The progress is good. My itinerary is hoping the demolition gets completed. We want to remind that we are for the Labor Day Weekend. The reopening of the bridge scheduled for 5 00 tuesday morning. Here is a look at traffic across the region. You can see everything moving smoothly or maybe a little slow, but you dont see a whole lot of red lines up there. You see yellow lines over there on 880. You see them in the south bay a bit. Things look well on the peninsula and certainly on 280 over there. If youre going there, be prepared for a slowdown. A lot going on tonight. Crews are taking advantage of the closure to spruce things up. Caltrans Officials Say they can get four months of Maintenance Work done in just four days when they have the road to themselves. Theyre replacing expansion joints, lights and filling potholes. Stay with nbc bay area and nbcbayarea. Com for continuing coverage. On the web we have your getaround guide. During the bridge closure, a link on the top left corner. That will hook you up with traffic maps, Traffic Cameras and alternative routes. In washington, d. C. Today the president surprised many people with his announcement about military action in syria. For days hes been making the case that syria should be punished for chemical weapons. He repeated that today but changed course. Nbcs brian mooar has the latest from washington. Reporter in a surprise saturday appearance, president obama told the world what it expected to hear. I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian Regime targets. But then came a stunning concession, an attack, if it happens will have to wait for a vote from congress. I will seek authorization for the use of force from the american peoples representatives in congress. Reporter the house of representatives isnt expected to begin debate until the week of september 9th, after it returns from summer recess. The president says his attack plan is not time sensitive. Some lawmakers supported the president s decision. I am very, very glad that the president listened to bipartisan calls to come before congress and come before the american people. The president s announcement came as a surprise to protesters expecting an imminent attack. After days presenting evidence the Syrian Government used chemical weapons, the president had little support from the world community. So the nos have it. Still he insists the assad regime must be punished for the worst chemical attack of the 21st century. What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price. Reporter a commander in chief. Classified brief fipgs on sunday at the capitol. Brian mooar, nbc news, washington. Protesters around the world took to the streets today to protest for and against a possible u. S. Led attack on syria. That includes protests in the bay area. In san jose, a small crowd of people gathered in front of city hall to express their views. This Group Opposes possible action in syria. In San Francisco maybe 100 protesters carried syrian and american flags. Some protesters are comparing military action in syria to the war in iraq. The u. S. Government sending out a political lie saying theres a country we should be away of. We see the disaster iraq was and the disaster our own economy is. These resources should be used for fair wages, housing, health care and education. There are rallies in san mateo and oakland. For the First Time Since the fire started near yosemite two weeks ago, the smoke has reached the valley. We talked to people in the valley tonight who told us that the smoke is so thick right now you cant even see half dome. Also today weve learned the heavy smoke has forced fire officials to ground all firefighting aircraft because of the low visibility. But there is some progress. Some evacuation orders have been lifted in communities north of the park. Some of the nearly 5,000 firefighters were allowed to go home over the weekend including strike teams from the bay area. The fire is now about 35 contained and more than 200,000 acres have burned so far, making it the fourth largest wildfire in state history. That smoke shifting there as a result of the rim fire. Meteorologist rob mayeda with more on that. Terry, were seeing the smoke from the rim fire affecting the far greater population now as the smoke made its way from the south into the san joaquin valley. You can see the fire from the rim location, in through the san joaquin valley. That caused impacts for air crews trying to battle the fires from the skies. Its a real health concern, smashing particle pollution, smaller than the human air. Now magnified 500 times. It looks like tiny shards that get lodged into your lung tissue. If you have asthma or other respiratory reasons, this is not good news. Air quality warning express from fresno south to the grapevine and around the yosemite area through midday monday. Thats one of the things were watching in addition to a chance of thundershowers now moving out of Southern California, possibly moving closer to the bay area. Well address that in the full forecast coming up a few minutes from now. Diane . Thanks a lot, rob. 30 miles from the fire is groveland. Its usually packed with tourists on a Labor Day Weekend. But this morning businesses are just about deserted. The fear of the fire, the longer drive and all, weve had a lot of consolations because of that on what would be the start of Labor Day Weekend, kind of the end of the summer and a very, very busy time, we just dont have the business at all right now. She added that there had been 130 cancellations since the beginning of the fire and also highway 120 is closed leading into the park right now. The fire and the bay bridge closure are keeping people here in the bay area closer to home this Labor Day Weekend. Clogged highways and close closed or destroyed campgrounds have people changing their plans. This man had his Labor Day Weekend planned out for weeks, theyd camp near lake tahoe. But a couple of things happened that forced him to come up with a plan b. The bay bridge being closed. We want to avoid that at all costs. Reporter and the family wanted to avoid the smoke from the rim fire near yosemite that was drifting over to tahoe. Definitely. We definitely dont want to be stuck in some fire situation. Definitely steered clear of that and just came this way instead. Reporter where they ended up was this campground at Sanborn County park, a short drive from their home in pacifica. Its great. We love it. This is the first time here, but we love coming out and taking the boys camping. Its a great place. Reporter other campers like this heard Horror Stories from friends who tried to go camping in tahoe. They planned on staying four or five days, they wound up only spending one night because they got there and the smoke was much worse than they had hoped it would be. Reporter many local campgrounds say theyre booked solid for the holiday weekend. The family says they dont mind spending their dollars locally. Theres enough to go around. There should be yosemite shouldnt mind so much. Reporter george kiriyama, nbc bay area news. Convicted killer joseph nas sew claims he didnt get to present critical information during his trial in marin county this summer. Thats despite the fact he represented himself in court. Naso sent a letter to the nbc station in reno dated the day before he was found guilty on four counts of murder. It claims one of his alleged victims could have been killed by a pimp. He also claims the prostitute who was killed had, quote, unknown enemies. He points out other possible suspects, he never proclaimed his innocence either. The killings happened in the 1990s in california. In oakland a shooting inside a Jack London Square nightclub left one man dead. The shooting happened about 1 30 at club anton on third street. People inside the club at the time say some sort of fight broke out. Then came the gunfire. Officers say when they got there they found a man who had been shot, pronounced dead at the scene. Police have interviewed several witnesses. A 14yearold boy is behind bars tonight accused of sexual assault. Alameda police say the assault happened at ruby bridges elementary school. They tell us the boy approached a female student in the School Bathroom and allegedly assaulted her yesterday after. He took off but Police Tracked him down a few blocks away. Police say the investigation is on going. Still ahead at 5 00, maintaining his innocence. A jailhouse interview with the person of interest in the killing of a federal investigate erbie the bay area. Why he say investigators have it all wrong. The robot, well see how hightech health care is helping patients and silicon investors as well. We have new information tonight in the investigation into who killed federal investigate ersan draw coke from oakland. The man police call a person of interest spoke to nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez from jail. Reporter nbc bay area paid a jailhouse interest to the man police are calling a person of interest in the killing of sandra coke, the investigator for the federal Defenders Office who disappeared from her oakland home nearly three weeks ago, found dead in vacaville three days later. Her former boyfriend randy alana told us hes grief stricken, quote, sandra meant the world to me. Alana who has a lengthy criminal past including rape, kidnapping and manslaughter convictions says hes an easy target in the case. While he wouldnt answer whether he had anything to do with cokes disappearance, he claims coke had told him she was getting unwanted phone calls before she disappeared and that someone had slashed her tenants tires. The first thing a da looks like is a sus spent being inconsistent, dishonest in their statement, but also are they deflecting attention from themselves and trying to put it on someone else . Thats a classic situation that a prosecutor is going to say is consciousness of guilt. Reporter legal analyst Stephen Clark says alana clearly wants to put his own spin on things as police work to build their case against him. Alana remains in custody on a parole violation but has not been charged in cokes killing. Remember dna evidence, cell phone evidence, that takes time to process. While hes in custody, time is on the side of the district attorneys office, and theyre going to use that time to try to build an airtight case. Tonight nbc bay area learned alana and coke had been butting heads for months over the disappearance of cokes dog. Sources say coke says alana used the dog to extort 1,000 from her. She reportedly gave him the money but that didnt get the dog back. It was a par role violation. He had gotten out of jail three days before coke disappeared. Hes got motive, hes got opportunity and hes got a very long criminal history. Reporter when asked why he had cokes keys and credit card on him when he was arrested, he replied, quote, how many things of mine do you think sandra has. Alana declined to answer some of our questions. He asked for privacy to grieve. In dublin, Jodi Hernandez, hns bay area news. Coming up next, restoring what was once a thriving piece of bay area land, the project that aims to turn water into wine. If youre not balancing the use of automation and flying skills, that can sometimes create challenges. Are pilots too reliant on auto pilot . Is it putting passengers at risk . [ telephone ringing ] [ male announcer ] answering your phone between 5 and 7 on a weeknight . Not so smart. [ drumming ] buying your own kid a drum set. Not so smart. Getting a complete meal on the table under 10 bucks . Now thats smart. The new kfc 9. 99 6piece deal. 6 pieces of chicken. 3 biscuits, and one large side just 9. 99 bringing home a meal the whole family loves for under ten bucks . Very smart. Today tastes so good. Since the days of the gold rush, 90 of the bay areas marsh lands have been filled in or developed. Efforts are underway to restore title marshes in near napa and sonoma. Joe rosato, junior tells us how. Reporter the vineyards are alive with this years grapes. Among the rolling vines is an area so dead nothing can live on it. When the salt gets here, its so concentrated that literally nothing can survive. Reporter among these vineyards, 1,000 acre salt flats left over from salt plants in the 50s sit like moon scrapes. This pond could create a toxic mess and actually harm San Francisco bay. Reporter a 20year effort is under way here to restore what was once 10,000 acres of thriving marsh lands. Today the Sonoma County water agency celebrated the completion of a pipeline that will carry recycled water to these flats. Through the vineyards and the roadways down to this pond, to be able to use it to be bringing back this pond for wildlife purposes. Reporter the water will begin its journey eight miles away at the Sonoma County Water Treatment plant. It will turn water into wine. I can produce top quality grapes, both quantity and quality, grow a balanced vine and know the water is there. Reporter the water is expected to begin flowing in the fall. Wildlife experts say it will take a decade for the Healing Waters to bring the dead back to live. Joe rosato, junior, bay area news. Water into wine. Ive heard of it somewhere before. Rob mayeda talking about nice weather ahead. Today we did see cooling changes, the sea breeze firing up, bringing in the marine layer influence. As we take you outside and give you a tour of the bay, you can see the fog spilling across the golden gate bridge. San jose, a different story. Not looking at the low clouds. Now youre starting to see the moisture which has been in Southern California coming up out of the south. That sin creasing mid level moisture which given enough time will increase stability over the mountaintops tomorrow. That may make interesting changes by late in the difficult on sun v sunday. You can see the drop in temperatures compared to 24 hours ago, all this fired up by much stronger and an earlier start to the sea breeze which is reaching into livermore and fairfield tonight. You see the fog swilg back across San Francisco. That will push locally inland across the bay tonight. The moisture were watching is going to be coming up out of the south. Its not going to impact the as game, on the chilly side. 60s for that. Very exciting, cal football tonight against northwestern. 60s for that game, too. Partly cloudy skies. No worries for showers today. But tomorrow around the mountaintops we may see a few shower chances that could linger into monday. Here are the two elements coming together, moisture coming up sought of Southern California and a trough approaching the west coast. This will continue the cooling trend throughout the weekend. For some places tomorrow, watch closely as we head toward sunday night. You see the moisture getting into the hilltop locations into early monday. By the time we get into monday afternoon and tuesday, the moisture moves on and we start to see our skies clear out. Lows mostly in the 450s and 60s. During the day tomorrow, high temperatures once again in the low 80s in san jose. More clouds coming in out of the south. Mid to upper 80s around pleasanton. Another relatively cool day in San Francisco. Highs in the 60s. Low 70s around oakland. Well bring in the slight chance of the mountain showers late tomorrow into early monday. After that temperatures should start to climb up once again. Well see the numbers rise into the low 490s thursday into friday. This is more or less the unofficial end of summer. Im here to tell you summerlike temperatures will make a comeback as we head to the second part of the week ahead. Rob, you had diane fist pumping with the mention of cal bears. Do you think northwestern is going to win. Theyre ranked. Thats when cal wins. Speaking of football lets check in with henry. When you think of me you probably think im bizarre, right . I have to back up my personality with highlights that is just going to blow you away. Weve seen so bizarre baseball bloopers, but something happened in oakland last night that might be at the top of the list. Im not kidding you. Stick around for the details. Unbelievable. Shhhhh in our day, we didnt have uverse high speed internet. Yeah, our babysitter didnt have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. We had to count sheep to fall asleep. And i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. In my head. Never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. Too much . A little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high speed internet. Rethink possible. Welcome back to nbc bay area. The oakland as are doing good on the field, but they cant seem to flush all their problems. In june o. Co coliseum had sewage problems. Last night the coliseum had another issue loosely related to sewage. It happened during the eighth inning of friday nights game. The Tampa Bay Rays closer Fernando Rodney was locked inside the bathroom in the ray dugout. After 15 minutes he was finally freed after a handle was removed from the bathroom door. They had to break it off. Heres more on the bizarre interest. Reporter henry, this isnt the first bathroom incident at o. Co. The same thing happened to former as pitcher joe glenn, except the door had to get cooked down to free him. Last nights incident provided comic relief during a critical time in the ball game. I was standing out there at shortstop and just looked over, and i think it was one of their trainers had one of the heavy bats and was just pounding away trying to break the door off or trying to break the lock off the door. I was trying not to laugh, because it was a big moment in the game, but it was rather comical. Nothing but laugh about it because we can see from fwul pen yesterday with him being locked in there, from the angle we had, they were having fun with it in the dugout. Thats why theyre a successful team, they have fun with whatever happens. I would think you could potentially stop the game if you have a guy that youre expecting the go in and he cant get out of the facility. Reporter bob melvin was asked what he would do if the same thing happened to his closer. He said i would kindly go up to the umpire, explain the situation and ask him to stop the game. At the coliseum, fallon smith, nbc bay area. Lets move over to football. The 49ers made their final cuts today, getting their roster down to 53 players. Among the players cut was wide receiver austin collie. San francisco also parted ways with brian jennings. Jennings said in a statement, quote n a very real way i learned to be a man with the 49ers, molded through the preparation of performance of game day, completely tested while on and off the field this game, this team and this group of men made we who i am today. Very well spoken. Classy move by the veteran. Giants and dbacks just got under way in arizona. That game is scoreless. Well have highlights for you at 6 00. Terry and diane, in case im not here, its because im locked in the restroom. Well know where to look. Henry, i think you forgot one other game going on this evening. Oh, you mean that cal game . Are you concerned about that . Jared gough a true freshman starting for the cal bears. Complete highlights tonight at 11 00. I have not forgotten about you diane. Thank you. Shes put a lot of money on it. Hey, hey, hey. Thanks, henry. You got it. Where is Nelson Mandela . Complete reports. Is the former South African president in or out of the hospital . A group of nurses who inspire their patients through song. Its the latest in our bay area proud series. Terry is dancing as we speak
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