One possible snag. The signature test. Its something all ballots must go through, especially right now as mailin ballots pour in by the millions to election offices. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. In the 2018 general election nearly 23,000 mailin ballots were rejected across the bay area. The big three mistakes, no signature on the ballot or envelope, signature doesnt match Voter Registration card, or ballot isnt returned in time. As President Trump erroneously claims that mailin ballots are not reliable, we wanted to look at the verification process, especially the signatures. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman is on the story. Reporter youre looking at the largest early voter turnout in marin county history with more than 100,000 ballots cast already. Thats more than half the registered voters. Panner lowe was one of them today but after talking with us she did have some questions. Are you worried . Well, now i am. Reporter and all because of he
At live doppler 7. You can see cloud cover around the bay area and not a lot of dense fog. In the east bay, we have 60 over in danville and closer to the bay numbers are in the low 5s, ro air quality moderate in the north bay today and tomorrow but the rest of you enjoying pretty good air quality. It was pretty nice yesterday, wasnt it . Today is the beginning of fall and you equinox. Were feeling like fall. In fact, temperatures climbing through the 70s bys highs and 60s at the coast. Thank you, lisa. Were expecting to get an update on the fall learning plan as experts give Distance Learning disappointing marks. Education is one thing were focused on to build a better bay area. Amy hollyfield is live in the Marina District with more on this. Amy . All right. Looks like were having some issues hearing amy and well get back to that update with San Francisco schools in just a moment. First, we want to tell you about more counties expected to move up to the next level in californias reope
Bay area as well creating more moderate air. Right now its the lack of fog and warm temperatures. 69 in oakland. 66 in santa rosa. Were in the 70s in concord. 70 in livermore. 85 in los gatos. Half moon bay 55 degrees. Compared to yesterday, already 6 to 12 degrees of warming, that sun comes up at 6 44, thats important because we get our coolest temperatures about an hour after sunrise. We have about another two hours of cooling to go to lose maybe a degree or two. After that, numbers coming up. Good air quality so far for the most part, except for fremont and down by santa cruz, where it is moderate and of course our excessive heat warnings continues until 9 00 tomorrow with our heat advisory along the coast and once again, we are looking at potential records so a spare the air alert today, poor air quality inland and south bay, by 9 00, well into the 80s. Look at 1 00, we are 107 san ramon. How about 109 in gilroy, by 5 00 and well look for another very toasty day for labor day. Well
Im liz kreutz. Today is the 20th straight spare the air alert for the bay area and lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at what we can expect today. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. Hi, everyone. More sizzling temperatures, certainly records will be shattered. We look at live doppler 7, nothing to speak about here. As we widen the view, thats a Lightning Strike just north of shaver lake from the fire there, the creek fire. Those pyro cumulus clouds high in the atmosphere creating their own weather and you can see the smoke by reno there, looking at some very poor air quality in the mountains. Our air quality expected to go down as well. 67 san mateo. It is 78 in daly city. 55 Half Moon Bay with 70s in san rafael. 60s in the north bay. Low 70s in the south bay. 7 to 12 degrees warmer than yesterday at this our. Air quality in the moderate category for most and looking at some of that smoke to drift into the bay area on some lighter winds. Excessive heat warning u
Stronger onshore flows. Theres fog out there. In fact, theres a dense fog advisory along the shoreline this morning, and as a result very, veriy foggy so do be careful. It is 59 oakland, 56 fremont. With the fog you cant see anything at all. Half moon bay, petaluma, 2 mile visibility sfo, of a mile oakland. Poor air quality but as we get into the later part of the day, the overnight hours were going to see a stronger onshore push. The lighter colors indicate better air quality by tomorrow evening. The spare the air alert takes us through monday. Very unhealthy air for us again today, unfortunately, but we will be looking at a more diffuse smoke layer meaning we will warm up a little bit more into some 80s today. A further look at the rest of the weekend coming up. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Sports are highly in question this weekend for both the San Francisco giants and 49ers. Theyre threatened by problems only 2020 could provide. We start with the giants whose game today is pos