. >> nurses at ucf medical center want the hospital to put elective surgeries on hold saying there's not enough staff. the nurse's union held a virtual rally to demand more nursing. they say the hospital is jo overbooking elective surgery. ucsf increased parking fees for visitors and employees by 33%, now paying $312 a month to park. >> decrease the parking cost and minimize the finance burden on the community we serve and the essential workers that have risked so much to work through this pandemic. don't be a grinch. >> ucf did not respond saying they've hired 169 nurses since june and have added new positions as needed. >> american airlines is now offering at-home covid tests to passengers in hopes of helping travelers avoid quarantine requirements. >> reporter: american airlines is hoping to get more people in these seats starting at the end of the week. american will become the first airline to offer all of its passengers one of these at-home covid-19 tests before their flight. if you opt in, you pay $129, you receive one of these kits in the mail. inside you've got that national

he says the number ucfs is treating has double since the pandemic. the national eating disorder association reports a 78% increase in people contacting his helpline during the covid- 19 crisis. she says loneliness is a factor. >> school with the film is not quite the same. a lot of people have struggled with that. >> reporter: he says boys are often off the -- overlooked. he says eating disorders may manifest differently in them. >> boys can try to gain muscularity by taking supplements and steroids. >> for amy support and therapy have made the difference. >> everyone who may be struggling to reach out and know they are not alone, there is help out there. there is hope. >> reporter: he tells me 1-3 patients are boys, signs of an eating disorder includes young people not wanting to emails with family, obsessing about food and vomiting to control weight. the doctor says the holiday can be a difficult time with more food around. >>> dr. anthony fauci says he is cautiously optimistic that most us college students will be able to return back to campus com

why she said she is so grateful for her doctors at ucf benioff hospital. let's take it outside to katie view backyard. the oakland estuary glittering in the noontime somewhat. we wake up freezing but the days are warming up nicely. rosemary is up next and she has your full forecast. in this family, everyone does their own laundry, but they all do it a little different. honestly, i add a couple of tide pods and just stuff everything in. it works. and of course, everyone thinks their way is right. i stood in line for hours to get this. it has to be washed on delicate. it has to be cold water, it's better for the planet. the secret is, with tide pods it all works. of course it does. told ya! they're going to do it their way, and i get a break from the laundry. no matter how you wash, it's got to be tide. about the covid-19 virus. it's real. and it's dangerous. so, on behalf of all of us working on the front lines, please take it seriously. and while we don't yet have a cure or a vaccine, we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. wear a mask. wash y

kirsten bivens the mandingo, professor of epidemiology at ucf's school of medicine. good to have you on this afternoon. we appreciate you breaking down but we are talking about here. what's going to start the stay- at-home orders for a particular region. it's all going to be based upon the available icu capacity, if it falls below that 15% mark. does that threshold make sense to you, and why? >> yeah, i think it really speaks to what is making public health and policy leaders nervous right now, and that is the fact that our hospitals are filling up. and remember, when hospitals build up and icus don't have enough beds, that does not just mean we can't from the terrorism alert desk in washington, i'm of covid will pick it means we cannot take care of heart attacks, pneumonias, broken hips very well either. and that makes us nervous, so i really like the approach of looking at regions and saying to the regions have enough capacity, and if they don't have enough capacity, we really have to do everything we can individually and collectively to get the case rates down so

ucfs should see the first doses on tuesday. each box has 975 doses in it. sanford expects a delivery by wednesday. they start to plan vaccinations on friday. the first doses will go to high-risk, front line health care workers. san francisco general is also on the list to get some of the first doses of the vaccine. we have reached out for details but have yet to hear back from hospital leaders. for the second day in a row, the case reported 35,000 new cases and 225 deaths. that's the most ever in one day. our positivity rates are also soaring. it's now at 10.2%, the highest level since the pandemic began. just for perspective, the positivity rate was just shy of 4%, exactly one month ago today. >>> icu beds to be in short supply. right now there are no available icu beds in the san joaquin region. look at los angeles, southern california in general, just over 5% of intention self care beds available. in the bay area, availability is improving. up slightly from last night's 16% to now just over 17%. right now, san mateo and santa clara counties not doing tha

i'll give a shoutout to sanford for that, i give a shoutout ucfs. my boss, dr. terry schlegel who was very up front and said i need my front line workers to be prioritized. so i think all the kinks will get ironed out here. hopefully we'll have a more streamlined distribution plan. >> hope so. on the topic of distribution and priorities, i think you've got another round of us to test ourselves against. right? >> we do. less tricky on this. >> ok. true truths and a lie. let's go. >> bring it on. tell me which is not true. a, according to the cdc data tracker more than 60,000 americans have received the shot since monday. b, president-elect joe biden and dr. jill biden were among the first americans to receive the moderna vaccine. and c several states reported that their allotments of the pfizer vaccine were cut short, less than expected. which one is not true. >> all right. viewers. do your thing on facebook lye. i think asks is true, because i think it was close to that when i read it yesterday. i'm going to say c is true, because i do recall hearing some states

. >> reporter: ucf's dr. peter hong says he is seeing people give up on the rules. >> i'm seeing it in the grocery store to the gas station and people who come in the hospital and family members of patients, confusion, what can we do, what can't we do? >>> san francisco's initial a lotment of the pfizer savaccine will have enough doses for about 6,000 people. >> we knew we were going to be working under to begin with a little bit of a vaccine c constraint and that is going to decrease over time. we believe it will be additional manufacturers and we are all going to be able to get the vaccine that we want and need. >> dr. philip sas says it's not known when it will arrive and uber has asked the cdc to get the drivers to register as drivers. >>> the cdc's push to wear masks at home. and new concerns about wearing face coverings in the winter. what you need to know about masking up as temperatures fall. >>> and one man's best friend. a california pet owner not because i didn't want it. i worried it was too expen

. >>> one of the hospitals going to get that first batch of vaccines is ucf in san francisco. the shipment is expected today or tomorrow. we are hearing this morning, bay area health care workers are signing up to get their covid vaccines. nbc bay area sharon katsuda is live at ucsf to show us how they will be distributed. sharon? >> reporter: health care workers out here are very excited. one lady who walked by and heard we were doing the vaccine distribution story, he yelled, yea! and she was so excited to hear about the vaccines coming here soon. they say the first shipment here will have 975 doses which will go to first responders and health care workers at ucsf. the shipment could come today or tomorrow. the vaccines might be administered this wednesday. the other batch is expected the coming week. ucsf expects several thousands additional doses next week or the following week. overall, california is expected to receive 327,000 doses of the pfizer vaccine this month. one ucsf medical center employee told me he received the email saying to sign up for the shots. >> they se

those of you who recovered from covid, how long you're protected from getting it again which is why a ucf epidemiologist say getting vaccinated is the only way to get out. >> vaccines will not save anybody. vaccinations does. vaccines mean nothing unless people get it. we will to get well in excess of 75% of people vaccinated in order to stop transmission. >> reporter: that could take a while. by the time most of us are eligible to get the vaccine we will likely do it at our doctor's office and maybe the county health department. eventually at our local pharmacy. >> all this week we are answering questions and going indep on the un upcoming vaccines. >> reporter: students across the country are celebrating a win today. the u.s. supreme court today will not review and oregon school district transgender bathroom policy that allows transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify rather than their sex assigned at birth. a group of oregon parents sued saying the policy caused embarrassment and stress to students. similar lawsuits have been dismisse

ucfs ask a litany of questions and they do temperature checks. i'm hearing that temperature checks are not part of the requirements for school reentry. i'm wondering why. >> just to clarify, temperature checks are not required on site. schools can ask families to do that at home as a comprehensive screening check, which includes other systems and santa clara county did a time study of what it would take to do a temperature check on school sites and it was so -- it took so much time that it was not recommended in santa clara county. >> okay, thank you. additionally, getting to the information, making it public. so we're also not necessarily aware of how we're sharing information in a public facing way that's easy to digest. i don't know a lot of the details that maybe get covered in meetings between you and staff at sfusd, specific to vicinitilation or those types of things and just for the general public, that's even more opaque. i know that it's on us as a district to work with you to make sure we're sharing information in a way that makes famil

ucfs medical center and sutter health are monitoring capacity levels, deciding on nonessential surgeries based on data. >> we are all getting full and have sicker and sicker patients that stay on the wards because they -- there is not room in the icu. >> reporter: in santa clara county a record number of cases reported on saturday, 1600 sunday. >> the county has done a nice job of trying to shift patients between the hospitals so that they all are getting full at the same time. >> reporter: the doctor says bay area hospitals will not see the effects of christmas and new years and holiday gatherings and travel two weeks after when people are sick enough to go to the icu. for that reason he thinks the stay at home order will last well into january. >> i think we will be at there stay at home order for the entire month unfortunately. because we have not seen the christmas surge. it is more intense of wanting to celebrate. >> in the bay area the stay at home order is set to expire january 8th, right now it is at 11.1%. it has to be at 15% for three weeks before the order can be lifted. julie

. >> reporter: he and his team at ucf as well as front line health care workers are receiving the priorityh of vaccines along with those in nurses homes. >> we'll be making sure that those with means, those with influence are not crowding out those that are most deserving of the vaccine. >> reporter: while medical workers are at the front of the line it's still a long line. there are 2.4 million health care workers in the state. remember, the vaccine requires two separate doses but so far california is only expecting 2 million doses by the end of the year. 327,000 will get here by next week and then pfizer will deliver it to medical centers and labs across the state. so health care workers can get vaccinated first at places like hospitals assisted living facilities, dental clinics and prisons. >> enormously complicated undertaking. so things will go wrong. >> reporter: this doctor has spent 20 years researching pandemic preparedness. he says he's concerned over how exactly the u.s. will be able to get the vaccine into the arms of all those who need it. >> communities that are historically

ucfs plans to start them on wednesday. stanford plans to ram up it's program to vaccinate as many as a thousand people a day as well. stanford emergency doctor said that he is confident in the vaccine. >> all the data has shown that it works up to 95%. it's not 100% which is why we will continue to wear masks. >> the fda is expected to meet on thursday to review whether or not the maderna vaccine will be approved. if that is the case those first doses could arrive by early next week. reporting live in san francisco, emily turner, kpix5. >>> and the meantime san francisco officials are urging the public do not relax safety practices despite the promise of the vaccine. >> please, don't travel for the holidays. protect your loved ones. do your part. >> california reported more than 30,000 new cases for a 4th straight day yesterday. 77 more people have died and the test positive rate is over 10%. >>> today the governor will provide an update on the state's response to the pandemic. you can watch it streaming live on cbsn bay a

. >>> joining us to talk more about the coronavirus in the vaccine is a doctor from ucf. let's start with the basic questions. are you confident in the vaccines? are they safe? will you get one wax >> i'm very confident. it's is safe as i understand it right now. i can't wait to get my. >> the coronavirus vaccine is mutating. how concerned are you about that and your thoughts on moderna's vaccine is effective against a new strain. >> >> yes, so. i ultimately think experts say the vaccines will continue to have efficacy against the new strain. the new strain is not news. the virus mutates all the time. over the months of the pandemic we had several reports of this strain being more transmissible, that strain being more transmissible. in essence this doesn't scare me. it's not like a superhero able to melt through a mask. the same projections will work against these strains. so, in essence, overall, you know, again, like jesse said, ask up, let's protect ourselves and you will get that transmissible strain. >> so far more than 1 million people got the vaccine, way fewer tha

ucf began administering doses yesterday. like kaiser the doses went to front line health care workers, one of those is dr. tomas diaz. >> i didn't know how much of a relief it would be to feel feel safer, feel like we're on the path to getting out of this pandemic, even though there's still a long way to go. >> dr. diaz says he is physically feeling fine after the vaccination. ucsf is expecting to administer about 11,900 doses by the end of december. >>> in 30 minutes, an fda panel is due to meet to consider giving moderna an emergency use authorization for its vaccine. jobina fortson has more from the live desk on this. >> thank you. this is the same federal panel that gave the green light for a similar request from pfizer last week. people have started to receive that vaccine. pfizer began shipping it once it was given that government approval. moderna's vaccine is 94% effective in all age groups fighting covid-19. that compares to 95% for pfizer's vaccine. the similarities were talked about between the two drugs on "good

. >> ucfs peter hong said shopping is generally safer than dining out and if shoppers keep their masks on, stay out of crowds and follow guidelines they should be safe. >> if they limit the capacity provided you have good ventilation which i -- i think is pretty decent. >> the doctor said that the least risky activity to prepare for the upcoming holiday, online shopping. many southland businesses and restaurants are staying open any way. it's a violation of the governor's stay at home order but owners at big bear lake say they need to pay the bills. restaurants and shops are operating at limited capacity. >> support the local businesses that are struggling trying to make a living here. >> if you do everything safely i don't see a problem with it. everybody is trying to look out for each other so we don't come down sick. >> vacation rentals are only supposed to be for essential business but the city said it'll not take punitive enforcement action that verify at check in. they are hosting single families responsibly. >>> big bear is asking everybody to wear masks, socially distance and n

ucf is expecting 9,011 doses by the end of december. >>> solano county is receiving 7900 vaccine doses00 from pfizer and 4,000 from moderna pending fda authorization. people in health care and long-term care settings will go first. health officials say as the vaccine becomes more readily available, they will work with advisory groups to ensure equatable distribution. >> officials in santa clara county are preparing to vaccinate staff members at long term care facilities hit hardest by the pandemic. chris nguyen tells us these facilities account for nearly 45% of colorado related deaths county wide. >> reporter: with the arrival of the covid-19 vaccine in the bay area, work is underway to deliver it to the populations who need it most. in santa clara county, the publishing health department says that staff members in long term care facilities will get first priority. >> the thing that has been the most stressful and the most distressing to me as a daughter has been the isolation of my elderly father. >> reporter: the news comes as a relief to san jose community leader kelly snider whose

. >> reporter: fellow ucf infectious disease expert dr.etermined whether vaccinated people could still be infectious for a time and believes precautions will be critical in the months to come, even with increased pressure to return to normal. >> they continue to wear their masks until everyone, enough of the people are vaccinated, like you said, so that we can get to herd immunity. >> reporter: to speed that time line, some have suggested mandates vaccinations as soon as they're available for students returning to school, possibly accelerating the drive toward herd immunity. berkeley professor arthur reingold is hoping that won't be necessary. >> well, i always prefer incentives and knowledge and to mandates, mandates are very unpopular although mandates tend to get the job done. >> reporter: they believe getting vaccines distribute as quickly and widely as possible is the key to avoiding potentially fractured months with the prospect of passport privileges and vaccine haves and have nots. >> you know, i think that's how we're going to, wh

i want to bring in thomas gif, the director of the ucf center for u.s. politic. thanks for coming in. nice to see you i don't again. i want to get your reaction to the chain of events that ended last night. what, if anything, has the president accomplished in all of this beyond sowing chaos? >> well, kim, president trump does look to sow confusion and he does thrive on chaos. taking the country to the brink on the spending bill is consistent with how he's governed throughout the administration. it's possible the president had every intention of signing the bill but he wanted the satisfaction of forcing congressional democrats and republicans to peer over the precipice for a while. i think this was all about trump not wanting to lose the spotlight, about political retribution, and proving his continued relevance. basically trump waited until the 11th hour to sign this bill because he could and the fact that benefits many americans needed hung in the balance and a government shutdown was looming didn't matter to trump as long as he could capture the news psych. >>

. >> reporter: fellow ucf infectious disease expert dr.hi reports researchers haven't determined whether vaccinated people could still be infectious for a time and believes precautions will be critical in the months to come, even with increased pressure to return to normal. >> they continue to wear their masks until everyone, enough of the people are vaccinated, like you said, so that we can get to herd immunity. >> reporter: to speed that time line, some have suggested mandates vaccinations as soon as they're available for students returning to school, possibly accelerating the drive toward herd immunity. berkeley professor arthur reingold is hoping that won't be necessary. >> well, i always prefer incentives and knowledge and to mandates, mandates are very unpopular although mandates tend to get the job done. >> reporter: they believe getting vaccines distributed as quickly and widely as possible is the key to avoiding potentially fractured months with the prospect of passport privileges and vaccine haves and have nots. >> you know, i th

abc7 news spoke with a ucf epidemiologist, dr. george rutherford. >> you can probably keep some retail shopping open that would help out a lot of small businesses. after dining with low density and everybody wearing masks, you know, maybe. >> he says counties may have to reduce the allowed capacity for restaurants. as for schools -- >> you could conceive of keeping preschools open and continue to open elementary schools. >> earlier this week governor newsom specifically mentioned restrictions for deep purple tier counties, this suggests not all purple counties would be subject to tighter rules. >>> and endless fight to rebuild and find a home. after losing everything in the recent wildfires, the shocking story showing why our neighbors are still stuck in the ashes. >>> and the white house bribery bombshell. what we're learning about the push to pardon president trump's family members and who might be behind it. >>> and we've talked about how slow this rain season has started since october 1st. let's talk about the entire year from