High if that wave continues to build and coronavirus hits that is going to be the worst of all worlds combined with that recession. Against the white house to the incumbent democrats will pick up a witch. Well Something Like i think a million and a half people have already voted in california. So whats behind that tsunami david of early voting or the eager to vote for somebody eager to vote against somebody whats fueling this you see turnout turnout turnout thats what democrats want thats what the Biden Campaign wants so we have more democrats requesting ballots than republicans republicans are telling us over and over again that they want to wait until election day they want to go to the polls and that kind of late breaking want to see what happens even though democrats have been voting early and often what all of this sets up. Is the president ial election is coming down to a battle for florida. We see the challenger opening up a double digit lead in substantial lead sizable lead in
Status. I can tell you its a lot better than it was just about 3 oclock this afternoon when this fire behind me that happen in a where a wholesale bakery on starlite road. A rough day at around 3 oclock today you can see right now they have their firefighters here theyre wrapping up their hoses so obviously this is becoming under control here at this hour. Its been a crazy afternoon 9 alarms have been wrong in the city of South San Francisco. This fire only about a mile away from another grass fire that broke out around noon. A massive column of smoke could be seen pouring out of sine hill in South San Francisco today blowing over the 2. 80 freeway burning the grass around the iconic sign that greets people driving north on one oh one that reads South San Francisco, the Industrial City with the hot temperatures and breezy conditions, lots of resources were thrown at this blaze, it went to a 5th alarm plus a cal fire alarm which brought in air support. It got uncomfortably close to home
Until tomorrow morning. Yeah, our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the very latest details. Yeah, yeah, i see the winds look like theyre just hanging around a little bit not as ferocious as was last night so this red flag warning has changed a little bit this is mainly over the mountain tops above a 1000 feet in the east bay and the north bay hills you see right here as we take you for a closer look. The Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet certainly could see those winds blowing again 2030 Miles Per Hour weve seen some 18 almost 20 mile an hour winds already that will likely pick up a little bit tonight, whats dangerous now as the air mass is just so dry up above from those northerly winds were talking 1015 relative humidity so fires Getting Started will move rapidly in those kind of conditions as well things get moving along with should a fire gets started also in the north or him the gun napa Sonoma County looking at those gusty winds there again 2030 mile an hour gus
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. At 9 it is mid october and the bay area has seen another day of record high temperatures good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im grant lotus in for ken wayne tonight, lets get straight to it. Several cities across the bay broke or tied daily record high temperatures today. A red flag warning was slated to expire this morning but has been extended for some locations until tomorrow morning of course were also tracking power shut offs and outages across the bay area pg and e says it aims to have the power back on for all customers affected by the Public Safety power shutoff by 10 oclock tonight. Kron fours Ella Sogomonian is live in our newsroom right now with the latest efforts on that l a. Thats right nearly 50,000 customers earlier this week were warned that they could have their electricity cut off by the Utility Company and today we learned that was true for about 41,000 customers thats because some neighborhoods were spared due to
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.