Impact of the latest planned outage. It now says about 4,200 customers in four bay area counties are expected to have their power cut due to the high fire danger over the next couple of days, beginning at 8 00 tonight. Solano county has been removed from the list altogether. But you know, between the past shutoffs and this looming outage thats coming homeowners in napa county are really reaching the breaking point. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard has that story. Im not even a whining type, but its gotten to the point where theres nothing else to do but complain. Reporter we found bill fletcher filling up a gas can. Its fuel for a generator. To power his east napa county home. Fletcher just got this alert. His power would likely be shut off. Its not the first time hes been impacted by a psps, or as bill calls it psbs. Thats what i think of. Reporter this napa valley mini mart has lost power twice this season. Managers dont want it to happen again because no power, no freezers. Were
Going out now. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepaid postage and you can return your ballot at any time to and including election day. November 3rd. The envelope must be sealed, signed and dated. It can be turned into your county elections office, a ballot drop box, a vote center or any polling place. And if youre mailing it back, there is more time this year for it to arrive because of the concerns about the u. S. Postal service. Now, a ballot with a postmark no later than northern 3rd can be received as late as november 20th and it will still count. You can track your ballot online through the secretary of states website. And earlier today on abc 7 news at 4 00, we spoke live with the secretary of the state alex padilla about the benefits of voting by mail. Its convenient. You get to vote from the comfort and safety of your own home and it is proven to be secure. So any suggestion otherwise is, frankly, not true, and only seeks to undermine confidence in our electi
Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. As we hear about surges in coronavirus cases in other parts of the country. Californias numbers have been fairly steady the past several weeks and thats helping us build a better bay area. Nearly 3300 cases were reported with Southern California remaining the hardist hit region. The twoweek average is about 3200. There were another 22 deaths, which pushes californias total close to 17,000. More than 3100 people are hospitalized around the state with coronavirus. But there is very good news locally. San francisco is the first county in the bay area to move to the yellow covid19 safety tier. Thats the least restrictive tier that allows more businesses to expand and increase capacity indoors. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra has the story. Reporter San Francisco may start to feel alive again. The city officially moving into the yellow tier today granting the least restrictive rules for reopening. Here are the big take aways. Starting next tuesday, nonessen
Future, this is abc7 news. And we begin with the Justice Department going after google. The government says the milpitas company is breaking the law by using market power to block rivals. Their antitrust lawsuit marks the most aggressive legal challenge in the tech sector in decades. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. The lawsuit is being filed by the department of justice and 11 republican attorneys general. The government says google has 80 of the Search Market and is doing so, in doing so is stifling the competition. This is the most highprofile case the u. S. Has brought against a tech Company Since the 1990s and it hinges on an old law. The sherman antitrust act of 1890. More from chris win. Todays filing of a landmark antitrust case against google could be the start of more action to come against some of the key players in silicon valley. This is whone of the first rl examples that we have of the government trying to actually do something about the tech industry. Reporter go
But first home from the and thats big headlines here in earlier, but lets take another look at it. We have that moisture to the hospital. Likely start coming back to life in the next few days. The bay area. President trump now resting, crews continue to make progress. South from hur rain marie. Recovering and receiving this is the view from mt. St. Well start with some fog near the coast, also the bay it doesnt look like a big treatment back at the white weather maker for us, but were house. And one thing thats for temperatures in the 50 54. Helena. Certain, dont let it dominate still smoky, but far less smoke keeping an eye on. E better bets you. Dont be afraid of it. Than weve been seeing for the youre going to beat it. Rainfall friday and saturday. The president s message for past week. The new information coming out tonight cal fire announcing america thats raising some tonight is that we likely at new at 11 00 the silicon this point could see two eyebrows. Containment is now up to