All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Ucsf believe this is for 3 reasons the first is were only as good as whats around us so if we saw in the country the rest of the country is on fire is like excluding with covid. And so is this because of the hot even with reduce travel, there are people going back and forth second. He says people are getting more comfortable lax in their precautions and probably having more small gatherings number 3 is its getting cold. So we know that these respiratory viruses love call not only because temperature aspect they survived betting cool but michael does is it brings people together you are if you go more likely going to meet somebody and then endure, setting versus outdoors. Something that doctor chan hong is more worried about after seeing celebrations on saturday once a president elect was announced while hundreds of people flooded castro street. Vast majority were Wearing Masks you may remember when we had black lives matter protests. People were also wearing their masks and the city di
Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening. As america faces whats expected to be the worst wave of covid yet, there is a groundbreaking development in the race for a vaccine. The drug maker pfizer announcing early data shows its experimental vaccine is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 that would make it about as effective as the polio vaccine pfizers ceo telling cnbc we could have up to 50 million doses of it by the end of this year it is a great day for science. It is a great day for humanity when you realize that your vaccine has a 90 effectively. Thats overwhelming. The good news comes as the virus spreads across the country at a rate weve never before seen cases on the rise in 49 states over the past week 31 of them having their biggest spike since the pandemic began in the past eight days, weve had more than 830,000 new confirmed cases. Total hospitalizations are back up to where they were back in july, with
Plus, diana duped . The new investigation into a famous interview Princess Diana gave. Was she tricked into talking . The new tribble to trebek from jeopardy itself and four people who could become the shows next host. Later, reaching new heights. The incredible feat that has one rock climber making history. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Were following several stories breaking overnight concerning the transition of power in washington. Attorney general william barr has now given prosecutors the authority to investigate claims of voter fraud. His move has prompted a top official at the Justice Department to resign. The other big story this morning, the future of obamacare at stake as the Supreme Court takes up a case today affecting millions of Americans Health care. It all comes as a new Coronavirus Vaccine and antibody treatment shows promise but daily hospitalizations just hit the highest level since july and president elect biden is warning of a dark winter ahead. This morning, ob
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking from our Sales Force Tower camera, looking over the embarcadero this morning. Good morning, its tuesday, november 10th. Good morning, lets check in with mary. Its another cold day. It is. If youre heading out of the door this morning, its a cold start. We have a freeze warning for the north bay interior valley, highlighted in purple there. The frost and freezing conditions and a frost advisory for mendocino county. You can see the temperatures from many locations to the 30s and 40s. 39, concord. Oakland, 44. 45, livermore. 35, san jose and down to below freezing in santa rosa at 31 degrees with clear skies. A cold start to the day this morning. Our inland valleys down to the 20s as we start off our day. 20s,30s and 40s. We will talk about what you can expect as we head through the week. Those daytime highs below average, and cool in the low to mid60s. Lets check in with. Ana in with gianna with the traffic this morning. Good m