Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us. In the race for a covert vaccine, the European Union does not appear to be first in line in the race for a covid vaccine. It may need another month to decide on granting approval for a shot. Meantime, the United States and britain are aiming to get the green light to a vaccine before christmas. The eu is not far behind with a meeting scheduled for december 20 92 consider approval for the shot developed by pfizer. Our correspondent dave keating has more on how the process will play out. It certainly is not the normal process. These processes could normally take years, but, obviously, exceptional circumstances call or exceptional measures. All along, we have known that the eus regulatory bodies, just like those of the u. S. , u. K. , and other countries, would perform a special authorization process for these vaccines. Basically, the regulator would approve the vaccine, but the maker of the vaccine would continue conducting tests to make sure they
No delays at all i think its going to be easy trip for the rest of the morning and into the afternoon as well with so many folks off today only 8 minutes off to fremont street were checking in on one oh one traffic remains nice and light here from the north bay to San Francisco. We have a crash thats wrapping up on south one o one at North San Pedro thats why it says 47 minutes but after the crash continuing to San Francisco. Youre gonna be fine, one oh one north a little slow from cesar chavez to 80 in San Francisco that said the 2. 80 extension looks good. No problems on the peninsula will check more bridges coming up back to you. Thanks a lot rob and traveling by car is ok youre not supposed to fly actually are not supposed to travel at all outside of bubble, but people are were live at sfo weve seen. Some flying in landing and taking off and some people at the airport not as many by in stark contrast today, traditionally the busiest day for sfo for thanksgiving, but hardly much tra
Id like to call the djp directors meeting to order. This meeting is conducted input pursuant to the brown act to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid19 during transmission at board meetings. The brown acts sets strict rules for teleconferencing. The governors executive order has suspended the rules. As noted on the agenda members may observe the meeting and they might offer Public Comment by calling the Public Comment phone number. Id like to welcome the members members watching us live on sf. Gov. Tv. Would you call the role. Change is sitting in as director hain any easal ternate. Due to a scheduling conflict den deana wont be able to attend. [roll call] director we have a quorum. Continue mr. Secretary. The next item is item three for communication. Wed like to provide farther comment on the. You should dial into the published number listen to the meeting and wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members have up to three minutes to provide comment for each agen
For your commute that traffic theres pretty stop and go you can see some of the traffic starting to back up there along that bridge and then move into the Golden Gate Bridge, this definitely is the lightest bridge out of all of them 37 to the tolls about 23 minutes for your morning commute there. And in the bay bridge here we go the maze to fremont you can see back to here definitely reaching past me on that overpass about 14 minutes for your drive. Daryn james thanks reyna. To one lets get to some breaking news from overnight and sad to say the u. S. Has set a new record now for the most covid related deaths in a single day you see the number on the screen behind us more than 3100 people have died now from the virus on wednesday alone most deadliest day we have seen in the pandemic and for the first time. More americans than ever in the hospital with covid a 100,000 plus americans are hospitalized in 20,000 of them. Or in the icu and this comes after california set records for numbers
Elementary. Marin county at this point in a category of its own with being in the red county surrounded by a lot of those other purple tier counties. We broke it down by numbers. 51 counties are in the purple category. Just six in the red category. One lone county is in orange. These counties in purple, according to the states covid website, represent nearly 40 Million People in the state or 99. 1 of the states population really in a league of its own. Pa rin marin stands out. In a letter to parents, the superintendent and the School Principal emphasized that families are encouraged to quarantine when needed and some of the school day will be a little different. Dropoff and pickup, drivers are to meet at a designated gate and the drivers are to remain in their cars. Some feel the district may be moving too fast. Increase depression and other maladaptive behaviors. Reporter and in this district the high school is expected to reopen school in january. It is important to note for schools