Received emergency authorization from the fda. This is a treatment President Trump received during his bout with the virus in october. Again, this is a treatment, not a vaccine. Three companies as tra sevtr pfizer and moderna have vaccines developed. Moderna expects to file before december that starts a week from today. Pfizer filed and on december 10th, the fda Vaccine Advisory Committee will discuss. If approved, distribution could begin almost immediately. We believe we can distribute to all 64 jurisdictions within 24 hours of fda authorization. One private sector, c havs heal expects to be vaccinate residents of Nursing Homes within 48 hours. When a vaccine is approved by the fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat coronavirus and build a better bay area. Weve assembled the abc 7 vaccine team. Kate larson, luz pena and Michael Finney and more. Today abc 7 News Reporter luz pena talked with vaccine trial participants what they experienced of getting injected with moderna and p
There continues to be concern that gatherings could lead to more transmission. Liz kreutz joining us live with the latest from the state on exactly where things stand, liz. Larry, yes, things continue to be not so great in california while San Francisco, marin and san mateo counties did not get moved into the purple tier today. Numbers continue to go up and another number on the rise, hospitalizations. With thanksgiving just two days away, californias covid19 cases are not showing any signs of slowing down. The 14day Positivity Rate is 5. 6 , a 51 increase from two weeks ago on november 10th when it was 3. 7 . At that point, there were 7,000 cases a day. Today there is more than 15,000. Hospitalizations have increased since then, too by a whopping 81 . Statewide, i dont believe weve ever seen as many hospital admissions increased like we did just in the past 24 hours. This message critical ahead of the Holiday Season. Today californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galle
Chilly out there this morning were seeing clear skies than yesterday but not Crystal Clear in fact if you look out at our sutro tower v you can see that thin veil of low clouds and fog that is sitting right through Sales Force Tower right across the bay itself so that is going to result in a couple of patchy areas remain counter some low visibility on roadways. Both of the coast along the bay and even towards our inland areas, the Central Valley has our heaviest dose of fog this morning, skies will gradually clear and then it sunshine the rest of the day in fact thats going to make one of our coolest morning. So far one of our warmest afternoons of this forecast right now though were still in the 30s for dublin and livermore each at 38 degrees santa rosa youre at 36 when the at 34 degrees right now napa a cool 36 degrees. So yes get the jacket ready to go as you venture out there over to you robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the traffic and its quite busy in some spot
Holding on to the 30s. Areas like santa rosa nevado petaluma and napa were down there this morning. Now youre back to the mid to upper 40s. Im talking more about what to expect today as well as thanksgiving still to come all right. Thank you john were checking in on the traffic which is looking really got a huge improvement compared to the Early Morning hours were off to the golden gate where we never had any problems are major issues and it looks really good here well get a little bit of fog coming from the north bay but. Across the span refined so 20 minutes novato to the toll plaza were checking on the bay bridge with the traffic is thinning out nicely it was solid about 30 minutes ago, so its breaking up we could see a little more space between the cars, its very quiet heading into San Francisco. So were at 13 minutes for your drive to make it in and slow traffic on the nimitz northbound from to 38 today this after a fatal accident at the davis street overcrossing at 8. 80 back to
And well obviously were still in the midst of some of them looking at her views behind me you can see skies are pretty gray overall. In fact some areas are looking at some dense fog, especially right along the coastline. This is your Half Moon Bay view right now definitely a wet roadway out there along highway one just as the rest of the bay area seeing. And youve got that fog a marine layer that is pushed in right along the coastline, what youre seeing in the speckled green those are drizzly areas a product of some of those low clouds that have pushed in across the region. Some of our rainiest of sponsor actually sitting further south in the bay area. We have been seeing showers around fremont those really cleared out moved southward now and now youre looking at a heavier band of rain right around san jose to alum rock. So if you are traveling in the south bay, not only is it wet from last night showers like the rest of us are seeing that youre getting some additional rainfall on top