Im proud to stand before you to announce the results of our successful results in michigan. For nearly six weeks, from the moment voters began voting six weeks ago to the moment the polls closed at 8 00 p. M. Tuesday night, a Record Number of michigan citizens turned up to cast their votes and make their voices heard in a historic president ial election. We saw Record Numbers of voters cast their ballots and overall, more than 5. 2 million michiganders voted in this election. That is more than any election in our state in modern history. Of those who voted, nearly two thirds, or 3. 3 million, voted absentee, utilizing the mail or our secure local drop boxes, or their local clerks offices, to return their ballots in time for it to be validated and counted. On election day, inperson voting was exceptionally smooth. Our polling locations were islands of calm where citizens of all backgrounds and political affiliations respected our voters right to cast their votes free from intimidation.
Fog this morning that is streamed into the bay. So if you are going to be voting this morning do plan on wearing a jacket then just a cool start as is typical this time of year. You can see your view the north bay looking down at San Francisco, some low cloud cover hovering right above the bay itself, your bridges of actually been fined visibility wise. But if you are heading up into some hillsides and right along the coastline. Thats where youre running into those lower visibility areas you do see spots in San Francisco oakland and happen bay area visibilities a bit lower. Were in the 40s and 50s right now, but this afternoon were in for a treat sunshine returning and nice warm temperatures. Rob all right. Thank you morning commute is picking up out there we dont have any major trouble spots right now. But we do have some slowing heading into San Francisco. Were checking out this line here at the bay bridge toll plaza already stacking up beyond the 80 over crossing so quite busy were
Widespread of winds a lot of us are actually starting off the morning quite calm while others not just yet you look outside right now does show some continuously very dry skies. Marine layer, not very present across the bay because the predominant nature of these winds has been an offshore wind thats keeping fog and ocean cool theyre away from us even though temperatures have remained pretty mild calistoga snowman atlas peak vacaville, fairfield the napa all among our breezy us to spots petaluma youre at 22 Miles Per Hour for your winds right now well in the meantime, san jose oakland concord livermore in San Francisco are very calm by 06 15am a few hours from now still very breezy in the north bay pockets of heavier winds in areas like danville and then as we work our way into early afternoon eventually into the evening tonight. We do see winds generally beginning to calm down for the north bay area still breezy but not as much so and continuing to come down into tomorrow, red flag wa
Reaches the alaska peninsula. It actually the shaking went week to very weak. So thats the good news. Were looking for minor damage if any. According to the usgs since 1900 theyve actually been 6 other earthquakes of a magnitude 7 point oh or higher within about a 155 miles of last nights earthquake. The largest was an 8. 2 back in 1938. But luckily, we havent heard any reports yet of any damage or injury were not expecting to hear too much. But again well keep you updated as more information comes in we will let you know. Take a look at the latest with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much more than we know about lets take a look at the rise in cases over the past week versus the previous week and you can see california has improved slightly were seeing only a steady rise in cases versus a spike across the country there are now more than a 142,000 people have died of the raw virus and 3. 9 million. Positive tess meantime Pres
People theyre still out there on the beaches. Thinking this is a party at the time to grow up. You know time to wake up. Here in the bay area parks and beaches were overcrowded with visitors on saturday in fact the marine county Sheriffs Office had to shut down one road that led to the beach because of the crowd in the many people who are not practicing social distancing. Kron fours dan thorn has the story now from fairfax. After days of staying at home and having to do work or doing school work with the kids its understandable that you want to get outside and stretch your legs. But police say an overflow of people at local parks and trails is only adding more stress to an already stressful time. Sky oaks road leading to a popular watershed in marine county shut down saturday afternoon. Deputy say there were too many people taking up too many spots and not practicing social distancing. However we did see some people giving each other space as they were taking in the outdoors in harris