Ill track that until a crew gets on scene there. A great drive and an easy start, marcus. Back over to you. Thanks, mike. Now to the race to the white house unlike any election ever held, the finish line now in site. The first ballots were cast in dixville notch, new hampshire, and it was a clean sweep for joe biden. The democratic candidate picked up all five votes. So far nearly 100 million americans have voted early and President Trump will hold an Election Night event at the white house. Joe biden will continue campaigning in pennsylvania. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in wilmington, delaware, where biden will watch the results come in tonight. Tracie . Reporter laura and marcus, he does have events happening in pennsylvania today making lastminute stops. First in his birthplace of scranton and then were told at least two local stops in philadelphia. No big rallies as we start to see people line up as the polls open in philadelphia. They are putting in security for President Trumps Election Night event. He will visit his Campaign Headquarters in arlington, virginia today before coming back to the white house and the votes begin to be counted. Final arguments were going to win the state of michigan so easily. Reporter from tiny dixville notch, new hampshire, with five votes for biden at midnight and around the world. For every man, woman and child reporter joe biden wrapping his campaign with a starstudded event in pittsburgh where it all began. The first step to beating the virus is beating donald trump. Reporter Donald Trump Holding his rally in three weeks arguing joe biden cannot run the country. This guy is a stone cold phony and, honestly, hes not equipped mentally to be your president. Reporter the president logged nearly 2,500 miles crisscrossing battleground states, predicting victory and slamming the Supreme Courts decision to allow late ballots to count in pennsylvania. What a ruling. What a ruling. What a horrible thing theyve done. You know that puts our country in danger. I dont care how hard donald trump tries, theres nothing fog nothing he can do to stop the people of this nation from voting no matter how hard he tries. Reporter the president back in washington where the white house is being turned no a fortress with fencing and hundreds of National Guard on standby as america makes its choice. Tracie potts, nbc news, wilmington, delaware. Well, californians are deciding several ballot measures that will impact your family, your safety and your finances. We are breaking down the biggest races. Cierra johnson is live in San Francisco. What you need to know before your you cast your ballot if you havent already done so. Today is the big day. Reporter it is a big day. Poll workers getting briefed on what they need to know in order to have this day move smoothly. The polls opening in just a matter of hours. And there are several issues on the ballot that involve your family, your health and your finances. Well start by breaking them all down. First, proposition 16, a hot state, you and requires a majority of votes to pass. Now prop 16, if passed, public universities and state and local governments would be allowed to consider race and admission in governments, government agents with businesses owned by women and people of color when awarding contracts. This proposition would repeal prop 209 and banned affirmative action. They say it would punish excellent students because of their race. The next issue prop 21, this proposition also requires the majority vote and focuses on rent control throughout the state. If passed this initiative would allow local governments to establish rent control on Residential Properties that are more than 15 years old. Statewide 45 of the population are actually renters, and that percentage is even larger here in the bay area, San Francisco and oakland at 62 and 60 respectively. Opponents say it could discourage new construction from the private sector and moving to contra costa, their voters are voting on measure x which deals with the general sales tax. If passed the sales tax would increase from 8. 25 to 8. 75 . The increase in sales tax would generate an additional 81 million in funds. The additional revenue would help support the regional hospital, Emergency Services and Early Childhood services. So there is a lot to remember. We have resources on our website. If you have any questions or need further explanation on any of these ballots but so far millions of folks right here in california and across the nation have already cast their votes. Right now its just a waiting game for these polls to open and for folks to officially cast their vote here on election day. Cierra johnson for today in the bay. Such a busy time. Bay area democrats and republicans doing their best to rally support right up until the last minute. Democratic voters took time to work the phones in San Francisco. And a few hours earlier Trump Supporters held a rally in danville. Both sides say they feel excited and confident heading into today. It feels like its the night before my bar mitzvah and youve been preparing for it and youve done your studies and the day of you really cant turn back. You can see by my sign i love trump and i love freedom. Speaking of volunteers, they are not done manning the phones there. Theyre getting some big name support. Governor gavin newsom plans to stop by today. Hes one of several politicians expected to make an appearance. If you have any problems while dropping off your ballot or voting today let us know. Head over to nbcbayarea. Com votingproblems, or you can tweet us using the weinvestigate. And be sure to stay with us for all your local decision night coverage. We kick off with a one hour midday show. Nbcbayarea. Com has you covered until we come back on air at 3 00 p. M. Lester holt and the team in new york picks up the coverage from there with our live updates every half hour. Our special digital through mobile and our apps on roku and apple tv. A special newscast will also be simulcast on cozitv. Developing this Morning Police in San Francisco trying to get to the bottom of a freak accident that left a firefighter critically injured. It happened yesterday afternoon in the financial district when a crew was wrapping up a call to a highrise fire. Firefighters say a hose was suddenly pulled upward sending one firefighter, matthew vann, airborne. It happened as a muni bus was traveling through the fire zone. Video from the scene shows what looks like a hose wrapped around the rear wheel of a muni bus. 5 08 for you now and picking up our pandemic coverage, startling new numbers when it comes to kids and the coronavirus. First the u. S. Has more than 9 million confirmed cases across the board. According to new research more than 60,000 children were diagnosed last week. Thats more than any week during the pandemic. And two north bay high schools suspended sports practices. The press democrat says it follows a large party where teenagers violated Public Health orders. Petaluma and casa grande shut down workouts and its believed up to 50 students attended the party, well above the guidelines banning gatherings of more than 12 people. San jose unified schools plan to offer inperson learning starting in january, provided the county is still in the orange or yellow tier. Masks and distance rules will be mandatory. Students will have the option to distance learn as well. 5 09 right now. Well check that morning commute in a little bit and see if folks are out and about. That whole time change thing made me wake up an hour early today, but i also went to bed an hour early. I went to bed early, too, much earlier than i normally do, about 7 00. Im all messed up. And, kari, we have to be ready for the sunset a little earlier as well, get your walks and exercise in earlier. Yeah, it makes you want to go to bed earlier when the sun sets earlier but were seeing the sun rise earlier so if youre going to be an early riser heading to the polls in the north bay expect the temperatures in the upper 40s. We only see our highs reaching into the 70s in spots like santa rosa. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Great as far as the sensors go. A little bit of change as we take you out to the big map. You wont see it in the south bay or on the peninsula. A little more slowing and more focus into the Altamont Pass for west 580. A lot more traffic coming in out of tracy and stockton. Getting over to the bay bridge without any problems, viewable on the sensors. Laura, it have an issue. Well talk about that coming up. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 5 11 right now. A suspected terror attack overseas. Still ahead at 5 25 on today in the bay, the rising death toll in austria after attackers targeted large crowds overnight. A rally on wall street yesterday, another one expected today after a terrible october. Well try to figure out whats changed. Plus and i sent it in my letter to you the boss is back. The all new record setting with his just released album. 5 11 for you that morning. Youre watching today in the bay. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Hey you guys. Hi its time to lean on each other. All of you guys, so much great support. And laugh with each other. laughs cheers lets do it together. With caregiving chats and more. Come find us at aarp. Org nearyou serena its my 9 12, nodaysoff migraine medicine. Its ubrelvy. For anytime, anywhere migraine strikes without worrying if its too late, or where i am. One dose can quickly stop migraine in its tracks within two hours. Unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks cgrp protein, believed to be a cause of migraine. Do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. Most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. Serena ask about ubrelvy. The anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. Right now at 5 14 as we make plans for the day and home schooling, were checking out our temperature trend in campbell for those opportunities to get outside. Its going to be a cool morning starting out in the 40s but well see it warming up as we reach into late morning and mostly the 60s. Well talk about whats ahead in our forecast with the possibility of rain and sierra snow in a few minutes. Kari, im talking about some folks who are actually experiencing the overnight lows as we take you out to the maps. No major delays. Getting over to oaklands bay bridge toll plaza just fine but both directions of the nimitz, remember, we still have the crews between 23rd and 29th. No slowing yet. Maybe the next half hour when those start to clear and further south through fremont an easy drive heading south through fremont past tesla and down into silicon valley. Very quiet commute. Well, good morning and a very happy election day to you as well. The stock markets are suddenly on a tear after last weeks terrible losses. Take a look at the futures board out live where the dow is expected to gain 300 points or better on the open. You can stack that on top of yesterdays big gains where the markets gained 400 points on monday as well. The stock market honestly doesnt care that much which party is in charge. You can make the argument it prefers republicans. They tend to have fewer regulations but really so long as one party is in charge the marks are happy. Everyones focus, of course, is on the presidency. But our analysts at cnbc says more and more investors are saying the senate could flip as well. It may play second fiddle to the twhous b white house but is something to watch. Facebook has activated its socalled war room which is not a room because everyone is working from home. Its also ready to paste a warning across any Facebook Post that is claim someone has won if that post is made too early. Were not allowed to start counting until today meaning it may be days before we know a winner. President trump said on twitter its dangerous the Supreme Court reaffirmed pennsylvanias right to take extra time to count legal and legitimate ballots sent in by election day. Twitter slapped a warning on that as well. The president s claims, it says, are misleading. And well be talking a lot more about the president s claims that pennsylvania is doing something wrong as we talk politics at 5 45. Lets end, though, on something nonpolitical. If you voted and you just want to sit back and listen to music, apple hears you and it hears your complaints about its new sound canceling ipods air p airpods, that is. If you make an appointment at a store they will replace them for free. Time to sit back and just, you know, right . Walmart is scrapping plans to use roving robots to scan shelves and keep track of inventory. This squashes the effort to automate the task. Walmart began rolling out the selfscanning robots in 2017 to restock products faster and save employees some time. The company says it is now really dealing with morning workers collecting online orders and gathering new data on that inventory issue in real time. New this morning amazon may be ready to change how it handles deliveries in rural areas. Instead of using the post Office Amazon would use its own shipping hub to deliver packages. The company is calling the plan wagon wheel. Still no word on when or where it may start. The boss is back and rocking some new records. I sent it in my letters to you there you have it. Bruce springsteens new album letter to you is debuting at number two on the new billboard 200 charts. He has become the first artist with top five charting albums in each of the last six decades. How about that . A new song with an old trend of actually writing a letter. Yeah. Taking it old school. Everything old is new again. Text it to you, i like that one. Now youre pushing it. I sent you a dm check out this emoji okay, 5 19. Got to look at the forecast, kari. I know youre tracking eta, too. Yeah, this is a category 4 hurricane moving closer to nicaragua for today. And its unusual to see a hurricane this strong so late in the season. Its possible it could become a category 5 before it makes landfall in central america, too. And, of course, we have had unprecedented year. Lets talk about whats going on here for the bay area. High pressure moves out. We so desperately need some rain. I am really hoping this storm system coming in can bring us a little something. I wanted to show you what the models are showing us as the storm system approaches. It will bring in some cooler temperatures, but then as it moves on, it may also bring in some very light, spotty rain for the week. This is what one of the computer models is showing, not a whole lot of as we go into the weekend. A few hundredths of an inch of rain. We are going to possibly see some spotty, light sprinkles, but a much bigger storm for the sierra as we see the possibility of up to a foot of snow in some spots, even some of the Higher Elevations like when bridges could get up to 16 inches of snow. If it doesnt deliver us some rain it will be nice if it can deliver snow to the sierra. Well be watching that go into the week and a headsup if you do have sierra week plans. Here in the bay area in san jose were going to see a big cooldown in san jose over the next few days. Going from the mid70s through at least thursday but then a big drop once that storm system moves in and highs will only reach into the 50s this weekend. So thats also something you need to put in your weekend plans. Lets head over to you, mike, as a lot of people are getting out the door right now. Thats right, kari. On this voting tuesday, but, kari, i want to thank you for showing rain in the future. Well see how that works out. Traffic flowing very nicely right now. Folks able to get out and about pretty much wherever they want to go. Highway 84 a little slowing through livermore and that will probably stick for the morning commute. The build into the Altamont Pass bigger out of the Altamont Pass not such a big deal. These travel times are great getting to the bay bridge all in the green zone, the east shore freeway and the toll plaza. Not a big concern, laura. This is standard. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. 5 22. Dramatic ending next on today in the bay. The unusual way one outofcontrol train was caught just before plummeting to the ground. Plus, bracing for new obstacles. The costly problem Tech Companies may soon be facing. First our team always on social media. Today in the bays kris sanchez is posting a lot of information on todays election including a link to our voter guide. Be sure to follow her on facebook, instagram and twitter. Youre watching today in the bay. 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Turning to decision 2020 we have live pictures this morning from lynchburg, virginia, where polls are already open there. 47 degrees. Not cool enough to stop people from lining up to vote there. Today voters in south dakota, arizona, montana and new jersey will all consider proposals to legalize recreational marijuana. Its legal in several states including a including california. The Trump Administration argues new visa protections would protect american workers. Critics say it would all but kill the program. The white house last month introduced new plans to further restrict t