Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
Grows. 7 00 a. M. , 78, 9 00 a. M. , 81. The key here is that northeast wind coming down the hillside. As this comes down in elevation and sinks, that warmth, and thats why it led to that very warm start this morning. Now, the red flack fire warning has been extended for a portion of the bay area, for the north bay hills and east bay hills. This has been extended until 6 00 a. M. Saturday. Winds not extremely strong, but it is still warm, and it is still to try and breezy. We could have winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. Right now as we look at some of the sensors, the winds, nothing too extreme, but it is still so hot and dry. Here is our live camera this evening, looking out towards San Francisco and downtown with mostly clear skies. The current numbers, still have 90s well inland. San francisco in the mid80s. Half moon bay, 81 degrees. The heat advisory expires later on this evening. The weekend will bring in some cooler air. More on your weekend outlook coming up in a few minutes.
Cool off so yeah. We are lucky. Reporter and all, about 41,000 customers were impacted in parts of 24 counties with peak wind gust one state reaching 65 miles an hour but now that weather clear has been given an pg e is systematically bring that power back on. Places like alameda and santa cruz counties are 100 restored, Sonoma County bite midafternoon was more than halfway there. Basically you have it in sectors, and alignment, cruise basically going and my ends along those lines to make sure there is not any damage and that we have helicopters, eyes in the sky, also doing this on the line. Still on the winds have abated, the heat has not yet been it is hot, it makes it hard to be outside, especially with the kids. Has left residents and Business Owners looking for shade at their whiskey bar and grill, they have got a spot ready for those looking to leave their homes and have a cool drink. Still it is hard on staff. Reporter people keeping on during it, make sure the are taking care o
The unhealthy air quality stayed to the north. Right now we are expecting to see those hazy skies throughout. 59 degrees. There is no spare the air alert in effect for today. Were starting to notice some numbers in the 50s now in concord, livermore and in san jose. When it comes to the air quality which means its unhealthy for sensitive groups. As far as the rest of the bay area, were in the green sensors for now and your temperatures, one more thing youll notice today, they will be warmer. About fiveplus degrees, maybe even eight. Noticeably warmer afternoon. Ill go into more detail on that and what were heading into in the workweek. Kira . Well see you in a few. For the second straight night people across the bay area and across the country gathered to share stories about the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, landmarks illuminated in her honor. This scene from new york city where buildings were lit in blue to honor ginsburg who was born and raised in brooklyn. Here locally on the ste
Happened as he was climbing near or onto the third story of the Training Facility. We are trying to make sure that his family is the numberone priority and that they are given all the time necessary to mourn this along with all of his brothers and sisters at the San Francisco Fire Department. Reporter dozens of firefighters and Law Enforcement gathered outside the hospital where he had been taken after the fall. While little is known about exactly what happened, firefighters were able to tell us a lot about the life he lived. Jason is not only a fellow firefighter paramedic, hes a friend to all. Hes an advocate for public safety. Hes a father of two children, a husband to an amazing wife, and a child to a retired San Francisco firefighter. Reporter they say he rose from a paramedic in 2007, working mostly at station 49, that he attended fire academy, graduated as a firefighter paramedic assigned to station 3 in the tenderloin. Late today a powerful image as a procession for the fallen