Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Thats due to more restrictive measures being instituted in california and other states to help stem the growing tide of covid19 cases. Today, the cdc announced its recommending against travel for the holiday. Ktvu southbound reporter jesse gary picks it up from there. Reporter with a week before thanksgiving, air travel is light at Oakland International and other bay area airports. We just wanted to break it up, so that we werent traveling with a bunch of other people. A little bit easier the week before. Reporter this as officials at Mineta San Jose International airport say travel during the 11 day thanksgiving holiday period is scheduled to be 1 5th less than it was the year before. This is the simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter newsom says 94 of the states population is now in the purple tier, including six bay area counties. As a result, Officials Say people should forego gatherings with families and friendes this year. J
Since the pandemic began with more than 10,000 cases reported since yesterday. More than 18,000 people with the virus have now died in our state. Including 94 deaths in the past 24 hours. In the last week or so, a lot of items sold out early in the pandemic are selling out again amide this new second wave and rise in cases and the holiday rush. Ktvu has been looking into the increased demand and tells us what Grocery Stores are doing in the face of this second surge in sales. When the pandemic began, toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectants, sugar, rice, flour, and other items were swept from the shelves. Consumer Brands Association executive, katie denis says though actual pandemic sales went up only 21 above normal, that was enough to create months of shortages that forced rationing. Ultimately, putting in some of those restrictions is responsible in that people buy what they need and not more than what they need. Some over buyers bought massive amounts of items then resold them on
Request. Justin, do we have any callers in the queue . Operator madam secretary, we have no callers in the queue. President knutzen okay. Hearing none, we will close Public Comment. Is there a motion to approve agenda item f . So moved. President knutzen oh, great. It has been moved by commissioner lum. Do i have a second . Second. President knutzen second from commissioner sklar. Madam secretary, will you please take a roll call vote. [roll call] clerk thank you, commissioners. President knutzen, the vote is unanimous. President knutzen thank you so much. And do we have any announcements . Hearing none, do we have a motion to adjourn the meeting . So moved. President knutzen Vice President spears moves to adjourn the meeting. Do we have a second from any of the other commissioners . Second. President knutzen great. Then on behalf of the commission, just want to say it again, thank you for the staff and everything youre doing this month. And commissioners, thank you for the extra effor
Program. The European Parliament has just passed a resolution urging sanctions on russia and response to the alleged assassination attempt against. The latest update a little while ago. Well what we could see essentially is tougher sanctions against russia on russians 532 m e ps voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in is asset freezes travel bans another sanctions against those that are featured in Alexei Navalny zante corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an International Probe into what happened to alexey in the valley when they talk about an International Probe thats including the United Nations the European Union the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and others all to be on side with that and it talks about blocking the construction of nord stream to the gas pipeline that takes russian gas or will take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany earlier this week we heard from us th