Compounds packed with pharmaceutical potential. Researchers are studying the ream bacteria in the hope of finding new antibiotics. Welcome to tomorrow today this week with a special focus on the ocean. Bacteria are found all around us every produced by splitting into occasionally random genetic mutations occur during this process this can make some bacteria more resistant. To mutated bacteria die off but sometimes the mutation protects the bacterial cells from the effects of antibiotics for example. The antibiotics kills the bacteria without the me taishan of the others thrive. The antibiotic resistant bacteria can then go on to rip pretty loose with less competition and form a home you called again. This is evolution by Natural Selection but its caused by human intervention. Out of hours it resistant bacteria can rapidly establish themselves and hospitals the concentration is particularly high. Factory farming is another source of antibiotic resistant bacteria. They can spread by the
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our roof cam right now out to the bay bridge. Good morning everyone, its thursday, september 10th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. The question of this morning, will the skies be orange again . Too soon to tell of course, still dark out but lets check in with mary lee and well have to wait to see what the sun reveals this morning, mary. Thats right len and michelle. We are still dealing with the smoke although things are not quite the same as yesterday. And the winds aloft a little bit of a wind direction. So not exactly the same as yesterday. But still were looking at those smoky skies and unhealthy air quality and you can see current air quality conditions all of the red dots and that does indicate unhealthy air this morning. As we start off our day. Were now going a record 24 days in a row with a spare the air alert for the bay area. This is our Mount Hamilton camerausuase something but
Taking a live look at washington. It looks so clear there, doesnt it . Good morning. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Havent been clear in a while here. Im Marcus Washington for you this morning. Mike, hope has a clear forecast for our roads this morning, but, first, we have to start with the weather. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking that for us. Our skies havent been clear in a long time. Today going to be any different . I dont think so. Were still looking at a lot of smoke coming in and those fires continue to burn and so until we get more containment and more of those fires put out, were still going to have unhealthy air quality. Thats going to be talk about ws orange coming up in a couple but, mike, hows it looking right now for the morning drive . Well, im watching for the orange, but i see some red, as well. The orange over here in the trivalley. Southbound 680 right where 84 merges with that and a crash should be making its way to the shoulder with no injuries
7 is giving us that shot in san jose. So when the sun comes up. Weve got you covered, yeah and masks masks masks covering you today because the bad air quality john what expect. Yeah i agree we need those mass today youve been wearing in many ways, but today were going to have significant ash falling from the sky even if you can smell the smoke. So the mask will be very helpful and yes as we make our way through the next hour or so well see eventually what you those skies eventually do take what we are looking at is going to be a darker a smoky day much like yesterday smoke is a little bit lower in the horizon than yesterday its gradually sunk been very slow in doing so though so for some parts of San Francisco. Youre not quite smelling it yet. As that marine layer was still president overnight. Even in areas with slightly better air quality you still need that mask because we do have ash if you had your car outside overnight youre seeing it having settled on your car and as you step o
Public health is critical to building a better bay area and the latest numbers on Coronavirus Infections in california are encouraging. There are nearly 145 new reports of people dying, which unfortunately is above average. But the number of new cases is down, below average. The number of coronavirus patients in the hospital continues to drop, it has been decreasing steadily for weeks now. The testing Positivity Rate is down to 5. 1 over a 14 day average and it hasnt been that low in quite a while. Developing news, in san leandro, a Police Officer there has been charged with felony manslaughter in the deadly shooting of a black man inside a walmart. Family and friends of the victims say this is the first , the officers attorney is criticizing the d. A. s decision. Drop the bat. Drop the bat. Reporter this is video from back in april showing the moments before officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed Steven Taylor inside a san leandro walmart. The District Attorney Nancy Omalley says that