Youll notice is clouds are much more widespread covering more neighborhoods and getting thick along the coast and up into the north bay valleys. Watch out for that during the morning commute. Temperatures are in the 50s at 7 00. Well stay in the 50s at the coast. 65 to 74 at noon with low sunshine and only 70 to 80 at 4 00. A little touch of fall in the forecast and more of it on the way with a slight chance of rain coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Thank you. It is your voice your vote. Tonight the American People will witness a highly anticipated showdown between Vice President mike pence and his democratic rival, senator Kamala Harris. The and this comes as President Trump continues to be treated for covid19. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with the extra Safety Measures in place. Jobina . Yes. This will be the only debate between the candidates for Vice President and here are just some of the Safety Measures both candidates have agreed to. So this morning were learning that the candidates will stand 12 feet apart between a plexiglass barrier. Senator harris requested the plexiglass. The Vice President agreed to it though his team says they do not believe its necessary. Were told anyone without a mask will be escorted out of the building. Heres a live look at the debate hall at the university of utah in Salt Lake City. Dmc chair tom perez explains why theyre adamant about enforcing the rules. What we saw in cleveland was the Trump Campaign recklessly disregarded the rules that were set forth that they agreed to. We were sitting in the debate hall with masks on. There wasnt one trump official with a mask on. Youre putting people in harms way. Both pence and harris have been getting tested for coronavirus regularly. The latest results show both are negative. You can watch the debate between Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris at 6 00 right here on abc7. Developing news, the covid19 outbreak continues to spread at the white house. As of this morning at least 24 people who have been at the white house in recent weeks have tested positive. The latest man is top aide to the president , steven miller. He is now selfisolating. President trump is still getting treated for covid19 after he was discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center on monday. His doctor says his vitals are stable. President trump says he is open to restarting the negotiations on a second Coronavirus Relief package. On twitter late last night he said he will sign a bill that sends out another round of 1,200 checks. Earlier in the day he said he was calling off the talks until after the election and that caused the stock market to tank. This morning students in several Bay Area School districts are getting ready for another day of inperson learning. Top state Health Officials say they are not seeing increased signs of spread of coronavirus. Education is one area were focused on as we work to building a better bay area during this pandemic. Amy hollyfield has more on this. This is good news for the schools. There are ten schools in the east bay that have opened. Some opened about a month ago. There are schools around the bay area that have been opened. In the north bay, larkspur opened this week, in the south bay, sunnyvale reopened. They are not seeing problems from these openings. The states Top Health Official say they are constantly looking at the data, checking to see if there is a connection between cases and schools reopening, and they have not found one. But so far its encouraging to see the tremendous effort and planning that communities and their schools and their staff have done to make sure that its lower risk for students and staff alike. Were seeing those fruits early on. Thats encouraging for all of california. 32 of californias 58 counties are cleared to open inperson learning but its up to the county. There is also a waiver process schools can request a waiver to open. Reporting live in danville, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. Of course we are tracking the status of county reopenings on our website. You can find this interactive map at abc7news. Com. Hurricane delta just made landfall roughly halfway between the resort towns of cancun and Playa Del Carmen. Officials in cancun moved more than 30,000 people staying in hotels along the coast to shelters. That includes thousands of americans. This is video out of Playa Del Carmen mexico where guests are sheltering in a ballroom. The storm is heading to the u. S. Well check in with meteorologist mike nicco to see how hes tracking it. All right. Thank you very much. Yeah. Well look at live doppler 7, you can see its sitting right on the tip of the yucatan peninsula, just raking can suc n plaza and and and and and and be extensive with a direct hit to cancun especially during the overnight and through the Morning Hours when its dark. Those people have to be scared at what theyre dealing with now. As it heads towards us, were going to get more than eight inches of rain, gusts up to 10 Miles Per Hour and extreme risk to life and property along the louisiana coast once again as we head into thursday and friday. Something to keep an eye on. A seventh landfalling tropical system in the gulf this system. Back here at home, low to mid 50s. Watch out for the fog this morning. The possibility of drizzle along the coast. Temperatures are coolest in the north bay. 45 in napa, 60 in san ramon. As we look at your activity planner today, watch out for the air quality no matter if youre working from home, Remote Learning or headin outside for activities. We have the north bay poor, that means its for the sensitive groups. Thats going to continue through at least thursday. Most of us should be fine. A lot of this smoke will be elevated as the marine layer has increased up to about 1,200 feet. Some of it could slip down to the neighborhoods. Well keep an eye on that. You can, too, with our app and our website. Lets turn it over to jobina and look at traffic. Yes, thats me. Thank you, mike. Good morning. So first off i want to let you know we have a couple of advisories to talk about from the chp. The first one beniciamartinben franklin brid be beniciamartinez bridge. Lets check outweek and see how things are going on 680. Im expecting things busier there. A good amount of brake lights as people make their way southbound. No major blocking issues to report. In the south bay, vta has a new tool. The transit app has realtime features so you know how full the next bus will be. They have had this on popular routes. Vta has been using the same information to deploy extra buses to stops most affected and the data is only available on buses right now. Reggie and kumasi . The Vallejo City Council is talking about defunding the police department. One of them asked that the ciif city moved forward with this how it would work. The City Attorney said it would be more difficult than it sounds. That would have to be something that would be done over a long period of time. I dont think its something you could do overnight. It would be a largeunder undertaking it would require the expenditure of funds. He added there is also the potential that the city could face a lawsuit from the police union if it does move to defund the police department. Coming up, a berkeley researcher just awarded the nobel prize overnight. The work that secured the big win. Theres no question with all the smoke and whatnot, it was time to leave. Napa county newlyweds telling their story of survival from the glass fire. The priceless possessions they were able to round up before evacuating and the optimistic attitude about their future together. Plus petco stopping sales of an item that brought in 10 million last year. Before we get to those stories, lets go outside to see what it looks like as we start our day right now, taking a live look a they do one of the most deven in normal times. S, our Frontline Health care workers. And when these heroes lack the resources they need, that risky job gets ten times harder. Prop fifteen makes corporations pay their fair share. To invest in our communities, in our clinics, in the essential workers who treat everyone rich, poor, and inbetween. Whether its this pandemic or the next health crisis, vote yes on prop fifteen. For all of us. All right. Taking a live look from our Golden Gate Bridge camera at 5 12 this morning. You can see the fog bypassing here for once. You can watch this live camera and others 24 7 on our new streaming app. Its available on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and android tv. Along with the cameras you can watch our newscast live and on demand. And we have information on air quality and the wildfires. Lets look at the smoke forecast. You will see its still healthy this morning. As we roll through time, it does thin out a little bit during the afternoon hours. For thursday it looks like its hanging around. This will be elevated outside of the north bay. The marine layer keeps getting deeper and deeper. The entire column will be clear by friday. Unfortunately our chance of rain is starting to dry, if you will. Heres friday morning. You can see the system that was the most robust, the european, now kind of keeping this almost dry, just a bit of drizzle friday and saturday morning. Rainfall totals near a third of an inch now less than inches. Happening today, registered nurses at Alameda Hospital and san leandro hospital will begin a fiveday unfair labor practices strike. Theyll start picketing at 7 00. The California Nurses Association says the nurses have concerns over Patient Safety during the covid19 pandemic. Hospital Officials Say quality care will continue during the strike. Were hearing incredible stories of survival from the glass fire including two newlyweds from st. Helena. 100yearold howard and his new bride, joanne, they evacuated with their two dogs. They took with them howards priceless war medals from his career as a u. S. Army air corps captain during world war ii. Howard and joanne met two years ago when he hired her to compile a book about his military career. They eventually tied the knot but sadly their home burned in the class fire. The important thing is we have each other. The important thing is i have the memories that will never go away. And couldnt ask for more than that. Its time for a new adventure. Im lucky to have howard. Hes a rock. I love how theyre looking at this. The couple says they are looking forward to rebuilding a new home on the same lot. New this morning, the nobel prize in chemistry goes to two women, one of them is a uc berkeley scientist. Jobina has the details. We are doing well at the noble awards this week. Right . The prizes keep coming in. Im happy for everyone involved here. Cal professor, Jennifer Doudna teaches at uc San Francisco. She won the nobel prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing. Heres stockholm where the announcement was made this morning. The technology is called crispr and it can be used to change the dna of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely High Precision with the promise of one day curing inherited diseases and even cancer. Doudna is sharing the prize with emmanuelle charpentier. Ucfs is working on a new test kit that can diagnose infection in less than an hour by using gene targeting technology. Its also been controversial. A couple years ago a chinese scientist said he used the technology to make the worlds first edited babies. Prince harry was spotted wearing a mask made by a blackowned business in oakland. This picture shows the prince with some runners in los angeles and he was wearing the companys champagne and honey face cover mask. I profiled this oakland Clothing Store last month. Taylor j. Talked about how she signed a lease for this space before covid hit and had to transition from making clothes to making masks and turning her shop into an ecommerce space. Now the prince is out here wearing her mask. I mean, i can see the prince. I wish i could see the mask better. Can you see my mask . I got excited when i went there and i bought a mask. The prince didnt have this one on. He wore the champagne and honey one. Can i see that . Is that what am i looking at here . This is my mask that i got. I like the little print. I like it. Thats good. Yeah. They have a lot of cute ones. I feel like his would go with the champagne and honey ones. Im trying to step my game up, friend. You got a mask for every hour. I got more this weekend. I know. Look, if that is what i just like getting mail to be really honest with you. I like getting mail. So i keep ordering masks. Theyre not expensive. And it brings me a little bit joy. Its like getting a present. Every day you go out to the mailbox, its christmas, its my birthday. Its a present. I still look forward to getting the mail even though its mainly bills nowadays. We dont want that. Unhuh. You are correct. Lets show you how its cloudy across San Francisco, maybe misty from time to time. You cant see the top of the Salesforce Tower there. Unhealthy air is possible across the north bay. The chance of rain and storms are fading, until they completely go away well keep them on the storm impact scale. Still a chance of measurable wet weather. Warming winds begin sunday. Enjoy today, tomorrow, friday, saturday. Our coolest days in this forecast. We have mid to upper 70s through most of the south bay. 81 the warm spot in morgan hill. 66 in millbrae. 67 in san mateo, low to mid 70s for the rest of the peninsula. Upper 50s to near 60 along the coast today. Low to mid 60s Downtown SouthSan Francisco and sausalito. Its going to be a slow go to see some sunshine around the bay and the coast today. Thats going to help aid the cooling. Mid to upper 70s through most of the north bay. Along the east bayshore, mainly mid to upper 60s. Hercules, Castro Valley, fremont, 70 to 73. Check out this refreshing change in the east bay valleys. 77 in san ramon to mid 80s for antioch and brentwood. Some spotty drizzle possible and fog for the morning commute. 80s today, sa saturday. The offshore breeze develops. The offshore breeze is not enough to heighten our fire danger but its sill well watch. Look at tuesday next week. Most of us back into the 80s. Have a good one. Mike, thank you. You wont be able to find shock collars at petco anymore. The company is pulling them from stores and online. Shock collars made up roughly 0 10 million of petcos sales last year. Animal rights activist s the collars are harmful. This might be depressing. If you think your dog is excited when it sees your face, youre probably wrong. Researchers found that wihile dogs are excited to see you, their brains are not hard wired to focus on faces. They cant distinguish between the front or the back of a head. So dogs brains instead are focused on determining whether theyre seeing another dog or human. And then signals like scent are important or more important than faces. Does that make you sad . Thats true. No, not really. I know that my dog sees with his nose. Thats the only sense he cares about. You can take away the eyes and the taste. He doesnt taste food any way. You give him a treat, boom. Its gone. Didnt he have some ice cream the other day . He seemed to like that. He had a pupacinno. What is that . Whipped cream from starbucks. Were coming up next with 7 things to know. A closer look at covid19 long haulers. These are people including this woman who are still feeling the effects six months after traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Its 5 23. Heres 7 things to know this morning. Number one, the covid19 outbreak is spreading in washington. At least 24 people who visited the white house in recent weeks have tested positive for coronavirus. Number two, Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris will meet facetoface for the vp debate. It will be their only showdown ahead of the election. You can watch it at 6 00 on abc7. Crews are gaining ground on the massive glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties. The fire is 54 contained. 20,000 structures are threatened. Expect that to increase considerably with the cooler and more humid air moving in. You can see the marine layer making it into the south bay. Temperatures yeed we s yesterda average to above. Today average to below. 8 degrees cooler with a 62 in San Francisco. Number five, 3,000 nurses and employees at Alameda Hospital and san leandro hospital will begin a fiveday unfair labor practices strike. The picketing starts at 7 00 this morning. The hospital Officials Say that quality care will continue during the strike. Number six, bringing you good news on the traffic front. We dont have major blocking issues to report. No crashes. Looking live showing off the richmondsan rafael bridge. And heres an update. Stan the trex has sold for 3 8 31. 8 million. That is actually four times what the auction nears thought he would go for. Stan is considered t