Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, before those mutant strains get out of control. Whether or not thats going to ultimately take over in the sense of being dominant is unclear by now. The projection that is made with regard to the uk is that probably by the end of march, the beginning of april, it actually will become more dominant in this country. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possible can will always be the be
Isnt that amazing those are just some of the images that are still coming in as we speak from beirut and we now have a team there on the ground and the videos that they are gathering that theyre going to be sharing with you in just a little bit there are stunning and theyre heartbreaking to watch but were going to begin with the u. S. Economy but july unemployment numbers are in and as we predicted yesterday the u. S. Gained 1800000 jobs last month is that good well its again but not really not when you consider that the month prior we gained 5000000 jobs so 5000001800000 thats a vast difference right that means the recovery is. Looking like that its looking like that right i mean its starting to go up but its not shooting up in other words its oh you not a v by the way the Unemployment Rate remains at 10. 2 percent which is worse than what we experienced during the worst of the meltdown back in 2009 now were going to get right into it with economics professor richard were going to do
Cool temperatures this is your week. As temperatures will be quite cool here and all well below average. All right, over to sal now. On a monday morning. Good morning, sir. Good morning, steve. We do have traffic that is off to a good start here with no major issues. You can see traffic is looking good at the bay bridge. Heading out towards the toll plaza looks like maybe my maps may have frozen here. Lets see if we can get the east shore freeway. Looks good. Theres a stall on the bridge, if you take that bridge any time soon, you might see slowing and you may want to give it time to clear out. Heres the bay bridge again unfrozen shot. You can see traffic moving well. 4 31 lets go back to the headlines. All right, thank you sal. Happening today, social Justice Groups and labor unions holding a strike for black lives. Tens of thousands of workers in 25 cities including oakland and San Francisco are expected to participate in a National Walk out. Organizers say one of the most powerful a
Yeah, i will. Glick look out almost two weeks into early august and the the pattern favors near normal to below normal temps and it is starting we had bump up saturday. It was warm to hot and back down on sunday. And guess what, its going to continue to keep on favoring areas that will be below normal especially inland. 62 so a cooler forecast and this week will include ukiah and by the time we get to wednesday and thursday its deep fog bank. Solid marine layer. Theres drizzle tuesday night, wednesday morning. Napa west of 146789 oakland west at 126789 these are just roaring onshore wind directions. A little low will move over us and usher in lower pressure for the week. So with that in mind, temperatures will be below average here. Coast, and inland. Over to sal at 5 01 on a non. He tells us. Well, we are off to good start i like what i see here, steve. Traffic continues to move along very well around the bay area. And we are going to look at the is a mateo bridge. Traffic is moving a
And organizer of the 1963 march on washington. The democrat was the son of the segregated south and spent most of his life on the front lines. We get more now from peter ducey on the congressmans life and legacy. Reporter onetime congressman and civil rights icon, john lewis, have died. Always known for the fighting spirit, the end of his life right about one of his toughest battles. He announced he was undergoing treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. B the time for patients is gone. For mckee was elected to congress in 1986, representing the fifth district. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just call you have to say something. Reporter for the contribution, he was bestowed with the highest civilian honor. The president ial medal of freedom. He showed great love and the face of violence and brutality. I always remember him as the gentle but strong warrior. Reporter he fought for equality as part of the Civil Rights Movement. He was marching for voting rights. T