Golden gate field. One specialist says this never should have happened. Golden gate fields racetrack remains cloyed until the end of the in. Here where horses galloped today was only walking. Been 24 confirmed cases since october 30th. But the outbreak has reached about 100 workers, theres employee housing mire the stables. All information has been reported. Since the outset of the pandemic Golden Gate Fields hat implemented safety measures. Dr. Schwartz berg spiced in infectious diseases. He questions the safety protocols. For a large group of people to get infected means a large group of people have to be together for a prolonged period of time. That should never happen in the midst of a pandemic. Last friday there was a one week temporary closure. All track facilities is have undergone cleaning and testing has been administrated to all racing employees. An outbreak like this will take an norm out amount of resources, time and energy and money to deal with. The track says the 1300 ho
Middle of the year. The toll plaza to the one o one about an eightminute drive for you ok, hot spots not to tell you about antioch to concord 17 minutes such a co 2 danville thats a 30 minute drive for you its starting to slow down just a little bit there in san leandro to milpitas and the one o one san jose to menlo park, 31 minute ride dariann james guys. Thank you are in a 6 oh one is the time our breaking news from overnight. The u. S. Has set another record now for the most covid related deaths. In a single day you can see in the graphic behind us more than 3100 people died from the virus on wednesday can see its a problem from coast to coast and for the first time a 100,000 americans or in the hospital with covid in nearly air in the icu and this comes as california now setting records for the number of new cases that its experiencing kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco with more sara. Another grim update james darya we have just been reportedly reporting just grim grim up
More humidity. You can see the visibility dangerously low around petaluma and your neighbors heading up towards santa rosa. That will be there throughout the morning commute. You can see in emeryville, its quieter as we look northbound there. How about lets look at these temperatures, there you go. 70 to 74, except for mid to upper 60s along the coast. We have rain on the way, even healthier than our last storm. Ill map that out coming up. Some major news about a potential covid19. Mo tederna revealing its vaccins nearly 95 effective. What is the health and Human Services secretary saying about this. He says this is something to celebrate. With todays announcement moderna says theyre on track to ask for fda authorization in the coming weeks. The Moderna Vaccine can be scored at normal refrigeration temperatures making it easier to store and transport than pfizers vaccine. This morning on gma, health and Human Services secretary alex aszar says there are ongoig talks about distribution.
Morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Well get to the roads in a bit. First lets start with the forecast. Meteorologist kari hall, the rain is moving on out, moving to the east. We are seeing quite a bit of rain across the bay area into parts of the east bay and we are seeing this rain, pockets of heavy downpours around walnut creek and concord and some rain near berkeley. We are going to see some of the heavier pockets of rain right around san leandro and on 580 so that may slow you down for the commute. Heading over to san mateo and parts of the peninsula dealing with heavy rain where we see the dark greens and yellow. Still raining in los gatos and over the Santa Cruz Mountains that will be moving into the city within the next few minutes. We do still have a lot of rain to tracking a the lingering rain continues. Well talk about whats ahead coming up. Mike, how is it looking with all the rain on the roads . The green radar on your maps is
Could see a little bit of sun but there is the possibility of isolated thunderstorm snuck instant in the atmosphere as we head through the afternoon. Here we go with the temperatures this morning. Mid to up ears as we start off the day and head through the afternoon. In the low to mid60ss. We will talk more about what you can expect on future cast for today coming up but now lets check in with gianna. We have slick roadways out there. Just with in the last half hour i had seven new crashes reported in the bay area. Be careful as you the roads. I will hit the biggest trouble spots. One is as you work from the San Francisco area over toward the east bay. Its the noncommute direction but involving two vehicles and a larger truck. They have two lanes shut down as well as that fremont off ramp. They will try to exit the vehicles to get them off the freeway. Expect the brake lights. The other side of the bay bridge we arent seeing any delays. Traffic is moving at the limit but a lot of sick