Voterspecific barcode preventing anyone from voting twice. In danville, thom jensen, nbc bay area news. Thank you, thom. California state Republican Party has been served a cease and desist order over the placement of unofficial drop boxes. Facebook users grew suspicious of this post urging ballots ing drop their ballots in this box. The state gop cites a state law allowing the practice, but today california says thats wrong. Let me be clear. Unofficial, unauthorized ballot drop boxes are not permitted by state law. So far the unofficial boxes have been found in l. A. , fresno, and orange counties. The secretary of state urges voters to only use the bright yellow authorized boxes and also you can sign up for ballot tracking on the secretary of states website. Well, President Trump is back on the campaign trail tonight amid lingering questions about his health. I want to give you a live look at the president s rally in sanford, florida. It kicked off about an hour ago. Minimal social distancing. There are some people wearing masks, mostly the ones standing behind the president but not so much in the crowd in front of him. Late this afternoon the president s doctor did put out a memo saying that mr. Trump tested negative for covid19 on, quote, consecutive days although he didnt give specific testing dates. Its great to be back in my home state, florida, to make my official return to the campaign trail. His reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis has been unconscionable. Democratic nominee joe biden taking aim at the president s actions since his covid diagnosis. Now, the pandemic remains front and center of the campaign with 22 days until election day. Now, if you need help making sense of your ballot, no issue at all. Join us tomorrow for our special decision 2020 california votes. During that special, well cover everything from how to vote to the safety of your mailin ballot to what those propositions mean. Again, that is tomorrow, tuesday, at 7 00 right here on nbc bay area right after the 6 00 news. Counties across california and the bay area are waiting to see if tomorrow is the day they move up to a different tier. Santa clara county may be eligible to move into the orange tier or moderate tier. Right now its still in red. A spokesperson tells us the county expects to be in orange tomorrow but is still waiting for the states okay. Right now, San Francisco county is the only bay area county in orange. Meanwhile, Sonoma County is still in the purple tier, the most restrictive. Also Governor Newsom had some encouraging news to share today when it came to his covid19 update. Hospitalizations in the state are down 8 over the past 14 days. Icu visits are down 13 , and the states Positivity Rate remains steady at 2. 6 . The governor also says the test results are coming back faster. About 90 are coming back within 24 to 48 hours. Dangerous winds are coming back to the bay area. Within the next 24 hours, we should get a better idea if pg e will be preemptively shutting off power. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri says the winds will kick up wednesday night. As weve seen before, those winds can knock down power lines and trigger wildfires. So pg e says if the winds do come in, it may cut power in large sections of the bay area. Lets show you a map. These are the areas that pg e is concerned about. It is zone 3 and zone 4. Thats the north bay mountains, east bay near mount diablo, Oakland Hills and the santa cruz mountains. More details coming in about seven minutes. Day one of the confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court nominee was a heated one. Senate republicans believe they have the votes to get Amy Coney Barrett confirmed before election day and democrats made their displeasure known. Susan mcginnis joins us with the latest on this high stakes hearing. Susan. Reporter well, janelle, day one of hearings, and republicans made it clear they want to fight over religion. Democrats made it clear they want to focus on health care. Then we have judge Amy Coney Barrett trying to find a narrow lane in the middle. Supreme Court NomineeAmy Coney Barrett today making her case to fill the seat once held by the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. I have been nominated to fill Justice Ginsburgs seat, but no one will ever take her place. Reporter President Trumps third nominee today saying she plans to stick to the words of the constitution. But courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. Reporter republicans and democrats digging in in their opening statements. You stand accused of intending to violate your oath before you even take it. I believe we should not be moving forward on this nomination, not until the election has ended and the next president has taken office. Reporter barrett is a favorite among republicans, a conservative protege of the late justice antonin scalia, a mother of seven, and a devout catholic. They are attacking you as a mom and a woman of faith because they cannot attack your qualifications. Reporter but democrats steered clear of religion, focusing instead on health care and how six conservative justices might rule on the upcoming challenge to the Affordable Care act. Among senators questioning barrett this week, Vice President ial candidate kamala harris. By replacing Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy, President Trump is attempting to roll back americans rights for decades to come. Reporter democrats will be walking a thin line between questioning and attacks this nominee, knowing that republicans likely have the votes to seat Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice before the month is out. And democrats know they have just about no chance of stopping this confirmation. They want to pressure judge barrett to at least recuse herself from any cases involving the president , especially any election cases if the election ends up coming into question, that those cases might be heard by the high court. Thank you very much. One minute they were eating, and the next they were running. Tonight new concerns about the safety of Outdoor Dining. Thats after a driver slammed into a crowd of people eating at restaurant tables in a san jose parking lot. That crash sent eight people to the hospital. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is in san jose with the new developments for us. Reporter we know two of the injured are in Critical Condition tonight. Here you can see the mangled table and chairs where they were sitting when they were hit. Just seconds, thats how long it took to turn an al fresco meal into chaos. I heard wheels screeching. Reporter buck watched as this toyota 4runner sped across the parking lot, aiming directly at a makeshift Outdoor Dining area for the dynasty chinese seafood restaurant. My friend was trying to yell, get out of the way but too many people over there were yelling and screaming too. Nobody knew what was going on until it was too late. Reporter the crash sent five men and three women to the hospital. Two are still in Critical Condition. Here you see other diners jumping in to help the injured. The driver was treated for minor injuries and released. So far, he faces no charges. We had a 69yearold male driver. He was driving a toyota 4runner. Right now all indications talking to witnesses and collecting evidence is he thought he was using his brake but accelerated into a group of Outdoor Dining patrons. Reporter police are investigating the crash and say they will turn over their findings to the district attorney, who will determine whether or not charges should be filed. Investigators are also looking into the possibility the driver may have been experiencing a medical issue at the time of the crash. In san jose, Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. Thank you. We should tell you about a mile away, a similar crash on the same stretch of road. A woman pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake on her pickup truck. She hit a man who was eating at a food truck. That man died of his injuries. Coming up, the giant observation wheel is finally going up in Golden Gate Park. The pandemicapproved rule youll have to follow if you want to go for a ride. Plus its one tradition not killed by covid. Half moon bays Great Pumpkin weighoff. Just how much this years winning pumpkin came in at. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking a fire weather watch for part of this week. Ill show you when winds could reach up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Ill see you back here in less than ten minutes. When we welcome our west coast viewers, well have a look at whats fueling a second fullblown wave of covid in europe. Is the u. S. Far behind . Well have the alarming new numbers here. Also black friday prices in october. The way early start to the Holiday Shopping season. Weve got important tips for you when we see you back here tonight. Traffic moving again after a crash on the bay bridge caused a mileslong backup. It happened just before 2 00 west of treasure island. Chp says a black sedan was going way too fast, and then the driver hit several cars. Officers closed all but one westbound lane for a short period of time. You can see sky ranger overhead. Just gridlock below. Several people were hurt. Luckily all are expected to be okay. Two stanford professors awarded the nobel prize for economics today. Paul milgrom and Robert Wilson were awarded the prize for their work improving auctions on unlikely things like electrical power and radio frequencies. They say the struggle to get ppe and respirators early in the covid fight was terrible. We had such a chaotic system, and if we think ahead to the next emergency, about how wed allocate scarce supplies like that, i think we could make major improvements. The rules of markets do matter. The professors are neighbors. Their extraordinary day began when professor milgroms 2 00 a. M. Walk across the street to ring his colleagues doorbell to tell him they won the nobel prize. Wilson had turned of his phone. Do not call it a ferris wheel. It is much more than that. Today workers began attaching gondolas to the 150 foot observation wheel being set up in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park. And the fact that it is finally open may be one of the biggest signs yet that california is making some headway with covid. Nbc bay areas robert handa joins us from the music concourse where the wheel is taking shape, but there are some rules. Reporter i wanted to ride it today for journalistic purposes, but ill have to wait. In fact, a lot of people have been waiting since this observation wheel was supposed to open in the spring but didnt due to coronavirus concerns. But today it was time to get things ready. Workers used a crane to attach 36 specially designed, temperaturecontrolled gondolas to the sky star observation wheel in Golden Gate Park today. The 150foot wheel was supposed to be ready in april for a oneyear run for the parks 150th anniversary celebration but was halted by the pandemic. Now it opens wednesday, october 21st. The view, while i cant wait to see it myself, is from San Francisco, downtown and beyond, and then of course the bay and then the pacific ocean. Reporter many observers say theyve already bought tickets. Its a beautiful machine. Its very exciting. You figure it will be worth the wait . Oh, im so glad that its happening. Definitely i think it was worth the wait. Reporter just an opportunity for people to get together and share an experience. I mean thats been all too missing from our last several months here in San Francisco. So i think this is something to celebrate. Reporter sky star says covid precautions will be in place. For example, the gondolas, which seat six, will not be filled to capacity to allow for spacing, and will be sanitized after each group gets off. So its a scenic ride but with starts and stops. Weve really made the effort to ensure that this is going to be a healthy and safe ride for everybody. Reporter another safety measure, people in the gondolas will not ride with strangers, just their own group, and will have to reserve time slots so there wont be a crowd waiting to get on. The observation wheel will still be a oneyear stay from october to october 2021, but could be extended depending on public reaction. In San Francisco, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Well, the pandemic has stopped a lot of things, not the annual pumpkin weighoff in Half Moon Bay, though. The event was livestreamed on youtube for spectators. Pumpkin growers traveled to Half Moon Bay in person to put their giant gourds on the scales. This years winner was travis ginger. He drove from minnesota. His pumpkin weighed more than 2,300 pounds, earning him the grand prize of more than 16,000. For me, its seeing the look on peoples faces with how big they get. Like is that real . Reporter travis pumpkin holds this years pumpkin as the heaviest one weighed in north america. Can you imagine other drivers as he came from minnesota seeing that giant pumpkin that hes hauling all the way down here . What do you do with it afterwards. Pie. Yeah, pie, pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin soup. It all sounds delicious. Jeff, we got to talk about this week because weve got a warmup and a possible fire danger with some winds picking up. Thats right. On a serious note, you know, it was so nice this past weekend to get some fall weather, some 60s, some clouds. But thats all gone right now, and were already starting to see those temperatures beginning to heat up. Lets bring you into our microclimate forecast. My live sky camera view of san jose, we are smoke free. We have 10mile and better visibility. Were all good on those fronts. Its not that gusty right now. Sustained wind at 12 Miles Per Hour and 84 degrees. As we move through tonight, temperatures will be dropping off into the 60s, but over the next three days, were going to rapidly see things change. Its all about this area of high pressure. Its going to build just off to the north of us, and the circulation around this is going to help to drive down a drier northeasterly wind and at the same time well have heat building in from the south. A fire weather watch wednesday into friday. Well talk more about those winds coming up, but i do want to get you right into tomorrow mornings forecast. Not that windy to begin. Well really on all fronts start very nice. Upper 50s and low 60s. 57 in the peninsula and over to San Francisco, some isolated fog and 56. And for the north bay, 59. My daytime highs tomorrow do start to warm it up about 4 to 6 degrees. So i do think its going to be noticeable as we move through tomorrow. Theres going to be some isolated locations that will be in the 90s like gilroy at 90. As you move closer to the bay, were in the mid80s for cupertino and san jose. Right over the east bay, i have some 90s right through concord, pittsburg, antioch, livermore, also pleasanton. Oakland, thats a warm day for you at 82. Peninsula, not quite 90s but 85 here in palo alto. Then you can see even daly city starting to push up into the 70s. San francisco, some 70s returning, even close to some 80s expected right here in the mission with 79 degrees. 77 in the embarcadero and the marina at 71 degrees. And right here through the north bay, things begin to warm up with upper 80s, close to 90 in sonoma, napa, and santa rosa. So tomorrow not that windy, but temperatures do start to creep up. So what about the wind . Look at my fire weather watch here. All of the colors in orange, thats the locations under this fire weather watch from the north bay to the south bay. Youll see the highest risk is for 1,000 feet and above. You really have to go into the mountains to get these higher gusts. That means we are right now looking at, based on my current forecast, 30 to 50mileperhour on and off gusts in the mountains. A steady, sustained wind of 10 to 20. This will lower humidity maybe down to 10 . With this drier wind moving in, its the opposite of our cooler, foggy breeze. So San Francisco will warm up with some 80s wednesday, thursday, and friday. Then well get back to some 60s by next monday. Right here across the inland valleys, were going hot. Right now no triple digits but some mid90s wednesday, thursday, and friday with that drier wind in the hills. Well begin to see it drop by sunday and also on monday. Its really obviously the last thing we need right now, but knowing this information, i hope that helps everybody back there at home. And of course well have live updates as we head through the next couple of days on what we see happening with this wind forecast. Jessica and janelle, wasnt saturday nice if you can remember back . The clouds and the cooler temperatures, it was awesome. It was so refreshing. It felt great. Okay. Thanks, jeff. Coming up, facebook takes a stand. Why its reversing course and banning holocaust deniers. Thats next. Woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. 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