Changes hell make starting on day one. And the latest signs of the growing covid surge across the u. S. As hopeful new information comes in about a leading candidate in the search for a vaccine. And a very good monday morning, a chilly start to our day. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. We have to start with these cold temperatures. Kari, will it be cold throughout the day . Yes, and were looking at well below normal temperatures setting records for lows this morning. Were going to have more of these frosty mornings and cool afternoons over the next few days and were also tracking some more rain set to move in by the end of the week. I want to show you what youre going to feel as you step out the door. Check out concord, now 32 degrees. Freezing in a lot of spots. Well talk about whats ahead in the forecast. Thats coming up in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking getting throughout the commute around the bay area . Kari, im worried about folks heading across the bay bridge into San Francisco as its right there on the map. The bay bridge toll plaza west 80. Slowed things down for the metering lights. Its already starting to recover getting into San Francisco. I think that crash has cleared but the metering lights will be on for the rest of the morning commute. Slowing has cleared but smaller crashes. Well check on each of those. Over to you. Just north of there, mike, some breaking news this morning. A live look at san leandro where firefighters are in the midst of battling a fire at the Georgia Pacific paper plant. You see there still smoking. Firefighters still on the scene. Firefighters tell us that new Cardboard Boxes are on fire. No structures are burning. Firefighters should be out there all day and drivers may be able to see the smoke or even the glow from the fire during the morning commute. Our bob redell is there and will have a live report at the bottom of the hours. And happening today the hard work begins for joe biden and Kamala Harris as they launch the president ial Transition Team. Nbc projected bidens win in pennsylvania early saturday. The count now has biden with more than nine electoral votes, thats more than the 270 that he needs. His margin of victory could further widen as the final votes are counted. Biden continues to hold the lead over President Trump in georgia and arizona. Joe biden and Vice President elected Kamala Harris starting with the highest priority, the coronavirus pandemic. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us live with a look at some of the challenges that theyre facing. Good morning, tracie . Reporter hi, good morning. Well, one will be to fill this administration with people. Were told by an official with the biden transition that they have identified thousands of people to fill federal jobs, many do not need senate confirmation. Also the new Coronavirus Task force to advise the president elect the chairs named just this morning. The biden transition starts with a Coronavirus Briefing this morning. Hell be making announcements to the American People about how hes going to make good on these campaign promises. Reporter president elect biden naming new members to his task force making remarks on the virus and the economy, working on a plan to begin january 20th. That plan will be built on bedrock science, constructed out of compassion, empathy and concern. Reporter the Trump Campaign is promising a new round of lawsuits today challenging Election Results. In nevada they claim dead people voted and machines could not verify signatures. The voter rolls had a lot of improper voters and we pointed out that the signature verification process were simply not going to protect the system. Reporter President Trump tweeting since when does the lame stream media determine who our next president will be. Candidates have the ability to reflect a recount after the election. We are preparing for that. Reporter some republicans are warning the president to tone down his language. When you say that the election was corrupt or stolen or rigged, thats unfortunately, rhetoric that gets picked up by authoritarians around the world. Reporter republicans pressing the president to back up allegations. Show us. Until you show us, we cant do this. We cant back you blindly without evidence. Reporter so far theres not much. Lets talk about the trump team. The Campaign Team thats now focusing on these battleground states. They are trying to raise money for the lawsuit, more again expected to be announced today and also officials tell us they will be putting together row count rallies in several of these battleground states. Back to you. Thank you, tracie. Always a busy time in washington. Former president george w. Bush has congratulated president elected joe biden and Kamala Harris. The only former living republican president appears to be breaking with his partys line releasing a statement reading in part, though we have political differences, i know joe biden to be a good man who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country. The president elect reiterated while he ran as a democrat he will govern for all americans. I offered him the same thing. I offered President Trump and obama my prayers for his success and my pledge to help in any way i can, unquote. Just head to nbcbayarea. Com and click on decision 2020 news in our trending bar. State Health Leaders rolling out new expanded technology to control the spread of the coronavirus. The mobile app ca notify started in midseptember at two uc campuses. It notifies the user who has been exposed to someone with covid19. The project will now cover seven campuses, google and apple designed the app. Ten days is all it took for the u. S. To move from 9 million to 10 million cases. The u. S. Passed the new threshold overnight. 240,000 americans have died. The number of deaths approaching 18,000 in california. New this morning, big news in the race for a vaccine. Drug maker pfizer says its vaccine is more than 90 effective and plans to ask the food and Drug Administration for emergency authorization of the two dose vaccine later this month saying its seen no serious safety and Health Concerns and plans to have enough vaccine to immunize 15 million to 20 million poem. 11 vaccines in the late stage trials including four in the united states. 6 08 right now. Bundle up. As kari has been talking about this wintry blast. It was expected but, still, certainly wakes you up this morning. This is going to make it hard for a lot of businesses. Theyre trying to get going again after all the covid shutdowns. Who wants to eat outside when its so cold. Kris sanchez has a look at how restaurants are handling it. It is very tough. You want to support them but its chilly out there. Reporter it is. We should rename it al fresco to al frigid. I had to dig out my gloves and make sure i was wearing a warmer coat this morning. A lot of businesses are doing what they can to adjust to the changing weather as well. They are working to do things like add heaters and having to track those down. A shortage of and reinforcing Outdoor Dining tents against the wind so they dont lose them when the wind gusts pick up. Diners will have to decide whether its better to expose themselves to the elements outside or potentially expose themselves to more covid risk by dining inside. I definitely wont be standing or eating outside for sure. Our choice is to go in because of the weather. Reporter salons and gyms are dealing with the same challenges as restaurants. Limited indoor capacity and also theyre trying to show their clients that they can meet their needs in the outdoor setting even as the weather starts to turn. The head of the white house Coronavirus Task force, dr. Anthony fauci, is warning that cold weather could bring spikes of coronavirus cases nationwide as people start to gather indoors. Weve certainly already seen that in the colder climates like on the east coast. Last week and here in santa clara county, 358 new infections were added. And six more people died of covid. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Certainly the cold weather will keep a lot of people indoors today. The best choice for you today. Sunshine will help make it feel better. Kids home schooling, youre looking for those chances to get outside the mid to upper 50s. About the best well do today in san jose. Tracking the temperatures in the forecast coming up. Lets head over to you. One of the crashes in san jose is causing slowing. The bottom of the map north 101 around alum rock. The exit there is causing slowing there. Ill get lane information but a smooth drive aside from that crash. Slow still. Caltrans is on scene so that will cause more slowing until they can clear all that debris. A smooth drive on the approach. The span itself we have some slowing as you head off the fremont exit. The good news is no injuries. It should clear. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 12. Up next on today in the bay Tropical Storm eta batters south florida overnight. The latest on the damage done ahead. Laura told you about the vaccine news. Wall street is just thrilled. Lets go out to the futures. Even the dogs are excited this morning. Theyre howling. Look at the dow futures. Thats just amazing. Plus, just in time for christmas, oprahs favorite things list is out. The bay area product making the cut. Right now at 6 15, a live look at the drive through dublin and our morning commute starting out very chilly. Were needing to turn on the heater and to make sure youre bundled up. Were going to see temperatures in the mid30s to start. Were only going to make it into the upper 50s here today. Well talk about whats ahead in our forecast and more rain coming up in a few minutes. Traffic is moving smoothly past it. Sounds like theyre on the shoulder. The bay bridge toll plaza, we see traffic shifting in lanes. The middle lane moving well. And good morning. A very happy and chilly monday to you as well. Even if you dont have a retirement account, stop and take a look. The futures, the bet on how the markets will do on the open, theres a comma in it. You will not see that very often. Now all of this news, the reason behind this is pfizer this morning says its trial vaccine prevents infection in more than 90 of the patients studied. It is not clear how long it will last. Fizzer says they could give the first two doses by next month. Even President Trump was tweeting about it saying such great news. Now to his credit it must be frustrating that the news came out almost exactly a week too late for his campaign. He the vaccine was not part of the governments warp speed effort. Pfizer chose not to take federal money and participate in that program. Now the pandemic, of course, hit airlines very hard. Norwegian air says its future is uncertain. Its flying 21 airplanes now having grounded more than 100. It used to fly out of the bay area with really low fares but now concentrates on europe. Tracking all the things joe biden will need to do this monday morning until hes sworn in as the next president. Hes talking about getting a coronavirus stimulus passed. In some ways it may be easier that he seems to have stopped getting involved in that effort. Republicans and democrats still seem far apart on that issue. And virgin hyper loop has successfully tested its hyper Loop Technology with human passengers and employees. It went about a third of a mile in a few seconds because thats how long the tube they were traveling in was built. This thing reminds me, i dont know, ive been a californian for 25 years, Something Like that. I grew up in the midwest and i dont know if they have them out here, remember the tubes you used to use in the bank . Yeah. We used to have them here. They would give you little dolls. And a good interest rate. Remember gas stations when they would come and pump your gas . For sure, check your oil. When i was 15 exactly. Thanks, scott. Were dating ourselves. Lets move on. I dont remember any of that. 6 19 right now. Bay area businesses certainly worried about the pandemics impact on the bottom line this holiday season. A new study published finds nearly seven in ten people have no plans to increase their spending at local merchants. Half dont plan to change Holiday Spending habits at all. Just 9 plan to slightly increase some of their spending. If youre looking for a gift over the holidays look no further than oprahs favorite things list which the magazine just released. Two bay area businesses made that list. The first one is motherland gift collection which is coffee beans from an oaklandbased red bay Coffee Company. The second is a cast iron dutch oven. I bet if you go to the Coffee Company today. You could get something nice and warm. Laura has that idea. Im working on my second cup of coffee. Me, too. Trying to stay warm. Even inside the house it is very cold. Lets take a look at our live view in San Francisco as the sun rises and its such a beautiful start to our morning. All the colorful hues in the sky. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s. This is where were headed today. Its going to be pretty cool. Jacket weather even into the afternoon. It will feel nice and sunshine that were going to see throughout the day and some lighter winds. As we go to the end of the week ill be tracking more rain. Really excited to see these storm systems move in because e bewe are in an extreme doubt. The first round but then another one moving in between friday night and saturday. And this one looks to bring in some pretty decent amounts of rainfall and as it moves through from north to south some of the highest rain chances and rain totals will be in the north bay. So i just wanted to give you early estimates of what the computer models are showing and this may change as the week goes along and we get closer to the event but as of right now its showing the possibility throughout the weekend of over an inch of rain for the north bay. You head south and we can see close to half an inch of rain, so that looks good there. We are also looking forward to some more sierra snow. We went straight from summer to winter here in the sierra because now were looking at some snowfall totals that may reach over a foot of snow. Just in case youre wondering what to expect over the next couple of weeks we could see some above normal rainfall and some below normal temperatures for the bay area going into the next two weeks so not seeing a pretty big warmup here. Were going to stay nice and cool with highs mostly in the 60s. We can see that as we go into the next seven days and some off and on rain chances. Right now, mike, getting out the door its all about cranking up the heaters. A look at the bay bridge toll plaza, the metering lights are on. Over on the San Francisco side, the map shows you slowing from Treasure Island down into the fremont exit as well. An earlier crash has activity there. A car hit a guardrail. No injuries but a distraction. No problem for the east shore freeway but getting there technically an alert from martinez, gravel and sand across lanes. Caltrans trying to clear that from time to time. They do have lanes accessible to get across. The rest of the bay shows a smooth drive. The earlier crash in san jose, 101 is clear on the shoulder. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. It is 6 23 right now. Gone but never forgotten, up next remembering the life and legacy of iconic jeopardy host alex trebek. Theres no bad time to start at amazon. I like the flexibility. It also allows for picking up shifts. Safety comes first, speed comes second. Safety. Safety. Safety. Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. This is jeopardy. Who was the greatest Game Show Host . Hard to process alex trebek died yesterday. Trebek was born in canada, achieving his greatest fame in america becoming a u. S. Citizen in 1998. He died at the age of 80. Surrounded by family and friends 20 months since he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The news of his death brought people together at his star on the hollywood walk of fame. Visitors took photos and placed flowers there. Producers say episodes taped will continue to air through christmas day. He spent his last day in the studio just on october 29th, ten days before his death. He will be missed. Happening now for you Tropical Storm eta still gaining strength. This is after making landfall in the florida keys overnight. A look at where that storm is right now. A live look in miami for you. Forecasters warn eta could bring a lot more rain and strong strength because it could become a hurricane. Overnight parts of the state bringing some strong winds and heavy rains, even triggering rescues along some of those roadways. Coming up next, waiting to see how wall street will react to pfizers new vaccine. Dow futures have skyrocketed nearly 6 . A look at the opening bell next. Fire breaks out at an east bay paper plant. A live report coming up for you on whats causing firefighters the most problems battling those flames. And after winning the world series the Dodgers Organization hit with a covid outbreak. Where authorities are tracing the start. Youre watching today in the bay. garage door opening it is my fathers love. It is his passion it is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. 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