Specialist dr. Peter chinhong tells us the hospitals on the list are all Holding Meetings right now to decide how it will be distributed and who exactly is at the front of the lines to get it. So they include those ware working in the department, the intensive care unit, specialist like Infectious Disease doctors, pulmonologists, stock members of therapists, like occupational therapists. Reporter dr. Chinhong explains it has to be stored in really cold temperatures and that ucsf already has the special freezers it needs ready to go. He says the military will be involved in the process to ship the vaccine to each facility but that those plans are still a work in progress. Even though it may not get into the arms of most of ours until the end of late spring, early summer. You know, it is something to hold on to as a metaphor or symbol of how far weve come. Reporter once the vaccine is available to the general public, dr. Chinhong kong expects it will be free for everyone and could be ava
Pretty much the same as yesterday temperature wise as we finish out the day a few passing clouds and daytime highs in the 50s and 60s. Robin all right so chilly all right, thank you john. All right were checking in on the traffic, heres a live look at your bay bridge toll plaza heading into San Francisco. And we do have a high wind advisory for the bay bridge that was issued shortly after midnight. I dont really feel much driving across this morning. But i did notice that the roads are a little slick in some spots in the bay area and theres lots of drizzle. I have my wipers going john has been telling us about that in the tropical to get the holding up well very easy into San Francisco. All right lets check in on some more bridges we have 92 the trip across the 70 oh bridge looking good moving well, no problems no crashes no stalls just a little bit of crowding on the flat section thats completely normal a quick trip here to the peninsula and well take a peek at the Richmond Sandra fel
Degrees warmer. Then at the same time yesterday so do enjoy this mild start. Im talking more in your forecast ahead. Rob, thank you john were off to a pretty good started traffic to its very quiet out there with no major issues a live look westbound 92, this is your drive out of hayward over to the peninsula. And you know its a little busy right here on the flat section thats completely normal so no problems just picking up and quickly so were looking at 12 minutes off to one o one were checking in on 80 your trip into San Francisco moving well looking good. No problems so far so easy 7 minutes off to one oh one or 2 the to downtown San Francisco and they were checking in on one oh one out of san jose to menlo park thats 26 minutes. The highway for all smooth and at the limit will check more traffic coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot rob. And our top story parts of the bay area are having to roll back on reopening because covid is on the rise and we showed you this map yester
One possible snag. The signature test. Its something all ballots must go through, especially right now as mailin ballots pour in by the millions to election offices. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. In the 2018 general election nearly 23,000 mailin ballots were rejected across the bay area. The big three mistakes, no signature on the ballot or envelope, signature doesnt match Voter Registration card, or ballot isnt returned in time. As President Trump erroneously claims that mailin ballots are not reliable, we wanted to look at the verification process, especially the signatures. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman is on the story. Reporter youre looking at the largest early voter turnout in marin county history with more than 100,000 ballots cast already. Thats more than half the registered voters. Panner lowe was one of them today but after talking with us she did have some questions. Are you worried . Well, now i am. Reporter and all because of he
Ballots directly to the registrars office. In Santa Clara County, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. About half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. And marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. Reporter they are very concerned about that, janelle. If you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of Voters Office. Many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, thats how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop box at the registrar Voters Office in san jose. I feel like it is safer to drop it on a place where you will be counted. Reporter but Evelyn Mendez with the Santa Clara County registrar of Voters Office says theres no need to make a