Check out this video from a San Francisco restaurant. The woman in red there is grandma doris campos. She flips over a table to defend herself against a customer who threw a container of Hand Sanitizer at camposs daughter and grandson. Yep, grandma in action. The woman felt her order was taking too long. Thankfully, no one was hurt. A company is now selling the first blood test to diagnose alzheimers disease. The test is designed for people over 60 who are experiencing symptoms of dementia. Its considerably cheaper than the 5,000 brain scan normally used to detect alzheimers which is often not covered by insurance. The blood test is currently being sold without fda approval. Turning now to the race for a vaccine for covid19 and that cdc meeting today that will determine who gets the vaccine first. I spoke earlier with dr. Maldonado. Who will be participating in that meeting today. Dr. Maldonado, heres one dilemma surrounding distribution of the covid vaccines. California is getting 326
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
A very good wednesday morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Were halfway there through the workweek, the day before thanksgiving. Mike has a look at the commute. First that forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that. How is it looking, kari . It looks pretty good. We are all quiet across the bay area. We started out with Cool Temperatures and patches of fog particularly in the north bay. A live look in dublin, it will be cooler but comfortable for the middle of the day. We do have some cool mornings ahead. The dry weather does continue. Well talk about that in the forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking driving through some of those foggy areas . Yes, folks might have trouble looking around them. The bay bridge for a reference, very light traffic flow. The note as we look at the north bay 29 to highway 1 up to healdsbu healdsburg, thats that warm amber blob where the fog has registered. Lower visibility there. Really no slowing on this map. Back to you. President
Misty looking conditions too so a lot of drizzle showing up on our radar right now thats where youre seeing the speckled areas little more the darker green and thats where the white rain is hanging out that includes neighborhoods just south of fremont like mission, San Jose District al breakdown de kirchner youd write out a little bit now san jose had some rain just moments ago most of that rainfall now working its way down to south san jose blue hill Saratoga Los Gatos also a couple light sprinkles and then heading up towards woodside and palo alto youre also looking at a couple of spots of brief light showers, lets zoom out and you can see what weve still got heading our direction which is still on and off showers that will be working their way gradually or direction on into the afternoon today now embedded in some of this rain we do actually have the potential of some isolated spots of heavier rain, i mean take us out of the bay for second show you whats going on in reading some rai
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