And legal struggles. Plus, covid infections rise in the fall, in the u. S. And abroad. More wildfires scorch the west, spacex launching satellites intended to make wifi universal and a sea lion plagued with seizures saved by surgery. This is the cbs overnight news. Good evening everyone im Major Garrett in washington. President trump has returned to the campaign trail with gusto, pressing against reelection head winds. Most polls are showing him trailing Vice President biden in key battleground states. But he is tapping unexpected pockets of support. A Battleground Tracker poll shows mr. Trump trailing the former Vice President in wisconsin, a state that mr. Trump narrowly won in 2016. And trailing biden in arizona. This weekend, the president made stops, in michigan, wisconsin, nevada and california at airport rallies he was greeted by big crowds, many not Wearing Masks. As the nation watches, it is voting in astonishing numbers. More than 27 million ballots cast by mail or in person.
Any that might be there. Well bring updates when we learn more. Back to the other fire, you can see how close it came to homes as firefighters worked hard to get the fire under control and take a look at this video just how intense the flames were at times. That fire was reported just before noon at the South San Francisco hillside sign. Cornell bernard joins us live with the very latest. Cornell . Reporter dion, so many neighbors breathing a huge sigh of relief that fire got way too close to homes, burning up to a few backdoors. Thats where it happened burning across the famous sign hill. Luckily, firefighters stopped it just in time. It took off in seconds flat. Reporter neighbors living near sign hill in San Francisco had moments to react. A fastmoving fivealarm grass fire took off through trees. I ran down to the end because this hill is full of trees and brush and being city owned and i was concerned there would be fire here and sure enough, there was. Reporter neighbors on ridge
For joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock this afternoon. Im justine waltman unseasonably hot temperatures mix with dry and windy conditions fuel this fire. Now this fire burned very way too close to homes and a lot of people are still evacuated now here are the evacuation orders for South San Francisco. The mandatory evacuations include current million road. Sonia road Mountain Road Ridge View Court view mont harris thats where the mandatory evacuations are in place. Now there is an Evacuation Center that has been opened. It is set up at the municipal social hall at 33 arroyo drive in South San Francisco that is a temporary Evacuation Center. Again we have just learned that the fire while it was under control has just flared up in the past 15 minutes or kron fours Maureen Kelly is live there for us shes gathering more details and shell join us later on this hour to bring us the very latest information. Now lets turn now to our Weather Forecast because we have been under a red fla
No unemployment benefits. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in washington vote no on the deceptive watching all of this for us to uber, lyft, explain what will happen there doordash prop 22. And on the campaign trail. One ride california doesnt want to take. Good morning, tracie. Reporter hi, kris and laura, good morning, everyone. Lets start inside the hearing room. The hearing just about to get under way. This is a languager ro larger r normal. Senator thom tillis who came down with covid19 and appeared virtually yesterday will appear in person today after getting clearance from his doctor and weve also learns that there will be a number of questions that could take until 10 00 or 11 00 tonight. Its expected to be a really long day. A long day from President Trump. Moving to pennsylvania today getting back on the campaign trail in full swing after being hospitalized with covid19. The president talks about that saying he feels great. He thinks hes immune now. There have been medi
Youre watching morning news at the. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a tuesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the Weather Center john trouble keeping us updated on what will be the big story for the week ahead john yeah, its that fire danger guys temperatures are already climbing ahead of increased fire danger these next few days looking really clear across San Francisco in the rest of the bay area right now calm winds clear conditions. Beautiful cool morning to be getting outside. Winds will pick up starting tonight into tomorrow morning youre going to notice a big difference as far as wind scale. After that wednesday night into thursday morning is when well see our peak wind gusts of this wind event and also some of our warmest of temperatures thats the highest a fire danger this is thursday morning on our future cast of winds at 07 45am. And look at vacaville calistoga now speak. Winds gusting regularly into a 2030 even 40 mile per hour rang