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
First covid19 death case involving a San Francisco Transportation Agency employee. Tomlin says 90 operators within the sf mta have contracted the virus so far he is urging everyone to continue avoiding large gatherings wear a mask and to wash their hands and all too familiar sight in San Francisco striking again this Holiday Season. A witness capturing suspects. In a black audi breaking into several cars near the citys world famous lumber street. The smash and grab happened near lombard and hyde streets around 1 oclock this afternoon right in broad daylight and it wasnt the only one on 4 state of joins us now live with what is turning out to be a nerve wracking day for visitors there taylor. Ken pam, the break ins here are practically a daily occurrence just within the first hour that i was here i saw another victim returned to her car when she realized that her backpack was gone. Meanwhile, i also saw a separate vehicle, a black chevy canvassing a car and right as theyre about to brea
You know that can be difficult we dont spend a long time. Its a critical moment. Right now at 3 stay home covid cases have hit a record and to stop the momentum of this deadly virus Health Officials are pleading with the public to avoid gatherings and non essential travel. This thanksgiving holiday. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman Santa Clara County recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases on tuesday thats 512 new cases of covid19. Its a number of covid hospitalizations thats also concerning because that is also at a new high and officials are warning that theyre now running low on hospital beds. Kron 4 tahernia joins us live now in the newsroom with more on the warnings officials are sending. Good afternoon sun os. Hi just saying hello everyone so as covid19 cases surge here in the bay area Santa Clara County Health Officials are urging residents to stay home and avoid gathering and traveling ahead of the thanksgiving holiday that c
A sense of what the polls are estimating of the moment. You know well at the moment the polls are telling us that joe biden has about a lead of around 10 points nationally and that hes also opened up some important leads in some of those big crucial swing states ill tell you that in florida its about 3. 8 points in michigan a little bit over 8 points in pennsylvania around 6 points and the same in wisconsin remember these are those delegate rich states that are so crucial really for both men to win but especially president if you want to secure that path to reelection i will also say that joe bidens team has been exceedingly cautious about these polls theyre well aware that they dont always reflect how people actually are already voting or how they will vote on november 3rd and that Hillary Clinton had very strong polling numbers in 2016 at the same time and one Campaign Worker speaking the media earlier this week said were actually campaigning as if we were 20 points down right now so
Another wave of covert 19 cases. Nigerias president sent out a warning to protesters after another night of widespread unrest and violence during the push for his resignation. So that in just an hours time u. S. President donald trump will meet democratic nominee joe biden for the final debate ahead of the elections on november the 3rd organizers in nashville in tennessee have made changes to the format same did avoiding a repeat of trumps interruptions during the 1st debate lets cross to our White House Correspondent can we how can his outside weather debate will be taking place in nashville in tennessee and say kimberly there will be an audience of tens of millions it promises to be quite a show so we have trouble maybe a breakthrough and biden i guess just needs to keep it steady. Yeah thats exactly it trying to avoid any major mistakes is really the goal for joe biden in all of this and for Donald Trumps part what hes trying to do is provoke that so what we expect throughout the 90