When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di
Coronavirus case was reported here in the United States, the nation getting a shot in the arm today when the largest Vaccination Campaign in this nations history got underway. Front Line Health Care workers getting that first dose of the Pfizer Vaccine, the very first was a Critical Care nurse right here in new york city, sandra lindsey. I feel hopeful today, relieved. I feel like healing is coming. However, it comes also on a sad day. The u. S. Death toll surpassing 300,000 And Hundreds Of Thousands of Americans Still getting sick every day. The nations top Infectious Disease expert says we have to remain vigilant. The Vaccine Rights now is not a substitute for the normal Standard Public Health measures of wearing a mask, keeping your distance, avoiding congregant crowded sections particularly indoors. We are looking at this historic moment from all angles with our reporters, experts and guests across the country. And joining me now is the president of mt. Sinimorning side hospital an
Valley. Everywhere in red there the potential for a high fire danger. Look at the winds. These are at the surface. 37 at fairfield, 32 in novato, 43 in santa rosa. Theyre even faster up in the hills. That means theyll get faster down in the surface once the sun comes up. Thats why we have that wind advisory through 11 00. Near record high temperatures today also from 66 in Half Moon Bay to about 74 in santa rosa. We have hazards at our beaches also and another potential red flag warning coming up in the accuweather 7day forecast. Thank you. Bay area firefighters were busy this weekend preparing for the potential fire danger that is stretching into today. Red flag warnings in december are rare. The last one happened in 2017. So with winds through tonight, firefighters are remaining vigilant. I dont think any of us thought we would be upstaffing and moving into a red flag and wind advisory for december. Its not typical for the bay area. The concern for winds like this, they will likely b
From suture tower at San Francisco. Didnt show you this he very much yesterday at least not early on because you couldnt see any of it that cloud cover was really blocking it out that is obviously not the case this morning visibility is just fine low clouds all but gone for most areas and thats the way were going to stay now theres some truly fog out towards the Central Valley. If you happen to be heading that way but not something were really looking at much here in the bay area aside from some patches of fog so do watch for those isolated patches closer to the coastline, 30s and 40s for most of our current temperatures oakland you are in the midfifties that much of this time yesterday now were at 46 degrees so noticeable cool down the at 43 while Napa Petaluma nevado same in and santa rosa. All our cities in the 30s this morning you can see how big of a drop in temperatures that is for some of these areas novato down 20 degrees from the same time yesterday thats definitely a differen
Crisis continues to worsen at an alarming rate. For the second time since the pandemic started, the number of daily cases topped 200,000 yesterday. More than 3100 people died from the illness, the singleworst daily death toll. And hospitalizations are also at an alltime high, passing the 100,000 mark for the first time. California has the highest number with just over 9300 covid cases. The state could run out of i. C. U. Beds by christmas. Debra joins us from washington. There is a disturbing prediction for death tolls in the coming months. Reporter yeah, annmarie, its heartbreaking to even say this. A top Government Official says 450,000 americans could die from the coronavirus by february. A dire warning from the head of the cdc. 200,000 americans may die from the coronavirus in just the next two months. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Reporter the number of americans currently hospitalized has passed 100,000