Coronavirus measures after being closed for 8 months. And Tropical Storm as it makes landfall in the u. S. State of florida after killing dozens of people in Central America im joining us roscoe with the sports as the last neighborhood of 8 schools in stoppage time to rescue a similar line becoming at least top scorer in the lead. The transition to a biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some key decisions expected in the hours ahead the president elect is due to announce a task force to tackle what he says is his top priority the coronavirus pandemic on sunday biden visited a Church Cemetery where family members of buried including his late son meanwhile donald trump spent the day playing golf outside of washington and still refusing to concede defeat his campaign is finding legal challenges in states where hes disputing the counting of votes they does including Israels Benjamin Netanyahu and saudi arabias my. Had been selman have congratulated biden on the form
Talks on libya gets under way and with the aim of preparing for elections after last months signing of a cease fire agreement. And Tropical Storm as it makes landfall in the u. S. State of florida killing dozens of people in Central America. And joining us roscoe with the sport as last a neighborhood vet schools in stoppage time to rescue a c. Milan becoming its least top scorer in the. The race for a vaccine that could end the coronavirus pandemic has taken what may be a significant step forward u. S. Drugmaker fine as its vaccine has proven to be more than 90 percent effective and pfizer says its on track to ask for permission to sell a vaccine before the end. End of november but u. S. Health regulators have indicated they will take time to review potential vaccines this news comes as the head of the World Health Organization called for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic he made the comments as the Decision Making body meets in a largely Virtual Conference now th
San francisco. The citys new attempt to keep people six feet apart. And some clarity from the cdc on how this virus is spread. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. Dinner is served and retailers are open for business p. Theres a lot of excitement in napa county. However, a lot of concern that were reopening too early. Heres nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney in napa. Reporter the long wait is over at downtown joes in napa this evening, and by early evening a waiting list. Like a reopening, like were starting all over again. Reporter that from joe bateman, who opened this restaurant 27 years ago. Jamie kellys happy to be here with sons carter and cooper. It was nice not having to come up with a strategy as to what we were going to do for dinner. We were actually able to make a spontaneous stop, have a meal. It was really nice. Reporter napa is the first bay area county to move into the next phase reopening, largely because its only had one covid19 hospitalization in the
Reached the peak yet. What does that tell snull guest two things. One, when we hear we have yet to reach the peak, it definitely brings a level of fear because we dont know where that peak is going to be and weve been talking a lot about testing and i should caution that all the numbers that were talking about have a big asterisk next to them because we really dont know that the number of confirmed cases reflects anything close to the number of cases that they there actually are in our communities. It could very well be given the number of asymptomatic carriers there are that there are far more cases that we currently have. In fact, do i believe there could be smoldering dayses of infections in communities all around the country. We jewels havent picked up on that. The second thing we hear about not reaching the peak. We have to remember that it may not be a bad thing because weve been talking about this concept of flat engine the curve. The flattening the curve, the idea that social d
Bay area take a look at your screen there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 steps you can see those numbers broken down for your county by county check out Santa Clara County staffs at 73 and more than 1800 cases you can also see that these numbers are on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to look at your specific county just check it out on our website. Now lets get to our top stories this saturday morning as people are now required to wear a mask of some form or a facial covering in most bay area counties. 6 counties are now requiring everyone wear a covering of some sort when theyre outside they are San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma counties. Santa clara county also urging residents to wear a mask, but at this point thats not an order. Now heres why its so important to wear a face mask in public take a look at this laser light experiment shows how droplets from coughing sneezing and talking can spread the virus on the left you see the droplets