For those not voting this year you can call us at 202 . 488003 we begin with a story from the Associated Press this morning about early voting. A record avalanche of early votes has transformed the 2020 election. You can see pictures of folks voting in durham, North Carolina for the beginning goes like this. More than 22 million americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election. A record shattering avalanche of early votes. The pandemic has transformed the way the nation votes. 22. 2 million, thats as a friday night, ballots submitted, representing 15 of all votes cast in the 2016 election. Even as eight states are not yet reporting their totals and voters still have more than two weeks to cast ballots. Americans rushed to vote, leading that a record of 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than any president ial election since 1908. The story goes on to say that so far, the turnout has been lopsided with democrats out in 42 republicans by 21 states. Re
Exclusive fire Investigative Unit one year to the day after the kincade fire started tearing through the north bay. And coming as the region copes with more extreme conditions. Today in the bay starts right now. And a good morning to you on this friday. Im marcus washington. Oh, yes you are. And im laura garcia. Were all happy its friday. Get through the show this morning. Look at you in your sunshine shirt there. Dark and early in the morning. Exactly. Wearing a yellow shirt, kari. Thats really nice. Love that combo. Lets check it out for our friday forecast. We are starting out with clouds now. I do have some things im watching as we go into the weekend even though the wind is now calming down and we have cooler weekend temperatures. We turn our attention to another high wind event as we head to the beaked where we may see wind gusts topping 70 miles an hour. Our high temperatures for today right now. Its going to be a nice one. Get out there and enjoy it before we have those other c
Cause a high fire danger by sunday into monday. As we check out our temperatures for today, San Francisco will reach 67 and some sunshine for the inland areas reaching into the upper 70s. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, we have a couple of notes. So, folks, while we show you the big view, and you do see its dominated the map green, thats the color we want to see with Speed Sensors at the limit. A lot of slowing for a couple of minutes on the right side. South 880 through hayward and whipple just cleared. Marcus, were also looking at eastbound 580 just past North Livermore. Word of a roadside fire im tracking. It sounds like its all right. The time of year were worried about any reports of fire. Back to you. Very true. Keep your eye on that, thanks. Pg e this morning is still in the progress of restoring power to customers who lost it from this weeks high fire danger. The latest shutoffs now appear to be just a small
World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
Outbreak. Lets start with the less scary of the topics, six more states hold the democratic primaries today. What are the story lines use still trying to digest super tuesday from last week . Im glad you said super tuesday to make because someone said many super tuesday and thats just tuesday. River number of states up tonight. The most critical one for both of the campaigns as they spent the last couple days is in michigan. Its a state Bernie Sanders one bat back in 2016. Discover largest delegates, when hundred 25 up for grabs and its a state that appears to be tilting towards former Vice President joe biden. Hes got the support of not just his former rival cory booker and, hares but also the governor of the state budget what brca1 her race back in 2018. The mayor of detroit, the lieutenant governors of young dynamic up and. Establishment if you will in that state of the newly elected establishment seems to be going behind former Vice President biden. Biden is almost certainly going