So many of you are worried about, the covids bike, the Delta Variant and the scramble to get tested in the Bay Area, as we are one day into the new indoor Mask Mandate. The states seven Day Positivity Rate now up to 6. 7 . Thats a. Seven jump from a week ago. But how easy is it to find out if you actually have covid or not . Kpix 5s Kenny Choi has been digging into it for us. Kenny, what did you find out . Access to testing is being watched very closely by city officials. There is no commitment yet by the city to expand the hours or even the testing locations at this point. But when you talk to people trying to get tested, the wait times are longer and the struggle is real. Lines forming, cars idling, weaving their way into the Citys Test Site on alleman lord today. Demand is up and climbing higher. Now we have vaccines and we are back to hundreds of people trying to get tested again. This notice coming up on the Countys Health Department website, listing testing locations, stating apa
42 days until election day. Were going to get ballots before them. Yes, theyll be going out on the 16th or maybe a day or two earlier. Reporter the gears are turning at your local elections office. Ballots are now being printed, just as polls show the state roughly divided on the central issue. I will vote for not recall. I believe its unfair. It has no basis. You want to see him stay . Yes or. I think it needs to happen. You are prorecall . Oh totally, yeah. Get rid of him. Reporter as the vote draws closer, so does the virus. As it turns out, covid is reemerging, so now the fact is the governor is going to have to handle it in a way that reassures these democratic voters. Reporter and just as its been difficult to forecast the course of this pandemic, it could be equally difficult to forecast turnout in this recall election. Differences from 2003, we are mailing every voter a ballot, which we didnt do before. So that puts a ballot in every hand. Whether they vote it or not, thats up
we are looking west this friday morning. happy new year s eve. thanks for joining us. looking forward to 2022, let s get a check on the weather with meteorologist darren peck. another cold one on tap today. temperatures have gone down but another five or six degrees in places from where they were yesterday. 31 degrees right now for santa rosa and petaluma. look at all the 30s in the bay area. oakland 37 degrees right now. 43 and settles like a little warmer and of course it is warmer in the trent eight. so it is going to feel quite differently you step out the door on friday morning he did on thursday. even in the inland valley of the east bay it is my degrees colder in concorde than it was yesterday. luckily there is no fog. so we are not dealing with visibility issues on the drive. that is nice. we would usually have that after a storm with as much rain as we have gotten. i will be back with the rest of the forecast and the new year s eve forecast coming up in just a bi
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on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, live from the bay bridge as cars approach the toll plaza. you can see the wet roads. good morning. it is thursday october 21. i am len kiese. i am amanda starrantino. we are staying on storm watch. darren and gianna join us with the forecast. light rain. it will probably stay that way for the most of the morning. if you have to hit the road, plan on having the windshield wipers on. grab the umbrella. if you look at high def doppler, you see showers across the bay. on futurecast, it s doing the same. by the 6:00, 7:00 hour there will be plenty times when you are not getting rained on but there will be plenty times when you are. this is just light stuff today. it s tomorrow when the better system gets here. you see the difference there as we get into thursday, thursday at 7:00 p.m. there is the organized line of rain. that s what s getting here for friday and friday morning s commute will be a bit trickier. it will be better organize