbs news, south bend, indiana. Biotech Madrona Company is set to receive a large tracking of data from the covid19 vaccine. Dr. Anthony fauci says he expects the results anywhere from a couple of days to a little more than a week. He says, likely, the vaccine will be highly effective, since it is almost identical to the father of the pfizer shot. Only a handful have been approved and are in late stage studies. Plenty of public expense for joe bidens choice and skyler henry looks at how this will affect the pandemic response. Reporter president elect joe biden has chosen ron maclean to be his chief of staff. Claim brings years of washington, dc expense, including serving as mr. Bidens first Vice President ial chief of staff. The pic also shows the emphasis that the president elect is placing on a pandemic response. Clean has Public Health expense after serving as the polar response had in response to the 20 19th outbreak. We need to stay six feet apart. Reporter sitting on president bidens president ial advisory board, she downplayed the need for another full lockdown during an interview with cbs this morning. Anne we need to be tightening up right now on indoor dining, going to bars, indoor gyms, that sort of thing. Reporter the white house continues to expense new coronavirus cases and administrative officials confirmed to corey lewandowski, who is heading up the president s legal fights in pennsylvania, have both tested positive. Advisors to the president tell cbs news, they realize there is no legal path to overturn the election. They say, the president likes to be seen as a fighter. He tweeted this morning, saying, he will win in georgia after the recount. However, georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger tells cbs this morning, that is unlikely. At the end of the day, you will find that when they recount all the votes, it will substantiate what has happened with the electronic ballot counting, with the machines. Reporter the Trump Campaign has yet to produce any evidence of widespread fraud, which would change the outcome of the election. Skyler henry, cbs news, the white house. The Trump Campaign continues to contest Election Results in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, georgia, arizona and nevada. All states where president elect biden has either won or either leads. Tropical storm eta just wont quit. Coming up, the impacts of florida and where it heads next. Plus, lifting the spirits of kids in the hospital, a very safe, cold it safe, superhero visit. I love that and hopefully you are enjoying this sunshine out there. Big changes ahead as we look to tomorrow. Tracking our next weather system, we will timeout the rain on futurecast, coming up. A reminder, kpix 5 has a new app to give you 24 seven access theres no bad time to start at amazon. I like the flexibility. It also allows for picking up shifts. Safety comes first, speed comes second. Safety. Safety. Safety. Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. New video shows a massive search and rescue effort in north carolina. Several counties north of charlotte are dealing with flooding and mudslides. Nearly 3 dozen campers got trapped at this campground, and at least five people are still missing. In charlotte, flooding forced analogy school to evacuate this morning. There was so much rain, the parked cars were almost completely underwater. Firefighters rescued 143 people from the school. Tropical storm eta dumbs rain on floridas west coast as it made landfall for the second time in the Sunshine State this week. This is what it looked like torrential rains, tropical stormforce winds, and a dangerous storm surge. Eta made landfall last tuesday, killing dozens of people enforcing thousands of others to evacuate. Todays Better Together story, a very special visit for some young patient to put stanford. Yeah, they got to see some superheroes. Window washers dressed as batman, superman and spider man, scaling down Lucile Packard childrens hospital. It is a way to lift the young spirits, or the young patients spirits, especially during these tough times. Having an outside the windows, it is just amazing to see the way that the kids faces light up, when they are surprised to see some of the favorite characters just popping up out of nowhere. Just to wait and say hello, i think that just gives them a great greeting and makes him smile. That is so cool. Todays visit was extra special, since many of the kids cant have visitors because of covid. That made their day, right . So cool. For more positive stories like this one, you can check out kpix. Com together. You can send your ideas to together cbs. Com. Time for a check of the weather. Some sunshine out there . Yes, enjoyed, michelle, we are talking about big changes ahead for tomorrow, with the next storm system. Here we go, with our Salesforce Tower camera, as we look east, you can see, the sun out there over the bay, the bay bridge in the east bay this afternoon. So, we are in the 50s and 60s at this hour. So, a little bit warmer compared to yesterday at this time. 59 in concord. Oakland, 57. Livermore is 61. 58 in san francisco. 60 in san jose and 59 for santa rosa. So, we had that sunshine, dry for now, but there we go with that storm system pushing in for tomorrow. Rain arrives on friday. This is not a big storm, by any means but still, it will bring us some beneficial rainfall. Time to get out for you as we take you our buy. As you can see, we are catching some sun as we go drive first thing. Then, heading through tomorrow and into the afternoon, clouds moving and then the rain as well. This is stopping the clock at 3 30. You can see, showers pushing across the north bay and in the rest of the bay area as we head through friday evening. A few showers even friday night and wraps up pretty quickly. By the weekend, we are looking at dry conditions and a little bit more sunshine, with temperatures slowly on the rise, saturday, sunday and into early next week. Looking at just about a few hundredths to maybe 2 10 of an inch of rain. Not expecting a lot of rain with this system. Daytime highs though, for today, again, a little bit warmer compared to yesterday because of that sunshine. Still, cool and below average to the mid to low 60s from the 50s this afternoon. There is the extended forecast with rain returning for tomorrow. Drive for the weekend, even warmer as we look ahead to the start of next week, with the rain chances back in the forecast for the middle part of next week. Back to you. Mary, thank you. We are following breaking news out of l. A. County. Take a look, a look at where a small plane has crashed into a residential neighborhood near whiteman airport. This is not clear how many where they were on board, but we will keep you updated on this as we get more details. Cbs has an alluse thursday comedy block with a new show, the positive for in it, drew, a forest fighter runs into someone he knew from his past. It turns into an unlikely friendship, talk to the stars of the show. Thomas middle ditch and emily ashburn. To be a part of a comedy whose mantra is in the pond title of the show, be positive, in a time where you maybe need a little bit more optimism, i think [ laughter ] it is nice to be a part of it. You might recognize emily there for more. You can watch be positive, tonight right after young sheldon, right after that. Still to come on kpix 5, cbsn bay area in california is a national hotspot for human sex trafficking, according to the fbi. One bay area boulevard is an especially notorious location. As sarah chin shows us, this is at the front of the fight. We are seeing slavery intersecting with sex trafficking today. Reporter volunteers create a makeshift garden along international boulevard in oakland. Organizer regina evans says, theyre leaving a beautiful message on a street known as ground zero for human sex trafficking. On doing is letting you know that i see you, that you are not forgotten, that you are a special soul. It was beautiful, right . Reporter her home base is reginas door. Regina opened the vintage Apparel Store in downtown oakland six years ago, as a sanctuary in the fight against what she calls modernday slavery. I see a 14yearold black child being sold on the streets. It is unbearable pain. And so, the best that i know how to deal is through the bonds of love. Reporter in fact, regina has been helping the Alameda CountyDistrict Attorneys Office reach out to more than 5500 children it has identified in the last eight years as current or potential victims. Assistant da shami bock hence the Human Trafficking unit. Reginas work isnt just thinking outside the bo she thinks around the box. Reporter to help survivors heal from the trauma, regina has organized drumming circles, concerts and poetry readings. She has written two antitrafficking plays with proceeds going to survivors. She is teaching them a new skill, how to sew theater costumes. You are able to heal and to stitch and create and see the works of your hand, which is super important when everything has been ripped away omfrfudge, director of program for youth shelters for teenagers it is saying that regina is simply an inspiration. I just about who she is, she was born to become a fighter. Reporter her role in the fight against sex trafficking and the healing of survivors, this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to regina evans. Sharon chin, kpix 5. Regina says, she doesnt know how many people she has helped over the years, because she says, it is not about numbers, it is about love. That is right. You can nominate your own local hero for jefferson award online at kpix. Com 0. Coming up, japanese cuisine means guiltysupl snre eaacks. S it is very unusual and today on the Drew Barrymore show, actor Chris Odonnell stops by. Plus, a cozy soup recipe coming up at 5 00, cash for trash. San francisco has a way to motivate the homeless to get involved. The story more, coming up at 5 00. Finally, just in time for lunch, a pretty unusual one. Flaming hot sushi, the chain hi sho so she has teamed up with any hot cheetos for spice imitation crab, avocado, cream cheese and cucumber on the inside, wrapped in crunched, flaming hot cheetos, topped with hotmail and oil. The brand is sold in sprouts markets. No word on whether this increase will be available everywhere. I dont know, would you tried . I actually would, doesnt sound bad. Not too bad. I would like some new crab. That looks pretty good. I would like some new [ laughter ] you cant go wrong with that. [ laughter ] i have to say, okay, i wish i some coffee now. The woman in the show now thomas you dont mean that. Hope get rid of liam. Do it. Its the only way you can be with hope. Youre the one she really wants. I saw it on her face. Hope came over here because she cares about you. Liam is the one with no respect. Just belittles you, treats you like garbage. Thomas well, its been like that forever. Hope put an end to it. Eliminate him so you can be with hope. Thomas i cant do that. I have already manipulated hope and liam