Certified joe biden as the winner. President elect joe biden met with mayors discussing the pandemic on january 20th. The effort got a big boost. The gsa administrator emily murphy sent a letter recognizing biden as the winner and president elect. Murphy explained because of recent developments involving legal challenges and certification of Election Results i have determined to access the post election resources and services describe tphrd Section Three of the act upon request. Well, i think today she may of stent to the michigan decision. It pretty much makes it impossible for the president to find any route towards winning the election. Reporter henly, the dean of the Golden School of Public Policy says murphy was following precedent trying to wait for one side to concede. That is what happen inside 2000. A decision was not made until after gores concession speech. December 14th. The Trump Campaign and allies lost 27 court cases challenging Election Results and a growing number of r
Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Now the red flag warnings will be continued for these areas through 5 00 on tuesday. The winds arent going to be as strong, but they will still be gusty. The humidity be very low to the north bay mountains, thats where we are talking about the red flag warning through tuesday evening and we have wind advisory that is in effect for the entire bay area through 11 00 tomorrow morning. Even if youre in a spot that doesnt have a high fire threat, youll still need to prepare for the potential of Power Outages as whole trees could get knocked down by those winds. Darren has a closer look at that part of the bay area. Yeah, paul, this is not going to hit the bay area equally. Itll hit some places harder than others. John ramos is in the Berkeley Hills talking about preevaccuations there for a reason. Well be showing you why the Berkeley Hills are one of the places that really need to take this seriously. Well come in for a close up look now. The week hasnt kicked in at this point, but once we
Now at 11, unemployed californians discovering that there inc. Accounts are drained. Tonight some victims say they feel traumatized a second time. I was on the phone for a total of 7 1 2 hours, you get to the point where you are exhausted. A racist campaign add prompts of Business Organization to place their ceo on leave. Tonight we will hear from the target of the attack. One bay area county is lagging behind when it comes to reopening. The new plan to help communities that are suffering the most. A trio of bay area brothers retiring after feeding their community are nearly half a century. They are leaving quite a legacy behind. Theyll know was my name and it became more of a family. Now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, and original report, weve learned something very scary is happening to thousands of unemployed californians who received government benefits through bank of america debit card. They are accounts are getting joint drained by fraudsters. Reporter bank of america