Headed to the scene of this incident and we will bring you more in 4 mation as it becomes available through the night tonight, another big story were following tonight at 6 businesses are boarding up across the nation preparing for. On ras protests, possible looting even possible riots this as we are less than 24 hours away from election day this is video youre looking at now from San Francisco, los angeles and washington dc where you can see many storefronts are boarded up with plywood kron fours terisa is live in San Franciscos union square tonight, she has more on the preparations there theresa. And it really is a remarkable sight to see take a look behind me that is the board weston Saint Francis n going on i stood on the corner and looked back and down the street at numerous businesses. Theyre now all boarded up i spoke with a representative from the chamber of commerce about what he is hearing from local Business Owners. Yeah, absolutely and you can imagine businesses, Small BusinessesBusiness Owners are very anxious about tomorrow and the results of the president ial election and peoples reaction to it, no emotions are running high. Its been a difficult year. Its been a difficult election season. And were afraid that things go the wrong way or people are unhappy with the results that they may take it out on businesses and windows each window smash windows is usually thousands of dollars and if you have been paying rent for the last 9 months or you have been getting income for the last 9 months a couple 1000 is what well send you over the class. Heres a look at even more businesses often union square and down the street jay says that he and others have never seen and kind of action like this here in the city, but then he remarked that we have never seen your like 2020 before so there really as far as the eye can see out here around Union Square Business is all tearing off protecting themselves just in case of what could happen. Reporting there in San Francisco, theresa stasi it back to you guys certainly sounds pretty busy and active there thank you to reset federal authorities placed a fence around the entire perimeter of the white house today as. They prepare for possible protests this week want to show you some pictures of the fence located near Lafayette Square which is just north of the white house a popular place for protests. The secret service is not commenting on this action during the past summer some businesses near the white house saw their windows smashed another property damaged by protesters. Last week washington dc the seam mayor muriel bows are issued parking restrictions and road closures around the white house for november, 3rd tomorrow and Law Enforcement around california all on standby for possible electionrelated protest. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains how theyre getting ready. Metal barricades and caution tape surrounded the California State Capitol monday, the state Highway Patrol is denying any permits to demonstrate around the building this week. Pulling into the eastern side of the building monday afternoon sets of portable security lights. 3 of them set up near the exterior of the Governors Office state leaders and Law Enforcement agencies are preparing for possible protests this week based on the outcome of the election the california Highway Patrol is on tactical alert. Statewide this week. A spokesperson monday didnt get into specifics, but said the agency has officers available to respond to any incident and that chp will continue to monitor the situation and plan resources accordingly as some states request help from the National Guard ahead of election day a spokesperson for the Governors Office of Emergency Services says there are no plans to do that for now in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Election offices across the state have already received more than 11 million mail in ballots with more to come that is historic especially when you consider during the 2016 president ial election. Just 8. 4 million votes by mail were cast. Among the spots which could see a historic turnout locally San Francisco. Thats where we find kron fours dan kerman he joins us live from the citys outdoor Voting Center at Civic Center Plaza dan. Thats right and the after a Voting Center you can see behind me is the white tent behind me behind at the bill graham Civic Auditorium in red white and blue which is where all of the votes will be process this year and are being processed right now already 300,000 plus ballots. So far a record 322,000 ballots have been filled out and are now being processed at San Franciscos department of elections. That 62 of registered voters. Know theres ever been a point where weve had as many votes cast before election day. With more ballots being dropped off monday and those voting in person on election day Election Officials are expecting a turnout in the 80 percentile, but its unclear if it will break a record. And in 1956 in 1960 those are the highest election turnouts that i can find those are 86 so really you know were looking at ideally something between the 8186 and hopefully something beyond 86 for tomorrow monday voters were still dropping off mail in ballots in person im not totally comfortable mailing it since. All the issues ive heard with with the u. S. Post office so i just feel more comfortable dropping it off so i can track it in. It just seemed easier and it got me out of the house too. For many this is the most important election of their lifetime did next is very important to be because. You know its about time we did some voting. And we get the right thing we need someone in there who is going to take care of job when the polls close at a tuesday evening. Those 300,000 ballots received prior to monday morning. Will be the first to be tabulated with early results coming by 8. 45. And while the number will be significant. Election Officials Say it wont be final because the rule still be so many more ballots to count. Now we can tell you that Election Officials are reminding us that they will count mail in ballots received after election day. But they must have that tuesday postmark i live in Civic Center Plaza dan kerman kron 4 news stand. Thank you very much in the east bay about 60 of registered voters have already cast their ballots in Contra Costa County. And the county clerk recorder at the Registrars Office is taking steps to boost voter confidence it. Those ballots will be accurately counted and secure from any would be hackers kron fours Haaziq Madyun has the story. Youre looking at Contra Costa Countys central accounting voting equipment. These are machines that will be responsible for counting over 80 of the ballots cast in the 2020 president ial election. So it takes is a about 5 or 6 weeks actually test all of our pieces of equipment the testing is part of the countys clerk recorder registrars effort to engender voter confidence it involves scanning 16,000 ballots into the central voting equipment assistant registrar of voters got cano past 6 as the programs logic is designed to detect a host of potential voter error is like for example selecting both president ial candidates. He says the program can also find ballots that have been submitted twice the testing results. Is it 100 . Was a 100 we would proceed. Thats the whole point is to demonstrate to the public. That is 100 people dont give us latitude of any margin of error in elections. We have to be spot on every time. He says the vote tally is 100 accurate and secure from any potential hackers because the Computer Program does not have an Internet Connection there are additional security protocols for the election staff counsel people. Who access to that room. And its alarmed theres cameras theres a 2 person rule 2 people have to be in at all times so im very confident in saying, nobodys going to have our vote. Officials at the clerk recorder registrars when it is time to upload the actual election results. It will be done using a highly secure election reporting system. Another boost for voter confidence in Contra Costa CountyHaaziq Madyun kron 4 news. If you have any last minute questions or problems casting your ballot. Let us know well investigate you can email us at voting problems at kron 4 dot com. Now to our 4 zone forecast. Yeah, our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow says things are going to start to cool off by the end of the league lawrence finally a really feel like fall was a drop in the temperatures going to be the temperatures. Going to come down a good 20 degrees. As we head to friday. So big changes coming our way High Pressure still overhead it start to break down a little bit were going to see that ridge breakdown more so still youve got skies that are 5 dealing filling up with clouds along the coastline now well see more of that on the way overnight tonight. Air quality has taken a hit today, yellow you can see around much of the bay area moderate amounts of plumes again some smoke from the sierra fires working their way back in our direction still weve had a very nice day temperatures running above the average for this time of year. All this is going to come to that i think we go from above average per probably well below average throughout the weekend low cloud and fog likely to feel inside the bay tonight, maybe in the some of the valleys too so we wake up some clouds early on thats a sign of a change temperatures going to come down a little bit for tomorrow as well still were left some 70s couple low 80s in the warmer spots well inland overnight lows are going to be chilly though plan on some low 40s in the north bay and parts of the east bay too otherwise cool way to the coastline by day tomorrow, though youve got a lot of sunshine coming your way were up in the 70s the low 80s inland lot of 60s and 70s inside the bay and 50s 60s out toward the coast next couple days though big change in the weather coming High Pressure kind of scoots out of the way even a slight chance we could see a few showers moving to the bay area but that probably is it going to be until sunday until then been left weve got some much Colder Weather coming our direction all right lawrence thank you coming up at 6 across the country voting in record numbers how People Living in Santa Clara County are set to break early voting record numbers in bexar county must tempers flare in the north bay, a pro trump car rally is met with counterprotesters in marine city. And anger erupts on both sides and we have the latest on what both president ial candidates are doing the day before the election after the break a live report from washington dc with the latest on President Trump. Welcome back all the votes are being counted tomorrow President Trump plans to spend Election Night at the white house to watch the results come in and we go live now to our washington dc correspondent jessi eaton or this evening we want to ask few questions of her first of all of course it was a full day of campaigning on both sides of the political aisle. What are you sensing from the Trump Campaign in terms of the mood. With the polls, not necessarily in the president s favor across the country. Yeah good evening, a lot that you can tell from an election especially from the last day of campaigning and thats certainly no exception here when you look at these battleground states that both President Trump and biden have been visiting today. And yeah like you said it really the Trump Campaign is really feeling that page when you look at the general consensus from the latest polls. It shows biden in the lead even if narrowly in all of these battleground states that hes going to today, hes even making 2 stops in michigan which the president won narrowly in 2016 and so hes ending the campaign. The exact same way that he did 4 years ago in grand rapids, michigan. But what weve been seeing is that a lot has changed over 4 years looking at this the poll now says showing that you know the worlds suburban white voters arent as supportive of the president as they were 4 years ago and that biden has been able to capture more of that and so with these rallies today theres last finale day of campaigning, maybe potentially the rally we could see. He President Trump is really trying to shore up that support of the first time voters and voters who just havent voted in a while. We just talked to Jesse Alexander le mon in wilmington delaware talking about the Biden Campaign and she said that they felt relatively optimistic about how things are going on this election eve. And im just curious if you had a chance to talk with any of the Trump Campaign folks about how theyre feeling are they confident that they can pull this with their path to victory here. President Trumps Campaign has definitely still been optimistic even you know looking at the polls they just keep going back to 2016 even though a lot has changed since then even throw pandemic on top of it. Theyre so you know really pointing to the fact that polls can of course be wrong. Especially when you have such a historic turnout like weve seen too because of the pandemic. So we of course have seen some preelection some different acts of vandalism and tussles between both sides across the nation says the white house talking about those kinds of outbreaks at all especially because hes the been the one talking about if he doesnt win then its a fraud. Yeah, the white house has made mention of that a little bit and even if you walk by the white house you can see different precautions that are being made theres major fencing going up definitely more than usual and really the city of dc has been boarded up as well usually its a very vibrant praise place to go every 4 years for total for the president ial election to watch the results roll in but its really now kind of more of a ghost town which the pandemic could also you know not helping with very but also to the fact that they are expecting potential violence here in the Nations Capital and jesse real quick, i guess that would the reaction to the results of the election or waiting for the results of the election. The election itself tomorrow. Theres been talk about know some intimidation tactics that might be used in those kinds of things anything from the Trump Campaign about how theyre expecting tomorrows election to go at the polls. Yeah, definitely theyre expecting a great turnout thats what weve been hearing from the Trump Campaign this entire time is that really election day would be the day that they would see from their the most turnout as far as supporters go up until this point President Trump has really been casting major doubt on the process of mail in ballots, even though we have seen historic numbers from both sides. Turnout in this election. So far. But yeah theyre really saying that those major numbers are going to start rolling in for President Trump tomorrow night on the actual election day and thats why its really important to remind people that even if the president would say that he potentially won the election or that hes winning the election is that still you know theres a lot of votes to have to be counted and some states are even able to count that count them days after election day. Jesse to know reporting live from the Nations Capital for us thank you so much for your update on whats happening with the Trump Campaign. Its going to be and tomorrow if youre going to be out and whats talk about the weather for tomorrow. Looking live at the Golden Gate Bridge in our chief meteorologist standing by says the weather should be beautiful locally right yeah, no rain in the forecast around the bay area. No reason not to go up vote if you can as were expecting another Beautiful Day around the bay area but not for long boy weve got some major changes coming our direction well show you right here longrange forecasts call for much cooler weather maybe we start to talk about some rain drops. Finally make a return to the bay area afternoon entirely dry. Month of october but here we go a long way forecast you front off the coastline in green right here this front approaches the coach runs right to that ridge and start to fall apart. Now thats kind of been the case here but the good news is now is this ridge is starting to move a after the storms one after another kind a batter the top of that ridge eventually is moving it further to the east kind of flattening out a bit and thats going to set the stage for friday now on friday. Thats when we expect a major change in the weather pattern you see this dropping into the bay area bringing with it may be a chance of a few scattered showers over the mountain top but more importantly some much colder air this coming right down from the gulf of alaska some snow across the Sierra Nevada certainly patchy out there but then opens the door for another one right behind it another very cold system not holding a ton of moisture with but certainly bringing a chance of some scattered showers into sunday snow up in the Sierra Nevada behind that guess what but can leave the door open for more so thats probably the most important thing is were seeing a major change in the weather pattern overall as High Pressure finally begins to move out of the way outside right now tonight, we got some patchy fog moving in along the coastline, otherwise kind of a quiet night out there and you see the clouds from the next cold front just off the coastline approaching the bay area right now but i think for tonight, well look at the mostly clear skies in london that patchy fog is going to start to roll inside the bay and also along the coastline tomorrow morning clouds giving way to sunshine in the afternoon. And then as we head toward the weekend much cooler temperatures that some of these numbers probably going to drop a good 20 degrees. So instead of talking about highs in the upper 70s low 80s. Were talking about the 50s maybe the low 60. So thats a major change coming our way numbers around the bay area lot of 70s couple 80s for tomorrow though lot of 60s and 50s out toward the coastline and looking out over the next few days. Yeah, were going to see major change in weather enjoy the nyse last few days, warm weather we have after that what what a snap were going to see in the weather as the temperatures really going to drop even a chance of rain in the forecast possibly on sunday all right, thank you lawrence coming up tonight at 6. 45 the battle between President Trump and Infectious Disease expert doctor anthony fauci. Continues to escalate this with the president threatening to fire fauci as a nation surpasses 231,000 covid19 deaths People Living in Santa Clara County racy to the polls, new numbers reveal 60 of residents there have already returned their ballots. We have details after the break. With triple cheese and bacon or chili cheese. Try my sauced and loaded fries. Its pretty delicious. Seasoned curly fries, with triple cheese and bacon or chili cheese. Try my sauced and loaded fries. Its pretty delicious. 2 thirds of the more than 1 million ballots mailed to voters have already been returned in Santa Clara County. As kron fours rob fladeboe reports now the 2020 election appears to be headed for the record books. I just last friday, another 130,000 ballots have been returned. Many of them dropped off in person like this here outside the registrar of Voters Office on burger drive of just over a million ballots mailed out to voters roughly 617,000 have now been returned since saturday when 100 vote centers open across the county. Another 14,000 people cast their ballots in person were about 60 that have been returned already an hour. Voters are familiar with the vote by mail process they did this in march. Theyre doing it for this election i think everyones excited all the early voting means the folks doing all the processing and counting of those ballots behind the scenes of had a bit of a head start that should help the registrar make available some significant results, but the time the polls close at 08 00pm tuesday. So far the number of ballots return is twice what it was this time 4 years ago amid obvious enthusiasm for the people to be heard. Where now they day they are aware of what voting means to people hopefully now. Was always an honor when i was started out in 18 years old now. They got away from that now people start to realize how important voting is well theres a very large amount of divisiveness and we want to make sure that our voices are heard. And its not clear its a very close election right and its very divided so its really important and we get out and vote another record sure to fall is the 724,000 votes cast in the last president ial election back in 2016. Those missing the october 19th deadline to register to vote can still show up and request a conditional ballot. For those voting at the last minute be advised, you must be in line. No later than 08 00pm if we have to cut the lineup and it takes until. 1 oclock in the morning, youre still going to devote just get in line by 8 oclock. In san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. And if you want to find out where you can drop off your ballot just head to our website kron 4 dot com there you can find a map of ballot box locations as well as the times for when your ballot can be dropped off. Well up next its still not too late to register to vote in california. What you should know about showing up to the polls on election day plus if youre feeling a little anxiety ahead of election day you are not alone the things you can do to alleviate some of the stress this weekend tempers flare at a Shopping Center in the north bay after a trump car caravan rolls into 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 . 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