Hours. Thats going to be the issue, some drifts of smoke coming into parts of the bay area. Not all of us will start to see that smoke today as we look at what were expecting mostly for the north bay as well as the inland east bay. Thats where we will have the moderate air quality looking better for the south bay. Well talk more about whats ahead in the forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking now for the morning commute . The big view, kari, shows us green sensors as we would imagine. In oakland we dont have the overnight construction but we did have a crash, the second one of the morning for the nimitz. Its on the shoulder. Over here a look at 680 south of 24 heading out of walnut creek weve gone to green from red over the last ten minutes. I think the overnight crew there has cleared from just south of the walnut creek interchange and things are moving nicely on the freeways. Slowing out of the altamont pass. Back to you. Americans remembering and reflecting on Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. A live look in washington where mourners have placed flowers and candles on the steps of Supreme Court. Her death friday prompting a new fight on capitol hill over whether a replacement justice should be considered now or following the president ial election. Tracie potts joins us with an update on some of the names already in play. Good morning, tracie. Reporter good morning. A couple people the president has nominated to the bench are now on his short list, and its something that he and the republican leader are trying to get done quickly. The replacement for Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg already turning political. I will be putting forth the nominee next week. It will be a woman. Reporter frontrunners include two conservative trump appointees within hours of ginsburgs death friday Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell announced there will be a vote. The way this happened so close to the election that the next president should be able to make the decision. Reporter its an aboutface from four years ago when democrats pushed and republicans blocked president Obamas Supreme Court nominee months before the election. Lets let the next president do it, whoever it might be, make that nomination. And you can use my words against me. Reporter today republicans are defending a different approach. When you have both parties in the white house and the senate historically the confirmation goes forward. And thats whats going to happen here. Reporter democti president ial nominee joe biden appealing directly to republicans. Please follow your conscience. If i win this election, President Trumps nominee should be withdrawn. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi is hinting at possibly using impeachment to stop it. We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver. Reporter a political and legal showdown 43 days before the election. And a lot of people already voting by mail, of course. Two republicans have said they will not go along with it. They wont confirm someone before the election. It will take two more to block it. A lot going on there. Certainly we will be watching, tracie. Thank you. Very much so. Local memorials are also growing for the late Supreme Court justice. This celebration was held at lake merritt. Many who attended believe this is not the time for politics. I dont want it to be about other sides. This is about humanity. This is about justice. This is about all of us having rights, and that is what the notorious rbg stood for. The events this weekend also held in San Francisco, palo alto and martinez. The today show following the replacement battle on the late Justice Ginsburgs legacy, the codirector of the oscar winning documentary rbg reflects on her experience capturing the Supreme Court justices life on camera right after today in the bay. New overnight a Police Officer is in the hospital after a crash in san jose. Here is a live look for you right now at third and taylor streets. That intersection, of course, closed now while police investigate. So police say a little before 1 00 this morning a driver ran the stop sign on taylor tboning that patrol car. Both drivers were taken to the hospital. Police have not updated their conditions and they are not saying if the driver was under the influence. Its also not clear how soon that intersection will reopen. Well today marks another milestone in easing some of the covid19 restrictions. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live for us in San Francisco to break down what businesses are able to open under the latest phase. Cierra . Reporter yes, good morning. Today marks the day that three Main Business types are able to open, indoor museums, zoos and aquariums and sixth grade inperson learning. And like every step of this process it will come with some caveats. They are able to reopen on a limited capacity and are only able to do so if they have submitted a health plan. Right now lets take a focus on education. The inperson learning for prek through sixth grade is being done on a rolling basis. Mayor breed says the goal is to bring middle schoolers in for inperson learning by october and in november High Schoolers and some other educational programs. And for those insight into just when that could happen. Her office will be working with the county Public Health officers to move Indoor Dining by october 1st. At that point it would be 25 or 100 people and october 1st is the day the county would move into that orange tier. So a lot to remember but we do have all of this information posted to our webwebsite. Cierra, thank you. It is hard to keep track of whats open and where. Well make it easy for you. We put together a list of whats open county by county. Head over to our website nbcbayarea. Com, click on the county easing restrictions at the top of our home page. California now has surpassed 15,000 coronavirus deaths. The grim milestone passed yesterday. California has the fourth highest number of deaths in the country following new york, new jersey and texas. Along with 780,000 confirmed cases. So it turns out now that six feet of distancing may not protect you after all. The cdc is now saying droplets can actually hang in the air for some time. But they can also travel. The new guidance warns droplets can be inhaled by someone further than six feet away. Previous guidance suggested the spread was mostly within six feet. The cdc also says your best defense is to wear a mask. Mask up. Always wearing those masks. As you head outside, kari, make sure youre protected. Oh, my goodness, were too close. Just think about that as you head out this morning. Air quality still pretty good. Lets head out the door in fremont as we are starting out with temperatures in the upper 50s and then as we go through the day it looks pretty nice. It will actually be cooler toda. Were at 75 degrees here. And then lookingality our High Temperatures around the bay area, were up to 86 degrees in concord and napa today reaching 81. And 68 degrees in San Francisco. Now as we go through the forecast, a nice week ahead but we will see some changes in our air quality and big changes for the weekend. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. How is it looking now for the commute . Well, its looking standard for a monday which means the Speed Sensors are great. Im going to guess some grumbles out there as folks head back to work. Out to the roadways and we will see if you are fortunate enough to be heading into work, a smooth drive and slowing through highway 84. Ill check on that. No outstanding incidents. 680 out of walnut creek slowing for the Construction Zone has cleared. A live look at the bay bridge shows you it is cleared as far as the flow and pretty much for our view you see the low clouds in the distance not affecting your drive at all right now. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 5 09 for you this morning. New calls for justice still ahead for you this morning on today in the bay. A possible legal decision looming in the Police Shooting death of Breonna Taylor. An update and the actions being taken as the community braces for that decision. Plus, a lastminute ruling putting the wechat ban on hold. Why the judge agrees the white house ban may be unconstitutional. This is the emmys. Also ahead, our inside look at last nights emmys and awards show like no other packed with unpredicted moments and historic wins. Youre watching today in the bay. Give you my world 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. We love our new home. Theres so much space. We have a guestroom now. But, we have aunts. Youre slouching again, ted. Expired, expired. Expired. Thanks, aunt bonnie. Its a lot of house. I hope you can keep it clean. At least geico makes bundling our home and Car Insurance easy. Which helps us save a lot of money oh, teddy. Did you get my friend request . Uh, ill have to check. doorbell ringing aunt jonis here for bundling made easy, go to geico. Com. Hello . Right now at 5 12 lets get you out the door in parts of the east bay checking out brentwood and our temperature trend. Were going to see our mornings start in the low 60s and then quickly warming up by late morning into the afternoon. Well be in the upper 70s at lunch time. Well talk about all of our microclimates, a nice week ahead and also an update on the air quality coming up. And ive been looking closely, we should just show you, highway 84 were talking about. The. W a little extra slowing. Thats a standard drive. Coming out of the altamont pass, 24 minutes from grant line road over to the dublin interchange. It looks like those numbers are fine with nothing unusual scheduled for the area or on chp incident report. Well give you the bigger look coming up. Good morning. Im Contessa Brewer from cnbc. Here are todays top business headlines. Get ready for a manic monday on the markets. Wall street deeply in the red. The dow down 500 points this morning. The markets on a threeweek losing streak, the longest stretch in about a year. The declines led by tech stocks which have struggled in recent weeks, so theres the big name, facebook, apple, amazon, netflix, google, microsoft all with big losses. In focus this week reports on home sales and durable goods and traders watching washington with some analysts saying a new stimulus bill is unlikely until after the election because the fight over the Supreme Court will overshadow all else. Mba grads may be feeling th. Demand returning. About 90 of consulting firms, banks and large tech groups plan to hire mbas next year, up from 77 in july. Just 8 say theyre pulling job offers although the start date has been delayed. A majority say they will honor salaries offered before the pandemic but pay likely next year will be lower. And walmart is launching a new private label clothing line for men and women called Free Assembly sold both in stores and online. Items priced from 9 to 45. Walmart is looking to take market share in apparel. Many major clothing retailers will hurt badly during the pandemic and the recession. Others like jcpenney filed for bankruptcy. A tough go for smal and business box stores as well. Thank you so much. New details this morning if you use that messaging app wechat, you can actually keep using it for now after a judge temporarily blocked a ban set to take effect last night. The original ban involved tiktok and wechat. It was halted with a deal made with oracle and walmart. Wechat says it offered a life line. They say President Trumps order will restrict free speech. A judge agreed allowing the case to play out in court. A bona fide bay area star makes history on televisions biggest night. The 72nd annual emy awards took place last night. Jimmy kimmel hosted the show in an empty Staples Center while the winners and nominees from home. The 24yearold became the youngest ever to win best actress in a drama for her role in euphoria. There is hope. So talented. The biggest winner of the night you see the name right there on your screen. I cant say it so much but you can see how its spelled there. It won sweeping all of the awards in the comedy category including best show, best actor and actress. Hbos succession named best drama. Ive seen all of those shows and they are all good. Welldeserved. I havent seen succession but ive seen the other one. Oh, my gosh, it is so funny. And theyre not that long so you can watch them over and over. If you get a chance watch all of those. Lets get a look at the forecast for you today. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that, hour by hour. How is it looking . It looks pretty good for us today. Got a little hot yesterday afternoon. Its going to be cooler this afternoon. Lets go hour by hour as we check it out heading through noon with cupertino at 74 degrees at lunch time. Well be at 70 degrees in napa and then along the coastline were still in the 60s in San Francisco and half moon bay. Then as we go into 3 00 were at 76 degrees if fremont and some upper 70s for antioch. Were going to briefly go into the low 80s by this afternoon. Then as we go into this evening a nice little cooldown as the winds pick up. Expect it to be a windy evening, and thats because we will see an approaching storm system from the north thats going to increase our winds coming in from the west. But this will actually help mix out the smoke just a little b drifts of smoke coming in to parts of the north bay and east bay until this moves in. As we go to the end of the week, unfortunately, a large area of High Pressure that will be pretty intense could ramp up our temperatures and may give us some gusty wind, so thats not good for the wildfire conditions as we can see by saturday and sunday some hot weather returning. As we look at our fiveday forecast for the air quality we are going to see unhelpy air quality for parts of the north bay and inland east bay. It looks like well continue to see the drifts coming in. Improving air quality as we are going to see a lot of green sensors meaning it will be safe to spend long periods of time outside. And of course well be watching some of the inland areas that have to deal with that smoke. Temperature wise were looking good here. A lot of 80s for our warmest spots over the next few days. How is it looking out there for the commute now, mike . Kari, the Silicon Valley freeways are over my shoulder and theyre moving just fine at or probably over the limit. I mark right in the jose, the p activity were talking aboutecd third, right around there, an officer involved crash earlier. The Investigation Continues there. Just watch. Youll probably have to reroute a couple blocks. The rest of the bay no problem. We check out the slowing for highway 84 and thats standard. No problem. There is a crash 780 eastbound getting over toward 680. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. Tracking coronavirus at 30,000 feet. Next on today in the bay, new information on the growing risk when you travel. But first, we are always on social media. Check this out. This magnificent shot taken by one of our viewers. We posted this on instagram. Look how beautiful that is. Make sure you share those images with us and follow us nbcbayarea. Com. 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Her death i go nighted more than 100 days of protests. New details this morning on a call President Trump made to the two deputies recently ambushed in compton. The l. A. County Sheriffs Department posted the president wished both of them a speedy recovery. Both deputies are now in the long process of recovering from the attack. The male deputy is recovering at home. The female deputy is still in the hospital. The shooter remains on the loose. Jerry harris of cheer will be in court today. Harris is expected to appear for a hearing after being arrested on a child pornography charge. The parents of young twin boys say harris inappropriately touched them and sent lewd president clint pictures. Back to covid19. Airlines insist flying is safe but what about longdistance flights. As more countries lift restrictions and International Flights resume there are going to be growing concerns about the spread. There are reports 15 people were infected by one person on the flight from london to vietnam and two flight attendants became ill from a passenger on a flight from boston to hong kong. Both happened earlier in the pandemic. Meantime the Washington Post cites the cdc which believes more than 10,000 air travelers may have been exposed since the pan