Lets check with gianna. We are dealing with foggy conditions on the roadways as we start the day. We sure are. Chp issued fog advisories for bay area bridges. That includes the bay bridge. You are looking at the toll plaza, metering lights are on and there are a few foggy spots as you work across the span. We did have a broken down vehicle on the upper deck near Treasure Island. Thats now cleared out of lanes but slows things across the upper deck as you work from the incline to the Treasure Island exit. Past that, things look better down the skyway near the fremont exit to San Francisco. Slow and go in the altamont pass, busy out of tracy as you work towards north flynn. We are following the aftermath of this nasty crash in San Francisco this morning. It appears as if it started as a High Speed Police chief. Sfpd has not said what led to the crash. This is fillmore and waller. Neighbors say a police car and another car came speeding into the intersection, police car hitting a hydrant
That drive across the golden gate. It is. That is where chp issued a fog advisory. We are commuting out of marin into San Francisco, you are going to deal with limited visibility, extra careful across the span of the golden gate. You see in the live shot things are foggy. Be careful. Just north of there we are dealing with road work. Thats the usual stuff. You have slow and go conditions there. Take a look at traffic into Altamont Pass there is crash with the left lane blocked, chp arriving on scene and we have a back up ensuing because of that. Plus with the morning commuters out of tracy it is already busy, 36 minutes 205 towards 680. I am anne makovec. We are keeping an eye on this crash that happened in San Francisco involving a patrol car. Season sfpd officer hitting a fire hydrant after what appears to have been a high speed chase. Fill more and waller. What we heard from neighbos about a half hour ago on the scene, they had two cars coming very quickly. They said up to 60 miles
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
You can see just around napa American Canyon and vallejo about a half mile visibility. This is going to drift maybe slightly south and slightly east and the winds are light and variable this morning. Definitely not going to be a big player like it was yesterday. Sunshine will be this afternoon and look at these temperatures 58 the cool spot at Half Moon Bay and 61 in San Francisco and oakland 64 along with san jose and san rafael and napa and 67 today in concord and santa rosa. Ill give you an update on the thanksgiving forecast. Heres reggie. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could go into the purple tier, which is the most restrictive as soon as today. We anticipate some tier movement. A handful of counties moving to a more restribbive tier. Three counties in the red tier but could slide back to purple. San mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the restrictions in the counties in purple. It is necessary to help curve the spread. Watch at abc7news.