Now. A very good now thursday morning to you, thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Were starting out with fog in some parts of the bay area. Kari hall is tracking that for us. Kari, i saw a little bit coming in this morning. The visibility cut down in some spots down to zero. Looking good here in downtown san jose and that fog will cause a lot of problems for the morning commute, especially in the north bay and then the sunshine returns this afternoon and there is no rain in the forecast. Lets get to that visibility right now as we look at livermore down to zero and only a quarter mile visibility in novato and half mile visibility in santa rosa. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, that advisory those numbers well show with that camera. The Golden Gate Bridge an easy drive as far as the volume of traffic but the fog advisory from chp as we talk about fog impeding the view of the bridge itself. There goes a
Today rebeccas been talking some nicer conditions on roadways then i think we normally do see with a few exceptions one of those 2. 80 yeah thats right john just minor exceptions, its friday. So at least were seeing friday light traffic so that is the good news out there. But yeah. I am following a Traffic Alert that high causing some snags on southbound 2. 80 run it magdalena its an overturned big rig. So its been out there for quite some time because folks are trying to get thats a big rig. Good uprighted and onto a flatbed tow truck to get out of there. But in the meantime the 2 right lanes are tied up so try to take one oh one or all camino real in the meantime as your alternates those that really good right now. Another commute that looks great as euro. Drive into San Francisco, a lot of sunshine and its just beautiful lightly traveled of course friday light eightminute drive time for your westbound 80 right over to the fremont street exit across the upper deck also called the bri
Lets check with gianna. We are dealing with foggy conditions on the roadways as we start the day. We sure are. Chp issued fog advisories for bay area bridges. That includes the bay bridge. You are looking at the toll plaza, metering lights are on and there are a few foggy spots as you work across the span. We did have a broken down vehicle on the upper deck near Treasure Island. Thats now cleared out of lanes but slows things across the upper deck as you work from the incline to the Treasure Island exit. Past that, things look better down the skyway near the fremont exit to San Francisco. Slow and go in the altamont pass, busy out of tracy as you work towards north flynn. We are following the aftermath of this nasty crash in San Francisco this morning. It appears as if it started as a High Speed Police chief. Sfpd has not said what led to the crash. This is fillmore and waller. Neighbors say a police car and another car came speeding into the intersection, police car hitting a hydrant
About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve,
Volume of traffic and notice the low clouds in this shot that getting across the bridge the low clouds have hit the bridge there and the fog is an issue for the rich mamond san rafael bridge. All have fog advisory from chp and a possible crash near the toll plaza and well track that off the berkeley curve and dense fog through the trivalley a major issue for drivers. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. So, lets check in with bob redell for more on the breaking news overnight. This is were talking about a third player just announcing some promising results with its vaccine this morning, bob. Correct, marcus and laura. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford announced their vaccine is safe and is triggering an immuno response in all adults. This is according to preliminary results from a phase two trial that was published in the medical journal. You have pfizer and biontech and they found they are 95 effective. That is higher than initial results suggested. The companys p