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Have been shattered across the country. The race for the white house is intensifying in the final weekend before the election. The bay area voters sinners open their doors in a matter of hours and what election workers want you to know. San francisco is hailed as a Success Story in containing the virus, but why are they hitting the brakes on reopening . When the virus takes off, it takes off quickly. Good morning. Happy halloween on this saturday, october 31st. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely. Breaking news, actor sean connery has died, and we have more on that later in the show. This is a spectacular early november halloween weekend weatherwise, 10 degrees above average. That will not change until the end of the 7day forecast. We have more on that later, but first, lets get you ready for saturday morning. Here is a pretty shot of the Salesforce Tower. We are beginning to see the typical morning scenario and it is 10 degrees colder than everywhere else. If we were number 4 degrees lower in santa rosa it would be freezing, 36, and typical this time of the year for the sheltered valleys of sonoma. The daytime highs today and we have the numbers reversed but inland is 82, the coast 69 and the bay is in the middle. Will flip those numbers coming up later. If you are thinking ahead toward halloween tonight, temperatures will be near 70 by 8 00 this evening inland. We have more on this story coming up in a few minutes. Campaign 2020 has many bay area voters sinners opening up with voters returning ballots and record numbers. Here is the top of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, lit up with the word, vote. Betty yu is in Santa Clara County showing us what to expect. Reporter and san jose, car after car dropping off bags of ballots collected from the drop off boxes across the county, and it was buzzing with activity. Kenny garrison is voting early for the first time to avoid the hiccups on election day. Always voted on the day of, and i get up early and that is usually my first stop for the day, voting in every election since i was 18. Today was not that bad so i appreciated the flexibility. Reporter by this time in 2016 the county received over 200,000 ballots but this time over 511,000 ballots are already in. The county has already broken the record, reaching 1 million registered voters. We encourage voters to make sure to sign the back of the envelope. Is sure to put the date and address on the back. That is very important, and the number one reason a ballot will get rejected. Reporter workers finis at the Mountain View community center, expected to have long lines and the fourth most visited location during the primaries. If you can drop off the vote by mail you can do so without waiting in line. You could vote in person but i understand there may be a bit of a wait so check the county website for the expected waiting times at the different Voting Centers. Reporter Voting Centers are taking covid19 very seriously. They are sanitizing the booths after each year with social distancing strictly enforced. Santa clara county is already counting the ballots but could not announce the results until 8 00 p. M. On election day. You still have time to register this weekend through election day at any Voting Center. In santa clara, betty yu, kpix 5. Beginning this morning the coliseum and open arena will be the Alameda County largest Voting Center open from 9 00 a. M. Through 5 00 p. M. Through monday. It is open seven a. M. Through 8 00 p. M. On election day itself. The santa cruz warriors, Kaiser Permanente arena, were you can also bow. The chase center will be open in San Francisco and in the south bay the sap center in san jose will also be a Voting Center. The marin county Transit District is offering free verde step the voters get to the polls and free rides begin today countywide through election day on tuesday. The final weekend of the president ial campaign with both candidates crisscrossing the Midwest Holding multiple rallies in multiple states. Today joe biden in michigan with barack obama and President Trump will be in pennsylvania. Cbs skyler henry has the latest. Reporter President Trump and joe biden attacking each other once again over the coronavirus pandemic. Biden wants to keep everyone locked up. I am not going to shut down the economy, im going to shut down the virus. Reporter with new cases rising in every state with the president promising a vaccine within a matter of weeks but in wisconsin that rally was under fire before it even started. The local Hospital System warned it was a bad idea with the city at the highest infection rate in the country. In des moines, iowa, the former Vice President promising to restore unity to the nation. We want america to be united again and we cannot afford four more years of President Trump. Reporter the president presenting the democratic challenger as being relaxed on law and order. I said joe, can you say the word salon order, but he would not do it because he did not want to lose the radical left. Reporter early voting continuing across the u. S. With 90 million texans voting early surpassing the vote from the 2016 early election. We can change the way things are going in the country with our vote, a big thing for me and my friends as well. Reporter early voting in los angeles expanding to include sports stadiums like the dodger stadium. President trump addressed a considerably smaller crowd after minnesota capped the attendance to prevent the further spread of the virus. Stick with us on election day with a special addiction addition of kpix 5 followed by the cbs evening news and then we have the america decides election coverage, and we will bring you local results throughout the evening on kpix 5, and also at cbsn. The judge ordered the Postal Service to work harder to deliver ballots on time and the Postal Service announced sunday collection some places. Postal carriers will gather the mail early on monday tuesday. Workers were told to check every residential box for outgoing mail and they increased overtime hours to make it all happen. Is a live look at San Francisco, the city with the lowest coronavirus death rate of any major city in the nation but city leaders are hitting the brakes on the reopening. Indoor pools, bowling alleys and the gym locker rooms will stay closed with worship houses at 25 capacity instead of increasing to 50 capacity that they hoped originally do. The schools are still on go with approval. The seed director said the pause in reopening is due to the increase in case rates. In the last two weeks our case rate has gone from 3 per 100,000 population to 4 which is 25 increase. That might not sound like a lot, but when this fire starts taking off, it takes off quickly. The case rate put San Francisco in the orange tier, and a jump in hospitalization from 21 to 37 patients would put us in the red tier. The u. S. Recorded a world record of over 100,000 coronavirus cases in a single day surpassing the 97,000 cases reported by india in september on a single day. The u. S. Has surpassed 9 million coronavirus cases approaching 230,000 deaths. According to the internal memo from the department of health and human services, icu beds are in use it full and in the midwest that is the nation epicenter for the outbreak. Anyone living, working our learning at any university of california campus has been ordered to get a flu shot by tomorrow. The uc president Michael Drake made the announcement in an executive order. Those with medical disability or religious accommodations can request an exemption. The state has a new weapon to coronavirus, and Governor Newsom toured the 100 may dollar facility and took a test himself. The new lab in Los Angeles County is said to not only increase capacity for testing but driving down the cost from 150 to 30 and it is expected to speed up testing results times. On a different note, the hollywood icon sean connery died at the age of 90. He was of course famous for the role as james bond, and the first to bring the world to the big screen. The scottish actor had a long career and awarded an oscar, two bafta and Golden Globe Awards and celebrated his 90th birthday in august. Announcing a retirement even though the state is still dealing with a huge backlogs of unemployment claims. Sharon hilliard will retire but the edd is not process 1 million claims, down from 1. 6 million last month. The agency paid out millions of dollars in fraudulent claims since the pandemic started. It is 6 11. Still ahead, Santa Clara County goes to court to stop the local church from holding the crowded indoor services, and how the church is fighting back. We had a voters show up wearing a trump shirt and hat. A Northern California man is turned away from voting because of his wardrobe. There is a warning about what you can and cannot wear to the polls. There are more accusations this morning about the silicon organization for putting out racist attack ads but the city council said its not the first time that andrea kakano svo use the tactics. The Silicon Valley racist ads largely going unnoticed but the problems. It is a culture of racism. Reporter this councilmember said it happened to her earlier this year with the mailer purposely darkening her complexion. The councilmember said he was darkened and made out to be a criminal and an attack ad from 2016. I believe it was sent with a clear message, brown person, crime, bad. Reporter both mailers funded and produced by the Silicon Valley organization black committee and many are calling this ad blatantly racist which led to the resignation of the ceo matt mahood, and dozens of charities canceling the svo memberships, calling on other organizations to do the same. They should look at what the participation in the svo does, what it means and what the money is used for. Reporter they say that svo does not tolerate racism in any form at svo or from the member companies. But Serena Alvarez says what happen with svo is just a symptom. Svo is only one piece of the system and the people that have the money to flood the elections are maintaining the system with this information and racism. A San Jose Church is fighting back against the lawsuit and hefty fine for Holding Indoor services. Santa clara county is suing the calvary chapel. The das office said the church was Holding Indoor services with hundreds of people not wearing masks. The government is coming after these people that want to help those that are hurting, really . This is america. Under the county health order indoor religious gatherings are capped at 100 people. Sky gazers tonight catch a glimpse of the rare blue moon, the second full moon in a single month. The last time it happened on halloween was 1944, and the next is october 31, 2039. The space and signs center will hold a virtual telescope viewing at 9 00 p. M. It helps us remember where the statement comes from, once in a blue moon because you only get two full moons in the same month very rarely. Heres the view from the top of the mark with the camera on top of the hopkins hotel. We are spoiled at kpix 5 with scammers overlooking the bay not only from the top of the Salesforce Tower but now the view from the top of the Mark Caulkins looking back toward the tower. Temperatures in the city and bay 48 to 52 except for right here which is the north bay as we look at the valleys of Sonoma County with that deep shade of blue but everywhere else in the green showing us with relatively mild temperatures. You probably want a light jacket before you step outside because it is still cool in the upper 40s in oakland and in livermore mid 40s but just because that is the coolest spot on the map now that does not compare what was going on up here with 36 in santa rosa, 39 in petaluma. The farther you get into the sheltered valleys and north bay it is noticeably colder. Also the view looking toward the Transamerica Pyramid showing no clouds over the bay with no marine layer this morning or for the entire weekend. We played the futurecast forward and nothing developing at all. We have only clear skies overhead. Youre probably noticed over the last few days that the skies look hazy from that distance mode. We have the creek fire south of yosemite and north of kings canyon in the sierra going. It has been going really since early september. Into tomorrow the wind will pull more of that smoke overhead for us. Today will probably look a little bit better in the sky but we keep air quality hopefully good to moderate but tomorrow air quality will start to go back down and moderate category. Here is your official forecast for the air quality, and they are broad brushing yellow which means moderate air quality today. Be aware of as you think about heading to the coast, the National Weather service put out the beat hazard statement for sunday monday for the beaches. That goes all the way through monday so be careful anywhere near the coast. That is for the second half of sunday, monday and dont overlook halloween. I showed you the general forecast inland but i will do a couple of specific forecast in the next hour. San jose will be my first, and i was show several more in the next half hour. By 7 00 67 degree range if youre taking the kids out to celebrate halloween. Your 7day forecast with temperatures in the low 80s inland, and we do get a cooldown by mid to early next week we will get a small chance of rain, and maybe even by friday and saturday. 80s still seem warm for this time of the year. You are spot on. In general we are 11 to 14 degrees above what you would call average for this time of the year. If you plan on voting in person be sure to know about the dress code and in california against the law to wear anything naming a certain candidate or measure. One Sacramento Man found out the hard way when he showed up at the polling place decked out in his trump year. He caused a scene but eventually changed before the Police Arrived but other voters were not aware of that either. I did not know that at all. This is the way i feel and the way i vote, and to be honest, i want the world to both the way im voting so i am wearing this for awareness. If youre showing up in something ban, poll workers will let you know when give you chance to change but if not, you could end up before the judge on a misdemeanor charge. We have the 49ers and seahawks game tomorrow but not the only treat out of santa clara. We have a big cat that landed in downtown detroit yesterday, and kenny go home again . It is jon gruden back to the as a nurse, ive faced the fear of being stretched too thin to do my job right. And its not Just Health Care workers. Our teachers and school staff are going the extra mile for our kids. Our firefighters are taking on unthinkable missions to keep us safe. How can we keep giving billions in tax breaks to rich corporations when our communities need that money . Prop 15 closes corporate loopholes and invests in our schools, health care, and public safety. Help us do our jobs. Vote yes on 15. Good morning, everybody. 49ers and seahawks, and the 49ers are the 3 point dog in this one. It is quiet. Take a look at this. This is noise, but not a factor at the Centurylink Field with no fans on sunday. The seahawks usually use this as an advantage but this is a huge help with 49ers. There is no hand signal to communicate or count to snap the ball. This right tackle agrees. When the quarterback is rocking, you could not hear yourself talk, let alone the person next to you. It sucks not to have the crowded on but it pays back on the road, especially going to the 12th man. It makes it a little bit easier. We have the slight underdog stretching the field to make the place at Cleveland Browns on sunday which is what coach jon gruden wants to see. He grew up one hour outside of cleveland has a shot at the winning record in this homecoming of sorts. If you pick up the phone book you can see some grudens that live there and it would be nice to when a game in front of them. A. J. Hinch introduced as the new manager of the Detroit Tigers yesterday. This oakland catcher best known for managing the 2017 World Series Champions astros during the sign stealing scandal. Suspended by the lake and fired for the scandal but now back in the game. Speaking of back, lets go back to the 49ers and Kyle Shanahan wanted to make it abundantly clear that it was wife mandy that sent halloween candy to the families of the coaching staff. I wish i could take credit for it and bobby turner thanked me for whatever we gave them, and i had no idea what he was talking about. I am sure that was my wife that did that. There were trees sent to the wide receiver house and his son seem to be in complete denial of who delivered the candy. Say thank you shanahan. Thank you, dave bo, i love you. No, shanahan. No, devo. I am with you, son, i am a big deebo samuel fan myself but equally a fan of baby ruth and snickers. If you have any extra, send it my way. Thats enough and i will see you later on the inside of the vibe show and the newscast at 5 00 and 6 00 today. Coming up, coping with election stress and how summer dealing with the high anxiety ahead of the tuesday election. I have an apple and broccoli, and here go my green onions. It is a tree sitter prepared to stay put in a standoff with pg e. He has his apples and his uber and lyft are like every big guy ive ever brought down. Prop 22 doesnt help their drivers it denies them benefits. 22 doesnt help women. It actually weakens Sexual Harassment laws, which are meant to protect them. Uber and lyft arent even required to investigate Sexual Harassment claims. I agree with the la times no on 22. Uber and lyft want all the power. So, show them the real power is you. Vote no on prop 22. Is you. Official ballot drop box near need to fiyou . He closest just visit vote. Ca. Gov to find your nearest location. Then drop off your ballot. Your vote will be secure and counted. There are other ways to vote too. Just return your votebymail ballot at your voting location or mail it back. Or you can vote safely inperson during early voting or on election day. Vote the way youre most comfortable but vote by 8pm on november 3rd. Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Welcome back. Your time now is 6 29, and thank you for joining us. Happy halloween. I am emily turner. I am devin fehely, and lets start out this halfhour with the check on the weather with meteorologist darren peck. We have early evening temperatures pretty nice, and i will show you your specific callaway forecast numbers from 7 00 9 00 tonight coming up. First lets get you ready for 6 29 in the morning. As you step outside most of us are in the upper 40s with 37 at concord, 39 in oakland, San Francisco in san jose. Santa rosa is a cold 36. It is very cold this morning in the sheltered valleys of Sonoma County and napa county. Temperatures warming into the low 80s inland which is what im talking about when i say we will be 11 degrees above average. Do not forget that later tonight when you go to sleep to set your clock back. At 2 00 a. M. On sunday morning it is Daylight Saving time that ends. This is the weekend to do that and start making your plans, thinking ahead for that now. Its early but why not do it now. I will see you for the rest of the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Only three days left before the president ial election, and voters are taking extra care with their ballots. Wilson walker reports that some are hesitant about milling in the ballots. I was skeptical. I am a handson kind of person and i want to make sure it gets in, my ballot. I trust the people at the vets memorial that it will get to the right place. Reporter added assurance for those voters standing in line. Mike signatures inconsistent. Im afraid it would not be accepted because i dont remember how i signed it last time, so i want to make sure it gets in. Reporter these mobile sites like this one in san mateo can help the voters that are fallen through the cracks this year. I recently moved and did not receive my ballot. Reporter the centers open around the bay area. Its basically outside so it is safe. Reporter expect to be standing in line about one hour, 50 minutes, but pretty painless. Dont know when in the lines were complaining. The voter enthusiasm at the drop boxes is materializing at the voting booths. Its a personal satisfaction that i am participating in this very, very important election and taking the time out to do something that needs to be done. That was Wilson Walker reporting. San francisco is preparing for possible fallout after the election. Some businesses are boarding up like walgreens and the Salesforce Tower. Its unclear whether that is directly related to possible unrest but many people are feeling the angst head of the election. Some voters say between the election and civil unrest the stress and anxiety is at an all time high. Stick with us on election day, starting with an Election Special at kpix 5 at 3 00 p. M. Followed by the cbs evening news and special america decides election coverage. Will also bring local results throughout the evening at kpix 5 and the cbs in bay area at kpix. Com. Vallejo police are searching for a man that led them on a chase in a stolen car yesterday afternoon. It ended in a violent rollover crash and two people were injured. Investigators say they were innocent. Moments after the crash the suspect jumped over the retaining wall into the yard of a neighbor. The neighborhood was under lockdown while officers were hunting for him. They were right behind him and he hopped the wall but i dont think they did. That they were coming around the corner. That wall was pretty high. I was kind of scared. I was like where is he at, hiding in someones backyard . Witnesses said the Police Detained a woman riding in a stolen car with the suspect. The suspect is still on the rhine. San mateo police are trying to figure out who shot and killed a man outside of a home where an injured child was also found at the scene near highway 101 and highway 90 to. They were called to the scene on eleanor drive around 10 00. They said on friday someone shot the 30yearold victim inside of an suv. The injured child was found in the drive or a but no word on the extent on the injuries. Waiting to see if they can lose their jobs and accompany announced last month they would lay off 30,000 workers. The reporter Stacey Butler spoke with some employees. None of us are safe. I know people that have been with this company 10 years and were laid off. Reporter instead of the festive Holiday Weekend we are nervous and waiting. Reporter the disney cast members waiting on the other shoe to drop. Everyday i checked my email and i go out to the mailbox but some people dont even know whether theyve been laid off or not. Reporter she was furloughed eight months ago and making a fraction of the wages and savings has run out. We dont have food on the table and we cannot get to our children right now. It is bad. Reporter with no opening date insight for Disneyland Resort and park, a new wave of layoffs is coming to 10,000 workers, food and beverage, hotel and retail. Each will be notified by email sent from the company. I have not yet received an email, but i think the longer this goes into the new year, i am sure they will lay off more people. Reporter this pastor, drew, also a cast member and so is his son but instead a panicky the pastor began praying and came up with a plan. He and his son posted a video inviting the furloughed and laidoff cast members to drive up food pantry. Close to 900 cars came through to receive boxes of food, pumpkins and candy. Reporter the layoffs will come but this pastor says so will miracles, one carload at a time. That was Stacey Butler reporting and theres still no reopening date for the Disneyland Resort and part. This tree sitter is not going anywhere and find out the demands he has for pg e. How the jefferson Award Winners are getting some out of work back on the road to success. Kpix 5 as a new app giving you 24 7 access to cbsn bay area along with our kpix 5 newscasts and realtime updates. You can also sign up for breaking news alerts. 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. Tonight on 48 hours, the other woman involved in a love triangle that ended in murder speaks out for the first time. A russian bridetobe was found dead in a remote part of oregon, and the victim, anna, unwittingly caught up in a love triangle. Her fiancc searching time travel after her death. There are remarkable twist and turns. We are talking about a love triangle and two women that thought this one guy love them both. As it evolves, its fascinating to watch. Watch the tracy smith full story on 48 hours tonight at 10 00 right here on kpix 5. New video from turkey showing scenes of destruction in the port city with rescuers desperately searching for survivors among the rubble of a collapsed building. A powerful earthquake struck the region just over 24 hours ago, killing at least 27 people. The usgs said the quake was magnitude 7. 0. The quake was centered off the coast of turkey near the greek island and in addition to more than two dozen killed, over 800 people were injured. The victims were caught in the collapsing building and flooding from the tsunami that was caused by the earthquake. A man is first in the trees of the sierra foothills to try to stop pg e from dropping it down. Our reporter said the solitary tree sitter is open to call attention to the larger protest. Reporter 40 feet off the ground and cut off from resources, surprise with supplies running low. It is 10 to 20 days. I have a whole bag of produce. I had beets, apples and broccoli. There goes my green onions. Reporter brandon, known as tarzan, is singlehandedly going up against the biggest Utility Company in the state of california. There are several demands we are making. Pg e needs to take this tree off of the list of hazardous trees. Reporter pg e marking nearly 300 trees in nevada city for removal. We must continue to work in nevada city to ensure safety, and avoid possible ignition of wildfires. Reporter but people are demanding the work to stop despite the risk, saying the trees are worth saving. Out of 250 trees we wanted to save 16 that they have refused to take any compromise. Reporter they are forced to take their protest to new heights and he is not the only one fighting back. Three protesters ended up in handcuffs friday morning. Immediately grabbed me and said i was trespassing on private property. We will keep fighting as long as we can. Reporter after the devastating wildfires pg e said they have no choice and that the trees near power lines have got to go. We must use a no risk option and remove those trees. Thankfully the wildfires are not the significant story in this morning newscasts but there is a significant one putting smoke in the skies for much of california. The creek fire making it hazy and bringing our air quality back down to moderate. Let me show you how it looks now and how the smoke will be a bigger issue tomorrow likely than today. Here is the view from the top of the mark hopkins looking toward the Salesforce Tower and we see pretty early light filling the skies. Tomorrow morning we will see more like filling the skies because even though it is getting darker one hour earlier which is what most people think about when we set the clocks back in the fall but the early risers notice an improvement on Early Morning light. As we take a look at the point source, heres the creek fire putting plenty of smoke in the skies. Today is much like yesterday meaning you will notice it if you look hard, but by tomorrow back in this scenario where you wont be able to help but notice. The sky will be hazy again. We have had a couple of days like that already this week. The air quality will go back down hill. But thankfully this is elevated enough that it does not look like we have to talk about anything worst than moderate. Considering what we have gone through so far this summer, moderate does not sound that bad. It will be more noticeable again sunday into monday. As far as today, heres the view from the top of the Salesforce Tower looking south over the ships in the bay. It is cold in the north bay right now. Here are the current numbers. Mid to upper 40s in most locations with 44 in livermore and 48 in san jose. Santa rosa is 10 degrees colder at 36 degrees. We are getting a little bit too close to freezing and it is 37 in petaluma. We have reached the time of the year where the sheltered valleys in the north bay will see morning temperatures dipping below most places. You get colder in the mornings. As far as the daytime highs today, low 80s. This is well above average. That is 10 to 12 degrees above average for this time of the year. Is the same story with concord and livermore at 83, walnut creek at 81. Oakland topping out at 76, novato at 73 with 83 in santa rosa. Even though you start out cold you will warm up like everybody else. Lets take a quick look at halloween. We saw san jose, but now lets get to the north bay where they will be cooler by 9 00 tonight. 23 degrees, and at 7 00 that is the prime time with 62 deg with the lightning bolts coming in we changed oakland subtly, a little bit warmer. It is not a real big difference across much of the bay, but since it some of us experienced slightly cooler temperatures in the evening, i thought it was worth pointing out. Its really the morning lows where we notice a big difference. Lets get to the headlines in your 7day forecast. By friday into saturday we will get a significant enough of a cooldown back to average, and a small, keep your fingers crossed chance of rain by friday and saturday. The people going to decide to find a careful way or cautious way to go trickor treating, the weather will be perfect. We could not ask for Better Weather if you like it 10 degrees above average without worrying about the window rain messing up your costume, its great. Many believe that the pandemic will put a damper on halloween with trickor treating considered high risk activity. But kpix 5 andrea kakano found some neighbors working together to create a safe and spooky halloween. Reporter this family creating dead time abby and the home is part of the alameda hot your house contest, and they look to be crowned the most haunted home in town. This helps the halloween spirit. We love everything spooky. Reporter they have dancing ghost, sound and smoke affects along with this, a contactless way to hand out the candy built by two set designers. None of us have been able to do our job since march and Live Entertainment was the first thing to go, the last thing that will come back. Reporter its a similar story in the Oakland Hills where these homeowners had a little bit of extra time on their hands, and they created their take on the disneyland haunted mansion. They almost lost a key part of the show after thieves drove away with their hurst but that was luckily quick returned. One grinch will not ruin our holiday spirit and we want to give back and bring happiness to the community and while trickortreating is highly discouraged, here you can find the candy walls and treat bags hanging with decorations as neighbors Work Together to come up with a safe alternative. We have seen and met more neighbor since covid and matt moore of our neighbors children. In some ways is not so bad. Reporter and alameda the Haunted House decoration contest is for good cause. All you have to do is to scan the urc code and make a donation straight to the alameda food bank. From alameda, andrea kakano, kpix 5. The boot in the suit continues, Scavenger Hunt with the halloween theme is extended through eight days to promote social distancing. Two longtime friends are teaming up to help the jobless headquarters, and we have your jefferson Award Winners for this week. Reporter over 150 people, many in the middle of their career come to the class with larry looking for new Technology Jobs after he began teaching the free course several years ago. It really almost broke my heart to see these people struggling, unemployed maybe for the first time in their career. Larry and david founded the job hackers in San Francisco three years ago drying on the Technology Background of the. , bringing diversity to the Tech Industry with the average age of participants 43 with half ethnic minorities, and 6 out of 10 are women returning to the work force. They get up to speed on the modern way of thinking and they take care of someone older or younger, have a gap and cannot get back in. Reporter they teach agile and scrum, a new way of working in tech with 750 people in the bay area and around the world that has gone through the curriculum. He prepares them to test for the scrum master education. Half earning a six figure salary. This is a pretty Diverse Group and 30 and up to 40 are getting jobs within 90 days of taking the class. Reporter lisa landed a job as project manager. Using the skills i gained from the program i was able to work in engineering from day one. Reporter they are taking advantage of the networking and mentorship, as a student and later as a volunteer mentor. Instead of paying for classes the job hackers ask participants to donate time and the community. Valerie who got the job as project manager was glad to give. Paying it forward that you feel good so this is a winwin for everybody. Reporter that includes for larry and dave. Its a wonderful feeling that knowing something we have done has contributed to the wellbeing of somebody else. Reporter for providing free training to the unemployed in bringing training, this jefferson award goes to David Rawlings and larry epke. Next job hackers will train veterans and apprenticeships so they can get hands on experience. Go to jefferson award online at kpix. Com to submit your hero. Its rising. The pain is coming. Asof being stretched too thinar to do my job right. And its not Just Health Care workers. Our teachers and school staff are going the extra mile for our kids. Our firefighters are taking on unthinkable missions to keep us safe. How can we keep giving billions in tax breaks to rich corporations when our communities need that money . Prop 15 closes corporate loopholes and invests in our schools, health care, and public safety. Help us do our jobs. Vote yes on 15. It is 6 53. Are you ready for my favorite story of the day . It is and annual tradition of sneaking a little bit of the kids candy when they go to bed halloween night. We brought them into the world so we can either candy. But what about pairing wine with that candy . They say the white wine goes best with skittles and the rosc wine goes best with the gummy worms. And you should opt for the snickers with sparkling wine. If you prefer beer over wine, the growler guys say that their reporter goes best with reeses Peanut Butter cups. Try the twix bars with your pale ale. The which is house that is attracting thousands of people but the owner says it is so busy on halloween he usually has to hire security guards but not this year. The city is closing five streets around the witches house but some witches say they will find other ways to mark the occasion. How do you celebrate if Beverly Hills is knocking off the streets and they wont let you in . There are children to be found we will still be sucking the lives out of the children. The city said they are trying to get the word out for all of the ghosts and goblins that are not together in the same place. Kpix 5 wants to bring you good news happening in the bay areas ago to kpix. Com together and send us it is 6 56, and time for look at your morning top stories. Early voting inperson continues with several area sports venue set up as the Voting Centers including the chase center. The Postal Service under orders of a federal judge is offering assurances that thy will deliver ballots in time with sunday collection in some places, and mail carriers gathering mail early monday and tuesday. San francisco is preparing for possible fallout after the election and some businesses are already boarding up windows. Its unclear whether that is directly related to the possible unrest. This reporting over 100,000 new cases of the coronavirus with a world record reported in the u. S. Is approaching 230,000 deaths. San Francisco Holding off on further reopenings after an increase in case rates with restaurants and houses of worship staying at 25 capacity instead of increasing to 50 like they hoped. It is halloween and we have quick view of the full moon setting over the Grace Cathedral on top of hill. It will also set up toward the golden gate bridge. Heres a quick look at your 7 day forecast, and we have cool down by the end of next week which is good news if you want temperatures cooler than they have been. That is it for today. Thank you for watching kpix 5 news this morning. We will be back tomorrow morning at 6 00. Remember the clocks go back one hour. Enjoy your spooky saturday, and have a great narrator today on lucky dog, a oneyearold black lab could become the perfect companion for a soontobe grad student with muscular dystrophy. Brandon are you a hundred percent physically capable of holding a dog without injuring your shoulders . Kyle if the dog is wellbehaved, yeah. Narrator but lincoln has a lot of learning to do if he hopes to become a big dog on campus. Brandon and we heel. Whoa that is not a heel. Okay. You got a lot of power, buddy. Okay, hold it hold your horses. Try this again. Try it again. Im brandon mcmillan, and ive dedicated my life to