Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. We brought you the news of pfizers vaccine as it was breaking today in the bay. We have team coverage. Scott mcgrew is telling us wall street is celebrating that news and so is the president. First lets start with cierra johnson. She is live for us the ucsf and president elect biden found new members of his task force and you have information about the new vaccine as well . Reporter yes. A lot to cover. Days after president elect joe biden already moving forward with some of his paths he would knock out while he was campaigning. He is assembling a Pandemic Task force. This morning, biden laid out his covid plan announcing an Advisory Board would help him moving forward with treatment and new vaccines. An announcement from pfizer there were promising results in the covid19 vaccine and that is what we are going to start. Pfizer has been working on a vaccine that early results revealed it could be a
Streets, shutting down a busy interstate and setting on fire the wendys where the incident began, a day after 27yearold Rayshard Brooks was shot to death after taking a taser from one of the officers. One officer has been fired. The police chief has resigned. We will have a live report from atlanta in a moment. Later in our sunday spotlight, a look at the movement generations in the making to change policing in america, after the death of george floyd. In our sunday closer, the time to look through your sunday mail as you tell us about collective scramble by hospitals the good you are seeing around to prepare for a new wave of you these days. Lets start with christine in coronavirus and the to virginia beach. Until people start traveling help. Again, the few people left later, we will revisit a s working are going above and beyond. Sales managers baking fresh samuel l. Jackson on growing up pastries, chefs working as to become one of the biggest box servers, Front Desk Associates offic
At temperatures in the 50s as we start the day with low clouds and fog along the coast and around the bay. Through the afternoon daytime highs seasonal if not above average for this time of year but not as warm as yesterday. 64 seven cisco for a high, upper 60s oakland, mid70s san jose and 77 for concorde. Around where we should be for this time of year and five degrees above average for this time. Cooler weather ahead. Details coming up. Lets check in with gianna for the latest on a Traffic Alert on the bay bridge. We have this Traffic Alert issued due to Police Activity that happened overnight on the upper deck of the bay bridge. If you are taking the commute out of the east bay into San Francisco, you will see some brake lights as you exit off this skyway. The lanes are blocked coming off of the bay bridge towards fremont. The right lane is available but they are using that to get traffic off of the bridge onto fremont. We are hoping to have one or two lanes opened up pretty soon. W
Are responding to the fact that the Company Gilead appears to be having some Good Progress with its testing of its drug. This is a trial, a Clinical Trial that is showing some promi promise. There were some 125 people, people who were severely ill. Many saw a rapid recovery and now looking at expanding the testing in hopes of scaling up the drug. Dow futures up. Gilead stock is up 16 on news its trial is going well. Testing is a key point. The plan to reopen the country, be democrats say, doesnt have enough of it. Three phases in restoring we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time. Reporter the three phase plan, a gradual return to work and public life with social distancing and schools still closed. Highrisk individuals stay home. Then resume nonessential travel, open schools and sports and social gathering. Finally back to social life with caution. A focus on hygiene. Democrats argue the plan needs much more detail about testing, testing, testing. We need several
Good morning. Looking a little cloudy and comfortable. Im going to put comfortable in there. I am tracking a couple changes. Well remain in the 50s through about 10 00 a. M. By 11 00 a. M. Well warm up into the 60s. Today well top out in the upper 60s for san jose which two days ago we hit the 80s so that cooldown will be noticeable especially for inland areas and were tracking some shower activity. Ill have details on that coming up shortly. Back to marcus. Breaking news for you right now on the fight against the coronavirus. This morning theres word one compy i covid19. Today in the bays tracy poie potts is live from her home. The markets are responding. Reporter they are responding, marcus this is a Company Called gilead testing a drug called remdesivir. Early results from the trial, 125 people, most of them severely ill with covid19 and based on the early trial results it looks like most of those people were able to get out of the hospital in a week or less. The vast majority recov