About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve,
Volume of traffic and notice the low clouds in this shot that getting across the bridge the low clouds have hit the bridge there and the fog is an issue for the rich mamond san rafael bridge. All have fog advisory from chp and a possible crash near the toll plaza and well track that off the berkeley curve and dense fog through the trivalley a major issue for drivers. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. So, lets check in with bob redell for more on the breaking news overnight. This is were talking about a third player just announcing some promising results with its vaccine this morning, bob. Correct, marcus and laura. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford announced their vaccine is safe and is triggering an immuno response in all adults. This is according to preliminary results from a phase two trial that was published in the medical journal. You have pfizer and biontech and they found they are 95 effective. That is higher than initial results suggested. The companys p
What hes preaching was not a positive, it was not a positive, i hear that from a lot of people coming through. A weekly average of 9900 cases per day, double the average from two weeks ago. A National Community woman. Where is the math showing abruptly credit changing criteria from 4 tiers, forcing counties to jump 2 tiers abruptly, it seems forced and not scientific. Reporter gatherings a restaurant seven order to stop at 10 pm starting saturday, takeout and delivery will still be allowed. It has been a really tough year, yes, we are in the same boat, but i guess the Restaurant Business is getting more affected than any other businesses. Reporter people can go Grocery Shopping and walks without other households, but not to do nonessential work or gathering from 10 pm until 5 am until the morning of december 21. To be clear, there are some bay area counties that are not under the restriction, but that could change this weekend . Reporter thats right, there are 41 out of 58 counties, an
January runoffs that will decide control of the u. S. Senate. Were going to keep fighting until every legal vote is counted. Reporter late today, following their meeting with the president , those michigan lawmakers released a statement saying they are not aware of any information that would change the election outcome in their state. They also said they believe the process should be free from threats or intimidation. Margaret. Brennan important clarity for the public. Thank you, paula reid. Today, president elect biden met with top democratic lawmakers, urging quick action on billions in pandemic relief once he takes some of his aides are now raising alarms over president trumps refusal to let the transition begin. Here is cbs ed okeefe. Reporter on his 78th birthday, president elect biden met today with two Democratic Congressional leaders hell partner with next year. In my oval office, me casa su casa. Reporter but there is growing frustration inside his Transition Team as the Trump
Dr. Coal fox expects San Francisco could move to purple by then. A curfew would have to be implemented within 48 hours of that announcement. By the look of the citys latest case counts, we technically already qualify to be in that category. The third surge, there is no question. Its not a matter of if it will happen. It is happening. A stern warning from dr. Coal f colfax as covid is surging. What is really important is that curve, that steep slope of increasing cases. The 14day average of cases increased 152 since november 1st. Thats one of the highest spikes in the bay area. To put it in perspective, 217 new covid cases were reported in mid october. Nearly a month later, that number is 768. This rate of increase is higher than we experienced during our summer surge. On monday, San Francisco was safely in the red zone but todays data indicates the citys cases per capita is far past the threshold to be in purple. A surge that could overwhelm hospitals across the city that are already r