For this try dfriday morning. First, meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast. Friday forecast sounds so good. Yes, and we have some great weather, too, to go along with that friday. So it makes it a little bit easier to wake up and head out the door as we look at this amazing view looking over martinez. Lets check out the trend. Well be in the upper 50s as we start out at 8 00. At lunch time its 71 degrees, reaching 76 by early in the afternoon, still very nice and mild today but we know that hot weather is headed our way soon. Ill talk more about that and mike gets you out the door with a look at the commute. Were looking at a smooth drive right now. Friday light. We can say that now as we look at the maps. We have seen much more traffic at least for the altamont and the trivalley over the last few weeks. Definitely no morning slowing. A smooth drive. I am tracking a crash at 680 but it does not appear to be a problem and the construction is clear. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. 6 01 right now. Developing in the north bay authorities have not identified thes bell marin keys. It happened after he lost control of his truck and it ended up in the pond. A woman and dog were also in the truck but only the woman made it to safety. Happening today for you Solano County moving deeper into phase two of reopening. This is after getting approval yesterday. Napa county already in phase two. And Sonoma County in the yellow is still awaiting state approval. So under the expanded phase two heres whats going to happen. And diningt open. And restaurants and schools with modified modifications can open. So here is what remains closed. Hair and nail salons, gyms and nightclubs. Santa clara becomes the last to enter phase two. Stores like these you see right here in downtown campbell will be able to reopen but with restrictions. Curbside pickup will be allowed and manufacturing can resume. Also offices requiring on site staff can reopen. And a live look for you at capitol hill this morning. President trump is requesting all flags on federal buildings fly at halfstaff for victims. Senators are leaving a 3 trillion rescue bill on the table as they break for memorial day. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for that plus concerns about the spread during the Holiday Weekend. Tracie . Reporter right, marcus, concerns people will be out and about in closed proximity without practicing social distancing after being cooped up for weeks and months. We are also watching whats not happening this Holiday Weekend on capitol hill. Lawmakers headed out without coming to any agreement about that 3 trillion which would include checks in your wallet. House speaker Nancy Pelosis 3 trillion rescue bill with direct payments to americans going nowhere as the Senate Leaves for holiday break. She can take her bill, eliminate other word, cut the price by 75 and it still wouldnt pass the senate. Reporter republicans accused of wasting time. Not one vote on legislation having to do with the covid19 in the entire month of may. Reporter Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says theyll eventually vote. Let me tell you what it wont be, it wont be a 3 trillion left wing wish list. Such broad support. May not know it yet but they will come to the table. Reporter lawmakers at odds as america reopens with fears that memorial day weekend could bring more crowded beaches. The cdc now says theres no evidence covid19 spreads through pools, hot tubs, play areas, and it does not spread easily on surfaces. President trump under the microscope again for only briefly wearing a mask at a michigan ford plant. Its disappointing. It wasnt surprising but it was disappointing. I didnt want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. Reporter he says he will not shut down the country if theres a second wave of illness this summer. And what the president will do, though, is lower the flags. You mentioned it earlier. That waser the flags when 100,000. Its now at over 95,000. We are live this morning. Im tracie potts. Today in the bay. Thanks so much, tracie. 6 05 right now. Gathering spots at chabot park are closed this weekend and San Leandro Police reminding everyone the parking lot at the city owned chabot park will be closed as well as will the marinas park. You can still walk in to either site. Restrictions remain in place around popular lake merritt in oakland. Food trucks will not be allowed over the Holiday Weekend and parking lots will be closed to limit overcrowding. It will certainly be a very different memorial day weekend in lake tahoe. Restrictions are forcing a lot of tourists off the water. Here to talk more about that this morning is the Public Information officer can the lake tahoe planning agency. Thank you for joining us, jeff. Youre welcome. Good morning. Who can hit the water this weekend, and who cant . Only, i guess, the boats that have been in tahoe before . Yeah, thats right. So uniqueau we ha if you have an inspection wire attached from the boat to the trailer or you dont. The ones that have the inspection wire are typically locally stored boats, owned and operated. We call them tahoe only though theyre not from right in the region. And those that dont are traveling boats that are a part of our experience in tahoe. [ no audio ] sounds like our audio is breaking up with you and were not able to hear you. So sorry. Oh, there we go. Are you back, jeff . Yeah, im still here. Sorry, i thought we tested all this out. No, thats okay. I know, its Just Technology is what were dealing with here. So the boats, if youre a nontahoe, you dont want the noninvasive species coming in. Will there be enough checkpoints . What boat ramps are open . Public ones or private ones where people get gas . Yeah, exactly. A lot of the marinas in the basin have announced they will be opening up june 1 to get the dust off. Those are places you can get Services Like gas. The public launch ramps open this week. This is a delayed start to the boating season we tried to achieve, again, to try to slow down how many people were coming to the beaches, howan were coming to the lake. Right now theres two categories of boats. You either have the inspection ban from the last time launched or you dont and the first phase were in right now only the banded boats typically locally owned can launch. Boats that dont have a band are coming from further away and those cannot launch at this time of the year. Okay. And so to look for the dates of those we go to your website . Tahoeboatinspection. Com has all the dates. Most of the launches are already open this week. All right. Well, we all want to get away but we have to play it safe, too. Jeff cohen, thank you for joining us this morning. 6 09 for you that morning. Happening today san jose state celebrates the class of 2020. Starting this morning the university will have a graduation recognition on its websites for all of its colleges. They will feature a slide show of pictures and personal messages. San jose state says that this is not a virtual commencement or replacement ceremony, just a way to recognize those students. And something good for you from steph and ayeshaurry helping seniors show off the pride. He and his wife are donating thousands of congratulatory senior signs. They can be posted in the front yards and windows and personalized for all 18 oakland high schools. Congratulations to all of them. Kari, as the families celebrate, a nice forecast. This is an extended weekend for a lot of people. Yeah, a long Holiday Weekend and were going to have some hotter weather. At least it starts out cool. Even though it doesnt look that cool. We are seeing this orange glow in the sky right now. Take a look at walnut creek and our temperature trend. Were in the mid50s to start this morning. Take a look at this afternoon as we reach into the mid70s. It will be really nice. And one more comfortable day before those temperatures start to heat up. Were in the 60s along the coast and some upper 70s and low 80s for the inland areas. How is it looking for the commute right now, mike . It looks great. Kari, i was concerned about a call that came in to chp from oakland. Well take a look at the maps and we see green around the bay. Lighter traffic flow though slowing through the Altamont Pass and the trivalley. South 880 embroaching the embarcadero where reports of a truck that lost control of its brakes was able to get to the right shoulder. No injuries reported there. Ill let you know if theres any other activity. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Macys is reopening dozens of stores. Next an update on californias stores and the huge hole in the retail giant now finds itself in. Another Silicon Valley company says work from home will be a regular thing. Lets take you out to new york city and the futures. A bit of a mixed bag, but really good news out of wall street. Ill tell you what it is. Dealing with right now five minutes of happiness which i think a lot of people need. Plus, all you dog lovers out there listen to this. I want you to meet a cute pair of furrylpg bring smiles to man peoples faces and dropping off something that a lot of people love to drink. Well tell you about it coming up. Youre watching today in the bay. Happy friday. At 6 14 a live look outside in cupertino. Were going to start out with sunshine and a very nice afternoon. Were going from the mid50s to the low 70s by early in the afternoon. Well talk about a weekend warmup in the forecast coming up. Good volume of traffic northbound with all these headlights coming toward us. The changes as we look at the Holiday Weekend coming up. Good morning. A good friday to you. For a lot of people friday means a paycheck. For a growing number of americans, it does not. Yesterday around 2 million americans were added to the unemployment rolls. Now there is a debate in washington, a live look out at washington where theres a debate about how much longer the government should give americans extended unemployment benefits. As you may know theres an extra 600 tacked on to the usual benefits. That expires in july. Some lawmakers would like to extend that saying theres no way this pandemic is over by july. Others claim that the extra 600 is actually encouraging people not to work. Not a lot of movement on the markets on thursday, but i bring it up because of select quote. The company had its stock market debut. Did well, up nearly 40 . This is not a Bay Area Company but its so worth paying attention to because you can ipo. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg says the company will let a good portion of the company work remotely even after the pandemic is over. That could be as much as half of the company the next five to ten years. People will be paid according to their cost of living. If you live in montana, you will be paid less money at facebook for the same amount of work. This trend to Remote Working has the attention of homeowners because, after all, our home prices have shot up over the last ten years in the bay area. In large part because of demand of all the people working here and not moving to montana. Speaking of working from home, this is crystal, a ceo of a company and she is running the company from her dining room table. The unusual thing is shes a brandnew ceo. She has years in business but never ran a company before. Now shes forced to do it from her house. I will talk to her what thats like this sunday on press here right after meet the press at 9 00. Now that press here is back well debut our new studio which i am very excited about. It looks a lot like studio which looks a lot like my living room. Maybe you can change the angle a little bit. Thats a good idea. We all have different studios. Macys stores reopening. 80 Stores Across the nation will open in one way or another, either fully or with that Curbside Pickup. Stores in california not included in the reopening. The ceo says macys has lost up to 1 billion during the current quarter. Something good from a new york brewery. A lot of smiles on customers faces but its not just the beer making them happy. Those two little faces right there be buddy and barley. Delivering beer for the Brewing Company on long island. They look like theyre having fun. Happy dogs. And im sure happy customers as well. Once them get the gift along with the dog. Just having the dogs running up is cute. A beer buddy. A beer buddy dog run. How about it . Mike, i will let you head that one up. Ill do that responsibly. Of course. A lot of dogs out today probably getting walked by their owners. Its a Beautiful Day out there for a lot of us, kari. It will be a Beautiful Day. As the temperatures heat up over hot paws on the days watch out pavement. We are going to have some hotter temperatures heading our way. In lafayette, highway 24, a beautiful start to hopefully what will be a long Holiday Weekend and an enjoyable one for you. Maybe going for a run in San Francisco, expect it to be in the mid50s. Our trend in the 60s even going into the afternoon here. Upper 70s and a few low 80s. This is basically the last mild day before that hot weather really starts to be felt across our inland valleys going into the weekend. The Climate Prediction Center is saying for the bay area were looking at above average temperatures. As you look at the sierra and even down to Southern California were expecting some well above average temperatures so not really good news as we go into our dry time of the year and we could see hot weather heading our way. Highs in the low 80s. We have 90s heading our way. Well have to watch those numbers closely. Mike, youve been watching the roads closely. Whats been going on this morning . Subtle changes, kari. Volume of traffic much lower. We show green sensors around the bay. 580 slows through the altamont. The slowing at 284 and livermore already starting to ease up. Look at the travel times at the bay bridge with no backup and no problem. We dont have a problem about getaway traffic volume. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Well, if youre making a trip to the Grocery Store anytime soon, one item thats getting a little hard to come by and getting expensive. Plus, two superstars teaming up for a powerful new song. The 411 behind their new song that might make you just dance during the memorial day weekend. And what does getting a covid19 test entail . Kris sanchez gets tested. Much more news ahead. Youre watching today in the bay. Welcome back. 6 24 for you right now. If youre planning a grocery trip to stock up on some of those holiday items, one item you may not find is garlic. So the mercury news is reporting if you do not find it youre probably going to be paying more. The gilroy farmer says the demand has gone up by 60 . He says the shelter in place is the main reason. The shortage should subside. Youll smell it in the south bay when theyre harvesting. Several parents having trouble with travel companies. Lets turn to consumer investigator chris chmura with an important development. Reporter good morning. Anna in berkeley asked our team for help with ef tours. That company canceled their kids trips due to the pandemic and offered a credit, not cash back. In annas case the company held 4,000 for a trip to spain and morocco in march that didnt happen. Our Response Teams around the country are also fielding complaints from upset ef tours customers. An ef tour spokesperson told us yesterday that a nationwide settlement will be announced today. The company is expected to begin offering rebooking and cash refunds. The Massachusetts Attorney general had been looking into ef tours cancellation. The company said we are pleased our collaboration helped identify a path forward as well as our future travelers. Well watch for the official settlement this morning and will report back at 6 00 and explain how you can get your money back. Please join us tonight. Thanks, chris. And nbc bay area is taking your consumer questions about the coronavirus. And if you have a question or thought you thought about tune in because he is going to actually answer those questions saturday night at 6 30. There you go. Trending this morning we have the perfect song for your memorial day weekend from a new dynamic duo. Lady gaga and Ariana Grande teaming up for this powerful dance track, rain on me from gagas upcoming album. Both gushed ahead of the songs release. A Little Something to dance to. Yeah, rain on me or make it rain, one of the two. You may remember tesla was given the okay to reopen. What that means for other companies and stores and providing financial help to residents. Overnight a passenger jet crashing into a crowded neighborhood. The latest next. Z3w6mz z1s6z y3w6my y1s6y im glad were moving forward and less people are getting ill and dying, definitely, and we want to continue to be safe. Gearing up for a big day. Finally entering phase two of the reopening plan. Well have a live report next on excitement and concerns. And whats next for fremonts city as we get deeper into reopening. And the wait is nearly over. Good friday morning. Im laura garcia. And im Marcus Washington on this fantastic friday. Meteorologist kari hall has been working hard and giving us what we need to know this week. Yes, its going to be a Beautiful Day as we get this friday started with a live look outside in san jose, our trend will start out nice and cool and we will have a comfortable day with breezy winds. Well eventually see our highs in the upper 70s today. It will still be a nice one but we are going to have a pretty significant heatup this weekend. Ill have more on that as well as whats ahead for next week. As we head out the door its looking pretty light on this friday. And it was until this. The smoke plume you see i thought was on treasure island. Ive just learned that chp has issued a Tra