We have a heat advisory that will be in effect for many of our valleys, especially inland. That also includes San Francisco. Well talk more about this and whats ahead. Mike, youre seeing the traffic break. Thats right, kari. Lets look at the map. Overall looking good. Typical slowing on 680. One little blip as they clear some remaining cones left over at construction. Smooth drive towards the bay bridge where the live look shows you the cash lanes backed up, but we have a couple lanes that have yet to open. Pretty typical pattern here. Thanks, mike. Fire danger today is people in high fire danger areas are basically for controlled outages. Not only that but firefighters are on high alert. We take a closer look at the extra lengths people are going to to stay safe. Reporter high danger fire the red flag warning means extra staffing. Well have 14 extra pieces of equipment on the road. Well a strike team thats state funded. Reporter crews will be roaming, ready to put out a fire fast. If a fire starts, we send Additional Resources coupled with our alarm response to a fire. Reporter theyre staffed up because of the red flag warnings. City agencies are also preparing for a possible pg e shut off because of the fire danger. I think its great theyre trying to prevent a disaster. Reporter some people in santa rosa are getting ready. Having phones charged, having water. Reporter pg e shut off power in parts of nevada counties. There are counties are notice to be prepared to lose power. Restaurant owners say it could be costly. I lose my customers, my meat a lot of money. Its an important weather day in the fire zone. Were putting a lot of resources on the story. Field crews, team of meteorologists. If news breaks well get it to you right away through our nbc bay area app. New this morning crews are on the seen of a south fire. Fire crews were called out at 2 00 this morning along randolph avenue. There are no reports of anyone being hurt. We have calls out for more information. A 6. 0 magnitude earthquake strikes off puerto ricos coast. Three after shocks struck within an hour striking that same region. These are some of the images just in of the nearby water line that erupted following the quake. Heavy destruction was not expected because the quake itself struck 50 miles off shore. Tropical storm karen is expected to pass overpuerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands today. Its packing 40 mile per hour winds. Puerto rico still working to recover from the devastating hurricane in 2017. 34. The long awaited memoire of the woman sexually assaulted by brock turner hits stores today. She remained anonymous for four years saying she chose to hide her connection to the crime fearing it would stop her from becoming a writer. Her book is titled know my name. S turners assault and the legal fall out. Police are asking for help following a hit and run that happened sunday. Police say just before 8 00 p. M. A man in a dark blue or green pickup truck struck a 63yearold woman. They believe the truck may be an extended ford ranger. Police say after the accident he turned left on story road. Officials say this comes with an important never try to beat a train and always obey crossing guards. This comes after a near miss that happened yesterday. Late last night a train nearly hit another person. Anyone living in or going into kos tra konta county may feel bob tell us about the shakeup. Reporter the board of supervisors will be considering a ban that would use the poly stie lien beverage containers. It would not include styrofoam, reusable ice chests. Vendors would be able to request a hardship exception. Ironically the county will not recommend businesses use compostable containers. County staff says those containers generate more Greenhouse Gases than poly stie rian. If this ban passes, it would not go into effect until may 1st. The board is also considering arrive one cent tax increase. 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This latest acquisition could draw attention from regulators who are concerned about facebook containing mountains of data from users. Guys back to you. What happens if you start losing your mind . I dont want to read it. I feel like ive already lost my mind. Next on today in the bay back to the heat and fire concerns. Kari hall tracking our tuesday forecast. It will be a much hotter day. We have heat advisories in effect. Lets get you out the door with a live look outside. Were going to start out with low 60s and that will lead to low 80s by 11 00. Well talk more aboutha. A le look at dublin with all these folks with lights. We have reports of what may be a wrong way driver. Youre watching today in the bay. Lets take a peek outside. What a nice way to start our morning with a look at San Francisco. Summer hanging on with hot temperatures today. Fire concerns remain as well. Well have more on that in a moment. I want to show you new video showing a red haze in indonesia being caused by forest fires burns. These videos are going viral with many comparing the conditions to the mars a atmosphere. Quite concerning. Absolutely. Right here in the bay area were dealing with that danger threat. We have to be really careful winds picking up in the hills. As we look at the red flag warning its all these areas highlighted in red. Its the elevations above 1,000 feet where well have the potential of any fires that do develop spreading rapidly. That includes much of north bay. That red flag warning continuing until 11 00 tomorrow morning. We have a heat add vizry for the areas in orange. Looking at much of the bay from the south bay, San Francisco included, it extends to the tri valley and the delta. Were dealing with high heat today. We start out in brentwood in the upper 60s and then going into the low 80s by 11 00 today. We look at our micro climate and go hour by hour. At 9 00 were feeling low to mid 70s and going into the rest of the day were at 90s in dan vil and concord. We go up and there will be spots hitting 100 degrees. Well see that in concord as well as fairfield. In freemont were up to 93. San francisco reaching into the mid 80s. Tonight well still have those breezy winds. The winds will calm down. Our temperatures will start to drop off as well. We have very dry air here. Were seeing the driest conditions with the wait vapor now over southern california. Were getting some gusty winds also. This highlights theas danger for today. Thats those hills to north and the sierra. For us in the south bay as well as the east bay were seeing winds come over the hills today with the fire danger still high, but in the as high as in the north bay. Going from this high heat to some cooling. We cannot wait for that. Were dealing with this dry off shore wind today. By thurz we start to see the cooling off. Our winds will shift. Well see an area of low pressure dropping into the pacific northwest. That will bring in a chance for showers and much cooler temperatures for us in the bay. Were going up to 100 degrees today, 102 tomorrow. Well see t several days and by next monday were seeing some low 70s. We have some big changes ahead. Mike, you were getting a report of a wrong way driver. Yesterday we were also talking about a wrong way driver that went across the bay bridge. Right now were talking about the 17. The arrow is pointing south. Thats the latest we have. No follow up from chp over the last few minutes. That person would be going the wrong way here toward 85 and potentially down over the san t santa cruz mountains. Well keep you updated on this. Were tracking that. Meanwhile the rest of the drive in the south bay and around the rest of the bay shows a nice drive. Folks going in the right direction. Palo alto northbound starting to clear. Well have traffic breaks between university and marsh. Back to you. Thank you, mike. This next story makes you think. What if there was a way to test someones brain to see if they might be capable of killing someone in the future. Its the stuff scifi movies are made of. We explain how that exam is already happening. Reporter studying the mind of a murderer could ultimately help in stopping violence before it ever starts. Tonight at 11 00 well take you inside a research lab at stanford and introduce you to a leading neuro scientist who inspected the brain of stephen paddock. I was asked to diagnose these processes that might have contributed to his behavior. They leaned on you to determine whether something in his brain may have led him to commit that act of violence . Yes. Reporter well also show you a new type of test for children thats supposed to show whether they could grow up to be a violent person. Well have that and more for you tonight at 11 00. Back to you. And if you have information or a story you would like our Investigative Unit to look into give them a call. That number right there on your screen or send an email to nbcbayarea. Com. A follow up to what many call a heartless crime targeting elderly woman in the ross creek community. Maybe you saw this video we showed you a couple weeks ago. It shows two women taking a womans wallet right from her purse. She was shopping. The video showed the pair casing the store for an hour before making their move. Walnut creek police say the video led to tips on the suspect who investigators say live in stockton. Officers arrested the two women this week. Police say they used the victims credit card. 4 51 right now. In one of the most expensive big cities in the country san jose schools are one step closing creating housing for its teachers. They approved a preliminary analysis for one of four possible sites. All those sites are property owned by the district. The initial cost more than 500,000. Those in favor say its well worth the money. The need is great. Were at the point where if you compare us to other School Districts and principals there could be a 40,000 difference. This project is still a long way from getting the green light. The board president voted against the study saying the district lacks the funding to get it off the ground. 4 52 coming up on today in the bay nbc bay area responds. She was ready to give up on a rebate worth hundreds of dollars. She says we inspired her to give it one more shot. Im chris camora, nbc bay responds next. Another bart station is papererless. They hope the idea will cut down on paper waste from tickets. Bart hopes to make the systemwide switch by 2020. Well be right back with a lot more news. Its 4 53. The juul record. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. Nbc bay area responds to gil roy woman struck in a rebate run around. She asked our team to step in. Reporter good morning when nancy gallow bought Ge Appliances last summer she says they came with a 600 mail in rebate. She said she filled out the forms and sent them to ge. Processing was supposed to taken weeks. Nancy got nothing. She asked for an update. She said ge told her they never received her purchase invoice. She had to go to thetore she got the appliances. She got a new win. She sent them to ge. Nothing happened again. She was getting nowhere. She was ready to give up when she saw one of our respond stories right here. She asked if we could help. We went to ge corporate and the next day it got back to us to say that initially there was no invoice attached to the submission, but we tracked that down and we were able to process the rebate a short time later. Nancy got her 600. Feel like calling it quits on a consumer maybe we can help. Thanks, chris. 4 57 coming up next on today in the bay seering heat, high winds and a tower set to be shut off in some areas. All of that because of that high heat. Were going to see in dublin ou quickly throughout the morning. Well get a look at this and when we catch some relief coming up next. Looking at the traffic flow. Ill get details. Plus Supreme Court justice lena kay again making a stop through town last night. Whats shes saying about Justice Brett kavanaugh. Youre watching today in the bay. Right now. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Washington. We want to talk to meteorologist kari hall. Youve been talking about the fire danger today. That a long with the high heat is the main story today. Lets get a live look outside in walnut creek. We have mostly clear skies. Temperatures in the low 60s and in the south bay were heading to the upper 90s today. Gil roy reaches 99 degrees. Well see highs of 100 degrees, up to 101 in danville and reaching 95 in palo alto and San Francisco in the 90 as well. Ill have more on this and the fire danger