Thats due to more restrictive measures being instituted in california and other states to help stem the growing tide of covid19 cases. Today, the cdc announced its recommending against travel for the holiday. Ktvu southbound reporter jesse gary picks it up from there. Reporter with a week before thanksgiving, air travel is light at Oakland International and other bay area airports. We just wanted to break it up, so that we werent traveling with a bunch of other people. A little bit easier the week before. Reporter this as officials at Mineta San Jose International airport say travel during the 11 day thanksgiving holiday period is scheduled to be 1 5th less than it was the year before. This is the simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter newsom says 94 of the states population is now in the purple tier, including six bay area counties. As a result, Officials Say people should forego gatherings with families and friendes this year. J
Next hit. For now lets talk about what will happen this afternoon. After being in the 30s and 40s this morning, well hit the low to mid 60s around the bay. 61 to about 63 degrees. Then you can see inland about 63 to 68. The cool spot will be Half Moon Bay at 56. Liz . All right. Thank you. New this morning, moderna will ask the fda for emergency authorization use for its covid19 vaccine today. The massachusettsbased Company Released its latest trial results today. 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 meet and review the Pfizer Vaccine next thursday. The agency could do the same for modernas vaccine as early as december 17th. Surging covid19 cases have forced San Francisco and san mateo counties back into the purple tier. And that means new restrictions and a curfew. Gyms have to close indoors but can operate outdoors. Top attractions like the academy of sciences are clo
With people who look like they might need a little help and chatting with merchants but now this time around they are unarmed sf police chief bill scott says the retired officers have undergone refresher courses in deescalation and crisis intervention. Training but when they hit the streets they will be armed only with their years of experience and hes a sfpd officers both command Staff Officers up and down the ranks. Who know the city like the back of their hands, they know the people they know the culture they know the flavor. Retired officer lee dahlberg used to walk this speech as part of his job on the force. Were going to be the eyes and ears up here and try to remedy problems. So we dont have to get off your and take take your time. Knowledge and background. Thats pretty much what we can do to help every day the ambassadors will first check in with the Central Police station then touch base with the Union Square Business Improvement District who are happy to have the extra help
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
Well see that clearing but again, that hazy sunshine out there. 67 in San Francisco. 72 in oakland and 83 for san jose and 86 in concord. So near normal daytime highs. All right, lets check in with gianna and hows the commute for the supercommuters . Its already getting busy mary for that ride coming out of tracy into the Altamont Pass. Were seeing slow speeds starting right around Mountain House on 205. Westbound it stays slow as you get on to 580 itself and extends to just about grantline. We had reports of a trouble spot westbound 580 grantline but didnt turn out to be much. So traffic still moving what is expected here. Pretty crowded in that area. But you do get a bit of a break as you go the rest of the way towards that 680 interchange. The drive time now 33 minutes, 205 to 680. Wind advisories for the bridges, thats in the next report. Anne . Reporter im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we just got some new video in of the ongoing trial of the two marin county young men w