next at 5:00, new frustration over the vaccine rollout. the head of pfizer admitting the hospitals can't keep up and can't control what happens. also in alameda county the bewilderment over why some first responders have yet to get a vaccine even though they are exposed to covid-19 nearly every day and the scathing report of covid at san quentin saying it's a public health disaster and san francisco's new maximum vaccination site and how it's serving one of the haarest hit communities and tony bennett's neurologist and what he says about his situation. we begin tonight with new developmen

ovid vaccine is impacting so many of us. with that we say good evening an thank you for joining us. >> in al moda county first responders are feeling their frustration grow. they have yet to get a shot more than a month before vaccines begin to roll out there. the president of moderna admits bolt next are indeed a problem and the company is trying to actively trying to speed things up and kaiser's ceo says the company doesn't have enough to go around. >> he says they serve of 9 million californians but have only received 300,000 doses. that works out to just over 2% getting vaccinated so far. abc 7 news anchor us off tonight at this rate it's going to take a long time. >> a very long time. it's frustrating for kaiser patients to get an appointment and the ceo is coming out and

apologizing but saying it's out of their hands. >> california's largest health care provider is acknowledging their vaccine rollout is not going smoothly, and this mass email sent to patients over the weekend kaiser permanente, chairman and ceo greg adams addressed concerns about a lack of available vaccine appointments. >> my overall feeling is i'm extremely frustrated. >> reporter: janine willison a patient and outside medical veras for kaiser and is considered part of their group 1a for vaccinations, yet she still can't get an appointment. she recently tried and was put on hold for 42 minutes. >> after 42 minutes i went through another round of questions only to be told that, yes, i was eligible but there are no vaccines and no apintments and i should call back in a week. it seemed really willy-nilly and also like i was trying to get a really difficult to get concert ticket. >> reporter: in the email from adams, he explained that it comes down to supply. he said kaiser cares for 9.3 million californians, and they

have only received 300,000 doses. if you do the math, that averages to about 43,000 doses a week. if that rate continues, it means it would take roughly 216 weeks or just over four years to have enough of the first dose for all of kaiser's california patients. >> oh, my goodness. wow. >> reporter: that is a staggeringly slow pace but thankfully experts are expecting it to pick up soon. the dr. mike wasserman, a member of california's vaccine advisory committee, says he's anticipating a big change in the next three to four weeks. >> i do think with a new administration in washington, i'm expecting the amount of vaccine that's available to start going up, and i think the challenge for all of us will be we just need to know how many vaccines are going to be made available in the next couple of weeks, in the next couple of months. >>ha aood

step forward in terms of being more transparent about the numbers, but, you know, kaiser is saying it's out of their hands. they can't go straight to the source just like the state. can't go straight to the source and buy more vaccines. they are truly dependant on what they get from the federal government. the. >> liz, what's kaiser's plan once it does get more vaccines? is it confident that it will be able to distribute it more efficiently? >> reporter: right. ama, they say they have a plan and are planning and prepared to administer 200,000 doses her week and at that rate it would take less than a year to vaccinate all of their patients or at least give all their patients one dose. they are planning and preparing for that. they say that they are prepared to open up more locations for when they do get more vaccines as well as use mobile clinics. ama? >> all right. thank you so much, liz. the slow rollout is raising

questions among bay-area law enforcement. according to the officer down memorial page two-thirds of the on-duty deaths last year, more than 230 officers were linked to covid-19. however, despite their front line duties many officers have yet even been offered the vaccine. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony has our story now from oakland. >> we're first responders in a are not a first priority for this county. >> unlike neighboring contra costa and marin counties, so far oakland police and alameda county sheriffs have yet to be offered a covid-19 vaccine by their county health department. >> officers every weekend go to probably 30, 40 calls a shift and in that time they are exposing the citizens to whatever the carrying if they are a.ik and they are being exposed simultaneously. >> reporter: most oakland firefighters have already received their vaccines. >> the excuse that we don't provide medical care for medical responders first, i would argue

we do just as much or maybe more than our firefighter counterparts. >> we have members have that are upset about it. they feel that they answer the call for service and have been on the front lines, you know, from the very beginning of the pandemic. >> reporter: alameda county board of supervisors president keith carson told abc news it's all about supply. >> we understand the fact that law enforcement does put themselves in direct contact with individuals inside and right now we're still trying to get through enough vaccine to vaccinate people who are co si >> the oakland police officers association says their need for the vaccine is especially great r members have become infected with coronavirus since the pandemic began. >> we've got 66 officers that have fallen ill with covid since the beginning of this. we make up 15% of the city's workforce. we're over 50% of those who are

covid positive. >> alameda county sheriffs have had 100 covid cases and one death among their ranks. in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. the slow rollout certainly has the attention of company p officials are working around the clock to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible. >> one of the big challenges is this has moved from a science exercise to an engineering one and like any complicated supply chain, there are many steps in making a vaccine that you need to plan forks and as you ramp up production you run into bottlenecks and what you need to do is attack the bottle next and develop solutions. >> reporter: moderna is asking the fda to increase the number of doses in each vile from 10 too 15. lirnrse tois hopeful thathe unne

decline. 15,358 cases were reported in the last day. the positivity rate is down to 7.3%. it was 9.4% a week ago. new details on the outbreak at san quentin. it's being called a public health disaster. the office of the inspector general released a report today saying the state did not take proper safeguards when transferring potentially covid positive inmates to san quentin. this animation shows how quickly the virus spread at the prison between june and august. since the pandemic began 28 people have died and more than 2,000 contracted covid at squint >> today is being hailed as a monumental day in san francisco's fight against the coronavirus. today the city opened its first covid-19 vaccination hub. it's located in the mission district in a community where help is needed. latinos are the demographic with n s francis and er statewide. officials say the explain to

vaccinate 120 people a day and work their way up from there. >> we know, sadly, that our latino population which represents about 15% of san francisco has been heard of the hit. of the over 30,000 cases, they have been about 42% of those cases, and what that means is that we as a city, we had to take action. >> local activists say today's opening is amazing for the community which has a covid-19 positivity rate of 14%. meanwhile the white house announce had $230 million deal with an australian company for the first at-home rapid test for coronavirus. the $30 test will be available this year without a prescription. results are sent to a smartphone within 15 minutes and are 95% accurate. abc 7 news is monitoring the covid vaccine rollout in california with our vaccine tracker. our vaccine tracker also shows you when you might be able to get the vaccine in california. you can find this on our home

page at abc 7 news.com. we learned today that tony bennett, the crooner who immortalized a song about leaving his heart in san francisco has alzheimer's. the doctor who diagnosed bennett told abc 7 news that he's sharing his diagnosis to give hope to others with the disease. >> still continue to bring joy to people because i can tell you as his neurologist, as someone who made his diagnosis four years ago, even though tony bennett has alzheimer's disease, if there were no pandemic and you were performing today, he would bring joy to so many people, and you would not know if you listened to him sing that he had a problem. >> now, alzheimer's advocates hope today's announcement by bent's family will also help increase understanding. abc 7's wayne freedman has tn the singer's life. >> right here. >> reporter: in show business the flashing of strobes usually indicates that a person has arrived, but those are transitory. on the other hand, when they put

up a stat you've you outside the fairmount hotel in the city that loves you it's permanent and so is the hurt on a bad day like this. >> i walk around these streets singing his music. ♪ i left my heart ♪ >> reporter: and so the sad news that we're not likely to hear 94-year-old tony bennett in the venetian room again. he has alzheimer's. according to bennett's family this diagnosis is not new. they have known about it since 2016, but recently the singer's condition has worsened. they felt they needed to go public with it. at sometimes they say he is disoriented. anyone who knows someone suffering from alzheimer's is all too familiar with the symptoms. >> it is not a rare disease. more than 5 million americans are currently living with alzheimer's disease. >> reporter: the spokesperson for the alzheimer's association says it's rare for someone this famous and beloved to admit to investigate disease. that's a gift she says and the opportunity to make alzheimer's less of a mystery. >> we're always grateful when

families will come forward and talk about the disease openly. >> reporter: bennett's family said today that tony continues to sing and paint and remains as sweet and grateful for his charmed life as he always has. remember his 90th birthday four years ago? >> well, all i do is sing and paint every day and i love life. i'm doing something that i love very much and i'm not going to retire at all. >> reporter: even now tony bennett has one more album coming out. the man give san francisco a gift by leaving his heart here, and as usual when had a person gets it comes back ♪ your golden sun will shine for me ♪ >> wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> that voice. well, still ahead, the future of working remotely. aryorticial intelligence reading your facial expresss? go to abc7news.com/vote to tell us how you feel about ai

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the federal trade commission settled a big case with san jose-based zoom over alleged security issues. 7 on your side's michael finney is here now with today's developments. michael? >> yeah. zoom has enjoyed a meteoric rise during the pandemic with americans being stuck at home and still having to carry on with life's activities whether it's work, school or just staying connected. however, it go the in trouble last year with the ftc over the privacy and security of its software. zoom was accused of misleading users. the two sides reached a settlement this past november and today the details were finalized. one way to look at this. zoom is being required to really up its security game. as part of the settlement it must establish a security

program. any software updates have to be reviewed for flaws before they can be released and they cannot interfere with third-party security features. zoom also has to change how it names video conference meetings. it saves -- it has to change the name of the video conference meetings and it saves or stores and comes up with a policy on how it will delete the data. zoom had 10 million users in december 201. by april of the next year it had 300 million. this is really protecting a lot of people. this was top of the list, yeah. top of the list for consumer advocates, so this is a big win today. >> certainly a long time coming. mikeal, many things to you. while we are on the topic, you may want to up your game when it comes to how you appear and interact on zoom camps the use of artificial intelligence is under development to identify shou.ers, so whahink? a i. reading expressions during

a zoom idea be a good idea, bad idea or maybe you don't have an opinion? we do our poll happening live right now. head to abc7news.com/vote to weigh. in all of this is part of the changing workplace that we track as part of our efforts to build a better bay area. abc 7 news reporter david lui made sure he was engaged while learning about this from innovation leaders over zoom. >> reporter: zoom and other video conferencing services have made it easier to work remotely. they have also opened the door to new ways to evaluate employee performance, how you look and act will be analyzed by artificial intelligence or a.i. >> the a.i. literally looks at your gaze and your attention and gestures and figures out who is engaged and who is not. >> reporter:-ins associate dean of digital innovation at the keggol graduate school of management at northwestern university and is working with microsoft, salesforce and many others on the changing workplace. your online performance will

also extend to job interviews. >> hr and recruiting, your next interview will be with an algorithm in order to do an automated screening based on your gaze and based on your attention and sort of your confidence in the way that you respond to questions. >> reporter: once you get hired innovation central artery jists are urging employers to curb staff turnover and invest instead in training. andy kung him is founder of the kung him collective. >> they want their employees to feel like part of the family and want them to move up the ranges or be able to move around with different skwlojobs so they can the same people. >> reporter: they are populating open-office workplaces and desks for pandemic safety. the senior project manager says many of its customers see these as temporaeps. >> some people think that this is just a temporary solution and want to do it so that they can be protifbt and then when time comes back to where it is a

safer place then they can, you know, go back to the way it was beforehand. >> reporter: spending a few hundred dollars per desk is a cheaper alternative to designing and setting up new work station. david lui abc 7 news. >> oh, how things have changed. okay. so back to our poll. do you think artificial intelligence reading expressions during zoom meet some things a good idea, a bad idea or maybe you don't have an opinion? check it out. the results are at the bottom of the screen. overwhelmingly 71% of you, i'm in that boat as well, vote that you think it's a bad idea. the now, you can still voet abc7news.com/vote is where you can go to make sure your thoughts are counted. ama, i don't know you, but too invasive for me. >> that, am i'm just not so confident that it can really do it accurately. you know, it's hard to know what people are really thinking based on just their facial expressions so that's my two cents.

a question for you at home. has it started to rain where you are? >> abc 7

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i need an entire store. explore floor & decor in person or online. all right. it was mostly pleasant earlier today, but if sounds like things are changing. let's get to meteorologist sandhya patel. sandhya? >> yeah, ama, it's changing in the north bay, that's for sure. the storm is beginning to move in. let me show you where it's raining as we get you down to street level radar around santa rosa and south santa rosa and stoney point road. we're seeing moderate pocketsing of showers. as we head towards the santa cruz mountains, rain around ben lohman and summit mountain. the wind are picking up at 34, gusting to 28iles an hour, so just be careful if you roadways. temperatures right now anywhere from the 40s to the 60s with

such a mild day for most of the bay area, upper 50s to 60s today, a view from the mt. tam cam and this is what we're facing tonight which is the wet, windy and low advisability. it's a level one on our storm impact scale tonight and tomorrow morning light to moderate rain. wind gusts up to 40 and gusts stronger through the rain and tomorrow winds ease and we'll have showers especially during the morning hours. the rain is still in the north bay primarily as we head no 10:00 p.m. and shifting across other parts of the bay area and you go into tomorrow morning's commute you'll notice some green areas with showers across the region and after that it's sort of a breather. a cloud/sun mix until wednesday morning when we see the next round of showers coming through the reasonon. most widespread around 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. crossing san francisco and south bay and then it's out of here by wednesday night and then a big change will follow behind that system.

rainfall totals unlike the last storm that was an atmospheric river, this one will be lighter as you noticehe fm tenth an inch to half an inch. some places will pick up three-quarters of an inch of rain. in the mountains it turns to snow. winter storm warning begins wee hours of the morning at 2:00 a.m. and runs until 6:00 am wednesday and snow level between 45 hundred and 5,000 feet and expecting up to two feet for the highest areas. the grab the umbrellas go because you'll need them for at heat parts of the bay area and for the afternoon highs will primarily be in the 50s and 60s. accuweather seven-day forecast, level one for tomorrow morning, showers level one for wednesday. it's going to be cooler with scattered showers and then a dry pattern, and it is going to warm up. you'll notice plenty of sun especially as we head towards the weekend. numbers in the mid-60s for our warmest spots going into early next week, so we need the

beneficial rain. it's moving in and it sticks around for a couple of days before you head up to the umbrellas. >> thanks, sandhya. >> coming up next, celebrating

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finally tonight. there may not be a chinese new year parade in san francisco this year, but organizers have come up with a way to celebrate the year of the ox. >> this year they commissioned 11 life-side ox statues that will be put on display throughout the city starting on wednesday through march 14th. each one was designed and handmade by a local artist which separates them from other projects like this. >> normally, yeah. these things come out of a moved. everyone would is doing one of them is painting on the same shape so the only thing that separates them is the paint job. these are literally one of a kind art pieces. every single thing was done by hand. >> and they are beautiful. each ox design was inspired by cultural themes that share the luna year.wille donated to a lo non-profit which will then auction them off. good cause and so much

celebration and real they are magnificent looking. >> yeah. >> really. >> that's going to do it for us. >> yeah. that will do it for now.

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tonight, as we come on the air, the states of emergency right now. a major storm slamming the northeast. still churning at this hour. whiteout conditions reported. 17 states under winter weather alerts from georgia all the way up through new york and up through maine. the nor'easter unleashing the biggest snowstorm to hit the region in years. more than two a otf oww nsyo crs and trucks skidding of highways. firefighters tonight racing to rescue victims in the water. major cities suspending mass transit. the storm forcing covid vaccination sites to shut down. hundreds rushing to boston's fenway park to get their shots before the storm. hundreds of flights grounded tonight. rob marciano in the middle of the storm. ginger zee with the new timing to