Morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Well get to the roads in a bit. First lets start with the forecast. Meteorologist kari hall, the rain is moving on out, moving to the east. We are seeing quite a bit of rain across the bay area into parts of the east bay and we are seeing this rain, pockets of heavy downpours around walnut creek and concord and some rain near berkeley. We are going to see some of the heavier pockets of rain right around san leandro and on 580 so that may slow you down for the commute. Heading over to san mateo and parts of the peninsula dealing with heavy rain where we see the dark greens and yellow. Still raining in los gatos and over the Santa Cruz Mountains that will be moving into the city within the next few minutes. We do still have a lot of rain to tracking a the lingering rain continues. Well talk about whats ahead coming up. Mike, how is it looking with all the rain on the roads . The green radar on your maps is
One of your last San Francisco exits. The left lanes are still blocked. Chp trying to get a crew to run the traffic break so they can clear that big rig from the roadway. Wet roadways continue like san leandro. A crash south 880 in the middle lanes. Were watching that and the green highlighting showing damp roadways. Be careful. It is slick out there. Back to you, laura. Thank you very much. Breaking news from pfizer on this Covid Vaccine. They plan to submit vaccine for approval within days and just finished phase three testing and is said to be 95 effective. Pfizer adds effective for older people and has no serious side effects. The Company Expects to make 50 million dose this is year and more than 1 billion by the end of 2021. Last week pfizer initially said its vaccine was 90 effective. On monday moderna said its vaccine was nearly 95 effective. Pfizers vaccine needs to be stored in extremely cold temperatures. Here is perspective on the size of californias recent surge in covid ca
Tonight people gathered in San Francisco to honor her kron fours gayle ong was there and she joins us now with more on what this evening was like gayle. And again at least 200 people showed up in the castro tonight we want to go to that video taken earlier this vigil started around 7 oclock this evening. It was planned minutes. After the news of her passing this is on the corner of the market people supporters honoring her as a fighter for gender equality and having a powerful voice in the liberal wing of the Supreme Court. Organizers say set this up because they want to remember her legacy and they wanted this to be a time for everyone to come together not only to honor her life but to honor and her legacy and of course doing the work going forward. Justice ginsburg, the first jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court on the eve and she died on the eve of russia shot there was a prayer with the rabbi before the group marched down castro. Over to harvey milks camera store and heres wh
Upcoming election. Well share more details later on in the program. You can learn more about the initiative on wchallenge. Org 100 women. Todays event will stream live on sfgovtv. Org youtube channel, as well as the citys facebook and twitter accounts. I want to thank our colleagues here from sfgov tv for working in the backgrounds and making this event as successful as possible for everyone. You can feel free to share the links and host a watch party if you want on your preferred social media platforms, because we will be having them on facebook and twitter. This session will be recorded for future references. So lets get started. Happy womens equality day. May i kindly ask the president of the commission on the status of women to join us, bree anna swat, to officially kickstart the celebration of todays event. Thank you. Thank you so much, vivian, for the kind introduction. And really thank you to all staff for making this happen. I know we would normally be on the steps of stahl. Bu
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