Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Starting today. Like much of the bay area, that county to is now in the most restrictive purple tier for coronavirus cases. Ktvus allie rasmus explains what the changes mean. Reporter a sign on the door of the montclair Fitness Center in oakland explained to customers they are closed to comply with county health orders. The owner says she has been lucky enough to keep her business afloat with online and outdoor classes. We know a lot of businesses are suffering because they dont have an outdoor option and honestly, i dont know that if this continues if we will be able to keep up what we are doing. Reporter at restaurants like the crcpe pan on piedmont avenue, it is back to serving tables outside only, no more Indoor Dining allowed. Movie theaters, houses of worship, and museums can only operate outdoors in Alameda County. I would like if we could open up and participate in real life again but i think that it is really important right now that we all participate in keeping the community
Here in the bay area that means every county except for moran. San francisco and san mateo counties this curfew could go into effect in San Francisco tomorrow night more on that in a minute. So heres exactly what will happen in less than an hour all non essential workers. Movement and gatherings will be banned, however restaurants will be allowed to offer takeout after 10 oclock the central businesses like Grocery Stores and drugstores can stay open after hours. Folks will also be allowed to go for a walk in other routine activities the curfew will be lifted at 5 oclock tomorrow morning. But it will run every night from 10 oclock at night until 5 in the morning up until december 21st in San Francisco could jump to the purple tier as soon as tomorrow meanwhile, the coronavirus is reaching unprecedented levels of spread across our state. And the u. S. California Health Officials reporting a record breaking 15,000 new cases of covid19 on friday as well as 86 new deaths. There have been mo
Many people in san jose have questioned their effectiveness. I will comply. I have been doing this all year. It tonight make sense necessarily. Covid is around 24 hours a day. Lets give it a try. There is nothing wrong to make us all healthy. San jose police and other local Police Departments that responded back to us say they will focus on education. No arrests and no tickets. I wouldnt want to be too extreme with the enforcement but at the same time being too lackadaisical things are getting out of hand. Big house parties and parties in vacant buildings there should be citations and warnings surprisingly many Business Owners believe the curfew will result in more covid cases and not fewer. They say it will push people to go from outdoor regulated environments to indoor gathering. Between the hours of ten and 12 typically on a friday night we do 25 of the business for the night. Eric nelson runs two restaurants and he says the curfew will further harm businesses. I am worried about my
Unemployment. For those who have been laid off. Or had the work hours cut. Fears of eviction are constant. Tonight, Catholic Charities held an online workshop to help people stay housed with state eviction moratoriums, set to expire at the end of january. The fear was clear, if we did nothing, that we could stand to lose 10s of thousands of residents from this valley. Many of whom are our parishiners. I will take a closer look at the eviction that in the south bay is coming up at 11 00. Nbc bay area news. Santa clara county continues to see covid cases rise at an alarming rate, a mass testing site closed today, workers are gearing up for another businey week. They were testing a pop up site where people could test themselves. The dropin site is at the Emanuel Baptist church. They can self administer a nasal swab test. Tuesday through friday, 11 00 a. M. To 5 30 p. M. Another high profile member of the president s inner circle has tested positive for covid19. This type, its rudy giulian