With linsey davis. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im linsey davis. Tonight, the pandemic tightening its grip on the u. S. The death toll nearing 141,000. One glimmer of hope, scientists are one step closer to creating a vaccine. Heres tom llamas. Hi, grandpa. Heres a big hug. Reporter its been months since stella last hugged her grandparents. He turned 93 in june, and i couldnt give him a hug. That was really sad. Reporter to find a solution, she signed up to be part of a brave new army. Feels like im part of Something Big here. Reporter one of the thousands taking a vaccine in a human trial. My grandparents have real patriotism, and i feel like it was a patriotic duty a little bit to sign up for the study. Because thats what we have to do. Hopefully im developing immunity now. Reporter people like stella are crucial to winning the cwar against covid. I can tell you, my safety has been put at the forefront of the entire process. When i see the caring and just the professionalism
It looks like into the weekend. This is the biggest fog bank in recent memory. A big surge on the low cloud deck. That tells you we are in a stratis cool pattern. 60s and 70s and 80s inland. Onshore breeze for just about everybody from the Golden Gate Bridge all the way out to the delta. Thats a big fog bank. Temperatures near average. It is 7 01 a. M. Are we okay out there . We had an earlier accident at ashby avenue. There was a crash in berkeley at ashby. We can see traffic will be slow here. A 30 minute delay about 10 minutes more than usual. The accident has been cleared. You can definitely tell it is causing a delay. People did not show up at the same rate. They were stuck behind the backup. As a result it is lighter. This might actually get a little bit busier as the morning wears on. We will see what happens in the next hour. Lets get back to the headlines. Lets get you updated on breaking news out of San Francisco. A power outage is affecting about 4000 customers in the lower
A dramatic scene on a military ship in san diego. 17 sailors and 4 civilians injured. The cause still unknown. The very latest on the investigation this morning. Breaking overnight. John travolta reveals the death of his wife Kelly Preston at just 57 after a long battle with Breast Cancer. This morning the tributes to her pouring in. New name. The Washington Redskins reveal theyll drop their controversial nickname in an announcement about the teams future expected later today. And drive in and turn it up. Thousands of happy music fans get a treat over the weekend as some of the industrys biggest stars come together for concerts with a twist. This is how you do music in 2020, folks. 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Welcome to today. Its nice to have you with us on a monday morning. Hoda, were kind of reunited. Havent seen you in a couple of weeks. You had some time off, i had some tim
Theres a big fog bank and its testing the people on the front lines outside the studio hereto. There is one making a pretty of this fight most of all. Good move there and its going so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, to be cooler. You can feel it and a pretty delivering the critical results they need. Good breeze for some of the fog is on the move here. I think over the next couple of and until this fight is over, mornings it is going to make a we. Will. Never. Quit. Bigger push. Center is in San Francisco both because they never quit. 54. That is normal for this time of year. Average for San Francisco, san jose, cola for most today, but i would say 95 , it should cool off. I think everyone will get in on that. But onshore breeze at all to my past, 25 to 30, that there is a higher wind at higher elevations. The stage is set for a cooler pattern. Degrees. We carry that right to mid week. They have been inland way above the last five days. Over to allie now. She is had a cou
Rooms must close too. Napa county is one of 26 counties that the state is monitoring and one of four in the bay area. Marin, solano and contra costa counties have been ordered to stop the reopenings. Restaurant owners in napa county had a few days morning, but its not the news they wanted to hear. Reporter its tough on them, for sure. For the rest of that this month at least one country restaurants just beginning to hit their stride again have to shut their dining rooms down. We were starting to gain some momentum and things like that. So its unfortunate to put the brakes on again. Reporter fully bays in napa will lose 60 seats indoors and get by with outdoors starting thursday. The owner says he will make up for it by setting timers on everyone. They are only allowed 30 minutes. Reporter at least he has space. We had a nice growing group too. Reporter ed Bounty Hunter downtown, management closed the dining room two days before they had to. We wanted to get a head start i demonstrate w