For their patience, being patient with us, once this highway is open, theyll experience a smoother ride at the very end. Most motorists spent the weekend fed up, some enjoyed the closure. These women walked across the span, and loved it. It was beautiful. Weather, blue skies, birds, boats, it was amazing, and no exhaust fume, yay, no noise, it was fantastic. So for us it was a good weekend. Right . It was. Reporter and now, it can be a good weekend for all of those holiday travelers. Once again, that bridge reopened within the last ten minutes. It was slated to reopen tomorrow morning at 5 00 a. M. So theyre about 12 hours ahead of schedule. Great news for holiday travelers. Great news for commuters. Everything should be getting back to normal fairly soon. Reporting live in the east bay, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Definitely great news, thank you, jodi. Download our app and get timely alerts like breaking news, and when the freeways reopen. It is free. We want to go to a developing story out of oakland where an innocent bystander was caught in the cross fire during a shootout just hours ago. It happened just before 1 00 this afternoon at the intersection of madison and lakeside in the lake merritt neighborhood. Police responded to reports of shots fired between two vehicles. When they arrived, they discovered a woman on a trail near the lake with at least one gunshot wound. Shes been hospitalized in critical condition. The neighborhood surrounding the shooting is currently closed to traffic while police investigate. Thousands of Health Care Workers across california decided to use this labor day to send a message to one of the states medical giants. Theyre calling on kaiser to come to the negotiating table with the promise of more pay and staffing. Many gathered in oakland to send a message, if they dont get what theyre demanding, theyre ready to trigger the Largest Health care strike in u. S. History. Heres nbc bay areas velena jones. Reporter over a thousand seiu union Health Care Workers took to the streets of oakland in protest this labor day, demanding better wages. This is the day for labor. This is the day for the Little People like me. This is the day for people to show that without us, you dont exist. Reporter the front line workers say theyre struggling to make ends meet. Or burned out from the pandemic, and are tired of under staffed hospitals and clinics, creating an unsafe environment for staff and patients. Being able to be seen in the er quickly, being able to get an appointment with their doctors quickly, a lot of things that are the basic Health Care Needs that our Community Needs are not being met correctly. Congresswoman barbara lee joined workers, demanding a better contract as they marched around kaisers medical center. And Assembly Member showing support. In order to have strong patient care, you need to have workers who are able to feel secure in their jobs and make sure they feel secure, theyre receiving 25 an hour wage, a living wage. The union is asking for a 7 increase in pay to keep up with cost of living for all workers nationwide. Most of the workers, we are working two or three jobs. We are unable to survive, and we are front line employees. You feel like were health care heroes, you feel like we make this company, pay us what were worth. Reporter in a statement, kaiser says they are leaders in employee wages, and they added 29,000 employees last year, and will exceed that number this year. The health care giant says the 7 wage increase nationally is not viable. We simply cannot endorse a Single National approach to determining wages and ignore local market conditions. Seiu represents 58 thousands of the 68,000 employees that are preparing to go on strike if a deal is not made by the end of the month. Officials say they are confident they will be able to agree on a contract by the september 30th deadline. In oakland, velena jones, nbc bay area news. In the north bay, a breakfast in honor of Union Workers for kaiser, holding their labor day break fast near Kaiser Permanente in santa rosa Health Care Workers at this location said bargaining is not going well. They took to the streets in march demanding safe staffing levels. Its a very simple thing. When workers are lifted, every community is lifted. So this will catch fire. This is the labor counsels 26th annual labor day break fast. People hit the road in record numbers to travel for Labor Day Weekend, and if you thought gas prices were higher when you stopped to fill up, you were right. According to aaa, the National Average gas price is about the same as it was last month, but in california, its a different story. The state average is 5. 32 a gallon, which is 0. 30 higher than it was at this time last month. A man in lafayette says hes feeling the pinch. How much do you normally pay for gas . 80. For my work truck, its 150, 200. Aaa says the rise in prices, however, did not stop many from traveling by car this holiday weekend. As for air travel, also very busy, especially in chicago. Airlines estimated that about 250,000 travelers made their way through Chicago Ohare Airport just today. Midway airport also absorbs some of that traffic. Estimates for the entire Labor Day Weekend was about 1. 5 million travelers passing through chicago. As for best airlines, one company is ranking domestic airlines. Luggage Story Company bounce put out its top ten list today. Bounce came up with its scores after weighing a variety of factors. Those include timeliness, cancellation frequency, and inflight entertainment. First on the list, delta. Its on time arrival percentag was the highest and they cancelled very few flights. Its inflight experience also received glowing remarks. Southwest came in a close second, rounding out the top five, hawaiian, alaska and united airlines. A teenager is under arrest accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian with a stolen car in san jose. It happened around 3 00 sunday morning on winchester boulevard in san joses castlemont neighborhood. Police say the teen driver veered off the roadway, hit the man who was walking down the street, and then slammed into a tree. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. The teenage driver was hospitalized with nonlife threatening injuries. Police have not revealed the victims identity. The coming fall season means rising concerns about covid infections but new research is revealing the latest mutation may be far less contagious than originally feared. The strain, ba 286 has popped in even countries including the u. S. It sparked worldwide fears because it looks different than any variant we have seen. Many scientists claim the current strain could be just as bad as omicron, but two new studies suggest our immune systems are actually better able to fight this strain than any other variant seen so far, meaning fewer infections and fewer hospitalizations. The founder and lead singer to one of the south bays best known rock bands smashmouth has died. Tonight tributes are coming in from all over the bay area and the world for Steve Harwell, he formed the band in 1994. Hits like all star gained national attention. Robert handa has a look at the man and the bands legacy. Reporter i first talked with Steve Harwell backstage here at plaza decesar chavez 17 years ago. At this point, smashmouth was already big as its songs were featured on shrek, now people are remembering the man who took a san jose hit and went worldwide. It was a bittersweet home coming for Steve Harwell and smashmouth when they played a music in the park concert in 2006. They were known worldwide for hit songs like walking on the sun and all star and im a believer he was torn because the group image went from alternative rock to commercial, but very successful main music. Dan orloff remembers the mixed feelings but said the group had important roots in the south bay music scene. They will be remembered for a unique sound you will known as smashmouth tune in the first few bars. That qualifies them automatically as pivotal. Reporter the owner of sound tech studios where harwell cut demo tracks agreed about the sound. The voice, im a believer from the shrek cartoons, that voice was on the forefront of it. Reporter one of harwells closest friend is randy muster, owner of sushi confidential in downtown campbell, close to where the singer lived for many years. Harwell played a private concert for musters fiances birthday party, but his friend says people should know harwell endured a lot in his life. He had challenges. He lost his 2yearold son to childhood leukemia. He got divorced recently after that, and i think some of those challenges he just could never overcome. Reporter long time popular radio personality, lisa chrysler remembers harwells visits. He would just say hi to everybody, and always had this smile, and would be humming a song, and it just made my day. It was like, my goodness, thats Steve Harwell from smashmouth. Reporter it was about up and down journey for harwell from Blackford High School to the world stage, a journey that ended too soon. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Still ahead, the push to revitalize San Francisco continues. The well known chef that is opening two different cafes in the latest effort to give the city a shot in the arm. And dont bother googling it. Today is the anniversary of when google was founded. The amazing growth of the company the past 25 years. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Talk about a beautiful day. Temperatures right near average to a little bit below. 83 in my names dan and i live here in san antonio, texas. My wife magda and i have been married for 39 years. About three or four years ago, i wasnt feeling as if i was as sharp as i used to be. I wanted to try something that was overthecounter. I saw the prevagen commercials. After a short amount of time taking prevagen, i started noticing a difference that im remembering this, im remembering that. I stopped taking prevagen and i found myself slacking back so i jumped right back on it. I feel as if its brought me back to the good ol days. Prevagen. At stores everywhere without a prescription. San francisco is hoping a star chef can help revive the union scare shopping district. Lets bring in scott budman. San francisco needs this, it needs a boost of good news. This is good news to start the week after a rough way to end last week. Google announced at the end of the week its moving a big tech convention, you may remember, from San Francisco to las vegas, but a better start to this week, celebrity chef Tyler Florence says hes bringing two new restaurants to union square. A well caffeinated shot in the arm for San Franciscos union square. Two of its recently closed coffee shops, one on each end of the plaza will be taken over by San Francisco celebrity chef, Tyler Florence. It just felt like the right thing to do. Both spaces, not only are they prime real estate, but theyre also lovely. This is really part of a larger effort by the city of San Francisco to bring people back to union square, to the heart of our Retail Destination district. Reporter the timing couldnt be better. Just days after tech giant google announced its big Cloud Convention will leave San Francisco next year for las vegas, enter florence, already a popular presence here. Its really special because we live in marin county. I have three restaurants in San Francisco about to be five, and its really personal for us, right, and so when i travel, you know, to new york city and los angeles, when i get a chance to film with food network, and people walk up to me, and they go, how is San Francisco doing. Reporter looking to help the city revive its shopping district. Hes a really well known celebrity chef, and i would come from out of town to go see him. That is exciting. Its a great location. How long until this becomes a reality, scott. This goes in front of city officials next week, and as soon as it passes, and everyone says its pretty much a sure thing, those cafes are set to open later this fall by a guy who knows what hes doing when it comes to San Francisco restaurants. You mentioned google in your package. Google marks its 25th anniversary today, september 4th, 25 years ago. You have been at nbc bay area 25 years, so you covered google since the very beginning. It wasnt even called google. I know youll get to that. Were going to have that teaser. Noah pransky tells us about that. Google became a verb by building a better Search Engine. Back in the 90s, a lot of searches were kind of junk. Google basically took the links on a page, back links as they were called and used them to rank web sites, and they improved the quality of our searches a lot. The original name wasnt google, based on the back links, the original company name was backrub, in 96, back rub was the original company, they changed it a year later, they incorporate, and things happen fast from there. 1999 off and running, 2004, they were valued at 23 billion already. 2015, they reorganize and become the alphabet company, reflecting really a very diverse Business Model and in 2020, alphabet becomes 1 trillion in valuation. Today, 1. 7 trillion at last check. But i want to show you the domination of google. I mean, we know theyre valuable, but by 2023, 20 years ago, they were already the top Search Engine in the country. By 2013, more than 80 of the searches in america were on google, and today, that number is closer to 99 out of 10 searches in america on the google platform. But they are much more than just a Search Engine. Let me show you where the revenues are coming from. The big piece here, 57 adds on the google search, theyre into hardware, software, they own you tube. So 21 of revenues coming from ads on you tube, and other places. They have a profitable Cloud Business now. As you can see, big picture here, and this whole picture, that is how you create the third most valuable company in america. Guys, back to you. What was it called, back rub . Im going to ask my producer. Can you imagine, do you want to back rub that. Excuse me, lets just google that. I cant believe they were thinking about that name. Must have went through some pr back then. Lets talk about our weather. People still enjoying the day off and what a great ending to the Labor Day Holiday weekend. If you happened to have the day off, it really was beautiful outside, all across the bay area from the coastline to right across our inland valleys. Let me get you a look here at our micro climate forecast, and i do want to go ahead and take it in to a look at san jose. Currently 78 degrees. Just perfect outside. A little bit of a breeze out of the north, northwest here at 16. But thats just making it enjoyable here. Eventually we get down to 60s here through 8 00 and also 9 00. Maybe its not san jose, but youre headed to livermore, still maybe catching up with some family or friends tonight. You had stuff to do earlier, and its just kind of one of those late evenings. Were at 83. A little bit of a breeze out of the west at 13, and dropping down to 74 at 7 00 p. M. As we head through the week, a couple of systems passing to the north. Theres no rainfall from this for us. But what we are going to see with this pattern set up here, thats super important for us is its just going to continue to keep hottest air well away, so there is going to be no way were going to be getting into the 100s this week. Its going to make it a little bit easier here as we try to get back to the grind, the routine tomorrow after a long extended holiday, as we roll through tomorrows forecast, yes, we started off with fog. It doesnt look super widespread. I think the best chance of fog would be right here near the bay or the coast. A little bit of patchy fog for san jose and gilroy, and we will see the bulk clear back to the coastline a the 10 30 in the morning, and that would set us up with quite a bit of sunshine for tomorrow afternoon. For your tuesday forecast, its going to set up nice. Temperatures in the upper 50s and also low 60s with, again, a little bit of patchy fog near the coast and the bay. That will have us down to 58 in San Francisco and for the east bay, 61. Now lets get to those temperatures. I talked about how nice its going to be, across the south bay, 84 in los gatos. Down to morgan hill and gilroy. Over to the east way, 73 in oakland, head inland, 88 in antioch. 85 in pleasanton. Peninsula, 79 in redwood city, San Francisco, 61 in the marina, and across the north bay, lots of low to mid80s through wine country. You still got to get on a plane. Youre going to be traveling somewhere tomorrow or anyone that was visiting is heading back. I did want to show you on the national map, we are still tracking some big time heat from dallas, right up to minneapolis. 90s to 102. Storms up to minneapolis that could delay you. Otherwise not too bad through the southeast, 92 in atlanta. Also looking at 92 in orlando. On the sevenday forecast in San Francisco, pretty steady, though, 60s hanging on as we roll through the workweek, and low 70s this weekend. And we do go a little bit warmer here by next sunday and monday, but its not a heat wave. I mean, this is just beautiful. So beautiful. September forecast. Great start to september. Thanks, jeff. You got it. You got it. Coming up k bac Alaska Airlines 99 companion fare means that you can bring your best friend. You know, one of us is gonna have to change . But were twinning . Oh yay. We care a lot. Thousands of women with Metastatic Breast Cancer, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for adults with hr her2 Metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole. Ibrance may cause low white blood cell counts that may lead to serious infections. Ibrance may cause severe inflammation of the lungs. Both of these can lead to death. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening chest pain, cough, or trouble breathing. 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Two highend auto makers announced their intentions to step in the ring with tesla for more shares of the tesla vehicle market. Both mercedes and bmw unveiled concept cars. The cla class, they can reportedly go over 450 miles on a sine charge. Mercedes is designing its own computer and operating system just for this car bmw comes in with a model called nia, its new class in lish. It will have an all glass roof and project information on to the windshield at the drivers eye level. Those bmws are set to enter production in 2025. No word on the release day for mercedes. Well be right back with a special celebration at Buckingham Palace for corgis, the reason they were welcomed, next. A different kind of royal gathering at Buckingham Palace, some corgis paraded around the grounds, about 20 royal fans showed up with their dogs at the palace to honor the late queen elizabeth. The small dogs came dressed up in crowns. They were the queens Constant Companion since she was a child. She owned 30 in her life. And heres a little bit of trivia, generations of the dogs descended from her first corgi named susan who was given to the queen on her 18th birthday. Theyre so beloved. Dont forget, you can watch our newscast 24 7 on roku and other steaming platforms, and raj mathai joins us with whats coming up at 5 30. Nice to see those dogs. Its a busy and muddy labor day, getting out of burning man is a mess. Thousands of people are now allowed to leave the world famous festival after being stranded. You see this, following the floods, but theres still a big event there tonight in the nevada desert. Were going to take you there right now. Also President Biden spends part of labor day addressing Union Workers. Our political analyst joins us to discuss how vital their vote is in deciding our next president. And leaders Vladimir Putin and kim jong un are set to
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