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
The bay area. Now it looks like we are getting some of relief. We are catching a break for some spots as the rain is tapering off and what we expect as we head into late morning and into the afternoon. We are still seeing some activity here and there. Green on the radar as well as snow that continues for the sierra. Look at storm ranger. Our mobile doppler radar. The red scan you see around the bay area, we are seeing rain in parts of the north bay as we get a closer look and moving through northern napa county and northeastern Sonoma County and moving off towards the east as youre still seeing some pockets of some heavy rain in that area. Then as we move elsewhere across the bay area, we are seeing some spotty showers. Marin county, as well as San Francisco, a chance of light rain and then we are going to see rain chances continuing. As we see the clouds, at any time rain and then rain taerper off and the dry weather returns tomorrow through the end of the week. We will see dryer weat
To avoid circulating the virus in the first place. That is San Francisco mayor london breed now at 5 bay area officials sounding the alarm co to surge across the nation this as every bay area county is now back in the red or purple tier of the states reopening plan, thank you for joining us at 5 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight. The San Francisco Health Department released a travel advisory this is asking people to avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving. Today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax said San Francisco is also experiencing a big search and doctor colfax said while San Francisco is behind the National Average daily cases, the increase in the number of cases is still more widespread and faster that happened during the summer surge kron fours dan kerman joins us live now from San Francisco with more on all of this dance. Well the Health Director in the mayor trying to right the ship and do it quickly because they say if this get
Newsome pulling an emergency brake on the states reopening process amid the covid19 pandemic this as daily covid cases in the state double over the last 10 days, thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan ken wayne has the night off. State leaders say an emergency brake was always part of the blueprint for california for reopening if cases that kept climbing nearly every bay area county is now losing ground and the states covid19 tear system right now a total of 40 california counties are reversing reopenings and moving to the most restrictive purple tear here in the bay area 5 local counties are included they are alameda napa contra costa solano and santa clara counties, San Francisco move from yellow to red today joining moran and san mateo counties new San Francisco Health Department has released a travel advisory this is asking people to. Please avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving and today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax s
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