About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve,
Volume of traffic and notice the low clouds in this shot that getting across the bridge the low clouds have hit the bridge there and the fog is an issue for the rich mamond san rafael bridge. All have fog advisory from chp and a possible crash near the toll plaza and well track that off the berkeley curve and dense fog through the trivalley a major issue for drivers. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. So, lets check in with bob redell for more on the breaking news overnight. This is were talking about a third player just announcing some promising results with its vaccine this morning, bob. Correct, marcus and laura. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford announced their vaccine is safe and is triggering an immuno response in all adults. This is according to preliminary results from a phase two trial that was published in the medical journal. You have pfizer and biontech and they found they are 95 effective. That is higher than initial results suggested. The companys p
Get tested to feel better about gathering with family and friends this holiday. Kris sanchez is joining us now with what Health Experts are saying about that testing strategy that a lot of people are doing right now, kris. Reporter you know, a lot of folks seem like maybe this is a little workaround here, but every single bit of information coming out seems to point in the other direction. Were here in campbell where there is one of 17 covid testing sites for santa clara county, but it is really hard to get an appointment here in this county or around the bay area because so many people are clamoring to get those tests. There are people who arent feeling well who want to get tested, people who think they might have been exposed and now there are people who are trying to get tested so that they can maybe feel a little bit better about gathering with friends and family over the holidays. Health experts say that could offer a false sense of security. Rapid tests have a high rate of false
Forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that. And were starting out this morning with some fog in parts of the south bay as well as the north bay up around santa rosa so once we get through this fog well be clearing out. The rest of the week is looking dry with some mild temperatures. I want to show you what youll feel today as we start out with some 30s and 40s. Well reach into the mid60s for a lot of our afternoon highs. Looking ahead to the rest of the forecast coming up, mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . Kari, our maps just put up this yellow here, the road weather index. A yellowish orange shot. Our live camera shows a glow for some low clouds. Look at the map, fremont on the right side and the yellow highlighting on the left side. Both may be affected by the low clouds. No major problems, though, theres already slowing through livermore for 84. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Some breaking news for you that morning. Police are still at the scene at a San
Affair with one of the most prominent pastors in the country speaking out. Social media sin, the surprising post that was apparently liked by the pope. And later, staying home for the holidays. The new service that will deliver your tree tree and even string up your lights for you but its not cheap. Good friday morning, everyone. We begin with the cdc now urging americans not to travel for thanksgiving. Thats because of the relentless rise in coronavirus infections, and now deaths are also sharply increasing. Nearly 2,000 lives per day are now being lost in this country. The cdc warns the death toll could top 300,000 by middecember. In the meantime, more infighting in washington as President Trump refuses to allow president elect joe bidens team access to coronavirus data. Biden calling trump, quote, irresponsible, and overnight another key republican spoke out slamming the president. Those details in a moment, but first the growing crisis unfolding across this country. This morning, a