Minute push. She joins us from Contra Costa County theresa. Why we have been saying people rush here to make sure that they make that deadline as well as dropping their ballots here in Contra Costa County. Ive been doing elections for 25 years this is my 6th president ial election. Ive never seen. People so excited, enthusiastic and voting so early. Thats the assistant registrar of voters on what theyre seeing this general election here in Contra Costa County with today being the deadline for registration we expect to go over. 700,000 voters for the first time in our history today. We about a year ago yesterday that would be our weather account and here we are on the final day of registration. And were were going to hit that target, but its very very very big this year and everybody should vote do the right thing and outside all day long this people constantly pulling up and dropping off their ballots. This mom even turned the whole operation into a civics lesson for her young 3 daught
High registration. Were 2000 voters away. The vote by mail ballots have hit historic levels with higher levels than the 2016 president ial election. On the day before election day we had 146,000 in house. Well go over 200,000 today. If you dont fill out the online today you can go to the registrars to fill out a provision ballot. In southern california, someone set fire to an official ballot collection box. It was in baldwin park. Arson investigators say a number of the ballots were burned. The registrars voters who dropped off their ballots should call for assistance. 30 million americans have cast their ballots. Early voting started in florida today with wait time three hours in places. I think people are starting to see the importance of voting and we try the stress its important to vote, folks are taking that opportunity. In georgia theyve seen 1. 4 million voters in the last seven days. Thats up 148 in the first six days of early voting in 2016. New rules for the next president ia
Right now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area we are looking live from our Sales Force Tower camera as we look out east and look at that beautiful bright and shining bay bridge. Good morning. Good morning, glad to have you with us on a tuesday morning. Lets get a check of your weather. Good morning to you. Tracking a critical fire weather conditions and extreme fire danger with a red flag warning for the north bay mountains. Really watching in this area as we are watching the winds starting to kick in. Looking at gusts, especially up in the Higher Elevations for the north bay mountains. Up to 20 to 30 miles an hour and low relative humidity as well. A big concern for us as we go through the rest of today into tomorrow morning and then we are not done yet. We have that red flag warning in effect for the forth bay mountains right now. We are going to have a second burst of off shore winds as we look to the rest of the week. From wednesday evening to friday morning, a second burst of
Vacant for 2 years even though it has been budgeted the money to hire the position. To trace the illegal guns is in the budget and were saying they need to go ahead and fill that position, however donna lynne says the position remains unfulfilled because he believes no one wants to work and what he calls a hostile work environment. Shes talking about hiring one person to do tracing which is a very noble and every technical jaw. But the challenges song with those kind expertise there soon coming to open. We may be laid off week as phone. The Police Department captain it is also recommending the city Council Adopted resolution to terminate opd is participation with the Fbis Joint Terrorism Task force of the 3 bases the bay area oakland has been the one this year thats been struck by terrorism we are white supremacist kill up for security building the City Council President sites that same incident has reason to sever ties with the Fbis Joint Terrorism Task force. The federal government h
See this protest is on the move. We are in downtown martinez, and we have 700 people, perhaps more than 1000 gathered in the downtown streets. This is the black lives matter rally. You can see from topper five it is a significant crowd marching to this town of 30,000 people. Why are they here . Many of the protesters said they were compelled to come to martinez after a video went viral. It shows a white couple painting over a black lives matter street sign. The couple has since been charged with three misdemeanors, including a hate crime charge. This is not happening in my town. She was going on about kerrtown. This is our town. There are minorities in it and the town needs to start taking some sort of stance one way or the other to make it very clear where its values lie. Orr t w,what is going on is they have gathered at the courthouse. They are moving down to the waterfront of martinez. This is a peaceful protest, as it has been all along. As a matter of fact, demonstrators have been