Bay down to the south county. Well talk more about our temperatures in the forecast in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . The last half hour was busy as far as finding the slow spots but now as we look at the maps things have calmed down quite a bit, even san jose where we saw the slowing which sometimes sticks around until 6 30. I think 6 40, 6 45 well see more south bay slowing again. Little pockets through berkeley and oakland have cleared up for 24, 580 and i80. The bay bridge toll plaza and i80. We do see the middle lanes starting to stack up that has been the trend so a slow build for the last 15 minutes. No metering lights yet. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Right to that breaking news were following in San Francisco this morning. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live with the cliff rescue wrapping up in the presidio. Reporter yes, good morning. The last fire official pulled out just a couple minutes before you came to me, but a really dramatic rescue here near marshall beach. It was streamed that it was a male in his 30s. Believe it or not he has no significant injuries, but he was transported as a precaution. Take a look at the video, quite dramatic. San francisco fire getting the call around 1 30 from several individuals who heard the person down near the water on the cliff. The lieutenant says thermal imaging was used and they deployed three Marine Rescue using boats and kayaks in the water. They called for Coast Guard Air rescue and used the long rope. As the helicopter was coming in their crews on the water were essentially able to catch a wave to rescue this individual and help pull them 200 yards to safety to a paddle boat. Right now still a lot of questions as to what this guy was doing down by the water. Again, he is okay. Its a male in his 30s transported and things are wrapping up. If you can hear the waves in the background, the water quite choppy. The choppy waves and the colder temperatures for that rescue but, again, the individual is okay and is being looked at at a local hospital. Cierra johnson for today in the bay. Quite a Daring Rescue attempt. Thank you, cierra. To decision 2020 now just 13 days to go. A live look. Moderator nbcs kristen welker. Tracie, joe biden preparing for the debate and President Trump out on the road with a lot to say. Reporter right. Hes talking about winning, where he needs to be to win. Were seeing that with both campaigns and a lot of people all over the country standing in long lines trying to engage with this election. The voter turnout already a big story 13 days before the election ends. Long lines across america marking a surge in early voting with less than two weeks to go. I think now its very important to do so. Reporter more than 30 Million People have already voted. Twothirds of the early vote total from 2016. Nbc tracks more democrats than republicans so far. Both candidates are honing in on pennsylvania where polls are deadlocked. If we win pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. Reporter President Trump protesting pennsylvania ballots allowed to be counted up to three days after the election. And hes chiding the state for not reopening sooner. You guys arent even open yet. What the hell is going on with your state . Reporter president obama campaigns in philadelphia today for joe biden who is behind closed doors preparing for tomorrows debate. Topics include families, race, climate, national security, leadership and covid19. Make no mistake, we are in the second surge. Reporter with much of the country overwhelmed with new cases, the candidates are hitting the airwaves. And hitting a handful of states that could determine the outcome. So were watching the campaign, were watching the voters and we are watching the money. It turns out reports indicate right now joe biden has almost three times as much in the bank as President Trump, not because the president has not raised a lot of money. He has, more than a billion dollars, but much of that money has been spent. Marcus . Tracie potts in washington. Kristen welker moderating tomorrows debate. Our coverage begins for you tomorrow at 5 30 p. M. California must cut the number of inmates at san quentin prison in half to protect them from the pandemic. A state Appeals Court made that ruling and says officials acted with deliberate indifference to the health of prisoners where it had 2,200 cases and 28 deaths. The prison must now transfer or release enough inmates to get to half of its population back in june. The state department of corrections says it disagrees with the ruling and its not yet clear when inmates will be moved. Here is a milestone for San Francisco, it is the first bay area county and ninth statewide to move into the yellow tier on covid regulations. Its also by far the most populous county to get there. Starting november 3rd, election day, restaurants will be able to reopen indoors at 50 capacity. Also next week Fitness Centers can open at 25 capacity. And soon after museums, zoos, aquariums, movie theaters and places of worship can all operate indoors also at 50 capacity. More details for you and despite that recent progress, San FranciscoPublic Schools will not reopen anytime soon or for the rest of the year for that matter. Thats the decision following yesterdays school board meeting. The district superintendent says to reopen the district must meet three requirements, none have been completed. So far theres no reopening time line. Meantime stanford is launching a brandnew coronavirus study in the bay area. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live for us with those details including who is needed for the study. Kris . Reporter yeah, and why you may want to participate. Trials where folks are getting infected to see if the vaccine is effective. This is not that. Stanford wants to know where and how the virus is spreading in communities that dont have the same access to testing as other communities. Getting to a testing site can really limit who is getting tested. The aim is to reach people at home thereby expanding the reach into underserved and underrepresented communities. Some participants will get athome tests that only require a swab of your nostril not the scrub it all the way back to your brain. The covid study called stanford catch is open to all bay area residents in all counties plus santa cruz. Residents have to be adults who can participate in online surveys. And some of those participants will be selected to get those athome tests. There is no cost to participate, and you dont have to have insurance. Theres the website on your screen, the phone number as well. Of course that goes by in a flash. I will post that on my Facebook Page and twitter feed so that you can see whether or not youd like to participate. Again, it is a low cost way for stanford to figure out where the virus is spreading. You dont have to be symptomatic. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thank you, kris, good information. A lot of us are still home schooling, lets check out our opportunities to get out in the backyard and get fresh air in between home schooling. Gilroy and our temperature trend throughout the morning will be cool to start with some 50s at 7 00. Its going to heat up fast. You may want to get ou during the mid morning hours. We will have a warm afternoon around the bay area as well also have our temperatures in oakland reaching 78. 88 in napa and 89 degrees in concord. Im also watching those wind speeds so well talk more about that and our red flag warning, both of them in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now getting out the door for work . Its not horribly bad, kari. Any slowdown, any wait, we dont like it. The bay bridge toll plaza where we look at the live shot so we continue to follow the backup in the middle lanes. No metering lights. We have slowing at the toll plaza obviously like we just saw there but also another in San Francisco on the approach, the decline. Slowing there. That may indicate the need despite it may build. The rest of the bay should build a bit. It looks great. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Lets hope it stays that way. Up next on today in the bay, the one bank fee that did not go up in 2020. Plus a washington politician makes records where you might not expect a washington politician to make records. Well take you out to the futures. Were not going to get a stimulus before the election. Tesla reports after the bell. Plus, vegas lifts its curtains on live shows. The opening dates are now set. Well have the lineup up next. Youre watching today in the bay. Right now at 6 13 we have a little bit of time left before sunrise and you may even see some meteors streaking across the sky as we enjoy the orionid meteor showers. There may be as many as 30 and they will be moving pretty fast. Were watching that, our clear skies and fire danger. More on that in a few minutes. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. They might need the metering lights, theyve turned them on. We predicted it. Slowing just a tad bit along the flat section westbound with the taillights. More traffic off san will he and droe. Good morning. It looks as if the stimulus is not going to go through this morning. Weve been talking with washington and it looks as if that is not going to be the case. I am having a little bit of trouble this morning with a little bit of something i will see if that will help me. Nancy pelosi wants an agreement with democrats on stimulus package came and went last night. Several News Agencies are reporting Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell is telling the white house if the Trump Administration did come to an agreement, the Republicanled Senate would not vote on a stimulus before election day. Mcconnell simply wont bring it to the senate floor. As you know you need the house, the senate, the white house to agree to get anything done so the negotiations weve seen between pelosi and members of the Trump Administration simply arent enough to get anything passed. Dan primack at axios had this tweet. These stimulus negotiations, without the involvement of mcconnell, is kind of like when my daughter and her friend spend time deciding what type of pizza and ice cream they want, except i havent agreed to drive and buy it. Amazon the latest company to say its workers should work from home for longer. Programmers, not people who work in the warehouse. Amazon also launching onehour curbside pickup. You do have to spend 35 or more. If you were with us yesterday we told you about the google antitrust lawsuit as it happened, something that may take years to resolve. This is antitrust. It has nothing to do with washingtons other complaints if big tech is in some peoples minds. Speaking of washington one of the popular politicians in washington is now streaming on twitch. Congresswoman ocasiocortez went online in a get out the vote push and played the very Popular Online game among us. She then became the third alltime most watched twitch streamer with more than 400,000 live viewers. For those who play she got picked as an impostor in the third round. You are being positive in the chat. Thank you for the affirmations. Im going to need so much luck is there a way to mute yourself . Yes, at the bottom next to your name theres a little microphone. All right. So thats her playing among us. If you dont know why its bad to be picked the impostor for the first time you play among us, you probably dont need to know. Aoc was not looking at you as the demographic she was trying to talk to but 400,000 young people, presumably many voters, tuned in to watch her play. Next generation. There you go. Thanks, scott. I dont see trump or biden playing those games anytime soon. 6 17. Two lucky tesla drivers may have extra help behind the wheel on their way to work today because, according to a tweet from elon musk, last night the company rolled out its new enhanced selfdriving program in beta form. The new mode is called full selfdriving and it promises to deliver just that to cars equipment with new programming. For now only a few select and careful drivers have received it. I dont know if that car made a complete stop, but well talk about that later. Some good news for you here in 2020. Atm fees did not go up thanks to covid19. Banks kept the fees around 4 and in some cases went down. Fees have been going up every year since 2004. Checking and Overdraft Fees did go up. A live look at the Las Vegas Strip where more signs of life are set to return to sin city in a matter of weeks. Live shows will start up again starting november 6. David copperfield, carrot top and thunder from down under are among some of those productions set to resume. Hopefully theyll wear masks. I know some of you have been waiting for carrot top. I done even know he was still performing. There you have it. 6 19 right now. Were still in the high fire danger warning. We are. The winds will pick up especially in our upper elevations but thats coming along with very warm weather. Let me take you hour by hour. Were starting out nice and cool with some low 50s in parts of the north bay. But then as we head to noon, well see temperatures here at about 79 degrees. 81 in livermore. San jose in the upper 70s but then we continue to heat up even more from there with a lot of upper 80s as we head over from the trivalley, over to dublin. Fairfield will reach close to 90 today and cooling down quickly. Were also about to transition to cool air. As it does so those winds will start to pick up. We will have the red flag warnings expiring in the next hour and a half, hour and 45 minutes, and another one picking up for tonight that will go through friday and this will include the east bay hills as well as the Santa Cruz Mountains. Elevations from 2,000 to 3,000 vote and above having gusty winds. Were looking at winds 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour in parts of the north bay and along the coast. For the south bay the winds will be at about 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Whats making the wind flow so quickly we have High Pressure just off to our west giving us that northerly win. There will be a couple but it will help cool off our temperatures along with those high winds. As we check out concord, in the east bay how the temperatures will drop off. We go from the upper 80s to the mid70s in time for the weekend. These will be the High Temperatures over the next several days. All of our inland areas will have some significant cooling but we do still have to watch out for the high winds and the fire danger the next couple of days. Mike, how is it looking now for the commute . Pretty predictable for the patterns. Once those metering lights are turned on, which they are, and they fill in except for hov. Three or more there. A nice move slow despite the fact theres a disabled vehicle in lane five. I see that moving there. Getting better on the span itself. The rest of the bay looks great. Well send it over with a live lock at palo alto and then over to you. All right, sounds good. Thank you, mike. 6 21 right now. Up next on today in the bay, nbc bay area responds. Reporter the pandemic canceled her mexico vacation, and she bought insurance. So where is her refund . Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds with a tip for everyone next. Welcome back. 6 24. A followup on the devastating glass fire in wine country, how much of the grape harvest was affected. Sonoma county wine and Grape Growers are set to lose at least 152 million. At least 70 of the growers say they had fruit rejected. Overall wine growers could lose more than 470 million from this years harvest. Nbc bay area responds to travel complaints every week and were getting a lot during the pandemic. Thats right. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here with one that landed in his teams inbox. Reporter good morning. Antoinette martinez said she couldnt get her money back for a flight to mexico after she canceled the trip. She paid about 1,000 for airfare and travel insurance when she booked through aarp. But when she asked for a refund antoinette said the agency only offered an Airline Credit of 350. She turned to us because she expected a full cash refund. We reached out to aarp. A few days later she said show got all her money back 1,027. 38. So what changed . We dont know. Aarp only told us it made contact with antoinette, and we feel the situation is resolved satisfactorily. Antoinette is happy. If youre ready to start planning trips, one quick note about travel insurance. One of the main reasons to buy it prepandemic was to avoid Nasty Airline change fees and Hotel Cancellation fees. But Many Airlines and hotels have stopped charging them. Before you buy travel insurance today, figure out what youll actually get out of it tomorrow. If anything. If youre getting nowhere with a business tell us about it. Click the responds option on nbcbayarea. Com or call us 888996tips. Coming up for you breaking overnight news in San Francisco. Reporter a dramatic rescue that took hours by air, water and land. Well explain coming up. Reporter a red flag warning about to go into effect as thousands of people could lose their power as a result. And those winds will start to pick up tonight. Well be tracking the wind speeds in the forecast coming up. Woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. This is a surf and cliff rescue that we have for one individual trapped on the