Without power. At the height of the shutoff, 345,000 customers had their power turned off. Most areas are expected to have their lights turned on today. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in orinda this morning with how residents are dealing with this and also businesses. Good morning, amy. Hi, jobina. You cant help but feel bad for the businesses and i ammic looilo looking at them in orinda and a second day and morning of not being able to light. Its the same situation in lafayette and also in moraga. Their downtown areas do not have power and, of course, some homes also have had their lights turned out. We have seen Grocery Stores bring in lights to stay in business. Some people are frustrated. You can go on nextdoor and read how hard this is for people as they try to distance learn and work without power. The Hardware Store now say they plan for these. After last years one we restocked and held stock on things like generators and cords for generators, oil for y generators and
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y
Reporter yeah, hi, kristen. Were actually at Harvest Park Middle School here in pleasanton. This scene behind me really pretty typical of what weve seen all day at several different polling locations. It looks like its slow, but theres actually been a steady stream of folks mostly dropping off their mailin ballots. Some activity inside. But the fact that it looks kind of slow is really no indication of how busy it is in terms of people getting out to vote early. Lets have you take your ballot card, please. Reporter call it lastminute early voting. Yet another new phenomenon around the historic election of 2020. An election where in the east bay 60 plus of the electorate has already cast their ballots with still a little more than 24 hours to go. Once the word got out they could come into the warriors old training facility, we got a lot more people. Like to take pictures of things they see and live their memories. So thats nice. But the best part is its bringing people in to vote. Repor
Find out the results which could take. A day 2 or maybe more but stick with us here on kron 4 we also want to take a look at weather and traffic for you on a tuesday morning. John good morning hoping for his calm of an election day as possible Mother Natures certainly at least cooperating today bringing us some sunshine, some mild temperatures and some dry conditions as you get out there to cast your ballot today looking outside we definitely do have the presence of more fog then what you have been saying or happen may cam is showing you that we do have fog overhead sitting right above the coastline there you can see it visibility is just fine as that fog is sitting right above you but do watch some spots in upper elevations on the peninsula as well as in the east bay hills that are being impacted by some of this low cloud cover right now temperatures are mostly in the 50s with alameda at a cool 50 for 53 conquer dublin, Petaluma Nevado and santa rosa, all kicking things off in the 40s
Remain calm throughout the day today with winds remaining very light. Thats the same as yesterday air quality a lot like yesterday, not necessarily ideal were back to moderate conditions for areas like napa concord Oakland Hayward fremont and san jose so not the most Crystal Clear quality weve had but we do have the sunshine comfortable temperatures. All in all its definitely shaping up to be a lot better right now temperatures are in the 40s and 50s for most of us, although we do have or turn to the 30s for a couple spots in the north bay like santa rosa and fairfield each sitting at 39 degrees right now so layer up where the middle of fall now temperatures start to give it cooler especially during the morning hours. Robin thank you john lets update the morning drive because the early birds have to get to work right there already out there so if you want to join these folks do it now because you have a delay free trip into San Francisco are taking a live look at 80. I dont see any pro