next at 5:00, hospital that the had two hours to give out 600 vaccine shots and turned a near disaster into a road map for mass inoculation. plus, foster children caught in the middle in marin. why kids are being sent out of the county far away from family and friends. and the plan to temporarily close fire stations in oakland because the budget just can't afford to keep them open. >> also coming up here tonight, proposed hazard pay for grocery workers and why some say the increase is a bad idea. plus, the slap in the face for distilleries that stepped up to help fight covid-19. and the new lifeline-for-small businesses in santa clara county. we'll begin here with the hospital that had just hours to administer all of its covid-19 advance evens because it had no choice. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. thanks for joining us. it happened at ukiah valley

medical center, a hospital an hour north of santa rosa. the frozer storing the moerpda vaccines broke down and by the time it was in the the vials were two hours away from going bad. abc 1 news reporter wayne freedman explained how hospital staff turned what could have been a disaster into a day of success. >> reporter: into ukiah some 830 people breathed a little easier and worried less about covid-19 today. math teacher leslie banta happened to be up of them. her word for it. >> elated. that's not an understatement. >> reporter: because as this card proves leslie received her first vaccination yesterday. that is weeks, maybe even months ahead of schedule in a victory snatched from what might have been a disaster. >> it's astounding, and i think it's heroic. >> reporter: it was an emergency of a different kind. early monday morning a freezer inside this health center failed and the freezer contained vaccine. by the time staff learned about it, that vaccine had roughly two hours before it expired. can you imagine the consequences of such a loss?

>> our main focus was on getting and making sure that no vaccine went to waste. >> reporter: they bypassed priority lists, began making calls and lined formed via word of mouth. >> i got a call shortly after is being. i got my vaccine at 1:30, and the vaccine expired at 2:00. >> reporter: could this have happened anywhere else? >> we're a community that sticks together and we think of each other and -- and i think this was a good example of that. >> reporter: where today roughly one-tenth of the population has been vaccinated, way ahead of the curve for much of this nation. >> it's amazing how a time constraint can really deploy resources. >> reporter: what's the lesson for rest of the country? >> it can be done. >> reporter: didn't go to waste? >> none of them went to waste, nothing. >> reporter: in the midst of a pandemic that means everything. in ukiah, wayne freedman, abc 7

news. >> patients and staff have been vaccinated, patients in this facility, patients and maybe up to 40% of staff were vaccinated today. >> you know how to go to school and it's a picture day and everybody is dressed up nice with smiling faces, that's the way it is here today because after the year of what we've been through, long hours, not knowing what holds for you in the future, not knowing if you're going to take something back to your family which you don't want back home. >> meanwhile, san francisco mayor london breed says vaccinations are under way at laguna honda, home to long-term care residents. the mayor also says the city will remain under a stay-at-home horde for foreseeable future. in napa health officials are asking nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, didn'tists and doctors to help administer vaccinations. volunteers can sign through the napa county medical reserve corps, and nationwide moderna says it will be able to make at least 600 million doses of its

vaccine this year. 100 million more than it had been projecting. >> the pandemic is hitting marin county particularly hard when it comes to the need for foster families. abc 1 news reporter luce pena looks at the problem and one family that made the decision to help. >> reporter: after being placed in 13 homes in the last four years, this 16-year-old finally found a family. >> we met her and we loved her and she -- she's here now. she came to us october 29th. >> reporter: this couple heard about the need and decided to foster. >> it's an opportunity and it's a time to share, and we say we'll open the house because it gets kind of lonely as an empty nester. >> reporter: marin county family and services shows 42% of foster children are leaving this county. they say covid is making it harder to find homes for these children. >> families have been very afraid to take an unknown child into their home for care because

they don't know the amount of covid exposure that that child has had and we haven't been able to assure them that children are covid free due to the challenges with testing. >> the longer the stay-at-home order goes, the less visibility social workers have for attitash risk children. >> you know, having some schools reopen in marin has been helpful in terms of we're hearing about more kids than we were in april and may, but that's a constant fear in the back of my mind. >> the marin county foster care association says they are ready with resources to equip new families to foster, a process that can take a month in some cases. >> an online application, there's some background checks that need to be done. there's -- there's a class that involves around 18 hours. it's very easy to take and right now it's virtual. >> reporter: what they really need. >> we need more people to say yes to these kids. >> reporter: in marp county, luce pena, abc 7 news.

>> reporter: the health of bay-area businesses is vital to our economy obviously. one of the areas we're focusing on in our effort to build a bet per bay area, and today we're looking at craft distilleries, stunned over fees for producing hand sanitizer to help with a national shortage during the pandemic, as abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen explains that fee is now rescinded but perhaps only for the short term. >> reporter: after stepping up to produce thousands of gallons of hand sanitizer since the start of the covid-19 pandemic the distillery says it can no longer afford to do so because a surprise announcement from the fda. >> no good deed goes unpunished. >> reporter: the award-winning whiskey operation in san jose was among hundreds of small producers across the country hit with a surprise $14,000 fee that the fda said it was authorized to collect as part of the cares act, but an outcry from distillers eventually reached the upper etch lob of the department of health and human services who then decided to suspend the fee for 2020. yet questions still remain on

whether businesses will be on the hook moving forward. that's why many are choosing to halt production >> there's a fee and at that point in time a business can decide and make a business decision saying, hey, i can pay the fees and i want to do this or i cannot pay the fees and cannot do this. >> reporter: small distilleries have made hand sanitizers for businesses, non-profits and governmental agencies often at a fraction of what major companies are selling it for. in san jose this council member helped producers like tenth street distilleries to cut through the red tape to pivot and now he's in talks with the congressional delegation to make sure small businesses aren't penalized because of government bureaucracy. >> we'll be needing hand san tides ter all year long and potentially even more than we needed last year as we get more people out in our community so to take a local supply chain like this out of that occasion, it's going to be really detrimental to our local economy here. >> reporter: the american crafts spirits association is also in

ongoing talks with hhs on behalf of its members. >> we think there's real value in having american small business provide ppe for american needs, and i think that if we can find a way through this our country is going to be more secure in the long run. >> reporter: for now tenth street distilleries is pushing forward with the creation of its new tasting kits but are hopeful a return to making sanitizer isn't far away. >> this whole year has been a roker is. help is on the way for struggling small businesses in santa clara county. officials launched a new program offering low-interest loans to businesses with 50 or fewer full-time employees. to qualify, businesses must have earned less than $2.5 million in 2019 and must have experienced a 25% revenue loss compared to a prior one-year period. approved applicants can receive their money as soon as two to maybe three weeks after submitting their applications.

san francisco's board of supervisors is expected to take up a resolution to adopt a resolution that would give grocery store rays of $5 per hour. this is part of them being on the front lines during the pandemic and the california grocers association says this could end up backfiring and force stores to raise prices. >> some of those unintended consequences could be first of all be effective passing these costs on to our consumers through food prices. when you mandate a 30% price labor increase, we have to pass that on to somebody. >> reporter: the grocers association adds many stores are already giving out bonuses and extra pay. still ahead, a controversial hit-and-run suspect is in court for first time in this case. why some are calling it a conflict of interest for the city's top prosecutor. plus, proposed cuts to police and fire are likely just the beginning in oakland. what the mayor is now saying about the next blows to the budget. also here. today's vote to rename a city

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ask your doctor about trulicity. a repeat offender accuse of killing two women with a stolen car appeared in san francisco today. the san francisco police officer's association says the suspect should never have been out on the streets. >> reporter: troy mcalister entered a not guilty plea on charges related to the deaths of two women new year's eve in san francisco. the women were in a crosswalk in the selma district at the time. san francisco police say mcalister, on parole for a robbery, was trying to make a getaway after committing a burglary and hit and kill the women. >> i'm honestly shaking right now still talking about and thinking about what happened. >> the tragedy has sparked outrage as san francisco police officers association president tony montoya says mcalister

should have been in custody. >> this just highlights the current climate of the district attorney's office where mr. bodine and his staff are having their criminals first agenda with a victim being an afterthought. >> reporter: montoya is calling for an independent oversight panel to review the san francisco district attorney's office charging decisions an conflicts of interest. after mcalister's court appearance today the deputy public defender scott grant said this. >> there have been a lot of quick comments, accusations and attempts to point fingers and apportion blame. >> reporter: the california department of corrections and rehabilitation tells abc news that none of mcalister's numerous arrests resulted in criminal charges filed by district attorney chase abudine. it was said he had a conflict because he represented mcalister in a 20 is a armed robbery case. >> when they were making that

charging decision that ultimately ended up in mr. mcalister being released in march of last year they should have looked at who had an involvement in that case to rule out any conflicts of interest, and they didn't do that. >> the public defender says budine was standing in for another tune attorney and there's no conflict of interest. >> it's not a situation where you develop a relationship with the individual or have confidential information about them. it's really more of an administrative function. >> reporter: abc 1 news anchor asked him to why he was shifting attention to the law enforcement agencies that have arrested mcalister since his release. >> the fact of the matter is my office cannot prosecute cases until and unless the police present us with adequate office that a crime was committeded. >> reporter: with two women whose lives were cut short the public defend fer's office seem to have at least one thing in common. >> i think everyone can agree this should not have happened.

>> reporter: in san francisco, melanie roadrow, abc 1 news. >> and then there's this. a former san francisco police commander says the finger-pointing that we're seeing now following this incident is not helpful. richard correa says it's time for all sides to revisit their policies and make the needed changes. >> these horrible outcomes, you know, are almost -- almost go along with the way the system is set up, and i know that's hard for folks to hear, but with so much recidivism and so many people being pushed out of the system you're going to get cases can like this, it terrible tragedies. >> reporter: coria is a fellow at the institute of criminal justice at usf. he appeared this afternoon on our program getting answers at 3:00 with our kristen zse. >> there's new word on the mavis budget issues facing the city of observing and. [ laughter ] leaders there have already made deep cuts to police and fire service, and there is more pain ahead. abc 7 news reporter laura

anthony talked with oakland mayor libby schaaf about the ominous start to 2021. >> if we don't make hard decisions now we'll face heartbreaking decisions late sneer with deep and immediate cuts already to oakland's police and fire services, mayor libby schaaf warns there is more pain ahead as her city tries to head off a projected $62 million deficit. >> because congress failed to include local governments in the recent relief package we are facing very hard decisions. >> the city administrators already ordered $29 million in reductions including to police services at a time when violent crime is rising. >> walking details, bicycle details, downtown, north oakland, in the hills, those are gone. community policing officers in various beats around the city are gone. traffic enforcement gone. >> reporter: when it comes to the oakland fire department, the

proposed cuts include rotating station closures. for instance, station 25 here could be open one week and closed the next. the closures are set to begin soon, but the firefighters union plans to ask a judge for a restraining order. >> closing firehouses in the middle of both pandemics and epic wildfires is terrible public policy. >> reporter: but the cuts are far from over. this week department heads must submit plans for an additional 10% to 20% in reductions. >> we're still looking at 500 vacant positions that could be frozen, and as we look at potential service reductions let's make sure that we're not harming our most vulnerable communities as it might relate to fire safety or public safety. >> reporter: oakland's current budget crisis may well exceed that of 2008 when the city laid off dozens of people, including then employee libby schaaf. >> and i bring that -- that memory with me as i make these very difficult decisions that

are in front of me right now. >> reporter: in ocalan, laura anthony, abc 7 news. in the south bay newly elected a re-elected san jose city council members were sworn in ahead of the city council meeting, and one of the first things they did was to approve the renaming of several streets to barack obama boulevard. take a look at the map here that will show the area we're talking about. it will extend from the sap center to interstate 2280. the vote was unanimous. renaming effort started with an online petition back in 2017. when the sun finally came out today, the beach was a beautiful spot to take a moment for reflection as this fellow did, face mask and all, but it will not be this way

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and here's a look at the fog shrouding the bay bridge. looks kind of cool. thanks to ian who sent this picture to us with the #abc7now. great shot. what's tomorrow going to bring? let's check in with our news 7 meteorologist sandhya patel. >> we'll see showers tomorrow, but it won't be an even distribution across the entire bay area. i'll explain in just a moment h.let's first take a look at the stunning sunset from the san jose camera right now. notice the clouds are gathering but we do have a little bit of color. 53 in santa rosa and 55 degrees in concord and from our emoryville camera looking back towards the golden gate bridge with clouds over there as well, mid-50s around oakland, san francisco can, 52 degrees in san jose. here's a look at live doppler 7, and this was our break from the wet weather tomorrow. we have some showers coming our way. one thing that i do want to warn you about is just in case you're going to watch the waves a

little later on tonight, there is a high surf advisory until 11:00 p.m. look at the wave heights right now, anywhere from so to 16 feet. the large northwest swell bringing a risk of rip currents, a possibility of up to 30-foot waves, especially in favored locations. from our roof camera gentle wind out there and here's a look at the forecast. cloudy skies with patchy fog overnight tonight. spotty light showers tomorrow and our next system arrives late thursday night and going into early friday. the first one is level one on our storm impact scale. the scattered light showers up to .2 of an inch for the wettest north bay location and slippery spots expected for the afternoon commute as most of the wet weather is going to be coming into the bay area later on in the day, so here's the hour-by-hour look. 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. you'll notice it's around mendecino count de. as we go into about 11:30 it starts to approach parts of the north bay coastline and then 3:00 p.m. a few showers moving into san francisco. scattered around at 5:30.

you will notice that some areas don't get anything. a weak system not expecting much out of this system. as a matter of fact, rainfall totals will reflect t.parts of the south bay could measure nothing so san jose, even parts of the east bay, livermore may not get any more measurable rain at .3/100 of an inch, san francisco and oakland for tomorrow. now, temperatures first thing in the morning, anywhere from the mid-30s to the mid-40s. a lot of cloud cover. we will see some patches of fog but i don't think we're going to see quite as much as we did this morning because of all the clouds around. tomorrow afternoon make sure you have umbrellas if you're in the north bay first. that's where the showers will begin and then later on could see them pop up just about anywhere. afternoon highs upper 40s to the low 60s. a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. scattered showers with a level one system tomorrow. thursday night there's a chance in the north bay and friday morning showers with a level one and then we're going to a dryer pattern for the weekend.

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tonight, as we come on the air in the west, another historic election unfolding right now. the battle for georgia and control of the u.s. senate. what we're learning right now. the eyes of the nation tonight focused on georgia now. the two senate runoff elections and voters know this is about much more than georgia. the control of the senate in their hands, the future of president-elect joe biden's agenda. democrats needed both candidates to win, to have control of congress and the white house. republicans needed just one of their candidates to win to keep control of the senate. steve osunsami in atlanta tonight with what we're learning already. all of this tonight as president trump puts new pressure on vice president mike pence to do something about what will then play out on wednesday. congress set to make it official, president-elect joe biden's victory. the president saying that the vice president has the power to reject the electors.