Covid infections. More than 187,000. As the new surge grinds on, we are closer to a vaccine that could end the outbreak. Pfizer announced it asked for emergency use approval of the vaccine candidate which the company says is 95 effective in large scale trials. We hope that they will review the data and give us the green light so we can start distributing the vaccine. Reporter moderna is expected to send data to the fda later this month. Astrazenica says it is showing strong immune responses in older adults. No corners were cut in the rush to production. The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety, nor did it compromise scientific integrity. Reporter states are puttinger restrictions in place as they try to slow the spread cdc recommends against traveling. The best way to stay safe is to stay at home. Covid19 sites are struggling to keep up with demand. We have seen long lines. In los angeles lines around the building. Five people are recovering from minor injuries after a
Were taking an ominous turn. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis following all of this and some of the restrictions being put in place to respond to this. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Thats right. The market is lower because of spike in cases. Weve been talking about pretty much all week. That is after we got the news pfizer or biontech come to stronger conclusion on their vaccine it would be 90 effective. There are still so many questions about this. Today on mornings with maria the biontech founder talked about the vaccine, how long it might protect people. Roughly a year or so listen. Theres a good chance that the vaccine not only will protect us but could protect from infection or virulent infection for a significant period of time. I personally expect that the vaccine could protect us with, with protocol for a year. If we learn we need to reimmunize. We could do that after one year. Reporter meantime the pfizerbiontech vaccine was not the only one in the works, right . We
Her hair done in this salon. Indoor Hair Services are still prohibited you understand San Francisco health orders. They said what were able to accommodate people, one person at a time, and that we can set up that time. I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup. Speaker pelosi came here in the Mission Education center to talk about the need for funning schools and children during the pandemic. But her message was largely overshadowed by her own decision to get a blowout. She makes rules but why would she even consider like bending them a little bit . Carlos opened the space as an outdoor barber shop since indoor Salon Services are not scheduled to reopen in San Francisco unti. She could have came here today. Shes too important of a person to make silly mistakes like that. Nancy pelosi . I feel disrespected. He hasnt been to his shop since march. For covid to go away, we have to comply with rules. I feel like you owe the Service Industry an apology. I just spoke to a San Francisco
Trials. She said can you onfirming safe we have to be extremely careful about why and how the data are interpreted. But public anticipation to be building, driven in part from statements by President Trump that a vaccine could be ready before or around election day. The cdc plan describes two vaccines. A and b. Which seem to max drugs from pfizer and moderna in late stage trials. It isnt clear yet if either could clear stage three trials. But the initial recipients would be Health Care Workers and high risk groups. It highlightsics the distribution pipeline. That includes mixing, shipping and storing it. . Our goal is to build a better bay area and in a pandemic. That means putting health first. The latest information on a Coronavirus Infection in california is encouraging. While the number of newly reported deaths, 145 is above average, the number of new cases is down, he blow average. The number of patients in the hospital continue to decline. It has been on a steady decrease for wee
Suv rolled over coming to a rest on its wheels. Three passengers inside died in the woman was taken to the hospital, where she died a short time later. One of the passengers was actually rejected and her remains were found a short distance away. A fifth passenger had minor injuries and the driver was taken away in handcuffs. The male driver was placed under arrest. Traffic is being diverted onto cottle road and we expect this to open up again at 8 am this morning. And south ends a, kpix 5. I want to show you a map on 85. If you want to take 85, take 101 or 280 if you are coming out of this area. If youre in the south bay, you have options. There are a lot of workarounds highlighted on our maps. You can use cott or to blossom hills. That will get you towards 101 and as i mentioned, it is a good alternate to 85 and then you can take 85 from Mountain View where it connects from one toone. You will get past that area or you can use to 80 and connected towards 101 in the south bay. Tracking