Covid infections. More than 187,000. As the new surge grinds on, we are closer to a vaccine that could end the outbreak. Pfizer announced it asked for emergency use approval of the vaccine candidate which the company says is 95 effective in large scale trials. We hope that they will review the data and give us the green light so we can start distributing the vaccine. Reporter moderna is expected to send data to the fda later this month. Astrazenica says it is showing strong immune responses in older adults. No corners were cut in the rush to production. The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did it compromise scientific integrity. Reporter states are puttinger restrictions in place as they try to slow the spread cdc recommends against traveling. The best way to stay safe is to stay at home. Covid19 sites are struggling to keep up with demand. We have seen long lines. In los angeles lines around the building. Five people are recovering from minor injuries after a
Think he should keep his house cat in from now on. A focus now on your health and in our effort to build a better bay area, we could see a new standard to help when counties can reopen. It involves measuring the difference between wealthy neighborhoods and low income areas and its creating controversy. Reporter counties in california are placed in one of four color indicators. Californias department of Public Health is still finalizing details, but a third metric, called the equity metric, is in the works. Dr. Mike reed, who helps run San Franciscos Contact Tracing program, explains what it is. A ratio of the covid test positivity in low income neighborhoods compared to high income neighborhoods in any given county. Reporter San Franciscos overall Positivity Rate is 2 . In august, a study in just the Mission District found a 9 Positivity Rate. The equity metric could mean the difference between the 2 and 9 would have to decrease to reopen the city. This is not just me making a morally
Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Nothing quite like this. A man searching for his cat looked outside and saw what hi thought was a large dog in his front yard. That is no dog. It was a big cat, aig cat stalking right near a group of children. We spoke to the man tonight and he shared a picture of a mountain earlier chasing after his pet. Ive never seen anything like that. There are close encounters, and then what timothy saw saturday evening. I went outside to look for my cat, who had gotten out earlier. When i went outside, i opened the door and i thought it was a German Shepherd at first. And i thought oh, somebodys dog. Then i looked at it and it turned and looked at me, and i was like oh, my god, thats a Mountain Lion. He noticed the big cat had its eyes on children and tried to alert them. So i started yelling for the id cans to go back inside. And thats when the Mountain Lion turned around and saw me coming starting coming at me and jum
Fairfield. San francisco, it is warm in the city, but a bit of a breeze kind of keeping this temperatures and check right now the coast and the shoreline. Lots of 90s for fremont and evened in san jose. Im looking for potential records of the north bay for santa rosa and in san jose. We will get the official report during the 5 00 hour later on today from the National Weather service. This is kind of as those records begin to, possible records begin to push into portions of the bay area. It looks like we are having a few issues with the weather computer in terms of advancing it, but i will i think we overheated the weather computer. Mark, we appreciate it. We will head now to the south they were about the normal amenities are not open as they usually would be during the heat wave like this. So how are people finding relief . Lets bring in ktvu right now. Joining us live at some of the strategies people are using here and maureen, the change that may be coming. Well, alex. We have to op
Regions. This is unlike our typical offshore flow where the wind is going this way and everybody is hot. San francisco is in the 90s. This is coming from the southeast. Youre seeing excessive heat warning in the Central Valley where numbers that could make this week. The heat advisory. So what did i just say . Its hot. And this going to stay hotter tomorrow and start to cool off rapidly. Here is the trend the next couple of days. You will see wednesday it cools off around the bay a little bit more still hot inland, though. And then thursday, friday, and saturday you see that cooldown. So a big cooldown for the weekend. But you got to get to tonight and you got to get through tomorrow. At the coast it is not bad. Right around the bait is not bad. You can deliver more, you get into stockton, you get into clayton and evergreen, and morgan hill, it is hot. I will see you back here in a few minutes. All right, we will talk to you then. Now we got Maureen Naylor in the south bay tonight. San