>> cases today will end up in a hospital beds in 2 to 3 weeks. consistently at a rate of about 12%. so we can with today's later -- today's data begin to understand what's coming in our healthcare delivery system. >> reporter: underwood is being called the emergency brake, counties are falling back multiple tiers at a time with 24 hours notice to close nonessential businesses. an alameda county moved to widespread covid-19, donovan nightclub has to move all fitness outside just as the weather is changing. >> is a little bit of anger, little bit of fear, and all of those things crumbling in. we struggle mightily to understand how exercise and nutrition is not essential. >> reporter: in the city of alameda, he says he understands why the pause is happening. >> it seems like a lot of people are being pretty careless, honestly. >> reporter: experts say most of the disease transmission is happening at private gatherings, the businesses are facing the consequences. things like indoor dining are done for now in alameda county. >> we think that it's okay to put your guard down. we think it's okay to take off your mask even for a little bit to enjoy a drink or enjoy a meal. but it's exactly those moments that might create a high transmission risk. >> reporter: andria, today the governor was asked about issuing a curfew. what did he say about that? >> well, he said it was something that he's considering at this point, elizabeth. he said he is looking at the data from other countries as well as states like massachusetts and virginia, who have issued their own curfews at this point as he said, it is something he's actively assessing. >> we will see what happens with that. andria, thank you. governor newsom also apologized for attending a birthday party. >> as soon as i sat down at a larger table, i realized it was a little larger group than i had anticipated. and i made a bad mistake. >> reporter: the governor and his wife joined more than one dozen people at a party at the french laundry in the out bill earlier this month. today, during his covid-19 address, the governor says he expects more of himself. >> you can quibble about the guidelines, etc., etc., but the spirit that i am preaching all the time was contradictory, and i got to not. so i want to apologize to you, because i need to preach and practice. >> newsom says that he should have stood up and left the party immediately. we brought you the governor's updates streaming live. you can watch it through the kpix app or online at kpix.com. in the new state order is forcing san francisco to move from the yellow tear to the red tear. that means tomorrow, all nonessential businesses will have to shut down and fitness centers will have to reduce capacity from 25 to 10%. >> a significant uptick, one that we have to pay attention to and more importantly, one that has put san francisco, which has been really, a leader on fighting against this pandemic, it has put all of the incredible gains that we have made at jeopardy. >> reporter: the city still hopes to reopen schools for impersonating, starting on january 25. the goal is to have younger students and other vulnerable students back in the classroom. san francisco district officials are working to inspect buildings to meet covid safety standards. >> reporter: the surge in cases now has doctors worried about a coming spike in patients in emergency rooms. kiet do on how well they are preparing for it. >> reporter: so if you get covid, chances are you might end up here at valley medical center. this is the biggest hospital in the south bay. they tell us they can handle the patient flow into the healthcare system, but it's going to take everybody stepping up and doing their part. >> this is the third time in a week that dr. sarah cody has addressed the public about the infection may. >> that curve is going straight out. that's what concerns us . it's how fast that number is changing. >> reporter: while there is sufficient capacity, they are already seeing the numbers trending up. >> in the past, while we knew that we could rely on asking for help from other jurisdictions if we needed it, that's not the case now, because everyone is quite busy tending to their own residents in their own communities. >> i'm teaching urgency, but not panic this time around. >> yes. >> reporter: he is the medical director of valley medical center and said back in march, it was a scramble to secure enough space, labor, ventilators testing and ppe, but they have had eight months to practice and tweak their protocols and procedures and cannot quickly call in more help and ramp-up space as needed. >> this time around, ppe wise, we are doing well. testing wife, we are doing well. capacity wise, overall, even though we do have more patients in the hospital, they are non- covid and we are seeing an uptick, we feel very good about how much capacity we have, but we have learned how to treat it. but it is still a deadly virus. but ultimately, we want to make sure this hospital is available for everybody. >> so everybody seeing the same numbers, the same trend here, but how are the other hospitals factoring into the third wave? >> so you look at o'connor, which is also owned by the county. the county says that they can manage the flow and shift patients there if needed. we heard from good sam today. they said that they have not directed their overflow tent week we saw just a couple months ago, but they have brought in extra personnel from outside the area to help with any possible surge of patients they get with their facility. they said there is capacity here. >> kiet do, thanks. >> i'm ken bastida with the major race today. madonna says that its vaccine is nearly 95% effective. among 30,000 participants receiving the two dose vaccine, there were a total of 95 cases. all but 5 were in the placebo arm, meaning the vaccine was 95.4% effective. there were no reports of any serious side effects. all this comes a week after pfizer says there vaccine is more than 90% effective. the government says both required to doses, but pfizer the vaccine needs to be kept at minus 103 degrees fahrenheit. minturn is vaccine only needs to be kept at minus 4 degrees. which could give it a practical advantage. >> be on the fact that we don't need these conditions, we have asked -- validated the vaccine under refrigeration conditions. that is a massive enablement to be able to distribute much more broadly and much more easily. >> reporter: madonna expects to have 20 million doses ready to ship by the end of 2020. now, today's vaccine news helped the dow closed at a record high. it raised -- the pandemic losses. nasdaq also gained 94 points. s&p was up 41. liz. now to the biden transition, biden zeroing in >> wallet, while president- elect biden spent the day talking about the fight against covid, president trump instead is focusing on overturning the results of the election and refusing to work with the new administration. while laying out his plans to fight the coronavirus and rebuild the economy, president- elect joe biden gave a stark warning on the lack of corroboration from the trump administration. >> more people may die if we don't coordinate. >> president trump is still tweeting i won the election. >> hospitals are overflowing, people are dying. the economy is collapsing in the present is tweeting all day and night about beating joe biden. >> reporter: the president's own national security advisor is signaling his readiness to begin the transition process. in of the biden/harris ticket is depended to be the winner, and obviously, things look that way now, we will have a very professional transition. >> reporter: the covid advisory team is planning consultations with vaccine manufacturers this week as they plan a pandemic response without cooperation from the trump administration. meanwhile, aus defense official tells cbs news the pentagon expects trump to order troops by half in afghanistan and half in iraq. defense officials say the move could destabilize both countries. >> reporter: president trump's attempts have not been very successful. he and his supporters have lost nearly all of their -- and overturned a total of zero votes. >> all right, thank you. wayne and went. more power than than what brought us the rain on friday. already sending some moisture into the pacific northwest today. it is going to rain across the bay area tomorrow. we will take a look coming up in just a few more minutes. but we're looking is still a chance for some lingering showers on wednesday. the best chance of rain will ship up right around the middle of the day, moving in by late morning, continuing into the afternoon in the beginning to taper off, but not stop entirely as we head into the evening. rain chances will arrive a little earlier for the north bay. a little earlier for the south bay. we will check futurecast in just a few minutes and look all the way had to wednesday. all right, paul. still ahead, and streaming on kpix 5, thieves smashed their way into a liquor store. why they may not be able to cash in on their hall. >> in this is not from an action movie. this was caught in a california freeway. >> leader, -- dying by the thousands in the pay. now, scientists think they may have solved right now, orleans of the upper deck of the bay bridge are back open after a deadly motorcycle accident shut down part of the bridge for just over an hour. abbott before 2:00 near treasure island. no word on the cause of the crash. striking out to a robbery in fremont. a truck driver smashes into a liquor store. its way with some cash and lottery tickets. here's a look at some of the aftermath of the menno square liquor on a black road. it happened at about 3:00 in the morning. police say they found a pickup abandon and running just a few miles away pickett had been reported stolen. so far, no suspect description. is for the lotto tickets, the suspect might be running out of luck. they're not going to count, as they are now reported stolen. police searching for the people they say vandalized several businesses and assaulting a restaurant employee. officer said it happened -- they say at least 80 people were spotted holding signs. somewhere in bulletproof vest. police say that some around it, patrons at a restaurant when an employee told them to leave, they were hit with pepper spray. video from social media shows a group of people lighting small fires out in the streets. nearby target also vandalized with spray paint. messages against president trump and the police could be seen the next morning. today's vaccine news from maternal comes not a moment too soon as coronavirus cases are rising in 49 states. in less than a week, the country has added around 1 million new cases. for a total of 11 million. many hospitals are reaching their limits. el paso texas inmates loaded bodies onto mobile mortgage trucks over the weekend. in michigan, the governor announced a three week freeze on indoor dining and in-person learning for high school and college students. at least 27 states have imposed new coronavirus restrictions on gatherings and businesses. and the economic fallout from the pandemic also remains a concern at a food bank in dallas over the weekend, a line of cars filled out onto the freeway. organizers distributed food for some 25,000 people. their largest giveaway ever. the coastal regions of nicaragua and honduras are directly in the path of hurricane iota. expected to make landfall tonight. colombia's caribbean island of san andreas already took a beating and in nicaragua, thousands have evacuated the coastal regions. we have already seen heavy rains, high waters there. it comes just days after hurricane -- better that region. let's take a live look at four point near the golden gate bridge. we have been keeping an eye out for surfers. extreme tides over seven feet. right now, the tide is extremely low. surfers are only able to serve four point when the tide is the slow. >> all right, we've got some rain and wind coming. but let's come back to the hurricane for a second. this is a category five. >> this is the strongest hurricane in the 2020 atlantic hurricane season. and this far into the greek alphabet, it's been a record- setting season. just another storm behaving with the. it's only the second category 5 in the month of november. the other one was 1932. this one is going to make landfall as a category 5 storm with those 160 mile-per-hour sustained winds. and this is exactly where hurricane ada made landfall. this is going to move inland and produce a lot of wind damage with those 160 mile-per- hour winds. significant storm surge and then it's the flying rains. even as the storm weakens, it's still going to be dropping a ton of moisture. it's just going to fall apart as it moves through the higher terrain, the mountainous regions for the west of nicaragua and then into honduras. but it's still going to be another humanitarian disaster unfolding is more rainfalls on spots that just are way too much. less than two weeks ago. we had some welcome rain in the forecast here. there are clouds just off the coast in this storm system is going to sweep and as we head through the day on tuesday. let's track the causes they thicken overheads a. in the showers as they approach by early tomorrow morning. the first few showers moving onshore in the north bay by about sunrise tomorrow morning. with the rain gradually progressing further and further south. we will freeze the maps. we will see this one band of heavy rain is going to make its way through the entire bay area. weakening as it makes its way further and further south. everybody is likely to get some measurable rain after this. even once the heavy is been moved to, we will not completely dry out lingering showers. as we head into tomorrow evening, tomorrow night, and often on rain as we had through the rest of the day. likely to progress through it's also going to be breezy as the storm system moves through. wind gusts going to be in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range. they are going to be slippery. anything higher profile is going to get blown around a little bit especially towards the afternoon hours. they should die down a little bit afternoon. right now, it looks fantastic out there. downtown, temperatures are in the 60s across the board. 69 degrees in san jose. right in the middle in san francisco with a current temperature of 66. temperatures and are going to fall to for tonight, told in some warmth, otherwise in the low to mid 50s. i temperatures tomorrow are not going to warm up a lot. only up into the low to mid 60s in most locations. the one spot will be wary of to ray for the rain a little bit longer. into the santa clara county. you make it up into the mid- 60s. low 60s on the central pay. just barely touching 60 degrees because that rain is going to write a little bit earlier today. lingering showers, that we dry out first few days. thursday and friday looking pretty good. still some stubborn claws on thursday the 20 center for friday and saturday. some clouds in the forecast on sunday, we may even have to add a rain chance to the mix. radio, it's just too far down the line. we look forward to that. coming up, good news a chp officers dash cam cortisol and video. it happen in modesto. police say the driver just flat out was not paying attention. and only had minor injuries. no kidding. >> very lucky. the ncaa is already coming up with a game plan for next year's march madness. >> we will scrap this year of course because of coronavirus. but today, the committee announcing that is looking to host all 68 college teams in one city. the most likely spot is in indianapolis. the committee says it's not going to be a bubble like we saw in the nba, but more of a controlled environment. where local news at 5:30, including the bay area race that is still undecided. i'm john remus in sausalito with the vote margin couldn't be much tighter. will explain the situation and tell you who's going to be deciding the space. coming up. and meet the california asha who was part of the landmark commission for spacex. how he's making history in his own right. >> i am don ford where acacia trees are dying by are watching kpix 5 at 5:30. >> now, at 5:30, some breaking news out of the south bay. and have been a short time ago at the home depot. near highway 87. we are told that there is one victim. that person has non-life- threatening injuries. there's a big traffic impact because of the police response. our crew is just about their. as we get more information, also, knew it 5:30 in this body camera video reads questions about the san jose response. the decision about whether the protester will be charge. in who could finally decide the sausalito election. >> sausalito is best known for its bareknuckled brand of politics. it is known to one of the tightest elections in the bay area or anywhere for that matter. we've got handed to ian sadowski. is first one in political office has been quite a roller coaster ride. >> i was down something like 60 votes. by the end of the week, i was down 29 votes. by last wednesday, i was up 10 votes. currently, ian is just edging out -- and former mayor, joan cox for that third spot. each got about 1800 votes, but only three separate them with about 55 ballots still to be counted. >> it looks like what is that? 307%. history salts, this is from most of the people who waited until election day to register to vote at a polling place. and of course, the postal service is still delivering ballots. >> we've had a few come in