try my $5.99 chili cheeseburger combo. it's pretty delicious. next at 5:00, a new stay at home order for purple tier counties is now on the table. the possibility comes as hospitalizations hit record territory. plus the rush to get the word out about a new travel quarantine as coronavirus takes a new toll in santa clara county. >> also ahead looking for loopholes. the bay area county drawing outsiders seeking relief from tougher restrictions in their neighborhoods. and what looked like a battle inside a bay area eatery, the argument of wait times and the push to solve the problem. and good evening to you. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama dates. we begin with governor newsom now considering a new stay at home order for most of the state as covid-19 continues to surge.

the state's biggest of concern is a rise enhospitalizations. in most areas icu beds are about 75% full right now, but those beds are protected to reach capacity by mid-december to early january if trends hold. >> if trends tone we're going to have to take dramatic including taking a look at those purple tiered counties. >> surging covid-19 cases have forced san francisco and san mateo counties back into the purple tier. that means gyms must close and operate outdoors and indoor worship is not allowed. dr. martin galley says right now the virus is just about everywhere. >> so the minute you walk into the door of any entity indoors the chance of encountering someone with covid who can actually transmit it is higher than it's ever been. >> now a new health order ensanta clara county requires travelers coming from more than 150 miles away to quarantine for

two weeks. this map shows you how far that radius extends. keep in mind actual road mileage may vary for road travel of course. cases are growing at an exponential rate. >> reporter: with cases of covid-19 rising at a rapid rate officials in santa clara county are taking dramatic steps to reduce the spread. >> we need to slow this traen down right now. >> reporter: starting today those who travel into the county from more than 150 miles away will be required to quarantine for 14 days upon return. >> we're not an island. we're well aware of that. and that's exactly why we desperately need bold, aggressive and fast federal and state action. >> reporter: the mandatory directive goes into effect as the county reports 801 new cases, the highest start since the pandemic.

hotels and other lodging facilities can only stay open for essential travel or for use to isolate or quarantine. >> if the number of covid cases increase so much hospital beds are enshortfall it's not just for patients who have covid that's a problem, oats for the patient having an asthma attack, a stroke or heart attack. so this is really going to impact the entire community. >> reporter: informational fliers were printed monday afternoon to alert travelers of the quarantine requirement. >> travelers arriving should take a copy and read it to fully understand the reermts set forth by the county and that will spread the word and get travelers attention. >> reporter: the county has enforcement officers who specialize in business kpleens, but officials admit the bandwidth isn't there to check up on individual cases. >> we can't enforce every action. we really depend on the public

to take actions to protect everyone. >> reporter: a call on travelers and the public to do their part for the greater good. >> every single person in the county, every single sector, every single business, we all have to come together. >> reporter: in san jose, chris wynn, abc 7 news. >> all in person sports and music camps through the semester are canceled after students attended parties during the thanksgiving break. officials say there are now at least three covid case and they're unable to trace all the students that were in the parties. it's the only bay area county not in the more restrictive purple. abc 7 reporter wade freeman takes a look at why. >> reporter: at fitness sf in marin county they're watching the clock. as it ticks down work outs at the end of the hour everyone in this gym leaves. it's a by-product of remaining the only bay area county to

remain in red instead of purple meaning people can still work indoors at 10% capacity. demand here is so high they have to roecycle the customers every hour. what you're looking at here are guidelines, essentially limitations for marin county still in the red. the county still has that status perhaps because it tests twice as many people as the state average. still, marin had 58 new cases yesterday. here's the county health director dr. matt willis. >> this can't last forever. >> it's probably because we have a lot of old people who follow the rules. >> reporter: that's meg val teen with her husband. today's lunch was only their second meal outside the house since march. not that all of marin conforms, it just seems that way with a copty with plenty of room and an older leisure class. at the royal ground coffeehouse

she won't let customers sit down no matter what the guide lines say. >> no can do. i'm doing this not just because for me and you but for our community as a whole. >> reporter: though in maren that does raise one red flag, that people from purple regions may come here. >> san francisco was shutdown yesterday since noon. since that time we've had many inquiries. >> reporter: they'll still have only one hour to work out. wade freeman, abc 7 news. >> to learn more about what each tier means and what you can and can't do in your county go to abc7news.com and cleck on your county to find out. pharmaceutical company moderna takes action today to get emergency authorization for the use of its covid vaccine. the massachusetts company is asking 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 emergency use. pfizer and its german partner are also seeking to begin vaccinations in the united states next month. tomorrow the cdc will hold an emergency meeting to recommend that residents in long-term care facilities be among the first in the u.s. to receive a vaccine. if that happens employees from walgreens and cvs will be among those performing those vaccinations. the companies reached agreements with the trump administration last month to perform and administer these vaccinations. now in the middle of this pandemic a long time restaurant owner jumped into action when an angry customer attacked her staff with sand sanitizer. dion lim has more on this stunning video and the small business' plea for patience in a story you'll see only on abc 7. >> at that moment i had to do what i had to do because my

daughter and grandson were in the middle of the drama. >> reporter: that drama all played out on surveillance video. you can see this customer walks in and after learning her order would take a little order than expected. >> we told her 15 minutes and it took about 20 minutes. >> reporter: what happens next gives a whole new meaning to the term hangry. >> she grabbed a jug of 5 pound hand sanitizer and launched it at me while i was holding my son. >> operating a small business is challenging as it is with the changing restrictions. >> for example, if someone wants to order a bottle of wine to go we're offering a 20% discount. >> reporter: not all restaurants, though, can afford to make these concessions. >> really just ask everyone to please be understanding we're not doing this for fun.

most people are trying to pay the bills and pay our employees and pay their health insurance and pay the taxes without much financial relief. >> reporter: the woman eventually left the restaurant and thankfully no one was hurt. san francisco police say the investigation is ongoing. doris is speaking out in hopes of identifying the woman and holding her accountable. >> bad behavior is one of the things we don't forecast. >> reporter: she has this message for the community that has been so good to her family for so many years. >> being considerate of the employees, considerate of the business, and just being -- having some empathy for the industry itself. we are trying to stay afloat for the community and for ourselves. >> reporter: ensan francisco's mission district i'm dion lim, abc 7 news. still ahead tonight, a top san francisco official steps down as a city hall corruption investigation takes a new step. also the break the university of california system is giving to applicants after a

server crash sent it into panic mode. now a 50-year-old scientific

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use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. today federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against the general manager of the city of san francisco's public utilities commission. 58-year-old harlan kelly resigned today. he's accused of a long running bribery scheme in partnership with a company executive waller wong. investigators say kelly received cash and other perks from wong. kelly issued a statement saying he's not guilty but choosing to resign anyway. his attorney calls the charges disappointing. >> we've ben entirely cooperative with the government in every respect. we've explained everything harlan kelly has done that has been the subject of the inquiry.

we have explained everything he did was in good faith. >> fbi special agent craig fare issued a statement calling the allegation troubling adding, quote, the citizens of san francisco deserve nothing but honesty and transparency from their city officials. ordinarily is the deadline to submit application to attend a uc california school, but now that deadline has been pushed back to the end of the week because of a system wide server crash that sent many applicants and their parents as you can understand into panic mode. abc 7 reporter laura anthony explains 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 off-line. >> you're suddenly calculating in your head i've got 30 hours to go and this window is potentially closing. >> reporter: the glitch was

confirmed with a uc tweet apologizing for the outage. an hour later uc announced the dead liep for applications would be extended to friday, december 4th at midnight. >> when we found out uc 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. then meantime we've taken additional measures to ensure the system performs well while closely monitoring it. one other possible impact of the computer glitches here uc berkeley and other campuses might 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 they just happen to adapt like the weirdness of online school and just adapting to a lot of hard things like in personal

life and we may be a lot more resilliant. >> reporter: uc strongly advises students who apply not to wait until the last minute just in case there's another glitch. laura anthony, abc 7 news. a new study finds air pollution from wildfire smoke in california is affecting the long time health in children. researchers at stanford looked at teens exposed to wildfire smoke in fresno. those teens had increases in inflammatory markers in their blood. that would have them more prone to having asthma and having genetic changes to their immune system. >> during a wildfire we can't go by whether or not we smell it in the air. even if we don't smell it the particles can be inhaled and damage, you know, our health. >> nearly about 7.6 million children are exposed to wildfire smoke across the u.s. researchers say no exposure is better and warn parents to keep

children inside. one of biologies biggest mysteries has been solved using artificial intelligence. has to do with proteins and predicting how they fold. now alphabets deep mind has developed a piece of ai software that does exactly that. predicting the shape is important because it determines the protein's function and diseases like cancer, dimensionsa and covid-19 are related to how proteins function. one doctor from uc davis calls the achievement remarkable and something that could revolutionize life sciences. rinse and repeat. we're seeing a lot of cold mornings and mild afternoons. meteorologist

if you use 19th avenue on the west side of san francisco, get ready for delays. a major construction project got

under way today. the more than two year safety project will happen in four phases. construction is said to happen from 7:00 to 5:00 every weekday. well, have you been doing any shopping this cyber monday? sales are definitely up significantly. 7 on your side michael finny is here with that and a look at today's consumer news. hi, michael. >> hey, dan. if the numbers hold this will be the busiest online shopping day in history, and the increase is huge. adobe digital insight says we will spend about 10.5 to $12.5 billion. that's a jump in spending of as much as 35% over last year. so what are are we buying? adobe says we're concentrating on the items with the biggest discounts, tvs, toys and computers. home sales have been sky high, too, along with prices, and that is bringing sales now back down-to-earth.

sales dropped off in october down more than 1% from september. low interest rates and demand has led to bidding wars which are now slowing down sales. still we bought 20% more homes this october than we did in 2019. we were warned not to travel over the thanksgiving holiday, but a bunch of us still took to the skies. yesterday 1.2 million passengers passed through u.s. airports, the largest number since the pandemic lockdown began back in march. that surge of travel is expected to result in a surge of covid cases. medical centers are bracing for the onslaught. ama? >> all right, thank you so much, michael. well, if you traveled to the beach odds are you may have seen a few sneaker waves. those large waves can appear as if out of nowhere and pull people into the water. so definitely a warning for you to be careful. but it's tempting to go out and enjoy the beach a bit because

it's been quite nice. still chilly out, spencer, but still lovely weather if it's not raining. >> you're absolutely right, ama. it's so mild during the daytime but at night it does get pretty chilly. following up on your report on the rough surf there on the beach we have a rough surf advisory until 10:00 tomorrow morning. right now looking at live conditions, a live view from exploratorium camera looking back at the skyline or a portion of it in san francisco. mountain view 53, 56 at san jose, 53 at gilroy, 50 at half moon bay. and here's a view of the poached sunset sky looking westward from emeriville. napa and fairfield at 58. livermore also at 58. concord 61 degrees. and even as darkness descends on us we still have a pretty clear view from mt. tam looking onto the bay and san francisco. these are our forecast features. mainly clear overnight with

chilly conditions in our inland valleys. and these dry mild days will continue for at least the next seven days. and the pacific storm track which is directing some rain into the pacific northwest will remain to our north. so overnight this is what we can expect, some low clouds swinging down the coastline but not likely to push across the bay. tomorrow morning as the commute begins skies will be mainly clear except right along the coastline. and later in the day we'll have sunny skies from coast to inland. overnight low temperatures will drop into the upper 30s in many of our inland valleys. so chilly inland, but not quite so cold right around the bay shoreline and along the coast where temperatures will be in the low 40s. and tomorrow look for highs with sunny skies with aupper 60 sz at the coast to mid-60s in most of our inland communities and maybe even a couple of upper 60s from santa rosa to cloverdale to ucaya. notice how active the weather is

dropping down the gulf of alaska, moving into the pacific northwest. there will be some waves of clouds approaching the north bay coastline here in the bay area, but we're not likely to get any precipitation, certainly not any measurable precipitation for any of these systems they're just going to pass to our north. and the result of that pattern is this pattern. seven days of mainly sunny and certainly dry conditions through the seven day period. it may get sort of partly to mostly cloudy for a while on thursday. again, we're not likely to get any rainfall out of this, and the temperature range will be mild, mild, mild. dan? >> like that word. we need a little mild in our lives. spencer, thank you. still ahead a

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hi, everyone. michael finny here. i know many of you are waiting for your unemployment payment. so i asked the edd what's going on. why can't our viewers get their money? >> there's a number of different things that can impact someone's eligibility. >> 7 on your side got your e-mails, hundreds of e-mails all about the edd and you deserve better. that's why i promise to keep asking the tough questions and

getting answers. so stay with us, and we'll stay on it. abc 7 news is proud to support giving tuesday with our day of giving to help local nonprofits that are struggling to fund raise during the pandemic. and they can really use your support if you're able to give. tomorrow i will tell you about my favorite charity i've been involved with for many, many years, decades in fact. friends of camp concord and the work it does to build a better bay area. coming up tonight on abc 7 news at 6:00, will san francisco go the way of san jose? we're going to look at the varied approaches to containing coronavirus. there could soon be more similarities than differences. why is bank of america pulling unemployment money out of peoples accounts? dozens of state lawmakers are asking for answers and so is 7 on your side and michael finny. plus a limited time offer. we're not talking about cyber monday deals. a new tax break is good for this year only and you're running out of time to take advantage of it. all of that is more coming up in half an hour on abc 7 news at

6:00. disney's popular singalong is back tonight with a twist. a number of performers will be performing including pink and she has a guest star, her daughter. listen. ♪ tiny tots with their eyes all aglow find it hard to sleep tonight ♪ ♪ they know that santa's on way, he's loaded lots of toys and goodies ♪ >> evidently the acorn does not fall far from the tree. she can sing. bts among those appearing and many, many more. looks like a lot of fun. world news tonight with david muir is next. we appreciate your time. >> for all of us here, thank you

for joining us tonight. we'll see you again at 6:00.

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