As we have been reporting, in less than 30 hours, new restrictions take effect. Exactly when those rules start depends on where you live. San francisco, santa clara, contra costa counties will be the first to enact the order at 10 00 tomorrow night. Tonight, businesses and customers are preparing for another round of closures. Nbc bay areas tom jenson is in walnut creek with more on how people are coping with the uncertainty. Reporter stylists here at the grove salon, cutting and coloring their clients time one more time before yet another shutdown. I wish there was another alternative than just completely shutting down. Personal care. Because people are being careful. Reporter the owner plans to keep extended hours today and tomorrow before salons are shut down. Were going to take care of as many people as we can and hopefully hope back in three weeks. Reporter covid19 cases are surging across the state. Ooze anymore the medical field, so i hear it and see it all day long. Reporter lots of opinions how to get through what is hopefully the last part of this pandemic before widespread vaccinations are completed. These large gatherings have to stop. Reporter some, though, still question the advice of most medical experts, despite the record surge. Its just a bad flu, i would say. Its not it doesnt call for the shutdowns thats happening. Reporter everyone agreeing the old normal cant come soon enough. You just want to go back to normal and live your life. Reporter many people running businesses hit hardest by the pandemic say the key to success is compliance. Standing by all of these protocols is really important. And its also ironically sort of a key to our success. Reporter we did not see a rush of preshutdown shoppers at Grocery Stores and some opted to take care of their shopping without leaving their cars. There were a lot of empty Outdoor Dining tables during what should have been a very busy Holiday Shopping weekend. Every time theres an announcement that comes out, people become a little more nervous about going out. But just that alone hurts us, as well. Reporter those business operators and customers telling us they Hope Congress passes a new round of stimulus checks very soon. These repeated shutdowns taking their tolls on a lot of people. Tom jensen, nbc bay area news. Health leaders say this new order necessary because of a dramatic rise in hospitalizations. Take a look at where things stand across the state. If you look at the bay area as a whole, we have more icu availability remaining than most others in the state. More than 21 . Northern california above 24 . Things can change very quickly. You can see Southern California is now at 12. 5 . The san joaquin valley, 8. 6 valley. Icu availability in the state is 15 . In the san joaquinvalley, the number of available icu beds dropped in half. In the past 24 hours, a report 25,000 new cases here in california. That brings the total to more than 1. 3 million confirmed cases. Also in the past 24 hours, 209 people have died, nearing the Record Number of deaths we saw in the number. The Positivity Rate is 7. 6 . In the south bay, concern continues to grow. Friday, there were a record 895 new covid cases. Now, in an effort to get more people tested, Santa Clara County is opening up a new popup testing site where people can test themselves. The dropin site is at the Emanuel Baptist church on north white road. People can selfadminister a naval swab test. The testing site is open from tuesday, december 8th, through friday, december 11th, between the hours of 11 00 a. M. And 5 30 p. M. As cases soar in the bay area and in the country, researchers say covid was the leading cause of death in the United States this week. In the last seven days, 11,820 americans lost their lives to the virus. The team at the university of washington projects that the virus will be the second leading cause of death by the years end. Only surpassed by heart disease. Reopen our schools, thats a message a group of parents are sending to Health Leaders today. They gathered in berkeley for a socially distanced protest. They say Remote Working is not learning. They say it takes a toll on kids mental and physical health and say schools have a very low rate of virus transmission. Now we know that schools are not the driver of this epidemic. Yet we feel like the School District isnt making decisions based on science. Even the models they offer are untenable for working pa ining. Reporter theyre calling on the School District to come up with a plan for reopening that goes beyond the four hours per week for Elementary Schools later. The district said not just businesses, the new stay at home order means that zoos have to close, too. The oakland zoo barely managed to stay afloat the last time it was shut down. Donations poured in, and the zoo was able to fill its reserves again. But without visitors, that money will only last through the expected three to fourweek closure. Even so, the zoo is not planning to let any of its staff go. Theyll make sure the animates are taken care of. So all of our animal care staff will remain on board throughout. We also have a commitment to our staff. Tickets purchased in advance will be honored once the zoo reopens. The zoo also plans to extend its nighttime holiday lights show for another month after reopening. By the way, under the health order, the San Francisco zoo and happy hollow zoo in san jose will also be forced to shut down. Okay, the east Bay Regional Park District says it is closing some of its facilities tomorrow, starting at 6 00 sunday night, all camp grounds, outdoor museums and play grounds will be shut down until further notice. The district says parks and trails will stay open to the public so that people can enjoy a little time outside. We know there are so many moving part toss this new stay at home order. Weve broken it down for you on our website, just logon to nbcbayarea. Com, click on the red bar at the top of our home page. Lets take a look outside. You can see the haze out there as a spare the air alert is in effect. Fire danger, yes, it is december, and theres fire danger. Gusty winds expected in the bay area this weekend. Lets check in with rob mayeda right now. When are the winds moving in and when will they be the strongest . Looks like within the next 24 hours, so kind of two sides to the coin that should help our air quality issues. Well begin to see the winds picking up, especially around the north bay hills. Lets take you outside in view of san jose. Well show you some of the hazy skies out there. A beautiful sunset moment. This is tossing a considerable amount of high level clouds over the bay area, but as the storm ranger, scanning the skies there, nothing to show for it. So mid and high level clouds. Great for sunsets, not for raindrops. The transition, air quality should improve, but december fire danger conditions on the hills as dry as mid october. So fi time the winds pick up out of the north and northeast, like they will tomorrow and especially sunday night into monday, thats getting our attention. Well take a closer look at the hour by hour wind speeds, and when any rain may try to make a comeback in that extended forecast. Ill have a closer look at that coming up in about five minutes. President trump is in georgia tonight for his First Political rally since losing the election. The president and first lady left the white house headed there to campaign for the two republican senators. Both are at high stakes runoff elections. The president is speaking at a victory rally at the airport down there. President trump called the runoffs the most important in american history. Among other topics, the president slammed the states recount election outcome. He also touted the covid19 vaccines rolling out very soon. And joe biden attending to church in wilmington, delaware this morning. He walked into st. Joseph on the brandy wine church with a slight limp. Its been a week since he fractured his ankle. A first for tesla. What a new report reveals about the employees makeup and how the Company Continues to keep its workforce diverse. Plus, the pandemic is not stopping one east bay family from doing something good this holiday season. How a tree right in front of their home is bringing the community together. Well show you that next. A difficult drive across the bay bridge today. A group of protestors caused major traffic delays. The Sikh Coalition organized the event to bring attention to a crisis under way in india. Farmers in india are protesting a set of new farming laws. Todays local demonstration made its way to the indian consulate in San Francisco. Tesla has published its firstever diversity report. The company says it has a majority minority workforce. Reports show 79 of workers are men, 21 are women. About 10 identifies as black, 21 is asian, 22 latin x, 34 of the workforce is white. Critics point out that leadership roles are much less diverse, with 83 men, 59 white. Tesla outlined a plan for keeping its workforce diverse, including recruiting and training strategies. A followup to stranan franciscos new street crisis program. The goal is to take over 911 calls for Mental Health and drug issues. The team has been responding quickly to those calls. Often within ten minutes. The mayor says the team is finding people the support and resources they need, which allows Law Enforcement to focus on public safety. The move is one of the changes aimed at dealing with emergencies nonvie lenlly. Two vaccines from pfizer and moderna are nearing final approval by the fda and theres a lot of complicated Science Behind it. So messenger rna is an instruction code. So it comes up, the genes get make the passenger rna, and that goes to places in your cell that make the proteins, and once made, these can be expressed. Thats michael tang from the college of medicine. To see the complete interview and more, check it out. Channel 185 on xfinty cable or any time on lx. Com. Now to our something good. A family in pleasanton has set up a giving tree right in front of their house to help children in need this holiday season. The decorated tree has a sign asking if anyone knows a child in need to fill out a form and add it to the tree, simple enough. Neighbors are encouraged to take those forms and shop for a gift. This family usually adopts a family or child from the giving tree where their own children attend school. This year, with school being virtual. They decided to take the spirit of giving into their own hands. One of our favorite quotes is there are angels among us, so be one. We just wanted to take part in doing something for the community. So we just when we got our tree inside, we decided to get one more and put it in the front so people walk by or drive by and have an opportunity to put something for themselves or a child in need that they know of. Several children on the tree have parents who lost their job this year. They hope the message spreads, and they can reach even more kids this holiday season. We always love those stories. Rob mayeda is joining us now with a lot on his plate. We have the bad air, the fire danger, and you were going to look down the road as far as you had to do find rain, right . We have to resort to these 15day outlooks to see the next chance of rain and we might be seeing a little bit, trying to get closer on the longterm horizon. But the story is about the wind. That will help air quality. Well really have to watch that december fire danger for parts of the north bay, napa county, maybe the diablo range on monday. We have some beautiful post sunset views around the bay area. This is downtown San Francisco. Looks gorgeous for your saturday evening. 51 degrees with those hazy skies. Currently, spare the air day. We should see conditions improving for tomorrow. You see the temperature at 56 degrees. Towards livermore, also 56 degrees, west wind at 8 miles per hour, and into san jose, 56. Three in a row. 56 degrees for now, mostly cloudy skies. Air quality back in the moderate range for the north and south bay. Despite all the clouds, we just dont have anything to show for it. The radar, not seeing anything around the bay area. Looks like it breaks up, and notice during the day tomorrow, clearing skies and the wind starting to pick up. In the morning, cloudy start, 30s and 40s. The afternoon, you can see how the skies clear. Highs tomorrow, mostly low to mid 60s. We get into sunday night, around 9 00 to 10 00, we begin to see the wind gusts picking up. Wind speeds from 6 00 a. M. Monday to about mid afternoon in the 20 to 35mileperhour range around the north bay. Similar conditions extending south along the diablo range. The reason why for the moment we dont have a lot of fire weather watches up is the humidity numbers, while dry, arent quite to the threshold we have seen. Wind speeds not quite as strong. That said, fire danger for this time of year will be unusually high through the beginning of the week. Rain not helping us out, bypassing us through the week. The sevenday forecast stays dry, trending warmer monday and saturday as we watch the winds in the hills picking up. Notice a few spots early in the week, including inland location, close to 70 degrees. For december, we begin to see some cooling. Lets take a look at the twoweek outlook. We know that the odds are for Central California and Southern California we may see below average rainfall. We have seen that for the first week of december. We have to take this forecast, some rain will make a comeback for northwest california as early as next weekend. Were stuck in a holding pattern, so if you like october weather in december, more of that in the forecast. That rain about 15 days or around the 15th of the month is the next best chance foreseeing that making a comeback. Rob, thank you very much. Still ahead, from viral sensation to nominated for a big award, a big honor for this bay area teenager. And the holiday is a tough time for a lot of bay area families. But we can all do our share to help. The next time youre at safeway, make a 10 donation. The money goes to local food branks. Over time, things wear down. Tires, brakesand headlight bulbs, too. Sylvanias lighting experts know that if you wait until burnout. Youll lose up to 50 feet of visibility. Thats from here. To here. In darkness. Switch to a new pair of sylvania bulbs today, and see better tonight. Remember this south bay teen who painted a portrait of Kamala Harris . Hes been named one of times kids of the year honorees. 14yearold tyler gourd rdon fr san jose posted this time lapse video of him painting a portrait painting harris. He even spoke with raj mathai about it. This week, Time Magazine named him runnerup for kid of the year award. He overcame a lot of challenges in life, with the help of his art. Some of which is now on display at the heirs to the throne exhibit at the beverly center. The san jose state spartans are fighting to remain undefeated. They moved todays game against hawaii to hawaii. This is the first time they played since november 14th. Last time i checked, san jose state is ahead by four. Second half. South bays new rules forced the 49ers out of town. Theyve become the phoenix 49ers, kind of, sort of. Theyre in glendale, next to phoenix. They will be playing at Cardinal Stadium and take on the bills. Join us for 49ers pregame live monday at 4 00 p. M. And then after the game, switch back over to nbc sports bay area for analysis and postgame reaction. Experiencing the sound of the symphony from home. The unique experience this afternoon and when you can enjoy it again. Its not easy now with this pandemic. Second harvest makes me really really happy. Meatballs, mexican rice, chicken enchiladas, and mole. For almost twenty years. Speaking in spanish the magic of the world renowned San Francisco symphony on tv right here on nbc bay area. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. You know the voice, you love the voice, you love the man. Yes, its raj mathai, making incredible appearance on the deck the hall holiday program. The sim ymphony has gone vir xh this year because of the pandemic. If you want to experience an afternoon of music without leaving your home, join us december 19th for a current enter the pippa. That begins at 3 30 right here on nbc bay area news. Back in a moment. 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. Thanks for watching. See you at 6 00. Tonight, new lockdowns as covid surges los angeles and Southern California ordered today to go into lockdown. Residents told to stay at home starting tomorrow night joining much of the rest of the state as icus near capacity this is the greatest threat to life in los angeles that we have ever faced. Other states warned they may be next vaccinations have begun in russia. The uk set to start within days. As the u. S. Ramps up its operation. How cvs and walgreens may lead the way the first major snowstorm for the northeast. A fastmoving noreaster dumping up to a foot of snow in some areas