In the state of california. Were just 15 days away from the november, 3rd election turnout this year could be historic. Well surpassing what we saw both in 20 16 and in the 2008 president ial election. But before you vote you must be registered and today is the deadline. Kron fours dan kerman is live in San Francisco with more on this item. Either were outside city hall and you see theres also a drivethru ballot. Dropoff if youve got your ballot in the mail. You can drop it off right here outside city hall in San Francisco is also a Voting Center across the street graham Civic Auditorium but getting to what you were talking about which is registration that is correct. You have to register by tonight now if you dont get that registration in by tonight. Youre not going to get a mail in ballot. But all is not lost. You still have an opportunity to register you can go to your county elections office. You go to your vote center you can also go to your polling place and register on election day and vote that will count as a provisional ballot, theyll be checking it out before they end up counting the ballots so all is not lost. In that respect so there are some options if you dont get that ballot in today as you mentioned lots of voting going on here at the San FranciscoVoting Center lot of people dropping off their ballots and so many ballots have already been turned it. We talked to the director of elections here in San Francisco. We have a 124,000 ballots. Back that our voting. We have around 520,000 registered voters in San Francisco, so this point we have around 24 turnout this election. We had a really strong returns going through last week. We had came back to us on tuesday of last week. Today we got around 8,000 the mail so that the of the return rates of slow down a bit since last week. So this week when snow really i think where we are as far as potential overall turnout. And theyre expecting a turnout of somewhere in the 80 percentile that matches what they had both in 20 16 and in the president ial election in 2008 they say if the ballot return continues in the upward motion in the upper trend and they will surpass what they had which was an 81 turnout in both of those 2 elections. I spoke about voters very excited about this election. They say its the most important one they voted in well hear from them coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 5 for now reporting live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. All right dan thank you for that. Now kron 4 is your local election headquarters this voting season in just a friendly reminder again were 15 days away from the november, 3rd election. Also here across 4 were committed to making sure your vote counts if you experience a problem casting your ballot. Be sure to let us know and we will investigate you can email us at voting problems at kron 4 dot com. And now to our wildfire Coverage Areas of the north bay once again facing critical fire weather this week a fire weather watch scheduled to go into effect tonight has been upgraded to a red flag warning kron fours morning kelly talk to santa rosa fire officials about what theyre doing to prepare. Yeah. The center is the Fire Department is bracing for what could possibly be a very active week of critical fire weather, the red flag warning goes into effect starting at 11 oclock tonight and goes until wednesday. We are particularly concerned about the north bay mountainous areas of napa county and North EasternSonoma County. They the fight santa rosa Fire Department says were not done on wednesday. Then we roll into a fire weather watch that last from wednesday until friday and they are tracking the potential of a 3rd a vent for the weekend. So they say they are most concerned about areas like where im standing this is Fountain Grove area that burned during the tubbs fire that was 3 years ago. Now grasses have been coming back and drying out so theyre concerned about the potential for another wildfire in areas that have already burned in the tide fire the nuns fire the kincade fire. Right now the. Pg e is not calling psps but they do say they are in whats called a watch for a Public Safety power shutoff. Possibly for the north bay, mountainous regions again and also for the east bay hills. They say it the potential is for thursday morning. Theyll have more information and theyll be starting to alert their customers as we get closer to thursday. They start notifying people of that potential about 48 hours in advance. Reporting from the north and Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. And talking about the red flag warning lets get a look at our bay area forecast around midday. The fire watch from this morning was upgraded to a red flag warning for the north bay mountains weve got dave spahr standing by with a look at. Doesnt get were going to be seeing similar conditions here in the city and other parts of the bay area. Well actually not in San Francisco. It doesnt appear to be but we are as you heard from morning Kellie Shirley capsule it very very well you could actually say there are 3 events within the next week the were watching first things first its the red that you see thats obviously the red flag warning and that goes into effect 00 11pm tonight be with us until wednesday morning around 80s. You can see. Now this tan color thats a fire weather watch all this for the Higher Elevations, this bases like the postit note to the National Weather well get back to you on that later potentially for an upgrade of red flag warning so obviously as the east bay hills that is in the watch along with the santa cruz mountains, red flag warning in place as you heard about in northern Solano County that covers up to napa sonoma and a little chunk here in the are in all included in the red flag warning because some offshore winds that will be a little bit higher theyll be a little bit more a lot going on again, heres the geography that we have going on here. Just a quick beauty shot for you the fog came back again how about that were getting some cooling influence from karl, the fog coming back in completely covering up the bridges at the center of the golden gate. But there you see the flag flapping a little bit of an onshore flow. We like that upper 80s right now. We start 90s and we see the same up to the north bay well get into more of your forecast in just a bit snouts. All right dave in just a reminder karl, the fog i believe has retired we now have carla the fog so just something to keep in mind. Now starting today, mateo county will begin cracking down on businesses that are defying Coronavirus Health guidelines. Its all part of a new effort by the county to try and slow the spread of covid19 kron fours Charles Clifford joins us now from san mateo with the details. Hi charles. Hey there here in San Mateo County the number of new coronavirus cases per day kind of peaked in august has dropped and is now back to where it was made early summer and they want a county wants to keep it that way and what theyre doing is be being proactive about making sure that businesses are following the rules. On monday San Mateo County begin sending a covid19 compliance unit to businesses across the county to make sure they are complying with county health orders. All businesses must make sure that masks are being warned social distancing is respected and that employees are given a health and safety plan weve seen that there are people out there. Businesses who are not compliant. And so we would were going to go out there again through a team a person team. Theyre going to go to these businesses on monday we talked to shoppers in san mateo who say that for the most part everyone is doing what they should but admit that as the pandemic drags on they do see people not following the rules could become complacent weve been doing this for a long time now the county compliance unit will mainly focus on getting businesses to comply voluntarily. But they do have the authority to issue fines of up to 3,000 and repeat offenders could Face Criminal Charges owes to. More operating illegally. Now theres really going to be a penalty. All right back live now the county is also set up a tip line, its 2, 1, 1, if anyone sees a business not following the rules you can send an anonymous tip that way you can also send the county and email anonymously if you want. But for now in San Mateo CountyCharles Clifford kron 4 news. All right i thank you for that. And San Mateo County currently falls into the red substantial tier on the states colorcoded terror system meaning some nonessential businesses are allowed to operate indoors but with restrictions. Heres a map of where each county in the bay area currently stands contra costa. Solano napa and marine counties are also in the red a substantial tier, San Francisco. Alameda and santa clara counties are coated in orange for the moderates here and Sonoma County remains the the only local county in the most restrictive widespread purple tier, the state Health Department will provide an update on the latest status of counties tomorrow. And once the fda approves a covid19 vaccine californians will have to wait a little longer just to get it. The governor announced steps but hes taking today to verify the safety of what will eventually be an approved immunization kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala joins us live from sacramento with details on that ashley. Highs not yet governor gavin newsom announced today, hes put together a scientific safety group to verify that whatever fda approved covid19 vaccine comes out is in fact say for californians, he said hes doing it. No matter who the president is. We dont take anyones word for it we will do our own independently reviewed process with are world class experts. The new scientific safety group is made up of 11 Health Care Leaders and researchers from across the state. When exactly the groups work will begin depends on how soon the fda approved the covid19 vaccine. The state is eyeing a likely mass distribution in 2021. And this is the sober reality, the expectation should not cannot be this calendar year. For the overwhelming majority of us to get to where we need to go as a nation as a state that will not happen until 2021 with limited supply in Storage Capacity expected once a vaccine is approved newsoms administration has already decided who will get First Priority will go to those most vulnerable to the virus, including the elderly or those living in longterm care facilities. The disabled essential workers minorities, Rural Communities and those who are incarcerated. So how long it will take this working group to review any vaccine is not clear really theres no set timeline here for anything having to do with that the vaccine until the fda approves it. Now tomorrow sun i know you mentioned that we would get an update on the county to your status on the on the bloom at blueprint for reopening also tomorrow doctor galley the states top Health Officer supposed to announce reopening guidelines for theme parks and team sports so were also looking forward to that for tomorrow, reporting live in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. Its exciting to hear that that will happening thank you. Ashley. Maki these stolen lemur is now back at the San Francisco zoo and this man is now behind bars, his name is corey john mcgill away and police say he was arrested in the north bay on thursday for an unrelated issue. Authorities say hell be booked in San Francisco for burglary grand theft of an animal looting and vandalism. And coming up here on kron 4 news a 3 one bay area city is testing out new technology to try to reduce crime in their neighborhoods will explain how it will work. Plus researchers are working on a new way to find out whether people are infected with covid19 the unconventional methods they are using and that next Violent Crime continues to rise in the east bay of the local leaders are at your brain is an amazing thing. But as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. Thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. The secret is an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. The city of oakland has experienced a 38 increase in homicides in the year the City Council President has a resolution aimed at stopping gun violence that the president of the oakland, a police union tells kron fours has he come on why that resolution will out when it comes to Violent Crime. The city of oakland is on pace to have one of its worst years in recent memory says the president of the Oakland PoliceOfficers Association barry down some of numbers are incredibly over more than 400 people shot this year and city a murder so far this year. We 75 for all of last year it is incredibly important recognize. That shutting down the sources of illegal guns is vital to stopping gun violence this week oakland City Council PresidentRebecca Kaplan is introducing a resolution declaring gun violence prevention, a top Law Enforcement priority, but priority, she means Oakland Police hiring some would to trace gun casings left at crime scenes, a position that has been vacant for 2 years even though it has been budgeted and i want to be clear the council funded this position the money to hire the position. To trace the illegal guns is in the budget and were saying they need to go ahead and fill that position, however donna lynne says the position remains unfulfilled because he believes no one wants to work and what he calls a hostile work environment. Shes talking about hiring one person to do tracing which is a very noble and every technical jaw. But the challenges song with those kind expertise there are soon coming to open. We need to laid off week as the phone. The Police Department has it made you kron 4 news. And in the city of san jose theyre testing out a new gunshot Detection Program in an effort to reduce violence and help Police Respond faster the program will be tested in the cadillac winchester neighborhood where city Officials SayViolent Crime has been an ongoing issue. The new technology will use Artificial Intelligence and acoustic sensors to identify the location and direction of Gunshots Police will then have access to audio files and google maps or video from the detection device. The program is what the tech company v 5 systems and its expected to be ready in the next few weeks. Turning our attention now to the weather with a live look outside at San FranciscoInternational Airport we are monitoring a fire weather watch this week kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr hes tracking all of those details for us and it looks like no rain no rain in sight hyundai. Oh no not for the 7 day forecast we love the deliver some here weve been waiting and waiting waiting for something were getting a little tease over the weekend so to speak, but basically nothing really upstream live shot comes in from half moon bay, at least a fairly clear shot until some of that fog comes back again which it will do for tonight. Of course locking up as you can see the golden gate really never did clear out. Throughout today we like the direction of the winds though keep that up which will probably not happen as we get later in the forecast period now the fire talk here. The tan colors the fire weather watch as it is for right now this may be upgraded to a red flag warning later on but that red flag warning is up here in the north bay note its the Higher Elevations this can change, but its the Higher Elevations for now because even of the service were not seeing heavy winds going on necessarily so its a little bit a lot going on, but the danger zone is there all the way into about 8 wednesday morning then the next thing to look for is the second event and thats where all those tan colors are with the fire weather watch then theres a 3rd of them to look out for as we head on into the weekend. Those temperatures are holding the upper 80s to the east bay north bay as well 81 san jose in the east bay shoreline is into middle 70s territory. So having said all that those temperatures backtracked a little bit today dropping out of the 90s the fire weather watch and red flag warning