Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240713

With low humidity that we had, but we are now starting to see some recovery here, but the good news, for Southern California, is that as the day goes along, the winds will start to wacalm down and well see the conditions improving later on today. Hopefully they get some containment soon. As we head over to mike, youre updating a crash in san carlos. While we talk about the fires, if youre planning on driving down to los angeles, i5 is currently closed through that zone, just south of magic mountain, but for folks familiar with the area, thats the critical route getting down there. Looking over here, noncritical as far as any issues in the bay area, green sensors over most of the bay. I did want to call out this crash in san carlos. Got an update, it was clearing to the one lane just a slow lane but now we have the holly street offramp closed as well, while they clear this crash, and perhaps wait for another hookup for a car. Southbound 101 holly street is closed. Use ralston since im giving you the warning, just before you get there, otherwise you have to loop back over at whipple. The rest of the bay very easy drive, a couple of fender benders north 680 toward the bridge and east highway 4. Those are both counter commute. Back to you. Take our viewers back down Southern California where high, dry winds are fanning an out of control wildfire in the san fernando valley. Its tough. Already some people have lost their homes and their businesses. Today in the bays kris sanchez tracking the very latest for us. Kris . Good morning to you, scott and laura. This is a fire burning completely out of control, and l. A. Firefighters say it is really aggressive, so aggressive that it started at 10 00 last night and is now exploded into the size of 4,6 hurn ac00 acres. Zero percent containment, that means firefighter terms it is burning out of control on all of its borders. Firefighters dont have any control over any part of it. Firefighters confirm there are homes that are destroyed, but theres really no time to stop an evaluate or take account. Nearly 13,000 homes are under mandatory evacuation, that is a lot of families out of their homes overnight. One family had to leave without their dog named minion. Fortunately he was found by a firefighter, and they were reunited. This is your dog . Minion. Reporter this is your dog, right . Thats my dog. Whats thee namf the dog . Reporter there you go. Whats the name of the dog . Minion. Thats minion right there. Reporter im glad she found her home. That is just one of the few bright spots in this fire that started at 10 00 last night. If youre familiar with l. A. , this is the northern part of the county. It is west of i5 and south of the grapevine as mike inouye said, its in the area of magic mountain, if youve been down there. I5 is closed. You wont be able to drive down to l. A. At this point. We did confirm there were preventative Power Outages in Southern California, as we experienced and are experiencing here in Northern California, but this particular area where this fire is burning was not under that outage order. Well keep following this for you and bring you the latest details as they change, because it is a changing fire, and its still growing. Well bring them to you all morning long. Thank you, kris. We are continuing to follow that breaking news that brush fire just exploding overnight destroying homes, threatening so many lives in Southern California as kris is mentions here. We have live fire video right now, this is from our sister station in Southern California knbcs helicopter. It is called the saddleridge fire, affecting sylmar, Granada Hills and porto ranch. Its interesting to note nbc news as kris pointed out, said this area of l. A. Did not experience the planned Power Outages. As we continue to watch this live coverage, from nbc 4, you can see just the tremendous number of flames ripping through this neighborhood. We know there are a number of houses lost and there have been a number of evacuations. Left 210 is also closed and here where the ash and whatnot has been blown over on to those adjoining streets and so there are houses even far away from the fire line in which they are up in flames, and theres just nothing that firefighters can do. Theres just too much and those bers are in the air. Lets listen in to our sister station. Reporter earlier the fire subsided, died a little but now were seeing it pick up a little. The fire is hit and miss. Once the winds pick up, it starts intensifying the fires, the embers start picking up and creating more spot fires which is creating a lot of havoc for the firefighters down below. The hot spots here and there, meghan. This fire fight is really just beginning. Were being told this is going to get bigger, its going to get windier and move across from l. A. To ventura county. Look at the size of this in different areas. Firefighters have their hands completely full, trying to contain this, but right now its zero contained. Granada hills is most impacted right now. We go to the Community Center where we have monica shravez with her town. Svarez. Monica, im sorry. You have been evacuated from your home. Im here dn yell aniella. Were sorry youre evacuated. Can you give us an idea when you evacuated and how youre doing right now . Well,t must have been maybe 4 00 in the morning and the cops and my neighbors start pounding at the door to get out. Lea, leave. Lee, and my son also came to let me know. I was asleep, and then we came here to the shelter but its fully occupied, so now i guess we dont know where were going to go. Monica, we understand that a new center has been opened up at mason park, mason park, where the new Evacuation Center is currently opening right now, so wanted to give you a heads up regarding that. Okay. So hopefully you can get over there. Is there any were you able to take anything as you were leaving . Were you just shocked by how quickly this spread . I was complete i kept saying, my friend came over before earlier and i said dont worry, its not going to happen. I mean, the firemen are great, theyre going to put it out, and then when i heard they start pounding at the door, i said oh my lord, and i get my son before me, because he came over. It was very strong. And he grabbed all the papers, my papers, he says mom, theyre right here, and i was more nervous than he i mean im really nervous. I never went through this ever, so. These poor people in Southern California. We continue to monitor our sister station knbc this morning. You hear the heart ache and the people that had oevacuate, leaving everything behind, and this is y the fire continues to rage on in Southern California, live pictures from the scene there. Those winds sore strong, theyre just whipping this fire along, completely enveloping neighborhoods. Now that fire were talking about in Southern California is the exact reason that pg e says they decided to turn off power for hundreds of thousands of people here across Northern California and in the bay area. We want to get you updated on where things stand right now. Pg e says crews have made significant progress in power being stored. You take a look at this map right here. This is what theyre claiming successes so far, nearly 312,000 homes and businesses, however, still remain in the dark this morning across Northern California. Compare that to the nearly 747,000 originally impacted, in the bay area the largest outages were seeing right now remain to be in napa and sonoma counties. Youll recall they were part of the first round of the planned shutoffs that we saw. Were live in the north bay this morning, well take you there coming up in our next half hour. I do want to give you a look at pg es power outage website, you can see all the areas there in purple still in the dark. Pg e says it will not turn power back on any more until the daylight comes, when crews can continue to be out there inspecting the lines. So if youre watching us on your mobile device and still do not have power, sorry to say, it is going to be a little while. Well make our best efforts to ke you posted. 5 09. A lot of outrage as you wou imagine, you may feel it at pg e for cutting off that power, and they say that may happen again when there are more extreme fire and wind conditions. Today in the bays roz plater is live in orinda, where thousands are still without power, but i can see not at the b. A. R. T. Station. Good morning, roz. Reporter good morning. Yes the b. A. R. T. Station just opening at this hour and also plenty of light here, were going to try to talk to passengers gauging their responses to the ceo from pg e, apology, and also a lot of growing anger over how all this was handled. Again, as you said, as daylight comes, the pg e crews will get back to checking lines and equipment as they work to restore power but the Company Warns that could take hours, possibly even longer. The companys new ceo apologized, but is standing by the utilitys decision to cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers. Not good enough, says san joses mayor, who wants the utility to pay up at least half a million in charges the city had to shell out. We have certainly spoken to the Governors Office about large public costs. I have myself and well continue to press that issue, and expect that there will be some compensation from pg e for the considerable public cost. Reporter the pg e ceo he expects there will be people who are angry, but he is asking to you direct your anger at him. He says please do not direct it to the front line workers he said have been shot at, punched and yelled at. Hes asking for safety for this morning as the workers get back to try to restore power. Were live in orinda, roz plater for today in the bay. Thank you, roz. Still ahead on today in the bay, some say apple and google are bowing to pressure from china, following chinas backlash with the nba. At 5 25, the fallout for decisions theyve made against hong kong supporters. Well continue to follow the fire raging on in Southern California. This is a live look right now. We have your weather and traffic coverage here as well. 5 11 right now. Youre watching today in the bay. Its been reported that theres a cyberattack on business every 39 seconds. Ouch. I dont even want to think about it. Comcast business has a solution. We go beyond fast with a cloudbased Security System that automatically updates, so you always have the latest protection. Phishing. Malware. Risky sites. It can help block all of that. Get fast internet and add comcast business securityedge for just 29. 95 a month. Its one less thing for us to worry about. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Good friday morning. Right now at 5 14, as you step out it is a chilly start to the day. Looking live now in san jose, were going from the upper 40s and low 50s to the mid70s by noon. A really nice day ahead. Well talk about this and the weekend forecast in less than five minutes. Kari, good news, richmond side of the bridge we had a crash cleared from the lanes as you approach the toll plaza. Thats the good news. But in richmond, we just heard about a fire shoulder of the freeway. It sounds like it may be catching on to some trees. Well bring thaw location and the traffic impact coming up. Good morning, im Frank Holland at cnbc headquarters. Wall street is set to open in the green as high level negotiators from the u. S. And china resume trade talks in washington today. President trump told reporters the first day of talks on thursday were going really well and tweeted hed meet with the chinese vice premier at the white house today, that increased hopes among investors both sides can reach agreement. If no progress is made this week, u. S. Tariffs on chinese imports are said to increase early next week. On todays watch list, import prices for september will be released before the opening bell. Later in the session, investors will keep an eye on octobers Consumer Sentiment figures. In an effort to jump start stalled contract talks between gm and the United Autoworkers Union the Ceo Mary Barra met with president gary jones on wednesday. The first barra attended with union leaders. Union workers have been on strike for nearly one month, halting all production at gm factories. Wall street analysts estimate gm is losing roughly 50 million to 100 million per day in lost production. Workers living off about 250 a week. Its official, Social Security checks are going to get a boost next year, albeit a modest one. The Social Security administration announcing checks will increase 1. 6 in 2020, while thats good news for retirees, its still less than what theyve gotten in the past. In 2019 the checks got a nearly 3 bump. Im Frank Holland, those are your cnbc business headlines. Thank you, frank. Back to breaking news in Southern California, a brush fire exploding overnight, destroying homes and threatening cities. This is the saddleridge fire, already burned 4600 acres near interstate 5 south of the grapevine. There is no containment. Weve been watching the winds on that as well that have just been extraordinary. Were going back to the fire, taking a look at that, the winds there blowing embers to the point where some fires are a distance from other fires. People have been evacuated from their homes. In the meantime lets get a check of weather and traffic. So windy down there this morning. This is the wind event we had yesterday, now it has moved into Southern California, and i wanted to show you the winds that we are seeing in those areas across san fernando valley. Right now at about 36 miles per hour, and getting Even Stronger for some of those hills, going through the rest of the morning, it will stay gusty, and we are going to see some improvement later on today, but it will take several hours. So we do have from now until this afternoon until the weather starts to work in the favor of those firefighters, trying to get some containment on that fire. So well continue to monitor that, as we are also dealing with some very low humidity across Southern California. Were waking up and walking out the door to some much more calm conditions here in the bay area, looking at dublin, it is a chilly start, i wanted to show you our current temperatures now, we are down to 38 degrees in santa rosa, so if you still are without power and dealing with temperatures like this, it is not very comfortable at all, and so we are going to have to just try to make it through the next several hours before our temperatures get much more comfortable. Were at 48 degrees in livermore. Were headed up to 82 there today, so a big rebound in temperatures for this afternoon, reaching the mid 80s, as well for the north bay. Going into the weekend, well start to see our winds calming but then turn much more breezy by sunday as another storm system moves across the pacific northwest, and we will keep some mild weather. There will be one after another of pacific storms, while the rain stays to our north, we will see our winds coming in from the north and east, and then turning more southerly going into the rest of the day, and its looking pretty nice through the sevenday forecast, at times some clouds, seasonable weather. No major changes here going into next thursday. San francisco warm today, but cooling down slightly for the rest of the weekend. Mike, youre hearing about a fire in the east bay. Thats right, not here at the bay bridge. We have one problem with your microphone there. Again there . Now its okay. Well see. See if we can go for a second. No problems at the bay bridge toll plaza. We are looking at upper east shore freeway where we have the issue alongside the road, around San Pablo Dam road and the approach of bushes on fire off of the offramp there it goes again. All right. Were going to check back with you, no major problems he has no report but i am interested in what you had to say about whats going on in richmond. Thank you. 5 19 right now. Bay area Power Outages also affecting a south bay worker strike. The reason workers in Santa Clara County are postponing the rolling strike theyve been in. Weve got all the details. Youre watching todaythe bay. Welcome back on this friday morning. Its 5 22, another update on the Power Outages across the bay area. Thats right, a live look at pg es outage map, locally currently seeing the largest amount of outages up in sonoma and napa counties. Crews are making some of the most progress so far restoring power in solano, santa clara, contra costa, and san mateo counties. Were going to keep tabs on everything thats going on. Here is pg es update as of 9 00 last night, last update they gave us, alameda is 78 restored, contra costa 85 restored. Marin 80 . Napa 59 . San mateo 84 . Santa clara 88 restored. Santa cruz 64 . Solano 94 . Sonoma 46 restored. Of course, all this information on nbcbayarea. Com. It turns out pg es power shutoff also interrupted Santa Clara County Service Workers strike. Weve been telling but it here on today in the bay. Members of seiu local 521 actually put down their picket signs until further notice. The union is postponing its rolling strike out of concern for public safety. The union has been working without a contract since june. A former San Mateo Police officer is guilty of committing rape while on duty. Jurors convicted Noah Winchester on 14 counts including kidnapping and raping five women over two years. He faces life in prison but hell be sentenced in december. Apple is being accused of caving to pressure from chinas government. The tech giant dropped an app from its store used by demonstrators in hong kong. The app called hk map live was being used to track police. Apple says the app was endangering Law Enforcement and people who live in hong kong. Critics also accuse google of doing the same thing from its google play store. In the meantime, the nba is canceling all media events for its players in china. It comes following backlash by china following a tweet made by the general manager of the houston rockets, supporting hong kong protesters. The nba put its policy in place ahead of the l. A. Lakers and Brooklyn Nets preseason matchup that took place yesterday. The two teams are set to play each other in china again tomorrow. 5 24. The search is on for a trio of smashandgrab robbers who targeted two stores at the great mall in milpitas. These are surveillance images inside the home depot. You can see there are three men who police say robbed the store back in august. They went across a parking lot, to a jewelry store, used hammers to smash glass and steal jewelry. Milpitas police are releasing the photos in hopes of getting release. 5 24. A followup on 50 bikes stolen from an east bay nonprofit teaching kids how to ride. The call is going out to the public to replace the bikes. The robbery happened outside the alama elementary school. The bikes which belong to cycles of change were in a uhaul and someone stole the truck. Chp found the uhaul with 15 bikes and theres a donation page online to try to replace the rest of the fleet. Who knew all the sharks needed marleau magic to get on track. Marleau rejoined the sharks earlier this week. He spent 19 seasons before leaving the Team Two Years ago. Last night in chicago, looked like he never left. In his first game back marleau scored a power play goal in the first period. He scored a second time in the second period, helping lead the sharks to a 54 win. This is the first of their season, ending a fourgame losing streak. Warriors fans good news, steph curry looks in mid season form. The bad news s the games dont count yet. Last night at the new chase center the warriors played their second preseason home game, curry scored 40 points as warriors beat minnesota by 20. They host one more preseason game ten days from now, and then things get real, theyll host the clippers on their opener october 24th. Speaking of things getting real, the best teams, two in the American League about to play for that spot in the world series. The Houston Astros took control in tampa. Scored four runs in the first inning and pitching from garr rel cole. Astros took it 61. The National Championships under way with st. Louis hosting washington tonight. Coming up, breaking news, thousands evacuated in Southern California. Fires exploding overnight. These are live pictures from our helicopter in los angeles. Homes destroyed, flames spreading forcing people to rush out, leaving everything behind. Theres your owner. Theres your owner. Its your dog . Minion. Its your dog, right . Thats my do well have the latest on the fire coming up in a live report. And a little relief for some folks, too. Anger is directed, however, here at pg e because of the widespread Power Outages across Northern California and the bay area. Now people want other options. We pay for their mistakes, we pay when people die and we pay in our bills. And pg e warning more outages could be coming in our future. Well tell you about the changes people want. 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. A firestorm in Southern California right now. Taking a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge well get to your morning forecast as well. Good morning to you and thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im scott mcgrew. Marcus has the day off. Lets get a check of your weather with kari. Were getting ready for fleet week, starting out clear and also the winds are calming down here, but as we have been talking about, the winds have now shifted over to Southern California. Well be monitoring that, as we look at our high temperatures, and also some sunshine today, its going to be slightly warmer, with some highs in the trivalley reaching the low 80s. Low 80s in the south bay, 77 in San Francisco, and napa today reaching 82 degrees. Well get a look at that weekend forecast, mike youre tracking three spots in the east bay. Thats right, kari. Look at the gradual build kicking in at the bay bridge toll plaza. This is lighter for a friday. We didnt have any problem as the metering lights were turned on ten minutes ago. We are tracking this gradual build. Eastbound 80 we talked about the fire before the issue with the microphone that has been replaced now and were looking at eastbound 80 at San Pablo Dam road. There is a tree on fire near the offramp, contra costaouy Fire Department is on scene and weve heard no problems and seen no slowing. Well track that one, meanwhile the slowing getting away from there on the 880, the nimitz headed through downtown, there because i believe theyre clearing the crew around 23rd, the right timing and there are no other incidents reported there. A smooth drive through the north bay, but remember, we dont have full restoration of all the shutoff areas so you still will find some darker areas without signals and without street lighting, as you continue for your morning commute and i think a lot of folks did just write that off for the week when they heard the shutdown was happening on wednesday. They may have made other plans for the mornings throughout the bay. A smooth drive and no major problems. Back to you. There are major problems in Southern California. Look at this fire that is raging there, it is growing, it has been throughout the night. Weve seen it sweep through neighborhoods in l. A. County. Today in the bays kris sanchez has been following all of the developments, i know were worried about the winds as well, kris. We know there are so many people under those mandatory evacuation orders that were triggered overnight that now the Evacuation Centers are full and officials are scrambling to find a safe place to put more people. This fire is really aggressive, according to l. A. County firefighters, and it is continuing to grow. I want to show you some of these stats on it. The fire started just about 10 00 last night and in the last eight hours or so grown to 4,600 acres. The flames jumped the 210 freeway at one point. There is zero containment, meaning firefighters are not controlling any part of the perimeter. It can grow in every direction. Firefighters confirmed that some homes are destroyed, but that theres just no time to stop and take count. Officials had to evacuate 300 children and teenagers from the Juvenile Hall center there. They have relocated. 13,000 homes are under mandatory evacuation orders and one family had to leave without their dog, minion. You saw some of that reunion at the top of the show. Here is the rest of it. Reporter theres your owner. Is this your dog . Thats my dog. Whats the name of the dog . Reporter there you go. Whats the name of the dog . Minion. Thats minion right there. Reporter im glad she found her home. If youre familiar with l. A. , this is north of the city of l. A. , this is the northern part of the county west of i5, south of the grapevine. As mike has been reporting, if you had plans to drive down to l. A. , youre to ve to reroute, because i5 is also closed for part of this morning. We did confirm there were preventative power shutoffs like weve had here down in Southern California, but that this particular area where the fire started was not under that outage at the time. We will keep following details and bring them as they develop this morning. Kris, thank you. As you point out, that fire in the south the exact reason for pg e deciding to turn off power for hundreds of thousands of people here in Northern California and the bay area especially. I want to get you updated on where things stand right now. Pg e says crews have made significant Progress Power being restored. These are the percentages of customers brought back online here. So these are good news numbers. Nearly 312,000 homes and businesses do remain in the dark. Areas in purple are the ones where there is no power. Pg e says it wont turn power on until daylight, because crews need to inspect those lines, but they may be turning on your power soon. If youre watching us on a mobile device, still dont have power, it is going to be a little whe. Hisorning theres a lot of outrage at pg e for cutting off that power, something pg e says may happen again and more often during extreme fire conditions. Today in the bays roz plater joins us live in orinda, where thousands there are still without power, but not at the b. A. R. T. Station, where you are. Theyve been managing to power that themselves, roz. Reporter lots of power here, but weve been talking to people on their way to work this morning who got power back, some of them around 8 00 or so last night but they say their experience was horrible. They are outraged as are other people over how all of this was handled. Pg e says its crews will be back out this morning as they begin to reinspect, check lines and equipment, as they work to restore power but the Company Warns that that could take hours probably even longer, possibly even longer. The companys new ceo apologized but says hes standing by the utilitys decision to cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers for safety. But the governor says the drastic measure is a result of years of pocketing profits instead of making needed improvements. From my perspective, a Climate Change story is much a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decad decades. Reporter despite the ceos apology, the utility faces mounting criticism from customers and politicians, some are even calling for the company to reimburse cities for the costs incurred by this power shutdown and theres also new brewing outrage over a story reported in the San Francisco chronicle that just hours before the shutdown, some pg e gas employees wined and dined some of their top customers at say know ma county winery. The new ceo called that a colossal mistake and tone deaf and says it wont happen again. Live in orin da, im roz plater, today in the bay. People will be watching, roz, thanks so much. Were continuing to monitor the bay area blackout on air and online. Our digital team is sending paush lerts apush alerts and refreshing our content 24 7. Follow our twitter, facebook and instagram pages. Prepare to pay more at the b. A. R. T. Stations. The Transit Agency looking in to variable pricing based on demand. It means the amount you pay will depend on how busy the lot is. Right now theres a 3 cap on parking fees at every station besides west oakland. A lot of companies and things have gone to pay on demand or pay as you go, including the San Francisco giants. There you go. And look at that behind you there. Yes, we will have to pay and for the privilege of waiting at the bay bridge toll plaza. We have a gradual build, we talked about that. Not as heavy as we sometimes see on a friday. I think a lot of folks wrote off the week after they heard outages are scheduled for wednesday and thursday. We dont have full resteroratio yet. Its well lit with the metering lights at the bay bridge. Contra costa county Fire Department is on the scene, the onramp from San Pablo Dam road on to eastbound 80 so it is not affecting the freeway and just a couple of bushes there. Four trucks are there, being extra careful. We dont want anything to grow out there. Were looking at a smooth drive for the rest of the bay. For the bay area were looking at a good smooth flow of traffic for this friday. As we talked b just following the fires and going to take it down where quite honestly we didnt pay for the sensors in l. A. Because we dont need them. Over here you see i5 is cut off. Grapevine. Just past magic mountain, before you get to the split with 405, so your only route would be the 101. Theyve shut it down in that area . As we see the chopper shots you can see i5 at times with the fire right there at the freeway. Thats a auththoroughfare. Maybe youre staying h ining he the weekend. It will be nice for fleet week, getting ready for the air show that starts today at noon, up to 77 degrees, all clear skies and well see more sunshine throughout the weekend. Slightly cooler headed toward sunday and as we look at our overall temperatures across the bay area, our valleys will reach up to about 84 degrees. 80 in the bay, and the coastal areas in the mid70s. By sunday, it will be slightly cooler for the coast, the bay reaching 77, and the inland valleys up to 74 degrees. A lot of Pumpkin Patches will be open this weekend. If youre going to be around petaluma, you want to check out the Pumpkin Patch there. We have some beautiful conditions, and perfect for taking pictures and the sunshine will be in the upper 70s. Maybe just a little too warm for the costumes. If youre going to be heading out i alameda, you want to check out the park street classic car show, its going to be really nice, starting out with some mid60s, as we go throughout the day well see those highs reaching up to about 75 degrees. In the trivalley this weekend, more sun and warm weather, but it will cool down just a bit as we head toward sunday but if youre looking for the warmer conditions, head out there on saturday. Going out of town north to lake shasta, you want to make sure youre calling ahead to make sure everything is good. We had a lot of Power Outages but were looking at some nice weather conditions and highs reaching into the mid70s. If you are going to l. A. , mike gave you the heads up about that, you might have to take 101 down but we are going to see those temperatures cooling down there as well as the winds relax after today. Ill have a look at todays temperature trend for the south bay, thats coming up in three minutes. Thank you, kari. Coming up next, 5 40 right now. Sharon katsuda joins us live in sonoma, where the power is back on. She talked to multiple Business Owners overnight, how people there are feeling on their first morning back with electricity. Look at the beautiful lights. Since the big blackout no, kidding. An offseason problem, a San Diego Padres pitcher, thats him, hes arrested. Well tell you about the crime hes accused of. Announcer Time Magazine reports the new american addiction. How juul hooked kids and ignited a Public Health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. Food friday morning. At 5 43, coming up on 5 44 its a chilly start. Mountain view with a look at our temperature trend for the morning, well be at 50 degrees. You need a heavier jacket but you wont need it the rest of the day. It will be nice at noon, were at 73. Well talk about whats ahead for the weekend, coming up in our forecast, in less than five minutes. Were looking at oakland, traveling nicely along 880. Notice the headlights moving south. We had slowing at the construction zone, clearing headed through downtown. This might be a traffic release. Ill check the sensors and well show you what else is going on for the progress. Chp has been called over toward richmond. Mike, in Southern California, these fires just all over the place. Massive evacuations, this is the saddleridge fire, its 4,600 acres near interstate 5, south of the grapevine. Theres no containment. So far several homes have been destroyed. You n see firestorm there. Thousands evacuated. Kris sanchez is monitoring developments and will have an update at the top of the hour. Back here in the bay area, some good news to report. Thousands of people waking up with power, others without. Pg e outages put into place to avoid the fires that we saw but there say lot of progress this morning. Which is nice to report. Shd s today in the bays Sharon Katsuda is down in sonoma, an area weve been covering all week. You say the lights are back on in some areas . Reporter oh, yes. You bet, laura and scott. Were seeing people out here jogging, walking their dogs, and they have an extra step in their walk in their run because they are so excited. I just asked them are you happy about this . She said, you have no idea. Shes headed back to work, where things will be back to normal today. Lets take a look at some of the video that we shot earlier this week, just a couple days ago, we showed you traffic lights out, leaving drivers here in the north bay in various parts of the bay area with dangerous conditions, and businesses like this local bakery in sonoma trying to bake ahead of time before the power shut off. Some businesses still doing business in the dark. Power is back for many businesses and you can literally and figuratively feel the energy out here. Basically im going to finish up my work here and go home and go to sleep and wake up and have a nice shower and a real breakfast and get back to normal. Reporter were hearing mixed reaction here to the power shutoff earlier this week. You can see the power is back on here at bass cafe. For the past two days they served coffee and some pastries. One person who left the bakery said all they have left is danishes and he went for that, even though he didnt want to go for a prune danish, but they were limited in what they could serve. This morning i talked to an employee here who said hes going to start baking some more bread, so good news out here in sonoma. Reporting live in sonoma, im Sharon Katsuda, today in the bay. So great to hear so many people anxious to get back to work. Activity. Exactly, very important, living life. Thank you, sharon. Well, bad behavior off the field. A San Diego Padres pitcher has been arrested after Authorities Say he broke into a house through the doggy door. Jacob nix was confronted by the homeowner who kicked him in the face, as he tried to get through the doggy door and then the homeowner pulled out a shotgun. The 23yearold nix pitched in nine games with the padres in 2018. He was arrested along with another Padres Minor League player in a statement the padres say theyre aware of the incident but wont be making any comment at this time. 5 47 right now. Were less than a year away from the 2020 olympics in tokyo but simone biles continues to shine. The superstar gymnast has won another gold add millimedal at championship. She won by a record margin of victory in germany. Its her fifth allaround title at the world championships. Watch biles at next summers Olympic Games and provided she qualifies, yeah, right. Yeah, right, oh, she will, no doubt. You can watch all that on nbc bay area. I wonder what its like, who are you against . Oh, simone. All right, well, silver is going to look good. The way she bounces is amazing. Very cool. Kind of like you in the morning. Well, in heels. Goldwining anchor. I am looked forward to the weekend. Me, too. It is going to be really nice. Look at how cold it is this morning. This is behind that front that rolled through yesterday, it brought in those gusty winds and the low humidity. Now were just left with the cold air so its 38 degrees right now in santa rosa. 46 in napa. 49 in oakland. There is a wide range in temperatures in San Francisco 56 degrees. A live look in fremont, we dont have the flags waving in the wind like yesterday. In fact, theyre not moving at all. We have a much more calm wind starting out. Well go from 50 degrees this morning to 73 at lunch time. If youre about to step out in Pleasant Hill headed to the b. A. R. T. Station you might find yourself running back in for a heavier jacket. Its 47 degrees through 6 00 and well see our temperatures at 9 00 at 56. 69 degrees at 11 00 this morning. As we go through all of our microclimates, we take it hour by hour, we see that by early afternoon, were only making it into the low 80s for many of our inland spots, and San Francisco will stay in the mid70s. San jose at 2 30 will be at 81 degrees and cooling off again today. Were back in the lower 50 so if youre getting a look out the win co, getting dressed, make sure once again you have something nice and warm for the early hours. The rest of the day with all this sunshine, you want to make sure you have your sunglasses and theyre all cleaned off and ready to go. Going through the weekend, well see a couple more storm systems approaching but the rain stays to the north, but it will cause some slight cooling on sunday. Much more of a breezy wind but notice that our winds will blow in onshore, so thats bringing in higher humidity, and it wont be as gusty as the winds we had yesterday in the higher elevations, going through next week, a couple of more pacific storm systems moving in. Well keep it fairly mild here, keep our temperatures from warming up. So were looking at low 80s today, then a lot of 70s through the rest of the forecast after sunday. San francisco upper 70s today, but well bring it back to the upper 60s by early next week. Mike, so far the commute has been pretty smooth. Thats right, we dont want to mess it up. So well knock on wood. A smooth drive, the sensors are moving kniceley around the bay, a little slowing 101, typical pattern just easing in to the friday. A disabled vehicle reported on 101 as you travel north through san mateo. No lanes blocked from what i understand but ill continue to track that. We have no incidents for vasco, just some slowing as you go from two lanes down to one, making that last final stretch over toward 580. Youre just under 25 minutes for that drive from marsh creek road out of brentwood, discovery bay, a smooth drive for the rest of Contra Costa County as well. No real slowing antioch just a tiny dip in speeds as you get toward pittsburgh and bay point. Drive across the carquinez bridge and bay bridges okay and right here we are just marking the january romp, San Pablo Dam road to eastbound 80, chp called to help with Traffic Control as they address a small brush fire a couple of trees on the onramp. The bay bridge toll plaza with metering lights on at the toll plaza, weve had the gradual build, all lanes are filled in, moving back toward the maze. No surprises if you have fastrak you have that advantage there. An option to complete lay void that toll plaza, youll take b. A. R. T. From the east bay in to the city, no delays in either direction through the tube and a smooth flow around the bay, same thing for the other transit agencies. Take a chance to explodexplode, your clipper car. Theres palo alto. Back to you. Happening now, iran claims missiles hit an oil tanker in the red sea this morning. Iranian media reporting two missiles hit the tanker, spilling oil into the sea. Crew members are safe, the ship is in stable condition despite the damage. Oil prices continue to surge as tensions ramp up in the region. Iran is investigating the missile strike as a possible terror attack. Next and all new this hour the Bay Area Company working to help police catch drivers who just smoked or ate marijuana. The new device the ceo calls common sense. Eye nephew plays it a lot, spend the whole day playing fortnite without eating. Does that sound familiar . Next and new, the Class Action Lawsuit some parents are filing against the makers of fortnite, when the kids are just playing too much. Well have more. Youre watching today in the bay. Your business can do a lot in 10 minutes. Like make a big sale. Surprise and delight a customer. Or come up with the winning idea. And 10 minutes is all you need to finally give your business the Internet Technology it really needs. Well prove it. Give us 10 minutes. 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A breathalyzer they made designed to detect drivers under the influence of thc, a key component in marijuana. The ceo based in oakland says many states like california where pot is legal have seen an uptick in road accidents. Its kind of common sense. We dont want our Airline Pilot to take a bong hit and get in the cockpit, right . We certainly dont want people to smoke pot and get behind the wheel of a 4,000 pound vehicle. Whether the marijuana is smoked, vaped or eaten, the breathalizer can detect the level of impairment. The labs is betting this will be a game changer for police. Three minutes to 6 00. Also now the maker of the Popular Video game fortnite may face a Class Action Lawsuit in canada. Two parents claim the game is as addictive as cocaine. Their 10 and 15yearold children are addicts. Heres their lawyer. It becomes unbearable at home, they wont go for dinner, sometimes they wont shower, like you become, its actual addiction. It could take a year for a judge in quebec to decide if this moves forward. Epic games told nbc it doesnt comment on ongoing litigation. As for parents dealing with an obsession at home American Academy of pediatrician recommends 30 minutes on school night and less than two hours on nonschool nights. I was saying earlier maybe as part of the settlement the game maker could send two parents into the home. Tell them to stop playing. I must be a mean mom. I dont let them play that at all. A long awaited nasa mission to probeerts upper atmosphere took off after delay. The icon spacecraft on a rocket launched from florida will make its way to earths orbit on a mission to study the planets ionosphere. The mission was delayed more than two years due to technical problems with the rocket. New this morning, so hes adobe is cutting access to its products in venezuela, citing u. S. Sanctions, part of the trump administrations effort to oust the socialist president nicolas maduro. People in venezuela exploring piracy workarounds to continue using adobe. Photo shop and other products are widely used by designers and illustrators in digital marketers. Creative professionals in the country took to social media to protest. Adobe said its software will stop working in venezuela later this morning. Fires are burning out of control in Southern California. Homes burning overnight, highways shutting down. People frantically fleeing parts of the san fernando valley. Well take you there with live pictures and reports, along with new accounts from evacuees. We pay for their mistakes growing backlash against pg e as more power does return to the bay area. The new admission about what executives were doing before the shutoffs. Plus calming down, as winds blow in Southern California, temperatures drop, a live look in san jose as well. Kari just updated her forecast for her, so the weekend is ahead, today in the bay continues right now. We all need a little weekend. And some power, that would be nice, too. Good morning to you and thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im scott mcgrew in for Marcus Washington this morning. Kari has a look at your weekend forecast. It starts out this morning calmer winds but cooler temperatures as you get ready to head out the door. Well have a warm day and getting ready for fleet week and the air show, a live ok at the going Golden Gate Bridge. There may be a shahle low ribbon of fog growing across the bridge later on this morning. Right now its all clear. About to head out the door youll feel temperatures in San Francisco in the mid50s. It will warm upnt