Election and we will tell you how kron 4 is your local election headquarters. And thank you for joining us tonight at 5 im pam moore and im ken wayne were now just hours away from a historic election as a divided country grapples with country grapples with the pandemic which has caused Many Americans to cast their ballots by mail election offices across california of already received more than 11 million mail in ballots with more to come. That is historic especially when you consider that during the 2016 president ial election. Just 8. 4 million vote by mail ballots were cast and among the spots that could see a historic turnout locally is San Francisco. Thats where we find kron fours dan kerman he is live. Outside the citys outdoor Voting Center Near Civic Center plaza dan. But we can tell you the more than 300,000 ballots have already been received by the department of elections. This year they are doing the ballot processing in that building you see behind me the bill graham Civic A
Headed to the scene of this incident and we will bring you more in 4 mation as it becomes available through the night tonight, another big story were following tonight at 6 businesses are boarding up across the nation preparing for. On ras protests, possible looting even possible riots this as we are less than 24 hours away from election day this is video youre looking at now from San Francisco, los angeles and washington dc where you can see many storefronts are boarded up with plywood kron fours terisa is live in San Franciscos union square tonight, she has more on the preparations there theresa. And it really is a remarkable sight to see take a look behind me that is the board weston Saint Francis n going on i stood on the corner and looked back and down the street at numerous businesses. Theyre now all boarded up i spoke with a representative from the chamber of commerce about what he is hearing from local Business Owners. Yeah, absolutely and you can imagine businesses, Small Busi