Now 3 San Francisco mayor london breed warning the city is preparing to announce new restrictions this week as coronavirus spreads rampantly thank you for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im tahernia during a press conference this afternoon mayor london breed and doctor colfax saying restrictions could be issued as early as tomorrow. Kron fours dan kerman joins us live from San Francisco with the concerning details. Dan. Well thats right things have gone from bad to worse as far as covid is concern here in the city in the last 10 days hospitalizations have more than doubled cases are 4 times what they were a month ago during an online briefing today both the mayor and the Health Director said changes are coming and they could come as soon as tomorrow. We are now in the most dangerous period. So this pandemic we need to do everything we can stay ahead of our hospitals, not being overrun this is about saving lives, everything were asking you to do on the coming weeks and months is abo
For thanksgiving. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are little bit on the move. On the one hand, we have a vaccine and encouraging news from the pharmaceutical companies. I am looking forward to catching up with the roche chief executive on the treatment out there. On the other hand, we get infections rising in the latest one from the cdc, saying lees try not to travel for tryksgiving please not to travel for thanksgiving. U. S. Futures are actually down. The dollar edging up somewhat. If you look at, you know, health and industrial shares, they seem to be rallying here in the u. K. , and i want to show you yields on the spanish bond. I think we will have that board shortly, so we will bring you that, but you can see in general, it is a twoway system for what the market is looking at. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann hi, francine. Over in georgi
At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
A rumor that was debunked that the sec had approved Blackrock Bitcoin etf application coming up in the First Exclusive appearance since the news broke we have blackrock Ceo Larry Fink. Larry is going to be here live in the back half of the show to give us the exact word on what truly is going on with the Blackrock Bitcoin etf, were the cadet in an extraordinary session as we head into the final hour of trade the Dow Jones Industrial through hundred 36 points, the s p nice move of more than 1 or 49 points, the nasdaq up 176 and look at the russell shooting higher by 1. 59 or 27 points but it is not so much the presentence gains that deserve the extraordinary description it is the fact that they come as hundreds of israeli tanks and hundreds of thousand troops en masse at the border and gaza in preparation for a ground offensive to take at the terrorist group hamas. Day ten of the hamas israel war which began on october 7 when hamas terrorist invaded israeli civilian enclaves in the fest
Theres more good news about the Coronavirus Vaccine being developed by pfizer and biontech. Final trials show it is 95 effective in people over the age of 65. Whats more, it has passed safety checks, making it ready for approval by authorities around the world. Its due to role out later this year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Yet more good news on vaccines. Last week, Pfizer Biontech were the first to show their vaccine protected against covid. Now we have more detail. Pfizer says the vaccine is more than 94 effective among the over 65s and showed the same consistent protection among volunteers from different ethnicities. There were 170 cases of covid 19 across more than 40,000 volunteers. 162 of those were among the volunteers who got dummy or placebo jabs, and only eight in the vaccinated group. There were no serious safety concerns, but a small minority of volunteers suffered significant headaches orfatigue. I think this is good news, and also very encouraging that the v