live from the cbs bay area studios. this is kpix 5 news. >> now streaming on cbsn bay area, maybe area businesses, the next few hours of their operations could be their last for this year. >> early approach to saving hospital space, already too late? we have three weeks of people in the pipeline headed to icu. >> maybe you noticed a big wall of clouds became ahead at noon today. live look at doppler now, there's a big round of rain and how this turns into fire weather concerns for the bay area, coming up in the

forecast. thanks for joining us for this pregame edition. >> new restrictions kick in tomorrow with san francisco, at that point restaurant dining will be off the table, even outdoors. takeout and delivery only. there can be no multi-household gatherings of any kind. interregional capacity will be cut to 20% at the height of the holiday shopping rush. now it appears more people are worried about stocking up on the basics. look at what the paper goods aisle at the lafayette safeway looks like at 6:00 this morning. news of the sudden shutdown came as a shock many posts small businesses are racing the clock to come up with new ways to stay afloat. >> for months many businesses

have been creative in finding ways to stay open. overnight everything has changed. on sunday at 10:00 p.m., outdoor dining venues that have popped up in downtown danville will be shut down. primos pizza has created an outdoor sports bar with giant tents and 13 televisions. the owner agreed with the governor's plan to restrict businesses when hospitals got overcrowded. >> now they are doing it preventative >> this can go on for months. you are preventing businesses for doing business. i don't quite grasp that. one woman was waiting in her car for a last-minute haircut before all the salons are shut down. >> i think it was expected after thanksgiving but probably not tomorrow. >> a co-owner says salon has only half its normal staff and

is diligent about sanitizing into something. >> we feel like this is one of the safest places that you can be compared to the other stores. >> reporter: those other stores are hurting as well. at sun valley shopping center there is already long lines but they will be even longer after sunday when retailers can only operate a 20% capacity. >> i got most of my shopping on black friday online. we will see what happens. >> reporter: for the first time grocery stores will be limited to 50% of capacity. a grocery outlet store owner says it would help if you don't bring extra guest along on shopping trips. >> we are almost in mission driven, i would think in a sense. >> paul johnson brought his son for one last excursion before the shutdown and possible panic buying returns. >> here we go again. this time i want to be ahead of the crowd and make sure we have

to hunker down. that we can hunker down. governor gavin newsom's restrictions were scheduled to begin when hospitals reached 85% of the ic capacities which is expected to happen here in mid to late december. the past few hours the state placed all of southern california and the san joaquin valley region under the order. it takes effect tomorrow night. more than 25,000 new cases confirmed today pushing the states total past 1.3 million. nearly 10,000 patients in the hospital right now nearly a quarter are in intensive care. we are live at valley medical center in san jose. icu capacity is what's driving this whole conversation right now. is that really enough to determine a trend? >> reporter: they announced a

whole new strategy on wednesday . if you are like me you are racing to see what the bay area ic capacity or availability looks like. we all knew that 15% was the trigger. we were at 29% there then we dropped to about 25% last night we dropped to 21% today it looks like we're going to hold around 21, 22%. a couple of days of data on this new metric which controls all of our lives now. is this enough to determine a trend? is going to take a little while, icu numbers themselves can bounce around a little bit. >> is just the way it is there is going to be some wobble in the numbers. you want to see their overall trend and follow that. >> reporter: from automobile accidents to people requiring major emergency surgery , any number of things can drive the ebb and flow of icu numbers on

any given day, the virus is just one part of demand on system that does have limits. >> the other thing to think about, if we are to stop transmissions this morning, we have three weeks of people in the pipeline headed toward icu. >> that's because what we see in our hospitals today is the echo of transmission from 2 to 3 weeks ago. that means any holiday driven surge would still be in front of us and the evidence of that is starting to materialize. >> we know a lot of transmission occurred over the thanksgiving weekend. well we can't see that yet reflective in our numbers we do have some early warning metrics that are telling us that transmission did occur. >> reporter: current surge plus whatever further surges coming versus the effort to short-circuit those trends with the preemptive lockdown, this

is a contest that will take some time. >> is going to be a while until you can clearly see trends. so we have had a lot of advice around thanksgiving, some acceleration post thanksgiving. there is a lot of push pull stuff going on to see how it calibrates is going to take a few days. >> reporter: go back to rend wednesday 29, last night we dropped 21, had you continued on that trend sunday into monday, preemptive shutdown really would not have been all that preemptive it might've been a matter of hours. at this point it is sort of forecasting. it is looking at where you are and then thinking oh gosh this is where were going to be an as soon as 2 to 3 days obviously we held tight today but you can see how quickly that can change and how these numbers are going to wobble a little bit with

everyone just hanging on them day-to-day. >> people need some time to ramp down as well so couple days warning is what everyone needs. we are always updating our gilead sciences coverage on kpix.com and our news app to keep up with the very latest on the shutdowns. you can also sign up for alerts. we are going to switch gears, is take a look at the north coast, that is a new one. >> our meteorologist is tracking, is there any kind of rain reaching us? >> it is not a high possibility let's go to high definition doppler, we're going to switch this and put this into future cast, showers extend a little bit further off the coast. i want to come in closer to home and get rid of the clouds. just watch where there might be some rain. looks pretty decent there but as we play forward you can see the showers holding and falling

apart maybe a few showers along the coast this gets us to midnight and then the showers begin to fall apart as they move farther south. such as a heads up on that. the sky looked very dramatic today, the cold front came in and there is rain behind those clouds. look how beautiful that sunset looks. the real issue is once the storm passes completely tomorrow and the offshore winds turn on as a result of the storm. there fire weather concerns with that guy. live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where a massive car caravan has been blocking traffic. drivers are trying to get across the span into san francisco. thousands of cars participated in a rolling protests from oakland to the indian consulate. here is a look from the ground

in san francisco. what's happening is they are protesting three new farm laws in india. they say they are unjust to farmers. the agricultural industry employs half of india's 1.4 billion people, thousands of farmers have been protesting in india for the past 10 days. back to gilead sciences coverage. gilead sciences officially surpassed heart disease is the leading cause of death in the u.s. this week. a record breaking 220,000 cases were reported nationwide. that's the first time it has topped 220,000 in one day according to johns hopkins university. many people are putting their hopes in for a vaccine. the first vaccinations could start this month. experts say there may not be enough to cover the 24 million workers a nursing home residents deemed top priority.

federal officials estimate about 40 million vaccines will be available but each person needs two doses so that's only enough for 20 million people. you can see that congestion, i was stuck right in the middle of it. >> georgia is in trump's in georgia, he is rallying support for the states to republican senators who are facing a runoff election next month. republicans need to retain at least one of those seats to control the senate. the president is falling farther behind. president-elect joe biden leads by 7 million votes, california certified its election results bringing president-elect joe biden's tally to 279, just over

270 threshold. it hasn't closed yet and they don't plan to either, east bay jim standing strong against the shutdown even as those fines pile up. the calendar says it's december but it is still fire season. the bay area communities that could have their power cu

many bay area businesses are set to shut down starting tomorrow. meanwhile one county has been cracking down on gyms that refuse to close. contra connick county has so far

find several businesses. their latest fine was issued wednesday for $1000 despite that the owner plans to stay open. >> i know the county feels the broad sweeping measures may spread the flow of the virus. what i have difficulty with, if i close my business i have to stop paying employees during the holidays. >> we have to protect the public. we don't want to take drastic action unless we absolutely have to because we know businesses are struggling. >> the owner has set up a gofundme so far he has raised $7000. it's not one thing it's another, spare the air in a packed weather conditions are trapping woodsmoke pollution near the ground so starting early monday morning high fire

danger coupled with all of this could force pg&e to cut power in parts of the north bay. warnings are up for about 8500 customers in napa and sonoma counties so fire weather in december believed to darren to explain. >> when and where will be the concerning time frames? look how pretty it is out there right now. sunsets not going to happen for another 10 minutes or so but we've already got this beautiful view, let me give you another couple of vantage points. here is downtown san jose, there is that hayes, this is why we have that spare the air. as we take a look at out over the tri-valley same story here. temperatures are fine now, daytime highs are not that big of an issue.

even with this week's storm coming through today the daytime highs are not going to be taking that big of a hit, it'll be wind we feels sunday and monday. we already watched this at the top of the forecast and saw whatever little rain if there is a comes with it falls apart. the important thing is once that storm leaves, the effect it has us to start driving the wind from the north to the east. strong offshore winds start to develop. it's in a good position to start driving the wind our way. the color is picking up and i'm going to stop it right here. that's when we'll see the strongest winds in the mountains of the north bay. most of us will probably not

notice this at all. san jose's got a eight mile an hour breeze, this is a classic story where these offshore winds race over the mountain tops especially in the, monday mornings can be the timeframe for this. that kind of helps you understand why they are spotlighting certain areas. once we get into monday afternoon things are going to start to calm down, won't be that long of a wind event. the problem is it hasn't rained enough and the landscape is historically dry like record- setting dry in parts of northern california. that is the real issue. morning lows go back down into the low to mid 40s. daytime highs you may not notice a big difference. sky should look prettier little

more interesting on the back of this cold front. it will help clear out some event hayes. a little warmer, temperatures will start to climb, we will see the numbers go back up into the upper 60s. it will be a really nice looking 7-day forecast. we want to spotlight some of the bright spots around the bay area, we are calling this bay area bright spots, we went to see the christmas displays right now because if we are not all getting out and seeing things in person at least we can share them this way. this is from francisco's place in santa rosa. if this looks like something you would like to share, we would love for you to share yours with us. send us your holiday spirit, send us your pictures, send the videos, send it to itbay area bright spot at kpix.com or tag on social media, we will find

it there as well. we are determined to start spreading the bright spots around. coming up ahead with sports, what's up with the 49ers in the desert before the monday night football game. today some good old smash mouth

college football up top and we go local, cal doing business with the oregon ducks. stanford's game plan, get some points on the board. cardinal spent all week in seattle to prepare for number 22 washington huskies when stanford pounded the rock on the opening drive. antioch native, austin jones put it up 710 nothing.

three touchdown game 31 to 10. all they had to do was protect the football, right? the ball is loose. he picks it up, that led to a field goal, 31-26. could the cardinals run out the clock? yes. austin jones, first down run and we are done here. 3126 the final. cardinal record now two and two. nfl, as we speak, 49ers are slight favorites to beat the bills on monday night at their new home. glendale arizona training site for at least three weeks. chased out of santa clara county amid the noncontact sports shutdown. the concerned about the team's mental state where they can only see each other during

practice, the coach address this this week. >> some people are going to deal with this differently than others. you heard about the nba bubble. those were at least able to hang around each other. it's not like we are in a bubble hanging out. >> then there are the raiders, a point favorites and even though they are over the covid- 19 issues they are facing stricter protocols. now nfl staff has to work from home two days after the last game. on monday and tuesday this week they were away from the teams headquarters.'s lock it was weird yesterday doing a game plan with the coaches from your house, on the virtual. not all of us coaches are very

technological, greg olson has bad wi-fi, another coach has a dog barking, another guys wife is yelling at them, it was hard. >> nba, steph curry instagram live in the interview with barack obama, topics included his memoir, social justice and basketball. especially his epic jumpshot that went viral last month. >> that's what i do. >> can i borrow, that's what i do. >> you're probably going to hear me yell at on the court. >> i'm expecting it appeared >> next time i nail a sports cass what if i just call up the

script and just go that's what i do and just walk off. i wonder if the news director will go

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