The tarmac there skies are generally going to clear as we work our way through this morning and as that happens more and more favorable weather for waiting in lines at the polls even this morning, although it is cool and gray for some areas still not at all about morning to get out there were in the 40s and 50s for most of us oakland, the warm spot right now at 57 degrees while the cooler side in areas like santa rosa starting off this morning at 45 degrees later today, its 70s and ill give you more details about what to expect. Later on still to come robin all right, thank you john a little busy out there traffic still jammed up crossing the bay, especially heading into San Francisco, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza approach and yes, its still pretty crowded from the bottom of the maze. Its been like that for the last 2 hours or so its not a terrible commute, but its definitely crowded and still under 15 minutes to make it and so thats considered pretty good. Were check
With us on election day weve got the white house behind us and in front of us. The decision on this election day when millions of americans have already made up their minds. Yeah, weve got lots to talk about this morning lot of questions too about whats going to happen as the ballots. Our county tonight and into the days that follows and joining us to discuss more about that is Washington Post political reporter philip above phillip. Thank you so much for joining us today. So i read your article counting votes isnt cheating. It was a really nice breakdown of the entire process, what motivated you to write this in the first place. One of these were hearing particular from President Trump and his allies is this that by allowing both county and go on past today and wednesday, potentially isnt for week or so that theyre somehow something nefarious or or or or wrong about that when in fact it simply is the case that votes always take allow Council Members were able predict whos going to win
Fog this morning that is streamed into the bay. So if you are going to be voting this morning do plan on wearing a jacket then just a cool start as is typical this time of year. You can see your view the north bay looking down at San Francisco, some low cloud cover hovering right above the bay itself, your bridges of actually been fined visibility wise. But if you are heading up into some hillsides and right along the coastline. Thats where youre running into those lower visibility areas you do see spots in San Francisco oakland and happen bay area visibilities a bit lower. Were in the 40s and 50s right now, but this afternoon were in for a treat sunshine returning and nice warm temperatures. Rob all right. Thank you morning commute is picking up out there we dont have any major trouble spots right now. But we do have some slowing heading into San Francisco. Were checking out this line here at the bay bridge toll plaza already stacking up beyond the 80 over crossing so quite busy were
Election and we will tell you how kron 4 is your local election headquarters. And thank you for joining us tonight at 5 im pam moore and im ken wayne were now just hours away from a historic election as a divided country grapples with country grapples with the pandemic which has caused Many Americans to cast their ballots by mail election offices across california of already received more than 11 million mail in ballots with more to come. That is historic especially when you consider that during the 2016 president ial election. Just 8. 4 million vote by mail ballots were cast and among the spots that could see a historic turnout locally is San Francisco. Thats where we find kron fours dan kerman he is live. Outside the citys outdoor Voting Center Near Civic Center plaza dan. But we can tell you the more than 300,000 ballots have already been received by the department of elections. This year they are doing the ballot processing in that building you see behind me the bill graham Civic A
This is video from the citizen app the incident happened this afternoon when crews were responding to a high rise fire at 55 spear street at some point crews say a San Francisco muni bus drove through the scene Officials Say a firefighter standing near a hose line was struck and dropped to the ground hitting his head. The firefighter was knocked unconscious and taken to San Francisco General Hospital where he is in critical condition. He has been identified as matt ban and has been with the department for 6 years. Well for Jonathan Mccall is heading to the scene he will have a live report coming up on kron 4 news tonight at 8. They came here for one reason only and that was to create chaos and and to intimidate folks we thought it was a fun thing. For our group not intending to do anything to the other side of market. Tensions boiled over when a caravan of hundreds of Trump Supporters rolled into the only major Africanamerican Community in marin county kron fours Maureen Kelly talked t