Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see another wave of and about maybe 1520 14 minutes, thats great into San Francisco still tracking this crash thats been lingering for over an hour 80 west San Pablo Dam road about 2 miles of slowing or so leading up to the scene there through san pablo and entering richmond but down to mid to lower shore like Berkeley Emeryville that portion looks great. So only 25 minutes from crockett to the maze ill keep my eyes on the crash will check more freeways coming up back to you, thanks alive at least everybodys power back. Thats our news in the bay area power restored to all the pg e customers who lost it many of the dark since sunday because pgd shut down the power ahead of all the winds were seeing and we did see some pretty strong winds to during that red flag warning. They found at least 75 instances of damage to their Electrical Equipment offers gayle ong reports. The genie says vegetation related damage and hazards were found across the bay area during the psps including here in napa county. All the bay area regions that were a part of this psps did experience damage or debris on the lines and any of those instances could have triggered a spark that could have led to a fire and thats exactly why we call these psps about no major wildfires ignited during pg and es latest Public Safety power shutoff when a historic wind event took place. The strongest recorded gusts, 89 Miles Per Hour in the high peaks of mount saint helene and napa county and recorded gusts over 40 Miles Per Hour across the bay area was pretty windy. We had our windows open and you know where kind of snow for smoke. So you kind of get used to that or going to bed and wondering whats going to happen in the middle of the night your son brown lives in the napa valley and had her power turned off sunday night until tuesday night. Brown says she feels safe during psps events but it comes with challenges i think its a little to not be able to get certain information that theres a lot of time the wi fi goes down with the so when its windy. Its a little unnerving but other than im happy theyre doing it its better than having another. Another fire. And the high winds subsided and red flag warnings expired the National Weather service says conditions remain very dry and well look to stay that way for some time a reminder to remain fire weather aware and to be prepared. Pg says there are no anticipated shut offs for now at this time were looking forward about a week and theres no indication of a need for another psps etiology team does track the weather 24 hours a day 7 days a week so if there is any change in the weather we all know well ahead of time. In the meantime the genie says theyve been working the past year to upgrade its infrastructure to better withstand Severe Weather and that project could take several years in saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. Another one of our big stories this morning is the fact that United States has seen a steady increase in Coronavirus Infections and hospitalizations for the entire month of october in this map behind me here shows you the increase in cases in the past week compared to the week before now 5 states are in red there primarily along the east coast and down to the south thats where weve had a 50 increase or more. In those 2 weeks when you 35 states in orange that includes the state of california thats where weve seen cases jumped 10 to 50 . One week to the next and then 9 states which are in yellow, those are where. The numbers are holding steady, they have moved up or down. Only one state in green thats missouri, where numbers have actually gone down which is the direction of course we want everybody to head nearly 80,000 new cases were recorded yesterday pushing the u. S. Total of infections to 8. 8 million at least 227,000 people have died since february. Tracking our local numbers to for the coronavirus both statewide and for the bay area so far across the state as you can see we have recorded more than 920,000 cases with more than 17,000 deaths and then for the bay area specifically more than a 114,000 cases with more than 1700 people dying from the coronavirus that is a scary mask and theres a scary outbreak. At a hospital in San Francisco at ucsf med center their Contact Tracing right now. After a number of staff and patients tested positive for covid so where did this outbreak come from kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live at the hospital with what we know. Hi sarah. Other trying to figure out right now where this spread originated 5 people total tested positive for the coronavirus to patients and 3 employees and theyre still Contact Tracing investigating to see where it all originated now we know that 2 patients were sharing a room 3 employees were tending to them caring for them and all 5 of them tested positive both patients tested negative for coronavirus before being admitted to the hospital. Later one unexpectedly tested positive on the routine discharge test this set off an investigation that Contact Tracing helping to identify the other cases take a look at the statement from Ucsf Medical Center saying we have not yet determined. The original source or exact sequence of these infections. However we have isolated these patients and employees and are working to identify test and quarantine other individuals who may have been exposed to them or have symptoms at last check the hospital says neither patients have symptoms of coronavirus but the employees do have mild symptoms so far ucsf says theres no evidence that the spread has gone to additional patients or employees. But theyre working right now with the state and city health departments. Trying to figure this all out Ucsf Medical Center says theyve been doing all the right protocols, the entire pandemic they have the universal mask protocol they also do screenings of all their employees every day and then as we saw they test the patients before they come in and then as they are discharged as well but something went wrong here because a local spread occurred here at the Medical Center so theyre going to be figuring this out in the meantime unfortunately this validates peoples fear about going to the hospital right now during a pandemic people who have you know surgeries on the line or you know maybe just want to get a routine checkup, theyre scared to go to the hospital because theres coronavirus patients, theirs people treating coronavirus patients so it can be scary for sure i have reached out to the Medical Center to get an update on this figure out a little bit more detail so stay tuned. This morning will continue to fall this will send it back to you if you think this makes us scared to go to the hospital i think that should make us scared to go to a restaurant. Because in a hospital think about this. Theyre clean like crazy. Everybodys asked the patients the staff there wearing gloves and if they can spread it you think a waiter cant go inside a restaurant from table to table and all these people without masks and nobodys going to get there. Thats the scary thing to me. Does does a really true just scared in general they asked to do dare compare your environment thanks a lot sara you want some scary listen to this experts in San Francisco say theyre tracking data that shows the potential israel for hate groups to act out over this years elections regardless of who wins Proper Services stasko explains. But its like a caged raccoon good network, better your ira is up. Brian levin is head of Cal State San Bernardino Center for the study of hate and extremism he says the center is saying rhetoric coming from the president ial campaigns being tied to an increased threat of violence. Concerning the upcoming election to trump army. Polling places where most people are not going to react to that any significant wreck but there are some unstable thought you know we saw from says the proud boys but heres the i think the biggest threat is from loners and hes expanding sell the michigan cell was one of the largest weve seen in years and weve also seen just in the last week. I think its ending in 2 bay area Law Enforcement killings, stephen you may recall in the michigan case the fbi arrested 14 men recently with ties to a militia group. Court documents reveal the men allegedly planned to kidnap the governor on election day with additional plans to kill Law Enforcement. And trigger a civil war. Here locally steve a current Us Service Member is charged with killing a federal guard during a black lives matter protest. And later a santa cruz sheriffs deputy during a search warrant for his arrest. Whereas levin says that the current data shows right we domestic terrorist groups seeking to rise up. He says left wing groups also have a history of violence. When they feel that theyre losing power during a change in leadership. And you go back about 50 years for kind of a mirror reflection the hard left to sunni islam or asian in the syria for patty hearst was kidnapped just ahead of the oakland schools was chill levin who is also a former new York City Police officer says what is vital now is for people to not be intimidated. No matter what their political beliefs are local Law Enforcement is aware of this elevated risk i dont think we want to be alarmist about think the average person to just keep their eyes open call the fbi if there is voter intimidation also call 911 and the city of a announced on wednesday that theyre opening up an office of Emergency Services as a precaution just in case violence does iraq. Here in San Francisco, theresa kron 4 news. If plan a party for halloween you could do it many places but the city of San Francisco says dont come to this location coming up, ill tell you why and every action in a live report. And looking outside this morning things are starting to brighten up overwhelming creek right now temperatures are pretty cool in the 50s and 40s 30s up in the north bay too by the time we work our way into the afternoon its ample sunshine yet again highs in the 70s and 80s. Im tracking your drive around the bay area this morning, youre looking good at the bay bridge toll plaza you dont have anything to worry about 4. 80 west if youre about to use it to head into San Francisco 40 minutes for the drive time, but i am tracking major bart delays well have details coming up. Did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins . Prilosec otc uses a unique delayedrelease formula that works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. With just one pill a day, you get 24hour heartburn protection. Take the prilosec otc twoweek challenge. And see the difference for yourself. Prilosec otc, 1 pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. Thisa window of time to help protect the ones you love. Your preteen benefits from staying uptodate with their well visits. This is your window of protection. Schedule their well visit now. What halloween a couple of days away. They anticipate at least a considerable crowd and they dont want people to show because San Francisco has done such great job with covid19 that its ready to enter another tier that will loosen things up. Lets get reaction from people in San Francisco like any baldwin. Your reaction a lot of people this is the party to be your reaction on San Francisco saying you can still party. Just dont do it here. Yeah, i mean the castor is a really fun place. I love living here, but im all about safety first so personally im going to be staying home this year and im glad theyre encouraging people to stay home. I hope other people listen to what theyre saying. The plan at least step onto the streets a little because they do expect, i mean lets face it people will be people. Even take precautions and have a party at home are we going yeah i think just mostly stay home. If im outdoors wear a mask and least a sixweek get away from doing a little bit of a bummer this is the party i mean for it not to be. It is big is it usually is yeah, i mean its its a fun too bad because this is why we join the i want to move here because its super fun but im hoping that next year and things are back to normal. It will be doubly fun because we will have been waiting for so long for something great ok, thank you so much theres something scarier than halloween james and darya and that is covid19 according to the supervisor who oversees the castro district. He says theyve seen surges in major cities like philadelphia and los angeles and they dont want that happening in San Francisco because if they dont get this situation. Really under control. The next possible option could be another shutdown so you go and party with your immediate family and social bubble. Just dont come down here at least not this year. Back to you all right, thanks a lot. Well, im just not going to answer the door. Youre not. I know kids come i live on a hill i dont get kids anyway, and nobody should be out there trick or treating so you still buy candy enough for kids though should they should they come spreading covid door to door no no the answer is thats fine. A little with a look at the forecast and your halloween forecast morning. Guys my priority is always just what my dogs halloweencostume will that will not change this year but as you do get outside today tomorrow into halloween to expect abundant sunshine on each of these days. And dry conditions to not looking at a windy forecast ahead of us not looking at any major heat waves ahead of us either unfortunately, no chances of rain and thats the thing that we could use as we work our way later into the fall season and conditions remain so dry lots of sunshine about to be seen over San Francisco you can see skies brightening up over the skyline right now conditions calm all across the bay area remaining that way again today much like yesterday in fact today really a repeat of yesterday and should be no big surprise. Weve got High Pressure built up and its going to keep things in a Holding Pattern of sunny. Calm and overall pretty comfortable weather in the days to come. We are seeing expanding Drought Conditions are updated Drought Monitors this morning showing deepening extreme drought for northern portions of Solano Sonoma and napa counties. Most of us in that golden hue under severe drought now san jose the Central Coast under moderate Drought Conditions. So yes we do need to start seeing some rain if were not going to see it might as well keep the comfortable weather around its mostly 70s to low 80s for your highs today thats the way were going to stay well through halloween and well into next week too. 80s, inland and 70s by the bay. Robin. Im tracking a hot spot on southbound one oh one we have several lanes blocked here at them or in city x and southbound one at the marine city offramp will step to the side. So you can see the graphic a little bit better there you crash here involving several vehicles and it may be a situation where only one lane is open so chp has issued a special Traffic Alert south one to one at the marine city exit 4 lanes of traffic block as they try to get this out of your way this is going to impact your commute to San Francisco. Why because it bumps up your drive time here at 26 minutes nevado to San Francisco because of that crash but the golden gate itself looks really good you just have that major slow down approaching them are in city x and a really quick peak of the bay bridge, not much has changed. I think a lot of folks just took the day off right were not seeing the usual delays so come on in 14 minutes after fremont street back to you thanks a lot rob and 7. 20 and for your money this morning ford has nearly a 190,000 reservations for its upcoming bronco suv and 2 key economic reports were just released. Jane king is live in new york with those stories and more hi jen. Hi daryn good morning. One was weekly jobless claims so this came in 751,000 last week that is a pandemic low historically still high, but it has been trending lower since really about labor day now gross domestic product, so the broadest measure we have of the economy up 33 in the 3rd quarter. So thats a reflection of everything shutting down and then reopening again so its by far a record high growth in the test will be it is her to go back down the u. S. Start to see more covid cases and if they start to close down here in some places now ford has added roughly 30 to 40,000 reservations for the bronco suv during the 3rd quarter and in fact for blew away earnings expectations as consumers bought a pickup trucks during the pandemic yet chris were announced an electric ram pickup truck will be coming as well and Halloween Costume sales are still going well despite the pandemic retailers say the most popular costume this years dracula and vampire costumes and then some unique twentytwenty costume sellers are tiger king and karen costumes live from new york, im jane king back to you very all right, thanks. A lot jane. Time now 7. 22 still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, there are new safety concerns over planned changes to Market Street. In San Francisco will tell you how the city plans to make it a more bicycle friendly place. 100 beef and hearty chili. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Its pretty delicious. 100 beef and hearty chili. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Its pretty delicious. 7. 25 is the time back with breaking news now that were following from overnight a terrorist with a knife killed 3 people in the french city of nice. The attacker is in custody right now after being wounded by police to notre dom church. Police do not believe that anybody else was involved. Think this was a person acting alone. This is the 3rd attack in france in just the past 2 months. In response, the french government now has increased its terror alert to their maximum level. And Market Street in downtown San Francisco is getting Something Different to done to it now because of covid theyve had to cut the budget that means some say theyre cutting out safety for bicyclists and for people who are walking because of the pandemic the project has less money and thats a concern for supervisor matt haney. Now just in the last couple weeks theyve presented a entire thing and change the way that the transit lanes or design it taken away the protected bike lane and theyve taken away some of the pedestrian improvements and all we want for this street is for it to meet its potential for it to be safe and accessible. The project is going to save about 63 Million Dollars with this new plan. But its still going to cost more than a 120 Million Dollars altogether. Well take a look at this. Health has been using what it calls an electronic intensive care unit to cut Covid Treatment times in half cameras and Computer Systems are checking for vital signs in hospital rooms the system monitors patients 24 7 without putting Health Care Workers at risk and with this technology nurses are able to monitor patients at several different hospital locations. All at once. And levi stadium will be opening their doors to voters, well tell you what that whole process starts where you can come down and cast a ballot will have that story up next. 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. 7. 29 right now and want to take a peek at the weather. I think its quite nice. I cant now that i mean its weve turned the corner i kind of keep the jack in the car and then the does little cold and not going on the chilly side as you head out the door each morning, this and john what does it look like as were getting nearer and nearer november, yeah guys as the nights get longer and longer conditions out there get chillier and chillier. Id say keep the jackets around and im kind of glad you took the a c out of the window to daria because we are looking at a pretty mild forecast ahead of us consistently. As we make our way into november which is now just a couple days away kind of crazy to think about that lots of sunshine above timber on this morning. If you look close there you can see the Golden Gate Bridge out in the distance, we know fog streaming through the bay this morning sure we do have an increased presence of marine layer which is making for humidity not quite as bone dry as it once was, but we still dont have the fog streaming through just yet so we are off to another nice clear morning and thats okay with all of us 40s and 50s for most of our current temperatures in tell you get to the north bay where were in the 30s fairfield nevado san anselmo petaluma and santa rosa all down into the 30s this morning. Definitely chillier than we have been to start our mornings skies also clear over walnut creek temperatures after a cool morning rise into the 70s and 80s again this afternoon. A lot like yesterday. Robin thank you john back to our trouble spot that were tracking right now on southbound one o one its a hot spot and its still. Being cleared. So thats a good news, its one oh one south at the marine city offramp crews have been working with a multi vehicle accident for over an hour at last check chp was running traffic breaks clearing this from 4 lanes of traffic trying to move it off to the side and as i look at the sensors its already improving so thats great news, but its going to impact your overall drive time for south one oh one to San Francisco. So were looking at roughly 21 minutes much better from nevado to San Francisco. So thats a good sign that theyre pushing this off to the side because 5 minutes ago was just crawling here the bay bridge were good a minor weight off and on at the bay bridge toll plaza, no problems into San Francisco so behave for the kid out there, lets keep it this way hot spot free at 14 minutes to fremont street and bar delays up to 20 minutes on the line theyre having equipment issues or they had equipment issues they cleared it up, but a 20 minute delay on the line heading in the daily city direction. So plan ahead, so you wont be late back to you. Thanks a lot rob and 7 32 5 days to go before the election and more than a 3rd of registered voters. In california have already returned their ballots. Capitol Bureau ReporterAshley Zavala explains what you should do if you havent turn your son yet. The latest numbers from Political Data inc show 36 of california ballots have been returned as of tuesday, its going to really help. Process those ballots more rapidly and guest a final Election Results sooner than later results from those ballots arent being tallied up they wont be until november 3rd county Elections Officials across the state are processing the incoming ballots to make sure they have verified signatures and are able to be scanned many ballots as they can process before election day and get ready to count they well and then once the polls close at 08 00pm on november, 3rd. Those ballots that are in house have already been processed or the very first bout that get counted if youre thinking about mailing in your ballot voting advocates suggest doing so soon its getting a little bit late in the year at this point to the mailing your ballot and even though we have the a postmark law in california that says belts must be postmarked by election day in order to be counted. Anything you put in the mail after you know starting this weekend. Theres really no guarantee that it will get postmarked by election day so you want walking into a post office and asked them to hand council and if thats how you want to submit or you can take it to a drop box or any voting site or your county elections. Office officials expect in person voting to pick up with polling places opening up in the majority of the state this weekend in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Well in the south bay. We have levi stadium opening up its grounds for early voting ahead of election in fact its the latest accessible polling place for voters there in Santa Clara County and thats why we have kron fours reyna harvey standing by with a look at what you can expect if youre going to be heading out there. They are in morning james thats right saturday. Theyre going to be opening their doors to voters and levi stadium is no stranger to chipping in in this way for the community they held the primaries are you become your vote. Back in march for those but again theyre doing this once again there are a number of facilities opening up this probably is the biggest one out of all of those here and so again theyre trying to increase voter turnout. Theyre trying to get voters to be more educated about the whole voting process and make sure that they have facilities or people who live here can actually get to so this is ul tie agency effort. We have the california secretary of state the Santa Clara County register voters and other agencies that are coming together to try to make sure voters have several places to go early voting starts october 31st right here at levi stadium and runs through election day on november, 3rd youre looking at those hours right now thats not am to 05 00pm and then sunday monday and tuesday very important to note, 07 08am, to 08 00pm also here coming down youre probably wondering if there is any place to park. They are going to free parking for you thats in the Great America parking lot adjacent to the stadium at levi stadium will be one of 100 Voting Centers across Santa Clara County here and theyre going to make sure that they have staff here to point in the right direction also make sure if you are coming down here. You are a mask and theyll be making sure they socially distance people that are here as well for now reporting here in santa Clara Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news very good. Thank you reena. Well the coliseum by the way will also be a Voting Center for voters in the east bay starting this saturday, the coliseum will open up to Alameda County voters through election day. People who go there will be able to well do several things you can register you can drop off your ballot. You can vote in person you can also do curbside voting from your car so there giving you a lot of options the oakland as will be covering the 30,000 cost for use of the stadium. The coliseum will follow all Public Health guidelines regarding social distancing and masks so know that when you arrive, voters will be provided a mask if you dont have one. Businesses in downtown San Francisco are taking precautions in case things get ugly on Election Night kron fours Maureen Kelly reports, there are concerns about destruction. No matter who wins or loses. The sounds of hammers and saws could be heard in many spots in downtown San Francisco as construction workers and security guards put up sheets of plywood over a plate glass windows and doors this some barricades protecting the glass from potential riots that they think that might actions. Disease this plan to gas a pretty expensive to put it is to build into destructive behavior now i think it was more just what could happen on either side somebody is going to be angry and upset so there could be a response to that the manager of one business that was boarded up. Says shes frustrated about putting plywood over her display windows since they were just getting momentum after reopening. She understands why its happening but she wishes it didnt have to be this way i mixed feelings, i wish that we didnt have to do that. But with everything going on high realize again its i wish we did and i wish we lived in a place where we could just and feel good about our decision and the process and and realize that. Whether the outcome is one thing or the other were all in this together the citys Police Department is also gearing up for Election Night sfpd says. Theyve canceled discretionary time off for officers, theyll also have additional cops working that night to respond to what theyre calling spontaneous events Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. 7. 38 is the time still ahead here on the kron 4 morning news, how safe is it to fly during the pandemic well tell you what a new study is saying about the risk of getting covid19 as millions of americans plan to travel for the holidays. Plus fourlegged robo tellers and thats what some are describing feral pigs that are causing a whole lot of damage to a south bay golf course, well have more on that. Coming up after the break. Bay area homeowners, learn how you can eliminate monthly mortgage payments and improve your cashflow. Look, this isnt my first rodeo and let me tell you something, i wouldnt be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. 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They have very little natural predators and meet their prolific breeders and they have big litters you know so they can multiply quite quickly if we could get hunt them in the in the traditional form. We would have this big problem settled probably in a week. But theres nothing we can do about so we just got to sit back and let him damage or golf course and their prey repair the next day. And then to have it all torn up again the next night, its its frustrating. Some have proposed hiring an archer to take out the pigs but that idea was rejected how would that well because you want to go the day that night you have a guy with a bow and arrow welling these pig because they dont want somebody out there like shooting and having like doesnt look good holiday and thats why they said no were not going it is his is just too risky at highway one oh yeah, like these learning michael came in like doesnt look good, know, im saying my golf game is run on his own pigs are not very upset. A ive never gone before us i would not know, but those look at outside this morning. We do have some great skies for doping later today a very inviting afternoon in fact ahead of us as we look at daytime highs today climbing back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose. Well ladies that sell more on your forecast to im checking your drive around the bay area of a little surprised that we dont have more cars on the road heading into San Francisco. A guest who took the day off right normally its backed up right now its wide open well check more bridges coming up. 6 right now and not that theres anywhere to fly to yeah after you showed the u. S. Covid map which is terrible and forget europe and the rest but a new study finds the flying isnt as bad as you might have thought well. Yeah this was study that came out of harvard and they suggest that Airline Passengers are probably no more at risk of cat catching covid19 while on the flight then. You are lets say going to the Grocery Store or eating at a restaurant which. Thats going feel a little better if you have to fly i guess lonnie wong takes a closer look. Air travel passenger numbers took a nosedive at the beginning of the pandemic but made a comeback during the summer months leading Industry Leaders hopeful that it could reach 85 of prepandemic levels by the end of the year it didnt happen. It went flat of the tortilla michael boyd has a leading airport an Airline Planning and consulting firm. Although the harvard report was sponsored by the airline and the airport in history. It mirrors previous studies that show that commercial airplane Filtration Systems can eliminate viruses you can get to see grandma. This thanksgiving book defeat and go but such reports are counted by last weeks revelation that 13 of 49 passengers in an Irish Airlines flight contracted the virus during a 7 and a half Hour International flight. 9 of them will win mask and several were distance from other passengers. Theres still some question whether the virus was contracted on the airplane but such incidents dont bode well for Holiday Travel this year. A Sacramento InternationalPassenger Capacity will be down 33 over last year thats better than the 40 or more at other airports airports may be less crowded but because of a reduction in the number of flights expect full airplanes. And virus protection protocols like social distancing in lines along with infrequent travelers youve got more kids more strollers that sort of thing so i think we can probably look forward to almost a normalized experience for thanksgiving which could be total chaos on the Labor Day Weekend activity at Sacramento International was steady. The mess together travel held up better than Long Distance and International Travel in recent months Industry Analysts say is the destination that the travel that worry air passengers its getting there and finding out that you know the mayor and the governor something says getting youre going to be quarantined and that. Thats really hurting everybody we got to get around those things as quick as we can as eager as the Airline Industry is to get the message out that flying is safer than ever. We fully realize the many Airline Passengers and potential passengers. Will not take that message to heart at least not right away these people would tell you that when well be back to 2019 levels to like 2024. Im sorry i think the right and our forecasts show the same and in sacramento. Lonnie wong. Heres the thing im not really afraid of the flight im just going one of my going to want to get there. Theres nothing open really ruin things are still does not like a lot to do youre not going to be running around party in are. Seeing relatives. Theyre saying dont do that for thanksgiving and whats the i was just stay home stay safe which is thats always been your mom knows what im ahead of my time. And what itll take couch proof proof say better john if anybody is going to be adventurous enough to head outside today kind of weather were looking at well its going to be nice and sunny out there yet again today yesterday we had a Beautiful Day to enjoy winds calm down Sunshine State with us temperatures remain mild keeping all that around today for almost a repeat of what we had for your wednesday looking out there at San Francisco this morning from across the bay skies are beautiful unclear. Definitely not a foggy morning. We have seen some cooler marine air slipping in and thats helping out with humidity. But it isnt really resulting in low visibility anywhere across the bay area right now. So were clear we are calm, were a big cool to start this morning a few north bay neighbors down in the 30s right now while most of the rest of us in the 40s and 50s were in this Holding Pattern because the strong ridge of High Pressure is now back in place its going to keep things mild for us pretty sunny overall as we work our way or 2 through the end of october and towards november just around the corner. No chances of rainfall means that Drought Conditions are only continuing to expand our latest Drought Monitor shows even more of that deep red indicating extreme drought returning for portions of Solano Sonoma and napa counties in the north bay in this more golden hue will those are severe Drought Conditions for really most of the rest of the bay area and then towards the bottom of the screen tan those are moderate Drought Conditions for san jose down into the Central Coast. So drought is expanding across the region as we continue to see dry conditions and thats one of the reasons fire danger even though we are calmer now remains still an issue todays daytime highs back to the 60s and 70s for San Francisco and or other coastal spots. Again lots of sunshine out there today. Todays daytime highs along the bay mostly 70s but a few 80s mixed in as well like in san 80 degrees woodside 82 today temperatures in the south bay one to 2 degrees warmer than yesterday for Cupertino Saratoga in san jose that means a day at 79 degrees later on 70s for Hayward Fremont union city well low 80s in the tri valley on up through walnut creek up to concord Oakland Berkeley richmond in the mid 70s today. Temperatures in the north bay also up just one to 2 degrees from where we were yesterday and then those 60s hanging on at the coast in boston, some beach and point rays today as for next 7 days daytime highs looking pretty good inland. We can handle some low to mid 80s for sure tomorrow is actually going to be the coolest one of this forecast all across the bay area as for bayside areas also just a subtle cooldown tomorrow for your friday temperatures back in the low 70s on average saturday and sunday for both halloween and well that extra hours sleep youre going to get on sunday which is its own holiday looking really nice we do fall back an hour on sunday which was the whole reason why we have that extra hour. Robin hey lets check back in on mass transit bart is recovering from an earlier delay which was major up to 20 minutes now were down to 10 minutes so they have some equipment problems on one particular train that sort of threw off the schedule saw 10 minute delays on the San Francisco line heading in the millbrae direction once again earlier issues so make sure you plan ahead, but at least its not major in 20 minutes anymore, its Getting Better here at the bay bridge toll plaza were doing fine a lot of folks. Are not working today because normally we have a big backup thats bill through the maze but its just not happening right now so easy going nice and smooth 14 minutes for your driving off to fremont street one oh one looks a lot better so we had a major crash southbound at them or in city offramp that was blocking 4 lanes in that really pushed up your drive time and now its back on time at 21 minutes nevado to the toll plaza a little busy across the san mateo bridge but a goodlooking trip so far no issues 15 minutes from Hayward Office and the tail back to you. Thanks a lot of 7. 53 and coming up in the 8 oclock we do the morning buzz. The fortyniners play their divisional rivals the seahawks on sunday. Well hear what coach and he thinks about the matchup. Woman after covid, my hours got cut. 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. 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Beautiful view across the bay at downtown San Francisco to this morning now as we work our way through the day youll notice a lot of similarities today as compared to yesterday first of all calm winds from the morning on into the afternoon ahead of us abundant sunshine on top of that. And its another chilly start to what will be a mild day right now were in the 40s and 50s for current temperatures alameda at