Emotions. But of course i know thats not his style. Reporter coming up at 6 00, he says it would take to strike a deal between the u. S. And china if china even has the power to bend north korea to do its bidding. Reporting from San Francisco mark mathews nbc bay area news. Very insightful. It wasnt just haurch words north korea releasing a propaganda video today threatening the u. S. Military. You see it here he had waited to show north korean rockets destroying a u. S. Carrier fighter jet and bomber. A show of unity from londed to washington, d. C. Nfl teams locked arm in arm during the National Anthem united against President Trump and athletes blasted taking a knee tour dur the anthem a protest started mri 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Within the past 90 minutes. Tremendous backlash against the nfl and players for disrespect of our country. You might remember on friday mr. Trump said that team owners should fire players who disrespect the flag. He did this during a rally in alabama. The raiders by the way took on washington last nightc a a nationally televised game miles away from the white house and as you see, both teams took part in that protest. Tonight we have Team Coverage on theafe allout oft anthem protes beginning with Marianne Favro joining us live from the oakland coliseum. The controversy is moving into Major League Baseball as well. Reporter absolutely and now there are teenagers involved jessica. Just before 7 00 tonight members of the Oakland Unified School district honor band will be performing the national anting e. Here at the oakland as game. I spoke with several of the band members and they tell me they plan to kneel while they perform. It wont be the first time. Last year in response to Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the National Anthem about 3 fourths of honor band member knelt as a another oakland as game. The band is made up more than 100 stupts from at least five schools in the district including West Lake Middle School and tonight some students told me they plan to do more more than just kneel. I plan to put my fist in the air air for black lives matter and the black power movement. I plan to do that because piem a black young fellow i want to support all the other black people in the world and around the world and its not fair how they were shot and killed. Some students told me they wanted to take a stand after elbowed as catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first Major League Baseball player to kneel during the National Anthem on saturday in protest of racial inequality in the u. S. Other students said they want to kneel in solidarity with the nearly 200 nfl players who locked arms or knelt yesterday at games across the nation. Music director randy porter said he told the students they will the school will support whether they stand or kneel. The only thing he did tell them if they plan to kneel they should try to coordinate that and do it toward the end of the National Anthem after the words of the land of the free. But again its up to each individual student to eystad how they want to handle it tonight. And well all be watching. Reporting live in oakland. Its a big topic of conversation. Thank you marianne. This has gone beyond the original protest started by Colin Kaepernick but the heart of the matter remains the same process. They say its about respecting the country and demanding equal treatment for people of color. Another protest in process 15 minutes from now on monday night football. Nbc jay gray joins us near feenic where the cowboys and cardinals are taking the National Stage what to you expect is happening before the kickoff . Reporter well raj we havent heard anything publicly from the team though we know from players they talked about this in the locker room and that they do have something planned for before the kickoff here the cowboys think they discuss to do as a team and even heard from the coach about this before the game. And they want to make sure that they do something unified as a team out here. So look for that. The cardinals pretty much the same thing. They want to do something they want the message to be heard. But any also want it to be a message of unity. Well find that out in a few minutes. Just ahead of kickoff as you talked about a lot of people pouring into the stadium. Nobody wanted to be late. When you talk to the fans they tell you im curious to see what happens here. Im not letting it mold how i feel about the game or the league. But i do after this weekend want to see whats going on. We also know that as the teams warmed up there was no indication of what was going to happen here tonight. But a lot of people anticipating that both of these teams are going to do something to show their support, raj. Should be an interesting start to the game tonight here in arizona. Okay jay gray reporting for us before the cowboys cardinals game on monday night football. A lot of people tuning in for that as well. Thank you jay. One of the current 49ers remains close with Colin Kaepernick. Tonight he wrote an oped for the New York Times. Eric reed wrote about why he and kaepernick knelt last year. He decided to join kaepernick after the discussion of higher number of unarmed plaque People Killed by the police. Here an excerpt interest the oped in the New York Times we spoke at length about many issues facing our community including systemic oppression against people of color. Police brutality on the criminal justice system. We discussed how we could use our platform provided to us by being professional athletes in the nfl to speak for those who are voiceless. So far this season eric reed kneels for the anthem. The warriors today trying to get back to normal routine of Training Camp after going toe to toe with President Trump over the week. Steph curry was singled out by the president for expressing doubts about a possible team trip to the white house. Mr. Trump though as you know eventually essentially uninvited the nba champs. Draymond green was weighing in today saying kneeling before the flag is a respectful form of social protest. I have the utmost respect for the military. You know, we he get out here and play a game. And like you lose you go home. You win you go home. You know a loss for them is like life. The warriors say they will be discussing as a team what they might do when the anthem is played at their games so far no decision has been reached. Well have more from the team and coach kerr coming up on 6 00 newscasts. Well a couple of toll booth robberies in the east bay has workers on high alert. This is a photo here from surveillance video. Chp says the robbers held up toll takers at two bay area bridges. The carten ez and bay bridge. Like booth joins us with more what do with he know. Reporter right now we are waiting on new video coming down from chp hopefully have that for the 6 00. But right now for 5 00 news police are looking for these guys abthe toll booth operators behind me are worried if they could be the next victim. This happened on sunday, the latest round, toll takers at two bay area bridges were robbed at gunpoint. The first location, at around 4 00 a. M. Then two hours later several hours later at 2 00 p. M. A toll booth at the bay bridge. Robbers grabbed moreno 4,000 between both the bridges. Now police say the suspects were armed. Wearing hoodies and latex gloves. And each of these cases, they drove a mercedes with car max dealer plates moving in fast and getting away in second. You can imagine this is a shock to many drivers. Many of them right next to them who were concerned about the toll booth operators. Pretty scarey and noware to go. Stuck in the booth. I mean thats pretty scarey. Reporter now these robberies are part of two other robberies that happened in the bay area this year, toll booth robberies. Chp is not saying as of yet whether or not those two from earlier are connected to these two this weekend. Once again we have new video that chp is processing for us right now ill try to have that for you at the top of the 6 00 hour. In the meantime were live at the bay bridge in oakland. Rick boone nbc bay area news. We will see you at 6 00. A car break in in oakland is getting attention. The victim is an off duty police officer. Among the items stolen from the car, two guns. The officerss suv was in a restaurant parking lot just west of 88 oh 0. The burglar smashed a window to get in. The officer is from the taft police department. A gun stolen from Law Enforcement vehicles have been used in recent high profile murtds. The Investigative Unit is tracking stolen guns in the bay area. The assistant of oakland ranks second in stolen gun reports. The numbers show between 2010 and 2015, Oakland Police had at least 957 reports. The San Jose Police department had more. We have a whole section devoted to reports on stolen guns. Just go to the investigative tab at the top of our website, nbc bay area. Com. The controversial speakers may not have shone up at cal process but police and counterdemonstrators have been out in force. How long will it last. Coming up have you seen it . The billboard has a lot of people. It called for the impeachment of President Trump but where did it come from. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri, a red flag fire warning now issued for parts of the bay area. Ill tell i where the fire danger is highest and how hot we get in week. My forecast coming up at 5 20 tonight. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. But that didn t stop Police Counter demonstrators called off. The free speech even at uc berkeley but that didnt stop police and counterdemonstrators from coming out in force. Nbc bay area Jodi Hernandez joins us live at berkeley where the campus is not back to normal, at least not yet, jodi. Reporter not bach to normal yet at all. You might be able to see some of the orange barriers up, up all over the plaza here. You also need to show a student id to get into the student union. The University Says they are taking things one day at a time. As a student im sad at somebody who supports free speech. The ted tor of the berkeley patriot sat alone on the steps of the hall this afternoon. Thinking about what could have been. Mike wright says calling off socalled free speech week calling controversial conservative speakers was a tough decision. It didnt feel safe. Didnt feel like we were getting backed up by the university. Under the possibility that something went wrong. The university implied wed be liable. Milo yiannopoulos came to campus for a brief visit anyway yesterday. While today speeches are cancelled barricades remain up and police are still out in force. And all of that isnt cheap. Probably when all said and done well wind up spending 800,000 on security measures this week again for events cancelled by the students. Counterdemonstrations are going on as planned pl. A rally at crescent lawn turned into a maurch onto campus with dozens of Police Officers in tow. Were resisting. Were resisting hate we need love we need love to permeate the society. We are not interested in this false this is somehow about free speech. Free speech was always hate and harassment week. Now several hundred count counterdemonstrators showed up many things got a little tense at one point between the folks and the counterdemonstrators but overall it was fairly peaceful. The counterdemonstrators say theyll be back next two day attention. Reporting live at uc berkeley Jody Hernandez nbc bay area news. Jodi has been posting images of this the protest all day that includes this one. Moments after a fire alarm went off as a small group tried to storm and occupy wheeler hall on the cal kafrmz. You can get videos like this on the twitter feed. Follow us, the handle is nbc bay area. A warning for anyone using an in santa clara county, four robberies in one day. Two you two expects seen here robbed at least four people at t o atms on september 8, santa clara, san jose, sunnyvale and camable. Teach time they had guns. They were driving a dark gray nissan sent are. A lot of smoke and flames in san jose this afternoon. An auto shop caught fire on kings row near 8 80 half a dos the cars zroipd. Hot spots at the auto shop. No word on the cause dys. People before politics Diane Feinstein plea to california cronk o areenings in congress in a letter she is urging them to video against the Health Care Bill saying if the bill makes it to the house you have an opportunity to top it. I implore you to do so this is about putting people over politicking a and californian ahead of party. Devote agnew state analysis which shows california would lose 129 billion over the next decade if the bill passes. The proposal takes money from california and gives it to other states which failed to support obamacare. An expensive billboard in one of the most traveled roads in the country. The billboards message, you see it there. Impeach on the approach to the bay bridge. That word is written right next to the photo of President Trump as you can see. The billboard will stay up through sunday. It was paid for by california members of the courage campaign. Organizers say the reason for impeaching the president are moral and legal. If our the Republican Congress is not willing to take this step, then we will use it as a Campaign Issue in 2018. And we will you know try to show that the republicans that represent california in congress are not onboard with impeachment. A bay area republican spokesman calls the billboard a waste of money saying there is no evidence the president exited an impeachable offense. Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri we had a glimpse of fall but looks like were back in summer. So many people enjoyed the last we can. They want it to continue but thats not the case. In fact hot enough to increase our fire danger. Lets go ahead and get a look at microclimate forecast. The main thing bringing in the heat is hot High Pressure but the other two things its doing is producing a dry wind and also lowering our humidity. So its because of the dry wind and lower humidity that we now have a brand new issued red flag wire warning for bartz of the bay area north bay hills are included. But the number one zone of highest fire threat is contra costa and alameda counties where the dry winds will be 10 to 20mileperhour. Please be mindful over the next three days. In terms of morning forecast pushing into tuesday were getting some relief in the morning. So its not going to be superuncomfortable to start. Mostly clear, 59 in the south bay. Trivalley down to 57. North bay also going down to 53 degrees. Roog good there. And San Francisco at 5637 temperatures though by the afternoon on tuesday do warm up another 3 to 7 degrees. Its noticeable in the south bay. We have pushed it up to 91 degrees in the bill roy, downtown san josele 88. Keep an eye on the wind and humidity heading through the microclimate we are looking at low humidity and also breezy winds primarily out of the north. Again knows are the two drivers to help push the temperatures up. Concord at 94, pleasanton 90. Unusually warm for hayward and fremont in the upper 80s. Peninsula palo alto 89. Watch out in san mateo going up above averages to 86. San francisco also going into the 80s in the mission with 81 degrees and for the north day 94 in novato also 94 in napa. Extended forecast shows cooling off in San Francisco once we hit friday. Clouds increasing down to 69. Then hold on with low to midseventies into the upcoming weekend. The inland valleys well see a drop as well on friday with clouds increasing. Down to a warm 83. And hold with the trend of 80s as we head throughout saturday absunday and monday. The bigds thing we are getting asked is what about the longrange forecast. The la nina a 60 during fall and winter it twefls that could someplace the storm track and butt it over to seattle. The best we know with lanina, cooling the pacific waters, amplify the storm track from the bay area to the pacific northwest. Remember in 2016 and 2017 all that heavy and above average rain it was due to lanina. Could we have a repeat we dont know but monitoring it closely. We had hot weather the next couple of weeks. We do. Thanks jeff. Coming up a san jose man accused of jumping the white house fence wont serve jail time why the judge put him on probation. The repairs on highway 17 should be finished in octobe happening now on our twitter feet, the repairs on highway 17 near the mountains of lass with the gatos finished next month. They are fix issues caused by the last winter rain. Protesters being forcibly removed from a Senate Committee room in washington, d. C. Speaking out against the new Health Care Bill which is expected not expected to pass. Woman so, greg, its a lot to take in. Woman 2 and i know thats hard to hear, but the doctors caught it early. Hi, blake my dad has cancer. Woman and i know how hard that is to hear. But youre in the right place. Man and dr. Pascal and her team, they know what to do. They know what to do. The doctors know what to do. So heres the plan. First off, were going to give you all. voice fading away first off, were going to give you all. In prison. V well the south bay man who breached security at the white house will not serve time in prison. Jonathan tran of milpitas scaled a security fence back in march. Making it to one of the white house doors before being stopped and arrested. Court documents reveal he was carrying two cans of mace pl. He told if the secret service that he wanted to warn the president about fake news. Prosecutors called on a judge to send him to prison but experts say that was never very likely. Its trespassing on federal property. And so just like if somebody was trespassing on a commercial entity the punishment of the crime is minuscule. He will will be be given probation serving it mere in california where he is treated for Mental Health issues. So many cases not enough judges or resources. Nbc bay area senior investigator steven stock has been looking into the problems behind the u. S. Immigration courts three years now. Stephen joins with us the latest crisis hitting the courts. Good morning we found record backlog in u. S. Immigration courts around the nation and the problem is movie severe in San Francisco. According to federal Court Records some 617,000 cases are now backlogged across the country. That means each u. S. Court judge carries of an ample of 1800 cases the Immigration Judges have been the canaries in the coal mine saying that we were going to be overwhelmed, that we needed more help more foreign a decade. Judge dana lee marks says the backlog has gopen worse since trump took office. The backlog is taking a human toll. The undocumented immigrants we spoke to have court dates set three to five years away. And they worry witnesses and evidence will disappear by then. Tonight we investigate those numbers to find out exactly why this is happening. Well also take you behind the scenes to see the personal stories of those people caught up in this legal limbo. Thats allrs÷ tonight at 11 00 nbc bay area. Kbaking a lot of families see you at 11 00. Well be right back. Well this video just into the newsroom. What youre looking at is the National Anthem just a few minutes ago, consistent with what every team in the nfl did over the weekend. Youre looking at the adls cowboys with the high profile owner taking a knee and locking arms before the National Anthem the Arizona Cardinals did something consist. Here the teams are protests against the president. Arm in arm. Coming up at 6 00, the Trump Administration proposed Health Care Plan and impact on california and how it would cost our state billions of dollars over the next teen years. Well break down the number for you in a live report coming up at 6 00. Okay thats going to do it for us at 5 00. Lester holt joins us from puerto rico in nightly news. Several developing stories tonight. Here in puerto rico apocalyptic scenes. Our first look at ground zero where Hurricane Maria made landfall, and were with the military amid a massive humanitarian crisis like few weve ever seen before. North korea calls President Trumps threatening rhetoric a declaration of war and warns it has the right to shoot down american bombers in International Air space. A dangerous new escalation with a nucleararmed nation. Critical condition. Protesters in wheelchairs are dragged from a hearing at the capitol. A dramatic cliffhanger with the clock ticking down. Republicans mount a last gasp push to repeal obamacare. The white house today playing defense over President Trumps nfl tirade. Nightly news starts