In a year like no other, its a black friday like weve never seen before. The pandemic has many people staying home. Im ama daetz. Im dion lim. While black friday isnt what were used to, there are still lines to be found at malls and some people did brave the cold, some for as long as 36 hours to snatch up some of the most popular items. Liz kreutz was in dublin early this morning when the doors opened. Reporter when the doors of the best buy in dublin opened at 5 00 a. M. , there was no running, no pushing, no shoving. It was peaceful. There wasnt any rushing or craziness. Reporter like so much else this year, this black friday felt different, much calmer. Still, some people did brave the cold to wait in line. Sky 7 got this video from the livermore outlets and here is the doors opening at target in dublin. Friends jaden and mossy got to best buy at 4 00 a. M. 287 for a 50inch. Great deal. Reporter these guys were hoping to get a playstation 5 and werent the only ones. The game stop in dublin was only selling two and the line was down the block. Tyler lopez was first in line there to get one and listen to this. First in line, what time did you get here . Wednesday night at 8 00. Reporter wait, what . Yeah. Reporter yes, he waited 36 hours to get the game. Dedication recognized by dublin p. D. Officers who overnight brought muffins and hot chocolate. Was it worth the 36hour wait in the cold. I believe so. The console itself was good enough but now i get to be on the news. Thats better. Reporter the other hot item, the xbox. This game stop had four. Two people in front of me, their cads declined. Reporter mason got the last one. Got the x box. Im selling it. Im making a quick 300. Reporter youre not ashamed to say that . I dont care. Reporter for those gamers that got here at 7 00 a. M. When the doors open, they were out of luck. Im grieving now within the first stage of grief, which is denial and im convincing myself there is something inside the star i want. So it doesnt feel like a waste of time. Reporter so why is it so hard to get the ps 5 . While waiting, he had lots of time to perfect his theory. They give each store two. There is a craze. Everyone is fighting and murdering each other and going crazy and media, press, free advertise mtd fment for this co reporter im part of the problem. Youre a symptom of the problem that will be solved within time. Reporter liz kreutz, abc 7 news. So what would you do to get your hands on one of the hottest gadgets this Holiday Season . These two friends camped out for 35 hours outside the game stop store in san jose to buy the new Sony Playstation 5. The console came out a few weeks ago and sold out quickly. The store only had a couple ps 5s. Marvin and michael decided to camp out starting wednesday night to make sure they got one. Our parents came by and dropped off food. We spent thanksgiving here. It a long process but good. You cant find these anywhere. I was going on walmart. Com and target, everyowhere. You cant find them. All right. So the playstation five retails for 400 for the fancy bluray edition its 500. They are reselling on ebay for more 1,000. As we focus on Holiday Shopping, were curious how people are doing it. Let us know what your preferred method will be heading to abc7news. Com vote. You can see that poll at the bottom of your screen. Many retailers in the bay area were counting on people coming into their stores but then several counties rolled back to the purple tier and that limited their capacity. Abc 7 News ReporterLeslie Brinkley checked out the shopping scene today in walnut creek. Reporter it was ami marcry masked up day while some didnt wear a mask walking downtown walnut creek. Lines to get inside Popular Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on the website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San FranciscoState University marketing professor san gupta. The projections are because the consumer demand has been suppress sod f fa fa far, starting black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some sort of penalty ut up demand, p want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift spirits in a challenging year. Reporter there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about the vacant sites. Whats missing is probably the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink this year in civic park. Thats the first time in 15 years. Broadway plaza had to cancel the holiday of lights parade. Reporter in the end what is helping out is the magnificent weather. Merchants will tell you they feel guilty they know there is a drought but they hope sustained sunshine and mild temperatures could help their bottom line in december. In walnut creek, im Leslie Brinkley, abc 7 news. Well, the weather certainly not helping that Big Box Store shopping. Taking a quick look to see how youre planning to do your shopping, were looking at the online poll. 9 of you going to malls, bic sh big shops and 78 plan to be shopping online. Lets turn to the latest on the covid pandemic with cases in the u. S. Nearing 13 million. The race is on to get a vaccine to the public quickly perhaps as early as next month. But there have been set backs. Abc 7 News Reporter cornell bernard joins us with the news including from as tra sevtraze fda approval of one vaccine could happen in just weeks. The fda could be authorizing a Coronavirus Vaccine in a few weeks. The food and Drug Administration is holding an emergency use authorization meeting about pfizers vaccine on december 10th. The director of the fda center for buy logics evaluation said a decision is expected in days or weeks after that key meeting but a member of joe bidens board warns against rushing a vaccine to market. The single biggest risk of rushing an approval the American People do not trust the vaccine and its essential people feel this is a safe and effective vaccine. Reporter in the meantime, Astrazenecas Covid vaccine appears its headed for an additional global trial as the drug maker tries to clear up confusion and mistakes surrounding encouraging results. Questions are mounting over one of the fastest moving shots after the company acknowledged that a lower dosage level that appeared more effective resulted from a manufacturing discrepancy. We still need to figure out what exactly is happening within the data. One speculation is the smaller dose is more similar to the actual infection. Reporter as the virus reaches record highs in the u. S. , it seems americans ignored advice from Health Officials to stay home and avoid travel this thanksgiving. With more than 6 Million People flying over the holiday. What we dont want to see is yet another surge super posted upon the surge you just described, which will realize three, trhree and a half weeks from now if we dont do Public Health things. Reporter a new published report from a cdc researcher says coronavirus cases may be eight times higher than reported in the u. S. , estimating 53 million total infections from late february through september. United airlines started operating charter flights to position doses of pfizers vaccine if the shots are approved by regulators. The initial flights are one link in a vast Global Supply chain being assembled to tackle logistic challenges of distributing covid19 vaccines. Cornell, thank you. Abc 7 is committed to keeping you fully informed. Weve assembled a team to bring you the most complete coverage and answer every question you have about the vaccine. California is reporting coronavirus numbers today with more than 12,000 new diagnosed cases. We are also seeing the Positivity Rate go up. Doubled in a month. The 14day Percentage Rate is at 6. 1 . Another disturbing trend is hospitalizations, which are reaching levels not seen since the summer. The state reports more than 6600 people are in the hospital with covid19 with nearly 1600 in the icu. Los angeles just put out a stayathome order as its cases surge. It bans people from gathering with people who arent in their households whether publicly or privately. In the east bay today, crews cut down a large tree in walnut creek that apparently caused a gas pipeline week on wednesday. Sky 7 was overhead this afternoon along the broadway extension. The pipeline that carries regular gas is operated by Kinder Morgan. Officials say Kinder Morgan told them the trees roots has grown into the pipeline that caused the crack. The pipe lynn hline has been re but the roots forced them to remove the tree. There arent just lines at the stores today, you find them at coronavirus testing sites. The alarm sounded by Health Officials. Santa Holiday Shopping but 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. Sfx turkey gobble sfx dog bark sfx bubbles give thanks, no matter how you share it. Many people that met with friends or family for thanksgiving wanted to get a covid19 test. If you spent thanksgiving with others outside your household you may be surprised to learn the best time to be tested. Chris nguyen has more in san jose. Reporter at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds, a post thanksgiving rush to get tested for covid19. People do want to get tested because all our appointments slots are full. Reporter 3,000 daily slots at this county testing site are booked through the end of the weekend. A somewhat encouraging sign as more people seek out their status. Increasing testing sites requesting testing. Thats a change from several months before. Reporter the high interest in testing comes as cases and hospitalizations are rising at alarming rates. Concerns over a thanksgiving related spike have local hospitals reevaluating surge plans. Just because you test negative today doesnt mean that you wont turn positive next week. Reporter this doctor from Stanford School of medicine says if you spent the holiday with people outside of your household, you should lay low and try to get tested next week. Before your symptomatic, before your test comes up positive, you may still be infectious to other people in the presymptomatic phase is when infections can occur, transmissions can occur. Reporter to encourage more people to get tested, the Santa Clara CountyHealth System including the team from valley medical will make more Appointments Available next week at various sites throughout the county including the Mountain View center for the performing arts and cupertino senior center. Walkup spots will be open in Emanuel Baptist church in san jose. By mid december, capacity at the fairgrounds will expand to 5,000 appointments per day with the goal of making testing more accessible to the public. Were able to make a change for the community. Were able to help them by providing the service for the community. Reporter a forward thinking approach to testing that could make the difference. In san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. There wont be a santacon due to the 357b dpandemic. It is people dressed up as santa claus and making their way to drinking establishments. It helps bring money to charities or toys that can be donated. San francisco cancelled it in july. New york city where it began, announced it would be cancelled. On the website its urging people not to be a scrooge and still make a donation. Better to be safe than sorry, ama. Absolutely. 100 . All right. We had a great day for thanksgiving yesterday outside. Spencer christian is here with the latest on our weather, spencer. Ama, i think an even nicer day today because we had strong gusty winds. Today is beautiful without the wind. Here is a look at current wind speeds very light across the bay area under 10 Miles Per Hour and calm at sfo and at san mateo. Lets move along and take a couple live views outside from the rooftop camera looking across the embarcadero. Notice the leaves on the trees, the branchs are not moving at all and here in the city 64 san jose, gilroy 57 and 59 Half Moon Bay. Here is a view of bright blue sky over the golden gate and as we look northward, we see blue skies as far as we can see. The temperature readings 63 santa rosa and novato 61 and napa 63 and fairfield. Here is the view looking toward the golden gate and forecast features, well have cold mornings this weekend but followed by sunny and mild both afternoons and this dry mild pattern will be with us for the next week. Overnight, well look for clear well, we dont have to look for them. They will be there. Clear skies. We may have a few high clouds passing along the coastline. Overnight lows will generally be mid to upper 30s. Even colder in the north bay valleys where low temperatures will drop to 28 at santa rosa and 31 lake port. So a couple locations will have subfreezing conditions. Highs tomorrow in the south bay mainly mid to upper 60s. 64 san jose, 67 morgan hill, youll see low to mid 60 peninsula and Half Moon Bay downtown San Francisco will top out at 63 degrees tomorrow. For the north bay 66, 65 san rafael over sonoma high of 64. Along the east bay shoreline look for highs of 63 berkeley and hayward and as we move over the hills and into the inland east bay, the same range of high temperatures there agagenerally to 6 4 and milder fairfield 66 degrees there. Now, lets check out our drought monitor, which was just updated this morning. Most of the state is still under some level of drought except parts of the Central Coast down to l. A. Where its dry but not in drought but here in the bay area, we are at various levels of drought from the southern most part of the viewing area in moderate drought to severe drought just about everywhere else and even extreme drought in parts of napa county, eastern solano and lake county. Were enjoying the weather but its super dry. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. I mentioned two cold mornings followed by mild afternoons and after that, we wont even have the cold mornings, just mild afternoons under sunny skies through the week and next friday, might top out at 70 in some of the inland locations. Ama and dion . Thats impressive. Thanks. Even with black friday not nearly as crazy as the past, people are still spending money. Lots of it. The record expected to be set this monday. A little later, everyone has a live story that includes those who live on the street. Twto treat acute, nonlow back stmuscle and joint pain doctors with topical nsaids first. A formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. A formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. Salonpas. Its good medicine. Hisamitsu. You could hear the buzz of a chain shaw as families ventureed to get the holiday treat and demand for live christmas trees. We stopped at far where they were selling precut trees. They put the trees in water to keep them from drying out. The owner says people seem to be buying trees earlier than usual this year to bring some normalcy to their lives. Today is also the unofficial start to the Holiday Shopping season and much like everything else, the coronavirus is interrupting a lot of traditions and familiar habits and as abc News Reporter faith tells us, there is a noticeable change in Shopping Habits and experts are putting a dollar figure on it. Reporter the usual pandemonium of black friday, replaced with quieter stores, less crowds and coronavirus guidelines. To have the store super crowded isnt possible and were used to that at christmas so this year will feel different. Reporter the president and ceo of the National Retail federation telling cnn. I think well see a strong Holiday Season. Consumers are spending as they have been for the past six months. Reporter the bulk of the buys expected to come from Digital Sales as shopping in crowded stores just before on or after thanksgiving is a high risk activity amid the pandemic. I usually go in the stores but since the covid, im going to be doing most of it online. I did it all online with pickup like this. It tremendous. Reporter according to the National Retail federation, this year online and other nonstore sales were forecasted to increase between 20 and 30 and could top 218 billion. Numbers that show how the pandemic continues to deepen economic disparities. Its been tough. Reporter another 778,000 americans found new unemployment claims last week. A trend weve seen throughout the pandemic. An estimated 50 million americans now considered food insecure forced into long lines at charities just for something to eat. I have nothing at home. Seriously. Nothing. Reporter is this a huge help today . It sure is. Reporter a Holiday Season reimagined. Those who have spending, those who dont, hoping for another ai aid package. There are families hurting. There are communities suffering. We need to do more. There are segments that have not rebounded. Well have to