Alameda seeing a Record Number of voters. The county registrar is coming up with creative ways to get people to the polls. How officials plan to manage the day. Emily. Yeah. You can do it early, inside, outside, they use tongs. Theres all sorts of different ways to cast your ballot. There have been for several days. We arent seeing the long lines and major crowds. The numbers are still big. Yeah. Congratulations. First time voters. Thank you. If you get that sticker or just the satisfaction from casting a Ballot Voters turning out in Record Numbers now in alameda. u thanks to coronavirus the county registra has a one stop shop to get a flu shot, coronavirus test and vote all free and without an appointment. Downtown you can vote by mail, even al itself resco. You can see we are using tongs to grab the ballot. We are handing back the i voted sticker with the tongs. Already the county has seen ballots for almost 65 of registered voters. The modern record turn out is 78 from obamas first
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our Treasure Island camera, looking at the city of San Francisco on this thursday morning. Good morning. It is november 5. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. All eyes on nevada, arizona, georgia as ballot counting continues. The race for the white house is too close to call but with updated results from battleground states we are closer to a winner. Joe biden would need to win any two of the remaining states to reach 270 electorial votes. Georgia announced the new numbers. President trumps lead narrowed. Joe biden has an 80,000 lead in arizona but there is a delay in new numbers. Here is the reason why. Let us in . In maricopa county, arizona, protests outside a reporters office shut down ballot county. About 200 protesters waved trump flags as they chant let us in outside the office. They claim battles are not being counted properly but officials insist that is not true. Protesters were met by sheriffs deputies intactcal gear and
Building. Maricopa county still has 275,000 ballots that need to be counted. President trump is hoping to stop the vote count but only in some states. Anne makovec joins us now from the live news desk with the very latest. Reporter the vote counting is on as we speak. It looks like we can likely have an answer as to who could be the next president of the United States by the end of the day. The demonstrations you talked about from yesterday continuing this morning including outside the office where theyre counting now in philadelphia, pennsylvania. Lets go inside that room right now where they still have about 1 million votes left to count. Pennsylvania is of course among the handful of Battle Ground states you mentioned still in play this morning. So far the mail in ballots theyre counting have skewed heavily in joe bidens favor but President Trump still has the lead. This was the state where in 2016 he won pennsylvania by less than one percentage point. We have an eye on the counting
Let us in. Around 275,000 ballots remain. Protesters claim ballots are not being counted prisonly but officials insist that is not true. One point, protesters tried to make their way in. The Arizona Attorney general is investigating after he got hundreds of complaints over weather sharpie pens caused ballots to be canceled. I filled out the front side with the sharpie and when i turned it over it bled through so badly that i was a little bit concerned. Election Officials Say as long as it was filled correctly your vote should be counted. The vote count resuming in georgia. Anne makovec is joining us from the live news desk. This is as President Trump is mounting legal action against the peach state and others. Reporter yes, he is definitely holding onto that hope that he had when he was ahead significantly in the polls yesterday. He still is but that lead is shrinking. Lets go live to georgia where the count has resumed. At this point there are fewer than 25,000 left to be counted in g
Streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera as we look at San Francisco and of course the trans america pyramid. Good morning everyone. It is friday, october 30. Yay, we made it. I am michelle griego. Big yay, good morning. I am len kiese. Lets get to your friday forecast with meteorologist mary lee. Good morning. Good friday morning to you len and michelle. So glad its friday, we made it through another week together. It is going to be a beautiful day. Temperatures are a little bit cooler with on shore flow kicking back in. We will warm up as we look to the weekend. A live look, temperatures are in the 40s and 50s to start our day. Its another chilly start with 47 concord, 54 oakland with patchy fog, 47 livermore, 52 San Francisco, 50 san jose, 40 santa rosa. As we head through our afternoon, daytime highs a bit cooler in spots especially around the bay. Upper 60s in San Francisco, low 70s oakland, low 80s for concord. Well talk about ou