You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactl
Francisco is using the california app. San francisco has a team of 200 contact tracers tracking the coronavirus progress. Weve been proud to say at host times we reach 80 of those who test positive. Were working hard to keep that going, were seeing it slip. Were in a surge. Now the city is using the california connected system. Using phones to help in the tracking efforts. Today San Francisco is rolling out a tool that other counties are using. Rather than replacing the team of contact tracers they will stretch their reach. How to quarantine properly and who that patient may have come in contact with recently. This is porsche. Were asking important. Were asking people to share the nams and mobile number of the close contacts. This allows us to reach out to those people and support them. Just as with the center tracers this will be confident. The aim is making sure they get the information about who may have been exposed. This is someone that people need to opt in to . When you get your
Bernard shows us many may be suffering from covid messaging fatigue. Inside or outside . In. Reporter there is a busy lunch crowd at the tavern in downtown napa. This longtime eatery has went with the punches and restrictions brought on by covid. Gm john crane says finally, his customers are coming back. We just had our best week. Our best covid week so far ended on sunday. Reporter but that could change. Instead of going in the right direction, new covid cases county wide are spiking. Going backwards at an alarming rate. We saw our case rate more than double over the weekend with 118 new cases in 72 hours. We also saw our hospitalizations double. We now stand at 12. Reporter thats the highest weekend total ever. The spike could send napa county back two steps to purple as soon as next week. The states most restrictive tier. Purple tier would be a temporary closure until things got better. Reporter thats not good. Not good. Reporter it would mean no outdoor dining. They only have four
Battleground states today, north carolina, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. Hes just getting on the stage right now in wisconsin. Joe biden zeroing in on two states, ohio and pennsylvania. Earlier today mr. Biden making several Campaign Stops in pennsylvania. Were currently awaiting mr. Biden to begin his final speech in pittsburgh. Its a drivein rally, the same city he launched his campaign 18 months ago. Lets take you live to kenosha, wisconsin. President trump has just taken the stage there. This is, again, his fourth rally of the evening. He will be heading to grand rapids, michigan after this. This is in kenosha. And this is his second to the last final rally of the evening. It looks like theyre going to go until the midnight hour on the east coast. Across the country and here in the bay area, take a look. Stores are boarding up ahead of any postelection unrest. Business owners are just crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. Nbc bay areas melissa colorado joins us fr
Is going on outside. We have a little bit of fog out there and especially thick up across the north bay. Look at that. The usual spots the fog has moved in through the coast and coastal valleys and petaluma, geyserville in that area and remain there for the better part of the morning commute. Heres a look down in the south bay where were looking pretty clear on 87. Temperatures not as warm today, but definitely above average from 62 in Half Moon Bay and low to mid 70s around the bay and mid 70s to even a few 80s inland and especially 80s in the east bay. Lets get back to you for the news. Thank you, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in many states along the east coast, the midwest and the south. This is a line forming outside of the American Airlines arena in dallas, texas. You can see its pretty early there, but people are already up in line waiting for their chance to vote this election day. Now, voters in swing states they will likely decide t