About any confusion about this. How can voters report . Do they call. That is where your mail is going, they are the ones were going to be tracking your ballot. We are getting down to crunch time here, he did not have a lot of time left, especially if you dropping it in the mail, at what is staring waste mail in going to this dropbox is, the turnaround right now from when you should be hearing about your ballot once it goes in there. That will crunch down a little bit. But as you can tell people following those things online and when something goes wrong, they are following up. There seeing it. All right, thank you. He dates to keep in mind, your mail ballots must be postmarked november 3. November 20 is the final day mail ballots can arrive at county registrars to be counted. And december 14 is when the Electoral College will vote. For guide to help you vote smart, visit kpix. Com. Following breaking news in san jose tonight, fire crews responding to a blaze that is blowing traffic, a
A very good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us this monday morning. Im laura garcia. We went on an extra 30 minutes early this morning at 4 00 a. M. Just because of this red flag warning. Im kris sanchez in for marcus washington. We are seeing some vegetation fires pop up overnight. Kari hall is watching those winds. And the high fire danger will continue throughout this morning as weve seen the high wind gusts especially in our upper elevations and the wind advisory will expire at 11 00 but the rest of the day will be breezy as we see the winds gusting for even our valleys up to 50 miles an hour. This red flag warning will continue for today. Up until tomorrow morning so were still looking at breezy winds and some very dry air. Well continue to monitor that and talk about whats ahead in our forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking driving to work this morning . Kari, your system and my system are map share data as we look at the maps for traffic data, the speed looks fin
It was for sure, strong winds in fact the most powerful offshore winds weve seen so far this wildfire season, pick wind gusts, mount st. Helena topic 89 Miles Per Hour. The Oakland Airport reporting wind gusts as high as 58 Miles Per Hour. Current wind speeds looking at 23 Miles Per Hour sustained out of the north, 10 in napa, 22 for santa rosa and looking at 15 for oakland, 14 in San Francisco and for hayward looking at when gus right now at 30 mileperhour. The red flag warning has now been extended all the way until 5 pm today for the entire bay area as we are looking at that extreme fire danger, dusty conditions, low relative humidity values and for the Higher Elevations, the east bay hills and diablo range, that red flag warning will continue until 5 pm on tuesday, so looking at low relative humidity values down to the Single Digits and teens we have record drive fuel and vegetation so we are looking at dangerous fire weather conditions today into tomorrow. Well talk more about wha
The wind is not as strong as it was last night, that is the good news but it is still gusty. And the humidity is still less than 10 across much of the bay area. Last night, mount st. Helena, 80 mile an hour wind gust just before of them 30 last night. 70 miles an hour, the Oakland Hills had a wind gust close to severe thunderstorms, 57 miles an hour, not the airport measured 50 mile an hour wind gusts. So while it is not going to be this strong, tonight, still Strong Enough and the humidity is still low enough to keep us in the critical fire weather threat. We take a look at the forecast values for humidities and wind speeds across the bay area coming up in a few minutes. Strong wind took down this giant tree near the santa rita jail in dublin. People in the neighborhood say the wind was so loud it sounded like a hurricane moving through. Juliette goodrich live in san leandro where cleanup is underway after fierce wind ripped through that area. Reporter theres a lot of cleanup. We are
Mta looks at the Surveillance Video on a week by basis. Were able to take a look at the service on the streets from week to week to see how well the mask compliance is going. Reporter the sfmta also reported having trouble with a few passengers when told to mask up. According to their data from april to august 31st, this are 63 verbal altercations specifically dealing with masks and nine operators have been assaulted. One driver was struck several times with a wooden bat in july. There was a minute toiature involved, as well due to facial compliance or lack thereof. Its a scary situation, indeed. Reporter roger out Transit Workers Union local 250 a believes many more drivers are not reporting passengers who dont compile to avoid any interruption to their bus route. We would like to see more assistance out there, boots on the ground in terms of people, workers, assisting us with more compliance. Reporter the sfmta says a few things are helping. Its mandatory for bus drivers to use the p