Or weeks. And concerns over Election Results uncertainty and rising coronavirus cases worldwide caused stocks to tank today. All three were down 3 . The dow closed at a low not seen since july. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. With less than a week to go, many Bay Area Community groups big and small are mobilizing their communities to get out the vote. Abc News Reporter kris reyes has what is driving them to make sure as many ballots are cast as possible. Its a critical thing for our community to enable people to safely vote in a pandemic and to ensure the democracy has today. Reporter the oakland as are not just talking the talk but lending the coliseum. 10,000 Parking Spaces to be used as an accessible voting site from saturday to election day. Gestures big and small are happening. Grass Roots Organization bay rising action is reaching out to under served community, especially new immigrants. Everybody has face masks on, gloves, sanitizing their hands. There is texting, phone banking and door knocking happening. Reporter a nonprofit that helps girls get into tech and entrepreneur ship started the Online Campaign vote for me encouraging their members who cant vote yet to write the ad adulthoods adults in their suckle. Empowering young people to say just because you cant work, doesnt mean you cant inspire people to take action. Reporter san mateos Republican Party engaged 400 volunteers to distribute 5,000 door hangers. They hope for more representation in a community made up mostly of independent and democrats. Having a mixed view and opinion when certain decisions are being made to impact the entire community. Reporter no matter the party, community, Many Organizations and leaders say this is one election that cannot be taken for granted. Equity is on our ballot. Criminal Justice Reform is on our ballot and definitely electing a new president and a home grown Kamala Harris is on the ballot. In a nutshell, what is your rally call . Do it for your children. Reporter kris reyes, for abc 7 news. Mail in ballots cast in record numbers will be under considerable scrutiny this year beginning with their signatures. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman spent the day at the marin Office Asking for the process of verification. Reporter youre looking at the largest turnout with more than 100,000 ballots cast already, thats more than half the register the voters. After talking with us, she did have some questions. Are you worried . Well, now i am. Reporter all because of her signature. This is how she signed her drivers license and now, on the ballot, youll see its definitely changed. Will this vote even count . How will i know . Reporter the answer beginning inside the Marin County Civic Center with a machine named bet sey ross. We get three passes. Reporter not three votes . No, only one vote. Reporter once every second, the machine scans signatures and compares them with a database roughly 25 do not make the first cut. Just because the ballots are challenged doesnt mean they are disqualified. They move on. This is a process. I just want to count the votes. I just want to be sure the votes count. Reporter thats marin county register linda roberts. Challenged ballots go upstairs and get the human touch from people like jenrry salary. Well, we have signature theory we follow reporter theory . Theory. Reporter another check of databases and the speed, specific letters. Here are three signatures by the same person. There is a similarity in the w, the speed, the ending terminal, the connection here. Reporter you can tell this person is really organized and sane and a wonderful human being right . It is the voter. Reporter 99 of signatures pass. The rest generate letters back to voters who can fix any problem before final certification. I do want to be a protector of democracy. Reporter this is how its done. In marin county, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. You can vote in person in this election, but all registered voters in california are receiving mail in ballots because of the pandemic. All the ballots in california come with prepaid postage. You can turn or mail it as late as election day, november 3rd. It can be dropped off at your county elections office, a ballot drop box, vote center or any polling place. You can track your ballot online with a link on abc7news. Com election. Also on our website, youll find a guide to all 12 state propositions and see where your party stands. Now turning to our efforts to build a better bay area, which starts with our public health, and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of employees and patients at a ucsf center are under quarantine tonight after several positive covid19 tests. Two patients and three Health Care Workers tested positive last week. Those patients who were sharing a room tested negative for the virus when they first arrived at the hospital. But one of them later tested positive before they were set to be discharged and that triggered contact tracing. Thats when three workers showed up positive, too. More than 40 people connected to the hospital are now quarantining out of caution, that includes 28 employees and 15 additional patients who have been placed in precautionary isolation. So far, all of those people have tested negative. Alameda county announced an opening date for middle and high schools november 9th, as long as they complete a coronavirus reopening plan. The county says the final decision will be up to each school and School District. Two weeks ago, Elementary Schools in the county were allowed to reopen after giving permission and as of today, 58 schools have opened or have made a plan to do so. Education is one of the key areas where we focus efforts to built a better bay area. Tonight a collision of Community Groups will present a bold new plan that could prompt big changes in how Oakland Unified School district educates its black students. How it would work. For our district to create the kind of systems. Reporter she says for decades many black students have been stuck in a system that creates barriers to success. That is acceptable for black students to be suspended. Thats acceptable for black students to be expelled. Reporter shes the executive director of bay area plan part of justice for oakland Students Community coalition. According to their numbers, based on the 2017, 2018 school year, more than 50 of black students were below grade level in math and reading. Black students accounted for up to 60 of suspensions and 72 of black eighth graders were not ready for high school. We have to begin to look at those things as a part of the decisid design of the current system. Reporter the collision will address the school board with the plan reparations for black students. They want lcff money, which is unrestricted state funding to be put towards programs that target students who are struggling. So the investment in police versus restored justice, counseling, programs that can keep you staying engaged in schools, those are the types of investments that have not been made over the last several decades in oakland. Really thinking about how we can dismantle anti black racism. Reporter shes an oakland schoolteacher. She says the Coalition Wants more ethnic studies and for the district to hire more black teachers. She says these types of targeted plans have worked at other bay area schools. Your students are in a state of an emergency and we have the power here to get this resolved together. Reporter in an email to abc 7 news, the oakland School District says it looks forward to hearing the presentation on black sanctuary from our labor partners with any other information they share with our board of education at wednesday evenings meeting. In oakland, abc 7 news. From preschool to college, you can see all our stories about education. Download it for free on our streaming device including apple tv, and more. Pg e says the power is back on for everyone that can receive service. The remaining psps outages are marked with purple triangles, very few compared to the other day. At one point about 100,000 bay area customers had their power shut off deliberately to prevent wildfires. Inspectors found 76 instances of weather related damage. If they had not turned off the power, pg e says it would have sparked a fire. Steve glazer has been critical of the utility. I dont think you shut off power because you have 30 or 40 mile an hour winds unless you fear your infrastructure is that vulnerable. Part of the disclosures that pg e is going to be required to conduct is explain and show what the wind speeds were in all of the monitoring stations in our region. Pg e says it recorded a wind gust of 89 miles an hour at a monitoring station in sonoma county. Thankfully, the dangerous weather conditions subsided. Yeah, abc 7 news drew tuma is here. Drew, its really just beautiful outsid outside. It really is, ama and dan. It is over and the sunset is a gorgeous one. Temperatures will quickly fall tonight. Winds in the hills light and stay that way for the next several days and numbers quickly falling already into the 50s in the next couple hours, tomorrow morning wide spread 40s if not pockets of 30s. Now despite the cold start, we got warm weather on the way. Well have the numbers until the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Great. Thank you. A big milestone in the rebuilding and healing process for santa rosas coffee park. The park and neighborhood were destroyed in 2017. 1422 homes were lost in the flames. Normal normally, there would be a reopening and the five acre park is redesigned and rebuilt with the help of the community and federal state and local governments at a cost of 3. 8 million. More to come here, the concept of see something, Say Something run by artificial intelligence. It could save lives. So whats the downside . What you dont want to see is students moving across the country bringing covid19 with them to campus or leaving campus with it. College students going on thanksgiving break, will they be able to take a coronavirus test before traveling back home . The i team digs into this issue. That story tonight as part of the family of oscar grant says the Alameda Alameda alameda attorney grant was shot and killed by former bart officer as you may recall on new years day in that same year, 2009. But an indepen debt incide pepen show a former officer was the primary aggressor hitting grant in the head and kneeling on his neck. The d. A. Nancy omalley announced she was reopening the investigation into grants killing earlier this month. Grants family is demanding a fresh look at the officers role in his death. While the d. A. s office has not publicly said anything, the family remains hopeful. Were consciously optimistic. Were clear on nay sayer statements concerning why this case was reopened. A timeline is not clear for the investigation as well as when or if charges will be filed against the officer. Security cameras have become valuable tools to identify threats of violence and there is a development that can detect guns in security video. David louie says this new technology could help provide earlier warnings of a mass casualty event before a shot is fired. Reporter Security Cameras a can alert First Responders of threats and a. I. Is adding a new dimension with the potential to prevent a mass casualty event. We need to move away from the thinking that emergency mass notification systems were all about notification. Reporter david frasiers company demonstrated its new gun detect technology it claims to be an Industry First using a. I. Utilizing existing Camera Networks in a large scale setting like school, airport or Large Business campus, algorithms can identify a gun or shotgun. The system flags the gun in orange as suspicious and goes to red alert in seconds. It basically can make a High Resolution determination of whether this is a real threat or not. Reporter in this demonstration, a suspect walks into view of a Security Camera briefly casing out the room and then pulling out a gun. Artificial intelligence identifies it as a threat. After that, its a single click to be able to initiate a predefined set of actions. Reporter a popup notifies a security officer. Software provide as still photo to get details of the gun and a description of the suspect and a decision can be made whether to dispatch First Responders or to dismiss it as a false alarm. A. I. Knows for example that a sprinkler head is not a gun. Low light conditions or impaired field of vision could impact the ability to recognize a threat, however, ai is showing promise of Early Warning before shots are fired. Mike leon is an analyst at enterprise separatrategy group. Over time and as we better train algorithms and models to best detect those images or object, i think its only going to get better. Reporter david louie, abc 7 news. The chief executives of three social media giants appear before a Senate Committee in a showdown over their content moderation practices. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and jack dorsey each defended their companys practices and rejected republican accusations of anti conservative bias. It didnt take long for the hearing to turn contentious. Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American People are allowed to hear . Were not doing that, and this is why i opened this hearing with calls for more transparency. The ceos argued against repealing a key internet law called section 230 that protects online businesses from being held accountable for content their users create. Weather like this is why we live here. Drew has a sevenday forecast that will garage door opening it is my fathers love. It is his passion it is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. With liftmaster® powered by myq®, know whats happening in your garage from anywhere. I felt gross. It was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx. Four years clear. Real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. 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Lots of sunshine, warm temperatures, in fact, Golden Gate Bridge camera, well take a live look. Not a cloud to be seen. We had wall to wall sunshine today and look at the flag on the right hand side of your screen. It is waving ever so gently in a breeze. Thankfully, strong winds earlier in the week are out of here. Winds right now you can see across much of the bay area are very light, less than ten miles per hour. So no red flag warnings. Today or even in the next seven days. Good news there. Breathing a sigh of relief. Right now temperatures are falling into the 60s in the cooler spots. 63 right now in the city but still at 70 in hayward, 711 o 1 oakland and 71 napa and 70 the current temperature in san ramon. Overnight tonight we have the combination of clear skies and calm winds, thats a good recipe for some quickly cooling temperatures and in fact, most of us will cool off into the 40s. We do expect a few pockets in our sheltered valleys to drop into the 30s like santa rosa. So certainly a chilly start tomorrow but we will warm up very nicely in the afternoon. Here is live doppler 7 with satellite. You can see its very quiet along the west coast. The reason why High Pressure is just going to sit and spin off of our coastline. It will keep the sunshine in tact and unfortunately, for the foreseeable future over the next several days, it keeps the storm track well to the north along the border of the u. S. And canada. So tomorrow, its clear