The bay area. Unhealthy air for portions of the north bay closer to the glass fire. Thats the reason why the spare the area alert is in effect for today. Going to take you hour by hour. Through your day today and actually as we look to the end of the week with the rain chances, we will let you know the latest on the weather model runs through the end of the week. Lets check in with gianna or for the latest. Good morning. Good morning. Its getting busy if you are getting ready to go out of tracy. In to the livermore valley. We have a little crowded. You have delays on 205. It extends to grant line, maybe just around north flynn on the yellow zone with the 30 minute drive time to 680. This is our slowest spots other than this. Everything else is quiet. Easy ride. Golden gate bridge. No delays on the san mateo bridge. Its an easy 13 minute ride over to 101. The bay bridge in the next report. Going live now to Salt Lake City. The Vice President ial candidates will take the stage tonight to
Now at 11, four bay area counties not allowed to move into the next reopening tear, that number that is holding them back. We failed these communities and we need to get better. Encouraging developments tonight for parents hoping to send their kids back to the classroom. Lawmakers are racing to respond after the president unexpectedly pulls the plug on stimulus talks. Thousands of workers at three bay area hospitals are poised to work walk off the job in just a matter of hours. Now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, plans on holding four bay area counties that missed an important newmark. One is San Francisco where kpix 5s joe vazquez is. Reporter it is still the case that frontline workers like restaurant workers or to restore workers, they are not able to shelter in place. They are still out there and getting covid19 in disproportionate numbers. Thats why the state has this new equity rule and not everyone is making the mark. For bay area businesses to continue to open up the stat
Francisco. We want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a Training Exercise. Lets bring in henry lee with more on what we know. As you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. Reporter a somer gathering at San Francisco General Hospital. Firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. We can confirm this was at training incident. Reporter it happened at 10 00 in the morning in the initialen district. He was treated there and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately shortly before 11 00 this morning, jason succumbed to his injuries. Reporter the Fire Department would not discuss what led to his death. The circumstances under investigation. Immediately after the incident, firefighters converged on the hospital. There they stood at attention and saluted during a somber procession. Cortez was 42 and leaves behind his wife and two young children. She the son of a
The Santa Clara County District Attorney has yet to say if charges will be filed against the driver. Two more bay area counties will soon begin loosening up more restrictions. We learned the state announce Santa Clara County in Alameda County are now in the orange tear allowing more businesses to reopen. Places of worship and businesses such as movie theaters can reopen for indoors service. 25 capacity or a maximum of 100 people. Santa clara county leaders plan to discuss the revisions coming up at a new conference set for 1 00 this afternoon. California is easy is restrictions to allow multi household gatherings outdoors. Three households can now socialize as long as they were masks and follow safety guidelines. State Health Officials had discouraged gatherings outside of of a single hassle. The state set the limit out of concern that people will be tempted to have a large indoor activities as we approach hallowing, thanksgiving and christmas. We are about two and half weeks from hall
Going out now. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepaid postage and you can return your ballot at any time to and including election day. November 3rd. The envelope must be sealed, signed and dated. It can be turned into your county elections office, a ballot drop box, a vote center or any polling place. And if youre mailing it back, there is more time this year for it to arrive because of the concerns about the u. S. Postal service. Now, a ballot with a postmark no later than northern 3rd can be received as late as november 20th and it will still count. You can track your ballot online through the secretary of states website. And earlier today on abc 7 news at 4 00, we spoke live with the secretary of the state alex padilla about the benefits of voting by mail. Its convenient. You get to vote from the comfort and safety of your own home and it is proven to be secure. So any suggestion otherwise is, frankly, not true, and only seeks to undermine confidence in our electi