Ballots directly to the registrars office. In Santa Clara County, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. About half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. And marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. Reporter they are very concerned about that, janelle. If you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of Voters Office. Many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, thats how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop box at the registrar Voters Office in san jose. I feel like it is safer to drop it on a place where you will be counted. Reporter but Evelyn Mendez with the Santa Clara County registrar of Voters Office says theres no need to make a
Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e
Cornelia and also fairfield some very gusty winds this afternoon. We have some 30 mile an hour gusts just in the last 3 hours here and still in the court is some of those to 22 Miles Per Hour right now as you make your way into fremont well we had windy conditions in the afternoon. Although those start to calm down a little bit now as theyre dropping down to 7, 8, Miles Per Hour. But were going to see more of that smoke continue to filter into places Like Union City fremont this fire continues tonight and into hayward so certainly by tomorrow morning. The smell of smoke in and around this area, those winds start to calm down nothing really to mix out some of that smoke for the south theyre also going to be dealing with some smoke, theres fire starting yesterday this the crews fire c gilroy here the winds not that strong this afternoon, although you get up in the Mountain Range is certainly in the Higher Elevations you generally get some stronger winds to whip around the fire and thats
Incredible video shows a former College Football wide receiver making an incredible catch in phoenix. Wow. Thats philip blank snatching a 3yearold out of midair after the boys mom dropped him out of the top floor of a burning threestory building. The boy is in critical condition. His mom, unfortunately, did not survive this. Another child was saved in a nearby building when neighbors caught him in a blanket after his mom dropped him to safety. Incredible. Wow, to see those videos. Turning now to the grim reality check from hundreds of scientists that the coronavirus can linger in the air for much longer than wed initially thought. It now has a growing number of us taking a second look at air purifiers and filtration systems. Heres abcs bec w reporter its in the air. Thats what a group of 239 scientists representing 32 countries reported to the World Health Organization, asking for a revision to the w. H. O. s recommendations for covid19 due to evidence showing the disease is airborne.
61, sunny for all today, it looks pretty good here. Any fog, there could be fog ramping up. It looks good, nice, warm, mild and that low is going to reposition itself along the west coast starting tomorrow. Today is all about sunshine and temperatures pretty close to where they should be this time of year. Lets head over to sal now. Is there a place you would like to begin besides the bay bridge toll plaza . We are going to start at the Richmond Bridge and we do have a little bit of slow traffic there as you come up on the Richmond Bridge. Traffic is going to be a little slow. It is improving a little bit but it was slower about 10 minutes ago. You can see it and this might improve right away but we will keep an eye on it for you. We are also looking at the actual toll plaza of the bay bridge westbound, and that is backed up you and the 880 over causing but 880 itself looks okay. Did a 7 01, lets go to the headlines. Breaking news coming in right now from europe about Global Travel dur