unger says those risks place a huge burden on their own families. >> and i bring this home to my kids. what level of comfort do they have with us. it is really tough. sometimes your kids don't want to give you a hug when you get home from work. >> reporter: all of oakland's 435 firefighters were able to get vaccinated in the first tier of vaccination. in contra costa county firefighters will be vaccinated beginning on monday. >> to be operational, we can't do it with covid-infected employees. so we're hoping that the vaccine is going to help us to reduce that risk substantially. >> reporter: despite the personal toll, unger says it is an honor to serve the community, but ends by saying they need the community's help. >> i feel like if we can all really buckle down, stay home, wear your masks, we can get through this? >> reporter: in okay land, anser haasan, "abc 7 news". >>> let's move on and talk about the weather on this rainy christmas night. a live look outside after rain rolled across the bay area. visibility wasn't great on some san francisco streets. there were reports of isola

unger says those risks place a huge burden on their own families. >> and i bring this home to my kids. what level of comfort do they have with us. it is really tough. sometimes your kids don't want to give you a hug when you get home from work. >> reporter: all of oakland's 435 firefighters were able to get vaccinated in the first tier of vaccination. in contra costa county firefighters will be vaccinated beginning on monday. >> to be operational, we can't do it with covid-infected employees. so we're hoping that the vaccine is going to help us to reduce that risk substantially. >> reporter: despite the personal toll, unger says it is an honor to serve the community, but ends by saying they need the community's help. >> i feel like if we can all really buckle down, stay home, wear your masks, we can get through this? >> reporter: in okay land, anser haasan, "abc 7 news". >>> let's move on and talk about the weather on this rainy christmas night. a live look outside after rain rolled across the bay area. visibility wasn't great on some san francisco streets. there were reports of isola

unger says those risks place a huge burden on their own families. >> can i bring this home to my kids? what level of comfort for us, and sometimes your kids don't want to give you a hug when you get home from work. all of the firefighters were able to get vaccinated. firefighters will begin getting vaccinated on monday. >> to be operational, we can't do that with covid-infected employees and so we're hoping that the vaccine will help us to reduce that risk substantially. >> despite the personal toll, unger says it's an honor to serve the community and ends by saying they need the community's help. >> i feel if we can all buckle down, stay home. wear your masks, we can get through this. in oakland, ansar hassan, abc 7 news. >> a former 31-room hotel opens up as a shelter for the homeless. the inn has been acquired by the county by state funding by project home key. a virtual ceremony will take place on december 30th. they opened the former hotel azura as supportive housing. they can house 100 people. county officials say it's important to get these places running up and running as quic

u unger says they'res forced to wear special gowns and coming into contact with other family members. those risks place a huge burden on their own families. >> and i bring this home to my kids. what level of comfort do they have with us? it's really tough. sometimes your kids don't want to give you a hug when you get home from work. >> all of the firefighters were able to get vaccinated. in contra costa firefighters will begin to get vaccinated on monday. to be operational, we can't do that with covid-infected employees and so we're hoping that the vaccine will help us to reduce that risk substantially. >> despite the personal toll, unger says it's an honor to serve the community, but ends by saying they need the community's help. >> i feel like if we can all buckle down, stay home, wear your masks, we can get through this. >> in oakland, ansar hassan, 7 news. >>> a new hotel opens for a long-term shelter for the homeless. it's been acquired by the county by project home key. a virtual opening ceremony will take place december 30th. earlier this month the county opened the former hote

jack unger is a local firefighter.reatening a lawsuit. >> we plan to fight in court and in the public about this violation on our contract. >> by far the overwhelming cause of this crisis is unbudgeted police overspending. that one department went $32 million over budget. >> city capital respondent becky kaplan says the city has 30 million in cuts to decide in january, which would likely impact parks and senior services. >> and extra consultants that are being used at a cost of millions of dollars. >> they're sending aid till til end of june. >> i'm hoping that making these hard and decisive cuts right now that we can build a new budget that looks forward to an economic recovery starting july 1st. >> in oakland, abc7 news. >>> in the past hour we got a statement from the oakland police department's interim chief, suzanne oppenheimer. she says, although these cuts will have painful and unavoidable impacts to our proactive crime prevention, we are committed to using the resources and officers we do have to keep our commu

many reverberation from the yanks the car this is our to international still ahead on the program unger merkel celebrates her last christmas as german chancellor or a man in berlin looks at who could be her successor. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. chemistry has also given us fulfilment in many ways by guaranteeing and abundant food supply if we look at our world today there are still famines but there are political famines are caused by political problems are not caused by an inability to grow food and if we look at infectious diseases if you were in the middle of a pandemic now with a pandemic is killing less than one percent of the people that are in facts and in past times pandemics could kill 30 to 70 percent of the people that were infected so chemistry has given us much improved quality of life in many ways and then we have to ask well with these unintended consequences that are causing species go extinct that are causing environmental injustice is how can we

unger started occurring in major cities. hoover is able to break the ogjam by creating with we called a non governmentgovernme organization commission for belgium.n it didn't represent any particular country. t was created by hoover as an individual by grant whitlock the bass door to belgium and ambassador to spain an individual. neutral eating this entity the british, french and take food owed it to stuff to feed combatants. 1914 to 1918 hoover raised over a billion dollars. 1910 dollars, in order to to feed the r food population of belgium and france.n next slide. hen the u.s. gets involved in the war, hoover turns the administration of the commission relief of belgium over to neutral parties and comes back united states adds woodrow wilson immediately puts him into his cabinet as the head of the u.s. food administration. hoover's task was to provide stuffs for the war effort. now there, are two ways that you increase the amount of food available. first is to increase production time.at takes the second is to get americans

but it really took off this year when a group of young unger angolans decided to dance to it in their lunch break it goes something like this. the only. thing let's see how it made its way across the world. jerusalem not in 20 or 20000 people the world over and dance to this song like these students in hungary doctors and care workers in dusseldorf. this flash mob the airport staff in riga or even priests and nuns in. this video from an angle that was one of the 1st after the dance group had uploaded the video on line the song quickly went viral and the global dance challenge was growing. from the moment he 1st saw the video friends. based choreographer and dance coach and yes i was his explanation for this jerusalem a phenomenon. special about this song that is deeply spiritual. courageous and especially in times of the pandemic the figures the energy and strength to say i'm going to leave my worries as i live i'll take some time for myself for others. cleaning staff it doesn't matter we're all one and we're all united. be the most famous dance challenge this year but it's definitely

. >> reporter: despite the personal toll, unger says it's an honor to serve the community but ends by saying they need the community's help. >> i feel like if we can all buckle down, stay home, wear your mask, we can get through this. >>> a former 31-room motel will open next week as a new long-term shelter for the homeless. it has been acquired through the county by state funding. a virtually home ceremony will take place on the 30th. earlier they opened one as supportive housing. between the two complexes, they can house 100 people. county officials say it's important to get these places up and running as quickly as possible given the big increase in covid-19 cases in the north bay. >>> a woman survived after her car went off a cliff at san francisco's ft. funston. the car crashed onto its roof on the beach below after plunging 120 feet. the woman is in serious condition this morning. firefighters say she was thrown out of the car before it landed. it is still not clear what caused her car to go off the road. >>> at least two families in the south bay are spending the holiday somewh

europe's vaccination program, as authorities are concerned the slow pace of the rollout could force unger and calls more economic damage for months to come. david miller is still with us. what is your perspective on where we stand in terms of vaccinations and recovery? a lot of people have forecast a v-shaped recovery but not until later next year. david: implementation will be key. let's hope the vaccines get rolled out effectively and work, the side effects aren't there, and all of those things. because as you say, the optimism next year is all about the second half of the year. it's all about the fact that we will start to return to somewhat normality after this incredibly unusual year we have been through. let's see how it goes. the surge in infection rates is clearly a concern, implementation is a concern. interestingly the reaction i markets is less muted than last march. we see almost that the damage has been done. now we look forward to the future. if there are any slip ups on the way through, i would expect to see more market volatility, but that is for another day. matt: we can