Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The group of employees works at Healdsburg District Hospital in several different departments. New at 10 00, ktvus Debora Villalon is live with the investigation underway. Reporter this showed up in routine screening and triggered an immediate response. 12 positive staffers sent home to isolate in the hospital on alert for more. I work night shift here. I have been here for 30 years and ive never seen anything like this. Reporter this housekeeper is frustrated to hear 12 of her colleagues at healdsburg hospital contracted covid. Apparently outside of work. I dont understand why people are not following the rules. Like wearing their masks when they should on the outside, or what they are doing. We have been using them for various reasons. Reporter now the hospital tent is running full tilt to get almost 300 staffers through. One round monday turned up one infected employee, but now positive patients. Everyone goes through
The Oakland Fire Department says two structures and a brush caught fire. Crews from hayward fire, Alameda County fire and fremont fire were all called to the scene. Eight people were displaced by the fire for people in the montclair hills have been hit by the pg e Public Safety power shutoff. Lets bring in meteorologist Rosemary Orozco as the intense winds that sparked the power shutoffs have passed. There is still a red flag warning in effect. Where do you start . The red flag warning in the far east bay hills that includes montclair and over the north bay hills. Not because it is incredibly dry out there. And still a little bit breezy. Giving you a look at the conditions you have a northeast wind that continues to keep dry conditions. We are seeing some improvement but in any event, we are looking at the red flag warning with relative humidity reporting 16 in some areas. And we are looking at this to continue until 5 00 this afternoon. More on this in the conditions you can expect co
Im not running a false promise and being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch. But what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions. We will deal honestly with the american people. Biden and his wife jill cast their ballots in wilmington today. Meanwhile, democrat, democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris held two drive in rallies in arizona. She criticized President Trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together. Stocks tumble today because of worries that the pandemic in the u. S. And in europe will mean more restrictions on businesses and drag down the economy. The dow dropped 943 points, the nasdaq lost 426 and the s p was down 119. Early voting numbers continue to break records nationwide and if the trends hold, we could see historic levels of turnout. Our political reporter greg lee tells us whats driving the numbers. Reporter with less than one week until
Financial issues brought on by the pandemic project leaders now have to make some big adjustment kron fours Taylor Force Act he has more from Market Street. After a decade of planning and collaboration. The bitter Market Street project launched its plans to transform the citys busiest transit corridor and now less than a year later. Those plans to make marquetry more walkable and bike friendly are changing. Its in an effort to cut costs during the pandemic and address an increase in bicyclists, this plan needs to make Market Streets safer. For people who walk by can take transit. The new design i think for a lot of is questionable as to whether it does that well enough for the cost some of those changes compared here instead of a sidewalk level dedicated bikeway seeing green on the left 2020 plans on the right could bicyclists back on a slightly larger roadway shared with other vehicles disappointing and several certainly from the perspective of people who buy on Market Street are peop
Does make a difference. I want everybody to vote, everybody to count, everybody to save what they need to stay. Reporter Young Malcolm helped his mom put her ballot in the box. She said i could do it because she knew i was responsible to do it. Reporter the Company Secretary of States Office lists each and every one of the 334 early voting sites in the nine bay area counties by town, address, such as a school or library, and the directions to get there. If voting in person, you must vote either at your designated polling place, or at a county voting center, if they are available. Also listed, the dates and hours of voting operations which are not generally saturday october 31st two monday november 2nd, as shown in the master list we have linked to on the ktvu website. Of course, you can vote on election day. Even though the registration deadline has passed, all counties offer sameday registration and in some cases, at your polling place to allow for provisional ballot to be cast. We wa