About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve,
Our storm ranger scanning the skies. Meteorologist kari hall timing out the wet weather as today in the bay on Tuesday Morning starts right now. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. First well start with the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall tracking that rain. Has it already started to fall here . Not yet but we will see it the rest of the day moving north to south. We can still see the rain approaching the far northwestern california coast and were going to see that moving in as we go into today. As we power up storm ranger it is starting to pick up on some very light sprinkles but the heavier stuff comes this morning. Ill time it out in a few minutes. Mike, any issues for the Early Morning commute . No major issues but one in martinez. Lets look at the big view. You see green. That will put you at ease. A major connector coming off the carquinez bridge area. Theres glass on the roadway. There is glass from what, i dont know. T
Commute . Overall, kari, the commute looks great. We take a look at the big map and you see green sensors except for one spot. Well zoom in on it. Tough to see from this view. Its over in brentwood. Highway 4 is closed because of im not sure. Its either a headon crash between a car and a big rig or a car that hit a guardrail. A big difference there. No big injuries reported but you can travel along the eastern side of the golf course to avoid the closure. The bay bridge is just fine, completely clear. Back to you. Thank you, mike. A live look at capitol hill for you this morning. President elect joe biden pushing for lawmakers to reach a deal on new covid relief package. He is turning to National Security experts as the Trump Administration continues to block the transition of power. The president elect still not receiving classified Intelligence Briefings but today is expected to meet with defense experts to get him better prepared for day one. Today in the bays tracie potts to explai
Going to have that high fire danger for the north bay. Were continuing to monitor that as well as whats going to happen the next few days with a few more bursts of high winds that could affect more of the rest of the bay area. Today were up to 85 in san jose. 86 in martinez and San Francisco will reach 70 degrees. Were going to once again have some warm weather but a cooldown in the forecast and ill have more on that in a few minimum. Heading over to you, mike, how is it looking for the commute . Well, kari, not as bad as we sometimes see on a tuesday. And by bad im talking about the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. The middle lanes very slow but the outer lanes, you can transition off the berkeley curve but off the 880 overcrossing we do have to stick it out for the middle lanes that are coming off the overcrossing. A look at the map, a smooth drive. Ive circled the traffic break that has now cleared 880 south down to 66 should improve quickly over the next few and san jose slowin
Into the weekend. Well talk more about this, as well as what were expecting with the red flag warning coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking heading out the door for work . We had red sensor warning and very slow and over in the east bay were looking at your map and focusing on the right side. Well zoom into the nimitz southbound and from 92 down to about industrial, the Construction Zone usually there, but this morning we see a lot more slowing. Chp is there for Traffic Control and two lanes are blocked. Well see how that plays out and more slowing and an alternate you might need coming up. Thanks, mike. Lets get back to what kari was just talking about. The fire danger is back along with more power shutoff. Hundreds of people waking up this morning in the dark. Today in the bay bob redell live in dublin. Talk to us about the weather conditions where you are. Fine from our Vantage Point in the hills over dublin but san mateo and especially in the north bay are expected to