Good Day LA Tuesday, 11/3/2026

Almost 7 o'clock, less than 30 seconds, and the polls officially open here. That's right. Election Day. Thanks for being with us. Election Day Tuesday. I'm Jen Lammers. Let's go over to Maria Forchek on this Election Day forecast. How's it looking? Yeah, it looks great, you guys. Good morning, and I did indeed turn in my ballot. Fantastic. There was actually kind of a crowd of people. Yeah, mine was pretty busy as well. Yeah, there were all these cars pulling up and people getting out, getting it done. Getting it done yesterday. I forgot my sticker. I still have it in my envelope. But yes, today, absolutely a great day to head out to your voting center, to your ballot box. Go ahead and make your voice count. We've got great weather conditions. We have a slight sea breeze, onshore flow, northerly wind here closer to the coast, but then an offshore flow developing if you are farther inland. So we're going to look for really comfortable conditions today. Really a nice fall day ahead with temperatures below, slightly below or near the averages. 53 currently. It's a little cool in Burbank, in Pasadena, Santa Clarita still in the 40s, 42 in Palmdale, 43 out in Victorville. 29 below freezing in Big Bear to that 58 in Palm Springs. And it will be sunny. It'll be beautiful up into the mountains later. Around 60 degrees in Big Bear to that 71 in the high desert. Eventually around 81 in Palm Springs in the lower desert area. So that's where you'll find those warmer temperatures. Mid 70s perhaps for the valleys and the Inland Empire with just a few high mid-level clouds streaming in. 74 for downtown LA, so close to that average of 76. 74 along the coast. We do have an area of low pressure that is passing to our north. That's helping to bring in some cloud cover. Don't think it will bring rain. I do know when the next rain chance will be moving in. I'll let you know coming up, my complete forecast. But first, let's check in with Justin O'Brien up in SkyFox. He is over a trash truck that has turned over on its side. Justin, I hope everyone's okay. Yes, G'day Maria. We just saw the driver of the trash truck loaded into an ambulance and taken away for treatment. This is all happening out at Slauson and Albertus in Whittier. You can see the trash truck there on its side and the damage to that tractor trailer. It looks like the tractor trailer has hit that big rig and forced it over. You can even see the force of the impact even moved the load on the back of that trailer into the back of that big rig cabin. So CHP appear to be on the scene here, but sheriffs have the road shut down. This is Slauson Avenue. Slauson shut down between Miller Grove and Norwalk Boulevard. So just be aware of that if you're traveling through Whittier this morning. Sending it back to you guys in the studio. All right, Justin, thank you. So election day has finally arrived and polls all across Southern California are officially open at seven o'clock. We have team coverage this morning. All right. We've got Gigi Graciette. She's live at the L.A. County Registrar's Office with more on how you can get your vote counted. Ready, set, go, Gigi. Just a couple of minutes ago, one of the volunteers, Bob and Jen, actually stood on the steps over there. Not him, but another guy in a yellow vest. And he yelled out at the top of his lungs, the polls are now open. So it's official. And take a look. All morning long, we've seen a steady stream of voters putting their ballots in this ballot box. It also will be open until 8 p.m. You have all day long to vote. And a lot of folks have already done so. So take a look in L.A. County. In California alone, there are almost 6 million registered voters and the registrar's office says they've already seen a higher turnout rate for this election than similar elections in the past. As of October 30th, over a million people had already cast their votes. That represents about 17% of registered voters. Now this morning, we spoke to some folks who dropped off their ballots. We met a lovely lady and yes, her name was Gigi and she was just one of several people They take voting seriously and they do it as a family. Especially my governor, So an important one for me. And a lot of the propositions. So I took a lot of time. We vote as a family. So we took a lot of time. We investigated everything. We went into detail before we voted. So I want to make sure I drop it off. You are the ideal voter. You did your homework. I did my homework. I think you just have to do your research as a family and get together and fight for your own interest. Were you able to read that whole entire book? Yeah. I mean, we have four college graduates from UCLA, Berkeley, and UC Davis. So we all got together. Now, let's go over your voting options in case you haven't voted yet. You can do so by dropping your ballot off at a drop box in LA County. There are 429 official and secured drop boxes. Your ballot though must be in the box by 8pm. You can mail your ballot. Remember, the official envelope is postage free, so you don't even need a stamp. Best piece of advice, walk it into the post office so it does get postmarked today. And of course, you can vote in person. Remember, in L.A. County, you do not have to vote in your neighborhood anymore. That's the ways of the past. Now, if you're a registered voter, you can vote anywhere in the county so you don't have to rush home or feel like you're in a hurry. As long as you're in line by 8 p.m., you will be allowed to vote. Bringing it back here live, of course, if you're in the Norwalk area, you can vote in In person here, or you can also drop. your ballot off. Really important. Now this is the envelope that you got with your ballot. No postage required so you don't need a stamp but I want to show you something because this is really important. I just have to cover up my personal information here. You have to sign it in the back, so it says it must be signed and you're basically declaring that you're a resident and a voter in a precinct and that you're the person whose name appears on this envelope and that you haven't voted twice and that you declare under penalty of perjury that this is true to the best of my knowledge and the signature will be used to verify this. So don't... Don't forget to use your official envelope to drop it off and don't forget to sign it. And again, no stamp needed, walk it into a post office. You can ask the clerk to make sure it's postmarked for today and it will be counted. Reporting live in Norwalk this morning, I'm Gigi Gracia, back to you. As you said before, as long as you're in line, physically in line, your vote will be counted before 8 p.m. Okay, Gigi, thank you. Thank you, Gigi. Here in Los Angeles, of course, the mayor's race is a big one. Incumbent Karen Bass and city council member Nithya Raman are locked in a dead heat. It's close, right? Mario is live in Baldwin Hills now with that part of our coverage. You've been out there talking to voters and getting a sense of what they care about the most here in this election. Good morning. Yeah, that's right. If you were watching earlier, we started off at a gas station talking about the cost of living here in Los Angeles. Then we moved to a cafe, heard from a few people there what they were really concerned about. Not only affordable housing, but other issues like veteran benefits. Now we're at a sports complex here in Baldwin Hills. And just take a look. They opened about six minutes ago and we've already had about 10 people, maybe a dozen. And this is what you're seeing here, the turnout just minutes after polls opened. And today, we're going to talk about the cost of living here in Los Angeles. Today, Angelenos are making some big decisions, including who will lead the city of L.A. for the next four years. So let's start with City Councilwoman Nithya Raman. She wants to make L.A. more affordable. She's proposing to triple housing construction by cutting red tape and allowing more homes in existing neighborhoods. And when it comes to homelessness, another big issue people are talking about, she wants to cut the number of people living on the streets in half. By the 2028 Olympics, expanding housing vouchers, moving people into apartments instead of costly motels, and she wants to expand unarmed crisis response teams and bring back Hollywood jobs by speeding up film permits. She's expected to vote in Silver Lake this morning. Meantime, Mayor Karen Bass, she's seeking four more years, pointed to her record on homelessness and housing, her Inside Safe program, moving thousands of people from encampments into temporary housing, and she wants to create a city-run homelessness system. And continue fast-tracking affordable housing approvals. And when it comes to public safety, she wants to increase LAPD staffing to 9,500 officers. Now, she's faced criticism, we know, over the Palisades fire, city finances, and the latest UC Berkeley LA Times poll shows both candidates at 40% support. Among likely voters, and there's still about 19% that are undecided. If we come back out here live in Baldwin Hills, this sports complex is slowly filling up. Polls closed tonight at 7 o'clock, or I'm sorry, 8 o'clock. They opened at 7 this morning, so if you're in line, you can still cast your ballot, and we're going to be talking to voters here throughout the morning. They've got some very lively volunteers here. Let me see if I can grab this guy. He's a high school volunteer. Sir, what is your name? Come on over. My name is Enrique. Enrique, you're a high school volunteer. You're not able to vote yet, right? Yeah, I'm not able to vote. I'm just 16. Okay, what is it like being here, seeing some of the first voters in? What's it like from your perspective? Well, for me, it feels pretty nice having to see most of the community come here and vote because they're doing, you know, important decisions to make because of this midterms. So, yeah, I'm just really happy to see the community come out here and vote. Very good. What high school? Venice High School. Okay, so you're a junior? Yes, junior. What do you want to be when you grow up? Probably be something in the financial. I say when you grow up, but he's already grown a well speaker here. Thank you, Enrique, for talking to us. Again, polls close tonight at 8 o'clock. For now, live here in Baldwin Hills, we'll send it back to you. I'm sure it's inspiring for some of those younger volunteers, right? That'll be them in just a couple of years. Mario, thank you. From the race for governor, Democrat Javier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton are vying to succeed Governor Gavin Newsom, who's been term-limited. Becerra is the former California Attorney General and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary. He's campaigning on affordability and the need to address rising everyday expenses. Hilton, a former Fox News host, is promising lower taxes, cheaper gasoline, and a different direction for California. Hilton is seeking to become the first Republican elected governor of California since Arnold Schwarzenegger. All right, gonna give you a live look at the ballot processing center. This is in the city of industry, so it's quiet for now but not for long. Election night results will be reported in stages beginning at 8 30 tonight. Lots of volunteers as well. This is actually a ballot processing center that's open to the public if you ever want to just go there. All this taking place behind glass, lots of cameras there, of course, for election security. But yeah, you can you can watch to see as those ballots are counted in real time. Let's take a look at some of the propositions that you're going to see on. The ballot, Prop 1, would allow the state to sell $11.2 billion in bonds to fund various affordable housing programs. Prop 39 would require voters to show government-issued ID at the polls. Prop 40 would require Californians whose net worth exceeded $1 billion to pay a one-time 5% tax. Prop 44 would require community clinics that serve low-income patients to spend 90% of their annual revenue on patient care. To read more about these propositions, go to FoxLA.com or download the Fox Local app. All right, let's turn now to the national picture. Democrats are hoping to regain control of the House or the Senate. Our Election Day coverage continues now with Doug Luzader, who's live in Washington for us. Good morning, Doug. Happy Election Day. Jen and Bob, good morning to you. Happy Election Day. We have more than 50 million Americans that have already... I cast ballots in this election, but it really comes down to today in a handful of states to determine which party will ultimately control Congress. The rapper Common almost blowing out the sound system at an 11th hour rally for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. A critical contest with Republican Mike Rogers laying out what he sees as the stakes. Are you guys ready to fight for freedom tomorrow? And that is playing out in state after state. Early polling shows a great deal of enthusiasm, and we're hearing some anger on both sides. I was a Democrat years ago. I'm embarrassed to be one today. But I cannot bring myself to vote for a Trump minion under any circumstances. This is the pipe inside here. President Trump, meantime, talking about renovations at the newly reopened reflecting pool in Washington, hoping there aren't waves here or elsewhere today. When you vote, remember a party that hates America cannot. Be allowed to rule over the people who built our country. And he has crisscrossed the country over the past month. The White House says 30 events in 32 days. And while state and local races also play into turnout, Senate races are a big driver. I would really be watching Maine, Michigan, and Alaska. That's going to determine the Senate. Veterans of these contests will look for early signs today to see what kind of message voters are sending. That's right. What kind of message they are sending and to what degree that message has been reflected accurately in the polls running up to this election day. Bob and Jen. And there are indications that that turnout could be quite sizable, Doug. I mean, here in L.A. County, I think almost a quarter of registered voters have already cast their ballots. That's right. I mean, if you go by the trend of early voting, it would seem as though it's a high turnout election. You have a couple of things in play there. One, it may reflect genuine enthusiasm. The other is we see more early voting with each election because more people seem to be adopting it. And as these votes come in, Doug, there's a lot of talk about Republican mirage, Democratic mirage. Can you explain to our viewers what that means? Yeah, well, you know, it comes down to the accuracy of the polls. I mean, you know, we've certainly seen predicted waves in the past not come to fruition. We've seen waves that we didn't anticipate. I mean, right now, most polls are projecting a blue wave of some size. Now, you know, does that mean that you're going to motivate then Republican voters to head to the polls today? Or will they be dejected and not show up? Or will Democrats similarly say, well, there's going to be a blue wave. There's no sense voting in this. It's all handled. So there are a lot of things that could go wrong today for both parties. There's no question. Sure makes for an interesting election. All right, Doug Lizito, live for us in Washington. Thank you, Doug. Have a great day. Thanks, guys. All right, 714. We'll take a short break. We'll be right back. All right, live look right now at a polling location, a vote center in Baldwin Hills. Pretty quiet right now. Pretty quiet. The day is long, right? You have 8 o'clock tonight to cast your ballot. Remember, if you are in line by 8 o'clock and there is a line there or a rush of people trying to cast their ballots. You'll be able to vote as long as you are in line or you can drop your ballot in a drop box at any of those ballot drop boxes by 8 p.m. The battle for L.A. mayor is the race to watch today. During the last push for support, both Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman made it clear why the other is the wrong choice. All right, we have Roxia here with a look at what each candidate is saying and what's at stake. Roxia. Good morning. You know, it has been a pretty contentious race and it really comes down to very different types of messages. Mayor Karen Bass is making the case that she deserves more time to continue the work she started. While Nithya Raman is saying Los Angeles needs a change in leadership and that the city cannot afford more of the same. In the final hours, both of the candidates out going around directly attacking one another's records. Nithya Raman positioning herself as the change candidate at a rally at UCLA. She told supporters the city isn't delivering, that promises have been broken, pointing to city services and saying things are worse now than they ever were four years ago. Her message, Los Angeles needs more transparency, more affordability and a different approach at City Hall. This city has broken its promises to the people of Los Angeles over and over again by every metric. If you look at city services, we are doing worse now than we were four years ago under the leadership of this mayor. I wanna bring change to this broken status quo. But Mayor Bass is pushing back, arguing that experience matters and that she deserves the opportunity to continue her work. She's questioning whether Raman has the experience or the record to lead the city. Bass took aim at Rahman's claims about reduced housing, homelessness, that is, in her council district, and her record of building affordable housing. Saying she reduced homelessness in her district by 50% when that is not true. Building the least amount of affordable housing out of the 15 people on the council. So what are voters weighing in on today? It's not just a personality contest. Although you hear people all the time say, you know, I just don't like this person or I like this person without real reason behind it. These are some real issues at the center of the race. And this is why there's so much interest. We're talking homelessness, whether the city is making enough progress, affordable housing, the cost of living, city services, how well City Hall is functioning. And of course, there's public trust, including transparency around LADWP. utility bills and the future of LA P.D. Chief Jim McDonald. So both candidates arguing they have the better plan. Their opponent isn't the right person to lead L.A. Now, after all the rallies, all the attacks and the last minute appeals, the decision is in your hands, the voters. This is a race that could really have a major impact on the direction of Los Angeles. So we're going to see which message resonates, which person resonates. Bob and Jen, back to you. All right, I'll get back to you. Thank you. 7:21, and let's get to Maria with a look at our forecasts. A nice day on this election day. Definitely. We've got a beautiful fall day ahead with mild temperatures. Temperatures actually very close to average, if not slightly below. We are watching an area of low pressure that is to our north. This is bringing some showers across northern California and the Bay Area. It is increasing our onshore flow and our winds for the mountains and deserts later this afternoon. Maybe even some clouds, but I don't think we'll see those rain-producing clouds. High pressure will really settle into our area. As we get into Thursday, Friday, Saturday, that offshore flow will strengthen. That will warm us up back to well above average and back to the 80s as we get to Thursday, Friday, and the upcoming weekend, the offshore flow. And then we'll get some higher surf and higher tides again. So keep that in mind if you are along the coast. Right now, there are no weather alerts in place. 72 in Bakersfield today, 73 in Inglewood, 82 in Indio. And if you are headed out to Thousand Oaks, we do have those clouds that I mentioned, a mixture of some sunshine and some clouds and getting to around 70 degrees later. This afternoon at 1 p.m. All right, let's head back upstairs. Let's go up to Justin O'Brien in First Dew this morning, looking at our freeways. What's going on, Justin? Let's go, Justin. G'day Maria, looking down here at the 101 freeway as you make your way north. Looking at about 20 minutes if you're heading from the 110 freeway to the 134 this morning. This traffic is brought to you by My Home Sold. CHP have issued a SIG alert for that incident down at Fountain Valley, the 405 south at Bristol. Two vehicle crashed there. Those vehicles are blocking the HOV lane. They're saying that SIG alert's going to be in effect for the next hour. If that's your route to give yourself a little bit of extra time, now let's look at some other traffic hotspots. Hello, I'm Adrian Hernandez with MyHomeSold.com, and we want to buy your house cash. We save you money with no commissions, no fees, no repairs, for free, no obligation, as-is cash offer. Go to MyHomeSold.com. Welcome back. Coming up on 7.30, polls opened here in Southern California just about a half an hour ago. It's election day, and if your ballot is still sitting on the kitchen counter or maybe in your car, well, today is the day to get it in. Right, and there are plenty of ways to make sure that your vote is counted. We've got Orange County Registrar of Voters Bob Page with us with more on what you need to know. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me. All right, so how is your team feeling this morning? Good morning. They're up and they're going. As you mentioned, our vote center is open at 7 a.m. We've got 192 throughout the county, and we're serving voters. And the voting has been pretty robust there in Orange County, right, leading up to today. So lots of people have already voted. Yeah, we've been trending kind of in between the 24 general election and the 22 general election in terms of participation, kind of 100,000 ballots more than the same day in 2022, but a couple hundred thousand less than we had in 24 presidential election. So we've been talking about what voters can expect as they head to the polls this morning or maybe they're casting their ballot at one of the, I believe, 429 drop boxes in the area. So for somebody who is headed physically to a vote center today, what can they expect? Yeah, they can reduce their time at the Vote Center in Orange County. We mail the ballot to everybody. If you mark that at home, you can go to a Vote Center, sign the roster, and actually scan your ballot in the Vote Center and not have to go into the voting booth to remarket. Thank you. And we, as you mentioned, we do have drop boxes throughout Orange County. We've got 128 in Orange County that will be unlocked and available until 8 p.m. So we've been saying, Bob, that here in L.A. County, you can basically walk into any vote center. So if you're at work, you don't have to, like, rush home and try to get to your polling location like we used to in the past. The same goes there in Orange County. Correct, yes. You can go to any of the 192 vote centers throughout the county. We have an electronic voter roster in each one to identify you and help get you a ballot. So if somebody hasn't yet registered or maybe if they recently moved, can they still cast their ballot today? Yeah, California allows same-day registration and voting. We do encourage our voters in Orange County to actually register online before they show up at a vote center to get a ballot, because by the time they get to the vote center, we'll have confirmed that they haven't voted elsewhere in the state for this election and push them onto the roster so that when they show up, they're there and they can get a regular ballot. So talk more, Bob, about the process here, because leading up to this election, there's been a lot of talk, and we've heard it here in the news about election security. Certainly some people are concerned about this. So how do you protect the ballots? As an example, what is the process now in collecting those ballots? You talked about those ballot drop boxes. How do you make sure that those ballots are secure? Well, Dropboxes specifically, we always have two-person teams that are collecting those ballots. And they have 800 megahertz radios on them so we can talk to them all the time. They've got a cell phone so we can monitor their location. They're required to show their work at every Dropbox and show that they've removed the ballots, that they put a new bag in there, that the fire suppression device inside the box is still intact, that they've locked the box and put a seal across the door and then when they g Go back to their vehicle that they show, they take a photo of the key ring that they have, so we know that they did not leave the key in the box. Okay, now if your ballot signature doesn't match your records, or if you realize after the fact that, oops, I forgot to sign my ballot, what's the recourse there? Well, first, I would tell people, if you're going to sign a vote by mail ballot return envelope, look at your driver's license to see how you sign that, because that'll give us a way to compare against that the best way. But if your signature is found to not be comparable or if you forgot to sign it, we are required to send you a first class letter to give you an opportunity until 5 p.m. the day before Thanksgiving to cure that challenge. So tell us about the security at these vote centers, not just for the voters who are going there. Obviously, you know, voters want to make sure that they're safe. But there's been recent polling out there that the poll workers themselves are sort of feeling like they can potentially feel unsafe. So what's being done there in Orange County to make sure that these vote centers are safe? Well, we've had long-standing relationships with local law enforcement as well as state and federal. We make sure all of our law enforcement partners know where all of our vote centers are, all of our drop boxes are. We have a sheriff sergeant actually embedded in our office today so that if we get a call about a disturbance at a vote center, they can help us triage it and dispatch the local police department to help us out. We also, when we train our staff, we provide them with de-escalation training. But obviously, if they're in any kind of danger, we want them to call 911 first before they call us. But if there's something that they can de-escalate or something we can send somebody out to help them with, we've got people out in the field who can respond quickly and help them deal with situations. You know, Bob, this is always an issue whenever voting day comes around, whether it's general elections or midterm elections, how long the counting process takes and how long sometimes it takes, specifically here in California. For these votes to finally be counted and for the results to come in, what do you want people to know about that process in particular? Well, if you'd asked me this a week ago, I would have encouraged them to vote early because the more ballots we get in early, the more we can actually have in the results on election night. We will, shortly after eight o'clock when the polls close, we will post our first results report. We've been processing ballots the past four weeks as they've been coming in. I fully expect that we'll have at least 90% of the ballots we received up until yesterday that we've processed will be in that first election night results. And then we will work Over the next week to get the remainder of the vote-by-mail ballots that are cast today into the count, we typically can get to at least 95 percent of all ballots in the count within a week. All right. So final word for voters out there. I mean, we have until 8 o'clock tonight, right, to either get in line at one of those vote centers or to put your ballot in a Dropbox. What do you want people to know today? Well, don't wait until eight o'clock. If you've got time this morning, get to your local vote center or find the closest Dropbox in Orange County. You can find those locations on our website at ocvote.gov slash voting. If you want to avoid the long lines throughout the day today, what would you say, based on history, is the best time to go? Well, what I tell you is that we do post wait times at all of our vote centers on our website. So if you go to OCVote.gov, you can look up how long the wait is anticipated to be at your neighborhood vote center or find one that has a shorter wait time. OCVote.gov, yeah. All right, Bob Page, Orange County Registrar, we appreciate it, sir. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you. All right, live look right now at another vote center. We're just, oh, this is the city of industry where the ballots are being counted. So once they're counted with those, at those, all of those boxes, everything comes here or, and yeah, this is actually where they, they verify the signatures. They have people who are just, who are sitting there staring at your signature, making sure it's a signature that they have on file. Um... But, yeah. And they encourage people to come by and see how the process works in person. Full transparency there. Yeah, so. I also want to let you know there's some breaking news right now at this hour. The Trump administration just announced the DOJ will have 1,000 election monitors overseeing the election process in all 50 states, and Los Angeles County is one of those locations where these monitors will be, quote, checking for compliance with federal voting laws. This effort will be led by the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ and marks the largest monitoring effort in U.S. history. 7:35. We'll take a short break. We'll be right back. Maria looks all sweet and innocent. You know, we all know what goes on behind the scenes. What are you talking about? I don't know. You said something and everybody laughed. I thought it was funny. I could only assume. We all laughed, didn't we? We all laughed. Right. Well, I'll find out what you said. I'll find you. Thank you. Yeah. What movie is that from? I'll find you. Don't ever leave me. I'll find you. Is that Obsession? What is it? Wedding Crashers. Oh, Wedding Crashers. Isla Fisher, Vince Vaughn. Oh, did you know that? Remember the Last of the Mohicans? Yes, of course. And he says, I will find you. Yeah, yeah. This is a stage five film situation. Do I let them finish or should I just go on? Okay, here's a live look outside right now. You keep talking about Last of the Mohicans. I love that movie. We have some sunshine, a mixture of some sunshine and some clouds. It is a pleasant. Fall day, if not a perfect really voting day today on this Tuesday with temperatures slightly below the average in the 70s later this afternoon. The winds will be increasing a little bit today. The onshore flow for the mountains and the coastline. And then we will start to see those winds move out of the northeast as we get into late tomorrow and Thursday. And that offshore flow will really help to warm us up as we get to the end of the week and this upcoming weekend. And speaking of the end of the week, we will get increased surf, higher surf and high tides coming up. As we get into the end of the week. So keep that in mind, especially for residents along the coast. 76 was the high yesterday for downtown L.A. That is actually normal. We were normal yesterday. And we started out the month, if you've forgotten already, we had some rain as well on the first day on Sunday. Today, around 74. So within a couple of degrees of the average of 76. Our sunset time is at 458. I don't know if you're noticing, it is earlier and earlier. And it will be as we get closer to. to the spring equinox. 74 degrees for downtown LA today, 74 in Ontario, 76 in Corona. All right, I think I have to toss back to you guys. All right, Maria, thank you. So as voters head to the polls today, doctors are issuing a surprise health warning. Studies from Kaiser Permanente right here in California found hospitalizations for heart attacks rose 42% in the day following the 2020 election. Cardiologists say intense emotional stress, regardless of political party, can trigger heart events, particularly those with preexisting conditions. Experts advise taking breaks from election news today and making sure family members stick to their daily medication routines. It is that serious, I guess. Experts recommend turning us off. Do we want to say that? Yeah. Especially if you have a divided household, right, and you're watching the election results come in real time. Or you're calling up your parents, you're like, hey, how are you feeling? And they go on a diatribe, and you're like, I gotta go. I gotta go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, have you seen the theme, the trend on social media with couples saying, on our way to cancel each other's votes out, and they have their envelopes because, ugh. Yeah. Happy Election Day. Happy Election Day. Happy Election Day, right? Happy Election Day. Hey, how about we take a break from elections and get to something that's not political at all? You know what? I'll endorse that. Entertainment. I always joke when people say, oh, it's so good you don't, you know, you don't have to cover politics. And I'm like, entertainment can be politics. Right. It can. Yeah. Sponsored by Yamaba Resort and Casino, the James Bond casting news. It hasn't stopped. In fact, we've been talking about it for years. But while it hasn't stopped, it may have slowed down. And that's a hint. Many 007 fans are on the edge of their seat to find out who will fill Daniel Craig's shoes and martini. And the rumor is that it's Slow Horses star Jack Loudon. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Scottish actor was playing coy. But he did say that being linked to 007 was, quote, All very flattering, and that he was honored to secure the approval of his Slow Horses co-star, Gary Oldman. Now, according to Deadline, Jack is one of four actors being considered for the role. Take a look. It's between Callum Turner, Jack Loudon, and Josh O'Connor. They all have very similar looks. And there's a fourth in there that is being described as a mystery actor. Jacob Elordi. Yeah. I love Elordi, but... You and I have had to mourn the loss of Aaron Taylor-Johnson not being in the mix anymore. So that's a bummer. Yes. Oh, yeah. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is British. He is British, but he is apparently no longer in the running. So these minus the mystery actor are your three choices. So have your vote since the election day. Can I vote for someone that's not on that list? Jamie Dornan. Jamie Dornan. He'd be a good one. He'd be a great one, right? Yeah, that's a good one. I could get down with that. I can get down with Jack Loudon because I do. Oh, we've got to go to Nithya. We do have some news to show you here. We're going to go to Silver Lake here, and there is L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman casting her ballot there. Bringing along her family. Yeah, she had her husband there and her two kids bringing the family along to vote there. And we know that Mayor Karen Bass cast her ballot, I believe, this weekend. Yeah. This was in Koreatown. In Koreatown. So both these candidates, as you know, are neck and neck as far as the recent polling goes. Each with 40 percent, with 19 percent still undecided. Let's go back to Silver Lake right now where, yes, Nithya Raman is casting her ballot as we speak. Yeah, she's been very busy over the weekend, both candidates basically appearing at multiple appearances all across the city of Los Angeles to try and get out that vote. That last poll which said 19% of voters were still undecided. And so there was thinking there that they're just trying to get that last undecided vote. In LA County, 24% have already cast their ballot early. But that does mean that there's still a significant amount of voters out there that still have yet to vote. So they're just trying to get those last minute voters to get out there and vote for their side. You can see lots of media there taking pictures. So she is expected to speak to the press. After she casts her ballot, we have a crew out there following her, and we will bring that to you as it happens. Well, if you've already voted, you know it's a pretty extensive ballot. There's so many propositions on the ballot and so many other seats to vote for, so it could take some time. Because of electioneering rules, the cameras are allowed, by the way, at these vote centers, and you're allowed to sit there and watch them vote, but because of electioneering rules, You aren't really allowed to speak at a certain distance from the actual polling place. There's a specific distance she's going to have to go outside and meet reporters out there in order to speak to the press. Yes. When she finishes her voting. All right. But you know, Amanda, you cast your ballot, you cast your ballot, so did I. It takes a while. It takes a while. That's a thick step of proposition. A lot of props. Can we go back real quick to a different campaign, which was the Bond campaign? Because I want to show you something that's very important for me. Can we show the three of them? Which is Josh, Callum. I want you to take a close look. Which one of these actors looks the most like Daniel Craig? I mean, the one in the middle. Right. Absolutely. Which is kind of appropriate if you were doing a screenplay based on the son of James Bond, right? All I'm saying is if they're going that direction. Are they? If they, where we left off is all I'm saying. Are they talking about the son of Bond? This is, we've got to go back and watch the last. Is that actually in the Ian Fleming books? This is my Amanda. Oh, you're making stuff up. I am putting it out there. Look how much he looks like Daniel Craig. He does. What about like the distant cousin of James Bond? Sure. Why couldn't we do like a Charlie Hunnam, for example? Oh. Yeah, the London Sons of Anarchy. I'm just saying, if they went in the direction where it was a new generation of Bond. Well, all the Bonds have always looked a little different. I mean, you've had Sean Connery. And these are like younger looking Bonds. Until now. You know, Daniel Craig was a pretty severe departure from like the James Bond aesthetic that we're used to. Roger Moore. Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan. Sean Connery. He was great. He was great. Do you like yours shaken or stirred? Always shaken. Me too. Yeah. All right. We all agree. Listen, you decide. We all agree. Yeah. Shaken and cold. Olivia Rodrigo is joining celebrities like Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sia by releasing a special song for the holidays. That's not the song, but we just wanted to show you who Olivia Rodrigo is. The song will be called Take Me Home for Christmas. This is her first time releasing a holiday song. The new song arrives this Thursday, 5 p.m. our time, along with a music video with familiar faces. And one of those faces, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon. But also, you're going to have SNL star and comedian Ben Marshall. The redhead on SNL, so they're both redheads in the video, there's a theme here. Okay, that leads us to our poll question of the day, this is very important, a different kind of poll for election day, when do you listen to holiday music, before Thanksgiving, after Thanksgiving, all year long, or bah humbug, you don't? Can I tell you something? Tell me. Jared, he listens, he listens to holiday music almost immediately after, after Thanksgiving's over. Thanksgiving. And he has this one holiday playlist and I can't stand it. What song on there? And I don't have the heart to tell him. Only, only we know. I have my playlist also. Please, I hate it. Can you give me a song on there? It's just a lot of like little drummer boy. Multiple different versions of drummer boy. I'm like, I'm sick of pa rum pum pum pum. Pump the brakes. There's some great versions. Yeah. Whitney Houston's is great. Oh, yeah. Pentatonix. Pentatonix. Yeah, Pentatonix. I'm tired. There's also a lot of Pentatonix on my playlist. Well, I listen to it probably after Thanksgiving. Okay. Yeah. You guys? Probably. That sounds about right. Sure. Okay, Justin O'Brien, up there in Sky Fox, good morning to you. G'day again, Jan, yes, looking down here at the 5 freeway southbound, just down from the 134 in Glendale, got a 3 vehicle crash, taking away 2 lanes here, it's causing a bit of a backup, the backup's all the way to Burbank, actually looking at about 40 minutes unfortunately if you're going from Burbank to Chinatown this morning, this traffic report is brought to you by Jacoby and Myers, just a heads up as well, we've still got that SIG alert out in the Fountain Valley at the 405 south at Bristol, hopefully CHP will be able to clear that one soon. If that's your direction this morning, give yourself a little bit of extra time. Now, let's have a look at some other traffic hotspots. If you've been injured in an accident, Jacoby and Myers will fight for the justice you deserve. And if we don't win, you won't pay a penny. We have earned the trust of tens of thousands of clients. Jacoby and Myers, because everyone deserves justice. Victor. And welcome back to you. I'm meteorologist Maria Coban. Good day LA weather is sponsored by My Home Sold. Here's a live look outside. This is a different view of Santa Monica and the pier. We have mostly calm conditions, not too much in the way of wind, but we do have some sunshine and temperatures across the nation. If you are traveling today, we're looking at some 40s here in the Dakotas, 48 in Bismarck today. We do have a line of weather part of this system. What brought us our rain here this past holiday weekend? with the showers extending from Texas all the way up into the Great Lakes today. 59 in Minneapolis for that high temperature. 72 in St. Louis for the line of severe weather. Moving in, 81 in New Orleans. In Seattle, 56. Here in the Bay Area, we've got an area of low pressure that's bringing some rain, not just across the Central Coast, but also into Northern California. And this area of low pressure helping to increase our onshore flow just a little bit along the coast. You will notice the stronger winds as we get into the afternoon or latter part. This morning hours, you can see with our future wind gusts here, 25 mile per hour wind gusts near Santa Barbara. This is later this afternoon, 20 miles per hour of Victorville. 20 in Big Bear. So just a slightly stronger onshore flow. And that's going to help cool us down just a little bit. A couple degrees today below average. Now, the winds will shift out of the northeast as we get to Thursday, Friday, and the weekend. Nothing too strong at this point. We'll wait and see if it gets strong enough to trigger some wind advisories. However, that offshore flow will help to warm us back up to the 80s. But today, mostly in the 70s. We're going to stay under this ridge of high pressure as we get to the weekend. But then some changes as we get to the... the middle and latter part of next week as we watch the long range model. This is our computer model, the European one. We're watching an area of low pressure beginning early next week and it looks like by Wednesday into Thursday, let me see if I can fast forward here, it should get pretty close to northern central California. And look at this line, this cold front moving in by Thursday evening could bring us some rain towards the latter part of next week into next weekend. So heads up on your plans for next weekend. This weekend should stay dry Three to five foot sets rolling in for L.A. County beaches, three to six for Orange County. So some bigger waves rolling in, but the tides aren't too big. We are expecting the high tide, though, to come up as we get to Thursday in the weekend, coinciding with a new swell. So with that could get seven foot sets and that will impact the coast. Right now, there are no coastal flood advisories, but I do suspect that might be reissued as we get to the weekend, causing some minor coastal flooding. Otherwise, today, beautiful. Beautiful voting day, 74 along our coast, warming up to around 80 on Friday. Low 80s for this weekend with plenty of sunshine and that offshore flow. Downtown LA, 74 today, getting up to the upper 70s by Thursday. 80s return for this weekend to above average in the mid-80s. Valleys, Inland Empire, 76 today. Actually, kind of perfect with mostly sunny skies. And then we'll warm up to 85 Friday, Saturday. The mountains, beautiful after a chilly start. Below freezing to around 60 today. And then mid-50s, perhaps. High desert areas, 71 degrees, not too bad, maybe getting up to 76 this weekend. And out towards the Coachella Valley, the warm spot, 81 today, by getting to those mid-80s as well, as we get to the end of the week and this upcoming weekend. All right, now let's do some TV shout-outs. We've got some great costumes that you guys sent in for Halloween. I love this Willow. Look at you, perfect costume, 8 years old. I see you with your parents. And your grandparents, so move over the Addams Family. We've got the Park family. You guys are great. I love this family theme going. And then we've got this funny picture. Okay, so the little baby puppy, not scared, just staring at a piece of chicken on the counter. So he would look at the camera. I love this. Your costume, by the way, really cool. Jennifer, thanks for sending us this photo. Keep those pictures coming. All you have to do is email them to us. Maybe a birthday shout-out or an anniversary. You can email at [email protected]. Make sure you attach the photo. Give us their name, too. That will help. All right, stay with us. We'll be right back after this break.