Election and we will tell you how kron 4 is your local election headquarters. And thank you for joining us tonight at 5 im pam moore and im ken wayne were now just hours away from a historic election as a divided country grapples with country grapples with the pandemic which has caused Many Americans to cast their ballots by mail election offices across california of already received more than 11 million mail in ballots with more to come. That is historic especially when you consider that during the 2016 president ial election. Just 8. 4 million vote by mail ballots were cast and among the spots that could see a historic turnout locally is San Francisco. Thats where we find kron fours dan kerman he is live. Outside the citys outdoor Voting Center Near Civic Center plaza dan. But we can tell you the more than 300,000 ballots have already been received by the department of elections. This year they are doing the ballot processing in that building you see behind me the bill graham Civic A
This is video from the citizen app the incident happened this afternoon when crews were responding to a high rise fire at 55 spear street at some point crews say a San Francisco muni bus drove through the scene Officials Say a firefighter standing near a hose line was struck and dropped to the ground hitting his head. The firefighter was knocked unconscious and taken to San Francisco General Hospital where he is in critical condition. He has been identified as matt ban and has been with the department for 6 years. Well for Jonathan Mccall is heading to the scene he will have a live report coming up on kron 4 news tonight at 8. They came here for one reason only and that was to create chaos and and to intimidate folks we thought it was a fun thing. For our group not intending to do anything to the other side of market. Tensions boiled over when a caravan of hundreds of Trump Supporters rolled into the only major Africanamerican Community in marin county kron fours Maureen Kelly talked t
Going to set a course its going to go one way or its going to go another and if it goes the other way its going to be a a terrible thing. Now at 10 the final countdown is on until our nation will find out just who is going to become the next president of the united states. Thanks for joining us everybody on this election eve. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus syria. We have a lot to get to as we get set for tomorrow but first. Were following a big story out of San Francisco where a firefighter is in Critical Condition tonight after a major accident involving a muni bus. This is video from the citizen app it shows the scene this is earlier today Officials Say a firefighter responding to an electrical fire near market and spear was knocked to the ground and hit his head yeah that firefighter is recovering tonight at San Francisco General Hospital. And thats we find kron fours Jonathan Mccall hes live at the latest on investigation jonathan. Thank grant that firefighter has been identi
Find out the results which could take. A day 2 or maybe more but stick with us here on kron 4 we also want to take a look at weather and traffic for you on a tuesday morning. John good morning hoping for his calm of an election day as possible Mother Natures certainly at least cooperating today bringing us some sunshine, some mild temperatures and some dry conditions as you get out there to cast your ballot today looking outside we definitely do have the presence of more fog then what you have been saying or happen may cam is showing you that we do have fog overhead sitting right above the coastline there you can see it visibility is just fine as that fog is sitting right above you but do watch some spots in upper elevations on the peninsula as well as in the east bay hills that are being impacted by some of this low cloud cover right now temperatures are mostly in the 50s with alameda at a cool 50 for 53 conquer dublin, Petaluma Nevado and santa rosa, all kicking things off in the 40s
Can still vote between now and election day we have 17 early voting sites that opened today and those will be open today saturday and monday. Yeah they will take this voting booth thats on wheels that will be used to alleviate waiting in those long lines, whatever helps these mobile polling stations will also be used as a backup resource on election day. Kron 4 says he could you explain tes. They are rolling out a pair of election mobile trailers in Contra Costa County as preparation for election day 2020 continues with low voter will but its a trend that were going to have outfitted to support our our polling places. The clerk recorder registrar of Contra Costa County Debbie Cooper says these red white and blue vulnerable bills will be used as backup resources just in case something happens that impacts voting that is stationary polling location in case of an emergency can one of the reasons we got them is because of the issues we can have you with p s p s power shutoffs and so were a