Healthy. Thats a challenging goal during a pandemic. The coronavirus keeps coming back threatening to beworse than before. California is approaching a million diagnosed cases total and the new cases are rising once again as you can see on the graph. We added more than 5300 in the past day and the state just reached another milestone, more than 18,000 deaths from coronavirus. However, there is optimism about a vaccine being ready but that wont fix everything as were reminded by dr. Patel. When its time to get the vaccine, we need to be in a much better place than we are right now to make sure that we go and get the vaccine and we can get back to normal faster. Because of the pandemic, Health Officials recommend you stay home this Holiday Season but for those intent on traveling, covid19 test appointments right before thanksgiving may be hard to come by. Melanie woodro did the research. Reporter tis the season but this season travel for thanksgiving could look vastly different. Just have thanksgiving within your own family group. You know, this is not the time to be flying around. Reporter u. C. San francisco professor dr. George rutherord says if you are going to be flying, get tested for covid19 before you leave and once you arrive at your destination. Ideally with three to five days in between tests. With many people traveling for the holidays despite the pandemic, booking a test in advance may be difficult. Anyone who tried to book a covid19 test with city test sf discovered appointments were extremely limited at the emba embarcadero location. They limit the number of Appointments Available in advance to ensure that essential workers that have symptoms and those worker whose have been exposed are prioritized for testing. The company says it is working with the city to provide more than 1700 tests per day at the embarcadero sit and committed to supporting the city in efforts to expand testing in other locations. California health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley. We agree that priizatio should be for individuals symptomatic and concerned with a significant close exposure. Reporter that being said, dr. Galley says the goal is to test more broadly. That helps us not just from a surveillance perspective but gives us confidence were finding asymptomatic or presymptomatic cases. Reporter in San Francisco, melanie woodro, a bbc 7 news. United in recommendations, avoid nonessential travel and quarantine for 14 days. Group gatherings should be held outdoors with a small number of people with masks and socially distant. No more than three households should gather and events no more than two hours. Weigh the risk of various holiday activities with the risk calculator. Click on an activity and guess the risk. Youll then see what our medical experts have to say. Find it on abc7news. Com and the abc 7 news app. 1 c1 california counties ar moving backward on the tier system. Were tracking them on our website. Contra costa and santa cruz moved from orange to red today. San francisco is in the yellow tier. Its the only one in the bay area at this point. Keep in mind, San Francisco is making changes to be more restrictive. Liz kreutz has a look at where tings stand and liz, where were going. Taking a big picture look, there is no other way to put it. Cases in california are on the rise and we should brace ourselves for more potential closures across the state. By next week, more than half of the states counties will likely be moved into a more restrictive tier. Reporter its not the news we want heading into the holidays. As weve seen reopenings, which is anticipated, we started to see more cases. Reporter like much of the country, cases are on the rise in california and now 11 counties are moving back into a more restrictive tier. In the bay area, that includes contra costa and santa cruz counties which have now moved from the orange tier into red meaning substantial spread. Californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley said most of the transmission is coming from highrisk situations where masks are not worn the entire time. So ill mag gmagine multiple t a small table playing a board game or having and sharing a meal. Reporter across the state, the 14day Positivity Rate is 3. 7 up from 2. 5 three weeks ago. You can see on this graph showing bay area covid cases going back to march, cases arent yet where they were during the summer surge but there is a significant increase since mid october. We anticipate if things stay the way they are, that between this week and next week over half of california counties will have moved into a more restrictive tier. Reporter San Francisco, which is currently in the yellow tier meaning minimal spread is making changes after reporting a 250 increase in cases since early october. Today, mayor london breed announced these new restrictions starting friday. Eliminate indoor dining. We will need to reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters. We will be putting a pause on opening additional high schools. Reporter schools already open can remain open, as can indoor retail but dr. Grant colfax says more closures are possible if the numbers dont turn around. The virus is not only still with us, but there is more around than ever before. And notably, San Francisco is the only bay area county in the least restrictive yellow tier and yet, the changes announced today essentially put the city on par with some of the more restrictive counties in the area like sonoma, which also does not allow indoor dining. Dan . Lets talk about this a little more. Give us what information you gather today about the Community Transmission and where it seems people are getting the virus because were wearing masks, no essential distancing. Whats going on . Thats a question a lot of people have. The thing were hearing over and over and dining out where youre not wearing a mask all the time as well as socializing with people outside your social bubble, particularly socializing with these folks inside as we head into the holidays, dr. Galley said because you feel close to a friend or Family Member doesnt mean they cant spread it to you or vice versa. Thats a good point, liz, thanks. Liz kreutz. A Restaurant Owner like joe bets at the house of prime rib in San Francisco and devastating. We have to let them go and thats not fair. Now, its christmas coming up. The holidays are coming up. They have no jobs. They have to think this through. Its just not closing down, there is a big ripple effect. Joe bets will be able to wait out the shutdown but other restaurants probably will not. He believes he can operate safely thanks to strict policies including social distancing as well as a great ventilation system. On the peninsula, david canepa didnt menace words. Quote, forg god sake the entire state is on the verge of going backwards with the holidays coming. Some people may mistakenly think the threat is gone but they are wrong, wrong, wrong. San mateo county remains in the orange tier. As we mentioned earlier, today Contra Costa County moved from orange tier into a red tier because of a sharp spike in carolicar coronavirus cases. Leslie brinkley talked to churches, Restaurant Owners and breweries about the restricti s restrictions. Reporter after two weeks of life on the less restrictive orange tier, the state officially moved contra costa back to red today, that means indoor dining, restricted to 25 of capacity again. Gyms must operate at only 10 . Indoor pools need to close. Indoor bowling alleys need to close. Offices need to be remote exempt for essential staff. In the last two weeks, numbers have increased dramatically. Weve seen hospital cases double in our county. So we need to act quickly. Yeah, its wearying. Its super wearying but were pressing on because we want to serve our people. Reporter it is a sanctuary that can accommodate 1200 worshippers. Orange meant 200 at a time. The red tier dials them back to 100 people per service. They have adjusted to being flexible. Other churches dont have to change because they never cranked up to a high er capacit. At this brewing company, Indoor Seating will have to go back to 25 and if you want to have a cold beer, you have to also order a meal. Weve also put in heaters recently so that we can improve our Comfort Level of our outdoor seating when it does get cold. And, you know, just being grateful that were still in business. Reporter contra costa Health Officials say there are lots of things conspireing against us, colder weather, holiday travel, indoor gatherings, College Students coming home. They said get used to being on the red tier and unless we can reverse things, we could end up going into a more restrictive purple tier. In the east bay, im leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. We are keeping track of the status of each county on abc7news. Com. You can click to find out the status in your county. All right. We want a status check on the weather now. We do. Still chilly out there. How long will that last . Spencer christian is here with the forecast. Okay. Dan and ama, that chill will be with us for one more night, tonight. Lets look at the frost advisory, which is in effect from 3 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. For most of the north bay and in that area, low temperatures will be in the low 30s, down around freezing. Certainly some patchy frost and probably a good idea to protect sensitive plants, pets, pipes and people and then later in the week we have a storm coming our way. Impact scale it will begin if not thursday into friday, certainly friday into saturdays. It will be breezy at times and the forecast animation starting thursday afternoon shows you a live look at the clouds and light rain up in the north bay swinging southward as systems tend to do this time of the year and at the end of it all, well be left with rainfall totals under. 1 of an inch except the north bay where well see up to a quarter. Dan and ama, its wet. Thank you. Oaklands Newest City Council member has a goal to get people housing. And she thinks the answer could be all around us. We just need to look at what we have with fresh eyes. Exactly one week after election day, there are some decisions yet to be made. Im looking at your mri. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Im sorry baby. 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Ask your doctor about entresto for Heart Failure. Entrust your heart to entresto. In a rare loss in this election, Oakland Community organizer carol phiffe unseated gibson. We spoke with the newlyelected phiffe how shes planning to combat the housing crisis and address income inequality. Reporter from Community Organizer to counsel member elect, carol phiffe is hoping to combat the housing crisis from inside city hall. Its the place where ive been organizing my entire adult life. I was evicted and i was displaced and i always said id come back. Reporter she with 700 volunteers knocked on 12,000 doors to unseat linette. Given their voices to what should be the agenda. Reporter she was one of the main organizers in which homeless oakland moms maintained a vacant house for two months. I want inclusionariry zoning and make housing a human right and the priority. Reporter shes looking into proposing a tax increase for corporations. Oakland is one of the only cities in Northern California that does not have a progressive business tax that taxes gross receipts on income. Reporter and passing past the pandemic moratorium. Does oakland have enough money to forgive those rent payments . We have federal bailouts. We had a federal bailout of the bank. We bailed out billionaires but by huge amounts, weve done it. In the former housing crisis, why cant we do the same thing. Reporter the city of oakland says they have a homeless strategy frame work that including creating affordable, extremely low income and permanent Supportive Housing units. She says thats not enough. In oakland, luz pena, abc 7 news. Its been one week since election day and the fate of three propositions not decided. Prop 14 that authorizes billions of dollars to fund Stem Cell Research and prop 15 that increases property taxes to help Fund Education and prop 19, it would let homeowners 55 and older and wildfire victims paloer property taxes if they move regardless of the county. At the same time, it would bump the taxes on inherited properties. Six propositions failed, prop 16 would restore affirmative action, 18 would allow 17yearolds to vote in primaries and special elections if they were turning 18 in the election year, 20 was about parole restrictions, 21 was a rent control measure, 23 would have created requirements for kidney dialysis clinics, you saw a lot of advertising about that one and prop 25 would eliminate the cash bail system. These three propositions passed. Prop 17 restores the right to vote after a prison term. Prop 22 classifies app drivers as contractors. Thats a big win for Ride Share Companies like uber and lyft. Hotly contested proposition and 24 which amends Consumer Privacy law. To look up the results, both locally and nationally, go to abc7news. Com election. As the biden harris transition unfolds, Silicon ValleyTechnology Sees signs of better relations than theyve had under President Trump. They are hopeful president elect joe biden will focus on certain key issues including privacy and immigration policy, which impacts the ability to attract top talent from overseas. The Silicon ValleyLeadership Group looks advise president s elect camilkamala harris as an. She could tackle the lacks of blacks and women in leadership. Its about innovation and market share thats lost when lead eership teams dont reflec the community. I know she gets it. She leads from a place of authenticity. Reporter the group hopes bidens belief in science will lead to a shift in Climate Change policy. Its been four days since joe biden was projected president elect but President Trump has yet to concede. The president has stayed out of the public eye while tweeting claims of fraud. Biden and harris addressed the people daily. They talked about the future of the Affordable Care act. Each and every vote for joe biden was a statement that health care in america should be a right and not a privilege. The consequence of the Trump Administrations argument are not academic or an abstraction. For many americans, theyre a matter of life and death. The trump team meanwhile is calling for a recount in georgia. The president s campaign is also filed numerous lawsuits, however federal and state judges have found no evidence of voter fraud. A lot more to come for you. It is pretty chilly outside. Well have temperatures like this for another couple of days then rain is on the way. All otc pain relievers including volthave one thing in common none are proven stronger or more effective against pain than salonpas patch large theres surprising power in this patch salonpas dependable, powerful relief. 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Right now were looking at a live view looking back towards San Francisco where it is 53 degrees. We have temperatures in the mid to upper 50s right now at oakland, mountain view, san jose 48 at gilroy and 54 at Half Moon Bay. Here is the view from the rooftop camera under mainly clear skies. Temperature readings right now in the mid 50s. Really mid 50s. 55 at santa rosa, concord is warm and 57 at livermore. Live view from san jose as we look at the forecast futures. Chilly overnight. Not nearly so cold as last night b