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the much talked about surge in covid-19 cases appears to be happening in california. new numbers show a shocking rise in infections hitting numbers not seen in months. with that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm dion lim. certainly not a good day at all for california with the coronavirus. the state reported nearly 11,000 diagnosed cases today, the highest since early august. the positivity rate continues to rise with the 14-day rate jumping to 4.4%. it was 4% on friday. that number is a strong indicator of the transmission rate of the virus. nearly 3700 people are in the hospital getting treated for covid-19 and about 1000 of them are in the icu. now, the spike in covid cases is increasing the demand for testing right here in the bay area. but some testing sites are reaching capacity. according to abc 7 news reporter

cornell bernard, some advocates are calling for more testing sites to handle the load. >> reporter: across california, the need for covid testing is in high demand. in l.a. hundreds waited for hours in their car for covid tests, the lines grew longer into the night. like wise in the bay area, where you could wait days to get an appointment. there are 19-run sites like this one here at pier 30 on the embarcadero and with the surge in covid cases, many are reaching capacity. >> the lines are getting longer and longer. >> reporter: health committee chairman from the latino task force says demand is unbelievably high at this test site. recently 500 people are getting tested every day. >> we are here to service the latino community but not exclusive to. we take care of the folks that show up that need that test. >> reporter: he believes the city needs more testing sites. >> we need a vast amount of low barrier testing sites throughout san francisco, easy access same

day walk up. we need them where we know there is an increase in cases. >> san francisco does more testing than any city in the nation. >> reporter: dr. baba says the city is already doing more than 5,000 tests per day, but many who are lining up are not all high priority. >> it's for people exposed or that have symptoms or essential workers. if people have other reasons to get tested, they should go to their primary care doctor. >> reporter: reasons include traveling for the holidays. >> we strongly discourage the use of the resources for travel purposes. >> reporter: the city closed one covid testing site in soma but plans to open a new site next week. cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> a party has likely led to ten covid-19 cases at u.c. davis. the ten fraternity students are now quarantined and u.c. davis says an additional fraternity ember tested positive on thursday and went to his

parents' home to quarantine. that night, frat members host d a party with up to 20 people. the school believes that's when ten other people became infected. some on campus say students should be more responsible. >> partying in these times is selfish. i don't really understand why people are doing it because if we stay inside or quarantined and wore you masks and didn't party right now, we could get out of this quicker. >> u.c. davis has been doing a good job to keep the numbers down. crazy to hear. >> nine of the infected students are in designated quarantine apartments on campus. one is in the fraternity house. more than half the country reported a record number of hospitalizations. they are feeling the pinch because of the coronavirus pandemic. now, with president trump's administration currently not working with joe biden's transition team, the vice president elect is taking matters into his own hands. abc news reporter andrew tells us this led to one top health official concerned. >> reporter: cases of covid-19

are on the rise in almost every state according to the covid tracking project, 163,000 cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours. 1321 new deaths and more than 69,000 americans currently hospitalized. the health care system feeling the strain. >> we're trying to find cause. >> reporter: they are helping slow the spread of the coronavirus. >> indoor social gatherings from people outside your home are prohibited. restaurants and bars are closed for indoor service. >> reporter: aramarillo, texas ordering mobile morgues. >> we've expanded with a mobile trailer and requested a second trailer while we wait for a portable morgue unit. this is real. >> reporter: on friday, president trump predicting

pfizer will receive emergency use authorization for the vaccine and says it could be available to the general population by april but the trump administration is not working with president elect biden's transition team. dr. fauci saying this could be a problem. >> like passing the baton in a race, you don't want to stop. you want to keep going. that's what transition is. it certainly would make things more smoothly if we do do that. >> reporter: president trump's hand-picked vaccine-zar saying i hope nothing interferes with operation warp speed. it's a matter of life and death calling on the white house to allow his team to make contact with joe biden. in other news, a black matter event in dublin received online threats last week went on peacefully today. >> we can't have peace if we don't honor one another. honoring one another means we listen to one another. >> the city approved side garden

for justice as it was called was hosted outside the dublin civic center. it received threats from mike grant, a local gun business owner on facebook last week. the owner posted a picture of the 17-year-old organizer and called for counter protesters. mcman says despite the threats, the turnout ended up being much larger than expected. >> it actually very shocking for me to drive up here now. i knew there would be a lot of people. i couldn't imagine it. great to see there are so many supporters of this movement. >> it is encouraging. grant since apologized after receiving backlash for his post. mcman is willing to meet and teach him more about the blm movement. in san francisco dozens marched to call on the board of super vier sores visors to the group marched from the police officer's association to

city hall this afternoon. organizers call a recent contract with the association racist. the examiner reports that while the contract will reduce department budgets, it does not reduce the size of the force. the board will vote on tuesday whether or not to approve that contract. business owners in downtown walnut creek are cleaning up graffiti after a late evening protest on saturday. those messages included anti police statements and calls for justice. organizers of last night's protest called it a no justice, no peace demonstration. videos of the protest showed some physical confrontations between protesters and counter protestors. we have reached out to walnut creek police to see if any arrests were made. a family of three was rescued this afternoon after their small boat capsized near alcatraz island. only abc 7 news was there when san francisco firefighters brought the family safely back to shore at the hyde street pier. a san francisco boat got to the

family in time of their small boat tipped over. family members hollered on shore who then called 911. everyone seemed to be in good spiri spirits after being rescued. >> nice sunday afternoon. my dad is not good with boating so he tipped the boat over and it filled with water and then we got out. >> they are fortunate, indeed. everyone was wearing life vests at the time. the family's small boat was flipped back up and towed to shore by the san francisco boat police. jong as you saw there says the worst part of the ordeal is they lost their car keys in the bay. history has been made today at cape canaveral. >> three, two, one, zero.ero. ignition. lift off. >> four astronauts are on their way to the international space station as we speak. they are in a dragon crew cap

sole in t -- capsule. vice president mike pence was on hand watching from nasa's kennedy space center. elon musk sat this out tuning in remotely after he received mixed test results for covid-19 on friday. it is a sign of the times, guitar center says it's in a crunch and will file for bankruptcy. this will bring down the curtain on hundreds of stores across the united states? here is one way to get around the housing crunch, buy your own town. one that just took the market in california and how much it will cost you. i'm meteorologist drew tuma. a gorgeous end to the weekend but don't get used to it. wet and windy weather and snow coming back to the

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tributes pouring in for the long-time owner of ricky sports grill. sports fans dropped bouquets and flowers and shared the fondest memories of ricky ricardo. he died this weekend of complications from alzheimer's disease. ric ricky's was a favorite hangout for the raider nation. >> the raiders left this year for vegas and i always felt comfort knowing that we still got ricky's here, this is our spot to see ricky. so it's just hard. >> this is pretty much like my second home, so he's treated me with nothing but open arms. he's pretty much accepted all fans from all different teams. >> so many memories. the bar is closed because of

covid-19 restrictions and it is in danger of shutting permanently. the go fund me page has been set up to help raise money so it can survive. ricardo was 75 years old. a police where people go to live out their rock 'n' roll dreams and explore the love of music is filing for bankruptcy. guitar center is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy but plans to stay in business. guitar center has about 300 stores nationwide and more than 200 music and art stores. bay area locations include san jose and san francisco along with san mateo and emeryville. guitar center handles instrument sales, rentals, lessons and repairs. for desert town. why it's back on the market and the asking price. i'm meteorologist drew tuma. the next storm is approaching california. we'll let you know when it arrives and how long i

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all right. homeownership in california is one thing but how about town ownership? for $2.75 million, you can purchase the town of nipton. it's near the nevada border about 15 miles from prim. it's a historic railroad town with 20 people that live there full-time. nipton made headlines in 2017 when a cannabis company bought it for $5 million and planned t turn it into a pot theme ra tre -- retreat. that fell through and the original owners took it back. minor flooding in mill valley. check it out. this is off the shoreline area. the national weather service issued a coastal flood warning

until 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. high tides will continue tuesday and taper off over the week. something else tapering off, that sunshine, drew, itreprieve felt kind of like fall again. >> it did. temperatures tomorrow, dion, a little warmer before the next storm arrives here on tuesday. tuesday looks pretty wet and pretty windy. the sunset this evening, a live look from the emeryville camera, the post sunset glow and the sun going down before 5:00 p.m. in the evening sky. have an advisory until 2:00 p.m. tomorrow for the entire coastline. the next highest tide is 11:25 a.m. monday morning and again could see localized flooding due to high tides. temperatures right now, some five to ten degrees warmer right now than we were this time yesterday. thanks to a warm front that moved through earlier this morning. so we're well into the 60s in most spots and tonight, we'll be a little milder of a night

compared to last night. so overnight lows mainly in the low to mid 40s in our north bay valleys like santa rosa and napa, we may find a little bit of patchy fog. be aware of that first thing in the morning. otherwise outside in the north bay, we're dealing with mainly clear skies. tomorrow, if you like warm november days, you're going to enjoy monday. it's nothing but sunshine. we have dry weather conditions and in fact, pretty warm temperatures. a lot of us will sore into the 70s by the afternoon. in fact, 71 oakland for an afternoon high. 74 san jose. the same in santa rosa, 71 concord and a really comfortable 69 degrees in san francisco. but by tomorrow night, you're going to notice changes to our weather pattern. first, the winds will pick up by the end of the day monday along the coastline. winds will likely gust more than 30 miles per hour and then it just a windy start to the day tuesday as our next storm arrives until the bay area. so we bring in the storm impact scale and the storm on tuesday, level one light storm we're

tracking with scattered showers, brief downpours as a cold front moves through and again, that windy morning. so hour by hour we go on tuesday. we'll stop the clock at 6:00 a.m. there is heavy rain with the cold front first in the north bay. by 8:00, 9:00 a.m. we expect the cold front to move through the heart of the bay area, say san francisco, oakland and then move into the south baby 11:30 a.m. before lunchtime, the south bay will get some pockets of heavier showers and behind the front, for the rest of the tuesday, we're talking about scattered showers. so much of the day on tuesday is pretty unsettled. we're talking rainfall from a quarter to three quarters of an inch of rain. here is the forecast about tuesday, it's wet and windy. even some scattered showers, dion, lasting into wednesday and things calm down. we turn season skpable and haved mornings. we'll keep you updated. find the rain gear as the next storm moves back in.

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injuries and turnovers spelled doom in the superdome. scale shanahan working with what he's got opening drive of the game. the niners march down the field. nick mullins, brandon aiyuk and it's 7-0 49ers in a flash. mullins to jordan reid as aiyuk celebrates another touchdown. when he's healthy, he's a good athlete and player. conta c they call roughing the passer. brees was shaken up but this did extend the drive. dropped back the snap and picks it up and finds alvin kamara 17-10 at the half. after the half, talking it out and brees couldn't go. had those ribbing hurting him. the niners couldn't take advantage. picked off by mall conjenkko ma. they lose and head in the bye

week 4-6. rare sunday college football. cal opens the season 9:00 a.m. kick off against ucla. it is 2020. the pac 12 called an audible schedule after multiple cancellations. the bears take a 3-0 lead and ucla 14 unanswered and charles 31 yards and in. 14-3. cal tried to stay in it. 75 yard drive. look at chase. he's going to find his way eight yards in. cal down 14-10. late first half now, cal down. ten, garbers, his pass. tipped in. picked by caleb johnson for a touchdown for the bruins. they score 20 unanswered after that. fall 34-10. cal is scheduled to play at oregon state next weekend. augusta national golf course doesn't look as good in november than april. not in the springtime here, once again tiger stole the headlines just not in the way he wanted.

fell apart for tiger on the 12th hole. we'll show it to you. firstshot in the water. third from the drop and watch this thing. lands on the green but then you got to remember that backspin takes it down the hill and into the creek. oh, this is tough. oh, my. into the drink. his shot into the sand and bangs a sixth over the green and what do you know? right back into the water for a third time. he got a ten. the worst hole in tiger's career. no such issues. with brees on 13, 14 and 15 to give me 18. he secures the first green jacket at 20 under the lowest masters score ever. not much time to enjoy it. the next mayor scheduled to be the masters in five months. th

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some of you are going to like this. how do you like bacon or beer? if the answer is yes, you might like this. check it out. the popular restaurant chain waffle house is teaming up with a georgia brewery company to make bacon infused beer. it's a red ail named bacon and kegs and supposedly even smells like bacon and not surprisingly, the company suggests pairing it with breakfast food. the beer will be available december 18th through the brewing company. lots of talk about this in the newsroom. that's it for abc 7 news at 5:00. i'm dion lim. thank you for joining us and we'll see you back here tonight at 6:00 as we take a live look

at the setting sun over the bay bridge. tonight, several developing stories as we come on, as america records its 11 millionth covid-19 case. the shocking new images from hard-hit el paso. inmates helping load the dead into refrigerated trucks. tonight, the new lockdowns as officials desperately try to flatten the curve. in washington, a ban on indoor dining. gyms closed, and new restrictions on gathering just before the thanksgiving holiday. in north dakota, after months of resisting, a statewide mask mandate ordered as infections soar. also developing tonight, what could be a pivotal week in the race for a vaccine, as pfizer will seek emergency authorization. tonight, the next big challenge getting it to americans. the transition turmoil. dr. anthony fauci joining calls for the white house coronavirus task force to start working with