Lawmakers. Those leaders there, the three Biggest Tech Companies in the world are appearing virtually will congress. They agreed to appear remotely after being threatened with subpoenas. Republicans accuse the Tech Companies of deliberately suppressing conservative religious and antiabortion views. Candidates on both sides continue to use our platforms to reach voters. People are rightly focused on the role that Technology Companies play in our elections. Im proud of the work we have done to support our democracy. As we think about enforcement, we consider severity of potential offline harm and we act as quickly as we can. We have taken acti ioion agains tweets from World Leaders all around the world. Last week the Justice Department sued google and the governments most significant antitrust lawsuit suing since microsoft in the 2000s. Three more base area counties are loosening their covid19 restrictions. Nbc bay area rob redell is live in san mateo company. Good for the restaurants and business but what are the people saying . Reporter its a similar thing we have seep n in other counties moved to this area of lower restriction. You find a few people who dont want to eat inside of restaurants even if the restaurants are taking precautions and following the guidelines of the local health department. I dont think its worth the wi risk. 12 01, san mateo loosened their restrictions so double the number of people inside than prior to this. San mateo county joins the following counties here which have entered the orange tier reopening the last 24 hours. Orange is the second least restrictive tier which indicates there is only a moderate spread of covid19 inspections. Alameda and santa clara and napa in yellow. The purple is the most restrictive. The three counties that just loosened their restrictions, you can see Retail Stores and indoor malls and library and offices can operate at full capacity inside. Dinein restaurants and places of worship and movie theaters and museums 50 capacity or up to 200 people. Gyms, wineries and Family Entertainment centers and card rooms 25 capacity or up to a hundred people. We asked people. We are not there yet. Reporter why not . She is a nurse so she works she sees covid patients. Its not worth it. Its not worth it. We both have elderly parents and care about their health and i dont want to put them at jeopardy. No hessanceno. I think id eat outside until its too cold to do so but ive been in other states ive eaten inside. Depends on how many people are there. Reporter here some san mateo, the public officer is reminding people with the new loosening of restrictions and new rules they dont want you to let your guard down. Wear a mask when youre supposed to and wash your hands and keep your distance from people who are not a part of your household. Another reminder. Good advice there. Mask up and wash your hands. Bob, thank you. Happening today after nearly seven months of being closed, santa clara is reopening its playgrounds. Park and recreation staff saying that Covid Protocols are in place at each of those locations. Playgrounds will have limited capacity. Everyone must wear a mask and use Hand Sanitizer. At 11 00, the u. S. Making a deal for the experimental antibody drug to treat the covid virus. The government will pay eli litt lily. They hope the million doses will be made by the end of the year. Department of health says that those doses would be free to the public. Working to get to the bottom of things, five people, both patients and employees at ucsf are in quarantine as a hospital staff works to determine how they contracted the virus. Cierra johnson is live there with more information on what the hospital is doing with this investigation. What has been the investigation revealed here . Reporter good morning. The key for those investigating the situation is contact tracing. They are looking to speak with anyone who may have had contact with the two patients and three Staff Members here at this hospital. Now, according to the hospital, two patients actually shared a room and the Staff Members that were infected here at ucsf helps to care for them. In a statement to nbc bay area, the hospital says both patients had negative covid tests before being admitted but one of those patients tested positive on a routine discharge test. So the plan of action now work to identify test and quarantine anyone else who may have had contact with them. The hospital is telling us neither of the patients had any symptoms but those Staff Members are all experiencing mild symptoms. Terms of internal investigation, what the hospital is doing to look into it, they said that in their investigation, they found that Staff Members were, quote, followed High Compliance in this situation. A lot of information but we will continue to update you as we get any information about a possible outbreak at the hospital is available. Cierra johnson, nbc bay area news. Thank you. A live look at the golden gate bridge. The wind has died town. Meteorologist kari hall is here to explain it all. The shot makes me want to go outside yeah. A great day for lunch outside. But still a little cool for those of us who woke up with temperatures in the 40s and even some low 50s around the bay area. Right now, we are recovering nicely with mid to upper 60s around the bay area as we get closer to the lunch hour. We go into today, we will see trivalley up to 80 degrees and peninsula 75 degrees. South bay mid to upper 70s. San francisco expect a high of 70 degrees up to 75 in the east bay and north bay high temperatures up to 80. We are going to have mild weather as we go into the forecast over the next couple of days and we have a lot more to watch for. We are talking about how high the winds were the past 24 hours and seen some of those gusts still up about 25 Miles Per Hour in oakland. That is much better than the 50mileperhour winds that we had a couple of days ago. As the winds continue to calm down, nicer weather by the weekend and talk about that coming up. The spirit to the finish line. Sprint to the finish line, that is. Election less than a week away. The president making his final pitch in battleground arizona. This as president ial nominee joe biden set to make his announcement meeting with Public Health officials before delivering his plan to beat covid19. This all as the crisis continues to worsen. Peter alexander reports. Reporter in a race every electoral vote counts President Trump stumping overnight in nebraska. You better get me omaha reporter why . The state traditionally votes republican but one of the states five electoral votes is up for grabs. In syria, i didnt have to be here but its nice to be with you. Reporter joe biden taking a different approach traveling to trump territory, georgia. The state has not backed a democrat for president since bill clinton in 1992 but now a virtual dead heat. We win georgia, we win everything while biden held two public events, the president unleashed a battleground blitz. Ive got to say im working my ass off here reporter also holding rallies in michigan and wisconsin, states he won in 2016. But where biden is now leading in the polls, the president focusing on women voters in lansing. Im also getting your husbands, they want to get back to work, right . We are getting your husbands back to work. Reporter on the pandemic in wisconsin where he once again repeated this false claim. We are rounding like this racetrack. Look at this. We are rounding the curve we will vanquish the virus you notice the fake news now . All they talk about is covid, covid, covid. We have made such progress, its incredible. Excuse me. Im here. Reporter barack obama mocking his successor. He said this at one of his rallies. Covid, covid, covid he is explaining. He is jellalous of covids medi coverage. Reporter biden donald trump has waved a white flag and abandoned our families and surrendered to this virus but the American People dont give up and neither will i. This election, there is a lot of talk about Election Integrity with the president , himself, saying if he loses, it will be because the election was rigged. Now we wanted to know how bay area voters are voting. The california secretary of state sent vote by mail ballots to all registered voters because of the pandemic. More than 6 million voters already returning those ballots. The state has removed unofficial ballot boxes put out by the Republican Party in several counties, none here in the bay area. However, the voters we spoke with say the talk of fraud is overblown. I think this country has a strong history of free and Fair Elections and so i have no doubt that that will happen again. I think with every lex you have to worry about integrity. I wore that there is so much noise about it but i feel like state and local governments know how to run elections. To protect your vote get it in early 70 of rejected ballots arrive late and check your signature against your drivers license. If you make a mistake, dont try to correct it. Request a new ballot. If you have any problems dropping off your ballot or voting on election day across the bay area, let us know. Or tweet us. We investigate, that. Wildfires burning out of control in southern california. The battle firefighters are facing as they try to get the upper hand. Sniffing out covid19. The new line of defense one airport is using to detect the virus. Mom to be and star of holiday telling Kelly Clarkson how she found out the gender of her baby and excited to call her mom but the news was not what she was expecting. That is coming up here on nbc bay area at 3 00. Snipper dogs around the world at airports where we are used to seeing them sniff out a range of things from narcotics to explosives and more. But can they sniff out the coronavirus . Leaders of a Trial Program in finland claim they are nearing a 100 sensitive iterate with the dogs able to detect the virus five days before humans show symptoms. Nbc kelly kocobiella reports. University from the helsinki are collecting samples of sweaty things to these dogs. They are cheaper . Yep. Quirk . Yep. Possibly as accurate . Probable even more accurate. Reporter because they can smell covid days before a patient develops symptoms. That really thing you have on your carpet in the home . Or starts barking and wants to have food and go out . This is a super accurate machine. Reporter here in helsinki they are screening me after a baggage claim. A quick wipe down. Hand over your tissues. The dog goes to work behind the screen and scratching a positive control sample. But mine . Negative . A backup a free standard test at the airport with that high watering nasal swab and results in a day or two by text. The dogs take a few days to a few weeks to train depending on their background and their love of treats. Researchers say one dog with sniff a thousand sample a day at airports, hospitals, nursing homes. This could save lives . Totally. I think it was a nobrainer for us. Reporter researchers here now continuing with the trial the next several weeks trying to gather as much better as they can so they can prove in a strong scientific stay that this actually works but they are very bullish about it and say we could see these covid sniffing dogs at airports really around the world by next year. Kelly cobiella, nbc, helsinki, finland. In southern california, firefighters are battling two wildfires not far apart and burning close to 30,000 acres. Silverado and blue ridge fires are burning east of irvine. Firefighters have been injured two critical and homes are damaged. Fires are burning out of control. 70,000 people are under evacuation orders. Cayman islands is covering a sweet deal. Laura garcia is explaining that and more. Reporter trending this morning, the saved by the bell crew is heading back to bayside high. Our first look at the peacock reboot. Take a look. 123 the old gang back together again. Reporter they are all back together again in the new series. Zach morris is the governor of california. And it looks like kelly still has the sweetheart. A. C. Slater and jessie returning as Staff Members at bayside high. The ten episode series launched on peacock november 25th. Peacock is owned by our Parent Company nbc universal. Good one to check out. Cayman islands will let you work and live there up to two years but a catch. You must make at least 100,000 a year and even more if you want to bring another person. The Cayman Islands launched it this month to inviting high earning workers to live on the island two years which so far has contained covid19. What a beautiful way to escape. The only way to access the Cayman Islands. They have not reopened to tourists. When it comes to casting your ballot 65 of pet owners say they plan to vote with their pet in mind. That is according to a new survey conducted by banfield pet hospital. It also revealed nearly 70 have turned to their pets as a way to destress during the pandemic. I think turning to your own pet is a good way to destress any day of the week. Its been even better as i work from home. Right . Right . Youre going to help me vote . Maybe a bone in every dog bowl. Back to you. Work for that treat how is the forecast . Youre talking about what is going on down in the gulf . Right. We have a hurricane zeta that you may have seen on social media today if you have friends and family along the gulf coast. A category 2 hurricane and moving closer to the coast near new orleans. Very quickly this will be racing off towards the north and east and making landfall later this evening and moving a lot of the south and back out into the atlantic for tomorrow. We are going to continue to watch that for today as well as the next couple of days. Here at home we are enjoying sunshine. A little hazy out there. We are also seeing our temperatures that started off very cool in the low 60s but we will trend toward mid to upper 70s the middle of the afternoon. Here we are at 3 00. We will be at 77 degrees and Holding Steady there at 4 00. We were just talking about the playgrounds reopening today in santa clara. If youre going there middle of the day only 78 degrees. Going to be nice so bring your mask and Hand Sanitizer and enjoy time outside. Bay area will reach up to 78 downtown and low 80s morgan hill 81. East bay low 80s but 70s in oakland reaching 75 and low 80s for the trivalley. San mateo 75 high. Low to mid 70s in downtown and Mission District in San Francisco and north bay highs low 80s. Sonoma, 78. Temperatures slightly above normal and see High Pressure across the region. A few storm systems to the north of us but not close enough to bring us cooler air. Looking at dry but also warm weather for this time of year. Napa for the weekend its going to be upper 70s and low 80s. Inland feeling warmer weather for halloween day as well as sunday morning, setting our clocks back one hour. Monday 84. San francisco fog over the next couple of days. Overall this is a fairly nice and quiet forecast. Thanks. Coming up, major changes at a San Francisco land mark. We will tell you the difference you will see at Ghiradelli Square its been one of San Franciscos land marks since 1915. The marquee sign at Ghiradelli Square got a new modern update. Changes were debuted last night. The sign was in the shop for months but its shining bright again on the waterfront. The sign got an electrical upgrade making it more Energy Efficient and a lot years to change those colors. The sign has changed color for decades but it was done one light bulb at a time. You had to climb a ladderer and do it one light bulb at a time. Fortunately with modern technology and a knew sign we can do it by our phone. The mayor says the updated sign is a remind remember that San Francisco is open for business even if it looks a little different during the pandemic. Happening today. Ellen is bring back live studio audiences since the pandemic started. 40 fans will be seated in the audience and virtual attend knees. They have to follow the safety and strict protocols. Catch ellen at 4 00. Until we get to that point we can go outside and have lunch or play or recess. A lot to do outside today. Yeah. Its going to be so nice out there take a look at our highs too. 80 for a few of our inland spots and still more of the same tomorrow. Most major changes for the weekend. We are planning to have a nice Little FamilyHalloween Party at home and maybe youre thinking of doing the same. We will remind you once again on sunday morning to set your clock back one hour. Overall looking nice and warm the next few days. I love it when we gain an hour that does it for our midday newscast. Our next newscast is at 5 00. Take at the beautiful shot of the golden gate bridge. Sometimes. Less is more. So, heres humira with a thinner needle. Its the same humira, with the same effectiveness you know and trust. But a thinner needle. For a better injection experience. Ask your doctor about transitioning to humira with a thinner needle 3 out of 4 humira patients have already transitioned to humira with a thinner needle and you can pay as little as 5 a month with your copay card. 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