Going out now. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepaid postage and you can return your ballot at any time to and including election day. November 3rd. The envelope must be sealed, signed and dated. It can be turned into your county elections office, a ballot drop box, a vote center or any polling place. And if youre mailing it back, there is more time this year for it to arrive because of the concerns about the u. S. Postal service. Now, a ballot with a postmark no later than northern 3rd can be received as late as november 20th and it will still count. You can track your ballot online through the secretary of states website. And earlier today on abc 7 news at 4 00, we spoke live with the secretary of the state alex padilla about the benefits of voting by mail. Its convenient. You get to vote from the comfort and safety of your own home and it is proven to be secure. So any suggestion otherwise is, frankly, not true, and only seeks to undermine confidence in our electi
Underway. You can see the lights are on directly behind me. Then you walk across the street and you can see total darkness. Destructive fires, evacuations and now power outages. Those living in the Santa Cruz Mountains they say cant catch a break. Damages you offshore winds have forecast tonight, which prompted a red flag warning. The hunt for a missing lemur at the San Francisco zoo, why police think the animal was taken from its enclosure and what we can all do to help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. I know it has to be done because of the fires and everything, but we dont have any wind or anything right now. I dont see what the big deal is. Our breaking news is the extreme fire conditions that have forced pg e to cut power to thousands of people across the bay area tonight. This map f pg es website shows you exactly whos affected by the Public Safety shutoffs right now. Expected to lose power in 7 bay area counties. The utility hopes to restore power
Underway. You can see the lights are on directly behind me. Then you walk across the street and you can see total darkness. Destructive fires, evacuations and now power outages. Those living in the Santa Cruz Mountains they say cant catch a break. Damages you offshore winds have forecast tonight, which prompted a red flag warning. The hunt for a missing lemur at the San Francisco zoo, why police think the animal was taken from its enclosure and what we can all do to help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Now from abc 7 live breaking news. I know it has to be done because of the fires and everything, but we dont have any wind or anything right now. I dont see what the big deal is. Our breaking news is the extreme fire conditions that have forced pg e to cut power to thousands of people across the bay area tonight. This map from pg es website shows you exactly whos affected by the Public Safety shutoffs right now. Expected to lose power in 7 bay area counties. The utility hopes to restore po
The big concern is the red flag warning that went into fekt at 1 00. Our concerns are with that northwest wind. The perimeter in the sugar loaf state park area, and if that fire gets across the line that we have established down there, it will create a much larger area to fall back to. Keep in mind, the red flag warning will remain in if he can through saturday morning. So were entering another critical time. The glass fire is moving dangerously close to the northeastern edge of angwin. Stephanie sierra went directly into the fire line where the flames are bordering that small town. Reporter the work thats happening this afternoon is critical to save angwin. The fire crews tell me theyre building a fire line from friesen road to spring lake road which homes to save angwin. Its day five, working in triple digit heat. Surrounded in dense black smoke. These heroes arent giving up. Dragging 140 pound hoses up the hill side, each crew pouring out 100 gallons of water a minute to fight the f
The governor talking about fire danger once again. Certain parks like mt. Diablo close the as a precaution. Conditions are extreme for most of the north bay mountains and the east bay. Good evening. Lets get right to abc 7 news meteorologist. Yeah. Lets take a look at the red flag warning in effect for the north and east bay hills. Along with the santa cruz mountains. Its in effect until 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The winds out of the northnortheast, 25 to 45. In the north bay hills, 65 Miles Per Hour cant be ruled out. Low humidity, dry conditions. Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. We have a wind advisory until 11 00 p. M. Tonight. Downed power lines and definitely Power Outages are a possibility. Check out the winds right now at the higher elevations. Gusting to 29 on st. Helena. 21 mt. Diablo. Take a look at the lower elevations. Some wind is translating down to the surface. Gusts to 25 in vacaville. The air quality is horrible across the bay area. It is obvious from the east ba