Another troubling day for the state with more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, the Positivity Rate is jumping and checkout hospitalizations, they are of 81 . We show you why the state believes the search right now could be the worst one yet. Reporter generally speaking counties are doing a lot better than the rest of the state, hospitals in Northern California are not experiencing that crisis level where there are not enough icu beds but we dont know when that surge will and thats why Health Officials are still concerned and preparing for the worst. Hospitalizations have spiked by more than 81 over the last 14 days. My parents definitely have a high risk so i would be terrified and scared if they got sick. I talked to Hospital System leaders many times per day to hear how things are going on the ground. Reporter the numbers arent as bad in the bay area compared to counties like los angeles where even Outdoor Dining has been shut down. For example there are 53 patients in intensive care units occupying about 10 of the counties icu beds. We are not concerned right now. Reporter across california more than 1500 patients are hospitalized in icu accounting or 41 of beds but the total number of beds designated for patients can change. It sounds more alarming that it is. Obviously we have this type of denominator for the numbers look bigger. Compared to what the actual crisis is. We do know that we can bring on additional beds, not infinitely but many more than we have today because of our efforts to plan around the surge. We have spaces identified in certain facilities that can be brought on. Right now the Health System is doing very well, there might be some hospitals more press than others. Reporter back in july there were 2200 patients in the icu across california, the latest numbers indicates that is a little bit more than 1500 right now but Health Officials believe that we are still on the vertical upswing on the graph. Looking over the city of San Francisco is still in the red here right now but it could move to verbal, possibly later this week. You can see here the cases have climbing steadily over the last several weeks, right now the city is hovering around 13 cases per 100,000 residents, per day. While this is still lower than the national and state average we are at a critical moment, we cannot let the virus get so far ahead of us or we will never catch up. Right now the Positivity Rate is 2. 15 over seven days. Santa clara county is averaging between two and 4 in san jose less than three hours ago Santa Clara County announced it broke its daily coronavirus case record. According to the county 532 cases were reported on november 17. The previous record was 449 just five days earlier. Health inspections will be ramping up at businesses and Santa Clara County ahead of the busy Holiday Shopping week. No more mornings, enforcement officers will issue fines for violations of capacity limits or social distancing guidelines. We are asking businesses to be absolutely diligent. Businesses need to be following their social distancing protocol. We have a whole crew of folks who go out on site and through inspections and where necessary issue fines. We have a Maximum Capacity right now. Its easy to keep tabs on the daily developments just download the new kpix app so you can get news alerts. Is the biggest scam in state history by far, serial killers, rapists and inmates on death row being paid millions of dollars in unemployment claims. Reporter is defended on a edd processing millions of unemployment claims at the height of the pandemic and failing to notice some very infamous names on that list asking for money. That money was stolen from the california state government. Reporter 35,000 inmates apply for unemployment between march and august, 20,000 of those claims were paid for 140 million and counting. Somebody would apply for state unemployment backdated to march saying the pandemic caused a loss of income and once processed by an overwhelmed unemployment Development Departments that money cost 600 per week and put on a debit card and working with someone on the outside that money was accessed. What we have learned is that repeatedly individuals will go to atms with a stack of these debit cards removing up to 1000 at a time. Reporter described as the largest fraud in california history. Fraud is honestly staggering. The types of inmates is talking quite frankly, it exists in every prison, it encompasses every type of inmates. It encompasses death row inmates. Reporter names include carrie stannard, Wesley Sherman tynan and scott peterson, back in july and investigator with the District Attorneys Office was listening to a call recorded inside the jail from an inmate when the scam came into focus. He was spreading the word about how there is easy money. Reporter there are ongoing investigations right now on the local, state and federal level looking into this, so that 140 million is not a firm number, it could rise and investigators believe as high as 1 billion before this is all said and done. You might wonder how this could happen, edd only has 17 inspectors to look over all those claims, the state board of cosmetology has more. San Francisco Police released by the camera video of a daily officer involved shooting outside the westfield mall that might be difficult to watch. Policing started with the report of a fire at a building one week ago. Witnesses say the suspect identified as Antonio Estrada ran out of the hall with a frying pan and say he poured gas on the floor and then set it on fire and ran off. Firefighters were able to put it out 90 minutes later. Police received another report of a man wielding a knife and a frying pan by the mall. He took a fighting stance position and swung the frying pan and the knife, he repeatedly raised the knife above his head and made stabbing motions towards the mail with the umbrella and the mail with the camping chair. Officers then ordered him to drop the knife, he refused and police say he brandished a knife and a stabbing motion. Police say he ran toward an officer with the knife in his hand and that is when a second officer opened fire. His of her lifethreatening injuries. The airline that will soon require you to have a Coronavirus Vaccine to board a flight. The new plan for a Vaccine Distribution practice run, when it will happen. 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. New details about the suspect in a deadly stabbing spree at a san jose church, the mercury news reports the suspect is Fernando Lopez arrested for a Domestic Violence case back in june. He reportedly had his jail release revoked before sundays attack, when two people were killed, three others wounded. We are also learning tonight a San Jose City employee was among the victims. He was volunteering at the church that night, he is expected to recover. Equates over the several next days, some of the swells out at ocean beach are pretty gnarly today, definitely cool. They are expected to get even bigger which means only the brave servers surfers will be going out. You have to know your limits. Its a little bumpy right now, not all that clean but were going to get some therapy. A High Surf Advisory continues through noon on thanksgiving, maybe a few surfers out there on turkey day, recurrence are going to be a concern of course, very hearty surfers are accustomed to dealing with those are the big waves make their way on short that same system is also going to be trying its best to set a chance of showers into the north bay by early tomorrow morning, is not likely to happen. Couple showers around midnight but watch what happens as they try to move into sonoma county, the rest of the night they all apart. Some part makes its way in but its going to dissipate quickly and by late morning were going to see plenty of sunshine with a few lingering weather clouds and sunny skies as we head into things giving day. Please guys tomorrow night means its going to be a chilly start plenty of 30s to go along with the usual 40 spots than we warmup things giving looks nice, the cloud cover is turned on plenty of sunshine throughout the day on thanksgiving so good weather for any outdoor gatherings that you want to do. Looking good toward downtown San Francisco, that cloud cover is not dropping down to the building level just yet, down to 49 degrees in santa rosa the first to drop into the 40s, there is tomorrow morning, low temperatures for most of us dropping down just to the 40s. Some spots around the base he to around 50 degrees but mostly low to mid 40s for thanksgiving on wednesday but temperatures up to normal for this time of year, its definitely going to be breezy in the afternoon but the sun should emerge pretty quickly from behind the load cloud cover. If you are going to be traveling be careful, here is the travel forecast for some of the major hubs, the only one thats going to cause any problems looks like its going to be chicago. Good chance of rain showers in the windy city, we have nice weather for thanksgiving, it is still going to be breezy but temperatures a couple degrees warmer, a couple degrees above average for the bay with upper 50s along the coast and similar temperatures through the rest of the fourday weekend and similar temperatures to start off december as well but no rain and the seven day forecast. A creative by a bay area flower mart, what it did to his Business Model to stop it from going under. Give you my world. How can i, when you wont take it from me. You can go your own way. Xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now, get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Thousands of thanksgiving meals are being given away across the bay area this week, it has been a difficult year for many we know, so many nonprofits are doubling their efforts to help, today the Bay Area Rescue Mission handled at about 1000 meals, the boys and girls clubs were also spotted giving out about 100 turkeys. People can go to various different places they cant be with their families, families cant get together so they are just congregating here to be able to get the meals. The people are grateful for the fact that they know they will be able to go home and prepare a thanksgiving meal. The generosity of so many folks is great to see. We are partnering with bay area food banks this Holiday Season and here is your chance, you can donate to our drive as your local whole foods or by going to kpix. Com. An iconic business hit hard by the pandemic is pivoting in a clever way, they lost about 1 million worth of products when they shut down, since reopening the general manager says there are still only doing about 30 of their usual business. So their shifting gears now offering flower subscriptions and virtual flower arranging classes. It changes the way that you feel. Weird is trying to be positive and flowers make people happy. We went from having a whole season to then no work and nothing. Denominations are in for this years grammys, the artist 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. The grammy nominations are out and beyoncc got nine of them including record of the year, she already won 24 grammys. Taylor swift could also take home some big wins. Both artists got six nominations each. You can watch the Grammy Awards on sunday right here on kpix. 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