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KGO ABC7 News 500AM July 11, 2024

Well, good morning. Its monday, november 30th. Hope you all ate lots of good food this weekend, but some big news this morning. Moderna will ask the fda for emergency authorization use for its covid19 vaccine today. The massachusettsbased Company Released its latest trial results just an hour ago. It says so far it found the vaccine is just over 94 effective. Moderna following pfizer in requesting emergency authorization use. The fda is scheduled to discuss pfizers vaccine next week and they could do the same for moderna on the 17th. We have assembled the abc vaccine team to bring you the most complete coverage and updates as they come in. Surging covid19 cases means that San Francisco and san mateo counties have to roll back to the most restrictive purple tier and that means those two counties are part of the statewide curfew for purple. Gyms also have to operate only outdoors. Top attractions like the academy of sciences are closed. Indoor worship not allowed in purple tier counties. We would like to see something thats more reasonable that erring on the side of safety but also respects our First Amendment right to worship. Kumasi and i were just out here at the new sky star wheel that debuted only last month and it already has to close. Management is working with people who purchased tickets or rescheduled their visit. The same goes for museums. Santa clara county is worried about the rising covid19 cases there as well. The number of people who could potentially end up in the hospital. The county announced new rules that just went into effect at midnight. The order includes limiting capacity in stores to 25 or 10 depending on the type of store. A ban on sports, that impacts the 49ers, and a mandatory twoweek quarantine for some travelers. Julian glover is live at mineta san jose airport with more. Good morning. Good morning. One of the first things the directive says is that travel is discouraged but many bay area residents are decided to pack inside of a plane and to see Family Members far away for thanksgiving or maybe get inside of a car. If they travel further than 150 miles away, they will have to quarantine for 14 days. Now the mandatory quarantine for people traveling into Santa Clara County went into effect first thing this morning as average covid cases hit new levels this weekend. This covers residents and nonresidents of the county requiring people to selfquarantine am hot home. The only exceptions are passing through and patients getting treatment at a hospital. No specifications on how a negative test could get you out of quarantine early. Despite travel numbers by tsa down more than half compared to the weekend after thanksgiving last year, travelers described busy bay area airports. I got off the plane yesterday, got back yesterday, and airports were busy. You know, it doesnt seem like it because you dont see a lot of cars outside and stuff like that, but for some reason inside is just really busy. Santa clara county is requiring transit hubs about the new quarantine. Its unclear if at all how this will be enforced by the county. The order runs until it is rescinded or modified by the county Health Director here in Santa Clara County. Reporting live outside of mineta san jose airport, Julian Glover, abc7 news. Thank you. Well stay in the south bay, the 49ers are looking for a place to practice and play. Theres a ban on all Contact Sports in Santa Clara County and that includes professional teams. The ban will remain in place until at least december 21st. The 49ers have two scheduled home games before then. The first is next monday against the bills, a game that airs on abc7, and another on december 14th against washington. We can handle anything, we understand how big of a deal this virus is. We are thats why were so committed. We feel like we have done it as good as we can, not only protected ourselves and protected our community. Right now we dont have a home. Right now we dont know where well be. Its up to the organization and the county to figure those things out. Coach Kyle Shanahan says safety is his top concern as they look for a place to practice and play. The immediate future of several other teams in Santa Clara County are being ironed out. The sharks are getting ready to start training camp. In the college ranks, theres stanford, santa clara and san jose state. San jose states Athletic Director said theyll decide on Team Practices and when and where to play with the School Administration and the Mountain West athletic conference. You can check out details of the coronavirus cases in your county by going to our interactive map at abc7news. Com. Congress returns to washington today for one last attempt to make a deal on a challenging list of items. Covid19 relief, nearly 1 1. 5 trillion spending package and defense policy are on the table. Most important piece of business is preventing a Government Shutdown when a temporary spending bill expires next friday. But it may be difficult to overcome divisions about a delayed covid relief package which is also a top priority. Today president elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris will receive their first president ial Daily Briefing. This comes as biden announced his White House Communications team led entirely by women. Elizabeth schulze has more on what biden is focusing on to build his team. Reporter president elect joe biden is filling positions in his administration announcing members that will be key in tackling the pandemic and economic crisis. The biden team revealing an allwomen Senior Communications staff with jen psaki as press secretary. Biden is expected to announce key members of his Economic Team this week. Late sunday the president elect leaving a Doctors Office after fracturing his foot. Bidens doctor said he suffered the injury while playing with his dog and will need to wear a walking boot for several weeks. Trump taking to twitter to criticize chris krebs, the cybersecurity chief he fired who said the election was the most secure in history. Krebs doubling down on that claim telling 60 minutes i did it right. We did it right. This was a secure election. Reporter the president s legal team and allies lost at least 31 cases contesting the election or alleging fraud. In a recount in wisconsin requested and paid for by the Trump Campaign confirmed bidens win in the state in a fox interview on sunday, trump continued to make these unfounded claims. This election was rigged. This election is a total fraud. Reporter president elect biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris will receive their first president ial Daily Briefing today, a process that was delayed because of president trumps refusal to concede. Elizabeth schulze, abc news, washington. Usps mail carriers are getting an early start this morning. They want to make sure they get those packages where they need to go as soon as possible. Usps trying to keep up with the huge demand on delivery right now, especially because of the pandemic. Its offering a click and ship feature online, so you dont even have to leave your house to send something. You can order boxes, you can print shipping labels, even request nextday package pickup from your house. Now lets go over to sue with a look at whats happening in traffic. Good morning, everyone. We started overnight with a couple of major accidents, a fatality and an accident with a sigalert. This has been cleared. Its in the lafayette area, it was eastbound 24 near okay hill. All lanes are open and traffic is getting by rather nicely. To the bay bridge toll plaza, a few more cars than we saw on friday. Still no delays as you make your way into San Francisco. A few brake lights making the sturn in towards the tunnel. The san mateo bridge, a 14minute drive from 880 across the cause way, up the high rise and up towards foster city and san mateo towards 101. Looking good there. Lets look at your Early Morning drive times. Its getting a little bit slow. Tracy into dublin, westbound 580, thats typical. Highway 4 into concord is looking good. Your drive across the Golden Gate Bridge from san rafael to San Francisco is under 20 minutes. Thank you. An enormous construction project will break ground today. If you use 19th avenue on the west side of the city, expect delays. The project calls for safety improvements, replacement of underground sewer and water mains and bus stop changes. The more than twoyear project will happen in four phases. The first phase involves the southbound lanes of lincoln way and noriega street. All right. Good to see you. Hope you had a nice thanksgiving. I did. How was yours . It was nice. Ate a lot, which was good. Coming up, the alleged social media post that has a Police Officer in trouble this mrning. And the university of california extended the application deadline after its admission website went down. The filing period for fall 2021 has been extended to 11 59 on friday december 24th. And how the pandemic is changing the way many people shop this Holiday Season. And a live look outside at the embarcadero with the hol welcome to 15 days of saving up to 500 on fast, in reliable internet and. Mobile with nationwide 5g on the most reliable network. Welcome to familyconnecting, holidayshopping, black friday awesome. Because, for a limited time, when you get xfinity internet and mobile together. You can get a 200 prepaid card. And up to 300 off select mobile phones. For up to 500 in savings. This sale wont last, so click, call, or visit a store today a man who died after being shot over the weekend was an upandcoming rammer. Alexander mark antonyyo was known as lil yase. He was dropped off at the hospital suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Dublin police saervices they located a crime scene near the dublin b. A. R. T. Station. Police are investigating a stabbing that left one person badly injured this happened at capital avenue near mckee road at a target store. No word on a possible motive for the attack. This morning a Police Officer in Monterey County is on administrative leave as the Department Investigates a post he allegedly made on social media. The police chief of Pacific Grove says she is deeply concerned by this post which made disparaging remarks against the black lives matter movement. It was made on the platform parlor and it is described as a place for free speech. The Department Said this type of conduct is unbecoming of any Police Officer. All right. High schoolers, listen up. The university of california extended its application deadline after its admissions website went down. The filing period for fall 2021 has been extended to 11 59 p. M. On friday december 4th. It was supposed to close today just before midnight. Students complained on social media about not being able to access the site. The university is urging students not to procrastinate and to submit applications before friday night. Today is the old fashion named cybermonday and it could be the largest day of sales on this day ever. Last year americans spent 9 billion and forecasts say well be up 35 from that. Heres deirdre reporter Holiday Shoppers expected to break all records for Online Shopping in a single day. Were super excited about cyber monday this year, more than ever. Reporter with retailers offering some serious bargains around cyber monday. Beats headphones regularly 299, now 169. 75 inch 4k tvs cut from 799 to 499. This kitchen aid mixer now 279, a savings of 100. The pandemic changing not just how we shop this Holiday Season but also why. This is a moment where people are gifting and giving to their friends and family as a way of boosting their spirits. Reporter and its also about the kinds of purchases that make sense in a time of social distancing. Home goods doing super well, outdoor stuff. Reporter with retailers expecting reduced foot traffic in their brick and mortar stores, those were mobile apps are out ahead. Shopping by phone accounts for nearly half of all online holiday sales so far. All spending giving a real boost to the economic recovery. Deirdre bolton, abc news, new york. If youre looking for a guide, we have one. Cybermonday 2020, its right on our website. Go to abc7news. Com. I will be participating, you . For sure, but i feel like cybermonday was just like black friday. Its all the same thing. Yeah. Just like how every day is the same day. The shopping is now just, you know, blended into one big blur. Mmhmm. Hi, mike. How are you . Hi, havent stopped shopping since, what, early last week. So, yeah, every day new deals. Its like christmas. You open up the email, hey, new deals. New presents. All right. Lets talk about whats going on weatherwise. We could use some rain out there. Im here to tell you its not happening on this last day of november. Well end it the same way weve enjoyed most of these november days with sunshine and temperatures a little bit above average. Here we are from mount tam, notice were looking south towards San Francisco. Camera not bouncing hardly at all because theres just not a breeze out there. So becoming sunny today after a few high clouds this morning. Highs average to above. It will be clear tonight and chilly with frosty areas, colder bho mornings and warmer afternoons will continue. Heres the temperatures, 32 in napa and santa rosa. The air is super dry out there. As you can tell by my voice. But there may be just a little bit of thin frost out there as theres been the last couple of days. 33 in livermore. 39 at san jose and san mateo. 41 in oakland. 47 in San Francisco. Heres a dry cold front, see those clouds up around live doppler 7, yep. Thats it. There may be a few showers up around eureka and crescent city, otherwise our High Pressure has moved off to the east, dominated us over the weekend. But another one will build behind this cold front. That will keep us dry. Heres your microclimate, 62 to 65 through most of the south bay, 63 in san jose. Look at morgan hill and gilroy, 68 degrees. 61 to 63 today on the peninsula with 62 at san mateo and millbrae. 56 at Half Moon Bay. Then 57 for the rest of our coastal communities. You see low 60s in downtown. 61, over towards sausalito, 62. The mid to upper 60s around santa rosa and cloverdale, easily the warm spots along with morgan hill and gilroy. 61 to 62 along the east bay shore. 63 in hercules. As we head into the east bay valleys, 64 to 68 degrees today. Brentwood at 68. A few more clouds tonight. There could be a little bit of fog along the coast and also in the usual spots up in the north bay. Temperatures maybe not quite as cool as this morning. A lot of mid to upper 30s. Until you get around san rafael, richmond, oakland, san mateo at 41. Half moon bay at 42. 45 in San Francisco. Heres my accuweather 7day forecast. Around 56 to 60 at the coast all seven days. 62 to 66 around the bay. About 66 to 68 inland. A few clouds in the sky on thursday. Few low clouds on friday. Otherwise push your umbrella back to the closet you wont need it any time soon. Sounds good. Thank you. Ive been looking up synonyms for cyber. And . Its not great out there. Online monday. Digital monday. Computer monday. How about just another manic monday . Love it. Yeah. Exactly. Thats what this is for sure. All right. Next, the 7 things to know this morning. And an unexplained metal sculpture that popped up in utah has now disappeared. The growing buzz this morning. And was we fight the coronavirus pandemic california is mandating face masks to stop the spread. Abc7 wants welcome back. Its 5 22. If youre just joining us, heres the 7 things to know this morning. Number one, San Francisco and san mateo are now in the purple tier. That means a curfew starting tonight from 10 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. For nonessential businesses. It lasts until at least december 21st. Number two, Santa Clara County implemented a mandatory twoweek quarantine for travelers coming into the county from 150 miles or more away. Essential workers, people passing way and people getting hospital treatment are exempt. Moerderna will ask for emergency for its vaccine today. Will have his First Security briefing today. It comes after he sprained his ankle walking his dog yesterday. Santa rosa, 68 today, inknee nine degrees warmer than average. Its quiet out there. We have a drive time leaving the Central Valley of about 45 minutes or so headed from dublin pleasanton over the altamont pass. And number seven, today is expected to be the biggest cybermonday ever. Online sales could reach 13 billion. Analysts say the deepest discounts will be on toys, electronics and appliances. In todays gma first look, a mysterious metal sculpture that showed up in the utah desert is creating more buzz this morning. Heres will reeve. In this morning gma first look, what is happening with that strange structure in a utah desert. We showed up, there was nothing there. For a moment we were just in disbelief, like what is happening . Its really scary. I was nervous. Earli

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