A potential gamechanger. Its really getting labquality testing at home. Reporter an athome nasal test promising to give you results right there in 30 minutes. Developed by emeryvillebased lucira in connection with sutter health. Its aimed at both worried customers and doctors, both of whom want easier, faster results. Faster testing, getting results quicker will help you be able to determine where people should be and help us get the pandemic under control. Reporter the fda approved test will cost 50 and youll have to get a prescription from your health care provider. Sutter Health Patients will be first to get them. Doctors can also perform the tests on their patients. Some say its what theyve been waiting for. Others say theyll wait and see. I think that would be fantastic. Assuming its reliable. Personally, i wouldnt trust it. Simply because . Simply because its not a professional administering it and i would want a doctor. Reporter the timetable as it stands now is the tests are ex
Hills, northeast gusts could be anywhere from 20 to 40 miles an hour. Relative humidity is dry, current check of the winds up to 37 miles an hour. Mount st. Helena, and mount diablo, 38 mile an hour gusts, theyre strong. Air quality is moderate. Not a spare the air alert today, but theres an advisory and we go in the right direction tomorrow. Winds will shift offshore to onshore later on today but just at the surface. Temperatures right now, 68 in mt. Diablo, 68 in walnut creek. Down the road, Half Moon Bay, youre in the 80s yesterday, yeah, thats right, 30 degrees cooler. So julian were going to talk about our cooldown on the way for sunday and then a return to some more critical fire weather as we get to the week ahead. All right, thank you, lisa. Well take the cooldown however we can get it. Developing news out of san jose. A double shooting left two men dead around 11 40 last night. Three other people were shot but are expected to be okay. Its unclear what led to the shooting. Well
And mt. Diablo, 29 mile an hour wind gusts above a thousand feet, mt. Tam, 22 miles an hour. So the low relative humidity and the dry conditions out there, good thing, though, the air quality isnt bad. We are looking at those warm numbers, in the upper elevations, 60s and 70s. But Half Moon Bay has cooled to 54. It is 50 in nevada. Look at that santa rosa, down to 49 degrees. Anywhere from two to 27 degrees cooler this morning. So without those east winds blowing as strong, yes, the temperatures are coming down. So 60s at 9 00. Our red flag warning will have expired and by noontime were in the 80s inland. Its another warm day with low 90s there. By the afternoon. But we are cooler at the coast, and bay with that weak onshore flow and more widespread cooling. Well talk about sunday and the week ahead coming up. Julian . Thank you, lisa. Now to some developing news as you wake up with us this morning in san jose. Police are investigating a double shooting. Two men are dead. Happened arou
We begin with three big headlines. Trending in the wrong direction is the coronavirus. Counties may see opening plans curtailed. Officials in Santa Clara County are finding an up tick in cases. The vaccine took a big step forward. Pfizer says its trial drug is more than 90 effective but it needs more study to use it in the atrisk population. The vaccine could be available as early as next summer. As the development of a vaccine moves closer to approval, medical experts are helping california to decide who gets priority. Health is a critical part of building a better bay area. David louis had access to three members of a Task Force Working on that challenge. California is one of three western states prioritizing who gets the vaccine once approved by the fda. The process, by rich, those decisions are made is really important if people are going to trust that the process is fair. Hes one of three members of governor newsomes task force who talked about planning on a webinar. Theyll look a
With legal challenges and rebuffing calls to concede. That word is not in our vocabulary. The trump apoin see so far refusing to authorize the resources to help the biden team ramp up a transition work. And supporters including Senate Majority leader mcconnell are standing by the president. President trump is 100 within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities. Some Establishment Republicans are congratulating the new president elect. Including former president george bush and senator romney. The jockying continuing today Vice President pence leading the Trump Administration first Covid Task Force meeting in three weeks. As news breaks of more covid infections at the white house. Housing and urban development secretary. Testing positive. The first known case to hit the president s cabinet. While president elect biden lays out goals for the first 100 days in office. Rejoining the World Health Organization and paris climate accord. President trump is planning rallies. What h