Counter some low visibility as for winds right now we are nice and calm, i know we started the week with some very breezy conditions that was not the case wednesday thursday nor will it be again today. Temperatures right now are mostly in the 40s to 50s, although santa rosa. You are in the upper 30s, currently at 39 degrees oakland, a cool 41 while hayward and nice 51 degrees. Temperatures later on well be in the 70s and only a couple of a teasing on a little cooler than we were for your daytime highs yesterday we are going to be seeing temperatures tomorrow and sunday for halloween and the day after that just a couple of degrees up again that will take us back into the 80s of course more about your Holiday Weekend forecast is still to come got to get a check of your Early Morning traffic with robin usually not too bad out there just yet whats it like right now its friday, its light its quiet. Its looking good. Johnson dropped a fantastic start with no major issues so far we dont have any hot spots or anything that you have to worry about, but its just a little busy here on the san mateo bridge. So heres a live look at you can see the traffic filling in and quickly. As it normally does here on 92 in the 4 oclock hour so were up to a really good start early at 12 minutes off to one oh one here in the bay bridge toll plaza, heres a live look at was smooth and quiet yesterday were off to a quiet start right now 8 minutes into San Francisco and your drive times would really get we dont have any big problems for the east shore for the dumbarton bridge. I dont see the issues on 5. 80 livermore make your way into dublin and even want to hunt is looking good northbound from the peninsula from brisbane to San Francisco making your way up to the 80 split we are under 10 darya and james were off to a fantastic start with no major issues out there but well continue to check the bridges and the drive times well see if it will stay friday light were us like to that okay our top stories this morning. We are now in believe it just 4 days away from the election and millions of votes have already been counted. All across the bay area and we have Team Coverage as counties are preparing for tuesday reyna harvey is live outside the chase center. Where you can drop off your ballot starting tomorrow and tell us where well trend is going to be out in San Mateo County where officials there are already processing. Votes this morning, lets start with you will good morning. They are very busy doing that james you can see the people right behind me those are employees that theyre heading inside some of them on you know what i was looking at the camera turned around and they are already in so the doors open up at 5 oclock this morning there inside we saw dozens of them lined up they have been busy for the past several weeks processing. The mail in ballots. Remember they are not counting it. But there are so many ballots and they could be a Record Numbers so people are turning out to vote take a look at your screen since we are in San Mateo County we will give you some of the latest numbers this could be a record year. Now Elections Officials say in the past among registered voters theres been about 82 turnout. The way its going right now they say could be at 90 which is an alltime record. Many people theyre not taking any chances there dropping off their mail in ballots, personally at Elections Offices, others are dropping it in the mail. Take a look at your screen we want to pass along some numbers for you. You are not alone if you are voting early in San Mateo County. 209,000 people have already turned out to vote. In Santa Clara County 410,000 people, San Francisco 221,000 people and the numbers keep rolling in and theyre higher than in previous elections, lets move to the next set of numbers in marine county, youre looking at 100,000 people already voting napa county 31,000 sonoma county. You are sitting this morning at 143,000 600 54 votes to be exact now there is still time to mail in your mail in ballots. So long as you post market you can still register to vote. So long as its election day its getting very close Election Officials are telling people just register on the day of the election say you wont take any chances of missing out if you are going to send in your mail invalid very close to election day make sure that it postmarked james starry a next time you see me will be inside we will show the machines. Im sure at smoking because we were here 2 weeks ago and they started processing and were talking millions of ballots in the bay area and reportedly across the nation james darya 80 Million People have already voted back to you. All right, thanks a lot, well check in with you throughout the morning. Its pretty incredible to see processing there and starting tomorrow the warriors are going to be joining in other bay area sports teams by using their facilities to help people submit their votes. We got crawfords reyna harvey standing by live outside the chase center in San Francisco with a look at that good morning. Maria. James good morning. Another Major Sports Team stepping up to boost that Civic Engagement theyre not only going to be years San Francisco, but also in oakland in santa cruz, their landing several other facilities to try to get voters had many different locations and options to be able to cast their right out here this is actually thrive city. This is on the corner of 3rd street and warriors way you can come here theyre going to have a ballot dropoff location that starts tomorrow 10 00am and that runs until 04 00pm again is going to be here sunday as well you come here and drop off your ballot also monday into tuesday 08 00am to 05 00pm 07 00am to 08 00pm youll be able to bring their ballots here but also over in oakland, 1011 broadway, the chase in or drop off. Boxer also going to use this site as a polling location as well so an oakland its serving in those 2 capacities dropoff location you can also go on election day in both saturday and sunday those hours 09 00am to 05 00pm monday 09 00am to 05 00pm and tuesday, 07 08am, to 08 00pm also out in santa cruz like i mentioned there also using their Kaiser Permanente arena out there that will also serve as a drop off location and you can go on election day and vote thats going to be on one 40 front street. Now weve seen sports teams across the bay area step up in his capacity. You know yesterday i was out there in santa clara we were out there at the levis stadium and theyre also going to be having voters come there throughout the week as well so you see sports team saying that this is very important for them to get involved in this way. Now we just have to wait and see how many people come out also theyre saying at this location theyre going to have some select warriors here so that should interesting to see the people out here voting along with some people from the teen days back to you now that hope and courage to folks come out submit their ballots. Thank you very much right now. In the east a dozen ballots have gone missing from a drop box at Richmond City hall the Contra Costa CountyElections Office says theyre trying to find the missing ballots but so far they havent the county was made aware of these missing ballots to complaints from people who said that their ballot was accounted for online. However Election Officials do not believe that the ballot box or the ballots were tampered with. Weve eliminated a few possibilities to include a malicious act activity and theres no of that happening at all stuff always happens and this is a thing that we dont know exactly what happened yet. The voters who had their ballots misplace have been given new ballots. They have the option to vote again, but if the missing ballots are found. Then only one ballot will count. Well the missing ballot raises concerns about voting security and the secretary of state is working to make sure that elections safety is a top priority. Capitol Bureau ReporterAshley Zavala has more now on the security measures in place for voters. Nearly 9 Million People already have their ballots in secretary of state alex by the u. S. Has his office and county Elections Officials across the state are taking steps to ensure voters are safe and ballots are protected by says so far in early voting. There havent been any incidents of voter harassment or intimidation at the polls is office last month sent an unprecedented memo to county Elections Officials rehashing voter intimidation laws and consequences as discussions ramp up on poll watchers folks there to observe can not in any way. Interfere with the administration of elections, its really cant cross the line try to harass or intimidate somebody was trying to exercise their right to election supervisors are trained to make sure that the election goes smoothly, havent been trained on how to de escalate maybe some tense situation that there are questions still Law Enforcement involved here or you may be leaving it up to poll workers Law Enforcement on standby should they be necessary. But that is never that the first step in responding to an incident every into the middle bit different so you know we hope to not make it in the bud was about 40 of ballots already returned by the u. S. Is county Elections Officials are working to keep those secure all these bouts are maintained in a high security areas, you know only official people have access to these types of rooms. Multiple types of locks, it cetera Elections Officials have just days left to keep the safeguards in place before the counting begins in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. 5. 10 right now and still ahead on the kron 00 00am morning news first were going to cover the wildfires that are burning in Southern California then coronavirus cases are growing at an alarming rate and were going to have the newest places that youre supposed to go and not go the dos and donts of celebrating halloween. I must stay a little more local this halloween and hopefully enjoy some of that sunshine that we will have today tomorrow even into sunday to work in a little spoiled with this forecast ahead of us at the coast. There is some patchy fog this morning, 60s for your highs today and then temperatures for inland areas mostly back into the 70s also a little cooler. Your forecast is ahead. And ill be tracking your friday morning commute around the bay area were off to a great start. 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Trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. Call now so you can. Retire better welcome back its 5. 13 right now and we want to check out the weather heading into weekend, lets head over to the Weather Center said good good friday morning to jive good morning guys, yeah friday morning sounds good to say for sure we are looking at a really nice friday ahead of us to the weekend ahead in general is actually looking really nice now we do have some fog out there this morning thats a change from where we have been your berkeley view shrouded in some low clouds right now. And thats a sign of some marine layer that has had its opportunity to now settled back down into the bay this morning so we are seeing more fog then we have the past couple of days, although as a result of into many major visibility issues just yet as far as winds go we remain calm much as we were on thursday and wednesday to so we keep this good trend of calmer conditions going and a nice cool day ahead of us compared to where we have been now unfortunately because of these calm winds we have seen some smoke from the Central Valley, a result of the creek fire. Pushing right into the bay. Thats why youve noticed it looking a little hazy the past couple of days with High Pressure in place that results in sinking stagnant air too so even though we dont have any really active fires here in the bay area surrounding region certainly do still have a bit of a smoke impact and weve actually tapped into that the past couple of days too. Todays daytime highs will be in the 60s at the coast with pretty much 70s everywhere else repress the day a lot less 80s on the map today than what you had been saying little bit of a cool down to get the weekend started off with nice mild one foster city in redwood city each in the mid 70s today while in the south bay also looking at a range of mid 70s for your daytime high sent a clear at 74 san jose at 76 temperatures in the east bay in the low 70s for Union City Hayward and fremont well upper 70s for areas, inland like Livermore Pleasanton up to san ramon, only 3 80s on the map thats for concord woman creek and dan bill as you see on the screen. Berkeley are back in the upper 60s while back down into the 70s all across the north bay vacaville and fairfield even up to 79 degrees for your highs at the coast, some 60s while 70s from santa rosa down through mill valley, heres a look ahead at your next 7 days, lets start with our inland areas, daytime highs, mostly in the 80s after 2 days, mild cool down tomorrow and sunday are looking really nice for the rest of your weekend of course saturday halloween looking at lot different this year as far as your plans go than maybe what you usually do. If youre having a backyard gettogether with your family you are going to be looking at some sunshine for it just a nice weekend overall for those different kind of plans that we have for halloween this year robin hey thats good news. Thank you john good news on the roads as well were looking at a great commute so far around the bay area, especially on the bridges is picking up, but its not bad at all were checking out one oh one across the Golden Gate Bridge traffic is light enough limit so far so very easy 19 minutes here rolling south from nevado to San Francisco here at the bay bridge toll plaza, no delays no issues so come on and were at 7 minutes from the bottom of the maze off to the fremont street exit so a really good start yesterday was just really nice throughout the morning drive. Well see if that happens again today on friday. Were hoping for friday light conditions checking in on traffic tracker looking at some more numbers so we have the east shore thats a 15 minute trip, no problems for 24 out of walnut creek 5 80s looking good and the nimitz here looking good too from san leandro to the bottom of the maze, no major issues only 10 minutes for your drive will check more coming up back to you. Thanks a lot 5. 17 do you have any plans for halloween thats a trick officials in San Francisco course wanna make sure that people are celebrating safely. This year in the citys part of Public Health has released a list of what you should and shouldnt for halloween kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live in San Francisco with the details. Hi sarah. Darya james yellows a good trick question. I think a lot of people San Francisco is on a roll right now reopening in that is why the San Francisco city leaders are saying lets not ruin everything in all the progress weve made and theyre asking people to be smart this halloween, its on a saturday, it never falls on saturday feels like so its the perfect opportunity to do all these things that not covid s