Morning. We want to start the day off right with meteorologist mike nicco with a look at that forecast. Finally a couple days of cooling down before another warmup . Yeah. I think well have some temperatures that will be cooler than what we dealt with last week and over the weekend. Just a touch above average before we can start to get more falllike weather. Fortunately the fire threat returned but mainly to the north bay mountains. This is a very big area, but thankfully not the greatest of Population Centers as it affects about 12,000 to 13,000 people. Im not minimizing you, believe me, but it was much more broad i guess is my point last week when it covered more area. So fire weather watch at 11 00 this evening through 8 00 wednesday. At some point this morning the Weather Service usually updates around 9 30 or 10 00, it will probably be boosted to a red flag warning. Heres a look at our winds up there, up to 17 miles per hour. Pretty quiet as are all of our neighborhoods this morning. Clouds along the coast. 60s there. 70s around the bay and 80s inland today. Thank you. Happening today, family and friends will hold a vigil for the San Francisco firefighter who died earlier this month. Jason cortez passed away after a training accident. The 13year veteran firefighter and paramedic is survived by his wife and two young kids. His loved ones will hold a private vigil at 4 00 this afternoon at st. Ignatius church. A private memorial will be hold tomorrow at oracle park. Today Governor Newsom will provide another update to the response to the wildfires and covid19. Last week the governor talked to President Trump to approve the states disaster declaration for assistance. You can watch that update on abc7news. Com. Time is running out on congress to agree on a new Coronavirus Relief package. Nancy pelosi says if a deal is not reached by tomorrow it wont happen before the election. The deadline comes as the u. S. Is seeing a surge in covid19 cases. Hospitals in several states are short on icu beds. Reporter this morning, scientists warning that the u. S. Is bracing for a dangerous winter. The next 6 to 12 weeks will be the darkest of the entire pandemic. Reporter with hospitalizations climbing in 41 states and deaths rising in 14, experts say the country could be barrelling towards a socalled twindemic. We dont want a lot of flu and covid happening at the same time. Reporter with the time line still unclear, pfizer revealing sunday its already churning out hundreds of thousands of doses of its experimental vaccine. The company saying it wont know if the shot even works until the end of this month and then scientists must monitor volunteers for another two weeks for safety precautions. This pandemic is not going to go away until we have a vaccine. Reporter it comes as states report recordshattering increases in new cases. Minnesota confirming more than 1,700 infections sunday. In sexes, the state now deploying doctors, respiratory nurses and backup personnel as cases surge in some areas. Hundreds of patients lining up for hours in hopes of getting tested in hard hit cities like el paso. The deaths are going to increase. Reporter cities in the east fighting off superspreader events. New york city officials haultding a halting a wedding with a 10,000 person guest list. The city fining the church 10,000 for the open invitation to the rabbis grandsons ceremony and after the white house itself hosted an event that led to more than a dozen illnesses. Were you surprised that President Trump got sick . Absolutely not. When i saw that on tv, i said, oh, my goodness. Nothing good can come out of that. Thats got to be a problem. And then sure enough it turned out to be a superspreader event. San mateo county is launching a new covid19 compliance unit today. This is a push to make sure business are following coronavirus guidelines and keeping employees and customers safe. Health is something we are committed to in our effort to building a better bay area especially during the pandemic. Amy hollyfield is live in San Mateo County with more on this. Reporter not wearing your mask, not staying six feet apart while out and about, maybe shopping in San Mateo County could cost you. This team could fine you or your business 3,000. This is the new covid19 Compliance Team here in San Mateo County. That team will be on the lookout starting today for people and businesses that are not following county Health Department rules. One Business Owner tells us he supports the idea. We have to. If not, were going to get shut down again, then well be right where we started in the early months of this covid thing. Nobody wants that. If you have seen a business that is not enforcing the rules or a person who is in violation, you can call 211 now to report them here in San Mateo County. The compliance unit will work with businesses to make sure they understand what is required of them. They will hand out warnings at first but that could graduate to fines and even all the way to criminal prosecution. Reporting live in daly city, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Today is the last day to register to vote online or by mail here in california. Election day is just 15 days away. Statewide nearly 3 million ballots have been turned in. Throughout the bay area were seeing a higher early voter count compared to 2016. We have about a 23 turnout in San Francisco, which is good for this point in time. We received over 70,000 ballots in santa clara county. I wanted to drop my ballot in person this time instead of waiting for the mail because i felt like at least i would know it had arrived. For San Francisco residents, if you missed todays deadline, you can register on election day at the Voting Center or your polling place. Dr. Anthony fauci revealed his voting plan. He said he will try to vote in person because he likes that atmosphere. He discussed it on cbs 60 minutes last evening. He added if people are having anxiety about voting, vote by mail. Abc7news. Com is your onestop resource for information about the election. You can find Registration Information and a breakdown of propositions on our website, abc7news. Com. Heres your wake up on this monday. We check back in with mike nicco. We are hearing about those cooler temperatures. Sounds like everyone is excited about that. We had a rough weekend last week. If youre outdoing yard work or chores, it was warm at times. Were waking up with temperatures about the same if not up to about 4 to 5 degrees cooler around the bay as youre seeing the marine layer and some of the low clouds filter in. We have 54 in Castro Valley to about 60 in el sobrante. Head into the hills, its milder. Orinda at 63 degrees. 47 in santa rosa. Those long nights are definitely taking cooler steps in our deepest valleys. 64 in antioch. 61 in brentwood. Heres a look at that cloud cover. Trying to cover over the bay bridge. Doesnt that look beautiful . Nice, picturesque overnight Early Morning shot there from our east bay hills camera. Hees the activity planner for today. Limited issues if youre working from home or remote learning. You can get outside, take some breaks. Exercising it will be a milder afternoon. We have a fire threat mainly for the north bay mountains. You can see the winds picking up as we head through the overnight hours into tuesday morning. They slack off a bit during the day. Tuesday night into wednesday theyll be fast once again. In fact, i think theyll be faster than what this particular model is showing. Ill try to find if theres a better model that will represent those winds coming up. First we want to talk about the commute with jobina. Hi, jobina, how are you this morning . Im doing really well, mike. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday to you. Well begin with a live look outside showing off the Golden Gate Bridge. We have fog advisories issued by the chp for the Golden Gate Bridge and also for the bay bridge, specifically around the toll plaza. I want to check that out as well this morning. You can expect that low visibility along the Golden Gate Bridge. Not too bad at the bay bridge, even though they issued that advisory. Fair collection and front door boarding resumes on ac transit buses. Both were suspended back in march because of the pandemic. Ac transit says they lost about 1 million a week while they didnt collect fares. Now buses are retro fitted with protective shields for drivers to stop against the spread of covid19. Public health requires a distance of six feet between Bus Operators and passengers. Thank you. Coming up, a new way to identify songs that goes beyond what shazam can do. Also protecting tourists. The owner of the golden gate Fortune Cookie factory takes matter into his own hands when he sees something happen outside of his shop. And stolen puppies reunited with their owner. What happened to these little dogs. Thankfully they were reunited. Its 5 10 as you wake up this monday morning. A live look outside here in San Francisco. Waking up cooler all across the bay area. 58 degrees in the city. What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. [sfx typing sound] [sfx typing sound] [sfx typing sound] all right. Lets look at how the day unfolds in case youre outside at certain times. Looking at mt. Tam, look how clean and clear that air is. You can see down to the san mateo bridge. Cloud cover along the coast and along the east bay shore. Around 7 00 and 9 00 theyll still hang around. At the coast, 60s today. 70s at the bay, 80s inland. Were not the only ones with the fire threat. The fire threat is greater outside of the bay area. Up into the foothills and through the Sacramento Valley during the same timeframe. Temperatures there in the 90s. 70s in monterey. Much cooler in Southern California, 79, even though the dodgers are hot unfortunately. 102 in palm springs. 81 in yosemite. Well talk more about that fire threat and cooler weather this weekend coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Thank you. The owner of a historic San Francisco business taking matters into his own hands to protect chinatown. He was caught on camera flashing his gun. This was outside of golden gate Fortune Cookie factory. This is video you will only see on abc7. The guy just pushed like this real quick. He did the first push. This brazen daytime assault happened saturday afternoon outside chinatowns iconic Fortune Cookie factory. The man in the black sweatshirt singles out one of a dozen tourists and attacks. We blurred his face because hes not been arrested. He said why are you pushing me . Because youre staring at me. Reporter what makes this story remarkable is what unfolds next. The coowner of the factory seen in the gray sweatshirt with green sleeves immediately steps in and lifts up his shirt to reveal i need to protect my business. Reporter just the sight of it is enough for the black in the black sweatshirt to leave. I guess hes kind of scared, too. He doesnt want to go further. Reporter tourism in chinatown was down 35 before the pandemic. Once covid hit, business went down for some as much as 90 . While some tourists are coming back as we witnessed sunday night this is machine to make Fortune Cookies. 1956. Reporter kevin cant afford for incidents like the to scare visitors away. People were blaming the chinese community. Reporter he decided not to file a Police Report afraid it would go nowhere so hes choosing to tell his story to send a message to local leaders. Not to Defund Police but to Reform Police and to organize them. Not take away the resource. Our community is the resource. What would you say to people who consider you a hero . Im not a hero. I just do my job to protect my family. My business. My people. My guests. Now one of the top stories on abc7news. Com, a San Francisco man is back with his two puppies this morning. This is doug with indigo and lila after they were reunited yesterday. He reported the dogs missing on saturday. He told police he left them in his backyard for about five hours. When he got home, these adorable dogs were gone. Two families ended up buying the dogs from a man on the street. They eventually came forward after learning the puppies were sto stolen. Through the miracles of people doing the right thing, getting the word out, my friends, my community are so amazing. Off to the vet to check them, but theyre here. Police arreste 39yearold francisco zaragoza. Hes been booked on charges of receiving stolen property, drug possession and giving police a fake i. D. People in san mateo are on edge after three Mountain Lion sightings over the weekend, and now police are warning you to be careful. A home surveillance camera caught this Mountain Lion walking through somebodys backyard. This was in alameda on saturday night. Ths comes after two other sightings, one on friday night and the other on saturday morning. Police officers conducted a thorough search of the area but didn find the animal. A black bear put on a rare performance at Yosemite National park. You will want to listen to the vocals as he was spotted hanging out in a tree. That is definitely me when that alarm clock goes off early in the morning. The park tweeted bears can make all kinds noises typically when theyre afraid, distressed or aggressive. They say it does not appear anything was wrong with the bear. They say they see the bear all the time and he appears to be healthy. I feel like he was trying to sing anita baker caught up in the rapture. Didnt it sound like that . No . Okay. Youre going to do our good friend anita baker like that . I love anita. I love her. Thats how it sounds. Okay. I like julian, he wants a bear instead of a rooster to wake him up every morning. Thats cool. Thank you, appreciate the energy. Lets look at sutro tower this morning. Well try to get you pumped up for this monday by talking about there will be mainly clouds at the coast. A bit of sunshine there. Highs will keep slipping. Tonight more clouds and more microclimates as the winds start to pick up across the north bay mountains. The weekend is trending cool, but theres the possibility of another fire threat up in the north bay. The reason being is notice those clouds over vancouver, portland heading down towards denver. Thats another cold front. Behind that cold front High Pressure always settles into the great basbasin. As long as we continue to have the cold fronts coming through, High Pressure will be behind them and that will keep setting us up for offshore wind events. Thats the way it will be. A complete flipflop from what the medium range models were saying last week. Along the coast you can see plenty of blue there developing. By the evening hours, the clouds are marching back. Expect more cloud cover tomorrow morning. 79 in milpitas. 81 at san jose. Morgan hill, 88. 79 in millbrae. 88 in palo alto. 64 to 68 along the peninsula coast. Low 70s in downtown, south San Francisco and sausalito. 80 to 85 through the north bay valleys. 74 to 79 along the east bay shore. 86 to 89 in the east bay valleys. Tonight, 50s for most of us. Heres my accuweather sevenday forecast. With that offshore event, temperatures remain warmer than average tuesday and wednesday. Cooling off on thursday. 60s and 70s with no fire threat this weekend. San francisco being recognized for something no city wants at all. A new report says San Francisco is among the most ratinfested places in the u. S. In fact, its number five on the list of the most infested cities. We didnt have to show the video of the rats. Orkin says it ranks cities based on the number of rodents reported. Chicago takes the number one spot for the sixth year in a row. Followed by los angeles, new york, washington, d. C. , coming in hot at number five, San Francisco. Oh, no. As long as theyre minding their business. Mmhmm. No . Yeah . I guess. As long as theyre minding their business away from me. Yeah. Live your life somewhere else. Exactly. Not in my house. Coming up next, 7 things to know. And the Backstreet Boys road to welcome back. If youre just joining us, heres 7 things to know this morning. Today San Mateo County is rolling out stronger enforcement of covid19 rules. Its launching a new compliance unit to get local businesses to take Health Orders seriously. Those who dont could face a 3,000 fine. Number two, congress has until tomorrow to reach an agreement on a new Coronavirus Relief package or else it wont happen before election day. John Hopkins University reports more than 8. 1 million americans have been diagnosed with the virus since the start of the local pandemic. Today Governor Newsom will give an update to the states response to covid19 and the