letter signed by eight governors that pushed for the decision. abc 7 stephanie sierra is follow loeg t ing the latest. >> this decision does not come without controversy as the nation faces a growing distribution backlog, one that continues to get worse in california. >> i'm focussed on the urgency of three immediate concerns, one the virus. getting it under control. getting the vaccine from a vile into people's arms. i think the way it's being done now is very, very sad. >> reporter: a strategy shift announced today from president elect joe biden revealing after he assumes office, almost all covid vaccines will be immediately released to states that need them. >> i think the shift by the biden transition team is a really good development and good policy. >> reporter: stanford doctor

joshua salmon and plans only half of the available van secci were shipped to states. >> to ensure three weeks or four weeks later everyone that gets the first dose can get the second dose. the change from today will ensure states have more dos at their disposal. >> reporter: the state has 1.4 million dos available yet to be changed. are you concerned this change could further spike the backlog? >> i agree with that. there are local bottlenecks keeping us from getting the available doses administered and we absolutely need to tend to those. >> reporter: more than 2 million dos have been shipped to local health deputies and health care systems across the state. yet, as of today, 29% have been used up slightly from 25% reported yesterday. >> there is a real need to get vaccine out rapidly. we're getting backed up in the

hospitals, the icus are full. we need to stop transmission. >> reporter: providers can start to administer vaccines. much of the backlog is from network providers who are responsible for distributing doses. >> we need to loosen the tiers and we have now. we'll see faster administration. hold me accountable, you will. >> reporter: we certainly will as newsom promised an additional 1 million doses will be administered across the state by the end of next week. >> next week the goal a million. end of the week, ten days. >> we of course, hope to see that does happen. we'll be monitoring totals throughout the week. in the meantime, the state's pharmacy program working with cvs and wall gregreens has 300, doses for residents and

long-term care facilities and we'll keep a close eye on that process, too. >> stephanie, thank you. >> now, earlier this week i asked dr. patel about what he thought of the plan. dr. patel is part of our vaccine team. what do you think about the thought being diskuing discussey the second dose so more people can get the first dose sooner than later. scientifically, is that a good idea? >> it not a good idea and doesn't address the underlying issue, if you tell me everyone that got a vaccine got one and we hit the hmax supply, that would be an issue. americans haven't got the full supply. this is not the bottleneck. >> what about the risks if there are any if we go in an approach where people could get two doses

pr from two different vaccines. >> we don't have data to see if that's as effective. the risk is we delay the second dose we need for immunity and run the risk of people not coming back or running out of supply or distribution later on. >> dr. patel there. in the north bay, teachers and employees are getting ready o receive they are does doe dos beginning as soon as next week. they are prioritized after health care workers. health officials still waiting for more dos of the vaccine. >> reporter: more raarin countyh care workers rolling up sleeves. officials say about 8,000 vaccines have been given so far. >> we're very, very excited. >> reporter: homarin county sup insttestep -- superintendent sa

school nurlss are first and then staff. marin county prioritized school employees to get the vaccine. this special ed teacher has been back in the classroom with students since september and following safety protocols safely but never quite enough. >> that vaccine, it adds another layer of safety and it also gives, i think, the parents, puts them at ease a little bit. >> officials say the vaccine could be given to 8,000 school employees here at the marin county office of education. >> so what will happen we're in the process of identifying names and we'll forward them and be prioritized. >> getting children back in the classroom. >> reporter: dr. matt will lais says more vaccine is needed. >> we have an operation where we're able to vaccinate 500 to

1,000 people a day. right now we don't have enough vaccines to do that many vaccines a day. >> reporter: new shipments are expected next week. for teacher liz duffield getting the vaccine is personal. >> i'm excited to get it because i haven't hugged my parents since marm. . california's hospitals are already pefeeling the strain of the covid surge and the head of the hospital association said it will get a lot worse. >> we're standing on a beach watching a tsunami approach. california's hospitals, nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and others are bracing for what will be the next few weeks of a very difficult environment. >> the hospital association expects another 15,000 people are going to need to be hospitalized because of covid-19 by january 18 th.

in lose oranan oranganorange -- county one-third of the patients are being treated for covid. with that as backdrop, governor newsom released the budget plan today that includes $15 billion of surging tax returns for i ceconomic relief. wayne freedman has a closer look. >> a surprise from governor newsom today a one-time wind fall leading to 12% more spending than last year in california. the budget is $227 billion, the pandemic is the center piece. >> our budget understandably represents and reflects the realities of this recession. >> reporter: that budget acknowledges the pain felt by californians that suffer the most. the governor wants to augment the coming $600 checks with $600

more from california. >> we think there is urgency to get money into californians pockets and we're proposing a golden state stimulus to basically make those $600 checks people are starting to receive prom the federal government to get them to be $1200. we want to get roughly 4 million checks out within three weeks of me signing this. >> reporter: for fighting the virus and getting vaccines into arms, the governor wants to see 1 million people immunized total. he proposed spending $1.7 billion and $372 million for vaccines. as for the delays and people getting them, the state is relaxing some of the guidelines. >> it when the vaccines are produced at scale and made available to the state then we can answer the question 20 plus million californians can have access. what we did yesterday is updated the guidelines recognizing some

of the bottlenecks in terms of this cohort and now we are allowing people more flexibility at the local level. >> among the more unusual questions why a governor that's gone into quarantine twiels refur - twice refuses to be vaccinated h himself. >> i don't think that will sit well with people and i'm happy to wait my turn. >> in the budget, money to continue working on an earthquake early warning system. it been in budgets before and remains for a few million dollars, the governor is buying a few seconds that might save billions of dollars and lives in the future. >> wayne, thank you. you got to look at this. we have stunning video of a woman getting a gun pulled on her today as she was trying to stop car burglars near alamo scare in san francisco. the suspect is grabbing something and she follows and

slips into the back of a white lexus that was waiting for him and she approaches a suspect pops out, turns and points a gun at her. she immediately stopped in her tracks and back peddles and police will tell you do not pursue people in this situation. call the police. a witness tells ab krrn brkbc 7 belongings belong to a family prom maryland and the thieves got a backpack full of passpor s passports. searching for terrorists for those who breached the capitol. >> taking a shot? your dentist could give you the covid vaccine. how it going to work and a look at aleck trebek from the eyes of past contestants. i'm spencer christian with a look a long dry

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capitol police officer killed while fighting against the domestic tore rerrorists, more 17,000 tips coming in as police search for suspects. >> reporter: the nation is mourning slain capitol police officer brian sicknick who died from injuries wednesday. any time a member of law enforcement dies in the line of duty. it's a solum reminder they run torp toward danger to maintain peace. nancy pelosi order flags to be flown at half staff. after the failure to secure the capitol, the house and senate sergeant at arms resigned. police chief steven sunned said he will step down. some of the outrage leading to the resignations is in regard to how law

perpetrators to walk away. this man who put his boots up on speaker nancy pelosi's desk has been arrested and after whipping u the angry mob and directing them to march on the capitol in a new video president trump condemning them. >> like all american, i'm outraged by violence, lawlessness and may ham . >> reporter: efforts to remove him are gaining steam. the pentagon saying they discussed the security of nuclear weapons with speaker pelosi and a growing number of republicans suggesting they are more hope to impeaching trump. ben sass. >> i believe the president disregarded his oath of office. >> reporter: the out going

president confirming and tweeting i will not be going to the inauguration on january 20th. >> one of the few things he and i ever agreed on. >> reporter: if trump stays true to the word, he'll be the fourth out going president not to attend his successor's inauguration. the last president to skip, president andrew johnson some 15 two years ago. east bacy congressman eric swalwell is calling for mr. trump's removal from office. the president incited the mob that breached the capitol on wednesday. >> i believe if he does not resign on his own or the 25th amendment is not invoked by vice president pence, the house must act swiftly to impeach him and remove him from the senate. >> swalwell said even though mr. trump has only days left in office, he still needs to be

held accountable. >> you have to move at the speed of the president's corruption and chaos. this man, although he does not have access to facebook or instagram has access to the nuclear codes and he's quite ir racial. he is not someone that should be trusted with the nuclear codes and the fear of more provocative acts of the president moves us to act as quickly as possible. >> reggie's interview took place just before swalwell participated in a video call with house democrats discussing their plan of action. democrats believe they could spent articles of impeachment to the full house as soon as next wednesday. san francisco announced two new initiatives in the fight against human trafficking. the city is training all health department inspectors to watch for signs of human trafficking during inspections at residential hotels, restaurants and bars and report it immediately.

also, san francisco international airport is posting signs with resources for victims of human trafficking. >> the signs have been install d on doors of 1,000 restroom stalls in the domestic and international terminals and encourage those who mind themselves in danger to call the airport hot line and get help immediately from trained sfo staff. >> the fbi says san francisco is one of the nation's most active areas for sex trafficking. in 2019, the mayor's task force on anti human trafficking found there were an estimated 632 cases within the prior two years. those are just the cases there were reported. turning to weather now a high surf advisory underway for the bay area coastline. waves 25 feet or higher are expected to breakthrough saturday morning with a high risk for rip currents for colder than usual waters. monday and tuesday by exceptionally high tides known as king tides and takes us into

the weekend weather forecast with spencer christian. hi, spencer. >> okay. larry and kristen, i want to give you another look at the high surf advisory because it's worth keeping these details in mind. this is in effect until 6:00 tomorrow morning and as you pointed out, wave heights may reach up to 25 feet or locally higher. there is a risk of dangerous sneaker waves and rip currents and even as the advisory expires, the wave heights will be a bit elevated. it a good idea to stay away from the coastline or don't turn your back on the ocean if you're on the coastline. weather conditions over san franciscome franciscoment -- partly cloudy skies. 60 morgan hill and 54 at half moon bay. this is looking out towards alcatraz. you can see partly to mostly cloudy skies. 60 santa rosa and 61 napa, only

52 fairfield, concord 59 and 60 livermore and the view from our rooftop camera at abc 7 looking across the embarcadero giving you a view of brighter skies over the bay. chilly tonight, much chillier than last night in the relative absence of clouds and patchy fog will develop and sunnier and drier over the weekend and we have a warmer winter pattern coming our way next week. here is our toforecast animatio. pssing high clouds and a little patch of fog here and there will develop and tomorrow will be a bright day but there will be high clouds around filtering the sunshine and it will be dry. overnight low temperatures will be in the low to mid 30s in the north bay valleys, mid to upper 30s inland east bay and down not south bay and upper 30s to about 40 or 41 around the bay shoreline then tomorrow, look for high temperatures of 58 in san francisco, 60 oakland, 61 san jose, concord fairfield 62 up in the north bay.

62 at santa rosa, 61 napa. and the climate prediction center is giving us this sort of long term outlook for next week for the high temperature range. notice virtually all of california will have above average temperatures and that certainly applies to the bay area where there is a 70% chance of above average temperatures and we might see some high temperatures in the middle of next week reaching up towards record territory. here is the seven-day forecast. a dry pattern and as we look at the middle to the end of next week, wednesday through friday, high temperatures will range from 66 to 68 degrees inland and around the bay shoreline. pretty unusual and relatively mild at the coast. pleasant and fairly comfortable weather coming our way but we really need rain and it not anywhere in the forecast over the next seven days, larry and kristen. >> we'll enjoy it now but hope for rain. spencer, thank you.

>> yeah. all right. the end of an era coming up. tonight is alex trebek's final episode of "jeopardy." we'll take

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david louie collected memberries and being on the final trebek hosted shows. >> the host of "jeopardy" alex trebek. >> reporter: over the years "jeopardy" featured a number of bay area contestants. their memories of meeting him more touching because of his death. >> i realized i would be on the last games that were hosted by alex trebek and just gave me goose bumps and i feel so honored to be in that historic position. >> reporter: san francisco state english professor tried out over 20 times to get on the show. he made it on trebek's final broadcast. >> i've been trying for over 30 years and i'm glad i never gave up because not only did i get to meet alex who is an icon in the industry and one of the world's classiest men, but i got to be on his final show, which is

pretty special. i was struck with such admiration for him that he would continue to do it in not only after he'd been diagnosed but, you know, he did not miss a show in the two years that he had been battling pancreatic cancer. i knew it was a struggle for him but he did not let that affect his performance once the cameras started rolling. he was giving it everything he had. >> reporter: j.j. harris competed on "jeopardy" in 2018 after trebek made public his cancer diagnosis. she tried to console him. >> i wanted to wish him good health and, you know, i got a little emotion. my voice started to quaver a little bit and he held on to my hand and closed his eyes and we just had a moment of connection i felt. >> reporter: retired berkeley professor dan discovered during

several "jeopardy" matches he shared something unique with trebek. >> for some reason we got to talking about summer jobs and discovered that both he and i when we were in college had summer jobs as garage men and it was an odd thing to have in common. >> reporter: some contestants might have asked for an autograph. she got it on his marriage certificate when their got married on the stage. >> alex was the official witness there on the stage and stood around for the entire reception and happy to have his picture taken with all guests. >> reporter: garrett a peninsula library manager used the adjectives warm, genuine and admirable. >> he had an ability to make you feel like you were friends, that were you close, that he truly cared about you. >> reporter: and a connection that sadly comes to a close.

>> certainly, will never be the same and we'll always miss him. >> reporter: david louie, abc 7 news. >> you know, i think everyone who is lucky enough to cross paths with alex feels that special connection. larry, i'm not sure if i told you this story, when i was in college quite randomly i ran into alex trebek in italy of all places ordering gelato failing at it and he came up to me and asked do you need any help and he ordered my gelato with extra whipped cream. what a gentleman. loved him ever since and i can see all that love, too, from the contestants, you know. >> that's an incredible story. i had never heard that before. but that's amazing. it as good as the guy trying for 30 years to get on the show and makes it on in the final few days. i think we can all agree, the show will go on. "jeopardy" will continue but alex trebek is not replaceable. he's an icon, legend and will

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one look at the regional icu availability numbers and you can see right here, the stay at hope order for the bay area is not going to be ending any time soon. 3% is the lowest for the region since the tracking started sacramento getting hit hard 6.4%

6.4%. amy hollyfield spoke with amy truggling business owners. >> i'm saddened for staff because there is little hope for our staff financially. >> reporter: j.b. says extending the stay-at-home order may mean the end of his family owned restaurant the hideout in lafayet lafayette. >> instead of a permanent closure is greater now than it has been in the last ten months. we have exhausted our ves reserves. >> reporter: he announced on social media he'd have to defy the order or close. >> we have made the decision to open. we're going to be opening the patio. >> reporter: but the county heard about and it shut down that plan. >> we were totally prepared to pay the fines but we were served a notice of violation by the health department and a threat to immediately revoke our health permit. >> reporter: so that means the patio will remain closed and j.b. has some hard decisions to

make. it is a scene that is playing out all over california. we also checked in with the russian river brewing company in santa rosa where things are also looking bleak. >> i'm very worried. we have a lot of accounts we distribute whole sale to particularly bars and restaurants that are on their last legs and, you know, the takeout model just isn't enough to sustain them. it actually wasn't enough to sustain our windsor pub we temporarily closed. >> both restaurant owners tell us they don't think restaurants are contributing to the spread of covid. >> obviously, the increase has gone on for ten months with restaurants closed. it's not us. it's not salons. you know, soft it's bre it' it ' obvious. >> he would decide restaurants are safe and can open outdoor dining and will rely on community support he says to remember wait staff relies on tips so be sure and tip when you

pick up that takeout if you can to keep your mom and pop restaurants alive. in lafayette, amy hollyfield, abc 7 governor new some som updatd effort. >> the predicate in terms of focus on a budget is the reality of getting out of the freezers and administering into people's arms these vaccines. we must do that in order to safely reopen for in person instruction, our schools to reopen our small businesses as well as businesses large and small all across the state of california. >> yesterday newsom discussed the steps that need to be taken including bids and state and local leaders, hospital officials as well as medical and dental associations. on monday the governor said dentists will be among those giving the shots.

melanie woodro spoke with a walnut creek dentist about the plan. >> reporter: david says dentists are well versed in giving shots. now dentists across california have been cleared to administer the covid-19 vaccine. >> i think one of the reasons they did this is that dental offices are pretty well positioned to do something like this obviously dentists give a lot of shots and we also follow osha protocols so we keep things very clean here. >> reporter: since the start of pandemic, he says he's added even more safety protocols. >> we have closed our reception room so that we don't have people coming in and out of there every space, every area is wiped down whenever a patient walks through there we're just trying to kind of keep everything as clean as possible. >> reporter: he says he received an email from the dental board that included additional training but no concrete guidance how he'll get, store

anded administer the vaccine. >> we don't have the refrigeration capability that is required to store the vaccine, so i don't know how that's going to work. there is a lot of details that need to be hashed out. >> reporter: while patients haven't called inquiring yet, he expects that to change as more people hear. >> i'm sure dentists are just as excited to get back to life as normal so if we can help get back to there and people are happy to come here and get their shot, i'm sure that it will be a win win for everybody. >> reporter: melanie woodro, abc 7 news. >> los angeles will keep using a coronavirus test despite warnings it could produce false negative results. the fda sern arka sent out an a per experts say it could be tied

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. all right, time for the four at 4:00 as spencer and dion joining us. president trump tweeting today he won't attend joe biden's inauguratio inauguration. mr. trump will be the first sitting president not to attend his successor's inauguration since 1869. biden thinks it's a good idea saying it's one of the few things we agree on adding mr. trump is not worth that he y of attending. no word whether vice president mike pence will attend but biden says he is welcome. it's not surprising at all given what we've seep tn the last fou years but spencer, can you compare what you seen in 1869 to

current day? [ laughter ] >> i was a fairly young lad then. so my memory is a bit fuzzy of that particular innauguration ad i've seep man many others and t is the first time in our lifetime an out going president has not attended the incoming president's inauguration. i don't think joe biden will be bothered by that at all and it might be better for all involved. >> here is the deal. i think if this was pre the chaos at the capitol this week i would have maybe said donald trump was experiencing sour grapes but now that it's a safety issue, no, no anything lost there, i don't think. >> i hope vice president pence attends, though, it will be nice for the world to see the peaceful transfer of power, right? so we'll see what happens there whether he accepts the invitation. a woman that earned the name

soho karen has been arrested. >> that's mine. >> are you kidding me? you feel like there is only one iphone made? >> this saga started last month at a new york city hotel and went viral. police started looking for her but she took off and went to california. they caught up to her last night in ventura county at her moth e er's house where she resisted and had to be restrained and her phone was later found in an uber. so much to say about this. did you see her interview by the way this morning with gayle king? she had enough of the questions so she went gayle, enough. i mean, her whole attitude. what did you think about it? i mean, dion? >> yeah -- >> spoiled a little. >> i was turned off and i read she might have had a dui in incident in her past. clearly, there are underlying issues and she said i'm only 22. i'm sorry, that's not an excuse to behave badly. there are underlying issue that clearly need to be addressed.

>> yeah, i mean, spencer 22, what, so you should not take responsibility for your actions and i don't know if you saw it but really her whole attitude, i'm surprised the lawyer let her talk. >> yeah, i didn't see it this morning. it didn't know she was on this morning but i'm glad she's been found and now we can all see who she is and see more of what she is. >> yeah, it's remarkable to these things just keep happening, that's what stuns me more than anything else. the popular '90s ice cake vinnetta making a come back. returning to stores after nearly three decades. if you don't remember this it was launched as a christmas special in 1982 in the u.k. was discontinued in the '90s here in the u.s. but remained popular in europe and coming back.

i looked at one of their cmmercials and the tag line is one slice is never enough. dion, was it you that said you remember it? >> yes, and i remember it being so boogie as an expensive treat to indulge in but looking at the packaging it doesn't look that high class and i doubt it will be as delicious as i remember. spencer, it's one of those things the thought is good but in actually it falls very short of expectations. >> you're probably right. it doesn't have much appeal to me anyhow because i'm not a big sweets eater although i do like vanilla bean ice cream. my taste is simple. that's too much fancy ice cream stuff going on for me. >> simple yet elegant. you don't eat a lot of sweets. if it eat something like that, it's it's it. it's a classic and delicious. we talked about the best time to get rid of the christmas decorations, note what is behind larry, no more christmas decor. lots of people are finally

taking down the lights and trees so we thought we'd end today's four at 4:00 with a good-bye to one tree in scotland as it walks away down the street. the video was posted on facebook and one person joked it was the perfect disguise for anyone trying to get caught outside for the covid-19 related lockdown. i'm just a tree. i'm not a person. i can't spread it. >> as long as it's not an inflatable tree costume, right, guys? >> exactly. that was actually -- >> is that the stanford tree that made an escape from campus popping around wherever? >> if it is, you know what i want to do with that tree, the ax. >> it could be the former nba player tree rollins in disguise. >> wow. now that's going back a ways. >> so many bad tree comments today. [ laughter ] >> yeah. tree rollins is like seven-feet

tall so he would have been taller than that tree. >> all right. that's the amusement for us. that will do it for this four at 4:00. >> maybe he was g

all right. time for consumer news. michael finney and unfortunately, here we go again. >> exactly. amazon is once again being accused of letting vendors hike

prices on essential pandemic i st -- items. toilet paper, masks, 409 of 750 essential products sold by amazon saw a price hike of more than 20% over the past year. now, that's according to a study by the non-profit public interest research group. amazon was first accused of price gouging near the beginning of the pandemic last april. we told you about that. at the time, amazon suspended more than 6,000 sellers. the national highway traffic safety administration has rejected a request to investigate unintended acceleration in teslas. in 2019, you may remember a berkeley man asked for the investigation after there had been 127 owner complaints and 110 crashes. the agency concluded there was no evidence of fault and the accelerations were due to driver error. the environmental protection

agency is reporting for the first time in five years, enough vehicle gas mileage has dropped and pollution has gone up out of each individual new vehicle. the average gas mileage fell 0 .2 miles per gallon. the first time since 2014 that the mileage fell and pollution increased. environmental groups say the change was due to auto makers finding loopholes and knowing the trump administration was moving to rollback those standards. you guys, there is a new sheriff in town as of january 20th. we'll see where things go from here. >> uh-huh. >> all right. thanks, michael. mercedes is debuting a new touch screen system that takes up the whole dashboard. the touch screen stretches from the driver to the passenger seats and lets passengers select their own entertainment functions and countries where it's legal, watch videos using blue tooth headphones when

nobody is in the front passenger seat, the screen shows decorative designs. >> hmm. >> maybe play a little soothing -- you have concerns, larry? i can see the eyes of concern. >> i don't want people watching netflix while they're driving around unless they're watching spencer christian, i'm not in favor of this. >> there you go. >> agreed. >> if you're watching the weather, welcome to my world. here is a look what is happening tonight. fewer clouds than last night. it will get much chillier with temperatures inland in the upper 30s and tomorrow filtered sunshine with high clouds around, temperatures will range from upper 50s at the costa 60 60s inland and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. sunday will be almost an exact duplicate of tomorrow and next week we have a warming trend coming our way by wednesday, thursday, friday and high temperatures well above average for this time of the year in record territory for mid january. dry week but a pleasant one

ahead. larry? >> all right. thank you, spencer. it's happening again, people rushing out to stores in the bay area actually nationwide to pick uptick tickets for two massive lottery jackpots. we stopped by to catch up with people putting down a few bucks hoping to turn that into hundreds of millions of dollars. the jackpots for the mega millions and powerball drawings tonight and tomorrow are moving toward a combined $1 billion. the odds of winning pretty as t big as one in 300 million. if there is a winner, they would take home the largest lottery jackpot since june of 2019. making magic in the kitchen, the stunning works of art all made by a bay area 12-year-old. the talent that put her in the spotlight and dion is here with what is coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00. >> a look when covid-19 might end in california from the very

same people who correctly predicted our current surge. plus, a snapshot of walnut creek as local businesses try to hold on to during this pandemic and a boost in the vaccine effort. the new of tim moptimism, these wait up, wait up... papa john's has a new stuffed crust...? we did it... we did it!!! all our tweets, dms and carrier pigeons worked!! this ain't just stuffed crust. this is papa john's crust, stuffed.

. a 12-year-old san jose girl took on a new hobby during the pandemic, making. now she's baking her way to the top on a food network >> when i got into baking i baked a lot. i baked two times a day. some of my go-to things are honestly cakes because i usually put a lot of creativity into it. it's a way to kind of vent. you're focused on one thing and that's my way of spacing out. and you can also pour a lot of creativity in that and i really love that. i need today find a passion and hobby since all my sports are pretty much postponed. so i really got into baking. i just put my soul and heart and kind of learned a bunch of different things in videos.

when of the first baking shows was actually the kids baking ship. when i first saw these kids bakic i was like oh, my gosh, these kids are absolute prodigies. and that made be want to learn it, too. there's not really a lot of bakers in my area is insane. so searching for recipes and a little link popped up for kids baking championship, told my parents and i said i want to do this. and i actually got the call back the next day which is really exciting. and when i got there i was like they picked such a good cast because we're so tight-knit. the fact we still keep in touch today is crazy. i'm hoping that i can someday open something that requires food or maybe baking. i think it's definitely going to be a long-term thing and i'll definitely hold onto this. >> she talks about other kids like crazy genius bakers as if she wasn't one of them. she most certainly is. great to watch that.

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next at 5:00, permanently suspended. twitter shuts down president trump's ability to directly communicate with more than 88 million followers. plus the new warning about the surge in hospitalizations and why some liken it to a tsunami. and vaccine boost. for the first time in weeks the top doctor in santa clara county is optimistic about progress in the fight against covid-19. also tonight the battle to reopen schools in the bay area. half a dozen superintendents take on the governor. and the governor's new budget bonanza. the windfall that could bring a pandemic payoff. with that, we say good evening and thank you so much for joining us. i'm dion lim. ama dates will be joining me