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Red now until 8 00. M. Friday. Looking at the diablo range, santa cruz mountain, San Mateo County coast under the red flag warning. Checking winds gusting near 50 Miles Per Hour in the Higher Elevations. We will continue to watch the relative humidity values plummet as we head through the day and actually for the rest of the week. Temperature wise we are going to be cooling it down. 72 in san francisco, 77 oakland, 82 san jose, 84 concord. So, about five degrees cooler compared to yesterday but still above average for this time of year. We will continue to cool down as we head through the week. This is really just the start. We have another offshore wind behind this. I will talk about this and show you futurecast winds coming up. Lets check with gianna for the latest on road work on 880. It is causing delays. It was supposed to be wrapped up at 5 00. This is around industrial and the off ramp is blocked as well as two lanes. You are backed up to 238, traffic out of castro getting to the 238, 880. Brake lights because of the road work there. Traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza things are getting busy where we are seeing traffic starting to back up in that area. Its busy into the Altamont Pass with a 37 minute drive time from 205 to 680. I am anne makovec with breaking news on the economy from the live news desk, number of new people filing for Unemployment Benefits fell for the third time in four weeks, 787,000 americans filed for new Unemployment Benefits over the past week. That brings on going benefits that are being given out to almost 8. 5 million but the numbers reported today were much lower than expected in part because california finally posted numbers after putting this on hold because of our extreme backlog in unemployment processing in the state. Stock futures have been down throughout the morning. But well see how wall street reacts to the new numbers when the opening bell rings in less than a half hour. Thank you. To campaign 2020, the governments top Intelligence Officer says iran and russia are trying to interfere with the upcoming election. Lets go to kiet do who joins us live with the federal warning and the bay area reaction. Reporter good morning. Director of National Intelligence says this is a desperate attempt by desperate adversary and insists of the integrity of the u. S. Election process is intact. John ratcliff says iran and russia somehow got a hold of personal information and sent e mails claiming to be property proud boys. Here is one example. You will vote for trump on election day or we will come after you. Proud boys say it wasnt them. Whoever did this should serve a long time. Your ballot will be treated securely and it will count. In contra costa our system that counts the ballots is not connected to the internet. When we count, there is no way anyone can interfere with the process. That cass contra costa registrar Debbie Cooper who says there has been no breach of their systems. This is a significant escalation by the country especially since most of the attention has been on russia. Iran and russia have denied involvement. Feds say they will impose costs on any country caught interfering with our election. Kiet do, kpix5. We may have a statewide mask mandate but maskless voters will not be turned away from polls. The secretary of States Office says counties cannot deny them the right to vote. Those not wearing a mask should expect a longer wait, possibly in a different area than masked voters. Watch the final president ial debate starting at 6 00 tonight on kpix5. Well have a recap and analysis on a special edition of kpix5 news starting at 10 00 followed by kpix5 news at 11 00. Bris bain police need your help searching for a man believed to be responsible for arson. Authorities released these pictures of the suspect. They say he intentionally set fire to brush near hill drive of the the area is covered with dry vegetation and could have easily set the hillside on fire. Fortunately it was put out by a witness before it could fully reignite. The search on for a missing cal student. He was last seen on grizzly peak. Here is a look at the young man. He is about 57 and weighs 150 pounds. He was last seen yesterday morning at graze alley peak and was possibly wearing athletic clothing. Police in berkeley are investigating apparent drive by shooting which injured a woman. It happened around 7 00 last night on prince and harper streets about a block from ash by bart. Detectives were on the scene using flash lights to search for clues. Investigators say the victim in her 20s was taken to the hospital. Her condition is unknown. Developing, stirs across the bay area have taken or plan to take action to clean homeless encampments. This week a number of sweeps in the east bay. They will limit where they can house and set up tents. They wont be allowed in parks or near homes, businesses, schools, some places of worship. Similar actions have been taken in berkeley and pleasant hill. The policy is receiving heavy criticism from homeless advocates. It is a greater burden for the unhoused. This is not anything close to actually helping support nor is it towards permanent housing. It is a shuffling. Oakland says its seen a 63 increase in Homeless Population since 2017 and the policy was created to help. The Council Hopes the city can provide a temporary alternative to all seven districts in oakland. San francisco fill an throw misses donated 65 million for the homeless. This will be for apartment complexes and conversion of two hotels on lower knob hill. The hotels are the Grenada Hotel and another with about 275 rooms near gary and mason streets. Still ahead on kpix35 and streaming on cbsn bay area, signs meant to start a conversation in one east bay city. But for some, theyre sparking pain. Why the wife of a Police Officer felt compelled to speak out. I am tracking critical conditions with gusty offshore winds back. Well talk about our high fire danger with the red flag warning coming up. We have road work slowing things down. Plus i will check your drive times in the Altamont Pass. This is from our sales force camera looking east. You can see the bay welcome back. It is 6 11 on this thursday morning, tracking gusty offshore winds, that dry northerly to northeasterly wind flow, looking at the red flag warning for all the areas highlighted in red now until 8 00 a. M. Friday for Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet and especially 2,000 to 3,000 feet. Looking at the strongest wind gusts, north bay mountains, east bay hills and valleys, diablo, santa cruz, san mateo coast. South 880 continues to be one of our hot spots if you are getting ready to head out. There is late running road work. You have brake lights pretty much that whole stretch. 238 might be a much better choice. By bridge, metering lights are on and traffic is starting to stack up. A sign in livermore meant to get people talking is stirring up big emotion. The life of a Livermore Police sergeant is speaking out. When signs like that go up, it makes their job that much more dangerous. I dont know if officers feel comfortable openly talking about that and spouses often dont because when we do, people dont hear the human side of it. Sign organizers say the sign was not meant to be an attack on officers but to reject the phrase. The livermore mayor says it comes down to ones personal interpretation and the point of the sign garden is to start a conversation. A live look at san jose where downtown restaurants can now serve customers outside until midnight. This is after police shut down several restaurants over the weekend that served until late into the night. Some Business Owners complained to city hall. Now the city city says theyre allowed to stay open until midnight. Starting tomorrow more businesses will be able to reopen for Indoor Service including restaurants, houses of worship, movie theaters, gyms. Theyll be able to operate at 25 capacity and must adhere to covid19 guidelines such as face coverings and social distancing. In san jose the city will begin to reopen close to 300 playgrounds and outdoor facilities. It will happen in phases also beginning tomorrow. For a full list head to kpix. Com. A Catholic High School in marin suspending in Person Learning for the next two weeks. This is after officials discovered there was at least one large Student Party and several sleep overs. No one has tested positive but the school says it is not taking chances. To china, around 60,000 people in high risk infections have received a covid19 vaccine. Serious Adverse Reactions havent been reported since july. Some have entered phase three trials. The government expects to produce 610 million doses of the vaccine annually. 6 14. Lets get another check on traffic with gianna. Hey there. Good morning. If you plan on taking the bay bridge, we are starting to see a slow ride west bound at the toll plaza, up the incline. We have brake lights heading into san francisco. Meter lights were turned on at 6 02. The good news is there are no crashes or trouble spots on the bridge, just usual stuff as you make the ride out of oakland, emory ville, san francisco. Taking at look at traffic along 880, we are starting to see a back up due to road work at industrial. Two lanes remain blocked. It is slow and go. This is an area where things start to get busy. You will see a busier than usual ride as you work your way along 880 until the clear the lanes. Traffic sluggish to 92. The rest of the way across the san mateo bridge is looking good. 101 at 92, we have reports of a broken down vehicle north bound 101 at hills dale boulevard and it is causing brake lights in both directions. North and south bound affected as you head through. Once you move past there, traffic is moving at the limit. 37 minutes along 580 commute from 205 towards 680. We have traffic slowing down mount house. It stays sluggish at least to greenville and then things get better towards the dublin interchange. The drive out of san jose, things look slightly better on 101 near 880. Slow through morgan hill north bound. You have slow and go conditions from san martin to morgan hill. Another red flag warning is in effect. Here is mary. This is a big concern for us. We are on our second offshore wind event of the week with a new red flag warning in effect. A live look with our Sales Force Tower cam as we look east across the bay, looking at the bay bridge and east bay this morning. We are in the 40s and 50s to start our thursday. We are looking at 55 concord, oakland 59, 54 livermore, 47 santa rosa. Checking wind gusts especially in the Higher Elevations, mount diablo clocking strong wind gusts, 48 Miles Per Hour in mount diablo for north bay mountains, Cold Spring Mountain 35, mount st. Helena 27, lake sonoma 21. Santa clara, santa cruz mountains, 18mile per hour wind gusts this morning. Here is what you can expect. We are going to see a cooling trend that starts today. Well see cooler temperatures as we head through the week, gusty offshore winds through friday morning and looking at the fire danger that remains high over the next several days. We have the second offshore wind event happening now. We have another one behind that for late in the weekend and into early next week. That red flag warning, all the areas highlighted in red now until 8 00 a. M. Friday. Our bay area hills and mountains are under the red flag warning. North bay mountains, east bay hills and valleys, diablo, santa cruz, san mateo coast under the red flag warning with gusts 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour and low relative humidity values. We have a strong ridge of High Pressure and with the clockwise flow around the low drawing northerly to northeasterly winds, High Pressure system locked in place over the next several days. Hour by hour on futurecast, we will continue to see winds ramp up through our morning and early afternoon. We might catch a break Late Afternoon and early evening. Tonight into tomorrow, another burst of offshore winds before finally easing later in the day on friday. We will continue to watch the relative humidity values plummet down to the teens and single digits. Very dry air in place. Thats why we are really watching critical fire weather conditions. Temperatures for south bay, 81 in santa clara, 82 san jose, 83 cupertino as well as for campbell and morgan hill. East bay, no longer talking about 90s. Now in the 80s. 84 concord and pleasant hill, 85 antioch, tri valley, low to mid 80s. 76 san leandro, east bay shoreline and north bay, low to mid 80s. Here is the extended forecast and what you can expect as we are looking at temperatures cooling through the rest of the work week into the weekend, saturday and sunday the coolest days. Watching gusty offshore winds over the next several days and stronger offshore wind event will arrive sunday into next monday. Back to you. I am anne makovec at the live news desk. We have some breaking news going live to capitol hill inside the room where the Senate Judiciary Committee Just voted to send Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court nomination to full Senate Despite a boycott by democrats. There are a lot of empty chairs. You see pictures of People Democrats say have been helped by Affordable Care act which is one of the cases thats about to come before the Supreme Court within the next year or so. Again, todays vote that was just taken sets up a monday confirmation vote by the full senate. The senate has never confirmed a Supreme Court nominee so close to a president ial election. Senators now planning a rare weekend session for procedural actions ahead of the final confirmation vote. Of course barrett will give the conservatives a 63 majority on the Supreme Court. We will continue to follow this as it goes on. Back to you. 6 20. Coming up on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, one womans amazing feat. How fast she ran just a week before giving birth and the incredible bet that sparked the whole challenge. A live look outside as we head to break. You are looking live over the city on this thursday, a pre garage door opening it is my fathers love. 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Now you are talking crazy. Not happening. 6 25. In our next half hour on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, barack obama on the campaign trail. Find out what he said about the role of a president. Within the past few minutes, Senate Judiciary committee has voted to send nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the full senate. Coming up, the next i didnt choose this job because it was easy. But i cant say i expected this. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. Breaking news right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, Committee Democrats boycott Amy Coney Barrett vote but her nomination moves on. Whats next on capitol hill. Two president ial candidates get ready to square off tonight in nashville for the second and final debate. We are live in nashville with how both sides are preparing. Warnings over election interference. Fbi says iran and russia are intimidating voters and causing chaos. Whats being done to keep your ballot safe. Good morning. It is thursday october 22. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. High fire dangers across the bay area. Lets get a check on your forecast with mary lee. Tracking critical fire weather conditions, second offshore wind event of the week happening now. A red flag warning, another one, in effect now until 8 00 a. M. Friday for the areas in red. Bay area hills and mountains, Higher Elevations, north bay mountains, east bay hills and valleys, diablo, santa cruz, San Mateo County coast under the warning. This is a big concern as we head through the next several days. Temperature wise we will be cooler compared to yesterday by about five degrees. Low to mid 80s inland, low to mid 70s around the bay and mid 60s for the coast. We will continue to cool down as we head through the week. Well talk about another offshore wind event right behind this. Details on that and i will show you futurecast winds in a few minutes. Lets check with gianna. It is slow going on the bay bridge. It is. Meter lights were turned on at 6 02 and traffic is stacking up. You are backed up now to the foot of the maze. This includes the ride on the west bound side. Some positive news for the trouble spot we have been tracking. Late running road work cleared. However is slow from 238 to union city. If you are getting on 92 the bridge is okay but there are first reports of a crash. This is from chp, west 92 at 101. A trouble spot at hills dale boulevard, broken down vehicle still stuck in lanes. Taking a look at traffic on san mateo bridge, it is moving at the limit past the toll plaza. I am anne makovec at the live news desk continuing to follow breaking news. You are taking a live look inside the room. This vote sets up a monday confirmation vote by the full senate. There are 12 republicans on the committee and 10 democrats and every gop member supported barretts nomination. Just about a half hour ago that vote was taken. Democrats on the committee boycotted the vote calling confirmation process a sham and they put large photographs of people who rely on Affordable Care act for their healthcare in their empty chairs at the meeting to make that statement. The senate has actually never confirmed a Supreme Court nominee so close to a president ial election but of course nothing is normal in 2020. Now senators are planning to convene a rare weekend session to clean up some of the odds and ends that will allow them to take the full confirmation vote on monday. At this point, it looks like a foregone conclusion that Amy Coney Barrett will be on the Supreme Court. Again, you never know what will happen between now and monday. Well keep an eye on it. Fbi announced iran and russia have obtained u. S. Voter Registration Information in effort to interfere in the u. S. Election. Investigators say iran sent spoofed emails intending to intimidate voters and insight social unrest with goal of damaging President Trump. They also say iran posed as far right Group Proud Boys to threaten voters. John ratcliff says these were desperate attempts by desperate adversaries. Data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, chaos, undermine your confidence in american democracy. It marks a significant escalation from iran when most public election interference discussion has centered on russia. Russia also implicated in interference has denied all claims. Attempts to influence Election Results dont seem to be slowing voter turn out in the bay area. This was the scene in martinez, one vote after another going into the ballot box, registrar reassuring voters there has been no breach of the computer voting systems. Pretty scary. In general you feel attacked. Our system that counts is not connected to the internet. We have an air gap. When we count, there is no way anyone can interfere with the process. Election experts say voters should not get distracted by confusing debate over which candidate this interference helps or hurts. Theyre trying to create confusion, trying to sew chaos, trying to undermine our confidence in the election. Its important that we preserve the confidence. The director of National Intelligence adds American People can be assured that the election is secure and votes will be counted. Today President Trump and joe biden will take the stage during the final president ial debate. Natalie brand is live in nashville with what voters want to hear tonight. Reporter good morning. We have been talking to voters. A number of them have already cast their ballots but said they will still be tuning in to watch tonight. They do not want, they say, a repeat of the last president ial debate which as you remember was marked with constant interruptions, arguing, and attacks. There is a new change in place aimed to limit the number of interruptions, an ability to mute microphones. That will give each candidate two uninterrupted minutes to speak at the start of each segment before the segment transitions to open discussion. The question, what happens during the open discussion, well have to see. We can also see the president s strategy change. He says he may interrupt biden less this time around. He has also previewed and hinted that he will bring Hunter Bidens work over seas up during the debate. Theyre getting a little nervous over there, you know, the deep state, the democrats. Were going to win this state. 13 days. Reporter mean weill on the campaign trail on streets of philadelphia former president barack obama campaigned for his former Vice President joe biden yesterday for the first time during a Major Campaign event. This was a drive in rally in the key battleground state. Biden meanwhile has remained off the campaign trail in recent days prepping intensely for the debate. With joe and kamala at the helm, you will not have to uthey said every day. Things reporter in nashville, candidate walk throughs will happen later this afternoon and then the official topics of the debate that have been released include covid19, american families, race in america, climate change, and National Security and leadership. Michelle. Natalie brand, reporting live from nashville. Thank you. Remember you can watch the president ial candidates square off in their final debate starting at 6 00 on kpix5. Well have a full recap and analysis on a special edition of kpix5 news starting at 10 00 followed by kpix5 news at 11 00. Coming up on kpix, giving cancer warriors a lift. Impressive show of support on pink wheels. The market opened up about ten minutes ago. The dow is up about 60 points. Diane king hall breaks down the numbers. Kpix5 has a 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. But thats tough to do on a fixed income. Id be hit with a tax penalty for moving to another county, so im voting yes on prop 19. It limits property taxes and lets seniors transfer their homes current tax base to another home thats closer to family or medical care. Being closer to family is important to me. How about you . Voting yes on prop 19. Welcome back. 6 41. The areas highlighted in red are under a new red flag warning for extreme fire danger. I am tracking gusty offshore winds this morning near 50 Miles Per Hour in Higher Elevations. I will have your full forecast and what you can expect, coming up. Trading floors on wall street just opening a short time ago. Lets go live to diane king hall. Reporter good morning. Trading has been underway for a little less than 15 minutes. Youve got optimism in the early action following latest Economic Data on the job market. Right now the dow is better by about 25 points. The nasdaq, taking a look at the tech sector, its got gains up 36. P p500 has a small begin. Another 787,000 people signed up for Unemployment Benefits. That figure was much better than expected, a sharp improvement from the prior week. I will got a ways to go certainly based on the number. Filings for pandemic unemployment assistance topped 345,000. Shutting down. The app failed to capture an audience. Cofounders wrote it didnt succeed in part because of the coronavirus pandemic but also that the idea may not be Strong Enough for a stand alone streaming service. Michelle. Diane king hall, cbsmoneywatch. Com. Thank you. Anthony mason joins us from new york. Good morning. Good morning. Ahead, President Trump and former Vice President biden meet tonight for their final debate. Will it make a difference for voters and how the new rules could affect the event. A preview of what both candidates told 60 minutes about their agendas. Alex azar will join us. Well find out when he believes a Coronavirus Vaccine will be available for widespread use. In our more Perfect Union series, the 12yearold who composed music for new york philharmonic. How shes hoping to inspire more diversity in classical music. All of that is coming up when we see you at 7 00. See you then. Already inspired. Thank you. A trial run for the Digital Health passport book flight yesterday, aimed at making it easier to verify test results while traveling internationally. Passengers take covid tests up to 72 hours practice flight and input results from a certified ad on an . Lets get a check on traffic with gianna. If you plan on heading out the door and taking bay bridge, metering lights are turned on. Theyve been on for about 45 minutes. You are backed up to the foot of the maze. West bound 80, brake lights around the emory ville area, starting to slow down there a bit. You will see stop and go conditions on the upper deck itself as you head into the city. Taking a look at traffic, busy into the Altamont Pass. Weve got usual stuff for the most part. Stays slow to 580 extending to almost greenville at this point. 41 minute drive time Holding Steady from 205 towards 680. If you plan on taking 880, the earlier trouble spot, late running road work near industrial, being cleared out of lanes. It is busy south bound 880. It really boggs down past 92 and stays slow into union city. There is a crash west bound 92 as you come off the san mateo bridge heading to 101. Three cars are involved. One lane is blocked the earlier broken down vehicle is cleared out of lanes near hills dale. Traffic is now moving at the limit. San mateo bridge is looking busier because of the crash near 101. Expect a 60 minute drive time between 880 towards the peninsula. Golden gate bridge is looking foggy but overall your ride out of marin has been quiet with no delays on 101, a 15 minute drive time from richmond sayfullo raphael bridge, south bound 101 towards the Golden Gate Bridge. Lets get a look at your fare cast. Heres mary. We just got done with our first offshore wind event of the week. Here we go with our second one with a new red flag warning in effect. I will talk about this in a moment. A beautiful live look with Sales Force Tower camera as we look east across the bay, bay bridge, gorgeous mount diablo with the gorgeous colors in the sky with the sun about to rise. Temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with clear skies though foggy conditions along the coast and around the bay. 55 concord, 59 oakland, liver more 54, san francisco, san jose 56 and cool 47 in santa rosa. Checking wind gusts so far this morning mount diablo watching winds increase to 49 Miles Per Hour, Cold Spring Mountain, 36 Miles Per Hour. Mount st. Helena 27, 21 lake sonoma and Mount Umunhum in santa cruz mountains, 18mile per hour wind gust. A cooling trend to the weekend and really watching gusty winds now through friday with the red flag warning in effect. Fire danger remains high over the next several days. Red flag warning for all the areas in red. Diablo range, santa cruz mountains, San Mateo County coast. Gusts are up to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour and low relative humidity values. We have the strong ridge of High Pressure really locked in place. With the clockwise flow around this ridge of High Pressure looking at the northerly to northeasterly winds, that very dry air and gusty conditions. As we take you hour by hour on futurecast, we will continue to see winds increase especially in the Higher Elevations this morning and early afternoon, easing a bit by Late Afternoon and this evening and then ramping back up as we look to tonight into tomorrow morning before finally easing. We are going to see relative humidity values drop significantly as we head through today through the rest of the week, down to teens and single digits. Thats why we are talking about the critical fire weather conditions. Daytime highs for the south bay, cooler. We are talking 81 in santa clara, 82 san jose, 83 cupertino, campbell, morgan hill. East bay, no longer talking about 90s. Well be in the 80s. 84 concord and pleasant hill, 85 antioch, 86 brentwood, vallejo is 79, 83 for dublin, pleasanton, 84 for livermore and around the bay, 77 for oakland for east bay shoreline, 74 alameda. North bay, low to mid 80s, 82 in santa rosa. Here is the extended forecast and what you can expect as we are looking at temperatures cooling down as we look to the rest of the work week especially into the weekend. Saturday and sunday are the coolest days with a few clouds but watching gusty offshore winds. This is a big concern. We have another offshore wind event likely arriving sunday into monday and that looks to have Even Stronger winds with that offshore wind event. Back to you. Mary, thank you. Lots of people are showing support this Breast Cancer awareness month. Contra costa Fire Protection district even went pink. Project pink wheels. Check out the newest addition. This is designed to support those touched by cancer. Project pink wheels engine is even available to transport patients to their first or final treatment. We want to show the community and those battling cancer that the firefighters are thinking about you. This is a way of us showing and giving back to our community. The pink engine will be used at Public Health fairsfestivals, parades, cancer events, and other special requests. Weve got the latest on judge Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court nomination. What happened when democrat senators boycotted todays session. Reporter u. S. Government says it has evidence that iran and russia are trying to meddle in the election by sending intimidating emails to voters. A live report after the break. Lets take a quick look outside at san francisco. Kpix5 wants to bring you the good news. Send your ideas to together cbs. Com. Queer eyes brown joins drew plus celebrations expert darci miller shares fun Spooky Halloween table skates to in the bay area, we believe in science. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Within the hour, Senate Judiciary committee voted to send Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court nomination to the full senate. That will likely happen on monday. We are looking live inside the hearing right now. That is texas senator ted cruz. The vote was 120 because democrats boycotted leaving large numbers of people who rely on the Affordable Care act in their empty chairs. Barrett declined to indicate how she would rule on the aca. This will give a 63 major on the Supreme Court. It looks like her placement is a foregone conclusion. Senators are getting together this weekend to take care of the procedural things they have to do before mondays vote. Back to you. We are live at the registrar of Voters Office in santa clara with less than two weeks after the election. U. S. Federal government says there is evidence that Foreign Countries are trying to meddle in the process. They somehow got a hold of voter information and sent e mails claiming to be from the proud boys. Here is one example. The proud boys say it was not them. In Contra Costa County like many, it is not connected to the internet. They are secure and cannot be tampered with and there has been not a breach in contra costa. Iran and russia have denied involvement. Feds say they will impose costs on any country that interferes with our election. 6 56. Time for a look at the other top stories. President trump and joe biden will take the stage during the final president ial debate in nashville. To reduce number of interruptions, microphones may be muted. Topics will include covid19, american families, race in america, climate change, National Security. Claims for Unemployment Benefits inched lower last week. Another 787,000 workers signed up for benefits. The figure was better than expected, stark improvement from the prior week. Thousands of bay area residents have gun losing power, latest to go dark on folks in napa and sonoma. Almost 3500 customers are impacted. Brisbane Police Looking for this plan believed to be responsible for arson. They say he intentional set fire to some brush. Fortunately the fire was put out by a witness before it could ignite. Police in berkeley investigating an apparent drive by shooting which injured a woman. It happened last night a block from ash by bart. Investigators say the victim in her 20s was taken to the hospital. Her condition is unknown. As we look at the roadways, south 880 after stephenson boulevard, a new crash, Left Shoulder Center Divide is blocked. Weve got delays in fremont. 880 has been a struggle. Road work slowed everything near industrial. You are backed up from 238, drive times and slow speeds continue into hey ward. 580 connector, still bogged down. It extends to north flynn, 41 minute drive time 205 towards 680. We are seeing a slow spot north bound 101 out of the south bay. Youve got the usual slow and go conditions there. Metering lights are on and traffic is still backed up. We are seeing slow and go conditions off the east shore freeway as well. More brake lights across upper deck to san francisco. The rest of our bridges are quiet as far as accidents but things are at the Golden Gate Bridge with a little more fog. Tracking our second offshore wind event of the week, strong winds especially in the Higher Elevations, mount diablo, 49mile per hour wind gusts, Cold Spring Mountain in north, mount st. Helena 27, Mount Umunhum, 18mile per hour wind gusts. We will watch the winds increase and ramp up through our morning. Red flag warning for the areas in red now until friday. Diablo, santa cruz, San Mateo County coast, gusts 40 to 50, low relative humidity values through the day and actually through the week. This is just the start. We have another offshore wind event behind that as we look to our weekend. Temperatures will be cooler. Today is the start of a cooling trend as we go through the week. Low to mid 80s inland. Around the bay, low to mid 70s. Mid 60s for the coast. We will cool it down through the work week especially into the weekend. Saturday and sunday are the coolest days. Again watching offshore winds especially sunday into next monday. That event does look to be stronger with the winds. A big concern over the next several days. We need a good rain. Unfortunately, it looks like even through the end of october, we are going to stay dry. That is unfortunate. Thank you so much. Thanks for watching kpix5 news. Good morning to our viewers in the west. Its thursday, october 22, 2020. Im gayle king. President trump and joe biden prepare for their final president ial debate. We will talk strategy and whats on the line and a preview of what they told 60 minutes. Some americans are being threatened over email including messages with home addresses. Whom the government says is to blame. A hospital stretched to the limit by the pandemic. The number of