About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve,
Administration is helpful to the Incoming Administration in terms of making available materials from the departments and agencies. In modern times, has there been a president who resisted participating in the transition . No, they have not. You have had the, the president ial transitions act, which made it very clear that the federal government had a role in transitions. And with the coronavirus still raging, the stakes for a smooth transfer of power are extremely high. There are thousands of officials all across the government i can thely the pentagon and the department of health that want to get the vaccine out to 300 million americans and the sooner the biden team can start working with those officials the more ready they will be on january 20th. The General Services administration is usually an obscure government agency. But with the president s permission, it has now given the Biden Transition Team access to six Million Dollars in transition funds. And that the means they dont hav
Tequila herradura, the worlds most gold medal awarded tequila. The tables are gone and the stayathome order is now in place. Some hard reaction coming from businesses in my story. And im tracking a rare december red flag warning that goes into effect overnight tonight. The latest on our fire danger in accuweather. Tonight politica insiders tells California Attorney general Xavier Becerra was selected by president elect joe biden to be the next health secretary. What this means for california. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Three bay area counties are now in another shutdown. Businesses in San Francisco, contra costa, and santa clara saw a final show of support from customers today. But many say it wont be enough to avoid layoffs. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. Officials announced the new order yesterday. Alameda is also imposing the restrictions starting just af
Great millions of people head to the polls of the king of fast despite threats of violence. We begin in the United States where the head of the Vaccine Program says the 1st americans could be receiving it as soon as december 11th months of ways says the plan is to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year. 2 vaccines are up for approval. In early december, early dancer shows need to be 95 percent effective. Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. So i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people will be immunized across the United States, across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. Col haim is in washington d. C. For us. So this looks like a major turning point in the global fight against covert 19, right . Well, it could be to seems like some, finally, some good news
To abide by draconian lockdown orders, will have the latest on reaction to all of this and from capitol hill im joined by republican congressman andy biggs of arizona talking about a 35 million covid relief bailout going to want to joe bidens Campaign Advisory firms, what the heck is going on with that. This is the backbone of america being challenged by new lockdown, 60 of americas Small Businesses closing for good or being pressured to follow debilitating restrictions, will hear from the chief attorney from the owners of the Staten Island bar arrested for staying open, our covid shutdowns being used as political weapons, all that and a lot more right here on making money. David stocks are on pace for record close to in the week in a bigness in the november jobs report, the u. S. Added 245,000 jobs last month, that was only half as much as expected, you can see on the right the unemployment did kick down two tenths to 6. 7 but much of that because folks leaving the job force entirely.