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
They are telling people to avoid that area. Twoalarm fire that we are monitoring. Thick smoke active right now. We will continue to follow that and bring you the updates as we get them. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im marcus washington. The other big story. We are closely monitoring the guidance from the state this morning. Its been nearly 24 hours since governor gavin newsom announced new possible rollbacks. The number of available icu beds are dangerously low. A new statewide stayathome order could take effect. Bob redell is live for us in livermore. I know it looks like Alameda County could pull the trigger ahead of the order on the rest of the bay area. Reporter correct. Even though icu bed capacity here in Alameda County at 30 , the Health Department says it might order new shelterinplace order preemptively to preserve that capacity and to save lives. If and when this order goes into effect it will last three weeks and among other things would shut down indoor and Outdo
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A stalled vehicle on the ramp on first street to get on to 880 on the northbound lane so that might be something that may be a traffic hazard but aside from that were doing okay on that end. East bay drive times looking good. Northbound 880 from marina to broadway only nine minutes. Westbound 580 from estudillo avenue and from fish ranch road to the bay bridge only seven minutes. Ill have another update. Back to you. Sounds good. Thanks so much. With covid cases surging the bay area is on the verge of a new stayathome order. While some states launched new efforts to stop the spread, president elect biden is outlining how hell fight coronavirus. We have live team coverage. Today in the bays bob redell is following statewide restrictions. First, tracie potts is outlining the plan from the biden team and, tracie, what is Vice President elect harris saying about young people even returning to the classroom . Reporter she says they need to do it but they need to do it safely. Its part of wh
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