so it's more than doubled in one month. now to governor newsom and that possible new stay-at-home order for most of california. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is live in the newsroom with the latest. melanie? >> kristen and larry, the potential order would be for these regions in purple. the governor said covid-19 continues to surge across the state. 51 of california's 58 counties are in the purple tier, the most restrictive for reopening when it comes to covid-19. now the governor is announcing a potential reinstated stay-at-home order for those counties in the purple tier. >> if these trends continue, we're going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic action. >> reporter: a large area of concern is the anticipated rise in hospitalizations. specifically icu beds. >> i'll reopened you thmind youh case numbers that we've seen in the last week and ten days have not even begun to impact hospitals yet. >> reporter: in most regions icu

beds are approximately 75% full now. they are projected to reach capacity between mid-december and early january if current trends hold. officials say that's in absence of making better decisions. the potential stay-at-home order could be especially detrimental to small businesses already suffering. governor newsom announced a three-month sales tax extension for small businesses that owe up to $1 million in sales tax. he also announced $500,000 million in additional grant money. >> this is not the end this is just the beginning of a bridge. >> reporter: governor newsom also said hundreds of thousands of doses of covid-19 vaccine will be delivered to california in the next few weeks. >> so who will get that vaccine? the governor said the phase one distribution plan for who will receive the vaccine first will be out this week. in the newsroom, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. melanie, did the governor say anything about how california's doing with respect to the rest of the u.s.? i imagine better.

>> kristen, he did, and you're absolutely right. he said that we are doing relatively better as compared to the overwhelming majority of states. ranking 39th in the country. kristen? >> all right. melanie woodrow, live in the newsroom, thank you. surging covid-19 cases have forced san francisco and san mateo counties back into the purple tier. so that means new restrictions and a curfew that begins tonight for nonessential activities. abc 7 news reporter stephanie sierra here now live with us to break down all the details. steph? >> well, larry, the curfew starts tonight. restricting all nonessential activity between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. but will a mandatory quarantine for travellers be next? and if so, how soon? >> reporter: as covid cases continue surging across the bay area, san francisco is embracing its purple status and the restrictions that come with it, but just how bad are the numbers? >> i think we're very close to santa clara. >> reporter: abc 7's analysis shows covid cases per capita

between san francisco and santa clara are both reaching the high 1,700s. to put it in perspective, san francisco was averaging 139 new covid cases per day. whereas santa clara is averaging 517. >> we may well have to act like santa clara has. i don't want to get in front of the city health department here, but they're obviously weighing all these things and looking at the same numbers we're all looking at. >> reporter: santa clara county public health officials have implemented even stricter rules, like limiting hotels to only essential travel and requiring people traveling into the county from distances more than 150 miles to quarantine for 14 days. in san francisco, though, it's only a recommendation. do you anticipate dr. colfax will change the quarantine recommendation to a requirement? >> that is one under consideration. and we're looking at what santa clara did, what l.a. has done and looking at where this virus is headed.

days to weeks would be where we're considering a type of mandatory quarantine. >> reporter: health officials believe the curfew that starts tonight in san francisco and several other bay area counties will help reduce transmission. >> not a big fan of the curfews personally. >> reporter: but stanford infectious disease expert julie is not sold on it. >> i think the amount of transition that will happen from those when bars are closed and restaurants are closed is unlikely to be very high. >> reporter: jay chang with the san francisco chamber of commerce says police will again take an educational approach. >> what we're hearing is that this is not meant to be a punitive enforcement. we're not hearing that folks are coming out and looking for instances where they can enforce. >> reporter: aside from the curfew -- >> we hear from businesses all the time that they're closing, they're closing permanently. >> now, essentially activities allowed past curfew are things like going to the grocery store and walking your dog. the idea is to avoid any gatherings during this

timeframe. as the doctor pointed out, it often times only takes one superspreader event to push counties to purple like we're seeing. >> good point. stephanie, thank you. in santa clara county new rules went into effect at midnight. that order includes limiting capacity in stores. a ban on sports, which impacts the 49ers, san jose state and stanford, and a mandatory directive on travel, which requires anyone to quarantine for 14 days if they travel more than 150 miles from the area. and you can see that distance on this map. so you can still go to places like south lake tahoe, fresno. santa clara county's public health director says the moves are necessary to keep hospitals from being overrun. >> our hospitals are beginning to feel the weight of this pandemic and we just need to do everything that we can to ensure that everyone can get the care that they need when they need it.

>> that's dr. sarah cody on cnn today. she says enforcement teams will be on patrol, but they're depending on the public to adhere to the orders to help protect themselves and everyone else. some travellers at the airport were surprised by the new restrictions today. abc 7 news reporter julian glover has that part of the story. >> nobody told me today. as soon as i got off the plane, you came up. that's it. that's the only person. >> reporter: this morning surprised travellers at san jose airport returning to the south bay after a thanksgiving away, unaware of the new mandatory two-week quarantine. >> i wouldn't be able to go out when i got back. i got to stay home for seven days. >> 14. >> 14? two weeks. oh, wow, okay. that's surprising. >> reporter: i spoke to passengers picking up luggage after getting in from vegas like tanika hampton and her dawn adina. tanika says she knew about the 14-day quarantine thanks to a push alert, no news from the county or the airport, though.

>> having to get notified this way is pretty scary. >> reporter: the mandatory order went into effect first thing monday morning and covers anyone who travelled more than 150 miles away from santa clara county borders. the only exemptions, essential workers, people not staying in the county overnight and a patient getting medical treatment at a south bay hospital. san jose residents like najee are worried about missing work. >> i doubt anybody's going to quarantine for two weeks. you know what i mean? just got off thanksgiving. that's probably a week off work. so who wants to take two more weeks off work. >> reporter: an airport spokesman tells me they hope to have signage visible and pamphlets to hand out to passengers by the end of the day the new directive stays into effect until it's either modified or rescinded by the county health officer here in santa clara county. for now, reporting outside of san jose international airport, julian glover, abc 7 news. >> so what a contrast we have. so many counties going backwards, but in the north bay, students in the mill valley

school districts are back in class today for the first time in nine months. children posed to pictures outside this elementary school this morning. one of six schools in the district welcoming students back today. the kids will spend 2 1/2 hours each day on campus, either in the morning or an afternoon session. now, to learn more about what each tier means and what you can and can't do in your particular county, got to abc7news.com. click on your county to find out. pharmaceutical company moderna takes action today to get federal emergency authorization for the use of its covid-19 vaccine. the massachusetts company is taking the fda to review expanded data of its vaccine, which it claims is 94% effective at preventing the virus and 100% effective at preventing severe cases of the disease. moderna is the second company to apply for an emergency use. pfizer and bitco biontech are also seeking to

produce s. distribute vaccines in the u.s. if that happens, employees from walgreens and cvs will be among those performing the vaccinations. the companies reached agreements with the trump administration last month to perform the vaccinations. app outage. the panic for students trying to apply for college over the weekend. but there is some good news today. today is cyber monday. why this year's sales could be bigger than ever. playing games. this year's hottest gifts and why bots could be preventing you from getting one. i'm spencer christian. the weather we're having here at the end of november is much like the weather we can expect at the beginning of decem

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intimidating, yet safe and comforting. >> kaden also talked about his father's love of sports. as a coach and a high school athlete, recalling the time his father intercepted two passes that were thrown by tom brady. running one back for a touchdown. he leaves his wife sabrina and three sons. only 42 years old. we're learning more about zappos founder tony say. the medical examiner said he died of complications from smoke inhalation from a house fire. officials say he was inside a shed attached to the home. we have audio recording of a fire dispatcher released by broadcastify. >> the male is not answering the door. everyone is outside the house. they're trying to get him to open up. >> shea was taken to the hospital. he had severe injuries and passed away last friday. shea grew up in the bay area. today's normally the deadline to submit applications to attend one of the nine university of california campuses.

but now that deadline has been pushed back to the end of the week, thanks to a system-wide server crash that sent many applicants and their parents into panic mode. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony tells us what happened. >> at the height of it, you get this moment of panic. >> reporter: for three hours on the eve of a critical deadline, parents and students trying to submit applications to nine university of california campuses got a curt message. system offline. >> you're suddenly calculating in your head, i've got 30 hours to go, and this window's potentially closing. >> reporter: the glitch was soon confirmed with the uc tweet apologizing for the outage. an hour later, uc announced the deadline for applications would be extended to friday, december 4th, at midnight. >> when we found out last night that the uc's extended four extra days, it was shocking. i've never seen that happen before. >> reporter: today the uc office of the president explained the outage stemmed from an issue with one of our servers. in the meantime, we've taken

additional measures to ensure the system performs well while continuing to closely monitor it. one other possible impact of the computer glitches is that uc berkeley here and the other eight uc campuses may now receive many more applications than they would have otherwise. for high school seniors trying to navigate the college admissions process amid a pandemic, the uc glitch is just another hurdle among many. >> the pandemic has brought challenges for everybody, but i think just having to adapt, like, the weirdness of online school and just adapting to a lot of hard things, like, in a personal way, i think that's definitely made me a lot more resilient. >> reporter: uc strongly advises students planning to apply not to wait until the last minute. just in case there's another glitch. in berkeley, laura anthony, abc 7 news. ucla is under fire for paying student workers with amazon gift cards. according to vice, a payroll error caused the university to deduct more in taxes on the students' checks than it was

supposed to. instead of getting reimbursed, though, the student workers received gift cards. they filed a grievance through their union saying getting paid that way allows the university to dictate where they spend their earnings. this isn't the first time the uc system paid students with gift cards. the report says graduate students at cal were offered them last year. if you're going to the beach in the next day, beware of sneaker waves and strong rip currents. take a look at ocean beach in san francisco. the national weather service issued a beach hazard statement through 10:00 a.m. tomorrow from sonoma county to monterey county. they warned there could be another hazard statement or high surf advisory later this week. check out video from chicago showing the dangers of the waves right there. you're going to see a cyclist here. he's in the bike lane. got pummeled by the lakeside waves. so hard it knocked him off of his bicycle. gusts in chicago right now are roughly 30 miles an hour.

you're not making it, you're not making it through that wave right there. they do call it the windy city for a reason. spencer christian, that's for sure. >> very good reason. i remember many years ago, my first trip to chicago. this was going back to the '70s, was in january. i stepped out on michigan avenue. the wind chill factor was minus 55. i waited until july for my next visit. here's a look at what's going on with our weather in the bay area. mostly sunny skies with just a few thin, high clouds around. a nice unobstructed view from mount tam looking down on the bay and a portion of san francisco. 61 in oakland. 59 at mountain view. 60 at san jose. gilroy at 59. once again, you see the wispy high clouds there. lots of blue sky as well. current temperature readings up in the north and over in the east, 65 in santa rosa, novato, 68, napa, 62. now fairfield, 67.

livermore, 64. and from emeryville, looking westward, hoping to see soon the setting sun. these are our forecast features. it will be mainly clear overnight and chilly once again in the inland valleys, although perhaps not quite so cold as it was a couple of nights ago. this dry and mild pattern will be with us for the next seven days and pacific storm track remains to our north, which is why we're not getting that active weather that some folks north of us are getting. let's get back to that statement as larry mentioned, in effect until 7:00 -- 9:00 tomorrow morning, rather. wave heights right now are 7 feet to almost 10 feet. they could increase even more. there is the risk of dangers rip currents and sneaker waves, so be careful if you're going to be down along the coastline. overnight forecast animation looks like this. we'll see some clouds sweeping down along the coastline. not likely to push inland. mainly clear away from the coast, and certainly mainly sunny skies tomorrow. so let's take a look at our overnight lows. in the inland valleys, once

again, pretty chilly with lows dropping to upper 30s in most of those locations. bay shoreline, look in the 40s. tomorrow sunny skies once again. low to mid-60s around the bay shoreline. up to 66 in the inland east way. 68 will be the high in santa rosa. down south, 64. san jose, 68 and morgan hill. here is our forecast for the week ahead. notice how active the weather is out to sea and to our north. but even as these systems pass into the pacific northwest, we might see some clouds approaching the north bay coastline, but it is very unlikely that any of this precipitation will reach the bay area. so we're talking about a dry week ahead. here's a look at it on the accuweather seven-day forecast. another mild one as well. daytime highs even on days when the clouds increase a bit, daytime highs will be in the mid to upper 60s inland. low to mid-60s around the bay shoreline and upper 50s along

the coast. we've got some lovely weather for this first week of december coming our way. larry and kristen? ♪ they know that santa's on his way ♪ ♪ he's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh ♪ ♪ >> okay. got the singing gene. that's singer pink and her daughter. part of the disney holiday sing-along. just one of the many celebrity pe here tonight at 8:00 on abc 7. so are you looking for a good deal on this cyber monday? how about giving away money?

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if you use 19th avenue on the west side of san francisco, heads up, get ready for major delays. a major construction project got under way today. the more than two-year safety project will take place in four phases. the first phase involves the southbound lanes of lincoln way and noriega street. construction set for 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every weekday. no doubt san francisco's economy is taking a hit because of the pandemic and the city can actually identify precisely where it's losing money. real estate deals are still getting done and the numbers are actually pretty close to last year, however, there's one segment in particular that is bringing in a lot less cash for city coffers. >> again, we're kind of seeing that in terms of the number of monthly transaction counts, it's about keeping on pace to where

w were last year roughly before the pandemic. however, the revenue is coming in lower. so what that is suggesting to us is that we're seeing transactions still happening in the marketplace. we're seeing fewer very high-value transactions occur, which will drive our revenues down pretty significantly. >> chu says before the pandemic hit the average revenue per month was $33 million. and now it's down to about it $2 million. $22 million. while you're out looking for deals this holiday, don't overlook something that can give you money back next year. a tax break for giving to charitable organizations. abc 7 news reporter david louie has the inside scoop on a limited time offe. >> reporter: as you add up how much you saved, the best deal of all could be a special tax break congress included in its pandemic relief bill. >> the c.a.r.e.s. act actually enacts a new provision that is going to allow individual taxpayers to deduct up to $300

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. building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. today is cyber monday. that means millions of people are on their computers searching for a bargain. with people staying home as coronavirus cases monday is expected to be the

biggest online shopping day yet. analysts expect it to bring in nearly $13 billion in one day. that's about 35% more than last year. >> so what can you expect to see in terms of deals? this afternoon and tonight. joining me now is john copeland. vice president of marketing and customer insights with adobe. thanks so much for your time this afternoon, john. what are we seeing so far in terms of traffic on this cyber monday? is it way up? >> yeah, so thanks for having me on. our market leading adobe analytics tool kit is definitely pointing to the biggest day of online sales in u.s. history. somewhere between $11 and $13 billion is what we're going to expect to see, so, yeah, that's about a 35% growth rate over last year. >> interesting. since the pandemic started, it seems like everybody has moved to shopping more online. so i guess that raids tses the question, is cyber monday that big a deal anymore?

every day is cyber monday, almost. apparently if the revenue is up and the traffic is up, i guess it is. >> yeah, you know, we've been talking about the season as good-bye cyber week, hello cyber months, and it's true. retailers have been pulling forward their sales, their deals ever since the beginning of november. and they're doing that largely to make sure that consumers get their gifts, right? they get shipped and they get them delivered before the holidays because the shipping system is going to be really, really taxed this year. but that said, and to your point, you know, old habits die hard and consumers, most consumers believe the best deals are either black friday or cyber monday, so that's why those two days are the two biggest days of online retail in the u.s. >> so that's what people believe, but is that reality? i mean, if you're staring at your computer right now and, you know, i mean, i've seen my inbox, emails, you know, 30% off, i mean, is that gonna disappear? it'll probably still be there tomorrow, won't it?

>> well, some deals are definitely going to run out at midnight today. in fact, we talk about the fact that between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. pacific are the golden hours of online retail. they're going to bring a massive 29% of the whole day's revenue in that four-hour window. and, in fact, $13 million, at least $13 million will be spent per minute between the peak hours of 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. pacific. because after midnight, a lot of those big deals will be shut down. >> $13 million per minute? that's -- that's incredible. so, you know, some people are likely going to have foe mmo, f of missing out on some of this. would your advise be, if you're thinking about buying it, you might as well go ahead because it's not going to go lower? >> yeah, absolutely. well, we know from our years of doing this work, today is when we expect to see the biggest discounts on computers as a category. their prices will be down about

30% relative to their average prices. discounts on toys, appliances and electronics have remained largely consistent, and they may continue, but if it's a hot item, you're definitely going to want to get it because you might miss out. >> all right. yeah, computers and giant tvs always seem to be the items that drive people to click "buy." is that pretty much the case? >> is it. well, and also this year, right, we've got new versions of the playstation and the playstation 5. new versions of the xbox. those are really hard to find. as soon as they pop up online, they're almost gone instantaneously. and then also the games that are built for those platforms. so things like call of duty: black ops cold war, spider-man, miles moralis, those games are going to be gone really fast also. >> i know this is probably really hard to project, but, you know, after we get a vaccine and people return to malls, is this a one-year anomaly or do you

think people are just going to be heading more online because it's just easier? >> i do think a lot of what we're seeing with consumers buying online will stick. i have a feeling that when things open up again more fully, people will want to get out, they'll want to get back in the stores, but folks have learned this year about the incredible convenience and ease of shopping online. also, with smartphones, in fact, we continue to see the share of online purchases made through smartphones continue to grow. and this year 60% of visits to u.s. retailer websites are being done from a smartphone and 40% of the dollars are being spent that way. those are going to be really hard habits to kick. >> interesting. so we're on the move and we're still buying. john copeland from adobe, thanks so much for your time and insight. appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. the ultimate work from home headquarters. the state that's trying t

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all right. time now for the four at 4:00. let's discuss santa clara's new travel quarantine with spencer and dan. starting today, i'm sure you heard anyone arriving in the county from more than 150 miles away must quarantine for 14 days. this applies to residents and visitors. if someone just got back into the county from skiing in lake tahoe or a trip to l.a. or

somewhere else far away, they have to stay put for two weeks. essential workers, people not staying in the county overnight or patients getting treatment at the local hospital are exempt. by the way, compliance is really up to you. >> right. >> spencer, what do you think about it? >> well, you know, it does put a damper on our freedom of movement. once again, as we've discussed in the past with all these restrictions, shall we say, it's designed to keep us safe and healthy. grin and bear it. you know? >> and certainly they know they're not going to get 100% compliance. they may not get 50% compliance. let's hope that they do, but it's all part and parcel of trying to get as many people as possible to reduce exposure risk, and to that end, you know, we're still not out of the woods in terms of waiting for these vaccines. it will make a difference. >> yeah. i understand that. i don't understand the restrictions on the 49ers and stanfod. >> right. >> in terms of being able to play football at these venues. there's no fans. if you talk about the nfl, these

are among the most tested humans on the planet. >> yeah. >> so what is the purpose of this? so, what, san jose state is going to go 300 miles up to humboldt county or something like that to play? >> right. >> i don't get that at all. >> right. >> to me -- >> that's true. >> you're not preventing anything. >> yep. >> they're going to play somewhere. >> somewhere. >> in hawaii, officials are trying to woo workers to the islands. they promise it is the best place to work from home. the group movers and shakas. i'll explain that in a second. is planning to bring more high-skilled white collar work to the state. the first round of applicants was just approved. they'll get round-trip airfare to honolulu. they must commit to being good stewards of the islands and contribute to a local nonprofit. this this is the hang loose sign that is universal in the islands, the shaka.

>> when do we leave, larry? >> i know -- >> are we considered highly skilled? are we considered highly skilled? >> well, that's -- that's -- it depends on who you ask, kristen, clearly. some people think anybody could do this, but, clearly, it takes a very high level of training. but we should all do the 4:00 news, i think, beachside. >> yeah. >> wby waikiki. >> it's a clever opportunity to lure some people to hawaii. why not? >> larry, you know this better than anyone that their economy needs to diversify. can't just be reliant on tourism, right? as this year has shown them. >> yeah, the problem is, i mean, since i was a kid growing up in hawaii, state leaders have been talking about we need to diversify and make hawaii the high-tech capital of the pacific. we'll make it a hub. and it just hasn't happened because they don't -- they don't have the expertise and the

workforce. that's why we should go. >> yeah. yep. you know people. get us accepted into the program. all right. dictionary.com has chosen this year's word of the year, and this one is not a big surprise. it's pandemic. dictionary.com announced pandemic as the 2020 word of the year today. covid-19's unprecedented impact on the globe made pandemic the obvious choice for first place. it also gave rise to new phrases related to the virus impact like pandemic economy, pandemic schooling, and pandemic dating. >> yeah. >> oh, i don't know. i find that to be a little uninspired, but go on. >> yeah, i mean, i suppose. but it is the word that probably got said more than any other and was used in so many -- so many forms in the last eight, nine months. so i suppose it makes sense. i hope, guys, that the word next year is -- the phrase will be "back to normal." >> yeah, how about that? pandemic is probably the word that's had the most adjectives

applied to it. some of them not so nice. >> yeah. >> but we're eager tore g get rf it and get back to some semblance of normalcy. >> yeah, indeed. i would have nominated words like bubbling or zooming or cohorting, you know, concepts that came out of the pandemic that are just a little obvious than just pandemic. >> yeah. >> all right. dictionary.com, do better. >> that's a good point. >> wow. >> calling them out. yes, first lady melania trump unveiled this year's white house holiday decorations. the theme is america the beautiful, paying tribute to what mrs. trump says is the majesty of our great nation. close-up shots in the video reveal smaller details of the decor including a white house express train, a "be best" ornament and afigurene a nod to health care workers. there are 62 trees and 3,200

strands of lights. it looks really pretty in the video right there. >> it is. it's beautiful. and, you know, you guys probably have as well. i've been to the white house for tours a number of times and actually once to do an interview, but they normally can handle about 25,000 tourists during the holiday shopping season. holiday season to see the decorations at the white house. that number is maybe 18% of that figure and normally tours are open most of the week. i think now they're only doing tours friday and saturday, that's it. trying to get as many people as they can in safely. >> yeah. >> it's a lovely tradition, though. >> yeah. virtual tour, i guess, is the only way you can really, you know, do it at this point. >> i think you can actually do that. there are videos of the white house. i think you can do that. >> they're not doing the drive-through tour, huh? i guess that's not possible. >> all right. i think that wraps it up. >> that's a wrap. >> all right. >> aloha. >> aloha. >> see you on the

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new developments from the white house. president trump's coronavirus adviser dr. scott atlas has resigned. he was nearing the end of his 130-day detail as a special government employee. dr. atlas is a former professor of medicine at stanford and has no background in infectious diseases. he's come under fire for several comments, including questioning the need for masks.

in september nearly 100 stanford doctors and researchers signed an open letter denouncing atlas' behavior. all right. after black friday and cyber monday comes giving tuesday. that's a day that you can donate to your favorite charity. joining me right now is the executive director with the 49ers foundation for a look ahead to tomorrow's fund-raiser. tell me about the foundation holiday sports auction because i know every year you have a ton of great items to bid on. >> larry, thank you so much for having me on today in the virtual studio. and, yes, tomorrow is giving tuesday. and if there was ever a need for, it is 2020. and we have teamed up with our good friends at kmbr, and we do this normally on air, but this year it's going to be on air and virtual. and we have all sorts of packages that folks can bid on and support local bay area youth. >> all right. give me a sample. so you -- sometimes you have

items, you know, obviously you can have jerseys and things like that, but also experiences, and i assume this year some of the experiences may get pushed a little bit since we're not mingling too much, but what do you have? >> yeah, we have a number of really, really cool items, and one of the beauties of this covid -- and i don't know if you would call it a beauty, but one of the great things that have come out of it is we've really rallied around each other. so thanks to the generosity of my colleagues who are with the 49ers organization, we're able to provide experiences like jimmy garoppolo will be the recording on your cell phone. so he'll be -- when people miss a call to you, larry, they're going to hear jimmy on the other end. >> nice. >> we have a virtual surprise by our defensive lineman arik armstead, who will zoom into one of your son's or daughter's virtual classes as a surprise guest and surprise the -- surprise the class. there is tons of stuff at lower tiers, too. i think a lot of times when people hear the buzz word

"auction," they think, oh, that means it's out of my price range. well, we have stuff adds low adds $25 and $49 to get in the game and really help out bay area youth. so we're really proud of it. and as you know and as you guys have covered extensively, this distanced learning is really tough on a lot of students, a lot of teachers, a lot of coaches, so we've really gotten nimble with our resources and we've turned everything completely virtual, and that's where the money is going to support, it's going to support distanced learning. >> justin, just a word of caution, my daughters are going to be pretty upset if they call and jimmy garoppolo doesn't answer and they actually get through to me. they're not going to want that at all. >> well, that's the beauty of the voice record. you can just send to voicemail every time and then you have a happy family. there you go. check that off your list. >> yeah, they don't want me. they don't want me picking up.

they want to hear jimmy g. so, specifically, where does the money go? >> yeah, so our two programs that we oversee, 49ers edu and 49ers prep. think of it as our educational program. edu. prep is our youth enrichment, youth empowerment, boots on the ground program. on an average year, on a regular year, those programs are interacting with over 100,000 bay area youth. both in our facility. we have four classrooms in the facility and both in the community, going to schools. obviously that is no longer happening because of covid. so thanks to what we've done digitally, we have already reached over 45 different school districts and over 90,000 students are using our online curriculum. we've created a virtual hub called the digital huddle. if folks go to 49e 49ers.com/digitalhuddle, they'll find over 1,500 hours of videos and content for students

featuring our players, our personnel and all people within the 49ers organization. >> justin, real quick, how can people bid on the auction items if they want that jimmy g. recording? >> absolutely. so you can find the jimmy g. recording and much, much more by visiting 49ers.com/give,ive,ive, g-i-v-e. 49ers.com/give. get in the game this season, help out the bay area youth who need it the most. >> awesome. justin from the 49ers, let's throw in a playoff spot there as well. that would be awesome. thanks so much for your time. >> we'll take it. thanks, larry. >> all right. take care. >> that would be awesome. and abc 7 news is proud to support giving tuesday. with our day of giving to support local nonprofits. struggling to fund-raise during the pandemic. tomorrow will feature more than 15 local organizations, including two of my favorite charities, help a mother out, and kids in art. and the amazing work they do to build a better bay area. also, we'll tell you how you can support toys for to the through

shop disney and how abc 7 and our parent company disney is supporting local food banks. please join us for the day of giving all day tomorrow here on abc 7 news. all right. we want to check out the weather right now with spencer christian. looks pretty stade and stable this week. >> you're right, kristen. calm and mild out there. despite that, though, we have rough surf. a beach hazard statement is in effect for our beaches until 10:00 tomorrow morning. sneaker waves and rip currents. low temperatures raging from upper 30s in the inland valleys to high 40s elsewhere. upper 50s coast, low to mid-60s everywhere else. here is the accuweather seven day forecast. as kristen pointed out because she's a pretty good forecaster, too. we have a week of calm, dry, mild weather ahead. mostly sunny skies through the next seven days with no rain in sight, but lots of lovely afternoon weather. kristen? >> thank you, spencer. the mcrib is back at mcdonald's.

a new promotion is stirring up a bit of controversy. mcdonald's is offering up 10,000 free mcribs for people who tweet a picture of their freshly shaven faces. that's left some women saying, well, what about us? mcdonald's says it's just looking for a clean face, selfies, men or women. the mcrib returns to stores on december 2nd. this is the first time since 2012 that the mcrib has been available in the bay area. so let the frenzy begin. >> all right. speaking of frenzies. if you're still trying to get your hands on a new playstation or an xbox, you are not alone. that is the hot holiday gift item and they're hard to find. the technology that's making it even harder this year. dan's here with what's coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00. hey, dan. >> hey? larry. new at 5:00, a top san francisco official steps down as the city hall corruption investigation takes a new step. we'll explain. plus, the perils of running a business these days and the plea from owners for everyone to be patient.

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because of bots. wiping the inventory clean just milliseconds after items are posted resellers listing the $500 consoles for up to four times the price. >> there are bots specifically designed to break through all of the other thousands of people who are trying to get onto that website at that exact moment, and they are able to place a bunch of orders for a bunch of different consoles. >> this kind of bot isn't illegal but they do break many retailers rules. >> it feels like someone is cheating in a system setup supposed to be flat for everyone, and it's up to retailers to limit supply per customer as best they can. >> and sony says they will have more stock before the new year, and microsoft says they're working as fast as they can to get more consoles into stores. you can get the latest news anytime with the abc ♪

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