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Make your vote count. Today in the bay continues right now. And a good Tuesday Morning to you. Thanks for allowing us to be a part of that morning. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Were going to check in with mike in just a moment. Lets talk to kari right now, the last, what, half hour of summer right now . Its almost fall and its going to be a really nice day. Were seeing some improvements except for the north bay youll still have to monitor the air quality and limit your time outside. Were going to see good air quality across the bay area as well see a nice, clear start to our morning. A look at walnut creek, our morning starts out with some upper 50s. Upper 70s by 1 00 today as you enjoy more time outdoors. A look ahead to the forecast for a hotter weekend coming up. Mik . The bay bridge is looking like its backed up. Metering lights are indeed on. That backup has been forming for just over ten minutes now as we look at the lanes over to the westbound direction. Meanwhile the map shows you slowing as you would expect out of the main area and approaching the toll plaza. A smooth drive is clearing up. North 101 through san jose at the bottom of the screen, that slowing a little extra there but it looks like things are starting to get back up to the speed limit. Back to you. Thanks, mike. We begin in washington this morning and the race to fill Justice Ginsburgs seat on the Supreme Court. Today in the bays tracie potts, the senate has the vote they need to move forward but Speaker Nancy Pelosi has her own ideas on how to stop them. Reporter right. While shes talking impeachment, she has made it clear that its not off the table. President trump responding at a rally in ohio last night told his supporters bring it on President Trump says hell nominate someone to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg this week. If joe biden and the democrats take power they will pack the Supreme Court will far left radicals. Reporter the president said hes spoken to all five women on his short list and questions whether ginsburg urged lawmakers to wait until after the election. That was Justice Ginsburgs dying wish, and it may be the senates only last hope. Reporter with only two republicans opposing quick confirmation, its full steam ahead. They want to get it done so they can overturn the Affordable Care act. Reporter if joe biden wins he says hell appoint an africanamerican woman but isnt naming anyone. Biden urged lawmakers to consider president obamas nominee months before the election. It was an Election Year not in the midst of an election. Theres a big difference. Reporter demonstrators are urging Lindsey Graham in charge of confirmation hearings to stick to his promise. If an opening comes in the last year of President Trumps term and the primary process has started well wait until the next election. Reporter now the court is preparing for a public goodbye tomorrow and a political battle over ginsburgs seat in the next few weeks. So we now know a little bit more about what that public goodbye to Justice Ginsburg will look like starting with a private ceremony tomorrow and then theyre bringing the casket outside the next two days so re. She will on friday become the first woman ever to lie in state just across the street. You will remember rosa parks, a civilian, lied in state but its reserved for government and military officials. Back to you. Two great women. Thank you, tracie. Today is National Voter registration day and this time the drive to get americans to the polls is high. Both republicans and democrats. A lot happening to get folks registered. Cierra johnson is live in San Francisco. How can people get involved . Reporter it wont just be a basketball venue, it will be a ballot dropoff location. This for the 2020 election and your price of admission to get inside this building is being a registered voter, so in honor of nation registration day there are several locations where you can learn how to get registered. This day started in 2012 to get unregistered, undecided and new voters registered regardless of their political affiliation. Today one of the places, it starts at noon, richmond Public Library, will hold through a drivethrough event. If youre in contra costa this morning the board of supervisors is giving a presentation about voting by mail and in person. That presentation can be found on the county website and in the midst of a pandemic some may not feel comfortable voting in person so voting by mail could be an option. The date you want to remember is october 5th. This is the day the first day mailin voting and the day that the ballots will be mailed to those in the bay area. So if you have any questions and cant make it to one of those events being held today you can. Partnering with the Hispanic Federation and holding a help line thats going on now until 6 30 this evening. The phone number to call is on your screen. If you have any questions regarding residency or registration you can give that number a call and the folks there can help you out. A lot of events going on throughout the bay area to ensure that your vote counts for the 2020 election. Cierra johnson for today in the bay. All right, cierra, thank you. You know what, more streets are closing in oakland to allow businesses to expand and people to eat and drink outside. The new streets closing are in and around the downtown area. They are 13th, washington, telegraph, and webster. All social distancing rules still apply if youre heading out there. Well, making the move from purple to red. Solano county says it is getting ready for its covid status change. The county expects to move into the red tier today. So right now only napa, marin, San Francisco and santa clara counties are in that less restricted tier. Alameda county is also making the move. The things you see on your screen can open once they get in the red tier. They all can reopen but with reduced capacity. Happening today in San Francisco some struggling north beach restaurants and cafes could get a major life line with the ability to serve alcohol. The board of supervisors expected to vote on that plan giving it final approval later today. It will allow ten establishments to be considered limited restaurants giving them the opportunity to apply for liquor licenses which would be good for six months. Also happening today leaders in san jose plan to vote on millions of dollars of aid to help people during the pandemic. If approved it would extend an emergency proclamation put into place in march. The proposal includes 7 million in covid19 relief. Nearly 3 million in Housing Assistance and at least 2. 5 million in child care help. Similar relief measures are also included in that plan. And this is fun. Happening today one of San Franciscos finest cultural landmarks is set to reopen to its members. Just 25 capacity will be allowed at the Deyoung Museum and on members only day all those slots are already booked up. The current exhibit has been ready since the pandemic started but they just didnt have the chance to open it until now and a full reopening to the public is set for friday. I, for one, would love to see that show. Got to plan, though. 25 capacity. In the meantime, our days outdoors have been fantastic lately, the smoke clearing, leading to a little Better Weather conditions out there, kari. We are seeing improved air quality thanks to a couple weather systems that have been passing by. You can see the clouds as the storm systems pass to the east as the first one moves through yesterday evening. Theres another one right behind that thats giving us a strong westerly wind and helping to improve our air quality but also giving us a nice little cooldown for many of our microclimates as were looking at highs along the peninsula in the upper 70s, low 80s for the south bay. Inland valleys will reach into the mid to upper 80s with concord reaching 86 and 83 today in santa rosa. San francisco will see highs there in the upper 60s. A few more days of weather like this but then some changes for the weekend. Ill talk about that in a few minutes. Mike gets us out the door with an update on the morning commute. Weve had changes here, kari, as well in the south bay. The bottom of your screen, take a look at that. Its all green. 101 through san jose. Still that circled area heading up toward 92. A slowing and crews still clearing from the overnight construction zone. Getting over to the trivalley a nice easy drive. The slowing out of the altamont and highway 84. Thats not bad for a tuesday. Its a terrific tuesday for the drive, not a traffic tuesday there. It is a traffic tuesday over at the bay bridge toll plaza where the live look shows you the backup has been there since the lights turned on just about 5 0. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. 6 11 right now. Anarchist cities . Coming up on today in the bay at 6 25 the declaration from the department of justice against three major american cities. What that means for federal funding plus the reaction on social media. Investors unhappy with whats happening or perhaps not happening in washington. Lets take you out to the futures breaking about even after a big hit yesterday. Okay, listen up. If you have a pet, a dog, whatever, would you give it up for a cell phone to keep your cell phone . The survey says well have to get that answer. Stick around. What people say they will go without to stay connected. At 6 14 over to pleasant hill. Much of the east bay its a nice and cool morning. We are going to see a few clouds but a lot of sunshine today and better air quality. Looking at temperatures in the mid70s at lunch time. Well talk about our upcoming fire season, how many acres have burned statewide. San mateo bridge westbound. Taillights away from us to the peninsula. No delays but a good amount of traffic. Westbound, headlights coming toward us out of richmond and san rafael. 580 sees a little more traffic but not as much as at the bay bridge. Well show that to you coming up. Well, good morning. A very happy tuesday to you as well. Theres a lot weighing on wall street. Investors dont seem very happy. September is always a pretty rough month for investors. We certainly saw this monday the dow closed more than 500 points lower. The closing numbers dont tell the whole story. Take a look at some of the tape we have in the middle of the trading day, the dow down 800 points plus at one point. Apple stock now in bear territory off 20 from its highs. Not everyone will see that as bad. Apple stock is on sale, after all. Investors have all kinds of things to worry about, coronavirus, for instance, is that getting any better . No, it is not. It would appear congress is not getting its act together as far as passing another stimulus. The senate now very busy with the Supreme Court fight. And in the middle of all of this dont forget were only eight days away from running out of mon money. Democrats and republicans have to come up with a fiscal deal, so thats a lot. Other news, though, we do expect the doj will announce some kind of accusation against google as far as antitrust goes. That could come this week. Now whether that would be on top of or alongside the antitrust investigation launched by a cadre of states this is unclear. It did not include the California Attorney general xavier becerra, noticeably be a seven. While his office has been tightlipped we do think he has his own investigation under way, so well be watching all of those. Elon musk will host what he calls a battery day today announcing several things from the palo alto offices including, we think, tesla perhaps manufacturing its own batteries and the socalled million mile battery. Now this is an idea that is more of an idea, laura and marcus, than it will be a reality. Its probably aspirational. A million miles, if you tried to drive a million miles using the average amount of mile aage eve american drives, youd have the car for 66 years. Of course you have the tesla when you were 16 and, man, you got a tesla when you were 16, you would be 82 and driving the same car. Wow. Better hope all the other parts hold up. Lets hope you hold up. Thanks, scott. Hey not you. Im working on it. Youd better read. Thanks, scott. 6 18 for you that morning. And trending for you, you know what, the emmys hit their lowest ever viewership once again. Those ratings were 1. 6 million. Thats the number of people that watched the awards show sunday night down from the 6. 9 million last year. Okay, laura, i have another question for you. This is a good one, though. Who would you sacrifice for a month what would you sacrifice for a month to stay connected with your cell phone . Yeah, this is an interesting one. In fact, they did a survey about it as well. Its a new survey from the marketing platform called simple texing, asking over 1,000 people across 50 states the question. The answer may surprise you. 40 say they would be separated from their dog, just to not be separated from their cell phone. 44 say they would give up seeing their significant other for a month and 72 say they would give up alcohol for a month. It shows how dependent people have become on cell phones. Its your connection to everything. I didnt hear, did they say they did the story before or after did they say before or after we were quarantined together with our close, loving family members . For the second one with the spouse, that may be a good question, mike. Love my family. We all do. Lets get a look at the forecast for you this morning. Meteorologist kari hall has a look at the summer ending and the fall approaching. Yeah. Were now just a few minutes away from the last day of summer and now fall begins this rises. And so fall beginning, equal nights where we have the 12 hours from daylight from the morning to the afternoon and we are going to see this beginning, of course, our wildfire season. So lets talk about how many acres have already burned now that were officially starting our wildfire season. We know its been a record year. Weve had 7,900 fires already burning. 3. 6 million acres. I mean, its just beeu compare miles. Thats larger than the state of connecticut that has burned in the state of california. And so with climate change, just an increase in temperatures of almost two degrees on average, weve seen more acreage burned over the past several years. You can see the trend here as we go back from 1980 to last year and then, of course, if you were to add this year it would be spiking above all of those others because weve had so many acres burn. Now we are looking ahead to our fire season to see what were expecting here and theyre saying that this could still be an above average season as we start to get our diablo winds. Those are the strong offshore winds that create the warming and drying. We could still see a high amount of more acres burned across Northern California but outside of those diablo winds we should see our risk decreasing as we are going to have more of an onshore wind in between those events, so thats something were watching as we head into this weekend as we are going to have an offshore wind event and a very hot temperatures. It starts on saturday, continues on sunday and well be watching out for that fire outlook and the potential of new fires into monday of next week as well. Lets head over to you, mike. A lot to wrap our heads around. How is it looking for the commute . Ill give folks a break since youre making them do the thinking. Things are actually looking pretty good right now. A terrific tuesday drive. Not a traffic tuesday. A smooth flow of traffic south bay and the peninsula. I did notice over here were seeing a little blip, some slowing to the san mateo bridge. The span did look pretty crowded on the westbound side. Slowing at the toll plaza with the arrow. Slowing just after the toll plaza. You see that volume across the flat section. No incidents reported here but it looks like there may be some slowing as you get to the high rise. And we knew about the backup at the bay bridge. The metering lights were turn on about half an hour ago. Now those middle lanes are moving better. Well take that. Back to you. Well take that. Will you take these . They look old and dirty. Up next and also trending this morning how much would you pay for these designer overalways. 6 25. New details the Justice Department is declaring portland, seattle and new york cities as, quote, anarchists jurisdictions. The cities could lose federal funding. This comes after the president order aed a review of areas whe violence have occurred during protests. The mayors blasting the president and on social media. Many residents are also sounding off against the declaration. 6 27. Scam artists are using a new tactic, preying on our increase in Online Shopping these days due to the pandemic. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here to explain. Reporter good morning. A text message sent to one of our reporters reads parcel sorting center, found package addressed to null. Last pickup day is friday. Then theres a link for you to supposedly claim your package or possibly schedule a new delivery date. Our reporter did not tap the link. You can see why people might. You do not want something you order sitting in a warehouse. We asked an expert what would happen if we opened the link in the text. They can deliver any sort of phishing attack. In this case in particular there have been versions of it that have taken people to a fake usps site thats asked for their credit card information for validation. Its risky either way. If you get a text message with a link do not open it, not even if it comes from a number you recognize. They can spoof you into thinking its coming from a trusted family member. If you get a text with a link delete it. Call the sender, ask them to verify. Back to you. Maybe youre waiting for this package in the mail. The latest in high fashion, something you might actually already have inclet. Gucci releasing ilts new mens look, grassstained overalways. The overalls are made with cotton. If you want to roll in the grass in your overalls to get the same look you can do that or buy this gucci pair for 1,400. Ridiculous. 6 28 for you this morning. Coming up next for you another bay area brush fire causes panic and worry. Next, the work being done overnight on the peninsula. Plus reporter the start of fall just a couple minutes away. Restaurant owners worried about the upcoming cooler temps. The steps they are taking to keep their outdoor businesses, dining, alive during this pandemic. Youre watching today in the bay. With school back in session, xfinity is committed to helping kids continue to learnno matter where they are. Were providing affordable Internet Access to lowincome families through our internet essentials program. To keep our network fast, reliable and secure. And helping College Students study and stay connected through our university program. Were committed to helping all families stay connected. Learn more at xfinity. Com education. And a good morning to you right now at 6 30. You are waking up to fall. The new season starts right now and most of us, im sure were happy to be one more season closer to saying good boi bye 2020. Throughout the bay area foggy start in San Francisco. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your morning. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Okay, fall is here and i feel like im still dressed for summer, but summer is hanging on temperature wise, right . Today its going to feel nice and mild and its such a beautiful start to our morning. The air quality has improved. For many of our microclimates in the north bay you need to limit your time outside if youre sensitive to the smoke and were going to see more of that as we go into today with our temperatures in low 70s. Well talk more about this coming up. How is it looking for the commute, mike . Kari, i have a couple smaller crashes that popped up on a report not affecting the sensors just yet. There is the sensor read. Weve had that since before 6 00. The metering lights are on. The middle lanes move well. Again, a couple issues for the east bay coming up. Back to you. Ke. Back to fall the new season area businesses. Today in the bays bob redell joins us live downtown. Reporter the Restaurant Owners are nervous they could see outdoor business drop off because of the cooler temps. Restaurants have had those white tents set up for quite some time during the pandemic to keep their customers protected from the sun but theyre now adding heating lamps. Fingers crossed thats enough to keep their Customer Base happy the owner of al fresco heating tells us propane heaters are flying off shelves. Hes never seen sales like that. He knows a lot of businesses are suffering, demand has been unprecedented. First the covid restriction of Outdoor Dining and then the recent bad air quality from the wildfires which has kept people inside and away from restaurants. Were trying our best. We have the tents up. Well figure out a way to heat these and reach out to our guests and say bundle up and come out. A grant system, 50 of what we spend which helps out a lot. Setting up walls and tents is understandable as long as ventilation is attended to. Plenty of air circulating around to disperse any respiratory droplets. Reporter doctors, Health Experts remind us we cant put our guard down when it comes to Wearing Masks even when dining outside. Reporting live here in livermore, bob redell, today in the bay. A fastmoving brush fire in belmont is under investigation. Firefighters had to get on rooftops pouring fire on flames as they approached homes. They called in outside help in an effort to save those homes. Police officers knocked on 40 doors telling people to evacuate. You have to evacuate. We saw the flames and the helicopters start coming. Fire trucks and it was hectic. As word of the fire spread people who live along the narrow winding streets nearby packed up their cars and evacuated causing traffic jams. The California Air National Guard is now working alongside firefighters to try to help control the north complex fire. Soldiers arrived in butte county over the weekend. Theyre mopping up areas hoping to prevent further spreading of this fire. So far it has scorched nearly 300,000 acres. A local rescue team is now helping with the wildfire fight. Theyre going to burned out homes trying to find anyone reported missing. Sadly 15 people lost their lives in this fire. Developing now new evacuations in southern california. Today marks the 17th day since the start of the bobcat fire burning in the Angeles National forest. One of the largest in l. A. County history burning up to 106,000 acres. 1,500 firefighters are working to try to still get this under control including some from bay area fire departments. Second d attack in l. A. Is out of the hospital, now home and resting. She was shot along with a 24yearold deputy recovering from home as well. Search for anyone connected in the shooting is still on the loose. Well find out today in the covid outbreak at San Diego State how is it going to impact reopenings in the county. The university has reported more than 800 cases since school began four weeks ago and now all students living on campus are required to test regularly. The county could slide down the four tiered plan. San diego county is the second most populated county in california behind l. A. With more than 3 million people. Some park areas will open up next friday for day use. Six months ago park areas and facilities closed to avoid overcrowding. Right now you are allowed at some parks, beaches and trails only if social distancing is follow followed. All picnic and barbecue areas still closed. Some people may be in their own neighborhoods and yards may want to barbecue this weekend even though fall is upon us. It might be a good time. I think its going to be too warm to even grill outside. Well talk about that. Lets get a look at our morning start this morning in dublin as you get ready to head out. Its going to be a great day for Outdoor Activities even as youre riding to work, windows down, heading into the low 80s by 2 00. We will see a lot of sunshine and better air quality for today. A look at all of our microclimates expect a high of 81 in san jose. 79 in palo alto. Santa rosa 83 degrees with some upper 60s in San Francisco. As warm as 88 in antioch today. Well see more of the weather over the next few days before we get that hotter weather this weekend. How is it looking, mike . A little shape recognition as we show you the maps. The arrow shows you the bay bridge toll plaza where metering lights were turned on and we still have the backups there. A circle will show you where there was slowing west 80 and gilman clearing up right now and should be smooth by the time you pass the university. Highway 4 slows. There may be a vehicle in the roadway in your commute direction that is a tougher drive. Heading to 680 and the walnut creek area. A crash cleared from north 680. Im checking on any incidents in that area. Its National Voter registration day today, how you can prepare ahead of time for the november elections. Plus will the fight in the senate interfere with the government getting its funding . Its eight days away from closing down. One of the things wall street is worried about. After a drubbing yesterday were slightly to the positive. Plus, a cowboy on his horse takes to a major chicago highway. Coming up the message he says hes pushing. Youre watching today in the bay. At 6 42 a look at our temperature trend in fremont as you get ready to head out. A nice, cool morning. Well see a few clouds that we have right now clearing out today with better air quality and at at 69 degrees and mid70s by 1 00. We will have some comfortable weather today but were talking about the fire danger this weekend and a look at the outlook for our fall season up next. I did not find any problems and speeds are improving just as youre passing by 680 and 280. The bay bridge toll plaza is not really changing. The backup in the toll plaza itself. Middle lanes are showing a little more movement. The approach looks good. Well talk about your commute coming up. It is 6 43 right now. The Supreme Court issue a hot topic amongst so many. Will it affect the president ial race . Many people already knew who they were voting for. Scott mcgrew, it could affect some senate races. Yes, for sure. Susan collins is a good example and Lindsey Graham. Especially if the fight over the u. S. Supreme court interferes with any more coronavirus stimulus and, remember, were only eight days away from the government shutting down. They have to come up with a fiscal deal as well, so theres a lot to think about. The president , though, says hes not worried. I would rather have a vote before the election because theres a lot of work to be done and id much rather have it. We have plenty of time to do it. I mean, theres really a lot of time. As for Lindsey Graham, he is the chair of the Judiciary Committee in the senate. Youve likely heard this sound bite before, but youre going to hear it again. Well play it a lot because, in a way, Lindsey Graham asked us to. Other than president bush saying read my lips, no new taxes, and raising taxes, never before has there been such a flipflop caught on video of a u. S. Politician. Of course Lindsey Graham says trump should get to nominate a judge in the last few days before the election. Here he is in 2016 saying that would never happen on his watch. I want to you use my words against me, if theres a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term you can say, Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president , whoever it might be, make that nomination, and you could use my words against me and you would be absolutely right. That was back when the democratic president , barack obama, wanted to nominate a judge in the last year before the election. Democrats insisted that was legitimate. Now, of course, there are democrats saying, hold on, wait until after the election. One of the arguments theyre making is were not just weeks away from the election, were in the middle of it. Several states have already started voting. This is video from virginia where people were so eager to vote, they stood in line the very first day. It was an Election Year not in the midst of an election. Theres a big difference. Its never happened before, in the midst of an election going on right now. Looking ahead President Trump will make a pretaped address to the United Nations today. And on the today show well hear from olivia troye, the official who represented mike pence on the White House Coronavirus task force who is now explaining how and why u. S. Leaders botched the pandemic response. Shes on the today show right after today in the bay and, of course, were tweeting about all sorts of things. You can find me on twitter. Im scottmcgrew. As scott was mentioning voting in the president ial election already under way in some parts of the country including in virginia as scott was saying and, you know what, 45 days until the november election. The push to get folks registered to vote is in full swing in other states. In fact, this is National Voter registration day and here in the bay area there are several organizations and opportunities to make sure everyone is registered to vote. I want to check in with crow air Cierra Johnson with everything you need to know to be ready for this upcoming election. Cierra . Reporter good morning. Im at the chase saern because come november 3rd it wont just be a basketball arena it will be a location where can you drop off those ballots. To be able to do that you have to be a registered voter. Today is National Voter registration day and there are several places around the bay where you were able to get more information and learn how to register to vote. Now National Registration day actually started in 2012 and it was a chance for folks that were unregistered or undecided or new voters to register to vote regardless of political affiliation. And, as i mentioned, several places to get registered starting at noon. Richmond Public Library will hold a drivethrough registration event. In Contra Costa County the board of supervisors starting at 9 00 will give a presentation about voting by mailnd in person and you can watch that presentation on the county website. As you mentioned we are still in the midst of a pandemic. If you feel more comfortable voting by mail october 5th is the day you need to remember. This is the first day of mailin voting. And for those of you who registered to vote it is the day those ballots will be mailed to you. So if you have any questions surrounding the election or registering to vote we will have an opportunity to help you. Nbc bay area and telemundo 48 hosting a help line beginning now until 6 30 tonight. If you have any questions give that number on your screen a call. They can help you out there so, again, get registered to vote. Its the only way youre going to be heard in 2020 and there are several ways to do it. We have more information as well on our website. Were live in san f today in te bay. Thank you. This is one way to get your message across. You see the man on the horse. He could become known as the census cowboy. He was spotted riding that horse down the highway during rush hour in chicago. City living for you. He was on Facebook Live at the time advocating for poeople to fill out the census. Traffic delays occurred. The rider eventually exited the highway and was taken into custody by Illinois State police. The troopers say, unfortunately, the horse sustained some injuries and is being evaluated by animal control officials. All right. Well, another way to get the word out these days is by tweeting and, this just in to our newsroom, the president has tweeted this morning that he will be announcing his Supreme Court nominee on saturday at the white house. The exact time is to be announced, but one well certainly continue to follow there just in to our newsroom this morning. 6 50 for you and time to get a look at the forecast. Fall is here. Time to pull out the sweaters and the boots. Well, maybe not so much right now. The flipflops. Keep them on tap. Its california fall. For later. Its been fall for about 20 minutes, and its going to be tombly heating up as we go into the weekend. Lets get a live look outside in dublin as we are on this day where the sun is perfectly aligned with the equator and so we are going to have equal day and night, that 12 hours for the Daylight Hours as well as night as we transition to the shorter days. But usually for fall were starting our wildfire season and we know weve already had a record amount of acreage burned across california. Weve had 7,900 fires already. And we are seeing the totals of 3. 6 million acres. Its just unbelievable. The equivalent to 5,625 miles, larger than the state of connecticut has burned in california this season. With climate change, warming of only two degrees, weve seen acreage, even 40 years locking back since 1980 and so this is not even showing 2020 where we would most likely see this bar off the charts because weve had so much acreage burned. As we look at what were expecting going into our fall season which normally starts our fire season, an above normal outlook. Those diablo winds that blow offshore and heat up the temperatures will be possible this weekend but we are saying with that we may have mor in between that we are going to see an onshore wind flow and our outlook does decrease outside of those diablo wind events. As we go into our forecast well be watching out for the potential of new fires starting on saturday especially on sunday with some high winds and also a high fire danger going into monday as well. Well have more updates on that. Lets head over to mike now for an update on the commute. Well, kari, youre showing 101 and the temperature. Im talking 101, the highway. We do see a little extra slowing right around 680. Its not visible on our camera. Ill circle it right there. We are tracking that a little late slowdown. It is starting to ease for those speed sensors. Getting you out to the rest of your drive were looking to highway 4, two crashes as you head past the san marco and then over some slowing there. That should be clearing any second. Still, again, delays through pittsburg and bay point for west highway 4. Getting to the bay bridge, no problem. The taillights around high street. A lot of those heading to the toll plaza as well. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Happening now for you covid cases spiking again in europe. Doctors from france, spain and the United Kingdom are worried about a second wave coming as restrictions continue to ease. And the uk researchers say the virus is doubling in new cases and now the Prime Minister Boris Johnson rushing to implement new measures to avoid another lockdown. This morning he announced pubs and restaurants must stop serving drinks at the bar and must close by 10 00 p. M. Coming up next, a quick look at our top stories this Tuesday Morning including a tier change for north bay county. The easing restrictions for businesses struggling in this pandemic. Plus, a surprising discovery from the raiders. Why the head coach is apologizing after their first game in las vegas. Youre watching today in the bay. Ms. Williams weve been working hard. Ms. Robinson . To make learning fun again. Ms. Duncan and making sure our students can succeed. Ms. Zamora were with you every step of the way. Ms. Robinson i know its a challenging time. Ms. Zamora no one wants to be back in the classroom more than teachers. Ms. Williams we have missed you so much. Mr. Hardesty but we all have to be safe. Ms. Robinson because were all in this together. Narrator making our School Buildings safer. Ms. Robinson working together, we can make it a great year. Narrator because the California Teachers Association knows quality Public Schools make a better california for all of us. Welcome back. A look at the top stories. Making the move from purple to red. Solano county says it is getting ready for its covid status change. The county expects to move into the red tier today. San mateo and alameda counties could also make the move. The places you see right now on your screen can reopen once the county is in the red tier. Indoor museums, movie theaters, malls and gyms can reopen but with reduced capacity. Happening today in san jose keeping people in their homes during the pandemic will be on top of the agenda at city hall. City leaders are considering several options on that front including Financial Support for renters and homeowners. In the meantime today in Contra Costa County supervisors will consider extending the moratorium on evictions. In San Francisco some struggling north beach restaurants and cafes get a major life line. The ability to serve alcohol. The board of supervisors is expected to give the final approval on that plan later today. It will allow ten establishments to be considered limited restaurants and give them the opportunity to apply for liquor licenses which will be good for six months. 6 58. Raiders coach jon gruden now confirming he did catch covid19. Following the raiders 3424 victory over the saints last night, gruden casually told reporters he had contracted the virus. Ive had the virus, object, im doing my best. Im very sense it tiff about it, but im calling plays. I just want to communicate in these situations and i apologize. And if i get fined, i will have to pay the fine. Im very sensitive about all of that and i apologize. Now the fine that hes talking about is because he was asked about his mask during the game, which was constantly down around his chin. Something the league will likely fine him for. And the 49ers recent win turn out to be costly for head coach kyle shanahan. Espn reports the league hit shanahan with a 100,000 fine. This is for not wearing that mask on the sidelines. They fined the team 250,000. Heading outside a foggy look at the San Francisco skyline this morning. Screaming welcome to fall. Get the boots out, kari. Not yet. Were still heading into the mid80s for the inland areas and then sandals for the weekend as we reach over 100 degrees. Mike . A quick look at san jose, 101 and 680. The bay bridge toll plaza is looking lighter. Toll plaza tuesday. That does it for us. Good morning. Pushing forward. Fill that seat. Fill that seat. We will. We will. President trump looking to fill the Supreme Court vacancy ahead of the election as senator Lindsey Graham says republicans have the numbers they need to make it happen. Weve got the votes to confirm Justice Ginsburgs replacement before the election. But democrats promise the unprecedented fight is just beginning. Were live with the very latest from the white house and capitol hill. Landfall. 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