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found here in the bay area. what it means for vaccines and the future of the fight against the coronavirus. >> never before seen images e in the second day of donald trump's impeachment trial. >> a restaurant closes due to safety concerns all over a b.l.m. mask. >> timeline and totals coming up. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts right now. >> yesterday, i also said that we had not african variants. that is no longer true. room.

>> reporter: alameda and santa clara counties just learned about the new cases today. at this point it is a race between the emerging variants and our ability to stop the spread of the virus through vaccines and changes to our lives and behaviors. a lab at stanford turned up california's cases of the covid variant. one case in alameda county. in santa clara there is one case and another presumed case adult who had travelled internationally, returned in mid-january and quarantined several days after returning and then developed symptoms and got diagnosed. at no time during the infectious period were they in contact with anyone outside their household.

>> reporter: a relief considering this. >> reasonable to expect it is more infectious than other circulating strains. >> reporter: assume the variants are already circulating. in the u.s. lab capacity is too limited. >> we don't have a coordinated response. it feels exactly like it felt early in the pandemic. moderna and pfizer we can stop transmission all together. if it is just to stop hospitalization and death. >> she explained it is possiblee

instead of eradicating covid we will have to live with the virus and vaccinate against it more like the flu. it just means as hard as it is we need to focus on masking and distancing and getting people vaccinated. >> new developments, a covid lockdown at berkeley, the new order bans exercising outdoors. the cal campus is going through their largest case spike of the pandemic and cal says it is too early to make sure that the school as contained the surge. 156 people tested positive during the first week of february. >> new mask recommendations are out from the cdc. they say wearing two masks is

significantly better than one. where a medical mask and put a cloth mask over it. they explained how on the 3:00 p.m. show. you want fit and function. the two f's. doing a double mask would do the trick. >> new guidelines. if you are exposed to someone with covid you no longer need to quarantine if you are no longer showing symptoms and virus mutations may be here for a while and that means getting a covid-19 vaccine every year. >> it could be an annual shot until we get such a high quality vaccine. >> a new gallup poll find more

than 71% plan to get vaccinated. coming up on friday, we are answering your questions about covid-19 vaccines. members of our abc 7 news vaccine team will be here as part of the discussion. that is friday at 4:00 p.m. >> in the north bay tonight a well known sonoma restaurant has been forced to shut their doors after receiving threats over how they handled an employee's black lives matter mask. >> new details, investigators say that it was a diesel water mix that leaked yesterday from a chevron refinery pipe into the bay. california's department of fish

and wildlife say an estimated 500 to 700 gallons of the mixture, 12 to 18 barrels gushed into the water. some sheen reached the shore of keller beach but investigators say there is no sign it affected wildlife in any significant way. chevron said the leak continued for 90 minutes and why a shelter at home order was issued only for those with respiratory issues. >> the weather conditions and having the release over the water we were not getting reports that the community was getting impacted with strong odors. >> now crews used skimmers to skim oil off of the water and clean up and recovery efforts will continue tomorrow. all right. hope you enjoyed the sun today because we are in for big changes tomorrow. >> we are. let's check in with sandhya patel who is tracking the level

1 storm. sandhya. >> yeah. that is right. dan and ama we have on live doppler 7 the light level 1 storm that has a lot of moisture associated with it. we will see the wet weather beginning tomorrow. you will need the umbrellas. three storms over the next seven and that looks like the strongest of them. you will notice pockets of moderate to heavy rain moving in for the evening commute. that means watch out for the slippery roads. they will be brief. i will be back with a closer look at when to expect rain over the holiday weekend coming up. dan and ama. >> thank you so much, sandhya. we had a technical issue with j.r. stone's story and want to get back to that. about a sonoma restaurant forced to temporarily shut their doors. the owners say they received threats over how they handled an employee's black lives matter

mask. j.r. spoke to the server. >> the girl in the fig restaurant in sonoma is currently closed with no information as to when they will be back over after a former serve every left when she was told she would not be allowed to wear a black lives matter mask at work. >> i would have abided by the mask rules if they had a sign up that said black lives matter. >> the restaurant owner on facebook referring to the incident and the restaurant saying we did not fire her or force her out. she made her decision to quit because she did not want to follow the rules. a b.l.m. rally is scheduled for valentines day outside the restaurant. yelp disabled reviews due to hateful comments. many neighbors were in full support of the restaurant. >> most places at a winery or restaurant or hotel. you have a uniform and certain things you have to wear to be

part of that organization. >> if they were to choose one side or the other, they are going to alienate some segment of the customer base. >> stout said it is not political but a social movement for racial equality. >> as a brown queer fem person standing up for the marginalized i knew how it feels to walk around downtown sonoma when you have darker skin than others and getting those sideways stares. >> reporter: it is unclear how big sunday's protest will be but they are hopeful it does not interfere with special valentines day lunches planned in the square at restaurants that were previously closed due to the pandemic. >> multiple injuries. multiple shots. multiple injuries. >> house impeachment managers share never before seen riot

video as lawmakers react to day two of president trump's trial. >> music venues in danger of closing because of the pandemic. the new recovery fund just launched. >> i am here live. i am not a cat. >> he went viral for this zoom mishap. >> first a look at what is coming up tonight live on "jimmy kimmel live" after abc 7 news at 11:00. >> me, your only friend. were you guys sitting there waiting for your commercial to come on. >> one of us was. the other was busy running after children. >>

. >> new developments in a terrifying kidnapping for a one san francisco man. his two children were taken from him while driving for doordash. the 25-year-old man is charged with stealing the father's car while it was running with the kids in the back. the children were found safe the next day after triggering an amber alert. sfpd say they are still looking for a suspect tied to the case. >> on the second day of former president trump's impeachment trial they used chilling new video by a pro-trump mob on january 6th. cornell barnard breaks down thee

evidence. >> reporter: never before seen video seen in day two of former president trump's second impeachment trial. >> they came draped in trump's flag and used our flag, the american flag to batter and to bludgeon. >> reporter: the chilling and terrifying footage showing lawmakers feet away from capitol rioters on january 6th. the mob intending on finding the house speaker. and vice president mike pence seen being rushed away from the senate chamber. >> capitol police officers rushing some to safety. the insurrectionists banging on an office door. on the other side congressional staffers huddled in fear and whispering for help. impeachment managers laying out their case, arguing trump's

betrayal of his oath of office began long before the deadly insurrection. >> donald trump, for months and months assembled the tender, the kindling, threw on logs for fuel to have his supporters believe that the only way their victory would be lost is if if if stolen. president trump was ready to light the match. >> i think the american people have to see how close they came to losing democracy, and who is responsible for that. to me, that is the former president. >> reporter: trump's defense team will make their case later this week. >> live coverage of the impeachment trial resumes tomorrow on abc 7 and abc 7 news bay area tv app as well. >> san francisco supervisors set up a $1.5 million fund to help

music and entertainment venues survive the pandemic. clubs have been hit hard during the lockdowns. the first to shut down and likely the last to reopen. >> so i am hopeful that this fund can provide much-needed relief to these venues. there are not that many of them. we are talking about 50 or 60 music venues in san francisco. >> the fund gives priority to any venue in danger of closing and is at least 15 years old. well, he is not a cat. >> now we are hearing from the attorney whose virtual mishap made him a sensation. >> i can hear you. i think it is a filter. >> it is. i do not know how to remove it. i am here live. i am not a cat. >> well, rod ponton is a lawyer

in texas and had a problem with a cat filter. his usual profile picture was in the virtual waiting room. the catastrophe happened when the meeting began. overnight he became a celebrity. >> everybody laughed about it. if they can all laugh at my expense and i give everybody a moment of humor, i am happy to do it. >> he was using his assistant computer and her daughter used the filter earlier. the judge shared it on social media and since yesterday it got more than 6 million views on youtube. the cat looks a little sad. the whole thing, oh, man. >> he had a great attitude about it. just kind of fun. sandhya, maybe we should do the news like that. >> okay. we will all put on cat masks or something. why not, dan.

ama. let me show you live doppler 7 right now. you know, the joys of working from home, right. things happen. all right. i want to show you the two storms that are lined up, and then there is a third one behind it. tomorrow's system is off of the coast and a saturday system followed by a monday storm. none of these look terribly strong, but tomorrows will be the strongest in the series. clouds are gathering right now. those temperatures already have started to fall. it is a little bit cooler. 40s. 50s. the clouds continue to increase. we will eventually see the rain tomorrow and in the evening. just a beautiful view tonight. level 1 system on the storm impact scale coming in tomorrow. rain will briefly be heavy at time. brief downpours. gusty, southerly winds and expected slick roads for the evening commute. that is the one you will have to watch out for. 2:00 wet weather beginning to develop in the north bay.

oranges and yellows indicating moderate to heavy rain moving across the region. this is when the most widespread rain will be falling, 6:00 to 7:00. it is really going to be isolated. i didn't put a storm impact scale for friday. really a one-day deal that will be passing through the region. in terms of rainfall totals, most will fall between .2 to .6 of an inch. some of the north bay l could pick up an inch. above 6,000 feet, expecting 6-12 inches of snow for the peaks and up to 16 inches. visibility will be low. look at the snowfall totals right on through monday since we have multiple storms coming through. expecting up to two feet or more. temperatures, the first thing in the morning here in the bay

area. it will be chilly despite the cloud cover. you will need to grab a jacket or sweater and do not forget the umbrellas. later in the day you are going to need those. it will be a cooler afternoon with 50s, 60s around morgan hill and san jose. breezy to gusty especially for the storm system tomorrow. accuweather forecast, a 1 going into early friday, few trailing showers. light system greeting us on saturday. and then it will be lovely weather for valentines day, followed by another storm on monday. all right. >> should we pull out the cat faces? >> let's do it friday. >> let's have fun. >> all right. >> friday. >> all right. tomorrow at 3:00 on abc 7 getting answers program they will have a conversation with two east bayers.

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>> i have it dan. three days down and two to go until the weekend. thank you for watching. >> all

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