Thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im in for marcus washington. In fewer than 24 hours a new overnight curfew starts for all 14 counties in the purple covid19 tier. The stayathome or covers nearly 95 of the states population. Here in the bay area, that means escalator, allameda and the counties listed here. What can and you cant do . Same for businesses. Sharon is here for. Reporter workers are trying to get prepared for the weekend and holiday diners main street kitchen and bar the owner is trying to adapt by creating a structure that will allow some in but protect outdoor diners from rain when needed and said this will cost him 30,000 and he had to lay off ten employees since Indoor Dining was shut down due to the purple tier with rising covid numbers. Restaurant owners and residents say they have to be flexible yet again. 10 00 p. M. Through 500 a. M. Curfew starts tomorrow night and goes through december 21st. Bhig thing i would do on thanksgiving we see friends afte
Slowing just before everything clears up. Getting to the bay bridge, send it right back to you, laura. All right, thank you very much, mike. Breaking news were following for you that morning firefighters at the scene of a San Francisco highrise fire, the crews now say injured five people. This started a little bit before 2 00 a. M. On davis court just off the embarcadero near the plaza. This is video that was posted online on citizen app. We know that flames burned several units on the 11th floor and the building was evacuated. Some residents, we understand, have been allowed back inside. The fire has been knocked down. We know at least two people hurt will be okay. Our Cierra Johnson is gathering more information. She will join us with a live report at the bottom of the hour. To our top story in less than 24 hours a new nighttime curfew starts for all counties in californias purple tier which includes all bay area counties except San Francisco, san mateo and marin. This also covers ab
It says traffic break heading southbound 880 to alvarado heading down through union city into fremont. That break, chp says just cleared. No major problems there. We do have the backup at the toll plaza. No surprises but its waiting for you, marcus. Laura . Thanks so much. Its 6 01. Those polls already open in other u. S. Time zones and were waiting at the top of the hour. Lets bring in tracie potts in delaware. I think its safe to say finally arrived, all eyes on the president ial race. Reporter absolutely. Its going to be a busy day, marcus and laura. We are tracking the polls as they open here on the east coast and tracking the votes including the millions of early votes and today we are tracking the candidates. Lets take a look at the president who has been out talking this morning. Last night he was wrapping things up at a final rally in michigan, a state he narrowly won four years ago. The president claiming that he will easily win michigan this time around. It was one of five st
Just fine. You can drive at speed. The issue is on the east bay, not on the peninsula. Northbound 880 towards 29th a crash between the work zone and fifth and embarcadero the accident there. Laura, were gathering more information. Back to you. All right, sounds good. Thanks, mike. To decision 2020 now just two days after the election and the president ial race still too close to call. Joe biden has a narrow lead with 2 a53 electoral votes and 270 is the magic number here. Biden could outright win the election if he holds on to his lead in arizona and nevada. Now the other battleground states that were tracking for you, as well. Georgia, North Carolina and pennsylvania. All five of these battleground states poll workers are still counting those ballots. Lets look at the popular vote. Biden has 50 with 71 million americans voting for the biden harris ticket. Thats most votes for a president in u. S. History. As the nation awaits the final results, well bring you Live Team Coverage all mo
Georgia says they may be done counting today. Trump is ahead by 16,000 votes there. If biden wins there, he would still be one Electoral College vote short based on the nbcs call of the election. Were watching pennsylvania, obviously. Lets take a look at the map there. Its worth 20 electoral votes. 92 of those votes are in. President trump holds a slight lead there as well. There was a demonstration in philadelphia as Trump Supporters demanded observers be allowed to be as close as 6 away from election workers as they counted votes. A judge said that was too close but a Court Reversed that this morning. They will allow candidate observers to watch. Here is Trump Campaigns corey lewandowski. Well go in, watch whats going on, not from 30 feet away, 100 feet away, from 6 feet away. Now, to be clear, observers will not be allowed to interfere with vote counting and secretaries of state say regardless of protests all legal and legitimate votes will be counted. Taking a look at nevada, offic