Regardless of whos doing it. Stern words from the states chief Elections Official after unofficial ballot boxes began popping up across the state. Well, cease and desist that is the message sent to the California Republican party after it admitted putting out unofficial ballot boxes around the state. Their position, its legal. State officials disagree calling the ballot boxes illegal and a disturbance to voters. Let me be clear unofficial unauthorized ballot drop boxes are not permitted by state law. Thats the message from california secretary of state alex pudella who is calling on California Republican Party Leaders to stop their operation of unofficial ballots boxes mooch he issuing a cease and desist order after republican officials confirmed theyre operating those boxes in three counties. But a states person for the gop insys theyre perfectly legal citing a ballot collection bill that became law 4 years ago. And the more opportunities we give people to turn in their ballots and ca
Tens of thousands of pg e customers are expected to remain in the dark for a day, maybe two people in the montclair neighborhood in the Oakland Hills enjoyed the evening as best they could before the lights went out. Restaurants were busy serving customers all they still had power. Many restaurant and storeowners said they anticipate losing thousands of dollars in business during this latest shutoffs. A pg e map shows where the outages are happening. Inverted purple triangles indicated its power the power has been turned off. In those areas pg e has set up Community Resource centers where customers can plug in their devices. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief meteorologist is monitoring the red flag conditions. First, on the tens of thousands of people who lost their power. Reporter for many it will be friday evening, 10 00 p. M. Before they get their power back. Two full days and nights of getting by. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part
Under way right now. Tracie, you know about all the counts. This looks like it is a done deal. It looks like its a done deal because we have some sense of whether 12 republicans and 10 democrats will break when it comes down to voting for her or not. Looking live in the hearing room now. They are getting under way. She is done with her questioning. Shes not expected to be there today. But we will hear from members of the American Bar Association and outside witnesses on her nomination. A vote is not a final vote, but we will get a sense of where this committee is headed. We already know because weve been listening for several days as lawmakers questioned her with democrats questioning whether shes a threat to the Affordable Care act and womens issues. This hearing has done nothing to alleviate the concerns raised about why this nominee was chosen and why this is being rushed when the American People deserve to be heard. This is the first time in American History that weve nominated a w
Red flag warning is set to go into effect later this weekend to parts of the bay area are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest wind event of the year. Lets go to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who is tracking the dangerous fire conditions certainly dont like to see an active fire were forecasting a potentially some of the strongest winds. Weve seen in quite some time at least this year maybe even longer, but certainly a possibility some firestorm events we continue to see this but. The winds out there right now in and around this active fire. The pope fire we continue to see some of those winds out of the west thats not a bad wind thats a more moist when thats developing right now. We saw as high as 80 Miles Per Hour this afternoon now to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So just some light winds blowing now on likely going to see those winds pick up a more out of a westerly wind as we head toward tomorrow, but. Then things begin to change and so thats what were concerned about
Before we leave you this morning by 10 00am pockets maybe remaining along the coast to later this morning or even in the early afternoon. Temperatures thus far were in the mixture between 50s and 60s a lower 61, the east bay shoreline already antioch at 62 and for comparison sake most of the real estate is actually ahead of where it was this time from yesterday. The breakdown for you we cant take care of this morning, fog clouds by 11 00am were mostly sunny at 70 79 by mid afternoon, the temperatures are going to revisit the 80s in those inland valleys of looks like for today, but the real earnest warmup doesnt get here until the middle of the week well be talking all about that coming up in just a bit back to you. All right sounds good. Thank you dave a developing story that were following from overnight. Take a look at this video another fatal officer involved shooting leads to a fiery protests this time in atlanta. Youre taking a look at the that was burned down saturday where shark