This is abc7 news. [ chanting this is what democracy looks like] many of them ready to vote for the very first time and want to make sure their voices are heard at the ballot box. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. Count them down, only two days left before the election, and the final push is on to get out the vote across the bay area. Youth voter turnout could be pivotal on tuesday. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live at San Francisco city hall where young people took to the streets today to make sure their voices are heard. Cornell . Reporter yeah, dion, they really did take to the streets of San Francisco. Many of them are firsttime voters, and they say that they know that they have the ability to make a change on tuesday. [ chanting ] reporter election day closing in fast, young voters are feeling empowered. This event called march for our future made its way through San Francisco sponsored by youth advocates for change. We are two days fro
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y
Story. Reporter this is part of an online form hosted by the Silicon Valley leadership group. The conversation lasted 45 minutes. Invest time the moderator and dr. Fauci covered a lot of ground. Which means we should be able to get an inkling of whether or not we have a safe and effective vaccine. Sometime in middle to end of november. Beginning of december. Reporter dr. Fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert told Silicon Valley leaders in an online forum by the end of the year we will know more about a covid 19 vaccine. Im optimistic based on preliminary data from the phase 1 study. That we will in fact have a safe and effective vaccine. If we are successful we will be able to start administering vaccine doses by the end of this calendar year or more likely in the beginning of 2021. For dr. Faucis at the process of getting americans back to take 4 to 6 months. Clinics and medical provider should start planning logistics now. He acknowledged skepticism about the safety of a co
Right now. Still breezy in areas like atlas peak, sonoma and calistoga as wills danville all these areas have consistently seen wind gusts this morning into a 20 mile per hour range. Most of her strongest of winds have been concentrated in mountainous areas more exposed to those peak wind sitting right above the bay. Well you see just the other thing going on right along the bay itself hayward san jose San Francisco, nice and calm through the morning we will see winds picking up briefly into early afternoon right after lunchtime and then after that its all downhill in by 06 00pm tonight. Actually pretty calm evening set up ahead of us red flag warnings will does expire at 05 00pm today for those upper elevations of the east bay, a purse elevations of marin and sonoma counties too and much of napa and all of Solano County. Again this red flag warning Expiration Date ahead of us so we do have that end in sight. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures, its been a nice morning with oakla
Back. I hope it all goes well for you. You are well social distanced. Thats nice to see. We have fog along the coast this morning. Visibility down less than a quarter mile at Half Moon Bay. Expect coastal valleys to get foggy. You can see it hasnt made its way into the bay, if it does, it wont last long. Im not worried about it except for you folks on the coast. 68 in Half Moon Bay, 76 in San Francisco. Near record warmth places like san jose, 83. Concord, 84. Oakland, 80. Napa, 84. A couple more days of this before finally some autumn chill and a chance of showers coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Lets get back to you. Thanks. Less than 24 hours before the end of voting and more than 93 million americans have already cast their ballots. Today President Trump and former Vice President joe biden making their final plea to voters. Faith abubey is live for us in d. C. With the details. Reporter good morning. Despite what the polls are showing right now, both campaigns were o