Its the last weekend before the election, but its not too late to cast your ballot. Election officials and bay area sports teams are trying to make it as easy as possible to make sure your vote gets counted. Several new and familiar Voting Centers open today. Youre looking at two of them right there, levi stadium home of the niners, chase center, home of the warriors. And Christy Smith has more. Reporter outside the coliseum in oakland arena, voters showed up ready to be counted. Were voting in person. Reporter this is where jennifer cast her ballot. The president ial election on her mind and she took her brother. He was not going to vote. He was going to stay at home. I was like, lets go. Lets do it together. This is the first day that were open for inperson voting at our accessible voting locations. Well will open here and at our 100 sites on saturday, sunday, monday and election day. Reporter in alameda county, theyre seeing a surge in early voters, just days ahead of the election,
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Professional pause captured a nation and you heard about the ghostly sound drifting across San Francisco since early june some call it soothing. Others say its unsettling and even alien early today starts right now glad youre with us to end the week im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Hurricane laura leaves a path of death and destruction on the gulf coast hundreds of people are still without power and thousands of Louisiana Residents are waking up with their lives upside down. In the town of west lake, people had to shelter in place after an oil refinery went up in flames plumes of smoke released hazardous chlorine gas and this is what lake charles looks like boats were tossed around, roofs were peelestormravaged areas ts week our Chris Pallone has more in southwest louisiana, it was a day of taking stock and cleaning up. Theres so much damage here, youre going, this is a disaster area you know, its a literal disaster the Recovery Time from this is going to be phenomenal reporter h
Glad to be with us im Frances Rivera and im philip mena millions are gearing up for a school year like any other as the country struggling the contain coronavirus. Over 5 million americans have been infected. No other country in the world has as many cases. At least 163,000 people in the u. S. Have died since this pandemic started and startling numbers at least 97,000 children have tested positive in the last two weeks of july. More than 7 out of 10 infections came from the south and the west so far, a total of 338,000 children have been infected. As unemployment lines grow, 1 in 4 americans say the pandemic has pushed them to take on more credit card date more than 60 of card holders worry they wont be able to keep making minimum payments. Another positive test for the st. Louis cardinals roster led to the mlb postponing their series against the pirates the team has not played since july 29. Thursday is the earliest theyll return to the field. With rising case numbers, there are growi
On down jordan this is down to 0 live from coming up nato warns russia against meddling in bella ruse as president putin promises troop support to protests get out of control. Laura one of the strongest storms to hit the United States batters southern louisiana well have a live update. On the crisis deepens in the Eastern Mediterranean as turkey and greece stepped up the rhetoric over a maritime dispute. Welcome to the program democratic Vice President ial candidate carla harris has delivered a preemptive strike on donald trump just hours ahead of his pitch to the Party Faithful at the Republican National convention harris condemned trumps response to the coronavirus pandemic and addressed the unrest over the Police Shooting of jacob blake saying america must fulfill the promise of equal justice. The reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully human and we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law well earlier President Trump