Will it really work . The states top doctor is feeling the pressure and the resentment from many people in the community. Today he defended his decision. He said california needs to stay home. Because cases are continuing to hit record highs almost daily. He pointed to the success rate of shut downs in europe. Belgium put in a three week stay at home order. Its positive ratd fell from 21 to 8 in that time. England had a four week order. Cases dropped by 30 . He says he understands the restrictions are inconvenient. But its what the state has to do at this time as hospitals become over crowded. The goal of saving lives become threatened when the system isnt as robust and strong as it can be. To deliver care to as many californiaens as needed. Reminding everyone there is light at the end of tunnel. The first doses of vaccines expected to arrive one week from today. Hundreds of people crowded outside the courthouse today very few of them Wearing Masks to support the pastor who landed in front of the judge today. The pastor accused of repeatedly breaking restrictions by holding in door service. He says hes doing something else. Answering to a higher authority. Were outside the courthouse to tell us what the judge said about that. The judge had the option to send the pastor to jail for a contempt. The county never pushed for that. It appears services will continue. This was the scene outside the courthouse during the proceedings. Hundreds of worshippers supporting the pastor. Very few Wearing Masks. Im not against masks. Wear one. Im not a policeman im a pastor. That was his response. After a judge found him in contempt of court to stop church services. People, wake up. This covid crisis is not what theyre making it out to be. Its significant intrusion upon liberty. The lawyer says the judge had the authority to put the pastor in jail. But didnt bring it up in court. The judge ordered the church to pay 2,500 in fines for each day its violated the health order. Which could add up to 55,000 and the price tag might go up since he showed no signs of stopping services now. I respect the judge. I understand the laws. But theres a bigger law. When i have to get told you have to follow god or man. I have to follow god. The Church Attorney say they will appeal the decision. And on the december 17, they will be in federal court. Asking the feds to take over the case. The fight continues. Now that pastor isnt the only one standing in defiance. Restaurants and salons are openly flaunting the new stay at home order. Coming up well show you the new plan to get businesses to fall in line. New restrictions tonight including a stay at home order. They joined four counties. All following similar guidelines. That means no more indoor or out door dining. Bars and Restaurants Limited to carry out and delivery. Business owners say the roller coaster ride is really tough. Its been difficult financially. And that now with this new order, they are making a portion of what they used to. This moment will be cold weather and rainy season is coming. With out door seating it will be hard for us. The personal Care Services have to close. Along with museums and zoos. They will stay in place until january 4. The bed availability around the area. All in the red. You see the numbers there. At 15 . That means if the county has less than 15 availability they are in the red. Two in orange. With less than 30 . It comes adds the number of People Killed by covid spike this week. 209 people died statewide. December 4. Thats the second highest one day death toll for california since july 31. When 219 people died. We are getting close to the summer surge levels. One hospital in the south bay is already at capacity. So what happens now . We have answers. The number of icu beds available in Santa Clara County is dropping fast. Right now there are only 31 beds left. Thats 31 beds for the entire county. Of 2 million people. San jose the hospital is at capacity. It has around 66 Covid Patients admitted right now. While its accepting emergency patients the surge of Covid Patients forced the hospital to put a elective surgeries on hold. And find new ways to provide beds. We are at capacity. Theres essentially no more beds in the hospital. To rapidly put the patient into a unit. We are using the over flow area such as the post acute care unit. For operating room. The number of covid hospitalizations in the county doubling in the past two weeks having enough beds for new pashtds is a problem hospitals throughout the county are facing. As new cases continue to rise at an alarming rate. Healthcare Officials Say the capacity 9. 5 . Thats the worst it has ever seen. Now the county is diverting patients to other hospitals with more available beds and thinking about opening up to Paul Health Center in morgan hill. To accommodate patients there. A dire situation. And they have to look at options to acot dame patients. Thank you. Tonights making it in the bay. A renters market. In San Francisco. Thats something we havent seen in a long time. A combination of economic pain and work from anywhere policies means rent is plummeting. Renters and Property Owners are adjusting now. Business and tech reporter. How things are changing in the city. If you rent in San Francisco, you have options. I benefitted greatly. According to realtor. Com a 35 drop in studio apartments along with the 27 drop in one bedroom apartments. Means bargains and deals in a rare renters market. My current place down the street is 3,400 a year ago. Now its renting for 2,800. Pandemic induced lay offs. Along with tech company work from home policy. No matter where home is. Brought the rental market here from boom to bust. Renters were hit hard by the recession. And the labor market crashed. And just San Francisco economy being more tech heavy. And flexibility to work from home. It created less demand to be close to a physical office space. If youre a landlord or Property Owner you are doing what you can to keep people around. Dropping prices as the city sees a renter exit s. The owners have flexibility to make deals are established. And they are in fact being very negotiable. There are several Tech Companies going public in the next few weeks. Thank you. A former 49ers and raiders star says hes leaving the bay area flt because of the new covid restrictions. People feel this way. He is selling his 40 acre cherry farm. For 5 million. The Covid Protocols here in california are over the top. And its depriving his kids of a normal childhood. He wants to move to a state like idaho. Where the restrictions are more relaxed and kids can go to school. And play sports. Up next putting a cap on the door dash order. The cities and counties doing just that to help restaurants survive the pandemic. Dangerous high waves along the coast. How it led to a water rescue. That surf warning expires at 9 00 p. M. Im tracking the cold morning ahead and shower chances. I got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. Restaurants are fighting to stay in business across the bay area. And the country. Are they getting their fair share . Food Delivery Services are very popular now. But restaurants have to pay a fee. Sometimes a hefty fee on all orders that go through the sights. The city of berkeley is once again capping delivery fees to help and a bay area county could soon follow berkeleys lead. The tables and the chairs that used to make the out door restaurant patio are gone. The pandemic forcing restaurants to rely more and more on third Party Food Delivery sights. We survive. The funky elephant is feeling more like the skinny elephant. The Restaurant Owner says the pandemic chopped away at half of the revenue. Survival means relying on pick up orders. And one food delivery site. Third Party Delivery service apps can charge a restaurant as much as 30 to deliver a single order. This summer berkeley stepped in and said apps couldnt charge more than 15 . Then over the fall, counsel member held a Virtual Meeting with Restaurant Owners. To hear how they were doing. Our restaurants are continuing to struggle. The city stepped in again. Capping the fee down to 10 . App Companies May charge fees for other Services Like marketing. That must be capped at 5 . Its nice to have a city Pay Attention to you. As a small human in the city. Now this Restaurant Owner worries her customers might see extra charges on their delivery bill. I have heard consumers maybe charged more. We reached out to Food Delivery Companies and only heard back from door dash. Writing, legislation like this could lead it higher costs for customers. Fewer orders for local restaurants and fewer earning opportunities for dashers. Other bay area cities may follow the lead. Last week san jose mayor proposed a 15 delivery cap. This week two supervisors announce they support a similar cap as well. Its the feeling that let us know that they will never leave us behind. Big pay out from the catholic church. In the sex abuse case. 3 million. Just paid to settle a lawsuit brought by a former seminary who says he was raped by a priest in 2017. The father accuser filed the lawsuit saying he was 25 years old when he was assaulted. Police searched the church and found sex toys. A meth pipe. In the priest living quarters. According to to a police report. The District Attorney never filed charges. The Attorney Says the settlement wont heal his wounds. We were sent a statement saying neither the priest admitted guilt. But the father has been placed on paid leave. Where hes no longer allowed to serve. The former manager of the San FranciscoPublic Utility Commission faced a judge today. For federal corruption charges. He didnt enter a plea during the arraignment. Federal prosecutors allege he received a free vacation to china. Along with gifts in exchange frr providing Insider Information to a contractor. The contractor is a government witness. His wife insists she paid cash for the trip and has taken a leave from her job as San Francisco city administer tor. Big waves along the coast. Dangerous conditions. Today a man got pulled into the water. Those waves dragged a man through the water at beach boulevard. Witnesses say the man hopped the railing along the rocks against the sea wall. A wave knocked him down and pulled him into the surf. He wasnt able to grab a rope. So the current drug him out. Crews spent the di looking for the man. But havent found him. Was he saying anything in the water . I cant swim. Flailing and i cant swim. Its not a good proposition for someone that doesnt know how to swim. Even a strong swimmer would struggle. A strong surf you cant do much about it. The pier is closed as officials try to protect people from the waves. Just be careful if you are anywhere near the water. That can be so treacherous. Lets bring in jeff. Beautiful day outside today. Didnt feel too winterish. Felt more earl will fall. Mild outside. We had 70s inland and i want to go back fast to the waves. The wave warning starting to calm down into tomorrow. You have got to be careful out there. The warm temperatures today those are cooling off a bit. Through the next couple days. Well take you outside to the live sky cam. You can see in walnut creek theres a lot of traffic on the roadway. We have the shelter in home in place. You have to get essentials. The pharmacy and Grocery Store. Lots of traffic. 54 right now. You can soo well drop off fast. We are down to 45 degrees at 11 00 p. M. I want to focus on the north bay. Well drop to 36. 37 napa. And upper 30s through concord and dublin. The south bay a mix of upper 30s and 40s. Tomorrow high clouds move in for the afternoon. Partly cloudy conditions. And across the bay area instead of the low 70s, were dropping it back down into the 60s. On average about two to five degrees of cooling. Good news holding onto shower chances. Its not a big storm i want. But help some of the immediate fire danger. Ill take a longer look at that. And also the long range forecast. And when we could see this stubborn area of High Pressure. Beginning to break down. Ill have a look at a Christmas Tree like you have never seen before. Thats a big promise. 25 minutes ill have that. Thats a big promise. Youre right. You have me on pins and needles. Were worried now. Much more to come. Will your child need a vaccine to go back to school . Will you need a vaccine to work . We explore the questions. Restaurants and salons say theyll break the rules or go out of business. Some have a new plan to stop them from defying the orders. Parents are in prison part of the College Admission scandal. What does she have to say about it . We hear from the daughter of actress. The holidays are a time for giving. To your friends. Your family. To your teachers. In that spirit of giving, chevys proud to give our employee discount to everyone. The chevy price you pay,. Is what we pay. Not a cent more. Because giving,. And giving back, is what the holidays are all about. Use the chevy employee discount for everyone to get a total value of over eight thousand four hundred dollars on this silverado. Get the chevy employee discount for everyone today. Four hundred dollars Satchel Paige was still dominating batters at 59. At 52 celia cruz was still winning grammys at 77 john wheeler illuminated our ideas of the universe at 70 and roger crouch was 56 when he first went into space your best is yet to come its her first interview since her parents went to prison in the College Admission scandal. The daughter says shes sorry. Olivia appeared on red table talk. The Facebook Watch series. The social Media Influencer and her sister accepted as crew recruits to usc. Even though they didnt row. Her parents paid 500,000 to get the girls in. The 21 yearold talked about how she felt during the scandal and opened her eyes to how her life was sheltered and privileged. I didnt come onto try and win people over. I need people to like me. I want to apologize for the contributing to the social inequality. Even though i didnt realize. Coming here and recognizing im ware. I want a Second Chance to say i recognize i mess ds up. I wasnt able to talk about this. Because of the legality. Im really sorry this happened. The actress and her husband pled guilty in may. Shes more than half way through her two month sentence at the federal prison. Shes expected to be released around christmas time. Her husband is serving a five month sentence at the federal prison. Jada says olivia asked to be on the show. And she fought tooth and nail to prevent her from coming on. Saying she foind it ironic she chose three black women to reach out for her redemption story. She argued back saying she didnt want to be ungenerous to people. Because they were not generous to them. So the 30 minute interview online. You can watch it on Facebook Watch. Thats going to get a will the a will tlot of clicks. Also are you fearful of the vaccine . Could that hamper getting people protected from the virus . I dont trust it. I wouldnt let my family take it. We ask doctors about antivaxer concerns in the series race for a vaccine. Breaking news in southern california. Take look at this. Intense fire in ventura county. A live look from our chopper in l. A. This is near highway 33. In the city of ventura. No word on what sparked the fire. With know there were high winds there. No word if there are evacuations. This is a fire in ventura county. Down in southern california. Right now we understand no structures are threatened. Well stay on this story. Also at 6 00. Defying a health order. Deciding to reopen for out door dining. Challenging the latest shut down order. As the board discusses possibly raising fines for offenders. Many businesses are on the verge of going out of the business. Even a fine might be worth it. Downtown dan ville reopened the patio. Serving dinner outside starting tonight. Theyre not the only restaurant defying the health order. The restaurant had a busy day serving up breakfast and lunch. On the patio. Faced with mounting bills the owners decided to break the rules and resume out door dining. Other than speeding tickets. This is the only time i defied something in my life. Doing this. It was scary. The customers are embracing it. Word spread fast. He says hes happy to be enjoying a breakfast out again hopes other restaurants will follow suit. I say open up. Well support you. The county Health Department or whatever can just relax. The county supervisor say opening in person dining during a covid19 surge is irresponsible. Today they discussed possibly raising fines to 20,000. For repeat offenders. I think thats awful. I think that is why . Why do they want to continue to hurt us . Restaurant owner says the shut town is unfair. She feels confident her customers and staff can stay safe. So they will be serving dinner outside. It hasnt been proven to us to show that out door dining has caused an influx in covid cases. I just got off the phone with the dan vill