Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20170727

74, palo alto 87 and san jose reaching 88 degrees. Well talk about whats ahead this weekend as welcoming up in a few minutes, but, mike, youre hearing bay bart delay. Thats right. We talked about the future of bart, im talk about the present ever bart which is froefrg a tenminute delay out of oakland heading to sfo. We did have some earlier mechanical issues, very short lived and not a problem now but, no, the first few trains over that area the first few minutes might be a minor delay. The roadways are looking well. Were look at a crash over on the shoulder for southbound 880. This one may still have part of that slowing blocked but we dont see the slowing we expect to siem going to say probably better news. Ill track that. Send it back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 01. Happening today, all eyes will be on the Ohio State Fair as investigators try to figure out what caused the to fire ball right to break apart killing a person. Video of that accident has been widely circulated on social media. Weve frozen it before it gets to graphic. Here is where that situation stands at this hour. One man has been killed, seven others are injured and being treated right now. Investigators say that ride had passed all of its inspections, in fact, inspectors had signed off on the ride on the same day as the accident. Ohio Governor John Kasich ordered that all of the rides that the fair be shut down until there can be more inspections. And this morning this accident in ohio is having impact on rides right here in northern california. Reez that it. There was a location connection here bob is joining us live from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Theyve got a fire ball right in santa cruz so what are they doing to keep people safe. They have already shut down its fire ball ride and plans to inspect it if the would have done the inspections yesterday but wanted to wait till this morning for the sunlight to get up so they can get a better look. The fire ball ride here in santa skruz made by the same manufacturer as the one at the Ohio State Fair as you can see in this cell phone video thats been widely circulated on social media came apart yesterday fling a number of riders into the air on to the ground. One person dead, seven more hurt, some critically. The boardwalk hasnt had any problem with the fireball ride, shutting it down was just to be extra cautious. Management wants to check with the manufacturer to see if theres any special adjustments they need to make after what happened in ohio. There is a key difference between the fireball here at the boardwalk and the one that malfunctioned in ohio. That one in ohio is portable which means it can be broken down and set up at a different location. Our ride is a fixed ride, permanent amusement ride, its inspected daily as state mandatesed. California has the most stringent ride safety regulations in the world. Just because somewhere else happen doesnt mean its going to happen here. Reporter after this mornings inspection the boardwalk expects his fire ball to reopen sometime today. Incidentally, our newsroom did some deciding and found that Sonoma County state fair is supposed to have a fire ball ride when it opens next week. The website however does mention that those rides are subject to change. Reporting live here in santa cruz outside the boardwalk, bob redell, today in the bay. See hour comfortable parents are with using that ride after all of this. And you know its not just of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk where the ride has been shut down. Officials at the california state fair in sacramento tell us theyve shut down the fire ball ride there as well as the investigation of the deadly accident in ohio gets underway. But unlike the boardwalk, state fair officials dont plan to reopen the ride until the Ohio State Fair investigation is complete. An inspector at the state fair is assuring people is there therehave been no issues with any of the rides there. We come in a week and a half trier prior to opening so we look at the rides as theyre coming off the trailers and we look at them until the day they open. We watch the operation. It is important to note the rides at the california state fair are operated bia i darch company than the one operating rides alt ohios state fair. 6 04, a San Francisco Police Officer accused of posing child pornography could be in court as soon as today. Authorities arrested 37yearold joshua enea yesterday. Investigators say multiple images of child pornography were found on a computer at his and yok home. Those findings were the result of a fivemonth long joint investigation involving police in San Francisco and contra costa prosecutors who spoke yesterday about the arrest. Its very troubling that a sworn peace officer would have any of this stuff on their computer. Well, enea was released on bail last night. Hes now suspended without pay. When the investigation first started police say he was moved to a desk job. Them. Oc in some of them trt 10 laura cont. Vo new this morning. Fans of the classic 1960s cartoon rocky and bullwinkle remember waking up to saturday morning cartoons, fans of the 1960 cartoon rocky and bull winkle show are saying goodbye with boun 1 of the star voices of the show. June beret, the voice of rocky the squirrel has passed away. Her death was confirmed last night by a friend. She also did the voices for looney toons, she was gran fli and tweetty in sill investor and louisiana fer the cat in disneys 1950 feature cartoon there. We go to washington, d. C. This morning. Later today the u. S. Senate is going to be begin debating new ideas after the previous efforts to repeal and replace obamacare already failed twice this week. President trump tweeted about the issue within the past two hours saying come on republican senators, you can do it on healthcare after seven years, this is your chance to shine. Dont let the American People down, unquote. Well see what they got. Today in the bay tracie potts joining us live from capitol hill this morning to explain how one of the republicans ideas could save you money but leave millions of people without insurance in the process. Good morning. Reporter hay, good morning. The socalled skinny plan youll hear a lot about that as debate gets underway today. The idea of repealing parts of obamacare but leaving other big important parts untouched. And lawmakers right now are sort of frustrated with the process. Mr. Brown, mr. Burr. Confusion in the senate over healthcare. Telling different members Different Things and asking them to believe that the final product will be whatever they want. They have already created cray yos with all of these options. Like the socalled skinny repeal that could get a vote today. It gets rid of some taxes and penalties for not buying insurance. But doesnt touch lowincome subsidies or medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office says 16 Million People could lose coverage and premiums would go up 20 under that plan. Im not giving up. Lawmakers under pressure from President Trump. We better get that done, fem lows, please. And from folks back home. We need it badly. We need a rescue plan for people in ohio who are in counties where theres not a single insurer an yid market. Democrats we fuse to jump in until republicans offer something. So democrats are not going to participate in this onesided and broken process. Reporter the white house chiding republicans. She up to commitments that they they made during the kparn. Plerks Health System is ailing todays debate, part of the effort to find a cure. Reporter so this is the day when we zart to see them throw sort of everything on to the table, ideas from the left and the right although democrats say, as i noted theyre going to wait until republicans put an idea through the first. The end game here is to try to get 50 lawmakers on the same side. Back to you. Hundreds of millions of people and their healthcare hanging in the balance in the meantime. Democracisy pots, thank you very much for that report. Thats the thing to get everyone to agree. 6 09, hamg today well learn more details about barts new trains. Had a live look at the walnut creek bart station this morning. We got an inside look earlier this morning. Changes include fewer seats but more room to stand and more security cameras. Just last month we told you about how all of bart trains were getting those security cameras. This after that investigation that revealed only some of the cameras were real. Today barts new police chief is going to give us an update on whats coming up next. Some of the models are kmekted to roll out in september. Its 6 0 nine as the sunrises you cant see smuch of it so im showing you the picture that i just tweeted out a few minutes ago on twitter make sure youre following me kari hall weather and send me your pictures of what youre seeing right now or at any point. Also tweeted out this picture of a live look at yosemite this morning, el cap tan showing bright red hues this morning and that weekend forecast will be in the mid70s there. If youre about to the head out the door in san hoe a it is mostly cloudy but we will be warming up with sunshine today reaching into the upper 80s. Ill have a look at what else we expect in todays temperature trend for cupertino in about three minutes but mike as an update on the crash. Were look at a smoother flow of traffic around most of the bay. I had big concern because we had some showing some slowing right here south 880 at san lee and der and davis. We did have that crash but chp says theyve got all the vehicles to a shoulder. Its a distraction so there is slowing just south of 98 past dafrs and clearing by the time you hit marine an boulevard and more slowing through hayward and union city typical. No problem getting to the bay bridge toll plaza and the backup because the meetsering lights are on. Youre still under 20 minutes from this top curve to the curve. Coming up today in the bay the massive manhunt for a man who escaped Rikers Island jail is over. The reason why the search may not have been necessary. And the worlds richest man may soon not be the worlds richest man and he probably doesnt care. Well tell you why coming up in business and tech. What should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Its 6 14 with a cloudy start this morning. And as we look at temperatures temperature trend for cupertino it will be nice for most of the morning and thats when you want to get out there and go for a run and do some yard work as our temperatures will be heating up fast reaching in the upper 80s. Going to be hot over the next few days so i guess we better get used to it. Ill talk more about it coming up at about 6 19. About now looking at travel times in the trivalley not showing a major problem over here. 580 is 24 minutes grant line over to the dublin interchange. Six 14 right now on your thursday morning all new this morning the inmate who escaped from Rikers Island jail in new york city has been found. Turns out he didnt make it too far. 24yearold burglary suspect was found hiding out in a trailer on riegers island. It was about 3 00 in the morning eastern time that he was found. Investigators say he jumped the fence and escaped the jail yesterday afternoon. There are reports it happened as two inmates were distracting the guards who were watching after a small group. The missing inmate wasnt noticed until much later. Well, if you are planning on flying out theres a new security rule you should be ready for. Tsa now is starting to screen all devices larger than your cell phone. That includes ereaders and tablets. They have to good through a sprit bin at the xray machine. Travelers we are spoke with said they were kind of mixed about this added level of screening. Save the safetys been a big problem especially overseas so i think its good that, you know, theyre just keeping us safe. Its a hassle. I would rather put nefrg my check luk lug gauge but he want to it to arrive in one piece so i take it on with me. Youre going to see these changes implemented in the coming weeks. In march the department of Homeland Security banned laptops in plane kap cabins from eight meern and african countries. There are concerns that they can id explosives in electronic devices. The company has a secret teamworking on healthcare projects. These include areas offs is Electronic Medical records an virtual doctor visits. Earlier in year reports that amazon was exploring whether to get in selling pharmaceuticals. Speaking of amazon, it reports its profits today. If the numbers are solid it could change history. Jeff bezos could become the richest person in the world. Replacing bill gates. Bill gates has been on the top of the pile for decades. So its only going to take 900 million for bezos to take the lead. And when youre talking about the super rich, 900 million is something a person can gain in just one day. If the shares from their cup move enough. So bezos on the cusp of making history this morning. Amazon says it will hire 50,000 people next month to work at ten wear houses throughout the United States including tracy. Theres a big jobs hiring fire on august 12th. Theres more about that ahead on the today show. There are rumors meg wit man may be the ceo of uber. Those rumors got fuel as wittman stepped down from her other job as chairman of the board at hp. Youll recall hewlettpackard split into two companies. Up to this point wittman had a roll at boej companies. We do know from uper insiders that ubs pretty committed to finding itself a female ceo and their lot of good candidates out there, the problem is like wittman, they already have a job. Shares in facebook hit a new hype as that Company Raked in money. Twitter turned in its numbers this morning, not a lot of growth in the number of people joining twitter. All three Industries Hit new records on wednesday. Then the white house yesterday announced a new foxconn plant will be built in wisconsin. You remember President Trump promised three new apple factories and that left us confused. This might be what he was talking about. Foxconn does make the iphone and its factorys in china. So not three apple factories just one apple factory and theyre making apple products but this might be what the president was talking about. Trying to refer to, i guess. This doesnt officially count but its kind of on the right track. Its big apple products. Youre decoding it for us, thank you. Take a look at this. Church in east tennessee using its message sign to poke a little fun at the scorching summer weather. It says too hot to keep changing the sign, sin bad god good hear more sunday at 10 00 a. M. They say the message is spot on and hilarious. East tennessee has been socking that heat wave with temperatures consistently hitting the 90s or higher and i imagine a bit of humidity as well. This is what hell feels like. So rin, be good. Hopeful that i church has some airconditioning. I was going to say, ac inside. Yeah, i think so. And were just trying to find some airconditioning all around the bay area this weekend as we are going to have some hotter temperatures on the way. But we have the nice cool fog as we get a look right now. Trust me, theres the Golden Gate Bridge in there somewhere. I know you cant see it right now but we are dealing with some patchy fog right now and along the coastline thats not going anywhere for the Morning Hours and then for the inland areas its going to be bright and sunny, high temperatures today even hotter than yesterday hitting the triple digits in concord and antioch. Live more almost there, 97 degrees, san jose 88 degrees and 79 degrees today in oakland. As we get a look at the day planner for san jose, youre making plans to get out there early that will be the best thing, especially if youre going for a long bike ride or if have you some work do outside, its going to be in the lower 80s but noon. Upper 80s by 4 00. And then once those winds kick in well drop it back to 75 by 7 00. And it will be a nice beach day. Were going to see the high temperatures reaching into the low 70s today with some shine, but i wanted to give you a heads up and an update on whats happening out there in the pacific. We have hurricane hillary and Tropical Storm irwin and these two will do what we call a fuji effect and they will rotate around each other and then be absorbed into one hurricane. As we go into the next several days this will churn up the waters and will create some dangerous rip currents and higher waves especially for Southern California but well be watching out for that hered to for area beaches as our temperatures heat up. And look at San Francisco well be in the lower 70 as we head towards saturday and sunday. And for the inland areas youll probably want to escape this kind of heat, upper 90s and that continues as we head back to work next week. And mike now you still have that will bart delape . Yeah. I also got that new knowledge the if you you too war ra effect, thats good. Good learning over here, folks. Looking over here were learning nothing new about this bart delay its still on the grid, maybe ten minutes but much less out of oakland. Earlier mechanical issues there. And around the bay were showing a pretty prepredictable drive. South bay is great. Peninsula that krark on the shoulder 880 and davis. We look. San mateo bridge the live look will show you as you travel westbound things are gumming up on the flat section. There may be a disabled sbrek vehicle because this is too much for slowing just for a burst of traffic. Ill keep a look on that. We dont see anything outstanding just yet. Meanwhile waze will show if you you want to avoid that san ma taye crow breath, the dumbarton bridge say quicker route to the peninsula from Castro Valley. The other routes its even quick are or just about as wick to take the san mateo bridge than to go all this way in the now you can join our team, make sure do you its nbc bay area weighsers. This shows how to you join our team within your profile. Nbc bay area wazers is our team where we share this info. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Up next, Important Information for anybody whos had an issue with a contractor, which is what just about everybody. The state law that could save you big bucks. Online right now youll find local represent action to the president s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military. The news broke about this time yesterday. Since then, our team interviewed protesters in San Francisco. Again, the full story is up right now youll piend it at nbcbayarea. Com. Fipiend it at nbcbayarea. Com. Ndpiend it at nbcbayarea. Com. It at nbcbayarea. Com. What should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Responds team. Laura 2sh well, contractor disputes commonly cross the desk our response team. Consumer investigator chris chmura has a piece of Vital Information that might help prevent a problem. California law gives contractors who might redo your kitchen for example zero wiggle room to demand a lot of money up front. They can take 10 of the cost of the job or 1,000, whichever is less. So if they ask for more money, ask yourself, do you really woont to do business with a company thats willing to break the law . Send us your consumer complaints. The number is pait 88996tips or visit nbcbayarea. Com response. Chris, thank you my friend. Its 6 25. Ebay is helping shoppers to search for what they want by using pictures instead of words. It used two new features called image search. It allows you to take a foettor or use a saved photo of an item that you want to buy and then ebays app searches it for similar picks. Its 6 26 coming up next on today in the bay, preparing for the worse. Steps First Responders are taking in one east bay city to be sure theyre ready in the event of of a disaster. Another suspect face a judge today in connection to the deadly assault of a woman affectionately known as ms. Flo. Suspects unlikely connection to those being accused of the murder. Youre watching today in the bay bay. Right now its 6 30 were getting ready for another warm day across the bay area. Taking a live look outside, at redwood shores. A nice, cool start to our thursday morning. Good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. And im sam brock. Weve had another warm were just kind of building here as the week goes along because today is going to be nice, tomorrow a little warmer. Kari. Thats going to be the trend as we get closer to the weekend. As we look a at stranss forecast into the too bad. You still dont neat airconditioning yet. Well be in the low 70s for saturday and sunday, upper 90s for the inland areas. Thats where those temperatures will really get unbearable over the next few days. It is going to be really hot. Do you like garlic fries. I love garlic fries. Got the convenient coming up for you mike but youre hearing bay crash in the bay bridge . I am. But were looking at this live camera the. Crash is reported it vofltz a motorcycle, big concern to me because of course less shielding for the driver and also more of of a distraction for folks. But it was reported right here in lane one. You see traffic flowing smoothly. I did see some folks hitting their brakes many lane 2 and they may see something that theyre moving over. Ill track this carefully no major injuries reported nish initially. The map does show you theres the backup at the toll plaz and at berkeley curve. We do have a slower drive on the san mateo bridge. Whats happening is theyre recovering from an earlier crash at foster city, thats the Ripple Effect but now were seeing the ripple over toward the dumbarton bridge. More folks taking that, a little bit heavier burst than we might expect so well track them all. Seeking justice for the elderly south bay woman who was known from her friends and family as just ms. Flo. Happening today a sixth suspect charged in the brutal assault of ms. Flo is expected to appear in court. You may remember ms. Flo was attacked in her home last year. She died from her injuries among later. Today in the bay pete suratos is live outside the hall of justice in san jose this morning with a growing list of suspects in this case the good morning, pete. Reporter good morning to you laura and sam andersena ka santos is the latest suspect to add to that list and i want to point out shes the mother of the one of the suspects accused of murdering the woman affectionately known by many as ms. Flo. Now that suspect im referring to is 19yearold johnmy brown. He appeared at the hall of justice just yesterday. Well show you joe of him in court appearing bray judge seen there in that orange jumpsuit. The 19yearold was arrested by police on tuesday and is the second suspect direct leigh cuesed of murdering 88yearold flo douglas inside of her san jose home last year. The first suspect is 19yearold zachary cue within who was arrested just days after douglas was brutally attacked and now browns mother is facing charges of being an accessory after the fact of the murder. Now the death of ms. Flo as she was affectionately known by many in the south bay sending shock waves throughout the south bay community. And new Court Documents reveal in early secht last year that cue win and brown along with three other suspects planned to rob her but prosecutors say their plans went two far with the men aggressively beating douglas taking her car, belongings and even leaving her on the floor of her home even returning minutes later to beat her again. She did die of those injuries a month after that attack. What a treasured individual she was. Its its a tragedy not only to her family and to her friends, but also the community. Reporter as it stands, there are a total of six people facing charges in connection to this case. Santos is said stoet appear in court at some point this afternoon. Weve live in san jose, pete suratos for today in the bay. Thanks for that update. Happening today San Jose Police will hold a meeting to inform people on how they can protect themselves from burglaries. Tonights meet sgt last of a series of four. It will be held at the hills view library at 7 00 tonight. The meeting comes amid a spike . Crimes in the neighborhoods in summer. Today in the bay did some investigating and looked at the numbers provided by San Jose Police. Had what we found. There has been a 25 jump in car thefts this year compared to last year. Theres also been a spike in larcenies, about 5 . But burglaries are down about 4 from last year. All new four this morning, walnut creek preparing for some emergency. This video just into our newsroom shows an overnight disaster drill in walnut creek although it looked very realistic. You maybe heard loud bangs in the downtown area new live there. This was around the broad way plaza shap shopping center. They were all taking part in that live training drill that lft lasted from from 10 00 last night until 2 00 this morning. Six 34, Oakland Police are hoping Surveillance Video can help solve a violent incident than may have left a woman partially blind. You can only see a man randomly elbowing a woman in the face sht he was walking down international boulevard in fruitvale, she then truck her head on the ground. It happened last week. We spoke to the victim and her niece who said the man first yelled at letter to get out of the way before knocking her over. Shes on the floor and shes knocked out and i dont know why. Like, why . She didnt do nothing. She was just walking by. Doctors say the victim suffered a broken bone in her face that may leave her blind in her left eye. All new this morning now more than 200 million worth of crystal methamphetamine heading to australia was busted in santa rosa. Heres how much methamphetamine we are talking about, heaps of it. Or just ice is what its called on the streets. Press democrat reporting this morn that was found in a Storage Facility earmarked for a trip to australia. Investigators say they arrested three men in australia. One of those men baht a plane in santa rosa and was planning on flying the drugs back to that state. A new dog park is report lid cupping to palo alto. According to palo alto online, the parks and Rec Department through their support of the new park this week that they urge the city to act quickly. Its expected to be built as pierce park in the northern part of town. Right now the city of three dedicated dog parks but theyve been working on i creasing that number for years. Two other proposals in north palo alto fell through in recent months. Some bay area soccer fans might still be feeling a little euphoric this morning after a win last night. Stanford alum jordan morris kicking the gamewinning goal that was in the 88th minute of play. The u. S. Goes on to beat the Jamaican Team 21 for revenge the last time these two teams met. More than 60,000 fans attend last nights game. One group kind of lost before the game even started. Thousands of fans of team mexico bought their tickets assuming their team would make it to the finals only to see them lose in the semis. Supposed to be like usa versus mexico but noups its usa versus jamaica but were just trying to get a good time. Well, the night was more than just about fun and games on the field. Lots of folks there heading out for the pregame fess activities. The fiesta in the parking lot at levis, bring your chips, your soccer shirts and flags, it was all things football or soccer if you prefer. Mike. There was a crowd and it was slow getting out of there last night and i think the announcer had the whole goal until the last car got out thats why it was so long. Over here things are cleared up around levi stadium and light all around the south bay. Were going to focus in on the slower drive right now for both the san mateo and dumbarton toll plaz approaches there. A slower drive on both of those. The earlier crash affected the san mateo bridge which is cleared and when they heard about that crash. 8 looks nice as you head over there throughout the east bay and over yawl a lighter flow of traffic. Drive times in the south bay no mange juror problems for san jose just a typical pattern here. And a quick look at the north bay as well it is fog at the Golden Gate Bridge its clear here and traffic flows well very, the s curve. Maybe i need a weekend. There you go, well, sums upon us. We got one in our back pocket. You asked mike a second ago if he likes garlic fries. You think about this . You stopped for a second. Where could that snb where could you get garlic fries. I dont know. Every yoor, last weekend in july. And its always hot, right. Its going to be hot again this weekend as you make plans to get out there. And let me show where you its going to be cool on saturday, the coast. Of course 70 degrees, 87 by the bay, and 95 inland. On sunday it is going to be more of the same, some extreme heat in the valleys while the bay will be at 84 and 701 for the coast. We were talking about those garlic fries, you can get them in abundance on saturday and sunday too at the garlic festival in gilroy at Christmas Hill park. Its going to start out at 80 degrees and if you kwnt get out there early maybe youll be riding the garlic train. Well be seeing those high temperatures reaching into the mid90s and thats when youll want to taste that free garlic ice cream. On saturday as well we have the park street and wine fair happening in alameda had the this going on all weekend long and it will be nice and cool there only seeing those high temperatures barely making it up to 70 degrees. And if youre going to be hitting the road this weekend heading to l. A. , more of the same weather every day but i just wanted to give the heads up that some of the area beaches in Southern California will be very choppy, very dangerous because of some hurricane activity through the in the pacific. Maybe youre not going there you want to head to the sierra, heres a live look outside right now at squaw valley and its going to be beautiful there, also warm. Just a little by the of some snow left on these Upper Mountain ridges. Ill have a look at todays temperature trend in three minutes for san jose. Sam and laura. Thank you so much, kari. 6 39, tipping coverage of the deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair. Impact that incident is having on rides right here in northern california. Plus more trouble for justin bieber, a new video into our newsroom hit a member of the papa razz decide while driving his truck overnight. And the u. S. Senate is now 0 for two on repeal and replace. Well tell you the very latest coming up. And the records just keep on rolling upon the wall street scott keeping our eyes this morning on the Dow Jones Industrial average thats up 67 points 21,778. Great Earnings Report from facebook and all eyes now on amazon. And that stock is trading at wurn thousand 67 per share. Wow. More news coming up in 2. 5 minutes. This is a really cool shot as we take a live look outside right now in san jose, just a little bit of sun coming through underneath those low clouds this morning. As we start out the morning right now at 6 42 our temperatures are going to be nice and cool. 8 00 well be at 64 degrees and rising in the upper 80s today. Starting to heat up above our normal high temperatures and it stays hot over the next several days. Well talk about whats ahead as we go into the weekend thats coming up at about 6 50. And these travel times slow across all of your bridges right now, at least the ones here, bay bridge, san may toe yea bridge and the dumbarton. Thank you very much kari and mike. 6 43 live look at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk this morning where ride operators expect to reopen their version of the fire ball thrill ride today. It was closed last night after a deadly accident in ohio yesterday involving the same kind of ride at the state fair. One person died, several others now seriously injured. That ride malfunctioned literally just breaking apart. Riders were flown into the area air. On the today show one of the two sisters next in line for the ride talked about what she believed led to the mishap. The fire ball was and then it leaned to left and it looked like someones chair was they say that someone went flying. They could see what happened. You can find the same kind of ride at lots of fairs across the country including the california state fair. The ride is closed until the investigation in ohio wraps up. The west coast edition of the today show coming up in just moments you can catch that entire interview in a report from ohio with all of the overnight developments from that investigation. New this morning, a rough week is getting even rougher for pop star justin bieber. The singer struck a member of the pap razz decide with his truck in Beverly Hills over night. Obviously the cameras were rolling. But this is what happened as he was leaving an event you see the rear view mirror clips the photographer and knocks him down. Now bieber did get out to help. That photographer, 57yearold man were told suffered minor injuries. Earlier this week, bieber athounsed that he is ending his current world tour, canceling the remaining 14 shows on the slate. We have a disturbing story coming out of mira possessa county to report on this morning, thousands of firefighters as you know are on the front lines battling a Detwiler Fire. This morning were hearing that somebody has been stealing from those firefighters. The sacramento b reporting that two radios, two helmets and a iphone were stolen from fire trucks on monday and this happened while they were resting in motels in merced after serving 24 hour long shifts. 5,000 firefighters are collectively batting the Detwiler Fire which has consumed more than 81,000 acres. Today its at 70 pes containment. In the meantime mandatory evac weighings have been lifted after this fire burning in apple ma dore and el dorado count ties. Its burned 154 acres. As of the last update its at 15 containment. That fire came dangerously close to homes at one point. They say that one Evacuation Center is going to be open until 8 00 this morning. The exact cause of that fire is under investigation. They say it started in the back of someones house. A plan to add nearly a million more Housing Units is moving forward. Its part of the big plan bay area 2040 meeting that was held yesterday in San Francisco. Regional leaders voted on a future growth blan. It also calls for the million new jobs mostly led by tech companies. Happening today, construction of the state 64 billion rail project could take a big step forward. They could decide whether whether state owned and rail lines strict Environmental Review law. They have faced several lawsuits violating the air Quality Control act. Todays decision could also apply to the bullet train planned between San Francisco and los angeles. The president this morning warning republicans not to let the American People down today. Using his pulpit, that message coming in a tweet urging senators to end obamacare. Its worth reminding the president a majority of americans actually support some form of the Affordable Care act but the senate keeps trying to chip away at it. The senate has taken two votes on bills so far, both have failed. Theres another vote expected today, the socalled skinny bill that would actually leave much of the aca in place including the medicaid expansion. So, todays skinny bill keeps that expansion in place, but it will remove the individual mandate. Thats the rule that everybody has to buy insurance. Thats bad for insurance markets, if Healthy People stop buying Insurance Insurance Companies wont want to be sell that insurance because theyre just stuck selling to the sick. Its bad for republicans because its neither a repeal and its certainly not a replacement either. One of the republican senators who has consistently voted no on ending obamacare is Lisa Murkowski of alaska. Alaska ians depend on the aya so she argues shes just looking out for her. People. But thats angered President Trump and now this morning word that interior secretary ryan zinke called alaskas two senators and allegedly threatened to withhold money and support for mining in alaska. That may violate the law. The news that zinke made the call to the two alaska senators and allegedly said what he said comes from alaskas other senator dan sullivan. This is significant because hes largely loyal to the white house. At least until now. Brand new white house staffer Anthony Scara mooch which i has some angry tweets after someone leaked his Financial Disclosure forms. He says hes going to the fbi. Those forms are publicly available in fact here they are. Ill tweet out a link to his forms. Speaking of twitter, lots of us are getting feedback about our coverage and the Trump Presidency and we love it, we love to hear from you. You can share injury thoughts with me on twitter at scott mcgrew. You can find me at laura garciacannon where i just tweeted out information about this. What you see on your screen right now, supporting our schools. School starts next month, weve kicked off this program to help kids get into high gear, get it, because they need that gear. We want to help kids across the bay area make sure they have all the School Supplies they need. Weve teamed up with telemundo 48, several nonprofits and for the rest of this month, a few days left, you can donate back packs, School Supplies, or cash. This will all go to help students who cant afford new supplies and they deserve them. The full list of where you can donate can be found at nbcbayarea. Com. Great campaign and a small contribution makes a big difference. Thanks for being a part of that. Talk about high gear and time to get back to school rear talking about highs as well. Did wasnt to know how high its going to get. I think do you. You want to get ready pore it because its going to be a weekend where you may be paking your weekend plans around the weather our may be heading to some place wheres its going to be a lot cooler as we get a look at this cool shot looking from our tower cam over San Francisco. Now earlier i could see the very top of the cell force tower but i cant see that anymore. Our marine layer just a little over 2000 feet as we wake up this morning and then from below you cant really see anything. Heres a look from belvedere and usually we can see clear across the bay over towards San Francisco. Right now that temperature at 63 degrees so a mild start, a warm afternoon. Well be up to 93 degrees in morgan hills and medical pete tose up to 87 degrees and the seven day forecast is at the bottom of the screen. Nothing but a lot of 90s in the forecast for the valleys. 100 for antioch, pleasanton, 98 degrees in free monday looking at a high of 89 degrees. Well be at 87 phonpalo alto, san mateo 80 degrees and for the outer sunset expect a hive 64 with slow clearing of the clouds and sonoma today expect a high of 96 degrees. So really getting hot in a lot of areas. And as youre getting ready this morning, starting out just looking at the closet and just trying to wake up on this friday eve, make sure you grab a hat or something that may give awe i little bit of some smad and also some short sleeves, something light colored and lightweight. Or if you have the day off maybe you can make taye pool or a beach day, great day for the swimsuit and sunglasses or just relaxing trying to find some cooler air as we will also be feeling some cooler temperatures along the peninsula. Going to some of the hiking trails there, it will be cloudy and foggy to start, but we will get some clearing by about teb 0 clork. Our temperatures at sift 7 along the coast and for the early afternoon hours reaching into the low 60s and then those winds kicking in. Not much of a wind if youre going for some golfing in the trivalley. The best will be early in the day then look at how hot it gets reaching into the upper 90s throughout the afternoon and is going to be hot also for napa valley throughout the weekend, upper 80s to even some mid90s by the end of the weekend. While San Francisco will be in the low 70s. For saturday and sunday looking good there but look how hot it gets for the valleys, up to 99 degrees on sunday. Ill have more on that but now mike you have a new crash in san jose . I do. An its a concern because in northbound 87 thats when were really starting to see the traffic flowing out of the valley. Thats at the bottom of your screen here and its a tough drive. This has only had a few michbz backup as this crash is the middle of northbound 87 just north of the certer in getting up to communications hill. Im sorry just north of capital expressway wand up toward curtner. Were look alt a big slow drive right here. Thats the problem. 101 will likely see more traffic as folks here about crashes on 87 they typically move over toward 101 as well so that will ripple through jut the south bay about the also tracking the rerecovery for the san mateo bridge buls a slower drive for highway 4. The dumbarton bridge. The approach to the toll plaza i heard about a crash to san padre as well. These two come in play, so does waze. We showed thank you earlier Castro Valley to menlo park, the purple way still the better way across the dumbarton bridge, but this green route is only a couple minutes longer than takes to give get across the san ma taye cobridge. If you go to your waze app and you select profile you can join nbc bay area wazers and you can select what time will be best and when to leave where our going tonight off leave work as well. Back to you. Up next a quick look at the top stories on today in the bay 2345 includes new arrests made in the beloved south bay woman who was known as ms. Flo. Happening now were noticing an unusual twist fort wayne for the upcoming twist series the as seem to have the giants beat on the ticket resale market. Were looking in the practice for the next weeks game. Coliseum tickets are starting at 17. The low eftd price at t tickets are a mere 6. Closing arguments are about to begin in the criminal case the man is accused of defraud a group of investors in two health funds that he ran. The former biotech ceo has dedeclined take the witness stand. A lot more ahead. Stick around. What should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. It is 6 57 right now on your thursday. Welcome back. Before you head out the door here are the top stories on today in the bay. Another suspect in the death of an elderly san jose woman is expected in court today. Yesterday Police Arrested two more suspects in the beating death of ms. Flo. She was attacked inside her home last year. In total six people have been arrested in the case. Today, a woman named seneca santos is due in court. Shes the mother of one of the other suspects and is facing charges of being an access owe ory after the fact. Check this out. Lets take a live look at the Dow Jones Industrial after range and stocks are up this morning but the big news has do with amazon and its founder jeff bezos. Earlier in the show scott mcgrew told you he was knocking on the door of becoming the richest person in the world. Well, amazon stock has shot up 12 points right now over 1,064 per share and thats pushed base bezos ahead of bill gates. He has jumped him and is now the richest man in the world at more than 90 billion. 6 58 San Francisco Police Officer accused of possessing child pornography may be in court as soon as today. Authorities yesterday arrested 37yearold joshya enea. They say multiple images of child pornography were found in his computer in his antioch home. Though findings were the result of a finemonth joint investigation involving contra costa police and prosecutors who spoke yesterday about the arrest. Enea was arrested release i did should say on bail last night and he is now suspended without pay. Lets take you live right now to walnut creek and the bart station there where the morning commutes already well under way. Mikes been keeping you up to date on that but were going to learn more information today about the new trains if the they were given a sneak peek inside of barts new fleet earlier this week. Today were going to get an update on what comes next. Some of the changes at this point we know are going down, fewer seats on the trains, more room to stand and more security cameras. Some of the new trains could hit the tracks as soon as september. All right. Were talking about the warmup thats coming our way at least on the weekend, but we are still thursday just right now. How do we look today . It looks nice and cool along the coast and in San Francisco while the inland areas will be really heating pup the upper 60s today there, upper 90s for the valleys, and we see more of that through the sevenday forecast. Well enjoy the fogs and cloud for now keeping things cooler. Mike, not a lot of people enjoying that commute in san jose. Clouds to the Golden Gate Bridge wee show you the map of the san jose crash yet. 45 seconds ago i learned that the crash had cleared north 87 to this is labeled incorrectly, crash just cleared at curtner. Good to know there. Thats whats happening today in the bay were back at 7 20 phi with a live local news update. Also join us for bay area news at 11 00. Leaving with you a live pic right now from wedwood city. Well be back in 30 minutes. Good morning. Breaking overnight. Horror at the Ohio State Fair. A ride breaks apart, throwing passengers into the air. The ride broke, and people went flying. I saw. At least one person killed. Seven others injured. What went wrong . All atwitter. The president s new Communications Director fires off and quickly deletes an angry tweet. Was he accusing trumps chief of staff of being behind it . Hey, hey, ho, ho, donald trump has got to go as the president faces new backlash over his transgender military ban. Stricter screenings. New airport rules for any