Joe biden and Kamala Harris Transition Team not wasting any time. Whats in their new covid action plan . We are tracking one of the coldest nights so far this season for a lot of us. Ill have the chilly numbers in the accuweather forecast. As the temperature drops, restaurants are begging their diners, bundle up and come on in. Former jeopardy contestants and fans mourn the death of alex trebek. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. It is finally feeling like fall. Bay area residents seeing hail and rain today. Welcome relief after a hot, fiery summer. Abc7 news viewer john nguyen sent this video in from milpitas, and we have reports of hail in other parts of the south bay as well. Further north, San Francisco saw some brief showers pass through this afternoon. Our south beach tower cam caught a few raindrops while looking toward the bay bridge. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im di
Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. We brought you the news of pfizers vaccine as it was breaking today in the bay. We have team coverage. Scott mcgrew is telling us wall street is celebrating that news and so is the president. First lets start with cierra johnson. She is live for us the ucsf and president elect biden found new members of his task force and you have information about the new vaccine as well . Reporter yes. A lot to cover. Days after president elect joe biden already moving forward with some of his paths he would knock out while he was campaigning. He is assembling a Pandemic Task force. This morning, biden laid out his covid plan announcing an Advisory Board would help him moving forward with treatment and new vaccines. An announcement from pfizer there were promising results in the covid19 vaccine and that is what we are going to start. Pfizer has been working on a vaccine that early results revealed it could be a
Changes hell make starting on day one. And the latest signs of the growing covid surge across the u. S. As hopeful new information comes in about a leading candidate in the search for a vaccine. And a very good monday morning, a chilly start to our day. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. We have to start with these cold temperatures. Kari, will it be cold throughout the day . Yes, and were looking at well below normal temperatures setting records for lows this morning. Were going to have more of these frosty mornings and cool afternoons over the next few days and were also tracking some more rain set to move in by the end of the week. I want to show you what youre going to feel as you step out the door. Check out concord, now 32 degrees. Freezing in a lot of spots. Well talk about whats ahead in the forecast. Thats coming up in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking getting throughout the commute around the bay area . Kari, im worried about folks heading across the bay bridge into
Nerve agents chaos. A New York Times vacancy for a moscow correspondent reads like something straight out of a spy thriller revealing predetermine nora to russia around the clock across the world. This is R T International from the team, myself. You know neil alone, welcome to the program. The race for a working covert vaccine is heating up. The british swedish farmer giant has published interim test results for its job developed with oxford university. But as arties done, the hawkins reports, the findings are so far. Underwhelming. Astra zeneca are the latest company to join the front runners in the coburg 19 vaccine race, analysing an efficacy over 70 percent after concluding their phase 3 trials. Know these preliminary results may sound humble compared to other vaccines. The companys c. E. O. Is optimistic, same as you will be highly effective and will have an Immediate Impact with the u. K. Having already preordered 100000000 jobs. Boris johnson is more than happy with the result.
Been going on on forever. And its like do we have a new president yet . Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Thousands of ballots have been counted but still tens of thousands left across the country. The race is still too close to call but if fieden webiden were two own winning georgia put him one electoral collect short. Biden is catching up in the key states as they count mailin ballots. Remember, trump discouraged his supporters from using mailin ballots. Democrats did use them and because they are generally counted last these mailin ballots as the last few trickle in, postmarked, of course, by election day, we are seeing biden make huge gains. Take a look at pennsylvania this morning. Pennsylvania biden has 3,310,000 and trump has 3,296,000. They could not count the mailin ballots in pennsylvania until election day. They pointed out mailin ballots are arduous to count. We are counting hundreds of thousands of ballots in an in