Straightaway for the election now and today is a big day in the state of california. Last day to register if you want to register online its the last day. If you want to mail in that registration request, its the last day it has to be postmarked by today. From there, things are pretty simple. The county registrar Voters Office will send your ballot to home. You fill it out, complete it and drop it in the drop box in your county. So far in the city of San Francisco, about 100,000 ballots have been delivered and an estimated 23 of all registered voters in the city have already cast their ballot. The Election Department there is calling that a pretty good turnout so far. A lot to keep in mind. You have all of that information on our website, as well as a link if you want to check the status of your registration, you can do on our website as well. We are in the final stretch so do what you can to cast your vote. Cierra johnson, nbc bay area news. Just get out and vote. The Supreme Court sa
Happening. Coming up new details on the surge of evictions in one Bay Area Community as the third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Good monday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping track of the commute. First i want to start out with meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast, something to smile about this morning, kari. Were going to have great weather, a little cooler than weve seen recently as well as a mild week ahead. Now one thing im watching will be the high fire danger as the strong offshore wind develops during several times this week, the first event starts tonight. Well talk more about that as well as our temperatures in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mike, as folks get ready to head out the door how is it looking for the drive . It looks like some of the folks may have already headed out the door early and eager for the monday morning. Eager to get to the bay bridge toll plaz
1st everything was actually quite peaceful just like doing the past 2 weeks here in this neighborhood very close to a studio you will see people listening to music chanting of course and to Police Brutality something that they were asking for for the past weeks not just this time around the 4 years back and so yes that was just a very normal beginning but then the dynamics started to change my cameraman and me witness that people gunmen on bikes and to the side and they just started to shoot at people we were lucky enough to find one way to to to hide or to hunker down a nearby parking lot from where we could witness what is going on at the demonstration side unfortunately couldnt exit this place where the demonstration took place and the scene was rather chaotic people we have praying around us others we are singing the National Anthem saying im ready to die for my nation and then also we witnessed people injured 20 carried to this area where some of the protesters actually stayed ove
Bay down to the south county. Well talk more about our temperatures in the forecast in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . The last half hour was busy as far as finding the slow spots but now as we look at the maps things have calmed down quite a bit, even san jose where we saw the slowing which sometimes sticks around until 6 30. I think 6 40, 6 45 well see more south bay slowing again. Little pockets through berkeley and oakland have cleared up for 24, 580 and i80. The bay bridge toll plaza and i80. We do see the middle lanes starting to stack up that has been the trend so a slow build for the last 15 minutes. No metering lights yet. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Right to that breaking news were following in San Francisco this morning. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live with the cliff rescue wrapping up in the presidio. Reporter yes, good morning. The last fire official pulled out just a couple minutes before you came to me, but a really dramatic resc
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