Bryan carter and the 8g band stay safe. Get vaccinated get boosted. We love you. [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] there you see it, right now at 11 00, one final burn at burning man. The festival has come to a close after a series of unprecedented events. This video just into the newsroom. Some stayed for the weather delayed ceremony, but many decided to leave after a nightmarish and muddy weekend. Good news awaits the burners coming back to the bay area, the carquinez bridge, the major i80s closure and the bridge is back open early. People are still trying to get out of the Black Rock Desert after the festival. They were told to shelter in place, the storms causing a muddy mess. Burning man tweeted the wait time to exit is seven hours and counting, encouraging people to wait until tomorrow if they can. Stephanie. Reporter tonight the man burns as thousands of festival goers celebrate the last night were making it out. Reporter or escape the trap. Traffic backed up for miles after the gates finally open today. They were responsible for keeping it. Reporter she made it back to the bay area this afternoon and straight to the car wash after waiting in traffic for hours. Chaos began friday as an unusual summer storm turned the yearly burning manifest festival into a mud pit. Police are looking into a death, cause under investigation, not storm related. Created a different challenge and adventure, our team was ready to stick it and go strong. Survive. Staying positive. My camp here, weve been breaking it down. The camp behind me is gone. Some are still doing business as usual but most people are breaking down to some degree. Reporter our own photo journalist josh said they all helped and supported each other like burners. But the rain was a surprise. They knew it might rain a little bit. But 14 hours straight of rain which i dont think anyone has seen at burning man before. Reporter nbc bay area news. Incredible images there. Back open way ahead of schedule, a welcome surprise for bay area drivers on this labor day as the caltrans project that shut down westbound i80 wrapped up 12 hours early. Terry mcsweeney joins us live. Traffic is flowing behind you there. Reporter yeah. If youve been away for four days, just coming back, you would think nothing happened. Something did. 80 has been closed four days and reopened early. Drivers tell me its very different. Things are smoother. And not just the drivers are glad that 80 is back in business tonight. On this labor day, look at the labor done this weekend by caltrans contractors. Threemile stretch from 780 to highway 4 closed and construction crews pounced, hoping to complete 106 nights worth of work in four days. They did it in 3 1 2. Our crews poured over 9,000 cubic yards of concrete over three miles. Now when they ride through that, its a smoother ride. Reporter contractors used the closure to perform maintenance on the bridges, repairing and replacing the lights. The drivers are giving it a thumbs up. Seems less lumpy than before. Potholes and things, they fixed them. Havent been here in a long time. It was smoother. I could drive faster. Dont tell chp. Reporter at the restaurant in crockett, people with reservations about taking a long detour to get here, started making reservations to eat here as the word spread. Reservations popped up 20 or 30 more than 4 30 and were getting a lot of walkins now. Reporter but the business itself was dead on what could have been a big weekend. Labor weekend was fourth best weekend of the year last year, and now the worst. You understand the closure was a delay for some. But its a shortterm pain for longterm good. Reporter the lights of the carquinez bridge. They had time and four days to themselves to get up and fix lights. Some had burned out in a fire a few years back. They did other maintenance they hadnt been able to do for 20 years on the bridge. Its about as good as it gets out here. Live here at carquinez bridge, terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. Vandalism atop mission peak in fremont. The sawed off portion of the beloved missioner peaker pole has been recovered. Leaving hikers disappointed and angry, the pole was created in 1990 by artist and park ranger leonard page. There was a time capsule with peeking tubes to landmarks. The pole has been recovered but the Park District hasnt said how bad it is. Brazen thieves robbing a 7eleven in oakland, 5th avenue and international boulevard after 6 00. Four people run into the store, go behind the counter and grab merchandise, then get into a dark car with at least one bag of loot. Police say they got away with 10,000 in tobacco products. Near that 7eleven, police found a man dead on the street. Theyre working to determine what happened there. Wrong place, wrong time. Sunny labor day in oakland turned chaotic. A woman in Critical Condition after being shot on a nearby trail. She was an innocent bystander. Pete. Reporter lake merritt is popular, especially for an evening stroll. But gunfire rang out, sending a woman to the hospital in Critical Condition. For residents who walk around the lake, the shooting is a cause for concern. The Community Seems welcoming so far, i know theres dangerous stuff happening, hopefully it doesnt continue to taint oakland as a bad, dangerous place. Reporter opd said the shooting happened before 12 30 this afternoon. The woman a walker on the popular trail. Officers are calling her an innocent bystander. Shes in Critical Condition. Wild that happened earlier today and i dont even know. Weent conscious until you said something. Reporter he lives near the lake and says city leaders need to make public spaces safe. Crime is out of control in oakland, something needs to be done, nobody is addressing it. Reporter it is an active investigation, if you have information, Contact Oakland pd. Pete surato, nbc bay area news. A nurse was carjacked. Two men approached her, one with a gun. Other ordered her out of her car, took the keys, stole the car. It was abandoned in oakland a couple of hours later. Carjackings in berkeley are at 20 so far. Up this year. Fuel out of a sinking tugboat in empire tract area of the delta, between stockton and antioch. Authorities were alerted and crews deployed containment. Its not clear how much leaked out but had the capacity for 1,000 gallons of diesel and oil. A teenager is under arrest, accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian with a stolen car in san jose. Happened around 3 00 on sunday morning, winchester boulevard in castlemont. The pedestrian was pronounced dead. The driver was hospitalized with nonlife threatening injuries. Robots are taking over and taking jobs. This is the message from the protesters who claim the robotaxi company is taking jobs and making the streets less safe. Saying the taxis violate codes and dont know enough to pull over for emergency vehicles. Millions or billions of workers displaced not just locally but nationally and globally. Cruise disputes the claims about his safety and says it has a strong record of supporting workers and labor unions. And locals take care of the charging. They say theyre safer than human drivers. According to cruise, 54 fewer collisions and 73 fewer crashes with serious injuries. Weve not independently verified the numbers. On labor day, more than 1,000 sdiu keizer workers marched for a 7 increase nationwide and they want keizer to address unsafe Staffing Levels that lead to neglected patients. Kaiser said it was a leader and hired more workers last year. They argue thats an unfair approach and the company is confident it will reach a contract by the 30th, the deadline. Back in 60 seconds, remembered for his unique voice and big personality, the life of bay area native Steve Harwell, and how smashmouth, his band, became a huge success. A celebrity chef with big plans for downtown San Francisco despite many retailers leaving for good. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Beautiful day, 81 in concord. Ill show you whats up for tomorrow and details on tonight tributes are rolling in for the front man of one of the best known bands from the south bay. Smashmouth singer Steve Harwell died at 56. We look back at his lasting impression on pop culture reporter it was a bitter sweet homecoming for steve and his band when they played music in the park in 2006. It was known worldwide from hit songs like walking on the sun, allstar and im a believer. San jose rocks website remembers the mixed feelings, but said the group had important roots in the south bay music scene. Every city in america has some connection to something that enters pop culture. Smash mouth will forever be connected to the south bay. Reporter the owner of the studios where harwell cut demo tracks remembers the singers facetoface and distinctive sound of the band. So unique, different. I think that really puts smash mouth, along with the material, sort of retro, on the map. They did big things. Reporter one of harwells closest friends owns sushi confidential in downtown campbell close to where the singer lived many years. Harwell played a private concert for his fiances birthday party. Seeing what he wanted to do for me and others to create an experience that you probably couldnt even buy, it meaned a lot to me. Reporter longtime popular radio personality of kbay remembers harwells visits. Werent that many south bay stations that played his music as much as we did. We were pop. He felt he was part of our community. I felt it. That was robert handa reporting. Hoping star power will breathe new life into union square. Celebrity chef ty lawrence is opening two cafes. Two of the recently closed places will be revamped by the Food Network Chef with other restaurants in San Francisco. Including one at chase center. Theyre a boost for the city and extra special for him and his family. We live in marin county, i have three restaurants in San Francisco, about to be five, and its personal for us. Right . I like his Fried Chicken at wayfare tavern. Never tried it. Really good. The two cafes are going to open this fall as several retailers are closing shop around union square and googles convention is opting for Las Vegas Next year. Legendary lgbtq bar thought gone is coming back. The pandemic forced the stud to close the 9th street location in may of 2020. A Worker Cooperative who owned it is reopening on fulton street. Its launched a fundraising page. Plan to reopen later this year. College football is in full swing and the nfl kicks off tuesday. Ranking the Best High School football teams of all time, guess what school is on top. De la salle in concord. The 2001 squad from de la salle is number one. Throws, not going to get it. Drops it to 3. You remember how epic de la salle was, this was known as the game of the century. Beat Long Beach Poly on national tv. The winning streak was 1992 to 2004, never lost a game. Wow. One of the stars went to ucla and the nfl and hes back home coaching at de la salle and joined us on the 7 00 news. I think they got it right. It was the best team ever. I think they changed the landscape of high school football, one of the teams we started traveling all over, first time seeing number one vs. Number two nationally televised. Good to have him on the program. The current team plays this saturday in mountain view. What was the winning streak . 151 games. More than a decade. Thats crazy. Our streak of days off is just about over. For most of us, getting back to School Tomorrow for kids and yourself back to work. But were setting up with a good weather pattern. Through tomorrows forecast, a small system just to the north. No rainfall or big changes in temperatures but its going to continue to keep the hottest air to the south, no heat waves this week. The details on the microclimate forecast, what were looking at into tuesday forecast. Hope you enjoyed today, if you happened to have it off. Were closer to the weekend already, right . Tomorrow morning, fog at the coastline and areas of fog near the bay, patchy fog in the north bay and should clear back by 9 30 leaving afternoon sunshine. Nothing out of the ordinary, upper 50s and low 60s in the bay area. 62 in the south bay. East bay, low 60s and upper 50s through San Francisco and the north bay. Daytime highs tomorrow, beautiful, near average or below. South bay, 80 in san jose. East bay, 76 in vallejo, 86 in livermore and 77 in hayward. 75 in mateo. San francisco, 68 in the mission, 67 in downtown. North bay, low to mid80s, napa to sonoma. Some of you may be on a plane traveling tomorrow. Were looking at more of the hot weather from dallas to oklahoma, low 100s. Thunderstorms in Oklahoma City and minneapolis could cause delays. 92 in atlanta and hot 98 in washington. Bay area, well stay with 60s. Up a little bit warmer but not too hot this weekend. Low 70s. Inland valleys, on easy street, 80s. Low 90s next sunday and monday. After that we could be talking about 70s to low 80s the following week. So right now no heat waves the next ten days. Havent heard that term from you, easy street, in a few days. Its an easy one. The latest strain of a lot of people hit the road in record numbers for the labor day holiday. You know the gas prices bounced up. Aaa, the National Average is like last month, but california is always different. State average 5. 32, it was 5. 29 a week ago, then a month ago, 5. 05. Aaa said the rise didnt stop people traveling by car. Rising concerns about covid infections but the latest mutation may be less contagious than feared. B. A. 286 has popped up in 11 countries, including the u. S. , radically different looking than any other variant and some claimed it could be bad as omicron, but two new studies suggest our immune systems may be better able to fight it, meaning fewer deas and okay. 49ers fans were cautiously optimistic but a lot of fans are getting nervous now because the season kicks off sunday, and still the 49ers are without their best defensive player. Nervous, nervous. Nick bosa is a holdout as the two sides try to hammer out a new contract. Its expected bosa will be the highest paid or among the top three highest paid defensive players in nfl history. But no deal has been announced. Not yet. And it opens sunday in pittsburgh. This thursday night, nfl kicks off with the lions and chiefs, the super bowl champs here on nbc bay area. 5 20, our coverage at 4 00 p. M. Baseball, the giants in chicago. Beautiful chicago river. Heres the not so beautiful part, giants have lost four straight. Cubs ace Justin Steele had 12 strikeouts. The giants only had two hits. Suzuki with the big hit, cubs win 50. Giants are one game out of the final wild card spot. At the coliseum, after sweeping the angels over the weekend, the as nice hat i love it. Hosting the blue jays. People think were the laughing stock of baseball now but wait until next season. As have good young talent. Butler hit two home runs. This in the bottom of the tenth, t toronto wins this week marks the anniversary of a tech titan. The top Search Engine in the world, you know what im talking about, google turned 25 today. In the beginning, google went by the name backrub because of the way the Search Engine did things. They changed the game to google. It was valued 23 billion in 2015. Became Alphabet Company and its valued today at 1. 7 trillion. Before google, what did we do . Use encyclopedias . Remember those things. Yeah. What was the other one, navigator one . Oh, yeah. God. Were all getting old. With aol. Yahoo, google. Mapquest. Our director. Thats all ive got. Tomorrow morning . L on the sevenday forecast. Patchy fog, 50s. 86, up a little bit by sunday but not too hot. Thanks for joining us, see you tomorrow. Tonight, the mass exodus from burning man after extreme weather trapped more than 70,000 in the nevada desert the new images, vehicles lined up for miles to get out. People walking for hours, the roads finally dry enough to reopen after a massive storm created a muddy mess stranding festival goers for days. One death now under investigation, our team there on the ground also tonight, new leads in the pennsylvania manhunt for an escaped killer on the run five days he was seen on door bell cameras. Police now saying they have four credible sightings how was he surviving, and the reported plea from his Mother Police are now using. Millions rushing home this labor day, danger on the roads, a tanker truck in flames in connecticut, a crash killing five in georgia, one car falling 50 feet. Airports packed capping off a record summer. And the dangerous heat this holiday from the central u. S. To the northeast, potentially record breaking and the new tropical threat were tracking tonight. Plus, President Biden on the attack using a labor day event to go after former President Trump as mr. Trumps gop rivals flock to new hampshire