Overwhelmed employment departments, that state money plus 600 a week and cares act funding was put on a debit card and working with someone on the outside, that money was accessed what we learned over the last seven weeks is repeatedly, individuals would go to atms with a stack of these debit cards, removing up to 1000 at a time. Reporter it is described as the largest fraud in california history. Fraud honestly staggering. And the types are shocking quite frankly. Its exist in every cdc prison. It encompasses every type of inmate. Its encompasses death row inmates. The names on the list include several serial killers. Was that doing it using and stealing his identity . If so, that is an additional felony for Identity Theft. Reporter the District Attorney inmate records 35 other states used to make sure this doesnt happen again. Speaking from the county, we cut off Welfare Benefits to those in the county jail because we have a system in place. I do not want to say its a simple process, but, turning the spigot off means we expedites the imposition of this system existing in other states. Just amazing. What about the investigation still ongoing . The arrest and money company, how much bigger can this thing get . Hold onto your seat a moment. This investigator belief, 1 billion. We are talking about every county in the state of california. Money going out of state and in some cases, money going out of the country and now, the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of california is also involved in this. Prosecuting some of those Identity Theft charges. This could get much bigger before it gets all said and done. Coming up tonight at 6 00, we talk about the back story of this, how it was discovered. Right here at the San Mateo County jail. Is getting the money back. Thank you. You can imagine the case is getting a lot of attention online. Senator Melissa Melendez tweeted, i have constituents who still have not received unappointed benefits. There entitled to the. Now, we learn definitely inmates are getting that if its . Everyone at top Level Administration should be fired immediately. Eric anglin wrote, i guess this is why i waited seven months and sent 19 emails with no wants. And another says california has 17 fraud investigators for edd. Fewer than the alcohol and cosmetics investigators the governor said for struggling california businesses. New at 5 00, a dad has two children safe and sound after fire crews rescued the trio on a cliff in San Francisco. Chopper 5 was over the scene while the three were being treated. It happened about an hour ago. Fire crews say the dad had to call for help when they ran into trouble. All three are in good health, nobody was injured. Coronavirus cases rising fast in california. And the state Health Secretary is calling on people to stay vigilant over thanks guinea pig the state reported more than 50,000 new cases today, the 14 day Positivity Rate is at 5. 6 and there has been an 81 spike in hospitalizations. Moore county is moving backwards into the most restrictive purple tier, the Bay Area Health study shows. There is a number of Healthcare Professionals i know sounding the alarm and throughout the bay area, those counties in particular. That will of course make the difference. San francisco remains on the red tier but the public up director is expecting the move to purple soon, possibly later on this week. Here you can see the cases climb over the last few weeks and just how close San Francisco is to reaching the threshold for the purple tier. The city is hovering around 13 cases per 100,000 residents per day. And rapidly approaching the search case rate from july. While this is still lower than the national and state average, we are at a critical moment. We cannot let the virus get so far ahead of us where we will never catch up. Reporter right now, San Francisco has a Positivity Rate of 2. 1 five over seven days, Santa Clara County 14 the average is 2. 4 and Contra Costa County is 3. 7 over 14 days. Alameda county, 2. 7 over 70s. In marin, the rolling 70 averages 1. 5 . By comparison, hardhit l. A. County has a 6. 6 Positivity Rate. The new kpix5 app is the best way to get alerts. Health inspections ramping up and Santa Clara County, no more warnings to violators are now going to be find. Wilson walker now on the crackdown. Reporter we heard Health Officials beg people to stay home for the holidays then, they moved on to telling people not to gather in small groups. For the upcoming thanksgiving holiday. Now, they have a warning for Business Owners and Holiday Shopping. We asked them to go ahead and use sanitizer and greet them at the door. Reporter willow glen a bookstore, you cant wander into the store without an escort as they are paying careful attention not to exceed 25 capacity. Yes we are. We are following the county guidelines and making sure that we can accommodate customers. We are asking businesses to be absolutely diligence. They need to be following the capacity limitations. Reporter is a clare county put all businesses unnoticed that capacity limits will be strictly enforced in the coming week. No warnings. We normally provide for a grace period for people to come into compliance. But we are suspending the grace period given the rise in case counts and the rise in hospitalizations. We have a Maximum Capacity right now with 13. So we are trying to adhere to that. Reporter he has no problem with capacity limits but she and other Business Owners to need the holiday traffic to keep their businesses open through the end of the year. We do, we need people to come down and shops all business or you will not have Small Business anymore. So, yeah, we are concerned. Reporter the 2020 Holiday Shopping season begins under the watchful eye of county code enforcement. We have a whole crew of folks who go out on site and do inspections and when necessary, issue fines. All right. How are they going to enforce this . They have teams like you just heard outlook and, they also have a website page where people can call and make complaints if they wants. Defines started 250 and can go up to thousands of dollars for businesses. They mean business here. I am ken bastida. The dow for the first time atop the 30,000 mark passing the psychological barrier into record territory. The dow closed more than 450 points and it was a good day for the nasdaq and the s p as well. The dow accelerated after the news that president elect joe biden transition to the white house is beginning. And, investors also seem comfortable with the treasury secretary pick, former professor and Federal Reserve share janet yellen. She very much preside over low Interest Rates and was very hesitant to raise Interest Rates and investors love low rates. The market has been in a monthlong rally boosted by progress on Coronavirus Vaccines. The dow milestone marks a speedy come back for march when the index plunged below 19,000 as the pandemic tightened its grip. Investor signaling optimism and economic recovery is in sight. Straight to the biden transition. A live look at the white house from President Trump signing off for president elect joe biden to receive daily briefings and classified intelligence reports. Natalie brand is live at the white house where despite all of that, the president still has not officially conceded. Even with the presence not conceding. The formal transition process now well underway with the Biden Transition Team reaching out to all federal agencies and this comes as we heard from today some of the present elects key cabinet pics including a nominee for the department of Homeland Security with california tied. Some of these names or all of the ones introduced today are known from the obama administration. They are significant for their diversity. Reporter president elect joe biden resented the key diplomatic and security nominees tuesday. We will have the first woman leader the intelligence committee. The first latino, and immigrant, to lead Homeland Security. And a groundbreaking different of the united nations. Reporter the pics include serving as secretary. My mother and father brought me to the country to escape communist. Reporter and greenfield to represent the United States at the u. N. Only in america would we be where we are today. Reporter nearly three weeks after the election. The General Service administrator murphy signed off on the beginning of the transition process. I am pleased to have received the gsa. Reporter the biden harris Transition Team is now in context with federal agencies and a key focus is the countries most pressing issue. The coronavirus pandemic. President elect biden sat down with nbc nightly news anchor lester holt. I think we will not be so far behind the curve as we thought we might be in the past. There is a lot of immediate discussion and i must say the outreach has been sincere. Reporter the present did not address the transition but made brief remarks praising the stock market. Want to congratulate all the people in the ministration works hard. Reporter on twitter, President Trump still says his challenges to the Election Results are moving full speed ahead. Cbs news learns the president signed off on sharing briefings with president elect biden. Mr. Biden told reporters in delaware he did not receive an intelligence briefing today but does plan to receive them regularly during this transition period. We also learned the department of defense had its first meeting between transition officials, other agencies are starting meetings or scheduling them. All is rolling. New information on the man accused of stabbing five people in a san jose church. What we just learned about his criminal past. How long should you have to quarantine if exposed to the coronavirus . The change the cdc is now considering. And a beautiful sunset but fog is speaking in from the coast is we new information site about the man accused of stabbing five people and killing two and a san jose church. The mercury news reports the suspect, Fernando Lopez was on release from jail following a Domestic Violence arrest in june. According to the paper, the release was revoked prior to the sunday night stabbings at the grace baptist church. Tonight, members are reeling from the attack saying lopez was a helpful member of the outreach program. We are also learning tonight the San Jose City employee was among the victims in the attack. The gofundme page says he was volunteering at the church that night. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. San jose mayor tweeting out help saying he was a selfless volunteer encouraging others to help his family. Tomorrow, the San Jose Police are scheduled to release information about the attack sunday. Governor newsom announced a 50,000 reward for information and a cold case murder in fremont. In january of 2007, he was found severely injured in a front yard on stevenson boulevard. Witnesses saw him fight briefly with two other men. They say one suspect put a metal object into his had. He later died. Police say the suspects left the area and a late 80s or 90s metallic minivan possibly two tones in the color. Police just put out the new sketch of one of the men. If you have any information, call the fremont police. The cdc considering shortening the length of time a person so quarantines of they believe they were exposed to,. The wall street journal reports the agency is working to finalize the time period from 14 days to between 710 days. Meanwhile, the federal government says they will be conducting a practice run this week of the Coronavirus Vaccine distribution. The drug currently is awaiting approval from the fda so the shipments will not actually contain the vaccine. Officials say the dry run is to make sure everything goes smoothly. By the end of december to have enough vaccine to vaccinate those most probable just by way of sizing and scaling. By the end of january we think we would have enough to vaccinate Senior Citizens as well as healthcare workers and first responders. That is what they talked about week after week. Pfizer which is developing the vaccine applied for emergency use authorization of the fda friday. Moderna is expected to submit its application in the coming days. Stay at home order and a Los Angeles County could be headed down at any time. The number of new infections topped an average of 4500 per day. Meanwhile, a ban on Outdoor Dining to stand. This after a judge rejected a Restaurant Industry request to blockage. Outdoor dining must close tomorrow night at 10 00. Chopper 5 flew over the San Francisco ocean beach earlier, big swells expected to hit the barrier beaches this week. The storm will ring high surf to the coastline tomorrow and thursday, forecasters say the biggest waves could be seen up to 12 feet possibly even 24 feet. But be careful of the tides. The ocean beach is notorious for sneaker waves and strong current. Definitely be safe but enjoy yourself while you are here. Because of the dangerous conditions, authorities worn if you had to the beach, be cautious. We bring in paul, a lot of people are going to want to get out and about. Its only to see too. Something you can still do is go outside. So many things crossed off the list but be careful, a High Surf Advisory going to affect at 6 00 tomorrow morning continuing through noon on thanksgiving, we are talking about sustained waves of 1824 feet by tomorrow afternoon. The storm system is kicking up the wind and producing the waves producing rain in the pacific northwest, maybe showers in Northern California and it will not bring anything more than gusty winds, big waves to the coast. Maybe we will have to wait. As we head for the rest of the night, not too gusty by two for the cold front will be speaking early tomorrow with a chance of a spring in the north the winds pick up as we head through midday and the afternoon, see all the colors expanding is the gust get stronger and stronger . Were talking widespread gust between 2030 miles an hour, some gust up to 35 miles an hour tomorrow afternoon. Winds relax somewhat as we head through tomorrow evening. Once the sun goes down, still breezier than normal. It looks like thanksgiving will be rather breezy as well. In terms of the chance of a sprinkle, do not hold your breath, we are talking about a whopping 10 chance of passing spring on the windshield in santa rosa, northbay, you are the only ones with that chance, the rest of us are going to see some fog. Its already started to spread in as we speak as we look towards downtown San Francisco from treasure island. The fog is not too widespread and too low to the ground just yet but it will expand as we head through the night. Already done a 53 degrees in the city, Still Holding onto 63 in concord after i temperature close to 70 degrees. Otherwise, it is mostly low to mid 50s across the board. Visibility is going to drop, maybe not quite 20 but close and the fog will spread pretty far inland as we head into early tomorrow morning. It should not last too long as the wind picks up and that was to the atmosphere around the fog disbursing already by late tomorrow morning. Temperatures will start off mostly in the 40s and begin the day on wednesday. Temperatures maybe a couple degrees warmer than they were this morning around 30 degrees, around the bay upper 40s near 50, still upper 30s in the north bay, again, the clouds will try to produce a passing speckle but there will be plenty of gaps in the clouds to allow what buildup there is today to kind of escape off into space. Temperatures are going to be right about where they should be for this time of year on wednesday, we are talking the 60s across the board, not seeing much difference at all from around the water to further inland, pretty much everybody on an even Playing Field except right a long the coast you will be in the mid to upper 50s, mostly around 60 degrees for the south, low 60s in the santa clara valley, listen to us for the trivalley as well, maybe mid 60s on the east side of the diablo range, you are the warm spots on the map by wednesday afternoon, mozilla six is around the bay, low 60s for the north bay as well, a few spots struggling up around 60 degrees. Those will be the cooler locations on the map, further north, definitely you will be in the 50s because you get more of the cool air and a better chance of a few showers from its you and lick counties early tomorrow morning. Thanks giving looks like we will be a couple degrees warmer but its still going to be breezy, especially inland portions of the bay area, we take a look at the hour by hour thanksgiving forecast, coming up a little bit later on. Temperatures do not change much and you do not see any rain in the whole 7 day forecast. Coming up, a popular selfie attraction reopening just in time for thanksgiving. Be prepared for some changes. At 5 30, project home, the barrier a neighborhood, why great gifts at this price . Is this for real . Not exactly thats bargain bliss setting in youre basking in the glow of great gifts at deep discount prices. And is that. Mmhmm Grocery Outlet jingle i want a doll house, a pony bike san jose happy hollows zoo is open to the public but be prepared to keep moving. Visitors can only walk through the zoo down a oneway pass. All visitors are asked to stay six feet apart or the same distance as one large alligator. Since the shutdown in march, visitors can expect to see a new baby lemur. It was so fun. My first time with an outing like this. In nine months. So, it was super wonderful. We had a lot of fun. Just being able to see the animals and finally Something Different we can do with the family. Visitors can expect tickets at halfprice and all visitors need to make a reservation. There is a twist this year on a popular area holiday window display. Instead of putting adoptable animals in the windows at macys union square, the San Francisco spca are playing videos ive rescue animals and alumni. The goal of course is safety. And not to drop too big a crowd he wanted to have something that could be accessed as many different ways as possible as to lower the human densities of people could walk by and see it, at any time day or night and get access by different ways besides going down to the store. So, digital obviously rose to the forefront of that. Still, cute is cute. Inside, macys shoppers can take selfies with giant cutouts of cats and dogs to the spca assisted therapy pets, they will be making surprise visits throughout the season. So cute. More local news at 5 30 including an original series, project home. San francisco had a sinking tower, now its an entire neighborhood. Why repairs might make it even worse. The amount of money we have available to make the fixes, it probably will not add up. New body camera video released from a Police Shooting in San Francisco. The chain of events that started with a fire and a frying pan which ended in a fire in the streets. 1000 turkey right now streaming on cbsn a bay area and on kpix 5, a different kind of holiday rush, people in need lighting up, lives changed because of the pending. New body camera video from a San Francisco shooting, the chaos that started with a fire and a frying pan which ended in a fight in the street. First, the area neighborhood sinking faster than anyone expected. We discovered fixing the damage may make it even worse. Good evening i am allen martin. I am elizabeth cook. W go to the sinking sidewalk in San Francisco at mission bay. Reporter and the San Francisco mission bay neighborhood, there is a place where the sidewalk ends. It looks like something is wrong obviously with the settling. Reporter again