Right now were bringing in Lawrence Karnow laurent, yeah guys were defeat now of fire season kind of a scary weekend ahead were going to see these winds. Come and go several times throughout the week so the National Weather service has already issued redflag warning that begins at 11 oclock tonight in the north bay mountains you can see areas in brown these where theyve issued some watches beginning on wednesday. Thats because were likely going to see these turn red flag warnings as we get the middle of this week because well see some very gusty winds around the entire bay area so Santa Cruz Mountains 25 to 35 mile an hour winds. This will be fine tuned over the next couple of days, humidity 15 to about 20 that as you make your way in the east bay also gusty winds again these are but a 1000 feet so gusting over the mountain tops 20 to 30 miles an hour. Maybe some 4050 plus mile an hour gusts over diablo and you can see the humidity down to 10 to 15 smaller county youre split here. Youv
Minute push. She joins us from Contra Costa County theresa. Why we have been saying people rush here to make sure that they make that deadline as well as dropping their ballots here in Contra Costa County. Ive been doing elections for 25 years this is my 6th president ial election. Ive never seen. People so excited, enthusiastic and voting so early. Thats the assistant registrar of voters on what theyre seeing this general election here in Contra Costa County with today being the deadline for registration we expect to go over. 700,000 voters for the first time in our history today. We about a year ago yesterday that would be our weather account and here we are on the final day of registration. And were were going to hit that target, but its very very very big this year and everybody should vote do the right thing and outside all day long this people constantly pulling up and dropping off their ballots. This mom even turned the whole operation into a civics lesson for her young 3 daught
And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
Dangerous conditions in egypts business. So the number of people around the world who have contracted coronaviruses exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people that have died of cave in 1000 over the past 24 hours and that brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000 and more than 10000000 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina and colombia are among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are imposing more restrictions to tackle the new wave of infections and wales is going into a nationwide lockdown for 2 weeks that starts on friday its one of the worst hit areas in the u. K. Over on then jenna hall says the well slow down did come they surprise whales of course already under restrictions much of the country and on friday to the rather unprecedented step of banning people from travelling to wales
But my best guess is its folks that strongly about people there says real pent up Energy People have been waiting a long time, but generally theyre going to go but theyve been waiting and theres almost a sort of first day at the apple store kind of feel to this first week of early voting in a lot of states people want to be first in line. And well hear more from donna coming up at 6 oclock including why shes referring to the president ial race at this point as a cake. Thats already been baked so nice and cannes. All right katherine, thank you for that. And while the president ial race heats up the race to get a last minute relief bill passed before election day is also underway or Trevor Shirley has the latest details on that deadline in washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told the white house of a deal doesnt come together by tomorrow night. Its probably not going to happen at least before the election in the meantime Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to introd