Senate but expect that to happen. Yesterday on the midday news, we were able to say that biden had confirmed that yellen was, indeed, his pick for treasury secretary. Wall street has suspected that for more than a week. She is one of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well. But this morning, as you saw on nbc bay area in that special report a short time ago the president elect made all of this official. The team im announcing today will play a Critical Role in shaping our plan for action starting on day one and move fast to revive this economy. They are going to help me help us, help the country lay out my build back better plan. Its my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the american people. And to join this incredible Economic Team at this moment of great challenge for our country. Reporter president elect biden has named neera tanden as the director of office of management and budget. Now, this nomination probably will not get through the republican dominated senate as tanden is vocal in our opposition of republicans on twitter and one count says she has deleted more than a thousand tweets of her. But you can find criticism. Here she is praising Stacey Abrams for calling mcconnell moscow mitch. You can mine a persons twitter and the defense people are giving. Bottom line, if you accuse the Senate Majority leader of having an allegiance to russia and come to the senate to have your appointment approved youre going to have a hard time. Indeed. Scott, i know another thing i was thinking about while watching that. President elect biden, first time making that public appearance since we heard about his injury. I know from what i saw he looked okay. Are you hearing anything differently . No. Reporter he looked good. He walked out. We were expecting him to sit down right away. He has a walking boot receiving a hairline fracture after playing with his dog apparently but he stood at the podium a long time. Cdc under way on determining who gets top priority on the covid vaccine. Here is a live look at a meeting which is about to begin. Nbc rob redell has more on the group hoping to be on the top of that list. Reporter good morning. We are waiting for the Cdc Advisory Committee on immunization practices to begin. They will try to figure out and figure out who should receive the covid19 vaccine first. We expect Health Care Workers and front line responders looks like a hard time with his mike there. Working from home is what happens sometimes. They will find out who will get the vaccine first. Moderna is looking to get approval from not july the u. S. But europe as well and pfizer along with that. We should know more what happens in europe later this month. I think for pfizer its next month and we will continue to follow that. The vaccine, who gets it first is a big question. We expect Health Care Workers and doctors and nurses and other First Responders to be first along with people who live in Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities who are really at the highest risk of becoming infected and ending up in the hospital. Assuming no surprises and the fda approval, the two vaccines in the pipeline, the one by moderna, the other by pfizer. Biontech could roll out the first tier of people and expected the first of us would be eligible to receive that vaccine late winter early spring. Infectious disease specialist expects the United States to achieve herd immunity by next summer if enough people get that shot which he estimates will have to be more than 70 of the population in order to stop transmission. This decency isnt going away. We will continue to see it crop up from time to time. I think its too well established in the human population. We have just too much travel, too much social interaction for it to, you know, go away. Its going to take a long, long time to get it internationally around the world back in the box and we are never really going to completely get it back into box, so we will continue to see cases crop up from time to time. Dr. Rutherford there says the safety profile for the two vaccines, very high right now, which should be encouraging news for anyone with concerns about whether or not to receive those shots. New numbers for you in the latest covid surge. Infections are now at more than 13 million here in the u. S. That is an additional 4. 5 million new cases from last month. The new number of deaths now exceeding 260,000. Here in the bay area, more than 150,000 cases confirmed with more than 2,700 new infections just added. Around 800 of the newest infections are in santa clara county, nearly 2,000 have died in the bay area. Doctors in the bay area say the numbers are multiplying faster than before as covid cases around the nation continue to climb as Health Care Providers prepare for that influx. State leaders looking to reintroduce restrictions to get the numbers under control. Nbc bay area Cierra Johnson is live for us in San Francisco to explain. Where do things stand right now . What is next for us . Reporter good morning. The concern right now isnt just the number of folks in the hospital. Its also how quickly the numbers are multiplizing. As it stands right now, there are 7,800 patients hospitalized in icu and that number has increased 67 in the last two weeks. That is statewide. Governor gavin newsom warned monday without more restrictions and number of patients could double or triple within a month, pushing icu bed capacity at the state level to 112 by mid december and 92 in the bay area by early january. Right now, Health Officials are keeping an eye on the possible surge the next two or three weeks following thanksgiving. Millions of travel, despite pleas from local leaders and governor gavin newsom says drastic measures will need to take place to get things under control. Take a listen to him address that from yesterdays state address. It will require, and we are assessing this in realtime over the next day or two, to make determinations of deep purple moves in those purple tiered status. That is more equivalent and in line with the stayathome order that folks were familiar with in the beginning of this year. With modifications in terms of the work that we are currently doing. Reporter the governor did not elaborate on what exactly that stayathome order would look like but he said he is working with officials across the state from los angeles to the bay area, across the state to see that they need and what they are looking for the next round of restrictions. As soon as that information becomes available, we will reday to you. Cierra johnson, nbc bay area news. We will wait to see what that is. Thank you so much. It looks nice where she was in San Francisco. This is a look at san jose. A different story from earlier this morning where we saw fog all across the bay area creating perfect fall conditions. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking the chilly weather we have been having. Should we expect the barest of e week . Yes. Wea we have seen humidity increasing and cold temperatures. Here is how cold it was in a a lot of spots here. Here we are right now starting to warm up and feeling a lot better as you head out for lunch. We are reaching into the mid60s today. Livermore 65. 64 napa. Oakland 63. After this cold start a mild afternoon, now that the sun is out, we are going to see more weather like this. Now that we are meteorological weather we will see what we need in the rainfall category. That is all coming up. A developing story in the east bay. One person is in the hospital after a shooting in fremont. This happened before 4 00 a. M. Near the intersection of the area. No word on a suspect or a motive. We will continue to follow the developments and bring you updates as they come in. The Labor Department is under fire. This is for under reporting weekly jobless numbers and short changing americans unemployed from the pandemic. The General Accounting Office has issued that new report faulting faulty Data Collection for the inaccurate jobless numbers. In the meantime, 27 states are paying only the minimum amount of allowable jobless benefits and not the amount pegged for the prior earnings. California says its already working to make up that difference. Some relief coming today for Business Owners and unemployed workers struggling to make it in the bay. The state is launching a 100 Million Dollar tax credit aimed at rewarding Small Businesses for highing employs. Comes on the heels of governor gavin newsom announcing 500,000 relief package for nonbusinesses and state profits. The state will provide a threemonth tax extension to businesses less than 1 million in sales taxes. Bracing for the worst . The major cut possibly coming to the Bay Area Transit Agency if they dont get help soon during the pandemic. Around the bay right now, Students Learning from home. Next, see the impact covid is having on their studies now compared to when they were in school. Kelly clarkson is getting candid about the difficulties of divorce while the public eye and alicia keys and doyle. Watch it here at 3 00 today. Heres another cleaning tip from mr. Clean. Cleaning tough bathroom and kitchen messes with sprays and wipes can be a struggle. Theres an easier way. Try mr. Clean magic eraser. Just wet, squeeze and erase tough messes like bathtub soap scum. And cakedon grease from oven doors. Now mr. Clean magic eraser comes in disposable sheets. Theyre perfect for icky messes on stovetops. In microwaves. And all over the house. For an amazing clean, try mr. Clean magic eraser, and mr. Clean magic eraser sheets. Welcome back. There may be as many as four more antitrust investigations coming against google and facebook. The wall street journal reporting this morning, among them, the ftc is looking into whether facebook shifted competition by buying instagram and snapchat. The state of texas leading the team of other states in investigating googles dominance of the online ad market. Barring a recovery in revenues, more than 1,200 muni workers may lose their jobs after a grim assessment delivered by the board members. If help does not arrive to close the massive budget deficit, those cuts could make up more than 20 of muni work force. Projects show they could be within 1 million in the red within two years of time even with the recent cutbacks. For the first time we are seeing the impact of Remote Learning on our nations children in the most competitive study to date. A National Nonprofit organization compared precovid test scores with recent assessment during the pamndemic. There is good news and concern from parents that students are slipping. Here is nbc vicky nguyen. Reporter this third grader lollie is taking classes from home in seattle, washington. She loves gymnastics and she misses real school and her classmates. I miss hugging my friends and giving them a fist bump and high fives. Reporter the mother says holly struggles with score because of adht and add in the amend and things are more challenging. Are you concerned about her learning progress . Do you worry she may have fallen behind in reading and math . Absolutely. Like a lot of parents around the u. S. , ive heard parents saying they are calling this year a wash. That is incredibly sad. There is a lot of children that are not online and not engaged in zoom. Reporter new data out today from nwea founds scores in third to eighth grades have slipped in matt down five to ten points compared to this time last year. We are definitely seeing evidence that students have learned less since march than students normally learn in a norm school year. Reporter megan is the Senior Research scientist at nwea. What do we do with these results . Math is sequential and builds a lot what kids have learned and making sure for the students who have fallen behind we identify that and give students the support they knee that is important. Reporter the mother says lollie needs to be in the classroom and is one of those students. From beginning of last year when the schools closed she wasnt able to do it and she tried as hard as she could but it was incredibly frustrating for her. Reporter compared to 2019 the most affected in 2020 . Elementary grades, Technology Students transitioning from fifth to sixth grade. Least affected . Middle School Students in seventh and eighth grade. But on the bright side, students seem to be doing well in reading. Some even showing gains in their ability. Reading seems very promising, very on par with the Normal School year. Reporter we talked to fourth graders in berkeley heights, new jersey, who say they also miss being in class fulltime. Why do you think its easier to learn in school versus at home . In school the teacher can help you easier. If youre at home they cant see what youre doing or if youre doing it wrong. Its easier in the classroom because, like, you dont get distracted. Reporter what are your worries as a parent . Worried that what are they missing . So much more independent the quality of the learning the same. While the city looked at test scores for more than 4 Million Students research say data is missing for schools that werent able to test students because of covid19. Students unable to have wifi and unable to to toest remotely schools not able to test at all. The missing data can mean we are underestimating the impact. Reporter for now, Remote Learning is a quick fix for lollie and millions of students like her across the country but anjelica says that may come with longterm effects and learning loss for students who arent thriving outside of the classroom. We need to get creative with solutions. There has to be an answer because just calling it a wash for a whole year of learning for those children is just completely not acceptable. That was vicky nguyen reporting there. You know what . It is the season of giving. Today is giving tuesday. Laura garcia has more. Reporter this month is saluting all front line workers. We are talking doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, firefighters, police officers, dentists, Mental Health workers and hospital staffers, starbucks is acknowledging them and House Keeping and active duty military also. Starting today through the end of the year, all are eligible to receive a free tall brew coffee hot or ice. Starbucks wants to show its appreciation for those keeping communities safe during the pandemic. It is giving tuesday and, today, consider supporting your favorite charity. We are helping out make a wish greater bay area. Text wish to 911999 to donate any amount bringing joy to a child today. The make a Wish Foundation helps fill the wishes of children battling critical illnesses. If youd like to be a part of the giving, you can text wish to 9 91999. Another easy way to help is through our nourishing neighbors food drive. Next time youre at a Safeway Store you can make a donation and the money goes straight to local food banks. That food drive goes through december 29th. Its always nice to give. In giving, receive, i always say. Back to you. The more you give the more you get back. Someone who is always giving us to is meteorologist kari hall. How is it giving today . It looks great for getting outside and we are going to also have a lot more sunshine. These are the days we have gotten used to because we had a little bit of change this morning with the fog rolling by, now we are back to what we are used to with all of that sunshine that we are seeing over San Francisco. Its going to be a nice day to head out to the park. Check out our forecast for antioch. In the low 60s through the milled of the day and sunshine as we are going to have a light wind and a little bit more breezy today compared to yesterday but as we look at what to expect all across the bay area, going hourbyhour into the middle of the afternoon, many of us will reach our high temperature. Fairfield a 67. South bay mid60s. Coastal areas in the upper 50s and low 60s. So we are not seeing much in the way of a big spread in temperatures from the coast to the inland valley. A few degrees difference here and there. We are all going to cool down quickly as we go into the evening shortly after sunset. Dropping into the 50s and breezy tonight. Take a look at where we are going to start tomorrow morning. The heater will still be on as we dip down into the 30s in parts of the north bay, as well as the inland east bay valleys and down to the south counties. Expect it to be a cool morning tomorrow once again. We are seeing these cold fronts moving closer and still no rain in the forecast. At least they are getting some of that wet weather across the Pacific Northwest but it is not helping us out here in the bay area as we see the systems drying out. As we look at how much rain we have measured so far for the water year, very little. October you can see the orange there that we have had. Just a little bit. For november, we had a small amount of rain compared to normal. Now we are into our meteorological winter where we usually see the rain ramping up and we are not seeing any rain in the forecast for at least the next week or so. Maybe a couple of weeks before we start to see the rain. At this point, we have only measured 5 of the normal amount of rain for san jose and oakland and we are just not doing good here with the extreme drought conditions. High pressure we have also started to see the hazy conditions as it kind of acts as a lid to push down all of that pollution near the week. Marcus . Thank you. Coming up for you, former president barack obama is in the hot seat. The big mistake he says he didnt do during his time in office involving one Famous Country legend. First, happening now for you. The destruction of the amazon rain forest has hit its highest level in more than a decade. A new study by the Brazilian National institute for Space Research it found from july 2019 to now, fires burned around 4,300 square miles, twice the size of the city of rio de janeiro. It has drawn more worldwide attention concerning joe biden who suggested the creation of a fund to stop the destruction of the rain forest. The Vice President of brazil is ready to start the conversation with president elect biden when he takes office. By harnessing californias abundant wind and solar energy, we have the power to take on climate change. Use less from 4 to 9 pm to keep california golden. Welcome back. New at 11 00 for you, former president barack obama is looking back at his time at the white house. Last night on the late show with stephen colbert, mr. Obama was asked why dolly parton does not have a president ial medal of freedom. Looking back on your eight years do you realize that was a mistake you made . Actually that was a screwup. I assumed she had already got one and that was invecket. Correct. Im surprised she has not reserved one. Ill call biden. Dolly parton has received a National Medal of art and celebrated at the Kennedy Center honors. Well deserved for all of those. She needs it, right, ka ari . Yes, she does. She does so much charitable work we dont know about a lot of the time. Lets see what is going on as we check our temperatures that are staying in the mid60s the next few days. More cool mornings and we will have watch out for the fog redeveloping. In San Francisco we are looking all clear. A lot of sunshine over the next several days. Thanks. Thank you for joining us here for our midday newscast. The next is at too5 00. Remember we are always on at nbcbayarea. Com. Its giving tuesday so find a charity you love and give. Give yurtourself a happy day. Make your holidays happen. At ross surprise ahhh yes i love it you dont have to spend a lot to give a lot to the ones who mean the most. 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