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 just 4% on friday. that number is a strong indicator of the transmission rate of the virus. and nearly 3,700 people are in the hospital getting treated for covid-19 and about a thousand of them are in the icu. the spike in covid cases is increasing the demand for testing here in the bay area. but some testing sites are reaching capacity. according to abc 78 news reporter cornell barnard, some neighborhood advocates are calling for more testing sitsz to handle load. >> reporter: across california the need for covid testing is in high demand. in l.a., hundreds waited for hours in their cars for a covid test, the lines grew longer into the night, in the bay area you could wait days to get an appointment. there are 19 city-run testing sites in san francisco, like

this one, here at pier 30 on the embarcadero. with the surge in covid cases, many are reaching capacity. >> the lines are getting longer and longer. >> reporter: the health committee chairman from the latino task force says demand is unbelievably high at this test site in the mission. recently 500 people are getting tested every day. >> we are here to service the latino community but not exclusive to and so 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 walkup in all the neighborhoods, where we know that there is an increase in cases. >> san francisco currently does more testing than any other city in the nation. >> deputy health director dr. navina baba says the city is doing more than 5,000 tests per day. many who are lining up are not high priority.

>> people exposed or have symptoms or essential workers. if people have other reasons to get tested they could go to your primary doctor. >> reporter: traveling for the holiday holidays. the city closed one testing site? en is oma but plans to open a new site on alameny boulevard next week. a party led to ten covid-19 cases at uc davis. ten fraternity students are quarantined and uc davis says an additional fraternity member tested positive on thursday and went to his parents home to quarantine. a party with up to 20 people, when ten other people the school believes became infected. some say students should be more responsible. >> partying in these times is kind of selfish so i don't understand why people are doing it because if we all stayed inside or quarantined and wore masks and didn't party, we could get out of this quicker.

>> uc davis has been doing a good job maintaining the case numbers. it's crazy to hear. >> nine of the infected are in designated quarantined apartments. one is staying in the fraternity house. this past week more than half the country reported a record number of hospitalizations because of covid-19. the hospitals are feeling the pinch. 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. this has one top health official concerns. >> reporter: cases are on the rise in almost every state according to the covid tracking project, 163,000 cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours. 1,321 new deaths and more than 69,000 americans currently hospitalized. the health care system feeling the strain. >> trying to find staff and get people from other units to help us out. many days you get in your car and cry.

>> washington's governor jay inslee announcing new restrictions to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. >> indoor social gatherings from people outside your home are prohibited. outdoor gatherings limited to no more than five people. restaurants and bars closed for indoor city. >> reporter: amarillo, texas, ordering mobile morgues. >> there are more patients than beds in the hospital. we expanded the morgue capacity at the hospitals with the mobile trailer and requested a second while we wait for a portable morgue unit. this is real. >> reporter: on friday, president trump predicting pfizer will soon receive emergency use authorization for its vaccine and could be available to the general population by april but the trump administration is not working with president-elect joe biden's team. dr. anthony fauci said it could be a problem. >> almost like passing a baton in a race. you don't want to stop and give it to somebody. you want to keep going. that's what transition is.

it certainly would make things more smoothly. ." >> i hope nothing interferes with operation warp speed. it is a matter of life and death for thousands of people" calling on the white house to make contact with joe biden. a black lives matter event in dublin that 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 sign gashden for justice hosted outside the dublin civic center, 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 denell mcmahon and called for counter protesters. the turnout ended up being larger than expected. >> it's a shocking for me to drive up right now. i knew there was going to be a lot of people there.

i couldn't imagine it. it was great to see that there are so many supporters on the movement. >> grant has since apologized after receiving backlash for his post. mcmahon says is he willing to meet and teach him more about the blm movement. in san francisco, dozens marched to call on the board of supervisors to defund police and reject a contract with the officer's association. >> hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist cops have got to go. >> that group marched from the police officer's association to city call this afternoon with organizers calling a recent contract with the association racist. "examine the examiner" says it does not reduce the size of the force, but reducing the size of the budget. business owners in walnut creek are cleaning up graffiti saturday, anti-police statements and calls for justice. organizers of last night's protest called it a no justice,

no peace demonstration. videos showed some physical confrontations between protesters and counter protesters. we have we have reached out to walnut creek police to see if any arrests were made. a family of three was rescued after their small boat capsized near alcatraz island. san francisco firefighters brought that family safely back to shore at the hyde street pier. a san francisco fire boat got to the family right in time after their small boat tipped over. family members yelled out to bystanders onshore who then called 911. everyone seemed to be in good spirits after being rescued. >> a nice sunday afternoon and then my dad is not very good with boating so he kind of tipped the boat over, it filled with water and then we got out of the boat. >> glad to see everyone's okay. 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. jhong says the worst part of the ordeal was that they lost their car keys in the bay. history has been made today at cape canaveral. >> three, two, one. zero,ition in addition, liftoff. >> four astronauts are on their way to the international space station right now, stitting inside a spacex "crew dragon" capsule. vice president mike pence was watching from nasa space center. elon mask tuned in remotely after he received mixed test results for covid-19 on friday. it is a sign of the times. guitar center is going to file for bankruptcy. will it bring down the curtain on hundreds of stores across the country? and here is one way to get around the housing crunch. buy your own town. the one that hit the market in

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tributes are pouring in for the long-time owner of ricky's sports theater and grille in san leandro. sports fans dropped off bouquets and flowers and shared fondest memories of ricky ricardo. he died this weekend of complications from alzheimer's disease. ricky's was a favorite hangout for all sports fans especially for the raider nation. >> the raiders love this year for vegas and always felt comfort knowing we still got ricky's's, this is our spot and to see ricky. so it's hard. >> this is 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. a go fund me page has been set up to raise money so it can survive. ricardo was 75 years old.

a place where people go to explore their love of music is files for bankruptcy. guitar center is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy but plans to stay in business. it has about 300 stores nationwide and more than 200 music and arts 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. a man who broke into a pizza shop in fullerton apparently couldn't resist the temptation. police shared this surveillance video of, yes, the unidentified man who they say broke in and actually made himself a pie during the heist. he is seen weighing out and kneading the doe wearing food safety gloves. the pizza isn't all he took. the stole the cash, tablets and delivery car. the suspect has since been arrested. cannot make this stuff up. for sale, one california

desert town. yes, nipton made headlines in 2017. why he's back on the market and the asking price. when could see rain this week. we're coming up next with your accuweather forecast. coming up in sports after wondering if they'd play, cal football takes the field and anything but for the 49ers, turnovers were the story or the cause of the

about the covid-19 virus. it's real. and it's dangerous. so, on behalf of all of us working on the front lines, please take it seriously. and while we don't yet have a cure or a vaccine, we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. wear a mask. wash your hands. stay six feet apart. do your best to stay out of crowded spaces. and get a flu shot, it's even more important this year. we can do this. if we do it together.

home ownership in california, that is one thing. how about town ownership? for $2.75 million you can purchase nipton, the entire town. desert town is near the nevada border off interstate 15, historic railroad town with 20 people to live there full time. it made headlines in 2017 when a cannabis company bought it for $5 million and planned to turn it into a retreat. the original owners had to take it back, after the plans fell through. i don't know what we'd do with

the land. $2.27 million, we could raise it somehow. >> we could find somehow, i think a lot of people are going to raise their hands tomorrow and see the forecast with lots of sunshine, warm temperatures. tuesday our next storm arrives and it will turn wet and windy across the bay area. numbers this evening, were not nearly as chilly as this time 24 hours ago. san francisco, oakland at 62. 61 in concord. 60 in san jose. down to 56 in santa rosa. overnight tonight not as chilly as last night. last night several cities dropped well into the 30s. tonight most areas will fall into the low and mid-40s. santa rosa and napa we could have early morning patchy fog. still have a coastal flood advisory in effect along our entire coastline. our next highest tide will occur

tomorrow at 11:25 in the morning. we could see a localized flooding. tomorrow it is warm and sunny. it's dry the next 24 hours, widespread 70s to start out our week, 70 the high in richmond, 71 in oakland. 74 in hose. 71 in concord. san francisco coming in at about 69 degrees. late tomorrow night you'll notice changes to the forecast in terms of wind but wind is going to ramp up before the day is through tomorrow night and by 11:00 p.m. wind combusts over 25 miles per hour. tuesday morning it is breezy across the entire bay area as our next storm moves in. the storm impact scale a level one light system on tuesday, scattered showers, brief downpours, it's a windy morning as well, and we'll track some snow in the sierra. future weather, there's the cold front moving through the north bay at 6:00 a.m., moves through

the heart of the bay area between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. tuesday morning and approaches the south bay close to lunch time on tuesday. by tuesday afternoon, we taper to scattered showers. but rainfall with this next storm action is a quarter to 0.75 of an inch of rain. storm in the sierra, 6,500 feet could see six to ten inches of snow. sunny and mild tomorrow. wet and windy on tuesday, and cooler with that level one storm system. scattered showers on wednesday before we dry on thursday. >> now abc 7 sports with chris alvarez. >> the signature play in last year's 49ers/saints game, george kittle shredded every saint off of him on the fourth down play that led to a shoot-out win. today injuries and costly turnovers spelled doom. kyle shanahan working with what

he has. he is an offensive mastermind and dialed up a good plan early. mullins, 7-049ers in a flash. aiyuk doing the dance in the end zone. mullins to reed, one-handed just off the turf, what a play from number 81, the tight end for the niners and a big play, streak gets the south bay, sacks drew brees but roughing the passer was called. brees shaken up. later, brees fumbles the snap, gets to kamara, one of the three scores of the day, 17-10 saints. he and sean payton talked it out, brees couldn't go, discomfort in the ribs. mullins is picked off by gel kins, four turnovers for the niners. san francisco falls 27-13 as they head into the bye week. >> there moral victories.

there was a challenge going in. they fought hard and had a chance to win the game and came down to turnovers, that was most disheartening. we take care of the call with the effort the guys gave, it could have been a different result. play of the day from the bill bills/cardinals game. kyler murray is the cardinals quarterback these days and he's got an arm, he wee, flings it up, and deon day hopkins came down with it. 32-30 and look at the reaction right there, there's now a three-way tie for first place between the cardinals, rams and seahawks. whoa, rare sunday football, kacal opening off the season against ucla. rose bowl in pasadena. pac-12 called an audible, multiple games canceled.

ucla scores 14 unanswered. 31 yards to the house, 14-3 ucla. cal tried to stay in, 75-yard cap capped by the quarterback, toughness, 14-0, after that touchdown, late first half, cal down ten, can't have a turnover and picked off by caleb johnson, lead to a bruins score, 20 unanswered, golden bears fall in the season opener 34-10. cal scheduled to play at okay organize state next week. augusta national, dustin national a four-shot lead entering the final round. tiger woods stole the headlines just not in the way he wanted. fell apart on number 12, first shot in the water, his third from the drop and gets it onto the green but you got that ba backspin and heading towards the drink, rae's creek, the ball

falls into the water. he's still in the same hole, bangs his sixth over the green and right into the water. he got a 10, worst hole of his career, ouch. no issues for d.j., birdies 13, 14, 150 and gimme on 18. first green jacket. 20 under. next major scheduled to the masters in five months so a weir-year-old of sports. we hope that happens in the spring. hope the world gets a little more normal. >> hope you have more sound effects. a wee this time? >> woo! >> the whole world is woken up. chris, thank you. just ahead, how about some baigon and kegs, not egg

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