One of your last San Francisco exits. The left lanes are still blocked. Chp trying to get a crew to run the traffic break so they can clear that big rig from the roadway. Wet roadways continue like san leandro. A crash south 880 in the middle lanes. Were watching that and the green highlighting showing damp roadways. Be careful. It is slick out there. Back to you, laura. Thank you very much. Breaking news from pfizer on this Covid Vaccine. They plan to submit vaccine for approval within days and just finished phase three testing and is said to be 95 effective. Pfizer adds effective for older people and has no serious side effects. The Company Expects to make 50 million dose this is year and more than 1 billion by the end of 2021. Last week pfizer initially said its vaccine was 90 effective. On monday moderna said its vaccine was nearly 95 effective. Pfizers vaccine needs to be stored in extremely cold temperatures. Here is perspective on the size of californias recent surge in covid cases. I want to you take a look at this. Back on october 1st we saw nearly 3,600 cases there. The latest state numbers, nearly 8,800. Now thats an increase of nearly 150 . Los angeles county has imposed a curfew to slow the spread. Could the bay area be next . Today in the bays bob redell joins us live. Bob, you have new information about how much Indoor Dining is inntributing to the spike cases. Reporter correct. Good morning to you, laura. A recent study shows fullservice restaurants pose the greatest risk for infection. But first about that curfew. No indication yet the bay area will impose another curfew like we saw earlier this year. Los angeles curfew goes into effect this friday night from 10 00 to 6 00 the next morning for nonessential workers. Dr. Anthony fauci, sits on the president s Coronavirus Task force, spoke virtually while receiving an award from san jose state university. Here are his thoughts on governor newsoms idea of perhaps implementing a curfew in other parts of the state. Sometimes when youre dealing with a seriousness of a situation right now, i leave it up to the good judgment of the leaders of your states and cities to make that. If they make that decision, i certainly think the basis upon which it is sound, i would back that. Reporter stanford scientists, this was a study published in the journal nature found new infections are linked to public places. Fullservice restaurants are the riskiest because theyre more crowded and people stay longer. The study found those locations to be three times as risky as fitness centers, the next riskiest location. Adults who tested positive were twice as likely to have eaten inside a restaurant compared to those who came back negative. An Infectious Disease physician says its crucial people do all they can to slow the spread in the next couple of weeks. Wear a mask and keep your social distance. And if everybody started doing what they needed to do and stuck with it and were consistent with it all the Time Starting from now, in a month there would be very few cases. Reporter california is in its steepest spike of cases yet. People are urged to not have big thanksgiving gatherings next week f. You are, they ask you keep it outdoors. Bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thank you. Turning now to the transition turmoil on capitol hill. A live look this morning at the white house. President trump has fired his top Election Security official chris krebs. The news came on twitter but was expected. Krebs said the president s claims of Election Fraud are not true. Today in the bays tracie potts has more from washington and reaction and a look at president elect joe bidens plan. Reporter the Trump Administration official who called this the most secure election in American History found out on twitter hes been fired. Top u. S. Election security official chris krebs started the rumor control blog debunking president trumps baseless claims of fraud. I do have confidence that the vote is secure, the results will be secure. Reporter the president called him highly inaccurate. Krebs tweeted honor to serve, we did it right. The biden team says he should be commended for his service in protecting our elections not fired for telling the truth. Krebs firing comes as the Trump Administration continues to deny president elect joe bidens classified briefings. Thereso n reason not to be giving former Vice President biden and senator harris the intelligence briefings. Im unable to get the briefings ordinarily that would have come by now. Reporter the president s chief ally reassuring the public. Well have an orderly transfer from this administration to the next one. What we all say about it is, frankly, irrelevant. Reporter biden also shut out of coronavirus planning. The latest report from the White House Task force warns of aggressive, unrelenting, expanding Broad Community spread noting holiday gatherings could make things worse. Tracie potts, nbc news. Georgia is on track to finish its hand recount today and certify the results by friday. Twocounties have uncovered a few thousand extra votes that were tabulated. Joe biden still leading by about 13,000. And its 5 06 this morning and developing for you so far no update from San Francisco police on the man shot by officers yesterday near the busy powell station. Now this happened at about 5 00 p. M. Near the cable car turnaround along market street. Police say officers responded to a fight, a man involved in the fight refused to drop his knife. San Francisco Police officers deployed less lethal weapons also known as extended range impact weapons. A San Franciscos sheriffs deputy was also on scene and deployed a taser. The man was taken to the hospital. Were still working to find out his condition. Police and the d. A. s office are investigating. Today marks 42 years since the Jonestown Massacre and a Memorial Service is planned for tonight in oakland. More than 900 americans died when peoples temple cult leader jim jones ordered his followers to drink koolaid and it was laced with cyanide. It follows the murders of five people at a nearby airstrip where bay area representative Jackie Speier barely escaped with her life. Tonights memorial takes place at Evergreen Cemetery with more than 400 victims are buried. It will also be shown online. Contra costa county is boosting protection for Business Owners struggling to make it in the bay. An eviction ban set to expire this month. Impacted by the pandemic also have protections locked in at least through january. New details on San Franciscos longterm telecommuting plan. The goal was to require bay area employers have 60 of their employees work from home on any given work day. Now leaders are pulling back due to backlash. Slow development of traffic and green transit alternatives and lead to more hardship for lowincome workers who cannot work from home. City transit leaders will push more commuters from cars to other modes of transportation. A live look for you at San Francisco, san jose, walnut creek, fremont. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking every inch and keeping us up to date. How is it looking now . Its looking good. Were still seeing rain this morning. It may slow you down as you head to work. Let me show you where its raining right now. The pockets of heavier rain approaching the trivalley moving through dublin. One of the busy roadways for the morning commute and on 280 heavy rain approaching. Over to East San Jose and were going to see the light rain continuing as it moves into the south bay. Mike, how is that impacting the commute . You talked about wet roads, san leandro off 580, off 880 nearby wet roads and all lanes right now are blocked around davis street. It should be temporary as theres a crash and a disabled vehicle between marina and davis. Thats a big jab and eastbound is your alternate. The wet roads are causing an issue and a broader view theres still the alert for the big rig crash around the fremont exit. I think that traffic break may be clearing soon. Well doublecheck on that. Back to you. Thank you very much. Moving beyond the meat, why stop at burgers . The allnew option from the california veggie food company and the distance youll have to go just to try it. The faa moments ago cleared the 737 max to go back up in the air. Do what we love. Then it wouldnt exist. And this is all people are talking about this morning, the new role, or shall we say, coveted title for actor michael b. Jordan. Well talk about it when we return. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Right now at 5 14 we do still have some rain for parts of the east bay. Were seeing it move into the trivalley. The rain moves out and well get some peeks of sunshine. Rain coming up in a few minutes. And, kari, lets look at 880 southbound. Great news, chp just let us know the two incidents including a crash cleared from lanes. Recovery there southbound 880 heading to davis street. Again, you should see recovery out of oakland. East out of San Francisco and into oakland we still have the crash blocking many lanes. Eastbound 80 at fremont street exit. Well, good morning. A very happy wednesday to you as well. Markets look to push higher this morning after that news that laura brought you that pfizer said it had wrapped up its testing for its Covid Vaccine. The company says perhaps 50 million doses this year. That sounds like a lot but that would only be enough to vaccinate everyone in california and texas. We saw Kamala Harris return to the senate for the first time for the First Time Since she became Vice President elect. She was there to vote against the nomination of a controversial pick for the board of the federal reserve, judy shelton. Shelton is opposed by Many Democrats but lots of republicans and even current members of the fed for her unusual ideas about the economy and her opinion that the fed should be more lyle to the office of the president. Harris vote was enough to sink the nomination for now. The faa cleared the boeing 737 max to fly. Pilots need to be trained. A bay area Drone Company has scored new funding. 50 million says itll move much of its operations to bend, oregon. I spoke with the ceo who says less of a move, more of an expansion. One way or the other the high cost was a factor. The bay area is the most expensive market to live in. So bend is on average 25 che cheaper to set up and establish. Were seeing this a lot with companies. Oftentimes they are moving significant amounts of their operations elsewhere. Back to you. They can save a lot of money, too. 5 17 this morning. And trending for you in an interview with oprah on apple tv plus former president barack obama opens up about going through rough patches with the first lady during their time in the white house. Take a listen to what he had to say. The thing that i think we were good about was talking stuff through, never losing the fundamental love and respect for each other, and prioritizing our kids. The former president wrote about the topic in a promised land. Trending this morning michael b. Jordan has been crowned peoples sexiest man alive. Sorry, marcus. The issue hits newsstands on friday. Jordan tells the magazine being chosen is a cool feeling. Other recent winners include john legend, dwayne johnson, chris hemsworth. Mike inouye was on the short list, too. I came in second. I had to pose. Thats the one on the cover, right . There you go, mike. Make i came in third. Mike might have been second. Its because my first name is michael so im halfway there. Mike inouye, oh, b. Jordan. All right. Lets take a look at our rain thats coming down this morning. This has been great to see. Decent amounts of rain. A look at storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar showing the rain thats moving through in the east bay and parts of the peninsula. I wanted to zoom in on the east bay as weve seen some of the really heavy rain moving through san ramon, extending over back to san leandro and right on 580 some of the busy roadways we have as people head out for the commute. And then weve seen some heavy rain moving through los altos and approaching palo alto. Through the Santa Cruz Mountains where it is pouring right now, but that may affect the commute on 280. Moving over to san jose, some light rain returning to the city right now, and that will be moving over to milpitas in the next few minutes. As we get a look at whats going on and the rain measured, high amounts for places like mt. Tam, 4 inches of rain. Over to santa rosa an inch of rain there. Napa had half an inch of rain and 0. 3 for San Francisco. Almost a quarter inch in the East San Jose and alum rock. And then for Scotts Valley an inch and a half. Almost an inch and a half for mt. Diablo. Looking at the sierra snowfall, weve also measured for the season a couple feet of snow and its still coming down as that winter storm warning continues. Here were looking at the rain tapering off the next few hours but there still may be spotty rain through at least early in the afternoon. The rest of the day will be clearing out as were still looking at some rain chances for parts of the north bay for early in the afternoon, but the rest of the forecast is all dry. Mike, youve been tracking the Traffic Alert. Sounds like its clearing up. The traffic flow is clearing up. The alert is still there. Well go with the flow right now. Chp is busy and getting out of San Francisco where we have this big rig involved crash blocking a majority on the lower deck. Chp was running a traffic break and, again, the Speed Sensors just cleared a couple seconds ago. I think they have cleared that alert. Meanwhile over in san leandro ive circled the crash 880 at davis street. That crash and a disabled vehicle both in the same area cleared between davis and marina. Spectators slowing because theres activity on the shoulder. Watch out because its the area kari is talking about, one of the more recent spots with rain. That green highlighting all around there as well as the peninsula. Shes talking about highway 17 where there are no problems officially reported by chp but wet conditions and dark right now. Be careful heading to or from the summit. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Long lines and growing fears. Next here on today in the bay the steps states are take to go curb the covid outbreak. Plus working 9 00 to 5 00 what a way to make a living the valuable role dolly parton is playing in the search for a vaccine. But first, get on the go updates on the biggest bay area stories by watching our synced in series on facebook and instagram. Welcome back. Its 5 24 for you this morning. And turning back to our pandemic coverage, new restriction goes into effect today in michigan. Everyone there is now required to work from home unless their job must be performed in person. Indoor dining also no longer allowed and all high school and College Classes will happen remotely. Meantime, wisconsin seeing long testing lines as cases spike there. Hundreds of cars waited outside in madison. Starting today indoor gatherings around madison are banned and outdoor gatherings are limited to it ten people. New this morning the Justice Department charging seven people with stealing millions of dollars in covid relief funds. Investigators say they bought Luxury Products including lamborghinis and porsches. The suspects from texas and illinois are being charged with wire fraud. All hail the queen. The beloved Country Music great dolly parton actually has a part in the race for a vaccine. So earlier this year parton donated 1 million to vanderbilts Medical Center which helps fund modernas vaccine development. The Company Revealed early results show its own vaccine is nearly 95 effective. And if dolly has anything to do with it that will make you smile. Move on over, burgers and sausages. Beyond meat has a new alternative pork product. The l. A. Based company is now launching its new plantbased minced pork. Itll debut today in china where pork accounts for about 70 of chinas overall meat consumption. Something else on the menu. At 5 26 right now, coming up next the top stories were following for you incdinglu searching for a replacement. The candidates being considered to take over Kamala Harris senate seat and the groups trying to sway governor Gavin Newsoms decision. Plus, the impact the pandemic is having on homeowners trying to make it in the bay and what it could mean for firsttime home buyers. Well be right back. By harnessing californias abundant wind and solar energy, we have the power to take on climate change. Use less from 4 to 9 pm to keep california golden. Ive gotten more calls today than in the last couple of days. Right now at 5 30 breaking news for you. New hope on the horizon for a vaccine. The latest progress even as covid cases spike in the bay area and across the country. And testing made easy. The Bay Area Company getting th