Its, i mean, poor al roker. Every year, hey look, its garfield. Oh, the teletubbies. When i was a kid, my dad would wake us up. Every thanksgiving, hed come into our rooms. The only time i ever remember him coming into my room, hed come in and say, the parade is on and wed be like, who cares . I hate parades. Always have. To me, its just traffic with balloons. But every year, my father would force us out of bed at like 6 30 in the morning to watch it. And so what did i do on thursday . I got the kids, i said hey the parade is on youve gotta watch it they watched for about four minutes. They saw chase from paw patrol and said, put on paw patrol so i watched it alone. Macys did the parade a little bit differently this year. Because of covid, they couldnt have the usual amount of people under the floats. You know, people hold the ropes to the floats, but they couldnt assemble a group of people, so they had to find one guy to do this. This troop of picachu, dancing to the classic pokemon s
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
It restricts all nonessential activity between the hours of 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. , but will a mandatory quarantine for travellers be next . And if so, how soon . Reporter as covid cases continue surging across the bay area, San Francisco is embracing its purple status and the rstrictions that come with it, but just how bad are the numbers . I think were very close to santa clara. Reporter abc 7s Analysis Shows covid cases per capita between San Francisco and santa clara are both reaching the high 1,700s. To put it in perspective, San Francisco was averaging 139 new covid cases per day. Whereas santa clara is averaging 517. We may well have to act like santa clara has. I dont want to get in front of the City Health Department here, but theyre obviously weighing all these things and looking at the same numbers were all looking at. Reporter Santa Clara County Public Health officials have implemented even stricter rules, like limiting hotels to only essential travel and requiring peo
Our commitment to help build a better bay area. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes explains that california is expecting its first shipment next month. We are anticipating 327,000 doses of the vaccine, pfizer, to come in the next few weeks. Reporter Governor Newsom says he even knows roughly when the vaccines arrive but didnt want to reveal the date until he had the exact day. Were going to be seeing hundreds of thousands of people in california and millions of people in the United States get vaccinated in december. Its actually breathtaking. Reporter so here is what we can expect in the next few days. The vaccines exact date of arrival and the plan outlining who will get the shot first. The vaccines implementation will happen at the speed of trust, and that is part of the reason why we have built a set of committees. We have to start with Health Care Workers and probably people in nursing homes. And then ultimately, we will get to people over 65, people with preexisting conditions. Reporte
Of a former ceo of online retailer zappos. What the medical examiner is saying. Felicity huffmans comeback. The new acting gig shes landed after the College Admissions scandal. And for the first time we hear from this man rescued after clinging onto the top of his boat in the open atlantic for hours. What he did to survive. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Today is a crucial day in the coronavirus emergency. Cdc advisers will vote on who should get the vaccine first. Today could also be the first day we see more than 100,000 people in the hospital with this virus. More states are setting up field hospitals to handle patients and more cities are considering wider lockdowns. A new study finds a onemonth shutdown in england helped reduce the number of covid cases by 30 which doctors say is encouraging as we wait for a vaccine. This morning a major step forward in getting americans vaccinated. A panel advising the cdc will give its recommendation today on who should get the vaccine first, l