building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc7 news. >> that afternoon, everybody i'm liz kreutz henefer kristen sze today pick welcome to our daily program called getting answers, where we are asking experts your questions every day at 3:00 to get answers for you in real-time. today we have a tran41 to talk e major headneli toy,da sparkingal l kinds of qutiesons, the johnn so& hnson vaincce put on pae.us this rnmoing, the fda and cdc calling to suspd enthe sing-le do seshot, due to an exemtrely rare oobld clotting disorder, found in six paentits. e state ofcalifornia and stmo all bay area counties are now following suit. for some perspective, the six patients are l alwomen, agwomen

to 48, but that is of the nearly 7 million people who have gotten the johnson & johnson vaccine. in california, the johnson & johnson version makes up just 3% of the vaccine makes up 3.8% of the total shots given, or about 87005,0 oppele in e th stat e. so joini ngus live to talk about th, is t geall of our answer is,s dr. peter chang hong, inctfeious diassee speciastli at ucsf, thank you so much for being he. re >> anthks r fohaving me on, liz. all ghrit, so anotr hebu sy adheline to wake up to. plexain first why u.s. regulato rsdecided to do isth. >> so, u.s. regulato rsdecided toput a pae uson e throllout ofhe t j&j vaccine come out of e thabundancofe caution. safety is their ioprrieithr prii owkn that eyth llwi be a risk potentiay ll ofhavi ngpeop le worry remo abt ouvaccesin in general, b utneverthessle, ttpuing that pause was an poimrtant feurate, malyin to e,

alerfot lks of what to look out r, ev enthghou it is super, super rare. >> so let's talk about how rare esthe cases are. ween mtioned x sicas set ouof some7 million people who have tten the josohnn & johnson vaincce. some are pointi ngout, you are mo lreikely to be rustck by litnghing than to have this ood cltiotng ise.su e>>xactly? the risk of getting covid, ttgeing covi d,even dying from vid is several times more anth the risk of what we know of these clots happening. certainl ty,he risk of geinttg long-ulha or syndrome or chroc nisymptoms from cod viis several,se veral fold ghhier thanth e risk ofriskf orisk ofro >>so do you think this desicion, to pause distburition of the j&j ccvaine is going to le adto more vexi nghesinctay among the puicbl? awere already seeing a pret ty hetasi, ntyou know, a lot of

hesita ntpeople across the cotruny who are already scar ed to get it. i>> think, liz, that is my rrwoy. m worrd ienot just abt ou people 'sworries ouabt the j&j vaccine,or all cod viccvaines, but about vaccines in genera l, icwhh have been real lyan amazing puicbl health dimension r ma, nynyma, many dedecas. >> so t'les talk about the six ople. anexd actly wh'sat haenpping to these won,me atwh do we owkn about the ty peof peleop atth it's pphaening o?to >> >> so wh atndki of llfoows the aybook ofwhat we ha vese en clots in eupero, thwi anotr hevaincce, astrenazeca. which is a silamir pety of ccvaine, whi chis an adenovirus veorct vaccin e,it's very fferent omfr pferiz and morndea. at it , isbasicay ll a cl ot atth forms in a relyal irwed locaonti, it's one of the veins atth drain blood from the

aibrn. kind of acts li kea rostke, so that's what we've been seeingn ithe u.s., all x si women,th ey were all under 50, 18 to 48, as u yoinpoted out. they all happened within two eks of receiving the vaccine. >> is there any, y an undetarsnding yet as to why isth is haenpping amg onmewon? i know it's only six cases, but l alof them wome n,and unyoger women. >> yeah, so, we've been seeing re reacontis and won mein negeral, and it's thghout to be due to sevel rafactors. e thfirst fact or, isremo mewon are you getting vaccinat edin genera l. soyo u are gog into stattiiscallsey e more thgsin happento e thwomen, but regardle ssof that, estrog en seems toactiteva the imnemu systemmo re, versus teosstterone, icwhh kind of ppressesth e immu nestsyem. second, lythe places in the

ges newhich code or which have the deco for the imnemu llces sirede on the x chromoso, meand erthe are 2x chromosomes d an women? th'sat also thought to be a ctor. >> intestreing. so whatsh ould u yodo to soonmee o'whs already gone the j&j vaincce? know soonmee reh acout tome thisor mning and said, oh my gosh, i got a few da ysago. th aeyre kind of worried now, what shod ulthey be lookg inout r?fo f>>irst of all, they shouldt n' rry. again, isth is so rare, they wi llprobably not know anyone el sein our cilerc who wi ll havehi ts, if it is absolute links to the vacce,in we are not even sure of that yet. whateo pple shldou be lookg in out for ulwod be sereve headac hethat doesn't go away, that's anew ndki of adheache. blurry visn,io sympto ms stroke, so you can move parts of yr oubody. you may ha veseizures, those arsoe rt of the most serious things tolook out fo r,d ane th last serio usthings, which are

also soasciated thwi clotting, that would be pa inin uryo lfca and shorestns of breath, maybe me llbey painbelly painbellpay n soasciated thwi other kinds of clots. >> teinresting. i'm getting a quesonti from faceokbo, jennif eris aski, ng especial lybecause isth has all happen edto mewon, is it because ofbirth control? the doleppr role at all? >> certaiy nljennif'ser estion isve ryastetu. birth ntcorol is a risk factor r foclotti ngin geranel. sone o of e thinthgs that the instveigators e argoing to do, cause fit rsth eyare ingog to lookat the history, medical stories ofthe essix won,me stoee if there was another asreon y whthey might've ttgoen a clot. all rit,gh be teinresting to see if that's ultimalyte really a ctfaor. should e thcd see, do you ink, got about this diffenertly, to oiavd my tiulmately bevacce inhetasincy now? >> ith ink there wasn't any her way th eycod'ulve go ne about indog this, to tell you e trut h. 's beertt to do it rleaier,

tranarspent, be upfront ouabt safety. d i think at the end of the day, hofupelly wi llmake people trustht at the cdc and other healcathre profsiesonals are reallywa tching t oufor all of . us that they are willg into pause. pausinisg not like a pesur rareth ing. it happe nsall the time in inic talrials. o>>kay, ghrit, atth makes sense. how wi llthis affe ctthe sulypp in e thbay area? i think wewe realso excited, we are enoping up to everybody and now we are not gog into be gettinsog me of these vaccines that we are expectg.in so the way i inthk about that is, it's going to be a bump in e throad, but not fainllg off a clif f. in the xtne 2 to 3 weeks, we will pbarobly feel some of the in, even thou gh4% don'est seemik le a lot, it may me an that peleop may t not getheir appointmtsen. kni ow in some centers, they may bereplinacg j&j with

pfizer d anmorndea. that odpruction is so coinntuing on. inthe big sche meof things, eration s wamore anth 1 billion sedos of vaccin e, inking atth some of the vaccines w'ton work at some inpot, it's just turns out, all e thvaccines so r fae arvery odgo efficac y. >> governor newsom is assuringfo lks he don'est inthk this is gog into opst licafornia isjune 15th reenoping targ etdate. do you agree with him? >> i thk inatth it ilstl possleib to open, reopen on june th15, because we will be hangvi alternivate suppesli, and frklany, this pae usmay t no last for too long. motorrow, th eyare meetg inwith the adsoviry bod arfor immunitizaon praccetis. ey will prabobly co meto e th decision pttrey soon. i would say in a maertt of days. whetr heor not it'll be open to some ptsar of the or reopen to

meso segmen tsof the pulationve, rsusth e olwhe poputilaon needs to be ense. >> iam on faboceok rit ghno w, and r foritafor ritar foritafora y your name wron g,she isa upcole things first that they d an apinpotment or ha vean appointmenfot r ne xtweek for j, now they are pret ty neourvs to get . it they said what if you have lealrgies? i was clreead by e thdr. but now i'm super scared. at is yo urmeagsse? >> in terms of severe allerg ic retiacons, thaist one thing thathe t vaccin eslike trasazena ecand j j&don't have too much of, because they n'dot have that fatty bubububu pfiz aernd modea rnhave. we don't see be severe, allergic reacontis relyal as chmu in these vaccesin. on e thother hand, i ulwod reassure freda atth the time j&j gets reopened, there will be se omvery specific guanidce aroundyo, u kn, oweithr stematent onsatyfe, teafr

investigatio n,that will be whetr heor not it'll be open to eryone orwhheetr or t no it'lbel limited to say, exame,pl those ov erthe age of 50. >>nt ieresting, all right. doyou think locay,ll gog in ba tcko e thcalol issue here, you think there is an issue of eqtyui, beuscae e thlicoseum sitein alama edwas using j&j's ots, now th eyhad to be put on pau. se >>yes, i mean, th'sat alyswa going to be the worry, but hopefuy lla publ icheal th leerad will direstributeth e ccvaine, so it bemecos remo equibltae. think the advantage of j,j& and the reas onwhy i particullyar loved it so much, it was one opst opshping there it was easy for people to make anappoinentmt and not ha veto worry aboucot ming back in 3 to 4 weeks. i think now wi thisth uspae, i havefa ith in public health leaderths at they will rediristbute the other vaccesin a rapid and equibltae way. >> les t'ho pe. so thanyok u so much, dr. peter

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welcome back. it wasn't too long ago when you were called multiple acres burned in last year's wildfire season, at one point firefighters up and down the state in california here were battling more than 350 wildfires at the same time. five of the top six largest fires in california history all came last year with the drought, california now finds itself in, could this year be woe?rs that is e thbig question we are l asking. wi uths veli now is craig clenems, san jose state wifildre interdiscliipnary researchce nterth, ank you r fo joining us. >>thk anyou r fohavi ngme. so just how bad is the current drought situation right now in the state? >> wl,el accoinrdg to statisti, csthis is thsee cond mostse vere drghout since the 77drout,gh so isth is pretty bad. i mean, the area has had 40% of normalpr ecipitatn,io so, yeah. it'sa severe drough t. so talk to us remo about yo urresearch, somethg inthat u yosaid is the fnc or fu el

moistureon ctent, wh atis that anwhd y is it so impoanrtt? >> wlehi the full fuel moisretu ntent is the amou ntof water ina living plant. itis sampled acro ssthe stweern u.s.tw ice a month for deunrstandinthg e fire bevihaor pontteial. th iiss a key component to the tinaonal fire danger rating stsyem. ltip leagencies explame fuels aroundth e state, and we have see rethe tesis in santa cruz atth we use. ril 1st site, april 1st day s wapretty sereve, in terms of the lack ofmotuisre in the fuel s. >> can you give us specicifs? i kn owu yotweeted out a graph atth was a shocking, shinowg atwh the avere ag, iswhat lash erwas and wh atwe are out right now. >> we are at 97% of normal, rry,we are at 97%, which is the amou ntof water ntcoent in the fuel. the average is 125%.

th iats beuscae the eris more war tein the fu elthen there is plant temarial. that w'shat you veha peenrctages over 100%. so it's etprty low. wehover,wi th that said, we expect esthe to crinease in the ne xtweek, tiinmate. we e aralready starting the spring thwi a very low fuel moistu recontent. >> ghrit, lasher deend up being one of the worst or the worst fire ssoean in licafornia story. at th ispoint stla year, where we were whe erwe re, wempcoared to now? >> we were >> wow. >>but this is one tesi, the ewvier shou ldknow, this is one site on one motaunin range, doesn't prreesent the entire atste. bui t can sa y,unfortunelaty , ismost of the sites fr omsan dieg lo,a, northern california, are below normal for april 1s t. so that's due to the drought. it is severe i mean, it is simple, no rain, no fuel

isture ntcoent inthe elfu. >> right, so how do the currt en ndcoitions d anwhat you e ar talking about then reflect what we mig hte sewith fire season th yisear? >> like i said earlr,ie the lower the fuel moisretu content,th e eaersi for the fuelto ignite and burn. so if we are starngti t ouat a lower level in rispng, we can exctpe it to be enev welor duringmi ddle summer and late mmsuer, genellray our fuels are the welost elfu moisture contt,en the driest in ocbetor. and atth's at the sa metime thatwe have the offsho rewind event,bo thin rtnohern cafoliiarn and southern lifornia. so fire dang eris alyswa bad in toocr bein california. we could probab lyexctpe biergg fires in june and july, versus augu, stseptbeemr. so th'sat obprably e thmain difference withhe tse fuelon cditions w.no i>>nteresting. is the erany way to turn this ouarnd? viously wewod ulli kesome rain, t buassumi ngwe don't get atth, is erthe anytnghi we can

do? >> well, we've got to hope for inra. ifwe t geso metela inra, atth ulcod offset some of the w lo moisture coenntt, but it won't make that big of a difference. i think the public really s ha to be careful with ignitis.on if we don't veha niigtion, we dot n'have a fi. re but if we have, you owkn, ceon we get ignition, the esrefis can go pret tybig, beuscae of the elfu moisture conten t. like last year, i kn owwe had th atlightninthg at night, just like a whe olnight of ghlitning, icwhh really rustck ofsef verafil res across e th ste.at >>yes, ndhureds of fires. 20, 08we had a lightning outbreak in ju. ne but the fires weren't as big, becausjue ne has higher fuel moistureco ntent, negerally click except for any drought year. so that was as as betweethn ose two years. >> intereinstg. at you make from the efrtfos we e arseeing from governor gavin neomws, he sign eda $536 miiolln wildfi reprevention plan, do you think i could help? a>>ll i definilyte think it's a grt eaid ead an'sit definilyte gog into help, beuscae we will put more

prcresibed fire on the landscape,hi wch is expertly needed. we will have fuels reduction ogra, msthroughout the state. so th atis ryve poimrtant. so a lot of this is really gointog he lplicafornia t ge througthh e next decade of fi re asseon, more severe fire seasons. >> so big piurcte then, at the moment, oppele e ararheing this, we've all been through so manyir fes, we are all haexusted. wh atis keepg inyou up at night ghrinot w? i mean, are you acbring for maybe one of the worst years we ve seen? >> i think evy erarye epkes getting woe rsd anworse. as a iescntist, as a wildfire serearcher, m i'not tolltay shkeocd. i was a little more shocked that t heapril fuel motuisre is were loso roacss the state. but, you know, that may not, agai wn,e don't have fire s,if we don't have the ignitis,on we n't havea prleobm. so e thpublic has to be very carel.fu >> all right, thank you so much. we will end it there, but thank you for your insight. i'm sure we will have you back

in the coming months. we will see what happens, craig clements, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. when we get back, it's an event abc7 news is very proud to sponsor every single year. we are getting you

welcome back to abc7 news, a proud sponsor year after year leadership event, bringing together thousands of professional women. worldwide, this year's professional businesswomen of california conference is coming up in may, while the three-day event will be virtual again, the incredible insights are no different. so with us isus isus isus isus s globally recognized leadership expert and author of the new book, digital body language. how to build trust and connection, no matter the distance. erica, thanks for being here. >> thank you so much for having me. >> so let's start with the basics, what is digital body language? what do you mean by that?

>> digital body language are the cues and signals we send in our digital communication, and they make up the subtext of our messages. everything from the punctuation we use, to a response time, to how we greet or signoff an email, to our video call backgrounds. trust and respect and engagement in our >> your book is so relevant, obviously, to this past year. we've all been on zoom and, you know, virtual for months now. how is our body language changed, as we have moved into a more online, virtual world? and what impact you think that has on a relationship that we might not even realize? >> research shows roughly 75% of our face-to-face collaboration is nonverbal body language. so in a world where now 72 up to 100% is virtual, body language hasn't disappeared, it has transformed. for example, we now have no direct true eye contact. while i may be looking in the camera, liz, you may be looking into the camera, which is not

as natural and does not allow us to create that same level of connection. another example is the fact that on a video call, we see our own thumbnail on the screen, which also isn't natural to see her own body language when we are trying to connect with someone else. what we can do is remember, to assume good intent, to remember that it is harder to connect on a screen, but at the same time, we take simple steps to listen clearly, to engage others to get feedback and create a space, so everyone can speak up. we will be able to is still foster connection, no matter the distance. >> for sure, erica, it's interesting, i know you conducted a study that found the average person wastes about four hours per week on poor digital communication, they waste about four hours per week, why and how do we fix that? >> i ran a study with research, and we identified that there is a significant waste in time, simply because often managers are sending brief, unclear

emails, instead of taking the time to send clear messages. the most simple things we can do is to never confuse a brief message with a clear message. secondly, hold your horses. remember not to rush in your messages, take the time to be careful. and last but not least, make sure to know when to switch the channel, when to use zoom, when to use on email, when to send a text. the simple awareness of the complexity, familiarity and urgency of information will allow you to better create cultures of clarity, instead of confusion. >> so, i know be something as simple as responding to a text in a timely manner. on the flipside though, it can also be really stressful to get text messages and emails and have to respond to them right away, how do you juggle that? >> so if you are someone who is dealing with a serial texter, and you just don't have time to respond 24/7, here's a couple of tips. first and you can do is say a

simple, got it, i'm busy right now, i will respond, just to get out of your way, to not feel pressured. another thing you can do is to know when to not respond and come back to it later. don't get emotionally hijacked. remember, it may not be urgent. now if you are on the other side, if you have an urgent request that you are sending by text and you need information from someone, make sure to let them know it is urgent, give a clear response time expectation. one example is to use acronyms. for example, 2h means i need this in two hours or 4d means i need this in four days, it'll allow others to know what the priority and expectation is. >> oh, my gosh, and still thinking about brb from our aol i'm days. >> i have another one for you, rom which means respond on monday, especially if you are sending a message on a sunday. >> that's a good one. i will get your book and all the little new terms i need to know.

thank you, erica. final question, you are going to be a speaker at the bb wc event, what can we expect from you? >> every attendee will learn the new signals of digital body language, that they may be sending, even if they don't intend to, they will also learn practical ways to foster trust and engagement, no matter the distance in video calls, emails, text message exchanges, and even in modern-day texting. last but not least, i will share key workplace strategies to foster culture, trust, and collaboration. >> erica, i gotta wrap it up, and getting the queue, so sorry. this was great. erica, author of digital body language him a thank you so much. once again, the professional businesswoman of califo

thank you so much for joining us tonight, the major vaccine temporarily halted here in the u.s. the johnson & johnson one-shot vaccine now on pause. the cdc and fda calling for it out of an abundance of caution. health officials reviewing reported cases of rare and severe blood clots in six women here in the u.s. that's out of nearly 7 million vaccinations. some governors angry the vaccine has been halted. dr. anthony fauci tonight defending the decision. so, what do you need to know if you've had this particular vaccine in the list of symptoms to be aware of and when someone should call their doctor. and if you already have an appointment for this one-shot vaccine, what now? dr. jha is here answering your questions tonight. also developing late today,