Happened just this past summer. Having queer people at the table in position of power to advocate for the community in ways that frankly oftentimes is the life of the officials that they can do can change the trajectory and save a lot of people not only hospital times, but potentially their lives. Reporter this year 1,000 lgbtq people are running for office. Here if california a record 10 of the state legislature is expected to be made up of lgbtq elected officials. They have so many queer people on so many ballots across the country. Ballots in every single state is really remarkable. Here in San Francisco again, we were really at the forefront of achieving that sort of represen still feels special here. Reporter ta iti a gan out inmin high school, he quickly became involved in politics, serving as the president of the harvey milk democratic club. And standing in milks old camera shop, these Record Number is incredible. The more people see themselves represented in government, the more they feel like there is space for them to sort of step up and run for office themselves and make that impact. Alameda county is trying to put the conspiracies to rest by putting the work of their ballot counters on full display. The county launched three web cams on its elections web page. They show workers opening ballots, verifying signatures. The county registrar says steps like this are important to fight misinformation. We see whats happening nationally with peoples concerns about running a fair election. This is another way for us to provide transparency to the process that we do here at alameda county. The people are not feeling their vote is equally being protected that it will lose the competence of their ability for people to participate in a democratic process. The cameras are now live. More will be added tomorrow night after the polls close. The link is on acvotes. Org. They will send election monitors to the polls at 64 election sites in two dozen states tomorrow. Making sure they will comply with federal Voting Rights laws. A practice to support the voters who will trace back to the 1965 Voting Rights acts. Along with Los Angeles County are the two california locations where federal election monitors are being sent. In sonoma county, they are hoping people will get to the polls for free tomorrow. Petaluma transit and the city bus and transit will be letting passengers ride for free all day. Experts believe this year will set voter turnout records. We explain what is driving the surge. Reporter when tony burjeta, cast an early vote, he had one issue top of mind. Over the last eight years, the grocery bill has risen from 4400 a month to about 1,200 right now. Reporter crime is another pressing issue for many republicans. Peter travels the country, seeing the security systems. I will see a lot of crime increase. I feel people are living in fear scared. Reporter the leaders will predict concerns over crime inflation will lead to a massive red wave on election day. While the economy is also concerned for democrats, many people driven by abortion rights overturned by the supreme courts this summer. The Biggest Issue is being able to have that right to do whatever we want to with our bodies. Reporter but the democrats fear fewer voters are focused on abortion rights. Their messaging is pivoting to republican threats of handling their Social Security and medicare. For portland student, he feels after the january 6 attack, democracy saw the ballot. We cant really fix the client change. We cant really help the healthcare system. We cant bring relief to students across the country until we have faith in democracy. Reporter they say when all the votes are counted, the most important issue will be brought in for voters. For democracy to work, there has to be trust that election systems can produce accurate and honest outcomes. Voters should expect delays because of vote counting that will take time. Going slow doesnt mean strong or any problems, just patience. Cbs news tampa, florida. If you want to cast the ballot tomorrow and have not registered, it is still not too late to register. Its available on election day. Your ballot will be processed d counted as soon as your countys Election Office will verify your registration. The california secretary of state website has a full list of sites offering that sameday registration. Be sure to stay with us tomorrow night. Well have all the big National Races and results on kpix. Com, streaming on cbs news bay area. Coverage will begin tomorrow at 5 00. Planning some significant staffing reductions. Meta is preparing to notify staff of large scale layoffs as soon as wednesday. Employees were told to cancel any nonessential travel beginning this week. The job cuts are expected to impact thousands of workers as ad revenues shrink. But they did refer us to their last Earnings Call where Ceo Mark Zuckerberg said the company does expect to reduce the size of some of its teams by the end of this year as it focuses on high priority areas. The new chief has gone a little overboard when he laid off 3,700 workers last week. Some workers are being asked to return to their jobs as they were fired by mistake or the company needed their expertise to build some new features. We reached out for comment, but have not heard back. Meanwhile elon musk now says he is delaying the rollout in their new subscription plan until after midterm elections. Still ahead at 5 00, making a stand against violence. How an east bay man has turned his personal pain into decades of service to the community. New warnings about the future of our planet. Why one world leader says were on a highway to climate hell. Coming up at 6 00 on cbs news bay area, Juliette Goodrich with more rain on the way. The impact it is having on our drought and fire danger. The drought is far from over, but we do have much needed rain in the forecast. Im this is what voting yes on prop 31 means. Yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. Yes, stops big tobacco from targeting our kids. Yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. Vote yes on 31. Vo Climate Change is fueling a wildfire crisis. Destroying our forests. Threatening our communities. Polluting our air. Prop 30 taxes the wealthiest 0. 2 to reduce the tailpipe emissions that drive Climate Change. And prevent wildfires and toxic smoke. So we have clean air to breathe. Some say we shouldnt act. Tell that to our kids. This is about their future. Kevin calfire firefighters, the American Lung association, and the coalition for clean air support prop 30. Yes on 30. This is what voting yes on prop 31 means. Yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. Yes, stops big tobacco from targeting our kids. Yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. Vote yes on 31. An update now on the gas and water main break that forced a shelter in place order in San Francisco. Minutes ago we were told the safety union and fillmore, well thats been resolved. But crews are still on the scene making repairs. Drivers should continue to avoid the area. One building has some water damage inside the basement. Take a live look over downtown oakland where the city has declared love life week. The foundation is marking 25 years on the fight to end violence in new york city. Donald lacey started the foundation in honor of his daughter, chloe lacey who was murdered in 1997 at the age of 16. Lacey says he wants everyone to perform random acts of kindness this week to promote unity. We won that love. The thing i grew up in is the greatest city in the world. We want to give back to them. The love life week includes a schedule for murder victims on thursday night. The town hall on friday and saturday. There is a black tie gala. The u. N. Secretary general says the world is looking at the climate to hell with our foot still on the accelerator. More than one of the World Leaders is in egypt tonight to discuss that crisis. Just a few example, contributing to Climate Change as they suffered their worst sighting in recent history leaving millions homeless. They witnessed one of their driest hottest summers this year with wildfires sweeping large parts of the continent. Of course here in the u. S. , more than half of the country is experiencing drought. Activists say they are fighting for the survival of future generations. The young demographic on earth, we are 1. 4 had billion. And also impacted. Leaders from the largest climate polluters, india and china, are skipping this years summit. Both countries sent minor delegations and President Biden will wait until after the midterms to join that summit. Well still ahead a huge fire hits a california home. Why investigators believe it could have another worldly explanation. Straight ahead in sports, its monday. Indianapolis is stuck on saturday. Klay thompson, why is this young and it will be moving towards San Francisco. And getting back together, all right. Yes, when they get over land and that is something to keep their eye looking at it. The picture perspective, wet weather tonight and election day. The heaviest rain will be falling. And its a first alert weather day planned on challenging Tuesday Morning commute. Onto leftover showers tomorrow afternoon. Those will linger into wednesday morning. But plenty of rain tomorrow evening. Just offshore that we were mentioning. And into southern napa county. Some of those heavier downpours are moving into vallejo and a closer rook at that cell thats building offshore. No lightning icons just yet. But it looks like it will miss downtown San Francisco to the south. Well be tracking that very carefully as they will make their way onshore within the next 45 minutes or so. Not much happening for the moment. Thatll change later on tonight. Everything is moving from west to east. Were going to be seeing those showers continue to move farther inland with a break in the action until they begin to show up on radar at 11 00 this evening through the rest of tonight with heavy downpours while most of us are sleeping. Some of those heavier downpours will be with us for tuesday and again plan on some extra time and extra patience as well. Then were down to that off and on shower by midday. Maybe a third of an inch on the low end to 3 inches of rain on the high end. Just over an inch range for total rainfall. A closer look at that burn scar outlined in red. Well show you how much rain will fall there. Its been a couple of years since they fired in 2020 and still something we need to watch for in case of debris flow issues. They are not likely to be heavy enough to cause any significant issues, and there will be snow along with the wind advisory tomorrow. The winds will be gusting up to around 45 miles an hour along the coast. And that is what they have picked up, very challenging travel conditions on i80. And the temperatures right now mostly in the 50s, dropping down to the upper 40s tomorrow morning. And not warming up too far from there. Well be stuck in the 50s for the daytime highs on tuesday. These numbers are a good 10 to 15 degrees above average. And temperatures will warm up over the weekend in the low to mid50s by saturday and sunday. What is the last of the showers to wind down by midday wednesday. It looks like were in for a stretch of dry weather on thursday and from time friday. And into monday next week for another round of very welcome rainfall. Thank you, paul. A look at whats ahead. Juliette goodrich. Thank you so much. Rain is a welcome sight just about everywhere especially in the fire prone areas. We head to the mountains for a look at the impact they have on our drought. They will decide once and for all tomorrow, but there are two sides to every argument and you could certainly have both of them. The news is coming up in ten minutes at 6 00. Lets head to vern in sports. All right, big up top and the warriors, they felt exposed from i80 east. The kings are moving pictures on the late show. But first enjoy the zen. How are you doing . Good. An easy distraction over Klay Thompsons press conference. It will be a lot better than the current standings. Golden state is looking up at almost every team in the west after losing five straight. And to that, thompson responded. It was a good amount to get away. And hopefully it will be a great week for us. Were going to turn the page to start closing games. And we will be going on a big win streak. Ive got a gut feeling. And another shot at baseballs hall of fame next month. But this time no baseball writers are involved. His fate is in the hands of the contemporary baseball era committee. Thats one of eight players on the ballot as they will need votes from the 12 Committee Members to be elected to cooperstown, new yorks hall of fame shrine. Stanfords pac12 player of the year last season. He was watching the team where the maple pavilion floor turnovers. Thats michael jones, making plays there from the pacific. And the career high of 31 points. Thats steph currys school. The cardinals will open up the season with the 8878 win. The second ranked women will play San Diego State tonight. The 49ers are back to work today including three key players on injured reserve. The linebacker colton mcgiven. Telling the reporter he expects to play sunday against the chargers. Continue rehabbing his knee injury. It was exciting to have a little more company in the locker room on monday. Everybody is coming through. It feels like the first day of school when you get back from summer break or something. And everybody is excited, ready to get back out there. Thats how i felt, you know, the care. Oh, im ready. He was just getting excited. The bye week did not go as well for new york giants safety mckinney. He broke his hand while riding an atv in cabo and will not play sunday. Mckinney had not missed a snap all season. The colts today fired head coach frank wright one day after they were blown out at the patriots. Indianapolis is replacing him with all pro sinner on saturday. When he woke up this morning, he was an analyst with espn with zero coaching experience. His first opponent, uhoh. The raiders. You see last sunday, he ripped the raiders, tweeting the raiders, they look horrible. You see, what goes around will come around. You cant keep burning those bridges. Now you need to go in there and see the team that he ripped. The Bulletin Board material. Yes, indeed. I bet he wishes a big hole would open up in the earth and just swallow them up. [ laughter ] and why not . But what if the colts win . Oh. That would be good. Yeah. Vernon . All right, thanks. Still ahead here at 5 00, a Southern California home bursts into flames. It could be something from out of this world. I heard a big bang, i started to smell smoke. I went onto this is what voting yes on prop 31 means. Yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. Yes, stops big tobacco from targeting our kids. Yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. Vote yes on 31. This is what voting yes on prop 31 means. Yes on 31 ends the sale of candy flavored tobacco products. Yes, stops big tobacco from targeting our kids. Yes, protects kids from nicotine addiction. Vote yes on 31. In nevada county, a man has a heck of a story for his insurance agent. Officials are looking into the possibility of a meteorite destroyed his home. The property caught fire shortly after several witnesses described a bright ball of light falling from the sky. Its quiet here in this secluded area of nevada county. People around here are multigenerational cattle farmers or ranchers. Reporter Rolling Hills where cows graze. Where nothing happens. I heard a big bang. I started to smell smoke. I went onto my porch. Reporter until friday night. I opened up the space here and yeah, not much around it. Reporter it appears this bright ball of light, which lit up the sky around 7 30 landed in the middle of nowhere. What do you think hit your house . They said it was a meteor. I was watching mayor showers as a kid, but definitely didnt look forward to it landing in my yard or through my roof. I did not see what it was. But from everybody i talked to, it was a flaming ball falling from the sky and landed in that general area. Reporter along with cal fire, they battled the flames for hours. The meteorite or one of the two. And they are investigating what started the fire. One individual said ill put that in the back of my mind and then they started to talk about it. Oh wow. It looks like a book coming out. It definitely feels lucky it was a few feet below me. They foe they could have lost much more. The odds may be in their favorite. They said it was a one in four trillion chance. I guess im buying the Lottery Ticket today. And one possible explanation. The meteor shower is taking place right now. Pretty incredible. Thats it for the news at 5 00, cbs bay news with Juliette Goodrich starts right now. Thank you so much liz and ryan. We are talking about a soaking storm sweeping towards the bay area in your first alert forecast. Rain, dangerous surf, and thunder. The bay area bracing for another round of wet weather. Im tracking the next round of rain moving through the bay area tonight. How much rain well pick up out of this particular system and when the shower pattern is going to wind down. Its not enough to make a dent in our drought. This is really just a small drop of what we need to see to get out of the drought. It could be a permanent way of life. Reporter nearly year long search for a missing east bay woman is over. The tip that led investigators into the remains of alexis gabe. The questions her family still wants answers. Its a race to the finish line with just hours to go election day. We take a closer look at one big issue of californians who will be weighing in on. Banning flavored tobacco products. What would you do with all that dough . I would buy a house and hide out for a little while and travel. Thank you for joining us. Scattered showers hitting the bay area right now with a heavier wave of wet weather still on the way. Taking a live look in your evening commute. We are still seeing mostly dry roads, but the morning commute