More on the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Thanks, mike. Happening today the cdc will meet with the countrys top Health Adviser to discuss a possible covid19 vaccine. The fda could approve pfizers vaccine as early as next week. Dr. Tom freeden explained how the cdc is going to decide who gets priority. How many lives are you going to save . Second is what is fair . What is the fair way to do it. The third is, how can we do this openly, transparentally so no backroom deals. Groups with high priority include people in Nursing Homes and essential workers and although a vaccine may be approved soon, the Vaccine Program may face some bumps in the road. When you vaccinate millions of people, some people get sick after the vaccination and you dont know whether that was the vaccine or coincidence. That has to be studied carefully or all sorts of wild rumors flying around. Thats another place where you really need transparency. The full interview with dr. Freiden coming up. We are get
Net 245 thousand people went back to work in november. That is significantly slower than we have seen every month since we started gaining again. Private payrolls, only 344,000. Last month in october, that was 877,000. The unlimit rate does fall to 6. 7 , but that is in large part because fewer people were in the labor force looking for jobs. Heres the thing that i think is really going to be important as we look at how the pandemic reshaped the economy. You look at what happened with retail hiring. 35,000 jobs lost in retail in a month when they are usually hiring for holiday sales. Createdad 118,000 jobs in the warehousing and courier sectors, which are the people who work for the online sales departments. It is a real change. Finally, the total labor force is still 9. 8 million below where it was in february. So no matter how well we have come back, no matter what that initial v looks like, it is starting to flatten out now, and you still have almost 10 Million People who had jobs i
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
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Sure. We are looking at mainly clear skies with those patchy dense fog, tracking the own shore flew, especially along the coast and along the bay. You can see the fog on the Treasure Island camera. Right now in San Francisco, 47 degrees with that fog, foggy in san jose and santa rosa, 45 san jose. Down to 31 degrees, subfreezing for santa rosa. 40 in concord. Oakland at 45. Good morning to you and livermore at 36 degrees. As we head through the afternoon enjoyed the sunshine. Mild temperatures above average for this time of year. Three to eight degrees above average. Low 60s in San Francisco, mid 60ss oakland and san jose and concord. We will talk about the rest of the week ahead into next week coming up in just a few minutes. Lets check in for the latest in the east bay. The east bay in brentwood. We have that trouble spot along vasco road where lanes still shut down this is vasco road between highway 4 and this is a fatal incident. The investigation will take time. Avoid the area. Us