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,
Volume of traffic and notice the low clouds in this shot that getting across the bridge the low clouds have hit the bridge there and the fog is an issue for the rich mamond san rafael bridge. All have fog advisory from chp and a possible crash near the toll plaza and well track that off the berkeley curve and dense fog through the trivalley a major issue for drivers. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. So, lets check in with bob redell for more on the breaking news overnight. This is were talking about a third player just announcing some promising results with its vaccine this morning, bob. Correct, marcus and laura. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford announced their vaccine is safe and is triggering an immuno response in all adults. This is according to preliminary results from a phase two trial that was published in the medical journal. You have pfizer and biontech and they found they are 95 effective. That is higher than initial results suggested. The companys p
Get tested to feel better about gathering with family and friends this holiday. Kris sanchez is joining us now with what Health Experts are saying about that testing strategy that a lot of people are doing right now, kris. Reporter you know, a lot of folks seem like maybe this is a little workaround here, but every single bit of information coming out seems to point in the other direction. Were here in campbell where there is one of 17 covid testing sites for santa clara county, but it is really hard to get an appointment here in this county or around the bay area because so many people are clamoring to get those tests. There are people who arent feeling well who want to get tested, people who think they might have been exposed and now there are people who are trying to get tested so that they can maybe feel a little bit better about gathering with friends and family over the holidays. Health experts say that could offer a false sense of security. Rapid tests have a high rate of false
Close proximity to a president ial election. We will hear from him throughout the day and the focus will turn to the jobs report. After u. S. Unemployment claims figures even this reading of the labor market we will be joined by larry kudlow from the white house for his reaction. Lets get to our main markets story. U. S. Stock futures continue their slide after the main gauge clocked its biggest plunge in three months, tech shares took in a selloffeating that knocked down the highest flyers. To put it all in context is dani burger. 750 billion wiped off the nasdaq, a painful day especially for a lot of the retail favorites, like tesla, falling down. Let me show you how this breaks down the chart. I want you to concentrate here, the nasdaq composite versus the s p and the equal weighted version. You can see most of the past month on the way up the nasdaq leads. The green day is the biggest so far. This little chunk at the end of the chart, you can see the biggest chart is the nasdaq fal
Shall carry this is counting the cost on aljazeera or look at the world of business economics this week famines of biblical proportions the coronavirus says and at the Global Economy and supply chains with nations under lockdown so what does it mean for food supplies. From the richest nation where low paid farm workers fear they could be victims of the pandemic to one of the poorest nations zimbabwe and its need for food aid. As italy and spain start the tentative process of lifting the lockdown can the European Union by no lies a trillion plan to revive the economy. From Health Crisis to food prices the coronaviruses of ending the world as we know it United Nations World Food Program is warning of ball to pull famines of biblical proportions as tens of millions are plunged into starvation long before the pandemic the agency had been warning World Leaders that 2020 would bring the worst humanitarian crisis since world war 2 thats made 135000000 people face starvation and back and doubl