Pair of tongs before. No. [ laughter ]. In many areas, these in person drop offs are out numbering ballots arriving by mail as caution drives voting behavior and your local registrar of voters thinks thats a good policy. But i urged people to vote early and dont take chances of lines or delays or power shut offs or wildfires or evacuations or asteroids, just vote now. Yeah, its those asteroids you have to watch out for. 45 to 50 of voters in the counties have all ready cast their ballots. Think about the switch ercomput coming in. When you vote in person, youre scanning immediately on site there. Then theyll bring themer todi process. They flip back over to mailno ballots that come in election day and beyond. Were looking at a big number of votes all ready come 8 00 on Election Night again. Its going to be one interesting year for sure. Wilson, one week to go, thank you very much. Its not too late to vote early for a guide to help you vote smart, visit ix now to the fire in the Oakland
The jacket with those cold temperatures. As we head through the arch. Sunshine does look very pleasant. Mild temperatures. Low 70s in San Francisco, mid 70s in oakland. 8o degrees for concord. Four to seven degrees above average for this time of year. We will talk about the sea breeze making its return coming up and lets check in with traffic. Its getting a little crowded here at the toll plaza. We are starting to see that traffic pattern forming as well as you head up the incline. They havent turned them on. Coming out of the east bay heading into San Francisco. Still clear off 80, westbound 580 doing okay and theres a trouble spot, westbound 4. A broken down vehicle stuck in lane. A part of 580 where we are seeing quite a bit of crowding is that drive into the pass. Already slow and go out of tracy, at least beyond north flynn. 36 minutes from 205. Traffic starting to load up. Developing in San Francisco, 28ucsf health care workerns under quarantine this morning. Five people at the h
Now watch from the east up around sacramento. Watch these orange colors start to come in overnight tonight. Right there. See that filling in . Midinsightmidnight . And then here about 6 00 a. M. This is above 1,000 feet. Most people wont notice much wind, but its a dangerous wind in that theres fire. And the orange area adown the Santa Cruz Mountains, that area will see some wind and also the east bay hills. That looks like the worst spot, it will be that north bay. Im not expecting 70 mile an hour winds. Im thinking a few hours of winds around 25 to 35 miles per hour, and then quickly, by tomorrow afternoon, the winds slow down. Okay . So its worth keeping an eye on, because any wind in this pattern is scary. Ask well have a spare the air alert tomorrow. The air quality will not get better until those fires go out. When i come back, julie, well look at the forecast highs and some of those records. It is miserable out there now. Thank you, bill. The extreme heat sent people in San Fran
Off. s make a bad combination in place tonight, excessive heat, driver dictation and now diablo wind. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. I am julie haener. To try to prevent fires, theyre taking a protective step to the first time this year and shutting off power. They confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 100 they confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 172,000 customers in 22 Northern California counties are affected, that includes the east side of santa rosa and Sonoma County and the calistoga area in napa county. Power is expected to be restored no later than wednesday evening. We have Live Team Coverage on the weather conditions, greg shows us how people are coping with the recordbreaking heat. Deborah gives us a look at how people in the north they are bracing for the power shut off but first lets go to our chief meteorologi
Service has allowed for the wind advisory to expire. We look outside at the golden gate bridge. Isnt that spectacular . Now, one thing that the wind has done, prevented the fog from forming. So we have a lot of clear sky out there and it has kept the temperatures up. Widespread 40s and 50s around the bay, at least for most. I want to start in Southern California. One of the big fires this morning is the fire burning in Ventura County. A red flag warning from Ventura County to san diego with strong wind gusts to 60 Miles Per Hour and could be stronger in the coming days. This dry gusty weather will continue all the way into friday morning. It looks like it wont expire until about midnight on friday. So definitely going to have a big issue when it comes to weather and the fire burning in and around santa paula area. If you have traveled into socal, 101 is right about here and moves through camarillo and thousand oaks. More on that coming from the anchors and reporters in a moment. Lets l