Exactly. Days until that election, more places and more opportunities for folks to do just that. This is a big weekend for several bay area counties. If youre here youll see a super voting center, a center where instead of having several polling locations, they will have one center. The Oakland Coliseum being one and the San Mateo Center behind me being the other. California voters are not required to show identification but if you are voting for the first time in the state after registered by mail, it is suggested that you bring one. In terms of contracost a county, voting there started a few minutes ago. Centers are held at churches, hotels, businesses and community centers. A quick check at the contra costa registrars website can tell you where to go. San francisco county has early voting at civic center location. The polling site has been open several weeks and continues to see visitors. We had a chance to catch up with some folks and listen to their experience and why it is so cru
It will be a nice afternoon, and warming to 80 in the east bay. Looking at mount diablo, temperatures today in the 90s inland. Chris. Lisa, thank you. We start with developing news from san leandro where firefighters are still at the scene of a major fire that damaged several businesses late last night. The fire broke out inside a building along east 14th at georgia way near the oakland border. Fire engulfed an upholstery store, quickly spreading to businesses next door including a popular san leandro jamaican restaurant called sweet fingers. The fire quickl grew to three alarms. Firefighters say the conditions were extremely challenging. They had a lot of obstacles as they went into the building and it is a lot of combustibles in the building, a heavy fire load, so the fire rapidly expanded on them and they had to pull back. Now theyre in a defensive mode where were trying to ex teng wish the fire from the outside. There are no injuries reported. People living on georgia way were evac
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the death of covert 19 skeptic john maga fully the government says he suffered a heart failure. a call for all parties involved in the afghan talks to agree on a cease fire russia is hosting a meeting to help jumpstart negotiations which have stalled. well it s a meeting there s likely to set the tone in relations between the world s 2 largest economies in a few hours top diplomats from the u.s. and china are going to meet in alaska it s going to be their 1st face to face discussions since the by the ministration took office in january it comes just after the u.s. has sanctioned an additional $24.00 chinese and hong kong officials for what it says is beijing s continuing crackdown on political freedoms in the territory. our white house correspondent kelly holcomb is joining us live from washington d.c. it s well known that there s a very large rift between beijing and washington at the moment what can we expect from these talks well these are initial talks when we can expect
Josh, tell me. How do you think the markets are going to react now, assuming this passes as early as next week, according to the president . Yeah, you know, its really something. Were now going to get a massive fiscal stimulus which we could have used seven years ago, but well get it now, and its squarely aimed at probably the one area of the economy that needs it the least, corporate profits, but, fine they are going to give it to us, and its going to be great for stocks and maybe some of that is already priced in, but were going to get that on top of still having very, very historically low interest rates. No rush in terms of the rate at which rates will rise. Somebody from the fed yesterday said they are not going to counteract fiscal stimulus with what they are doing to Monetary Policy so maybe there will be some space in between where that can actually take effect. Look, the most important thing you just said is whether you debate, and there are others weighing in, whether its Jef