Ahead of what we hope will be a partial Solar Eclipse in just a bit. First, lets get a check of our forecast. Good morning. Thank you so much for starting your weekend with us. Im kira klapper. Meteorologist vianey arana is back in for cinthia this morning. What a sight for sore eyes. So great to have you back on the weekend. I missed you. This is like an o. G. Saturday morning throwback. One of my favorite shifts ever. Saturday morning. We do have that system already making its sight seen especially with the cloud cover. See this look from the emeryville camera from San Francisco. You can see the system just off the coast and mentioning shower chances, but more of a cloudy, cool day. Not necessarily a rainy day for majority of the bay area, because if you look, already that sprinkle action is popping up in eureka and redding but not a big rainmaker. Majority of the rain staying up through the oregon border. A cool front. Slight cooling and upper 70s in the forecast even then and a lot of high clouds. If you live in the south bay, not getting any of that rain action. Just looks like its going to rain. Right now in the 50s. Talk more about the timing and of course that partial Solar Eclipse coming up. A live look in gaza this morning where israel yesterday ordered the people of northern gaza to evacuate south. Today israel offered an additional sixhour window for people who havent yet escaped to get out. The Israel Defense forces say they offered safe passage to the south of gaza via a second route they blame hamas for preventing people in leaving the northern area. That raised fears of an imminent ground offensive. Israels military says the order was meant to minimize civilian casualties in a war against hamas. That deadline to flee just expired one our ago at 6 00 our time. That warns left more than 1 Million People to decide whether to abandon their homes, and hamas urged gazans to ignore it. The United Nations and World Health Organization say that moving that many people is impossible, and is putting lives at risk. Nbc news is reporting that 1,300 people have been killed in israel. More than 3,300 injured. In gaza, more than 1,900 are dead with an estimated 7,600 injured. Americans killed and 14 remain unaccounted for. And leaders from israel, egypt and the u. S. Came to agreement allowing them to cross into a point between egypt and the gaza strip as some americans stuck in israel are finally on their way home. Some receiving help from the u. S. Government. Others finding flights out on their own. We have a report from sfo where many are touching back on american soil has a sense of grief and relief. Animosity and division. Reporter owner of mannys in San Francisco, the cafe owner heading home soon from a commercial flight from israel. He was visiting family when the attack took place. It was becoming clear leaving was going to be increasingly difficult, and i feel guilty. I feel like i have abandoned my family. Reporter the u. S. Government announcing efforts to get Many Americans home with the help of charter flights. A state Department Spokesperson tweeting out that the first charter flight carrying u. S. Citizens and their family members from israel, wheels down in athens. And photojournalist Edwin Alvarado is one american trying to get home and did not get a ticket on a u. S. Flight after submitting an application. The colombian flight home. Hes disappointed the terrorist attack is politicized and hopes for more productive discussions and besides whats happening in israel. Instead of posting, being with friends, talking with our friends and people around them and limping to each other. Reporter more americans could be heading home soon with delta, american and united airlines. Working with the state department to add larger flights to athens to get americans out. Reporting for today in the bay. [ chanting ] this week saw demonstrations across the bay area, including several yesterday in San Francisco. This, in response to the israelhamas war. A group of jewish residents who say they also support the innocent people in gaza gathered outside the San FranciscoFederal Building chanting and Holding Signs outside of the office of speaker emeritus nancy pelosi calling on an end to air strikes and bombings in gaza. Our crews saw protesters outside of city hall Holding Israeli flags calling for hamas to release hostages. Among them, yael, who told us she believes her sisterinlaw is being held by the terrorist group. On saturday morning she started texting us, theyre shooting at me. Theyre shooting at me. We are hiding under the bed. Its they continued shooting. Half hour later she said, theyre burning down the house. And an estimated 150 hostages are reportedly being held by hamas in gaza. Now to this live look in San Francisco where happening later today there will be a rally held by the group the Palestinian Youth movement. The group is calling for an end to the israeli strikes on gaza. They are inviting people to gather in support for palestinians. The rally starts at noon in front of the ferry building. Among those innocent lives taken in israel, a young woman who was born here in the bay area. Her family says they was murdered trying to escape that Music Festival and was attacked by Hamas Terrorists. Today in the bays reporter spoke with danielle waldmans father, a Tech Company Founder that now lives in israel and recounts how he went to the site of the mass kerr to look for his daughter, and tells us about the agony he feels for his family and his country. Reporter i know its past midnight there. Yes. Reporter have you been even able to sleep the last couple days . Were very few hours. Very small number of hours every night. About two. Reporter aial waldman wants to share his daughters story. The 24yearold cruelly killed along with her boyfriend of six years trying to get away from a Music Festival attacked by Hamas Terrorists. Its heartbreaking devastation. This is not coping. This is something you understand will be there inside you for the rest of your life. Reporter waldman is a silicon tech Company Called mellanox. He was taken inside a danger zone determined to find his daughter. He found the bulletriddled car near where danieals phone pinged. They went south, not north. Because the north side was blocked, and then weve seen three shells or trails of kalashnikov shells in the back of the car. Theyd been shot from the back by probably three inhuman people. Reporter its something for people who have never been in this situation may not understand. But why did you decide to go . Because my small daughter was there. At home, knowing that my small daughter is under attack. Reporter their bodies gone, days later tragic confirmation. Reporter what was that moment like for you . It had to aspects. The first was a disaster. Our lives, everything about our lives is changed. It was changed. At the same time, it was a relief. Because i know i can stop looking for my daughter. And being afraid that shes hostage by those barbaric, inhuman creatures. Reporter why do you want to talk about this particularly your daughter and whats happening . We must make sure the message is clear. This will never happen again. We must come even with the people that have done this. We cannot leave this unresolved. We see today news that special units from the israeli army have entered gaza, and havent been able to locate and bring back bodies of hostages. But we must make the gazan citizens who are holding our hostages, bring them back to their families in israel sooner rather than later. Reporter for now, this couple who met in the israeli army, talking about marriage, buried next to each other just yesterday. But this is how ayell chooses to remember the freespirited daughter of his. Danielle loved to dance. She danced in every opportunity that she could, and joined her, danielle was the life of the family. Danielle was smiling and loved by everybody. Danielle loved everything. [ laughter ] reporter a woman with a zest for life and all thats in it. Reporting for today in the bay. Our coverage of the war continues in all our newscasts. For the very latest visit our website, nbcbayarea. Com. You can also get alerts sent right to your phone by downloading our free nbc bay area app. We are going to turn to lighter news here locally now. Happening right now, a weekend warning for drivers on the peninsula. A twomile stretch of northbound highway 101 is shut down between redwood city and san carlos. You may remember this. The southbound lanes were closed two weekends ago. Caltrans is replacing the cord yeahous creek bridge. A look at the closure between holly street and britain avenue and whipple avenue in red wood city. Caltrans suggests drivers head west to interstate 280 or east to 880. That stretch of 101 will reopen by 5 00 a. M. On monday. At 7 12 right now, we have much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, the ring of fire. Solar eclipse. Are you going to check it out . Well tell you what you need to know before you look up at the sky for this mornings event. At cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. 7 15. A live look at the stapt capitol in sacramento. The deadline is now over foregovernor gavin newsom who signed or vetoes a slew of leg legislation. His desk is clear of bills. He had about 200 bills left to decide on. One of the billing he approved, installation of speed cameras in several california cities including right here in San Francisco. Oakland and also san jose. This will happen next year. The cameras will automatically record licence plates and issue tickets, put up in school zones and areas where speeding is a problem. It comes as pedestrian deaths have spiked in california. Drivers caught going at least 11 Miles Per Hour above the posted limit will be fined 50. And it will increase for drivers going higher speeds. A man bitten while surfing along the peninsula yesterday, but he says he didnt see what attacked him. It happened just before 4 00 yesterday afternoon at wind mar beach in pacifica. When Emergency Responders arrived the man had a bite on his lower leg. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. A big mess in one contra costa neighborhood where crews worked through the night to repair a water main break. Video here showing that giant hole in the middle of the street. Water rushing down buckskin road in pinole. Telling us they shut down water to the area and turned it over by 6 00 a. M. This morning. The cause of the break is still under investigation. Happening today, former stars of the great iron get blood pumping in the south bay. The annual golden heart run kicks off at levis stadium. This is video from last years race. The event brings together former 49er players to support one another and navigating challenges that come with life after football as part of the golden heart fund. Fourtime super bowl champion and former 49er jesse will kick off the 4. 9k at 8 00 this morning. And trending this morning, wow. Look behind me. Star gazers everywhere cannot wait for this mornings rare event. The annular Solar Eclipse. This kind of eclipse commonly called the ring of fire. The moon lines up between the earth and the sun, slightly under totality leaving a visibility outer ring. As long as you view with proper eye protection youll be able to see it in the bay area. The eclipse will only be partially visible. Wherever you are, the eclipse will peak and 9 15 and end around 10 03 to be exact. One small Northern County is flooded with eclipse chaser. Modoc runs through half of the moons coverage. And reporting most hotels there are completely booked. If youre looking for Something Else to do after 10 03 this morning, we have idea are fou you in this weekends calendar. Reporter good morning, kira. Beyond a shadow of the doubt, i know you heard of the shadow of the moon cast on the earth this morning. Head over to the hall of science for an eclipse viewing party. Filtered telescopes for views safety, create solar powered artwork, if you want and Live Streaming the eclipses path through the spectacular ring of fire. Of course, that is outer space, but we also celebrate the terrestrial open stays today in Santa Clara County. Mayan Coyote Community day. Celebrating unique wildlife throughout the area and you need to have a butterfly pass to access three of the very special trails there. No onsite parking, i warn you. Bring your own snacks and water, and need to remember to bring out the trash from the stuff you brought in to preserve natures if a hike in the Nature Preserve isnt for you, how about a bike ride . Through an area. Party for the history of santa clara valley, capping out hispanic heritage month, celebrating people in the exhibition called before silicon valley, mexican agriculture cannery workers of Santa Clara County 1920 through 1960. Flows off the tongue. Followed by music and dance. Sounds like city hall. All details at latinbayarea. Org and keep getting news, weather and traffic every morning right here on today in the bay. Thanks. Time to check in with our girl. Meteorologist vianey arana, in for cinthia with your microclimate forecast. Good morning, guys. I hope you have a cozy setting right now. Because the sunrise will be stunning. You can already see by hind us, right to your forecast. We do have that moisture lining up with a cold front helping this golden sunrise and bringing the cloud cover also. Going to feel falllike. Enjoy it. Looking out into the atmospheric field, its not that. You can see the moisture building out in the pacific. Now, this cold front, a weaker cold front is going to bring small amounts of rain. Talking a couple hundredths if that, sonoma airport reporting scattered showers this morning. See it in redding. As far as the bay area goes, light activity in San Francisco. Other than that, the most were getting out of the system is slight cooling. No big drop in temperature, and then small amounts of showers in through about 9 00 a. M. , notice seeing some of that popping up in napa. I side from that, though, expect to keep partly cloudy skies through the afternoon. That system moving out quickly and then behind it, whats happening, warmer air starts to build. That going to climb our temperatures up, but also going to bring the High Pressure through, which means we are also going to see the return of that marine layer developing early in the morning tomorrow. So if you live around the coastline, expect to see fog as well. Temperaturewise, going to be comfortable. Look at your temperature trend for San Francisco. By 1 00 in the 60s. For san jose, bumping up into the 70s. Talking about the Solar Eclipse. Its very neat and begins at 8 09 peaking around 9 20. Ends around 10 22. What makes it so special . Having to do with alignment of the sun, moon and earth. Compared to a total eclipse, what happens is, it moves farther from the earth during the annular versus a total eclipse, the moon moves closer to the earth. Even though we are not going to see 100 of totality here in the bay area, the reason its called ring of fire, during an annular one the sun is not totally obscured. We see about 75 to 80 coverage, but the reason this is so neat, first time so many states can see it crossing across the u. S. Then, ah, kira look at that. 80s next week. Can you believe it . That weather in place today. Typically on a day we would like to see sunshine we got clouds. Vianey, thank you. Welcome back. In this mornings bay area proud we introduce to you a local man who wears so many hats hes always been also famous. What he does with that fame is pretty big. Today in the bays Garvin Thomas shares his story. Reporter it was 2012 when we first introduced to do rich. Planting thousands of bulbs every year in his san jose backyard. When the flowers bloomed, welcoming the public in to enjoy the show. Yes. They are. Reporter the name rich made for himself, the bulb guy and reveled in it. Affirmation. Yeah. Drives me. You know, just a little bit of this and that goes a long way. Reporter all rich ever asked for back then, that people just enjoy the garden. He always turned down donations. One day thought of his son. Nicknamed boom, who died of cancer at the age of 6. Thanks for coming, jason. Reporter rich realized all the attention he enjoyed getting to be used to help others. So he started using the garden to raise money for saint Judes Childrens Research hospital. Others benefited from my selfishness. I think thats i think thats kind of a way to say it. Yeah. Right there. Its yeah. Its a little selfserving, but then all of these people benefit from what, what im doing. And, and thats great i mean, thats, you know, thats a great thing. Reporter which all brings us to richs next fundraising brainstorm. Its rich speaking. Reporter at his job selling concrete two years ago his coworker lisa admired his christmasthemed socks and started to sing jingle bells and a light bulb went off for rich. And go to cvs and i buy a Christmas Card with the jingle bells recording in the card. I come back, and i cut out the recording. Put it in my sock, flip it over. Go to lisas office. Lisa, we invented jingle socks. Reporter rich really did invent something. A patent now for socks that play recordings when a button is pushed. These 49erthemed socks with montana on the right clark on the left play the audiofrom the catch. The catch. Reporter rich dreams of the day socks like these are handed out at levis stadium or oracle park making money for saint jude, sure, but also keeping the memory of his son alive. Yes. All goes back to, as a parent that lost a child, its a way to keep our sons alive. I mean, every you know, every parent thats lost a child wants to keep this, somehow, have him remembered. Reporter who knows . 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Healing from within is a wonderful thing. Ask your childs eczema specialist how dupixent can help heal their skin from within. Good morning. It is saturday, october 14th. 7 31. A live look outside. Wow that sun rising over downtown san jose. A gorgeous morning with some cloudy skies. Look at that. Another view of san jose as we welcome another gorgeous weekend in the bay area. Thank you so much for starting it with us. Im kira klapper. Meteorologist vianey arana is back and joining us in for cinthia this morning with a peek at our microclimate forecast. So good to see you g. To see you as well. Watching us from home i know youre thinking that the clouds signal rain. Youre right. Seeing moisture in the atmosphere. In the south bay not to worry about the rain. Gorgeous sunrise, thanks to this High Pressure thats going to build off the coast. First, a cold front sweeps through. Once that cold front sweeps through we have a couple hundredths of an inch now coming down out through parts of sonoma. Very far north and enough to cool us off slightly. What to expect. Scattered showers move up very quickly. By the afternoon, only thing lingering, looking out for that Solar Eclipse and then looking ahead to your sunday. Talking about a warmer day ahead. Also return of the marine layer as that High Pressure begins to build. We see warm air moving in. Kira . All right, vianey, thank you. A live look in gaza this morning where israel had ordered the people of the northern gaza to evacuate to the south. Today israel extended that Evacuation Order by six hours for people who havent yet escaped. Israels military says the order was intended to minimize civilian casualties in the war against hamas. But its raised fears about an imminent invasion into gaza. They offered safe passage to the south of gaza and blamed hamas from preventing people from leaving the area. Hamas is warning them top ignore that warning. Leaders in egypt, israel and the u. S. Agreed to allow foreigners in gaza to pass through the crossing point later today nap is the only passageway from gaza into egypt where there is safety. The World Health Organization say moving as many as 1 Million People in the last 24 hours would be impossible and it continues to put lives at risk. Nbc news is reporting that 1,300 people thus far have been killed in israel alone. And in gaza, more than 1,900 are dead. As of last check, 27 u. S. Citizens have been killed. 14 remain missing. We have exclusive new reporting this morning about just how extensive hamass planning was from targeting schools to the shocking number of secure places breached. Nbcs raf sanchez reports on details and concerns over israels readiness. Reporter chilling details how hamas deliberately targeted israeli schools and Youth Centers in their hunt for hostages. Documents recovered from hamas fighters obtained by nbc news from an israeli official show how the group drew up detailed plans to storm specific schools, and tasks special units to deal with the hostages. The documents contradict hamas claims that the group does not target children. Part of an emerging picture of the scale and sophistication of the attack raising new questions about the failure of Israeli Forces to stop it. Israeli military tells nbc news that the gaza border fence was breached approximately 30 times. A higher number than previously reported to which helps explain how hundreds of terrorists were able to enter israel. We located some of the most severe breaches. Including this one near this area where terrorists used high explosives to blast their way through. Then storming inside the rural community, leaving a trail of death behind. Israeli military says that in this house the Israeli Residents had barricaded themselves into a safe room. The Hamas Terrorists werent able to get them. So they set the whole house on fire. Hamas Ground Forces supported from above by explosivecarrying drones. At this point a drone dropping a bomb on a machine gun tower overlooking the border. New images also show what new security analysts believe is an antiaircraft missile. Its not clear if it was fired but it indicates the terrorists arrived ready to defendal themselves against israeli helicopters. We dont know why israeli Monitoring Systems failed to detect hundreds of hmas fighters approaching the border fence. Intelligence missed Early Warning signs incluing hamas building an openair village to practice. A collapse of all systems, but the first one is the intelligence system. Reporter painful questions over the slow response of israeli troops once the attack was underway. Its not the success of hamas. Its more the failure of the israeli defense. Reporter a senior israeli officer stationed along the gaza border. Whats the single thing that shocks you the most . None of them was in full gear. Israel for decades, the drills, that before the sun rise, this is the most important and sensitive sign that the enemy can attack. Reporter we asked the israeli militarys top spokesman what went wrong here. Intelligence failure . Failure of units on the border . What went wrong . This is a plan, planned, massive plan. What we didnt know, we will find out what, why we didnt know. But now, we are not into that mindset. Our mindset now is in the other side of the border. Reporter a military with a difficult fight ahead and difficult questions to answer. Raf sanchez, nbc news. Now to a live look in San Francisco where happening today there will be a rally held by the group Palestinian Youth movement. Theyre calling for an end to the israeli strikes in gaza, and inviting people to gather in support of palestinian rights and liberation. The rally starts at noon in front of the ferry building. We will continue to follow the war in all of our newscasts. When were not onair visit other web cited, nbcbayarea. Com and get alerts sent straight to your home by downloading our free nbc bay area app. At 7 38, in other news, it appears Kaiser Permanente will avoid a second strike. Yesterday we learned the hospital and the union agreed on a deal. This comes following the Largest Health care workers strike in u. S. History. Last week 75,000 kaiser employees walked off the job for three days. Many in northern california. Including medical assistants, xray technicians and more. U. S. Labor secretary stepped in to help with those negotiations. Both sides face tentative agreements that need ratified. It includes a 20 raise over four years. In the east bay, Pittsburg Police need your help. This man swiping decorations from homes across the city. Its not just in pittsburg, were learning. Thieves making off with halloween decorations in other parts of contra costa as well. Jodi hernandez reports one culprit caught, as you saw oncamera. Its just fun. Love putting halloween stuff out. Reporter christina of pittsburg takes pride in her familys front yard halloween display but feeling a little creeped out this halloween after Police Released images of a reallife halloween monster making off with peoples fright night decorations. Im scared. Im scared. You know . Its offensive to get all of this stuff and its not the money. Its just people putting stuff out for a holiday you should be able to, without people coming and taking it down. Reporter the man caught on camera several times in pittsburg, but antioch is also getting hit by halloween heisters. Crooks cleaned out the elaborate decorations on display at this house. Kind of sad. My good friend, neighbor, hit really bad. All of his decoratios 20 taken. The really expensive ones. Reporter he says they try to outdo one another. Wants more. Reporter but he scaled back big time this year, only displaying a few decorations. We have 25pound plate. 35pound plate. Reporter and taking precautions to protect the ones he put out. Stakes in and weights. These guy have to be agile, mobile and super fast to get these out of here. Other than that, theyre going to have a hard time. Reporter this woman is only putting up dollar store decorations. The crooks put a damper on things. My son loves to go walk and look at decorations, and its just really sad that, you know, the state of the world comes to this where you cant even decorate on your own property. Reporter folks in Contra Costa County hope the bandant put the brakes on the bad behavior so trickortreaters can have a happy halloween. Please, dont take the stuff. I mean, you know, we work so hard to put halloween stuff out. You just ruin it for everybody. Reporter in Contra Costa County, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. 7 41 right now. Next on today in the bay, a wild day in boulder. Did you see it . Stanford taking on the university of colorado and deion wnders,ened a, boy a lovely saturday morning. 7 44. Good morning. Vianey arana, we have buft cloud in sight. Look out your window, feeling cozy as well because that system is mixing in with warmer air making this approach. A gorgeous sunrise over walnut creek and, yes, its going to look like its going to rain, and it did, just a bit. In some spots. The reason why that system is a weaker cold front, pretty far north dropping down from canada and a lot of that rain ended up developing is mainly through this area, redding, ukiah, sonoma, see it popping up on satellite. Impacts of this system on us is just that cloud cover. So if you live in the south, hourbyhour forecast, keeping partly cloudy skies. Stretching down even through the south. Contra costa through 9 30. Looking out for that Solar Eclipse. Not the best day to have cloud cover. Even them notice darkening of the sky. Later in tonight, once the system clears out, behind this a warmer air mass helping build that marine layer nicely around the coastline, which means, yes. A foggy start to the morning for tomorrow. Temperaturewise, outlookwise for the rain, look at this. Barely any amount of rain. A trace amount, in the hundredths for parts of the north bay. Hourly forecast, going to be comfortable in the 70s today. Slightly cooler but by tomorrow with that warmer air moving in, look. Back up into the mid80s for the interior. 60s and 70 around the coastline for San Francisco. Go back over that annular Solar Eclipse. The path is the most interesting. Now, here within the line that you see here highlighted, the black line, this is the percentage of the sun that will be obscured. The reason its called that ring of fire, because it will look dark on the inside and youll notice lighting on the outside. Now, remember. Sunglasses are not enough. Guys, okay, special sunglasses are very, very dark compared to your normal sunglasses. Protect those eyes over the next seven days. Monday a system just to the north. Bringing another chance of rain. Mainly breezy conditions. Then if you look at next wednesday, thursday and friday, drying occurs. We bump up into the upper 80s. Enjoy this crisp 70 forecast. Enjoy this crisp 70 forecast. Weather foreveryone. get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. Welcome back. Happening right now on the peninsula, a twomile stretch of northbound 101 is closed between redwood city and san carlos so caltrans can repair the cordiarus bridge. Whipple avenue also closed in redwood city. 101 north reopens by 5 00 a. M. Monday. Lets turn now to mikey inouye with help navigating that closure. Reporter folks once again that peninsula route northbound disrupted by a closure between whipple and britain. Hits you up between redwood city and san carlos. Replacing that bridge. Ultimate can ea easily be el camino. Easiest drive 28 a north up past the san mateo bridge. Crossing that from the south bay use the dumbarton bridge in the south bay. More company. 237 farther south keeps you well clear but takes you into congestion through mill ppitas scheduled to reopen it monday at 5 00 a. M. To sports. Stanford cardinals Football Game against the university of colorado boulder. Things werent look going first half. Early on buffaloes, coached by former 49ers deion sanders, raced out to a 290 lead by halftime but the cardinals did not give up. Crawling back to tie the game on that field goal with five seconds to go in the game amp colorado turned the ball over, o. T. , the stanford kicker winners the game with that 31yard field goal. Stanford wins 4643. The biggest comeback in the schools history. Saturday night live returns tonight for its season 49 premiere. Former cast member Pete Davidson hosts for the first time. Watch snl live coast to coast at 8 30 on nbc bay area or catch the oncor after our 11 00 p. M. Newscast. It is almost 7 52 right now. Up next a quick look at the top stories were following, including the latest as thousands flee northern gaza. The latest from israel. At cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Welcome back. Before we get to our top stories this morning, heres what to expect tomorrow morning on sunday today with willie geist. Great to see you. Tomorrow morning on sunday today my conversation with one of the most influential in music. A new album and writing and producing with taylor swift. So why do you think you and taylor work so well together . Whats the magic there . She vacations on the jersey shore i think when she was a kid. Im kidding. Thats forever . I dont know. I could quantify our relationship in very reductive ways about the things we agree on, sounds we like. Truth is weve just grown together. A sunday sitdown and plus the mornings latest headlines and another life well lived when sunday today airs at 6 00 a. M. In the bay area. Not up at that hour, set the dvr and well see you whenever youre ready for it. And catch willie at 6 00 and stick here for local news with us on today in the bay at 7 00. Were going to turn now to a quick look at the top stories were following on this saturday morning. We have a live look in gaza where israel had ordered the people of northern gaza to evacuate to the south and extended that warning by six hours today. That warning is now over. As of about two hours ago. Israels military says the order was intended to minimize civilian casualties in the war against hamas. Hamas urging gazans to ignore that evac vags warning and theyre expect aground offensive but no indication that has begun just yet. The israeli Defense Forces say they offered safe passage to the south of gaza. They are blaming hamas for preventing people from leaving the northern area. This morning the Associated Press is reporting that leaders in egypt, israel and the u. S. Agreed to allow foreigners in gaza to pass through the rafah crossing point later today. The only passageway from gaussa into safety in egypt. The United Nations and World Health Organization are urging that moving as many as 1 Million People is impossible and putting lives at risk. Nbc news is reporting that 1,300 people have been killed in israel. In gaza, that number stands at more than 1,900. 27 u. S. Citizens have been killed. 14 remain unaccounted for. Our coverage does continue in all of our newscasts when not on tir go to our website nbcbayarea. Com. Also download our free nbc bay area app and get alerts sent straight to you. Much lighter news trending an annular Solar Eclipse. Commonly called the ring of fire because the moon lines up between the earth and sun slightly under totality leaving that visible outer rim. The eclipse peaks at 9 15 this morning and ends about an hour later. We do have a live look at the space and Science Center in oakland where its hosting a watch party. The Lawrence Hall of science in berkeley also will have one. That starts this morning at 8 30. How will the skies be . Vianey has one last look. Supposed to start 8 15ish. Shy of beginning. Hopefully clouds clear just enough but youll notice darkening of the sky. The forecast for the week. Showers early. The systems not a big rainmaker but definitely bringing cloud cover. Sunday notice we start to bump up to 70s. 80s by next week, kira. Vianey, thanks. 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. News, not tonight. Instead big 10 00, usc and notre dame. A special newscast and at 8 00 and then back at 11 00 p. M. Stay uptodate on our website. Hope you have a safe saturday. 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