The letter, urging districts to reopen schools and get kids back into the classrooms came from Assembly Members and state senator and say they are backed up by Public Health experts. There is a roadmap for schools all over the state to really be opening up. The letter cited excessive screen time for young minds as well as until Health Issues students are facing. Also spoke about how many Public Schools remained closed for in Person Learning while private schools have reopened. We are seeing an even your gap between those who have the means to get private education versus those going into public education. That is it sentiment echoed by an Infectious Disease expert who calls opening schools a moral imperative. Im worried that will lead to downstream effects that are really difficult to see unless we reopen schools. Eight months into the pandemic, the science and data from european schools indicates it is safe to reopen with precautions. The science says kids under 12 are particularly protected in general from both getting and transmitting covid. In a statement the San FranciscoSchool District said they are assessing school sites for ventilation working with unions. We have set a target date of january 25 2021 for the first wave of schools to reopen for in Person Learning. We know about the handwashing and wearing face masks, social distancing, what else needs to be done to get the schools opened again . Well dr. Peter chan hung says ventilation is key. Thats why districts like San Francisco unified are reassessing exactly how air flows through these buildings and help perhaps the virus might flow through the building before they can get students back into the classroom. Cant always live in Santa Clara County where the number of icu beds caught our attention. This could get serious pretty quickly. Reporter we got an update from valley med and they say the number of hospitalizations doubled in the past two weeks and they now have only 44 icu beds remaining. They say at this rate they should hit capacity and run out of best buy mid to late december. Thats whats happening on the short term. On the horizon, vaccines are coming. The vaccine diribution plan which was just made public this evening is 65 pages long. The county is identifying so called vexing administrators who will vintage the supply, deliver the doses, track recipients and any adverse reactions. Frontline workers in Nursing Homes will be the first to get it. They will store the doses at temperatures down to minus 90 degrees fahrenheit. We are prepared to start and then distribute the full volume of what we received. The logistics are enormous. Doctors at ucsf say administering the vaccine will be almost as challenging as developing it. If everything goes perfectly smoothly without a hitch, which is highly unlikely, but if everything does, i can see whereby the end of june, sometime in july, everybody chooses to get vaccinated will be vaccinated. We also got an update on the travel quarantine. The cdc revised its guidance about quarantine saying you only have to do so for seven to 10 days. Santa clara county has a 14 day travel quarantine. They are looking into that and considering it, but for now it will remain in 14 days. Looking live at sfo, the cdc is urging everyone to cancel their Winter Holiday plans. The agency index as sharp uptick in cases after the thanksgiving travel rush. If you do travel the cdc says get tested before and after. Meanwhile berkley is strongly urging residents to travel out of the bay area for thanksgiving to quarantine for 14 days. They say the recommendation also applies to those who mixed households. This just in, about just approved, a northbay highway construction project that will receive a major funding boost. More now on how this project could ease traffic along one of the most congested corridors in the whole bay area. Reporter this is one of the worst freeway checkpoints in the bay area. Highway 101 just north of novato. Six lanes through most of it but then suddenly shrinks 24, creating emerging traffic nightmare. Last year before covid more than 150,000 vehicles crunched through this spot. His afternoon the California Transportation Commission is considering funding 40 million to widen and modernize the motorway. Its almost unbelievable because weve been at it for so long. And now to hear this vote that we will give 40 million to finish this, its a great day. Drivers can hardly believe it either. Its been a lot of years that theyve been saying that. Ive been driving this for years now and is still the same. 40 million is only the starting point. The budget for the total project is 130 million. Drivers are looking forward and are excited for the potential of a wider freeway. I think it is a great thing. Too many cars and not big enough roads. It would be great to have a much wider road. It makes for less accidents and easier transportation. The eventual goal is to add carpool lanes along the length of highway 101 through sonoma and marin counties. Still ahead on kpix 5 and cbsn bay area, the damage when a politician like the San Francisco mayor gets caught pending her own coronavirus rules. A Political Science professor weighs in. Plus, giving firsttime homebuyers a fighting chance. The new program in san jose. A covid testing shortage. Wait until you hear what we found out about when a nurse gets sick. Guess who hung out with president barack obama, and an nfl game on hump day . Thats all straight ahead in sports. Beautiful weather out there this evening. Clear skies for the most part, just some high clouds floating through that made for a does your vitamin c last twentyfour hours . Only natures bounty does. New immune twentyfour hour plus has longer lasting vitamin c. Plus, herbal and other immune superstars. Only from natures bounty. New at 6, there are growing calls for politicians like San Francisco mayor london breed to practice what they preach when it comes to covid safety. Kenny choi is live with more on the fallout. Reporter it is still unclear how many were a part of the dinner. We reached out to the Mayors Office multiple times today asking for clarification but have not yet heard back from the Mayors Office. This is the latest incident involving another politician breaking the rules. Everything we are asking you to do over the coming weeks and months is about that, saving lives. This was near london braids latest plane to follow guidelines. First it was that governor and a party of 12 and now mayor liccardo traveling for thanksgiving. She not yet apologized for attending a dinner totaling eight. The consequences of not following your own advice are serious. Bruce kane is a long time professor at stanford university. It is particularly automatic when it is something that goes against the policy you are advocating other people to follow. That undermines your credibility. Lima lohman just opened last month and needs to limit the number of customers inside. If they are not doing it, why are they telling everyone else to do it . Its a control thing. The truth is we will have to take more restrictive action and it pains me to say that. This will give them an out. They will be able to say well the mayor and the governor dont do it, why should i . So why do you follow the rules when the politicians really arent following them . Absolutely. Its our duty. I can imagine disregarding the rose because an elected official date. Technically the mayors visit may have not violated the rules in napa county at the time of the visit. We want to specify that. It was in the less restrictive tear. You are right about that. But under the state guidelines, the maximum of three households per gathering, even outdoors. The Mayors Office did acknowledge that there were eight people but was noticeably absent was no mention of how many households. Thats why we press them for that today multiple times. Not hearing back just yet. But if the households are more than three it would be violating the state guidelines. Kenny, thanks. Alameda county fairgrounds ran out of supplies by midmorning today. We found that even sick healthcare workers were having a hard time scheduling a covid test. It is difficult to get tested. Clearly i am here and it is closed. I just called my boss and he is like you cant come in tomorrow. Now i have to wake up at five in the morning, get tested, i cant go in to work. Who knows when i will be able to go back to work. I cant find any rapid tests anywhere that i can get right away. I dont know, it is just kind of stressful. In response to the surge the city of oakland is suspending indoor recreation programs, outdoor youth programs, senior programs and Homeless Services will continue without change. Pretty strong waves and rip current expected to slam bay area beaches including ocean beach in San Francisco. Chopper 5 flew over that this afternoon and the warning is in effect today through tomorrow at 4 pm. Weve seen these storms sort of passes by in the last few weeks but they do a number on our waves, right paul . Yes at the storm systems over the pacific kick up those waves, that eventually make their way toward us. In terms of any direct impact on our weather, they are not having much of it. That warning is for every inch of coastline. So keep that in mind. The storm coming in will miss us, wont see much more than a few sprinkles. The bulk of the moisture will head all the way up in two is columbia. We sought intermittent cloud cover today way up in the atmosphere with no chance of any rain getting down to ground level. We will start off tomorrow with a mix of clouds and sunshine. It should be a spectacular sunrise. Then we will see intermittent clouds even way to more and more sunshine by tomorrow afternoon rita can tearing continue with clear skies and still no rain in the forecast. Still holding onto 60s in oakland, low 50s already in santa rosa. This evenings dog walking forecast brought to you by action dog gracie. Thank you to gracies human for sharing the picture with us. If you want to share your pets Holiday Themed picture with me i have some openings on the calendar. Let us know where you are from and your pets name so we can give you credit on the air. Mountain view looking good this evening, temperatures in the 50s right now, eventually dipping into the 40s and eventually dropping down to the low 40s. The mix of low 30s and 40s tomorrow morning, temperatures tomorrow will be almost identical to what we had today. More and more sunshine in the afternoon pushing temperatures up to right around 60 along the coast, low 60s around the bay with mid 60s farther inland, even a few spots reaching the upper 60s. Temperatures dont change much as we had into the next several days. And you can notice the complete lack of any rain drops. By monday and tuesday it will be mid 60s around the bay. I will have another update coming up at 7 00. Couldnt ask for a better forecast. Vern is here now with sports and that nfl had a wednesday game for only the second time in 70 years. Imagine the confused audience. Is it sunday, is it week 13 already. At 12 40 pm kickoff of a game rescheduled three times because of covid issues. It happened with the baltimore ravens, down nine starters due to covid at on the end pittsburgh . Robert griffin the third picked often the first. It wasnt pretty but the steelers won this one 1914. Their record now is 110. Ive seen a lot of press conferences in my day, a player shows up and its culture because of a team meeting. Steph currys case today, we will try to get through this relatively quickly he has a meeting with president obama. So we get big timed for president 44. They discussed his new memoir, social justice and the president jump shot that went viral last month. Oh walk off. Thats what i do, thats what i do. Can i borrow thats what i do, thats what i do, we wont have many fans in the gym so you will probably hear me yell it. Im looking forward to that and expecting it now. And his first chance, december 22 when the warriors open up in brooklyn against kevin durant and the next followed by a Christmas Run in milwaukee. The rockets reportedly agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards in exchange for john wall. Westbrook asked for a trade after one season in houston. Now give me jason bonetti. Maui classic from asheville North Carolina, all right. We got to see the Stanford Star zaire william struggle. Watch this. This was indiana trace jacksons date. The son of former warrior dale davis scored a careerhigh 31 points. They won it 7163. They will remain in North Carolina to practice. Getting back to that westbrook trade, he gets all the touches he wants, john wall, if he is smart he should go right up to james hardin and say hey, how can i help . That would be the smart thing to do. Vern, thank you. Still a live look at san jose where there is a new effort to help firsttime homebuyers. The city is joining wells fargos neighborhood left program. The foundations provide grants of up to 25,000 to help though and middle income residents on a down payment. Mayor sam liccardo announced today that nearly 10 million worth of grants will be available to 400 people. The cbs evening news is coming up next. Good evening, coming up after kpix 5 news at 6, nearly a third of americans could be vaccinated by the end of february but it comes with the morning. The most difficult months are coming up in Public Health history. Of quick programming note, todays episode of the young and the restless will air at 2 12 am. You can watch it right here in kpix 5. Thank you for watching tonight, the news continues streaming on cbsn bay area and you can find it on the kpix 5 news after. We will be back here captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell tonight, the hopeful news nearly a third of americans could be vaccinated by the end of february. A warning. Es with a warning. The next three mon the next three months will be the most difficult in Public Health history. Why the head of the c. D. C. Said today, december, january, and february are going to be rough, as hospitals have almost doubled the number of Covid Patients they had in the spring. But the major step tonight toward ending the pandemic britain approves pfizers new covid vaccine. So why did the u. K. Give approval before the u. S. . Plus, home for the holidays . The guidance tonight on whether cu should travel for christmas. Pardoning the president s kids . Why President Trump and his top allies believe ivanka, jared, don junior, and eric could need whats being called a preemptive pardon. Urgent pep