This evening as the numbers continue to rise, local counties might be making some drastic changes. Here. This comes as california hits 1 million confirmed covid cases today. Its the second state to hit that grim milestone. Texas was the first. California the most populous state, also hit a record for the most new cases since august. Bay area counties also seeing their numbers rise. Each day were hearing a different plan from almost every county. Today its Alameda County. Heres nbc bay areas melissa colorado. Reporter right now, Alameda County is in the orange teefrie but with covid19 cases on the rise, the Public HealthDepartment Says its very likely the county is going to be heading towards the red tier. Business employees said theyre worried about the purple tier. I kept thinking when should i cut bait. Reporter for the nearly seven months that the rise body works gym in alameda was shut down, owner john beal was carrying a heavy load on his shoulders. You start looking at Bank Accounts going, like, oh [ bleep ]. Reporter after Alameda County gave gyms the allclear to open with limited capacity, rise opened with new rules. They have to wear masks even when theyre working out. They get their own personal disinfectant set up. Reporter despite that, 70 of his customers canceled their memberships. Now hes bracing for another possible setback. Today Alameda County warned the countys daily covid19 case count is rising. The county says, we expect to move back into the red tier soon, and if Current Trends continue, Alameda County will move all the way back into the purple tier. I cant even imagine, and then just slamming it shut again. That would just be that would be brutal. Reporter over at the Alameda Island Brewing Company now that the weather is starting to cool down and heat lamps are in high demand, we will be moving towards Indoor Dining probably in the next week or two. Reporter but in the county downgrades to the purple tier, the brewery will be limited to this, the pickup window. The most challenging aspect of this is just having the flexibility to turn on a dime, to change your Business Model at the drop of a hat. Reporter in alameda, melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Lets take a closer look at the surge in Alameda County. This graph shows the number of new cases per day since the pandemic began. Then you can see august 25th, thats where we hit the peak. 419 new cases reported that day. Then a steady decline for a couple of months. But as you can see since midoctober, the number of cases going back up. Then last friday, november 6th, 197 new cases. That was the highest number in november. Now lets take a look at where in Alameda County the outbreak is the worst. This map right now divides the county up by zip code. The darkest blue areas have the worst outbreak. That is the 94601 neighborhood, 621, 603 area just north of san leandro. International boulevard runs right through it. These neighborhoods are depositidensely populated. Good information. Have you spent any time outside today . Absolutely gorgeous but things will be changing. Rain is on the way, but look at this. A beautiful sunset looking into the city from our emeryville camera. Lets bring in jeff ranieri. Jeff, when does that rain arrive . Yeah. It will get here as we move through tomorrow. Right now were seeing some cloud cover off to the north. Also that rainfall developing near seattle and portland. As we get you a look at the maps, you can see this wide view showing that storm system is still quite a bit aways from the bay area at this point. But, again, it is eventually going to get here. We zoom in and get a look at storm ranger. Its dry here from santa rosa down through san jose. But on my timeline, you can see by 5 00 in the morning tomorrow, we begin to see some rainfall right there near the northern coastline and eventually well start to see some of those first drops once we hit 1 30 in the afternoon tomorrow. Well take a real close look at the bay area, the timeline, and how much rain and sierra snow we could get. Ill have that for you in about 15 minutes. Heres a great resource by the way, especially with that wet weather coming in. Get updates on the rain when it comes into your specific neighborhood. You can download our free nbc bay area app for forecasts tailored to your region. Well, could the sharks be leaving san jose . The team says the citys Development Plan for downtown also known as google village could force them out. A live look at the sap center where you can see all that construction going on and the forefront. The sharks say the development will be a traffic and parking nightmare for fans trying to get to the shark tank. Nbc bay areas scott budman is there live with the details. Scott, is this a political power play . Reporter yeah, this is you could call it that, janelle. This could last a little while. Let me give i just one example of what the team says its concerned about here at the arena. Over here is santa clara street. This is the street that runs in front of the arena. And right now it runs four lanes strong, but one of the plans would shrink that to just two lanes. The team says its concerned that would leave many fans frozen in gridlock. As work progresses around san joses deer adon station, the looming Google Development has one nearby tenant feeling left out the sharks. We were born here. We grew up here. Wed love to stay here. Reporter born in san jose, the arenas original tenant says the plan for a google village with tens of thousands of tech workers expected threatens to choke off access to the tank. So were worried that the viability for those that dont live nearby, that drive from the peninsula or south bay of los gatos will be that they can no longer use it. We will essentially suffocate the arena. Reporter with that in mind, the team sent this letter to its fans, warning of too much construction, not enough parking, and restricted access to fans and concertgoers, warning that if something cant be changed, the team could leave. This is our home. We dont want to go. But at some point if it becomes unfeasible to be here, we have to consider that. Id hate to see the sharks move. Reporter san joses mayor says hes confident both sides can come together. I am confident that nothing we do will in any way hasten the departure of the franchise from the city. Reporter now, team teal says it has gotten together with google and really has no beef with the tech giant. The sharks say their big problem is actually with the city of san jose on this. By the way, you can comment, if youd like. The city of san jose has a City Council Meeting coming up on monday, the 16th. Public comment is accepted. Live at the arena, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Scott, thank you. It is a year like no other, and with the holidays right around the corner, in fact the holidays are here, will San Franciscos union square be open for the holidays . Until just a few days ago, nearly all the businesses were boarded up, bracing for any sort of civil unrest after the president ial election. But today we saw signs that shop owners are getting ready for shoppers. The plywood is gone from the windows of many of the stores, and the city put up the Union Square Christmas tree. Business leaders say theyre hoping for the best and trying to find ways to attract people to come. Things are boarded up, and its, you know, kind of a sad time. And the stores arent too busy like they used to be, and hopefully more people will come. I think its the covid. My hope is people spend as much as they were going to spend and that they look at other ways to celebrate christmas. Its such a big part of our tradition at union square. This weekend, Indoor Dining will be off limits again in San Francisco. That wont help. But restaurants in the area are winterizing their outdoor areas for cold weather so people can continue to eat outdoors. The Christmas Tree will be lit next week along with the light show to project snowflakes on the surrounding buildings. President trump is not backing down. It has been six days since the election was called, but the president is still not accepting the results, and hes getting some support from fellow republican lawmakers. They returned to capitol hill this week, and right now the Trump Administration is blocking joe biden from receiving his president ial daily briefings. The Top Republican in the house citing bidens own words that there is only one president at a time. Hes not president right now. Dont know if hell be president january 20th, but whoever is will get the information. President obama said today that president trumps Election Fraud claims are putting the u. S. On a, quote, dangerous path. Elbow bumps and applause in San Francisco today as city leaders celebrated the first latina elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors in two decades. The socially distanced victory gathering took place outside city hall. Myrna mel ger has an advanced degree in urban planning and speaks four languages. In the 1980s, her family came to San Francisco to escape the war in el salvador. And the city was good to us. My sisters and i were able to go to school and thrive and have a future. And now here i am having been elected to district 7. The group also celebrated the passage of prop c, enabling all votingage San Francisco residents to serve on city boards and commissions regardless of immigration status. Were going to chat with myrna melgar oneonone tonight at 6 00. Up next here at 5 00, handing out cash for picking up trash around homeless encampments. The Pilot Program that aims to clean up san joses blight. Plus far from home. How a sea lion pup ended up in a car dealership parking lot, where it is now. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Ill show you how far were behind so far for the rainfall season, what will pick up tomorrow in the form of rain and snow. Ill be back with that in about seven minutes. When we welcome our west coast viewers, dozens of highwater rescues after Tropical Storm eta makes its fourth landfall and why this record storm season still may not be over. Plus some grocery chains acting now to ward off empty shelves as a new covid wave sweeps the country on nbc nightly news. Cash for trash. Today san jose laid out its new Incentive Program to clean up the city and help get Homeless People involved in keeping the community clean. This is how it works. Homeless people who sign up to pick up trash at encampments will get a prepaid reloadable mastercard. Theyll be paid 4 for each bag of trash bundled and can make up to 20 a day at participating sites. The cards are restricted so they cannot be used to buy tobacco or liquor. Organizers say cash for trash is a win win. We have launched this program because we recognize theres far more that we can do in partnership with our homeless residents who want to be part of that solution. San jose mayor sim liccardo says more than two dozen people have already enrolled in the Pilot Program. A dmv office in the east bay is shutting down. Tomorrow the branch on North Broadway in walnut creek will close permanently. The lease is expiring, and its not being renewed. The dmv didnt say why, but it also announced it will make a temporary branch in pleasanton permanent. So now pleasanton will have two dmv offices. Well, in the north bay, a sea lion on the road without her drivers license. This is minnie. Rescuers say she swam a little far upstream then waddled across san clemente drive. Rescuers found her in the parking lot of a car dealership. Now theyre treating her at the Marine Mammal center. Her rescuers say shes doing very well and she will be returned to the ocean soon. Janelle, is it 2021 yet . I think we have seven more weeks. 2020 is almost over. To help us get through this especially for the people who really need help, a 10yearold girl from palo alto. Nbc bay areas Garvin Thomas shares her story in tonights t bay area proud. Reporter tessa burney is seriously all of us these days. Just ask her how shes doing, and shell answer politely. Its been pretty good, you know. Reporter but then scratch the surface and ask this palo alto 10yearold to really tell you what life has been like in the year of covid, and tessa will be much, much more honest. Bad. Bad, yeah. Reporter sheltering at home and learning away from school have not made for a fun year for this sixth grader. Tessa says shes barely seen her best friend in person since the pandemic started. I think i can take this one. Reporter but if youre wondering why tessa is busy these days, packing bag after bag of what she calls her italian dinner kits so a pass ta goes inside and sauce. Reporter this is why tessa maybe isnt exactly like the rest of us. Then we also get a positive note inside. This one says, ciao, enjoy your meal. Reporter tessa knows as tough as she has had it, there are those who have had it much tougher, like those having trouble feeding their families. This all started, tessa said, when her mom told her about a local family of four who didnt have all the food they needed. And so i thought, like, well, i want to help these people, but i cant write a check and like cash it in to the bank or anything because i just i just cant do that. Reporter what tessa could do is post on her moms nextdoor account asking for help, and help she got. A lot of it. Enough food for more than 60 meals has been dropped off at tessas home, and shes now donating all of it to peninsula family service. It is probably not the biggest donation theyll get this year, but it certainly is one of the most meaningful. If you are also like me, young but you also want to help reporter because while the pandemic will end one day, its a good bet that tessa is just getting started. I really think that i just went beyond my capabilities here. I think im proud of myself. Reporter Garvin Thomas, nbc bay area news. We are proud of you too. She is well spoken. I think i went beyond my capabilities here. Thats great. Thank you, tessa. Like tessa, we can all help. We are teaming up with safeway for our annual nourishing neighbors food drive. The next time youre at a safeway, make a 10 donation. That money goes directly to our local food banks. So many people in need this year, especially in the pandemic. Lets check in with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. I went outside briefly and it felt so nice to have the sun beating on me, much warmer than it was a few days ago. You got that right. And hopefully everybody got outside to enjoy it like you did today because tomorrow going to be a lot different for us as that chance of rainfall is, well, holding on. I did want to start off tonight with a look at how were doing so far for the rainfall season. It was nice to get some rainfall over the past weekend. But it really has not been nearly enough to catch us up. As you can see on my weather chart here, the rain season starts on october 1st, and since then we have only seen trace amounts to 0. 03 of an inch of racism. A deficit of 1 1 4 inches in san jose. Santa rosa, weve just over 3 inches behind. This storm system wont catch us up but put a small dent in the numbers. Tomorrow a system moves down from the north. I think its going to start to break up as it gets close to the bay area but should manage to hold on for some rain for us from 2 00 p. M. Into 10 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Thats the zone of what im looking at for those rain chances. Storm ranger, our emotionmobiler radar currently showing that dry scan here from santa rosa down to san jose. You can go to the nbc bay area app. You can pull up the weather section, and you can click on the storm ranger truck and see what that storm ranger is showing as our rain arrives tomorrow. Check that out, nbc bay area app in the weather section. Well get you into the futureca futurecast. Tomorrow morning i think we are dry. We have the clouds with us, then the storm systems moving down from the north. Its not the best path for big rain. We need to see these storms move in from the west, pick up that pacific moisture. But nonetheless, well get rainfall developing by 2 00 p. M. Here on friday over the north bay. This will be a gradual push to the south as we head through tomorrow afternoon and evening. By 7 00 p. M. Well see some spotty showers over the east bay, the peninsula, and the south bay as well. Then eventually by 11 00 at night tomorrow, most of that activity would begin to move on out. So totals not extremely high, but i think were going for about 0. 05 inch. Its less as we move to the south. Be ready for that rainfall. Bring your umbrella and that jacket. Temperatures will start off on the cool side but not as cold as weve been. The cloud cover acts like a blanket. 47 in the south bay. 40s for the east bay, San Francisco, and the north bay. Well warm up tomorrow but not a whole lot. 58 in santa rosa. 60 in livermore. 59 san jose. My forecast in palo alto at 58. So hold on to a chance of a spotty shower into early saturday morning. Then most of the weekend will be dry, also into monday, and some spotty chances of rain tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. Right here across the inland valleys were also looking at a spotty chance into early saturday morning. Then were drying out saturday, sunday, monday with some more rain chances into next week. Raj and janelle, i did the tally, and im sure everybody at home will be happy to hear that after 17 days of 100 or hotter this summer, i do not see any coming our way over the next couple of weeks or months for that matter. Thats good. So goodbye, 100s. I think everybody is kind of welcoming this weather, right . Were into that. Jeff, look at janelles background there. She is matching the sky. That is not like a taped photo. That is a live shot outside. It looks gorgeous. Beautiful sunset tonight. Thanks, jeff. Beautiful coming up, a statue stolen from a Bigfoot Museum back at home tonight. The strange place it turned up. Tonight, dozens of highwater rescues after Tropical Storm eta makes its fourth landfall. 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Yeah, the patients, the children, and the staff also superheroes. Childrens hospital stanford has been putting on this event since 2013. Thats a great event. I wish they did it here at nbc, put a smile on our faces as well. A family of coyotes put on a show in front of a wildlife camera on the peninsula. Were going to show you next. [ whispering ] whats this . Oh, are we kicking karly out . We live with at t. It was a lapse in judgment. At t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gigspeed internet, but we cant sign up for that here. Yeah, but im just like warming up to those speeds. Youve lived here two years. The personal attacks arent helping, karly. Dont you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something . [ muffled scream ] stop living with at t. Xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes. We have the power to harness californias Abundant Solar and wind energy, but its not available all day long. Use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. Tonight at 6 00, a smashandgrab targeting peoples packages only on nbc bay area. The video and the growing concern for postal workers in local neighborhoods. Next on nightly news, we have exclusive access inside of a covid icu. How hospitals across the country, not just the bay area, are handling the surge. Before we go, a tender moment between a mommy coyote and her pups, and it was all caught on camera. I could watch this all day. The Peninsula Open Space trust captured this happy coyote family on one of its 50 wildlife cameras. This litter of five just frolicking, hanging out with mom. One curious pup gives the camera a little closeup inspection. The group called pathways for wildlife operates the Camera Network to better understand behavior and travel patterns. That is adorable. Lester holt is next. Well see you at 6 00. Tonight the coronavirus skyrocketing to new records and now the major u. S. City issuing a new stayathome advisory. Chicago urging residents not to leave their homes unless its absolutely essential. Crackdowns happening from coast to coast. California surpassing 1 million recorded cases today. Long lines for testing in connecticut detroit schools halting inperson learning inside a covid ward bracing for a tsunami of new patients. Plus the new warning abou traveling with your children for thanksgiving anas