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
Theres the tend to look at data that have provided by the manufacturers and analyze principally by the manufacturers and dont do a lot of reanalysis of data so its culturally a little different than the way our fda doesnt. Britain as part of the eu has as part of year to the end of the month. Has the ability to pull away from the eus regulatory. Agency and authorize things on its own. For Emergency Public Health reasons so vast that lawn under which this. This falls. So they were able to authorize review unauthorized quickly, the european unions. A European Agency has been or review it next. Tuesday and were going to review it next thursday. So in the grand scheme of things were talking ever difference of about 8 or 9 days. Doctor weatherford as you know a lot of people here say all i want to be first to take the vaccine. So now weve got the people in the uk taking. The vaccine with that kind of a test run for us here in the u. S. To see what the side effects are what happens with them
We will look at that coming right up. The pressure is on in washington to pass a stimulus bill before the election. The new deadline just set by House Speaker nancy pelosi. Thank you for joining us, im juliette goodrich. We begin with an east Oakland Community frustrated over a recent spike in violent crime. Oakland police are investigating two more deadly shootings, both happened early this morning on the east side of the city. It is the latest in a string of violence within the community as betty yu reports, the mayor is now rethinking her strategy on curbing crime. Ready . Reporter the mayors visit to the outdoor, market today was her first meeting with the public of the sort sense shelter in place. Residents were able to air out their top concerns and among them, the recent spike in violent crime. This button here to answer your questions and have a conversation. Reporter mayor libby schaff welcomed east oakland residents to a Community Circle as other shop at the new outdoor marke
The bay area, richmond in downtown oakland set records while san jose it happened they match their previous high temperatures. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, a heat advisory remains in effect until 9 oclock tomorrow night. The extreme heat along with the windy and dry conditions forcing power shut offs or thousands of people in the bay area we have Team Coverage tonight on the heat advisory Taylor Bisacky live in the east bay where people are in the dark tonight because of the power shut off but first lets head over to the Weather Center where our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by lauras the fire danger still exists. Yeah weve seen these kind of come in waves pam, we see these impulses one came through this morning and then it picked up in the afternoon over parts of the east bay now going to watch those winds ramp up again tonight youre seen highpressure already in place now weve seen those offshore winds, it felt the heat out there and certainly some ve
Outside of San Francisco right now from seizure tower. No fog or cloud cover whatsoever and we have plenty of sunshine just around the corner today will be yet another relatively calm one before winds pick up tonight. You see into the evening tonight right along the coastline that some of our winds become very breezy spreading to the north bay and eventually into the east bay come tomorrow and thursday are 2 windiest days of this forecast and the stew over days that are going to offer up some of our highest a fire danger after that friday does begin to come down at a much calmer and cooler weekend just around the corner. Right now were in the 50s and 60s a cool start to this day with a low 60s and pittsburgh hayward and San Francisco upper 50s right now in oakland, san mateo and livermore later on today it will be 80s and 90s for inland areas with 70s and warm 70s at that right along the coastline. Rob. All right. Thank you john, lets update your morning commute now for the early birds