person in california that we know of to test positive for the covid-19 vvariant. the governor made that remark in a conversation with dr. ffauci. >> i'm not surprised yo u hayou have a case and likely more cases in california >> the man is not in the hospital. a san county supervisor says the man did not travel recently. >> because there is no travel history, we believe this is not an isolated case in san diego county. county. one person within the man's home has symptoms and is being tested. contract tracing is underway. what exactly does variant mean?

we got a really good explanation on the 3:00 p.m. newscast and brought along a visual aid. >> they are mutating these spike proteins and make it stickier, almost like velcro with this new varia variant. it sticks more to the cells. the chances of it invading is increase increased. >> coronavirus in california is already spreading and killing people at an alarming rate. today the state reported the highest daily death toll yet. 432 people died in 24 hours. that's 18 people every hour. coronavirus has claimed nearly 25,000 lives this year. roughly 10% of those deaths were here in the bay area with 29 added in the past day. almost all from santa clara county. statewide, it now been three weeks in a row that we've set new records every day for the number of hospitalized

coronavirus patients. ishl icu patients are at record high levels. icu availability in southern california remains at zero percent. in the bay area, it's down to 7.5, the lowe esest percentage e reported. when you look at the graph of new cases, the rolling average is down slightly from the record high set a couple weeks ago shortly after thanksgiving. case rates are low enough in the bay area that many counties would qualify to reopen schools in february under a plan announced today by the governor. a brks krrbc 7 news reporter kr is in the newsroom to explain. >> music to the ears of parents. if all goes according to planned, all schools could be open for in person learning by spring. it's a big goal and getting there is complicated. >> here is the plan. phased in person learning strategy that could focus disproportionately on those youngest cohorts and those that are most in need. >> reporter: that including

students with special education needs, those who are experiencing homelessness and in foster care. elementary schools could open for in person learning as early as february with all schools to follow by spring. but to get the green light, schools have to submit a safety plan to local and state officials and the county they're in must have fewer than 28 covid-19 cases per 100,000 residents. right now in the bay area, that would qualify alameda, marin, napa, san francisco, san mateo and sonoma counties. the governor said the state will help schools with ppe, contact tracing and mass testing of students and staff. >> until the doses are available, it seems to me there is nothing more ill mportant th robust covid testing and contract tracing. >> reporter: $2 billion in government funding will be available to support reopening including safety renovations like ventilation improvements. >> it works out to $450 per pupil, not insignificant when you consider that's more than all instructional materials and

textbooks. >> reporter: to help implement the safe schools for all plan, ucsf pediatrician dr. naomi is brought on to lead the team. abc 7 talked to her in july when her research team showed students at a day camp how to give themselves covid-19 tests. >> transmissions among and from younger students, students to students is simply not common. fu fundamental fact learning remains non-negotiable but obvious neither is safety. >> reporter: state board of education president linda darling hammond added reopening schools could be an opportunity to reinvent the school system. >> we need to understand the school year in new ways, many districts want to and will be supported to continue to expand the school year, to offer schooling in the summer. >> so that is the exciting part of the new school year, you might see more innovations in

the close room including outdoor classes and project based learning. kris reyes, abc 7 news. >> will teacher haves a chance to make changes to the plan in the new year? >> they will. the governor talked about accountability and feedback being important to the successful implantation of the plan. for example, an online hot line will be established to report concerns and those calls could lead to enforcement teams visiting the schools to make sure they are following guidelines. kris reyes, for abc 7 news. >> good to know, thanks, chris. representatives from california school board association plans to reopen schools, that's just a start. >> it's still a broad conception l plan and where the rubber really meets the road is taking this plan from the abstract and implementing it across 1,000 school districts that have very different local circumstances. >> tony flint went on to say that they would have liked to see this response earlier but now the state needs to do everything possible to get kids

back to school safely without rushing the process. and there are still many things up in the air with the reopening plan including input from teachers and parents matt boon has reaction from east bay school districts about a possible return in february. >> we are ready as soon as we get the green light. >> reporter: katy castle is the parent of a second grader. she's not eager to send her child back to school any time soon. >> i'm coming from a police of having a daughter that is successful at online learning. >> reporter: it's varied widely. >> i still have students that are not logging in at the times they are supposed to log in. >> reporter: she is a second grade teacher in oakland unified and has a daughter in the district. she says while many teachers want to vaccine before going back, she feels satisfied with the governor's reopening frame

work. >> i'm okay with going back as soon as possible. i do like how the governor is proposing having masks for both students and staff. i do like how they're going to have testing available. >> reporter: oakland major libby schaaf said the teacher has not reached an agreement but echoed the need on a return as soon as february. >> i want these kids back in school. it is not just important for the children's education but parental sanity and our economy all these things need our kids to be back in school. >> reporter: in a statement from oakland unified, the spokesperson said we look forward to closely reviewing administration plans to provide for a safe and responsible reopening and plan to fully participate in the upcoming legislative review. in oakland, matt boon, abc 7 news. >> reopening schools certainly a big deal and if you want to read up on the details of the plan, we have posted all of it online at abc7news.com.

you can also share the story with your friends because after all, we are all in this together. we have all been in this pandemic for nine months now. there is word of progress coming from overwhelmed hospitals and icus. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony explains improvements and treatments since the pandemic began are allowing more patients to stay off ventilators. >> we learned more about the care of covid patients since the beginning. >> reporter: at john muir medical center, an old practice is proving to be a valuable tool in keeping covid patients off ventilators. >> prone positions is literally placing patients face down on their stomach. >> reporter: until now, the practice of turning someone overuove over usually with a mechanical bed was done after the patient was intubated but at john muir, medical staff aren't waiting. >> in fact, we started prone positioning patients not

intubated yet, not on a breathing machine to oxygen natd possibly avoid intubation. >> reporter: there are many other tools, lessons learned from those threatening the most seriously ill covid patients. >> now we have a lot more information, number one, about the virus and how it acts and then also some additional treatment potentials, most notably the antibodies from lillian regeneron. those are given early before the patient needs to be hospitalized we . >> reporter: despite the challenges of treating covid, doctors are confident the tools and knowledged gained during that time will be life saving. long after the pandemic is over. >> this is something that we've talked about recently will be applying this to patients with all types of respiratory failure going forward. >> reporter: laura anthony, abc

7 news. coronavirus vaccinations are certainly helping build a better bay area but they are also coming in at a slower pace than we hoped for and expected. federal and state health officials admit the number of vaccinations was below what was promised. melanie woodro explains, there are plans to catch up in the new year. >> reporter: tens of millions of doses of covid-19 vaccine were promised to be delivered nationwide by the end of december. but those numbers are falling short including here in california. >> we know that the number of doses that have arrived into the state has produced less than what was originally professed. >> reporter: governor gavin k w newsom addressed in the covid-19 update and a separate conversation with anthony fauci. >> no, i'm not shocked. i'm not quote unquote disappointed. >> reporter: governor newsom said more than 300,000 vaccines have been administered in california so far. dr. fauci said he recently spoke

with chief operations officer for operation warp speed army general. >> as we get into january, the feeling is we'll gain momentum to be able to catch up. >> reporter: he said everyone is working through how to administer the vaccine the right way and ensure it stays in accordance with the cold chain. dr. george rutherford is a professor of epidemiology. >> would we be happier with more? of course. >> reporter: he says right now a state committee is meeting to make decisions who will receive the vaccine once front line health care workers will be vaccinated. >> i look forward to getting the large majority of people that want to be vaccinated, vaccinated by the summer. >> reporter: dr. fauci suggested april can be open soon for most to receive the vaccine and that by early fall we could see some sense of normality return. melanie woodro, abc 7 news. this restaurant is supposed to be closed for outdoor dining. the owner explains who they are

fighting to stay open for. >> right before the holidays, unemployed workers find their edd accounts frozen, no access to money but there is good news ahead. i'm michael finney. 7 on your side is coming up. i'm spencer christian. thre is a little rain on the way as the old year ends, a lot of rain on the way as the new year begins.

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in 2018 he confessed to 90 more murders. nearly 60 of those have been confirmed. he had been held in the california state prison los angeles county since 2014. the cause of death has not been determined. new at 6:00 governor new some appointed a new director of california's employment development department. rita l. signs will head the edd as it works to stream line unemployment payments and investigate fraudulent claims. signs most recently worked as a private consultant and director of governmental affairs for xerox and served in several positions under governor squjer brown. millions of americans waited to find out if they would have unemployment benefits in the new year but in california thousands of jobless workers still don't have this year's benefits. bank of america froze their accounts leaving them with nothing all right before the holidays. michael finney is here with the story of one mother's

heartbreak, michael. >> dan, sadly, this east bay mom is just one of hundreds asking me for help. first, hackers stole the money from her edd debit card then bank of america locked her account. for this family, it was the first year ever. there was nothing under the tree. >> christmas is in a few days. i have no money. well, i'm sorry, there is nothing i can do. >> life was hard enough when the pandemic hit and diane davis lost her bar tending job. unemployment benefits kept her afloat until someone somewhere took all of her money. >> when i looked at my statement and went all my money is gone. >> diane suddenly found dozens of mysterious charges on her edd account many from a company in africa. >> what is this whogohost west africa, south africa. i don't know. >> all she knew is her unemployment benefits were gone. >> $7,000 taken out of my account. it hurts.

>> she immediately called bank of america. >> i'm on hold for three hours and then you finally get someone on the phone and click. you get disconnected. >> instead of reimbursing her for the fraud, b of a denied her claim, let the fraudulent charges stand and then froze her account. >> i was angry, cried a lot right before christmas. >> diane says the bank never alerted her to the suspicious charges as they piled up. >> i have nothing, absolutely nothing. i think i have 12 cents in the bank right now. >> thank you for continuing to hold. your call is important to us. >> she tried the bank once more. >> we're experiencing higher than normal wait times. appreciate your patience. >> hello? are you there? got disconnected. >> it left her with nothing for the holidays. >> thankfully my kids understood. christmas is our favorite holiday. we would love to get together and have a nice big meal, open present presen presents.

we didn't have that this year. >> we asked bank of america why they didn't reimburse her for the fraud and the bank agreed to reconsider her case telling us we encourage people who disagree with our decision to ask for reconsideration. we take any new information and if it addresses our concerns, we will credit the customer's account. >> hopefully i'll get my money back and we'll be able to celebrate christmas at a later date. >> well, i have good news. i just got word after our investigation, bank of america has now agreed to reverse those fraudulent charges and return diane's man. bank of america is in the process of unlocking her account now so diane should have money in time to celebrate the new year. now, i want to thank bank of america for making this a better holiday for this family. now, if your edd account is hacked or frozen, remember, i'm here to help. contact me through our website.

dan? >> michael, terrific work. you can feel the stress. nice, thanks. the fines are piling up for danville restaurant that is cited for the past 13 days for offering outdoor dining in violation of the current order. he says he is staying open to help employees. >> each night he opens his restaurant, he faces another $1,000 fine. >> the reason we are open because we have about 25 to 30 employees and we cannot send them home without a paycheck. >> reporter: one of the few restaurants open for outdoor dining in violation of a covid-19 health order. he says if he closes, his employees suffer. >> these people have mortgages. they have rent. they have car payments. they have little kids. and it's cruel to do this. >> reporter: he says he's not trying to make a political

statement. he knows covid-19 is real. he spent $45,000 in upgrades to become covid compliant. he says take out a loan isn't enough and is breaking even without door dining. some locals distancing is followed, they will come. >> i don't want to see them go out of business. >> reporter: the danville police chief reviewed the health order with the city attorney and county lawmakers. >> we realize this is hard when the rules change this rapidly as they are. >> this is not the time to be fooling around. we are at the home stretch. we got the vaccine. >> reporter: contra costa board of supervisor admits it's been a tough year for small businesses but she says other restaurants are following the rules and without naming names, anderson says one danville restaurant is at risk of being shut down. >> it is potentially a real, very real possibility they will

be shut down by our environmental health division. all right. the new year is going to get off to a wet start. spencer has several days

. i like how dan says old year and new year. >> the timing is really perfect. kind of dry over christmas and we get the much needed rain. >> that's exactly right. it is on it way. not only on its way but falling now. here is a look at live doppler 7. light rain falling right now. it was more concentrated up in the north bay earlier. santa rosa reported rain at 6:00 and you see the massive moisture move toward parts of napa county. we got a little bach of rain through marin county to the peninsula across the bay in oakland. here is the view from the rooftop looking across the embarcadero. light rain and showers will continue overnight. sunny by midday tomorrow. dry new year's eve and a series of storms will develop beginning on saturday. it ranks one and very early tomorrow morning unit evder .2.

here is the forecast animation into the late night hourers, pockets of showers will continue to spread across the bay area from north to south but by 5:00 tomorrow morning as the morning commute gets underway, it will be almost over and skies will begin to clear rather quickly after that. overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the low to mid 40s perhaps chill early in the far northern most part of our viewing area and then by afternoon tomorrow under mainly sun snow skies, temperatures will range from mid 50s at the costa upper 50s to near 60 around the bay shoreline to upper 50s and about 6 0 in our inland areas. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast taking us through the end of the year beginning of the next one. dry conditions for most of the latter part of the day tomorrow and through friday new year's day and a system ranking one on the i'm pampact scale but we ex some wet weather. slightly more vigorous storm develops on monday continues into tuesday and finally on wednesday of next week, we get a

stronger storm we're expecting this one to rank two on the abc 7 storm impact scale. rain and wind next wednesday. we've got wet weather to start the new year. dan and ama? >> wow, a two. that's just crazy talk. thanks, spencer. >> yeah. all right. let's move on. coming up next, part three of our investigative series, fire, power money. see what it took to hold pg&e a corporation legally responsible for the 2018 campfire, the

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tonight an exclusive look behind the scenes how pg&e was brought to justice, convicted in america's biggest corporate manslaughter case. pg&e pleaded guilty but tried hard to get out of being charged for any crime at all. >> what's more, california state government got in the way of prosecutors efforts. this is part three of the investigative series titled "fire, power, money."

>> here is reporter rittamin. >> reporter: we're about to take you behind the scenes of the criminal investigation of california's deadliest wildfire. ♪ ♪ >> this is the hook that killed 84 people. >> reporter: the campfire earned pg&e the largest corporate homicide conviction in u.s. history. including 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter. >> pg&e's decision is let these hang until they broke. >> reporter: prosecutors spent hours with us and answered every question we asked. >> it would seem if you're investigating this really complex industry, the state's experts on that industry would be invaluable? >> correct. >> reporter: this is the most shocking revelation. they said instead of helping, california's state government got in their way. did it hold the case back? >> we believe it did.

>> reporter: specifically, district attorney mike ramsey said the commission, regulator that approves the rates and spending made it harder to convict pg&e. his deputy mark null, the lead prosecutor on the case said they had reams of evidence showing the work was reckless and negligent but the agency wouldn't share it. >> there was a lot of stuff that i wish we would have had months earlier. >> but the puc wasn't in a corporative mood? >> no, they wouldn't give it to us without a subpoena. >> reporter: the prosecution had to put together a grand jury to hear their case. that didn't only hold up evidence, prosecutors say it also kept them from talking to cpuc staff. the state employees who know the very most about how pg&e works. >> can you give us not just the information that you got but give us experts. >> they got a subpoena.

>> do you run into that with any state agency prosecuting crimes. >> usually not, no. >> reporter: the cpuc is led by the president. like governor gavin newsom, shee delivered tough talk. >> you guys failed on so many levels. >> reporter: she declined to be interviewed and in a written statement it was disappointed by the characterization of the agency's behavior. >> we can work together. >> reporter: you still don't have a good answer? >> no. >> reporter: the campfire was also harder to prosecute because pg&e is a corporation. american law treats corporations just like people which means we've written a lie into our laws. pg&e isn't one person. it a whole bunch of people and unlike a human defendant, you can't put a corporation in jail. not only that, we learned pg&e got to participate in the

investigation of it own crimes. >> literally, we're letting the murderer into the crime scene and telling them to collect the evidence for us. >> reporter: because big high tension lines are dangerous, you need qualified linemen to keep them apart. the state government doesn't have investigatiors qualified t do that. mark null tried to hire outside experts to pull parts off of pg&e's power line. >> they all refused. >> reporter: some he said were blunt about why. >> because pg&e is our biggest client. >> reporter: in the end, most of the evidence from pg&e's power line was taken down by pg&e itself. >> it killed us. we delayed and delayed and delayed to try to avoid letting them into our crime scene. >> reporter: but the prosecutors felt pressured by pg&e. >> it became a race. >> reporter: even though the come paen knepany decided to sh

this century old shy voltage line, pg&e started replacing it fixing parts prosecutors wanted as evidence. >> every single piece was being documented by pg&e obviously gives them a head start on what the evidence is. i can guarantee you if this would have gone to trial, pg&e would have had 4427 differe 427 explanations for everything we did. >> reporter: the fact that pg&e isn't a person also gets them out of punishment. you or i would get 90 years in prison for committing pg&e's crimes but corporations can't go to changed. >> reporter: from the bills people pay, pg&e earns $17 billion in annual avenue that breaks down to $2 million an hour every hour 36 five days a

year. for perpetrating the biggest corporate manslaughter, they paid a criminal fine of $3.5 million. it was the maximum punishment california law charges corporate criminals the same fines as people. a penalty so small pg&e made that money back in less time than it took to show executives back to san francisco. prosecutors did try to put someone behind bars. they didn't go after the line workers who drive pg&e trucks but the criminal investigation did probe a small core group of pg&e leaders and managers. >> probably half dozen. the key players making the decisions that ultimately caused this. >> and just know one of them got to the point where you could develop the case to put the charges on them. >> right. >> prosecutors told us everyone in pg&e had somebody else to blame. >> tower division says we're

responsible for the steel structure of the tower. and the line division says well, we're responsible for the lines. well, who is responsible for the hook? that's their job. >> reporter: the closest thing to a punishment for pg&e's executives was a field trip. the upper management had to take a bus tour through paradise. >> reporter: u.s. district judge super vices pg&e's probation for the san bruno explosion. he ordered pg&e's leaders to take a bus tour through the ruins of paradise. they met some survivors and on board the tour bus a recording played. >> are you trapped? >> yes. >> is there -- >> help. help. >> okay. are you out -- >> that is the family on the

phone with 911. >> i can't get to the street. we can't see it. >> and then to hear them die on tape. i've done this over 40 years, and that was the most horrible tape i've ever heard. you cannot unhear it. >> reporter: and apparently some of these people cried and i'm sorry, but these sons of [ bleep ] did not earn the right to cry. they did not earn the right to cry. i've earned the right to cry. a lot of people who lost people up there, they have the right to cry. pg&e, what right do they have to cry? >> reporter: even so, district attorney mike ramsey told us pg&e tried to get out of being charged with a crime at all. >> there was a number of offers

for large money to say do this civilly. don't charge them criminally, they were trying to use the bankruptcy to get out of what they were being charged? >> correct. >> if the punishment didn't fit the crime, they wanted pg&e to own up to committing it so we could see it for what it was in black and white. criminal negligence is more than just carelessness, pg&e admits that it behaved in a reckless way that creates a high risk of death. that it knew what it was doing could end up killing people. >> there is no okay, well, we paid a civil fine and the usual way and a civil fine. no one admits any liability. no, you are tagged to kill her. >> reporter: they also wanted to build a record to put pg&e on notice. >> you are now warned by doing this, you can now be charged with murder.

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some good news to share, the community is coming together to help a nurse heal after a rock went through her windshield. pam burnet was driving through 242 with a rock the size of a grape fraud went through her windshield and hit her on the face. she suffered multiple broken bones and a damaged eye and under went through surgeries. the chp is investigating the case but has no suspects. yesterday when we first told you the story, $28,000 was donated. the number has more than doubled to more than $65,000. we have a link to her go fund me page on our website abc7news.com. she's been through so much and has such a great attitude about it. a break in between storms is

time just right for new year's day. spencer is tracking the rain and

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won taking home 6 you can watch whe"wheel of fort" every weeknight and i'm so relieved it all worked out for her. >> yeah, thank goodness, ama, she ended up winning. what a fun little mistake for all of us here at abc 7 and for david louie, particularly, spencer. >> yeah. tat's true. i've been called spencer tracy a few times. >> i'm been called dan rather every now and then. >> there you go. let's l wet weather, light rain scattered as you can see on live doppler 7. not very heavy at the moment. greatest concentration of rain moving into the area and through vallejo and down on the peninsula out over the bay between the peninsula and east bay shoreline. on we go to our high surf advisory which goes into effect at 10:00 tonight will be in effect until 3:00 a.m. friday.

rough surf. coastal erosion is possible. strong rip current. stay away from the coastline for awhile. the storm we have now ranks one on the storm impact scale for tonight and early tomorrow morning we expect light showers, light rainfall and in fact, it's all going to wind down by about 5:00 tomorrow morning as you see on the forecast animation as the morning commute is getting underway. most of the rainfall between now and 4:00 a.m. will be generally under .1, perhaps .2. over night lows generally in the low to mid 40s. and tomorrow highs will range from mid 50s at the coast, excuse me, to upper 50s around the bay shoreline to near 60 and upper 50s to near 60 inland. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. dry conditions for the remainder of the day tomorrow after the morning showers. dry day on friday. new year's day and then five, at least five consecutive days of wet weather each of the storms

monday through tuesday will rank only one on the abc 7 storm impact scale but we expect the storm on wednesday to be a bit stronger, a bit more energetic and we are giving it a ranking of two right now. looks like it will be a rainy and windy day next wednesday. but before we get to next wednesday, we have other days of rainfall coming our way, as well. it will be a wet start to 2021. dan and ama. >> we like it. thank you so much. chris alvarez is here with 49ers news. >> coming up in sports, coach shannon reveals jimmy

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49er the head coach kyle shanahan ruled jimmy garoppolo out. shanahan said if something changes with jimmy's health, he could change his mind but for now, garoppolo is out. kicker robbie is renegotiating a contract through 2022. he played the last four seasons with the niners and 88.4 field goal percentage tops in franchise history and an odd coincidence, he landed on the covid list. >> great to lock up robbie. i didn't feel like we would lose him. glad we're able to work out something that helped both sides, helps the organization and good for robbie, too. we all felt good about that.

getting covid today is coincidence. wouldn't have done it if we knew that. just joking. >> we are on the eve of san jose state football's first bowl game since 2015. the undefeated spartans take on ball state tomorrow in the arizona bowl. 7-0 overall. spartans are one of a hand full of unbeaten teams in the country. now due to covid restrictions, the team played home games in hawaii and las vegas and finishing practice in arizona. coach and his team continue to stay focused on the task at hand. >> there isn't a lot of time for reflection yet because we're not finished. we're still climbing a mountain. we're playing an excellent ball state team and they won their conference championships so we have two conference champions, both from the group of five, both fighting butts off for respect and national recognition. >> can't wait for that tomorrow. wisconsin taking on wake forest. third quarter tied at 21. sam heartman picked off with 1 4 yards later, the badgers are in business. the quarterback finds mason

stoke for the 14-yard touchdown. wisconsin wins the game 442-28. he dropped and broke it. that is so -- yeah, dan, yeah. 2020. right? it is hard to believe but 19-year-old james wiseman played for nba games four than college games three giving golden state fans a glimpse into the future. averaging 12.5 points per game in just about 24 minutes a game. hitting 62.5% from beyond the ark. he's the new age big man that can do it all. his ability to pass, dribble shoot and be in the rim protector. the sky is literally the limit for the seven-footer. >> just a kid, and he's just learning and it's just amazing to watch someone that young with so little experience at the college level, no summer league, no training camp to see how poised he is. he's beyond his years from a

maturity standpoint. >> the sharks are on their way to arizona now due to covid-19 restrictions. they will begin training camp and work out tomorrow in scottsdale as the regular season just around the corner. sharks fans get ready, the first game is two weeks from tomorrow. that's january 14th against the coyotes. i want to go back to james wiseman. can you imagine he's played four games in the nba and three in college. he had issues in college but at 19, i was trying to learn how to parallel park. so this guy is playing in the nba and dominating early. he's still learning like a young puppy. >> so much potential. >> incredible. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> he really is. who has cars for seven-footers? what do they drive? >> what do they wear? everything is a hassle. "the goldbergs, american

housewife, the conners" and stay with us for abc 7. governor newsom is making a strong push to open elementary schools by february. i've been talking with superintendents with districts already open. some are questioning this. questioning the timing. i'll talk about this in my story tonight at 11:00. tired of the back and forth by the state, what a popular east bay attraction for familys is saying about reopening and catch jimmy kimmel live. that is it for us for now. get the news any time on the abc 7 news app. thanks for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. for all of us here, we appreciate your time. hope you have a nice evening and we see you again at 11:00.

♪ this is the... now let's meet today's semi-finalists-- a junior at boston university from danvers, massachusetts... a writer from seattle, washington... and a urologist from baltimore, maryland... and now, here is the host of "jeopardy!"--alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] hey, johnny. thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen and welcome, and a warm welcome back to our first group of semi-finalists-- erin, tom, and justin. they performed well in the quarter-final games. justin, in this threesome, was the highest scorer so he will select first as we start the jeopardy! round. we begin with the dollar figures,

and we follow that with the categories. here they are... next... ...aren't they? and finally... good variety there, justin. where do we start? we'll start with bond movie for $200. - tom. - what is "doctor no"? - that's it. - bond movie, $400, please. - tom. - what is "casino royale"? - right again. - bond movie, $600. [beep] that was "the spy who loved me." - tom. - bond movie, $800, please. - erin. - what is "die another day"? - that's right. - bond movie, $1,000.