Two weeks until election day. Two foreign actors, iran and russia, have taken specific actions to influence Public Opinion relating to our elections. Accessorizes of meddling as President Trump and joe biden are on the eve of their final debit. In a rare nighttime News Conference, the fbi says russia and iran are trying to influence the election. This is something weve been warned about for years. The feds say Iranian Intelligence was responsible for recent emails sent to intimidate voters. Here is nbc bay areas ian cull with the details. Reporter tonight, the fbi and National Intelligence director say russia and iran have obtained voter reg registration information. Nbc news is reporting tonight that iran sent intimidating emails like this one to democratic voters posing as members of the far right proud boys who support the president , saying vote for trump or well come after you. When we see indications of foreign interference or federal election crimes, were going to aggressively i
I think its going to be another warm one. It was pretty warm yesterday, mike. It will be warmer than average again today. Welcome back, reggie, kumasi, jobina. The cooling trend is on schedule. However our critical fire conditions thankfully are a bit slower to develop. So theres some good news to start the day with. We still have historically low fuels. That means the vegetation is drier than average at historic levels. So the fire danger is still high. Thats why we have the red flag warning until 8 00 tomorrow. Lets look at the winds. They are fairly light, up to 40 in diablo, 22 as you head over to the north bay mountains. Humidity level is lower than yesterday. Still around 25 . Lets talk about whats going to happen this afternoon. 68 at the coast, look at that southerly surge of cloud cover. That will make a dent in our warm weather. Thats tomorrow. 70s around the bay. 80s inland today. Reggie . Happening today, forced blackouts for thousands of pg e customers in california. The u
You can also enter your address to see if you would be affected. Find it right now at abc7news. Com. Starting today, you can eat, workout, go to church, go to the movies inside in napa county. Napa county is the first north bay county to enter the orange tier. The updated guidance came from the state yesterday. The economy and reopenings are one of the things were focusing in on on building a better bay area. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live with more on this. Napa county is celebrating. The napa valley register says even one of the supervisors wore an orange tie to the supervisor meeting yesterday. Theyre so happy to be in the orange tier. This means that more businesses can welcome more customers inside. Restaurants can now double their capacity. They can now have 50 capacity inside. Gyms can go from 10 to 25 capacity. Great news for napa wineries, they can also serve people inside. Bowling alleys, those will now reopen. The team at napa bowl is very excited. Thank god. It w
Be vigilant overnight. The winds, you can see, theyre around 15 to 25. A bit faster on diablo, look how gorgeous it is from the Golden Gate Bridge. We have a lack of fog this morning. Pretty clear conditioning out there. With total sunshine that will be our last day of the heat wave with upper 60s along the coast, mid to upper 70s around the bay and the 80s will stay inland. Even a few 90s possible out near fairfield, brentwood and pittsburg for the warmest spots. Well talk about two more threats for increasing fire conditions coming up. Thank you. Happening right now, a search and rescue effort under way in the presidio in San Francisco. The Fire Department says one person has been found trapped off the side of a cliff. This is near battery crosby. We are still waiting for more details as to what the person was doing there in the first place, how they got off the side of the cliff. As soon as we learn more information well keep you updated. Thousands of pg e customers could be without
Bay this afternoon. Mid 60s along the coast. Were starting off the day because of that onshore flow, that better air quality as well as foggy conditions and even some patchy drizzle along the coast ride around the bay this morning. Well talk about a little bit of a change for tomorrow. Details on that coming up. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and the latest on the slow ride on altamont pass. Supercommuters out of tracy getting on to 580 and as you work towards that north flynn exit. Thats the bulk of the delays this morning. As you head along into the altamont pass, 38 minute drive time westbound 580, 205 over to et good ough in both directiore just a little busy south of there on 680 through the sunol grade. We are monitoring these brake lights along the nimitz freeway. South 880 still struggle this morning. Slow from 92 all the way down to fremont boulevard to clear an accident right at that exit. Developing in oakland, cleanup is underway this morning after protests