Now. A very good now thursday morning to you, thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Were starting out with fog in some parts of the bay area. Kari hall is tracking that for us. Kari, i saw a little bit coming in this morning. The visibility cut down in some spots down to zero. Looking good here in downtown san jose and that fog will cause a lot of problems for the morning commute, especially in the north bay and then the sunshine returns this afternoon and there is no rain in the forecast. Lets get to that visibility right now as we look at livermore down to zero and only a quarter mile visibility in novato and half mile visibility in santa rosa. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, that advisory those numbers well show with that camera. The Golden Gate Bridge an easy drive as far as the volume of traffic but the fog advisory from chp as we talk about fog impeding the view of the bridge itself. There goes a
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
Tech for some time remember Elizabeth Warren she put up on billboards on the subject in silicon valley. So this lawsuit against google could lead to a much bigger conversation and seen that says it could be just the beginning. You know the reality is that we live in a world where almost everything is politicized. The Tech Industry in particular has become a target of this administration and thats not to say they dont deserve some sort of scrutiny even Mark Zuckerberg the ceo of facebook has said that the that the Tech Industry needs more scrutiny. But the question is is this the right type of scrutiny is brad about it the right way and i dont know the answer to that, but i do know theres definitely a political subtext for just weeks or out away from an election despite the fact that the Trump Administration is leading the charge here. Is a lot of people on capitol hill believe something needs to be done. And i think the challenge they have is that they dont really know what ive intervi
Recent civil unrest that we saw in the streets of downtown san jose last month. Or the covid19 pandemic. We also heard from the mayor of san jose, who said back here live. The chief says he will stay on in his current role through december, which is when he expects his replacement to be named. Im chris nguyen, abc7 news. Okay, chris, thank you very much. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Education is a very important part of that and one oh of the topics well focus on tonight. Is the start of school is coming up quick. Two weeks for San Francisco. The bay areas Biggest School district. In the capital of silicon valley, thousands of low income students and families will soon have free access to the internet. Its part of an Innovative Partnership being launched between san jose and at t. Chris nguyen filed this story earlier. Reporter in the midst of the Coronavirus Crisis, bridging the Digital Divide is now more important than ever. We have heard too often of our children h
There are thousands upon thousands of Small Businesses that either have already had to close their doors permanent late or have really come to the point where if they cant reopen they cannot reopen so the restrictions that we had in place in georgia that governor ryan cam lucent last week are measured theyre very carefully crafted and i think they are they are very very appropriate as a matter of fact 2 hours ago i got a haircut it my local hair salon that i go to an undoing one you in doing that risking your own health and the barber and opening risking his health. I dont think any more than doing anything else in our society larry i wore a face mask a hairstylist wore a face mask they practiced social distancing they were not either of anybody else within 6 feet actually more than 6 feet so the restrictions that are required of businesses that do open i think are more than sufficient to reasonably protect both the public and the Business Owners themselves who surprise the President T