Industrial or maybe closer to whip. Well get an update as chp arrives and i want to show you the rest of the bay. No real surprise of their than this. The peninsula is where things started to get troublesome this morning. There is chp pursuit started on the peninsula. Came across that san mateo bridge. Went back and forth on 880 through downtown oakland. And then even though we ended up over here just off of highway 24. The crash did end over here on tunnel road just off of highway 24. Thats in the Oakland Hills where our own pete suratos is. Pete, you continue with the investigation. Yes, we just spoke to chp and were off tunnel road off 24. I want to show you the car involved in the slow speed chase on whats left of it. You can see the windows were busted out. Chp gave us an update. Used a bean bag gun to get suspect from that car. Then you have the tires. Successfully spike stripped the car where the eventually stopped here. But we do have video we want to show you guys when those bean bag guns were drawn on the suspect. Now, theyre telling us that they started off as a dui stop in menlo park a few hours ago. That took them from the 101 to the 92 to the 880 and then eventually here off of tunnel road now. When we first arrived on the scene we saw this suspect as he was abouting. Really trying to catch his breath. I asked chp what his condition may be. Like i said, it was a dui investigation. Eventually pulled him over in menlo park. Could possibly be a mental disorder as well. So we just spoke with them. Were going to continue to get updates and bring them to you as they come in here on today in the bay. Live in oakland, pete suratos for today in the bay. Thanks for gathering p information. 6 02. Developing story from the south bay where a serial shooter targeting drivers in the san jose neighborhood has struck again. Not once not twice but six times just in the past six weeks alone. Area of blossom hill and monterrey roads. Its a very popular area, kris. Now police need the community to help. Ten cases since may 4th. Most recent just happened on friday. All but two of them have happened between midnight and 1 00 in the morning. And police say the shooter is firing a single shot at moving cars here. No ones been hurt but two years are reported because of flying glass or metal. Now, police are hope that police rather, people are hope that police will track down that shooter soon. Thats a coward. Thats a coward out there doing something aint supposed to be doing. And whoever he is, hes going to get caught. Its better to avoid the situation than to run into a situation and think what you would do, right . Reporter but it is hard to avoid this area all together. It is a major thoroughfare. Blossom hill road is three lanes in each direction between monterrey road and poughkeepsie road where the ten shootings have been reported. San jose police have canvassed the neighborhood. Notified neighbors. Looking for clues. They are not revealing though what kind of weapon were talking about here so we dont know the extent of the damage of those cars sustained nor the potential for injury or even whether its the same weapon at this point. Police are being tight lipped act that but they are urging anyone who knows something to say something. Theyd like to get this person off the streets. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Kris, thank you very much with. We have heartbreaking news to report out of iraq as well as outrage in that country after a fire at a baghdad hospital killed 11 newborns in a Maternity Ward there. That fire broke out overnight at a hospital in eastern baghdad. 29 female patients and 7 babies were evacuated. But a lack of fire escapes apparently prevented fire crews from rescuing the 11 newborns and that is creating huge backlash. Officials say that fire was caused by an electrical failure. Sentencing today for a drunk driver who killed a marine just home from afghanistan. They convicted alexander yohn. Two years ago his car struck and killed Lance Corporal andrew silva in fremont. Silva was riding his motorcycle when yohn ran a red light. Yohn kept on going but crashed into a pole. Silva left behind a wife and a 2yearold son. We now know when embattled santa clara judge aaron persky will issue his next legal decision in a sex crimes case. Persky a judge who critics believe issued too lenient a sentence to brock turner. Turner sexual assaulted a woman who was passed out. 15 days from now persky is going to consider whether to reduce the sentence of a man convicted for possessing child pornography. In that case persky sentenced the man to a fourday jail sentence when he could have received a penalty of up to a year in jail. The man now wants to reduce his sentence to a misdemeanor. Bringing down the old bay bridge. Heres a live look at the bridge where demolition crews are set to hit a major milestone today. This morning caltrans began work to complete the second phase of the leepart process. To dismantle the bridge. Crews are removing the and final trussle on the old eastern span. It weighs more than 25 tons. Lit be lowered on to a barge and cut into pieces before being hauled away to pier 7. The entire process they say could take up to a week. I want one little piece. My grandfather helped build that bridge. A piece of truss. From history to making more in rio as we continue our life coverage there. It is sure to be another fierce day of competition. Will we go. Relates check in with Jessica Aguirre with more on that. First, a couple of stories happening there including a weather and violent encounter for journalists. Reporter yes. Laura and sam, it is a rainy day here at olympic park. Lots of people coming in all wearing their ponchos, theyre wearing scarves because it is cold and it is blustery. The morning session of rowing has been canceled but so far road cycling is still on deck and so is Beach Volleyball. Now, there is a cloud hanging over olympic park today because of what you mentioned, that incident with one of the media buses. It happened last night as the immedia media was being transported from deodoro. It caused the journalists to throw themselves on the ground. Its unclear at this point if it was just rocks that hit the window or if there maybe was a shooting. Unclear. There is an investigation under way. A few journalists were injured but those were minor injuries. Again, thats being looked at now by brazilian security. Lets talk about the games. What games we had last night. The women took the floor. They dominated. They went from being fierce to being the final five and they are back to back gold in team are back to back gold in team finals. Sounds good, thank you, stephen. Super hard transition. Reporter power, grace, and gold. Im so happy to be a part of this team with all of these incredible girls. Reporter the final five, as they dubbed themselves, leaving no doubt that they are the best in the world with a simply dominant performance in team gymnastics. While the most decorated olympian ever added gold medals, 20 and 21 to his collection, with an emotional win in the 200 fly. Avenging the loss to chad le clos four years ago and joining his teammates to take the 4 x 200 relay. And future sanford student Katie Ledecky found gold for the second time winning the 200 free. Sp she hishe hits the pool. Its great to see team usa r. Reporter the u. S. Team will be looking for another medal tonight in the mens 100 rfreestyle feature ip freno expectexpected to be in the s volleyball. T r so fso far stilp so fa. R do or die game. They nep they need they ne games to stay in the hunt. Theres been something funky happenip happening in the m polo pool. Sosome green water. Thp they donthey dont know sosome green water. Thp they donthey dont kn r whats going on. Freestyle. Jay gray, nbc news, rio. Our coverage will continue menp menmens gymnastic in arouaround anparound and ta man in the hunt. Thp they call him mr. Holl firp first individual medal. Im sure there are a couple of interested parties in on that one. Jessica, thank you. Right now jessica did mention the fact that the weather is very iffy right now for Beach Volleyball. Thats right. Lets send it over to kari hall and find out the latest from rio. Yes, we are going to see those showers off and on. Not only today but then we will take a break tomorrow and then still see some showers in the forecast on friday. And then it clears up for the rest of the weekend into early next week. Taking a look at our weather, it will be bright and sunny after a morning start with some clouds. Were up to 78 degrees in concord. 71 in oakland. And San Francisco, seeing a high of 67 degrees. Coming up as we head into the weekend, some hot weather for the inland valleys. Ill detail that coming up. Mike is tracking some slowing now in hayward. A little more than you would like. A little more than you would expect but better news, trust me, folks. Over here and most of the bay looks like what you would expect right now. Over there southbound 880 does jam up out of hayward. As you head down toward union city right around industrial or whipple. Somewhere around the two we had the disabled vehicle. They had because chp just gave the all clear for lanes. Should see this buildup started to form. Sort of smooth out but thats not going to be light enough for it to clear. This is the morning commute toward the san mateo bridge. San mateo bridge itself moving over to the peninsula. Live look well sew show you westbound is the commute direction. Nice smooth flow of traffic. Clouds is clear of the roadway. You can see the peninsula hills. To delays for the peninsula or for the north bay. Back to you. Up next on today in the bay, small town versus big development. The back and forth surrounding a controversial new project that is moving forward in the south bay. Plus, big layoffs ahead in Silicon Valley and a new way to i a void lines at the rest rant. Well take a look coming up in business and tech. Controversial north 40 project in los gatos which took center stage again last night in another debate. Map Developers Want to build on 44 acres between highway 17 and los gatos boulevard. Just south of highway 85. Developers want to build on 44 acres between highway 17 and los gatos boulevard just south of highway 85. The plan calls for tearing out this orchard and building 320 homes and 66,000 square feet of retail stores. Many are concerned about traffic. Others werery the Big Box Stores will hurt small biggs ousiness. I think were going to become gridlocked, like los angeles. We cant afford to have the loss of even 3 or 400 people, say, in a weeks time to our downtown. Its signature cant to them. Theyre doing all they can to hold on. I a busy thoroughfare. Business owners near north 40 support the development because it will likely increase foot traffic in the area. In a letter sent to the town manager, attorneys for the developer claimed reducing the approved number of Housing Units would actually be a legal violation. And threatened to sue if the plans are now overturned. You cant bring a gun on a plane, most people know that. But the tsa stopped a man in reno for care irying a printed. I can barely get by with a bigger thing of lotion. This is a new concern for security. It is because 3d printing uses a type of plastic that wouldnt be detectible in the metal detector. This is a me cup made by a printer. Plastic does show up in xray. Thats what happened at the reno tahoe airport. The Security Officer saw the image in a carryon bag and called police over. It was a 3d printed revolver. Now, the question is would this gun work or would it shatter when it was fired . The tsa didnt seem ready to treat it as a real gun, though you saw the passenger also brought bullets with him. They let him go. They say the passenger was offered the option of checking the item in carryon baggage, but elected to leave the item behind with tsa. The passenger continued to his flight and there was no impact to airport operations. The army times reports this morning that u. S. Special forces are trading in their military issued android phones or iphones. The military calls them, im not making this up, the iphone tactical assault kit, or itac. Stocks were higher tuesday, they reached record highs in the middle of the day. The markets tend to slow down this time of year as traders take that last summer vacation. Big trouble in the Solar Industry this morning. Solar city in san mateo lost more money last quarter. It was about to merge with tesla. Sun power says it will make big layoff, more than 1,000 people. Shares in San Francisco based yelp are at a 52week high. Its going to work with a Company Called no wait to allow you to put yourself on restaurant waiting lists from your iphone before you get to the restaurant. Like open table but for restaurants that dont take reservations. Great idea. You just show up, say im already on the list. You say ill i will be there in half an hour. That kind of thing. Wonderful. That is great for a lol of places that have long lunch lines. And no reservations. Make sure that you come to keep in business. With open table there are penalties. You lose your place in line if you dont show up. Plus, they blacklist you at that point. You dont want that. Scott, thank you very much. Back to rio olympics coverage this morning. Not even a wardrobe malfunction could break Michael Phelps concentration. Just seconds before phelps was about to swim the final leg of the 4 x 200 freestyle last night his swim cap just split. So, his teammate who already swam came to the rescue there. Phelps rushed to throw that cap on instead and then he dove into the pool and guess what he did, he just earned his 21st gold medal. So easy. Just like that. As far as wardrobe malfunction, thats harmharmles guess. Could have been a lot more drastic. After phelps and his teammates got out of the pool they posted this picture with fellow team usa members like warriors star kevin durant, draymond green, klay thompson. In the crowd watching that swimming action. U. S. Mens Basketball Team will be taking on australia today. Look at all those athletes. Good team camaraderie. Whats amazing about that is that we see these swimmers, theyre ripped, big, theyre imposing and then you see them standing next to the nba guys and look little. Theyre so tall. Amazing. K. D. Looming from the top there. Exactly. What kind of weather do we have looming . I dont want to say looming because its going to be a beautiful things before things Start Cooking up. It will start to warm up today. Overall we start out with clouds near the coastline and sunshine inland today. Looking outside now as you head out the door we do have clouds in San Francisco. And this is the same picture weve seen all throughout the week. Temperaturewise. Light jacket needed as it is now 56 degrees. As we head into the day we will see some more of these temperatures in the 50s and then warming up as you go away from that coastline. Its now 60 degrees in concord. Its 58 degrees in napa. And in palo alto, 56 degrees. And as we go into the day for san jose, 59 degrees at 8 00. With some clouds to start. Then it all broieaks down for a sunny day. Winds start out coming in from the north. Barely light wind. Then it does pick up and brings that onshore flow. National air conditioning will help cool us off. A little bit more than it was yesterday. But tomorrow well be back to the same story with some breezy winds but it will be a touch warmer for those inland valleys. Expect it to only reach 81 in los gatos today which is cooler than average for the beginning of august. In san mateo, 71. Embarcadero at 65. 85 for pleasanton. Santa rosa today, 83 degrees. Theres still some sizzling temperatures across the Desert Southwest. Whats influencing our weather today, this area of low pressure dropping into the Pacific Northwest. It comes as our winds to increase and the cooling returns for a little while. And then High Pressure builds for the end of the week causing the valleys to reach into the 80s and 90s. In San Francisco, you wont notice much of a difference over the next seven days. It will stay in the 60s, morning clouds, afternoon sunshine. The valleys is where the difference will be. A lot more dramatic with mid 80s today. And then the mid 90s for the weekend. And that continues into early next week. We head over to mike with a lot of slowing heading out of san mateo. Heading towards san mateo out of morgan hill. Thats south of where we look at your big look at the bay. Ill talk about hayward in a second. But looking at northbound 101. Morgan hill and gilroy. Up here just north of con kron we see things clearing. We did have construction scheduled for a full closure of 101 around dunn but whatever road work was going on scheduled to be completely clear by 5 00. Just got alerted, still more slowing. See that on the maps and speed sensors. Check with chp to see if theres anything else that i can tell me or caltrans. Hayward, slower drive. The tire that was in the lines looks like its been cleared. No more debris there. Smooth there flow. Just that typical bridge past the san mateo bridge. Over towards the bay bridge toll plaza and smooth expected traffic flow. The bay bridge toll plaza itself, show you the live shot. It has the backup for all lanes going back to the end of the parking lot, a little sparser back up over at west grand but its there. Back to you. But its there. Thanks, mike. Coming up next, Surveillance Video over brazen smash and grab near a tourist hot spot. Thats right. And chris chmura joins us with more of those consumer problems solved. Good morning. We have all faced this question in the register. Would you like to pro effect the your product with an extra 30 bucks . But one couple did, then the company didnt. So nbc bay area responds. Next. [electronic sound effects] brace yourself. The first ever gsf is here. With a 467 horse power v8 engine. Torque vectoring differential. And brembo brakes. Its the next expression of f performance, from lexus. 6 25 right now. Nbc bay area responds to a santa rosa couple that got nowhere with an extended warranty. We went to the experts, consumer investigator chris chmura joins us to explain how he helped out. Good morning. Susanna and chuck jones paid 239 for a blender. Considering the cost they also spent 30 on a sevenyear extended warranty. They say they needed it. Here are pictures they took op brown go leaking from the motor. The joneses said the manufacturer told them replacement blender wasnt happening because their model had been discontinued. The best to respond fell this 30 premium they paid for the warranty. They told us we contacted several different times only to get the runaround. So they asked us to call try star, the blender manufacturer, we did. A short time later the joness told us they got a check for 269. The cost of the blender plus the 30 extended warranty. We gave try star an opportunity to explain what happened but we never got a response. Shifting gears now let me give you a preview here of a story working on for tonight. We spent the past few months focused on these donation jars which we spotted all over the bay area. Weve been asking questions about them. Who are these kids . Where do their pictures come from . Where does the money go . After the olympics, answers. The person behind them explains his practices. While the parents of some of these children expressed anger. Thats tonight after the olympics. If you have a tip for us to investigate share it. Call us t 888996tips or you can submit your story online at nbcbayarea. Com responds. So far, our consumer investigator center has received more than 800 complaints. Were pushing the 1,000 mark. We welcome more. Look at that. Its interesting. Looking forward to the tip jar. When i just at the restaurant yesterday and i saw one. They are everywhere. A lot of people have questions about them. After the olympics. Thank you. 6 27. To follow up to breaking news here on today in the bay yesterday morning. This is Surveillance Video of that smash and grab burglary at an electronices store near Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco. Four men were using that white van and a long pole to take out the front of the digital center. They grabbed electronics and just took off. So far no arrests have been made. Coming up next on today in the bay, strong shaking felt just north of the bay area. Plus im bob row dell. Live in sam bruno for reaction to the verdict against pg e in connection to a deadly pipeline blast. That story coming up. A slow speed car chase comes to an end in the Oakland Hills. Well have all the details coming up in a live report. Maybe almond breeze tastes so good because its the only almondmilk made with california blue diamond almonds. But if you ask our almond growers. Theres no maybe about it. Almond breeze. The best almonds make the best almondmilk. Proud sponsor of usa volleyball. [engine revving] want to know what makes us, us . By the time other people start doing what weve been doing, weve already moved on. The lexus gs 350 f sport, with better overall handling performance than the bmw 535i m sport. Im laura garcia cannon. A very good wednesday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. Im sam brock. Weve had beautiful weather all week long. And we have not going to break that streak today. Kari hall join us with a look at your forecast. It will feel more comfortable today. We will are v. Clouds this morning and then it all breaks out into sunshine. Its 56 degrees now in San Francisco. 57 in the south bay. 81 in the south bay. And 78 degrees in the peninsula. It will actually be cooler than average in some spots. While San Francisco has a breezy 67 for the high. Well talk about some 90s in time for the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Heading over to mike now. He has the jam on highway 101. I had to check with chp handling the monterrey system. Yes, there is a crash. Were looking at your most of your drive and nothing unexpected. However, northbound 101 is jammed coming up through morgan hill and gilroy. We said that the construction overnight had cleared at dunn but closer to the golf course there, the crash blocking your two left lanes. Thats the source of all the slowing that will be a jam coming up into san jose. Its holding off the traffic in through the Silicon Valley so that might be better news for most of our viewers. Toward the bay bridge, standard flow of traffic. Metering lights is on. Highway 24, 13, both move smoothly. On the surface streets, pete suratos is there following up on a overnight slow speed crash. Pete . Reporter they just took away that car that was involved in that slow speed chase. Behind me off tunnel road off 24. Thats whats left of the remnants of that car. A little fire kind of came out after they used that successful spike strip, that car where it ended. Lets show you that video now. According to chp this pursuit started in menlo park for a possible dui around 2 00 a. M. The car backes up and attempted to strike the officer. The car took offnd the pursuit went through multiple freeways off 880, 5880 and 980 and tunn road. Bean bags were pulled out on that suspect and the car tires blew out after being spike stripped by menlo pd. The suspect was arrested. I asked chp about his condition. Once he was taken into custody he was very sweating very profusely. He had signs and symptoms of intoxication or possibly a mental disorder. All that right now is under investigation. We gave him medical treatment immediately for the dog bite and hes on his way to the hospital now to receive whatever medical treatment, whether its physical or for his mental stability. Reporter slow speed chase roughly took about three hours. That car hitting speeds of 25 Miles Per Hour throughout. Chp did not mention if any other drivers were hurt as a result. Were live in oakland, pete suratos for today in the bay. All right, thank you very much, pete. 6 33. Morely six years after a pipeline exploded leveling a sam bruno neighborhood a verdict is in against youllity found guilty that destroyed dozens of home and killed eight people. Bob redell is live in san bruno where were expected to hear from the city in just a couple of hours. I know we both worked here when all of this happened. Its interesting to now see a little bit of closure for some of these people. Yes, the city will respond to that verdict against pg e. A little bit later this morning. It will be at a News Conference here at San Bruno City Hall schedule at 10 00 this morning. Yesterday a federal jury found the power and gas utility guilty of a total of six criminal charges, namely five counts of violating the Pipeline Safety act and one count of obstructing justice during the investigation that leveled a san bruno neighborhood six years ago. The blast killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes. The federal prosecution was initially seeking a penalty against pg e of over half billion dollars. This would have been on top of the 1. 5 billion fine that the state has already imposed on the utili utility. But then without explanation the u. S. Attorney reduced the maximum possible fine the judge can impose on pg e to just 3 million, which has people here in san bruno outraged. We hoped the judge sends pg e a message that its not okay to risk peoples lives by having inadequate records, manipulating the data, and my leisleading fel investigation. Im sure all the utilities in the United States is going, wow, we better get ahead of that. Thats a good thing there, too, to probably get them all to clean up their act. Pacific gas and electric released a statement that reads in part, we want our customers and their families to know that we are committed to reearning their trust by acting with integrity and working around the clock to provide them with energy that is safe, reliable, affordable, and clean. Bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you very much. Two mothers whose lives were shattered by last years deadly berkeley balcony collapse will push today for new safety regulations in sacramento. Six students in total died in that collapse that incluesed ashleigh donahoe. Later today her mother and mother of Irish Exchange student who was seriously injured will testify. The pair will speak in support of new legislation calling for greater oversight and more transparency in the construction industry. K67 35. Activists plan to hold a silent march tonight in the north bay. Organizers are angry about a recent job promotion for the deputy who shot and killed 13yearold andy lopez in santa rosa back in 2013. Lopez was armed with an air rifle when he was shot. The deputy was never charged. In may according to the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department he was promoted to sergeant. Protesters tonight plan to meet at santa rosas fremont park. Two chp officers recovering right now after a crash in the south bay that reportedly involved a drunk driver. And this situation would have been a lot worse. The officers were at the scene of a crash involving three cars on highway 85 just south of unit avenue. While everyone was out of their cars the chp says the suspected drunk driver plowed into one of the vehicles. That caused a Chain Reaction crash that injured the officers who were thrown to the ground. The mercury reports the worst of their injuries was a possible sprained ankle. Wild chase in the east bay ends with a car filled with people slamming into a cement truck. Police say they started when a woman with four passengers in her car hit an officer yesterday afternoon. The officer was treated onscene but police say the woman took off and eventually collide with a cement truck. All five people in the car were injured. That includes a 3yearold girl. So far we have not received an update on their conditions. Palo alto leaders are calling it a miracle no one was hurt when a large piece of concrete fell 30 feet off a building on to busy university avenue. Happened over the weekend when a decorative cornice fell off the bank building. Years of water seepage may have been the culprit. Now engineers are keeping a close eye on that structure which first opened in 1906. The Building Owner is working with a team to make sure that they are reenforcing any of the concrete so that we dont have a situation like this in the future. It is a beautiful building. If youve ever walked by. Engineers indicate the building is structurally sound even though you can see cracks in areas of the facade. They believe the piece that fell was in far worse condition than other cornices on that same building. You want buildings to be secure and the result of earthquakes. So far we have not heard any word of injuries or damage to a moderate sized earthquake north another bay area. 5. 0 magnitude quake which struck a little bit before 8 00 last night near clearlake. The epicenter was 50 miles north of hillsburg. Clearlake residents felt a lot of shaking. So far there have been at least two minor aftershocks. Take a look at the latest videos. Some fires burning in lake county as we stay north. Were told that are two residentses have burned and homes were briefly evacuated. The two fires popped up last night in the lower lake and canyon areas. Both fires are now contained. Bringing down the old bay bridge. Live look at the bridge where demolition crews are set to meet a mayjor milestone today. They will complete the second phase in the threepart process to dismantle the bridge. Crews are removing the fifth and final truss on the old eastern span. The truss weighs more than 25 tons. Lit be lowered on to a barge and cut into pieces before being hauled away to pier 7. The entire process they say could take up to a week. I get kind of nostalgic about that bridge. I do, too. As ugly as it looks dismandled. Still a part of history. Lets see if were not making any history breaking records today with our temperatures, right, kari . A nice one . It is going to be a nice one. In fact, coming down a little bit cooler than it was yesterday. We all start out with upper 50s to lower 60s as you head out the door. Looking at todays high temperatures up to 71 degrees in oakland. And palo alto expect a high of 78 degrees. Also at 78 degrees in concord. 87 in livermore. A little bit warmer there but cooler than yesterday after having some 90s in spots. 83 in santa rosa. And San Francisco at 67 degrees. We wont see much of a change in these temperatures along the coast. But tin land areas heating up in in the 90s. Ill talk about that coming up in less than ten minutes. Now as we head over to mike, we are looking at whats happening on the peninsula. Thats right, kari. Getting over to the peninsula, slower now. We have a smooth flow of traffic but look at that, over here towards the san mateo and dumbarton bridges as well as in the south bay. So pretty typical pattern. Zoom over toward the trivalley. More slowing for southbound 680. No problem to or at the dublin interchange. As the debris was cleared around whipple, smoothed out. Dumbarton bridge and san mateo bridge. Live look, camera on the hayward side. We also have one on the peninsula side but theres not a lot of activity to show there. All of these smokes making their way to 101 with no delay. Back to you. Here in the bay area you see a lot of tech cars on the road. A man credits teslas autopilot feature for saving his life. Plus, brand new information on a Silicon Valley layoff. A way to drink your breakfast, and a live look at the big board. Dow industrials up almost two points. Im Jessica Aguirre in olympic park in rio where it is wet and blustery. Coming up, who will go for gold in the rain and who will have to wait another day. And a bay area olympian is competing in tonights mens all around gymnastics finals. Jess says his nickname is hollywood but he isnt representing team usa. Ryan patterson, senior at cal, is competing for his native country south africa. He is the only gymnast to represent that country. He says the high bar is his favorite events. Were back in just moments. Good wednesday morning. 6 44. B. A. R. T. Is planning to build a fleet of the future back on track. Work on new cars was hit with a fivemonth delay you will recall but b. A. R. T. Officials say customers can expect to ride with a full new fleet within five years. They also plan to have ten new test cars in service by december. In all, 775 cars are being manufacturered in new york. The cars are said to be more spacious but they offer fewer seats. They are supposed to have better air conditioning and a realtime map. Laura, a missouri man credits his self driving car for saving highs life. Joshua neely owned his tesla model x for a week but had taken to using the cars selfdriving feature. Suddenly that feature became critical when neely felt a sutd den chest pain driving on a highway near his home in branson. The pain was so severe, he couldnt drive. What he didnt know is that he had suffered a pulmonary im bolism. It was kind of getting scary. I called my wife and just said, somethings wrong. You know, and i couldnt breathe. I was gasping. Going to hyper ventilate. He says that teslas autopilot kept his car steady and on the road getting him close enough to a hospital where he was able to drive the last couple of blocks. He believes that selfdriving technology will save even more lives. Some are calling this the counter balance to a recent story out of florida where its believed selfdriving Technology May have failed when a tesla crashed into a big rig killing the tesla driver. As for teslas newest partner solar city continues to lose money. Scott mcgrew, that has investors worried. It does. Tesla also loses money. In the last three months tesla made negative 293 million. Solar city said tuesday it made negative 250 million. Together theyre half a billion in the hole. Remember, those companies are combining. Really cloudy news all around the Solar Industry this morning. Sun power says it will layoff 15 of workforce. Thats 1200 workers. Though it rook likes many of those will be outside of Silicon Valley. Were looking at the markets this morning. Mildly higher. The s p 500 and the nasdaq set new intraday records yesterday but its quiet late august is a good time for a lot of traders to take a break. Car companies and the makers of electric car chargers are objecting to voegs wagons deal in a california court. Vw will invest millions in California Building car chargers to make up for cheating custo r customers in the environment with those polluting cars. Companies who make car chargers say they dont want vw take oefrg the industry. Heres a morning pick me up. The San Francisco Company Makes the liquid food say favored by San Francisco programmers has a breakfast drink called coffiest, breakfast, combined with the caffeine of a single cup of coffee for apartmepeople too bu eat andrey coffee. This is very popular among guys to stay at their desk. You know when you forget to eat . Im like, no. No, i dont ever know. I understand that though. Youre on the go so much. That, i understand. Id like to try it. Okay. Ill get you some. Most important meal of the day. Could they reconsider the name change . Soil yant . Sounds like a fertilizer. Back to olympic coverage from rio. Now theyre not going to give me a sample. More chances for gold on team usa. Americans are leading the way with 26 medals total and that number is only expected to rise today. All right. Our very own Jessica Aguirre is following the action live from rio. Jessi jessica, a full slate of bay area olympians are getting ready to compete today. Battling the elements there, too. Reporter yes, today, sam and laura, this is soggy city here at olympic park. The rain has let up a little bit now. But its been coming down pretty steadily all day long. And its quite cold and soggy. Rowing, the rowing morning session had to be canceled because of the rain. But Beach Volleyball is going to be going on as scheduled out at copacabana beach and the road cycling is tell on schedule as well. The big draw last night we saw the women take gold back to back gold for the team. Making olympic history. Tonight it is the mens turn. In the mens individual final. And being part of that will be a california man whose nicknamed mr. Hollywood. Hes from southern california. His name is sam mckol low and twotime olympian and he is hungry to get his first individual medal. So they will be back in the pool as well. The women, Katie Ledecky from stanford will will be there, Missy Franklin in the 4 x 2 relay. Missy franklin was champion in 2013 but shes certainly been struggling this year in the olympics here. Quite teary eyed the offer the day saying she has let her teammates down. Adrian will be in the 100 free olympic title. Adrian cut it close yesterday in the preliminaries but he will be in the water again tonight hoping for gold. And then Beach Volleyball, thats up and its going to happen. Santa clara native Kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross have their final group match today. Theyre going to be do it in copacabana. Playing in sand in the open so its going to be a little rainy but the ladies say they are ready. April ross will once again unleash the beast, as she calls it, on her opponents. Also up tonight, josh prenot. Hes swimming for cal. We have the water mens polo game, u. S. Men against france. Do or die for the team. Theyre down 02. And if they dont win today, they have to win the next two games or theyre going to face elimination. Action packed here again at olympic park. But if youre coming, bring an umbrella or rain poncho because it is soggy. All right. Well just leave it to you. Thank you, jess. All right. Very clear here at home as we get a last check of your weather and traffic. Today is cooler. It is cooler today giving us a little bit of relief before the temperatures start to inch up as we go into the weekend. Live look outside now. We see some clouds rolling across the south bay. Beautiful shot from san jose. The sun is starting to peek through. Temperaturewise, weve had upper 50s to lower 60s. Right now its 56 in san jose as well as San Francisco. And its 60 in oakland and conco concord. 57 in napa. Winds start out coming in from the north. Then we start the see the moving in from the west. And that is what will provide some relief as we get our natural kir air conditioning kicking in. Inland areas starting to warm up. So looking at oakland today, mostly cloudy skies to start. And then our highs reaching into the low 70s just briefly. Most of the day will be in the 60s. And gilroy today expect a high of 79. 71 in san mateo and valley today up to 67 degrees. Lower 80s for santa rosa while oakland is at 71. And pleasanton today, 85 degrees. Theres still some hot weather over the Desert Southwest but then look at what happens as we go farther to the north. This is whats impacting our weather. And an area of low pressure moving into the Pacific Northwest causes cooling just briefly. Only for today. And then this High Pressure builds in quickly. And it provides less marine air. That means we wont have the onshore flow. And the valley temperatures will reach into the 80s and 90s. But you wont notice much of a difference in San Francisco. Well be in the upper 60s for the next seven days. Morning clouds and some afternoon sunshine. In the valleys we will see the highs in the mid 80s today. And this is the day we do catch a little bit of a break before the 90s really start to kick in. This weekend looks pretty hot. Definitely a pool weekend. Next week that heat continues. Now as we head over to mike, hes tracking a big crash on highway 101. Thats right, kari. Still have the morgan hill is the area because the rest of highway 101 in san jose, we have a minor crash at 680 and 101 but ill get more detail from chp once they arrive there. They tell me its going to be a while longer. No injuries but a big jam as two lanes are blocked, north 101 right around the golf club. Thats got traffic jammed back to just about san martin. Folk, monterrey road or immigra monterrey highway, thats one option. It is jammed. Im being told santa teresa boulevard might be a good option but that is only midway on the slow down. Probably have to get on monterrey as an alternate if you want to get off of 101. Rest of the bay is smooth. Fender bender at the bay bridge toll plaza. I have seen all lanes moving. Slowly, yes, but moving. On the peninsula, we have a nice smooth flow of traffic. Easy drive here. Palo alto right by the lane shift. No additional problems. Traffic coming over is san mateo and dumbarton bridges. Back to you. Its been a busy morning. Coming up next on today in the bay, recap of the mornings top stories. That includes the hunt for a serial shooter in the south bay. Someone targeting drivers along the busy stretch of a san jose roadway strikes again. Not once, not twice, but six times. The details coming up next. At 6 53. Happening now on a san jose businessmans unwitting act of kindness helped change the life of a young artist with disabili disabilities. Read the full story and visit the sites on our website. Plus, one olympic swimmers prerace superstition has viewers wondering why he flips the bird before every race. Canadian swimmer santo has been doing it since he was 5. We can tell you why. Find the answer on our facebook page. Back in just a few. Sam vo first a develop welcome back. Before you head out the door, top stories on nbc bay area. A serial shooter has struck again in san jose. That now makes a total of ten occupied vehicles that have been hit on or near blossom hill road right by monterrey road. In the past three months. The shootings began in may and police say there were three more shootings in late july and two more last week. All of them have happened after midnight in an area that some neighbors describe should say they now avoid after dark. Its better to be, you know, avoid the situation than to run into a situation and think what you should do, right . We all have families so we have to worry about it. Two drivers have been wounded by shrapnel or flying glass. Police say that theyre making an all out effort to catch the shooter or shooters but hope that someone in the area can provide a tip to help them solve this mystery. At 6 57. We are expecting reaction later this morning from san bruno city leaders to pg es being found guilty of criminal charges tied to the deadly 2010 pipeline explosion. Jurors found them guilty of six criminal charges, that includes obstruction of justice during the san bruno investigation. Other counts were tied to Pipeline Safety violations. Critics are infuriated because pg e will only have to pay at most a 3 million fine. Prosecutors drastically reduced possible penalties down from 500 million. 6 58. Final look this morning at the olympic flame burning in rio. Plenty of action on tap today. Coming up in prime time saratogas own Kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross look to continue their dominance on the sand and the mens individual all around gymnastics finals and plenty of action in the pool as cal grad Nathan Adrian goes for backtoback gold in the 100 meter freestyle. And Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin team up. Were rooting them on. As Jessica Aguirre was describing, soggy conditions down there in rio. Well see how that holds up. Here, very nice day. Very nice day. Feeling cooler and we will have some sunshine after these morning clouds clear out. Some 50s for the most part. As you head out the door, 60s in San Francisco. Upper 80s for the trivalley and the peninsula, 78 degrees. All right. Mike is working a couple of different accidents. Both on the bay shore freeway. Both affecting folks in san jose. Overall traffic flows nicely right now. But well draw your attention first to the new crash north 101 at mckee. I told you i would find more information. No injuries. A motorcycle is down but the rider got back up. Walking around. Thats better news. But still blocking a couple lanes. Still blocking one lane. That could be an additional slowdown. You see 280 starting to build up as well. A bigger backup here weve been following the crash around the creek. Still there blocking your two left lanes. Makes for a tough commute. Tough. Thats whats happening today in the bay. We do not have a midday show today but olympic coverage does begin at 10 00. Good morning solid gold. This morning, solid gold. The u. S. Women dominates the gymnastics. We are the final five. In the pool Michael Phelps is avenging his loss in the pool with a vengeance, adding more gold an hour later and katie
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.