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
Theres the tend to look at data that have provided by the manufacturers and analyze principally by the manufacturers and dont do a lot of reanalysis of data so its culturally a little different than the way our fda doesnt. Britain as part of the eu has as part of year to the end of the month. Has the ability to pull away from the eus regulatory. Agency and authorize things on its own. For Emergency Public Health reasons so vast that lawn under which this. This falls. So they were able to authorize review unauthorized quickly, the european unions. A European Agency has been or review it next. Tuesday and were going to review it next thursday. So in the grand scheme of things were talking ever difference of about 8 or 9 days. Doctor weatherford as you know a lot of people here say all i want to be first to take the vaccine. So now weve got the people in the uk taking. The vaccine with that kind of a test run for us here in the u. S. To see what the side effects are what happens with them
94. 5 efficacy. There were 95 events, five in the Vaccine Group and 90 of them in the Placebo Group is quite impressive and really something that foretells impact on the outbreak. Hovering about 500 up the dow jones already. The Biden Transition Team and your family next year. Today in the bays tracie potts with more on this breaking news from overnight. Reporter the president wont accept the Election Results or direct his administration and the transition meetings are continuing to connect with the people they need to the President Trump overnight tweeting that biden won. On twitter, about Election Fraud including early this morning tweeting that he won the election. The biden team, not only is the president elect not getting access to Intelligence Briefings but the biden team cant talk with the government officials who are planning on how it will be distributed. This as we learn more than 11 Million People have been infected with the virus. We are in a very dangerous period, the most
That really i dont go anywhere home with 3 your feel like on a daily basis, like a personal know its great and you know at this Rainy Weather is going to really indoors. For the most part unless so youre going to heading out to work or maybe running an errand or 2, youll need the rain jacket. And the umbrellas of stuff that we have not seen or really need to pull out news that often over the last couple of weeks right outside right now though bases Clear Conditions that were looking at a San Francisco international airport, but it is cold temperatures very chilly outside right now were looking at 40s and 50s. So it definitely feels like winter 43 degrees right now in napa were looking low 40s in fremont and livermore but were actually going to see some 30s on the board over the next couple of nights thats all thanks to this cold front that is on the way to the bay area were going to start to see some rainfall looks maybe tomorrow morning during that morning commute. So keep that in min
Were going to take sharp turn and were going to have a lot colder and its going to be wet as we get into tomorrow, im tracking a storm system that is coming out of the Pacific Northwest going to be bringing us. Lots of wind lots of rain and colder temperatures all have all those details. Coming up in my next full head and ill have that about 10 to 15 minutes for now though lets hit the roads, the dry roads for today and say good morning to robin good morning. Rebecca, its always good to have you here in the studio with us lets head over to the bay bridge were checking the drive into San Francisco. Its packed its not Getting Better at least not right now nothing in the way to cause us and traffic is this. The typical crowd here rolling into San Francisco. So expect a backup that spills through the bottom of the maze. Were averaging 19 minutes which is crowded slow not so bad in the out for you west of Treasure Island as well were checking in on the e sure thats one of your approach is 2