Researchers, factory workers, logisticians, and hundreds more have all come together for a singular purpose. That purpose save lives and end the pandemic. We checked our egos at the door. We have worked collectively to solve the problem and we have achieved success as identified last night by the fda when they approved emergency use authorization of the vaccine. Of the vaccine. Now we begin distribution of the vaccines to americans. You have heard me refer to today as dday. Some people assume that i meant day of distribution. In fact, dday in military designates the date the mission begins. Dday was a pivotal turning point in world war ii and was the beginning of the end. Dday was the beginning of the end and that is where we are today. Make no mistake, it was not the end. Months and months of hard work and battles occurred and it took diligence, courage and strength to achieve victory. Victory did come, and while this moment is extraordinary, and i am proud to be here, announcing wher
Says the first rollout could happen by mid december. The g20 discusses the virus and the potential remedies. Shotspledges to make available to all and President Trump wont say if the u. S. Will join a global effort. Haidi we are setting up for a cautious start to trading. The aussie dollar holding pretty steady. Kiwi stocks are up by half a percent. We are seeing the kiwi dollar trading just flat. U. S. Officials say the first vaccinations could be administered in just three weeks if given the green light for emergency use by the fda. Aboutare still concerns how poorer countries will be given access to any vaccine. The vaccineke Development Team has an aggressive timeline. Be do we expected to achieved and a lot of people are concerned about equitable access. Of movingre a lot parts here. A lot of movement around the world. Drug administration has an advisory meeting that day about the vaccine. Health officials really seem to think that approval could be forthcoming at that meeting or
To adopt the new state restrictions before things get even worse. That leaves neighboring napa along with solano and san mateo as the only bay area counties still open for things like Outdoor Dining and personal care services. There is hope on the horizon, california is set to receive 328,000 initial doses of the Pfizer Vaccine starting tomorrow. Of those, about one in five is earmarked for the bay area. Getting those doses here is just the first challenge. Wilson walker is live outside of Good Samaritan hospital in san jose with the security concerns coming along with them. Are they afraid people will rip them off or Something Like that . Reporter that is just one of the concerns, you can drop an entire list of things that can open the potential for any number of crimes. You can be sold fake vaccines, adjust a number of things. So long with the logistical complications of rolling out this vexing, its also been called the largest Cyber Security threat in human history. Now is that hype
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. The storm door is open. Heres some video of rain we saw moving in this morning and more rain is on the way overnight. A soaker coming for our sunday, thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 9 im Justine Waldman im Jonathan Mccall the weather watches where we start is been a dry start to the wet season. But another round of wet weather is expected to flood the area overnight. Kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now tracking huge storm or tracking the storm hour by hour on when we can finally expect to see it. Hi there jonathan and just stay and were certainly getting spoiled this weekend in the bay area we had a relatively slow start to the wet season of Mother Nature getting us a double dose of 2 storms this storm though is going to have a cold or core to it coming from the gulf of alaska, so its going to bring us some much needed steadier rain to start your sunday morning right dry outlook, but we
Where we need them to be, they are lower than the week prior when nearly 28,000 new cases and a Positivity Rate of more than 24 was recorded. 1829tly, younger adults account for most of the positive cases. 20 overall. The cases remain fairly evenly spread against most age groups. We have also seen a decrease in the overall number of iowans hospitalized due to covid19 with the exception of yesterday which was a slight increase. When week ago, on november 17, we reached our peak of inpitalizations at 1527 and the five days that followed, we of asytoday decreases many as 76 patients in one day. Again, while these are positive signs, it is too early to know if they are indicators of a trend. Several National Models are now forecasting the number of new cases and hospitalizations predicted in the United States and i state over the next four weeks. But do predict an increase, of varying degrees. The models make serious assumptions about the levels of mitigation and other mitigation that may