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
Your microclimate forecast. Youre dressed perfectly for the weather, bundled up in the warm sweater. Thanks. Yeah, kira, you know, it was time to break out all of my sweaters even if im indoors. You know, we have storm ranger up and scanning. We had a couple of showers, areas of gilroy, san jose, southeast side. So well look at what the storm ranger is actively scanning. We are the only ones with a mobile Doppler Radar in the bay area. You can see its light and scattered. Now well see the chances of more rain headed into tomorrow but i want to show you how cold it is. Santa rosa 44 degrees. Oakland in the 50s. Heres a closer look at the 24 hour temperature change. Santa rosa is colder today than yesterday. Headed into tonight, another cold night but an increase in the winds this evening with the arrival of a Second System expected to bring more chances of rain to some parts of the bay area. So ill have a closer look at what were expecting. Sierra snow. We have plenty of it, especially
The key is to attack fire relatively small. Strike teams were also in place. The Immediate Response was helpful for early evacuations. We knew the vent was coming. Abl a lot of notice. Reporter strike teams could be disbanded saturday but not likely with record winds expected to return sunday. Hot, dry wind is probably the biggest problem with wildfires. Clearly the temperatures have come down but the wind combined with the dry fuels that we still have could present a very big problem for us. Reporter the strike teams will have a lot of help from cal fire in covering all this territory. Cal fire has already got extra staffing and equipment ready for this windy weekend. Live in san jose, robert honda, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Were getting our first look at the east bay yous have them to help on the front lines. The chopper became fully certified to battle flames from the sky. Its already helped crews fight several fires over the past few weeks. We have lots of questions for
A trail of devastation, flames ripped through the area and destroying everything in its path. Some here chose to stay and fight even after being ordered to get out. Jefferson was able to save her house but frustrated with cal fire response. They could have saved a lot of communities. Reporter fire crews told her they had no water. She says they refused to tie in on a working hydrant on her property. George sam had the same complaint. Fire crew would not hook up to this fire hydrant. That fire hydrant had 15,000 gallons of water they would not hook up to it. Reporter neighborhoods fend for themselves as they work to protect homes with shovels and garden hoses. We reached out to cal fire to see why crew did not use fire hi hydrants. Cal fire leader is saying the first night they only had 15 engines and we are out gunned by Mother Nature so they were forced to triage their response in order to save the most homes. Reporter tonight staffing has greatly improved. 26 more engines from out of
Good afternoon, a turning point, reporter the mans name is they are doing it peacefully. They dont need to riot or go Brian Johnson. Crazy. Thank you for joining us for a he was arrested last night at thats not going to help them. Special edition at 4 00 p. M. His home in live oak near santa reporter now for the last i am raj mathai. Cruz, a mug shot for brian update we got from oakland. Johnson that we received a few no officers were injured but moments ago at a press lets start with the fires in several arrests were made during last nights protests and no our own backyard. Conference. Good news for hundreds of sheriff jim hart also telling us families, more than a week after that johnson confessed to those first evacuation orders, many people are getting the okay to go back home. Word of another protest are set detectives to stealing the firefight here is the fire map now. In place. Firefighters wallet and using the credit cards and he went pe suratos, nbc bay area news. The szu comp