And officials expect the turnoff to soar in the next couple days. Early voting is underway with polling places open for people who would like to vote in person. This is uncharted territory for us. Because typically we are only open on election day. It will be interesting to see how well utilized this option is and if we will continue to offer this in future election cycles. She expects to seek record turnout this year. So far 122,000 vote by mail ballots have been project collected in marin. Sunday, a steady stream of cars was seen at the dropbox. This Election Year is more important than anything that has happened in our lifetimes. And so it was really important to make sure our voice counted. Reporter representative barbara lee is making sure every vote is cast and counted. This includes staying in contact with the post office to make sure there are no delays. Having similar senator Kamala Harris brings excitement. With senator harris on this is a remarkable historical moment here to
Purple creates where the power is shut off intentionally. Pg e expects to restore power in some areas by 10 00 p. M. 90,000 currently impacted by this power shut off. High wind over night and today will lots of damage. Branchs came crashing down. Winds threatening to spread small fires that started popping up across the bay area. One of the most recent fires sparked a few hours ago. Off highway 12. We have Team Coverage tonight. Well begin with tom in lafayette. About 17,000 customers have been without power since 8 last night. There were some fires but fortunately the winds were not as wickedly strong as some predicted. However pg e just put out a notice to a lot of customers here in lafayette who have lost power, thousands of people. That their power will not be restored until tomorrow at least. Because of high wind. They said they were not able to get helicopters in to fly equipment. To make sure there was no serious damage that could cause more fires. Also because there were not su
Others are returning back to some more strict restrictions. Health Officials Say we are very likely now seeing the beginning of a winter surge. As california joined texas as the first states with 1 million covid cases, bay area counties are tightening restrictions. The owner of delta ball decided to shut down. He says it is tough when elsewhere in the country policies allow bowling. The policies that the state is using for bowling are just way too restrictive. I think there should be a framework and that the community should be able to modify it to whats going on in the community. Weve seen substantial day over day increases in our reported cases of covid19. Alameda county is also pushing pause as the covid case numbers rise. We are not islands, we are connected to the rest of the country and the rest of the world. If there are cases circulating, our borders are not closed. People can come and go. Nationwide states are adding stricter policies, chicagos mayor has ordered a stayat home
Tuesday. The entire bay area, high salvations we are talking about sustained wind, 25 to 40 miles an hour with gusts 67 miles an hour, and even a lower terrain, the valleys and along the coast, sustained went 20 to 30 miles an hour and gusts up to 50 miles an hour so this includes everyone. We start 2 00 sunday afternoon, technically under the red flag warning at that point, nothing too low. What happens as we had into sunday evening. The committee is the north bay, dropped around 10 , and the wind arrows are moving a lot faster. The peak of the offshore wind will be sent and into early monday morning and the humidity will be bone dry, the fire fuels our new record levels in terms of how dry they are, this is a very dangerous combination and the dangerous fire weather conditions are going to continue to the day on monday, even as the wind begins to slack off just a little bit. Look at those numbers, 3 to 6 relative humidity levels, any motion atmosphere. We take a look at the specific
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Thank you so much for joining us at 10 oclock everybody grant lodes Vicki Liviakis the president ial race is now down to just 2 key states georgia. And pennsylvania could announce the result any minute now so heres where the electoral votes stand as of this moment anyway out of the 270 needed to when President Trump has 214 joe biden has to 64 now this means that biden needs to win just one more state to get to 2. 70 of pennsylvania turns blue well our country will have a new president elect grant. We want to get right to the map now as we have a few key states that were going to focus in on and then well tell you exactly how things could play out number one georgia because the light red here and the Light Reading pennsylvania, North Carolina, that means President Trump is leading the dark red, dark blue means that our partners here with the Associated Press have called those states for their respective candidates. But the le