Its the last weekend before the election, but its not too late to cast your ballot. Election officials and bay area sports teams are trying to make it as easy as possible to make sure your vote gets counted. Several new and familiar Voting Centers open today. Youre looking at two of them right there, levi stadium home of the niners, chase center, home of the warriors. And Christy Smith has more. Reporter outside the coliseum in oakland arena, voters showed up ready to be counted. Were voting in person. Reporter this is where jennifer cast her ballot. The president ial election on her mind and she took her brother. He was not going to vote. He was going to stay at home. I was like, lets go. Lets do it together. This is the first day that were open for inperson voting at our accessible voting locations. Well will open here and at our 100 sites on saturday, sunday, monday and election day. Reporter in alameda county, theyre seeing a surge in early voters, just days ahead of the election,
Were hoping for inperson voting at our accessible vote locations. Well be open here at this site and all of our 100 sites on saturday, sunday, monday and election day. Reporter tim is registrar of voters for Alameda County where theyre seeing a historic surge in early voters. Just days ahead of the election this location also makes sense. It is an icon for this area, so we know that people will know that this is a spot that they can get to drop off their ballots, to vote in person safely and like i said also vote in their cars and for curbside voting. Over at the courthouse on Federal Street outdoor voting was setup and people dropped off ballots. I was like, okay, i can just do it right now instead of waiting until tuesday morning. Inperson voting is available at the warriors practice facility, too. Across the bay warriors coach steve kerr came out and dropped off his ballot outside the chase center which is a ballot drop off location. Were in there grinding every day trying to be a g
High winds are causing dangerous fire conditions across the bay area. A look at the areas of highest concern. The fire dangers leaving thousands without power. We will find out how soon pg e can turn the lights back on. We are getting a look at where the powerful winds can do. The damage being cleaned up across the bay area. We start with thousands of customers across the bay area without power right now. We take a live look toward the Oakland Hills. Here is a look at the power outage map. The areas marked in purple have power safety shutoffs right now. We have you covered with complete Team Coverage. We begin with the weather team. The red flag warning is in effect across the entire bay area through tomorrow morning at 11 00. Parts of the bay area, Higher Elevations will be under the red flag warning until tuesday evening. Low humidity and gusty wind through the rest of the night. For the Higher Elevations wind gusts potentially over 70 Miles Per Hour. Even the lower elevations and th
And practicing covid19 norms. Masks for Everyone Welcome back is a mask from us hand sanitizer, temperature gauges we want everyone to feel like they are in a safe place. Reporter one of roughly 1800 pg e customer set to lose power in sonoma county. Much higher napa 9200 customers. And eastern Solano County some 900 customers will be affected 80 to 90 and lake county said to be impacted the next few days because of a red flag warning. Height winds expected early friday morning expected to get the most friday morning with estimated restorable times friday night. Reporter because pg es equipment was blamed for sparking the wine country of ours in 2017 the utility began cutting power the following year to prevent similar incident as stop. Humidity forecast to drop below 20 in high wind exceeds 25 Miles Per Hour. We reported on customers who complained about using and losing food when teaching with dark. Attribute organizations is to the redwood empire for being customers can have food rep
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa