The u. S. Senate resumes this week, after a monthlong recess. And at the top of the agenda, avoiding a Government Shutdown. Were live in washington with the push to beat the looming deadline. This is today in the bay. Good morning to you on this wednesday. The team all back together this morning. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. Well check on the morning commute with mike in just a moment. But lets check the forecast with kari. It starts with jacket weather and ends up with short sleeve weather and its going to be really nice once again. As we take a look at santa rosa, starting out mostly cloudy, temperatures in the mid50s. Look at the trend as we go into late morning. Were going to see it clearing out and slowly warming up. Lets go around the bay with a live look outside in san jose, where its going to be a nice 84 degrees, in millbrae expect it to reach up to 72 degrees, in concord in the upper 80s. You can see the range in temperatures. This is about normal for this time of year around the bay area and well see this hang out with us for a little while longer, with a slight warmup for the weekend. Well talk about that in a few minutes. Mike, youre starting with the south bay commute. I am. We expect to see this, the first burst of traffic starting to ease up a little bit. By about 6 15, they should be back at speed. But as school returned, we see a different Traffic Volume kicking in, especially after 7 00 a. M. Even now, ive been watching for the last week and a half and were watching more slowing, more traffic feeding in and continuing toward morgan hill. That will continue to feed the south bay. We will see more traffic building, maybe a little earlier than in the summer months. Over here, southbound 880 still shows a slower drive past 238, toward a street. A couple of crashes, but they are recovering as the volume builds out of the rest of the east bay. Back to you. Thank you very much. Moving you forward on this coming fall season, which always brings a little bit more than just Pumpkin Spice lattes and cozy sweaters. It is also the time when we see the spread of respiratory bugs start to pick up. Right, when kids go back to school. Bob redell joins us now. Some experts argue now is the time to take action. Reporter correct. The American LungAssociation Says vaccination, marcus and laura, is especially important, especially for anyone with an underlying condition like asthma, copd, Heart Disease, diabetes or advanced age. 90 of people who ended up in the hospital last year had an underlying condition like one of those i just mentioned. Black americans are twice as likely to be hospitalized, and sadly, as many as 58,000 people died from the flu last year. The doctor youre about to hear from encourages getting all vaccines available, whether its the flu, covid or rsv shot. The public has this thought that vaccinations protect you from infections. They dont protect you from infections. Vaccinations protect you from severe disease. What people need to understand is that what causes severe disease, those symptoms, stuffy nose, achiness, cough, shortness of breath, its actually the immune systems response to the environment. The immune systems response to the presence of a virus. Reporter with regards to covid, fortunately most people will not die from that virus anymore, but there is a high risk of getting long covid, which can lead to months of not feeling well, brain fog, shortness of breath. Additionally, you can miss work or big events like a wedding as a result. Now, for the first time there will be three different vaccines against covid, rsv and the flu. If your last shot was four to six months ago, keep in mind your immunity could be waning, and that new covid booster, by the way, will likely be ready in a few weeks. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you. Continuing coverage this morning, classes are canceled today at oakland skyline high school. This is following gunfire that led to a lengthy campus lockdown yesterday. No one was injured and the district is telling us several people were later taken into custody. Students say the shots were fired near the school theatre. Parents are calling for metal detectors. The district so far not commenting on that, but says that it is now considering possible security enhancements. An unusual south bay crime ring cracked, according to san jose police. Seven people, including six juveniles, are now in custody, accused of using stolen cars for largescale smashandgrab robberies. Police say it happened at least two dozen times over the past half year. They released security video showing some cases targeting local smoke shops and say oftentimes the same type of cars are used, all late model kias or hyundais with a flaw allowing you to turn them on with nothing more than a usb cable. Months ago, those automakers created a free fix for the issue. An oakland restaurant is facing reality and going the extra mile following a recent string of car breakins. This weekend it opened a secured lot to protect customers cars. We told you about nidas backyard, theyve hired security and its already making a difference. Its been a really big issue, honestly, since weve opened. People come in from out of town and get their cars broken into and their luggage taken away. Financially its going to be good for us for business, because were just seeing, already, the influx of people coming in. He says for the time being, parking will be free. As you can see in this graph, car breakins are on the rise in oakland, with nearly 9,000 reported so far this year. Thats about 35 more than last year. 6 06 right now. And new overnight, a new round of Russian Missile strikes on kyiv and the southern ukrainian region of odesa. This happened ahead of the arrival of u. S. Secretary of state blinken. Now, ukraines military says at least one person died in the air strikes, and a river port sustained heavy damage. Blinkens visit this morning marks the first trip to kyiv by a top u. S. Official since ukraines counteroffensive began. And a live look at capitol hill. This is where the u. S. Senate is getting back to work. This is following the monthlong recess. House lawmakers return next week. Now, senators have their work cut out for them. Topping their agenda, avoiding a Government Shutdown before the end of the month. Senate leaders are already calling for action. Among them, minority leader mitch mcconnell, who will be back on the floor, despite recent health scares. Today in the bays brie jackson is live for us in washington tracking the latest developments. Good morning, brie. Reporter good morning, marcus. Yeah, there was a long list of things that lawmakers need to tackle now that theyre back on capitol hill. But that battle over funding the federal government comes as fema is running low on money following multiple natural disasters that weve seen so far. The senate is back in session, and lawmakers are already racing the clock. Democrats and republicans all must get on the same page about keeping the government open and avoiding a pointless shutdown. Reporter the u. S. Government will shut down at midnight on september 30th if Congress Fails to pass a spending bill. Divisions over Disaster Relief funding and aid for ukraine remain. We need to continue to invest in americas Defense Industrial base to support our partners in todays fight, and to help our forces deter tomorrows threats. Reporter some far right republicans are push to go attach conditions, including an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Another concern is Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnells health. He appeared to freeze for the second time in recent months. I assure you, it was a busy and productive month for me and my staff back in the commonwealth. Reporter a physician ruled out the possibility mcconnell experienced a stroke. Some Senate Republicans stood by their leader, others expressed doubt. That doesnt mean its incapacitating, doesnt mean he cant serve. It means that somebody ought to wake up and say, wow, this looks like a seizure. Lets just move forward hoping that, you know, hes in a good spot. Reporter the house does not return to capitol hill until next week, so Congress Must act fast to reach a deal to avoid a Government Shutdown. And the white house, as well as leaders of both chambers, have said that they would support a shortterm measure in order to keep the government running, marcus. Brie jackson in washington this morning, thank you. There is outage outrage from People Living in the east bay who have had a string of recent blackouts. Executives got an earful last night from people in danville frustrated by some 40 Power Outages since may. The utility blames it partly on recent work on two local substations which wrapped up last week and say power line safety settings designed to prevent fires are preventing electrical transmission. Town leaders say that doesnt cut it. All these technical things, people are, like, i really dont care, i just want my electricity. Local schools are feeling it as well. School leaders say the district lost thousands of dollars in food over the weekend due to the most recent string of outages. Its 6 09 on your wednesday morning. Taking a week outside overlooking San Francisco. A nice, clear shot there. Kari has a look at our forecast for today. Visibility is pretty clear and the clouds are out. Higher for the coastline in San Francisco as well. Also looks good as youre heading across the richmondsan rafael bridge. In gilroy this morning, were in the upper 50s and its going to be partly to mostly cloudy for the start of the day, but then clearing out and shaping up to be a nice one for the afternoon, with High Temperatures there reaching into the upper 80s. Well see some low 80s for the north bay and oakland, reaching 74 degrees, while the coastline will see some morning low clouds and fog, but clearing out for the afternoon. We head over to mike with a look at where we may find low be gas prices. Some of the best reports in the state at 4. 59, a number at that price point in the south bay. We talk about sunnyvale, great gas on north matilda avenue for the 4. 59, scattered throughout mountain view, cupertino. Valero on skyline drive, the 4. 69 right here. Thats better than all other price points within the San Mateo County area. Better by 30 cents. Then we go up another dime over in contra costa county, pointing to the 4. 79 here in orinda at mash gas and food. Thank you for sharing these prices at gasbuddy. Com. On the roadways, more traffic is building. The san jose slowing cleared right on schedule at the bottom of the screen. Ive circled slowing for 880 southbound approaching a street, slow again. Another tow truck has arrived. I think three were called to the scene of an earlier crash. Thats a bad time for slowing. Theres also an earlier car fire, maybe blocking the redwood exit from west 80, so use tennessee and loop back if you need. 6 11. Theres new opportunities for those looking to work in tech. Still ahead, the popular social media app that just posted hundreds of new job listings at its bay area headquarters. If you get a new job, you are probably going to need daycare as well and there could be a tlb. Lets look at the futures. Looks like a bit of a loss as we get ready to open on wall street. 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For more information about side effects talk to your doctor. Be in your moment. Ask your doctor about ibrance. 6 15 now. Lets get a look at the east bay, checking out hayward where it starts out cloudy, temperatures in the low 60s. Its a nice start to our morning with our usual weather pattern, clearing out by 9 00, and sunshine the rest of the day. Its staying nice and mild for the afternoon. Well take a look at our very comfortable weather in our microclimate forecast coming up. We are looking at the richmond side of the bridge to san rafael, westbound 580. Its fine right here, getting a little more congestion. The tow trucks are heading out somewhere. Well check on the span. There may be an issue getting to this point as well. Well talk about that out of the east bay. Good morning. Very happy wednesday to you. United Airlines Says flights are back to normal after a nationwide ground stop on tuesday morning. The stock took about a 2 hit. Big news for San Franciscos airbnb. It is going to be added to the s p 500 index. A number of funds are required by their rules to buy shares of companies on the s p 500, so thats going to give airbnb a goose, and it did right there. Airbnb has done very well this year. The stock is up about 70 . But there are lots of new restrictions, restrictions in new york city take effect today, and some renters are tired of the chores that you dont have to do at a hotel. A new study just released by the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco sound Interest Rate hikes quash Economic Growth on average for 12 years. Much longer than many economists suspected. If the first recent hike was march of 22, that means effects ripple through the economy through march of 2023. Elon musk has pitted his company x against the antidefamation league, posting hes going to sue the adl, which fights antisemitism and other extremism. He says the adls concern about antisemitism on the platform that used to be called twitter is driving corporate advertisers away. He tweeted the jewish groups concerns led to a loss of about 10 or about 4 billion of twitters value. Well, if 10 is 4 billion, you can work out that the total loss of value of twitter is 40 billion. Musk paid 44 billion for twitter. So if his claim is genuine, which often it isnt, elon musk took 44 billion and turned it into 4 billion. Lets end with a reminder. The federal stipends going to hundreds of thousands of american daycares is running out this month. Now, we have talked about this before, but its worth sounding the alarm bell again. It was money offered through the covid era American Rescue plan, 25 billion to encourage daycares to stay open, keep daycare workers at work. That will not be renewed. In a perfect world, as we are more or less through covid, you dont need the money. But its turning out a lot of daycares are saying they do. Now, if youre at home thinking to yourself, im not getting daycare money from the government, it doesnt afghanistan me, its the daycare. I warned you about this in the summer and now were really close. Were going to see the closure of a lot. We dont know which. We dont know which financially can make it and which cant. Hopefully they can. Thanks, scott. Theres new Job Opportunities to talk about coming to the south bay. Tiktok is hiring. Tiktok is owned by Chinese Company byte dance, but as we know, its one of the Fastest Growing social Media Companies in the world, despite continued scrutiny from u. S. Regulators and lawmakers. Its looking to bulk up its presence in silicon valley. The company is posting almost 1,000 new job openings at its san jose headquarters, which opened earlier this year on coleman avenue here mineta airport. Trending this morning, counting down to tomorrows nfl season kickoff, the new warning from one wellintentioned husband to his wife. So cali wilson said her husband laid it out, giving her ample time to prepare. Im putting in my two weeks notice. I will no longer be available for work on sundays 10 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. , monday evenings, nor thursday evenings, due to conflicting commitments. He jokes that he had been a loving husband for the past few months and hes asking her for time off to absorb himself on the couch. His wife joked he actually cant quit because they are shortstaffed. Dont forget, tomorrow night the lions and the chiefs kick off the season right here on nbc bay area with a special edition of sunday night football with coverage beginning at 4 00 p. M. I am feeling that all the way because my husband watches football all weekend long. When you quit, you lose your benefits, too. [ laughter ] thats a good one. I already know, no weekend plans throughout football season. So its definitely starting to feel like football weather, a little cooler out there, as we are starting out with a clear day. We have to get to work, everybody. We are starting out with temperatures in the low 60s in walnut creek, and as we go throughout the day, sunshine and nice and mild. Hopefully you have time to get out and enjoy. It will be slightly warmer for the afternoon, and some spots like the south bay with milpitas reaching 86 degrees, and about the same in gilroy today. And for the east bay, vallejo reaching 77, and in fremont reaching 86 degrees, 88 in livermore. And then for the coast its another cool day with Half Moon Bay at 66, and 79 in redwood city. In San Francisco, downtown