Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
Starting today. Like much of the bay area, that county to is now in the most restrictive purple tier for coronavirus cases. Ktvus allie rasmus explains what the changes mean. Reporter a sign on the door of the montclair Fitness Center in oakland explained to customers they are closed to comply with county health orders. The owner says she has been lucky enough to keep her business afloat with online and outdoor classes. We know a lot of businesses are suffering because they dont have an outdoor option and honestly, i dont know that if this continues if we will be able to keep up what we are doing. Reporter at restaurants like the crcpe pan on piedmont avenue, it is back to serving tables outside only, no more Indoor Dining allowed. Movie theaters, houses of worship, and museums can only operate outdoors in Alameda County. I would like if we could open up and participate in real life again but i think that it is really important right now that we all participate in keeping the community
Afternoon. We do have the entire north a from the coast, valleys, as well as the hells last until 5 00 this afternoon. Associate to the east bay, the wind advisory expires for the bay area but the red flag warning continues for east bay hills as well as the valley locations until 5 00. One more shift along areas are the Santa Cruz Mountains stretching along the san mateo coastline in parts of the peninsula there. Also going until 5 00 this afternoon. We will check in with the winds briefly, we have lost almost road in the north reporting 21 relative humidity. The winds are sustained at 22. Not quite as gusty as early on, 65 degrees no. Santa rosa, take a look at that number, 27 degrees, 27 Miles Per Hour for the winds, relative committees 21 . Very warm, very dry and as we know, the winds are still blowing. Better details in what you can expect for today, the red flag warning set to expire later this afternoon and your extended forecast, coming up just a little bit. Millions of people
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
That blew through yesterday and today . Yeah, that is right, mike and gasia. Some neighborhoods picking up over two inches of rain, specially for the Higher Elevations. This was a productive storm, thankfully were not talking about flash flood warnings, nothing extreme in terms of advisories or warnings. Still, a beneficial rainfall in terms of water supply to start things off and fire danger. Take a look at some of the bigger rainfall totals. Well call them the jumbo rainfall totals. Around three inches of rain approaching three inches. Occidental in the north bay. 2. 34. Even kentfield over two inches of rainfall. Some more totals for you as we check in on those. The storm totals. Yesterday and into today. Were still adding to some of the numbers. Santa rosa, over an inch of rain. San francisco,. 42. Lifermore, close to a quarter of an inch and not so much for the south bay. San jose,. 08. This is the satellite and radar the past 24 hours. You can see the rain here into the bay area