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
Presidency. President trump turns to the courts to try to slow down bidens momentum as hundreds of thousands of votes still have not been counted. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for being with us on kron 4 news at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the Trump Campaign says it is filed lawsuits in pennsylvania, michigan. And georgia laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states today, joe biden was awarded wisconsin and michigan. He now has 264 electoral votes. We said he is inching closer to victory and that number leaves him 6 shy of the magic number 2. 70. Well take a look here at the map it is filling out the states that have still not been called broadcast partners with the Associated Press, pennsylvania, which we dont expect a result from until maybe friday as they just started counting all those male and covid ballots if you will yesterday North Carolina has a big called georgia has it been called and nevada hasnt been called the easiest path to victory for
Judge barretts for right, out of the mainstream views the generations. Her confirmation means the court will be firmly in conservative hands with a 63 majority, the vote could be crucial in deciding the fate of the Affordable Care act, which will go before the court a week after the election. Any objective standard, judge barrett deserves to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. The American People agree in just a few minutes, she will be on the Supreme Court. , President Trump is set to host the swearing in at the white house tonight, with Justice Clarence thomas giving the first of the two odes, this is a live picture of the scene there on the south lawn, you cant tell, but there is a Group Gathering for the swearing in and we have seen, for the most part, most of them wearing masks, and the chairs on the lawn, it is hard to see because it is so dark, but the chairs on the lawn are spread farther apart than they were when barretts nomination was first announced. Lawmakers say there is s
Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
The Christmas Season a some later the infection is yim. The percentage of we hadnt seen test positivities above four since august, september in terms of where we are. 11 counties will have to restrict activities. Counties returning to purple are sacramento, stance land and san diego. Counties from the least restrict i this is the first week that no county has gone into a lower restrict ive tier. When we identify cases we expect to see 12 of the cases end up being hospitalized 14 days later. Four things willing cause virus spread. People in small places being together. Staying in there for a long duration, being with people from beyond the household. Lack of open doors, windows and ventilation. And when we do it and we do it together we see the rates come down. Another critical recommendation, get a flu shot, that will minimize the less dangerous but it could make you more vulnerable to covid. So many concerns as we head to the colder, winter months. San francisco is pausing the reopeni