race for the white house. with less than a week to go, president trump and joe biden out on the campaign trail. the curveball hackers threw at the trump campaign. good morning. it's wednesday, october 28th. before we get to those stories we want to check in with mike for a look at the forecast. >> good morning. hi, everybody. thanks for joining us on this wednesday morning. we have one lone hot spot, that's mount st. helena. the humidity is up a little bit. so there's a slight heightened fire danger in that one area. for the most part, we'll be doing okay. typical fall day with calmer conditions and warmer than normal afternoons. low to mid 70s around the bay. upper 70s to near 80 inland. it will get warmer in the accuweather 7-day forecast. i'll have that coming up. >> thanks. pg&e does expect everyone to get their power restored later today.

we'll see those purple triangles finally disappear. about 10,000 customers are still in the dark this morning. at last check, electricity has been restored to 335,000 customers. many of them lost electricity on sunday. we are still at risk of fires even if the red flag warning is over. a small wildfire broke out before 8:00 last night. this is in napa and sonoma counties. crews were able to get that under control. in orange county, it's quite a different story. the race to contain two fast-moving wildfires being pushed by the santa ana winds, nearly 70,000 people are under a mandatory evacuation this morning. jobina is tracking that and these questions about how one of these fires started. jobina? >> thank you. good morning. fire crews say they could see a break later today when the winds start to die down. the fires started on monday. so far the silverado fire in the hills above irvine burned 13,000 acres.

it's 5% contained. the blue ridge fire is about 15 miles away. it burned 15,000 acres with no containment. ten homes burned in the blue ridge fire. this morning there are new questions about what sparked the silverado fire. southern california edison is investigating if power lines are to blame for all of this. the utility is defending the decision to turn off power for just 30 customers monday morning. >> all right. thank you. orange county firefighters made this special rescue yesterday. they shared this video of one of their crews finding this small barn owl lying on the dirt near the silverado fire. they wrapped him up in the fire jacket. he's safe and sound with animal rescue. this morning dozens of employees and patients at a ucsf medical center are under quarantine after several patients and health care workers tested positive for coronavirus. abc7 news reporter julian glover is live with more on this. julian? >> good morning.

the "san francisco chronicle" reporting at least five people, two patients, three health care workers testing positive for covid-19 at the ucsf helen diller medical center in the last week leading to 40 other people connected to the hospital either quarantining or isolating out of caution. abc7 news reached out to ucsf this morning. we have not confirmed the details in the chronicle article which said that two patients who shared a room tested negative for the virus when they arrived at the hospital. when one of the patients was set to be discharged, they then tested positive. that triggered contact tracing which turned up the second patient sharing the room with the first identified case then testing positive as well along with three workers who cared for those two patients. as a result, 28 additional employees were quarantined and 15 additional patients were placed in precautionary isolation. a ucsf spokeswoman told the

chronicle that. so far all of the additional employees and patients have tested negative for the virus. all five patients identified in a three-day span in one unit of the hospital. the five positive cases. we are currently working to confirm the details of this story. as soon as we hear back from ucsf we'll let you know. reporting live, julian glover, abc7 news. >> thank you. in the north bay, sonoma county health officials say a dozen workers at healdsburg district hospital tested positive for covid-19 in the past ten days. they say contact tracing shows that the 12 workers were exposed to the virus outside of the hospital and no patients have been infected. we're expecting to get an update from the santa clara county health department today. health officials will hold a briefing about covid-19 at 10:00 this morning. you can stream it live at abc7news.com and on our abc7 news app. multiple bay area counties are now in the orange tier.

so this means that contra costa, san mateo and marin counties are allowed to expand their reopenings. that includes nonessential offices, outdoor stadiums at 20% capacity and indoor gyms, theme parks, indoor bowling and cardrooms at 25% capacity. you can find out more by going to abc7news.com. now your voice your vote. president trump and joe biden crisscrossing key battleground states today. the president and democratic vp candidate kamala harris both head to arizona. biden will deliver remarks on his plans to beat covid-19, but he'll do that virtually. president trump's campaign website is back up and running after it was hacked. yesterday the campaign communications director said hackers defaced the website. they posted that the world has

"had enough of the fake news spread by president trump." they claim to sell damaging information about the president. law enforcement is investigating the surs the source of that attack. you have six days to cast your vote. for resources head to abc7news.com/election. the heads of twitter, facebook and google are in the hot seat. the support for working par during a pandemic. funding has been approved for a new child care program in the north bay. and a live look from our roof cam where the temperature is 54 degrees. the winds are relatively light. the flags on the ferry building not really moving. temperatures today anywhere from 3 to 8 degrees warmer than average. even

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welcome back. 6:09 on this wednesday. let's head down into the south bay and look at neighborhood temperatures. mid 40s to around 50 for the hills, then mid to upper 50s. 37 in fairfield. 40 in sebastopol and novato.

alameda, san francisco, low to mid 50s. for today, whether you're working from home or remote learning, make sure you get outside. just know it's going to be chilly this morning unless you turned the heater on. our house is about 66 degrees right now. not turning the heater on. here's the fire index, low to moderate throughout today, tomorrow and into thursday. so we have put the worst behind us. there's some good news. how about you, jobina, what are you seeing on the roads this morning? >> overall it's been a smooth morning. looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza. we do not have metering lights on yet according to the chp, you can clearly see -- i stand corrected. as of right now, 6:10, metering lights came on. i was going to say it looks like they are. moving over to our 880 camera at the oakland coliseum area, i'm showing you this because as you travel north bbound, you may be able to make out the brake lights there. that's because of a disabled

tractor trailer. you will run into a slowdown on northbound 880 by the 5th avenue off-ramp. speeds are down to 10 and 31 miles per hour and they ran a traffic break. >> thank you. two san francisco high schools are one step closer to in-person learning. the green light they just received from the city. and a display coming soon to golden state park. as we head to break, a live look outside at 6:11. we will be

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three tech giants go before congress today. republicans are accusing facebook, twitter and google of anti-conservative bias and election interference. the three ceos will appear

remotely. they're expected to argue against repealing a key internet law called section 230 which protects online businesses from being punished for content users create. the senate commerce committee hearing gets under way at 7:00 this morning. students at two private high schools may soon return to classrooms for the first time since march. archbishop riordan high school and stern school passed city inspections and received per migs to allmig permissions to go back to campus. other private schools including st. ignatius college prep and schools of the sacred heart convent, stewart hall and san francisco university high school are close to gaining approval. in the north bay, santa rosa approved the creation of a pilot program for child care providers that have been deeply affected by the covid-19 pandemic. the press democrat reports that it will be funded using $2 million in federal coronavirus aid funds. the city council approved deals

with first five sonoma county and the community child care council in sonoma county. happening today in san francisco, the legion of honor will reopen for members only. it's been closed since mid-march because of the pandemic. members will be able to get their first look at alexander singh's a gothic tale which will run through november 6th. the museum opens to everyone on friday. and golden state park will transform into this winter wonderland. this display full of sculptured light trees and illuminated meadows is called "entwined." a san francisco-based artist designed this. it's part of the park's 150th anniversary celebration. you can check it out december 1st through february 28th. look at her glowing. speaking of winter, why are you trying to freeze barbara with 66 degrees in that house, mike nicco. >> oops. >> i -- am i the keeper of the thermostat? >> yes, you were like, we're not turning on the heat.

i heard you. >> i did say that. i did say that. i did, you're right. we'll open the windows later when it's 80. we'll let in some of that warmth and hope it stays overnight. >> mm-hmm. >> you know what i'll do? once the show is over, i'll put an extra blanket on her. >> that's okay. >> sweet. >> oreo is sleeping with her. that's how i know it's getting colder at night, he comes back and starts sleeping at her legs because he gets cold. yeah. i should listen to my family. east bay hills, here's a look. it's very calm up there. 3 miles per hour to 7 miles per hour winds, 60 degrees. we'll have warm sunshine, dry air, relatively calm winds. what we want during an autumn unlike what we've been dealing with with the fire danger. a new month begins sunday. we're supposed to get colder. nope. getting warmer. we have wild temperature swings next week. let's talk about what's going on now. you can see we're still in that

huge bowl of dry air. this is an omega block high pressure. that means the jet stream will be steered around us and no where near us will be any cold fronts coming until possibly next tuesday. even that one doesn't promise much in the way of rain. it promises slightly milder temperatures. 75 to 81 in the south bay today. 74 to 77, a little narrower range on the peninsula. 66 to 68 along the peninsula coast. low to mid 70s downtown, south san francisco and also sausalito. 77 to 82 through the north bay valleys. along the east bay shore, 72 in richmond until about 76 in fremont and also in hayward. heading inland, 78 to about 81 degrees. tonight, we're back in the 40s. some 30s in the deepest valleys. 50s around san francisco, san mateo and oakland. pretty steady through saturday. you can see it gets warmer for the first two days of november and then for election day tuesday, slightly cooler. still warmer than average.

kumasi, reggie? >> thanks. "good morning america" is coming up at 7:00 on abc7. >> and ginger zee is in pass christian, mississippi with a look at what's ahead. >> great to be with you on a wednesday morning. again along the gulf coast. 27th named storm of the season. if it makes landfall in louisiana as we anticipate later tonight, that's the fifth landfalling storm, named storm in louisiana alone. 11th of the season, we have only done that twice before. records aside, have to tell you the impacts here for the folks along the gulf coast could be six to nine feet of storm surge. wind gusts 75 to 90 miles per hour. this thing will be cooking through central alabama, even north georgia could see power outages. i will track all of that for our friends here. also you know we'll cover that race to the finish. six days until final votes and nearly 70 million americans casting their ballots. president trump and joe biden still making that final push on the campaign trail and we have

our brand-new poll from two crucial battleground states. then a dire warning as covid hospitalizations have now reached record highs in at least 11 states. there's some states cracking down as overwhelmed hospitals are buckling under the pressure. doctors warning that they may not be able to keep up. we'll bring you all those stories and s [what's this?] oh, are we kicking karly out? we live with at&t. it was a lapse in judgment. at&t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gig-speed internet, but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something? [ muffled scream ] stop living with at&t. xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes.

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all right. welcome back. let's look at our temperatures. you can see the marine layer starts to touch parts of the coast and the bay heading through friday. then it goes away for saturday, halloween, even more so sunday as temperatures continue to warm. now here's a look at that cold front i was talking about. as we head through monday into tuesday, it looks promising, look at that moisture just evaporate heading through election day and leaves us with maybe a few sprinkles. it will be cooler. all right. it's a tough morning for giants fans out there. here's reggie to tell you why. yes. it's because the dodgers are world series champs for the first time since 1988. that's the good news for some of you. the bad news is that one of the players during the game found out that he is covid positive.

>> world series victory. >> so the social distancing was kind of happening during the ceremony here to get the trophy. sources tell our sister network espn that during the eighth inning justin turner got pulled out of the game because his test he took on tuesday came back positive. then for reasons i cannot understand, after the game they sat inches apart from one another and the same guy that just tested positive took his mask off totally. i don't understand. >> he wanted that picture. >> congrats, i guess? >> we guess. well, in the south bay, look at that, these groups of wild pigs terrorizing san jose neighbors won't be controlled with bows and arrows. the pigs have been destroying yards for quite awhile now and residents are frustrated.

they were hopeful about a new plan to take out the animals, yesterday the city decided against bows and arrows and instead decided they'll get the county involved. >> i hope the county can restart their program, which was successful in maintaining the population for many years. now it's gotten out of control. >> i open my front door, i confronted some of them. one of them was kind of aggressive. >> currently licensed trappers are able to catch and kill the wild pigs within city limits. this morning governor newsom is doubling down on his decision to keep theme parks closed in california. >> we should be concerned about opening up a large theme park where by definition people mix from every conceivable walk of life and put themselves and others at increased risk of seeing transmission rates rise. >> governor newsom refused to

say the word disneyland, which is owned by abc7's parent company. when asked why other theme parks in the u.s. are getting to reopen. newsom said it is still too dangerous with parks bringing in other tourists from nearby hotels and restaurants. chrissy teigen is opening up about the tragic loss of her son when she was 20 weeks pregnant. the model and author writes about it in a heart wrenching essay on the website medium. she describes what happened and why she and her husband, singer john legend, chose to share their story and hospital photos on social media. she writes in part, i had asked my mom and john to take pictures no matter how uncomfortable it was. it didn't make sense to him at the time. i knew i needed to know of this moment forever. teigen says she is now trying to heal writing i'm surrounded in a human therapy blanket of love. we wish her the best. >> yes.

next at 6:30, the big-named company that's hiring in the bay area. the work that would help improve the health and economy of our community. going from the red tier to the orange tier. i'm amy h

now at 6:30, moving up into the orange tier. the three bay area counties where you can expect more business to reopen as soon as today. >> it's the flu season at the same time that you have the covid-19. >> to prepare for a twindemic, the jobs in high demand right now. >> more than two dozen ucsf workers in quarantine. the cluster of coronavirus cases reported at the medical center. a live look outside through our sutro tower camera. good news, now that the winds have subsided, the worst of the fire threat is over. good morning. it's wednesday, october 28th. we want to check back in with mike. you sound excited about this forecast. >> i am. we're getting into that fall pattern of cool nights, warm afternoons, and no fire threat. that will hang around for

several days. breathing a sigh of relief, the stress of the fire danger is gone. hopefully everybody is feeling better about the forecast. we still have 34-mile-per-hour winds on st. helena, everyone else is 20 or less in the higher elevations. it's dry out there, but the humidity levels are rising as the winds subside. we're getting up around 15%, 15, 25%, 30%. that will continue. for all of us that live outside of the hills, it will be a very calm day with a light breeze, temperatures in the mid to upper 60s along the coast with sunshine. low to mid 70s around the bay, upper 70s to low 80s inland. i'll let you know how long this will last coming up in the seven-day forecast. first we want to turn it over to jobina and some issues on the roads this morning? >> yes. i want to give a heads up to anyone leaving the east bay and making their way into san francisco relying on the bay bridge. bringing in the map here, we have a motorcycle crash just

pastmetering lights. speeds are down around to 21 miles per hour once you make it through those metering lights. it will eventually speed back up. a live picture showing you the bay bridge toll plaza. those lights came on at 6:09. the backup extends through the maze into emeryville. just in time for halloween, three counties turn orange. marin, contra costa, and san mateo counties now graduate to a new covid reopening tier. amy hollyfield is live in downtown san mateo with what this means for all of us. >> this is good news for a few businesses especially restaurants and people who like to eat indoors. one restaurant owner is wondering if this will translate to more customers. here is a look at some of the businesses that will be impacted by moving into the orange tier. nonessential offices and outdoor stadiums can hold 20% of their capacity now.

indoor gyms, theme parks, indoor bowling and cardrooms can hold 25% of their capacity. restaurant owners are the big winners here. they can now fill up half of their capacity, 50%. those restaurants located near offices say they need people to return to work. working from home is not good for business. >> they're working virtual right now. the impact for lunches will probably be minimal. >> city leaders in san mateo are praising residents saying this has been a real team effort. the orange tier is the second least restrictive tear, the next tier would be yellow, which means the rate of the spread of virus is minimal. the orange tier went into effect about six hours ago. so the new rules will be in effect for the first time this morning.

city leaders hope everyone will stay vigilant and keep wearing their masks and staying sax fixt apar apart. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. those three counties advance but two counties in the bay area will go backward. napa and solano counties could get bumped into more restrictive tiers. for napa that means going red and for solano going purple. that's the most restrictive category. both counties reporting higher covie-19 cases. >> the county of our size, if you get a few dozen cases, that's enough to push you up to the next tier. so it's really important for us to stay on our guard pretty much continuously. >> solano county's health officer says the increase there is traced to a recent funeral, wedding and a party. a week ago the county was reporting about 28 cases a day. that's jumped to about 40 a day over the past two weeks. nine more a day than what the state allows.

ucsf says the covid-19 virus spread at one of its medical centers, now dozens of employees and pains are under quarantine. julian glover is live with more on this. the "san francisco chronicle" reporting this morning that two pains atients two health care workers at the ucsf helen diller medical center in the last week leading to 40 other people connected to the hospital either quarantining or isolating out of caution. abc7 news reached out to ucsf this morning. we have not confirmed the details in the chronicle article which said that two patients who shared a room tested negative for the virus when they arrived at the hospital. when one of the patients was set to be discharged, they then tested positive. that triggered contact tracing which turned up the second patient sharing the room with the first identified case then testing positive as well along with three workers who cared for those two patients.

as a result, 28 additional employees were quarantined and 15 additional patients were placed in precautionary isolation. a ucsf spokeswoman told the chronicle that. so far all of the additional employees and patients have tested negative for the virus. all five of the original positive cases, those two pains and three health care workers, they were identified in a three-day span in one particular unit inside of the hospital. this is all according to the "san francisco chronicle's" reporting this morning. we've reached out for confirmation. as soon as we get that we'll update you on air and online at abc7news.com. reporting live, julian glover, abc7 news. >> thank you. a second night of unrest in philadelphia as new details emerge in the deadly police shooting of walter wallace jr.

jobina has that story. >> protests are popping up overnight. there were some violence in philadelphia including bricks being thrown at police officers and some looting. police shot and killed 27-year-old wallace on monday after they say he refused to drop a knife. that shooting was captured on video. you can see wallace's mother attempt to hold her son back. wallace's family says he suffered from bipolar disorder and was in crisis during the incident. >> i was telling the police to stop, don't shoot my son. please don't shoot my son. >> black lives still matter. >> that was wallace's son. wallace's wife is pregnant. she is scheduled to be induced into labor today to give birth to their daughter. wallace's family says they called police twice on monday asking for help, but philadelphia's police

commissioner says it is unclear if responding officers knew about his mental situation. kumasi? >> i'll take it from there. thank you. as president trump and joe biden are focusing in on key battleground states with just six days to go before voting ends. melania trump returned to the campaign trail for the first time in more than a year. and she spoke about her husband. >> i do not always agree with the way he says things, but it is important to him that he speaks directly to the people he serves. >> a couple of brand-new abc news "washington post" polls show biden leading president trump 57% to 40% among likely voters in wisconsin. now over to michigan where biden holds a 51% to 44% lead. both those states show sizable leads for biden among women,

moderates and independents. you still have six days to cast your vote. for resources head to abc7news.com/election. we posted an interactive map showing the early voting and ballot dropoff boxes in the bay area. testing trouble in paradise. the hurdle tourists in hawaii are facing even after testing negative for covid-19. and licensed pharmacy techs wanted? the pharmacy chain hiring to take on covid-19 and flu shot vaccinations. but first, a live look at the big board at the new york stock exchange. you can see at this point we're down significantly. roughly 500 points. wall street concerned about the nationwide covid-19 surge. right now we'll check in with your weather and mike nicco who seems to have a good forecast today. >> i hope you enjoy it. look at this temperature change from 24 hours ago. you will see a double digit drop in temperatures around oakland,

fairfield, and up towards napa. let's go up to the north bay. we have some 30s up there in places like santa rosa. we have rohnert park and petaluma, 43 right now in american canyon. the also in san rafael. 37 in fairfield. definitely chilly there. we have 40s in the east bay and around newark and redwood city and cupertino, low to mid 50s. we have microclimates this morning. here is san jose, you can see more cars on the road than there have been in a while. it's a calmer commute. no winds to worry about. it's chilly this morning. you will need a heavier jacket. grab it this afternoon, you won't be wearing it in the 70s and 80s. and the sunglasses, grab those. you can see today, as we head through the afternoon hours, 10 miles per hour less. tonight, fairly calm. into thursday, about 12 miles per hour less. so another sign that the worst of the red flag warning is behind us. but we do have some issues on the roads. let's bring jobina in here to give us an update.

hi, jobina. >> hi, mike. thank you very much. good morning. it got very busy out there. so i want to bring in the graphics to get started. i have a commuter alert for b.a.r.t. riders on the san francisco line. ten-minute delay there. that improved from the 20 minutes. it's between west oakland and the embarcadero stations. over to the bay bridge toll plaza, we do have a motorcycle crash that is involving at least two other cars. this is westbound 80 past the metering lights. speeds are down to 21 miles per hour, injuries reported there. also injuries reported on northbound 101 before oyster point boulevard. moving over to oakland, we have clearing up this issue here on northbound 880 before the 5th avenue off-ramp. bringing in our northbound 880 at the coliseum camera, all those brake lights are a result of that earlier issue i showed you on the map. leaving here as we go to break with a live picture showing you the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights came o

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welcome back. there's travel trouble in hawaii. the state is now allowing visitors again if you tested negative for covid. hawaii released a list of approved testing sites, but now many tourists are showing up with results from unapproved clinics. one couple that spoke with "gma" found out the hard way after taking three flights to get there. >> don't assume anything. double-check, triple check. make sure that you are doing it exactly the way the state or the country is asking when you go there. it's a very expensive lesson to learn. >> officials are urging all travelers to check hawaii's website for guidelines and say more help in testing and coordination is needed. at abc we're committed to help building a better bay area that includes the impact the pandemic is having on our economy and health. jobina has a twofer for us this

morning and one company that's trying to tackle both issues. >> we talk a lot about the race to find a coronavirus vaccine. once a company reaches that finish line, the vaccine will need to be administered, which is part of the reason why cvs is recruiting people to fill 15,000 jobs. ♪ >> reporter: by now you may be familiar with the term twindemic. >> it's the flu season at the same time that you have the covid-19. >> reporter: jeffrey lackey is the vice president for cvs health. he says their job is to look around the corner to see what's next. in this case that means filling jobs. 15,000 new and existing positions to help during flu season and administer the much-anticipated coronavirus vaccine. >> the need for that to be dispersed quickly is going to be absolutely critical. so we knew first and foremost we need to handle the here and now. let's ramp up to get in front of the flu. >> reporter: more than 10,000 of

the new roles that are open in the bay area are for full-time and part-time licensed pharmacy technicians. >> i noticed in any place that has pharm techs that you have an amazing experience with patients. >> reporter: people in these roles are vital in administering covid-19 tests. moderna, ast arazeneca, johnson johnson and pfizer are among those. pfizer is expected to file for emergency authorization with the fda next month. we don't know when a vaccine will be available to the public, but cvs is not waiting to find out. >> we're talking millions, hundreds of millions of people in short order. even for cvs that's a daunting task. we need to make sure we're ready for it. >> definitely.

cvs health is actively recruiting nurses, nurse practitioners. lackey said they always need pharmacists. they need work from home customer service respiratoriv e representatives. all that information is on abc7news.com. >> thank you. marriott hopes wfh will soon mean working from hotel. it is offering members a change of scenery for customers who work remotely. responders in a survey said working from a hotel room breaks the daily monotony and ease claustrophobic conditions in tiny apartments. among the cities offering the service are atlanta, dallas, new york, london and hong kong. what they really mean is working by the pool. >> yeah. >> i just wanted to make sure we're on the same page. i have some friends working right now in palm springs.

>> oh. >> working really hard. >> mm-hmm. >> working on their tan, working on their -- >> i wish we could do that. >> working on their gym. >> i mean, once again, you don't know where i am right now. jobina, i can't say for 100% sure. mike, it sure looks like his basement. is it? >> i travel with this tv. >> and the plant? >> yeah. >> and the plant. the big old plant. >> i know the tricks. >> i pushed on that, it would start to wrinkle. that's just a facade. just a screen. a sheet. all right. let's talk about what's going on. i do have some good news. here's a look from sutro tower, it's 56. it will be a nice day to be out there with calmer conditions, sunshine, warmer than average temperatures, but not too warm

to get uncomfortable. clear and just as cool tonight with a few clouds trying to get near the coast with the marine layer trying to come back. sunday, november 1st, it's going to be one of our warmest days moving forward. for today, 75 in sunnyvale to 81 in gilroy. 78 in san jose, right in the middle. 74 to 77 on the peninsula. 66 to 68 along the coast. low to mid 70s today downtown, south san francisco, sausalito. upper 60s along the north bay coast with 77 to 82 through most of the north bay valleys. 72 to 76 degrees along the east bay shore. we'll get to around 80 in concord, brentwood and fairfield. everyone else around 78 to 79 in the east bay valleys. you can still see some 30s tonight. feel those chills, keep those windows closed. 50 around oakland, san mateo and san francisco. here is hurricane zeta, up to 90 miles per hour. that's the constant wind. gusts up to 105.

it will rake new orleans with up to six inches of rain. gusts up to 115 miles per hour. a moderate to high risk of damage. look how fast it will move. around 45 miles per hour. at least it won't linger long, but that means there's a higher potential for wind damage. temperatures pretty steady through saturday. warmer on sunday and monday. then for election day, a slight cooling trend with more clouds. >> thank you, mike. it's perfect weather for lotion time. >> isn't it? >> i'm happy that i keep hearing from people who say they do this with us. i'm happy to hear that. anyone is invited. all you need is a little lotion. >> a little bit of lotion. i'm glad you found your lotion, friend. >> yes. i did. it was merely a foot away from me yesterday, but i'm all tied up like a christmas tree here. so you lean one way or another, and you unplug things. >> we don't need that. >> we don't need that. >> we don't.pporting prop 15?

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who'sgovernor gavin newsom. the governor says prop 15 is, "fair, phased-in, and long overdue reform", that "will exempt small businesses and residential property owners." join governor newsom. vote yes on 15. it's 6:54. if you're just joining us, here's the seven things to know this morning. number one, this morning san mateo county joins contra costa and marin counties in moving into the orange tier. this means restaurants can reopen indoor dining. though number two shows us

that two north bay counties could go into more restrictive tiers because of surging covid-19 cases. that would mean red for napa and all the way back to purple for solano. number three, minutes from now the ceos of facebook, twitter and google will face congress. republicans accuse them of anti-conservative bias and election interference. number four, winds will ease up today to help firefighters battling two wildfires in orange county. the southern california edison utility tells state regulators one of its power lines may have sparked the silverado fire. the stress of high fire danger is over for us. today's one of those days where you wish the sun didn't set at 6:15 because it's going to be so nice outside. 60s and 70s with light winds and dry air. >> number six, taking a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights came on at 6:09 this morning. the motorcycle crash we were following has cleared.

number seven, golden state park is about to transform into a wonderland of sculpted light and illuminated trees and meadows. this is a part of the park's 150th anniversary celebration. you can check it out december 1st through february 28th. i've been told i can't do that. so -- >> you can go to it, kumasi, just to be clear, i don't think you can be unmasked, put your arms out and touch it. >> see, jobina, they're trying to say i can't get into the flower thing. they're trying to steal my joy. >> see, but what they don't know is we know how to finesse multiple situations and what we're going to do is call them up and we'll book our own time. >> thank you. we'll make it happen. >> oh. >> they'll be jealous when they see our pictures on instagram. >> don't be mad. >> excuse me. >> wow. >> we can all go to the ferris wheel together.

>> okay. >> gorgeous. gorgeous view. >> i don't have to make special our house was built in 1926. we saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. i signed up and i was actually selected it leaves the house in tack. you now know that in the next earthquake your house will be standing and we also got a discount on our earthquake insurance. if there is an earthquake. our house has a better chance of surviving in. it provides property tax fairness for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 who've lost their homes to fire. and seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable.

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good morning, america. race to the finish. with just six days until the final votes, the candidates are making their final push. joe biden working to flip red states blue. >> something's happening here in georgia and across america. >> president trump defending his turf. >> we're going to have a great red wave. people that want to go out and vote. >> and still defying scientists and insisting the country is rounding the corner on the pandemic. plus, our brand-new poll from two crucial battlegrounds with a record of over 70 million americans already casting their ballots. dire warning. covid hospitalizations reaching record highs in at least 11 states. in wisconsin, the governor warning people to stay home, calling it an urgent crisis. chicago cracking down agai