High registration. Were 2000 voters away. The vote by mail ballots have hit historic levels with higher levels than the 2016 president ial election. On the day before election day we had 146,000 in house. Well go over 200,000 today. If you dont fill out the online today you can go to the registrars to fill out a provision ballot. In southern california, someone set fire to an official ballot collection box. It was in baldwin park. Arson investigators say a number of the ballots were burned. The registrars voters who dropped off their ballots should call for assistance. 30 million americans have cast their ballots. Early voting started in florida today with wait time three hours in places. I think people are starting to see the importance of voting and we try the stress its important to vote, folks are taking that opportunity. In georgia theyve seen 1. 4 million voters in the last seven days. Thats up 148 in the first six days of early voting in 2016. New rules for the next president ia
Strike teams operation provide an opportunity to deliver on the governors vision of systems that prioritize the customers experience, informed by data and great expertise. Though nelson is skeptical despite e. D. D. Trying to fix the broken system. I hope they do. Id like to get a phone call to get this squared away. Im sure people would like to get their money out of them. That was ryan hill reporting. Meanwhile, legislation just hit the governors desk that would force the state to follow its own rules about putting sensitive personal information on those employment checks. Well have that story coming up later in the news. New at 6 00, a popular south bay recreation spot is counting down to a closure. Anderson reservoir is about to get an upgrade. And while there is clearly a need for, kpix 5s john ramos reports some are shocked by how long it will be off limits. A lot of people from the south bay grew up playing here at Anderson Reservoir and theyre going to grow up a whole lot more
Watching kron 4 news at 10. Morning. I felt her face i fel leg. I was ready just tackle work get back into it. Some good news, its back to work for some Business Owners in San Francisco hair salons and barbershops finally got to serve clients. Indoors today for the first time in 6 months. Thanks for joining us on this monday night, im ken wayne and im pam moore kron fours taylor visits salons and shop owners today who say bookings filled up quickly she joins us live now with more on that first day back at work taylor. Then it feels like were getting a little taste of normalcy back here in the city, you know a lot of these businesses and of course clients were very excited for the first day back. Here at monarch salon they were very busy actually just finished out of their last klein about 30 minutes ago and for these hair salons and barbershops this usually means that its a one stylist taking care of these one person at a time theyre leaving a window in between to clean for the clients
Strong winds could spread the flames from the glass fire and spark even more destruction. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock im Justine Waldman the bay area is getting smacked with smoke intense heat, a red flag warning and a flex alert. This all happening on the first day of october what a of a day and october is usually are most intense months for fire. So lets get to it now as we start now with a look at our forecast Rebecca Strom us here now with a closer look at the wind speeds and the triple digit temperatures good afternoon. Rebecca. Afternoon justine yeah were actually under a heat advisory across the bay area as well because the temperatures are so hot were seeing anywhere from a 15 to 25 degree difference force what we normally see at this time for the year. And you can see outside right now this or live shot overlooking and the east bay in berkeley right now and very hazy very smoky that were seeing around the entire bay area and yes talking abo
Something to hold on to some positives and what hasnt been a whole lot of positives in the forecast lately, 50s and 60s for our current temperatures with concord at 62 oakland, 64 right now temperatures remaining cool obviously weve got some cloud cover thats going to keep it cool through the morning. Later on today, not that hot no 90s today, just upper 80s that are warmest a lot of 70s on the map. Im talking a very hot weekend just around the corner. Robin. Thank you john were checking back in on 6 ad the traffic is slowly improving but do expect some residual delays heading south this morning. All because of an earlier crash. It was southbound 6. 80 after stone valley. Emergency crews shut down the right lane. They issued a Traffic Alert. Its still a little sluggish often on out of walnut creek in fact ill switch over to a live look this is the camera well its a little frozen, but you can get the picture right. Its still a little slow going south as traffic is recovering from the cr