Net 245 thousand people went back to work in november. That is significantly slower than we have seen every month since we started gaining again. Private payrolls, only 344,000. Last month in october, that was 877,000. The unlimit rate does fall to 6. 7 , but that is in large part because fewer people were in the labor force looking for jobs. Heres the thing that i think is really going to be important as we look at how the pandemic reshaped the economy. You look at what happened with retail hiring. 35,000 jobs lost in retail in a month when they are usually hiring for holiday sales. Createdad 118,000 jobs in the warehousing and courier sectors, which are the people who work for the online sales departments. It is a real change. Finally, the total labor force is still 9. 8 million below where it was in february. So no matter how well we have come back, no matter what that initial v looks like, it is starting to flatten out now, and you still have almost 10 Million People who had jobs i
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
Taco tuesday. Look, im here for that, too. We can combine them, terrific taco tuesday. All right, well check the commute with mike in just a moment. Kari, how are we looking weatherwise . A cold one again . Yeah, its cold and its foggy, so were seeing the combination of two things well have to deal with heading out the door this morning. This is a live look outside in san jose and for the most part weve seen the visibility looking a little bit better near the ground level in the south bay but higher up weve seen some of those low clouds rolling by. We will see this clearing out for a mild day and theres still dry weather in the forecast, so well talk about that coming up. Mike, how is it looking as a lot of people deal with the foggy conditions for the commute . Well, kari, chp has two Traffic Alerts going on right now and one is near a foggy area over my shoulder. You see the yellow highlighting. Ive circled 121 which is closed for a crash up there in sonoma. No mention of fog in that
Inperson activities shut down can the nfl save football from a covid collapse announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with shepd ard smith. Good evening. Doctors and Health Experts warning about another surge of covid cases. More on the cure in just a moment but first, a look at where this pandemic stands heading into the month of december. The United States now averaging more than 162,000 cases this past week. This month alone, we reported more than 4. 2 million new cases. That means near lily one third all of the cases have been added in november. Right now 93,000 americans are hospitalized with covid. As you can see here, the deaths are climbing towards that peak it comes as millions of americans struggle to dig themselves out of financial holes caused by the pandemic so far congress has failed to provide more relief. The consequences of the inaction growing by the day but its a different story on wall street. The dow rose by more than 11 in just
In napa and clear lake and weve seen cold temperatures elsewhere as well. Well continue to watch that as well as the fog. How is it looking for the commute . Things are changing right now. We do have that deadly crash at camino diablo. Fog registering in the south bay. The metering lights just turned on before 6 00. Quickly filled in all of these lanes right here and a bigger factor looking at the oakland camera with that fog. The low clouds creeping down across the nimitz, the peninsula, south bay and east bay. Stay with us. Well give you updates. Back to you. Thank you very much. We begin with the rising number of covid patients. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in San Francisco this morning monitoring the already overloaded hospitals. And i know state Health Leaders there are being very clear the next few weeks could be critical especially as we move into the winter months which could make things worse. Reporter weve been talking about that surge expected after thanksgiving and