Ballots directly to the registrars office. In Santa Clara County, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. About half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. And marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. Reporter they are very concerned about that, janelle. If you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of Voters Office. Many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, thats how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop box at the registrar Voters Office in san jose. I feel like it is safer to drop it on a place where you will be counted. Reporter but Evelyn Mendez with the Santa Clara County registrar of Voters Office says theres no need to make a
Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So lets start with the idea of your book 1 billion americans try to get more people in here . 670 Million People. And then sometimes have a Bad Reputation and how clean it was good. And then to be provocative and i thought to thought experiment like chinas competition we just cannot grow as fast. But we can have more people we spend money to keep them out and we dont have as many children as they say we want to have. We occurred provide childcare so why not . When i do it . Limited to say thats too many people like is hong kong to be crammed in like sardines. Is that true . With one americans the population would be about half. Yeah america is empty with a lot of amber waves of grain. [laughter] is just really big and stuff is historically odd 330 million in canada they are 25 million we make policy choices mature. Our career to get a lot of people to. It is very deliberate you look at the George Washington administration, there is a l
Youre watching morning news at the. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a tuesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the Weather Center john trouble keeping us updated on what will be the big story for the week ahead john yeah, its that fire danger guys temperatures are already climbing ahead of increased fire danger these next few days looking really clear across San Francisco in the rest of the bay area right now calm winds clear conditions. Beautiful cool morning to be getting outside. Winds will pick up starting tonight into tomorrow morning youre going to notice a big difference as far as wind scale. After that wednesday night into thursday morning is when well see our peak wind gusts of this wind event and also some of our warmest of temperatures thats the highest a fire danger this is thursday morning on our future cast of winds at 07 45am. And look at vacaville calistoga now speak. Winds gusting regularly into a 2030 even 40 mile per hour rang
60s for current temperatures across the bay area pretty comfortable to start. Later today for san jose, its back to the 90s you go and for oakland back to the mid 80s. Robin. All right, thank you john were following some developing news on bart out of the east bay theyre having some Service Problems in. Track between macarthur and fruitvale in oakland, so no service between those 2 bart stations and this a problem is causing major delays now to 30 minutes. At last check board says that they are single tracking through the area of lake merritt so theyre using one side of the track because theyre having some power issues and theyre working on trouble shooting this area. They have a crew responding to the scene. So once again major delays on bart out of the east bay, no service right now between the Fruitvale Station and macarthur station in oakland, they are single tracking through lake merritt because of this ongoing problem. They have a crew responding to the scene but theyre saying ex
States of wisconsin and michigan on saturday, attacking michigans governor once again after federal authorities stopped an alleged plot to kidnap her. Meanwhile, joe biden is in North Carolina looking to add states to the map as he attacks the president s response to the coronavirus crisis. A live report. Plus chuck todds analysis just ahead. Plus our sunday focus on what lies ahead in the coronavirus pandemic. With cases surging across the country, Public Health experts sounding aparms and some politicians taking alert from the first wave. And with an American League championship crowd last night, game seven and the world series just two days away, well introduce you in our sunday spotlight to the diehard baseball fans finding creative ways to watch games in person during this strange major league season. Then, a new sunday sitdown with legendary saturday night live creator loern mirne micha taking us behind the scenes to show us how snl is pulling things together in these socially di