We have some issues on the road. Lets turn it over to jobina right now. In San Francisco an intersection is closed after a crash involving a police car. We have new video right now. Police tape surrounding fillmore and waller streets. The police are seeing that theres a damaged cruiser there on the scene and also it appears theres a muni bus involved. It is believed that this was a Police Pursuit that ended in a crash injuring the suspect and the officer. A call is in to sfpd to confirm that. We want to take a live picture of the scene. Officers are still there investigating. The intersection of fillmore and waller is closed now. Well bring you an update on this as soon as we hear back from police. Now to the pandemic. Can cases spiking across the country and bay area counties moving into more restrictive tee tiers, one east bay county is cracking down to make sure businesses not only know the rules but are obeying them. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with how this will work. Y
Next hit. For now lets talk about what will happen this afternoon. After being in the 30s and 40s this morning, well hit the low to mid 60s around the bay. 61 to about 63 degrees. Then you can see inland about 63 to 68. The cool spot will be Half Moon Bay at 56. Liz . All right. Thank you. New this morning, moderna will ask the fda for emergency authorization use for its covid19 vaccine today. The massachusettsbased Company Released its latest trial results today. It says so far it found the vaccine is just over 94 effective. Moderna following pfizer in requesting emergency authorization use. The fda is scheduled to meet and review the Pfizer Vaccine next thursday. The agency could do the same for modernas vaccine as early as december 17th. Surging covid19 cases have forced San Francisco and san mateo counties back into the purple tier. And that means new restrictions and a curfew. Gyms have to close indoors but can operate outdoors. Top attractions like the academy of sciences are clo
Yesterday. In fact, it is going to evaporate much quicker today. Enjoy sunshine just about all day today and slightly milder temperatures from like 68 in fairfield to 58 in Half Moon Bay. Most of us in the low to mid 60s this afternoon. Update on the thanksgiving forecast coming up. Heres reggie with the news. Mike, thank you. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could move into the purple tier. And, of course, thats the states most restrictive. We anticipate there will be some tier movement. Handful of counties likely moving to a more restrictive tier. Here in the bay area, three counties in the red tier right now but they could slide back to purple and that includes San Francisco, san mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the curfew restrictions that are already in the purple tier. He said it is necessary to help curve the spread. You can watch him live today at noon on our abc7news. Com. California is pulling back on reopenings as the number of covi
Mountains where well have more than an inch. You can see during the afternoon hours, the rain is looking pretty impressive and so are those temperatures low to mid 60s. An hourbyhour look at that wet weather coming up. Thanks. Expect changes with your businesses starting today. Governor newsom had to pull the emergency brake on reopening because new cases in the state nearly doubled in just ten days. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Look at all that purple. Every county in the bay area is in the purple tier except for marin, San Francisco and san mateo, theyre in the red tier. Purple tier means transmission is widespread and that includes limiting Retail Stores and shopping malls to 25 capacity and closing all nonessential businesses such as churches, movie theaters gyms. These restrictions just went into effect at midnight and that only gave businesses a day to adjust to everything. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover live in t
62 to 67 around the bay and inland. Warmer weather tomorrow. Ill have that coming up. Here is kumasi. Thank you. Developing news right now a high rise fire forces San Francisco residents out of their homes overnight. Look at this video. You can see the flames shooting from the middle of the building at the Gateway Apartments. Now the fire broke out in the East Building on davis and washington and firefighters had to rescue and evacuate several people. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is joining us live there this morning. How many apartments are we talking about . Two dozen apartments damaged here . Yeah. Thats right. 23 apartments with damage. Three had fire damage. The others had smoke and water. They just cannot be lived in. Those people not in their homes. The fire started on the 11th floor. Thats a long way to go when youre trying to evacuate and escape a fire. Also a long way to get up to that fire when you have to fight it. Firefighters had to help people evacuate and haul that