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More front-line health care workers in Northern California are rolling up their sleeves to get Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.

KCRA 3 Weather meteorologist Dirk Verdoorn looks at the result of building sunshine creating mild afternoons and clear overnights cooling temperatures making for some frosty and foggy mornings.

A nurse who is working on the front lines treating COVID-19 patients was dealt a devastating blow when a fire ripped through her home.

California is expected to get fewer doses of the Pfizer vaccine than previously announced, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said. Newsom had said earlier this week that the state would receive 393,000 doses, but as of Thursday, California is set to receive about 233,000 doses — a difference of about 40%.

California and several other states announced on Thursday that they have been told to expect less of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines than initially communicated by the federal government.

PLACER COUNTY (CBS13) – A man was arrested over the weekend for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition. In the early morning hours of December 13, a couple of Placer County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol saw a sports car traveling at a high rate of speed on southbound Highway 65, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies pulled the vehicle over on westbound Interstate 80 and made contact with the driver, who they found out, was on searchable probation. They searched the vehicle and found a 9mm handgun behind one of the seats. Deputies learned that it belonged to a passenger, 32-year-old Eric Larone Walker, of Richmond, who is a convicted felon unable to have a gun. Walker was arrested and booked into the South Placer Jail for being a felon in possession of a loaded firearm, and being a felon in possession of ammunition. More from CBS Sacramento: Former EDD Employee In Roseville Charged In California’s Unemployment Fraud Investigation Police Arrest Elk Grove Man Accused Of Spray-Painting Hate Speech On Restaurant Turlock Man Named ‘Primary Supplier’ In Alleged Drug Ring Among Major North…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times as high as the general population. In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project. As the pandemic enters its 10th month — and as the first Americans begin to receive a long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine — at least 275,000 prisoners have been infected, more than 1,700 have died and the spread of the virus behind bars shows no sign of slowing. New cases in prisons this week reached their highest level since testing began in the spring, far outstripping previous peaks in April and August. “That number is a vast undercount,” said Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex. Venters has conducted more than a dozen court-ordered COVID-19 prison inspections around the country. “I still encounter prisons and jails where, when people get sick, not only are they not tested but they don’t receive care.…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said this week she hasn’t thought about retiring before her term ends in 2024 and defended herself against criticism of her job performance and questions about her age. “I don’t feel my cognitive abilities have diminished,” Feinstein told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Thursday. “Do I forget something sometimes? Quite possibly.” At 87, Feinstein is the Senate’s oldest member. In 2018 she won reelection for another six-year term, defeating Democratic challenger Kevin de Leon, who ran on a more liberal platform. The debate over Feinstein’s approach to politics renewed this fall during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Several news outlets have also reported on questions about Feinstein’s memory and mental faculty given her age. Her term runs through 2024, but some observers have raised the possibility of her retiring early, giving Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom a chance to appoint a successor. He’s currently weighing who to appoint to fill the rest of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ term, which runs through 2022. More from CBS Sacramento: Man’s Missing Ankle Monitor…

RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) – A Rancho Cordova man is accused of burglarizing the same home twice and stealing the residents’ car, authorities said on Thursday. Richard Hughley, 37, was arrested on Wednesday and booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail, according to the Rancho Cordova Police Department. Rancho Cordova police said officers received a report Wednesday of a burglary occurring in the Sunriver neighborhood. The victims said several items were taken and their home ransacked while alerting officers that the suspect was possibly still near a back fence. Hughley was spotted running in an alleyway and was later arrested when he was found hiding in the garage rafters of a vacant home, police said. The victims also told police their home was burglarized a week prior and their car was stolen at the same time. Rancho Cordova police said they located the victims’ stolen vehicle nearby as well as the victims’ property stolen in both burglaries. More from CBS Sacramento: Man’s Missing Ankle Monitor Leads Calaveras County Authorities To Stolen Copper Wire Motion Filed To Question Gov. Newsom Over COVID-19 Response Man Pays Taco Bell…