Thanks for joining us. Im mark with us washington. Im laura garcia. Pete suratos has the details. Reporter if the name sounds familiar, hes been the acting general manager for the past few months. The board congratulating him not too long ago after they unanimously voted to make powers the next general manager. Hes worked as an engineer with more than 20 years of experience in that field. He also worked for b. A. R. T. For the past seven years the role of assistant general manager of planning, development and construction, and most recently as deputy general manager. He served as theeralkinikin surprisingly decided to talking about the many issues hes facing, including rider satisfaction. We welcome new riders. My message is simple we are going to focus on the customers. Were going to work hard to improve your customer experience, and i am ready to listen. Reporter a news general manager will have a lot on his plate, including expansion of stations such as the appropriate site in irvington near the fremont b. A. R. T. Spot. B. A. R. T. Is also dealing with the fare evasion problem. Theyve installed new gates at certainly stations to hopefully dissuade folks from fare einvestigating. Our Investigation Unit under covered theyre spending hundreds of thousands on legalh rider and employees, well see when he starts doing that, but he will be the new general manager for b. A. R. T. Effective immediately. Were live here in oakland. Pete suismt. Are. Atos, nbc bay area news. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out to talk to cameras. She said nothing about mueller . Nothing, which says a lot. They hoped to create a clear nair fifty for the millions who didnt read the report. This morning Speaker Pelosi would only speak about the promises the democrats will make going forward. Lower health care costs, bigger paychecks, cleaner government for the people too hot to handle, were going to own august. President trump for his part was with the brandnew defense secretary, recently confirmed by the senate reviewing troops at the pentagon. Next for both the democrats and the deficit even higher. A news theyll run into a few objections from the few remaining members of congress, but they appear to have the numbers to push it there. Asor warned the russian not only did they interfere the last election with the intention of helping donald trump win, theyre already working on the next election. He urged someone, he didnt say who, to do something. On behalf of the American People, i want to give you 1 39 to tell the American People what you would like them to glean from this report. Well, i wont waste time delivering a message for those who come after us, but its a signal, a flag to those of us who have some responsibility in this area, to exercise those responsibilities quickly and dont let this problem continue to linger as it has over so many years. All right. You didnt take the total amount of time, so im going to used the rest of my time. I showed you that sound bite. Jackie speier, question that should have been the first question thrashed have been he said somebody who can do something ought to dhes talkin about congress. No one ever brought it up, though, again either. Over and over and over there was not the followup question. What do you mean by that . Those sorts of things. They would yield their time. I think as journalists we always want to ask the next question. I think were awfully good at it, and im not sure a lot of them were. Interesting. Joust in, a major shift in federal policy. The u. S. Attorney general william barr odds the reinstatement of the federal death penalty. The last federal execution happened in 2003. Executions of five deathrow inmates convicted of murder are now being scheduled to take place in december a joneath row Boston Marathon bomber and Charleston Church shooter. New at 11 00 a secret deal between Greenhouse Gas emissions. The deal bypasses the trump at mrgz. The white house have proposed freezing it at 33 miles an hour, and ford, bmw, honda and volkswagen all part of that deal. Top executives from juul facing a grilling today on capitol hill. This Morning House lawmakers wrapping of a twoday bhaerg on what some call the teen vaping emdemocratic. They heard from experts any addiction and even marketing. Toe one of cofounders testified along with the c now to a live look outside. On your ride, San Francisco at the top, san jose another bottom. As you start to perhaps make your weekend plans, get ready. We do still have the fog working in our favor. We can golden state bridge, as cross in from the north bay or heading to the north bay out of the city. You go inland, it is heating up. Check out that current temperature right now. 88 degrees at sunol, and we havent even made it to lunchtime yet. If youre going out for a run, we are going to have some hot weather throughout much of the afternoon. If you dont get that run in in the next hour or so, it probably will be a little too hot. Were feeling more humidity, so that makes it feel a bit hotter. On you highs in antioch reaching 96 degrees, but the hot spot today will be ukiah reaching 98 degrees. You still see the 60s and 70s in San Francisco and half moon bay. Well talk about that and your weekend plans as temperatures get even hotter, coming up in about ten minutes. New at 11 00, a suspect wanted in connection to a deadly shooting in concord is now behind bars. The u. S. Marshals service said adam renfroe was arrested in south dakota. Investigators say he was allegedly involved in the Fatal Shooting of 36yearold Daniel Shrader at a motel 6. It happened nearly two weeks ago. Officers are still looking for 40yearold robert brown of bay point. Fire crews are looking out for shot spots after a fire. Heres new video of the fire number of times bers this acres, 65 es contained. The fire did destroy a barn. Were still trying to learn how the fire started. Richmond city tape manager is being fired. Now, according to the east bay times the councils decision comes after calls for his termination, accusing him of unfairir practices. Now to the latest development on a new report highlighting thousands of undocumented immigrants. This Afternoon Community groups and concerned citizens plan to sound out of to port leaders at a meeting in oak as you may remember, the Bay Areas News Group says i. C. E. Tor deport nearly 43,000 peo or ne the agency ended the practice last october. The office now says its looking further into the matter. Oakland has sanctuary policies in place. Police have confirmed that one of two people pulled from the river have died. Rescuers did manage to save another person believed to be the friend of the man who died. Were still working to find out what led to the drowning. Pretty incredible pictures of the aftermath of a highspeed crash. The car there virtually split in two. It happened this morning. Three people suffered major injuries. Still no work on what caused it. A hydrant was sheared off on cae third. The accident was cleared and roads are opened. A failed bill aimed at bringing speeding Traffic Cameras to San Francisco, this after the death of two pedestrians in t they will now lawmakers in backing a new proposal. The original bill died in state assembly back in 2018. New at 11 00, concertgoers may be able to get high legally this year. The organizer of the San Francisco festival of filing an application with the Cannabis Office to allow sales and done assumption. Last year they had a special area ducked grasslands. The festival goers could not speaking or buy, but try elibles which did not have pot in them. Next, when puerto rican governor plans to step aside. A new video of agog through. Why hes now in the hospital. Supporting our schools, thousands of kids in need. They need those School Supply foss their new year. On. Puerto ricos governor rossello says he will resign next week. Its been touched off by insulting chats and messages between him and his top advisers. Gabe gutierrez records. Reporter an incredible the governor resign, as they had been doing for 12 days. Rumors were swirls that the governor could resign at any minute. Then just before midnight came the announcement he would deliver a pretaped message. Finally he did announce he would resign effective august 2nd. It was an incredible reversal, a stunning turn of events after about two weeks of unrest here in puerto rico. The pressure had intensified for him to resign after private chat Group Messages were leaked. They included derogatory and homophobic comments in those chats between him and several of his close aides. Now there are several questions about what happens next and whether wanda vazquez, the new governor may take over the office in the coming days and what may happen with that. For now the protester here, they dont see this as just within scandal. They see this as a victory over a long history of corruption. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, san juan, puerto rico. Jeffrey being found injured in his new york jail cell. Sources close to t fetal they also sea he had mark his neck, but theyre not yet clear position. If he was attacked or perhaps he tried to hurt himself. Hes now on suicide watch and awaiting trial. New details appears that a ap rocky will stand trial in connection with a street brawl in sweden. Police arrested him shortly after a performance at a hiphop festival. A video posted on social media shows two men following him, along with two others. Later theres a violent altercation. Since then President Trump has been among many calls for asaps release, but authoritieshis g indicated that a ap rocky and the two men he was with will stand trial on assault charges. A 3yearold boy is in the hospital after getting onto a baggage Conveyor Belt at atlantas airport. Take a look at this security video footage of the incident that happened monday. He made it into the bag roof before a tsa agent followed him. The boy injured his hand. The mom told splice she sat her son done to print a boarding pass. Spirit Alliance Says it appears he actioned through a ticket contract that was not at the time. We are supporting our schools all week long. Thats right. Our goal is to put 5 houses backpacks in the hands of needy kids. Wore working with family giving tree. Chris is inside their North San Jose hub. Sed close to 5,000 are we . 3,000. We have a truck being loaded headed to San Francisco. We have the bay area deputy sheriffs Charitable Organization he loading up 1,000 backpacks on the way to San Francisco. They have started loading about half an hour going, hour, i sup. This is all thanks to the kindness of people like you, and people like winny. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Youve been donating for a long time. We started donating around 2005, 2006. It started out with two backpacks, and its just grown incrementally since then. I understand you have a strategy to make sure you can deliver a huge donation every year. Help the people at home figure ute how to work it into your budget. How do you make it work . Truthfully clearance sales are wonderful. So when the big stores go on clearance at the end of generally toward the end oseemb year, im looking wherever i can for any kind of School Supply on clears. So people can do it . Absolutely. Absolutely. Sometimes its amazing how good the prices are. Some stuff i can only buy this time of year, so i have to get it, but other things i can kind of keep looking. Reporter how much were you able to donate in total . Through family, friends, as well as myself, my husband and i, collectively we put together 250 backpacks. Reporter 250 just from you in. Just from us, and in turn we a whole pickup truck full of supplies, which is a couple thousand dollars worth. Reporter that deserves a highfive. Thank you very much winnie sloan is proof that you too can dough nay. First and foremost, do it on our website, nbcbayarea. Com schools. When youre there, you can contribute cash if you want or you can build a virtual packpack, even pick out the design you want for the kid, and get them started off with a fantastic new year of school. Second way is to join us tomorrow at el monte avenue in mountainview at the jamba juice and piece of my heart. Feel free to join us. Good cause, too. So one thing for slur is that if youre going to be deliver those backpacks make sure you dress cool. Its going to be hot out there. A lot of people dealing with the heat. The heat has been an issue. In fact its a bigger issue as we go into the weekend. Thats a live look outside in san jose, as we enjoy sunshine. And theres a bug flying around my dam ra. I wanted to show you this shot of twin peaks. You can see a very shallow layer of fog rolling across the hills there, and so its really not enough to cool things off for the inland area, but were going to get more comfortable in the coastal areas, as we make our ive look outside, checking out our temperatures for the rest of the day, its going to be hot, but you probably felt more humidity and our temperatures that will reach into the low 90s will feel even hotter because of that boost in degrees in concord today. Napa up a in san jose, were looking at a high of 89d degrees while San Francisco stays in the low 70s today. Its nice that we do still have the wide range in temperatures, and not all of the bay area will be extremely hot, but i wanted to show you that surge of the rain and the moisture thats firing up some of those storms, even some light anyone striaing. We had that yesterday, and were already starting to see some lightning developing there. What will happen as we go into tonight as well as tomorrow, there may be more storms over parts of the sierra. Well have to see if some of that energy can make it into parts of the east bay as well as the north bay, that could tricker lightening strikes and possibly a few pours. Well be watching for that through earlytomorr that wind flow that causes that humid air to move into the bay area, and as well southern california. Going into the weekend, though, we start to see the humidity going down, but temperatures will go up, as we get some very dry air. In fact our inland area will be very hot, so lets look at the sevenday forecast. Once again a chance of thunderstorms near the bay area, but saturday and sunday, you will need to make plan to try to school. We will have cool air for the coastal areas. San francisco not expected at i looking at low 70s there, just a very weak onshore wind flow, but that ocean breeze kick up next week. Well seed to the upper 60s so the spike in temperatures, marcus and laura, doesnt last that long. Thats the good news here. Thats great news. Thanks so much. A brewing battle over a controversial gondola near lake tahoe, the decision made helping to push that project forward. Plus inandout, how did it make it to new york city. A mystery puzzling people online. Many are working to stay cool in europe. Many peel swelters in the record temperature of 108 degrees in paris. More than 20 other areas have been placed on the highest red at the heat wave alert. In france alone five deaths have been reported linked to thereak here i go again on my own goin down the only road ive ever known li born to walk alone if you ride, you get it. Geico motorcycle. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more. Prpharmacist recommendedne memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. New today, plans for a controversial gondola are moving forward that would connect ski resorts and truckee. They voted to approve the eightpassengers lift, to allow skiers and snowboarders access to both resorts without a shuttle our drive. Talk aboutmeat . Innout burger ended up in new york city. We have the answer. It appeared earlier this week, though theres no locations near the east coast. The person who tweeted the photo said a High School Student reached out to us. She apparently picked up four from a california restaurant before leaving on a flight from the wig apple. She had three level when the bag burst as she was running to catch a plane. So weve got some hot weather, maybe you want a shake along with that burger. Reaching over 100 degrees for the weekend, but it is going to cool down a bit early next week. All right. I want to take my jacket off now. Before we even step iont want the shake, you know what im saying . [ laughter ] thanks so much for joining us. 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