For changes that make things a little more convenient for the boaters sounds good at least the last part of it the convenience or Catherine Heenan host of inside bay area politics talk to an expert about that a captain at you know a grant of income people still have a lot of questions of course we know. Lots and lots of people are voting early both in person by mail. This was the scene in San Francisco recently but what happens to those ballots being returned before election day. If you return one early does that mean it will be counted early well, generally, yes, we talk to somebody with the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office. Boats come in and that person happens below biz scanned thats the signature area is scanned. That signature is compared many only by human eyes. To what we have on file and if the signatures match and then the humble of goes to the pass as they call it where it is open and the ballots are removed now we we do process the ballots before the close of po
60s nice chance to step out there while its common well, its cool and just to save or a bit of a fall field before it straight back into the heat this afternoon with mideighties for san jose low 80s in oakland and 70s solidly for San Francisco. Robin were off to the golden gate still waiting for the fog to clear john its been covered in fog throughout the morning drive thats what we have a dense fog advisory. In place heading across one o one there it is still tough to coming across the span and excuse me, but no the problem so far still clocking in at 20 minutes which is fairly quick novato to the toll plaza here the bay bridge. We are delay free no nothing to stress out about heading into San Francisco. The backup that we have from west grand. It is gone so were down to an easy 12 minutes off to fremont street well check more bridges coming up back to you its a lot robin i know one and lets get to the big story in our team coverage, the north bay is once again facing critical weather
Purple triangles here signifying areas where the utility has shut off power and its still out. And tonight most of the affected regions in the bay area. Still do not have their power back on you can see in marine county, some 13,000 customers are still in the dark. Kron fours dan kerman joins us now live from san anselmo with the latest now on those dan were hearing that people are not getting their power back on as soon as they had hoped the latest. Well thats true. Yeah, the latest is that many people here in santa and as well as fairfax mill valley and hope to get their power back on by 10 oclock this evening that was the original plan as stated by pg and but theyve not gotten the allclear for these areas yet as a result it could be 6 oclock tomorrow night before power comes on here. Since early sunday evening, nearly 14,000 marin county residents have been in the dark today and it isnt and it was in getting dressed in the dark and it is just thinking rally. Im much more can we take
Because of an overturn accident that just clear this is in redwood city. Northbound one o one at the what side exit this is where a truck flipped over lost its load. We have 3 lanes shut down so thats out of your way clear just a few minutes ago, but the backup is still there so north one oh one is crawling through redwood city menlo park palo alto it spilling back up through the south bay mix again with the heavy traffic leaving san jose. A whopping 87 minutes to make it from san jose to menlo park because of that residual slowing and then that heavy traffic on one oh one spilled over to marsh bayfront expressway. And thats why youre all backed up across the don martin bridgestone also impacted west 84, which is jam from the toll plaza all the way into menlo park so its not looking good at 44 minutes to the peninsula. All of that is residual slowing. We in terry terry. We have never seen before at his that been a Tony Partridge and thats of community transmission. But at the same time
San francisco and san joke holding on to some upper 60s more on your forecast ahead robin alright, checking back in on the bay bridge toll plaza we have another wave of heavy traffic into San Francisco. This is what i was talking about like 20 minutes ago it was standing out and looking good which makes you think oh the commute so bourbon. Not so fast. We have traffic in ways and this is that second wave of heavy traffic coming in so still crawling backed up the on west grand and the drive time is back up to 60 minutes which is not terrible but its slow. Both intimate and 5. 80 are busy but id avoid the amendments because were at 40 minutes to downtown oakland youll save a little bit of time by taking 5. 80 instead its only a 35 minutes and then 2. 80 averaging 23 minutes from san jose to Cupertino James darya thank you very much rob and 9 oh one and the top story, the coronavirus it is spreading around the bay and around the country. Yeah and this morning we have Team Coverage of the