Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240711

We are watching this closely as it continues to move through. Its good to see the rain returning. Well track whats ahead as we go into the rest of the afternoon. The chilly air settles in. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, this is having a big impact on the morning commute. It is, kari. A word of caution, leave with plenty of time and the rain and karis green will show up as green on ours a few minutes afterwards. They say its 95 effective. Pfizer adds the vaccine is effective for older people and has no serious side effects. The Company Expects to make 50 million dose this is year and more than 1 billion doses by the end of 2021. Pfizer said it was 90 effective and then on monday moderna said nearly 95 effective. Pfizers vaccine does need to be stored in extremely cold temperatures. Now this Morning Live Team coverage on all the covid19 developments overnight. More word on curfews. Cierra, if this is true and it works, this could be revolutionary. Reporter good morning, yes, this test could be a game changer as we work to slow the spread. Lucira just got emergency to go ahead. You would swab your nose, then swirl the swab in a vial and place it in a portable device. You are able to receive the test results within 30 minutes, again, at your home. This test is considered rapid, is expected to cost 50. There is a catch, you will need a prescription to get the test. The test could be available as early as the spring, so some big news coming out of emeryville from a local east bay company in the fight against covid19. Were live in emoeryvillmeryvil. Cierra johnson for today in the bay. Now lets check in with bob redell live in livermore this morning. Bob, you have word something a lot of people dont want to hear, the word curfew. Reporter correct, something were hearing about in los angeles. Fortunately no indication yet that theres going to be a curfew here in the bay area. The los angeles curfew does go into effect starting this friday night starting at 10 00 until 6 00 in the morning for nonessential workers. Dr. Anthony fauci spoke virtually last night while receiving an award from san jose state university. Here are his thoughts on governor newsoms ideas of perhaps implementing a curfew in other parts of the state to combat covid. Sometimes when youre dealing with a seriousness of the situation right now i leave it up to the good judgment of the leaders of your states and your cities to make that. If they make that decision, i certainly think the basis upon which it is sound i would back that. Reporter a recent study by stanford scientists published in the nature journal found the majority of new covid19 infections are linked to public places. Full Service Restaurants are more crowded, people stay there longer. The study found those locations tend to be three times as risky as fitness centers. A cdc report says adults tested positive were twice as likely to have eaten inside a restaurant as compared to those who came back negative. Its crucial that people do all they can to slow the spread, wear a mask and maintain social distance. If everybody did what they needed to do and stuck with it and were consistent with it all the Time Starting from now, in a month there would be very few cases. Reporter california is in its steepest spike of cases yet. If youre going to have thanksgiving gatherings next week, keep it outdoors. Bob redell, today in the bay. You can find the latest roll back information along with case numbers on our website. Nbcbayarea. Com and click on coronavirus updates at the top. So far no updates from San Francisco police on the man shot by officers yesterday near the busy powell street station. Now this happened about 5 00 p. M. Near the cable car turnaround along market street. Officers responded to a fight there. A man involved in the fight refused to drop his knife. San Francisco Police officers deployed less lethal weapons also known as extended range impact weapons. The San Francisco sheriffs deputy was on scene and deployed a taser. We know the man was taken to the hospital. Were working on finding out what his condition is. Police and the d. A. s office are investigating. And today marks 42 years since the Jonestown Massacre and a Memorial Service is planned for tonight in oakland. More than 900 americans died when peoples temple cult leader jim jones ordered his followers to drink koolaid laced with cyanide following the murder of five people at a nearby airstrip where bay area representative Jackie Speier barely escaped with her life. Tonights memorial takes place at Evergreen Cemetery where more than 400 victims are buried and will also be shown online. Pg e is facing a new lawsuit tied to last years kincade fire in the north bay. Sonoma county and towns including healdsburg and windsor are included in the suit which alleges negligence. Cal fire determined faulty transmission lines near geyserville sparked it. Pg e says crews inspected the lines multiple times in 2019 adding it has not yet seen cal fires report. In the meantime pg e is reportedly issued a final report. A watchdog recently recommended the utility be fined 166 million for widespread outages and in some cases lack of advanced notice. The press democrat reports they have six days to respond. Time to get a look at the forecast for you. Of course we know that rain has been sticking around here in the bay area. Kari says its moving out. We can see the wide view of whats happening across the region as we are still seeing the showers, the snow is still coming down in the sierra and winter storm warning continues until 6 00 this evening and weve seen quite a bit of snow there but the season totals have been up to about 24 inches and were still adding up on that so well have these changes as we go into today looking at sierra tahoe. Two feet of snow so looking pretty good there. Well talk about whats going on re in the bay area coming up in a few minutes. Mike, the roads are slick as we are starting out with rain. Thats a great warning you gave yesterday and this morning. What ive circled here the Castro Valley y. A lot of early slowing we havent seen for months over there. Its making folks slow down, which is the wise thing to do. A typical pattern but notice the green highlighting around the south bay, as kari said, slick roadways, a crash around capitol expressway may be affecting the intersection and 17 south coming off 85, a spinout and slowing here on the Richmond Bridge. We are looking at a light volume. Look at that for 580 west heading into the north bay. Back to you. 6 10 for you that morning. As president obama opens up next for you the marriage struggles he reveals to oprah during his time in the white house. Plus a ticket to ride. The faa just approved the 737 max to fly again. Lets go out to the futures where theyre up on the news laura was talking about with the vaccine finishing from pfizer finishing its clinical trials. Right now at 6 13 a look at storm ranger tracking some rain moving through, san jose, mi milpitas and the wet weather will linger. Ill be tracking this with a look at how much weve already measured. Well take a look at how much we have at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lanes full and wet pavement there. That makes the span much more smooth. Wet lens, wet road, rain recently fell through here and the silicon valley. A smoother drive but, again, watch the transition ramps. Good morning. A very happy wednesday to you as well. Markets look to push higher after that news that laura brought you that pfizer said it had wrapped up its testing of vaccine for covid. They hope for 50 million dose this is year which sounds like a lot but would not cover the populations of california and texas. Production and distribution is the next challenge. We saw Kamala Harris return to the senate for the First Time Since she became the Vice President elect. Video of her outside the chamber yesterday. She was there to vote against the nomination of a controversial pick for the board of the federal reserve, judy shelton. Shelton is opposed by Many Democrats but lots of republicans, even current members of the fed for her unusual ideas about the economy and her opinion that the fed should be more loyal to the office of the president of the united states. Harris vote was enough to sink the nomination at least for now. The faa cleared the 737 from boeing, the 737 max, to fly again. Though it will be some time before you are booked to fly on one because pilots will need to be trained on the changes made after two fatal crashes. A bay areabased Drone Company has scored new funding, 50 million worth, and says it will move much of its operations to bend, oregon. I spoke with the company ceo who says its less of a move than it is an expansion into oregon. One way or the other the high cost of making it in the bay was definitely a factor. Obviously the bay area is the most expensive market to live in. Bend is on average 25 cheaper for us to set up and establish. Were seeing this a lot with companies, marcus and laura, in which they are moving some employees or many employees away. They keep their headquarters here but thats happening in a lot of areas. Thanks, scott. Move over, burgers and sausages. Beyond meat has a new alternative pork product. The l. A. Based company is launching its new plantbased minced pork. Itll debut today in china where pork accounts for about 70 of chinas overall meat consumption. 6 16 right now. Trending this morning in an interview with oprah on apple tv plus, former president barack obama opens up about going through some rough patches with the first lady during his time in the white house. Take a listen to this. The thing that i think we were good about was talking stuff through, never losing the fundamental love and respect for each other and prioritizing our kids. Mr. Obama says that he went on to write about the topic in his just released memoir called a promised land. It actually sounds like they had a great marriage. Back to our coverage of the rain this morning. Our storm ranger busy tracking it. A live look this morning at the Golden Gate Bridge as well. Oh, yes, certainly wet out there. Although its been very pleasant to have the in. Ra its much needed. Ive been talking to people. What i do miss are those warm, rainy days living in the south. I like to sit out and watch the rain. It was a little bit cool for me, kari. How about the cool rainy days . Is that enough . Were getting those right now. Were seeing that rain moving through right now. We started with highs in the mid70s. Today low 60s and were still seeing lingering showers this morning. Storm ranger tracking it all. To coco county where we are seeing rain moving through brentwood and discovery bay, moving right over mt. Diablo as well in some of the hills in the east bay while the south bay is also getting another good soaking. We didnt get a lot of this measurable rain in downtown san jose so its good were getting the last round moving through right now. Lets take a look at our rainfall totals. Now mt. Tam has made it over 4 inches of rain and in santa rosa weve had an inch and a tenth. In napa weve had about 0. 6 of an inch there. Almost half an inch in San Francisco and in East San Jose in alum rock a quarter inch. The airport only 0. 04 of an inch. Measurable rain and looking like a good soaking for the Santa Cruz Mountains with an inch and threequarters and mt. Diablo, Berkeley Hills over an inch. Livermore has had almost a quarter inch of rain so its still coming down. Thats great news. The rain will be winding down for today. As we go into the afternoon were only looking at a couple spotty showers for the rest of the morning for parts of the north bay and then most of us will see drier weather moving in as the day goes along. Up to about 60 degrees in san jose. As we go through the forecast well see the fog rolling in tomorrow but after this round of rain its dry and it looks like that dry weather continues into early next week, possibly through thanksgiving. Its that close. As we get a look at San Franciscos forecast some upper 50s today. Off and on showers early, fog tomorrow and then sunshine and highs in the 60s throughout the rest of the forecast. Mike, this has had a really big impact on the roads this morning making it quite slick for the commute. Yeah, kari, but its a different problem because lighter traffic, of course, during the quarantine. Folks are having higher speed. Watch those speeds, folks. As we get out to the roadway a look at the green. The highlighting shows the expansion where the rain hits, as kari talked about the peninsula did get some rain recently and over in the trivalley some slowing, unusual slowing at the Castro Valley y. Some related to the rain that came through san leandro early in the commute. Now theres a disabled vehicle northbound as you transition to 880 both north and south. You know that flyover for folks, a smooth drive. Just watch for that disabled vehicle. Heading to the bay bridge, the smooth, easy flow of traffic. Minor flooding off i80 and 101 and the 580 interchange. An easy flow of traffic here. This is palo alto. Back to you. All right. Thanks so much. Marcus, an important story is straight ahead. The Mental Health of our kids as they cope through covid with home schooling and not being around their friends. Theyre certainly dealing with a lot. A story everyone should Pay Attention to is next for you right here on today in the bay. Come experience the grand opening of floor and decors newest location in the east bay area our expansive store is fully equipped with safe distancing guides, so you can browse our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. Or easily order online, and pick up all the products you need for your flooring project curbside so come discover the perfect floor at the perfect price in whatever way is perfect for you. Floor and decor, now open in san leandro for safe instore shopping and curbside pickup. Also open in milpitas and burlingame. Welcome back to you. 6 23. Here is something your child may be struggling with, their Mental Health during the pandemic. The findings are spearheaded by the partners foundation, an organization founded by first partner Jennifer Newsom and its finding that teens are experiencing loss due to School Closures and social isolation. Always talking to people, socializing. Its a big part of what makes me happy. I cant do that as much. Starting this month Santa Clara County plans to launch a new Virtual Program aimed at bringing Mental Health services to ages 12 to 25. Its already launched in two clinics including one in palo alto. Reporter kate snow will have the full story on the today show right after today in the bay at 7 00 a. M. I know my kids desperately miss their friends and thankful at least they have each other. Absolutely of good for them. As an only child, good for them. 6 25. A san jose firefighter is going viral after surprising his daughter after fighting on the front lines on some of the states wildfires. How are you . I missed you. I missed you. He spen nearly a month away from his family. Catching his daughter by surprise. They told Kelly Clarkson the separation was tough. It impacted her. We got to talk every night before she went to bed so she was always asking when are you coming home . The big surprise this afternoon here on nbc bay area. Birds of a feather flock together. These pink flamingos are no exception. A large flock stopped by a lake in northern kazakhstan during their seasonal migration. They huddled together on the surface. Its protective in the nature preserve. Making their way south of kazakhstan. The weather is getting colder there. I bet she loved editing this. Youre welcome. Put those on her front lawn. Much more ahead for you this morning. 6 26 for you right now. Not over yet. Coming up, believe it or not, more covid restrictions are going into place today in the bay area. Well tell you where and what is now off limits. Reporter and coming up on today in the bay drug maker pfizer revealing their drug is actually more effective than they initially thought. Ill have that story coming up. Youre watching today in the bay. Right now at 6 30, breaking news on the vaccine front. Another pharmaceutical bombshell from overnight. Pfizer says its vaccine is more effective than first thought. A Bay Area Company behind a revolutionary takehome covid test. The developments on both fronts. And a good wednesday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Our other big story this morning is the rain. More than 3 inches falling in some spots. More coming down right now as well. A live look at sfo and our live Doppler Radar thats powered by storm ranger. And rain here, snow in the sierras, this is a good little soaking that were getting, kari. So great to see it moving through. Were tracking it with storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar, as the rain is moving through the south bay and parts of the east bay. We can see where we do have pockets of heavier rain moving through East San Jose, lighter rain down to the south county as well as morgan hill and gilroy. Thats a live look at san jose. Its a soggy start this morning. Chilly temperatures today and the lingering showers for the morning hours. The rest of the forecast is dry and cool. So well talk more about that coming up in a few minimum. Mike has been tracking how this has been impacting your commute. Kari, for folks who are traveling to the sierra we did have chain requirements and a closure for 80 between truckee and the summit for times overnight. 80 closer to the bay bridge toll plaza and the approach after the berkeley curve. We know we can expect metering lights on right now. The slowing at the toll plaza where the arrow is but Everything Else moves at speed and thats the big note as we head to the Castro Valley y. Some unexpected slowing for a disabled vehicle. The roadways are lighter volume of traffic. You can get higher speeds and watch slick conditions at the south bay and over the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Back to you. We want to get right to Cierra Johnson this morning. Shes falling breaking news for us. Drug maker pfizer says its covid19 vaccine is more effective than first thought. A local company says its developed an athome covid19 vaccine. Reporter starting off that news from pfizer is pretty significant. They said they finished phase three testing and are moving to submit for fda approval, but theyre also saying theyve learned their vaccine is 95 effective as opposed to the 90 of efficacy rate just last week. The company is providing more detail on the vaccine coming out of that phase three trial. They say its very effective for older people and has no serious side effects. The Pharmaceutical Company says they expect to make 50 million dose this is year alone. Now this update comes two days after moderna said their vaccine was 95 effective. The biggest difference modernas product can be stored in a standard refrigerator system while pfizers requires specialized subfreezing storage. That will be really important moving forward. And local company lucira granted emergency approval by the fda for their rapid athome covid testing kit giving people another way to identify and treat the virus. You would swab your nose, throw that swab in a vial and place it in a portable device that would tell you whether or not youre covid positive. You are able to receive the results within 30 minutes. This is a rapid test. Right now were being told the test would cost 50 but there is a catch, youll need a prescription and the test should be available in the spring. Now all of this is happening at a very crucial time not only in the bay area but across the nation. Right now alameda county, their new restrictions in the purple tier are going into effect right now. Restaurants, gyms, wineries and places of worship are only allowed to take place outside. Retail and malls are able to continue operating inside but at a 25 capacity and barber shops and nails are able to remain inside as long as theyre following those proper protocols so a lot to remember. We have a lot of this on our website in case youre curious about that Pfizer Research or any of the updates, a lot happening in the world of covid. Live in emeryville, Cierra Johnson for today in the bay. Doctors say the next two weeks will be critical in the covid surge. State Health Leaders say about 12 of cases will be hospitalizations within the next three weeks and there are concerns that Health Care Systems could become overwhelmed. Santa clara county hospitals had 87 Covid Patients in midoctober. Now there are 151. In San Francisco a similar trend on october 18th, 17 Covid Patients were hospitalized. There are now 39. Infection disease expert at stanford says luckily hospitals here are not overwhelmed the same way were seeing in other states. We have capacity now. We have medications. We have ppe and but things can change very quickly. Now she says that everyone bought into Wearing Masks and social distancing there would be very few cases in about a month. New this morning another small but critical step in getting San Francisco students back into the classroom. Board members signed off on the time line for a planned january 25th return date, but if things go well between now and then only the youngest Elementary School students would return right away. Of course we can rule that the surge is putting everything in limbo. Schools have to press pause. According to the press democrat the latest developments may have an impact with Santa Rosa School leaders vote on their return plans next month. The vta putting the brakes on plans to cut commuter lines. Instead it plans to roll out more service on some of the busiest lines that they have in just a matter of weeks. The agency yesterday announced too many passengers are skipping crowded buses for potential health risks to accommodate the lines. More buses will be added. The vta does tell the mercury news its dealing with longterm budget problems that will likely be addressed further down the road. So here we go again, hard to believe more than two weeks since the election but we are still talking about the results. This morning well tell you why all eyes are on georgia again as we take you there. That means our Election Team is back once again breaking down for us like only they can do. Plus, are you loving the rain . Well tell you how long it will keep falling. Some grande and gaga. Let it rain on me. Much more ahead for you this morning. Youre watching today in the bay. Grocery outlet jingle do you have cheese . Of course. More cheese for less chedar do you have kale . Absolutly. More kale for less cabbage in our produce section. How about pizza . yep. More pizza for less dough in the freezer section. Now youre getting the hang of it. 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A lot of spinouts recorded over the course of the morning. 680 with another report going on as you head to diablo. Again on georgia today where votes are still being counted two weeks after the election. So were bringing back our election bells and whistles and this is what were doing today. Thats right. Check out the top of the screen, the delegate count is back up and so is our election dream team. Tracie potts, this could be the day georgia officials end the vote counting. Reporter 300,000, thats what georgia says they have left to count and they think they can get it done by the end of the day today. These are ballots they already counted but a recount was forced because of the margins in georgia, so theyre going back through each one of the 5 million votes by hand. Today is the deadline in order for them to certify on friday. Also in georgia a brouhaha going on between senator Lindsey Graham of nearby South Carolina and the georgia secretary of state claiming to the Washington Post that graham asked him if he had the power to throw out ballots. Graham is denying this and now a staff member with the secretary of States Office says he was on the line and heard graham ask that. Lindsey graham did a fist bump with senator Kamala Harris when she returned to capitol hill even though he, like the president , is yet to acknowledge the president ial results. It got a lot of attention because of that and well continue to watch and seep what the results especially in georgia show when they finish the recount. Supposedly by midnight tonight. And, tracie, while we still have you and are talking about voting its interesting to see how women played a really big role in getting joe biden into the white house. Reporter yeah, absolutely, laura. We now know that women made up more than half the electorate but also went for biden 65 to 4 45 . Because there were so many women voting that seems to be what bringing up the numbers, scott, lets check out the popular count. Joe biden nearing 80 million this is a huge gap, scott, and thats largely getting missed in all the political talk. It really is. Its, after all, not how we elect the president , but there is a push to change that. The system over to a popular vote. Fearly 6 million californians vote didnt count, they werent heard in the sense they voted for President Trump but every one of californias electoral votes went to biden. Less than half of registered voters think President Trump should immediately concede, according to a new political poll. Just 46 . Another 32 say the president should get more time to find voting fraud, and if there is none then concede. Now it is important to remember the Trump Campaign claims there was fraud but allegations of fraud are not in the lawsuits that they are bringing in many courts. It is easy to claim fraud without evidence on twitter. Its much more difficult when the judge wont allow it in court. Also the people who would know best say our election was secure, christopher krebs, who protected elections joined other officials to say the 2020 election was the most score in history. The president fired krebs yesterday in a tweet. Krebs tweeted, too, saying, honored to serve. We did it right. Defend today, secure tomorrow. Protect 2020. Now as tracie mentioned well start to see counties and states certify their votes, and what an extraordinary scene in wayne county, michigan, home to detroit and its very wealthy suburbs. The two republicans on the wayne county board of canvassers refused to certify with one saying they certify from the suburbs but not from detroit itself. Heres the reaction from their democratic colleague. You talk about not certifying detroit though livonia has bigger variances than detroit which is 80 plaqblack. You added your name. I will not try to change your mind. I want to let you know that the stain of racism that you have just covered yourself in is going to follow you throughout history. Your grandchildren will think of you like george wallace. President trump repeatedly praised the two commissioners for refusing to certify the vote, but in the end they reversed themselves and detroit has been certified. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has thrown out a Trump Campaign lawsuit again challenging the Election Results there. A separate case in federal court in pennsylvania has yet to be decided. As i was saying earlier, neither case allege election fraud. Were tracking all of this on twitter. You can follow us there and find mean scottmcgrew. Thanks, scott mcgrew. And tracie potts. Holidays are right around the corner. A holiday all about tradition. The supermarkets to see what people are even planning. Kris sanchez joins us live this morning. Kris, what are folks saying out there . Reporter they are telling us they are listening to that advice of not gathering people outside their household, that they will stay home. They say they are going to keep that thanksgiving tradition of making that staple meal. I would say 25 of it. Chicken rather than turkey. We have on standby squash and broccoli. Were going to stay home just the two of us and make all of the massive amounts of food that i usually do but eat it just the two of us. Were doing it responsible and were going to try to distance from each other and if were not eating we will wear a mask. Yes, thats the rule. Reporter that is the rule. So when the governor moved several bay area counties into the most restrictive purple and red tiers he reiterated that and shut down a lot of Indoor Dining options folks were looking forward to. Safeway tells us they are seeing more people shop early for the holiday meal at home but say they are ready for that. Over the past few months weve been building up for supplies to meet the increased need during the holiday season. You can find your traditional staples as well as fresh ingredients. Reporter now some things to keep in mind if youre ordering a premade meal from a market or a restaurant because you feel like cooking for yourself, plan ahead. For target alone it is up over 100 . The bright spot in all of this not hosting big gatherings theyre saving cash and for a lot of families saving a little cash is a big deal these days. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Although im spending so much with the kids at home all the time. I think for thanksgiving well get little cornish game hens. Reporter that sounds fun. I like that idea. No one is coming over. Ill make you a plate. Bring it to you but you have to drive by. Trending this morning actor michael b. Jordan getting an all new role. He has been crowned people magazines sexiest man alive. Jordan tells the magazine in an issue out on friday that the honor is a cool feeling. We here at today in the bay cant forget our own sexiest men. Im sorry. I shouldnt be laughing. The guys that bring you the news every day, marcus, mike, bob and scott. Maybe the cover wasnt big enough for all those big heads. Oh, oh, yeah. Thats exactly is that your sexy look, marcus . That is. Is that your pose . Is that what you would look like on the cover . Yes. It has to be the one hand. Marcus is ready. All right. Lets get a look at this forecast. You can give us your vogue magazine cover, kari. All right. Lets get a look at some of the rain moving through this morning as weve been tracking it. Moving across the bay area bringing some snow to the sierra. Grit to see that, too as we still have lingering rain with us this morning. Were tracking it on storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar. This is the rain thats falling in san jose and moving over to the foothills. Spotty rain in the east bay. San jose is taking a break while the rain continues to move further to the south and east. Lets talk about how much rain weve measured. Mt. Tam with the highest amount anywhere across the bay area. Over 4 inches of rain, and then over an inch in santa rosa. Weve measured over half an inch in napa, San Francisco nearing a half inch of rain, and in East San Jose near the alum mark area, a quarter inch there. Weve seen the rainfall totals looking good for the Santa Cruz Mountains. For morgan hill close to half an inch while livermore has had a quarter inch of rain. So we are still seeing it coming down as we add up the rainfall totals but for the most part were going to see the rain tapering off for the rest of the day. Still potty showers late morning into parts of the north bay but notice were not seeing a lot of that as we look at the rest of the bay area going into this afternoon. There still will be a chance of a quick moving shower but overall just cloudy and cool and peeks of sunshine as our highs reach up to 60 degrees in the peninsula and the south bay. Santa rosa will reach up to 59 degrees and some upper 50s in San Francisco. Well see the fog rolling in tomorrow but our weather will be drying out for the rest of the forecast even into early next week possibly through thanksgiving were looking at dry weather. Temperatures will be seasonable reaching into the low 60s for highs. Those morning temperatures are going to be cool. We could see our valley temperatures starting out in the 30s this weekend. Mike, we are seeing still some wet roads. How is the commute looking . Well, kari, its looking good but thats the concern. You can maintain a higher speed. Overall we have the risk for spinouts. A lot of them reported throughout the bay. Our live camera shows you that san jose is getting a break from the recent rain but wet roadways. The water kicks up behind the cars as they travel at speed. The green on the travel sensors. The highlighted green means wet roadways there if youre san jose and the peninsula. Watch those hills through livermore and off 580 and into the dublin area. We had an issue here off the Castro Valley y a few minutes ago that spinout with north 238 and 880 that cleared from the connector that was there for a while causing a bit of a distraction and some slowing. It has recovered through the area. Now the bay bridge toll plaza has the only backup which you do expect, also slowing on the Richmond Bridge and its wet up there as well. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Happening now for you tokyo is reporting its highest daily covid case count. This as pressure builds on the upcoming olympic games. Today the city recorded 493 new cases. The tokyo government plans to raise it to the highest of four levels tomorrow and officials are considering asking restaurants and bars to shorten hours of operation. Coming up next a quick look at the top stories were covering and breaking news on a leading vaccine candidate offering new hope not only about its effectiveness but when it might roll out. Plus, skyrocketing cases in california prompting more talk about a curfew. A live report on the city already taking action. And bay area cities are close behind. Its 6 54. Youre watching today in the bay. Come experience the grand opening of floor and decors newest location in the east bay area our expansive store is fully equipped with safe distancing guides, so you can browse our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. Or easily order online, and pick up all the products you need for your flooring project curbside so come discover the perfect floor at the perfect price in whatever way is perfect for you. Floor and decor, now open in san leandro for safe instore shopping and curbside pickup. Also open in milpitas and burlingame. 6 57. Welcome back. Here is a quick look at the top stories were following. Breaking news from pfizer on its covid vaccine. They plan to submit for fda approval within days, and its just finished phase three testing. Its actually 95 effective, not the 90 first announced last week. The Company Expects to make 50 million dose this is year and more than 1 billion doses by the end of 2021. On monday moderna says its vaccine was nearly 95 effective. Unlike pfizers favaccine it nes to be stored in extremely cold temperatures. On october 1st the state reported nearly 3,600 cases. The latest numbers confirm nearly 8,800 infections, an increase of nearly 150,000. Today in the bays bob redell is live for us in livermore. This is prompting all sorts of talk about new lockdowns. Reporter correct and specifically a curfew, marcus. There is no indication yet that theres going to be a curfew in the bay area like we saw earlier this year. But los angeles has and its going to be starting this friday night. If you havent heard the news theyll be implementing a curfew at 10 00 at night in the 6 00 in the morning for nonessential workers. Dr. Anthony fauci, on the president s Coronavirus Task force, spoke virtually while receiving an award from san jose state university. Here are his thoughts on governor newsoms idea of implementing a curfew for other parts of the state to combat covid. Sometimes when youre dealing with the seriousness of the situation right now i leave it up to the judgment of your state and city to make that. If they make that decision i certainly think the basis upon which it is found i would back that. Reporter a recent study by stanford scientists published in the nature journal found the majority of new infections are linked to public places. Full Service Restaurants are the riskiest because they are more crowded and people stay longer. The study found those locations to be three times as risky as fitness centers, the next riskiest location. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. And we are still tracking some rain. You can track it at home on the nbc bay area app as we continue to watch the rainfall on storm ranger. Mike, how is the commute looking . Well, that was a short report there. Thats going to do it for us this morning. The today show is next. Good morning. Breaking news. Results in. Moments ago pfizer announces its ready to seek fda approval for its vaccine within days. The company saying the vaccine is 95 effective with tens of millions of doses ready for front line workers by the end of the year and in the nick of time. This is going to get very bad very quickly if we dont have something done drastically right now. This morning the stunning surge of virus cases, hospitalizations and deaths and where authorities are tightening restrictions today. Termi