Joining us. This monday morning november 9th, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher with the sunshine behind us here in the live picture. But its only a war was going to say its not going to do you much good told this morning as you step outside chat with john about frigid temperatures were seeing out there. Yes stepping outside to the frigid sunshine guys for sure this morning even though we are looking at abundant sunshine all across the bay with no cloud cover nor fog we are certainly seeing our coldest morning that weve had in months and months across the bay. Resulting in some frost advisories, clear skies from berkeley looking all the way out towards the bay you can see in the north bay we do have a mix of both frost advisories and then that deeper bluish purple, those are freeze warnings in northern solano and then up into lake counties now as far as the light blue, the frost advisories that we have a marine sonoma and napa counties will last through 09 00am this morning. And its pretty easy to see why we have them when you take a look at our temperatures. Dublin and the san anselmo year each sitting at 31 degrees right now santa rosa, having fallen into the upper 20s now at 28 degrees so temperatures are quite cold as youre getting out their bundle up i know that a lot of us are stepping outside this morning and. Just feel as temperatures for the first time as you get outside for start of the workweek and it is a little bit of a shock to your senses and after the mild weather that weve had so far this fall seem to want to bundle up and get ready for it now as youre also getting outside this morning you got to know what to expect with traffic and its not looking too bad out there actually not bad at all its sort of a slight improvement compared to like 30 minutes ago john by dont know its going stay like its going to stay this nice alive if i were checking in on the bay bridge yeah about 2530 minutes ago we had a heavier traffic into San Francisco you can see its stocking up right there from the 80 overcrossing thats not bad at all we had an accident at the fremont street exit that was lingering for a while its gone so pockets of crowding on the upper deck you can handle 12 minutes into San Francisco. The only big problem is an old problem it happened in the 4 oclock hour possibly caused by fanned in the road in that call several folks to spin west for at mckeown right at the crockett martinez border we still have lanes blocked there calling in sweepers to get this all cleaned up to lots of sand lots of debris scattered across highway 4 they have yet to get out of the way on the pittsburg bay point any oxide of highway 4 looks really good just a little bit of crowding coming down the hill there 18 minutes for the drive off to conquer it will check more drive times and freeways coming up back to you thank you robin, so our big story this morning president elect joe biden pushing forward with solidifying his new administration by announcing a new Coronavirus Task force this morning up President Trump is not giving up he wont concede says he plans new lawsuits to be filed. To challenge the results john fund has the latest. President trump returning to the white house after golfing sunday, giving his supporters 2 thumbs up one day after losing the election to joe biden former president George W Bush congratulated president elect biden and acknowledged mister trumps right to pursue legal challenges while also saying in a statement the American People can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair its integrity will be upheld and its outcome is clear President Trump should not concede, but not all republicans agree and some are urging the president to challenge the results. We have a process for ascertaining the truth which is that you can go and present evidence and test it. In a court of law in this case could very easily. And up at the u. S. Supreme court while President Trump is refusing to concede the election mister biden is moving forward announcing plans to name a new Coronavirus Task force on monday. I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advice. College planning. Converter and no actual blueprint that will start on january the 20th 2021. It will be built on bedrock science and unveiling his official transition website, which lays out immediate executive actions aimed at strengthening the economy and reversing Many Trump Administration policies, the president continues to make baseless claims online that the election was stolen from them post that twitter flagged as false or misleading. Hes also claiming without evidence widespread voter fraud we cant back you blindly. Without evidence and if they dont come forward with the with the proof. Then its time to move on most legal experts say the president s lawsuits wont succeed in changing the results of the election these legal challenges that trump is bringing are basically meritless. And even if they had merit which the vast majority of them do not. They would result in the overturning of the election but biden is winning by 10s of thousands of votes in all of the relevant states is a legal challenges are going to have an effect john kron 4 news. Well Vice President elect Kamala Harris also making history as well becoming the first woman. And woman of color to hold that office shes a bay area native as we know born in berkeley grew up in oakland and over the weekend people gathered outside of a childhood home to write messages on the sidewalk celebrating her and during her victory speech saturday night. The Vice President elect said that she while she is the first a woman to hold that office she says she will not be the last. Fact we heard from one local family about the importance of harris in the white house. I just think about growing up you know i didnt really get see women in powerful roles and so impacted my self esteem yeah, ive seen makes it pretty scary to think about my daughters and their generation growing up with. Such powerful role model and that the powerful place though what do you think about. Pamela harris in the white house. I think he is. Shell need to think this made to be there. Yeah. California one of 36 states by the way where if a senate seat opens up its the governor who points a new senator to fill that seat in this case, the interim senator will serve until Kamala Harris a seat comes up for reelection and thats in a couple years in 2022. You see governor newsome has revealed who is considering but there are several names that have bubble to the top here you see congresswoman karen bass from southern california. Theres also congressman adam schiff. Mayor elect our city and then secretary of state, alex padilla who you see there by the way of pda is chosen. He would become the first latino senator in california history. Breaking news this morning there is a breakthrough in the search for a vaccine for covid the drug maker pfizer says their studies show that their vaccine is 90 affective and before this you remember the at doctor fauci had said that the vaccine when it was 50 or 60 effective that be good enough so 90 means that this will be great for all of us who are waiting for a vaccine around the world. 43,000 people have been involved in the pfizer study and they say theyve seen no safety concerns. And that they should be able to get am. Approval from the maybe at the end of the month. So theyre going to be asking for that emergency approval and maybe well actually be able to get a vaccine. By new years senator will see theres a difference between getting the approval to that shot in the arm, they say that 6 months so its a long time to produce enough doses to us. Vaccinated most american meantime in the east bay, 3 Elementary Schools in berkeley are able to welcome students back in squall Group Starting this morning. Yes bring your masks because of course those will be required no other covid safety guidelines in place as well weve got kron fours will tran on the story for us live in front one of those 3 schools right now with more on what parents and students need to know he will. Bring your mask bring your gloves being your scarf because it is cold this morning, the lights are on right behind me at Malcolm X Elementary School to other schools in berkeley Elementary Schools, of rosa parks and jefferson they are getting ready to welcome about 24 students at each school back. There are obviously more Elementary Schools in berkeley, but they decided these are the 3 that will start off. The reason being the Public Health department and Berkeley Unified School district they believe the city as a whole is doing such a good job with covid19 that they are giving the blessing to go ahead and bring the kids back they sent out the invitation to a lot of parents out there but many parents chose not to bring their kids back just yet thinking covid19. Simply too scary for them at this time, however there are parents who say it is time for their children to be back one component and i did this story when the pandemic started james and area. Lets face it a lot of parents want their kids back because they have work to do this has been a hardship on parents as well to watch the kids as they were doing online work. But now they will be face to face in about an hour and a half with their teachers. Finally back to you. All right, thanks a lot. Well. Time now 7. 10 still ahead on the kron 00 00am morning news long time jeopardy host alex trebeks passed away over the weekend. Well take a look back at his career hosting that beloved quiz show for more than 30 years. And we are off to a frigid start this monday morning. We do have nice sunny skies, look forward to later today, though with daytime highs eventually in the upper 50s to low 60s. Ive got your current numbers and what else to expect still ahead. And its getting pretty busy on our bridges, heres a live look at the bay bridge commute into San Francisco bit of a wait for you here on 80 and crowding on other bridges to so little think those drive times for you coming up. Did you know that geicos whole 15 minutes thing. That came from me. Really. My first idea was in one quarter of an hour, your savings will tower. Over you. Figuratively speaking. But thats not catchy, is it . Thats not going to swim about in your brain. So i thought, what about. 15 minutes. 15 percent. Serendipity. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. garage door opening it is his passionlove. 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That were still in the midst of right now you look outside the show clear skies at least as were kicking off this monday morning, nice inviting look over the east bay there you see purple areas on this map. Those are freeze warnings that are in effect right now for northern Solano County and up into lake county of course on to the Central Valley too. Across much of the bay area, especially the north that lighter blue are frost advisories former in sonoma and napa counties. One look at temperatures, its pretty easy to see why weve got them double and youre sitting at 32 right now livermore at 33 well some 40s right along the bay or coldest of temperatures are in the north bay with santa rose at 28 degrees right now Nevado Petaluma each at 34 degrees will send at 31 so very chilly start. I hope you got the plants covered because they are definitely feeling the cold this morning and you will be too is you venture outside hopefully with that extra jacket robin standing by with a look at traffic and its not looking bad at all of the golden gate. Love that new this morning it looks good right so far the golden gate is one of the easy bridges but. We do have some crowding out there so they all dont like this fantastic, but off to one o one of this is a part of your commute you wont have any problems here and easy 20 minutes rolling south nevado to the toll plaza and then we have commutes like this were checking 80 into San Francisco and i told you that we have another wave of busy traffic coming in and there it is so its been off and on it will pick up it will slow that down 14 minutes and growing for the drivein and ill give you one more Richmond Sandra fell stop and go traffic here west 5. 80 from castro 2 minute span james darya. All right rob, thank you very much so some breaking news this morning. A potential breakthrough in the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine with drug maker pfizer saying that its initial studies show their vaccine is 90 effective and we have just learned that 3 doctors with ties to ucsf. Have been named to president elect joe bidens Coronavirus Taskforce kron 4 Sarah Stinson standing by live at ucsf with more on the story good morning sara. Yeah good morning and a huge morning for coronavirus big developments in our fight to defeat this pandemic defeat this virus and now we know 3 doctors that are professors here at ucsf have been named as a part of this brand new task force war. President elect joe biden take a look we have their pictures for you and some information about these 3 doctors including doctor David Kessler professor at ucsf and former food and Drug Administration commissioner has been named a cochair on the task force and a member of the task force is doctor robert reich. As whos a professor of emergency medicine at ucsf and another member of the task force is a doctor eric goosby in an internationally recognized expert. On Infectious Diseases and professor of medicine here at ucsf he was also a founding director of the care act during the Clinton Administration huge ties from the bay area joining this task force with the goal again to defeat the coronavirus we talked with a doctor here at ucsf about this huge accomplishment for represent represent ers of this university. But one of the things that am so excited about with biden coming into office is he will choose competent people and he will listen to them and thats not been the experience over the last 4 years which is partly why were in the mess that were in so i think this is a terrific start and i think youll see that task force begin to come out with recommendations now the problems of course he does not control the levers of power for another 2 months, but he does have the opportunity to begins setting an agenda and on things like getting people to wear masks and distancing and things like that. Hopefully he will compete he will create a competing narrative to the one thats been coming out of the Current Administration and people would begin to trust that these are the right recommendations that the evidence is behind them and if we follow them it will save a lot of lives and were seeing and were hearing about big developments that have been made on a vaccine drug maker pfizer says the vaccine theyre working on maybe 90 of affected at preventing covid19. The fda has made it clear that any vaccine must be at least 50 effective so this is already surpassing that by a lot know biden has responded to the great news congratulating the people who produce this breakthrough. 43,000 volunteers got there 2 doses of the vaccine or a placebo. Pfizer says so far no participants in the study have become severely ill. The company is on track to file an emergency use application with the fda later this month so really moving fast and theyre seeing some great progress on that front were nowhere near being done with this pandemic unfortunately, but at least now were one step closer to this vaccine reporting live in San FranciscoSarah Stinson kron 4 news. Thanks a lot era. Well heres a look at the latest coronavirus numbers for california and the bay area statewide are cases now are up at 976,000 cases and growing california deaths. Now nearly 18,004 the bay area 123,000 almost a 124,000