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large black letters spray painted on the wall. city staff started painting over the graffiti today. yesterday the iconic sign was removed. delays by the national park service reaching a long-term operating contract forced them to close. a napa restaurant defied the stay-at-home order offering in-person dining on their patio. the state is investigating, matt boone. >> reporter: they have been welcoming guests on their patio as well as a semi-closed area

after the county went into the stay-at-home order on december 18th. >> i am still working full-time. i am willing to spend my money to help other people out. >> reporter: phillip, a customer does not want to show his face due to his job, he came to dine in person to support the restaurant's employees. >> i am willing to risk possibly getting it to help other people survive. >> reporter: napa county had 5,471 positive cases and 2400 of them were in the last month. their icu capacity is at 0%. they defied the in-door ban back then. he did not want to do an interview for this story but gave a staple. "bottom line, the closure of on-premises dining is in called

for." fume bistro will remain open. the city of napa tells abc7 are aware of the restaurant and referred the complaints to the task force as well as alcohol beverage control. matt boone. abc7 news. fitness 19 staying open in-doors have closed down. the gym says san mateo county fined them $3,000 twice and promise to issue more fines if they continue to stay open. fitness 19 says they'll reopen once restrictions are lifted. california started 2021 of by setting more coronavirus records. the state recorded 585 deaths. the previous high was 432. the number of people hospitalized dropped by 100.

the number of people in the icu is up to more than 4500. that's a new record. take a look at regional capacity statewide. the bay area dropped to 6.3%, a record low since tracking started. the nation's death toll is pushing past 347,000. tonight "the new york times" reports the new variant of coronavirus detected in 33 countries. abc reporter has more on the virus. >> reporter: despite health warnings, the u.s. is entering 2021 with peak covid numbers and a new variant of the virus is highly contagious. florida became the third state to identify the u.k. variant with a man in his 20 with no history of travel. california has four cases. >> it was inevitable that it is going to be here.

you will be hearing about reports of other states and more cases in the states that already reported. >> reporter: the crisis is more dire in california. los angeles are seeing four times cases than in december. 585 deaths in just 24 hours. hospital and healthcas and heals are pushed to the brink. >> it is unimaginable. we are begging you, please stay home. >> reporter: illinois, north carolina, emergency field hospitals going up for the first time. with the brunt of vaccines falling on large hospitals, small clinics and private pharmacy chains, states have used small percentages of their stockpiles. the 20 million promised by the trump administration by the new year of vaccines. if the pace don't pick up, some pfizer doses can expire while sitting in freezers. >> this is a national emergency,

3,000 people a day are dying. >> reporter: in colorado, school nurses at parker were vaccinated on new year's day. >> by the end of this month, every one of our 9,000 educators will have their first vaccines. >> abc news, los angeles. are you wondering when it will be your turn to be vaks ma nated. we have a calendar online, by answering some questions, you can see where you lay. a series of storms starting to move into the bay area. our weather spencer christian is tracking it all for us. >> pockets of rainfall across the bay area right now. light rain up in the north bay, it will be come more widespread as we get later through the night. through tomorrow morning we expect more areas of light rain and showers, less than a tenth of an inch, here is the forecast

you can see. how widely scattered the rain is. although there could be some areas that are quite wet. we expect the storm to whine down by about noon tomorrow, leaving us cloudy skies for the remainder of the day. it will be more rain coming a lot and i will have the accu forecast a little bit later. >>spencer. the family of oscar grant gathered 12 years after he was shot by a police officer. grant's family is demanding an officer who was fired but never charged be arrested. officer anthony paroni pinned grant down on his neck. >> we want to bring him into the bay area and question him and investigate. what's the da's office waiting for? >> reporter: alameda county district attorney reopened the case on october but have not

comment on it since. any time police kill a person who's not armed, the state attorney general must investigate. the grant's case would be an example. police are no longer to use carotid restraints or choke holds. the first law of its kind in the nation and the task force will make recommendations. there are significant changes come to the real estate market this year. the first is in february. those inherit a home must use it as their primary resident or the tax values get reassessed. those lost their homes in a disaster would be able to transfer their tax assessment to another home even if it is more expensive. you can find a list of new laws

by going to our website, abc7news.com. she was the first baby boomer in sacramento and now she's an icu doctor on the frontline. hear her amazing story. new year, new life, meet the bay area family who are plus one at midnight. a registered nurse received a vaccine and received a big surprise. first what's coming up on jimmy kimmel live right after abc7 news. >> we made the show, don't lit go to waste. >> you are in england right now. >> i am. >> is that the best place to celebrate christmas because to me it is. >> yes, 100%, we have all the

a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. today marks the official start of the toy collection. there is no toll increase this year. there will be a $1 hike starting on january 1st of 2022. >> 2020 was a tough year. through it all was the key to hold onto hope. new year's baby. vanessa walker. >> this was in 1982. a lot has changed since then when sacramento welcomed vanessa patterson. one thing remains certain, taxes. >> we keep on getting closer to midnight and well, i kept on thinking well, we are going to

lose our tax deduction. when she's born at 12:20, she will be the first baby in town. baby vanessa is dr. vanessa walker. she's at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. >> i was born a critical care doctor. her mother was an icu nurse and her father still works as a respiratory therapist. though 2020 has delivered unparallel challenges. she says there are still so much to be grateful for. >> i get to ring in the new year, i am here and alive and i am healthy. >> this year she will spend her birthday working 15 hours shift in the icu and reflecting. she says 2020 marks a year of learning and being able to be on the cutting edge of treating a new disease that nobody knew about. >> and a year of triumphs. seeing all the things we have been able to do coming together in science has been amazing.

now back here in the bay area, families welcomed new members at the stroke of midnight. meet jack and his parents, he was born at 12:06 a.m. >> oh, she's the first baby of the new year in the bay area. abc7 news spoke with the proud parents this afternoon. >> so went in for a c-section around 11:50. >> i remember getting the count down and it struck midnight and said happy new year to everybody. >> 12:06. >> i was getting the c-section and i heard them say happy new year. >> she went into get induced on december 30th and 36 hours later when it was not going quite as expected, she had a c-section. this is the couple's first

child. >> they welcomed their third child, a boy at 12:25 a.m. congratula

now to a young girl that's going places. at 4-year-old she's an impressive painter, she deton e detonatdetonatonates many of her work of arts to help many others. >> dion lim got a a a a a a her today. >> i am never going to stop painting. >> reporter: the members of menza had a lot of kids with hobbies and telling jokes. >> why did the dinosaur crossed the road? >> reporter: i don't know, why? >> because the chicken was not born yet. >> reporter: by age three. >> i don't know how she did it.

it blew me away. >> here is the new bob ross. >> reporter: she created more than 100 works of arts with theirly nearly a dozen fetching over $100. she makes painting tutorials on youtube. >> we are painting dandelion. >> reporter: juliet asked to serenades us with her violin and challenging me to a math competition. >> reporter: i am sweating. >> when we are all done. how did you think i did? >> good. >> reporter: she has these words of advise to me and anybody else watching, who wants to make a dich difference in the new year. >> you can do it if you focus. >> reporter: in piedmont, dion lim. abc7 news.

>> she's fantastic. when eric administer the vaccine, he gave her a surprise. >> the couple been together for five years and often joked about getting engaged. >> they work for the same healthcare provider. >> how exciting. that's a great way the do it. great idea. >> larry beil is here with sports. >> the warriors playing their first home game of the season. it is

happy new year! the warriors played their first game of the season. tough task. no fans at the chase center but we got the big pregame intro. and now, draymond green. damian lillard scored. c.j. mccolumn, he played double

digits all night long and stephen curry did all that he could trying keep the warriors in. 26 for steph. the warriors hit only 7. finishes 34 and the warriors fall 123-98. college football, coach sweeney questioning whether ohio state should be in the college playoffs. that question was answered in the sugar bowl. justin fields to jeremy. ohio state pouring in. fields through 6 tds, the game's mvp, buckeyes roll 49-28. the rose bowl in texas because of california's covid

restrictions, harris, he's superman. he could fly. that's the pride of antioch. he looks good. 19 over notch. devonte smith, what a game. the rose bowl record heit tied three receiving touchdowns. top ten matches against arizona. four cardinal assistants were out because of covid. stanford is up early. no dunks in this game. cardinals at 81-54. cal lost by

okay, we have light rain scattered across the bay area right now. storm rank is one. look for pockets of light rain and showers. most receiving a tenth of rainfall. you can see pockets of rain there, indicating light showers

and rainfall. by midday and noon, rain will be pretty much over. high temperatures will be mainly in the upper 50s to about 60 degrees. i am going to skip through this because it is a narrow high. the accu weather, seven-day forecast, you can see that it is going to be a wet seven days ahead. after the rain tapers off tomorrow, it is light showers, scattered rain on sunday. each day next week we can expect some periods of light rainfall. the rainy season is finally here. >> that's quite the start to 2021. spencer, thank you very much. thank you all of our weather team always keeping us updated. that's going to do it for this edition of abc7 news. thank you very much for watching. i am alma date, thank you for being here,

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♪ >> i think my ultimate goal in life and in general is just to get to a place where i can really impact people's lives. and if that may be through fashion, if that's my channel or my outlet that allows me to do that, then that's the direction i'll go. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> our main goal is to give back to the community and help impact as many lives as possible. >> it's just amazing how many people we can connect to in many ways, you know? >> yeah, there's so many ways to connect while volunteering. >> we can reach out to the people we help. we can reach out to the people who collaborate with us, too. that's an amazing experience. ♪ >> designing a difference was started on the idea of creating job opportunities while still keeping the fashion industry, manufacturing industry alive

here in the bay area. and we started it 2012, and it started out as a way to bring the community together and make lunches to feed the homeless. and from that, to this idea of trying to create job employment through training programs in the fashion industry and then keeping the industry alive and creating jobs in the industry that also don't want to see die down in the bay area. so through the nonprofit, i also launched a manufacturer because i realized that in order to keep the industry alive, we needed to also have a place to directly employ people and offer these services. i opened up d.a.d. sewing house, and we have a full-service design studio, as well as a sewing manufacturer, which we do all in-house. >> designing a difference is helping this community in so many ways. she's employing a lot of people right now, she has been employing a lot of people throughout this whole pandemic. when most people were laying people off, she was finding new ways to keep people employed, coming up with projects. she really wanted to keep people

employed, because they have families, too. >> i've been in the fashion industry for -- i guess about 2010 and just started doing my own designs. i started with bathing suits, started with a little streetwear. and then i transitioned into the manufacturing side, just because i saw that there was a need and there was really nowhere to get manufacturing work other than maybe l.a. or internationally. so then i decided to -- that i didn't want to see it disappear, and i had to be part of the change and opened up a sewing house. ♪ this is our eighth year coming together. usually, we gather in person, but this is our first year hosting a virtual event. and the people that are here today are just the actual contributors, the partners of the items that we're contributing today. but we're encouraging everybody from all over the bay area to join in our efforts and make care packages to contribute to the homeless community. >> right now, we're all