Well, good morning. Its monday, november 30th. Hope you all ate lots of good food this weekend, but some big news this morning. Moderna will ask the fda for emergency authorization use for its covid19 vaccine today. The massachusettsbased Company Released its latest trial results just an hour ago. It says so far it found the vaccine is just over 94 effective. Moderna following pfizer in requesting emergency authorization use. The fda is scheduled to discuss pfizers vaccine next week and they could do the same for moderna on the 17th. We have assembled the abc vaccine team to bring you the most complete coverage and updates as they come in. Surging covid19 cases means that San Francisco and san mateo counties have to roll back to the most restrictive purple tier and that means those two counties are part of the statewide curfew for purple. Gyms also have to operate only outdoors. Top attractions like the academy of sciences are closed. Indoor worship not allowed in purple tier counties.
You better pack enough for two weeks if youre flying in to San Jose International airport. Health department issued a mandatory directive on travel. That not only discourages nonessential travel but also requires people coming into town to quarantine for 14 days once they arrive. It is a good thing to quarantine. Reporter muss travelers we talked to didnt know about it. The order just went into effect after midnight. So people like violet had to scramble. Others chose to head out of town. If i knew i was coming here for 14 days there better be important thing to do if i have to be a 40 days. Reporter dr. Sarah cody says the circumstances are the dire. I really want to emphasize to everyone that this is, you know it is a team effort. Every Single Person in the county, every single sector, every single business. We all have to come together. We have already lost close to 500 lives from the virus. We all must fight it together. Reporter the push is to curb cases had leading into the holid
State Health Leader say people in the red or purple counties shouldnt be gathering inside at all. Thats basically that is the entire bay area. On a statewide level the governor is in the ruling out a curfew. Every option is still under consideration to help stop the spread. He added the california is also tightening rules on the states mask mandate. Not much of a change from whats in place. Heres what to know. You must wear a mask. In e time you leave your house. Unless you are alone in your car or with your mebs of your household. Counties moving backwards because cases are spiking upward. Hospitals seeing an influx of patients and many of them are in the icu. A closer look. We saw this before when the hospitals were just overrun. We are starting to see that again. Hospitalization and admissions have gone up over 35 . Just in the last two weeks. That percentage appears to be growing quickly. Our county like many counties is seeing a significant and rapid up tick in cases. Its not just
Warning that the county is very close to hitting this mark. Some businesses are especially concerned about that curfew bars like the sycamore in the mission say they depend on those late night customers for their bottom line. The workers there say if theyre forced to close at 10 oclock and set of their regular time at midnight. It will hurt even more. As jeremy. Our business is already down closing early or would it bring us even further down its terrible, however i get it its its a good thing i just wish people stan cider. Can be saved. It would have to go through this again. So under the curfew folks will still be able to do a central activities like walk your dog. Pick up takeout or do some Grocery Shopping as well. Now we have seen more than 3 million new cases in just the month of november alone about one quarter of all the u. S. Cases since the pandemic began more than 256,000 people have also died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in
Combative. The candidates clashing repeatedly over coronavirus. Anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as the president of the United States of america. Were learning to live with it. We have no choice. We cant lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. President trump and democratic joe biden delivering their closing arguments as the clock ticks down to election day. The big question which candidate was able to sway more voters . Millions of people have already voted, but the majority of americans have not. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the big moment. Reporter tonight with a mute button in hand if the candidates ran over time or spoke over the other, a much more civil debate focused on policy starting with the coronavirus. Anyone whos responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america. Were learning to live with it. We have no choice. We cant lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. Learning to live with it, come