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
Also stay the same, as well. 41 counties in california are now in the most restrictive purple tier. The vast majority of our students are still in Distance Learning right now. Reporter under the purple tier, any class that resumed in person as of tuesday can continue, but for the majority of California School districts still doing Distance Learning be reopening plans are now on hold, until conditions improve or the school gets a waiver. Primarily this has the largest impact on districts that were putting their plans in place for a return in 2021. Reporter margaret represents 77 teachers from a School District in Contra Costa County, which is doing Distance Learning, but was consider league opening january 22nd. Thats not gonna happen. Reporter the Teachers Union president said the next opportunity to make a decision is in march, and she plans to push for not reopening at all this school year. Thats moving to the purple mix, even a stronger argument that we should not consider going bac
Oakland Fire Department after an oakland inertia, hired on what he was 22. He commuted from sacramento and became an interim assistant fire chief in june. I knew i wanted to be an oakland firefighter because of my dad. He inspired me the second i got out of high school to pursue my emt and paramedic license. Reporter for cayden, his father was his role model. The two bonded over finding fires in life at the firehouse. It was the most special thing in the world. Its tough to have that come to an end so quick. Reporter cayden hopes to carry on his fathers legacy and traditions and culture of the oakland Fire Department. We had about 10 years we could have worked together. At the same Fire Department. It got cut short to a year. But i loved every second of it, thats for sure. Reporter besides raising three sons, lafon also was a baseball coach to hundreds of children. He hosted Exchange Students from china. No word yet on funeral arrangements. New at 11 00, new pictures show governor gavi
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera, looking east over the bay bridge and the city as we start this new week. Good morning. It is monday, november 16. Im len kiese. Im michelle griego. Did you say monday already . I did. Where did the weekend go . Good morning. Already a new week. If you liked the weather yesterday, you will like today as well. We will see mild temperatures with mostly sunny skies. Here is a live look at the Mark Hopkins Hotel camera with clear skies as we start off our day. 54 in concord. 53 in oakland. Livermore, 45. San jose, 45. Santa rosa down to 43 degrees with foggy conditions. Parts of the northbay, santa rosa near zero visibility. A half mile for petaluma and a quarter mile for napa this morning for that dense fog. As we head through the afternoon, enjoy 60s and 70s across the bay area. 69 in San Francisco 71 for a high in oakland, concord, freeman. Mid70s for
Quarantine for 14 days. They are asking people to limit activities to immediate household as california topped 1 million covid19 cases, washingtons cases doubled in the past two weeks. We expect to hear from the state, health and Human Services director, when his address we will bring it to you. Governor knewsome attended a Birthday Dinner for one of his political advisors last week. The chronicle is reporting there were 12 people at the outdoor gathering at the French Laundry and yachtville. Representatives declined to specify how many households they represented but did not deny the number was more than three. In San Francisco, it will be the last night people can eat indoor at restaurants. Six weeks ago, San Francisco allowed Indoor Dining for the first time but the number of covid19 cases continued to rise. San francisco remains in the yellow tier, the least restrictive one. We want to take you to the News Conference involving the health and Human Services director. Absolutely, sea