now, at noon, voters hitting the polls right you on this election day in parts of the bay area and across the country with big ticket items and races on the ballot. thanks for joining us. >> in san francisco, the district attorneys, this is the biggest item on the ballot. mayor london breed is running with five other candidates. she's expected to win the election. we'll see what the election results will be coming in later on tonight. >> all eyes on the race and breed ran after the late mayor ed lee passed away two years. that's one of the big race that is we're watching. we're also going to see several key race as curse credit today.

they're being build as an early test as how the impeachment inquiry ayg with voters. the races in mississippi and other states have captured attention. virginia they're two seats away, the democrats are away from taking the legislature. the top election security officials are focused on next year's election and the on going threat if foreign interference. chris reaves run the new cybersecurity agency. he has rare access of a classified area where they're monitoring for online threats. the scenario that worries him is the cyber attack that causes members in election offices. >> what are our fall back

positions. >> we're working on that now. and they're making sure every electronic vote is backed one a paperwork. we have you covered on the election day. we'll bring up the results and action on air as we get it and online, kpix.com. pg&e faces wildfire liability and bankruptcy. mayors from the bay area to san francisco are campaigning for a buyout. this is for public ownership. teams are sending this letter to the state agency for the public utilities commission asking it to press pause and explain the option of public ownership before pg&e bankruptcy is resolved. >> they've gone through service interruptions through financial ruin and putting profits before

people has seriously compromised the trust of their customers. lib by is echoing the call of san jose's mayor. it's time to a line the financial interest with the public interest in letting the customers become the owners of the company and working with mayors and supervisors throughout california representing more than 5 million residents to urge long overdue change. the letter from the pcu, the mayor's attention is focus on the recovery by the wildfires and power shutoffs. they have serious concerns on what will emerge from the bankruptcy proceedings that pg&e is facing. the letter was signed by politicians by the following jurisdiction, this is sunnyvale, berkeley, petaluma, sonoma, marin county and

sacramento county. she wants it be more sustainable and investment in infrastructure without clouding the infrastructure. >> this basic human need, power and electricity is in service to the people who rely on it and every day and not to the folks in wall street who need to turn profits. and pg&e said, quote: now, as r publ y,the don't know woberu counties or the state, they want all options to be explored. thank you. it's election day, of course,

back to the story, big ticket items on san francisco's ballot today. >> this is where politicians, tech billionaires and campaign workers will be grabing a free lunch today and as they celebrate another election day, we asked voters if they think san francisco is heading into the right direction. >> the voters we spoke to were focused on familiar topics, homelessness and affordability. >> it's sad to see people suffering on the streets. >> do you have hope we're moving into the right direction eventually. >> we do. t' r lot lisai grew here, it's hard for educators to live here. >> mayor london breed is the top con at the der r the mayor's election. it's not necessarily how

everyone agrees to run but, i think she's done some okay things. >> i'm disappointed that there were not other candidates who could stand up to her, to be, you know another possibility. >> this may be a municipal only election, but there's no shortage of money being spent. sandra is one of the leaders calling out the san francisco police officers association. >> this is trying to buy democracy, this is trying to buy an election. the police union has spent 6 $50,000 in the campaign. $4,000 on television ads alone. chase houdine said it's money to be used against owners. >> i'm appalled that they would spend the money of their membership on this type of

behavior: live -- >> the ads are meant to pen fit rival candidates, who reached out to the campaign for comment but haven't heard back, i was reminded after turning in my own ballot, we have the presidential primary election on march 3rd, 2020. an air quality advisory is in effect today. the ranch fire has grown to 2,000 acres. it's 15% contained. this fire woke out around noon on sunday in a remote area southwest of red bluff. no word on what sparked this. hey, michelle and kenny, we're looking at rate quality, that air quality forecast and like kenny just mentioned because of the smoke and the new fire burning in tahoma county, let's check air quality conditions, we're

looking at good to moderate air quality for our region. let's show you that here. looking at good air quality for santa rosa and redwood city and moderate air quality for the rest of the bay area. we'll have the full forecast coming up in a few minutes. back to you. happening today, chopper 5 over a 4-acre lot in west oakland, take a look of it being cleared out for the safe rv parking site. the homeless camp has been growing there for years. other amenities will be installed. they're looking to join a waiting lust to move back on to the property once the new facility opens. we're learning new details about a deadly drug cartel ambush in mexico. nine americans were killed including six children. all are part of a church suv th contain the victims 100 miles

south of the u.s./mexico border. the victimwomen and children. they run a convoy taking some of them to a wedding. they reported to a decades old community. the youngest victims were twin babies 7 months old. >> we're still trying to get more of the details on what happened, whether these individuals were singled out or whether they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. on twitter president trump wrote a wonderful family and friends from utah got caught up between two vicious drug cartels, if mexico needs help cleaning out these monsters, the united states sands ready to get involved. five children have been at that point to the u.s. for treatment. impeachment investigators are looking to make a closed

door testimony today. hill. apitol >> the public will get a look of the testimony of president trump's key players with his dealings with ukraine. >> the special envoy and the ambassador to the european union testified about the holding money and military from the ukraine and to launch political investigations. >> you have to release the transcript. they worked to set up if the phone call between president trump and zelensky where the president pushed for the investigations. >> there was an associate of president trump's personal attorneys who is willing to inquiry. as he pushed ukraine to launch the political investigations. >> these two were central if

bringing the narrative about biden and ukraine to trump's inner circle. they're charged with funneling foreign donations to us campaigns, including $325,000 to trump's superpack. still ahead, americans stressed out even before getting to work. how longer commutes are lead to go this tension. and a bay area site, what led to this lighthouse makeover.

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a new survey find that many people are stressed out before they get to work. the time spent in traffic is taking a big toll. >> you can't avoid the traffic in l.a. >> and the work day starts early. >> if the commute is two hours one way and four hours. >> in one day. >> in one day. a new survey from professional staffing agency, they show 45% of people, their trip to the office is too long.

that's up from 30% in 20127 and the longer travel times are taking a toll. 50% of workers say their is st that includes nick peters. >> by the time i get to work, there's 10, 15 minutes, i will have to chill out some traffic, los angeles is known for heavy traffic during rush hour. in fact, two out of three people here believe their commute is too long and they're not alone. >> people in washington, d.c., new york and houston reported long travel times, spend amazon and google hour or more getting into the office. brandy says the stress of a long commute can make workers less productive on the job. >> it's worthwhile for employees to ask about a different schedule and modifying their working from home from time to time. the market is competitive for employees. >> she tries to tackle work before tackling traffic. >> i try to do some reports

before i get to work so the reports i to in the morning are already out. >> that way her difficult commute won't hurt her performance in the office. . uber is taking a hit on the stock market today after the company reported another quarterly loss. at last check uber stock was down more than 8%. the ride sharing service said its latest loss cost $1 billion. the dow is up 62 points. uber promises to turn a profit by 2021. people are aging into homelessness. half of our homeless population is at the age of 50. most of the peers are collecting pensions, this man is collecting cans. he's homeless for the first time in his life.

>> i didn't know anything about -- i was just dropped out this. >> a doctor at uc system f has studied homeless, most people who are homeless after 50 had conventional lives before becoming chronically homeless and most had difficult childish use and substance abuses and those who become homeless it's usually another issue. the historic lighthouse is set to reopen this friday after a rehabilitation lineup. the clock works and roof work, a paint job and a

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60s and 70s and we're still noticing the fog along the coast. right now 74 in concord. 75 livermore, 61 san francisco, and 6 in san jose, 71 for santa rosa a it's ban dry part of the year, it's 1% of average for santa rosa, 0% in oakland and comparing that to last year at this time, we were at 49% in santa rosa of average for last year, 15% san francisco, and 5% oakland and 3% in san jose, we need the rain, it doesn't like we'll come any time soon. this is because of the strong ridge of high pressure, and that will be the dominant weather feature from the work week and it's keeping us dry into next week. here we go on futurecast, we take you through the rest of your afternoon. you can see the sunshine as we head through at least tomorrow

morning, low clouds and fog along coast and parts of the bay and the onshore flow temperatures, a little cooler for wednesday, it's still seasonal to say the chicago above normal for the wednesday. you look ahead to the rest of the week. we look at warmer temperatures for the weekend. by the end of the week we'll see the temperatures climbing. 5:06 tonight and sunrise at 6:40, daytime highs above average this time of the year. 80 for livermore and fairfield. 68 for san francisco. there we go with that extended forecast. temperatures just a little cooler for your wednesday, and then warming up thursday and friday and especially into the weekend. we'll be right back.

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. coming 5:00, san jose considers changes that would weaken the rent control units and a tough act to build affordable housing in the city. we'll have your efforts tonight and tomorrow morning. >> have a great afternoon.

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