Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20160811

Of the bay bridge. This crash originally reported and sounded like a fender bender but its taking a while to clear. As we look at most of the bay and slowing because of the crash at capital expressway. Another crash in the trivalley that we told you about a few minutes ago. Well review that later on. Coming up over here. Westbound 80. Bay bridge approach really jammed up because this crash at the embarcadero over crossing. Off the bay bridge from oakland. We do have that crash blocking one lane. This has traffic backed up already on the approach toward Treasure Island. Likely to slow the metering lights down just to keep traffic easier on the bridge itself. Until they can get a crew out there, we will have that. Track that of course. Thats a bigger deal coming over from the east bay. A developing story this morning and a disturbing discovery. One of the bay areas busiest shopping malls. Right now police are sifting through clues to find out how a body ended up inside a stairwell at San Franciscos Westfield Shopping Center. Bob redell is looi at bloomingdales to reveal what police are sree rereveal. Reporter sfpd will only tell us they believe this is a homicide. They wont declare how they this person died. Theyre telling us hes a man in his 30s, a white man who was found yesterday morning around 10 00 behind those doors right there. Those nondiscrypt doors, the doors that can only open from the inside. Somebody found the body yesterday morning. It was behind those doors ina stairwell. This is a stairwell that anyone can access from inside the mall and the doors which can only be opened from the inside, are back exit lead to this alleyway that were standing in called jessie east. They have sent an email end canting the murder victim is not a bloomingdales employee and advise the gloiemployees no talk about what happened. People who work in the mall are avoiding stairwells and are pairing up when they have to come outside. The mall is still open for business. Makes you feel unsafe to come shopping. Its terrible that you cant go anywhere safe. Ec even around a lot of people. Reporter Westfield Management is also not talking about what happened but they did release this statement that reads in part, the center is open and operating normally, and we are cooperating fully with the investigation. Sfpd tells us they are reviewing footage from several security cameras you can see back out here live. They do have them installed throughout the property, especially in the back alley way which is this back entrance to bloomingdales. Again, where a body of a man in his 30s found a little under 24 hours ago. Reporting live in sf, bob redell, today in the bay. South bay mans faulty wiring is now whats being pinpointed as the root cause of last years massive valley wildfire that burned through lake county and parts of the north bay. Four people died in that fire. More than 1200 homes were destroyed. Turns out the man was nowhere near where the fire was when it started. Investigators say homeowner john pinch had improperly wired a hot tub in a home he owned in cobb a year earlier. He was in santa clara at the time of the fire. Lake county residents say the findings are very difficult to swallow. Its really upsetting to find out hundreds of people lost their houses for a hot tub. But i dont know. I guess accidents happen. Nobodys perfect. Investigators say pinch admitted to the faulty wiring and its still possible some criminal charges could be filed. Investigators also point out that that fire did little damage to the property where it began. It is 6 04. San Francisco Police are investigating a brutal attack. They say three men put a bag over a womans head and viscously beat her. It happened about 6 30 tuesday as the woman walked near larkin street and golden gate avenue. The chronicle reports the victim was suddenly hit in the head, had a bag thrown over her head and punched repeatedly before the suspects ran away. She had bruises an cuts to her sfas aface and hands. The attack appears to be random. Theyre looking through Surveillance Video to try and identify her attackers. A community is trying to come to grips with. Mourners will be holding a vigil tonight. Family members say 20yearold Calvin Reilly was just playing pokemon go with friends when a gunman opened fire seemingly at random. So far no arrests have been made. Reil reilly graduated two years ago where he played baseball. Mourners are going to gather tonight at a church in san mateo for the viewing and vigil. His funeral is scheduled for tomorrow. To a story we first broke last night on nbc bay area at 5 00. Two men arrested for stealing jose consecos bats. These are exclusive video showing one of the men caught in the act. It happened in the parking lot of the pittsburg half top inn. Thats where the former as superstar was staying. The two men didnt get too far. A manager spotted them while Monitoring Surveillance cameras and called police. As for the 52yearold conseco, he was sympathetic. I saw the pictures of the guys afterwards. I said, poor guys. They just look hungry. Let them go. Conseco got the bats back in time to use them in his game. He plays for the pittsburg diamonds. They lost, by the way, to the vallejo admirals. All new, new findings just released on how dangerous road debris can be for other drivers. Researchers at aaa looked at four years of data and heres what they found. An average of 50,000 crashes per year across the u. S. That are linked to debris on the roadways. That includes more than 500 fatalities over that time frame. Almost 40,000 injuries. Researchers say twothirds of debris related crash rest from poor car maintenance or drivers improperly securing their loads. One thing drivers should really look at, you know, would i feel safe with one of my family members driving behind me on the road . Thats really how secure you should make sure the road is before you get on the road. Researchers also found nearly four in ten deaths in road debris crashes were the result of someone swerving to avoid hit an object in the road approximately overreacting at the last minute to avoid debris can make a bad situation even worse. Turning now to olympic coverage from rio as we look at the medal count this morning. So far the u. S. Is dominating with 32 medals overall, including 11 golds. Theyre hoping to add to that total today. Chinas in second. Almost ten medals back. Today in the bays Jessica Aguirre has been tracking the action since the very beginning. J jess, its another big day for team usa. Set the stage for us. Boy, it is a big day. You know what, it is game on here in olympic park because all of those events that were canceled yesterday due to bad weather, well trk sun is out so those are back on. Rowing back on today and tennis back on today as well. But all attention, most of it is going to be at the rio olympics arena tonight where the ladies of gymnastics, the final five will be back on the mat and going for the individual all around. Of course, simone biles who has not lost the last three competitions in the individual all around will be going for gold. And her closest competitor, aly raisman. She will also g b. Going for gold. And they will going up against 21 other women as well. Lets go to the pool where there will be lots of action. Its going to be another friendly faceoff. This time between Michael Phelps and his roommate ryan lochte. They will be racing each other in the mens 200 individual medley. Now, lochte holds the worlds record in that but phelps has three straight golds. So its anyones guess who will take it. Also in the pool tonight, two local cal olympians ryan murphy, 100 meter backstroke, and jacob pebley, who both they marry debut in rio and advanced to the 200 meter backstroke semifinal last night. Now, pebley says he really wants to do well because its a promise he made to his mom that passed away ten years ago and his goal was to make it in her honor to these Olympic Games and he has. And no doubt he made his mama very, very proud. Most definitely. Thanks so much, jess. A live look right now at the olympic flame burning brightly while much more coverage from rio coming up. Jessica will join us again at 6 35 with a look at the bay area olympians who medaled. Dont miss a moment of the rio olympics with nbc bay areas five to watch. Go to nbcbayarea. Com olympics to see the five key things to know every day. We still have another week and a half of competition. Its great. Its fun. Our weather has been fantastic. Starting to heat up a little bit. Kari hall has a look. Good morning. Even though we do see the low clouds and fog in San Francisco, we will see that clearing out very quickly. You cant even see the top span of the bridge of the golden gate bridge. This morning we will once again bet the clouds near the coast but the inland areas are nice and sunny. Looking at the high ps the, reach up to 93 degrees in fairfield. 92 in livermore. While san jose is up to 88. Some 70s for oakland as well as halfmoon bay and San Francisco, 68. Santa rosa, 84. Well talk about a heatup over the next few days heading into the weekend. Thats coming up. Heading over to mike now. Hes got an update for the crash on the bay bridge. Thats right. I was just about to tell folks looks like a bad situation, but we got the all clear. Improving situation now coming across from oakland in towards San Francisco. The rest of your bay improving as well. A crash at capital expressway, for example, in san jose. Looks like its cleared. Still activity in livermore causing westbound 580 to slow. Already seeing the speeds improve. The crash was just over the embarcadero as you made landfall across that westbound commute direction at the bay bridge. Now the crash has cleared from all lanes we should see recovery. Backup continues back to the toll plaza where we will give you a live look. Approach just fine. At the toll plaza the backup here, more severe because they slowed down metering lights as they tend to do in a crash on that western span. But again, all lanes cleared in San Francisco and b. A. R. T. Is an excellent option as well. Back to you. Thanks a lot. Up next on nbc bay area, following developing news out of maryland where a desperate rescue effort is under way right now to find several people who are still missing after an apartment complex exploded just a few hours ago. Macys says it will close more stores and a Silicon Valley mystery company. Well take a look coming up. Were following developments in Silver Spring maryland where a lateni the other side of the coast, we are following developments out of Silver Spring, maryland, where a late night explosion leveled an apartment complex. New information is coming up very often, heres what we know right now. Three firefighters have been injured, along with at least 30 residents. Emergency crews said the explosion happened before midnight at an apartment complex just outside of washington, d. C. Silver spring is a suburb of d. C. The explosion could be felt for more than a mile away. There are also reports that some of the trapped residents had to toss their children to the ground below. While no deaths have been reported, up to even is people are not accounted for yet. Just tragic. 6 15. New warnings for pokemon go players may be easy crime tar gets. Berkeley police are reminding pokemon go players really everywhere to remain aware of their surroundings. But in berkeley, two recent robberies and another attempted robbery happened there. In each case the victims were playing pokemon go before they were attacked. In the last case on monday the target managed to fight off his attacker in civic center park. You got to look up every once in a while. One of Silicon Valleys Fastest Growing companies is also one of the mysterious. Growing very quickly, getting a reputation for paying a lot of money as well. The company cut the ribbon recently at Silicon Valley headquarters. Calling le eco the netflix of china. The Company Announced it will open a 2 billion electric car factory in china and if youre saying to yourself, hold on a minute, why wouldia netflix like Company Build cars, thats a good question. Le eco is a company we will be watching but keep in mind starting a car company is extremely difficult and expensive. Case in point, the fisker car, great car, but just could not make it. Remember, even tesla loses money. Add to that gas prices are low. So thats a problem for electric car companies. Natural gas near record lows. Thats problem for donald trump. I love them, too. But were going to have signs look how beautiful on both sides. Cover both. You like yellow, you like black. Yellow, black. Beautiful. Donald trump phraraising sig of color in virginia. The problem is not just that coal is dirty, its expensive. Natural gas and soil prices are so low that coal is not worth digging. New this morning, macys will close another 100 stores. And if that doesnt sound new to you its because macys often says its going to close. This morning its 100 more stores we dont know where yet. Ive always been struck by the different kinds of macys. You go to new york city or union square for that matter, its one kind of macys. A regional mall stores, sort of a different kind of macys. I suspect they will start shutting those down. They buy for their audience, too. Its not a single brand, it doesnt seem to be. I expect the Smaller Stores will close. Really hurting. A lot of competition. And amazon. Thank you very much. Maybe we will wish that they stay open on a wishing shooting star. It is back. The Perseid Meteor Shower is bigger than last years variety. In fact, astronomers are calling this an outburst shower. All because the gravity from jupiter is pulling multiple meteor streams together. Sky gazers will be able to see more than 160 meteors an hour. 160 wish snes. I could use them. Happening well, share the love here. Around 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow and on saturday. I am fascinated the first thing that comes to your mind when you make a wish on a star. Do you want to know whats coming to my mind . I dont know. Do we . Im not going to tell you. Cricket . You want to sing for us when you wish upon a star . No, ill just tell the weather. You will be sing that lullaby soon. I guess so, but not on tv. Were going to have clouds near the coast and also mostly clear skies inland. It looks like you will be able to see the Perseid Meteor Shower later on tonight, especially if you are away from the water. As we get a live look outside now in sunol, the clouds are settling below this camera. Looks like a clear start but we will see some clouds novembmovi here and there. Temperatures at 56 degrees. All feeling 60s now. Rather some upper 50s but it will quickly climb into the 60s. Within the next hour or so. And by noontime were up to 74 degrees in san jose. Up to 87 degrees. It will get hot very quickly. And then into the mid 70s by 8 00 this evening. Winds coming in from the northwest that will continue to pick up as we go through the day. It wont be until this evening where we will watch a little bit of a break and some relief from those hot temperatures. Especially once again for the trivalley over towards the north bay as well as the south bay. All those valleys heating up with the winds coming in from the west. It will be very light. And allowing our highs to reach up to 90 degrees today in los gatos. In san mateo, 80 degrees. 66 on the embarcadero. 84 in santa rosa. Wide range in temperatures is what you can expect as we go into the next civil days. High pressure continues to build. For us that means more heat. Not enough of a marine layer to cool us off. We wont get our natural air conditioning from a westerly wind. The heat builds into this weekend and also continues into next week. Temperaturewise in San Francisco, you wont see much of a difference. You may begin to see a lack of those morning clouds and a lot of sunshine. As far as what we will see inland anywhere from 88 degrees today and then up to 94 for the weekend. 96 degrees on wednesday. So that heat is not going anywhere. Heading over to mike, hes also tracking talking about the trivalley this morning. Some folks feel like theyre not going anywhere but they will have improved speeds. Looking at your bay and overall we have a smooth flow of traffic. Over in the trivalley weve had a couple of crashes. One leaving some debris in the roadway you guys just talked about. Debris on the roadway, no surprises but that is cleared. The other crash causing a jam out of the altamont. Provides a break for folks in the interchange. Two sides for each crash. The one approaching and the one just past it. The approach towards the bay bridge moves well. Bay bridge toll plaza, improved for the speeds on the San Francisco side. As we look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Ive been tracking a crash just above the embarcadero, it has cleared over the last 15 minutes. We have a good recovery but the backup at the toll plaza, slower metering lights. Might not be so obvious. Golden gate bridge, low clouds around the golden gate and fog on the north and note for drivers there. And also across that bay bridge at times i see the low clouds coming through. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 21. Coming up next, update on that strike causing a backlog at south bay courthouses. Also, consumer investigator chris chmura is here next. In this case, Utility Company tears up his lawn, sidewalk, and more. Who helps him clean up . Nbc bay area. We respond. Next. Nbc bay area responds to a san jose man who has been battling pg e for seven months. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here with this story. This all started when pg e had to dig along manor lane for Maintenance Work on multiple gas lines. Take a look. Charles snapped photos of what he called an up rooted front lawn and poorly patched sidewalk. After several months of complaining charles got pg e to fix the grass but not the sidewalk. So he reached out to us. After our call pg e promptly remarried charles sidewalk but theres a hiccup and video that he shot right there on the right side of the screen. While fixing the sidewalk he says workers damaged his sprinkler system. So we put pg e on speed dial. Called again. They came right out and fix it that problem, too. In an email to us charles thanked our team saying we made a miracle happen after pg e ignored him for months. He calls up with of our researchers inside our Consumer Investigative Center the best. Well second that. In a statement, pg e said it regrets the damage done to charles lawn and sprinklers during a contractors paving work. And unfortunately delays pushed back restoration several months. If you have a consumer complaint, well dig in. Take a crack at it. Call us, the number is 888996tips or share your story on our website, nbcbayarea. Com slas nbcbayarea. Com responds. What we like about charles complaint is he shot video and uploaded it. It helps. We could see the problem right away. You can do that on our website. If you is a complaint, add photos, documents, video. I have a broken sprinkler but its no ones fault by my own. Can you help with that. Fill out a form. No, manpower. Roll up the sleeves. Create another problem fixing the problem that gets fixed. You have two issues . We get credit for two in that one. I like your accounting skills. There you go. Thats why hes an anchor. Thanks a lot. Are expected to resume this morning between striking Santa Clara Court workers and management. Both sides agreed to mediation. The union 380 members went on to strike last wednesday. Its created numerous problems including delays in Traffic Court and inmates not being transported for court dates. Coming up next, a campaign that has not lacked for shocking rema remarks. One that still has a lot of people dropping their jays this morning. Donald trump claiming that president obama founded isis. Plus Hillary Clinton lays out her vision for the economy today. Im tracie potts. That story is next. A graduate shot and killed while playing pokemon go will be remembered tonight in san mateo. Well have all the details coming up in a live report. And im Jessica Aguirre live at olympic park in rio where it is back to the mat for team usa gymnastics. Coming up, ill tell you who scored big in the pool and why cal and stanford athletes are golden. In my future, im twice as likely to have a stroke. Im at higher risk for depression. Im 26 more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. I have a 65 higher chance of developing diabetes. No matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. Because with better research, the right medicine, and with doctors who help keep me healthy to begin with, we will thrive. Morning. Im laura garcia cannon. Good thursday morning to you. I paused. I almost said friday eve which it is that as well. Im laura garciacannon. Im sam brock. A pregnant pause there. You were just letting the excitement build. Is that your segue to kari . We have not tauglked about 9 in a while. I dont like it. Youre doing great and looking fantastic. Thank you. But its not the best weather for me. Its going to be hot over the next couple of days. It continues into next week. At least we have the mornings to take it in and enjoy it and threat air conditioner get a rest. 59 now in San Francisco. 58 degrees in the peninsula. Clouds near the coastline clear in linden. A lot of sunshine across the bay area today. We are up to 91 in the trivalley. 87 in the south bay as well as the north bay. So we will talk about more of those 90s in the forecast. Lets head over to mike now tracking a crash in high ward. We have a lighter volume of traffic around the bay. Hoping for breaks. Let me show you how it plays out. We do have the hayward issue. Originally reported as a disabled vehicle. Now i have a fender bender reported. I dont know if that was a secondary crash or the original incident. Its just southbound 880 past the 92 interchange. Slower drive and some folks heading towards the san mateo bridge. Not a major backup. Lighter traffic flow around the bay. It has allowed the speeds across the bay bridge to include but the backup still at the poll plaza. Cleared over on the San Francisco side. Thats really fast for the clearing over across the span. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. At 6 31. Happening today, friends and family will come together to remember this man. 20yearold Calvin Reilly. He was shot and killed while playing a popular game on his phone pokemon go in San Franciscos busy aquatic park over the weekend. Pete suratos is in san mateo this weekend. While its going to be an emotional day for so many people, whoever killed reilly is still out there. Reporter good morning. Authorities are still looking for that suspect. And the family of 20yearold Calvin Reilly believed this was a random act of violence. As you mentioned, theyre going to be meeting for a private viewing and i have jit at st. Gregorys church later this evening in san mateo. Reilly played baseball at sara high where he graduated a couple of years ago. He was a pitcher in stockton. U. S. Park police is handling the investigation. According to the victimshangin with a friend saturday night. We did speak to a family friend who says reilly was a standup type of guy. Always had positive things to say about everyone. Had an amazing work ethic. Great baseball player. Represented Sara High School very well. Reporter police are still looking for that suspect. A tip line has been set up. We have that information for you on our website at nbcbayarea. Com. Were live in san mateo, pete suratos for today in the bay. 6 32 right now. A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman just waiting to cross the street is now in police custody. Police say last thursday a woman was walking in the area of sunnyvale and evelyn avenues when she says a man grabbed her. She screamed. A bystander held the man down until police arrived. Authorities say this is the suspect. 34yearold huyln nguyen. The woman was not injured. Dozens of gang members are behind bars after one of the largest raids in Contra Costa Countys injuries. Hundreds of officers from several different agencies hit about 20 locations across Contra Costa County all at the same time. The fbi and Bay Area Police talked about the raid for the first time yesterday even though it happened a week ago. They arrested 24 suspected gang members. Involved in everything from drug sales to pimping and pandering as well as human trafficking. Also obviously violence. Authorities believe that some of the suspects are also iclink to the recent rash of freeway shootings. It is 6 33. Authorities on the peninsula are hoping a Police Sketch helps nab a home burglar who assaulted a resident. San bruno police say this is what the thief looks like. Investigators say he entered a home theyre the Elementary School on tuesday when the rest debt walked in the burglar punched him and took off with Electronic Devices in hand. A burglary at an apple office lands a thief behind bars. Deputies say the suspect stole High Tech Computers from an early yesterday morning, then led authorities on a high speed chase. But they apparently werent too hard to spot because a deputy saw a computer cord hanging out of the back of a truck. When he stopped the vehicle three people ran. One right into a san jose starbucks. He kind of like screamed in frustration and ran around the corner. Can you please open the bathroom for me. A starbucks employee says half a dozen officers rushed in and tackled the man. The yan identified as richard has been arrested. Police are still searching for the other two suspects frkts its been 14 years since b. A. R. T. Riders have been able to use the rest rooms in unground stations but relief may soon be on the way. Board of directors is going to provide an update on the rest room pilot study, discussing the design and scope of station improvements. The rest rooms were shut down for security reasons after 9 11. B. A. R. T. s findings will be presented in oakland tonight at 5 00. Talking a little politics this morning at 6 35. Division 2016. Donald trump lays out some explosive accusations against president obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton today meantime delivering a key economic speech in michigan. Today in the bays tracie potts is live from washington, d. C. This morning to explain the slew of new allegations now stirring the pot. Tracie . Well, weve got donald trump calling president obama the founder of isis. Hillary clinton facing new questions about emails between the state department and her foundation. And of course herrer economic speech today as he tries to hold on to republicans who have switched over and said they cant support donald trump but will they continue to support her after hearing details of her plan . Friends dont let friends vote for trump. Reporter Hillary Clinton going after republican votes as she prepares for todays economic speech near detroit. I am determined that were going to build more and were going to be able to create more businesses and more jobs. Reporter donald trump calls her record unimpressive. She promised the world and it went like this, it went down. Our jobs got sucked away from us. Reporter now emails obtained by a conservative Group Suggests that Clinton Foundation asked the state department for favors that her Campaign Says never happened. Thats the old pay to play system the American People are sick and tired of. Reporter and look whos right behind clinton at this florida rally. Sadique mateen, the father of the orlando shooter. Clinton disavows his support as trump ties democrats to radical islamists. Isis is honoring president obama. He is the founder of isis. Hes the founder of isis. Hes the founder. He founded isis. And i would say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Reporter polls show trump support is waning. His attacks. In case you think donald trump may roll back what he said about president obama and isis . Nope, this morning in a phone interview with cnbc he doubled down saying it was how the president handled our troops in iraq that led him to make that comment. Tracie, thank you. We go now to our olympic coverage this morning as we take a look at some of rios most iconic sites like the christ the redeemer statue and copacabana beach. In the meantime down at the Olympic Village thousands of athletes and hardworking reporters and anchors are gearing up for another day of competition. One of those is our own Jessica Aguirre live in rio. Jess, bay area olympians continue to make names for themselves on really the biggest stage ever. Its been so exciting to watch. It has been exciting. Its incredible, sam and laura. Cal and stanford athletes are dominating at the Aquatic Center in the pool. Unfortunately a former cal star Missy Franklin has been struggling. So last night she got bumped by stanfords maya dirado. It was dirado who would swim the third leg of the 4x200 relay. Katie ledecky was the anchor and the legend of ledecky just keeps going. Trailing by half body length. Look at this. She dove in and ledecky propelled team usa to gold and she did it going way out. Her third gold at these games. Dirados first. Now dirado has three medals. One of each color to take home. Gold, silver, and bronze. Kazakhstan won the first olympic gold in the breaststroke on wednesday. Such a great story for him. The shaed line was cals josh prenot who got a silver. No american man had won a medal in the 200 meter breaststroke sans Mike Barrowman won gold in 92 and Brendan Hanson won the bronze in 2004. And nathan adrian, the ladies love him, he barely advanced out of the preliminary heats in the 100 free when he won his heat in the semis and was think heg could maybe get the gold in the event, but, no, he got a bronze. But that is good enough. Australian Kyle Chalmers takes the gold. Tonight is going to be the night of friendly faceoffs, one in the pool and one on the mat in the gym. First ryan lochte goes against his roommate and friend Michael Phelps and then in the ladies gymnastics for the individual all around title, there is simone biles and her closest competitor, her own teammate the woman she calls grandma because she likes to take naps, aly raisman. One thing you count for sure, one of those ladys will be on the podium tonight with a gold medal. Amazing to watch. So talented. A good siesta, whatever it takes to get that gold, thats good to know. Thank you very much. For the first time in more than a century golf is back in the Olympic Games. Some of the worlds best golfers are teeing off right now in rio. The last time that golf was an olympic sport was back in 1904. Were going have much more olympic gor coverage. Jessica will be back at 5 00, 6 00, and 7 00 tonight and right here on today in the bay tomorrow morning. Maybe inspired to hit the links this morning. Lets check in with kari right now. Shes got a look at our forecast. It will be a great day for that. Especially earlier in the day. Then as the day goes on it warms up and it wont feel as comfortable. Right now at 59, live look outside now at the castro. Low clouds will start out the day there. A lot of sunshine inland. Thats where the temperatures will be heating up today. In san jose, up to 88 degrees. Santa rosa, 84. Fairfield, look for a high of 93 degrees. Well also see those 90s over towards concord and the trivalley. Morgan hill reaching 84. And we will start to see those winds picking up later on this evening to give us a little bit of a break. But it will be too hot. As we go into early afternoon. Well talk more about the heat coming up. Mike has a new crash now on the bay bridge. This is just as the earlier crash had cleared. We saw recovery. So lets show you the overall the bay is looking like an easy drive right now. The volume not a major concern and crash is in livermore. Over here in hayward looked like they are on the shoulder. Distraction but not a major issue. Over here we had a crash in San Francisco just as you made landfall. That cleared about 40 minutes ago. Now, another crash in the Treasure Island tunnel. Sounds like a motorcycle is involved. Im not hearing at injuries but this is a major distreaction spt causing the backup. Look at the berkeley curve. Seeing traffic jamming up on the approach. Heading over toward the bay bridge and also heading down towards 880. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Mike, this is something you talk about all the dame time, debris on the roadway. Coming up next, kris sanchez is showing us firsthand the dangers of debris. Thats right, we are on the roadway. About to get on 680 and see what we see in terms of debris on the roadway but well show you what aaa found and how deadly that roadway debris can be. A politician in palo alto quits because the rent is too high. A live look at the big board. Dow industrials gaining 67 points. 6 45 right now. Beetding our own best home prices in the bay area right now are at new records. Scott mcgrew, a Million Dollars now just a number. Just a number. Something you might see on just about any house these days. I normally use kay shillers numbers. I hate giving you too many statistics but im going to use a difbt set this morning. The number from the National Association of realtors were so astonishing. Look this morning. San jose is now the most expensive Housing Market in the nation and the first market to see the median price of a home over a Million Dollars. A Million Dollars, first time in history anywhere in the united states. Right behind that is San Francisco. And then anaheim. So the top three most expensive markets are all in california. Now, these are the governments definitions of our region. The u. S. Government considers oakland to be part of San Francisco and palo alto to be part of san jose. They call them metropolitan statistic areas. Super expensive palo alto homes are pulling everyone in san jose higher. In fact, a palo alto city planner just wrote a public letter of resignation saying she spends more money on rent for her palo alto home than she makes in a year. Kate downing serves on the citys planning and Transportation Commission and says if things keep going as they are, yes, palo altos streets will look just as they did decades ago, but its inhabitant, spirit, its sense of community will be unrecognizable. So shes moving her family to santa cruz. Weve all tweeted a link to her letter so you can read it itself. Its very powerful. The markets mostly higher this morning. The nasdaq close to a record. A couple of points. S p 500 as well. Close to a record. Macys says it will close more than 100 stores. It hasnt said where. Huffington said she will leave Huffington Post, start something new, a health website, fitness website of some sort was Huffington Post will continue. Its up and running just fine. News branching out a little bit. Something to think about as youre about to hit the roads for your morning commute. Debris on the streets is a lot more dangerous than some may realize. Responsible for tens of thousands of crashes every year. Some of them deadly. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live in san jose with new numbers released just a few hours ago. Overnight, when a lot of us were sleeping, kris. Thats right, laura. Were taking this report on the road. We will say that alan has both hands on the wheel as were on 680 going northbound. This morning weve already seen road debris, a butcher. We saw a baby bathtub and a kids card table as well. And, you know, if you listen to mike inouye, once a day he talks about a ladder in the roadway. All of that debris can be dangerous especially when were talking about some of the biggers items that people see sometimes. We have video of a mattress falling off of a car or an suv, theres also video of a dresser coming off of a car. Lawn clippings, trash, and really unlucky people have found themselves behind unsecured portapotties. You can imagine the mess there. According to aaas most recent data, between 2011 and 2014 road debris caused 200,000 crashes. 3900 people were injured. And 500 people died in crashes related to debris. In more than a third of the crashes, the driver overcorrected or swerved, causing that crash. And according to aaa the majority of those crashes arent really preventable. What we found is that two thirds of all road debris is caused in some way by a vehicle. Whether thats not properly maintaining the vehicle, parts are actually flying off, or not properly securing their load. Reporter so secure your load, that means use sturdy straps and a tarp if there are small items that can blow out. Drive defensively. Give yourself plenty of space in front of you and beside you as alan is doing this morning to make sure you have someplace to go if you have trouble. And maintain your vehicle, if your tires blow out or the exhaust sometimes some of those affects after market affects that can come off of your car. By the way, even if you dont hurt yours or you dont hurt somebody else with debris coming off of your car, it can still cost you a lot of money because if the california Highway Patrol finds something coming off of your car you can get a pretty steep ticket. Again, thats if you dont hurt somebody else. Were going to put our eyes back on the roadway. You see theres a tire there. And were watching for more debris this morning. But if youre hitting the road and moving something, make sure you use sturdy straps. I know youre in the market for a new dresser, when sam goes to ikea to pick it up, make sure he straps it down. That is the last thing that you want because the drawers will be put in inside out. Why doesnt this work . I dont understand. Im hiring. Mike and i were talking about. Whats the strangest thing youve seen on the road . One time we saw a recliner and i said, we had a chopper overhead. Hey, theres the recliner. Id wonder if the ottoman is in the area. So the chopper found the at man. Sometimes we will see the plastic little swimming pools because folks are transporting them in the back. Very apropos, a lot of heat, not shopping on the roads, we dont think. This is one of the last weekends before kids head back to school. Definitely be careful out there. The kids heading back, we will also have intense heat. It will not at all feel like its a time for the kids to head back to the school or fall for that matter. As we get a live look outside now at h healdsburg. Starting to clear out. Not yet here though. Its 50 degrees. Nice and cool with some mostly cloudy skies. Its 54 degrees in napa. Concord, 56 degrees. Also 56 in livermore. Morgan hill, 54 degrees. Heading through the day in San Francisco, the clouds will start to clear out. Right at about 10 00. It will be 55 degrees. Into the lower 60s by early afternoon. Reaching the upper 60s just for a little while before we see those temperatures coming back down. The morning clouds in the fog clearing out restreeting back to the coastline. And our winds picking up onshore. Not until this evening. And by then it will be too late as that onshore flow kicks in. Temperatures inland with would have already heated up. Well see the same thing again tomorrow with some 80s around 90s for most of our inland valleys. Well be up to 87 degrees today in gilroy. Palo alto, 82. And on the embarcadero, 66 degrees. 84 in santa rosa. Wide range in temperatures from oakland, 74 to 90 in walnut creek. Low 90s in the trivalley. We will still see that spread in temperatures as we go to the weekend, High Pressure continues to build. Creates less of a marine lay your meaning we dont have the clouds near the coastline. Not much of an onshore flow and that heat will build for the weekend. You wont notice much of the difference in San Francisco. Thats where we will have the most bearable temperatures and the coolest weather. It will be in the upper 60s. But then we go from the upper outitys today into the mid 90s by the weekend. Dont think we will set any records but it will definitely be well above average. And that heat continues at least until the middle of next week. Heading over to mike now, hes tracking more slowing for the east bay. Thats right. Overall well let folks know we have a lighter volume of traffic. East bay is seeing a couple of trouble spots developing. Looking over here. Zoom in first of all toward the bay bridge where the second crash of the morning near Treasure Island. The motorcycle and truck involved is on the shoulder. A distraction slowing you down. Look, rippling back into the maze. Westbound 580. Down east shore freeway and north 880 approach into the area very slow because of the congestion across that span. San mateo, bridge, a lighter traffic of flow. Crash at tennis son on the shoulder. More traffic over toward that westbound 92. That is a congestion. Out of oakland and in across 92 because theyre trying to avoid the bay bridge. Both spans do have a slower drive. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 53. Answers to what sparked some of the most devastating wildfires in bay area history. Coming up next, the investigation into the cause of last years deadly valley fire leads authorities from lake county all of the way to the south bay. The first happening right now, facebooks ban on private gun sales is tested but according to a report, fails. Back in january the social media giant moved to ban private gun sales on all its platforms but its enforcement of the policy has been lax at best, according to a reporter from buzzfeed news. You can read that story right now on nbcbayarea. Com. Plus, if you love the spectacle of shooting stars, were talk 60 to 90 per hour, stay up late tonight and take in all the action. Just be sure to get enough sleep so you can watch today in the bay. You can read all about where to spot the stars, wink, on our facebook page. [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. Here are the top stories on nbc welcome back. Its 6 57 on your thursday morning. Before you head out the door here are the top storey on nbc bay area. Grew some discovery at a popular mall. Employees at the Westfield Shopping Center in San Francisco found a mans body inside a stairwell near bloomingdales. It happened about 10 00 yesterday morning just after the mall opened. Police are now calling it a homicide. Mall management isnt commenting but the Shopping Center is open as normal during the investigation. A south bay mans faulty wiring is now being pinpointed as the root cause of last years massive valley wildfire that burned through lake county and parts of the north bay. Four people died and more than 1200 homes were destroyed. The man was nowhere near the fire when it started. Investigators say homeowner john pinch had improperly wired a hot tub at a home he owned in cobb one year earlier. He was in santa clara at the time of the fire. Some lake county residents say the findings are very tough to swallow. Its really upsetting to find out like hundreds of people lost their houses for a hot tub. But, i dont know, i guess accidents happen. Nobodys perfect. Investigators say pinch admitted to the faulty wiring and its still possible some criminal charges may be filed. Investigators also point out the fire did little damage to the property where it actually began. That was a devastating fire and there are still several in the state of california not too far away from where we are that is still going on and the heat is still a problem. That and also the spare the air alert because of the poor air quality because of that moving into the bay area. Not as much wind. Temperatures will be building after starting out in the 50 this morning. Hea heading up to 91 and 87 in the south bay and north bay. Tougher drive heading west . Yeah, a crash on the bay bridge. Lets show you how this shakes out. Overall, lighter flow of traffic on the south bay is not a problem. San mateo bridge seeing a lot of traffic over the last ten minutes. Thats a typical time for the build. More than we typically see on a thursday and that might be because folks are trying to avoid if bay bridge where we had that second of two crashes on Treasure Island an more transportation on the richmond to san rf rafael bridge. Might be because folks are trying to avoid the east shore freeway. Well check back with mike in half an hour at 7 25. Thats whats happening today in the bay. Very busy day again for the olympics. The individual womens gymnastics is on hand for tonight. Our coverage is going to begin at 10 00 this morning right after today in the bay. Thats right. Reminder, theres no midday show today. Have a fantastic see. See you tomorrow morning. Good morning. The final showdown. Lane 4. Michael phelps and ryan lochte grab the top spots in the 200 i. M. Final setting the stage for one last dual in the pool tonight. Katie ledecky digging dedee for a golden comeback in the 400 meter free relay. In Beach Volleyball a close call for Kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross. But escaping with the win. That is it as the leaders of the final five, simone biles, and aly raisman get back to business for the shot at allaround gold, today, thursday, august 11th, 2016