Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Are going to continue to cool it down this week and tracking our next weather system, i will take you hour by hour on future cast showing you those showers and that full forecast coming up. We are starting to see lots of break bikes on the bay bridge. Lights return on just about half an hour ago so that backup is a building almost to the foot of the maze. Looks like we are starting to see things start to stack up at the bridge. Once your passes portion of looks a little bit better through there and we are seeing drive times increasing on the san mateo bridge about a 15 minute as you work your way toward onetoone. Have some delays southbound 880 27 minutes down to 237. California in a state of emergency, a cruise ship on the bay area coast this morning, it is linked to the state states first coronavirus death. And kenny, this is where you see a dark hole behind these gates. The ship is out there this morning because thousands of people may have been exposed to the coronavirus. A 71yearo
Can cause fever, coughing, will be in the 50s to to end sky. Our temperatures or in the 40s wheezing, and even pneumonia. And in the 50s this morning now, Health Officials think it our weekend. With partly cloudy to mostly spreads from tiny droplets when back to you. Sounds good. Cloudy skies. An infected person coughs or thank you. Lets check in with michelle in as we head through the sneezes. Afternoon, were going to see very similar to how the flu our newbay area newsroom. Those clouds really indicating spreads definitely something to some changes for us. Keep in mind and stay on top so 67 in San Francisco. 74, fremont. 78 for san jose. Mid70s for santa rosa. 77 for concord. So still mild and warm to above of. Average. Reporting in Solano County, we will cool us down heather janssen, kpix 5. No, on the other side of streaming news and live updates signifantly for the weekend. I will have details on that the world, asian markets making all day. Michelle, what are following coming up.
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So it is my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editorinchief of the hill who will moderate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm orenstein, michael steele. Bianca carmen. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprisingly North Carolina, florida, pennsylvania, of course democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more. But the first question would be if we did change the system and, norm, ill start with you. What would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . So, as you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. And i was kind of amused when senator cramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said awfully close in terms of popular votes. Then every vote would count, and candidates would have an incentive to try and maximize the turnout even in places like north dako