"friday night lights" for the first time in a year. we are there before kickoff. >> a covid promotion, two

the county gets ready to move into the red tier. when you can see movie theaters and gyms reopen in contra costa and sonoma counties. >> friday night football is back, on and off of the field. gratitude for a few hours of normal. >> a storm moves in this weekend. i will show you what day. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts right now. >> building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. >> less than 25 hours from now all bay area counties will be in the same covid tier as contra costa and sonoma move from the purple tier. >> both will need to move into the red tier tomorrow night at midnight. for sonoma, the first time they

have been in the red since the color-coded assignment. this is a big change. >> i am ama daetz. matt boone has more on what is reopening and why the counties are behind the others. >> the walnut creek yacht club has been forced to adapt. kevin wineberg said they have three separate outdoor areas but looking forward to welcoming customers back inside. >> inside. a dining room with people is the heart and the soul of a restaurant. >> reporter: movie theaters will be allowed to reopen starting at 25% capacity or up to 100 people. >> excited but yet, you know, a little bit cautious. the oringa theater has only gotten by through the support of the community. it will be a process to bring

customers back in. >> we would open with one audotorium and do private rentals. >> it comes weeks before other counties made the transition. >> i think when the virus is as common in the community as it is in ours there is no one reason why we were behind others. >> reporter: they are making good progress on the vaccine front. >> we are coming up on 400,000 vaccine doses administered. we have vineyards and food production. >> the first time they will get out of the purple tier since the blueprint was entered in august.

>> it is exciting we are moving into the red. >> matt boone, abc 7 news. >> starting monday, an estimated 4.4 million more californians will be eligible for the vaccine including people with disabilities or underlying health conditions like cancer and heart conditions. essentially any individual whose health is deemed to be at risk by a health care provider could qualify. >> if your health care provider says you are eligible for the vaccine we will be complying with that order. >> the state says that the vaccine won't be available for a majority of the people making appointments on monday. the state says it is administering 11 to 2 million doses per week going up to 4 million soon. >> today on getting answers the director of the california department of public health talked about the state's vaccination plan going forward. >> before president biden's

announcement we were go to move to a pure age-based approach going down each age because that is the quickest and easiest way to vaccinate folks. in europe parts of the content are going back into lockdown mode. half of italy will reenter lockdown monday including rome and venice. germany is warning the third wave haven't begun. a new variant and premature reopenings and the slow vaccination roll out complicated efforts to manage the spread. >> back here at home starting tonight high school sports are back. players will have to comply with the same rules as college athletes. abc 7 news was in danville for a girl's lacrosse game and

tomorrow boys varsity football. the team only has 27 members to play. tonight the "friday night lights" were back on in half moon bay a year after the last game. >> this is as close to normal as possible. these kids have gone without for 12 months. they have lost, lost, things were taken away. tonight is a celebration of getting stuff back. >> we get our temperature taken and fill out a questionnaire. we are socially distanced when we are not in formation and not stunting. it is my senior year and i wish i was back at school with my friends. >> it is really fun having people to support you and just having everyone around you,

motivating you to keep going and getting stuff done. >> it is important for the mental side of the student, and also community. our communities have not had events like this for 12 months. >> my senior is on the field. my husband is a coach. but my husband and i went to half moon bay high school. i have noticed a complete difference in my son in the last three weeks. at the dinner table, he is talking about football. he is talking about his teammates. he is still in remote learning. this is his deck. >> i am tristan hoffman. this is our senior year. we get what we can get. six games is good enough for us. anything is good enough. i am really stoked. >> you are the -- >> it has been a big >> is about more than football. >> it is about life lessons,

camaraderie and spending time with friends. the difference that i see in the way they carry themselves and the way that their confidence and personalities. everybody has more pep in their step. everybody is more excited just about life in general. >> life in general. half moon bay beat them tonight 19-10. six more games around the bay area tomorrow. >> marquees at a number of the bay area independent and art venues will have an important message. it has been a year since many have been opened. the group save our stages is highlighting just how dire it is for the venues and for the local music and art scene.anyill be t businesses to reopen once it is safe to do so. after a year we will never forg forget, we are focused on the path forward next week here on tv and online, join us for a look at the better bay area that

we are building together. >> prosecutors upped the charges against a man they say shouted an ethnic slur while assaulting an asian woman. prosecutors say 32-year-old grabbed the victim by the neck, flung her on her back and dragged her across the cement. hate crime enhancements were added because of the offensive things he is accused of yelling during the attack. an attorney read the impact statement saying she is afraid to ride the train to work. >> the feeling of being more cautious than normal, it is frightening. to have the constant fear of walking through those tunnels. the constant feeling of getting followed and attacked again. >> the judge denied bail. if convicted, the hate crime enhancements could add three years of prison time on to each charge. >> the pilot of a single engine

plane walked away unharmed after making an emergency landing. check it out. a mechanical problem on board is blamed for the unplanned landing. there was no damage. the owner is figuring out how to get the plane off of the hill. >> the cost of getting kids back in the classroom is adding up. >> also, the sea lion rescue that happened before the bay bridge. >> what a shock. we are hours away from breweries and wineries and distillries reopen. what do we expect when the tap opens tomorrow? >> and i am sandhya patel, spring-like today but winters back this weekend. i will show when you the storm arrives coming up. >> first a look at what is coming up tonight on "jimmy kimmel live" after abc 7 news at

11. >> thanks dan and ama. of all of the shows to watch tonight, this is one of them. are you selling vaccines? >> stay out of this kimmel.

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♪ >> all week long we are examining the learning loss with distance learning. it is a given when students return to school that it will be a challenge to make up for all of the lost time class. here is aisict plans to make up for the loss of in-person learning. >> reporter: when covid-19 forced schools to close last march, school districts provided all of the services offered in a normal school year.

add to that thousands of chromebooks and technical support beyond anyone's predictions and now a year later the road to academic recovery will exceed what districts already have spent. earlier this year the nonprofit education resource strategies analyzed the cost of covid. >> we are not going to make it all up in one year. this is a multiyear challenge in terms of doing this. you know, somewhere between three to five years. >> reporter: the nonprofit which studies big urban districts like san francisco is suggesting two approaches to deal with the learning loss. small group tutoring or extended learning time, meaning adding an extra month of school or extending the school day. they estimate adding an extra month would represent a 7% increase in annual operating cost and san francisco unified

already faces a budget deficit. >> leave it to public school moms to get it together and get the ball rolling. >> reporter: san francisco's board of supervisors just approved r.i.s.e., recovery with inclusive and successful enrichment, hoping to create a plan and generate funding to address the covid learning loss, add more enrichment programs and attract additional kids to public schools. $2.5 billion over five years. >> we will be looking to our own general fund and to the state and feds with all of the packages coming down. >> reporter: a ballot measure for funding froman residents, despite the urgency, she is as planning time was lost because the school board was busy renaming schools and changing lowell high school's

admission policy. >> i am extremely frustrated because all of the delays had to do with all of the drama that we have seen in the school district. >> reporter: the board of supervisors proposes an initiative called summer play to give kids in san francisco access to extracurricular activities in the summer. in addition the school district will come up with their own summer instruction plans. >> we are working hard to plan for other opportunities, targeting our elementary students, those that couldn't or didn't engage in distance learning. >> reporter: and the key education experts say is to do it quickly, because the further behind they are, the harder that it is to catch up. >> in the meantime san francisco unified continues to do assessments online. teachers will sit down with them to get a better sense of where students are in some of the core subjects. in the newsroom, lyann

lyanne melendez, abc news. >> a sea lion pup is recuperating tonight. take a look at ilyo right there in the back of a chp cruiser. officers found him tuesday. look how lonely and sad there. the center says that he is suffering from maternal separation, malnutrition and dehydration but obviously in good hands now. california's breweries and wineries that do not serve food can operate outdoors starting tomorrow. the state is easing restrictions as it slowly reopens the economy. reservations are required and a 90-minute time limit and last call is at 9:00. it will be good to do outdoor business as it starts to warm up. not so fast. there is still rain. >> there is still some coming

but tomorrow looks good. >> absolutely. outdoor dining, walk, hike. tomorrow is your day. sunday. right now we are tracking fog. this is the biggest change that happens. if you have early morning plans, be careful if you are driving. here is a few of the fog coming. it is going to be breezy and cooler tomorrow afternoon. that is not going to be a repeat. daylight savings time. spring forward one hour before going to bed saturday night and the cold storm arrives just in time. your saturday sunset is at 6:15. sunday, 7:16 p.m. i know, some of us are complaining about losing the hour of sleep, but it is nice to

have the extra daylight. this looks impressive but will not bring us a lot of rain, stall or sit over us for a few days like the last one. tomorrows, 40s, 50s. here is a look at the morning lows. the low 30s to the upper 40s. right near the coast and the bay as we head into the afternoon hours. temperatures in the 50s and the 60s. breezy near the coast line. that is what helps drop the temperatures. a level 1 going in to monday. that will bring us rain initially. showers. gusty conditions. on monday we are tracking the thunder with hail, snow, down over 2,000 feet over the peaks. maybe even lower. just keep that in mind. sunday afternoon, 3:00 the rain is moving in and spreads by evening. sierra will see snow out of this. pink indicating a wintry mix

over mt. hamilton. hills. that is certainly something that could potentially be a repeat of the last event which is a bit wintry compared to what we typically see with the spring-like storms. rainfall totals look like this. most in the third of an inch. some spots could pick up a half inch of rain. weekend, cooler but nice and dry. set your clocks forward one hour. by sunday evening, the storm will bring us showers, cold system monday, a chance of thunder, dry and milder mid-week, st. patrick's day and another storm looks to greet us on thursday. keep the umbrelace close by.

ama and dan. >> all right. good advice. thank you sandhya. >> coming up next, thieves make off with a big plastic duck and mountain view police need help getting it back. >> join our team of experts on tuesday for our america. women forward in the workforce. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones.

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roberto has been a bright spot for kids to admire. if you can identify anyone in the video, call mountain view police. >> can you believe someone would steal that? larry beil is here with sports. >> dan, ama, sharks best game of the season showing fight, literally and physically as they try to win two in a row for the first time this season. this is a no-nonsense message from three. small business insurance usually forces you to piece together multiple policies. that's why three was created. it's one policy that covers everything you need... leaving those old policies in the dust. three. no nonsense. just common sense.

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warriors' teammates in the midst of a blowout loss to the clippers. curry pleading more from everybody saying let's go. draymond green said he has been on the receiving end of constructive curry criticism before. >> steph yelled at me a few times about shooting the ball as a matter of fact. shoot the ball for something like that. little different than the words i used. >> shoot the puck. sharks looking to win two in a row for the first time this season. kurtis gabriel looking for trouble. flattens jacob larsson. nicolas deslauriers. gabriel has turned into mike tyson on skates. sharks' power play. tomas hertl is back. great to see this missed six g. brent burns, great pass to e ander kane f 2-0, team teal. sharks, feeding frenzy.

kane to kevin labanc, devan dubnyk, 34-save shutout. sharks, finally back-to-back wins. buddy reed came up with san diego, the player to be named later in the jurickson profar trade and today the player who won the game for the a's beating the padres. reliever, sergio romo getting work in. he got the start for the athletics. this wasn't the start he had in mind. fernando tatis jr. with a bomb to lead it off. if a souvenir is up for grabs, social distancing right out the window. padres up 1-0. romo ends the inning with a strikeout. who's your buddy? buddy reed, the go ahead two-run single. a's go on to a 5-4 victory. giants and the rockies in scars daily. mccarthy, base hit to right center. ground rule double. evan longoria scores. 4-4 in the sixth.

elliott ramos makes nice contact on a single to center. 9-8. with free agency starting next week, the 49ers have holes to fill and keep emanuel mosley agreeing to a two-year extension

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for sandhya patel and larry beil, we appreciate your time. right now "jimmy kimmel live." have a good weekend. good night. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- sacha baron cohen, wesley snipes, and music from charlotte lawrence. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow, thank you, hi. i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show and i welcome you to it. we are coming to you from our headquarters in hollywood on what was thankfully an uneventful day in washington, d.c. today was supposed to be a big one for the aluminum foil hat crowd. march 4th was the day trump would return to power. return to glory. i woke up this morning, said to my wife "is he president again?" she said, "no, he's not." [ laughter ] they screwed up again. i never thought i'd say this, but i'm starting to not trust my qanon message boards. [ laughter ] donald trump was not

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