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
Reporter the Alameda County Sheriff Department said right now there are no coronavirus cases in the jail. Reducing the inmate population would help them better manage future outbreaks. We are in a Health Emergency and we are doing everything we can on the Public Safety side during times like this tough decisions have to be made. Reporter they started Early Release process tuesday. Most of them are nonviolent low level offenders. There were some that were typically we would not want to release. There were people who had been involved in some assaults and assaults with Deadly Weapons or brandishing handguns. Reporter they were released because they have underlying Chronic Health problems. Do you think people should be concerned about the Early Release of inmates . No. Because if they do the same stuff they will be back in here. They dont have anything to worry about. Reporter they are not done. They will be releasing more inmates in the coming days. The Sheriff Department will work with
Scene that weve been witnessing all over the bay area all week long. Good evening, thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 8 im ken way and i pale more the reason behind the governors order is to help practice social distancing it is something that we are doing right here at kron 4 to do our part to prevent the spread of coronavirus and we encourage all of you to do the same. Worldwide there are more than 242,000 confirmed coronavirus cases more than 9800 people have died as a result. Here in the us are there more than 13,000 cases and a 176 deaths in california there are 952 confirmed cases with 18 deaths but earlier today. Governor newsome predicted more than half of california will contract coronavirus over an 8 week period. And that concern is what led the governors and to his announcement a grant lodes is here now is what governor had to say for all means the rest of the state now is going to be doing starting midnight tonight. What most of the bay area has been doing since midnig
You see the buses are empty. Big city, this is a transition, this is like nothing weve ever experienced before people are making adjustments but for the most part of lips a they went on to say getting outside and getting exercises encouraged as long as people can keep away from people they dont live with. Our people taking social distancing serious enough . He says the way people are interacting is a start but he thinks more needs to be done. To reduce illness and death and other frail members of our society. Doctor wrangled says people should be prepared to deal with this for the long haul. Lets take a live look in San Francisco this morning where today, may london breed will visit the recently released relocated operations center. She will guest it on the citys response to the coronavirus outbreak. Ride call the rideshare are asking to get employed paid as employees. Without paid leave they will need to get go to work sick. They say that they have agreed to sick leave pay for drivers
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on transit, looking live from our exclusive sales forest our camera as we look north of the golden gate bridge. And morning, everyone. It is thursday, march 19th. I am michelle griego. Nim anne makoveck. Time to get a quick look at our forecast. Mary is socially distance from me. But holding onto the weather department. At morning. Yakima we are looking at a few light showers and sparkles pushing across parts of the bay area. Here is the high def doppler. You can see those spotty showers. Right along 280. A few sprinkles this morning. Temperatures are running in the 40s. Mid to upper 40s and even dealing with some sort fog in santa rosa. As we go through our day, temperatures just slightly warmer compared yesterday but still below average. 16 oakland, fremont, 62 for san jose, 61 for concord. We will talk about the rest of the work week into the weekend and our next weather system, details on tha