Reporter there are no shortage of test kits, but higher demand means longer lines and possibly delays in getting results, almost 180,000 people in the state took the test yesterday, and alameda county, that number was about 5500 people. The first guy today said he had his car parked there since 3 30 pm this morning 3 30 am. Reporter in pleasanton, they only have 200 test kits each day. We already had 200 people in line by 9 30 am, today we were turning people away by 8 30 am because there were already 200 people in line. Reporter Health Officials have offered competing messages about weather people should get tested. People who must test, we want them to continue to have access, essential workers and people who have been exposed. We are asking people who want to test, because perhaps they want to test before traveling, to please not, simply postpone your travel. Reporter they warned that a negative pretravel test doesnt guarantee that you wont spread the virus. She will get another test in san diego before seeing her mom. Trying to be cautious about myself and surroundings and do what i can to be safe. This if you want to get tested, get an appointment as soon as possible, in oakland, kpix 5. The nighttime coronavirus curfew, a question weather will help stop the spread, a step in the right direction. But conscious that we are sacrificing so much right now, people are tired, and so to try to give a reasonable timeframe is trying to meet the public halfway. The oakland mayor says that she believes the state is trying to send a clear message, especially the holidays. Gathering more than usual. A worrisome trend, nearly doubled this year, recorded this year, 29 does last year. 100 times more potent than morphine. 2 playgrounds were intentionally set on fire. At Hansen Parker earlier this morning. 75,000 worth of damage, on november 8, the swing set it creek site park, detectives reviewing surveillance footage. A plan to convert hotels into permanent housing, the most impressive aggressive action towards ending homelessness, leading to lawsuits in cities like milpitas. And project home, taking a look at project home key, the controversial and rare opportunity to house the homeless. People are really angry about it. How fast every thing is happening. Without committee consent. My the lack of Public Engagement for this project. The states rare opportunity to provide housing for thousands of on house californians during unprecedented housing crisis coupled with a pandemic. The catch is that the money comes out december 30, federal funding from the coronavirus really fun, hotel owners can elect to sell their property to the state, and the hotels will be turned into housing for the homeless. Neighbors are never consulted. If things are done in record time, maybe you havent done the correct research and information gathering that you need in order to make the facility a successful facility as it needs to be. Reporter leading to a lawsuit in milpitas, over 1000 have signed a petition, against turning it into permanent housing for 132 homeless people. This is not how democracy works. We said this before, there is a total lack of transparency and there is a total lack of representation. We had no voice in any of this. We should go with the volunteer cities first instead of saying hey, we are the state of california and we told you. Working for marin county, overseeing three home key applications, in san rafael, and santa rosa. The timeline has made us do business little bit differently from how we generally would, we submitted the application without having done the Due Diligence. And with the state, the Due Diligence would happen after the fact. 95 projects under consideration statewide. 600 million up for grabs in this use it or lose it scenario. Some feel they werent included in the process. Do you see why they feel that way . Absolutely, this is a much faster timeline than we would want to ever do any project. Reporter more than 151,000 on house californians right now. Project home key could create nearly 6000 per minute units of housing if all projects under consideration move forward. Californians have a history of pushing back against homeless shelters or linen low Income Housing projects, thats why the pass the law to circumvent local control. For exactly this, the people went against this project, and they are not happy with it because they had no knowledge of it. Reporter is the process in place for a reason . We should do the right thing but the right thing is to find a workable solution. To a complex problem. Or a privilege that californians can afford during this unprecedented time. In the midst of the pandemic, this is how the state has responded, by ensuring that some of the most Vulnerable People in the community is our house. Reporter so the residents folly lawsuit and a temporary restraining order, it has been denied by judge, but the lawsuit is going forward, with a hearing in december. Kpix 5. s keep sending your stories and ideas to project home at kpix. Com and see the reporting on the website. A vaccine trial expanding in the backyard, getting thousands of teenagers involved. Another bay area landmark turning on the holiday spirit, we will take it live. Coming up in 6 00, thanksgiving less than a week away, a big week for shopping and starting up, items going off the shelves. Prompting calls for sprinkler retrofitting, this mornings fire might make it happen sooner rather than later, and how many might be affected in the buildings. Com humira patients,. This ones for you. 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If you cant afford your medicine, abbvie may be able to help. Kaiser permanente enlisting the help of a new demographic to test the covid19 vaccine, extending to teenagers, including 1217yearolds in sacramento and santa clara, giving the shot to the san jose teenager and students aged 16 and 17 over the past few weeks, the goal is to enroll 2000 adolescents to test the vaccine made by pfizer and beyond tech. Vessel will launch the largest earth observing satellite to keep your eye on rising sea levels, providing measurements of sea surface height, and can track the changes down to mere centimeters. It will help scientists better understand the cause and effects of Sea Level Rise around the globe. Sea levels are affecting so many of us directly, it affects all of us, but especially those people in San Francisco and beyond by the sea, the sea has been rising for about an inch every 78 years and that increases and is going up. Sentinel 6 will launch from Vandenberg Air force base in southern california, it is set to carry out its mission for at least five years. Mayor london breed announced free yearround admission for low income families to the gardens of golden gate park, including the botanical garden, conservatory of flowers in the japanese tea garden, it is good for up to four people with a electronic and if it transfer card to show enrollment in cow fresh or other snap programs, and those with a midi cow card can also show the admission. Medical. Opening day, and changes that you can expect. Good news happening in the bay area, go to kpix. Com together, people have a new escape you might say, fresh power powder, ski slopes back open, live at norstar with how some resorts are opening without official guidelines, marissa . The state Health Department has not released official guidelines and how ski resorts like north star are supposed open, covid19 guidelines, but both resorts are up and running, as of this afternoon. Video of what looked like earlier today, quiet right now. The gondolas were up and running, the snow is made, they are eager to get out to north star on the first day. They are seeing plenty of changes, getting pizza to go, no large axes, but the resorts are allowed to reopen, the state department has not updated guidelines for ski resorts yet, Health Officials say norstar is allowed to open, because following the states guidelines for outdoor recreation. Every policy we have either exceeds or meets the standards. We are relying on gas to gets to follow the guidelines. Reminding people to pull their masts up. Reporter when they come to the ski resorts, its about the indoor operations, no axis to the lodges of the restaurants, and all times on the property, the lift ticket, you need the reservation, some thing to think about as you head out to the beautiful weather this weekend. Kpix 5. Just a quick question. As many times as ive gone skiing, it is about the socializing after the day is done, fire or the bar or whatever, thats going to be tough not to do this year. Im going to have my photographer pan over to show you how empty it is, the middle of the norstar resort on opening day, you might expect the restaurants to be packed, but tonight, not a person inside here. They are all tucked away for the night i suppose. Take you marissa perlman. Yosemite now closed for the season, no vehicle traffic at glacier point, typically closing the fall, reopening in the spring, and weather and Road Conditions are safe again. Yes 70 itself is open with snow removal on the other roads within the park. Chapter 5 at the embarcadero center, keeping the holiday spirit there. Flipping the switch on thousands of lights outlining those buildings. 17,000 lights in fact, another view from the Treasure Island camera, no big celebration because of the pandemic, but looking at it is a sign of normalcy during our difficult year for a lot of folks. So we have to appreciate the weather, we dont have to stay inside when the weather is this nice. That will help anyone trying to do a socially distanced, outdoor small gathering for thanksgiving, the weather looks like it will be cooperative. Hour by hour throughout the day on turkey day, thursday, reaching up to the mid60s for highs, inland. A degree or two above average by the bay, highs in the low 60s and along the coast, a few more clouds was still nice for late november, high temperatures reaching into the upper 50s. The short term forecast, lets look at what we can expect. Chilly tonight, frost possible, valleys of the north bay. The cold spots of the map. Passing clouds this weekend, unlikely they will squeeze out moisture. The dry weather continues, through next week, completely dry 7day forecast, but the 6 10 day outlook, through the end of the month, a significant chance of below average precipitation for the bay area and western united states. 814 days, it is not quite as strong, below average precipitation but it is still there, not just for the bay area but all of california and the western half of the country. It is a nice evening, the lights are lit up once again, and temperatures topped up mostly in the 60s, all of those, 63 degrees, San Francisco, temperatures in the mid60s, they have backed off now, 52, petaluma 47. Half moon bay 60. Fairfield 62. Temperatures will drop off quickly now that the sun is down, dry air and mostly clear skies. A good recipe for temperatures to drop off fast. Mid to upper 30s for most of the north bay tour morning. Upper 30s and low 40s inland, low 40s bay, and temperatures will be a degree above average in San Francisco, 46 degrees above average inland, and we will see these temperatures throughout most of the seven day. Upper 50s to along 60 along the coast, south of the bay, mid to upper 60s in the santa clara valley, 67 san jose. 67 santa clara. Temperatures in the trivalley, temperatures east of mount diablo reaching closer to 70. Hitting 70 in fairfield. Around the bay itself, low to mid 60s. A few spots falling short of 60. 59 sausalito. Mid to upper 60s for the north bay, farther north, 60s for mendocino and lake counties, 71 in cloverdale, the warmest on the map tomorrow. Temperature stays similar, and suddenly slightly temperatures, wobbling up and down, close to what is normal this time of year, not a hint of rain in the 7day forecast, which takes us through thanksgiving into the busy shopping day, in 2020 black friday will be weirder than normal. 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Reporter he and his mom and 10yearold sister are extremely close because theyve been through a lot. When you are forced with nothing, you have to make something, i had to think differently to get out of my reality. Reporter including losing his birth father to an overdose and his beloved stepfather to gun violence, he was just nine years old when the man who raised him was murdered. He passed away in 2012, september 1, to gun violence, in the fillmore area, i couldnt just go about school or life the same way as anybody else would. Reporter he has made his own way, and what he has accomplished as an impressive, he taught himself to code by watching youtube videos, developed his own app designed to help low income users access better healthcare and launching his own nonprofit next year, geared towards children who have lost parents tragically. I feel like helping kids and families out, is really whats going to help my community out, and other communities hopefully across the country. Reporter while he hopes his future nonprofit helps kids everywhere, he is staying local, applying only to california colleges so he can be close to those who matter the most, his family. Really important in my decision to pick only california schools, help my mother, hopefully get a job and send money or way in my sisters way, its a big factor. Reporter kpix 5. He tells us he should hear back from at least one school that he is applied to a december. He says if he gets in, it will be the best Christmas Present he gets this year. Next year he will be giving a ted talk about his ventures. For more about students rising above, the scholars, kpix. Com sra. Now at 6 00, city leaders sounding the alarm after flames ripped through a San Francisco highrise, reigniting a debate about a safety measure. New details on how bay area hospitals are getting ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine. I am done. I try and ignore it. Our top story on kpix 5 and cbsn bay area, pandemic fatigue, a state curfew is set to take effect in about 24 hours. Good evening, i am ken bastida, starting with the troubling trend of surging covid cases, california hitting an alltime high, more than 13,000 new cases being reported, according to the la times, Health Officials anticipate that up to 12 of those could wind up in the hospital. And that is why the bay area counties in the purple tier will be under a covid curfew beginning tomorrow night. Live in walnut creek with people expressing some covid fatigue, and a lot of frustration, can he . Kenny . Reporter applying for 95 of residents in the purple and most restrictive tier, and where they are tonight, and the covid fatigue is real. I am done, you know, i try to ignore it. Reporter local Health Officials believe the new order will make a difference in lowering the rate of covid19 transmissions. The goal of the curfew is decrease activity and therefore to decrease the spread of the virus. Reporter the governor issued it thursday by statement instead of the usual news conference, and at the fairgrounds many grew more critical of the talk official. Having