Its the last weekend before the election, but its not too late to cast your ballot. Election officials and bay area sports teams are trying to make it as easy as possible to make sure your vote gets counted. Several new and familiar Voting Centers open today. Youre looking at two of them right there, levi stadium home of the niners, chase center, home of the warriors. And Christy Smith has more. Reporter outside the coliseum in oakland arena, voters showed up ready to be counted. Were voting in person. Reporter this is where jennifer cast her ballot. The president ial election on her mind and she took her brother. He was not going to vote. He was going to stay at home. I was like, lets go. Lets do it together. This is the first day that were open for inperson voting at our accessible voting locations. Well will open here and at our 100 sites on saturday, sunday, monday and election day. Reporter in alameda county, theyre seeing a surge in early voters, just days ahead of the election,
Stock, for chips, for 5g and lot more then there is prime day. What about emerging alternatives to amazon this Holiday Season . Well talk about that straight ahead, john. Yeah. Carl, i cant emphasize enough how important the iphone is not just for apple, maybe even not for apple as much as for the industry overall the carriers really need somebody to sell 5g which has not been built out as quickly as they promised. Then the components inside the iphone open possibilities for App Developers they put money in the pockets of chip makers. There is a lot, a lot riding on this, carl of course, jon. Lets turn to josh lipton. So, carl, what do we think tim cook is going to unveil exactly tomorrow the team Morgan Stanley says anticipate four new devices including, they say, a 6. 7 inch iphone 12 pro max. That will be the largest iphone display ever complete are 5g connectivity. Faster data speeds for tasks like streaming games and movies. Apples latest and greatest a14 chip and longer battery l
This afternoon putting out hot spots. Christian joins us with more on the firefight and now the investigation into what caused this fire. Christian . Certainly, alex, those firefighters said theyll be there until at least in the morning. When the first firefighters got here, you could not see your hand in front of your face. They had that much black smoke through this entire alleyway, and now we have firefighters who can be electrocuted. We can have firefighters who can be damaged or hurt by falling debris. Firefighters battled the flames, all the way dodging energized electrical lines and downed transformers. One firefighter was transported to the hospital after injuring juniories battling the fire. One firefighter who was injured is in stable condition and expected to be okay. By 1 30, crews had the upper hand on the fire, but not before it damaged six buildings along 14th street. Three residents in the area have been displaced. A half dozen or more businesses impacted. To see it go
Breakthrough theyre preparing a long promise but never delivered infrastructure bill. The s p 500 is higher by 2 . Broad rally today well speak with the House Majority whip about his call for big banks to die eventualth more information about the Paycheck Protection Program and whether it favored Big Companies over Small Businesses plus, as sarah mentioned, a major breakthrough thats what searchers are calling a new study into the effectiveness of an inexpensive steroid to treat covid19 patients you dont want to miss that interview. One of the factors behind the surge in the markets today lets focus in on the big markets. Mike santoli, we have the highlights from chairman powells testimony earlier today. Courtney reagan is covering the surge in retail sales. And meg has details on those new hopes for coronavirus treatment that we just mentioned mike, lets start with you the Broader Markets are up about 2 on the s p 500. This is an impatient. 3130 is the high of the day. There is a high
Living through that locked down in rwanda. It is tough for everyone. So far they have managed to escape with a very low infection rate. I am brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. We begin with the latest grim numbers from the pandemic. The number of confirmed cases worldwide has exceeded 3 million. That is according to Johns Hopkins university and the United States. It comes on the same day germany began requiring people to cover their faces when shopping and using public transport. A mask is now mandatory, provided that you have one. Equire Wearing Masks requires having masks to wear. Germany, like most countries, needs billions of them in the months ahead. When the World Largest cargo plane landed in leipzig on monday, with 10 Million Masks from china on board, a leading member of Angela Merkels cabinet was there to greet them. The defense minister says the masks will be sent to germanys 16 federal states for distribution. All those who