From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. The storm door is open. Heres some video of rain we saw moving in this morning and more rain is on the way overnight. A soaker coming for our sunday, thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 9 im Justine Waldman im Jonathan Mccall the weather watches where we start is been a dry start to the wet season. But another round of wet weather is expected to flood the area overnight. Kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now tracking huge storm or tracking the storm hour by hour on when we can finally expect to see it. Hi there jonathan and just stay and were certainly getting spoiled this weekend in the bay area we had a relatively slow start to the wet season of Mother Nature getting us a double dose of 2 storms this storm though is going to have a cold or core to it coming from the gulf of alaska, so its going to bring us some much needed steadier rain to start your sunday morning right dry outlook, but we
Strategic plans across america to deliver those vaccines safely and these doses cannot come soon enough as covid19 continues to devastate the golden state California Health officials reporting more than 35,000 new cases of the virus and 225 deaths both numbers shattering daily records more than 13,000 people are currently in the hospital thats also an alltime record and the states icu capacity is now at just 7. 9 some good news though california is expecting some 327,000 doses of the pfizer covid19 vaccine as early as monday. As part of the initial vaccine rollout the move comes after the fda authorized emergency use of that vaccine late last night. The chief operating officer of operation warp speed now praising the effort today calling it historic. For 7 months we have realized the greatest Public Private partnership in modern times. Doctors scientists researchers factory workers low just asians and hundreds more have all come together for single or purpose. That purpose save lives a
A coming Vaccination Programs possible treatments and rapid testing. Do you think do you feel that these solutions will be spread out to distribute it in an equitable way. Well i think that as you say these are encouraging news especially on the vaccines i think we still need to look at that they dont we need to rely on more than press releases we need to look at very good publications of the results but in the meantime our regulators here in europe and the United Kingdom and the United States are proceeding with emergency authorization process is and thats important and understandable in terms of i could have the access i think its reasonable to assume that wealthier nations those with those advanced deals with companies will be the 1st to get the vaccine and distribute to their populations followed by resource constrained countries professor how long a way is there still ahead of us i mean people are so encouraged by this use of vaccines now are being approved but realistically are w
So would you say with 3 vaccines already been approved and many more awaiting approval that this is the beginning of the end of the corona virus pandemic. Well this is how i see it it will be certainly a change in the us after having discussed axing orders and European Union and hopefully soon or so in other countries and read backs in rolled out big box nation campaigns for the d start of by beginning of next year this really changed the whole picture and im confident that this is your hope that spring and summer change and to look normal life again with a good vaccine now you are leading a phase 3 trial for the cure of aca vaccine what can you tell us about that and when do you think it will be ready. Well if a city did not get stuck but we hope to stop it every hour or so to speak maybe tomorrow again last next week we have got to approvals for ethics committees and be caught also a response that this can depart any constituent be still less tulu honest a few career is. More all beg
Relief. The bank serves one in five county residents. 20 of the county turns to up for help. We distribute millions of pounds of food through different agencies. Pantries just like sarahs, in fact. There is your code queue. We serve about 700 families per month which is about 2500 people per month. We serve all of berkeley. We serve everyone from every walk of life. Someone will turn to us for food every day. What happens, you have a need and then just show up . Yes. You come to our pantry and we will give you a certain amount of food, depending on how large your family is. That is enough to last three days. So nine meals per person per household. What about with christmas and holidays. People get extra food. They find themselves anxious around the holidays because so many of the people we serve our families, they become anxious about being able to provide something for their families at a time that is so food and family oriented like thanksgiving and christmas. The pantry and the food