Tonight. We begin this evening with a bay area teen that may be closing in on a potential treatment for covid19. It relies on our own immune systems, our own bodys ability to fight off infegs when invaded by a virus. Now a South San Francisco doctor says his work is taking the next step. Abc7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. In the race to find a cure for covid19, theres new hope from bay area scientists who have been working around the clock. Good to have big dreams, big dreams got us to the moon. Reporter you might recognize dr. Jacob glenville from the Netflix Docuseries pandemic. Hes the president and ceo of distributed bio, which is developing an antibody therapeutic to treat the Novel Coronavirus. If your loved one has to go to the hospital. We give them the therapy and instead of getting more sick, they get better rapidly and go home. The minute we have an antibody therapy we can end the crisis. Three independent laboratories including one at stanford yufr Stanford Univ
Studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, streaming on cbsn bay area were looking live from our exclusive tower camera as we look at the shining San Francisco bay area. Good morning, everyone. It is friday. We made it to the end of the week. It is may 15th. I am michelle griego. Good morning, i am len kiese. Lets get your first check of your forecast with l good morning, happy friday to you. Finally, it is friday and were looking at more temperatures that are warmer through the day as High Pressure briefly builds in. Here is the Treasure Island camera. You can see the low clouds and temperatures are running in the 40s and 50s as we start off our day and even areas of fog for santa rosa to a quarter mile for the visibility in santa rosa. It is in San Francisco, livermore is 57 and through the afternooime his are right around where we should be, 66 in San Francisco come 67 in oakland, 73 for san jose and 74 for concord. We have a strong storm system moving in through the weekend.
Friday. We have more sunshine and temperatures are little warmer today but changes are ahead. I will talk about this in a moment. You can see the low clouds on the camera and temperatures are running in the 40s and 50s. San jose is in the upper 40s. We are dealing with some dense fog for you and santa rosa. Through the afternoon we will catch some clearing and sunshine, temperatures where we should be. 66 in San Francisco, 73 in san jose and 74 for concord. We are tracking a strong storm system for the second part of our weekend. I will have details on that coming up. We are tracking some breaking news after a pretty powerful earthquake hit in nevada but it was pretty close to the california border. We have reports in the bay area of people feeling the shaking. Look at the map from the usgs. It shows that a 6. 4 magnitude hit near tonopah, nevada and they have downgraded it to a 6. 2 and now back up to 6. 4 after getting all those preliminary reports. It came after for a llama followed
Studies that show the medication has no proven benefits for coronavirus patients and maybe he is taking it, but this sounds like when the cops pull you over and you admit to having a couple of beers so they dont find all the weed and cocaine in your glove compartment. Yeah, just a little hydroxy after work with the guys i live close to here. Thats right, President Trump said yesterday that hes been taking hydroxychloroquine to protect himself from the coronavirus, and told a reporter hes, quote, not going to get hurt by it, its been around for 40 years. Come on, man, you know better than anyone that just because somethings been around for 40 years doesnt mean its good. President trump tweeted yesterday that fox news has more antitrump people than ever. And claimed hes, quote, looking for a new outlet. A new outlet where . No outlet praises you more thats like meryl streep complaining about how the oscars treat her. New york mayor bill de blasio said yesterday that he expects the city t
Were going to check out our temperature trend in dublin, mid50s, a lot of clouds today and that will keep the temperatures down and some of us will get some rain. Ill talk more about where well see our highest chance of getting some of that wet weather for today. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Laura . Sounds good. Taking a live look at capitol hill this Tuesday Morning new rules start for the white house today after two Staff Members tested positive. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us with more on that this morning plus the very latest as well funding to fight to reopen the country. Good morning, tracie. Reporter good morning. So that funding still up in the air and now with two Staff Members infected the white house is requiring masks, temperature checks and also daily testing of those closest to the president , his senior staff. A Senate Committee will discuss how to get americans back to work. They are holding a virtual hearing to try to figure out how to get americans back