KCRA Today: Supreme Court to rule on abortion pill restrictions, NorCal fight over distribution center and more top headlines – KCRA Sacramento

Posted: April 20, 2023 at 11:28 am

KCRA 3 is rounding up all the information you need to know to get a head start on your day.Here you'll find what you missed overnight, what's happening throughout the day, the forecast and how your commute is shaping up.You can also watch our morning newscasts live from 4-10 a.m. here.WHAT'S HAPPENING IN NORCALDraymond Green suspended next game after chest-stomping Sabonis | The Golden State Warriors will have to play their next game against the Sacramento Kings without Draymond Green after he was suspended for stepping on Domantas Sabonis' chest, the NBA said. Sabonis might also not be able to play because of that injury. Read more here. Will California comply if SCOTUS limits the abortion pill? It's not clear | Gov. Gavin Newsom and several California legislative leaders on Tuesday promised to protect medication abortion in California, but it's not clear how the state will move if the United States Supreme Court decides to limit the availability of Mifepristone by stripping its Food and Drug Administration approval. Read more here. Family calls for justice after Rancho Cordova woman dies in hit-and-run crash | A Rancho Cordova family is calling for justice after a loved one was killed in a hit-and-run crash last week. The California Highway Patrol confirmed with KCRA 3 that 20-year-old Fabiola Rojas-Diaz died after getting hit by a car near Bradshaw Road and Countryroads Drive in Rancho Cordova around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12. Nearly one week later, CHP said it's still searching for the driver. Read more here. Vehicle crashes into the second story of a home in Placer County | A vehicle crashed onto the second story of a home in Placer County over the weekend, authorities said. KCRA 3's Brittany Hope spoke to the home's owner. Read more here. As climate change threatens US forests, scientists look to 'assisted migration' to help trees thrive | Trees and plants have naturally migrated for millennia, but in order to keep up with climate change, scientists with the U.S. Forest Service say that migration needs to happen 10 times faster. Read more here. WHAT'S HAPPENING ELSEWHERESupreme Court set to rule on abortion pill restrictions | The Supreme Court is deciding whether women will face restrictions in getting a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, while a lawsuit continues. The justices are expected to issue an order on Wednesday in a fast-moving case from Texas in which abortion opponents are seeking to roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug, mifepristone. Read more here. Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims | Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company's lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election. Read more here. Republicans object to replacing Feinstein on Judiciary panel | Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden's stalled judicial nominees. Read more here. Biden signs executive order to improve access to child care | President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase access to child care and improve the work life of caregivers, the White House said Tuesday. Read more here. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY8 a.m. | The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office will hold a hostage negotiation training at Folsom Lake9 a.m. | The Power in Nature Coalition will rally at the State Capitol to accelerate action on conserving state land and coastal waters11:30 a.m. | Aaron Kallhoff, the new head coach for Sacramento State Women's Basketball, will hold his introductory press conference6:30 p.m. | A community meeting over a proposed Amazon Distribution Center in El Dorado Hills is being held at the fire station on Wilson Boulevard7 p.m. | West Sacramento will vote on declaring the property where Club Pheasant once stood - as surplus propertyTODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOKMeteorologist Tamara Berg says to plan for a cool start to the day with temps in the 30s and 40s. Cooler areas will be in the Foothills, where we will see more widespread 30s and some patchy frost. A nice afternoon is ahead with dry weather and light winds. Highs will peak in the mid-60s, running close to 10 degrees below average. Expect another cool night under clear skies and calm winds. Temps begin to warm late week and stay warm into the weekend.REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MAP(App users, click here to see our interactive traffic map.)DOWNLOAD OUR APP FOR THE LATESTHere is where you can download our app.

KCRA 3 is rounding up all the information you need to know to get a head start on your day.

Here you'll find what you missed overnight, what's happening throughout the day, the forecast and how your commute is shaping up.

You can also watch our morning newscasts live from 4-10 a.m. here.

Draymond Green suspended next game after chest-stomping Sabonis | The Golden State Warriors will have to play their next game against the Sacramento Kings without Draymond Green after he was suspended for stepping on Domantas Sabonis' chest, the NBA said. Sabonis might also not be able to play because of that injury. Read more here.

Will California comply if SCOTUS limits the abortion pill? It's not clear | Gov. Gavin Newsom and several California legislative leaders on Tuesday promised to protect medication abortion in California, but it's not clear how the state will move if the United States Supreme Court decides to limit the availability of Mifepristone by stripping its Food and Drug Administration approval. Read more here.

Family calls for justice after Rancho Cordova woman dies in hit-and-run crash | A Rancho Cordova family is calling for justice after a loved one was killed in a hit-and-run crash last week. The California Highway Patrol confirmed with KCRA 3 that 20-year-old Fabiola Rojas-Diaz died after getting hit by a car near Bradshaw Road and Countryroads Drive in Rancho Cordova around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12. Nearly one week later, CHP said it's still searching for the driver. Read more here.

Vehicle crashes into the second story of a home in Placer County | A vehicle crashed onto the second story of a home in Placer County over the weekend, authorities said. KCRA 3's Brittany Hope spoke to the home's owner. Read more here.

As climate change threatens US forests, scientists look to 'assisted migration' to help trees thrive | Trees and plants have naturally migrated for millennia, but in order to keep up with climate change, scientists with the U.S. Forest Service say that migration needs to happen 10 times faster. Read more here.

Supreme Court set to rule on abortion pill restrictions | The Supreme Court is deciding whether women will face restrictions in getting a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, while a lawsuit continues. The justices are expected to issue an order on Wednesday in a fast-moving case from Texas in which abortion opponents are seeking to roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug, mifepristone. Read more here.

Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims | Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company's lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election. Read more here.

Republicans object to replacing Feinstein on Judiciary panel | Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden's stalled judicial nominees. Read more here.

Biden signs executive order to improve access to child care | President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase access to child care and improve the work life of caregivers, the White House said Tuesday. Read more here.

8 a.m. | The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office will hold a hostage negotiation training at Folsom Lake

9 a.m. | The Power in Nature Coalition will rally at the State Capitol to accelerate action on conserving state land and coastal waters

11:30 a.m. | Aaron Kallhoff, the new head coach for Sacramento State Women's Basketball, will hold his introductory press conference

6:30 p.m. | A community meeting over a proposed Amazon Distribution Center in El Dorado Hills is being held at the fire station on Wilson Boulevard

7 p.m. | West Sacramento will vote on declaring the property where Club Pheasant once stood - as surplus property

Meteorologist Tamara Berg says to plan for a cool start to the day with temps in the 30s and 40s. Cooler areas will be in the Foothills, where we will see more widespread 30s and some patchy frost. A nice afternoon is ahead with dry weather and light winds. Highs will peak in the mid-60s, running close to 10 degrees below average. Expect another cool night under clear skies and calm winds. Temps begin to warm late week and stay warm into the weekend.

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