Boards like this going up all across San Francisco, as we get closer to the election. Ill tell you where and how Law Enforcement is preparing. Voters in oakland got a surprise today as a group of people on horseback came to drop off their ballots. The lastminute push to get out the vote. A local grandfather, putting his tools to good use. Building a better bay area for lowincome students. Bright and sunny today. Find out if there will be spooky surprises this halloween weekend. Abc news at 11, begins right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and security future. Were worried about the extreme elements that want to do violence and harm people. Tonight, the bay area is preparing for potential postelection unrest. Local Law Enforcement increasing staffing and coordinating with the fbi. Businesses, as you can see, are boarding up. Abc 7 news j. R. Stone is in San Francisco where nervous Business Owners are preparing. I never experienced Something Like this in my life. Reporter in th
In the castro, the shells carry costumes and party favors which are unusually full so close to halloween, a sign of the pandemic. s budget would be walltowall people in here. The costumes would be obliterated, we would be lucky to have makeup left on the shelves. Reporter owner terry Austin Bennett tells me she sold only 40 percent of what is normal for halloween. She says this holiday has a special meaning. Her greatgrandfather found of the castro hollowing parade in 1948. It is a source of pride, a source of fun. We get excited and energized by halloween. Reporter it began as a way to celebrate with neighborhood children, and eventually became a party for adults who came from all over the country and beyond. But, this year, city leaders are encouraging people to stay away. Due to the pandemic. This is not the year for a street party. Its not even the year to hang out with a bunch of your friends on the sidewalk. Like, this is a tough year. Reporter supervisor rafael mendham and is as
Boards like this going up all across San Francisco, as we get closer to the election. Ill tell you where and how Law Enforcement is preparing. Voters in oakland got a surprise today as a group of people on horseback came to drop off their ballots. The lastminute push to get out the vote. A local grandfather, putting his tools to good use. Building a better bay area for lowincome students. Bright and sunny today. Find out if there will be spooky surprises this halloween weekend. Abc news at 11, begins right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and security future. Were worried about the extreme elements that want to do violence and harm people. Tonight, the bay area is preparing for potential postelection unrest. Local Law Enforcement increasing staffing and coordinating with the fbi. Businesses, as you can see, are boarding up. Abc 7 news j. R. Stone is in San Francisco where nervous Business Owners are preparing. I never experienced Something Like this in my life. Reporter in th
Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
Now the red flag warnings will be continued for these areas through 5 00 on tuesday. The winds arent going to be as strong, but they will still be gusty. The humidity be very low to the north bay mountains, thats where we are talking about the red flag warning through tuesday evening and we have wind advisory that is in effect for the entire bay area through 11 00 tomorrow morning. Even if youre in a spot that doesnt have a high fire threat, youll still need to prepare for the potential of Power Outages as whole trees could get knocked down by those winds. Darren has a closer look at that part of the bay area. Yeah, paul, this is not going to hit the bay area equally. Itll hit some places harder than others. John ramos is in the Berkeley Hills talking about preevaccuations there for a reason. Well be showing you why the Berkeley Hills are one of the places that really need to take this seriously. Well come in for a close up look now. The week hasnt kicked in at this point, but once we