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
That blew through yesterday and today . Yeah, that is right, mike and gasia. Some neighborhoods picking up over two inches of rain, specially for the Higher Elevations. This was a productive storm, thankfully were not talking about flash flood warnings, nothing extreme in terms of advisories or warnings. Still, a beneficial rainfall in terms of water supply to start things off and fire danger. Take a look at some of the bigger rainfall totals. Well call them the jumbo rainfall totals. Around three inches of rain approaching three inches. Occidental in the north bay. 2. 34. Even kentfield over two inches of rainfall. Some more totals for you as we check in on those. The storm totals. Yesterday and into today. Were still adding to some of the numbers. Santa rosa, over an inch of rain. San francisco,. 42. Lifermore, close to a quarter of an inch and not so much for the south bay. San jose,. 08. This is the satellite and radar the past 24 hours. You can see the rain here into the bay area
Effect at 10 00 p. M. On saturday and last four weeks. Reporter indeed. The thing thats important is there are some details that are important to add to the Broad Strokes that you just put out there. What it is that california will impose a socalled stay at home curfew in purple tear counties. You got to be in a purple tear or if you go into a purple tear. It prohibits most nonessential activities outside the home between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. All of this is trying to prevent an uncontrolled spread, a meltdown, if you will, of covid. That spread is trying to be stopped in the most critical period, thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. Here is the state of Secretary Health and what he had to say. We too are seeing this surge growing faster and faster and we must address it immediately. We are putting forward a limited stayathome order, one that is more targeted, one that is more focused in the following ways. It impacts counties that are in the purple tear. We are asking that as par
Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.
The bay area, San Francisco Oakland Livermore Half Moon Bay petaluma all looking at winds gusting regularly into a 30 mile per hour range well even windier than that right now in danville conquered Vacaville Fairfield and sonoma are areas into that 40 mile per hour range this morning by 10 15am not much of a difference still very windy. So this is something thats going to impact all of our morning commute watch out for breeze on roadways like branches and garbage thats just blown around and been pushed on roadways during overnight hours by 05 00pm tonight your evening commute will be a bit calmer and into tomorrow, even calmer conditions just yet so we are looking at this wind events winding down over the next 24 hours. But certainly remaining very windy through the morning red flag warnings and wind advisories both remain in effect until 11 00am this morning. As winds continue to gust regularly as high as 50 Miles Per Hour doesnt matter whether youre at the coast or further inland. We