Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
Coverage. First lets go to mark outside in the elements. Im here in oakland, right now its a steady downpour, earlier today, 3 00, 4 00, 5 00 there were impressive rainfall rates. Weve been worried about flooding. We have video from San Francisco going to oakland, this is about 4 00 this afternoon, reports it took 45 minutes to get from San Francisco to oakland. You can see the challenges and obstacles. Rainfall rates, some spots picking up rainfall in an hour verified between a half inch to three quarters of an inch. A lot of acoupe lating water on the bay area roadways. Im sure chp has been busy of the a lot of reports of flooding and accidents. Weve been tracking the timing for the past few days, the timing remains on track. You know its in the south bay, we can leave mark up, mark and i were looking at the rainfall accumulations in the north bay, mark, you commented there was a spike in totals around 4 00. What was the observation there. Its amazing, were inside working on weather
You can see this right there. For the most part it is the colder air 40s on these temperatures. East bay we will keep us we will see a couple of 30s. The blackhawks are all ready 32. The system is out of the picture. Theres another little piece of energy that has to rotate through. It is colder and wendy with temperatures in the 50s. The lows will be in the 20s tomorrow morning. So, if you are going out you might want to bundle up. Those highs are low 50s wait until tomorrow. I will be watching. And i have my ugly sweater all ready. In lets take a look at the commute. Traffic is going to be okay if youre driving in solano county. And driving through to fairfield, to alejo, not a bad commute continuing to look very good as you drive through and no major problems on 80 getting down to the car keenness bridge. Also looking at another commute if you are driving out to the San Francisco dr. The northbound 101 looks good. And, you can see the westbound brave bay bridge traffic is smooth. Its
Chief that this is really a wind driven fire. They are experiencing gusts about 15 Miles Per Hour kind of coming up up the bay blowing west to east and that is driving the fire. They have dozens of cars that are continuing to burn at the salvage yard. This is an auto wrecking yard. This is right on richmond parkway near gertrude avenue. Richmond parkway is shut down entirely as firefighters try to get a handle on these planes. Discipline of a black smoke obviously quite toxic this thick plume of black smoke obviously quite toxic. People living in this immediate area have been given a warning to stay indoors especially those who have breathing problems because this smoke is just so toxic. A short time ago i lived with a woman living in this neighborhood. She woke up just before 8 am and looked outside and saw this massive fire. Actually at 7 45 i woke up to a big boom and i looked at my bedroom and i saw dark black smoke. I threw something on and ran outside. I thought the house was on
Much of tomorrows coverage online. We will carry it live at the sister station newschannel8. Larry the past few days have been perfect weather to get outside. As the sun sets tonight, literally it appears to set figuratively on the spring like weather. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill has a look at the change that is on the way. Doug it started today. We had temperatures in the upper 50s, close to 60 the temperatures are slowly falling. Jump to tomorrow and we will see continuation of the gusty winds at time. The big thing are the colder temperatures. We start the day in the 30s. 40degree reading around noon. 43 in the afternoon. We still have up to a couple more hours until 7 00. Wind advisory across a large portion of the area. Wind gust up to 40 Miles Per Hour in spots. In the next three hours, more 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour gusts will be isolated. As far as the gusts at the moment, look at the recent wind gust. 46 Miles Per Hour gust at b. W. I. Reagan normal. Leesburg at 3