Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The group of employees works at Healdsburg District Hospital in several different departments. New at 10 00, ktvus Debora Villalon is live with the investigation underway. Reporter this showed up in routine screening and triggered an immediate response. 12 positive staffers sent home to isolate in the hospital on alert for more. I work night shift here. I have been here for 30 years and ive never seen anything like this. Reporter this housekeeper is frustrated to hear 12 of her colleagues at healdsburg hospital contracted covid. Apparently outside of work. I dont understand why people are not following the rules. Like wearing their masks when they should on the outside, or what they are doing. We have been using them for various reasons. Reporter now the hospital tent is running full tilt to get almost 300 staffers through. One round monday turned up one infected employee, but now positive patients. Everyone goes through
Im not running a false promise and being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch. But what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions. We will deal honestly with the american people. Biden and his wife jill cast their ballots in wilmington today. Meanwhile, democrat, democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris held two drive in rallies in arizona. She criticized President Trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together. Stocks tumble today because of worries that the pandemic in the u. S. And in europe will mean more restrictions on businesses and drag down the economy. The dow dropped 943 points, the nasdaq lost 426 and the s p was down 119. Early voting numbers continue to break records nationwide and if the trends hold, we could see historic levels of turnout. Our political reporter greg lee tells us whats driving the numbers. Reporter with less than one week until
Does make a difference. I want everybody to vote, everybody to count, everybody to save what they need to stay. Reporter Young Malcolm helped his mom put her ballot in the box. She said i could do it because she knew i was responsible to do it. Reporter the Company Secretary of States Office lists each and every one of the 334 early voting sites in the nine bay area counties by town, address, such as a school or library, and the directions to get there. If voting in person, you must vote either at your designated polling place, or at a county voting center, if they are available. Also listed, the dates and hours of voting operations which are not generally saturday october 31st two monday november 2nd, as shown in the master list we have linked to on the ktvu website. Of course, you can vote on election day. Even though the registration deadline has passed, all counties offer sameday registration and in some cases, at your polling place to allow for provisional ballot to be cast. We wa
Clouds and fog. Highs should be a little warmer compared to what we had yesterday. We will take a close look at the forecast. And we have the first look at traffic. Good morning, we see the traffic is moving along pretty well of world the bay area and we can look at a lot of these roads that are completely empty, which is nice. I like what i see out there. We can see the bay bridge is light here. So it is off to a good start. Lets go back to the headlines. New this morning, protests in oakland over the shooting of jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin. It was mainly a peaceful protest last night with hundreds of people in downtown oakland. But some of the crowd set fires and smashed the windows of several businesses. At the courthouse, the glass doors were shattered and a fire was set inside. Around 11 00 last night some of the protesters walked down the off ramp of grand avenue to interstate 580 and temporarily stopped freeway traffic. Oakland police say several people were arrested. In w
Good morning, i am dave clark, mark tamayo is right next to pam. He is right here and telling us more about hurricane laura and our weather. Good morning , mark. Good morning, our forecast is very stable, minor changes of course. The hurricane laura, a major category four storm that made landfall earlier this morning, late last night to early this morning. I am showing you this as we take a look. It made landfall as a category four storm with winds over 150 miles per hour. We will be watching out for that all day long. In the bay area, the current numbers are 50s. San jose is a warmer spot. This is a live camera. Here is the plan this morning, low clouds to start of the day, and easy sunshine. Forecasted highs should be a little bit warmer than yesterday. Temperatures should rebound by a few degrees. A closer look at your forecasted highs and a few minutes, so lets check in with sal who was standing by. Hopefully the roadways are looking okay. Good morning, sal. They are looking fine,