Today in the bay continues right now. Good morning. Thanks so much for joining us for this friday the 13th today in the bay special. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Friday the 13th in the year 2020. Nothing is going to go wrong today. Its going to be a great day in the bay. Sounds great. Mike has a look at the roads in a bit. First, we have to talk about that forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the rain coming into our area. Right, green is a lucky color, right . Were seeing that on the radar as were starting out on this friday morning. Its to the north of us and will be moving closer into the afternoon and evening hours. Right now we track the rain to our north and once again moving around ukiah, parts of lake and mendocino counties. A time line of what you can expect coming up in a few minutes. Mike, any issues heading to work this morning . Well, kari, my speed sensor is great but a section not green, oakland. A live look and show you the taillights past t
Antioch, as well as morgan hill. A look at the rest of the forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . Looking great right now. We have a little different pattern for the week. Golden gate bridge, no problems on the span. How very light the traffic flow is and as we look at the map ive circled the area where the sensors are slower heading towards the bridge. Theres a crew that should be clearing right about now right on schedule so i think that should be shortlived. Ill doublecheck and let you know if anything is going on there. No slowing for oakland. I see changes in the trivalley. Well have that coming up. Mike, thank you. President elect bidens transition is now official with the green light from the Trump Administration to get to work. Here is a live look at the white house. This is where, despite the new development, the president is not giving up his fight against the election results. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us with the very latest. Good
One of your last San Francisco exits. The left lanes are still blocked. Chp trying to get a crew to run the traffic break so they can clear that big rig from the roadway. Wet roadways continue like san leandro. A crash south 880 in the middle lanes. Were watching that and the green highlighting showing damp roadways. Be careful. It is slick out there. Back to you, laura. Thank you very much. Breaking news from pfizer on this Covid Vaccine. They plan to submit vaccine for approval within days and just finished phase three testing and is said to be 95 effective. Pfizer adds effective for older people and has no serious side effects. The Company Expects to make 50 million dose this is year and more than 1 billion by the end of 2021. Last week pfizer initially said its vaccine was 90 effective. On monday moderna said its vaccine was nearly 95 effective. Pfizers vaccine needs to be stored in extremely cold temperatures. Here is perspective on the size of californias recent surge in covid ca
832 beds are available. 33 capacity. However hospitals are on track to go way passed this. Over 100 in three weeks. And skyrocketing in San Francisco and the peninsula. San francisco and right now in re. They could go purple as soon as this sunday. Ma rin plans to remain red. Those three still in red will not be under the states new curfew. Every other bay area county will. In fact, 94 of the state will be under this curfew. Which begins tomorrow night. It lasts for a month. No nonessential activity between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. Among the many take aways, change your thanksgiving plans. We begin the coverage. Start with hospitalizations. Which here in the county jumped by 50 in the last week alone. County Officials Say at that rate if nothing changes, local hospitals will reach capacity in three weeks. Which led Santa Clara County to repeat this warning. Cancel your holiday plans. Dont travel. Saying covid cases are now at record levels here. Today we have had more cases reported
The bay area. Now it looks like we are getting some of relief. We are catching a break for some spots as the rain is tapering off and what we expect as we head into late morning and into the afternoon. We are still seeing some activity here and there. Green on the radar as well as snow that continues for the sierra. Look at storm ranger. Our mobile doppler radar. The red scan you see around the bay area, we are seeing rain in parts of the north bay as we get a closer look and moving through northern napa county and northeastern Sonoma County and moving off towards the east as youre still seeing some pockets of some heavy rain in that area. Then as we move elsewhere across the bay area, we are seeing some spotty showers. Marin county, as well as San Francisco, a chance of light rain and then we are going to see rain chances continuing. As we see the clouds, at any time rain and then rain taerper off and the dry weather returns tomorrow through the end of the week. We will see dryer weat