Exactly. Days until that election, more places and more opportunities for folks to do just that. This is a big weekend for several bay area counties. If youre here youll see a super voting center, a center where instead of having several polling locations, they will have one center. The Oakland Coliseum being one and the San Mateo Center behind me being the other. California voters are not required to show identification but if you are voting for the first time in the state after registered by mail, it is suggested that you bring one. In terms of contracost a county, voting there started a few minutes ago. Centers are held at churches, hotels, businesses and community centers. A quick check at the contra costa registrars website can tell you where to go. San francisco county has early voting at civic center location. The polling site has been open several weeks and continues to see visitors. We had a chance to catch up with some folks and listen to their experience and why it is so crucial that everyone gets out to vote. I dont know why. Because of the covid, i guess . Yeah. Because last three or four times, the neighborhood around there . Then this time, send it by mail and we send it back. Why do i vote . Oh, boy. I think the only thing that makes me equal with everybody else. That is probably the answer. Great sentiments there. To give you an idea of how many folks have completed their civic duty along with those other two gentleman. 8. 4 million californians have voted. If youre in the south bay we learned that levi stadium atrium is open for early voting until election day. Additional location for the folks in the south bay. I know its a lot to remember. A lot of times and dates and locations. We have all of that listed on our website nbcbayarea. Com as well as a link where you can ask any questions you may have that are voting related. Live in san mateo, cierra johnson, nbc bay area news. We are just a weekend and a day away from election day. Scott mcgrew, candidates making a lastminute push . Reporter yeah. In the same places. Good morning to you. Both trump and biden are in wisconsin and minnesota. Live pictures from des moines, iowa. First stop of the day for biden. Trump won it in 2016 and we thought he would stay in the red column there but like texas that is not so cut and dried. Some democrats worrying that biden is spending time in states he does not need to win like iowa. President trump in near detroit. Biden is ahead there by eight points in a poll. Here are both candidates in florida on thursday. President trump talked about opening up the economy and joe biden spoke about bringing the country together. We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division and we choose science over fiction. And, yes, we choose truth over lies. This explosive Economic Growth is four times greater than what the experts expected. They expected a number that would be like 7 , 8 . Reporter actually, the numbers from yesterday were 7. 4 , just between 7 and 8. That is the quarterly number. President trump is conflating the annualized wait with the quarterly number. The annualized way indeed was the biggest in history but the problem of using annualized right cduring a pandemic youll get both positive and negative numbers. Berlin news wax museum the figure of the president who is still the president for a few more months and possibly many more years, is carted away. As we learned in 2016, dont be sure too sure of the results of any election. We will wait until election day and possibly thereafter to see who the winner is. Reporter and beyond. Thanks, scott. If you have a great resource everything from what so your ballot to how to make sure that ballot stays security and gets counted. Its on our website. Ive used this one. A special section there. Head to nbcbayarea. Com election guide. Act dress Lori Loughlin is locked up in a federal bay area. She started a twomonth sentence and serving her time at the federal Correctional Institute in dublin and she also ordered to pay fine of 50,000 and to complete 100 hours of Community Service as well. The actress and her husband admitted in may to paying 500,000 to falsely designate their two daughters as a recruit to the rowing team at usc. Opening bell New York Stock Exchange the dow falls more than 400 points today as wall street heads to the worst week since march. The dow down 381 points right now. Numbers of a different kind. Take a look at the forecast for you today. Look at this beautiful shot in San Francisco this morning. Meters kari hall has been working how our free halloween forecast is shaping up. Youve been telling us since this morning that its a nice one any bay. We have a lot going on this weekend. As we enjoy the sunshine, we are also taking in some nice Cool Temperatures with most of our highs today reaching into the 70s. We will have 60s near the coast. Overall, a great weekend. A nice one for halloween. We are getting ready to set our clocks back one hour but seeing a lot of people heading to the polls. I wanted to show you your forecast in the east bay if youre going out to vote today, we are going to see temperatures in the upper 60s at noon and upper 70s for the middle of the afternoon. We will talk about spots you can see fall color this weekend and the rest of the forecast coming up. Thanks. Looking forward to that. Confirmed u. S. Covid19 cases has pushed past 9 million. Nbc found more than 109,000 new cases were reported and equivalent of one new case every second. More than 229,000 americans have died. A live look for you as members of a south bay church are speaking out fighting back against a mountain of recent covid fines. San jose Calvary Chapel is facing 300,000 in fines for holding inperson services during the lockdown. They are calling out governor gavin newsom and the Santa Clara Health department. Dr. Anthony fauci met with leaders in santa clara this morning. Santa clara county health dr. Cody and others had a chance to discuss ongoing problems with the pandemic. One of the main topics is bringing kids back to school. If youre going to make that decision, to keep them in school or bring them back to school, you have to have a program that has a plan to respond, a, to what youre going to do if one or more of the children get infected and, two, what do you do to mitigate against their getting infectious. Dr. Anthony fauci praise santa clara for its current plan to bring children back to school. Health leaders are recommending against traditional trick or treating for tomorrow night. Bob redell has more what they are recommending to celebrate safety. Reporter the cdc is not telling you not let your kids go to trick or treat. They dont want your kids walk up to somebodys front door and ring the doorbell and be in close contact with that person as they receive the candidate. Our governments doctors and scientists are saying leave candy or treats at the end of the driveway or in the yard where kids can pick it up so they can main socially distancing. They recommend the following. During a typically halloween in San Francisco thousands of people would be celebrating in Castro District tomorrow night but this year rafael are recommending people stay home tomorrow night to prevent the spread of covid. We are asking people to stay home. If they want to come during the day and go to a restaurant and do a little shopping is okay but as long as you dont see a crowd building. This year with covid, makes sense not to have the big party. Here are activities the cdc is okay with on your stren. Screen. Reporting here in livermore, bob redell, nbc bay area news. Sad news following that devastating earthquake in turkey. Its turned deadly. The new information we are learning about the devastating day overseas. Players testing positive for covid19. The nfl teams now dealing with infected players and the College Football star who wont be hitting the gridiron this weekend. Look what is coming up on the Kelly Clarkson show. Madeline would be proud of that costume. Other celebrities are joining the fun so watch it here at 3 00 today on nbc bay area news. Welcome back. New details on that powerful earthquake sending people scrambling in turkey. We have learned it is now deadly. At least 12 people are now confirmed dead. This is following that 7. 0 quake that jolted the country near the coast. 400 people were injured and that quake shaking parts of nearby greece. 20 buildings were destroyed cars were crushed and people went to the streets following the quake. Remnants of hurricane zeta which hammered louisiana is causing problems into the northeast. Fifth named storm to hit louisiana this year and beating the state with that category 2 storm that blew through. Norman chesky has more. Reporter this morning, in the after and this math of hurricane zeta many are trying to count their blessings despite terrible losses. They are memories. Hold those memories. Reporter ken has been here before. He founded a Disaster Relief group after surviving Hurricane Katrina and bout a trailer to house volunteers and he parked it inside the levee to keep it safe so he thought. Youve used this trailer to help so many people in disasters to now be in the middle of one yourself. Yeah. Its small irony. Reporter the fast moving and dangerous storm blew through louisiana late wednesday. Its more than 100mileanhour winds lifting roofs off homes and pushing boats out of the water. The storm surge hitting mississippi the hardest and one man drowned after trapped in his car. A georgia man was killed when a tree held fell on his home. The tree fell on the very corner of the mobile home and damaged that particular room. Reporter in alabama, joe narrowly escaped this. When the tree come in all i could do is roll over in the bed. Reporter now gulf coast businesses and homes bearing unmistakable scars. 2 million customers in multiple states have no power. In st. Bernard parish Power Outages a growing concern and election four days away task force is making sure power is restored and alternate voting sites are ready. Nursing homes, schools, and because of the election coming up, polling places, power will be restored. Do everything perhaps the most popular and likely overall topic of next years nfl draft has suddenly tested positive for the coronavirus. Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence will not play in tomorrows game for the tigers. He posted it himself on social media saying that he is experienced mild symptoms. Two pro football teams dealing with new cases. L. A. Chargers and new york giants have place a lineman each on the covid list. Today, more bay area movie theaters are reopening. Century San Francisco center will reopen along with some cinemark theaters in the south bay and sunny vale and San Francisco theaters will also open. Lemurs everywhere has a place to celebrate and somebody is off the market. Here is laura garcia. Reporter today, its all about the lemurs and those lemurs of the San Francisco zoo could use their own day especially mocky that had a tough week when stole it and around in a parking lot. Today is world lemur day. San francisco zoo has some events on tap to celebrate including a visit to the zoo from the Police Officers who actually help to rescue mocky so a nice ending there religion second time hosting saturday night live is john ma lany. He jokingly blames himself for the pandemic. Im hosting snl this week with the host. When was the last time you hosted . February 20. What has happened since then . A Global Pandemic that ruined everything. You cursed us yeah. Sorry about that. You can watch it tomorrow night on nbc bay area at 11 30 p. M. In the meantime, his former coworker at snl is now off the market. Scarlett johansson and collin jost are now married. They asked that people consider donating. So there is the happy couple and good for them. Helping so many others. Back to you. Absolutely. Thanks. Get ready to turn your clocks back this weekend as Daylight Saving time is coming to an end. Tomorrow night we will fall back giving people an extra hour of sleep. That comes in handy on monday morning for the bay crew. They say before you go to bed change the batteries in your smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors. We heard lauras Smoke Detector go off this morning, letting her know its time to change those batteries. That was that reminder. For some reason it always happens in the middle of the night while everyone is sleeping that Smoke Detector starts to chirp. A good reminder there. Lets talk about what is going on around the bay area as we take a live look outside in san jose. Only 62 degrees and hazy conditions but its going to continue to warm up as we go into the rest of the day. We will be at 67 degrees at noon and reaching into the mid 70s for this afternoon up to 76 degrees. Sevenday forecast is up at the bottom of the screen. Concord and livermore reaching 80 and mid 70s for palo alto. Oakland will reach 76. Its going to be a little bit cooler in some spots compared to yesterday. As we get ready for halloween, a lot of us stick sticking around home. Reaching into the upper 70s and 80 degrees at 4 00 in the afternoon. Expect it to cool off quickly. Maybe Walking Around the neighborhood to look at the halloween decorations or enjoying time out not backyard, expect the temperatures to come back to the mid60s at 8 00 in the evening. This saturday, we will have a full moon. Its also a blue moon because its the second full moon happening this month in the calendar month and also the first full moon we have had since 2001. We saw it earlier this morning but we will have a completely full moon tomorrow and its really cool to see even though its really small because of how far the moon is away from earth. Lets talk about where you can see some fall colors for the weekend. We are checking out that website california fall color. Com to see exactly where we can see those areas that are at peak. If you see the red or the orange leaves, its time to go check it out in parts of the sierra where its beautiful fall colors popping at this point. Then for much of northern california, even here into the bay area, we are not seeing a lot of those fall colors yet so you do have to take a drive around spots like yosemite and Mammoth Lakes and see is the full peak happening at 6,000 to 11,000 feet in elevation. Check the map before you head out for the weekend. Next week, a few storms farther to the north could move closer to the bay area. Overall its going to be slightly warmer than normal over these next few days. We are looking at high temperatures that will stay in the low 80s and still looking at those temperatures into the beginning of next week. Marcus. Thanks. Coming up for you, the show must go on despite the pandemic. The iconic broadway characters today staff is challenging for its halloween inspiration. Wild ththing, youou make my h heart sing g wild ththing i. Think i. You knknow what i i think . I i think you u owe us 4848. Wiwild thing. If you ridide, you getet it. Geico mototorcycle. Fifteen n minutes cocould saveu fififteen percrcent or morore. Woman after covid, my hours got so we cant pay our bills. And now our Family Budget is gonna be hit hard with prop 15. The yes on 15 ads say it only raises taxes on big corporations. Thats not true were all going to pay. 11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to Small Businesses and farms. Theyll raise prices. Higher gas, health care, food. Even day care. We cant make ends meet now. Families cant afford 15. No on prop 15. A musical morning on today. The anchors revealed their Halloween Costumes with a nod to some of broadways best my name is Alexander Hamilton you remember that i served you. Craig melvin taking to the stage by Alexander Hamilton and jenna bush filled a childhood dream from a character in cats. Look at those moves hoda and Savannah Glenda and the witch. This costume carpeted the spirit of 2020. You guys look frozen. How do i start this thing . That is a Ashley Walters in west palm beach, florida, with a zoom call. This is is not ashleys first rodeo. These are some of her costumes from the past few years. She is always in the spirit. Thats rea we are going to see warm weather next week. San francisco will see temperatures the next couple of days. That does it for our midday newscast. We cannot go without saying happy 25 years to the man directing this show right now ken portwood, 25 years here at kntv. Thank you for all of your work he directions our 6 00 newscast for today in the bay and even right now. Ken, thank you. Congratulations see you monday im jerome gage. Im a fulltime lyft driver. When this pandemic first started, i bought my own ppe because uber and lyft didnt provide it. These companies have been exploiting drivers like me for years. Now prop 22 denies us basic rights like Unemployment Benefits and sick time. Uber and lyft are billiondollar companies, and they still wont let drivers get access to Unemployment Benefits. Thats just wrong. Tell uber and lyft to stop exploiting their drivers. Vote no on prop 22. Right now on california live, happy caliween kim is putting on a freak show. Buckle up and mask up. Ross and his family bring spooky to life the trike behind the treat that puts jelly in your belly. I dont know how jelly beans are made. I just eat them. Jess is brewing up a dessert to die for. This recipe is s