Professor is accused of teaching in the classroom that have students and faculty saying they want him out. But first election day just four days away in just a few hours bay area voters will have even more options when if comes to their casting their ballot. It may be down to the wire but its not too late. You have a few days to cast your vote. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more from San Francisco. Reporter options for dropping off your ballot are about to expand in the bay area. Starting tomorrow sport franchises will begin offering space. Here in San Francisco will be a ballot drop off location. People in the bay area are voting early. Were getting pretty close to election day and i just really really want to make sure it gets in there. Reporter many want to hand in their ballots themselves. Veronica walked 20 minutes to San Franciscos drop off location instead of putting it in the mail. I actually feel by actually dropping it here not i dont trust im sure theyre doing a lot. Reporter starting tomorrow San Francisco will add 11 more drop off locations across the city including the home of the warriors, the chase center. Like the civic center location, staff will be on hand to greet you and sheriffs deputies will transport the ballots back to election headquarters. We have our personnel at each drop off station. Well have at least three people. And when we move ballots we involve a deputy sheriff. Reporter in Alameda County two new options for voters. The as gave us this video tonight. You can vote in person or drop off your ballot. The warriors former practice facility is also an option, and Santa Clara Levis is opening its doors, too. People say the key is turn out. The initial locations will be open with limited hours until the polls close at 8 00 on election day. Jean elle, nbc bay area news. Both candidates are making a final push. President trump back in washington tonight after three stops in the midwest, michigan, minnesota and wisconsin. At an airport rally in green bay the president talk up the economy and specifically the jump in Third Quarter gdp growth following a bottoming out of the quarter before. Yesterday it was announced last quarter our economy grew at the astonishing speed 33. 1 , the largest gdp growth ever recorded and not just by a little bit. By more than double. President trump has a busy few days ahead of him. 17 rallies planned ending in michigan late monday night. Joe biden also hit several battleground states today. His final stop of the day in milwaukee, wisconsin. Different from drive n rallies early in the day. Biden actually spoke to a small number of supporters gathered inside a airport hanger. Everyone was wearing a mask and you can see far apart because of the covid surge in that state. Biden promised an aggressive uhuh tack on the virus and promised to deliver Economic Relief. Were going to bring republicans and democrats together and deliver Economic Relief for families, schools and businesses. Im not going to shutdown the economy. Im going to shutdown the virus. Tomorrow biden is set to campaign with former president barack obama in michigan. Well, businesses across the country are preparing for the possibility of protests or demonstrations on election night. In fact some businesses in San Francisco are even boarding up their windows. Police say there are no known threats to the city or polling places but that additional officers will be working just in case. New at 11 00 tonight, campaign ad concerns. Both the trump and Biden Campaigns say theyre having a hard time running ads on facebook. Both teams say this is a second day in a row that its happened hindering their ability to reach voters on social media. The Biden Campaign says there are thousands of preapproved ads not live on facebook. The Trump Campaign said it was experiencing technical issues today but didnt give any details. Facebook is only saying that it had some technical flaws and that the issue is mostly fixed tonight. It went onto say the vast majority of the ads that were incorrectly paused are now running. Okay, four days to go. If you have any problems while youre dropping off your ballot or voting on election day, let us know. Head to nbcbayarea. Com or tweet us at using the weinvestigate. Yep, its going to happen, halloween on a saturday night. Any other year it would be a big reason for celebrating that spooky holiday. But with covid playing a trick on us lots of neighborhoods are canceling or scaling back festivities. Reporter for the last ten years these two households in the willow glen neighborhood have had a flendly halloween competition. Every year they add more items to their house decorations. Tonight we even spotted a few people drive by with their kids to check out the lights. This year things will be a bit different on halloween night. Theres usually a halloween parade in this neighborhood. It had been canceled because of the pandemic, but there are some households that decided they still wanted to have some kind of halloween celebration. What were doing this year is just keep the gate closed, setup a table on the outside and do this little chute with the candy. Reporter the family usually hand out hot chocolate to parents but not this year. Theyve put a memo in everyones mailbox and basically said just to practice social distancing and respect people if they dont have lights on. Reporter many of those suggestions match the cdcs guidelines for safer celebration this year like avoiding contact with trick or treaters, giving treats outside, setting up a station so kids can pick up their own treats, washing hands throughout the evening and wearing a mask. And not just a costume mask, a cloth one, too. There are several neighborhoods like this one in menlo park that are asking people not to trick or treat at all. In the midst of such a strange year because of the pandemic a socially distant carefully planned out night of witches, pumpkin heads and candy sounds like a relief for kids. How excited are you to see people this year . Very excited. Reporter in san jose, sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Nice spider. Keeping traditions alive despite the pandemic, lots of people gathered tonight to celebrate. People were able to drivethru an illuminated gallery of alters crafted by local artists. Also known as day of the dead its a mexican celebration of ancestors and loved ones who have passed away. Tonight a covid spike in Solano County is triggering a warning from the state. Right now its in the red tier, but state Health Officials say the county is at risk of moving back into the purple tier. Thats the most restrictive. That move could happen as soon as november 10th. And that would mean some businesses would have to close again or theyd have to stop operating indoors. The rise in cases is partially blamed on several Large Community gatherings. Lets take you outside to San Francisco where a recent spike in covid hospitalizations is now forcing the city to slow its next phase of reopening. Restaurants that recently got it green light to expand to 50 indoors will stay at 25 . The same goes for indoor places of worship, museums and movie theaters. And some places scheduled to open next tuesday now are not going to open at all. That includes indoor pools, bowling alleys. Some Restaurant Owners we spoke to say they understand the delay but they certainly hope it doesnt last too long. For a most part right now its just so sunny out i dont think its a problem. But i feel like during the wetter seasons its going to be a lot more difficult and detrimental to business. As for schools mayor breed says todays decision does not impact them. Some are scheduled to reopen. Others are still waiting for city approval. The nations top doctor met with Bay Area Health leaders today and did it virtually of course during an event hosted by the Silicon Valley leadership group. Dr. Fauci addressed some of the hesitancy. I will see it and all my scientific colleagues will see it. So if anyone try tuesday do an end run about getting something approved before its ready for the american public, that wont happen. Santa clara Health Director dr. Sarah cody was one of the moderators. Dr. Fauci offered words of praise for dr. Cody. He says the slow controlled return to inperson learning makes sense. Still ahead a promising trial now underway in the bay area. The hospital selected to help with the development of a Covid Vaccine and how you can help as well. Ramping up testing. A look inside a new facility helping to cut times for covid test results and also creating jobs. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Ill have a look at your weekend forecast including halloween and when we could get the pattern to change to maybe bring some rainfall. Ill see you back here in about 8 minutes. New at 11 00 tonight, under fire. A professor at cal state east bay is getting push back from fellow faculty and students for teaching that race influences intelligent. The educator is teaching a theory that certain black and hispanic ethnic groups are less intelligent than white europeans and northeast asians. Its a story first reported by the San Francisco chronicle. Tonight there are calls for his ouster. Nbc bay area cheryl hurd has more. I think its appalling. Reporter nina believes economics professor must go. The message that his findings and frankly his framework are based on have been debunked. Reporter hes written the average level of intelligent in Subsahara Africa is quite low, that africanamerican women are overpaid relative to their cognitive ability and that brain size varies along racial lines. Theres a difference between Economic Freedom and academic malpractice. Reporter his beliefs drew complaints at this weeks trusty meeting. An assistant professor at biology who has subsaharan african descent was there. So according to American Standard i dont think i have a low iq. In an email to the chronicle he describes his work as uncontroversial falling within the main stream of contemporary intelligent research. He also welcomes debate on the topic. I just dont know how he was able to i dont want to say get away with it but be able to perform this type of research on our campus and have the Administration Just essentially and say that this research is meritorious. But the university releasing this statement tonight saying the views expressed by this faculty member are antithetical to the core values of cal state east bay which is committed to maintaining an Inclusive Community that values diversity and fosters tolerance and mutual respect. We reached out to the professor in several ways and got no response. Hes not being sensored, but if hes teaching things that are discriminatory and also unsound then hes not doing his job. Reporter in hayward, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. We have new details about a deadly shooting in a san mateo neighborhood. Police say a child was also hurt although theyre not saying how. The shooting happened this morning near the 101, 92 interchange. Neighbors say they heard several gunshots. A 30yearold man died there. No word on how the child is doing. Investigators are looking at Surveillance Video to try to identify a possible suspect or a get away car. Well, shes spending her first night in prison. Today Actress Lori Loughlin reported to the federal Correction Institution in dublin. Shes serving a two month sentence after pleading guilty in the College Admission scandal. Loughlin will have to follow the same rules as all the other inmates including a 5 00 morning wake up, a uniform khaki pants and tshirt and can have no visitors because of covid19. Thousands of comcast customers in san jose have been without cable and internet all day. Weve learned a work crew cut a fiber line and service may not be restored maybe until tomorrow morning. Breaking records we dont want to see broken. For the fifth day in a row the u. S. Set an alltime high for the number of new cases. Covid cases nearly 99,000 new infections just today alone. Those numbers underscore the critical need for a vaccine. Tonight one of the most promising trials in the world is actually being done right here in the bay area. Stanford doctors started the phase three trial of the Johnson Johnson vaccine today to figure out if its effective. Ian cull spoke to the doctor leading the effort and one of the people getting vaccinated. Reporter new video shows the first injection for a covid19 vaccine trial at stanford. Its the Johnson Johnson study. Dr. Philip grant is the principal investigator. I do other clinical studies as well, but its nice helping out and getting something that will hopefully be available in springtime some time. Reporter this phase three trial will be down at 180 sites around the world with 50,000 participants. Theyll do 1,000 at stanford. Its a double blind study so some will get active vaccine, others will get a placebo and theyll all be monitored. The vaccine essentially uses a common cold virus to deliver coronavirus genetic material into the body. The goal is to spark an immune response. They wouldnt be administering this to 60,000 people if there wasnt a level of confidence in what theyre doing. Reporter stanford graduate and aspiring physician got the bay areas first dose this morning. If theres any way that, you know, me volunteering to participate in this can be of service to the rest of your community both locally and globally im very happy to be involved in that. Reporter there are now four vaccines in critical stage three human trials in the country. Johnson johnsons was briefly on hold after a participant got sick. Astrazeneca was also paused for the same reason but both trials have resumed. In fact this week researchers in the astrazeneca trial with oxford say their vaccine has shown to have a strong immune response in elderly people. And moderna says by the end of this year it expects to have approximately 20 million doses ready to ship in the u. S. Though its still in stage 3. Projections that we have that i i think and hope will be reasonably accurate that we will know some time in december whether or not we have a safe and effective vaccine. And practically speaking when will we be able to deploy that vaccine. Reporter people in the stanford trial will take a phone survey every week to see if they have symptoms. Dr. Grant says they still need more volunteers. Right now were doing the Young Healthy individuals and older healthy individuals. If you dont fit that category we will later call you once weve moved onto people with chronic conditions. Each will be monitored periodically over two years, but the data on if it works will come much sooner. Ian cull, nbc bay area news. Well, a new hitech Covid Testing Lab in Los Angeles County is designed to dramatically increase the states testing capacity. 25 million lab will also cut the turn around time for test results and create hundreds of new jobs. Newsom says this lab will cet california apart from the rest of the country. Its roughly double our testing capacity. Itll get us the ability to do over 300,000 plus tests every single day. No state in the country is able to do something of that scale. The high volume lab will also drive down the cost of testing. Governor newsom says the state is currently paying an average of 150 for covid tests. Cruise ships could be back in business in a number of weeks. The cdc lifting its no ship order. Theyve been stuck at the dock for nearly 8 months now decimating the cruise industry. The cdc issued a new conditional order that takes effect sunday. Cruise lines will have to prove their Covid Protocols are effective before welcoming passengers back and also have to warn people about the high risk of contracting the virus onboard. All right, lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Jeff, it is friday. We have made it to the weekend, and we are ecstatic. I know its halloween, we cant really trick or treat but itll be a treat just to have a nice night. You are exactly right. After what we went through the past couple of weeks with our fire danger weather is going to cooperate with us as we head through saturday and sunday. So lets get row right into that saturday forecast, and i think well start off with a bit of cloud cover. Overall mostly sunny and cool temperatures. And ive also put your forecast to 49 for the trivalley and more of those 40s for the east bay with 48 for the average, and looking good there in San Francisco. Not much in the way of fog. And right here for the north bay, 49 degrees. So for halloween its going to look a lot different for a lot of us. But at home whatever youre doing with the family bubble with covid we have temperatures in the 70s for most of the day. And i think by 4 00 and 5 00 well get up to about 80 but thats as hot as it goes. Near the coastline cooler with 60s to low 70s. Let me get your fix on my microclimate forecast. And we go a degree or two warmer tomorrow. That leaves us at 81 in san jose, 70s near the bay, 78 in oakland. Thats a mighty fine day. Over to pleasanton, 82. And weve got those typical cooler 60s in half moon bay. More of the 60s right here through the marina and outer sunset. And downtown in the mission a bit warmer there with low 70s. Light winds tomorrow, mostly sunny skies. Air is going to be dry. Humidity at 27 . Overall some pretty perfect california weather. This weather is great, but as we all know we need rainfall. We need to start getting it this time of year. Were running about 2 inches behind on our rainfall. Im still seeing a pattern change november 7th through 14th. Our confidence is slely increasing well get the chance of some rain in that time window and definitely some colder air. So illeep k you uptodate on that. Just make sure yourself to enjoy this weekend. Upper 60s, low 70s in San Francisco this weekend. For elebz daction day, 70s. Time change on sunday. Clocks go back one hour. That means an earlier sunset at 5 10 at night on sunday. And election day on tuesday well be at 80 degrees. With all this stuff piling up on my seven day forecast coming our way as i mentioned at least the weather is going to cooperate this weekend, right . Totally. As we start to get into those cool temperatures, a lot of our freedom is going to go away so we have to enjoy it while we can. All right, thank you, jeff. Still ahead a new tool created in Silicon Valley aims to help prevent parties at airbnbs. Were going to show you how it works. And happening now do your air pods pro for a crackling static when you talk . The impacted units were manufactured before this month. Were back with more in a moment. In the bay area, we believe in science. 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. Well new, at 11 00 tonight a Silicon Valley startup says its developed a tool to help airbnb hosts protect their homes from out of control parties. Its called party squasher. It uses a sensor that can be hidden in host homes. That sensor counts cellphones in and around the home even if the phones arent connected to the internet. It then sends the data to the owner of the home. It is going to cost a bit more to binge on some of your favorite shows. Netflix is raising its prices. Premium tier going up by 2 to 18 a month. The basic plan will still be 8. Netflix cites the cost of creating original programming for those increases. Well, making a push for the playoffs. The San Jose Earthquakes are close to making a postseason come back. Sports is next. As a nurse, ive faced the fear of being stretched too thin to do my job right. And its not Just Health Care workers. Our teachers and school staff are going the extra mile for our kids. Our firefighters are taking on unthinkable missions to keep us safe. How can we keep giving billions in tax breaks to rich corporations when our communities need that money . Prop 15 closes corporate loopholes and invests in our schools, health care, and public safety. Help us do our jobs. Vote yes on 15. Official ballot drop box near need to fiyou . He closest just visit vote. Ca. Gov to find your nearest location. Then drop off your ballot. Your vote will be secure and counted. There are other ways to vote too. Just return your votebymail ballot at your voting location or mail it back. Or you can vote safely inperson during early voting or on election day. Vote the way youre most comfortable but vote by 8pm on november 3rd. Okay, from one of the worst teams in the league to one of the hottest. The San Jose Earthquakes have won five of their last eight matches. That means theyre in position to punch their ticket to the playoff for just the third time in the past nine seasons. We really dont have to depend on anybody else. If we play well, if we get the results that we need then were in. There are just two matches remaining including sundays home finale against lafc. The league stopped short of mandating masks for all players not on the field, but today it did say its strongly encouraging players on the bench who are not about to go out on the field to wear a mask. Two teams have dealt with covid outbreaks. Several others have seen isolated cases. Were back in a moment. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Finally tonight San Francisco zoo had a special reason to celebrate, world lemur day. Thats because one of their lemurs, maki is back in his habitat. He is settling in nicely with his best friend london. Yes shes named after mayor london breed. The zoos outdoor lemur exhibit is the largest in the country and a new donation announced today will actually quadruple the size. Nice to see maki is back where he belongs. Thats going to do it for us. Have a great weekend. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Well see you. [ cheers and applause