abc7 news reporter kris reyes is live in san jose. kris, you went to boulder creek to talk to residents who decided not to evacuate? >> reporter: that's right, uh m ama. boulder creek was pretty wet. evacuation centers in those areas have closed. resources diverted to monterey county where the situation is much worse. take a look. >>> this is the scene in salinas at about 7:00 p.m. flood waters made rivers of roads while heavy equipment kept the mudslides at bay. it was an all day clean-up in monterey county with debris floe throughout the region.sce >> with it have injuries to civilians. they're in our local hospitals being treated. >> reporter: in santa cruz county they felt more relief a feeling they dodged a bullet. a boulder creek resident took this picture, rain gauge just under 4 inches and their home safe. other residents who stayed behind thankful the storm didn't live up to expectations. >> i drive around looking at the krikz and rivers. they're not bad compared to what we've seen in big storms. >> reporter: downtown boulder

abc7 news reporter kris reyes is live in san jose. kris, you went to boulder creek to talk to residents who decided not to evacuate? >> reporter: that's right, uh m ama. boulder creek was pretty wet. evacuation centers in those areas have closed. resources diverted to monterey county where the situation is >>> this ishe scene in 7:00 p.m. flood waters made rivers of roads while heavy equipment kept the mudslides at bay. it was an all day clean-up in monterey county with debris floe throughout the region. images of fire crews having to rescue some residents. >> with it have injuries to civilians. they're in our local hospitals being treated. >> reporter: in santa cruz county they felt more relief a feeling they dodged a bullet. a boulder creek resident took this picture, rain gauge just under 4 inches and their home safe. other residents who stayed behind thankful the storm didn't live up to expectations. >> i drive around looking at the krikz and rivers. they're not bad compared to what we've seen in big storms. >> reporter: downtown b

as abc7 news reporter kris reyes reports, it could include fines. >> we don't have a day to spare. we have to get this as close to perfect as it is humanly possible to do. >> reporter: supervisor joe submitian says he wants to provide health care providers to submit a formal distribution plan. at what point did you feel this was necessary? >> there's no way now for us to provide oversight let alone enforcement without access to those plans. >> reporter: councilmember carrasco welcomes the move. she represents a drilistrict ha hit by covid-19. are you concerned that without a plan your community might get left behind? >> oh, absolutely for sure. the communities being hit the hardest, they all tend to necessarily advocate for themselves. >> reporter: last summer some health care providers in the county were fined for not doing enough covid-19 testing. stanford health just had to issue an apology for not giving some of their front line workers vaccine priority. supervisor smittian said consequence could be a real possibility. >> i'm hopeful and i am optimistic that we'll be in a bette

as abc7 news reporter kris reyes reports, it could include fines. >> we don't have a day to spare.e have to get this as close to perfect as it is humanly possible to do. >> reporter: supervisor joe submitian says he wants to provide health care providers to submit a formal distribution plan. at what point did you feel this was necessary? >> there's no way now for us to provide oversight let alone enforcement without access to those plans. >> reporter: councilmember carrasco welcomes the move. she represents a drilistrict ha hit by covid-19. are you concerned that without a plan your community might get left behind? >> oh, absolutely for sure. the communities being hit the hardest, they all tend to necessarily advocate for themselves. >> reporter: last summer some health care providers in the county were fined for not doing enough covid-19 testing. stanford health just had to issue an apology for not giving some of their front line workers vaccine priority. supervisor smittian said consequence could be a real possibility. >> i'm hopeful and i am optimistic that we'll be in a better

we sent kris reyes all over the city to gather scenes of this very strange new year's eve. >> reporter: just call that sound our collective sendoff to 2020. and the scene that prompted it? just another stab in the heart from an unrelenting year. the cliff house sign came down in front of a weepy crowd. officially, shutting down the restaurant after 157 years. >> i'm actually glad we had the earthquake this morning, so that we cleared that off our 2020 dister bingo card. i was kind of waiting for that. but this is just so inexpressibly sad for the cliff house to be closing. >> reporter: a crowd gathered for closing, instead of a celebration on new year's eve seems to be the most appropriate way to shut down a year like 2020. >> good riddance. >> i guess, we're not going to get a break until, maybe, 12:01. >> reporter: expect no fireworks to ring it in, either. instead, you will find closed parking lots, barricades, and eerie quiet. >> it is bizarre but a little comforting, too. >> reporter: like so many hotels all over the city, all boarded up when they would normally be getting ready f

we sent abc 7 news reporter kris reyes over san francisco to gather scenes of this very strange new year's eve. >> reporter: just call that sound our collective send off to 2020 and the scene that prompted it just another stab in the heart from an unrelenting year. the cliff house sign came down in front of a weeping crowd officially shutting down the restaurant after 157 years. >> i'm actually glad we had the earthquake this morning so we cleared it off the 2020 disaster bingo card. i was waiting for that. this is so sad for the cliff house to be closing. >> reporter: a crowd gathered for closing instead of a celebration on new year's eve seems to be the most appropriate way to shut down a year like 2020. >> good riddance. >> i guess we're pot going to get a break until maybe 12:01. >> reporter: expect no fireworks to ring it in. instead, a more common site with closed parking lots, barricades, caution tape and erie quiet. >> it is bizarre but a little comforting, too, because people are starting to listen. >> reporter: a bizarre site, sir francis drake boarded up when they would normally

kris reyes for abc 7 news. >>> coming up, the coming economic impact of the pandemic. some owners of east bay businesses big and small are fearing they'll have to close forever if the shutdown continues. >>> new video shows thieves pulling a gun on a woman in san francisco after they broke into a car. their get away next. >>> i'm spencer christian. we are in mid winter right now but next week will feel like mid california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. >>> a san francisco man charged in the death of a 6-year-old boy was due in court today. police arrested 18-year-old james harbor on wednesday. he faces charges of murder in other crimes in connection with the fourth of july shooting death of jace

abc 7 news reporter kris reyes spoke with organizers and they did not mince words. >> usa! >> reporter: punches were thrown, a brief scuffle but that's where the police confrontation with protesters ended in the moments before the capitol was breached. this was last may in san jose. a black lives matter rally. kayla remembers a very different outcome when her husband derrick was shot in the groin with rubber bullets. >> my husband was 30 feet away from the line of officers, and was holding a sign that said we are worthy of life and was not inciting any violence at all, and he was shot. >> reporter: bay area organizers from last year's black lives matter rally say the same thing. that images like these are very different from the ones they experienced on the ground. >> if it were black protesters, we would have been shot just light right then and there. it would have been a massacre. >> a lot of activists saying if protesters yesterday were black, they would be dead. do you believe that? >> yeah, yeah, we would all be dead. it would not -- it would be a spray of bullets. >>

kris reyes with reaction as all of these scenes were unfolding today. >> good people across the politicalo stand up and say enough. if not, we'll face more serious challenges going forward. >> there are people there that made the choice to go act this way and it really, really disgusting and again, this is not the american way. >> reporter: a prominent san francisco lawyer and trump supporter tweeted this scene at the u.s. capitol is shocking and disgraceful. the mob violence that the left engaged in the past years is despicable but in no way excuses these crimes. do you share the belief of those who stormed the capitol today this election was stolen? >> i think there are clearly irregularitie irregularities, something odd about this election. it important for me to say i do not -- what they're doing is wrong. they should leave the building and stop what they are doing right now because this is not helping. >> i think nobody is arguing the magnitude of what happened today and i'm just wondering what your take is on the response of the president? >> again, i think he should have came out s

abc 7 news reporter kris reyes gathered some inspiration. >> bye to 2020, hello to 2021. >> let's dorter: start with inspiration. the woman in the red hat didn't start working out until she turned 50. >> beautiful drive up. >> reporter: this girl dad has been staying strong and helping his daughter run her business. this family determined to stay fit all year long. and we found a full tennis court at deloris park, a great start for a healthy 2021. >> my son just fell in love with bicycles so i'm hoping to get a bike and do more ride being him. >> early last year i hit my goal of squatting and dead lifting over 100 pounds each so i would like to get back to that in 2021. >> reporter: alexandra is the owner of the boom box studio. we found her running her very first outdoor workout of 2021 on market street. she knows a thing or two about keeping your fitness resolutions. >> keep moving forward, whatever that is, get out of bed, just take care of yourself, in any way you can. and as long as you don't stay stagnant you will be okay. >> reporter: add to that wisdom from alexandra's mom wh

but as abc7 news reporter kris reyes found out, rolling out the plan is complicated. >> we are significantly increasing our efforts to get these vaccines administered, get them out of freezers and get them in people's arms. >> reporter: from a new video, governor newsom also announced that california will now allow anyone age 65 and over to get the vaccine. counties all over the bay area made their own announcements today. san mateo county says they're not vaccinating that age group yet. >> we feel we're not yet done with phase 1a. so we don't want to move on until we've really addressed that to the best of our ability as a community. >> reporter: contra costa and santa clara county both announced that they will allow anyone age 75 and older to get the vaccine. >> we're not ready to go to 65 and older yet. as i described, we're trying to fill up a lake with a garden hose right now. >> reporter: last week the governor promised to vaccinate one million people in ten days. as of january 11, that tally sits at just over 800,000 vaccinated, with 2.5 million doses already delivered to the state. w

kris reyes for abc 7 news. >>> conditions always changing as we can see.rought out all kinds of reinforcements. santa clara county is deploying this mobile unit to deploy cell phone and satellite service for first responders. >> it will be needed over the next couple of days. the heavy rain is moving into the peninsula right now and j.r. stone is live, what does it look like there. not coming down too hard at this moment. >> not in this very moment. just five minutes ago it was a hard downpour, dan. it is cold. it is wet. it is windy out here even though you might not see it right now. you go off on to some of the lights and you can see the amount of rain that is coming down right now. while it may not look that bad it picked up considerably in the last 30 minutes. extremely slick road conditions tuesday night along highway 101 in san bruno, travellers still taking to the roadways as people are still taking to the streets. >> i have a son in chicago. this is snow. we have nothing to complain about. the bay area always needs rain. we won't complain. >> rica

abc 7 news reporter kris reyes spoke to local superintendents who have fired off a letter asking forthere needs to be from the state actual state standards concerning what is safe. >> reporter: that concern prompted this letter from seven major urban school districts in california, including sf unified and oakland unified. in it they say a patchwork of standards across more than a thousand school districts would impact low income schools. last week governor newsom announced an optimistic plan to reopen schools as early as february. in the letter the superintendents say the plan fails to address the need of urban school districts that serve nearly a quarter of california students, almost all of whom live below the poverty level. the governor sounded pretty hopeful about opening up schools in february. do you think that's realistic from where you stand? >> i think that a big part of opening those schools are state standards. >> reporter: state standards, a plan to help special ed students and a vaccination timetable. announced to later than february 1st. the superintendents say they al

kris reyes for abc 7 news. >>> conditions always changing as we can see. storm has brought out all kinds of reinforcements. santa clara county is deploying this mobile unit to deploy cell phone and satellite service for first responders. >> it will be needed over the next couple of days. the heavy rain is moving into the peninsula right now and j.r. stone is live, what does it look like there. not coming down too hard at this moment. >> not in this very moment. just five minutes ago it was a hard downpour, dan. it is cold. it is wet. it is windy out here even though you might not see it right now. you go off on to some of the lights and you can see the amount of rain that is coming down right now. while it may not look that bad it picked up considerably in the last 30 minutes. extremely slick road conditions tuesday night along highway 101 in san bruno, travellers still taking to the roadways as people are still taking to the streets. >> i have a son in chicago. this is snow. we have nothing to complain about. the bay area always needs rain. we won't compl

kris reyes gathered inspiration. >> bye 2020, hello 2021. >> let do it. >> reporter: let start with inspiration. >> let's go. >> reporter: the woman in the red hat she didn't start working out until she turned 50. >> beautiful, drive up. >> reporter: this girl dad has been staying strong and helping his daughter run the business. this family determined to stay fit and we found a full tennis court at the park a great start for a elt though 202 1. >> my son just fell in love with bicycles so i hope to get a bike and do riding with him. >> last year i hit my goal with squatting and dead lifting over 100 pounds each and i want to get back to that in 2021. >> reporter: she's the owner of the boom box studio. she ran the first outdoor work out of 2021 on market street. she knows about keeping resolutions. >> keep moving forward, whatever that is. get out of bed. just take care of yourself in any way you can and as long as you don't stay stagnant, you will be okay. >> reporter: add to that wisdom from her mom that joined the workout. >> i live by the great word gratitude. i'm grateful for the smallest

vaccinations are crucial to ending the lls abc7 news reporter kris reyes is live in the newsroom. clarity on vaccine schedules today from people who are tasked to serve those who are vulnerable, but also the public who are not considered essential? >> kristen, i did. this seems to be the bottom line and easier said than done, but be patient. if you are available to get the vaccine and shots are available, there are teams all over the bay area whose main job right now is to reach you. >> our encouragement is especially our older adults continue to shelter in place and not have anxiety about this. we will be ■getting notices ut, or at least word out when vaccines will be available for the agep. >>epter: tha a lisa mancini, the director of aging and adult services for san mateo county. her team is currently working with in-home caregivers, family doctors and pharmacists to reach seniors, especially those who aren't on line, when it's their time to get the vaccine. they're also working out how to give out shots at home for these who can't get to a site. >> this is all happening so new.

abc 7 news reporter kris reyes gathered some inspiration. >> bye to 2020, hello to 2021. >> reporter: with inspiration. the woman in the red hat didn't start working out until she turned 50. >> beautiful drive up. >> reporter: this girl dad has been staying strong and helping his daughter run her business. this family determined to stay fit all year long. and we found a full tennis court at deloris park, a great start for a healthy 2021. >> my son just fell in love with bicycles so i'm hoping to get a bike and do more ride being him. >> early last year i hit my goal of squatting and dead lifting over 100 pounds each so i would like to get back to that in 2021. >> reporter: alexandra is the owner of the boom box studio. we found her running her very first outdoor workout of 2021 on market street. she knows a thing or two about keeping your fitness resolutions. >> keep moving forward, whatever that is, get out of bed, just take care of yourself, in any way you can. and as long as you don't stay stagnant you will be okay. >> reporter: add to that wisdom from alexandra's mom who also join

. >> reporter: in san jose kris reyes. >> shared video from truckee. they slowed it down for effect. truckee is high up at 5,700 feet. >>> absolutely gorgeous. some of it was kind of cementy, that creates a good base but they'll have to groom it for people that are actually out there to be able to ski. we will take any snow we can get. snow packs right around 50% of average for yesterday's date. let's talk about what else happened because of the rain yesterday. brought in some cooler and drier air and look at this. we're up to double digits cooler this morning. so, let's see exactly where that puts us and we'll start in the east bay where fog is going to be an issue as we get deeper and deeper into the morning commute. right now we're 39 in places like walnut creek and also danville and blackhawk 38 in pleasanton and livermore and everybody else around 40 to 45 degrees. how about other places. you can see the fog thickest across the north bay. hasn't quite made it into the bay, but it's going to. temperatures right now in the low to upper 40s there. no

in san francisco, kris reyes for abc 7 news. >>> now, a south bay organization is donating $75,000 to help repair the lick observatory damaged in the scu lightning complex fires. friends of the observatory, a local organization, designated the money to aid recovery efforts. crews were able to protect the main structures and telescope domes that have sat at the top of mount hamilton since 1888. but the fire damaged buildings like employee housing and critical infrastructure. all right, lisa, are we expecting any rain? i know last week was a wet one. >> we could see passing showers well to the north as we get into tuesday, today's only saturday. most folks want to worry about the weekend, what's ahead of them and we do have a lot of fog out there. we call that radiation fog where the air near the surface cools to the dew point, and with the combination of some offshore winds we're getting some pretty dense fog in our north bay valleys and also the eastern sacramento valley and that is expected to nudge just a little bit west, where you can see highway 4 there, live doppler 7 right now w