If they dont win tonight, this might be a lost season for them. Glass half full. Jim g. , of course, thats the big concern. Had a good week of practice. Hes ready to go. The team needs to come out angry. They need to be fired up and pumped out. Kind of ticked off playing tonight. The 49ers have a new look. Youll see it when they take the field. They are going back to the future, old school. 49ers wearing their 1994 throwback white jerseys. Remember these . Same as the last time this franchise won the super bowl. Even more notably, their helmets in honor of hall of famer fred dean. A number 74 decal on each helmet. You see that number right there. Fred dean. That ferocious park rusher. His former teammates said he had covid19 and died a few days ago, last wednesday. Fred dean was 68 years old. We will remember him fannond. And a homecoming of sorts for jared goff. Weve seen him grow up right before our eyes. He was number 16 in honor of joe montana. His favorite alltime player growing up. The 26yearold has the rams off to a great start, 41. And in the new normal of the nfl, we want to give you an update on the covid cases. A lot of teams have been hit and its caused schedule changes. Just this past week, six teams have at least one person in the Organization Test positive, including the eagles, panthers, and patriots. Now so far, the niners have all tested negative. So today all games were played. Yeah. Just to get into this structure, into this facility, you got a test, make sure its negative. You got to go through all sorts of security procedures from the media to the players, so its very secure. Remember last time we were here . The smoke quality the aqi. We were concerned about that, and it was fine. But on the border. Today, we dont have to worry about that. Its great. Well bring in our meteorologist to talk about the forecast here for game night, also across the bay area. Take it away. Yeah, you know the weather there obviously air quality not a concern, the throwback jerseyers from 1994 on the field. Theyre getting a throwback to more augustlike weather around the bay area. Numbers in the 80s and 90s inland. Kickoff temperatures expected to be in the mid 80s. So raj and janelle, i know youre enjoying the shade, the breeze picking up. Look at that you got kittles number, 5, kickoff at 5 20. Cooling through the 70s as the game goes on. Speaking of cooling, signs are there, the sea breeze begins to pick up. Even though it will be a bit of a summerlike start at levis stadium, were expecting northwest wind to pick up and cooler 70s for the second half of the game. Back to you. Okay. Thats one benefit of not having fans today. 8 a 85 is hot, you could be baking right now. Probably more comfortable in the comfort of your own home. We have a lot of vips in real life and on cardboard. Lets bring it in to talk about the headlines this afternoon. Thank you. Janelle is staying in her box, and walking on the sidelines is raj mathai. Well check on them in a little bit. To the news. With just over two weeks until election day, both major president ial candidates are busy drumming up support on opposite sides of the country. President trump made a quick stop in Southern California for a private fundraiser in newport beach. Before that, he attended church in las vegas and will end the day back in nevada at an evening rally in carson city. The president said today that hes ready to sign a trilliondollar coronavirus stimulus package, but hes claiming Democratic Leaders want to wait until after the election for political gains. I want the money by tonight. But nancy pelosi doesnt want to approve it because she thinks its good politically for her not to approve it. Democratic president ial candidate joe biden, he is in durham, north carolina, slamming President Trump for what he called, quote, continuous lies about covid19. And now as a consequence of the overwhelming lying, negligence, and irresponsible action, comes to how many chairs were empty at the dining room tabt last night because of his take last night because of his negligence . Folks, were so much better than this. The rally was a drivethrough event meaning honking and cheering from the cars. Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote on line. If you missed the deadline, youre still able to make sure your vote counts. The deadline tomorrow is for the formal registration process which means people can still register to vote up until and on election day. If you live in San Francisco and want a ballot mailed to you, you have to register in person at the Voting Center in Civic Center Plaza or on line up until midnight tonight. If you cant get it done today, you can still participate in this years election by registering on election day at your polling place. We have 588 polling places in San Francisco. So theres a tool on our website, people can use to find their assigned polling place. Even if theyre not registered, thought put in their address and the tool will tell them the location of their precincts polling place. They can register at the polling place or come to the outdoor city hall Voting Center. So far about 23 of registered voters in San Francisco have turned in their ballot which the Citys Department of elections says is really good. This upcoming week is expected to be critical in terms of determining overall early voter turnout. Young voters are expected to have a big impact on this election. Some voting for the very first time. We break down what they should know in a digital original. Check it out. Now that youre registered, what happens on election day . Well, if youre voting in person, you can find your polling place on vote. Org. And here in california, you dont need an i. D. To cast your ballot. But in some states, you do. Just make sure you know your states requirements. The other way to vote is by mail. All registered voters in california will be mailed an absentee ballot. Once you get your ballot, only use a black or blue pen to mark your choices because pencils and red pens are not allowed. That is our report there to see more about what young voters should know. Head to nbcbayarea. Com. An unusual sight outside the orinda country club. Donning costumes, but two dozen members of the group east bay democratic socialists of america performed a satirical skit. They chanted things like who needs firefighters and golfers against good schools. The protesters say the goal was to shed light on elite clubs like the orinda country club, funding opposition to prop 15. If passed, though, prop 15 would generate billions of dollars a year for education and government services. The funds would be created by taxing large commercial properties at market value. Im sure that many of the members of the country club may have very different positions. I dont know how many of them are even aware that this money was spent out of their club dues and whatnot. I would like to say everybody vote in favor of prop 15. Reporter supporters say the tax revenue would go to improving the states parks, libraries, community colleges, and private transit systems. You really cannot call it just a ferris wheel. A 150foot observation wheel starts to spin in San Franciscos goelden gate park. Look at this thing. It was delayed by the pandemic. Its here to celebrate the parks 150th anniversary. Its 15 stories high. Its going to provide a spectacular view of the city, the bay, from inside temperaturecontrolled gondolas. The observation wheel will follow strict covid safety precautions, including special seating and cleaning in between each ride. Riders will also need book times so as the limit thats going to be wild, the wheel opens wednesday. Okay. Lets take you live to levis stadium. We are counting down to kickoff sunday night football. The 49ers hosting the l. A. Rams. Out there having a heck of a good time, raj and janelle. A special weekend in santa clara, you two. It is. It is a special weekend. Its alumni weekend. You know, by the way, talking about terry and anusha, if they come after the newscast, theres a lot of Seats Available there for them. Yeah. You could sit there and enjoy the view of the stadium. Its weird how empty it is. We have specialita cardboard cutouts. Theyre theyre being honored, a lot of the Living Legend are here, at least in cardboa cardboard, jerry rice and roger craig, and the legends no longer with us, as well. Late debate clark and bill walsh. You can see it here. Also in cardboard is kent jones, from Leland High School in san jose to Santa Clara University to the 49ers. A true local guy. Three super bowl rings and a lot of passes from montana and young. Even for the alumni, the big topic of discussion, Janelle Jimmy g. Jimmy g. Can he bounce back . Every player will tell you, yeah, i dont think about it. Thats a lie. Every player that comes back from an injury is thinking about it. He might forget it at a point or two during the game, but hes thinking about it, especially if he feels it. And so you just have to put your mind over the matter, and you just to deal with it. Always cool to catch up with brent jones. As for jimmy g. , he said his injured ankle feels great. He had a good few days of practice. Curious to see what happens tonight after last sundays embarrassing loss to the dolphins where he threw two interceptions and was eventually taken out of the game. Taken out about halftime. We saw brent jones there. Hes currently in a friendly competition with other 49ers. Other 49er legends raising money for the golden heart fund, raising money specifically for some of their former teammates battling mental and some health i. Its called 49 in 49. The idea, get people moving. You go 49 miles in 49 days. How do you do 49 miles . Any way you want. You can walk it. You can crawl it, you can run it, you can swim it. Any way to do it to help the older 49ers. The team captains, you might have heard some of these guys, jerry rice, steve young, joe montana, roger craig, ronny lott, eddie debartolo, patrick willis, jesse supolo. The list goes on and on and you and even me. I reached out and got hold of the great george kittle. And now my team is a Combination Team jones kittle. And weve been through the roof. Were gaining, were in second place. We want to finish in first. All the proceeds from this great competition go to the golden heart fund. I mentioned that before. We established it, a few former players founded it a few years ago to help guys after they retire. A lot of people think, gosh, you know, pro football players, theyre all millionnators, this, that, and the other thing. This is applicable to most guys that played when you werent making that much money. And you get out of the game and you hope you have a little savings. So if youre listening to this and you want to sign up, make sure you sign up for team jones kittle, and it might as well be team kittle jones. I got the best recruit i could get. Any team is good. I like the team kittle jones jones kittle jerry rice, the whole deal. To sign up go to goldenheartfund. Org under the race home tab. It helps your oldschool legends. Coming up on this special edition of nbc bay area news, where does the noise come from when youre watching at home with no fans in the stands . One person is responsible for piping in that crowd noise. Were going to give you a behindthescenes look at how it happened. Around the rest of the bay area, you may be hearing the sound of an increasing sea breeze. Some cooling relief from the summerlike heat. But it may not stick around all that long. Welcome back to levis stadium. Our special live pregame coverage as we count down to sunday night football. A bit eerie. This is what it looks like walking into the stadium. Just a few hundred of us are here. Usually this is packed. Just to get you through takes 15, 20 minutes. Its a straight up the escalator to the concourse level. I like your photography, raj, very nice. Like youre on a moving escalator. Well, its going to be a great time here. As you know, theres no fans so they pipe in the noise that you hear on tv. One fan is using a few buttons to cheer on behalf of the thousands of people not here. And nbc bay areas Jonathan Bloom takes a closer look at the Technology Creating all the fake crowd noise you hear at home. [ cheers ] in the end zone caught touchdown. Without the crowd noise, you would think you were watching a practice at any High School Field in america. Literally the sound of 22 kids playing in the back yard. The field is freshly painted, the teams are in uniform. The own thing missing here at levis stadium is the fans. That means 49er games could sound awfully strange this season. But theyre getting a little help from some tv magic. Its the sound of sunday night football, and the man who mixes that sound is wendell stevens. The way i do my job is i look at a tv picture and say i need to make it sound like that picture. Reporter this year, the picture is a little off. There are faces in the crowd, but theyre not doing much cheering. It gets really dull quickly. I mean, theres just no energy. Reporter but a call from nfl films changed everything. They said, we have curated audio from every single stadium. Reporter authentic cheering [ cheers ] caught reporter from the real fans of every team in the league. We were just doing that to capture sound for our library. Reporter vince caputos team had only months to turn it into a sort of Musical Instrument that plays crowd noise. Ambitious project, wasnt it . We didnt realize how ambitious it was. Reporter what they built was this for every team in the league . We built 32 systems. Reporter each would be unmistakable sounds of the home teams fans. The right hand controls the ambiance. Moving it up, you hear the crowd kind of intensify a little bit. All the way up until you get to level four, the loudest [ cheers ] reporter then the left hand moves the peak fader, the excitement that builds during a play up to the moment the crowd reacts. Theres something negative that happens [ cheers ] reporter the reaction are chosen at random, so each is different. The operator just hits low, medium, or high. So here at levis, a 49er touchdown could sound kind of like this [ cheers ] [ horn ] but the same touchdown on tv the end zone, touchdown. [ cheers ] reporter are there buttons you would add . Are there changes you would make . I hope we get to the point where we can put people back in the stadium. We miss them. We want to be safe, but we really, really miss them. I love the fog horn there. Okay, the absence of fans here, you kind of hear other stuff happening on the field. Some colorful language coming from the players. Theres some bad words that you hear. There is a fix for that. For the full story, its worth watching, our full story go to nbcbayarea. Com. Lets talk about the weather and bring in rob. Every time janelle looks at me, the wind takes her hair this way. Its all about the angles, rob. All about the angles. Thats the janelleomometer, the northwest winds picking up in the shade. Downtown san jose and nearby in santa clara, too, still seeing temperatures in the upper 80s. Lets take you outside. See something signs of cooling out toward the golden gate. The fog making a bit of a co comeba comeback. A welcome sight. San francisco, a big change. 73 degrees. Yesterday in the low 90s. Things have cooled off. Things have not changed at all, though, in walnut creek. Still 91 degrees far away from the influence of the marine air just yet. San jose, just talked about it, 87 degrees. Downtown san jose, it will be a summerlike start to this Football Game here on nbc bay area. Keep in mind on the field, out in the sun, its going to feel hotter than this 85degree kickoff temperatures. You might see the players trying to stay well hydrated as it is a summ summerlike start. Temperatures almost 15 degrees above where they should be for this time of year. For the morning, the fog spills across the inner buy. Temperatures mostly in the 50s. Tomorrows highs noticeably cooler. Valleys dipping back into the 80s. Low 70s from San Francisco to oakland. The item to watch, however, will be our friends in the north bay. We have those fire weather watches back as north winds will pick up across the higher hilltops of the north bay tomorrow night into tuesday. So notice San Francisco, temperatures cooling a little bit as we go through the week. For most of our valleys, too, out of the mid to upper 90s. But dry breezes, well have to watch for the cooling trend were seeing now. Not going to stick around too long as temperatures try to rebound toward the middle of the week. Much like the 49ers, rebounding tonight against those l. A. Rams. Back to you. Yeah. Fingers crossed. The janelleomometer for the hair windy. Speaking of the niners and the rams, jimmy g. Also, a fixture at every 49er game, hes not here now, banjo man. We caught up with him this week to see what hes been up to. Stay with us. Woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. Proposition 16 takes some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. All right. We are two hours away from kickoff. A live look on the field at levis stadium. That is Jimmy Garafalo taking some practice shots, warmups. His ankle, he says, is fine. Well see when kickoff happens. Well see if hes much better, any better than he was against the dolphins which was not a good situation last week. He looks good now. One person thats missing from the game is banjo man. You recognize him for his propeller hats this guy and his cape, his banjo. Hes sidelined like all the fans. But we caught up with him. Check it out. This is the first time in actually 40 years because ive been at every 49er home game for the last 40 years. This is the first time ive ever watched a home game on tv, in my living room on my couch. In 40 years. Havent even thought about that, but its pretty crazy. What was that like . Are there any benefits to being, you know,a the ho at home on yo . Its a lot less effort than getting up at 6 00 in the morning and driving to santa clara. You essentially miss being with a lot of people and whats a better place to be than 50,00049er fans . Whats going on with our niners . I thought the season is started off easy, and they cant seem to pull off a win. What do you think is happening . I think were going to come roaring back. I think we had a great wakeup call. Though it wasnt much fun to watch. What have you been doing through this pandemic since your life revolves around sports . What have you been doing since you have more free time . Well, ive done a lot of gardening and i do a lot of shopping. Im shopping with my wife and three kids. Swimming. Ive been trying to get some good exercise by swimming like 15 laps every other day. Things like that. Just watching a lot of news. What else can you do these days except sit and watch the news . Youre still playing your banjo. All the time. I play every day at my home. As many times as i can in peoples back yards. Social distancing. Well, thank you so much for talking with us today. We are rooting for our niners. Hopefully theyll beat the rams. And can you play us out . Absolutely. Ill stand up for you and hope we get a view of the cape and everything here. Were number one were number one love him. And i love his interstellar propeller hat. He sold two million since he came up with it in the 1970s. You can get one at propell propellerhats. Com. Were back in a moment. When was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. Welcome back to our pregame coverage. Im raj mathai along with janelle wang. You know what camera were coming on . This camera. Hey. Weve got all sorts of cameras here. Thats the one right now. Were going to talk about social justice here. The 49ers were one of the first teams in all of pro sports to do this, to make a commitment to fight against social and economic inequality. Yeah. This week the niners led a financial workshop for nine single mothers struggling due to the pandemic. At the end of it, samuels, fred warner surprised them with three months of free rent. The players credit their own single mothers for where they are today. And warner shared this story. I have a little brother, little sister. We grew up in a little mobile home house down in Southern California. You know, we didnt have a lot, but she always made sure that we had everything that we needed. The event was held through operation hope. One of the nonprofits who received a grant through the teams multimillion dollar social justice pledge. Really cool. Thats going to do it for us. We are ready now for football. 49ers, rams, kickoff at 5 20. Well leave you with a closing look at the field as the team starts to get ready. Sunday night football on nbc bay area. Tonight, going on offense. President trump in nevada and joe biden in north carolina, try ing to flip states their parties lost in the last election. The president facing criticism for his comments about michigans governor. Lock em all up. The governor hitting back today. The fall covid surge is here. 30 states seeing big increases. Hospitalizations hitting new records. Many icus approaching capacity. One state only has 20 beds left, as packed parties continue in another hardhit state and a