Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
Maintaining that it is not liable for the fire. And we will be talking to an attorney representing some of those families but that will be coming up later on. All right another big story that were following pg and e being blamed for causing 29 teams kincade fire in Sonoma County cal fire has released the results of its investigation into that very destructive fire. The report says investigators have determined that pg and e on power lines near geyserville and thats to blame not a surprise. The kincade fire burned for more than 13 days covering more than 77,000 acres 374 buildings were destroyed 4 people were injured. Pg and is responding to the cal fire release of the investigation results blaming the company for the kincade fire. The Statement Reads in part were aware of cal fires news release stating that pg and e facilities caused the fire at this time we do not have access to cal fires investigator for port or the evidence it has collected we look forward to reviewing both at the a
Reporter san jose and santa clare county would be some of the last places in the bay area to enact a mandatory mask ball, and vice mayor chappy jones says its time. It prevents you from infecting someone else. Reporter and ordinance he proposes that would require people to cover their faces practically anytime they are in public or outdoors risk the possibility of getting a ticket will likely be passed by the city council june 2. Its been proven that face coverings will prevent or mitigate the spread of the covid19 virus. Reporter many people walking the streets are already voluntarily Wearing Masks in san jose but i think this is something we probably shouldve had in place weeks ago. Reporter during a City Council Discussion on how the ordinance would be enforced, please chief eddie garcia said his officers would not enforce it. From a Law Enforcement perspective, this is simply not our role. I do fear enforcement would impact our most vulnerable, the homeless and less affluent commun
All the gyms are closed, they decided to bring their own equipment to work out, they did have wipes and sanitizer. We got frustrated being inside. Reporter a good amount of people on this side of the lake, everybodys behaving for the most part social distancing sitting about six feet apart. Pretty good on the side of the lake so far. They have not given out any tickets so far but again the city is saying they will have to start doing that soon and lastly, the parking and food truck ban, fridays, saturdays and sundays, of course memorial day as well. Taking a live look outside, a sunny start to the weekend, but spoiler alert, the second half of your weekend could be a washout. Just focus on the good news, its fantastic outside, nice weather will continue this evening, saturday looks nice as well. Temperatures arent bad either, lets switch over the current view of these temperatures, in the mid 60s right now, upper 60s for the east bay and even inland east bay locations reaching the low
In san pedro square, a surprising thing started happening that caught managers by surprise. The hardest thing is getting employees to come back because they are making more money on unemployment. Reporter in some cases, a lot more. Which is unbelievable. Reporter Natalie Matheson was laid off in early march from her job as a hostess in Hotel Restaurant but being unemployed is far from the hardship she was expecting. Its wonderful because they are giving me a lot of income, more so than if i was working right now. Reporter she qualified for state unemployment which pays 200 a week, then came the federal stimulus bill which brings in another 600 a week on top of that. I making a decent amount on unemployment so i have thought should go back to work, when should i go back, is it worth it . Basically anyone in california who is earning less than 43 or 44,000 a year is collecting more on unemployment insurance. Reporter and employment Attorney Says workers can enjoy the benefits, until they