Announcing plans to stop new downloads or upgrades of tiktok and wechat starting sunday. The ban comes as President Trump was expected to announce whether the government would approve a deal for oracle to buy tiktok. If that happens the new download ban will not move forward for tiktok. The first time in a month bay area skies are clear. People dont have to worry about the air quality that much and just in time for the week. Breathe easy with your mask because crowding concerns still very real out there. Thats right. You still have to play it safe. Lets check in with today in the bays kris sanchez live in downtown campbell with some advice on that. Kris . Reporter yeah, we expect downtown campbell and our other downtown areas will be very busy as people try to get outside and enjoy normal. People spilled into their local parks and beaches with their bikes and their kids and dogs. A 30day stretch of unhealthy air taking a toll from los gatos up to San Francisco. She is so frustrated at not being able to go out, not even into the garden. Thats hard for the little ones. I saw blue skies and that got me excited. Its kind of special tonight because tonight and tomorrow we have games that were not on schedule. Reporter those games are done but the giants and mariners have to play the unscheduled games at oracle park because of hazardous smoke. Todays as game will be under blue skies. Yosemite closed indefinitely because the air is so bad it doesnt register on the air quality scale. Tahoe will have that, too. Bay area restaurants could get a boost now people can sit outside without breathing that air and getting covered in ash. Covid is still spreading in the community. Make sure you keep your social distance and if you cant, make sure that you wear a mask. In campbell, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Stay healthy out there, kris. 6 02. Moving on to decision 2020 President Trump and joe biden holding very Different Campaign events. Biden at a drivein town hall. Trump at a packed rally. There are more Campaign Stops today. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us from washington. They are heading to the same state later today. Reporter right. Theyll both be in minnesota, which is a state with ten electoral votes up for grabs and polls are all over the place with biden leading in most of those polls and a love of discussion on the campaign trail about the administrations coronavirus response. Thousands of trump supporterson. Its extremely dangerous. Reporter the Positivity Rate for covid cases in wisconsin just hit a record high. We will deliver a safe and effective vaccine before the end of the year. Reporter the three drug makers working on the vaccine expect trial results this year, but a final analysis next spring. This president should step down. Reporter joe biden promising a crackdown if elected. In a Federal Building you must wear a mask, and we could have a fine. Reporter biden picked up an endorsement from olivia troy, former adviser to mike pence, now blasting the coronavirus response. It was shock to go see the president saying that the virus was a hoax, saying that everything is okay when we know that its not. I have no idea who she is. She doesnt know me. Its just another person that leaves. Reporter the white house spokesperson tweeting an earlier letter from troy praising the administration. Tracie potts, nbc news. On the coronavirus front, the number of deaths is on the rise. More lives were lost this week than last. In the bay area, Alameda County recording half of all deaths so far this month. To top it off as well, flu season is here. Health experts have worried about the viruses colliding and making everything a lot more confusing. Cough, fever, headache are all symptoms of the flu and covid19. The flu season will be confusing for everyone. Sorting out the symptoms of covid19 and influenza can be problematic. Thats where Molecular Testing can play a big role. Testing will play a big role in calming some of those fears. Experts recommend you get teste kind just to be sure and its important to get a flu shot to keep yourself healthy. Santa clara county is making it convenient by offering free flu shots this saturday at the County Fair Grounds from 9 00 to 4 00 on tully road. Thanks to a lower case rate Sonoma County schools can now apply for waivers allowing for inclass learning. Right now only Elementary Schools can apply for the waivers, and the county superintendent is advising schools to make sure they have that comprehensive plan in place especially so in light of the recent outbreak there affecting daycare centers. Countys overall case rate is a little under 200 per 100,000 residents. That is the threshold allowing for those waivers. A live look for you right now in downtown san jose. The skies are all clear for you in the bay area with a nice weekend in store. Weve heard kris talk about that a little bit ago. Now a live look for you in las vegas. Thats nice. Looks good out there. You can see raiders stadium where the raiders open monday night. If you were planning to head there, guess what, theres a smoke advisory in place due to those socal fires. Make sure you stay local if you can. But, kari, i nose thats the thing were seeing the fires really affecting across the country right now. The clearing has been localized. It shows the upper level pollution and where we have the blue showing the good air quality and the white where that smoke is drifting. We know smoke has been traveling across the country. Were seeing that in a lot of areas, waking up to some very smoky sun rises and sunsets and well see that continuing. Lets talk about our air quality because the wind direction and the wind speed makes a huge difference. And with the westerly wind it brings in ocean air and helps clear it out. Then as we go into the weekend a northerly wind will bring that smoke back. Well talk about that in the forecast. Lets head over to mike for an update now on the commute. Kari, we have a disabled vehicle reported to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. We have a camera there. Traffic is light but slow on our Speed Sensors. The live look doesnt show the major issue on camera. The backup definitely is bigger than we should have at the time. There you go, likely a track break as they clear vehicles there. We look at the map with the Speed Sensors on the approach and you see that orange blip. Slow from an earlier traffic break. Another crash that cleared. Everything else looks great so we send it back to you. Okay, did you hear this already, qantas flights to nowhere. Are people interested . Some hardtobelieve new details on ticket sales next. Plus a historic day a historic week for ipos plus breaking news on tiktok. We told you about it at the top of the show. Well ex planned comipand comin. Moving by thanks to the remnants of a tropical system that will give us a beautiful sunrise. Were going to see cooler temperatures today. Well talk about that and smoke possibly returning this weekend, coming up in the forecast. And this backup, unusually heavy for this time on a friday. Try to remove a vehicle from one of those lanes. Over at the bay bridge things are considerably lighter starting to build a bit. Comparison to the richmondsan rafael bridge. 580 coming up. Well, good morning and a very happy friday to you as well. The Commerce Department a short time ago announced its g to block the chinese apps wechat and tiktok, block the downloads of them, as of sunday. This comes as the white house pushes bytedance to sell to an american company. Sunday was the deadline set by the white house quite some time ago and its coming. Wechat is made by a separate company. To be cs still legal to use the you can download them as of now. As of november 12th they will probably not work in the united states. Now the Justice Department, thats the Commerce Department that made this ruling, the Justice Department seems to have been caught off guard by the inclusion of wechat because the doj just filed this in Northern California yesterday a document that says we can provide assurances that the secretary of commerce does not intend to take actions that would target persons or groups whose only connection with wechat is their use or downloading of the app to convey personal or Business Information between users. So there seems to be some confusion this morning in washington as to what is going on and we have a lot of phone calls in to try to clear it up. Other news, it has been a historic week for ipos. Unity software out of the bay area and they make gaming software. Over the past two days weve seen sumo logic in redwood city, jay frog, snowflake all go public. Snowflake was a blockbuster. Sumo logic opened the nasdaq from its bay area offices on thursday. That stock ended up about 22 higher than its ipo price. I spoke to the company ceo right after that first trade crossed the tape. I didnt sleep much last night because ive been waiting for this day. Ive been waiting for this day to celebrate for everyone at sumo and all of our families and friends and customers, and so i started my day about 2 00 a. M. And i went to bed around midnight. I envisioned many times laying there what today would be like. And i had trust in the team. The team to deliver and execute and they did. I had the joy and privilege and opportunity to stand there on behalf of everyone and accept the opportunity to push the button. Marcus and laura, Silicon Valley companies are good about sharing that wealth, as you know, with employees. So just over the last three days, just an extraordinary amount of money put into some only some but some bay area households including regular families these are companies that have hundreds and thousands of employees who are all doing quite well. But then it also comes into the community as well. Theyre buying houses, at least you see it that way as well. Thanks, scott. It is 6 15. You know whats trending this morning . Lady gaga adding another gig to her resume. The new face of valentino beauty. The new Campaign Features a song from gagas recently release ed album. U. S. Fashion week is feeling the impact from the pandemic. Designer Christian Siriano found a way to make his host work. He hosted in his backyard. Resourceful. This is in connecticut. Everyone kept their distance while wearing a mask. And at seven months pregnant one model closed out the show by, what else, jumping into the pool in that gown. New this morning the big apple open for california travelers. Andrew cuomo removed six states covid19 travel advisory new list. And the Airline Qantas sold out its flights to nowhere. Did you hear about this . Flights to nowhere. They sold out in record time. Cnn reports qantas offered a sevenhour flight that makes a loop around australia to sight see the country. The airline says tickets sold out in just ten minutes and the flight will take off next month. I dont know if i would want to do that. I cant even stand a road trip past four hours. I get a little squirrely. Maybe if you get the miles you need. I dont know. Is it going to fly that low . Put the kids in the car seat used to put them to sleep if we got desperate and would drive around in the car. All right. So many questions with that one. 6 17 this morning. Questions about the weather, dont go anywhere. Just ask kari hall. She knows it all. Kari . G up for us on this friday morning . Lets talk about whats going on. Weve seen a couple storm systems coming in and are tracking this rain moving in from the north and some rain pushing up from the south. These are the remnants of a tropical system moving over the pacific. For us its bringing in a beautiful sunrise. We had a nice sunset yesterday. We are feeling that humidity a little bit. The rain staying away from us but it will be nice to see that happening over the sierra. And then as we look at the clouds moving in from the north this will help bring in cooler temperatures. So lets take it hour by hour as you make plans for the day. Look at your microclimate in your city. Low 70s. In the south bay we also have low 70s as you go up to concord. The north bay, novato, about 72 degrees at nice time. A nice day to have a friday lunch outside. Also dinner time will be comfortable because well see the highs only make it into the low 80s for a few spots. Most of us will stay in the 70s today. We have some 60s along the coast and in San Francisco. For tonight fog starts to roll back in and our temperatures cool back into the upper 50s and low 60s. A lot of changes ahead because we are seeing a strong westerly wind as the storm system passes. As that moves away High Pressure moving in and temperatures will get a big boost starting on sunday. With high fresh europe thatpres to sink we may see our air quality going back downhill for people who have breathing problems will start to notice that across our microclimates for tomorrow and then that continues into the weekend. Well be watching the air quality as our temperatures go up and down. Were still looking at a lot of changes over the next few days. It will cool down by early next week. Mike, youve been watching thec issues, it seems. Yes, but its major if its a friday and youre not expecting any problems. The richmond to san rafael bridge where traffic westbound really held up as they tried to clear a crash or a disabled vehicle from middle lanes around the toll plaza. Things were moving great up until about 15 seconds ago. Look at the map. That is the slow drive out of richmond over to san rafael on 580. Again, they should have that cleared. A couple traffic breaks required to clear the area. The bay bridge clearing up after an earlier crash here. Nothing major as we see speeds improve and no need for improvement for the rest of the bay. Were at green. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Its time for a doover. The 49ers are on the road this weekend taking on the jets. Coming up, what were finding out about the covid scare at an nfl game with fans in the stands. Well talk about that when we return. Youre watching today in the bay. It was just a get together with friends. No big deal. Everybody felt fine. But now im super sick. Everyone is sick. I just wish we had been more careful. It would have been easier than this. So wear a mask. Do what you can outside. Stay six feet apart. Because some things you just cant take back. Do your part to lower the risk. If i could, baby id how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. Tonight we continue our weeklong series on black businesses fighting to make it in the bay. In Hummingbird Bakery love has always been a key ingredient. But to survive these times as a black Business Owner you have to add in a healthy dose of determination. Finding a way to rise again. Can you see the full story at 6 00 on nbc bay area news. Here at nbc bay area were certainly continuing the conversation about race in america. Marcus leading the way with another special last night. It was really interesting because you had some powerful conversations about people of all color that fight racism. Last night we had a guest on, kelly yang, a bestselling author. She told me about she and her children went to a park and were targeted by a woman and her husband using racist remarks towards her. Yang says she had to have that conversation about race with her children, something she never thought she had to do. I asked her what advice would she give her younger self in facing racism as a child and life today. Here is what she had to say. I would tell her, you know what, just pretending it didnt happen doesnt mean it didnt happen and, in fact, the best thing is to speak up about it. Your voice is an armor. Its important to stand up for whats right, we stand up for ourselves and our friend and become alliese a better community. Your voice is your armor. The conversation doesnt stop here. You can weigh in on these topics. Head over to nbcbayarea. Com raceinamerica and watch the entire series and let us know how youre feeling about all of this and the conversations youre having. 6 24. Jimmy g. And the niners will try to get their groove back this weekend. Its too late. Maybe the perfect matchup. They play sunday at meadowlands, of course, with no fans in the stands. A group of Kansas City Chiefs fans are being recommended to take covid19 tests. So many packed in last weeks game. One fan who actually was there tested positive for covid19 the very next day. Authorities told ten others who were in close contact with the fans to quarantine. Attend. A take on the classic 80s song, a maskfree spin on were not going to take it anymore. The front man of the band that created that song not a fan of this. Twisted sisters tweeted saying the group, quote, does not have my permission or blessing to use my song for their cause. The footnote, the protest identified in the video were actually issued citations, those protesters. All fun and games until one of them gets covid and spreads it as well. Its 6 26. All new overnight, a major fire at a south bay tire shop. Where the firefight stands this morning all coming up next. And speaking of fire fights, some incredible new images from firefighters and the wildfires as they rage. More of this video plus some sad news coming out of Southern California about the death of one of those firefighters on the front lines. Plus, your weekend weather. Its all coming up, clear skies to enjoy. A lot more news ahead. 6 26. Youre watching today in the bay. Right now at 6 30, action. People are going back to the movies and more and more theaters are opening as covid19 restrictions loosen. Where you can catch a flick in the bay area. Plus go somewhere where the air is fresh. Week getaways. The places to avoid coming up. And now hiring, amazon looking for thousands of new workers. A live report from the newest Fulfillment Center set to open in Contr