Were turned on and it is a little busier, more traffic heading over there. Some slowing on the span shows up on our maps because there may be a disabled vehicle. A semi truck perhaps getting close to the Treasure Island so we may see more backup as they slow the metering lights down. Well closely track that and the drive. The rest of the bay shows no major problems. The slowdown in concord is not what it may appear to be. Ill explain that coming up. The rest of the bay lighter than you would normally see. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 01 right now. From the bay area to los angeles to san diego millions of californians are waking up after the weekend to a new shelter at home order. Weve got live looks outside. Here is a look at how california is divided into regions in terms of tracking surge cases and hospital rates. All regions are now in some form of that stayathome order. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live for us. I know different counties are rolling out those restrictions
Senate but expect that to happen. Yesterday on the midday news, we were able to say that biden had confirmed that yellen was, indeed, his pick for treasury secretary. Wall street has suspected that for more than a week. She is one of the reasons the stock market has been doing so well. But this morning, as you saw on nbc bay area in that special report a short time ago the president elect made all of this official. The team im announcing today will play a Critical Role in shaping our plan for action starting on day one and move fast to revive this economy. They are going to help me help us, help the country lay out my build back better plan. Its my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the american people. And to join this incredible Economic Team at this moment of great challenge for our country. Reporter president elect biden has named neera tanden as the director of office of management and budget. Now, this nomination probably will not get through the republican dom
Good wednesday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Well get to the commute in just a bit. First lets start with the forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking those temps for us. Were starting out cool this morning in the trivalley, checking out whats going on in dublin, and we are seeing some clear visibility for now. We will see some light, patchy fog drifting by, but it will be slightly cooler today. And by tomorrow well have a very cold morning. Some of us may be starting out near freezing. Our dry weather does continue at least throughout the weekend. Well talk about whats ahead coming up. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . Kari, its looking really great right now as we look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Very light volume now and i expect for the earlier morning commute maybe 6 00, 6 15 well see slowing. Well watch that. The maps show no major issues around the bay. Maybe a little fog in the north bay.
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
A very good wednesday morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Were halfway there through the workweek, the day before thanksgiving. Mike has a look at the commute. First that forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that. How is it looking, kari . It looks pretty good. We are all quiet across the bay area. We started out with Cool Temperatures and patches of fog particularly in the north bay. A live look in dublin, it will be cooler but comfortable for the middle of the day. We do have some cool mornings ahead. The dry weather does continue. Well talk about that in the forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking driving through some of those foggy areas . Yes, folks might have trouble looking around them. The bay bridge for a reference, very light traffic flow. The note as we look at the north bay 29 to highway 1 up to healdsbu healdsburg, thats that warm amber blob where the fog has registered. Lower visibility there. Really no slowing on this map. Back to you. President