Fresh produce, which is a wonderful contribution. Fresh produce is something that low income people and people in need often dont buy because its expensive and they have to decide how to spend their funds. However, it is some of the most nutritious food we provide. So the 15,000 allowed us to contribute about 60,000 worth of produce by the way in which were able to make a dollar stretch. And you can also help toys for to the. Now through december 134th visit shop disney. Com toys for to the and disney will donate 1 for each toy. Find out more about how to help any organizations we support. Go to abc7news. Com take action. Another great local organization. We want to talk about. The organization is known as alas. Helping latinos to dreams. Joining us to talk more about this, the executive director Belinda Hernandez and an eighth grade volunteer, el kin lopez. Good afternoon to both of you. Good afternoon. I like your tshirts. Dont think i dont notice that. Your organization is based on
Reporter yeah, hi, kristen. Were actually at Harvest Park Middle School here in pleasanton. This scene behind me really pretty typical of what weve seen all day at several different polling locations. It looks like its slow, but theres actually been a steady stream of folks mostly dropping off their mailin ballots. Some activity inside. But the fact that it looks kind of slow is really no indication of how busy it is in terms of people getting out to vote early. Lets have you take your ballot card, please. Reporter call it lastminute early voting. Yet another new phenomenon around the historic election of 2020. An election where in the east bay 60 plus of the electorate has already cast their ballots with still a little more than 24 hours to go. Once the word got out they could come into the warriors old training facility, we got a lot more people. Like to take pictures of things they see and live their memories. So thats nice. But the best part is its bringing people in to vote. Repor
Streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live you can see the bay bridge on this friday. Thats your dose of pretty as we start the day. Good morning. It is october 23. I am len kiese. Here is your other dose of pretty. Oh you are so nice. Hes lying. Its the truth. Good morning. I am michelle griego. Lets get a check of our weather with meteorologist mary lee. Its friday. So glad its friday. Love you both. Love friday. We are looking the at a bit of a break from our fire danger thankfully so. I am watching relative humidity values rise with the on shore flow. We are looking at cooler temperatures with that Pacific Ocean breeze kicking in for us for today and for tomorrow and then looking at a stronger offshore wind event that arrives sunday. This afternoon, looking at highs around 64 in San Francisco, 70 oakland, 76 san jose, 79 concord. Five degrees cooler in San Francisco and a few degrees above average as we look to oakland, san jose, concord. Talking about those gusty offshore winds with
Im here to share some sobering news. Our case count in Santa Clara County are starting to surge. Health officials across the bay area issued a new safety guidance. Warning against getting indoors for think giving and on other holidays. Recommending people keep the gathering outdoors, social distance with the masks, limit to three hassles and two hours maximum. And nonessential travel districts. We are training ourselves right into the red and potentially the tier of the states framework. Which means a lot more restrictions. This disease continues to be deadly. A vaccine will come. It is not going to come soon enough. She is not sure what is bad the local surge possibly it is halloween and pandemic fatigue. She will be spent in getting with her out of the mother, sitting 10 feet apart, outdoors with their blankets. For those of you who do travel outside the bay area, Health Officers are strongly recommending a 14 day self quarantine upon returning home. They suggest getting tested befor
All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies