Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Man who spent almost half his life with the fire department. Oakland firefighters saluting one of their own wednesday may. To sean lafons flag draped casket left senate medical center. Dozens of Police Motorcycles and fire engines hopping escort his body. The procession passing city hall and several fire stations, ending in a chapel of the chimes, funeral home and oakland am aware an American Flag was hoisted by trucks. Laughing, just 42 years old. They died as if it was cardiac arrest. I was hopeful in getting the news five hours later that he passed away when the cardiologist came back to speak to the family and myself, it was pretty knee buckling. We are struggling, coping, grieving. Reporter intern fire chief Melinda Drayton new sean lafons entire 20 year career with oakland fire. He turned to me early in his career when he made the decision to promote. Reporter a decision made out of love and passion for the fire service and oakland. Last year he was promoted to interim assistant
Unfound cures or treatments that might get peoples hope up for no reason. And that leads to bad outcomes. There are more than 10 million cases nationwide joe biden thanked a lot of people for his 56th resupport. Among them Transgender Community. Bay area activists tell abc7 news report he cornell bernard after years of being targeted by the trump administration, its a new day. It was definitely a relief. Reporter the transgender activist honey mahogany was watching joe bidens victory speech on saturday. Im proud of the campaign we built. Im proud of the coalition we put together. Gay, straight, transgender. Reporter the support was huge. It was intentional, direct, and we all heard him. We are celebrating this moment for the fact it is an historic moment. Reporter mahogany was reeptly elected to the democratic committee. The first black trans woman elected in the state of california. Reporter the Transgender Community has been targeted by president trump. First a Controversial Military
Force pierce. After this big celebration on saturday night the team is during the transition process. One of the new Top Priorities is the creation of the covid19 task force that will heap the handling of the mandate. Repealing Trump Administration travel ban from several majority countries and putting new safeguards in place to play protect dreamers from deportation. He believes his job is to work with everybody. That is the message for the American People on thats how joe biden use governing. Trump wants to fight the results. The waiver result division, even when you dont get your way in an election is to count every legal pallet. Make sure illegal ballots do not reduce the civil rights and votes of those who voted legally. The attorney general says no evidence of fraud has been submitted to them. Releasing a statement sunday saying in part, our office takes allegations of voter fraud extremely seriously. Should anyone file this complaint with our office, we will conduct a thorough i
The fire season. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Red flag conditions are back with the highest warning for fire danger set to go into effect at 11 00 tonight. Debbie begins our coverage. Well, julie, this red flag warning runs through 8 00 wednesday morning, and Governor Newsom said the next week is critical. Up there you can see just solid brush field and stuff that would really burn. Reporter climbing a fire road on marin countys mount, we top out at 2600 feet, where the winds whip hardest during red flag conditions. You can hear it just walking around. Reporter and where fuels are dry, even this close to the ocean, during august, lightning, a free strike, started a fire, kept small, but crews worry about this canopy with homes in the forest and what could happen. The wrong fire on the wrong day would be something that would be almost impossible to stop if it got going. Reporter the woodward fire was impossible to stop for a fire, burning more than a