Im annemarie green, and were going to begin this morning with the first and only Vice President ial debate, happening tonight. Crews have already set up the plexiglass that will separate Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris. Its a new safety measure after President Trump tested positive for the coronavirus. Danya bacchus is in Salt Lake City where the debate is taking place. Danya, what is at stake tonight . Reporter good morning to you, annemarie. A lot is at stake. This debate is expected to be one that people will watch closely. With the president contracting covid and both president ial candidates being older, voters are think being a vp candidate having to step into the top spot. After last weeks contentious president ial debate will you shut up, man . Theres nothing smart about you, joe. Reporter mike pence and Kamala Harris are expected to set a different tone at tonights Vice President ial debate in utah. These two candidates are just so completely different than
Which is indeed making a comeback. The latest numbers show a sharp increase in new cases, running to about 40,000 a day. The virus task force reconvenes today for the first time in two months. Some states are pausing their reopening program. That is a warning to the nations economy and the rebound. The wall street journal, this is an important warning for the president. The powerful Editorial Board bluntly said hes heading for defeat. Thats a warning for wall street, too, because a biden win would be a real challenge for stocks. So where are we this morning . Warnings duly noted. Ive got some red arrows there. The dow is down about 180. The s p down about 10. The nasdaq down about 15. Red arrows for three indicators. All right. Im going to call this a positive. Remember the mob that threatened to take down the lincoln emancipation memorial . They were supposed to attack it at 7 00 eastern last night . Well, it rained. The limited number of people who showed up retreated to shelter. The
The horizon and things look not so good but this was at this morning look at how nice this is this picture from emma smith here in San Francisco and you can see the cloud cover that some of us are seeing overhead and then that nice golden glow that a lot of us are getting now that the sun has risen you just have some blue skies out there for parts of the bay other parts still on the mostly cloudy side just depends on where youre talking currently so rainfall its still out there in the pacific its worked its way into the north coast. So del norte a mendocino humboldt counties are getting it just not so much here in the bay area. What we will see though is rainfall pushing in later, this is at 06 00pm there you go the light to moderate stuff starts and then the heavy stuff right after that. So it is after sunset tonight if you leave work right away you may actually beat it. Its the latter part of the commute where you start to get to see it. Rainfall continues on through the evening, som
In just the past few hours, pg e scaled back significantly on the planned Power Outages set to begin tomorrow. Earlier today the utility was projecting more than 120,000 customers in 8 bay area counties would lose power. Now just napa, sonoma, and solano are on that list. Kpix 5s don ford reports that all the uncertainty has left many Small Businesses feeling powerless though, whether the lights are on or not. Reporter here in marin, many Small Businesses were getting ready for the anticipated Power Outages. But late this afternoon, the situation changed. Pg e announced that this time marin county would not lose power. Scottys market is relieved, but the senior Meat Department manager is still getting ready. We just lea few moments ago that marin would be spared. I was standing next to you and you said were safe, and i just looked at you. Reporter youre not convinced . No, not my any means. Reporter he says its too late to cancel the order for the large generators. Last time the store
Tonight, its really a downpour in some places, including the north bay. Thats what you see there, but there are flash flooding concerns as inches of rain are expected to be dealt by this storm. And thanks for joining us tonight, everyone, im Catherine Heenan that im grant lotus ken and pam have that. Night off. We are tracking the storm we have a team of reporters out about well check in with them momentarily, but first we want to go to our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow watch how much rain we talking here. Well we could maybe 2 maybe 4 inches of rain across on the mountaintops in the north and of course thats a big concern, especially in and around the kim k fire burn area certainly could see some flash flooding, maybe some debris flows mudslides as well. The storm system finally moving on shore this afternoon to this time getting here may be slowing down just a little bit and our get things going. You see the heavy bands of rain pushing through the bay area and still pockets of