Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. Ten tuesdays, 70 days to a Flashing Red Crossroads in our shared North American future. Both president ial campaigns this afternoon on pace with whats going to be a dead sprint to election day. Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate tim walz at this hour preparing for what will be their tickets First Campaign stop since they formally accepted their partys nomination. A Bus Tour Of Georgia starting tomorrow. Meanwhile with Donald Trumps running mate jd vance campaigning in michigan and indiana, that campaign is adding new voices. An interesting voice. Nbc news adviser confirming that both robert f. Kennedy jr. And gabby is moving with trump. Lets go to North Carolina voters in ten days. Four days after that, the first president ial debate between trump and harris, which now appears to be all systems go. At least right now, according to donald trump. Disgraced expresident a little more than a
The fda green lit then developed by regeneron. The drugmaker says trial data shows the drug reduced the amount of the fda says itll continue to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the treatment. New at 11 00 it was supposed to be part of berkeleys most ambitious Affordable Housing complexes. Tonight flames tearing through the building which was still under construction. Fire crews across the east bay still on the scene. A fire that could be seen from miles around. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana live there tonight with more. Reporter at this hour the fire crews are still putting a whole lot of water on that tower. This is fire that started just before 6 00 this evening. It took crews a couple of hours to knock down the initial flames and then snuff out a lot of the hot spots popping up throughout that tower. The Police Department cordoned off a large area around it in part because initially there was concern it could collapse. Ladder trucks setup in the streets around the sixstory A
Heres a look at the latest numbers. As of this morning our state has recorded 1,264,539 confirmed cases of the virus and almost 20,000 people have died. After approval meantime operation warp speed hoping to have that Pfizer Vaccine out the door by december 15th with doses allocated to states by population. For example, some 300,000 to california, 170,000 to new york, 19,000 to minnesota and 12,000 to maine. Yesterday the United States had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began. More than 3,100 americans died from the coronavirus and that shatters the previous single day record set back in april. Hospitalizations also at a record high nationwide above 100,000. They are bracing for a surge upon a surge from holiday gatherings. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Meantime dr. Anthony fauci telling cbs news that he will be meeting with members of
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
Joining us on kron 4 news at 5 everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis those scary numbers going up as we head into the Holiday Season with millions of americans already. Traveling for thanksgiving this week. Doctor fauci says hes very worried about how much the virus will spread during and what the pandemic will look like in 3 weeks when those new infections. Well have manifested covid cases are also surging here locally in the bay Health Officials urging people. To stay home, avoid large gatherings this weekend that definitely includes the south bay which is seeing a major spike kron 4 Sanaz Tahernia reports. Covid19 cases are hitting record highs in Santa Clara County with more than 500 newly reported cases a day and county Health Officials are expecting things to get worse if we look back in july when we were were really worried about an increase then we saw. 385 cases has a maximum and as we have seen our numbers are now much higher we were at 512 cases today. Tomorrow may