Pandemic. The Biden Administration is deploying 1,110 active duty service members, including teams from army, air force, navy, and marines to support five fema covid19 Vaccination Centers across the country. The first team set to arrive in california in ten days. The Biden White House also says it will soon utilize Defense Production Act in several ways to procure equipment and supplies for pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap Six Companies to make 61 million at home covid19 tests by end of summer, and built factories to produce Raw Materials needed for nitrile surgical gloves. A billion pairs a month. All of that means jobs. All of that should have been done a year ago. The Biden Administration also isnt ruling out using Defense Production Act to aid in production of Johnson Johnsons one shot vaccine which is currently awaiting Emergency Use Authorization from the fda. That should come any day now. The federal government is set to ship 10. 5 million vaccine doses a week for the n
There is an onshore breeze, oakland airport, up to 18. Between the surface flow and west northwest areas and higher elevations, we get a little bit of a change here. The north bay temperatures, we look for 50s and 40s. Ellsberg is at 49. Can one is at 50. There are core readings today. Look for highs to be in the 60s and 70s, a little bit cooler and lynn. Highs today will come down a few degrees. It will be warmer on the weekend. Lets head over to sal. Lets see if anything new has popped up on the screen here, at 6 01 am. Is it still okay or is there something new . Everything is still okay. The traffic looks very good. We dont have a big backup at the bay bridge, which is where we look first. That is the first backup of the morning, usually. That matter th mateo bridge. We can show you the san mateo bridge looks very good. Traffic continues to look at all the way across. Lets go back to the headlines. Today is the day that the Trump Administration says a chinese consulate in texas wou
Pearman and apple. Amy hollyfield has the details. Reporter look behind me, you can see police are still here on the scene. You are looking at them pippin and 105th. They have been here all night. It happened around pened arou night. And the chase carried into oakland where the driver crashed into a parked car. Officers say the driver then got out of the car and he had an assault style gun. An officer then shot him and the man died. The officer has been placed on administrative leave and the police and District Attorneys Office will investigate. They have not released any details about the man. They say that they did recover an assault weapon at the scene. It appears that they are wrapping up. Right now the traffic scanner team is working at the site. They have already pulled the Evidence Gathering Team out of here. So it looks like they are possibly wrapping up soon, but have not said when they will be able to reopen this area. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. And more than 5,000 undergrad
Being seized off the streets. Tributes to john lewis. The kind words pouring in for the civil rights icon this morning. New jersey senator cory Booker Joining us live, sharing memories of a man he called a mentor and a titan of american history. Close encounter. The moment a shark is spotted in cocoa beach, florida, heading towards a small boy. The quickthinking offduty officer who may have saved his life, tells us his story. And baseball is back. The first spring training games of the season. Cardboard cutouts in the stands and this masked hitters home run day. Will players stay healthy to complete the season . Coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Stand at more than 140,000 this morning. With the numbers rising in more than two dozen states. As the crisis intensifies, many states experiencing desperate stress on their medical systems. And the rising numbers forcing a widespread rethink of opening plans, indianapolis officials voting to delay the start of the school year by two weeks, and i
Contagious disease is widespread. China, canada, other countries around the world are doing similar moves. Edward lawrence from the white house. Reporter the move from the department of justice and department of Homeland Security not just from those country, passing through a country with widespread disease. Which would eliminate all asylumseekers coming across the board of the United States. This is likely to be challenged in court. 30 minutes the mexican president will be back here at the white house. A very formal dinner is laid out for the two leader. Invited guests include ceos of fedex,ups, ford, intel. The fifth richest man in the world carlos slim of mexico. They talked about today, immigration. But also the big topic of the day, trade. Were already seeing the fruits because it started. It is the largest, fairest, most advanced trade deal ever reached by this country. It will bring enormous prosperity and both american and mexican workers and canada. Reporter talking about the