Cristina . Well, Business Owners have dealt with protests in the past, and they are doing what they feel is necessary during this heated election. Reporter prepping for a hurricane. Stores . N downtown walnut creek or boarding up for the possibility a political storm that could leave civil unrest in its aftermath are. The city and the Police Department are monitoring any potential unrest via social media. Reporter Kathy Hemingway with an association of restaurants and shops said that stores are making the individual decisions to taking precautions. Walnut creek police are planning for the possibility of protest, even though there are no Credible Threats of such activities here or in other cities. We thought well just go ahead and board it, and hopefully nothing will happen, but we thought might as well just do it just in case, because its been just a crazy year, as we all though. Reporter the owners spent 400 on plywood, a small price compared to any potential damage to their neighborh
Money to offset billions in budget cuts the state budget includes more than 11 billion. In cuts and deferrals those cuts were made to colleges court state worker pay and more those cuts could vanish if the federal government the state more money by thursday. The pair bay area cities among those topping list for businesses that had to close during the pandemic that is according to a new study from yelp which also says california is the hardest hit state in the u. S. With more than 19,000 permanent closures. For closures for every 1000 businesses, San Francisco took the second spot with san jose 5th among us metro regions again thats according to yelp some industries have fared better than others yelp says restaurants have been hit the hardest followed closely by shopping and retail. The u. S. Could see 20,000 more covid deaths by the end of october that stark warning today coming from a former cdc director doctor tom frieden says that this projection is based on the number of infections
Official vote. One week later that was set up a final confirmation vote on the full senate floor the week of october 26 tonight, California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein is alling grahams move unprecedented senator find side tweeted is another example of republicans ignoring rules and tradition so they can rush this nominee through before the election and in time to supply a vote to strike down the Affordable Care act today was the day of Opening Statements from barrett, herself and senators democrats unified their message on the Affordable Care act, joe khalil reports from washington dc. The truth, the whole truth. And nothing but the truth so help you God Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett played out her judicial philosophy in the first Senate Hearing of her confirmation process i believe americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our constitution and laws as they are written barrett described herself as a textualist who strictly inte
And i pale more that announcement coming just hours after cal, so i so said that there would not be any rotating blackouts tonight. Thousands of customers were in the dark for hours last night as temperatures soared into the triple digits. Kron fours dan thorn is live in san and elmo hes been talking with people about the heat and their concerns over the potential for more outages in the coming days well ken and pam, the rolling power blackouts for on some people out here are a painful reminder. Last falls Public Safety power shutoff done by pg and e with these high temperatures its been essential for people to keep cool and many of them are also doing their best to conserve energy or the hope for the power to stay on in marine county, the scorching hot temperatures threatening the area saturday with another round of outages something people in san anselmo do not want to deal with again it was really had no notice that it was happening whatsoever on obviously a surprise we didnt know i
Pale more the increase in temperatures also bringing the increased risk of fire danger tonight, utility leaders have been going back and forth on whether or not to turn off the power to mitigate the chance of a possible wildfire outbreak we have Team Coverage tonight noelle bellow has more on cal iso is latest developments and dan thorn has reaction from residents who were left in the dark last night but first happening tonight, a red flag warning will go into effect at 11 oclock tonight it will last until tomorrow morning at 11 across the bay area. Monterey and san benito counties are already in a red flag warning fast moving storms can lead to a risk of dry lightning which could start wildfires. So not only is the fire danger really increase our fuel is already the critical level or grass crops you see in the hills are already a groundout or brush component now a very critical levels lower than weve seen in years and our timber component is right behind it so that makes the latter fu