And putting months of planning to test at local hospitals. This graphic shows the average number of cases in the bay area. The numbers on the right, cases are rising. We have more on what hospitals are preparing for. Reporter bay area doctors say hospitals are better prepared for a surge because they have been planning for one since sprng. This tent was set up for covid19 patients. It hasnt been filled but experts worry this time as cases rise sharply that may chang. We have a playbook, we have a formula that we set up even from the beginning of the pandemic. Reporter this doctor says while bay area hospitals are prepared for a fall surge in covid19 cases he is urging everyone to keep the guard up. Cases are climbing. Right now San Francisco is seeing an average of 80 new cases a day compared to 32 a day in early october. Experts warn if the curve isnt flattened it could climb to 300 cases a day by theened of december and could overwhelm hospitals. A lot more people are in the hospital for other things that are not covid so the ret cli there are few you are beds available. Reporter he said they stockpiled drugs for patients and with cases surging across the country supplies could dwindle. Stockpiles on ppe, even though we can of course run out if the National Supply gets slow which im afraid of. Reporter in the south bay, Health Officials transformed the Convention Center into a hospital in the spring and prepared to do it again. They say it may be put to the test as the virus spreads and people who are tired of taking precautions gather inside. Lack of physical distancing, cold weather, people are going to come together. Theres a very high risk for transmission. Reporter nbc bay area news. The Covid Concerns are mounting, new video tonight of a long loon of cars at dodgers stadium. This is a loon to get tested for covid19. In l. A. County more than 90 covid people are hospitalized. Across the country covid continues to spread at an alarming rate. More than 144,000 new cases in the u. S. Today aloren, that is the highest number yet. Eight days after the election, the results are still coming in and also a diminishing number of people who think President Trump has a viable legal path to overturn the results. Today some Trump Supporters there in danville. Reporter a raucous crowd waved the trump flags and banners insisting the results are not final. Theres fraudulent ballots and whether its 3 million, 4 million, 5 million i dont know what the number is. Its a huge number. Not talking thousands but millions. Reporter all of those are fraudulent . Theres a ltd. Of fraudulent votes out there. Reporter this is the group thats gathering at this Street Corner since september. Some neighbors figured they would let up after election night. It is a free country and before the election is fine but it is over. Reporter President Trump made the first appearance in nearly a week at Arlington National cemetery to mark veterans day. His legal team is pressing ahead with multiple lawsuits and in georgia the secretary of state ordered a manual recount. As President Trump and his supporters question the validity of the vote the joe biden share of the vote grows and the president elect moves forward. States are still counting the ballots and today the tally grew to 77. 1 million votes and leaves the president in the popular vote by more than 5 million and president elect marked veterans day at a memorial day in philadelphia and tapping long time aide ron klain at chief of staff. Thank you. Each state will certify their own Election Results within the next few weeks. Tonight nbc news does project that President Trump is the winner in alaska picking up 3 electoral votes so heres the updated count. Joe biden with 279 electoral votes, well over the magic number of 70. President trump now at 217 electoral votes. Nbc news has yet to make projections in georgia, arizona and north carolina. Tonight it started with a High School Student expressing commitment to social justice and then the online threat and the hate mail. Tonight a truce in the battle, an understanding between a senior in high school and a senior citizen. We have more from dublin. I was like, i was shaking. Whats happening right now . I couldnt really process what was happening. Reporter thats how this 17yearold student mcman reacted after a post threatening for black alives rally he organized for this sunday. He referred to us as thugs. Reporter it had the City Councils blessing but not mike grant. The post called on oath keepers and others to show up at the rally with helmets and vests in case they start trouble. I had 29 shares that also made me very nervous because 30 people feeling like this and potentially threatening me. Reporter the man who posted that message tells me tonight he had it all wrong. I thought it was going to be a black lives matter that was not friendly style that we have seen it across the country. Reporter he said he envisioned violence and reaction is overwhelming for grant. Ive been getting a lot of hate mail. Reporter the father tracked down mike grant and called him. As bad as what i feel like mr. Grant did i feel like hes sincere in what hes saying and just like my son i hope we can move forward with this and get a resolution. Reporter and that includes an inperson meeting between grant and the mcmann family. I never thought a 17yearold boy would basically wake a 65yearold man up. Reporter bay area news. Finding middle ground. It is harsh reality with covid cases surging across the state, 18 counties could be moved back to a more restrictive tier as soon as next week including santa clara, napa county. Some restaurants are preparing for the likelihood that Indoor Dining will be shut down. An owner hopefully continues to attract outdoor diners with heaters. In marin county, the cases doubled in the last week. Restaurants are allowed to operate at 50 capacity inside but the county wants to scale it back to 25 . It is a voluntary roll back. A San FranciscoRestaurant Owner told us today he predicts a 60 or 80 of privately owned restaurants will close for good in the city because they could have survive the pandemic and will try. Tonight a plea from businesses, let us do the cooking for you, especially for thanksgiving. Heres ian cole. Reporter pedros in santa clara is known for mexican food and changing it up for the holidays to make up for lost sales for the first time theyre offering thanksgiving dinner to go with a mexican twist. It is a ninecourse meet for 6 to 8 people. Reporter turkey, tamales and margaritas to go. Most clients from Silicon Valley offices that have sat empty for months and hope small innovations like this help them stay afloat. It is to help basically the business, to help our people that need jobs. And to helping everybody. Reporter many establishments are pivoting again like in San Francisco at the top of the mark to cancel reservations for thanksgiving night because Indoor Dining is off limits. We know thanksgiving is not going to happen at the top of the mark but we do the to go orders online. Reporter theyre asking you to order it. They would be grateful. That could help all of us. For the people out of work or struggling to make ends meet they are relying on food banks. Theyre preparing to feed thousands of families on thanksgiving but they say theyre doing this a lot more now with a lot less. The coronavirus emergency food that they were receiving from the feds, the usda stopped coming over the summer saying they were receiving boxes stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds of food from the federal coronavirus Food Assistance program. We were getting six truckloads a week for this program in july. But starting in november the program is not available to food banks in the bay area because there arent any vendors for us. We are still waiting to hear from the usda. Theyre spending millions of dollars of its own money on the food itself. We all can help here. Helping our own community. We are kicking off the annual food drive with safeway, the next time at safeway donate 10 to make a difference in our community, that 10 bucks goes a long way. We investigate Court Closures in the pandemic which is making it harder for the terminally ill to make it to trial. Are California Courts failing some people right now . I think they are. We follow within mans battle for justice. Also, whats it like and how does it feel . Hear from a bay area man that got that pfizer covid vaccine. Im chief meteorologist jeff with the updated time line on the next chance of rain and see you back here in seven minutes. Did you know that geicos whole 15 minutes thing. That came from me. Really. My first idea was in one quarter of an hour, your savings will tower. Over you. Figuratively speaking. But thats not catchy, is it . Thats not going to swim about in your brain. So i thought, what about. 15 minutes. 15 percent. Serendipity. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Weve already lived through about eight months of this. This pandemic put many parts of our lives on hold. But what happens when you dont have the time to wait . Our Investigative Team looks at terminally ill people fighting for a day in court. Reporter how do you build a legacy . Alfonzo spent his whole life building his. If you drive through the city, you can see, wow, look what i did. You accomplished something. Reporter hes been in charge of some of the most iconic Construction Projects in San Francisco. The cliffhouse. Exploritorium. And his favorite this chapel in north beach. Throughout his life he built a marriage. My wife is the number one. Reporter a family. We have five grandchildren. Reporter and now, hes building a court case. He is suing nearly 20 companies that made and distributed Construction Materials for the sites. According to his lawsuit those companies failed to protect workers from asbestos, a material known to cause cancer. It is the very same cancer he has. I have a lot of things to lose. Reporter it is mess theel owe ma. And it is terminal. You know youre going to die. Reporter are you scared of dying . Yes. I dont want to think about him not being here. Reporter they met as teenagers in italy. I want to enjoy every day that i have with him and hopefully tomorrow we have another one but not thinking that it may be the last one. Reporter how often are you in pain . Oh, every day, every moment. Reporter every moment . Every moment. Im in pain right now. Reporter he is suing for pain and suffering. Which can provide legal payouts worth millions of dollars. Most of the country that money goes to the family if a plaintiff passes away before the end of the trial but thats not the case in california. Where once the plaintiff dies, the pain and suffering claim dies, too. Do you worry you may not be here to see the case make its way through court . Yes. Reporter what is that feeling like . Its the mission not accomplished. Reporter Court Closures in the pandemic make it harder to make it to trial for the term nally ill. Four counties still arent allowing juries in these kinds of civil cases so the trials cant begin. That court date for them, thats air they breathe. They need that. That is whats keeping them going. Reporter this doctor has been treating mesothelioma patients for years and said pain the excrucial yatding. It is like a boa constrictor that strangles you with each breath until the tumor basically suffocates you. Reporter as California Courts sees it once the plaintiff dies they no longer experience the pain and suffering and cant sue for it. Is it justice . I dont think so. It is not justice. Reporter Assemblyman Mark Stone chairs the commit tee over the legal system. Do you think theres enough political will to change this law . I think thats a very tough one. The insurance companies, their whole obligation to the shareholders and others to minimize their the payouts and sounds colds and cynical but thats a reality of this legal structure. Reporter the nations largest Insurance Association tells us pain and suffering is intended to compensate the one who actually suffered. The group says changing the law would lead to greater expenses for businesses and ultimately consumers and argues terminally ill plaintiffs have other means to speed up the cases. In california the terminally ill can request their trial begin in four months or less but in the midst of the pandemic with courtrooms still closed or severely backlogged, we have confirmed some plaintiffs never got their trials. Just how many statewide is difficult to say. Because as we found out, no one is keeping track. To me thats kind of an administrative failure within the system. Reporter after we started to ask questions, this assemblyman stone is asking for each California Court to disclose to the state whether it violated the law by not prioritizing cases for the terminally ill. Are California Courts failing some people right now . I think they are. We should be ability to know whether or not that right is implemented and how it is being implemented. Reporter alfonzo has to wait two months for his case and assigned a trial date for december. I want everybody to be taken care of. I want to die in peace. Alfonzo never made it to court. The trial he told us was never about him. The case he built was for the family he built. When we think of life without dad, it is hard to breathe. Reporter angela is her oldest daughter. She gave the eulogy with her siblings at her side. You may be gone from our sight, dad, but you are never gone from our hearts. Reporter his death could soon lead to changes at the state capital. In the new year california lawmakers are now expected to explore ways to better protect the legal rights of the terminally ill. Its not exactly what alfonzo hoped to leave behind for his family but theres more than one way to build a legacy. If you have a story for our Investigative Unit call or visit our website. And our con dollenses to alfonzos family. Lets bring in jeff ranieri now. Looks like we have rain on the way, jeff. We are Still Holding on to the possibility here of a little bit of rain in 48 hours, well get you off here with tomorrow mornings forecast and expect the cloud cover to linger. And overall the good news on the temperatures, not quite as cold as it was when we started off the week. Remember we had the 20s and low 30s . You need the jacket but not as cold. 42 in the peninsula and 40 for the trivalley. The coldest is the north bay, not near the freezing widespread but i have the average here at 38 degrees through tomorrow. Daytime highs really dont adjust a whole lot because the cloud cover we have had lately we will see some continue at least through the midday hours and then through the afternoon a little bit of sun and then more enjoyable. And temperatures continue to look very similar no matter where you go. Wech the back to back systems helping to level out the conditions. 63 in livermore and 61 and over to the peninsula 60s. San francisco 50s across the board here. My forecast in the mission 59. And notice the winds are relatively light here through the microclimates. Winds out of the northwest at 6 and over to santa rosa 61 degrees. So tomorrows dry but again some rainfall on the way. I do expect this storm system to be off to the north by friday morning but then as we head through the afternoon and evening chance of widespread rain in the bay area, enough to get the roads wet and that will also bring some snow to the sierra. Things have condensed in terms of when and how much rain were thinking. Friday is the best chance. And just an early spotty chance on saturday morning and another chance once we hit next wednesday. 50s and 60s for highs and temperatures inlands similar with plenty of 60s and warming up next monday and tuesdays forecast. Well go back into friday here with that rain and also means sierra snow and good for the snow pack with a foot, a little bit more last weekend and on this coming friday another foot at some of the highest elevations. So every little bit we can get is going to help with the growing drought we have right now. We dont mind it at all. Thank you. Good seeing you. Up next, a trip back in time for world war ii veterans, the special flight they took on this veterans day. Happening now, San Franciscos going all electric. The board of supervisors passed an ordinance yesterday to cut the citys Greenhouse Gas emissions starting june of next year. We are back with more in a moment. Who is usaa made for . Its made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and its made for her shes serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks whether they served one tour or made a career of it. We also made usaa for military spouses and their kids usaa is easy to work with and can save you money on auto, home and renters insurance. Become a member today. Get an insurance quote at usaa. Com quote usaa. What youre made of were made for many of us might be getting this vaccine by next spring but a bay area man already got it. He was part of pfizers covid19 trial. Prominent local Attorney Daniel horowitz injected twice in september and then in object in walnut creek and says now he feels great. Pfizer says early results show that the vaccine is 90 effective at preventing covid19 so you wont get the infection. Giving horowitz a newfound confidence in Public Places where he used to worry. All of a sudden i said to myself, wait a minute. This was literally what i said. You have superpowers. You are like in one of these movies. Just turn on the superpowers. So far, so good for him. About 44,000 people around the world participated in this trial. We have big news of the moderna vaccine. Today dr. Fauci said they will have the phase three results within a week and the vaccine is similar to pfizer. Dr. Fauci said he is optimistic that the data of the trial will reveal similar early success. A standoff. Well explain next. Come experience the grand opening of floor and decors newest location in the east bay area our expansive store is fully equipped with safe distancing guides, so you can browse our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. Or easily order online, and pick up all the products you need for your flooring project curbside so come discover the perfect floor at the perfect price in whatever way is perfect for you. Floor and decor, now open in san leandro for safe instore shopping and curbside pickup. Also open in milpitas and burlingame. Okay. Their opponent isnt a Football Team but the city of berkeley. A battle brewing on the cal campus. Bottom line, cal might be forced to cancel another game. They had a defensive lineman test positive for the coronavirus and led to teammates placed on a 14day quarantine where they remain. That led to last weekends Season Opener to be kacanceled. Cals coach was supposed to have a News Conference tonight but canceled and the school said conversations are continuing with Health Professionals and the city. It adds theres no update on whether theyll play this weekend at arizona state. Better news for the 49ers. Guess whens back at practice . Thats Richard Sherman back on the field but hes still considered a long shot that hell play this weekend in new orleans on sunday. A limited number of fans are allowed this sunday in new orleans to mark the first time this season the niners play in front of fans and probably rooting for the saints, right . Right. We are back in a moment. [ whispering ] whats this . Oh, are we kicking karly out . We live with at t. It was a lapse in judgment. 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Last year it flew to france for a xhem relation of vday. Normally we have the parades but we say we appreciate you and we respect all of the military families on this veterans day and every day. They make us proud, for sure. Thank you for joining us here at 11 00. We hope to see you back here tomorrow. Byebye. [ cheers and applause