Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240712

Meteorologist kari hall with that beautiful sun rise behind you. Bright sun rise in San Francisco this morning as we get a look at the bay bridge. Not so much fog as we start out on this monday morning. As we head to the north bay a lot of red here as we get ready for the red flag warning once again, high winds picking up with low humidity along with gusty winds. Ill talk more about this and what it means, that red flag warning coming up. Any new issues coming up for drivers . Unexpected at the bay bridge. Take a look today. Now we have metering lights turned on at 5 54. There was a quick build. No problems on the approach or the span. Back to you. We heard kari just mention this, happening right now hot and windy, dry conditions. Today in the bays jackie ward is live for us. What are firefighters telling everyone to do . Reporter its the dry conditions you were talking about with the weather and the use of fireworks that can make a deadly combination this time of year, of course, with the july 4th holiday coming up. Thats why a lot of parks are closed because of the red flag warning. We have a list to share with you, just a few of them. Natalie coffin green park in ross, leo cronin in langunitas and mount vision road in inverness. Marin county fire officials warn fire could spread quickly which is why we should all use extreme caution. No structures were threatened. A fire broke out. Thankfully no evacuations were needed. Firefight wrers abers were able the progression. Illegal fireworks, two and a half acres burned early sunday morning near Howard Elementary School and 580. It took more than 50 firefighters to put it out. No one was hurt and no structures burned. All of those reasons including the red flag warning is the reason a lot of Fire Departments have staffed up their departments to make sure they can be fully prepared. That red flag warning is in effect until 8 00 tonight. Jackie ward, today in the bay. Thank you very much, jackie. Now back to washington, d. C. , this morning where tracie potts joins us live. Tracie, a lot of things to discuss on capitol hill this morning. Including the surge in covid cases were seeing across the country plus a possible rise in tensions in russia. Tell us all about it. Reporter right, laura. Well talk about both of those because theyre both big stories in d. C. Today. Covid19 because even though the u. S. Is a fraction of the worlds population we now have, as of this morning, a quarter of the worlds cases and the numbers are greg. Are growing. The u. S. Has 2. 5 million cases of coronavirus with new records in florida, south carolina, nevada. We are one day closer to the day we put this pandemic in the past. Reporter Vice President pence hit hot spots this week. Governors are at odds over how to handle it. Im now afraid of the spread coming from other states. We cant be putting these restrictions on each other across the country. Reporter the Trump Administration facing tough questions whether its safe to reopen and why theres been no second stimulus to help americans without jobs. Its time for this administration to take this seriously. Reporter and russia. President trump denying a New York Times report that he knew back in marcia sha put a bounty on u. S. Troops. The president is going out of his way to say he hasnt heard anything about it. Reporter russia denies they paid anyone to hunt down and kill american soldiers. Now President Trump was credible. Thats why it didnt get to him, it never landed on his desk, he says, despite the New York Times reporting and weve learned that congress is getting an update. Some lawmakers are getting an update about what the government knows. That will happen today. Back to you. All right, well be listening for that, tracie potts live from washington, thanks so much. New overnight four gunmen are dead after an attack on the Pakistani Stock Exchange that killed at least two people. It happened early this morning in the capital city of karachi. Police say the attackers used grenades and heavy firearms and Security Forces quickly responded. Security forces are still looking for additional attackers. So far no one has claimed responsibility. The bay area has nearly 23,000 coronavirus cases and 568 people have died. Over the past twoported. Worldwide more than 10 million cases and half a Million People have died. Another case of someone going too far. Security video showing this woman standing at a bar purposely coughing on one of the bartenders. This happened at st. James gate in belmont and just after bartenders told that woman to follow those social distancing rules. Management at first held off releasing the video but decided other businesses deserve fair warning about any customer who might do this. We want people to come here and sit down and have an opportunity. No one wants to be locked up again. Police came by yesterday although so far the bartender has decided not to press charges. Police say a woman coughed on a toddler in a stroller. Oak Grove School District identified the woman as one of their employees and says that investigation is ongoing. The accused Golden State Killer is set to enter a guilty plea. Prosecutors have used dna evidence to tie 74yearold Joseph Deangelo to 12 murders, at least 45 rapes and more than 120 burglaries. The crimes happened across california in the 1970s and 80s and include up to a dozen attacks in three bay area counselees. B. A. R. T. S Civic Center station will be the latest to accept only those clipper cards as payment partly to create a more contactless riding experience during the pandemic. B. A. R. T. Has been phasing out the paper tickets since last year. Firefighters in the north bay right now are on high alert. Strong winds and dry conditions potentially creating a dangerous mix and a red flag warning to talk about as well, kari. It was so windy yesterday especially during the evening and the winds have since subsided but will pick up again today. Thats the reason it will continue. For the north bay, all of these areas shaded in red, this is where the winds above 1,000 feet may gust over 50 miles an hour today. You have that along with hot temperatures, very low humidity and those high winds and well continue to seep t the red flag warnings continue. Most of our wind speeds will be between 55 and 35 Miles Per Hour. Then some of the high gusts will continue as we go into today. We start to see the winds calming down a bit and will see much better fire conditions for the rest of the week. Mike, any issues that are starting to come up now . No, in fact, were seeing better flow. Look at the live camera. I was concerned about that burst of traffic after the earlier crash released around blossom hill but its held steady and what you see there is what you see for the area ive marked on the map with an arrow. No problem for silicon valley. The bigger view at the bay shows no real problems anywhere. Mild through livermore and to sunol. A live look shows you despite that nice green flow around the bay, metering lights were turned on before 6 00 a. M. It is 6 10. Coming up next on today in the bay starting this week airlines will start to fill their planes. The impact for you and your family and what you need to know if you are heading out to prepare. Facebook finally taking some action after more than a week of advertiser boycotts really hit Facebook Stock hard. Out to the futures market. Got a drubbing on friday. It looks like a positive open this morning. And you know the music. That means its time for our tribute to the class of 2020. Take a look here. You can see were highlighting some of the graduates of 2020 who made it through the school year but without that official ceremony because of the pandemic. Our great grads segment where we want to say congratulations to these Elementary School students who made it into middle school. Congratulations to them. If you want to see one of your graduates on today in the bay, send us a candid shot. Laura garcia and Marcus Washington nbc bay area, both on facebook. Congratulations to all of our graduates. Right now at 6 14 a live look outside in the south as we start day as we look at our temperature going from the low 60s at 8 00 to the low 80s. Well talk about a cooldown in our forecast and the high fire danger that continues coming up. And a live look at the toll plaza, a backup here. That might cause alarm but theres no reason for it. Metering lights were turned on before 6 00. You see movement and no problem on the approach. Well piece together your approach coming up. And good morning. A very happy monday to you in a little less than two hours. It is called the badger and its from a Company Called nikola. A closer look at it, a traditional pickup truck more than teslas cyber truck for sure. Now reservations are as low as 250 and theyre refundable and that is important because we havent seen the prototype in real life. Nikola has done very well on the stock market. Nikola tesla, the inventor, both names have been accounted for. Stock markets look to open to the positive today despite all the evidence we have seen that americans badly botched controlling the coronavirus. Health secretary czar warning we are on the edge of completely out of control pandemic. Notice facebooks price there. Facebook moving lower. That has the ceos attention. The 2020 elections were already shaping up to be incredibly heated and that was before we all faced the additional complexities of a Global Pandemic and protests for Racial Justice across the country. Mark zuckerberg stepping in with new rules to control false and violent posts on his social network. This comes after company after company said no more ads on social networks for the time being in general. We used to add Company Logos to the boycott to show them to you. But there have been so many we ran out of room and got rid of them. The latest are levis, starbucks, cocacolcocacola, u. This has gotten Mark Zuckerbergs attention and he promises more changes. You put a fire under them and you will see change. Thank you very much, scott. 6 17 right now. New this morning american and United Airlines are warning travelers are going back to full flights despite the surge in covid cases. American airlines will have passengers declare if they are free ofsymptoms. All airlines do req mask. So something good for you that morning, if you are a fan of xmen stars of the original xmen, more of an excuse me. I hope its okay if i joined. Xmen origins. Surprised everyone during a 20year reunion. This happened on saturday night during a global benefit. Reynolds first debuted in the wolverine movie in 2009 but in this video other xmen alum soon joined him from what, ten films in. So a lot of movies there with a lot of actors. Yeah, ten olds. Ryan reynolds . Okay, maybe that didnt work out. He can crash our party anytime. Technical difficulties. Thats what well say. Thats what it was. Meteorologist kari hall is storms sister. I dont know what were going to call her. Maybe ill be lightning. I dont know. Well have to make up a name. A live view on this monday morning as were getting up and getting ready for a really nice day. We are watching out for some of our hills as we take a live look looking toward dublin. We know the vegetation is so dry and thats the reason we are going to still have a high fire danger for today. The winds will be a little bit higher for all these areas in red, a red flag warning that will go into effect and continue until 8 00 this evening as our winds could gust up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Its going to be very warm and dry in some spots. Were up to 90 in concord and antioch. Livermore up to 86 for a High Temperature today and also 86 degrees in morgan hill. San jose will reach the low 80s and San Francisco will be in the low 70s. To the north of us giving us the high winds and then the rest of the week well look at milder weather a little bit more of an ocean breeze but then by the weekend just in time for the fourth of july theres a lot of people who may be firing off those fireworks will have to watch out for fire danger. Some mid70s here but then warming up as it will definitely feel like summer going into the holiday week. San francisco coastal areas will stay much cooler. Mike, youre keeping an eye on the morning commute. Any new issues popping up . First the plaza. Ive been talking about this. It seems like a big deal but its not. The bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights turned on since the pandemic and the quarantine. I dont know why, though. They were turned on just before 6 00. You see the lanes are moving well as far as for the metering lights being on. Maybe someone turned him on earlier because they see something happening on the east shore freeway that never develops into a problem. Whatever the case, not a big deal. The arrows point out the other two slower spots that come in through concord and vallejo, typical areas that we would see slowing in the 5 00 area. If there was any real big volume of traffic the rest of the bay, well, theres the Altamont Pass and slowing for 84, heading over to 680 out of livermore. The rest of the bay speeds are great. Back to you. Sounds great. Thank you very much, mike. Coming up next on today in the bay were following a historic vote in the deep south. The big change coming to one flag that is sparking a lot of reaction this morning. 6 22. Youre watching today in the bay. 6 24 right now. Happening today the four Minneapolis Police officers charged in the death of george floyd will appear in court today. Derek chauvin, the officer seen in the video with his knee on floyds neck is facing seconddegree murder and manslaughter charges. Hell appear on video. The other three are expected to be in court. Floyds death, of course, has sparked protests around the country and calls for developing for you this morning with a standing ovation mississippi lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill to change the state flag containing the confederate emblem. Shortly after yesterdays vote workers at the State Capitol in jackson took the flag down for the day, but not everyone supports that move. I always thought that mississippi needed to have a heart and soul and today we did. I love this flag. I believe its a good representation to the state of mississippi, whether you like it or not. That bill calls for the current flag to be retired within 15 days and a new redesign approved by voters. 6 26 this morning. And new for you. Were learning working from home is becoming a new normal for a lot of people, and data is showing nearly a third of students dont have the tools to keep up with their studies. Thats right. Its very concerning. About 16 Million Students dont have basic internet services, computers, or any device that they really need to attend these online classes. And its not just students. Nearly 400,000 teachers in the country, about 10 of our teachers in Public Schools across the country, do not have adequate devices and connectivity to teach correctly. So its not just the students. Coming up on the today show how much it will cost to get the students and teachers help and if the federal government will step in. 6 26 for you that morning, getting a look at the forecast for you today. Its going to be a hot one out there with fire danger. Parts of the north bay we will see a fire danger for us as the winds pick up today gusting at 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Well talk more about this in the forecast plus reporter the state is recommending some bars to shut down in some places because of covid19. The two bay area counties expected to heed that advice. Youre watching today in the bay. You asked for em, so tiny tacos are back for good. Grab a box of 15 or try them loaded. Get em now with no contact delivery. Right now at 6 30, fire danger. Parts of the north bay under a red flag warning, but the danger looms across the bay s. Her forecast just moments away. Plus, covid crisis, the governor now ordering many bars to shut down again as cases spike. Next well tell you about the reopenings in the bay area now delayed. And helping families fight the virus, coming up the added tool one School District is giving to thousands of families. Today in the bay continues right now. Thank you for starting your morning with us. Im Marcus Washington. And im laura garcia. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Were starting out with a red flag warning. How concerned should we be . This is for the north bay where we see upper elevations getting high winds again today. We have the areas shaded in red included in the red flag warning and it goes into effect, continues until 8 00 this evening when we will have some of the high winds gusting today. As we look at our current wind speeds mostly at about 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour coming through the delta and the north bay well see the high winds continue to increase again today with the hot temperatures and some of the valleys. Well talk more about this and whats ahead in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now . Its looking pretty good. You notice the movement, theres Good Movement in the lanes. Thats a good sign. No major delays as we look at your travel times getting out of the area or into the area to the bay bridge. Overall the map only shows slowing out of the Altamont Pass. Your usual suspects. 6 32 right now. Shut down again. Governor newsome ordering bar owners to shut their doors to prevent the spread of covid19. Hes also recommending the same for bars in santa clara counties and contra costa counties. Today in the bays bob redell joins us live from walnut creek this morning. Itll be interesting to see if the counties comply. Most likely, i assume they will. Reporter thats our understanding as well. Bars were supposed to open up in walnut creek this week, laura. As i mentioned our understanding is the county will heed the governors advice. Santa clara county hasnt announced a reopening date yet for its bars but Public Health leaders say they will wait, too. As covid19 cases have spiked throughout the state, the governor has ordered bars from los angeles to kern county to shut down. Theyve increased 42 and the number of cases has already increased and not just because of increased testing. A sign of increased spread and thats why county supervisors are expected to honor them and keep the bars closed. They are often crowded as youre well aware. Most are indoors. After drinking people are more likely to lose their inhibitions and take off their masks. When youre in noise, youre shouting and screaming and the virus travels on the droplets but in a shouted, screaming or even singing you can give the droplets superpowers so they can fly further. In San Francisco businesses like hair salons, barber shops, museums and the zoo were supposed to be open today but on friday the mayor there delayed the reopening after the city recorded 103 new cases the day before. Bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you for the latest there. Now despite a spike in cases, marin county is moving forward with easing more restrictions today. Indoor dining, hair salons and barber shops will be allowed to reopen. Campgrounds and picnic areas were also given the green light. However, the county did hit pause on hotels and shortterm rentals, gyms, Skin Care Services and tattoo parlors. Right now theres no word on when theyll be able to reopen. Happening today San Francisco schools are trying to help families during the pandemic by giving away free thermometers. The School District will hand out nearly 9,000 of those during an event at Lincoln High School beginning at 11 00 this morning. Now this will help the families monitor themselves for possible fevers. The thermometers were donated to the district by San Francisco based Public Health company. Developing in the south bay someone was found shot near a homeless encampment. Chp found a person shot the pedestrian had been shot in the face. So far no idea where the gunfire came from. July 4th less than a week away. Now you may have seen the stands already. Fireworks sales are an important fundraising sale for schools, charities, even sports. Some people we actually spoke with say that fireworks are really an easy way for the families stuck at home to let off some steam. Its such a small thing we can do and really we vote with our dollars and invest in our community and that feels good, that feels good. Its definitely a bonus to everything else. But knowing that, we do spend more. The fire officials are warning people to be careful with the fireworks even if they are considered safe and sane. Fire danger is high, of course, across the bay area. New for you that morning Alameda County firefighters now believe a candle may have sparked a fire that damaged two rooms in a home last night in san leandro. They posted these photos interest cumberland avenue near farnsworth street. All the people inside made it out safely but, sadly, one of the familys dogs did not survive. Today the National Parks service is reopening muir woods, the popular hiking spot will let visitors back in starting at 9 00 this morning. Now face coverings are not required but certainly encouraged. Hikers need to keep their social distance. Park tours are canceled. You will still need a reservation to park and the parking lot will be caps to represent reduce crowds. So head out early if thats where youre planning on going today. Pretty nice temperatures across the bay area. We are going to have still some warm temperatures for the inland areas. If youre in muir woods, a comfortable day. Were not going to see too much of a warmup today, were going from 60s to the low 80s which is a little bit above normal. Compared to the weather weve had recently not bad at all. We see a spread upper 60s to the coast, low 70s inland, in San Francisco, i should say. Upper 70s for oakland today and even up to 90 degrees in the inland east bay and north bay. Were keeping an eye because of the fire danger and ill talk more about that coming up. Mike, whats happening right now for the commute . Well, its almost as mild as i thought it was going to be. Remember, we have fourth of july observance on friday. Some folks shifted around their vacation days. We do see light volume. A couple of sloewings. Out of vallejo for 37. The bay bridge looks like its slowing. As we zoom in the bay bridge. Thats where we see slowing for the nimitz, a little unusual there as well. The live look will show you past the coliseum those headlights coming toward us are southbound and there may be something going on that is holding up traffic. Coming up, well talk about the confusion at the b. E. T. Awards last night. Why a tribute to former San Francisco mayor willie brown is raising a the lot of eyebrows. Vice president pence publicly calling for people to wear masks. Thats a big move for the administration. Lets take you out to wall street where we have positive movement on the dow. A little bit more than 100 points after a drubbing on friday. Plus, those dry weather conditions kari has been talking about all morning combined with fireworks for the Holiday Weekend have fire officials concerned. Up next well tell you what theyre saying. Youre watching today in the bay. Businesses are starting to bounce back. But what if you could do better than that . Like adapt. Discover. Deliver, in new ways, to new customers. What if you could come back stronger . Faster. Better. At comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back, but bounce forward. And now, with one of our best offers ever, were committed to helping you do just that. Get a powerful and reliable internet and voice solution for only 29. 95 a month for three months. Call or go online today. Right now at 6 41 lets head to Mountain View to see our morning temperature trend. It starts out with some upper 50s and we make it into the upper 70s by early in the afternoon, make some time to enjoy time outside but it will be windy and those high winds will cause a high fire danger in the north bay. More on that coming up in a few minutes. I think one or two pieces of equipment that were there thats gone. Down to usual suspects right here for vallejo and concord. Well talk about more slowing coming up. We heard kari mention fire danger. It is hot, windy, and dry conditions prompting the seasons first red flag warning in the north bay. Those warnings cover parts of sonoma and marin counties. Today in the bays jackie ward is live for us in mill valley to talk to us about what firefighters are saying we need to do to stay safe. Jackie . Reporter marcus, those weather conditions alone have firefighters on guard. You add that plus the combination of potential fireworks with the upcoming july 4th weekend and it could be a deadly combination. Thats why the red flag warning is in effect through 8 00 tonight and theres a bunch of closures, parks and recreation areas that are blocked off from the public. A list you. The sky oaks watershed on mt. Tam, natalie coffin green park in ross, leo cronin parking lot in langunitas and mount vision road in inverness. Marin county fire officials warn that fire could spread quickly which is why we should all use extreme caution. There were several small fires including this one that burned about 30 acres on the Altamont Pass near livermore. No structures were threatened there. In lake port about 100 miles north of San Francisco, a fire broke out there as well. Thankfully no evacuations were needed and firefighters were able to stop its progression quickly. This brush fire was ignited because of illegal fireworks. Two and a half acres burned early sunday morning near Howard Elementary School. It took more than 50 firefighters to put it out no one was hurt and no structures were burned there either. All of those fires over the weekend plus the continuation of dry weather has Fire Departments across the north bay staffing up their fire stations to make sure theyre ready for anything. That red flag warning is in effect until 8 00 tonight. Live in mill valley, jackie ward, today in the bay. People have to be extremely careful. Those small fires can turn into large, deadly fires. Thank you, jackie. 6 44 for you this morning and we are not even in fire season and were already seeing those problems. If you download our nbc bay area app, well let about the weather conditions in your area and immediately let you know when a fire breaks out. Dont forget, this is free. Its 6 45 right now. One Southern California restaurant has had it with customers just refusing to wear their facemasks. Theyre completely shutting down. Hugos tacos has two locations in l. A. County. Both are now closed after dealing with harassment from customers. The owner says some customers are just out of control. Listen to what one person did. Customers get upset staff me them to wear a mask. He got a cup of water, threw it on my employee, which is unsafe and rude, and its really sad to see grownup people doing childish things like that. The owner says hes going to lose thousands of dollars but says its just not worth the trouble. 6 45 right now. President trump will meet with his defense secretary today to discuss pulling thousands of u. S. Troops out of germany. Scott mcgrew, many in the pentagon are against this idea. Yeah, and many in germany are against it as well. We dont know exactly what russia thinks about it but we rather suspect they are for it. Defense secretary mark esper will meet with the president today to discuss the president s plan to remove several thousand troops from germany. The president says its retribution for germany not paying its fair share to nato. Germany does not reach its promised 2 of gdp on defense spending but doesnt itself. President trump also downplaying a report that was in the New York Times, later confirmed by the Washington Post that russian intelligence was paying the taliban a bounty to Kill Coalition forces including u. S. Forces. The president says he was never briefed on that because those reports are unfounded but already congress is talking about an investigation into that. Vice president pence was in hard hit texas over the weekend where he not only wore a mask. He urged people to do the same as america deals with infection numbers far higher than our worst days under shelter. As we think about the challenges, the loss of more than 125,000 of our countrymen, the grief of those families, we think of those still struggling with this disease today. The Vice President s speech at a church where a large choir sang. Choirs have been linked to several severe outbreaks. Masks, indeed, are a turnaround for the Trump Administration, also significant turnaround for pence specifically who was the only person reportedly in the whole building not to wear a mask during a visit to the may joe clinic despite being asked to. And were just seeing a much more serious tone coming out of the Trump Administration. The Health Secretary on meet the press sunday said the United States is on the cusp of losing control over the pandemic. He says the next week or two will decide whether or not this just goes completely out of control. Were watching everything thats happening in washington. Of course you can follow me on twitter where i tweet about it. Im scottmcgrew. All right, scott, thank you. Two bay area legends with m b. E. T. During their awards show. So that show honors famous people who died within the past year. They showed this picture here, former mayor willie brown. Well, they meant to show Oakland Raiders hall of famer willie brown, same name, but he died last october. That mistake was quickly fixed for the replays of the show. While we miss the raiders legend, at 86 we are happy to report that former mayor willie brown, the mayor, is alive and well. Very much so. Heres Something Else good this morning that has the beehive buzzing. Beyonce plans to drop a feature film in about a month. You are the king. So over the weekend she released a trailer for black is king, a visual album she calls a labor of love inspired by last years disney hit film the lie yong king. She says the recent events really made this a more personal and relevant album. It was premiere on disney plus july 31st. Man, i remember when thriller was a big deal, six minutes. This is a lot bigger. Yeah. Im sure a lot of people if they dont already have it will sign up for it. A lot of people love the queen. Well see how that goes. All right. Queen of the sunshine. Thats kari hall. Are we going to see a lot of it today . We are. Its going to still be very warm for some spots around the bay area. Lets take a look at our sunrise this morning. My favorite part of the day as we get a look at our view from mission peak looking over parts of the east bay. Now were going to see the sunshine continuing, but we are also going to see our temperatures warming up. Lets go hour by hour as we look at where well be at noontime today, if youre thinking of taking the lunch outside, looking at parts of the east bay, were in the low 80s. But for San Francisco were at 73 degrees. Half moon bay at 68 and 8 in santa rosa. Now some of us will continue to heat up today and some spots reaching the low 90s. For the east bay as well as parts of the north bay, in the south bay were in the low to mid80s and its going to be a nice breeze picking up but the high winds will get pretty high for parts of the north bay causing a problem of that high fire danger. Now today will be the last day of that red flag warning. Before we start to see our winds subside and cooler air, then that warm starts to rebuild just in time for the weekend and we know this upcoming weekend is the holiday fourth of july and the dry weather continues so that means no fireworks for us as we are going to have a high fire danger once again. G at tem week were in the mid80s for the inland areas. You notice that cooldown well be working towards as we head to the end of the week and look at thursday, only 75 degrees inland. Back in the 80s, slightly above normal for the end of the week into the weekend. San francisco in the low 70s today but mostly 60s throughout the rest of the forecast. Mike gives us a look at whats happening for the morning commute across the bay area. Kari, whats happening is its gently building in some spots and lightening up in others. The shift is going on already as we take a look out there. Well see the bay bridge toll plaza. They have the metering lights on. They were turned on early there but traffic is moving well in the middle lanes and, of course, the carpool has a big advantage. As we look at the time getting there we see a little build in the east shore freeway that indicates a little flowing through berkeley is what i see and also for 580. A little slowing out of san leandro. No major problems on the maps as we do look around the bay. We see just mild slowing out of the Altamont Pass and also in san leandro on the right, a little more slowing down to hayward. The shift coming out of the altamont will lighten up and will move over to Castro Valley and hayward. In the middle a live look at dublin and 580 indicates why there are green sensors there. Very light traffic. Some folks may be shifting their schedule because there is a holiday observed on friday by a lot of companies. Back to you. Thats right, fourth of july. Thanks, mike. Happening now for you a frantic rescue effort under way in Central China to save people trapped by widespread flooding. But their efforts are being delayed because of those major roads. Theyre actually cut off from the floodwater. It submerged a mile long section of a main road through the town trapping residents living on the higher floors. The torrential rains started saturday and 12 inches fell in 20 hours. Coming up next on today in the bay were going to have a look at todays top stories including scaling back reopening in california as covid cases spike. Despite that some counties are moving forward. Next, what is opening and where today. And the man accused in two decade reign of terror with crimes extending into the bay area set to enter a plea today. The unprecedented hearing planned for today. Its 6 53. Youre watching today in the bay. Welcome back. It is 6 56. Here is a look at the top stories were covering for you on today in the bay. Governor newsom now ordering bars in parts of southern and Central California to close to prevent the spread of covid19. In Contra Costa County bars were supposed to reopen on wednesday, but that now seems to be on hold and in Santa Clara County not yet announcing a reopening date but Public Health leaders say they will wait as well. Now in San Francisco businesses like hair salons, barber shops, museums and the zoo were supposed to open today. But that has been delayed and despite the spike in cases marin county is moving forward with easing restrictions including indoor dining, hair salons and shops. 568 people have died. More than 500 new cases have been reported. The accused Golden State Killer is expected to enter a guilty plea in an unprecedented venue. Prosecutors have used dna evidence to tie 74yearold Joseph Deangelo to 12 murders. At least 45 rapes, and more than 120 burglaries. The crimes happened across california in the 1970s and 80s and included up to a dozen attacks in three bay area counties. Deangelo will appear today inside a Sacramento State University Ballroom to accommodate the 150 victims and relatives expected to attend. Beginning today b. A. R. T. S Civic Center station will be the latest station to accept only clipper cards as a form of payment. This is in part to create more contactless riding experience do you remember the pandemic, but b. A. R. T. Has been phasing out the paper tickets since last year. After months of lower gas prices because of the pandemic, those prices are creeping back f gas went up 6 cents over the weeks. Still, 51 cents below the price last year. This morning firefighters in the north bay are on high alert. A live look at san rafael in marin county. Strong winds and dry conditions potentially creating a very dangerous situation. Right now we want to get a look at the forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking what we can expect to be High Temperatures and fire danger. Yeah, thats for the north bay today for elevations above 1,000 feet. So our north bay mountains will have the high fire danger today. Elsewhere were looking at some temperatures in the mid80s. Still a gusty day. We will cool off as we head to the end of the week. You can get alerts if you have the nbc bay area app. Youll also get any information as it comes out if there is a fire that breaks out, you want to make sure you have this so you can know as soon as it happens. Mike, also looking at the commute, how is it looking right now . A quick look out there at the Richmond San Rafael bridge a backup forming over the last few minutes. More slowing over to the north bay and then, of course, the san mateo bridge by contrast is very clear, guys. All right, thank you very much, mike. Thats going to do it for us this morning. The today show, of course, is up next. A live look at good morning good morning. Dire warning. The window is closing. We have to act. The nations Health Secretary with a new plea as coronavirus spikes in the u. S. 33 states with cases rising this morning. More and more hospitals overwhelmed. Bars, beaches, and restaurants ordered closed once again. And the white house finds new urgency on social distancing. Wear a mask. Wherever its indicated. Were live in the hot zones. Target u. S. Troops . Did Vladimir Putin pay the taliban to target and kill american soldiers in afghanistan and did it work . Just ahead, the new reports of