What you need to know: Dec. 11

Good morning, North State.

This morning, the greater Sacramento region is waking up to a three-week stay-at-home order.

Here's what you need to know to start your day on Dec.

11.

Need to know to start your day.

We begin this morning..

With some regional counties now officially under a mandatory stay at home order..

The counties impacted: butte, colusa, plumas, yuba and sutter.and the rest of the greater sacramento region.

What does that mean?

Indoor dining... indoor recreational facilities... such as gyms... hair salons and barbershops and movie theatres... all must close.### the butte county elections clerk says workers found a sealed box of 500 uncounted ballots outside of chico state's bell memorial union.

All the ballots had been deposited before the november third deadline.

Grubbs expects the only contest that could posssibly be impacted is chico "measure e" - a charter amendment.

Shasta and tehama counties have filed a lawsuit against pg&e for*injuries and damages to public resource* caused by september's zogg fire that burned 56-000 acres and killed four people.

The suit charges pg&e's negligence caused the fire, saying the company failed to remove a tree previously identified for removal.

### the state has the launched "california notify" .

It is a voluntary smartphone tool to help coronavirus contact tracing.

To set it up, go to your iphone's settings... go to "exposure notifications" and follow the steps.

The system works with bluetooth signals-- not your location -- and exchanges "anonymous keys" between phones.

Android users... download the app from the google play store.

A panel of experts has recommended the food and drug administation*approv* the pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency use..

The vote late thursday evening...after the committee spent all day scrutinizing data.

17 members were in favor of the authorization..

Four against... the vaccine still must be formally approved by the f-d-a... that could happened as early as today### vaccine prep kits making their way to hospitals around the country.

The kits include syringes, masks and visors, sanitizer, a diluting agent... that must be used to administer the vaccine... and vaccination record cards.

These kits are the first of a three part delivery process for u-p-s which will include the vaccine and dry ice for storage..

The u.s. records another single day record of coronavirus deaths.

Data from nbc news shows the u-s- reported a new single-day record of 31 hundred deaths thursday.

Our country now has more than 15- point-six million cases of the virus.

More than 292- thousand, 900 people have died since