Thats according to data from the covid tracking project. There is hope. Of course a vaccine is on the horizon. The fda could approve pfizers vaccine next week. Dr. Anthony fauci says life may be close to normal by summer if 70 of the public gets vaccinated. This morning bay area counties are working to make sure they have the specialized freezers to hold the covid19 vaccines once they arrive. Amy hollyfield is live in novato where one group is helping out with that process. Amy . Theres like a freezerererer Scavenger Hunt going on in the bay area. Counties across the bay area are looking around trying to secure freezer space wherever they can find it as they wait for vaccine shipments. Counties are doing what they can to find them now that the governor announced the state will be receiving the Pfizer Vaccine in a couple weeks. Alameda countys website said theyre still in the protest of purchasing freezers and dry ice for the vaccine. In Santa Clara County theyre still in the gathering
Buying driving up the average price. Today in the bay starts right now. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Another chilly start across the bay area. Mike has the commute, but lets start with the weather. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that. I brought my big coat today. Yeah, we all need all of the heavy winter gear with these kinds of temperatures settling into the bay area. Were going to see more warnimos like this so wed better get used to it. A chance of rain late thursday, on and off showers friday and saturday. But, of course, the big story this morning will be the freeze warnings that we have especially in parts of the north bay. This continues until 9 00 especially for a lot of our north bay valleys. Were feeling some of the coolest temperatures dipping back into the mid20s. Well talk more about this coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commute . Kari, the Speed Sensors
Cal fire says at least 113 buildings have been destroyed in the glass fire and more than 8000 are threatened. As of tonight the glass fire has burned more than 36,000 acres thats 56 square miles and there is still zero containment. More than 68,000 people have been evacuated and Sonoma County, and another 11,000 in napa county. The flames spread from napa into Sonoma County as the strong wind blew ambers to the west. Homes were damaged and destroyed in the outskirts of santa rosa. Crews made a stand overnight. The fire did make it to oakmont and into annandale. Want to save as many homes as they could. The stay my hurt i heard it was they saved far more than they plopped lost. Residence of the Gardens Retirement Community in santa rosa got out. Lighter wind will make a big difference tonight. Tonight is nineday to a we were last night. We dont have those critical burning conditions that we were experiencing in the last two nights. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says a 17yearold boy
Winery. Those grapes have been made to smokey. They will not be able to use the grapes. If you look up the hill, there is fire up the hill, there is a big column of smoke but its been obliterated. Calistoga is famous for its hot springs. It sit on top of the in crest of earth atop molten rock. The big threat is the mountains above in the form of wildfires. It became painfully obvious before the dawns early light, to evacuate 5000 calistoga onions this afternoon. This time, as opposed to the fire of 2017, its a double threat to calistoga. Is surrounding us from the south end and it encompassing on the northeastern as well. Reporter if you look up here, you can see there is enough wind to make this fire very aggressive. What this fire now wants to do is march down the hill and get onto highway 29. Thats unlikely, but trees could easily fall into the path of cars. Local businessman thinks firefighters could and should be more aggressive. Fire like this easy to take care of and stop. The f
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next