Now 5 days away from the november 3rd election and kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season. With a Record Number of people voting early this election season, there are already concerns tonight about missing ballots in the east bay, dozens of voters reported not receiving confirmation that their ballot was received by the Contra Costa County elections division. Kron fours justine waltman here now with details and whether or not foul play is believed to be involved justine. Well Contra Costa County has 37 drop off ballot boxes. But theres one question tonight, and thats the box thats right outside of Richmond City hall, dozens of voters say they dropped off their ballots there on october 12 and the county has not been able to confirm receipt of those ballots so theyre lost and the county doesnt know where they are tonight. The county is telling us this according to the Contra Costa County Elections Office the ballot box and Richmond City all has been inspected by
So, well call that partly cloudy right now. Temperatures today still a few 80s in our east bay valleys and most of us in the 70s and coast in the San Francisco in the 50s. Five to ten degrees cooler than yesterday. Still too warm for this time of year. Kumasi. Ill take it from there, thanks, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in most of the continental u. S. Ill take it from here. Lets take a live look right now at voters. They are lining up as you can see. This is in anderson county, south carolina. Another very crucial state. Voters in swing states will likely be deciding this election and because many of these states are several time zones ahead of us, well start to see the Election Results this afternoon. So, heres a look at some of the big ones that we will be tracking. The following times are pacific times. Polls in georgia and parts of florida close at 4 00 p. M. Our time and the Florida Panhandle and parts of michigan and pennsylvania it w
Covid vaccine continues but Health Experts say do not expect to receive a shot anytime soon thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 6 everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis after earlier suggesting that a covid19 vaccine could be ready by election day the president is now telling followers. At his rallies is just around the corner now some doctors and scientists are weighing in our dan kerman is live at Ucsf Medical Center with a vaccine reality check dan, getting back to normal is. So dependent on this vaccine. Absolutely and it looks like that back to normal is going to be sometime late next year doctor fauci saying today the earliest iris populations might get a vaccine could be december or january specialists here ucsf say that High Risk Group probably not mass distribution until spring. Many of our greatest companies and labs that coming out very quickly with the vaccines are doing great very shortly the president s initial suggestion that a covid19 vaccine could be re
Blatant racist fear mongering tactics. The questionable political adequacy top Silicon Valley ceo to step down tonight. A Bay Area Hospital hacked. The warning tonight from the fbi. Change your passwords, change them frequently and make them complex. It is not a joke. Breaking news in san jose were a fire in an underground utility vault is slowing traffic along onetoone. These are live pictures from the scene. You can see a flame, a large limb erupting from that median, just feet from passing cars. We are told drivers are not in danger. The fire has been burning for 90 minutes. Firefighters think is being fed by a natural gas pipeline. You can see the scene a little bit earlier when it was still daylight. No word on how this got started. Lets get back to the live pictures, just letting it go to burn off the gas until pg e can actually cut it off. Firefighters say they found evidence people may have been living in a nearby vault. We will stand top of this for you. Right now at seven, st
Cool start to this morning by the afternoon ahead of us were going to be looking at daytime highs back into the 70s but not near as many 80s in the forecast today. Temperatures actually a little bit down as compared to where they have been the past couple of days, making for a cool fall feel as youre getting out there both this morning and into the evening tonight. Robin all right, thank you for the update lets check in on the traffic because folks have to get to work, but you know sometimes on fridays its really not that bad thats why we call it friday light a lot of folks take friday off and i think they started taking time off yesterday because yesterday traffic was unusually light on a thursday in San Francisco, and well probably see the same thing today so its a great time to come on and if you do have to get a word you dont have to worry about any delays or problems or hot spots so come on in its under 10 minutes off to fremont street. All right lets go over to 92 what about the