Reporter yeah, hi, kristen. Were actually at Harvest Park Middle School here in pleasanton. This scene behind me really pretty typical of what weve seen all day at several different polling locations. It looks like its slow, but theres actually been a steady stream of folks mostly dropping off their mailin ballots. Some activity inside. But the fact that it looks kind of slow is really no indication of how busy it is in terms of people getting out to vote early. Lets have you take your ballot card, please. Reporter call it lastminute early voting. Yet another new phenomenon around the historic election of 2020. An election where in the east bay 60 plus of the electorate has already cast their ballots with still a little more than 24 hours to go. Once the word got out they could come into the warriors old training facility, we got a lot more people. Like to take pictures of things they see and live their memories. So thats nice. But the best part is its bringing people in to vote. Repor
Mid 80s in San Francisco and 90 in oakland and upper 90s for san jose and 108 in concord. We have excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that will be in effect from 11 00 a. M. Today all the way through wednesday 9 00 p. M. And thats for most of the bay area except for the immediate coastline. So this will be a prolonged heat wave for us. Here in the bay area. Well talk more about what you can expect as we head through the next several days where you live, coming up in a few minutes. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today. Were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 and 10 00 p. M. If you need a place to cool off, there are several cooling centers around the bay area. Palo alto will be open from 1 00 this afternoon until 6 00. And cooling centers will also be available in san jose at may Fair Community center. The Camden Center on union avenue. You can also stop by the Roosevelt Center and doors open at 1 00
You could see it on future cast for the visibility down to a couple of miles especially through our east bay hills like through oakland and through hayward right now were about a mile visibility for Half Moon Bay along highway, one and the north bay same goes as well. The good news is things will start to clear a little bit as we get closer to the noontime hour its going to stick mainly for can summer coastal spots and get there we are going to see sunshine for most of the bay area as we get into the afternoon hours temperature wise right now were about the same a degree or 2 cooler in some spots and where were at yesterday morning. But pretty much even for napping for fairfield and if youre waking up with us now in santa rosa. So its not going to feel much different as you head out of the house this morning were mostly in the 50s even some low 60s on the board oakland youre at 60 degrees right now hayward youre at 60 61 in downtown san jose 59 in redwood city currently, but things are
Mornings. Mid to upper 50s and near 60 at the coast today with the least amount of sunshine and 70 to 76 at noon. 73 to 81 bay and inland by 4 00 with those low clouds giving way to just a few high clouds but grab the sunglasses, youll still need them. A warmer weekend forecast coming up. Heres kumasi. Thank you, mike. Right now we want to take you out to breaking news in oakland. This is at a live look at a fire that burned a building. You can see it the smoke behind this fire truck. This is on Martin Luther king jr. Street and we know this fire started around 3 00 this morning. The roof of the building collapsed and then in just the last half hour we could still see the flames coming out of the building and we could see those firefighters on the roof trying to get everything under control. We dont know much about this building, what it is used for or if anyone was inside and we will stay on top of this and keep you updated throughout the morning. Now, to the very latest in the fight
Lets check the forecast with kari. Its going to be a really nice day as we check out our high temperatures, looking at low 60s along the coast and some low 80s for much of the east bay. Farther to the north it will still be hot in ukiah but well have that wide range of temperatures continue. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Overall, great. I call out an issue for oakland, an incident on the nimitz as we look at your maps. Well zoom into where it is not green. North 880 approaching davis. More slowing showed up the last few around davis and 98. A fenderbender in the roadway. Well track it, marcus. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Breaking news this morning out of the east bay. This is east Contra Costa County. An Early Morning far destroying cars and boats in oakley. Today in the bays bob redell is live at the scene. Talk about this. I know its been a busy 12 hours for the firefighters. Theyre still battling the fire . Reporter the fire here in unincorporated oakley, not far from Bet