Rain chances in San Francisco are going to go back up as we get past midnight and the scattered showers continue to develop offshore and head towards us with more offandon activity in the forecast tomorrow. Check it out with futurecast in a few minutes. All right, paul, sounds good. California is off to a late start looking water for its reservoirs. They are at about 70 to 80 of where they should be right now. Auc water scientist told us today, there is still plenty of opportunity to make up the difference. Remember, you can stay on top of the changing weather by downloading the kpix 5 news app. New at 6 00, Santa Clara County is wrapping up covid19 testing ahead of the holidays. As kpix 5s reporter tells us, Health Officials are hoping that if one rushes out to get tested. Reporter as we head into the holiday season, yes, the county is wrapping up covid testing. They say that is no excuse for bad behavior. Reporter the testing set at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds is the single la
Not recommended but if you must get together there are things you can do trying to to protect you and your family. And were following breaking news. Officers open firing near a popular mall near San Francisco. And jeff ranieri has the latest on the rain thats soaked parts of the bay area. We begin with that at home covid testing. Tonight the fda has granted emergency approval to an east bay company. Its different, though. This is rapid test that you do at home. Results in 30 minutes. Theres no shipping it to a lab and waiting days for the results. The fda says this is important for getting people tested and to do it faster. All right, jessica, heres how it works. You swab your nose, swirl that swab in a vial, and then put it in a portable device that will tell you if you have covid or not, results within 30 minutes. Heres the catch. You need a prescription to get the test. Though word yet when these tests will be available or how much itll cost. So for now normal testing continues, and
Of other couples that were outside the household you can quibble about the guidelines, etcetera etcetera, but the spirit of what im preaching all the time was contradicted and i got to own that and so i want to apologize to you. Because i need to preach and practice not just preach and not practice and ive done my best to do that. The governors claiming that hes going out to dinner only a couple other time since february outdoors and along with his wife on those occasions at the time of the dinner party napa county was in the orange tear the second least restrictive of the pandemic reopening system allowing indoor and Outdoor Dining at restaurants in National News tonight president elect joe biden making pandemic response. A top priority as he transitions to the white house and he says more lives could be lost if the Current Administration keeps interfering with the process Kareen Wynter has more on the president ial power struggle. Mincing no words on the Trump Administrations attempt
Scientific community. I think thats a bit of an overreaction. Now at 9 Governor Newsome announcing stricter measures today across the state after a troubling increase in covid cases and hospitalizations also tonight the governor has floated the possibility of a statewide curfew lot of people are talking about that as we say good evening, thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 everybody, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis today Governor Newsom announced that he is pulling the emergency brake on the states efforts to reopen our economy. As coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during the summer spike and this comes as daily covid cases in the state have doubled over the last 10 days, 40 counties today were ordered to take at least one step back in the states tiered economic reopening system prompting businesses to depending on the county, the rain further limit indoor capacities. Take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow. My top priority, moving in.
Going to feel it not only going to be the rain were going to see some strong gusty winds as we get a real cold front that is headed our way tonight though even today was kind of quiet day out there. We have lots of sunshine we have some warm temperatures tonight starting to see some clouds moving in the winds begin to pick up along the coastline. Thats the first hand some changes on the way but today you can hardly tell were talking about a storm off the coastline. Weve got 70s mid 70s in oakland 74 in san jose and 71 in santa rosa, but everything is about to change look what off the coastline is this area of low pressure deepen this ridge was able start to strengthen across park, the west coast, but its moving quickly now and were starting to see that little swirl off the coast that is live in our direction. Thats whats going to bring the rain right now tracking your skies were not seen any raindrops just yet most of us just high level clouds out ahead of the main cold front. Its not