Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. We brought you the news of pfizers vaccine as it was breaking today in the bay. We have team coverage. Scott mcgrew is telling us wall street is celebrating that news and so is the president. First lets start with cierra johnson. She is live for us the ucsf and president elect biden found new members of his task force and you have information about the new vaccine as well . Reporter yes. A lot to cover. Days after president elect joe biden already moving forward with some of his paths he would knock out while he was campaigning. He is assembling a Pandemic Task force. This morning, biden laid out his covid plan announcing an Advisory Board would help him moving forward with treatment and new vaccines. An announcement from pfizer there were promising results in the covid19 vaccine and that is what we are going to start. Pfizer has been working on a vaccine that early results revealed it could be a
Still stays home as much as they can, they think that the risk will be limited. So as you are headed out for that haircut, dont forget to grab your mask. From walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. And San Francisco is asking Governor Newsom for the power to decide when Indoor Dining, gyms, salons and other suret shuttere can reopen. They are seeking a waiver from the state. If granted, San Francisco would be allowed to set its own righ San Francisco is only one of six counties in the state that do not have that local control. Similar to San Francisco, marin county supervisors are asking the state for approval to go further into stage two reopening. Marin county wants to allow Indoor Dining and reopen hair salons, barber shops, gyms, hotels and k through 12 schools on june 29. Weve seen a lot of changes because. Pandemic. To keep up, go to abc7news. Com coronavirus. And happening today, a community will pay tribute to a Santa Cruz County sheriff sergeant killed in the line of duty.
58 right now as we look from sutro tower, but you can see the the service is at 10 00. Warm orange hue from the and a service for David Patrick impending sunrise which about 47 underwood will be head friday. He is the federal officer gunned minutes away. So full on wall to wall sunshine down outside the federal today, you will need the building in oakland on may 29. Sunglasses and sunscreen if you are out for any amount of time. A reported follower of the 53 to 57 at 7 00, 64 at noon, bt look at that, 79 to81, Boogaloo Movement is charged with the ti. Already warmer than yesterday by yesterday the fbi announced the arrest of an accomplice. Thoon. A noon. Well be 68 at the coast, 84 to underwoods service will also be 92 around the bay and inland by streamed online. And pressure is building in 4 00. Are more of these type of days coming up in the accuweather 7 day forecast. Back to the news. Have a lay l vallejo to release body cam the public will pay tribute to a sergeant killed in the
Sports arenas mass into ghost towns. She said the sacrifices, though, are flattening the curve. The shelterinplace order and other actions that we have collectively taken have helped slow things down, and so we dont look like it looks in other places in the country, where the infections have grown exponentially. Infection are not growing exponentially here. Reporter but the cases are still growing. Santa clara county has had 42 deaths. 17 new cases reported today, and 3 new deaths. But the key difference is the number of new cases is not surpassing the countys ability to hospitalize and provide the best occasion for patients. We have capacity in our hospital beds, in our icu beds and with our ventilator supply. However, its still so important that we each do everything that we can to reduce our contact with each other, so that we continue to slow the spread. So that when one of us needs that ventilator, well be able to have access to it. I asked the doctor if she anticipates lifting th
Know and sonoma countys. Here are the latest numbers for viewers in lake and mendocino counties, lake county reports another confirmed case today after getting its fist just yesterday. Mendocino county reports four cases and we are charting the total number of local cases on this graph so we can see the trend. This includes data from 14 counties, the bay area, and beyond. Residents from an east bay nursing home died from coronavirus, among two dozen patients. Residents have been infected, one of the largest nursing home outbreaks anywhere in thethe ab digging into the records. Dan, you saw alarm bells in the documents . Reporter yes, there are some there, dan, nursing home advocates tell me that this pandemic exposes some long simmering problems with oversight. In this exclusive video crews in hazmat suits performed a deep lean for coronavirus at arunda care center, seeing a nurse from the county arrive, her second day working at the facility. Just helping. Helping to clean things up o