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
Man who spent almost half his life with the fire department. Oakland firefighters saluting one of their own wednesday may. To sean lafons flag draped casket left senate medical center. Dozens of Police Motorcycles and fire engines hopping escort his body. The procession passing city hall and several fire stations, ending in a chapel of the chimes, funeral home and oakland am aware an American Flag was hoisted by trucks. Laughing, just 42 years old. They died as if it was cardiac arrest. I was hopeful in getting the news five hours later that he passed away when the cardiologist came back to speak to the family and myself, it was pretty knee buckling. We are struggling, coping, grieving. Reporter intern fire chief Melinda Drayton new sean lafons entire 20 year career with oakland fire. He turned to me early in his career when he made the decision to promote. Reporter a decision made out of love and passion for the fire service and oakland. Last year he was promoted to interim assistant
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our mark hopkins camera at the city of San Francisco. You can see some fog. You can. Good morning. It is november 19. I am michelle griego. I am glad you can see that too. I thought it was my eyes. Out of focus . I have that problem too. Lets get a check of our forecast on this friday eve. Good morning. Happy thursday. Its almost friday. We are looking at a foggy start to our day. Another live look with our mark hop Hopkins Hotel camera. We are in the 40s and 50s. Foggy for oak land, livermore, santa rosa and even in the city as well. Through the day, we will see dry conditions. 24 hour temperature change, we are anywhere from 9 to 13 degrees colder compared to yesterday morning. Checking out that dense fog, especially for the north bay, down to a quarter mile in petaluma, napa, half mile for santa rosa. High temperatures are in the low to mid 60s. I will tell you what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets head to giann
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
That drive across the golden gate. It is. That is where chp issued a fog advisory. We are commuting out of marin into San Francisco, you are going to deal with limited visibility, extra careful across the span of the golden gate. You see in the live shot things are foggy. Be careful. Just north of there we are dealing with road work. Thats the usual stuff. You have slow and go conditions there. Take a look at traffic into Altamont Pass there is crash with the left lane blocked, chp arriving on scene and we have a back up ensuing because of that. Plus with the morning commuters out of tracy it is already busy, 36 minutes 205 towards 680. I am anne makovec. We are keeping an eye on this crash that happened in San Francisco involving a patrol car. Season sfpd officer hitting a fire hydrant after what appears to have been a high speed chase. Fill more and waller. What we heard from neighbos about a half hour ago on the scene, they had two cars coming very quickly. They said up to 60 miles