we're getting answers for you every day at 3:00 number time. today we will explore a delayed vaccine and headlines and take you inside a san francisco restaurant now that the city is allowing people to dine indoors at 25% capacity. but first, i want to take you outside, because you have to take a look at the deteriorating air quality. this is a look at salesforce tower. you can see how hazy it is. it's across the bay over in oakland.

the skyline just as hazy and smokey. taking a look from our east hills camera, definitely you can see the same smokey conditions in its glory. glory is probably not the right word. this is nonetheless a reality. let's look at the air monitors right now, you can see it is mostly red or even dark red, maroon, meaning very poor air quality, certainly you should avoid exexertion being outdoors. the reason we are getting such poor air is we have -- hold on, my director is talking to me. go ahead all right. certainly that air quality is not good for people so we want to bring in dr. hung who often

joins us to talk about covid-19. right now, i want to get you talking about the poor air quality. we've had, of course, for such a long people. what's the advice for folks? >> folks may know the regular mosque isn't filtering that air. you need to breathe in an n-95 if you will go out. unfortunately, this is a time not to spend too much timeout doors. they will be checking the air quality but be very -- stay home, you know, try to get a portable hepa filter. it's good for covid as well. you need a higher quality mask. >> all right. thank you so much. speaking of covid, it is october 1st. so september just ended. how did the world do against

covid last month? >> the world is on simmer, in general, with covid. i would say that there are hot spots that we've seen before, which is latin america. in the u.s., you know the great states, there are some troubling new signs, which is really our resurgence in europe. i think that has been getting news in france and uk. and really why that's concerning is because it's kind of like a replay of when italy was on fire and then the east coast got hit. i think i was speaking in boston this morning. they were worried they were going to get a second surge. >> is that partly due to travel being on the rise again? >> yes. so it's combined with people being a little bit with travel and each so close to europe that it's kind of like the reasons is fears of a second surge. >> that makes a lot of sense.

yesterday, seven states in the u.s. set records for new cases in a week, while three states had a record number of deaths in a week. you mentioned hot spots. get more specific and talk about how we are doing here in california. >> so the hot spots are in places there are some urban areas. i think the new space of covid is in urban areas less pop lighted states. the dakotas are kind of interesting. i think they're left over from the motorcycle rally with responsible with contact tracing for a record number of case, accounting for more than 20% of cases in one month. and then i think in terms of california, we have been doing better. i think cautiously better. it's still a little bit, you know has a lot of variety.

so in central bali, that is where we are seeing a lot of cases mainly, agricultural workers in sonoma, they have many more cases than the northern counties. again with wildfires, we are hoping we don't see another surge with people going to shelters, congregating, et cetera. right next to mexico to the rise of san diego county it's been hard hit, again, they have an uptick in cases. >> i want to talk about some of the latest headlines. moderna says the vaccine won't be widely available until spring 2021. why so late? we very hearing how something

could be approved and certainly in the presidential debate on tuesday, president trump replicated that point. what does this mean? is this a spetback or one candidates more realistic picture. what's going on here? >> i suspect moderna is very unique. but in general, i would say the vaccines are probably not going to be ready for prime time until early next year. really, that's my feeling for a variety of reasons. with moderna, it's a little different than other companies. from i understand they are doing other state pfizers is doing trials in brazil and turkey and places, and in argentina, there are a lot more cases, with the decline in the u.s. in terms of covid cases, we are only going to get cases in the u.s., it will probably be delayed a little bit.

secondly, as opposed to j&j have you need two doses. so any time you need more than one vaccine, you kind of have to wait longer. so the i think they are waiting for about 50 cases to have a first look. and that probably wouldn't be for some time before even the final referral. >> all right. so, really, realistically in terms of massive amount of doses going out to the majority of americans, we are talking six months or a year or something like that? >> yeah. >> given that, another head line is the cornell study, which it says president trump is the single biggest source of covid since the pandemic began in january. i don't want to go too deep into what he is saying, not saying. what types of misinformation that you as a doctor want to clear up for the people? >> again, i was talking with one

of my colleagues about mixed messaging and the message from political leaders. that has translated into a lot of wasted hours on our end. we have to reassure a lot more people when we might not have had to reassure them because they would have taken our word you know as usual. again with mixed messaging, that leaves a lot of wasted time out here on the ground so some of the major ones have been hydroxychloroquine seven trials showing no benefits. there is absolutely no reason to bring up hydroxychloroquine as potential therapy. the second thing, it records mask wearing. there is mavk wearing will prevent and nobody wants to use this disinfectant. i thought, but there were people in poison patrol after using or

injecting. >> wow. all right. i know it must pain you whenever you do see that kansas state, it's almost like i expect you to know every single study out there. there are so many. sorry about that. but i will throw it at you, see if you've heard this one. some findings mosquitos and covid transmission, what did they find? did you hear about that one? >> i don't know about the study. i would say that issue comes up whether or not you can get covid from the blood. the way a mosquito can be a vector, they take the blood and inject it into somebody else. right now, we don't have any evidence that covid is actually transmitted that way. in fact, when people look for covid or sars particles, you can't even find it. it's a mucousal in the mouth and lungs. really, that's where it's

resonant. so the idea that mosquitos are transmitted, i would be very skeptical. i would keep my mind opened. >> beside, mosquito season is almost over. what about this one? we have been hearing about a new nasal spray that is supposed to produce the viral infective. what do you know about that? >> so are you talking about the air fabs? ucsf. so there is some really astute scientists and technically skilled to use these nanoparticles, really small nanoparticles as a way to prevent covid. it's currently being tested. i think they're working on some production that's used to then design trials, which i think would probably happen quickly, hopefully. and the idea is that is that would be an alternative for a

vaccine and for people that can't get vaccinated for whatever reason, you basically administrate a spray and it acts like a defense. you are supposed to be able to survive over the counter because it doesn't have any active drug in it. but a nanoparticle that acts like a defense mechanism. >> interesting. it sounds promising. of course, many scientists at ucsf are doing great things, you included, infectious diseases, thank you so much for all that. >> thank you. >> good to see you. take care. we will take a short break, folks, when we come back, we will go one of two way, restaurant or fire. we will talk about the fire. this show is always in flux. we do a lot of juggling we made usaa insurance for this season. and the veterans that never quit on their team. when being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher...

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all right. as you can see, we have poor air quality outside largely because of the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties. joining us is the cal spokes woman lynn, where do we stand with acres and containment in the glass fire? >> so we're just at 56,000 acres. about 5% containment. also the fire grew overnight, too, definitely, we're slowly getting there. >> we have so many questions. i want to get to my own questions. is the dry creek mountain deer community in any danger right now? >> not exactly to that location specifically. i do know they put a few more evacuation orders in effect

north and they're working diligently on the south side of the fire. kenwood, anything south of calistoga south of yontville. >> i was going to say it seems like they are starting to be more threatened. can you talk about that, the new evacuations? >> yeah. so that's the area they have been working on real hard because the weather coming in, the winds they are starting to receive are coming out of the kind of the north-northwest, coming from that direction. so obviously, once they come to that direction, it's going to push the fire to the south-southeast. so that area is what's of greatest concern and the open roll areas. >> rebecca wants to talk to you about the latest in anguin? >> anguin another threatened by the fire, itself. they have been through it quite a few times over the years. just another of those areas

being impacted and the firefighters are out there. we will have to see how the weather continues to play out. >> we have a question about the dutch winery, if it has suffered any damage? >> i have not. no. >> we know the number of homes destroyed increased to 64. >> i don't know where those residents e denses are specifically. the total number are at 248 that includes residences, businesses, smaller structures. we do have the crews doing damage inspections and unfortunately we expect the numbers to increase but we'll see what comes in next couple days. >> marcy wants to know, how quickly can it move south towards napa city limits? >> the potential is there,

absolutely but the fair fighters have been out there working putting in containment lines, control lines. they've put in, they've got required planes that put retardant down and brought in crews burning the fuel out of the way and started fires on purpose to clear the vegetation out. that's a buffer zone. so if it comes in that direction, it will stop in its tracks. that one thing they are working on pretty hard they get advanced notice, so they try their best to get prepared for it. >> richard wants to know that sa while away from the main fire, right? >> correct. yeah. there is a little distance there. the more concern would be kenwood, anything south more directly south of santa rosa up towards the anguin area,

basically anything you see along the fire side of the perimeter. >> are we entering the greatest concerns in terms of the weather patterns this week? >> so the fire weather warning kicked in at 1:00 and starts early and you will see the winds increase or it could be in the afternoon. it depends on what happens. it's supposed to go through tomorrow, too. we have the rest of today and a good portion of tomorrow. >> cal fire spokes woman, best of luck to you. i know this is the 10th time. thank you for coming on to keep us informed. >> thank you for having us. >> folks, we'll take a short break. when we come back, we will switch gears and take you to a newly restored restaurant for

. welcome back. san francisco moved indoors this week, helping us get answers the owner of gozoo in san francisco. mark, how are you doing? >> good, how are you? >> describe your food for us. it's studying the nuance and intrick cases of japanese beef. >> like mouth watering, melt in your mouth excellent beef? >> correct. >> all right. well, look listen you have gone to great lengths. can you show us what you are using? >> sure. let me see if i can flip >> okay. cool. so.

we are working with uv guardian. this is an appliance basically a uv sea light that is used to disrupt any kind of biological makeup of viruses included with covid-19. so that's one specific thing we've done from the technology standpoint. we've also added some additional hepa filtration, which is some of this silver box that's above me here then we have a vast array of sanitizers and sanitizing stations, is up as this one here, restrooms and high traffic areas. we also in the front of the restaurant have our place where we can greet guests and again that goes through a temperature check. a survey of questions as well as a sanitation from that standpoint.

>> that uv light device that destroys the genetic makeup of viruses, that's also interesting. you also had some smart sensors in there, don't you? >> we do. we do so the machine, itself, is very dangerous if you will be in the room. it has sensors in case there is somebody in the room. >> i gotcha. can i the you how much all this costs, the technology and investment? >> it wasn't too bad. we got some friends and my partner, ben, was connected with this particular company that was excited to really allow us to bring this into our restaurant for the first time. >> i'm glad you got out of jail, i know it's tough. i know you were doing pretty well outdoors. now you are out operating at 25% capacity. that's what's allowed. is is that going to work for

you? i mean, financial lip, did you have to raise prices? >> it's not a financial fix. i think any of us in this industry are happy to get what we can and to be able to serve our guests inside is a huge piece of it. we will continue to offer outdoor dining more comfortable outside as well. it's a stair-step tier situation as we continue to get back to some kind of norm >> for now, though, what is the message you are trying to convey for your diners? i guess also for your staff, too? >> yeah. it's all about safety at this point and it's nothing can make you more nervous than to be doing this in this current climate with the pandemic the way it is. so that's the number one focus of the staff and our guests.

we are complying and exceeding a lot of recommendations. >> are you optimistic about the restaurant industry's future in san francisco? i mean, we've heard about so many that have close? yeah. yeah. it's so tough. it's heart breaking to see the struggle that we're all going through some more than others and eastern more the devastation that the fires are causing on top of the hardships we're having. it's an entirely heart breaking year for restaurants. i think san francisco as a whole today can survive. i think we've seen it many times before. i'm excited to see what comes out of all this on the other side. some of us will still be here. hopefully, we have those diners to make sure we stay. >> i wonder what you are seeing. how do bookings look? i know when the gyms opened, we

thought, oh, people will be rushing back. because there is this pent-up demand. really people have this condition to feel i don't have to go in. i'm a little nervous about it. what are you doing here as far as the restaurant bookings? >> yeah, it is a little bit timid. from an indoor standpoint when you go to harvest relations on talk. we have those available for outdoor and indoor and we are offering to go so we've had just last night a couple reservations initially booked for outdoors came in, sussed up the spacing to see about being inside. i think it's aufring options and accommodating the best of them. >> i can't let you go. let's see the menu. do you have that handy?

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about now. welcome back. thank you so much for joining us, getting answers. we talked about the latest with covid vaccine. we got you caught up on everything surrounding the grass fires, including air quality in

the bay area and a newly reopened san francis good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy thursday night. 32 days until election day now, but tens of thousands of americans are voting already. in fact, today, we witnessed the long lines of voters showing up for early in-person voting. all of this, as president trump casts doubt on mail-in voting. the white house facing tough questions today. in fairfax, virginia, todaying the long lines, waiting to vote in person. many voters saying they are not taking any chances. they are showing up for early voting, eager to make sure that their vote is counted. president trump telling supporters that boll lots were found in a river, thrown out, he said, because they had his name on them. so, today, reporterst