Made a huge change which could spell the end of theaters. Its friday, december 4th. Its early today and im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. We find ourselves in some of the darkest days of the pandemic a record 2,800 americans have died in just 24 hours. Hospitals in at least a dozen states are delaying elective surgeries. In california a new lockdown could be triggered in some of the biggest cities as beds become scarce. Meanwhile the first batch of Pfizer Vaccines have arrived in the uk over 800,000 doses will be made available next week. Our jay gray is following the latest for us here in the states. Reporter doctors identified the first Coronavirus Infection january 20th now almost a year and almost 14 million cases later we as a country are in a very, very difficult if not crisis situation when it comes to the explosion of cases. Reporter more than 200,000 new positive tests in a single day, more than 2,700 deaths in a single day, both tragic pandemic records. Well, what were
The open this morning we will get really close again to 30000 on the dow. Heres another positive in all the transition from trump to biden has begun and investors like it, the dow was up 1 , 300 points, s p up three quarters in the nasdaq up close to half a percentage point, lots of green this morning and theres this, john kerry is back, the climate envoy and will sit on the National Security council, not good news for Americas Energy independence. Kerry will try to take us back into the paris climate record, but here is a guy taking us to the future, elon musk, yesterday as tesla stock rallied musk gained 7 billion in one day, he is worth 128 billion in the last week he surpassed Mark Zuckerberg and bill gates to become the second richest in the world, jeff bezos remains firmly in the number one spot. On todays show lets celebrate thanksgiving, the timing on the restrictions but resistance is growing, scott shalit he will join us from arizona hes part of the great exodus and will take
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
So far of the season. I am sure you have felt it. Here is a live look at our Treasure Island camera with mostly sunny skies. Mid50s for many of us across our region. As we look to the rest of our afternoon, the daytime highs, mid to upper 60s to about 60 degrees. Cool, below average by 10 degrees. As we take you hour by hour, you can see the sunshine as we head through the rest of the afternoon. For tomorrow, a coldstart for the day. We have a freeze warning that will be in effect for the north bay and interior valleys. The Positivity Rates in many, many states, in most cases we are seeing a Record Number of cases and transmission in this country and we are seeing states with transmission and Positivity Rates that put them in the high teens, 20, 30, some cases, 40 positivity races. It has raised some alarm. I want to jump in and give you the latest here in our state. As you can see, our case numbers have been trending up as well. The seven day average of 5889, the number of tested posi
We all want to go Back To School. We also want to go back to School Safely and make sure in addition to getting high up on the Priority List of being vaccinated we want to make sure there is robust testing. When i was home a few weeks ago with Family Members in the School System they had to insure they got their test. Proper protocols. The Biden Administration says theyre following the signs. Weve known since last summers that schools are not a place of spread for covid19. The School Systems got 65 billion last year from congress in covid relief to put in Safety Precautions to allow teachers to get Back To School. The bottom line at this point is that good teachers who want to go Back To School are being held hostage by these Teachers Unions and theyre now extorting the american taxpayer for more money claiming they dont have enough money to go Back To School when theyve been funded and we have the science again with the cdc report this week showing that this disease does not spread in