Major breakthrough. Good evening. Im julie haener working from home tonight. Im a frank somerville. Researchers at Oxford University have been testing the drug and they say that if the steroid had been used from the beginning of the pandemic, probably thousands of lives could have been saved. 10 months is a smith has talked with medical experts today and the drug is widely available and not that expensive. Yes, frank in fact i did speak to a stanford doctor on the front lines of the pandemic who is cautiously optimistic but says she would like to see the data behind todays findings before putting the steroid to use. At Stanford University doctors in the intensive care unit treating the sickest covid19 patients are taking a closer look at the drug dexamethasone to help improve patients chances of survival. Dr. Leandra rogers specializes in pulmonary and critical care. One of the most important things about the study is it seems to help very sick patients with covid19. Reporter on tuesda
Carquinez bridge. This is what we know about all four people inside the car who died. New we do not have an 800 driver but she appears to be a young female, possibly early 20s. We believe the right rear passenger was a 19yearold male. The left rear passenger, a 21 yearold male. The right front passenger, a 22 yearold female. Reporter young and also the ages where they would just be starting out. Their lives were cut short after the crash that happened at about 8 42 the night. The chp so the driver somehow lost control while on eastbound 80, east of pomona street along the carquinez bridge bridge. The driver crossed all lanes of traffic, with over a concrete wall and fell into a parked train before landing in a commercial facility. Theres no train personnel that were injured. Reporter officers dont know whether drugs or alcohol are a factor, or if the driver was speeding. They said they have recently seen more people driving over 100 miles per hour. They warn drivers to slow down. As fo
The coast, cities, 56, not that bad with your northwind at travis, vacaville, probably going to be around 92 to 94 degrees. Vacaville is plus 6. Sfo, plus 5. It will be warmer, 80s and 90s in the inland areas, 70s and 80s around the bay area. 70s, 80s to some low 90s. All right. Lets head over to sal now. Would you like to begin, my friend . Well, lets start at the bridge, steve. We can see that the bay bridge traffic is going to be slow, this morning, as it normally is. You can see traffic is moving along, slowly. And this has become a normal thing. We have heard there is more traffic out there, and that certainly is the case, but we have not reached the pandemic levels. So even though this bridge is crowded, you can see that traffic on interstate 880 has not slowed down. I have not seen the slowdown i normally see, lets say before all this happened. We would start seeing slow traffic on the right, heading north. We have not seen stop and go traffic. Send me trail, san mateo traffic i
Raising three children under seven years old and needed child childcare in order to work. Now, decades later, i think of all the communities in San Francisco struggling to find childcare that will be disproportionately affected by the mayors proposals. Corrupt systems are in place in this country that do not support equitable opportunities for intersectional families. There is no doubt that they will be harmed by the proposed budget cuts from the mayor. If you want a Better Future for our children and educators, you cannot take away funding from their Early Education, which is crucial for their development. I am urging you to vote no on the mayors proposals to make changes to the voter passed prop c. Thank you. Thank you, sarah room. Its time for sharing your comments. Can we hear from the next week of place . Were back. I will continue to come back because of her fighting for children who needs us to fight for them. I love you, by the way. Okay so imagine youre in a sandbox, right . Y