new cases county by county. you can find the latest number ls on our website on nbcbayarea.com. coming up, this man, a tv legend being mourned around the country. who is alex trebek. we ll take a look at his remarkable career. one east bay diner with a special tie to joe biden and kamala harris. as the showers and hail and mountain snow around our bay area peak moves out, we are watching this winter weather setting up in a form of frost advisory, a closer look at your morning temperatures when we come right back. we love our new home. there s so much space. we have a guestroom now. but, we have aunts. you re slouching again, ted. expired, expired. expired. thanks, aunt bonnie. it s a lot of house. i hope you can keep it clean. at least geico makes bundling our home and car insurance easy. which helps us save a lot of money oh, teddy. did you get my friend request? uh, i ll have to check. (doorbell ringing) aunt joni s here! for bundling made easy, go to geico.com. hello
coming into the area, some rain. we re excited to see rain coming in. it s falling on the weekend but it is great to see at any point. it will be moving into the bay area this afternoon. storm ranger is powered up and ready to catch that rain on the radar. of course more updates throughout the morning. mike, what s the update now on the morning commute? we look at the map, the bay bridge as well as the san mateo both are east/west bridges and get caught by the wind. really that s it so far this early friday morning. no other problems on the roadway. thank you, mike. still no winner in the race for president with five states still hanging in the balance. joe biden appears to be inching closer with the former vice president looking at paths to victory. biden took the lead in georgia but it is the slimmest of margins. he s now ahead by about 1,000 votes with more ballots to be counted. and the last time georgia went democrat in the presidential election was 28 years ago.
just fine. you can drive at speed. the issue is on the east bay, not on the peninsula. northbound 880 towards 29th a crash between the work zone and fifth and embarcadero the accident there. laura, we re gathering more information. back to you. all right, sounds good. thanks, mike. to decision 2020 now just two days after the election and the presidential race still too close to call. joe biden has a narrow lead with 2 a53 electoral votes and 270 is the magic number here. biden could outright win the election if he holds on to his lead in arizona and nevada. now the other battleground states that we re tracking for you, as well. georgia, north carolina and pennsylvania. all five of these battleground states poll workers are still counting those ballots. let s look at the popular vote. biden has 50% with 71 million americans voting for the biden/harris ticket. that s most votes for a president in u.s. history. as the nation awaits the final results, we ll bring you liv
this ballot box on october 12th. the problem is he doesn t know where it went. writing from home, they have plenty of options to turn in ballots, we did all that. and, we ended up with a situation where we did everything right, and it hasn t been counted. reporter: zach kept checking the states ballot tracker but it never updated and he began to worry. after posting about his issue online, zach realized he was not the only one in the dark. what bothers me the most is just the fact that other people may not know until now. reporter: with rumors of ballot theft and impropriety swirling on social media, contra costa county assistant registrar of voters once to clear the air. ballot boxes are emptied every day. they are emptied every day by a team of two people. and, ballots were picked up on the 12th, and on the 13th. we cannot explain why we don t explain why we don t have the voters ballots to voters said they dropped in the ballot on monday the 12th. but, what is re
is and if we will continue to offer that in future election cycles. reporter: record turnout is expected. 122,000 vote by mail ballots have been collected. a steady stream of cars were at the crop box. this is more important than anything in our lifetime. in oakland barbara lee said every vote is cast and counted. staying in contact about the post office to make sure there s no delays. having kamala harris on the ticket is good. this is a remarkable historical moment to have a vice presidential candidate from oakland is important. 2020 is the pivot election with a pandemic and other factors changing american politics. this election has been frahmed by the pandemic, by covid and how president trump has conducted himself in office. this has created an election we ve never seen. there s a rise in first-time voters, which is a big deal. you can vote in person or by mail until election day. vote by mail ballots must and postmarked by november 3. free bus rides on