Heres a look at the latest numbers. As of this morning our state has recorded 1,264,539 confirmed cases of the virus and almost 20,000 people have died. After approval meantime operation warp speed hoping to have that Pfizer Vaccine out the door by december 15th with doses allocated to states by population. For example, some 300,000 to california, 170,000 to new york, 19,000 to minnesota and 12,000 to maine. Yesterday the United States had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began. More than 3,100 americans died from the coronavirus and that shatters the previous single day record set back in april. Hospitalizations also at a record high nationwide above 100,000. They are bracing for a surge upon a surge from holiday gatherings. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Meantime dr. Anthony fauci telling cbs news that he will be meeting with members of president elect joe bidens Transition Team today to discuss vaccines and the incoming administrations covid response. Now the new restrictions the governor is expected to release in about a half hour are expected to last through the holiday season. Again, well carry that address live here on kpix5. Thank you. As covid case numbers continue to trend upward, free testing in Alameda County is in high demand. Kpix5s kiet do shows us the struggle residents are facing and just how early they have to wake up to get tested. Reporter to give you some sense of the high demand for testing here in Alameda County they dont start until 9 a. M. This morning, but this family right here got here at the crack of dawn because they have no other choice. With no insurance and no time to book an appointment this family got here at 6 30 this morning. Theyre front line workers and require regular testing. We need to work to pay rent and everything. So we cant miss work too much. Reporter they were told to get here hours ahead of time because the site at the fairgrounds typically runs out of tests early. Word got out because by opening time the line of cars had snaked around more than half a mile long. This man came here because he had symptoms. You need tested. Oh, yes. Reporter before thanksgiving the rolling seven day average of testing was 9,500 per day, an all time high this, as practically every metric for coronavirus over much of the state and nation including deaths is also up across the board. Even the conservative projections between right now and march 1st we expect at least another 200,000 americans to die. Reporter dr. John schwartzberg from ucsf has tracked progress of the vaccines and says yes, their development has been rapid, but its safe. To date no steps have been rushed. No steps have been skipped to get to the results in the United States. I will roll up my sleeve when im in line for it because i think we will have gone through the necessary testing and the safety testing that we have to go through to get the vaccine. Reporter at the fairgrounds they can test 1,200 people per week. Today they hit capacity by 10 a. M. And turned people away. You look tired. I am a little. Reporter she was third in line and came here because she was exposed to someone who may have been positive. Having a surge in cases again, but i was just like at least im taking my precautions and doing what i need to do. Reporter in pleasanton, kiet do, kpix5. For more information about testing sites around the bay area, just check out our website, www. Kpix. Com. To our bay area weather now, mild in the south bay as we look live out at san jose. Meteorologist mary lee has our forecast. Mary . Hi, michelle. We are looking at another Beautiful Day across the bay area with that sunshine. You can see on our south bay mt. Hamilton camera from the lick observatory, blue skies out there, so mostly sunny skies and showing you the view from our Treasure Island camera with sunshine as well. Our temperatures are mainly in the 50s at your lunchtime hour. So just a degree or two colder compared to yesterday at this time for some locations this morning with that 24 hour temperature change this afternoon. That ridge of High Pressure in control giving us those mild temperatures and mostly sunny skies this afternoon and really this weather pattern of chilly mornings and mild afternoons will continue for us as we head through the next several days. Those daytime highs later on this afternoon generally in the 60s. So looking at highs about 5 to 10 degrees above average for this time of year for 50s to low 60s along the coast and the low to mid60s around the bay and mid60s inland this afternoon. Well talk about some changes at least with gusty offshore winds returning for us and it could mean a high fire danger. Ill have details coming up. Mary, thank you. A woman is in the hospital today after she fell off the devils slide trail cliff in pacifica. According to people on the scene, just before 10 00 last night the woman and her boyfriend saw their car about to be towed. Well, when she tried to run toward the car in the darkness, she then fell off the cliff. Firefighters scaled down the cliff, found her alive and brought her back up. No word yet on her condition today. To our fire watch now, a fast moving fire in Orange County is currently threatening more than 21,000 residents. Powerful winds have pushed the bond fire to burn more than 1,500 acres. The blaze broke out in Orange Countys Silverado Canyon late last night. You can see the huge bright flames there. This morning there is no containment. More than 800 firefighters are on the scene, but firefighting aircraft have been grounded due to the high winds. Now to the president ial transition where president elect joe biden is throwing his support behind a bipartisan bill to get Financial Relief to americans before the end of the year. We need relief now. So ive been urging our Congressional Republicans to work on a bipartisan emergency package now. I think theyre getting very close and i want it to happen and i believe that theyre getting very close to a deal. The 908 billion bipartisan proposal was unveiled in the senate this week. President trump reportedly supports a smaller bill that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has proposed. The number of americans claiming Unemployment Benefits last week is 712,000. That was better than expected falling around 75,000 from the week before. The government will release the monthly jobs report tomorrow. And taking a live look at the big board on wall street now, we could see the dow is up about 150 points right now. Stocks are inching further into record heights on hopes for covid19 vaccines. Bay Area Companies are stepping up to help fill the growing need this holiday season. Kpix5s allen martin has more on the effort in our food for bay area families drive. Reporter were here at the Sf Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco, our food for bay area families drive underway. With me is Jane Stafford with gilead. Jane, you brought a big check for a big amount, 125,000. Tell us about gileads support for the food bank. At gilead were committed giving back at communities where employees live and work and supporting the food bank is critical. Disparities in healthcare and food access are really important and during these times of covid it cant be stated enough. Reporter well, lets bring in raj daye. This is a great amount of money, but its going a lot farther than that dollar amount. Thats so true. Thank you so much, jane. Thank you, gilead. We will turn that into almost a quarter million meals. Its going to have a huge impact, especially at a time when the need is greater than ever. Reporter gilead certainly in the forefront of this pandemic fight. The pandemic has certainly affected how youve operated and the need here at the food bank. Thats right. At San Francisco marin we are serving almost 58,000 families per month which is nearly double what we were serving prior to the pandemic. Reporter amazing. Again, so gracious, so generous. Thank you so very much for supporting the effort. Food for bay area families, you can donate several ways at your whole foods market, but you can also go online to www. Kpix. Com give. Still ahead on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, getting the superhero treatment, major props from marvel for front line workers. Plus a big cat attacked, what happened to a volunteer at Carol Baskins florida rescue facility. Kpix5 has a new app that gives you 24 7 access to kpix5 news and updates and you an attack at Carol Baskins big cat rescue, officials at the facility confirm one of the tigers attacked a volunteer during feeding time and nearly tore off her arm. She was rushed to the hospital in serious condition. The tiger will be quarantined for 30 days. Baskin and her florida rescue made headlines during Netflix Tiger king. Throughout the pandemic front line healthcare workers have been called real live superheroes and now marvel is giving them the real superhero treatment in the form of a comic book. Marvel is show casing front line healthcare workers as a new set of heroes in its new comic book the vitals. Take a look. The comic book is based on nurses experiences from the pandemic. It showcases these real life crusaders trading cages for ppe to help save lives. It did make me cry. Whoever wrote this hit the nail on the head with what we were going through and what we felt. Were doing our job. So we dont think of ourselves as heroes or superheroes at all. Reacting to the comic book, nurses called their patients the real heroes. Well call those front line workers the heroes. What a cool shootout, right, mary . Yeah. I love that. I mean they are superheroes putting their lives at risk to help our communities. So that is so cool. Im glad theyre getting the recognition because they deserve it. All right. Well, we are looking at plenty of sunshine this afternoon. Its a mild start to our day, at least our afternoon. You can see a bit of that haze out there as we look in our Salesforce Tower camera looking east across the bay bridge and the east bay. Our air quality is moderate for the bay area. We just have that strong ridge of High Pressure acting like a lid trapping the pollutants down to the surface. Lets show you our temperatures because were in the 50s and 60s at our lunchtime hour, 60 in concord, also livermore, 506 56 in santa rosa. We are still talking about the rough and dangerous surf with a beach hazard statement until 4 p. M. Today due to dangerous sneaker waves, sudden breakers and strong rip currents. Please use extra caution at our beaches with those high energy waves and surf heights that continue to build today. The ridge of High Pressure still in effect, the dominant weather feature the next several days. Mild and mostly sunny weather continues through our afternoon. You can see that sunshine as we head through our day on futurecast taking you hour by hour and then for at least tomorrow morning another chilly start. Well continue with this weather pattern of chilly mornings and mild afternoons. Looking to the end of the weekend into early next week, we do have the potential for a high fire danger. This is a big concern because its just been so dry for us. Gusty offshore winds return sunday night into monday. Our precipitation outlook for the month of december looking at below average rainfall for the month. Daytime highs today about 5 to 10 degrees above average, so upper 50s to low 60s along the coast, low to mid60s around the bay and 60s inland. Heres the extended forecast. Not a lot of change. Those chilly mornings, child afternoons and again well watch the offshore winds late sunday into monday. Otherwise slightly warmer temperatures by early next week. Time now for more bay area bright spots. Look at this delicious looking Christmas Tree set up from edward martin, pretty cool there. Theres some chocolate among the ornaments on his tabletop tree. We want to see your holiday lights and decorations, too. Email your pictures and videos to bayareabrightspots kpix. Com or tag us on social media. Mom is in its eighth season on cbs with a new episode tonight. Bonnie and adam offer relationship advice when they sense tension between andy and jill who is played by jaime pressly. Our Gianna Franco talked to jaime. They walk the thin line talking about serious topics matters and finding the funny in them. After all, you cant laugh at yourself and find things to lighten the load, everything is a little too heavy, right . The new episode of mom airs tonight at 9 00. Coming up on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, 80 years old and still on the job seven days a week, why this San Francisco man says he owes it to his community to keep going. When theyre sick, they get comfortable all kinds of places. They also spread all kinds of germs, from cold and flu to strep and more. Nothing kills more cold and flu viruses, including the covid19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. Lysol. What it takes to protect. A San Francisco businessman who immigrated from china decades ago is giving back to his community as a big thank you to his adoptive country. Sharon chin introduces us to this weeks jefferson award winner. Reporter in arthur chins home countless awards celebrate his philanthropy, but the october he remains humble. I just want people to be inspired. Reporter in all mr. Chen has donated more than 3 million to the chinese hospital, more than half to the new cancer center. He began giving in 2004 in memory of his wife annie who died of cancer. Hospital ceo dr. Zhang say the donations have helped in updates in services in areas like diabetes and gastroenterology. He is our top donor. Reporter who also shares his business smarts. He would just say this is the areas you need to improve. This is the areas that you can do better. Its a small token that i can express my appreciation, gratitude to america. Reporter he came from china in 1960 to study at cal poly san luis obispo. I came here with 80. Were he worked hard and started. Reporter he worked hard and started a food export import company and works hard and supports incomers at the new Chinese Service center and not just with food and money and donations. The executive director george chan. He has chinese immigrants to work for him. Make the world a better place. Reporter arthur chan hired david liung and taught him how to start his own business and give back. He told me that america gave him education, gave him business opportunities, more importantly, gave him american dreams. Reporter chan has made five to six digit donations to a host of organizations from the Chinatown Community center he founded to the red cross. Thats the only picture we like to see. I like to work harder so that i can make more money so donate more to the community. Reporter so for his Generous Community giving, this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to arthur chan. Sharon chin, kpix5. He is amazing. If theres a need and arthur can help, he will. For example, hes also donated cemetery plots for those who cant afford to bury their family members. You can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online at www. Kpix. Com hero. Still ahead forced to sell his playstation 5, the fib one man tomorrow his wife that made her say game over. Today on the Drew Barrymore show Actress Jennifer Garner and comedian tom in just minutes we are expecting a coronavirus update from governor gavin newsom just as california sees a surge in hospitalizations. Well bring that to you live here on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Also coming up at 5 00 hows this for a close election . A Bay Area City Council race has finally been decided and it came down to just one vote. Well have that story and more at 5 00. Finally this afternoon, its game over for one man in taiwan. He found himself out of a playstation 5 last month after he convinced his wife the console was an air purifier. She eventually caught on and then forced him to sell it. All right. He lied about it. He got caught and its now gone. Thats going to do it for us here at kpix5 news at noon. Again, Governor Newsom set to speak very soon and you can watch it right here on kpix5 and also streaming on kpix. M. [ helicopter blades whirring ] hope thomas . Wake up, thomas. Hope answer dammit. [ phone rings ] finn dr. Finnegan. Hope finn, thank god. Its hope. Finn hope . Are youare you okay . You sound, uh. Hope its thomas. Im at his apartment. Andand he collapsed