Around the bay area getting busy picking up out there, especially on 9 to 2. Heres the drive leaving hayward and hear someone on the shoulder maybe having some problems i see the hazard lights on but the shoulders, good as long as theyre not blocking the traffic is still will be relatively well from hayward off to the peninsula where 12 minutes and growing over to one o one delay free into San Francisco come on in we dont have any hot spots are problems that you have to worry about so easygoing at 9 minutes to fremont street were just scanning around the bay area checking out some freeways, theyll look good 5. 80 livermore to dublin the nimitz 6 ad out to san jose the e sure 5 8024 all nice and light so far back to you, thanks a lot robin 6 oh one and things are getting worse because of covid were having to roll back a lot of reopenings and. There could be more to come. Yeah, heres the map behind a showing you the status of the various counties little bit different from what we showed
Healthy. Thats a challenging goal during a pandemic. The coronavirus keeps coming back threatening to beworse than before. California is approaching a million diagnosed cases total and the new cases are rising once again as you can see on the graph. We added more than 5300 in the past day and the state just reached another milestone, more than 18,000 deaths from coronavirus. However, there is optimism about a vaccine being ready but that wont fix everything as were reminded by dr. Patel. When its time to get the vaccine, we need to be in a much better place than we are right now to make sure that we go and get the vaccine and we can get back to normal faster. Because of the pandemic, Health Officials recommend you stay home this Holiday Season but for those intent on traveling, covid19 test appointments right before thanksgiving may be hard to come by. Melanie woodro did the research. Reporter tis the season but this season travel for thanksgiving could look vastly different. Just have
Degrees warmer. Then at the same time yesterday so do enjoy this mild start. Im talking more in your forecast ahead. Rob, thank you john were off to a pretty good started traffic to its very quiet out there with no major issues a live look westbound 92, this is your drive out of hayward over to the peninsula. And you know its a little busy right here on the flat section thats completely normal so no problems just picking up and quickly so were looking at 12 minutes off to one o one were checking in on 80 your trip into San Francisco moving well looking good. No problems so far so easy 7 minutes off to one oh one or 2 the to downtown San Francisco and they were checking in on one oh one out of san jose to menlo park thats 26 minutes. The highway for all smooth and at the limit will check more traffic coming up in a bit back to you. Thanks a lot rob. And our top story parts of the bay area are having to roll back on reopening because covid is on the rise and we showed you this map yester
One possible snag. The signature test. Its something all ballots must go through, especially right now as mailin ballots pour in by the millions to election offices. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. In the 2018 general election nearly 23,000 mailin ballots were rejected across the bay area. The big three mistakes, no signature on the ballot or envelope, signature doesnt match Voter Registration card, or ballot isnt returned in time. As President Trump erroneously claims that mailin ballots are not reliable, we wanted to look at the verification process, especially the signatures. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Friedman is on the story. Reporter youre looking at the largest early voter turnout in marin county history with more than 100,000 ballots cast already. Thats more than half the registered voters. Panner lowe was one of them today but after talking with us she did have some questions. Are you worried . Well, now i am. Reporter and all because of he
We will talk about our cool down coming up in just a few minutes. Be careful if you are hitting the roadways this morning. We will be dealing with some limited visibility as you head into San Francisco. A live look at the olden gate bridge. So far, traffic is doing okay for the drive out of marin into the city. Super commuters, gear up. You have a slow ride out of tracy right around Mountain House. That extends all the way to northglenn. Once you pass this point, everything is clear to the dublin air change. Travel time 32 minutes from 205 over toward 680. The east shore freeway, highway 4 and 101, all clear. Just one more day until election day. For many voters, going to the polls on the first tuesday in november is a thing of the past. Kpix 5s emily turner joins us live with the early voting numbers. Reporter and they are staggering. They have sent records pretty much no matter where they are whether you are dropping it off, mailing it in or youre going to come down and cast your bal