Fog this morning that is streamed into the bay. So if you are going to be voting this morning do plan on wearing a jacket then just a cool start as is typical this time of year. You can see your view the north bay looking down at San Francisco, some low cloud cover hovering right above the bay itself, your bridges of actually been fined visibility wise. But if you are heading up into some hillsides and right along the coastline. Thats where youre running into those lower visibility areas you do see spots in San Francisco oakland and happen bay area visibilities a bit lower. Were in the 40s and 50s right now, but this afternoon were in for a treat sunshine returning and nice warm temperatures. Rob all right. Thank you morning commute is picking up out there we dont have any major trouble spots right now. But we do have some slowing heading into San Francisco. Were checking out this line here at the bay bridge toll plaza already stacking up beyond the 80 over crossing so quite busy were
So, well call that partly cloudy right now. Temperatures today still a few 80s in our east bay valleys and most of us in the 70s and coast in the San Francisco in the 50s. Five to ten degrees cooler than yesterday. Still too warm for this time of year. Kumasi. Ill take it from there, thanks, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in most of the continental u. S. Ill take it from here. Lets take a live look right now at voters. They are lining up as you can see. This is in anderson county, south carolina. Another very crucial state. Voters in swing states will likely be deciding this election and because many of these states are several time zones ahead of us, well start to see the Election Results this afternoon. So, heres a look at some of the big ones that we will be tracking. The following times are pacific times. Polls in georgia and parts of florida close at 4 00 p. M. Our time and the Florida Panhandle and parts of michigan and pennsylvania it w
Building. Maricopa county still has 275,000 ballots that need to be counted. President trump is hoping to stop the vote count but only in some states. Anne makovec joins us now from the live news desk with the very latest. Reporter the vote counting is on as we speak. It looks like we can likely have an answer as to who could be the next president of the United States by the end of the day. The demonstrations you talked about from yesterday continuing this morning including outside the office where theyre counting now in philadelphia, pennsylvania. Lets go inside that room right now where they still have about 1 million votes left to count. Pennsylvania is of course among the handful of Battle Ground states you mentioned still in play this morning. So far the mail in ballots theyre counting have skewed heavily in joe bidens favor but President Trump still has the lead. This was the state where in 2016 he won pennsylvania by less than one percentage point. We have an eye on the counting
Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Mike keeping an eye on that commute. First, lets start out with meteorologist kari hall. Looks like nice blue skies behind you. Does that mean nice blue skies today . Yeah, we will see some sunshine today and, in fact, this is the last day well see these blue skies up until the weekend when we see a lot of Cool Temperatures and more clouds moving in. Theyre going to see a cold front arriving tomorrow and its going to bring in some gusty winds and light showers to the bay area and then as we go into the weekend the off and on rain and chilly temperatures as well see our temperatures today reach into the 70s. Get out there and enjoy it. Well talk more about this and whats ahead coming up in a few minutes. Mike, any issues for Early Morning commuters . Well have changes ahead, of course. The build and the volume and the traffic. Well look at the green sensors and im checking out some details from chp near the dublin interchange
They were ready. We had under a 4 minute response time. What were learning about this fast moving fire. Also winds are dying down. Why firefighters say the danger isnt over yet and where the biggest threat will be overnight. But first tens of thousands of people across the bay area are still in the dark tonight. It is becoming all too familiar for this time of the year. Public safety power shutoffs because of high fire danger. Now, pg e says that this is a expected to be the largest shutoff of the year. Lets show you the outage map in realtimes. Those purple triangles show where the shutoffs began last night. In some areas the lights not expect today be back on until some time tomorrow. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight. We begin with cheryl hurd and so much frustration there has to be. Weve done this so many times. Reporter it is. And right now were in the heart of the theater district, and this iconic sign you can usually see from the freeway is out. In fact power wept out h