But chairman Lindsey Graham said from the outset he would give both sides plenty of time to ask their questions. He started the q a. This scalia, he asked . Referring to the late anton scalia which barrett clerked and she share. Of the same philosophies. No, you would not get a justice scalia, you would get a justice barrett, she said. Dianne feinstein stepped in a controversy when barrett was nominated for a court of appeals position ago. There was none of that today and feinstein had questioning about roe v wade. Do you agree with Justice Scalias view that roe was wrongly decide . I do want to be forthright and answer every question so far as i can. I think on that question, you know, im going to invoke jug keegans description which i think is perfectly put when she was in her confirmation hearing, she said she was not grading precedent or give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. I think it would actually be wrong in a violation of the canons for me to do that. As barrett business out that question is often asked very knew nominee actually directly answer it. Feinstein asked about california versus texas and this is has lawsuit that could end the Affordable Care act. Barrett may finalize that decision. The fear from democrats that barrett will vote to strike it down. We will hear from Kamala Harris in a unique situation for california having two senators on the ticket. She is also on the ticket for Vice President for the democrats. Senate majority leader mcconnell said he will reconvene the full senate next monday to take up the stimulus issue. He says he wants it passed before the senate votes on barretts nomination. Kris, i cant speak for mcconnells motivation there but polls show an overwhelming number of americans agree with him and rather see a stimulus to help the economy and their open situation than a new Supreme Court judge. A lot of back and forth. Thank you, scott. We will take you back live to take a look at the hearing that is happening right now. We will continue to monitor for major developments. You can watch it for yourself. We are streaming it on our free nbc bay area app where you can get the updates from our social media platforms. Turning to decision 2010. Thousands of people have voted and mailin votes are counted in the bay area. We are live in redwood city with sharon. Reporter this Elections Office has been so busy. A steady stream of voters here you see here to cast their ballots. L Election Officials tell me they are taking many steps to make sure your vote is counted. They showed us new technology and processes the mailin ballots this election. The first passthrough is to count how many ballots we receive today. The second one will take a picture of the actual ballot and the signature on that ballot. That picture is then sent over to our signature verification unit. Voters lined up all morning to cast their ballots in person here at the office and so far, San Mateo County has received about 37,000 mailin ballots and they said during this in regular elections they usually only about half of that amount. Sharon katsuda, nbc bay area ne news. We looked at the voting equipment in santa clara county. They showed us the new coronavirus Safety Measures in place there as well. Voters will notice more space between booths to keep people socially distant from one another and one way routes inside of those Voting Centers and workers will be wearing ppe. A special tonight decision 2020 california votes. Tune in for all you need to know from how to cast your vote to the safety of your mailin ballot to what the propositions meet tonight at 7 00 after nbc bay area news at 6 00. Temperatures are climbing once again in the bay area. Beautiful look at San Francisco where its clear blue skies. But meteorologist kari hall is here. It will get pretty hot even in the city. We are goning to see a rampp of our temperatures in the next few days. Air quality is turning worse as we started out with good air quality this morning and more smoke coming in. Our temperatures will reach into the mid eight today in the south bay and peninsula and low 90s for the east bay and San Francisco in the upper 70s and mostly upper 80s for the north bay. We have a red flag warning golden gate up for tomorrow morning. Under a fire weather watch in two counties but our conditions will deteriorate with the possibility of any fires that develop could spread rapidly under these conditions, due to the heat and the winds picking up and we are going to see the winds in our upper elevations up to 1,000 feet and possibly gusting up to 50 miles per hour. So windy and hot and not the conditions we need. Now is the time to prepare and get ready for the important papers and have your emergency kit ready and be ready to case in you get the order to evacuate. Make sure you have food and medication ready and you know how to open your garage if you dont have power. We know that pg e put out your that watch in a lot of parts infant north bay and especially in the hills. We will have more updates as well as temperatures in the forecast and when this all ends coming up. After weeks of fire threats and evacuation, many people in the north bay are still representing for the worse and what pg e is warning of because of the coming on the weather and you heard kari mention it. We are in calistoga for that shutoff. Reporter folks in calistoga cleaning up from the fires just days ago. This morning, another fire watch headed for the north bay beginning wednesday, possibility ending friday. Folks here as well as pg e are on high alert. Item now, pg e is preparing to deenergize the lines in as many as 21 counties including several in the north bay. Alameda, sonoma and santa clara counties among others. This could reach 50,000 total customers and customers impacted have already begun to receive notification by text or auto phone call or email letting them know they are in the impacted area. Pg e says the goal is to have things turned back on 12 Daylight Hours after the event. That spokesperson telling us this move is down out of safety. It does look liketh some aar that will cross over from the fires. We understand, you know, what our customers have gone through and we hope they understand its something we do only as necessary and only for public safety. Reporter the folks with pg e on standby for the possibility of a weather alert. As for that last fire, the glass fire, good news. Its 95 contained but not great news. It burned 67,000 acres. Cierra johnson for nbc bay area news. San jose police say a victim drive after a driver plowed into Outdoor Dining area this weekend. The identity of the victim is being withheld as family is being notified. A video shows the chaos just after that happened sunday afternoon at an Outdoor Dining area in the grand century mall. Authorities say the driver, 69yearold man, accidentally hit the gas on his suv, which then plowed into the diners and injuring eight people at several tables. The driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Family members say they believe he may have suffered some sort of medical emergency. New at 11 00. Soccer star ronaldo is positive for coronavirus and he is in isolation and asymptomatic. He played in two games over the weekend and went to dinner with teammates. The entire team came back negative after the news. A waiting game in the south bay as the county is hoping to ease more covid19 restrictions. They announced tears for counties on tuesdays. Santa clara is in the red tier but hopes to move into the orange tier. At johns of willow glen. Its almost time to welcome back guests in more than 200 days. The customers, they are waiting for that. I think we are done with the lockup. A little cabin fever. This is going to be refreshing. Health leaders say the county has had consistently low covid19 rates, so if it moves into the orange tier, it will allow Indoor Dining at 25 capacity. If that happens, museums and zoos could also resume operations but at 50 capacity. Places of worship, movie theaters and even gyms could go up to 25 . Also this morning, that is all that is left of that statue of father junipero serra. Five people under arrest after that statue was faced and ultimately removed. The pedestal remains with graffiti. Activists gathered yesterday and some of those people tore it down. One protester said she her ancestors were once imprisoned at the prison. Every time i drive by the statue i have to be reminded of the tragedies that went on there. Every time i have to drive by, any time i walk by, we are constantly reminded. Coming up, amazons prime day is golden gate strong but it was delayed this year. We will show you the reason why. Also halloween is coming up. This year, trick or treating is largely cancelled or at least frowned upon. Ways you can still celebrate this scary time of year but maybe safely. Im bob redell. Apple announced its new iphone lineup. A look at what it looks like is coming up. Dennis quaid is showing off his newly adopted puppy. He tells Kelly Clarkson why he felt he had to rescue the dog. You can watch her at 3 00 this afternoon. The unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. A big announcement from apple in that 5g is a good hint of what that is about. Iphone owners can expect faster speeds. Bob redell has been watching that announcement and a lot of other stuff coming up too, bob. There is. Kris, the apple just finished this announcement. I was watching it here on my home computer. They did announce four new iphones. They got the iphone 12, the iphone 12 mini, and the iphone 12 pro and the iphone pro 12 max. The pro max will have the largest screen apple increases in size from 6. 5 to 6. 7 inches. The design brings back the straight edges and comes in four colors including blue and gold. The pros now come with four cameras including a telephone lens in addition to wide and ultra wide lenses and a widar scanner that helps with augmented reality and allows the phone to scan a room and help the picture focus when youre taking a picture. It will allow video recording in dolby vision hdr. It will come mag safe and let chargers and others accessories snap on the back of device interesting to reduce their Carbon Footprint when you open an iphone box, no headphones, no chargers inside. The iphone 12 regular iphone 12 and the iphone 12 pro, those are available for preorder starting this friday. They will be released the following week. The mini, the pro max, november 6th, released the week after that november 6th being a preorder date. They also announced home pod mini, its a minispeaker for 99. Can you see all online at nbcbayarea. Com. Bob redell, reporting live, nbc bay area news. A little bit faster with that 5g . They will finally be able to recognize and use that Technology Even though it seems like we were supposed to do that all along, right . Correct. The big caveat is making sure our carriers have that 5g out and about and not available in all totspots. Thanks, bob. Amazon shopping holiday prime day kicked off early this morning. The annual shopping event delayed this year for the first time because its usually christmas in july but we no what happening in july. Last year, amazon said prime day was the largest shopping event in its history topping sales for amazon 2018 black friday and cybermonday combined. Amazons big sale is only available to prime customers who pay 120 year for twoday shipping. We know other retailers are putting out their own deals to try to compete as well. So look around. New at 11 00. If you receive Social Security number you will get more in your month check next year. Raise is smaller than the 1. 6 pump that retirees got in 2010. They got nearly a 3 boost to their monthly checks. In 2022 will be smaller. Next year not good news for retire years because many had a tougher time to stretch their benefit checks because of covid19. Californians will get new guidelines today how to celebrate halloween safely this year. All nine bay area counties had guidance how to stop the spread of covid on halloween. It says doortodoor trick or treating is discouraged and so where carnivals and festivals and indoor haunted houses. Safe are online car parties and car parades and drivein movie night. One dad says that is putting a dumper on fun for his kids. No rules book. No one to talk about from spanish flu days, i guess. We are trying to figure it out as we go. Yesterday is the state eased restrictions on private indoor gatherings and three households now are allowed to socialize inside as long as they wear masks and follow other safety precautions. Previously, california discouraged gatherings outside of a single household. We go to meteorologist kari hall who is tracking fire weather. Hard to believe we are talking about halloween and fire danger and high heat in the same sentence. Yeah. They usually go hand in hand in the fall months. So we are going to have to deal with that once again. Its just that we have already had such an exceptional fire season before it really go to golden gate. The smoke that lingers in the air as we take a live look outside in dublin. Looks hazy but looking at the air quality and some of the measurements we started out with good air quality across the bay area but now seeing some slightly unhealthy air quality for people sensitive to the smoke and in San Francisco and trivalley and san jose. Unhealthy air quality for some. Continue to monitor that as we go into the afternoon, some will be heading out. A couple of more hours of mild weather before it heats up as we go toward 1 00. We are in the mid80s already. Upper 80s for the south bay and still looking at 90s for this afternoon. You probably felt that yesterday in the east bay. We are heading back there for this afternoon. Shortly before sunset, if youre planning a walk its still going to be warm in the valleys with some mid80s for santa clara valley. We are still at 86 degrees in concord and for the north bay looking at temperatures in the low 80s. San francisco dropping back to the low 70s. Then as we go into tomorrow, its going to heat up even faster and this is when the red flag warning kicks in. All of these areas shaded in red is basically the whole north bay with the exception of the immediate coastline and where we will have that high fire danger and looks like it also includes the valleys. Before the east bay as well as the santa cruz mountains. The upper elevations that will have the highest risk of those quickly spreading fires as we will see those winds picking up tomorrow. As we go through the next couple of days, very dry conditions. As the storm track in all of the rain as well as the clouds stay well to the north of us we will see that heat building and the winds picking up from the west and northwest. Looking at the highest times of the winds most likely tomorrow evening and thursday morning but still gusty golden gate throughout the afternoon on thursday and then the red flag warning will conspire on friday. We are going to see temperatures peaking on friday reaching 95 degrees and its hot once again. This weekend only gets slightly cooler. We will get much better relief golden gate into early next week in San Francisco and along the coastline we need to prepare for the high heat. Close to 90 by the end of the week in San Francisco. We will have more updates on that. Coming up, a bay area city recognized as a top place to live in america, we will show you where it is and the video you have to see coming up. One whale watching ships capture something spectacular on video. Happening now. Blue origin launching and landing new rocket for the seventh time today in west texas. Jeff Bezos Company is testing Lunar Landing for astronauts and may put astronauts on the moon by 2024. The ride took about ten minutes today including more than 1 million tomato seeds to be given to School Children around the u. S. And in canada. In just a few months, weve learned a lot more about the covid19 virus. Its real. And its dangerous. So, on behalf of all of us working on the front lines, please take it seriously. And while we dont yet have a cure or a vaccine, we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay six feet apart. Do your best to stay out of crowded spaces. And get a flu shot, its even more important this year. We can do this. If we do it together. We have new list of the best places to live from the Group Real Estate u. S. News which looked at 150 cities across the nation and one area made the top ten in the by the way area. San francisco is there for its businesses and tre 29th and san colorado. This is a rare sight. It is a triple breach when three whales jump out of the water in succession and happened on sunday aboard the atlantis monterrey. The captain of the ship has been on the water 45 years and never seen anything like that. Lets check with ckari hall. A high concern for the fire dangers the next few days. We have gotten the notice from pg e there may be spots will be without power so check out the website for that. We will also have some hot temperatures and a lot more updates on this high fire danger. We thank you for joining us. Our next newscast is coming up at 5 00. You can get all of the latest information any time of day at nbcbayarea. Com. Our Election Special is coming up at 7 00 tonight. Taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. 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