Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240714

To over 100 degrees. As you get ready to head out in the south bay, a clear start and fairly cool temperatures. Were heading to the upper 80s eventually reaching the mid 90s. Mike also looking at san jose. Clear skies, not clear on the roadways. Most of the bay, the crash over there on the shoulder as youre looking at freemont. Over here north 101 heading past the airport we have some improvement. We now have only one lane blocked. That is causing more slowing. As that build comes up here, 101 slowing, a crash on the shoulder. That may affect folks on north 87. Back to you, marcus. As kari said searing heat and strong winds fuel for fires. In the north bay Power Outages are looming for thousands that that red flag warning remains in effect. Tom jenson live for us in santa rosa. Tell us whats planned for the outages. Reporter they could get outages here. People here on stand by. Conditions quite calm now, but the winds could pick up. Kari was talking about temperatures in the 90s here in san jose and other areas and the high winds picking up. Pg e could call for safety shut offs. Those regular flag warnings remain in effect for large parts of the east bay and north bay. Expect on and off North East Mountain gusts 40 miles an hour and sustained winds 10 miles an hour. Humidity very low, conditions are still very dangerous. Emergency sponresponders here a hospitals have trained for this. People are preparing at home making sure they have plenty of food, batteries and phones are charged just in case pg e is forced to do shut offs here. San Jose Fire Department saying its all hands on deck. If a fire starts, we send Additional Resources coupled with our alarm response to a fire to try to keep it small. Reporter 33,500 pg e customers in Sonoma County remain on stand by for possible Public Safety power shut offs. If conditions get worse, pg e could call for shut offs. Yesterday they made that decision before noon. A pg e spokesperson told me they will notify customers if power is going to be shut off. Those folks need to stay alert and ready. And informed. Kari has a look at high fire high wind conditions. Yes. This is mostly in the hills. Elevations above 1,000 feet. Were not feeling it much in the valleys. The upper elevations will have the fire danger. Were looking at the map to show you the areas in red. We look at wind and humidity. The humidity levels will be dropping for much of the north bay. Look at these numbers. At noon relative humidity mostly around 20 to 30 . It could drop into the teens later today and the winds coming from the north will increase by this afternoon into the evening. A lot to watch, along with the temperatures that will reach over 100 degrees in some spots. Well check back with you kari. 6 05 right now. In the south bay firefighters working to completely extinguish the reservoir fire burning in the hills. Calavaros road remains closed. Its about 95 contained. The fire was part of six smaller ones that started saturday. Another bay area city trying to figure out what to do with People Living in their rvs on city streets. Tonight one city council will consider a ban. Kris sanchez joins us live. Reporter the last meeting on this topic was this summer. Definitely theyve been working toward a plan. Its a hard balance between the people who are home owners who say the rvs clog the streets and the folks who live in the rvs. According to the city there are nearly 400 rvs that show people are living to them. The Fire Department has responded to complaints that the rvs are leaking or dumping sewage. Tonight the council will consider a possible ban on rvs. The city could offer a Safe Parking Program to be run by the city, but on privately owned lots. We want to make it as easy as possible for anybody who owns a surface lot in the city to be able to operate a Safe Parking Program. Reporter at the last meeting here at Mountain View city hall on this issue there were seven hours of presentations and public comments. A lot of folks have something to say. We expect that will be the same case tonight. The meeting is at 5 00. Chris sanchez for today in the bay. Thank you. 6 07. President trump is set to speak at the u. N. However his phone call with ukraines president is getting a lot of attention. Tracy potts reports there are new questions whether mr. Trump tried to withhold aid. Reporter President Trump is expected to talk about china and iran at the u. N. Today. We have a lot of pressure on them right now. Its his july phone call with ukraines president taking center stage. A whistleblower claims the president threatened to withhold aid unless ukraine investigates joe biden and his son. No, i didnt. Reporter the wall street journal and Washington Post report mr. Trump threatened to withhold aid. Its a witch hunt. Reporter its an issue about hunter biden. Democrats and some republicans want the transcript of the call released. Its important the transcript and the whistleblower come forward. No foreign leader in the world will talk to him if they think the contents of conversation will end up public. Reporter democrats are asking for the whistleblowers complaint as required by law. Mitch mcconnell said the Intelligence Committee is working on it. We learned overnight whether nancy pelosi is considering moving forward on impeachment. Tracy potts nbc news washington. Youll be able to watch the president s speech here on nbc bay area. Lester holt is bringing you a special report after today in the bay at 7 00. Right now turning to weather and traffic. Taking a live look outside from walnut creek. Mt. Diablo in the distance. Its going to be another hot one with high fire danger in the hills. Kari hall is joining us now. I know the hot temperatures present some dangers out there. Yeah, and the hot weather extends to San Francisco where a heat advisory will be in effect. Heres a live look at the golden gate bridge. We have a cool start to the day heading across the bay if youre making your way to the bart station. Look at the range of temperatures. Low 60s at 7 00. 72 degrees at 9 00 and then the low 90s this afternoon. The heatup happens pretty fast. Well reach 101 in concord. San jose reaching 96 degrees and just this hot tomorrow. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Mike, that south bay traffic ale alert continues. Thats right, kari. Thats because of this crash on 101 blocking the slow lane. That is an issue causing the slowing. We see speeds clamp down around interstate 880. As you approach 87, its shy of that interchange. Folks there will be okay if you get back on to the bay shore freeway. Theres a slower drive, but its better than 20 minutes ago because they opened one more lane. The crash on the shoulder of freemont, thats better news there. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Up next, federal prosecutors focusing on labs of juul. The move is following a crack down on teens using the product. Facebook making a purchase that could change the way we all use our computers. Youre watching today in the bay. Good tuesday morning. Right now at 6 13 were under a micro climate alert. We head to the neighborhood of evergreen. Well be at 62 degrees. Fairly quickly we should be in the low 80s and today we could hit the low 90s. Well talk about that in less than five minutes. Were looking at the Traffic Alert for san jose adding on to your travel time here at the top of cowyour screen. Well show you some options. Good morning. Im at cnbc head quartsers. Wall street is set to open higher this morning after stocks ended virtually unchanged yesterday. The markets gained in the final minutes of trade. Investors are continuing to keep an eye on china trade talks. Federal prosecutors in california are conducting a criminal probe into ecigarette maker juul labs. The wall street journal reporting the focus of the investigation is still unclear. Juul is facing a crack down by state and federal authorities as teen vaping surges. Illinois is considering a ban on flavored vape products. Facebook has bought control labs thats developing technology to allow people to control computers with their brains. That is a longheld ambition by mark zuckerberg. Facebook has been working on a brand interface for several years including letting people type words on a screen by thinking them. This latest acquisition could draw attention from regulators who are concerned about facebook containing mountains of data from users. Guys back to you. All you have to do is think it and there it is. Im thinking it now. Thats dangerous. New this morning amazon is reportedly working on wireless ear buds with fitness tracking features built right in. This includes how far you had run and calories burned. Its unclear when theyll be released. Amazon is expected to show case several new products at its annual hardware event tomorrow. Great. Ill enjoy my breakfast burrito and track my calories. It will say dont eat that. You sure you really need that . Sure, you do. You probably need something nice and cool today. No cooking. You dont want to heat up the house. All right. Ill make some reservations. Were making plans for a hot day. We need to make sure were aware of the weather situation around us. We could still see that threat of some wildfires spreading today. Heres a live look outside in San Francisco, now including in the heat advisory that will be in effect. We head across the bay to get the kids out the door. In concord expect it to be in the low 60s as youre heading to school. As the day goes on, its going to be heating up fast. If theyre going out for recess later, they may want to stay inside as the temperatures reach the low 90s by 1 00. Its going to be hotter today compared to yesterday. Morgan hill reaching 98 degrees. Then well see some highs over 100 degrees for the inland east bay, the delta reaches 101 degrees. For the peninsula san matteo reaching 92. In San Francisco we have the upper 80s in the mission district. Really hot. We have this dry off shore wind as High Pressure continues to build. Our heat continues tomorrow as well. Then as we go towards the end of the week, big changes ahead. The winds will shift. There will be some rain across southern california. Well also see this storm system dipping in from the north to bring gusty winds and a chance of showers over the sierra. Well have a big cool down headed our way. Heres the temperatures for the inland area going from 100 degrees today to 102 tomorrow. Look at friday. 79 degrees in some of our warmest spots. In the the going to the weekend it will be cool and breezy. Well see in San Francisco some hot weather today there as well as tomorrow. Mike, youre still in san jose for the Traffic Alert. Thats right, kari. If you dont have to drive through san jose you should be fine. Its jamming up 101 north, but i think thats a construction crew that just cleared. We have a little better speed approaching the crash here just shy of highway 87 on 101. This is your commute direction. Slower drive coming on 680. Well take you to the wave system. They timed it out before. I was giving you a 15minute advantage if you took the purple route. Now the three routes are all within five minutes of one another. Thats because we only have one lane blocked there. Wave will help you attempt as conditions change. Things are slow as well through freemont, but n a major issue. Vasko road loosening up a bit. Southbound vasko pretty typical pattern. The back up at the bay bridge toll plaza. The good news some movement in the fast track lanes. Back to you. 6 20. An overnight earthquake. The updates were getting out of puerto rico early this morning as the u. S. Territory prepares for another storm. She was ready to give up on a rebate worth hundreds of dollars. She says we inspired her to give it one more shot. Nbc bay area responds next. First our team always on social media. Mike shared these photos on facebook. He spent the weekend helping with a fundraiser for the Japanese Cultural Center of northern california. Follow mike on facebook, twitter and instagram. Its 6 20. Youre watching today in the bay. [white rabbit by jefferson airplane] one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you smaller and the ones that mother gives you dont do anything at all remember what the dormouse said welcome aboard. Feed your head 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 ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with 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. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. 6 23. Massive networking issues remain in effect for union citys internal Computer Systems which have been paralyzed by a cyber attack. City services are affected from construction permits and Business Licenses to workers paychecks. The fbi is helping find out who is behind it. The city has not been asked to pay anything. Again, were still assessing the type of virus it is. One thing not impacted, emergency dispatch. Those calls are operated by agencies outside union city. Most Police Department computers are down. If youre looking to set down roots in the bay area now might be the time to act. A study from realtor. Com stays the first week of fall is the best time to buy a home. It says families hit the pause button on moving because kids are back in school. Last year everybody bought stock options. Thats why the prices got so high. This year people arent bringing stock options. Its not that the prices are falling, its that people are paying what the house is worth. The report found in San Francisco there are 30 more listings than usual giving buyers more to choose from. The study adds prices in the western u. S. Are 4 lower than normal. Good to hear. Nbc bay area responds to a gil roy woman stuck with the rebate run around. She asked our consumer investigator to step in. Reporood rning 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 take ten 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 the store where she got the appliances. She got a new one. She sent them to ge. Nothing happened again. She was getting nowhere. Nancy tells us 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 rporate 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 Problem . Dont. Maybe we can help. Thank you, chris. Still ahead preparing for Power Outages. Were talking to people ready to lose power. Kari just updated her forecast. Key votes in a couple hours in Contra Costa County. What people across the county need to know. Plus the prime ministers advice to her majesty was unlawful and void. A major blow for britains leader in the uk as the brexit deadline inches closer. Youre watching today in the bay. Tv just keeps getting better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Right fnow at 6 30 taking a live look at Sonoma County. Look at the sunrise. Great way to wake up on this tuesday. Take that all in. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. Theres a high fire danger out there. Want to check in with kari. Its going to be really hot this afternoon especially for the inland areas. The heat advisory includes much of the bay area. As we take a live look outside in san jose were walking out the door to cool temperatures. Look at our temperature trend in martinez. Well be at 65 degrees at 8 00 and leading to the mid 90s by 2 00. Were going to see triple digits in the inland east bay. Rth bay mostly 90s. Well talk about this and whats ahead. Mike, your Traffic Alert, has it moved . It has moved and then relocated. North 101 all lanes are now clear. Now more traffic traveling north up through santa clara. Theres more slowing towards 237. Overall your pattern now typical for the south bay, tri valley peninsula and the east bay. We now have a Traffic Alert in the north bay which continues here. Both directions of i80 are closed. Thats north of fairfield. If folks are traveling to leisureville note theres a crash and a truck is involved with tanks on it. Those are potentially explosive in situations. Much calmer towards the bay bridge. Back to you. Fire crews remain on alert across parts of the bay area as heat and wind combine for high fire danger. Today in the bay tom jensen live in santa rosa where emergency crews and the public are preparing. Tell us about the precautions, tom. Reporter as you can see its calm here right now. As kari was talking about, its supposed to get very hot, up into the mid 90s is santa rosa where were near 100 degrees in some areas of the east bay. That means theres a high danger of fire starts. Red flag warnings remain in effect. Those could affect power shut offs for 55,000 pg e customers. Those warnings in effect until tomorrow morning until 11 00. Were not out of the woods yet. Expect on and off dry North East Mountain gusts 20 to 40 Miles Per Hour and sustained winds 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Humidity still low and the conditions are still very dangerous. Emergency responders and others train and prepare for days like this since the north bay fire two years ago. Santa rosa Officials Say they have extra crews and equipment on call. People are also getting ready at home making sure they have plenty of food, batteries and have their phones fully charged in case there are Public Safety power shut offs. Some still concerned about what that could mean for them financially. I lose all my customers, my meat. I lose a lot of money. Its obviously great that theyre trying to prevent a disaster like that again. Reporter after deciding against a Public Safety power shut off yesterday 33,500 customers in Sonoma County remain on stand by today if conditions get worse. High heat and low humidity, pg e could still call for shut offs. A pg e spokesperson told me they will contact customers as soon as they make that decision. Yesterday they made that decision at about 11 30. We could learn before noon again today. Were live in santa rosa. Tom, thank you. New this morning firefighters are on the scene in an Early Morning house fire that started around 2 00 this morning on randolph avenue. Firefighters say no one was home, but the house sustained heavy damage. Anyone living in Contra Costa County may feel the impact of two proposals being voted on in two hours. Bob, whats at stake . Reporter marcus in a few hours the Contra Costa County board of supervisors are considering an ordinance that would ban the use of polystyrene for restaurants, vendors and in food trucks. This would only apply to those locations in unincorporated Contra Costa County. 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 polystyrene. If this ban passes, it would not go into effect until may 1st. The board is also considering whether or not to support a half cent sales tax to Fund Transportation updates. The citizens have to vote on a measure at the ballot box. The board is considering whether to make a recommendation for it. If voters approved this, the tax would raise 3. 6 billion for transportation. Probably not. Why . No tax increases. For transportation . Yes. Why not . Even though it means more when you buy things . Sure. We can use whatever help on the roads we can get. I dont know if we should be taxed anymore than we have been. Reporter voters here approve this increase, it would go in effect july of next year and last 35 years. 6 36 new overnight a new development in the brexit drama. It has been ruled the recent shut down of parliament illegal. It was supposed to last until just before next months brexit deadline. The house of Commons Speaker has called for business to resume tomorrow. After shocks rattling puert rico after a 6. 0 magnitude earthquake. No reports of major damage. Heavy destruction was not expected because the quake itself struck 50 miles off shore. Puerto rico still working to recover from the devastating hurricane in 2017. There was a weekend hit and run that killed a 63yearold woman. Police say just before 8 00 p. M. A man in a dark blue or green pickup truck struck a 63yearold woman. She lives in san jose. They believe the truck may be an early 2000 ford ranger with an extended cab. The driver is described as having short hair. They say after he turned west on nearby story road. Peninsula drivers may be happy to learn a Reconstruction Program is finished. Side walks and bicycle lanes were added to willow road. Mike is this a good thing . The net result will be a benefit for all. However, as folks continue to adjust ive seen some confusion. Back over here were looking to a smooth drive to the bay bridge. If youre leaving this area and traveling up from fairfield eastbound and westbound 80 both directions completely closed around cheery glenn. If youre coming into our area, likely very slow. Both directions jammed up. Theres a crash involving a trunk that has tanks. Its an explosive situation. They closed the freeway. Sky ranger is heading there to check things out. The rest of the bay moving slowly. Lets hope it stays that way. Looking forward to cooler weather headed our way after a hot start to our week. Lets take a look at the weekend forecast. Were going from the triple digits to the mid 70s by saturday and sunday. Make some plans to get outside. It will feel like fall as we go into our first weekend of fall. In San Francisco well see upper 60s going into saturday and sunday. If youre planning to head to monterey expect the highs in the low 70s for friday, then up 60s for saturday and sunday. Yosemite will have a big cool down. Saturday its 51 and sunday 42 degrees. It will feel more comfortable in rushing river valley with our highs up to 78 on saturday and 71 on sunday. Well talk about the temperature trend for the south bay. Thats coming up in three minutes. Thank you, kari. Coming up next a look at more of our top stories including the move one south bay city could make to limit places where people could park their rvs. Finally caught Authorities Say two women seen in this shocking video stealing from an elderly woman now off the streets. Why Police Called the video a crucial piece of evidence. Later chinas deal with california to save a climate in crisis. What it means for our state. Right now take a look at the big board where you see the dow is up 114 points. Stocks rise as optimism around u. S. China trade increases. Youre watching today in the bay. Were coming up on 6 44. Our micro climate weather alert in effect. Were going to have aeat advisory today. Our temperatures start out in the low 60s in santa theresa. Well continue to make it into the 90s today. Well talk about this and when we catch a break in five minutes. No break for the north bay. Everything south of there is phenomeno fine. In vacaville theres a crash on the roadway and well show you how things are shaping up. Another south bay city may decide the debate over rvs. Heres a live look at Mountain View. Council members will vote on an order to ban rvs from parking on streets less than 40 feet wide. Supporters argue rvs are unsafe, block traffic and can be an eyesore. Opponents say the new ordinance would confine them to other areas. Tiffany lee is accused of arranging to have her exboyfriend keith green killed. She was accused of arranging to have her exboyfriend heath green killed. Police say she arranged with her then boyfriend to kill green. She was accused of losing custody of her children to him. Her defense plans to present evidence he was killed in a foiled kidnapping crime. The long awaited memoire by the woman sexually assaulted by brock turner. 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. She appeared on 60 minutes saying shes revealing her identity to take control. Her book is titled know my name. It recounts turners assault and the legal fall out. Bay area preservationists are heading to washington, d. C. We were first to bring you the story yesterday. The suit is a response to the epas decision in march to roll back the clean water act declaring the ponds are no longer protected. Proponents say it precludes legal barriers. Former governor jerry brown is teaming up with chinas top climate official. The pair announcing a new partnership as part of the u. N. s action summit in new york. They revealed the institute will be housed at uc berkley. It will invest in low carbons. A follow up to what many call a heartless crime targeting elderly woman in the walnut 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 cards for a shopping binge. The trash talk finally over this morning. It has mayors in oakland, san jose and San Francisco declaring victory. Volunteers collected more than a ton of trash. Each citys mayor challenged the other to wear their citys sports team colors if they had the largest turn out. Its being declared a threeway win. Each mayor has agreed to perform a day of service while wearing the citys hometown gear. Dates and locations have not been announced. It was a nice bay area effort there. Nice to see so many people turn out. Keep the bay clean. Wish we could say keep it cool today. Not today. We have some cooler weather in the forecast. A lot of changes headed our way. We get ready to head out the door and were prepared for a hot day and a heat advisory for the areas in orange. We have the red flag warning for the fire danger in the hills. Well see the temperatures in all these areas including San Francisco reaching into the 80s along the coast and to the 90s for the bay and inland areas up to 100 degrees. As we start out this morning were of course keeping our yey on the potential of spreading wildfires. This is a look at the sunrise over big rock ridge. We can see its a beautiful start to the morning. Were going to keep an eye on all cameras because well once again be watching the hills. Looking at our temperatures where you step out the door in fairfield its 76 degrees, 75 in brentwood. The temperatures wont cool off as much. In napa were at 57 degrees. As you head out the door in the south bay, its going to be 62 degrees. You might need a jacket for the start of the day. Heating up quickly eventually hitting 96 degrees. 101 in concord today. We have a lot of dry air coming into the bay area. Our high fire danger continues today with low relative humidity were seeing these areas being highlighted for a higher fire danger. Its going to be hot tomorrow with a dry shore wind. As we go into the weekend the pattern changes. The storm system drops into the pacific northwest. Much cooler air and a chance for showers. For the inland area were reaching 100 degrees today, 102 tomorrow. 86 degrees in some warmer spots. Mid 70s throughout the weekend. Its going to be very warm in San Francisco. Mike, you have a Traffic Alert. Thats right, kari. Well show you overall weve not had a dramatic change in these areas. Getting to the bay bridge area its fine. Its going into vacaville just improved. Eastbound 80 all lanes have just opened. The crash on the westbound side leaves all lanes closed. One lane should be opening in a next few minutes. I brought in the surface traffic to show you the folks coming out of vcaville and into fairfield is the other problem here. If youre going out of the area use the opposite reroute. Sky ranger heading to the scene. Eastbound lanes are open. Westbound should be having one lane open. The upper east shore freeway, your typical pattern. The push towards the bay bridge toll plaza is slow from about halfway over from the east shore freeway. Thanks mike. 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. A quick look at the top stories including an important first for anyone who uses cbd oil. The wildly Popular Health remedy some insists has no benefits. President trump set to speak to the International Community at any moment. What to expect as he takes the world stage. 6 52 right now. Youre watching today in the bay. 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 ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with 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. So that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. Welcome back. Before you head out the door its 6 55 heres the top stories. Fire danger today is extremely high. People in high fire danger areas bracing for possible controlled outages. Heres a live look in sonoma to county. Its a pg e camera set to monitor any possible wildfires. Officials say they have trucks and resources ready to go. People are preparing at home making sure they have plenty of food, batteries and phones are fully charged. President trump is expected to discuss iran at the United Nations general assembly. This is video of the president arrives with first lady melania trump. President trump is also scheduled to attend a lunch with the u. N. Secretary general. We want to give you a live look at the u. N. Right now. You can see other World Leaders presenting today. You will be able to watch the president s speech here on nbc bay area. Lester holt is bringing you a special report after today in the bay. New this morning federal prosecutors conducting a criminal probe into juul labs. The wall street journ yaal rep the focus is unclear. Illinois is considering a ban on flavored vape products. New today the Arthritis Foundation is releasing guidelines for using cbd oil. Right now there are no quality standards or regulations for cbd products. As nbc medical contributor dr. Natalie azar points out patients need medical guidance. There hasnt been enough education on how to safely prescribe cbd for medicinal purposes. Yet Health Care Providers are getting asked about the product. The Arthritis Foundation said it helped form guidelines using the best available evidence. Look for the today show report online. Two proposals will be voted on in kcontra costa counties. A ban that would use the polystyrene beverage containers. It would not include styrofoam, reusable ice chests. Vendors would be able to request a hardship exception. If this ban passes, it would not go into effect until may 1st. The board is also considering arrive one cent tax increase. The board is deciding whether or not to recommend this. If improved the increase would raise 3. 6 billion. Our inland areas are reaching up to 100 degrees and very hot tomorrow. We catch a break and get relief in the weekend. Were tracking an alert in vacaville. Thats right. We were worried about a potential fire as a result of the crash. Looking like theres some fluid there to keep the fire at bay. Thats in vacaville eastbound. Just reopened. All lanes are clearing. Its slow leaving our area. This is westbound coming into our area. We have a local news update on the half hour with weather and traffic. Thanks for joining us this morning. Well hand things off to lester holt. Theres a special report coming up. The president on the world stage set to address the United Nations. Thanks for joining us for today in the bay. Have a great morning. Good morning, tipping point, talk of impeachment reaches a fever pitch on capitol hill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi under growing pressure from her own party, set to meet with fellow democrats behind closed doors today. This in the wake of troubling new details about the president s phone call with the leader of ukraine. Its just a democrat witch hu. Here we go again. So what happens next, were live with the very latest. Center stage, the president set to address the Un General Assembly this morning, just ahead what he plans to say about the looming crises in iran, north korea, and china. To some of his toughest critics on the world stage. Under arrest, new details on