Look at the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, seeing very foggy conditions. That fog will keep us nice and cool the next couple of hours, dont let that fog fool you, because we will be warming up in terms of our temperature, 53 degrees in San Francisco, east bay 57, 58 through the north bay, that temperature trend does show low temperatures climbing into the 60s. If you notice by the lunch your u hour, by about 12 00, we see that fog burn off, then it will make way for plenty of sunshine, todays microclimate will be in full effect. We will see a nice combination of upper 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and even triple digit heat in the bay area, so definitely keep that in mind. We also have High Pressure sitting over northern california. That will get us even hotter as we head into sunday, of course,ly have a breakdown on that, coming up, in about 15 minutes. All right, stay tuned for that. Thanks. Well, it is the car hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting for, last night, 30 people got their hands on the newest tesla. Will you start to see the model 3 also known as the less expensive tesla on a road near you. Today in the bay we were there for the big reveal. Reporter an electric mood at the tesla plant as elon musk showed a model 3 actually driving. Then let others take the wheel. The first 30 model 3 owners were given the keys to their new electric cars. Its an early but important step for tesla, when it comes to the model 3, which the company says got more than 400,000 orders since it was revealed last april. To give you a sense, to own a model 3 now, you will probably get us towards the end of next years ago but because the s and is x are in production, few order them now, can you get them in about up with or two months. This is going to show the world that this is possible. Reporter the car is also being closely watched by Companies Like silicon valleys charge point, which makes electric car chargers. First of all, it help, obviously, drive demand for our products and services, but were actually encouraged by this and accelerating the transition to electric transportation. Reporter tesla has a lot on its low priced entry, it has to deliver a lot of cars to turn a profit. Its now delivered batch one. Nbc bay area news. Now, to a Health Warning this morning, for people in one east bay community. A bat was found in a park in midjuly and experts are now saying it had rabies. Authorities want to know if anyone has come into contact with it. The bat was found nearly two weeks ago on a walking path at grove park in clayson. Lindsay wild Life Hospital sent us the picture of the bat. Officials say it died after it stopped eating, just two days after it was brought to the hospital. People in the area are on heightened alert, knowing there was an infected mammal in their park. Just nature, i guess, bats carry rabies, they show up. Its weird to find in the park with kids. You got to be cautious. You see them come out at daytime, i would be oa little nervous, i have this little one. Contra costa Health Officials advise if you come in contact with a bat, do not touch it. Family and friends of an oakland man say they are shocked after learning hes accused of helping support isis. The phhis family is speaking publicly for the first time. Federal prosecutors say he supported isis and claimed he met undercover fbi agents to show them possible targets in the area, including the uc brkly campus. His friends and family say these charges are unbelievable. Everybody that i know is completely like baffled. You know, because this person, we know him to be amazing and kind hearted soul. It doesnt jive, frankly. It doesnt add up. Okay. Because thats not the person we know. Reporter federal prosecutors claim he told them he wanted to target San Franciscos china town and Mission District and claimed 10,000 victims. He is also accused of Identity Theft and credit card fraud. The hunt is on for the person who is setting fires on the peninsula. Police are searching for this man seen in downtown palo alto around the time the gungster fire ignited ned morning. There were four cars set on fire, a couple fires and a brush fire all yesterday morning and all within walking distance of one another. There the a lot of dry leaves and things around here, so, you know, its concerning for sure, but i believe our Police Department will take care of it. Investigators are calling all the fires suspicious. And this hot, dry weather, weve seen this week is keeping firefighters busy. Take a look at this, firefighters think a brush fire in fremont started in a homeless encampment. They stopped the flames before they reached a noble home park where about 500 people lived. The flames burned just a small area. In pleasanton, a similar scene, a brush fire broke out fear wineries. Firefighters say only about 3 acres burned before they were able to get the fire under control. No homes nor structures were threatened. P 06 right now. There is much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, two white house employees out in one week, next up the latest on yesterdays shakeup and what President Trump is expected to to next. Plus, we need your help to get children the School Supplies they need. Well explain coming up. Welcome back. Take a look outside, fog covers the bay the Golden Gate Bridge and most of San Francisco. The fog should burn off around lunchtime and sunshine will greet the city today. Well have the microclimate forecast in just a few minutes. This morning, we are following developing news out of washington, the white house says President Trump plans to sign a bill that imposes new sanctions on russia. The president reviewed and intends to add his signature to the final version of the bill, which slaps new sanction on moscow for election meddling. The legislation passed we have toproof majorities, which means it gives congress the ability to block President Trump from lifting any of the sanctions. Meanwhile, there is more tension in the president s inner circle. Thats prompting another shakeup at the white house. Chief of staff Reince Priebus is now out following a headlinegrabbing rant by the new xun indications director Anthony Scaramucci. Can the food in the bay has more. Reporter the news announced on twitter by President Trump, jamieing Homeland Security general john kelly as the replacement for Reince Priebus t. President said about kelly, lease a great american, a freight leader. John kelly will do a fantastic job. General kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. Reporter of priebus the president tweeted, we have accomplished a lot together. Im proud of him. Priebus continued to support the president in an interview with cnn. I think its smart for him to pick general kelly. And i think things will be run very well. Reporter priebus the former chairman of the rnc and walk insider clashed with the president s inner circle and having put him in charge of health care the motion to commit is not agreed to. Reporter may have been the final straw. Another source saying priebus left after Communications DirectorAnthony Scaramucci slammed priebus in an infantyladen tirade for the new yorker. General kelly is a 45 year marine veteran, who carried out mr. Trumps tough on crime immigration policies as the leader of Homeland Security. She seen as a stabilizing force, leak his boss, wants to crack down on leaks. I think its darn close to treason. Reporter and added to a vet in new york the president sang kellys praises. Truly one of our stars, john kelly is one of our great stars. Reporter ian cole, nbc bay area news. Still ahead on today in the bay, a popular event is expected to cause major traffic problems this weekend, what you need to know if you are going to the gilroy garden festival. Plus. Reporter good morning, im live in sunnyvale, we quiping children with what they need to go back to school. Ill show you how to get involved straight ahead. If if you are waking up outside San Francisco, this is what you are waking up, no fear the fog will not remain around all day long. I will tell you who can see the hotter temps coming up after the break. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Strummed guitar travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. With a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. Canadas Rocky Mountains await. Call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. Welcome back at 7 14. Heres a live look outside in san rafael, cloud cover there, that should lift and most of us will be seeing sunny skies on this saturday. Some people even reaching the 90s. Shell be along in just a bit with your xhierk climate forecast. A live look outside now at the Golden Gate Bridge covered in fog and traffic, though, moving along quite nicely on this saturday morning. But there are new plans in the works to help make traffic move even faster. The bridge board has approved a plan to build a new toll plaza. The board says the fast track readers are out of date and no longer meet state regulations. An Engineering Firm in oakland has been hired to design the new look and install updated technology. The toll plaza should be complete by the end of next year. Its the pecked e weekend garlic lovers look forward every year, tens of thousands are expected to visit the gilroy garlic festival. A new dish, deep fried garlic shrimp and todays celebrity chef will judge the competition. It kicked off yesterday and is going along so far. Its calm. Everyone is relaxing. If you are going and youd like to avoid traffic, organizers suggest visitors ride the garlic train. That leads from san jose station. The garlic festival is opened from 10 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Today and tomorrow. And as kids get ready to go back to school, there is a desperate need for School Supplies, nbc bay area is in our final ush to support our schools, today f bay chris is in sunnyvale. Chris, it is so great to see you on this saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Reporter hey, good morning, we have a bit of a carnivale atmosphere going on here, as you stated, we are partnering with the family giving tree and several organizations. I want to bring the executive founder. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter tell us, whats going on here today and how can people get involved . Well, its kind of creepy for 7 00 a. M. There are a bunch of folks and girl scouts, we are here to pack back pax for needy children. How real is the need for kids to have a backpack full of supplies or perhaps their parents cant provide for them . People here can be working two, three, four jobs, cant afford the rent. There is no way they are supplying back pax to their kids. Reporter whats the goal today . Trying to get into houses and into classrooms around the area . Well, today our goal is about 2800 back pax and our overall goal for the holiday for the Summer Season is 40,000 from 40,000 . Yeah, a lot of children cant get to school with what they need. How can people get involved and make their contribution . We hope they come over here and drop off backpacks or supplies or give us money to family giving tree. Org, different us money. We will buy backpacks and supplies. Whats in those back pax . We were laughing yesterday we bought 200,000 pencils. There is scientific calculators, if are you in high school and colored pencils if you are in kindergarten. So it depends on the grade levels, theyre specific to each grade level. Thank you, fantastic. If you are interested in making a contribution, can you come down here at 394 west caribbean drive, the easier way, we are directly across from the yahoo headquarters, if doing the right thing isnt enough of an inducement. Its the nbc bay area, scoop truck, we are giving out free ice cream, for nothing else, can you come out for the free ice cream. Thats a good thing to come, to meet you and other members of the nbc bay area team. As chris is saying, we have a full list where you can donate. Where he is, you want to go out and meet that smiling face as well as specifics on the supplies needed. Most for each grade. We are covering k through 12. We have what each grade needs. Thats at nbc bay area. Com. All right, there are many different forms of bravery. One local woman doesnt think shes brave. She just thinks shes organized. Garvin shows us what she did when the flooding hit san jose. Oh, you know what, we will wait for that story, that was a little these for you, were going to go to weather now and you were saying that its going to be the ultimate microclimate weekend. Worry going to have viktor to maybe triple ginl i digits . Triple gij ip digits tomorrow. Definitely will show off one spot to being hot and one cool. Lets start off with a forecast war. Chris was out at the family tree giving tree warous, thats in sunnyvale, california. Heres a look at there temperatures you can expect as you go out there, really make a difference and do nate back pax and School Supplies. I will be out there as well as long with vicki wynn and kerry hall, so hopefully you can make your way out there. We will be there until about 1 00 and as chris said, that i do have an ice cream truck, games and loads of fun. So i think it will be in the 60s by the time you get out there, if you are out there now, then few get out there, more towards 11 00, 12 00, it will warm up into the 70s so a light sweater. We also have fun games, so we will definitely get your blood pumping with baseball. We had football yesterday, the temps in the 50s. We are definitely seeing the fog in the peninsula, 54 dries, trivalley 50 degrees, we can expect to keep this fog in the forecast for San Francisco through the midafternoon. If we look right now at that Doppler Radar, we have see the fog hugging the coastline, this is expected to purpose off. That will make ways for sunny skies and building High Pressure. And thats going to warm us up. Its going to get us into a bit of a warming trend as we head into sunday and monday. Now the temperature transfer today in San Francisco, as i mentioned will remain in the 50. We quickly climb into the 60, climbing into the upper 60s for the San Francisco area, but for inland, its definitely going to get a lot hotter and quicker. By about 12 00 in east bay, expect a high of 76 degrees, by 2 00 already in the 80s, san jose is expected to reach mid to upper80s, the high forecast for today, morgan hill, 91 degrees, East San Jose 90. San jose 86 degrees. In the east bay, we have a combination of 70s in oakland, 74 degrees up to 97 for concord, as usual, one of the hotter spots in antioch, 94 degrees, now along the peninsula, we will remain in the 60s, castle biat 62 degrees, for San Francisco, we will remain in those mid to upper60s all day long the forth bay right now, santa rosa 85 degrees. Nevada 87. These temperatures are expected to get a lot hotter by tomorrow, today will be a great day to go hiking. If you have plans for the hiking trail in the east bay, expect mild temps by 10 00 a. M. 2 00 it warms up into the 90s. Pack some water and try to get on an Early Morning hike. Over the next seven days, heres a quick check, it will carry over into sunday morning as well. Then on sunday into monday, we start seeing some hot High Pressure building in. But that will have the biggest impact on inland areas. Thanks. It is 7 22. We have much more ahead, coming up, the story of a woman who stepped in after floods hit san jose. How she org kneesed relief aid, its a story that will make you bay area proud. Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Welcome back. Some young woman doesnt think shes braved. She says shes organized. Today garvin thomgs shows us what she did when flooding hit san jose. Reporter ever science coyote creek flooded almost six months ago, there has been a lot of blame for who hasnt been at fault. There hasnt been a lot of praise, but when it comes to deb cramer, its definitely deserved. The shown zone you will start in will need one bag. Reporter deb cramer believes in the power of the humble lift. Over the past years, organizing chienups for her nonprofits keep coyote creek beautiful. Deb has relied heavily on lists. What it is that needs to happen. Check lists to make sure she has the equipment she needs. I have a team of leaders. Email lists to make sure she has the volunteers to do the job. So we need you to get a vest. So deb knows the power of them to get her day job done, but had no idea what her lists could mean in a disaster. And not until, that is, until there was one. On february 21st, coyote creek overflowed its banks, flooding homes, neighborhoods and parks. The very next day, deb went down to the creek she knows so well to survey the damage. And was stunned by what she saw. Thats when it was like, okay, so i called the mayor office, and i said, hey, palm, im here. Let me know if you want any help. Reporter palm ferrara is with the city of san jose and had worked with deb in the past, so he knew she could help, but even he was surprised just how much. I mean, were beyond grateful. Its just, i dont think i can ever thank her enough. We dont sister to worry about that. You see, within a matter of days, deb provided a checklist of equipment she would need from the stid and she tapped her list of willing volunteers. Over the course of four days, you got about 1,200 volunteers, just to go into three neighborhoods. Reporter and over the next three days, another 800. Thats 2,000 volunteers in just seven days. They went into homes and down to the creek, going a long way to returning life to normal along its banks. There you go. You got a pair. Deb is quick to deflect any praise, saying she is simply a good organizers, others, though, are more generous, believing on the list of people the city has to thank, deb should be right near the top. Even though the worst of the flooding is long in the past, deb says the impacts of the creek are still lingering, she and her volunteers are out there cleaning to this very day. Incredible. We have much more ahead on today in the bay coming up, muni riders keeping a close eye on their surroundings, who police say is attacking passengers. Also, have you been stung . We have the reason the bay area has seen a 60 increase in wasps over the past year. Welcome back to you, its just shy of 7 30 on your saturday morning a live look outside as fog covers the Golden Gate Bridge. Nothing new, we see that a lot as the sun shines in san jose, it is one of those day, today the microclimates are in full effect. Thank you so much for joining us. We have a look at that microclimate forecast. I know who loves this weather, people who wake up bright and early. Get it done. Its the weather they had for the San Francisco marathon. So kind of like that, but its going to heat up, so go out now, because the current temps are pleasant along the coast, in the 50s, nice and cool at 59 degrees the south bay right now the water temps, 56, ocean beach 58, santa cruz 57 and i would say that tomorrows probably going to be a better beach day than today is, look at this Doppler Radar, showing that fog thats hugging the coastline. We will see this burn off. We have that High Pressure building over the bay area. That will warm us up nicely as we head into sunday and the start of the workweek, its kind of going to kickstart a bit of a warming trend in the bay area, San Francisco, right now, nice and foggy, of course, those temperatures will climb into the 60s by midafternoon and then in inland spots, we will be warmer out there, East San Jose, climb nook the upper 80s, by about 2 00, well be at 81 degrees so we will see a nice contrast between the coast and inland spots. Were talking about maybe ten, 15 degree difference. Some spots will see a 20 degrees difference for tomorrow. So i would say few want to be on the warmer side, go in the spots, if you want to be on the cooler side, have lunch in San Francisco, we will have a closer look for your forecast today, also few head into sunday coming up. Already always options. Exactly. Thanks. People who ride muni buses are being warned. In less than two weeks, there were two cases of passengers getting assaulted and robbed. And police say both incidents involve groups of young people attacking the passengers. We have more on the recent trend of violence. Reporter people who ride the bus in San Francisco are already on the lookout. Some say they wear ear buds but they arent on. Yeah, i cant we heard and i am aware of my surroundings. A pair of assaults and robberies are giving people reasons. One of the women punched her, someone stole her phone and the group took off. Yeah, thats kinds of surprising. Thats concerning. Reporter she didnt think she had to have her guard up around women. Im surprised four women against another woman. Reporter last week police say a group of ten young men attacked a muni rider at market and van ness, assaulting him, steaming his phone. Investigators are reviewing video from the buss if both cases hoping to identify suspects. Muni says it works closely with sfpd and crime is actually down system wide. Even though you hear about this case today, we are encouraged by what weve seen over the crime stats that have been coming in. And a lot of that trends is due to working with the police. Reporter workers say the violence is a disturbing reminder to be aware. Thats kind of shocking to me, also not surprising, as far as it is the city. A Health Warning this morning for people in one east bay community. A bat was found in a park in midjuly. Experts are saying it did have rabies. Authorities want to know if anyone has come into contact with it. It was found nearly two weeks ago on a walking path at grove park. This is in clayton. Lindsay wild Life Hospital sent us this picture of bat. They say it died days after it was brought into the hospital. People in the area tell us theyre now on heightened alert, knowing there was an infected animal in the park. Just nature, i guess. Bats carry rabies, they show up. Its weird to find in the park with kids. You got to be cautious. They usually dont come out. They come out at day time, when they come closer i would be nervous, yeah. Health officials advise if you do come into contact with a bat, do not touch it. Now, to family and friends of an oakland man, who say theyre shocked after learning hes accused of helping support isis, the family is speaking publicly for the very first time. Federal prosecutors say he provided support for isis and claim he even met under cover fbi acts to show them possible targets in the bay area, including the uc berkeley campus. His friends and family say these charges are unbelievable. Everybody i know is completely like baffled. You know, because the person we know him to be amazing and kind hearted soul. It doesnt jive, frankly. It doesnt add up. Okay. Because thats not the person we know. Federal prosecutors claim he told them he wanted to target San Franciscos china town and Mission District and claim 10,000 victims. He is accused of credit card fraud and Identity Theft afternoon. A registered sex offender arrested in the east bay. Police say this man, cluck lee, fog a developmentally challenged woman into the back seat of his car and touched heren appropriately. It happened last week. Neighbors saw what was happening and called 911. They then sprung into action and put li under citizens arrest. He is facing charges of sexual bat rid and kidnapping. More fallout for the embattled former contra costa district attorney. The state bar has now suspended him, which means he is one step closer to losing his law license. Mark petersen resigned from the das office after being charged with perjury and grand theft t. Charges stem from petersen allegedly using 66,000 in Campaign Funds for personal expenses. A special counsel has been sense appointed to further vengt. Well, its the perfect storm for a wasp invasion, plenty of water and piled temperatures have wasps out if big numbers in the bay area this year. In Contra Costa County alone, calls for help to get rid of wasps are way up. In 2015, they received 24 calls, they jumped to 230 last year this year, 376 so far t. Contra county mosquito and Vector Control says the wasps from last year lived through the winter along with the larva. Right now thefests are big, they didnt die out. They have about 5,000 Yellow Jackets in them. The Vector Control say they will get rid of ground wasps nests for free. Its just shy of 7 37, much more ahead, coming up, are you ready for football . We will take you to 49ers Training Camp in santa clara next. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. Get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only 34. 90 more per month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Welcome back. When it comes to dodgers, its always competitive, even if the giants are far from catching their division rivals, get there, the giants went into last nights matchup 31andahalf games behind the dodgers. Still, it was a big game to l. A. , Brandon Crawford got things going early, hitting his 9th home run of the season, the action got going in the 7th. The giants score three runs, but l. A. One ups them. Last Years National rookie of the year cory seiger getting his second home run of the night t. Dodgers go on to win 64. Heres the starting pitcher matt moore. We did a lot of good things there, you try to have a shut down inning, we couldnt do it. Its in those moments in the 7th inning when you have runners on the game is on the line, all those pitches the ones you remember the most. Game two of the series is today at 1k4r6789 05. Well, football season is about to been t. 49ers have a lot of groups to make up this year t. Team held its first Training Camp practice in santa clara yesterday. A lot of new faces are out there, most notably, kyle shanahan, who came from the falcons, where he was the offensive coordinator. It was an exciting day for sanford defensive end solomon thomas. The number 3 overall pick, completed contract negotiations and was able to join his teammates aen the field for the very first time. The heart of dub nation, steph curry taught shooting and dribbling and dealed out advice for aspiring sports stars. He told them appreciate every opportunity because every day is not guaranteed. I like that as well. We have much more ahead on today in the bay coming up. Were only reaching about 10 of the population here of low income students. The dire need to help local kids get ready for class. Well tell you how you can help support our schools here in the bay area. And it will definitely be great weather for heading out to sunny veil to support our schools, look at this gorgeous shot overlooking mount hamilton, we have a warmup on the way, im talk about how hot were expecting to get this weekend coming up just after the break. Good morning. It is 7 43. We are off to a calm and cool start in the bay area. We expect to see decent weather. The peninsula foggy at 54 dries. Out in San Francisco another foggy day, a fog dpi start, because it will clear out, east bay 57 degrees and then in the north bay at about 50 degrees for today. Now we can see this Doppler Radar right now showing off some of that fog thats hugging the coastline and this will be burning off. This is going to make way for a very nice warmup and an even Warming Trends an even hotter warming trend i should say by sunday, heading into the workweek ahead. Lets look at todays temperature trend. We will be climbing into the 60 at maybe 12 00, we see that sunshine peeking through the clouds and fog start to burn out quite nicely, East San Jose, we did have a little bit cloud cover. Now we are starting to welcome that sunshine, we will be in the 70s by 12 00, we climb into the 80s, warming into the mid to upper80s, lets take a look at your forecasted high, morgan hill 91 degrees, East San Jose 90, as we head into the east bay, you notice, oakland will be in the 70s, antioch 94, concord 97, walnut creek 92. Along the peninsula, we see that fog still in the 60s, we remain in the 60s for the majority of the day, not much of a change as we head into tomorrow, San Francisco will climb, though, into the upper 60s for today, a little warmer tomorrow, maybe one or two degrees warmer in the north bay as well in the 80s, the cooler spots at 52. Nebras nevada 87 degrees. We can see an increase in the temperatures into the triple digits as we head into tomorrow. It will bring an increase into the fire danger, that is thanks to hot High Pressure building in. It will build in over northern california. The route tomorrow and into the start of the workweek, thats whats going to bring that warming trend i have been mentioning, but todays weather is going to be pretty good, thats going to be great weather to head out once again and support our schools. Right now, chris chmura is out there i will be at the family giving tree if sunnyvale. I will be there, critic i vicki and carrie hall. We have an ice cream truck. Bring School Supplies and back pax backpacks to us. Over the next seven days, we have High Pressure building in, in San Francisco, we see a climb in the temperatures, in the 70s. Inland spots we notice the hot temperatures increasing. By fund 97, that hot High Pressure starts building in over the forecast. By wednesday, thursday and friday, we start hitting the triple digit marks again. We could see the National Weather service might be issuing heat advisories as we head into the heat week as well. Make sure to keep that in mind. I think today will be your best bet for hiking weather, tomorrow, goods beach weather. Carole, back to you. Thank you. We have much more ahead on today in the bay, coming up, giving students the supplies they need to succeed. Why chris chmura is in sunny veil handing out free seiss cream. How you can get free ice cream by donating a little bit to help kids get baaing to school. Today for the heart of engagement in ogala plaza, this arts events will showcase Young Artists from the teens to 20s to engage with the cultural street fared and their seifer, their spoken word competition. You feel me . Yeah, that was not cool, thats because im older. As you move along you can move from cypher to willowfest for the beer walk, sicider, as well sampling the businesses in the glen, designating drivers do not need to buy a ticket. Of course, they will not be cidering in there either. On sunday, maybe you will be up for mixing, a tale of two star crossed lovers or waring empires, the players are mashing up tales of han and leia outside in san mat . San mateo. Also your traffic geek, so ill be back here monday morning for your backtowork compute. Welcome back. As kids get ready to go back to class, there is a desperate need for School Supplies, nbc bay area is in the final push to support our schools and today in the bay is filling backpacks for children in need, theyll be there until 1 00. I see you are no longer handing out ice cream. Reporter not for the moment. Trust you, we will hand out more ice cream t. Real reason we are here is the assembly line. You see the backpacks are being stuffed with supplies kids need because, you know what, the reality is, parents might not always be able to provide for their kids everything they need to go back to school. Lets bring in Eric Mcdonald with the united way. Good morning. Flood to be here. Reporter tell us, whats going on back here and whats your goal today . Whats exciting is we know everybody looks forward to going back to school, for many families, its a stressful time. You dont have enough resources, so we are bringing out volunteers, with big hearts, our goal is a thousand backpacks the big goal is 40,000. Reporter 40,000 . 40,000 for kids in nine counties here in the bay yeah, we want were contractor every young person to go back to school excited to learn in the classroom. Reporter where does all the stuff and the backpacks actually come from . So again we live in a great bay area where there are Companies Like at t and ernst and young and many others who contribute, employees in all of these companies who are here today, we will have hundreds of volunteers here today, raise our hand and say, hey, i want to help. Some go by backpacks, at the end of the day, again, 40,000 families give support vochlt so im no big fortune 500 company. I want to get involved, how do i do that . I want to get involved . What do i do . One of two things, one, go to nbc bay area, check out family giving tree. If you want to go out and do something, run to the nearest store, buy a backpack, stuff it with supplies and find where you can drop them off. Its still time. We want to do this through august 25th. If you do that, well reach our goal of 40,000. Thank you. So, yeah, can you feel the energy eric. You can contribute to somebody in need. Back to you. Yes, we hope people will come by until 1 00. For those that cant make it. They can go to nbc bay area. Com and donate money. Chris, thanks, this morning. Bay area companies, as that man in the interview just said, also are doing what they can to help out in this drive. Today in the bay Chris Sanchez shows us how family giving trees thousands of people are ready for the first day of school. I have a 5th grader and a 7th grader, the thought of accepting them to School WithoutSchool Supplies would be heart wrenching to me as a parent. Reporter these employees are taking part in this backtoschool drive. They supply paper, notebooks, cam calculators, rulers and folders. Some education is very important to Western Digital. So providing access to the supplies, its just one piece of helping our communities be more successful. Reporter Western Digital partnered with family giving tree to make sure students have all the necessary School Supplies to succeed and each barkback makes a difference. Its the population of low income children is still growing and with the costs in the bay area as everybody well knows. On this day, volunteers packed 500 back pax for students from kindergarten to high school. We all know how exciting it is to have a backpack. In i know that every backpack that we pack today will eventually go to some kids, its really a great feeling. Reporter despite all this work, there still will be a lot of students in the bay area, starting School Without the supplies that they need. We are annual reaching 10 of the population of low income students, so its really absolutely essential that we continue to get more folks out here and corporations part mering with us to try to reach these students. Reporter family giving tree has been doing the backpack rides for more than two decades, last year alone, it provided a record 39,000 back pax to 300 agencies at school. Chris sanchez, nbc bay area. We do have a full list of where you can do nate on our website as well as the specific supplies that each grade needs the most. Thats at nbc bay area. Com. At 7 55. We still some more ahead on today in the bay, its not your average cup of joe the bay area spot thats serving up a real piece of art next. Check it out, this is specialized foam, there are a number of designs to choose from. You can bring your other than, the free is 25 cents and the money goes to charity. We align ourselves with different charity and people know as theyre supporting us, they are supporting the local community. This time the donations go to the palo alto firefighters association. The professional cup owner will choose another charity, once they reach a goal of 1,500. Thats a great cause. Who doesnt love coffee . Thanks so much for making us a part of your morning, we will have more local news tonight at 5 006 00 and 11 00 on bay area. Com. We hope you have a great saturday. Symbol you know youre watching television thats educational and informational. The more you know on nbc. Josh today on the voyager, i dip my toe into Indian Culture and learn about the beautiful art of flower garlands. Bharathi not bad, josh josh . Marvel at the painstaking handiwork that goes into beaded shoes. Right in that tiny little nonexistent space . Bebe yeah, yeah, thats right. Josh thats insane. And take on singapores spicy national dish. Dr. Tay these are what we call muck crabs. 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