>>> good evening and thank you so much for joining us on a busy wednesday night, i'm linsey davis, in for david. just two days before christmas, but no shortage of headlines tonight. the covid relief bill that congress spent six months negotiating is now on hold. president trump says it doesn't go far enough. and it comes as december is shaping up to be the worst month in this pandemic. majority of counties in this country are now considered sustained hot spots for covid-19, as millions of americans are now on the move, despite pleas to stay close to home. raising fears of a bigger surge than after thanksgiving. but there is encouraging news on those vaccines. pfizer confirms that they will sell the u.s. government 100 million more doses within the next six months. the first medical personnel with the new york city fire department got their shots today. but new concerns about those variant strains that are now appearing in the uk. will the vaccine protect against those, as well? and are children more susceptible? dr. ashish jha is standing by, but we begin with abc's stephanie ramos.

on behalf of david and the whole team, i'm linsey davis. thank you so much for watching. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good night. >>> all of our numbers are going the wrong direction. as you can see, the surge that we're in right now is so dramatic it almost appears as though we hadn't had two prior surges. >> rising covid cases just before christmas and now today a dire warning from south bay officials. good afternoon and thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> i'm dion lim. we begin now in santa clara county where officials are asking people to stay home. >> this is the time when we want to come together. we need to come together, but we cannot come together in person. we cannot come together in person. it's just not safe this year. >> a grim and clear message from officials in santa clara county just two days before christmas. officials say the region is at a breaking point from a thanksgiving surge of covid-19 cases. and they are pleading with the public not to gather for the coming holidays. >> if we have a surge on top of a surge, we will definitel

on behalf of david and the whole team, i'm linsey davis. thank you so much for watching. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good night. >> announcer: building a better area for a safe and security futu future, this is abc 7 news. >>> counting down the days until christmas means counting up the fines leveed on a san jose church. it's been holding indoor services and says christmas services will continue as planned. good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. we all want to continue holiday traditions but this year we simply can't. >> we are not doing anything this year the way we have done in previous years. we can't. we're in the middle of a pandemic. >> that's director of public health dr. sarah cody. she and her team is not menacing words about the danger of coronavirus. it become the county's third leading cause of death following cancer and heart disease. case rates are up thanks to a surge of new infections following thanksgiving and a concern the same thing could happen over christmas and new years. the county's top doctors

i'm linsey davis in for tom llamas. we begin tonight with breaking developments in the christmas explosion that rocked downtown nashville. federal authorities are now confirming 63-year-old anthony quinn warner was the bomber. among the evidence, surveillance footage that captured an audio warning in the moments leading up to the blast. a second angle shows the deadly force. damage across multiple city blocks. phone communications knocked out. tonight, the fbi confirms dna from human remains recovered at the crime scene belong to warner. his exact motive remains a mystery. tonight, chilling new details from the hero officers who raced to evacuate residents. some call it a christmas miracle that no one else was killed. abc's marcus moore leads us off tonight in nashville. >> reporter: tonight, investigators identifying the bomber behind the christmas day rv explosion that rocked downtown nashville. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: officials calling 63-year-old anthony quinn warner the suspect and confirming his remains were

taylor nickles spoke with abc news report eer linsey davi about his encounter with a covid patient with a swastika on his chest. he had a black nurse and asian respiratory therapist. >> in that moment, i questioned how i felt about it because being jewish, seeing that symbol of hate, knowing that, you know, that same compassion may not otherwise have been extended towards me if the roles were reversed really made me double down and look into myself and extend that compassion towards him, do everything i could to save his life. >> nickles is a bay area native and works part time at us ev su. he says this wasn't the first time he dealt with the issue but took a bigger toll on him due to the strain of the pandemic. >> a hawaii couple that traveled from san francisco international airport to kauai is arrested for boarding the flight when they knew they were positive for covid-19. the mayor announced the arrest. the man and woman are residents of kauai tested positive for pretravel screenings. they have been charged with second degree reckless endangerment and currently in isolation and cont

linsey davis joins with more. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you, michael. while there were no body cameras and no witnesses of the actual shooting, the family of casey goodson says what's likely forever seared in the mind of his 5-year-old brother and his grandmother is that front door open, casey goodson's body collapsed inside, and they say he was holding subway sandwiches he was bringing home for them. this morning, demands for answers after 23-year-old casey goodson was fatally shot by police outside his ohio home. his mother collapsed to the ground after learning the news. now a newly released 911 call captures the confusion as two very different accounts unfold. >> my grandson just got shot in the back when he came in the house. >> who shot him? >> i don't know. i just heard gunshots and he's laying in the door. >> reporter: goodson's family says he was returning home from a dentist appointment holding his keys and subway sandwiches in hand when he was gunned down by jason meade, a sheriff's deputy working with u.s. marshals on a separate search at th