Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open
Details on that coming up. Its a foggy start in spots. Be careful as you hit the roadways. May be dealing limited visibility and you are dealing delays already for your drive into the pass. Super commuters gear up you have brake lights out of tracy. Extending onto that connector to 580 all the way to north flynn. We are seeing a lot of red. A busy ride for your Tuesday Morning ride. Things moving okay at the dublin interchange. Its 34 minutes for the drive time. Westbound over to 205 toward 680. Bay bridge toll plaza. No mooterring lights. Very quiet out of the east bay into San Francisco and the san mateo bridge. No delays between 880 toward 101. Live news desk. Voting has started on the east coast. Lets go live right now to tampa, florida where people have been lining up and votes are already being cast though our live picture looks a little on the slow side. A lot of polling places are very busy right now. They are starting to process the early votes as well as they have been in flo
Days. Several reenforcing shots of cold air because a system is sinking to the south. You may have had a drop or two on your windshield, liz, maybe i did this morning, not really. But the system, there it is, higher elevations, maybe a Little Something out towards rio vista. As we look at the Bigger Picture you can see the circulation, all missing the bay area, and theres a Second System that will pretty much do the same thing tonight, 47 in santa clara, 48 in mountain view, 49 San Francisco, 42 in napa. With the cloud cover, in the 40s. Look at that temperature change, 9 to 16 degrees cooler. Upper elevations, its breezy, sunny and breezy afternoon. Its going to be brisk, lucky to reach the 60s out there and well let you know about the Second System, the week ahead, in a few minutes. Joe biden addressed the nation to say his prospects for taking the white house, are looking good. This morning he does lead in four critical battleground states yet to be called, were talking about georgi
Harris by his side saying he expects to be declaring soon that he will be winning the presidency. President trump not speaking, thank you forjoining us, im liz kreutz and we have much more ahead on the election as we all wait for a winner to be projected, but first as we wait lets start with a quick look at the weather. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Liz, good morning. It feels like december out there. Forget november. Weve got pretty cold weather, temperatures below average, even chillier today with north westerly winds. Theres live doppler 7. Not all of that is real, those dots, but this is real. Were looking at showers down towards santa cruz, Boulder Creek area. Scotts valley, the system missed us, went off the ocean and you can see the circulation pulling into the San Joaquin Valley and parts of Southern California. Lucky them. It is 34 on top of mout. Diablo. 45 Pleasant Hill and upper elevations are cool with some clouds. They could be cooler in spots. 37 na
Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.