good morning, america. coronavirus deaths top 280,000 as covid-19 spreads at an alarming rate. california back to square one with new tight restrictions. this football player's battle with the virus. >> it kicked my butt. >> and sean penn's sitdown interview with "gma." >> hey, how can we help? >> testing and vaccination sites. his mission to stop the spread of the virus. campaign rally. president trump addressing a big crowd in georgia to support two republican senators facing runoffs, still refusing to concede his own election. >> it's rigged. it's a fixed deal. >> the pressure he's putting on state leaders to challenge the results. republican election official gabriel sterling right here to respond. wintry blast.

the nor'easter striking parts of new england, bringing over a foot of snow and wind gusts over 60 miles per hour. spinouts on the roads, power outages and flooding. what's ahead for the workweek. celebrating squiggy. >> hello. >> looking back at the life and career of david lander, the actor who made an oddball character unforgettable in the iconic sitcom "laverne & shirley." and real-life superheroes. how marvel is paying tribute to health care workers in the middle of this raging pandemic. the comic book capturing their feats of everyday bravery. good morning. by tonight, more than 80% of the people in the most populous state in the u.s. will be under orders to stay home because of the pandemic.

the restrictions covering much of southern california, the san joaquin valley and the san francisco area. >> in 35 states plus washington, d.c. and puerto rico, cases are higher and staying that way, and here's a true sign of the times this morning. the cover of the upcoming issue of "time" magazine, 2020, the worst year ever. >> few would disagree with that. hospitalizations increasing in 40 states plus d.c., puerto rico. a field hospital in worcester, massachusetts, is re-opening this morning intending to treat patients should the state's hospitals become overwhelmed. let's get more from abc's trevor ault in new york city. trevor, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, whit. right now three in ten hospitals nationwide say their icus are at least 80% full with cities like lubbock, texas, reporting you could count the number of available icu beds on one hand. as we watch the pressure build over the past week, the daily death count in the u.s. rose to its highest level of any point in this pandemic.

this morning, coronavirus decimating american communities as the viral spread speeds faster. the u.s. already logging a million new cases in the first five days of december. >> things have progressively gotten worse, and now things are just out of control. >> reporter: right now 40 states, d.c. and puerto rico are seeing hospitalizations climb higher. in california, a record 25,000 new cases recorded saturday as sweeping new stay-at-home orders are set to take effect in major portions of the state. >> if you have a social bubble, it is now popped. >> reporter: but some of these restrictions are drawing fierce criticism. los angeles restaurant owner angela marsden sharing her outrage on instagram saying she's not allowed to serve customers outside, but a movie set is allowed the same setup in the same lot. >> i'm losing everything. everything i own is being taken away from me. look at this.

tell me that this is dangerous, but right next to me is a slap in my face. that's safe. >> reporter: many people are now telling her to open up in spite of the order to close as in nearby riverside county the sheriff is outright refusing to enforce these shutdowns. >> the riverside county sheriff's department will not be blackmailed, bullied or used as muscle against riverside county residents in the enforce of the governor's orders. >> reporter: governor newsom did not respond to our request for comment. and in new york the staten island bar owner arrested opening illegally opened right back up on friday to a packed and unmasked crowd. ♪ >> whoo! >> reporter: with so many americans restless from restrictions and many more suffering from the virus, the first vaccines could be granted

emergency use authorization in the next few weeks. states are readying their distribution plans. hard hit el paso has already received several thousand doses, though many are still wary. >> at first i'm probably not going to get it personally so that i can see what the effects or side effects are first on people who do get it just in case there's any safety issues. >> reporter: and still each day the virus is leaving thousands more families in heartbreak. georgia couple willard and wilma gale bowen married for 50 years died side by side in the icu. >> they called and said, i think it's time that you come see your parents, and that's something that i can never be thankful for more. >> reporter: their daughter, karen, now trying to find the silver lining. >> i told her i loved her. told him i loved him, and i think they knew it. >> reporter: a pew research survey now says the majority of americans know someone personally who has died from covid-19 as already in december more than 10,000 americans have

joined that accelerating death toll with experts still expecting a further surge from the holidays. dan? >> trevor ault leading our coverage once again. trevor, thank you. overseas now, vaccinations have already begun. the russian government says people in moscow started receiving its version of a coronavirus vaccine, and the uk plans to begin its first vaccinations this week. abc's julia macfarlane has more from london. julia, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. we have new details in from the british government detailing this mammoth task ahead, the biggest mass vaccination program in british history. the drug made by pfizer and biontech arrived on uk soil earlier this week transported on freezer trucks from the production facility in belgium, those vaccines that all of us have been waiting for are now in boxes at a number of secure locations across the uk, and over the next few days they're going to undergo a series of checks before being distributed. first they'll be administered from large hospitals that will

already have that special equipment they need for sub-subzero temperatures they must be stored in before they are defrosted and ready for administering. the army is drafting in volunteers, and the national health service and health charities are reportedly hiring tens of thousands of extra staff to help with this rollout. many of them will be allocated to mass vaccination centers that are being set up in unused stadiums, conference centers and even a race course in epsom. now, the first among those to receive the vaccines starting tuesday will be health workers, care home workers and the elderly. eva. >> julia macfarlane there for us in london. joining us is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university public school of health. thanks for being with us this morning. vaccines obviously top of mind for so many as we inch closer to those first doses going out here in the u.s. this week the fda will hold a public meeting to discuss approving the emergency use of pfizer's vaccine. what can we expect from that meeting?

>> good morning. thank you for having me on. what i am expecting this week is we're going to have a thorough vetting of the data. we're going to see a lot of new data that hasn't been released yet, and then i do expect by the end of the day thursday to get an authorization from the fda. it might be friday morning. obviously the timing is not going to be perfectly predictable, but i do expect that this week we're going to see the pfizer vaccine get authorized for use in the united states. >> so perhaps the biggest hurdle with this vaccine is that of public opinion of it. what do you say to those who worry we don't know the long-term effects of this vaccine. >> yeah, look, i totally understand where people are coming from. the thing that i say to folks is that every vaccine goes through a series of safety steps. this vaccine, these vaccines have gone through every single step. they have now been tested in tens of thousands of people across the u.s. and hundreds of thousands of people around the world if you put all these vaccines together, and we're not seeing much in the

way of severe events. so i feel pretty confident, but we do have to look at the full set of data that will become available later this week. >> you said you wouldn't give your own children the vaccine right away. why is that? >> yeah, look, i expect my kids to get vaccinated. the issue simply is that we haven't tested it in kids or not enough. so i expect those data to be coming out in the next couple of months, and then once that becomes available, we'll look at that data and i do expect children to get vaccinated. >> let's turn to testing now because for the first time the fda has authorized an at-home test that will detect for both coronavirus and the flu. what do we know about how well this test will work? >> yeah, it's what's called a pcr test. it's the same testing technology that we use for -- we've been using for covid really since march. it's a high quality test. for me the problem is not so much whether it's a good test. i think it is. the problem is it's not going to

be widely available. you'll need a prescription to get it. it will take a while before these tests become widely available, and given that we have had this technology for so many months, i wish we had these tests earlier, but, you know, we don't have enough of them right now. >> and more and more places are beginning to order stay-at-home orders. we haven't yet seen the spike from thanksgiving travel yet. so what does that still mean for us as far as what's ahead? >> yeah. we're going to have a hard december, you know, we're starting to see the cases rise from thanksgiving, but the hospitalizations and deaths that will surely follow are still a couple of weeks away, and hospitals are getting full, so i think it's good for states to be reacting. i have largely not been a huge fan of stay-at-home orders. i would like to see more targeted efforts, but in some states, things have gotten so bad that i understand that's what policymakers are doing. >> a lot of decisions people have to make in the coming weeks. dr. ashish jha, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> whit. eva, turning to politics

now, president trump rallying in georgia for two republican senators and repeating his baseless claims of a stolen election in front of his supporters. abc's rachel scott is in washington with the latest. rachel, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. at a rally meant to drum up support for republicans fighting to keep their seats and control of the senate, the president spent a lot of time focused on his own fight to overturn an election he already lost. [ crowd chanting ] overnight in georgia, president trump taking to the stage to campaign for two republican senators, but before he said a single word about the upcoming runoffs, he was already pushing false claims about an election he overwhelmingly lost. >> we've never lost an election. we're winning this election, and you look at all the corruption and all the problems having to do with this election, all i can do is campaign, and then i wait for the numbers. >> reporter: the numbers are in, and they show joe biden defeated president trump by more than 6 million votes, including right there in georgia where election

workers recounted every single vote by hand, and the outcome did not change. still the president speaking to a largely maskless crowd refused to concede. >> it's rigged. it's a fixed deal. >> reporter: and that is exactly what some republicans feared the president would say, worried those baseless claims would encourage voters to sit out in two races that will decide control of the senate. the president even admitting he's heard it himself. >> a lot of people, friends of mine say, let's not vote. we're not going to vote because we're angry, and it's almost like a protest, but if you do that, the radical left wins, okay? >> reporter: with the voter registration deadline now just 24 hours away, organizers fanning out across the state. >> excuse me. are you both registered to vote? >> yes. >> reporter: trump did call up senators kelly loeffler and david perdue, the two republicans fighting for their seats against democrats raphael warnock and jon ossoff, but their brief remarks interrupted by chants of "fight for trump." [ crowd chanting ] the president and his allies

have had more than 30 cases tossed out of court for lack of credible evidence. in as last-ditch effort he's resorted to pressuring state leaders from his own party to challenge the results. >> and you got to make sure your governor gets a lot tougher than he's been. >> reporter: and those attacks on the republican state governor brian kemp started hours before the president even touched down in georgia. on twitter urging him to call a special session to help challenge the results. that is a request the governor reportedly refused when the two spoke by phone earlier that day. georgia has already certified joe biden's victory. dan? >> rachel, thank you. georgia very much the center of the political universe right now, so let's get some reaction to the president's overnight rally from gabriel sterling. he's a republican election official from georgia who made headlines this week when he went before the cameras to say the president's unfounded claims of widespread fraud were dangerous and could incite violence. i spoke to mr. sterling shortly before we came on the air. sir, good morning. thank you for coming on.

as you know and much of the nation knows, you gave a quite emotional speech this week arguing strenuously that false allegations of fraud are leading to threats of violence against election officials. in that light, what do you think of what the president said overnight in georgia on stage? >> he continued down the same path of essentially taking misleading claims, disinformation, things that have been proven to be untrue, and whipping people up into a frenzy about it, and it's the same thing i said on tuesday, building out an environment that is going to be dangerous. >> and dangerous to who specifically in your view? >> well, the main thing i'm worried about is election workers right now. both at state and county levels, we've had threats and have people getting threatens emails, windows getting busted. i mean, at some point, something bad could potentially happen. >> i just want to put a fine point on something. the votes from the general election have been counted and recounted. lawsuits have been filed and dismissed. you are an election official. have you seen any evidence to support the president's claim that the election was stolen or

rigged in any way? >> let's be fair. you forget they've been counted. they've been counted and recounted and then recounted again so it's been three times they've been counted and, no, we investigated and there was no widespread fraud. have we seen illegal voting? yes. there's august going to be illegal voting every single election and has been ever thus. >> i want to of course you a question as a republican. i assume you want loeffler and perdue to win these runoff elections in january. last night the president spent significantly more time airing his own grievances than he did boosting those republican senate candidates. he also, i know some republicans fear, sent perhaps a mixed message saying on the one hand the election is rigged, on the other hand go vote in this new election. in sum, do you think he helped or hurt the party last night? >> i can't know for certain yet, but he's sowing the confusion. he has his former lawyers and current lawyers saying you can't trust the system, and some of his former lawyers are literally saying don't vote for

perdue and loeffler. don't use these machines. i mean, it's completely -- it's a hot mess, and it'll do nothing but confuse and drive down turnout for republicans, which is unfortunate. not unfortunate, it's terrible. >> in your view, was it appropriate for the president to reportedly call the governor, governor kemp, your boss, and ask for a special session of the legislature to give trump the state's electors even though biden won? was that appropriate? >> listen, he's the president. he's going to do what he can do. he has due process right now, and they did file an official election challenge on friday as i understand it. and that's the real path to go down. it's not to have staged legislators do that. >> thank you for joining us on a sunday morning. really appreciate it. >> thank you, dan. have a great day. while we are on the subject of georgia politics, a quick programming note on "this week" later this morning, chief anchor george stephanopoulos has an exclusive interview with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. plus, george will go one-on-one with health and human services secretary alex azar to discuss the intensifying covid-19 pandemic. that's all coming up on "this

week" later this morning right here on abc. let's switch gears now and turn to our own rob marciano with the effects of that nor'easter, but before you get to the nor'easter, i want to point out the fact that when i saw you in person yesterday, your hair is actually much longer than it appears on tv. >> we get it ironed out and superglue and shrink it. it's got to even out the beard. thank you, eva, for that, i think. i want to show you this is our nor'easter, by the way, that's winding down, and this time yesterday we were talking about it rapidly intensifying. here's what it did to union, connecticut, in hartford. boom. hit with a wall of snow, ten inches there, and cars are spinning out, and tractor trailers as well. over the border it was coming down as well. one to two inches per hour, and we had a lot of car accidents in that area also and then wave action along the coastline of massachusetts and scituate there, we had huge waves, 14-foot waves. flooding as well. maine, you got hit the hardest with a foot of snow in some

spots and nearly a quarter of the state without power because of that heavy snow. significant damage to the power grid there, and colder weather for the northeast to good sunday morning. view of the fog here at the shark tank, where temperatures are slightly milder, and areas of fog in the north bay as well. increasing sunshine today. winds will be onshore until they go offshore tonight, with the red flag warning and a wind advisory. highs today underneath partly cloudy skies, fro upper 50s at the coast to 63 in oakland, as well as livermore. mid-60s in napa. the accuweather seven-day forecast high fire danger tonight.y.y. >> the struggle is real. >> yeah. >> i just don't want to get a haircut yet. >> but, you know the studio lights enhance the salt and pepper, so, you know -- >> high def, baby. can't hide it. >> ties it all together. looking good, rob. thank you so much. we'll talk to you soon. this morning, we are celebrating the life of actor

david lander, who was best known as the oddball character squiggy on the '70s hit sitcom "laverne & shirley." lander was 73 and had battled multiple sclerosis for decades. abc's chris connelly has more. >> and there is no reason on earth why prince charming cannot walk through our front door. >> hello. >> reporter: who in sitcom history has gotten more laughs from a single word as squiggy. the spit-curled goof on "laverne & shirley," half of the hilarious duo lenny and squiggy. david lander made millions laugh. >> squiggy, squiggy, are you okay? >> i have been singed, len. >> reporter: alongside michael mckean, lander's andrew squigman embodied a 1950s archetype in the "happy days" spinoff as a musical group, lenny and the squigtones, powered by squiggy's falsetto. >> this song is called "night after night," and it's about two

nights in a row. >> reporter: lander and mckean worked up the characters in college at carnegie mellon, later with the satiric outfit the credibility gap before coming to primetime tv. >> how about just one? whoa. whoa. looky, looky here. whoo-hoo. >> reporter: lander was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1984, choosing to keep it secret for more than a decade for fear it would end his career as he told "gma's" charles gibson. >> i would assume once they found out i had ms, they would, oh, let's sit down and talk, and here's why i can't hire you, so i was very much insecure and afraid. >> reporter: instead this avid baseball fan would find work in animated projects from "who framed roger rabbit?" to disney's "goldie & bear," but squiggy would be his most beloved character. whatever happens, lander wrote in his 1999 memoir, ms can't take it all. i will always have my heart and soul, my wit and wisdom. today those words, a graceful farewell from the actor who

always knew how to say hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> reporter: david lander originally hired as a writer on "laverne & shirley" until he and mckean performed the lenny and squiggy characters at a party for the show's producer. the rest is sitcom history and david lander gave us so much of that to enjoy. whit? >> all right. chris connelly for us. so gait to see all those old clips, see what a legend he was. >> a legend, indeed. thank you, chris connelly. opening up this morning about his battle with covid, one of the nfl's rising stars. why myles garrett says the disease, quote, kicked his butt. and sean penn talks about his mission to help stop the spread of covid-19 and what's ahead now that a vaccine's on the horizon. and the real superheroes in the pandemic. how marvel is honoring nurses who put their lives on the line every day. we'll be right back. "good morning america" is sponsored by the u.p.s. store. sponsored by the u.p.s. store.

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building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. good morning everybody. i'm liz kreutz. tonight millions of people in the bay area will be under a strict stay-at-home order. san francisco, santa clara and contra costa county also enter the order tonight at 10:00. alameda county follows two hours later at midnight and marin county at noon on tuesday.

restaurants must close indoor and outtoo dining, they can only do take-out or delivery. the new restrictions will be in effect until at least january 4th. let's get a check with lisa argen now the weather. >> good morning to you. lots of fog, napa, nova though, santa rosa, this is the view from mt. tam. 46 in san jose and sutro, the clouds will clear and we're a little warmer this morning but we're going to see temperatures in the low 60s and high fire danger with gusty offshore winds overnight tonight. liz? >> lisa, thank you. thanks for joining us.

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vaccinations have already started overseas in russia and in the uk. plans to begin their first vaccinations start this week. also right now the nba issuing a stern memo warning. teams that if anyone violates safety measures leading to the spread of the virus, they could face fines, suspensions and game forfeitures among other things. under current guidelines players and staff are banned from going to bars, clubs, public gyms and cannot attend large indoor social gatherings. and this is the news we need this morning. 12-year-old caleb anderson, from atlanta, dreams of going to mars, and he'll take his first steps towards that journey by enrolling in georgia tech next fall. yeah, he's 12. the young genius has some big, big plans. he says he wants to get his masters at georgia tech, do an internship with elon musk, and probably get his ph.d. at mit and then work for, you know, either nasa or spacex. it just depends. >> you know.

>> we spoke with caleb last fall on weekend "gma" when tv host steve harvey and his foundation came forward offering to foot the bill for caleb's college tuition. >> amazing. >> brilliant young man. >> impressive young man. yeah. i can't remember what we were doing when we were 12, but definitely not that. >> that's because it wasn't anything to speak of. >> i don't want to mention it on television. >> my mom definitely remembers. that's for sure. >> we do have a lot to cover this morning but we start this half hour with the nfl's myles garrett who is used to facing off against 300-pound opponents on the field, but it was a microscopic virus that sidelined him, and now he is sharing his battle with covid-19. abc's stephanie ramos joins us from outside nfl headquarters in new york city with more on his story and others in the nfl. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. the nfl is trying to get to the super bowl in february, but covid is threatening its path. the league says the season will likely finish strong, but there have been hundreds of positive covid cases. one player, myles garrett, says he was so sick with covid, he

thought he might have long-term effects. this morning, cleveland browns defensive end myles garrett speaking out for the first time about his covid diagnosis. >> i lost my smell for almost two weeks, body aches, headaches. i was in pain. >> reporter: at 24, garrett is one of the nfl's strongest players, but he admits the virus knocked him down. >> my parents had it. it kicked their butt. i had it. it kicked my butt. >> reporter: garrett isn't alone. since august 1st, 156 players and 270 staffers tested positive for covid. even entire teams like the baltimore ravens dealing with outbreaks. ravens president dick cass says at least four strains of covid-19 were found at the team's facility and admits not all health protocols were followed. >> i think the nfl knew that as we moved into the months of november and december, that it

would get tougher as, you know, the regular flu season does anyway. >> reporter: but now in california, new covid restrictions are forcing at least one team to relocate. in santa clara county where the san francisco 49ers play, contact sports has been banned for three weeks. the decision forcing the 49ers to move all operations to arizona where they will play two of the remaining home games. some say that's a necessary price to pay to keep football going and to finish the season with the super bowl. >> this is what the league wants and they are determined to do whatever is necessary in order to make sure that that happens. >> reporter: many have suggested a controlled environment for the nfl like the nba's bubble where players were isolated to protect them from covid. the nba recently finished its season without a single player, coach or staff member testing positive for covid, but the nfl says that bubble option was just too logistically complicated for them, whit. >> well, they are still working

through this season. all right, stephanie. thank you so much. we appreciate it. the football still going on. you can catch the buffalo bills versus the san francisco 49ers monday night at 8:00 right here on abc and espn. >> i'll be watching. >> i'm sure you will. >> yeah. >> it'll be a home run derby. is that the right metaphor? >> no, not at all. let's check the weather now. rob marciano being kept in a different studio from us for reasons that are opaque to me. but anyway, hey, rob, good morning. >> my own little nfl bubble here. >> got it. >> i'm sure your fantasy football team is doing well. mine is not, and i've completely given up. i just can't keep track with covid mixing in with injuries. >> right there with you. yep. >> why even bother? all right, so i just give my money away. let's talk fire danger that's coming back, unfortunately, for southern california where we're stuck in this offshore pattern and now northern california is into the mix as well. red flag warnings there, and southern california tomorrow through wednesday. we'll see significant danger here, and winds gusting to 60, maybe 70 miles per hour, continued dry vegetation, low levels of humidity, and that continues through

the day on wednesday. might even amp up to even higher winds there. meanwhile, mild air in denver, chicago, and you'll see temperatures that will eventually get to at least 50 degrees. that will feel good sunday morning. waking up to clouds and even some fog. the view from mt. tam here increasing sun throughout the day, partly cloudy upper 50s coast to low to mid-60s. this weather report is sponsored by weather tech. we'll be watching all the games today, tomorrow, every day it seems like with covid mixing in. >> and, rob, just an update, i found out this week from the manager of dan's team that his team did actually win his week for fantasy football. >> one week. >> one week. >> okay. >> that manager being a small boy. >> yes. >> he's 11. paula faris' son. >> a win's a win. >> important to delegate. i'm teaching him a good lesson. >> thanks, rob. coming up on "good morning america," from actor to activist, sean penn and how he

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cases and hospitalizations. experts saying the darkest days are still ahead, prompting a major daily ramp-up at core's sites. >> right now we're at 38,000. we're going to increase that by anywhere between 30% to 50% in the next few weeks. >> reporter: as testing demands skyrocket, even penn himself will be on the line with his own family. his wife and kids working in a race against time to help test tens of thousands. >> it's been great to have it be a family affair. i don't remember a time where in those relationships where service wasn't discussed. >> reporter: and now workload could double hoping efforts behind one of the country's biggest testing centers will soon simultaneously service what they hope will be one of the biggest vaccination sites. >> in our premapping, we are assuming that we can do a vaccination per every three minutes based on terms of the administration of it. >> reporter: the organization's model for testing now existing all over georgia, in chicago, new orleans, d.c., even the navajo nation. penn and lee guided by

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>> reporter: they're the everyday heroes you know well. >> assemble. >> reporter: no, not those heroes. >> my dad is super brave. >> he helps people who are really sick. >> reporter: marvel teaming up with allegheny health network and giving nurses on the covid-19 front lines the superhero treatment they deserve putting the real-life stories of daily heroism on the job into the pages of a comic book called "the vitals," and the nurses honored are certainly humble heroes. >> even though we don't think of ourselves as heroes, it's a good feeling to be recognized as one. >> if having compassion and caring for people and having that sense of empathy for what people are going through, i think that's a pretty awesome superpower to have. >> we're just doing our everyday jobs. it's what we love. >> reporter: and while the stories of superheroes are often those of supernatural feats, for

"the vitals" heroes, this is real life. >> when i first saw the comic book, i cried, like, because it is. it's amazing that, you know, they hit it right on the nail. >> this is the fight of our lives, and we're going to win. >> reporter: recognized in these pages are even those moments that quickly became the norm in the pandemic. nurses connecting isolated covid patients with their families through technology. their dedication now preserved as a reminder of the tough times when they came to the rescue. and throughout the pandemic, we have seen nurses pleading with people to wear masks and stay home to social distance because, of course, if you get sick, it's those nurses putting their families at risk, their lives on the line essentially going to work to help others going to work. eva, your nurse a mom in the pandemic in south carolina, and my mom a nurse in illinois. so salute to all of the first line workers out there. >> absolutely heroes. >> yep. >> incredible people. janai, thank you very much. and we'll be right back with janai with "pop news." right back with janai

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♪ "good morning am ♪ "good morning america" sponsored by jardiance. welcome back to "gma." time now for "pop news." janai is back. hello. >> time for "pop news," and the words of dan harris, we out here, right? >> that's right. [ laughter ] he says that all the time. >> we were just having a little bit of a slang lesson for dan. we start this morning with the newest person to be honored by guinness world records, simone williams from brooklyn right here in new york has been certified as having the biggest afro in the world. her gorgeous crown is pure magic, measuring more than 8 inches tall. nearly 9 inches wide and over 4'10" in circumference. the fashion designer says it took nine years to grow her fro after years of straightening her hair, and she says it takes about six hours to dry every time she washes it. wash day must be a whole thing for simone.

hats off to you. jennifer garner is keeping it real and proving once again what a sense of humor she has. the actress sharing this video 14 years after the end of her hit spy series "alias," recreating a provocative pool scene. but these days the mother of three is a lot more grounded in relate. she did it celebrating 10 million followers on instagram. she said, here's a video i promised i would never post, and adding she's awfully grateful for everyone in this community and we are grateful for you, jen. and finally here's proof that the royals really aren't different from you and me as well as their kids. the celebrity chef that's worked with prince william and is revealing what little prince george's favorite dish is. it's a far cry from chicken fingers and french fries. he's partial to spaghetti carbonara. his brother and sister have also developed pallets. princess charlotte loves olives and beets grown in their own garden but admittedly they won't

turn down pizza, unless it's salmon pizza. >> salmon pizza was yesterday was pretty good, play. >> i couldn't eat beets until well into my adult life. >> yeah. my son is all pretzels and pasta. thank you, stormin' norman. appreciate that, and thanks for watching abc. we out here. did i get that right? did i get that right? ight? n norman. thanks for watching abc. we out here. did i get that right? in norman. thanks for watching abc. we out here. did i get that right? ' norman. thanks for watching abc. we out here. did i get that right? building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. good morning everybody. i'm liz kreutz. a magnitude 4.4 earthquake hit lake county at 7:03 this morning. the usga map shows the epicenter which is the yellow star centered in lakeport, eight miles west of clearlake. there are no reports of damage or injuries but several people

reported feeling a jolt. we want to get you to the latest in terms of the stay-at-home orders. tonight kicks off the first night of the new proactive orders in five bay area counties. these counties collective team of health officers said they were going to, didn't want to wait to fall below the state's given threshold of 15% capacity, saying it would be too late. here is when they take effect. san francisco, santa clara and contra costa county are first, starting at 10:00 p.m. tonight, then two hours later for alameda county at midnight and noon on tuesday, for marin county. the new restrictions will stay in effect until at least january 4th, napa, sonoma, solano and san mateo counties are choosing not to proactively enact these orders. let's get a check of the weather now and a little bit of fire danger we're tracking, lisa. >> that's tonight, liz, into your monday as well as a wind advisory for the entire bay area, emeryville a little sunshine on the buildings here with 50 in the city, 46 in san jose. 50 on the coast as well, and

from mt. tam, you can see the sun above the low clouds. 38 by the delta, 37 in santa rosa and there is fog this morning from novato, santa rosa, napa, it's getting lower before we get increasing visibility opinion we're milder for most of you this morning and looking at a partly cloudy afternoon today with increasing fire danger and red flag warning 11:00 tonight into 11:00 on mob. liz? >> lisa, thank you. "this week" with george stephanopolous is it's hard to explain what depression feels like. but i can tell you what it feels like when someone offers to help. every plan through covered california is comprehensive - with mental health coverage and financial help for people who need it. enroll by december 15th.

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>> announcer: "this week" with george stephanopoulos starts right now. dark winter. >> they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. >> america hits new covid highs. >> it's time to hunker down. it's time to cancel everything. >> we've got to work together. we've got to keep our numbers down by masking up. >> if we don't act now, our hospital system will be overwhelmed. >> vaccine hopes rising. >> we are on track to be able to ship enough vaccines to 20 million americans before the end of the year. >> this is the weapon that is going to win the war. >> but the road to relief still long. >> we have not yet seen the post-thanksgiving peak. >> as president-elect joe biden confronts the crisis -- >> i'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. not forever, 100 days.