Major breakthrough. Good evening. Im julie haener working from home tonight. Im a frank somerville. Researchers at Oxford University have been testing the drug and they say that if the steroid had been used from the beginning of the pandemic, probably thousands of lives could have been saved. 10 months is a smith has talked with medical experts today and the drug is widely available and not that expensive. Yes, frank in fact i did speak to a stanford doctor on the front lines of the pandemic who is cautiously optimistic but says she would like to see the data behind todays findings before putting the steroid to use. At Stanford University doctors in the intensive care unit treating the sickest covid19 patients are taking a closer look at the drug dexamethasone to help improve patients chances of survival. Dr. Leandra rogers specializes in pulmonary and critical care. One of the most important things about the study is it seems to help very sick patients with covid19. Reporter on tuesda
Get warmer this time of year when you get a north or northeast breeze. Mount diablo north at 42. Big rock 26 miles an hour. I kn iand Berkeley Hills it has been about 15 to 25. The low in the intermountain region with a high frus a north and temperatures are on the way up. Not too bad by that area, but upper 80s and 90s inland. Over to sal now. G6 lets see if theres anything new going on. Still relatively quiet. Good morning. Morning to you. Still pretty quiet out there. You can see traffic doing very well. Lets talk about interstate 80 and eastshore freeway. You can see that its doing very wel hur maze is doing okay, around the corner. There have been no major issues at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lets go back to the headlines. A developing story and crockett. Look at these pictures. Four People Killed when their sub fell at least 200 feet off the cockiness bridge and slammed into the ground. Sarah is here with us with more on this. Good morning. Good morning. This crash is absolutely
Carquinez bridge. This is what we know about all four people inside the car who died. New we do not have an 800 driver but she appears to be a young female, possibly early 20s. We believe the right rear passenger was a 19yearold male. The left rear passenger, a 21 yearold male. The right front passenger, a 22 yearold female. Reporter young and also the ages where they would just be starting out. Their lives were cut short after the crash that happened at about 8 42 the night. The chp so the driver somehow lost control while on eastbound 80, east of pomona street along the carquinez bridge bridge. The driver crossed all lanes of traffic, with over a concrete wall and fell into a parked train before landing in a commercial facility. Theres no train personnel that were injured. Reporter officers dont know whether drugs or alcohol are a factor, or if the driver was speeding. They said they have recently seen more people driving over 100 miles per hour. They warn drivers to slow down. As fo
With a north breeze. It is in the hills and toward fairfield, vacaville, and davis. North 25 in word 18. Napa airport now with the northwind at 58. Napa 8 and vacaville 7 compared to 24 hours ago. Everyone else is a little cooler. Thatigh kicking in for a couple of days will give us an offshore direction. You know this time of year thats a warmer direction look for temperatures to bump up today above average. 70s, 80s, upper 80s to near 90 for some. Now over to sal. We will see if theres anything popping up on the screen. Good morning. Good morning. We dont have a lot going on. Im looking at my screen just to make sure nothing popped in, but for the most part, we are off to a good start. We see just a little bit of slowing already at the bay bridge. That is about it. There have been no major issues as you drive into san francisco. Traffic moves well so far. Lets go back to the headlines. Following a developing story and crockett where four people were killed in this horrible crash. Th
The coast, cities, 56, not that bad with your northwind at travis, vacaville, probably going to be around 92 to 94 degrees. Vacaville is plus 6. Sfo, plus 5. It will be warmer, 80s and 90s in the inland areas, 70s and 80s around the bay area. 70s, 80s to some low 90s. All right. Lets head over to sal now. Would you like to begin, my friend . Well, lets start at the bridge, steve. We can see that the bay bridge traffic is going to be slow, this morning, as it normally is. You can see traffic is moving along, slowly. And this has become a normal thing. We have heard there is more traffic out there, and that certainly is the case, but we have not reached the pandemic levels. So even though this bridge is crowded, you can see that traffic on interstate 880 has not slowed down. I have not seen the slowdown i normally see, lets say before all this happened. We would start seeing slow traffic on the right, heading north. We have not seen stop and go traffic. Send me trail, san mateo traffic i