That it inflicted. First, the latest numbers for california. Joe biden and california state senator winning big taking all of the states 55electoral votes as expected. The biggest haul in the Electoral College by a predictable victory. Here is where the poplar vote stands. Biden with a slight edge in the poplar vote. Those votes are still being counted. The key is the Electoral College. Right now biden leads with 237electoral votes and trump has 213. 270 votes are needed to win. You can see neither candidate has reached that threshold with some swing states still too close to call. Our political reporter, greg lee, has been watching it all. What is happening in the critical swing states . Reporter good evening. It is clear this race will come down to the swing states. Likely to be close. Frankly it will take time to count the ballots. Lets look first at the midwest where much of the attention is the three states President Trump flip inside 2016. The blue wall that he broke through in m
Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see a
Welcome back on 4 is your local election headquarters and were now just a half hour away from the first and only Vice President ial debate tonight Vice President mike pence and Vice President ial candidate senator Kamala Harris will be debating at the university of utah in Salt Lake City as an added safety precaution there will be plexiglass barriers between the candidates and the moderator and unlike last weeks debate between joe biden and President Trump the candidates will be more than 12 feet apart and sitting instead of standing. It is among the most anticipated vp debates arguably ever and senator harris and Vice President pence have been gearing up for a while from 4 Sanaz Tahernia talked to a political expert about tonights debate in he has she has more on what we can expect. The stage is sense for the first and only Vice President ial debate. Vice president mike pence and senator Kamala Harris, well go head to head in a debate thats expected to be like no other. Its an electio
Burning around the bay and as they continue to rage that major that declaration will help us right now the latest from cal fire puts the lnu complex fire. At 17 containment. That is the fire thats burning in the north bay. The scu lightning complex fire which is in the east bay has burned 10 contained right now and the czu lightning complex fire. Thats the one along the peninsula. Its just 8 contain still that is a jump from yesterday morning by about 3 so little by little they are working on it as fast as they can to knock down these fires before there is a threat. More dry lightning. Lets talk about the csu lightning complex fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties in total. This fire has burned 71,000 acres, 60,000 people plus have had to flee their homes and as you can see many structures have gone up in flames 2 people suffered minor injury. There are now 1300 fire personnel there battling that fire right now. Lets take a look at the map and that shows you Scotts Valley and santa
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