Near 80 at the beaches as well and the coast. Upper 60s to near 70. Sun sets at 5 10 this evening and mild days ahead before a chance of rain works its way into our sevenday forecast, which ill share with you in a little bit. Liz . Frances, thank you. Election exuberance is flooding offices with early mailin ballots. Out of 21 million registered voters in california, more than 10 million returned their vote by mail. More than 282,000 in San Francisco county. Abc 7 News ReporterCornell Barnard has a look at how some are casting ballots where the warriors once called home. My son got me up this morning and said its time to vote and i said oh my goodness, well, lets go. Reporter rosa vaughn made a trip to the oakland arena saturday to vote. The former home of the warriors has been transformed into a voting. We the people have the voice and if we have the voice, we need to speak. Reporter Alameda County registrar of voters tim dupuis says you can still vote here if you dont feel comfortable going inside. We want our voters to know they have curbside voting, we can bring their ballot out to them and they can vote in their car in this parking lot or they can drive through if they have their ballot already that we mailed to them. Reporter josie mooney just voted in her halloween costume. I lost my absentee ballot, i think i threw it out with a bunch of newspapers. Ive never not voted so i wanted to come early. Reporter cars were lined up dropping off ballots at the Alameda County courthouse. 20yearold kitani franklin is voting for the first time. Its my civic duty, excited to participate for the first time. Reporter early voting is outdoors on the courthouse steps, a Record Number of people already voted. We are at about 520,000 votes as of this morning received so far, which is 54 of our registered voters. Here in marin county, 19 locations open for inperson voting. 60 of the county has already voted by mail. Volunteers are helping out at this voting center, at the novato library. Feels like this year is the most important time ive ever voted and ive voted in every election since i was eligible. Reporter the bay area making sure their vote and voice is heard. Cornell barnard, abc 7 news. In San Francisco a ballot dropoff location opened at the thrive city area. Steve kerr was there to greet fans and cast his own ballot. Trying to make it as easy as possible to exercise your vote and its important for everybody to have that right and to have easy access. That was warriors head coach steve kerr, he was there at the chase center to greet fans casting their ballots. There is a dropoff location there, and that dropoff location will be open through election day. A warriors facility in oakland and the arena of the Santa Cruz Warriors are also being used as polling sites and dropoff locations. In the south bay, nearly 100 voting stations opened in santa clara county. Abc 7 news stopped by one at levis stadium in santa clara. The stadium was chosing as a way to make it exciting and easy to fans to vote. Centers will be open 9 00 to 5 00 until election day when hours will expand from 7 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. In the north bay marin transit are offering free ride to encourage voter turnout and fares waived for riders. This will cost the agency about 25,000 based on current ridership levels, 60 of normal because of the pandemic. It will consider offering similar promotions for future elections. And wed like to know how voting is going for you. You can share your experience voting by mail, dropping off your ballot or voting in person at abc7news. Com election. Were also interested in knowing if you have any concerns this year about the process of voting. Lets get to the pandemic now. Covid19 cases are on an upswing. In california and in more than 40 other states across the country, the u. S. Has set a new global record for the number of cases reported in a single day. Nearly 99,000 cases were reported friday, surpassing a previous record set by india in september. California reported more than 5,000 new cases and that is well above the states daily average of nearly 4,200. Experts say this is only the start of this wave of infections. After months of rushing to get Homeless People in San Francisco off the streets and into hotels because of the pandemic, they will start to be moved out. Starting tomorrow, more than 500 Homeless People are going to be relocated but theres no clear plan on where theyre going to go. Case managers will work with individuals to figure out their best option. This first phase of relocation is set to finish by the years end. An estimated 2,400 Homeless People are currently housed in hotels throughout the city. In the east bay, parents are planning a rally today to reopen contra costa public schools. It will take place outside the countys office of education in pleasant hill. The rally is an extension of the reopen california Schools Movement started as a Facebook Group and grown to 10,000 members. The group is calling on Contra Costa County to resume inperson classes. They say Distance Learning isnt working and schools have had seven months to prepare to bring students back. And this halloween due to the pandemic, people were urged not to gather at party hot spots in San Francisco like the castro. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena has a look at the scaled down ways that people got into the spooky spirit. Reporter if we could scare off covid this mask would do the trick. Not even halloween can we let our guard down. Mike and wendy opted for this. A party of two, since we cant really have a big party. Reporter i briefly turned their party into a party of three. They shared their Covid Recovery story influencing this small halloween celebration. To avoid, you know, contact in spreading the super spreader events, everyone should be conscious of that. Reporter this group of friends turned a Halloween Party into a zoom costume party. Basically all of the holiday celebrations at once and im also a christmas ornament. Reporter in a sea of humans i spotted two fins headed home. Walk around in the costume and go home and watch a horror movie. Reporter these two fourlegged immates had plans from the crowd. No going to parties or restaurants or bars like we usually do so were headed to the dog park. Reporter some businesses closed early to avoid large gatherings. Cal hall low neighbors and merchants. Try not to have big parties at your bars and restaurants. You know, try to be responsible. And it looks like were doing it. Reporter San FranciscoPolice Officers have been urging residents to not only celebrate responsibly by wearing a mask but also by announcing a dui parole. Happy halloween reporter in San Francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. Now to the kids, trickortreating was mostly canceled, abc 7 News Reporter matt boone met a family in walnut creek determined to safely show the halloween spirit. There is a witch projecting right there. Reporter Raquel Powell and her husband robert had been look forward to this halloween for several years. Originally there was going to be a big todo because of saturday the full moon everything and of course covid put the kibosh on that. Reporter but they figured they could still do something spooky but safe in their backyard. With all the lock down, theres not a lot of decorations and trickortreating, fun thing for them to walk through and see. Oh, look reporter ari and jaden came by to take a look. Im not scared easily. I can be, if anything pops up. Reporter the virus scary enough. I like it when its not more trickortreating, get candy. Reporter she had a secret to share about the candy. I have a stash. Reporter but the real fun didnt start until the sun went down and the moon came out. [ eerie laughing ] reporter over in San Francisco step right up. Step right up. Reporter trickortreating looks like this, dropping candy with tongs or other creative ways for a no touch transfer. Trickortreat. Reporter in berkeley gone this year are big street parties with elaborate decorations and candy for hundreds of kids. Costume families enjoyed a quiet stroll down fourth street. Its important to celebrate a holiday but still being safe and wearing a mask. Reporter kathleen and Valerie Rodriguez came with their family making the most of halloween 2020. Its a good time to spend with your family. Reporter matt boone, abc 7 news. We have atal on our website abc7news. Com to help you safely navigate the holidays during the pandemic, take a quiz and learn the risk level of different activities. Frances, you said your kids had a good halloween . They had a good halloween and actually im thankful they didnt have as much candy this year. I hope you enjoyed the extra hour of sleep and here is a glimpse of that blue moon starting to set right now over coyte tower. We have a gorgeous day ahead. Temperatures much warmer than average for the next few days but i will talk about a chance of rain heading our way in the aa cue weather sevenday forecast. Frances, thank you. Ahead a peninsula Bowling Alley is showing their appreciation for their community. How they said thank you for saving them from closing. And one thing that hasnt changed during the pandemic, a popular fall art display in livermore, trees covered in woman after covid, my hours got so we cant pay our bills. And now our Family Budget is gonna be hit hard with prop 15. The yes on 15 ads say it only raises taxes on big corporations. Thats not true were all going to pay. 11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to Small Businesses and farms. Theyll raise prices. Higher gas, health care, food. Even we cant make ends meet now. Families cant afford 15. No on prop 15. Welcome back. It is so beautiful outside, the beautiful sunrise here. I hope you enjoyed the extra hour of sleep. Frances and i did, feeling rested this morning. Tributes are pouring in around the world for sean connery. Mister . Bond. James bond. Of all the roles the actor played over his fivedecade career, he is best known for being the first face of Ian Flemings James bond. Connery played the role in seven films. He was born to a working class family in edinborough, dropping out of school in world war ii at the age of 18. He discovered his calling after a stint in a musical. I was in South Pacific at the theater in london. I was like in the chorus and i never seriously considered being an actor. It was two hours of an evening and i had a terrific time. Connery was knighted by Queen Elizabeth ii in 2000. He died at his home in the bahamas. He was 90 years old. Connery was no stranger to San Francisco. Ty. Oh, yes, its very nice. Favorable town, fresh air, good restaurants. Very true. He spent a lot of time here in 1986 thrilling the rock. The movie was set on alcatraz and around San Francisco. Connery played the role of a former prison escapee who helps the fbi defeat a nerve gas attack. A peninsula Bowling Alley threw a Big Outdoor Party for locals who saved them from closure. The Bowling Alley in san mateo raised 65,000 from Community Members to cover vital expenses during the closure, back open for business with capacity limited to 25 and as a gesture to thank the community for their generosity, the Bowling Alley held a socially distanced outdoor party. If you take a walk around downtown livermore this time of year, youll probably notice a number of trees covered in sweaters. Its the effort by a group of tohe town. Sts hoping to bring Melissa Pixcar has the story. They call it the tree sweater forest to beautify livermore. When im putting them up, people are like theyre back . This is great. Some people are like why are you putting a sweater on the tree . They dont get cold. It is created to the art appreciation and an opportunity to share back some joy with our community. The tree sweaters coming up, fall is coming. Because of whats going on, at least this got to go up this year so it helps people realize everything is going to be okay. After the sweaters are taken down, we make sure it goes to local animal shelters where pups and kittens waiting for homes will have something cushy to lay on, something comfortable while they wait for their new family. Right now is a really good time for this. People are happy when they see the trees go up. Its supposed to represent the love we have for our arts. When were recognized it makes us want to do it again next year. Which we will. Who knows what well come up with next year. Thats what all of these tree sweaters help us do in our community. The downtown livermore tree sweater forest will be up until november 15th before the sweaters are donated to a local animal shelter. If you looked up last night, you may have seen this rare blue moon. The phenomenon happens whenever there are two full moons in the same month, hence the saying once in a blue moon. This was the first blue moon of halloween since 1944. And here is a look from over the bay bridge, how beautiful is that . In case youre wondering the term blue moon has nothing to do with color. The moon can sometimes appear blue because of dust or smoke particles in the earths atmosphere. And plenty of people got their own photos and video of this last night. Here you can see people gathering there in the city in alamo square to film the moons rising, in the distance, you can see the top of city hall lit up orange for halloween. So beautiful, frances, did you stay up to get to see it . I stayed up and saw a little bit of it. You can see it a little bit right now as you saw in some of our live shots. The moon sets at 7 29 this morning. So weve got a little bit more time left. We have a gorgeous day ahead of us and i want to start off with live doppler 7 and the satellite radar image. We have little cloud cover, just a very thin marine layer off the coast right now, and some thin clouds over the bay, but the fog is thick in Half Moon Bay, visibility has dropped down to a fourth of a mile, slightly reduced visibility as well in santa rosa and also in livermore. Santa cruz is looking beautiful right now. You see some of those coastal clouds, temperatures range from 40s to 50s, San Francisco 56. Gilroy at 48 degrees. Half moon bay cooler at 46 and this time looking from mt. Tam looking south over the bay right now. Santa rosas down to 42, as well as fairfield and concord is at 47, livermore at 44 but afternoon warmth will be building. As we take a look from sutro down toward San Francisco, you see how gorgeous it is today. Warm and plenty of sunshine for everyone. The sunrise at 6 35 and sun sets at 5 10 this evening, so it will feel really early. A chance of rain is finally heading our way towards the end of the week, and ill show you that as well in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Here is the man mags wianimatiod cloud cover. Warmer temperatures, so sunshine for everybody at the beaches, upper 60s to year 70 and santa cruz hitting 80 degrees this afternoon. San francisco gorgeous at 75. Oakland 80 degrees. San jose 83 and warmer spots will be fairfield and livermore in the mid 80s. If you are headed to the beaches this afternoon because it will be gorgeous, be careful if you head into the water. Theres a beach hazard statement in effect that starts at 3 00 today, continues until 5 00 tomorrow. We could see waves as big as 12 feet in some of the favored areas for the northwest, and westfacing beaches so this is of course going to bring a risk of dangerous rip currents and sneaker waves, right now current wave heights are at five feet. Overnight lows will be dropping into the 50s around the bay, San Francisco 54, oakland and san mateo and redwood city at 52 and well see some 40s as well through some of the north bay valleys at santa rosa, 43 napa, 47. Here is our gorgeous accuweather sevenday forecast, enjoy the extra sleep, set your clocks back an hour today. Warmth continues and holds through monday, it will be sunny for voters on tuesday, mild and slightly above average and a big change comes in friday afternoon into saturday, where we have a system dropping in from the gulf of alaska that might bring us a chance of rain and will certainly bring us much cooler temperatures for next weekend, so inland areas will be 20 degrees cooler compared to today, so enjoy the sunshine and warmth while you can, liz absolutely. All right, frances, thank you. Coming up, we are going to talk about the holidays. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has a look at black friday and what changes retailers are making this year. Of floor and decor the in san leandro our expansive store is fully equipped with safe distancing guides, so you can browse our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. 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