Danger and the Power Outages have been a daily thing for many days so lets see if were going to get a little relief and when john yeah guys were still under those red flag warnings the good news is though there are as many of them as there were yesterday today its more isolated to or Higher Elevations because its a mixed bag, some of us are pretty windy other as of us are actually really nice and calm right now you look outside at the bay bridge behind me nice and clear and you look outside from suture tower also beautiful and clear there is really little marine layer affecting our bay area forecast today as these offshore winds continue keeping things dry. Breezy and yes high fire danger continues because of both of those factors sonoma calistoga petaluma atlas peak, vacaville and danville are all some of our breezy us to spots right now, especially the hillsides above each of these areas. Calmer conditions in Oakland Hayward San Francisco in livermore look at that hardly even detecti
213 the states. That are lightly shaded are the ones are still in question this morning and to the Vice President s point. It is a bit too early to call in fact we saw one of those states change color michigan earlier this morning which was leaning towards President Trump has now shifted is now leaning towards President Biden we could see other states shift as well one way or the other depending on the final vote and it will take a few days to get that process done were joined live this morning via zoom by Jason Mcdaniel a Political Science professor at San Francisco state university. To talk about this process, good morning. So everybody was urged to be patient and yet the president went on tv. Before midnight saying we need to stop counting. The votes now and im going to the Supreme Court now. What would go to the Supreme Court for at this point. At this point he wants to try to get any ballots that mailed ballots be counted some even that level arrive later, according to state laws,
Looking out at our fog tracker yeah, theres definitely not as much of it to be talking about but there are a Little Pockets of it so do watch for that the densest a fog is actually out towards the Central Valley, this morning. Temperatures are in the 30s and 40s livermore youre at 39 degrees right now oakland, you may not be in the 50s like you were yesterday but a lesion on the 30s here 46 right now Napa Petaluma nevado san Anselmo Santa Rosa and santa lena, all down in the 30s as well in napa you are cool spot this morning at 35 degrees. Were all above freezing at least, but it is chilly side say bundle up get that extra layer on as you venture outside now of course as you venture outside this morning got to know what to expect on the roads it was a little calmer on the roads yesterday robin and this morning hopefully living up to that too and if so far will stay that way john thats a big question but youre absolutely right. I started noticing yesterday that we have a lot of folks ou
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
Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see a