News at 3. I ask everyone to stay calm. All the people to stay calm. The process is working. The count is being completed. Will know very soon. Now with 3 former Vice President joe biden is urging patients with the American People as we anxiously await the results for the next president of the United States. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 your local election headquarters. Im Justine Waldman were also just getting word right now that President Trump plans to speak at around 3. 30 this afternoon as soon as that happens well bring it to you live. Right here on kron 4. Meanwhile, were just 2 days after the election. And all eyes are still on the race to 270 electoral votes, joe biden is still leading at this hour with 264 its been stuck there for about 24 hours now. Lets take a look now at the Electoral College vote map provided by the Associated Press. We see joe biden still sticking at 264. President donald trump a 214. 270 is whats needed to win the battleground states that have still not been decided those are in the light pink there. Pennsylvania, nevada arizona. Also georgia President Donald Trump has pursued some Legal Options with very little success insisting the process of ballot counting should be stopped with millions of ballots yet to be counted. Joe biden already has received more than 72 million votes. That is the most in history. In nevada, the Trump Campaign says it plans to file a federal lawsuit against the state and the clark county claiming widespread voter fraud. The Trump Campaign made this announcement outside of the clark county election department, the exact site where outstanding mail in ballots are being counted by hand. Republicans claimed clark county is counting thousands of illegal ballots, but they didnt present any evidence of widespread voter fraud. The clark clowney register said that they are focused on accuracy not quickness when it comes to counting votes. Judges in georgia and michigan of also dismissed Trump Campaign lawsuits under cutting a Legal Campaign strategy aimed at attacking the integrity of the voting process in states where the results could mean President Donald Trump faces defeat. Now the rulings came today as Democrat Joe Biden inch closer to that left quote Electoral College vote number which is needed to win the white house. In pennsylvania, meanwhile, the Trump Campaign one in appellate ruling to get party and campaign observers closer to election workers who are processing mail in ballots in philadelphia. But the order did not affect the counting of ballots that is proceeding in pennsylvania. Biden campaign attorney vob our called the republican legal challenges meritless. In battleground states are the only ones. Still counting votes today its happening here in the bay areas well kron fours rob fladeboe brings us up to date on how the count is going. For a new record voter turnout in Santa Clara County good good afternoon. Justino officials here at the registrar Voters Office incentive they tell me that they are indeed expecting break the current voter turnout record of 86 before they can say anything or declare that they have to count every last ballot and theyre still coming in by the 10s of thousands, lets take a look. Ballots are still pouring into the Santa Clara CountyRegistrars Office in san jose just under a 1 million 20 thousand ballots were mailed out to voters roughly 786,000 were received on Election Night. Since then however, thousands more ballots have arrived from last minute absentee unconditional voters are definitely counting its we had over 786,000 ballots that have already come to our office. And theres a process to check the signatures to separated by precinct to open in flattened. We have a lot of people here today helping us with that process voters on tuesday broke the record for the number of ballots cast in 2016 president ial election. When 724,596 people voted. But as the opening folding flattening in defending getting of the still arriving ballots continues. The next record almost sure to fall is overall voter turnout the Current Record for that is 86 set in 2008 and the record voter turnout is the number of ballots that we receive counted. Divided by the registration. That was received by the close of registration which was on october 19th that was a 1 million 19 thousand voters though a 1 million 19 thousand divided by however many ballots we get in here that determines or turn out right now were at about 78 fortunately there are no key races hanging in the balance, but every late arriving ballot, including those lacking a signature or proper postmark or other flaws must be evaluated and either rejected or counted. The register has 17 days to finish the count and certify the record setting election. And the registrar says that when all the counting is done they say that the voter turnout this year could be as high as 90 live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thank you so much robin remember kron 4 is your local election headquarters we will have up to the minute results in california and across the country just head over to our website kron 4 dot com slash election. We also have the latest and all the local and state measures as well as up to date information on the president s role race, its on our website kron 4 dot com. Our teams working hard to update them all day long. I looked at the counter today and yes were 3 weeks away from thanksgiving and theres now some growing concern that people traveling during the holidays could be spreading coronavirus here in the Bay Area Health officials are considering issuing a travel advisory asking people to self quarantine if they do travel kron fours Charles Clifford is live for us now at San Franciscos International Airport with details and reaction. Chuck, how is this even work. Well right now its just kind of an idea thats in development we should know more details soon but you know across california there has been a slight uptick in the number of coronavirus cases our statewide infection rate is still low in San Francisco in particular they have the lowest infection rate of any major city in the country and they want to keep it that way. The Health Officials in San Francisco and in multiple counties across the bay area are considering issuing a travel advisory asking that if anyone travels for the holidays to somewhere else or fly through us sfo to somewhere else and theyre unable to socially distance or stay away from other people or family that when they returned to the bay area that they self quarantine for up to 14 days. The idea is to keep coronavirus from returning in spreading here locally i talked to several people at the airport today, including one woman who says shes on board with the idea if i absolutely had to do that i would do it you know for one thing when covid first started. I did. I did quarantine so now at this point we dont have any specifics and no official travel advisory has been issued at something that is in the works. Sfo usually releases a prediction of how many people will be traveling through the airport over the holiday season, but this year they say only a quarter of the normal amount of people. Have been flying and they dont know what to expect over the next couple of months. All right back live now that is the very latest heard as a foe Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Thank you so much charles will go to the east bay now in Contra Costa CountyHealth Officials are taking action after seeing the number of covid19 cases significantly climb kron 4 subject all reports outside of a martinez restaurant that is still struggling to stay afloat. We catch up with Leslie Stiles she is the executive chef and owner of rocks on main here in martinez. She reacts to the Contra Costa Public Health departments decision to tailback indoor capacity at restaurants, this starts tomorrow friday. Capacity had been allowed to increase to about 50 and has now gone back down to 25 starting friday because of the sharp rise in covid19 cases countywide leslie says that she understands the reasoning behind this but that it is also hurting her business she says revenues already been down about 50 percent during the pandemic theyve had to change their Business Model with deliveries carry out and curbside and weve also spoken with some patrons who say theyre just not ready to eat indoors at weve also spoken with some who say they believe its safe and that theres a way to do so moving forward so well catch up with Leslie Stiles and rocks on main street later tonight on kron 4 news. In martinez phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. Lets talk about our Weather Forecast now we take a quick live look outside along highway 24 in walnut creek. Beautiful day today, help everyone got a chance to enjoy it because big changes are on the way for tomorrow meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking rain and much cooler temperatures higher precept yeah, cool wet and windy forecast heading our way just staying right now the calm before the storm so enjoy these mild in Clear Conditions while they last above average temperatures out there for your thursday afternoon. Mid 70s for downtown San Francisco and oakland with widespread low to mid 80s as you make your way inland, including santa rosa in the mid 80s low 80s for and shocking livermore in san jose flirting with 80s but currently at 78 degrees so satellite and radar showing a very quiet pattern out there right now but just to our north. This is the storm from the gulf of alaska thats going to bring us our cold snap and light scattered showers by early friday afternoon First Arriving in the north bay for the rest of us. It will arrive later friday night and it will not notice that we are going to dry out by saturday morning with no rain expected for the 1st half of the weekend but very cold temperatures will be left in its place not going to be a big rainmaker though as you can see just talking about a quarter of an inch of rain or less for the highest peaks and for those of you in san jose about a 10th of an inch of rain or less with the bulk of the rain expected along the coast and for those of you in the south bay. But when tracker for tracking some pretty gusty winds starting tonight at around 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour in the north bay and along the coast, sustained winds but upwards of 50 mile per hour wind gusts expected for our highest peaks in addition that high surf with breaking waves as high as 22 feet starting friday afternoon. There are around your friday night and temperatures tomorrow going to plunge were going to get a cold snap with temperatures only warming up into the 50s and 60s 10 to 20 degrees colder than today. More my full forecast in just few minutes just seen back to you. Thanks for recent police are investigating reports of burglaries across the east bay, an employee at the big 5 Sporting Goods on his foreign boulevard in san lorenzo says he received a security alert. And saw about 20 people running inside on wednesday night. No suspect was inside when Police Arrived, but a pellet gun and bullet shells were found in the parking lot. Police later confirmed people broke into big 5 through metal barriers and stole ammunition. Police are reviewing surveillance images and in Richmond Police responded to a burglary at the exclusive a shoe store. When Police Arrived they found about 10 suspects running away from the store with numerous shoeboxes a pursuit ensued and police did end up stopping one of the getaway cars in San Francisco, no other businesses they say were targeted. But anyone with information is asked to call Richmond Police. Coming up here today at 3 know jimmy g know George Kittle and several other key players are out due to injury and covid19. Kron 4 Sports ReporterHighland Mills is live at levi stadium with what challenges the 49 ers face tonight against green bay. And for the first time in 80 years a newly elected california assemblyman has made history and we will meet him this hour. And right after the break, well we have a president announced 2 nights. Well go live to washington dc to see how the ballot count is coming along. I am robert strickler. Ive been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. All eyes remain on just 4 states for the final tallies will decide the fate of the white house or washington dc correspondent Raquel Martin has been following this historic battle. Raquel we know that donald trump is going to be allegedly in about 15 minutes from now. We have an idea whats on his agenda to be talking about and are we any closer to having things decided. Well Election Officials in these key battleground states that were awaiting some results from arizona, nevada georgia pennsylvania are saying that they are slowly but surely getting to a final count, but we are going to have to be patient. Now its unclear exactly what the president is going to say, but we do know that joe biden has come out today just moments ago and he now says he has no doubt will be able to claim victory. Each ballot must be counted and thats how it should be with the path to reelection looking increasingly precarious for the President Joe Biden again this afternoon stopped short of claiming we have no doubt when the count is finished senator harris and i will be declared the winners the last full of ballots are tallied President Trump has gone from claiming an outright victory wednesday morning we won texas. Launching of full on legal crusade to stop ballot counting in key battlegrounds michigan, georgia and pennsylvania the president s campaign claims state Election Officials are not being transparent about their count and counting ballots that should be disqualified. Theres really not eric to those cases paul should bring in a law professor at George WashingtonUniversity Says the president s lawsuits should not go far there is nothing nefarious going on all the states are doing is counting. Legally cast votes already judges in georgia and michigan have dismissed the Trump Campaigns legal challenges. Now as you mentioned we are going to hear from the president here shortly hell be addressing the public from the White House Briefing room now we have not heard from him since 02 30am in the morning on wednesday. He has however been active on twitter where he has been reeling against these last key battleground states and has been growing increasingly frustrated that he has seen that margin 0 in on him as joe biden picks up a boat after boat in closes the smart those margins in those key battleground states for now in washington Raquel Martin back to you. Nor cal be interesting to see and here with the president has to say will be carrying in here for everyone on kron 4 raquel thank you and now. The San Francisco 49 ers. Theyre taking on the Green Bay Packers at levi stadium tonight after a wild turn of events over the last 48 hours the team shut down its facilities yesterday and placed 4 key players on the covid reserve list after one of them tested positive kron 4 Sports Reporter carley mills is live at levi stadium where the game is still going to be played tonight, yeah thats right justine so far theres been no reports of any additional 49 ers testing positive for coronavirus today. So game on at this point but that actually may not be a good thing for the fortyniners with the squad theyre going to be sending out there tonight, i feel like were going to be watching the replacements if youve ever seen at 2000 movie classic based on how many people are out due to injury or due to covid 7 Wide Receivers alone on the 49 ers are going to be missing now the offensive flow first came for the for the fortyniners earlier this week we learned that Jimmy Garoppolo and George Ki