Johns Hopkins University reported more than 187,000 cases in the u. S. Yesterday. The number of deaths has also topped 2,000 for First Time Since may. All of this comes as the cdc urges americans to stay home for thanksgiving next week. Meantime, pfizer will apply for emergency authorization for its vaccine today. If approved, there could be enough doses for 20 Million People by the end of the year. Earlier this week the Pharmaceutical Company said its treatment is 95 effective. In new hampshire, a state wide mask mandate begins today for everyone above the age of 5. It applies to people in Public Places when social distancing is not possible. And Laura Podesta has the latest in the fight against covid19. Reporter dr. Deborah birx says the latest coronavirus surge is a call to action for every american to increase their vigilance. This is more cases, more rapidly than what we had seen before. Reporter the White House Coronavirus task force held its first public Briefing Since july, hea
Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they will start to introduce more restrictions. Heres the critical issue. Who is going to step in . Where the fiscal policy maker . Bridgewaterf says we have a mismatch between the length of the pandemic and the willingness of fiscal policy makers to do something in equal length. Tom it has widened out, without question. What is so important here is to gauge the pandemic, and we are all doing that on a local basis. You and i, we hear more sirenss again in new york city, and we are all dealing with the
And now at 11 00, a look at how the bay area celebrated halloween during a time of social distancing. Plus, bart trying to bounce back as reopening guidelines change. How bart is working to encourage the bay area to take the train again. And it is the final countdown. The last chance to have your voice heard ahead of the long voting lines on election day. Good evening, im juliette goodrich. And im brian hackney. A live look at the Castro District in San Francisco which is usually bustling. To say the least. On halloween night. But this year, celebrations across the bay are a bit muted. Yet, if there is a party out there to be found, betty yu will find it. She is in the castro with how people are celebrating. Reporter this year, its a much more subdued halloween. The city discouraged large gatherings and parties but they wanted people to safely celebrate and get in the spirit like i did. Its a hairraising Haunted House like no other. The social club hosted a social distanced tour with r
Lightning in the sky than we have gotten used to for this time of day. Its just coming up on 6 01 and about five seconds and the view from the top of the mark r kammer on the roof of the mark hopkins looking off towards the east. The sun is not up yet but thats going to happen in 34 minutes. It will happen at 6 35 today. Lets take a couple of other quick views. There is the best view really and as far as though he feels that they are at this point its in the 40s for many locations. Concorde, 47. Oakland, 49. San jose, 48. Its go going to be one of the cooler feeling mornings you had so far this season. There is a bit of his reported out of oakland. Daytime highs are not budging. We are going right back up into the mid80s again if you are inland, 84 the bay. 72 for the coast. Just to leave you with three takeaways on this forecast, we are staying above average temperaturewise for today. And you can see that they are on the top line. Theres a beach hazard at the coast. We will talk about
Desperate plight of people losing their Health Insurance, too. And back in the game. The nfl kicks off its first ever virtual draft today. Well show you the other ideas leagues are considering to get sports back on tv. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Deadly tornadoes breaking out across parts of the south. In la louisiana, texas, oklahom. Everything is gone. The trees are gone. Swish. 4. 4 million new filings for Unemployment Benefits. This is about six to seven times higher than we ever saw during the great recession. Thats raising the total layoffs since the virus hit to more than 26 million. In some sense, the numbers are telling us what we already see with our eyes. Protests to reopen are growing. Southern governors are already loosening their restrictions. We have to proceed in a cver careful, measured way. You dont believe there should be distancing . Of course. Carolyn goodman sounding off about reopening the city. Youre talking disease. Im talking