We are watching this closely as it continues to move through. Its good to see the rain returning. Well track whats ahead as we go into the rest of the afternoon. The chilly air settles in. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, this is having a big impact on the morning commute. It is, kari. A word of caution, leave with plenty of time and the rain and karis green will show up as green on ours a few minutes afterwards. They say its 95 effective. Pfizer adds the vaccine is 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 doses by the end of 2021. Pfizer said it was 90 effective and then on monday moderna said nearly 95 effective. Pfizers vaccine does need to be stored in extremely cold temperatures. Now this Morning Live Team coverage on all the covid19 developments overnight. More word on curfews. Cierra, if this is true and it works, this could be revolutionary. Reporter good morning, yes, this test could be a game changer as we work to slow the spread. Lucira just got emergency to go ahead. You would swab your nose, then swirl the swab in a vial and place it in a portable device. You are able to receive the test results within 30 minutes, again, at your home. This test is considered rapid, is expected to cost 50. There is a catch, you will need a prescription to get the test. The test could be available as early as the spring, so some big news coming out of emeryville from a local east bay company in the fight against covid19. Were live in emoeryvillmeryvil. Cierra johnson for today in the bay. Now lets check in with bob redell live in livermore this morning. Bob, you have word something a lot of people dont want to hear, the word curfew. Reporter correct, something were hearing about in los angeles. Fortunately no indication yet that theres going to be a curfew here in the bay area. The los angeles curfew does go into effect starting this friday night starting at 10 00 until 6 00 in the morning for nonessential workers. Dr. Anthony fauci spoke virtually last night while receiving an award from san jose state university. Here are his thoughts on governor newsoms ideas of perhaps implementing a curfew in other parts of the state to combat covid. Sometimes when youre dealing with a seriousness of the situation right now i leave it up to the good judgment of the leaders of your states and your cities to make that. If they make that decision, i certainly think the basis upon which it is sound i would back that. Reporter a recent study by stanford scientists published in the nature journal found the majority of new covid19 infections are linked to public places. Full Service Restaurants are more crowded, people stay there longer. The study found those locations tend to be three times as risky as fitness centers. A cdc report says adults tested positive were twice as likely to have eaten inside a restaurant as compared to those who came back negative. Its crucial that people do all they can to slow the spread, wear a mask and maintain social distance. If everybody did 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. If youre going to have thanksgiving gatherings next week, keep it outdoors. Bob redell, today in the bay. You can find the latest roll back information along with case numbers on our website. Nbcbayarea. Com and click on coronavirus updates at the top. So far no updates from San Francisco police on the man shot by officers yesterday near the busy powell street station. Now this happened about 5 00 p. M. Near the cable car turnaround along market street. Officers responded to a fight there. 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. The San Francisco sheriffs deputy was on scene and deployed a taser. We know the man was taken to the hospital. Were working on finding out what his condition is. Police and the d. A. s office are investigating. And 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 laced with cyanide following the murder 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 where more than 400 victims are buried and will also be shown online. Pg e is facing a new lawsuit tied to last years kincade fire in the north bay. Sonoma county and towns including healdsburg and windsor are included in the suit which alleges negligence. Cal fire determined faulty transmission lines near geyserville sparked it. Pg e says crews inspected the lines multiple times in 2019 adding it has not yet seen cal fires report. In the meantime pg e is reportedly issued a final report. A watchdog recently recommended the utility be fined 166 million for widespread outages and in some cases lack of advanced notice. The press democrat reports they have six days to respond. Time to get a look at the forecast for you. Of course we know that rain has been sticking around here in the bay area. Kari says its moving out. We can see the wide view of whats happening across the region as we are still seeing the showers, the snow is still coming down in the sierra and winter storm warning continues until 6 00 this evening and weve seen quite a bit of snow there but the season totals have been up to about 24 inches and were still adding up on that so well have these changes as we go into today looking at sierra tahoe. Two feet of snow so looking pretty good there. Well talk about whats going on re in the bay area coming up in a few minutes. Mike, the roads are slick as we are starting out with rain. Thats a great warning you gave yesterday and this morning. What ive circled here the Castro Valley y. A lot of early slowing we havent seen for months over there. Its making folks slow down, which is the wise thing to do. A typical pattern but notice the green highlighting around the south bay, as kari said, slick roadways, a crash around capitol expressway may be affecting the intersection and 17 south coming off 85, a spinout and slowing here on the Richmond Bridge. We are looking at a light volume. Look at that for 580 west heading into the north bay. Back to you. 6 10 for you that morning. As president obama opens up next for you the marriage struggles he reveals to oprah during his time in the white house. Plus a ticket to ride. The faa just approved the 737 max to fly again. Lets go out to the futures where theyre up on the news laura was talking about with the vaccine finishing from pfizer finishing its clinical trials. Right now at 6 13 a look at storm ranger tracking some rain moving through, san jose, mi milpitas and the wet weather will linger. Ill be tracking this with a look at how much weve already measured. Well take a look at how much we have at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lanes full and wet pavement there. That makes the span much more smooth. Wet lens, wet road, rain recently fell through here and the silicon valley. A smoother drive but, again, watch the transition ramps. Good morning. A very happy wednesday to you as well. Markets look to push higher after that news that laura brought you that pfizer said it had wrapped up its testing of vaccine for covid. They hope for 50 million dose this is year which sounds like a lot but would not cover the populations of california and texas. Production and distribution is the next challenge. We saw Kamala Harris return to the senate for the First Time Since she became the Vice President elect. Video of her outside the chamber yesterday. 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, even current members of the fed for her unusual ideas about the economy and her opinion that the fed should be more loyal to the office of the president of the united states. Harris vote was enough to sink the nomination at least for now. The faa cleared the 737 from boeing, the 737 max, to fly again. Though it will be some time before you are booked to fly on one because pilots will need to be trained on the changes made after two fatal crashes. A bay areabased Drone Company has scored new funding, 50 million worth, and says it will move much of its operations to bend, oregon. I spoke with the company ceo who says its less of a move than it is an expansion into oregon. One way or the other the high cost of making it in the bay was definitely a factor. Obviously the bay area is the most expensive market to live in. Bend is on average 25 cheaper for us to set up and establish. Were seeing this a lot with companies, marcus and laura, in which they are moving some employees or many employees away. They keep their headquarters here but thats happening in a lot of areas. Thanks, scott. Move over, burgers and sausages. Beyond meat has a new alternative pork product. The l. A. Based company is launching its new plantbased minced pork. Itll debut today in china where pork accounts for about 70 of chinas overall meat consumption. 6 16 right now. Trending this morning in an interview with oprah on apple tv plus, former president barack obama opens up about going through some rough patches with the first lady during his time in the white house. Take a listen to this. 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. Mr. Obama says that he went on to write about the topic in his just released memoir called a promised land. It actually sounds like they had a great marriage. Back to our coverage of the rain this morning. Our storm ranger busy tracking it. A live look this morning at the Golden Gate Bridge as well. Oh, yes, certainly wet out there. Although its been very pleasant to have the in. Ra its much needed. Ive been talking to people. What i do miss are those warm, rainy days living in the south. I like to sit out and watch the rain. It was a little bit cool for me, kari. How about the cool rainy days . Is that enough . Were getting those right now. Were seeing that rain moving through right now. We started with highs in the mid70s. Today low 60s and were still seeing lingering showers this morning. Storm ranger tracking it all. To coco county where we are seeing rain moving through brentwood and discovery bay, moving right over mt. Diablo as well in some of the hills in the east bay while the south bay is also getting another good soaking. We didnt get a lot of this measurable rain in downtown san jose so its good were getting the last round moving through right now. Lets take a look at our rainfall totals. Now mt. Tam has made it over 4 inches of rain and in santa rosa weve had an inch and a tenth. In napa weve had about 0. 6 of an inch there. Almost half an inch in San Francisco and in East San Jose in alum rock a quarter inch. The airport only 0. 04 of an inch. Measurable rain and looking like a good soaking for the Santa Cruz Mountains with an inch and threequarters and mt. Diablo, Berkeley Hills over an inch. Livermore has had almost a quarter inch of rain so its still coming down. Thats great news. The rain will be winding down for today. As we go into the afternoon were only looking at a couple spotty showers for the rest of the morning for parts of the north bay and then most of us will see drier weather moving in as the day goes along. Up to about 60 degrees in san jose. As we go through the forecast well see the fog rolling in tomorrow but after this round of rain its dry and it looks like that dry weather continues into early next week, possibly through thanksgiving. Its that close. As we get a look at San Franciscos forecast some upper 50s today. Off and on showers early, fog tomorrow and then sunshine and highs in the 60s throughout the rest of the forecast. Mike, this has had a really big impact on the roads this morning making it quite slick for the commute. Yeah, kari, but its a different problem because lighter traffic, of course, during the quarantine. Folks are having higher speed. Watch those speeds, folks. As we get out to the roadway a look at the green. The highlighting shows the expansion where the rain hits, as kari talked about the peninsula did get some rain recently and over in the trivalley some slowing, unusual slowing at the Castro Valley y. Some related to the rain that came through san leandro early in the commute. Now theres a disabled vehicle northbound as you transition to 880 both north and south. You know that flyover for folks, a smooth drive. Just watch for that disabled vehicle. Heading to the bay bridge, the smooth, easy flow of traffic. Minor flooding off i80 and 101 and the 580 interchange. An easy flow of traffic here. This is palo alto. Back to you. All right. Thanks so much. Marcus, an important story is straight ahead. The Mental Health of our kids as they cope through covid with home schooling and not being around their friends. Theyre certainly dealing with a lot. A story everyone should Pay Attention to is next for you right here on today in the bay. Come experience the grand opening of floor and decors newest location in the east bay area our expansive store is fully equipped with safe distancing guides, so you can browse our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. Or easily order online, and pick up all the products you need for your flooring project curbside so come discover the perfect floor at the perfect price in whatever way is perfect for you. Floor and decor, now open in san leandro for safe instore shopping and curbside pickup. Also open in milpitas and burlingame. Welcome back to you. 6 23. Here is something your child may be struggling with, their Mental Health during the pandemic. The findings are spearheaded by the partners foundation, an organization founded by first partner Jennifer Newsom and its finding that teens are experiencing loss due to School Closures and social isolation. Always talking to people, socializing. Its a big part of what makes me happy. I cant do that as much. Starting this month Santa Clara County plans to launch a new Virtual Program aimed at bringing Mental Health services to ages 12 to 25. Its already launched in two clinics including one in palo alto. Reporter kate snow will have the full story on the today show right after today in the bay at 7 00 a. M. I know my kids desperately miss their friends and thankful at least they have each other. Absolutely of good for them. As an only child, good for them. 6 25. A san jose firefighter is going viral after surprising his daughter after fighting on the front lines on some of the states wildfires. How are you . I missed you. I missed you. He spen nearly a month away from his family. Catching his daughter by surprise. They told Kelly Clarkson the separation was tough. It impacted her. We got to talk every night before she went to bed so she was always asking when are you coming home . The big surprise this afternoon here on nbc bay area. Birds of a feather flock together. These pink flamingos are no exception. A large flock stopped by a lake in northern kazakhstan during their seasonal migration. They huddled together on the surface. Its protective in the nature preserve. Making their way south of kazakhstan. The weather is getting colder there. I bet she loved editing this. Youre welcome. Put those on her front lawn. Much more ahead for you this morning. 6 26 for you right now. Not over yet. Coming up, believe it or not, more covid restrictions are going into place today in the bay area. Well tell you where and what is now off limits. Reporter and coming up on today in the bay drug maker pfizer revealing their drug is actually more effective than they initially thought. Ill have that story coming up. Youre watching today in the bay. Right now at 6 30, breaking news on the vaccine front. Another pharmaceutical bombshell from overnight. Pfizer says its vaccine is more effective than first thought. A Bay Area Company behind a revolutionary takehome covid test. The developments on both fronts. And a good wednesday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Our other big story this morning is the rain. More than 3 inches falling in some spots. More coming down right now as well. A live look at sfo and our live Doppler Radar thats powered by storm ranger. And rain here, snow in the sierras, this is a good little soaking that were getting, kari. So great to see it moving through. Were tracking it with storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar, as the rain is moving through the south bay and parts of the east bay. We can see where we do have pockets of heavier rain moving through East San Jose, lighter rain down to the south county as well as morgan hill and gilroy. Thats a live look at san jose. Its a soggy start this morning. Chilly temperatures today and the lingering showers for the morning hours. The rest of the forecast is dry and cool. So well talk more about that coming up in a few minimum. Mike has been tracking how this has been impacting your commute. Kari, for folks who are traveling to the sierra we did have chain requirements and a closure for 80 between truckee and the summit for times overnight. 80 closer to the bay bridge toll plaza and the approach after the berkeley curve. We know we can expect metering lights on right