Credible threats of violence on election day. Given the emotions surrounding this years election they are overly cautious. An unsetting sight on union square. Windows covered with play wood as concerns grow of civil unrest on elect night. Stores, its unusual, i wouldnt expect this in this neighborhood. Were hoping for the best but were preparing for every cob tin jenny. Union square falls in the supervisors district. Police have not said to board up many dont want to take chances to protect their property and merchandise. Its easier to put up plywood than loose a window. Reporter on Mission Street the ground floor windows on the sales force are boarded up. Back in may and june, 37 businesses had broken windows and San Franciscos downtown areas during protests over George Floyds death. Every Police Officer in San Francisco will be on duty. Canceling all vacation thats for the next two weeks. I dont necessarily expect too much to happen, were brand new, it like insurance for us. Reporter in oakland the owner of daughters a diner will board the business on monday on the recommendation of the county health inspector. Just another curveball. Its less to do it than to undo anything that actually happens. Reporter that Restaurant Owner in oakland will have plywood up for a week. Longer if necessary. The city of Beverly Hills is spending 5000000 to beef up security. Businesses on rodeo drive boarded up windowes. It will be closed to cars and pedestrians from midnight tomorrow through 11 59 on wednesday. Theres an additional 80 security officers. Theres extra patrols. A Business Owner doesnt know what to expect but he wants to be prepared. You dont need to hit your anger out, especially on a local business. Its not right to do that. The new York Police Department has advised stores and restaurants to prepare desirable security measures. They will have staffing measuring similar to other big events. New zealand is warning citizen visiting the u. S. To avoid areas where violence may occur. The potential for heavy police and National Guard presence and officers may use rubber bullets and pepper spray. Bay area voters continue to vote today. More on this last minute push to the polls. Reporter early voting is underway with polling places open. One is the civic center in san rafael. Typically our polling places are only open on voting day. Its will be interesting to see how used this option is. She expects record turnout. 122,000 vote by mail ballots have been collected. A steady stream of cars were seen at the drop box. This is more important than anything by have soon. Its important for our voice to count. Barbara lee said every vote is cast and counted. This includes staying in contact with the post office. Having Kamala Harris on the democratic ticket adds excitement. This is a remarkable historical moment to have a Vice President ial candidate from oakland, california to be on the ticket as Vice President. People are excited. Political science professor called 2020 the picture on the election with the pandemic changing the politics. This has been framed by the pandemic, by protests, the recession and how President Trump has conducted himself in office. This has created an election we have not seen. Theres a rise in first time voters which is a big deal. You can vote in person or mail until election day. Vote by mail ballots must and postmarked by november 3. Voters in california have shattered early voting records, 22 million are registered to vote in california. All voters got a ballot in the mail as the effort to encourage people to vote remotely. 9. 4 million have returned their ballotth. Thats almost 2 3 of all the volts that californians cast in the 2069 president ial election. President trump and joe biden continue their Campaign Schedules working to sway last minute voters. What are they focusing on. Reporter with hours left to go in the 2020 campaign the Biden Campaign is using the cash advantage on an ad blitz. Black lives matter, period. Some have expressed concern about enthusiasm for biden among voters of color. As my late friend john lewis reminded us, freedom is not a state. Freedom is an act. We have to defend it, we have to vote. This is the most important election of our lifetime. The two candidates have spent more than 1 billion on tv ads. President trump has been keeping up a rapid schedule visiting five states on sunday hoping the large crowds will translate to votes. In 2016 michigan voted to fire the establishment and elected an outsider as your president whos putting america first. Reporter after an election that saw a record mail in ballot. President trump will have seven more rallies on monday. Joe biden heads to cleveland. The negotiate was in nevada campaigning for joe biden and Kamala Harris. He showed this picture with two more days, lets bring this over the finish line. The f. B. I. Is investigating an incident on a texas highway where a campaign bus for biden was almost run off the road. An official said 100 vehicles displaying trump signs surrounded the bus and tried to run it off the road. As a Precaution Campaign managers canceled the event they were heading to. Yesterday President Trump tweeted the incident with the words i love texas. Walk the vote is holding a socially distance parade on tuesday. Voters will walk from fort mason in San Francisco to an ebola voting site. That moons you can skip long voting lines and reach the ballot box. Its a fun way for the community toe practice safe voting. What were doing with walk the vote is providing a safe and effective means of making sure your vote is counted. The parade will have people distanced by 6 feet. Its effective because you make sure you place your vote in an official ballot box. Organizers say the walk is five minutes from fort mason. Sign up at ktvu. Com and click on web links. A few things to remember, if you plan to mail your ballot it has to be postmarked by november 3 to be counted. You can drop it off at designated locations between now and tuesday at 8 00 p. M. Early in person voting is underway statewide. Check your county locations. If you wait until election day, theres fewer in person polling locations and they close at 8 00. Our coverage on Election Night begins at 4 00 in the afternoon. Well be on through 11 30 updating you with the latest results. You will find results on ktvu. Com. Around the bay area, seniors are going hungry as the pandemic makes it hard to afford groceries. We had a record high in the bay area. Well talk about that and what you can expect for the rest of the week. Another tradition falls victim to the coronavirus. How the cancellation of the chinese new years parade will impact the city. These tax cheats avoid millions in taxes on vacation homes and coastal mansions depriving our schools. Prop 19 closes this unfair loophole thats been exploited by an elite few and helps our schools, firefighters, and seniors. Vote yes on prop 19. Tell them [record scratch] the partys over. 4500 new cases of the coronavirus for 926,000. 41 new deaths for a total of 17,000. In the bay area theres 558 new cases for 117,000 and two new deaths bringing the toll to 1700. The death toll continues to rise at california state prisons. 80 an inmate died as did an inmate at the California Institution for men. The names have not been released. 80 have died since the pandemic began and 16,000 continue if imed cases in the california prison system. It is a San Francisco tradition that one International Association called one of the top 10 parades of the world as the virus was starting to enter the u. S. Crippled attendance of the parade and next year the organizers decided to cancel. This team of lion dancers in chinatown is practicing to stay ready for any performance. They were going to participate in the parade in facebook but they wont get a chance due to the cancellation. Because of covid all our lives have changed and gatherings have been canceled. Its sad to not have the parade. This is bad for us, chinese running for the new year parade for 70 years never stopped. In past years the parade attracted more than 1 million visitors. The Chinese Chamber of commerce organizes the parade. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. If we got ready and the city says stop it, we have to lose 800,000. Loss is something they have experienced a hot. The parade is a boost for business but the pandemic has been painful and the cancellation will be a blow. The business almost 90 gone. No people. The parade will have a virtual presence. Will be a Little Something rather than nothing giving the dance team a little bit of hope they can highlight their culture. Were supposed to submit a one minute and three minute video. Organizers dont know what this virtual version will look like. Were a broadcast partner and will air to celebrate the year of the ox. The city of San Francisco will move more than 500 Homeless People out of the hotel rooms beginning tomorrow morning but theres no clear plan on where they will live next. Several hotels that have been housing the homeless are expected to close by the end of the year and homeless add very cats are concerned people may end up back on the street. San francisco saw the lowest decrease since april. Declining 1. 1 . Oakland had the largest one bed room decrease. Still San Francisco, oakland and san jose are among the top 10 most expensive rental markets in the country. You noticed smoke in the bay area. Air quality that was less than perfect. Central valley had orange. This is the current air quality status. See the jellos yetos. That smoke is with the easterly wind. Winds are supposed to do a similar thing tomorrow. Its not horrible but its not what you expect. As we look forward, well look at air quality probably in the moderate to light range, yellows and greens, especially on wednesday and thursday. These are the high temperatures today. A record in gilroy. That was a record there. 70s, 77 in hayward, 74 in fremont, tomorrow, pretty much the same deal. Temperatures will be like these. Coast may be warmer. Had fog at the coast this morning. Red in the atmosphere. In the Central Valley they have air quality alert for the smoke but we do not. When i come back well look at the forecast. Were not looking at harsh weather other than the smoke. Ill see you back here after the break. A Mountain Lion found with burn injuries has been released back into the wild. It was in the care of Staff Members of the u. C. Davis school of veterinary medicine for the last month. Officials say they were suffered during the bobcat fire. U. C. Davis scared for two black bears. The latest surge in the coronavirus. How the spike could affect the election on tuesday. Well hear from the 49ers as more and more of the players are injured. A deadly shooting in the south bay, the latest on the investigation as san jose sees the 37th killing this year. Need to find the closest official ballot drop box near you . 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. 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. Homicide investigators are searching for clues in a shooting. It was in the south bay on north 13th street not far from 680 and highway 101. It is the citys 37th homicide this year. San jose mess have released few details but the shooting occurred sunday morning. They located one adult male victim. He died at the scene. Police set up a perimeter around north 13th street and the crime team set out most of sunday morning. One neighbor noticed Police Activity first at empire and 13th street. I got woken up after 10 00, 11 00. Thats all i can remember. I heard helicopters and announcements from the helicopters which is not something thats necessarily unusual. Thats something ive heard through the summer between the protesting and some of the other stuff. Reporter its not confirmed if the activity last night is respected to the shooting. Theres no suspects identified or apprehended. This marks the 11th homicide in san jose this year. All four will appear at a Candidates Forum at 6 30 on november 5. The Police Collision commission is hosting the forum. The mayor can select one of the four for the job. Susan mannheimer is under contract until december. Nearly 1 million seniors dont know where their next meal will come from. The efforts to help to growing problem. An apology from the president s pandemic adviser. A nation wide surge in covid cases are leading to extra precautions at the ballot box. Todays ways of working, may work differently tomorrow. But you can work out anything with comcast business. Get fast, reliable, and secure internet on the nations largest gig speed network. Flexible tools like wifi you control. Voice solutions that connect you from anywhere. And expert advice here, here, or even here. Be fast. Be flexible. Bounce forward with comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Plus, for a limited time, ask how to get a 300 prepaid card. Call or go online today. Many seniors are struggling to get food on the table. Some could starve if they didnt get help. Well look at efforts to help the seniors stay sustained. Packed with care, these brown bags of essentials will be sent off the bay area seniors. I dont like hunger, this is something i can go to help that. Food insecurity is rising. Have limited income, you can only get so much. Volunteers are busy. Have to move fast. I love that. Great people. It checks all the boxes. This is where the magic happens of making the bags that are delivered to the homes of low income seniors. A couple how to are loaded up every other week. Its a lifeline. How are you doing today. Thank you, thank you, thank you. With a pandemic and without human interaction. This 92 will tell you times are tough. Depression sets in. Especially at my age. How am i identity going to meet the bills. One thing thats speeding up getting seniors on food stamps. Only one in five older eligible californians participate. Its far too complicated. The california good policy advocats push the state to step up and help. Star having seniors dont have to complete a report to get food stamps. Picking up on need for nutrition among our iller. Its important. Many have a low income and high cost of living. Its knowing whats out there and available. Do you feel forgotten . Fixing that with free food and a side of smiles. Theres my cheese to go with the bagels. Thank you. It feels rewarding knowing you had representing something. It brings me joy to help people. A Research Institute at u. C. Berkeley is facing closure in the spring. The impending closure comes as cal is facing 240 million loss in revenue because of the coronavirus. The Research Institute at cal was the first in the u. C. System devoted to the study of race and societial change. 18 states have set new highs for the coronavirus in a single day. In the u. S. 9 million tested positive. 230,000 died. 80,000 new cases per day. Health officials in new york are preparing for a potential increase in hospitalizations after 37,000 new infections in october. Facilities are taking on new measures. A lot of things we have in place now make us believe we wont see something as bad is we know the virus is out there, people are taking precautions, is wearing masks. 45 people a day was admitted to new york City Hospitals in october and many have increased the number of icu rooms. The surge could affect the election. The virus is creating issues for poll workers and voters trying to cast their ballots. Hospitals are gearing up for what could be a new wave of coronavirus with two dozen stats reporting their worse weeks, the numbers are trending upwards many factors have chacked. If we have universal wearing of masks, physical distancing and doing things more indoors versus outdoors, we dont have to accept the inever stability of the major surges. Infection is higher among younger people. They could spread it to others. Its unlikely that children will die from this, its likely they will give it to others in the family. The surge has been a concern for polling locations in the final days of the election. Several are distributing face masks and gloves. For those voting in person now i believe its safe. The ppe is in good shape. Making sure that people stand 6 feet apart, clerks are ready. I feel this election can go off in a really safeway. Avoiding the crowded polling locations is one moat investigation forecasting the balloting early. In an interview scott atlas said that coronavirus lockdowns in the u. S. Were a failure of public policy. He regrets doing the interview and apologizes for being take advantage of. He has no background in infection disease. Cruise ships could be setting sail in the united states. A win for the industry. And the forecast after the break, well see a warmup, a cool down and a little bit of smoke. And buries alive, the rescue in turkey, crews saved a man buried in rubble for 33 hours. 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. Prince william tested positive for the coronavirus in april but kept it secret. Palace officials refused to comment but the duck was hit hard. He struggled to breathe. The 38yearold caught the virus days after his father tested positive. In spain people lashed out at police and stores amid the latest lockdown. The video shows protesters throwing drain covers and stones at a store. Looters stole the items inside. Riot identifies pelted police. The coronavirus emergency is expected to last through early may have next year with localities able to determine curfews and limited travel. A one month lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. It will go into effect at midnight on thursday. Pubs and gyms will close but schools will remain open. Uk is averaging 20,000 new infections a day. Government leaders indicate that it could be extended beyond early december. France and germany have similar lockdowns. British health regulators have a review of the coronavirus review. Johnson johnson and moderna have candidates in the late stages of develop. In turkey a man buried for 33 hours has been rescued. Rescue teams pulled the man to safety. They carefully navigated around a large piece of concrete and put a neck brace on the man. He was one of dozens trapped after a 7. 0 earthquake hit turkey and greece. 40 people were killed in the earthquake including more than 35 in turkey. Still to come, the Campaign Underway to help struggling restaurants and employees. Is the warm weather here to stay . The forecast after the break. 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. Thats not true were all going to pay. 11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to Small Businesses and farms. Theyll raise prices. Higher gas, health care, food. Even day care. We cant make ends meet now. Families cant afford 15. No on prop 15. Johns grill in San Francisco hosted a fashion show fundraiser outside of the restaurant. The restaurant received a city permit to close ellis street before the event. Both guests and models were required to wear masks. It raised money for the Coronavirus Response fund. An effort is underway to help restaurants that are struggling. The grateful table dine out. It is aimed at helping restaurant workers. In business for five yours fox and goose has seen ups and downs but not like 2020. Really encouraging people on the show up for the restaurant. With Indoor Dining only allowed at a 25 capacity. A new program is hoping to provide support to the Restaurant Owners and to the workers. This is benefiting the restaurant cares relief fund. It is providing rent assistance, utility assistance. Buying groceries, diapers, clothing, it is supplementing whats happening in the industry. Restaurants are operating at a lower capacity. Were fighting the fight. Providing people with in our case healthy food. At the vibe in oak park it is down 35 . They hope it will bring in more customers. This hips out the local business and restaurant workers, things slow down in the winter normally, with the pandemic were looking at lower than usual. Not everyone feels comfortable dining in but theres other options. And its dine out, carry out curb side, deliverery. Our community is support ive, were encouraging people to remember when you have holidays, you are thinking about christmas and thanksgiving, to remember to support, come out and get a meal at a local restaurant. In sacramento. Cruise ships sailing out of u. S. Ports but with restrictions. The new sailing order began today. U. S. Cruise liners have been docked for nearly eight months. To resume the trips the cruise lines have to prover think have protocols in place to deep passengers safe and healthy. People traveling to new york have to get tested for the coronavirus before and after they arrive in the state. The new rules were announced yesterday. They have to test negative within three days before to arrive. Once in new york they have to quarantine for three days and take another test on the fourth day. Were looking at the city tonight, the whole bay area, we have smokeout there, the air quality in the yellow zone for many. Some in the orange. None was horrible, but it wasnt pfs. Tomorrow well see more of that. Not good for us. I think tomorrow will be like that. If it was bothersome today it will be bothersome tomorrow. The low pressure, the clockwise rotation. You can see those and say thats a low, thats a high. You see where the high is. Its powerful, its not budging, going over the top and down, i talked about this last week. Some could undercut it. Theres a chance as we get into the next week we could see something underneath it. Nothing is showing that right now. That could happen and bring us rain. Right now its not in the five day. Fog along the coast, its pushed back. Overnight lows will be warmer than the last cup will nights. Weve had cool nights. Well be in the 40s. Flue in santa rosa. We had frost in parts of the bay area as you know. We could see frost tomorrow morning as well. Over all, not as cold as it has been. This is the San Francisco forecast tomorrow, clearing, maybe patchy coastal fog, 77 for a daytime high in San Francisco. Theres the fog. Pushes the fog away from the coast. Theres fog at half moon bay. 70s, low 80s tomorrow. 86 in fairfield. 83 in brentwood. Gilroy today 91. Tomorrow it will be 88 degrees. The five day forecast, good thing is i popped the weekend in. Were not looking at any wind conditions or red flag potential. This six day period looks like we should be in good shape a fall pattern with cooling on saturday and sunday. In lafayette a small group of student artist got together. The students say the idea behind the mural is to demonstrate hope and teamwork. A teacher and local gallery owner helped with the project. It is being filmed as a documentary for the arts and culture commission. Coming up in sports, the raiders look for the third win on the road as they battle the browns. On the 11 00 news the latest on the election, the thousands that cast their ballots this weekend. You can sleep through the game of the year. Tv this is the greatest play ive ever seen whatd i miss . But you cant sleep through my breakfast. Because its served all day, every day thanks, jack. Try my 4. 99 french toast sticks jumbo breakfast platter. Part of my all day, everyday breakfast. Asof being stretched too thinar to do my job right. Try my 4. 99 french toast sticks jumbo breakfast platter. 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 evening, in sports its a tough call if the 49ers were pad or had a chance to win if they didnt it in key mistakes. The assumption was jimmy was healthy. Wed like to have this throw back. Intercepted. That was two drivers into seattle territory. It resulted in nothing. That lit a fire for what had been a sputtering seahawks defense. Wilson to metcalfe. Turns into a scoring play. The seahawks missed the extra point. 49ers answer with a drive. Hasting fights for a tough yard. Just stretches the ball across. The Seahawks Wentz back in front. Metcalfe is a tough cover for anyone. It was 136 s. A. T. El. 12 catches, 161 yards. The seahawks on the first possession of the second half. Pettis has fallen out of favors, gave him a shot as a returner. He was banged up on the play. Ended up being decided in overtime. Will lutz hit a field goal for the saints. The saints are 52. And thats car under the lights before the final four for the championship. 44 laps to go, elliott battling truex for the lead. Elliott won. Hes one of the four drivers wholl race for it. Kyle busch and Kevin Harvick are battling for position. That keeps harvick out of the final four. Four are elliott. Hamlin and logano. Thats it for now. See you at 11 30. Thank you. Coming up next. Doing this safely and in a way to get your voice heard is legally important. Bay area voters are casting the ballots early as we hit the home stretch. Across the country voters are turning out in record numbers. Alyssa harrington is how people are taking advantage of early voting sites. Reporter early voting is underway with polling places open for people who want to vote in person. The marine county civic center. This is unchartered territory for us. It will be interesting to