Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
You could see it on future cast for the visibility down to a couple of miles especially through our east bay hills like through oakland and through hayward right now were about a mile visibility for Half Moon Bay along highway, one and the north bay same goes as well. The good news is things will start to clear a little bit as we get closer to the noontime hour its going to stick mainly for can summer coastal spots and get there we are going to see sunshine for most of the bay area as we get into the afternoon hours temperature wise right now were about the same a degree or 2 cooler in some spots and where were at yesterday morning. But pretty much even for napping for fairfield and if youre waking up with us now in santa rosa. So its not going to feel much different as you head out of the house this morning were mostly in the 50s even some low 60s on the board oakland youre at 60 degrees right now hayward youre at 60 61 in downtown san jose 59 in redwood city currently, but things are
It coming up a little bit later on marty robin. All right dave, thank you so much in the north bay this morning marine county has seen an increase in covid19 cases, Public Health officers say that thats a sign the virus is spreading there. And now residents say that there are coronavirus cases in bolinas you may recall the town tested almost all of its residents back in april and the results came back negative kron fours gayle on reports. You know it seems like people are really anxious to get out of the house 4th of july and we cannot do what the weather was really good and it was pretty busy. Molina says known to be isolated to Scientists Say its rule setting contributed to a low infection rate of covid19 in april the town made National Headlines after testing almost all of its residents the results negative locals worked hard to keep it that way sign at the entrance telling visitors the town is closed and to turn around but word is spreading the virus is in the community i heard the
Hospital workers pushed back the strike. Well when the pandemic first hit but say they could not wait any longer as they work on the front lines in what they say is unsafe conditions. The hospital says they are disappointed their staff is on strike during a pandemic these are Health Care Workers of all kinds medical technicians and see all just nursing assistants respiratory therapist and people working alongside nurses and doctors to care for coronavirus patients. Joining us right now is a tell me your name and what you do again. Taylor davis an and i work in Emergency Rooms registration. You guys work with the union your steward tell me the biggest fight that youre looking to change in that contract. Well i think our biggest fight first and foremost as always our protection so that we can take care of people in the safest and most effective way possible and the hospitals failed us. And second thing is our Health Benefits they want to raise our Health Benefits, 25 every single year. H
Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live at the long haul at the hospital now she explains why they walked out sarah. Martin thats right. Im live here at the santa rosa Memorial Hospital or caregivers are out here on strike trying to be as safe as possible, but also fighting for change. In the contract that theyve been negotiating with the hospital for over a year now take a look at this you can see there on that side of the street a little more distance and they go all the way down the street along the hospital the Health Care Workers here are people of all kinds imaging technicians. And susie all just people working alongside nurses and doctors to care for people during a pandemic they have been in contract, they said for every year but have not come to a conclusion to sign that contract. Hospital workers say even though coronavirus numbers have been surging in Sonoma County the last 2 weeks they still dont have enough ppe theyre not being given to these types of Health Care Workers, youre looking