Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Thats due to more restrictive measures being instituted in california and other states to help stem the growing tide of covid19 cases. Today, the cdc announced its recommending against travel for the holiday. Ktvu southbound reporter jesse gary picks it up from there. Reporter with a week before thanksgiving, air travel is light at Oakland International and other bay area airports. We just wanted to break it up, so that we werent traveling with a bunch of other people. A little bit easier the week before. Reporter this as officials at Mineta San Jose International airport say travel during the 11 day thanksgiving holiday period is scheduled to be 1 5th less than it was the year before. This is the simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter newsom says 94 of the states population is now in the purple tier, including six bay area counties. As a result, Officials Say people should forego gatherings with families and friendes this year. J
Since the pandemic began with more than 10,000 cases reported since yesterday. More than 18,000 people with the virus have now died in our state. Including 94 deaths in the past 24 hours. In the last week or so, a lot of items sold out early in the pandemic are selling out again amide this new second wave and rise in cases and the holiday rush. Ktvu has been looking into the increased demand and tells us what Grocery Stores are doing in the face of this second surge in sales. When the pandemic began, toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectants, sugar, rice, flour, and other items were swept from the shelves. Consumer Brands Association executive, katie denis says though actual pandemic sales went up only 21 above normal, that was enough to create months of shortages that forced rationing. Ultimately, putting in some of those restrictions is responsible in that people buy what they need and not more than what they need. Some over buyers bought massive amounts of items then resold them on
And fog, what little there is will be chewed up and High Pressure will deflect everything to the north. At least for now. Look for highs today, 70s and 80s. 4 31. Time for some thing else . Super commute time, you guessed right, we are looking at solano county. Off to a nice start here through vallejo and fairfield continuing to the hercules area, no major issues, a little bit of slowing eastbound on the bridge approaching the toll plaza which should only be momentary, for the most part, it looks nice getting out to the macarthur maze, when you get out to the east bay commute, you will find up to a good start, heres the bay bridge, does not have a big crowd get. 4 31, lets go back to the desk. Thank you, today we are remembering the 3000 victims of 9 11, you are looking at live pictures from new york city. 18 years ago today, terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed them into the new york world trade center, the pentagon and into a field in southcentral pennsylvania. Make sure you s
Live from new york as we have been throughout the morning, here we see the reading of the names is happening now. This started hours ago at around 6 30 pm our time. People begin reading each individual name of the some 3000 people who were killed on this day, september 11th, 18 years ago. Here we are at 9 00, and a long list of names continues. Thank you for joining us on this day. So many people across the country and certainly here at home remembering the lives lost and all of those who went to save lives on that day. It is an emotional day. There are many events across the country today to honor the victims of the 9 11 attacks. Brian dennis has a look at the sermon is held this morning and how the company is still affected today. In many ways, feels like it just happened yesterday. It is been 18 years since two hijacked passenger jets flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in new york city. You dont remember it is often now, 18 years later, but when you do remember, in