Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do request that you send in your absentee ballot which should arrive around october 5 as early as possible. The post office asks for a week to move your ballot. Back in 2016 73,000 absentee ballots out of 33 million were rejected nationwide because they arrived too late. Voters need to make up their mind as soon as they can and send the ballot back. You learned that officials have all types of contingencies that they are preparing for . Reporter well, think about the timing of the election. And bay area and california wildfire season they planned for wildfires and the Public Safety power shut off switch could cut off electricity to Polling Centers like this one here in lafayette and a plan for hackers and potential russian interference and in the past few months they have pivoted to plan for a pandemic and potential civil unrest. 2020 is be prepared for anything and everything. Some new numbers in californias coronavirus site and not much good news here. 194 new coronavirus deaths and more than 10,000 new cases. Hospitalizations did fall and there is a bright spot, about 2 but San Francisco season upward trend and officials are sounding the alarm. In just 10 days this month, we went from 5000 to 6000 cases of covid19. Let me be clear. We are in a major surge of covid19. You so the San Francisco coronavirus update first on the cbsn bay area and we invite you to stay uptodate 24 7 by streaming it on kpix. Com and other digital platforms. Santa clara Health Officials are investigating coronavirus outbreaks at four costco stores. We are at cosco and sunnydale which had 13 cases and that is what we know of so far. Reporter of those numbers could be going up as the weeks progress and you heard how the coronavirus is surging here but cosco is basically reacting to 31 employees at four Stores Across the south bay that tested positive according to the Health Department over the past few weeks. 13 of them as he said are here at sunnyvale as well as for cases in Mountain View and there is also gilroy which had six cases and San Jose Center road which had eight cases. Here is the key thing. The Health Department believes the employees are not getting sick from their contacts inside the store. The initial investigation appears to tell us that the cases have really been infected most likely in the community and outside the workplace although we are not done with those investigations but ongoing. Reporter the Health Department inspected all of the stores involved except Mountain View and said the stores are complying with Health Protocols such as cleanliness, social distancing and mask wearing so they didnt shut down the location and the Health Department believes that these stores are safe for shoppers to stay. We reached out to cosco locally here and up at headquarters in washington state, but so far we have not heard anything back or any comment from them. Lets go live now to kenny choi who is at star of the sea chn franera isin over faith. Reporter so this church is following the city and county orders by holding mass outside and limiting the number of attendees, but the priest here says many catholics have stopped going to church because they are trying to avoid the slightest chance of getting sick because of covid19 and are more concerned about safety than sink d. Reporter these days it is not a mass gathering but masked distance mass in the Church Parking lot for 12 and on the sidewalk for those it cant come in. There is much more so. We offer the latin mass. Reporter a newsletter sent to parishioners this week the pastor wrote that during the pandemic we have chosen safety above sacraments and fear has ee really mixing but here in the church than not. He is doing his job. Reporter Josephine Smith is getting a ride home but walks a mile every day to attend mass. He started having it outdoors which was a few weeks ago. Reporter he went on to say that covid19 is real but please know that news reports on covid19 are largely unreal. Many are standing up for their priest. It is scary. You know, we do obey wearing masks. Reporter he got political by referring to the president and saying a proven means of unseating an elected official is to induce fear among the incumbents constituents. I really applaud him for what he is doing. No other church around here is doing what he is doing. Reporter we did reach out to the father and we have not yet back. We also contacted the san franc. They sent outo its priests and to share that with us this afternoon saying quote absolutely do not give them, the parishioners, the impression that the coronavirus is not a serious threat to the physical health of our community. That was the letter sent to the priest this afternoon by the archdiocese. We are live in San Francisco, kpix 5 the state Development Department said they are committed to plunging a massive clog in the system by september and by some estimates more than 1 million californians are still waiting for their first unemployment check. At a hearing today the director admitted of lawmakers that applicants are waiting for six weeks for a call back. If you think that is acceptable . No. Absolutely not. Were actually trying to get out of the incks and ths are upgrading can have a fully trained staff from eight a clock data clock. The governor is pledging to send in a strike team to help and in the meantime you can find more economic survival resources on our website. If they can reduce the by 20 , why cant they do it that well in our neighborhood . Still ahead, how fixing a homeless issue in one San Francisco neighborhood made matters worse than others. Arson at an East Bay Church and members say it points to a hate crime. An iconic bay lle. The fog is cree bain frhet antoy bufurther inland plenty of sunshine right now and a beautiful evening and san jose. We will look at tomorrows fog progression as it retr new at 6 00, San Francisco has launched an aggressive effort to clear the homeless encampments in the cities tenderloin, but Wilson Walker reports that is made the problem worse than other neighborhoods. The city had one month to clear 70 of the tents in the area and they did it and a lot of streets reflect that but others dont and the conditions on willow are getting a lot of attention and there is what is happening in the neighborhoods beyond the tenderloin. I have been here since 1973 and it has never been this horrific. Reporter stepping outside of his castro home, he walked right into the citys homelessness crisis within a block and in just about any direction. Tent encampments and the most visible bellwether of the crisis seem to be arriving in waves again with the mission and market through the panhandle and even in the farthest reaches of the avenues. In the 45 years i have been here, i have never seen anybody pitch a tent on the street. The city resolved an encampment behind the safeway. We had one of our neighbors get a petition and had over 100 people. Reporter with the tents are coming a wave of frustration is some encampments banish and others grow. If they can reduce them by 70 in the tenderloin, why cant they do at least that well in our neighborhood . I have never seen a level of frustration as i have as high as it is now. And i hear daily from people who are saying they are selling and leaving. Reporter this supervisor said years of patients has given way to a sense of the problem slipping out of hand and while he supports the citys longterm housing plans, he said the shortterm strategy is less clear. , we manage the streets . How do we address the needs of people who we cant house in permanent Supportive Housing who we wont have a unit for not today or tomorrow or in a year or two. Reporter while the ground has been gained in the tenderloin in 2000 people have been sheltered in hotel rooms, it is being lost in other areas of the city where the suffering continues. It has been an incredible problem for years but it feels to me like it is reaching a boiling point. Program reached out to the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing for the story and so far nobody has been made available to speak with us. Wilson walker, kpix 5 leaders of the church in berkeley are demanding Police Investigate a suspicious fire is a hate crime. The Way Christian Center on University Said somebody torched their trash cans just 12 hours after they put up a black lives matter sign. Damage to the building was minimal and right now police are only calling it arson. We reached out to the berkeley but the mayor is also calling for a hate crime investigation. Lets take a live look over San Francisco right now and there it is. A little summer fog shielding the city and will the fog be as stubborn this weekend . It has been pretty sick this week. For the first weekend of august there will be fog going back and forth but i think it will diminish a little faster as we head through saturday and sunday. Tonight the fog will spread out with a little drizzle along the coast and the same pattern we have seen pretty much all week. Near normal temperatures on friday for one more day and a warmer weekend is in store especially for inland portions and not really hot but an increase in temperatures. Right now it is not bad with 60 to downtown and you can see the fog hanging out and we saw that from the tower. 69 in oakland and 85 in concord and midto upper 70s and san jose and santa rosa and really nice in the north and south bay and of the north bay as we found this evenings photo for a picturesque picture and temperatures will drop to the 70s into the 60s before the fog spreads back in but plenty of sunshine away from the bay as we head through the rest of this evening. Temperatures will drop off into the 50s as the fog spreads into the inland valleys by tomorrow morning but it then backs up again rapidly improving visibility inland and low clouds overhead by 10 00 in the morning over the city and parts of the east bay and it backs up for the coast by tomorrow afternoon. Here the temperatures to start off. Mostly in the 50s and maybe low 60s around antioch and brentwood and it starts to warm up and not fast while the fog hangs out in low to mid 60s in the bay by noon and a few spots around 80 by lunchtime further inland. Warmer for the north bay tomorrow compared to pretty much every day this week and the wind will change direction a little bit so you will be further into the 80s and low 90s for the warm spots and low 80s around san jose and mostly in the mid upper 60s and low 70s around the bay and normal stuff for the last day of july and looking at that heat dome building over the Desert Southwest and we wont be under it but we will be on the edge of it this weekend which means a bit lp diminish its impact in that is temporary and below average temperatures into the second weekend of august and that is the longrange outlook so the inland heat this weekend, enjoy it while it is here and just into the 90s for most parts of the bay area and 70 degrees around the bay this weekend. Straight ahead in sports, 96 of the topranked golfers hit San Francisco and first the marlins and now the phillies . Oh no. Of the nba wait is over after 141 days the restart and reboot of the association is on. Three words i have been waiting to say. These games count. Two games today and one of the books. Lets take you to orlando, florida, inside a disney world complex. Check this out. Every new orleans and utah coach, player and referee took a need during the anthem. Personalized social justice messages on jerseys digitally in the house. Rudy gobert is the first nba player to contract covid19 scored the first points of the game. Also was the hero at the finish. New orleans, it is the williamson show and onestop with 15 minutes and he scored 13 and was not and at crunch time at the end as the jazz eat this one out 106104 and baseball the as are off but the giants reinforcements arrived in the first baseman and third baseman long goria off the injured list after receiving and they host the padres tonit and moving pictures on the late show. In the case of bell, i bet he cant wait to hit. Oracle park has seen eight home runs into games including his walkoff homer last night but eight of these is a lot and he has a reputation of being the worst hitting ballparks but the theory is the walled off archways in right field make it less windy so the skipper, he said, no. Those are legitimate home runs. I know we all want to point to something or some reason the ball was jumping out of this ballpark and i dont know. I will try to figure that out. Oh, no. The entire phillies blue jays series in philadelphia has been postponed. An assistant coach and a clubhouse attendant tested positive for covid19 and the phillies last played the marlins tested positive for the virus. A week from today, harding park will host its first gulf major, the pga championship, first in its 95 year history. And they will be talking about the same as of and for years in hushed tones. This is the 102nd pga championship and in the annals of that it is an extraordinary opportunity for anybody to host it. But it will be one to go down in the history books. Forever. No fans insight for this one. In fact i was there a few months ago, and they have all the grandstand seating and and yesterday, it still ahead fornia and zuck are teaming up to discover how covid19 spreads. Health leaders and Scientists Say genome sequencing help trace where infections actualan future treatments. Mark zuckerberg is offering free sequencing for all positive state lab samples. An iconic San Francisco hotel is considering changing its name. First, Sir Francis Drake Hotel at union square named after the explore but the black lives Matter Movement has the company rethinking its tribute and this comes a thank you for watching tonight. The cbs evening news is next. We will be back here at 7 00. We will see you then. Captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell tonight, from atlanta, the final farewell to civil rights icon john lewis becomes a battle cry to revitalize a movement and urge people to vote. Three former president s come to americas Freedom Church to say goodbye to a warrior. John lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better america. applause odonnell and former president obama had a blunt message aimed at president trump. There are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting. Odonnell tonight, we hear from lewis himself, the final message he saved just for this day. Another deadly day in america id