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Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20170608

Youre seeing rain starting to move in there and as we get a look at San Francisco, some spotty light showers. Weve seen it throughout the morning and it continues to move from berkeley and oakland so well be tracking the rain that may impact your morning commute and those slick roads will be a factor. Because as you talked about the north bay saw up to a quarter inch in some areas. This is san rafael. Theres slick conditions. If we look at the map farther north i did hair a report, chp filed a complaint not complaint but an issue says hydroplaning was involved in one of the crashes up there, 101 south at railroad. A smooth flow of traffic throughout most of the map but you see the green highlighting where the road weather index does talk about the fact you will have slicker roadways, it moves towards the walnut creek interchange. We are also looking at a build over here, typical for heyward. Ing folks were looking at a smooth ride anywhere south of the bay bridge but we have the rain that will affect the roads. Were looking at the timing for bart because if there is enough rain theyll lowell is the trains down for safetys sake but no delays, 46 trains on the rails. Back to you. Looks good. Thank you, mike. Live to washington, d. C. This morning where it is expected to be a pivotal day in the russia investigation. Fired fbi director james comey will be testifying less than an hour from now and we at least know some of what he is going to say. You see him here minutes ago lying his house, getting into that suv and heading to the capital. Scott mcgrew is live in the newsroom with the insight were expected to learn. Reporter comey will detail three meetings, six phone calls with President Trump that took place before he was fired. Its expected that he will address reports about his interactions with the president regarding the agencys probe into former National Security adviser Michael Flynn as well. Comey is expected to say that he considered it inappropriate for the president to pressure him into dropping the fbi investigation of flynn. The Senate Intelligence committee released prepared testimony and Opening Statement by comey yesterday afternoon. In it, comey says he told President Trump he was not personally under investigation but he did not want to say that publicly in days mr. Tru unle mr. Trump came under investigation later. Trump demanded loyalty and said i hope you can see your way to letting this go, talking about President Trump. Democrats have criticized President Trump, republicans, on the other hand, treading lightly. It was inappropriate to so obsessively hound him about making the case against flynn go away. My job is to make sure we dont prejudge anything. Our search is the truth. I just want to know what happened. Now, the white house is said to be preparing a massive response this morning. This could theoretically include President Trump live tweeting during comeys testimony today although he has a number of speeches as well. Well have live Team Coverage. Thats right, were going to be covering it all day and the Networks Covering it as well. Bars across the country, including right here in the bay area, some opening their doors early so people can watch comeys testimony. And have a drink while theyre at it. Today in the bays bob redell joining us live at the Office Bar Lounge in san jose. They might need that drink, bob, the Office Opening up much earlier than usual. Good morning. Reporter good morning, sam and laura. We know of three bars in San Francisco that will be opening early and here in the south bay the Office Lounge behind me here in san joses willow glen will be opening up two and a half hours early so patrons can watch james comey testify before the Senate Intelligence committee starting at 7 00 our time. Senators will be questioning the fired fbi director about his conversations with President Trump. At issue is whether the president tried to influence the fbis investigation into russian meddling in last years u. S. Election. Political analyst Larry Gerston says this could be monumental which is why it caught the attention of people not usually into politics. This situation is not an instant turn on and turn off like your television set. This is more what we would call a drip, drip, drip. Unfortunately, all the drops right now are going the wrong way against the president. Theyre going to want to watch whats going on and well have it on for them. As long as everybody is behaving themselves and having a good time, well keep the sound on. Across the country, interest in comeys testimony has touched off drinking games in some bars. Well know of one bar if washington, d. C. That promises to buy a round of drinks every time President Trump tweets about the hearings. Online, a comey hearing bingo game has been created based on anticipated key phrases. Reporting live from san jose, bob redell, today in the bad ni thank you very much, bob. You can watch comeys testimony without interruptions on nbc bay area. Our live coverage begins at 7 00 a. M. On the today show. Savannah guthrie will be in washington, d. C. Its 6 06 this morning. More than a dozen Elementary Students in fremont and their families are closely awaiting the results of a critical blood test. Those students were poked by another child who found a discarded medical device on the street. It happened eight days ago at cabrillo elementary school. The poking tool is a listen set used by diabetes patients to prick their fingers to test their blood sugar levels. The school said one student ended up poking 14 others. We spoke to a second grader who was a victim. it was purple and he poked me in the arm right here. He was poked with a needle and from now until who knows when if brian may come down with something and this is scary. Reporter so right there youre hearing from the second graders grandfather. The school says it took them five days to figure out what happened because the student in question denied poking anybody. These families say they didnt find out for a couple weeks. All 14 poked students were tested for hiv and hepatitis. Right now theyre awaiting on the results. New details to share this morning. It appears the mt. Diablo School District issued a response for plans for a splinter School District in walnut creek. A much smaller School District is in the works that would cover a handful of schools in part of walnut creek. A lot still has to happen for the idea to become a reality but the mt. Diablo district says planners must further refine their requests because it does not meet legal requirements for established countries. Next fall, more hearings are planned. This morning, a live look at oracle arena which still had plenty of people inside despite the fact there was no game in town because the warriors did play in cleveland and they may not return to oracle after another thumping in the last few minutes. Warriors fans proved last night at oracle you dont even have to be at the game, have it live in front of you to have the championshiplevel intensity. [ cheers and applause ] they were watching it on screens and look at them. 15,000 or so fans that packed oracle for last nights game three viewing party certainly went nuts. This went beyond standard playoff atmosphere with pretty much everything but the players and a lot of excitement. Sweep were so excited. You know why . Because last year we were robbed. Well, it doesnt appear to be a repeat of last year. Heres how it went down. Cleveland up by as many as seven points late in the fourth quarter. They seemed to have things under control, kd took this game over. That was the dagger over lebron james, a defining potentially careerdefining three with 45 seconds left. The warriors came up huge when it mattered including big defense from andre iguodala. The final score 118113 as the warriors end the game on an 110 run. They played extremely well but i just think we stayed in front of them late in the game and, you know, got good shots and we got the basketball but they had it going on all night, you have to give them credit. Warriors just one win from another nba championship. Game four is friday in cleveland and another watch party planned for oracle. Ticket there is cost 20. You know these parents are just beaming with pride. Everybody pumped up after last nights win, that includes steph currys family. That was stephs mom there with a huge yell at quicken loans arena. You can see steph giving a big hug to his dad dell curry who used to play back in the day. Kevin durants mom also there living it up last night after a huge win. Its 6 10. We are talking about not only the warriors winning but rain moving into the bay area. Its all cloudy as were getting a look at three micro climates right now. These are the conditions as you head out the door. Its humid and mild. Temperatures starting out in the low 60s for the south bay peninsula and trivalley. In the north bay rain coming down, temperature at 55 degrees and light showers in San Francisco and 58. Well see the rain moving from north to south, temperatures reaching into the upper 60s to low 60s. Feels cool for this time of year. In three minutes, ill have a look at the radar and where the rain is coming down the heaviest and mike the tracking a crash in fremont. We just heard a crash on the nimitz freeway southbound your commute direction where we see a little slowing. Its at least contributing a small factor because as we look around the bay a smooth drive. Looking toward alvarado boulevard with activity on the shoulder and slowing which ends up right about there easing up past the dunbarton bridge. We look at the Golden Gate Bridge and anywhere north of the bay bridge or the Golden Gate Bridge we have mist and drizzle. I was watching this the last couple minutes, i saw a couple wipers but things are moving farther east as kari has been tracking. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Asleep behind the wheel. Coming up in three minutes, the new technology a major automaker is working on that would allow drivers to take a nap while on the road. Heres a live look outside as youre hopefully waking up and getting out of bed from our emeryville camera. You are watching toad ining tod bay. Well be back in just two minutes. Award winning interface. Award winning design. Award winning engine. The volvo xc90. The most awarded luxury suv of the century. Visit your volvo dealer to take advantage of our midsommar sales event offer. Visit your volvo dealer to take advantage for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. We deliver superfast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. We do business where you do business. mike ad li its 6 14, tracking rain this morning and a very wet commute, especially for the north bay, looking at the showers moving out of santa rosa and moving towards the south and east. Fairfield with pockets of heavy rain extending down into parts of the east bay. San francisco all clear now but more rain moving in. Well take a closer look at the radar in five minutes. As kari tracks the rain, we track the affect on your traffic. Minor effects. The trivalley just seeing a typical slowdown coming out of the altamont pass. Well show you more coming up. Mike, kari, thank you very much. A developing story from the east coast and dissushing video that we would like to warn you about that is raising questions about how Police Responded to a fiery crash following a change. A video shows a man on fire after a car crashed into a pole. As the man tries to get away from the flames you see approaching officers walk up and kick the man right there several times. It turns out the man was an innocent bystander who happened to be near the scene of the crash and he was not the chase suspect. This happened in jersey city on sunday night. Right now the mayor of jersey city is calling for those officers to be fired. Its 6 15. Tesla, gm, now honda jumping into the selfdriving race for automakers. Hondas ceo says the company is working on selfdriving Car Technology that could allow passengers to sleep on the road. Honda also aims to launch selfdriving cars that can run and switch lanes on highways by 2020 in time for the summer olympics in tokyo. So you could nap, i dont know if its right now my passengers can nap. They do. It the yahoos last day. Shareholders expected to approve the companys sale to verizon. Finally happening. Scott mcgrew, that means layoffs. Reporter it does and we expected it and at yahoo they expected it. Lots of people have been looking for work. Cnbc estimates the cuts will be around a thousand jobs from the combined companies, some from yahoo, some from verizon. Yahoo has been a Silicon Valley fixture since it was founded in 1994 as jerry and davids guide to the worldwide web. This is a defeat for marisa meyer because she failed to get it sold. Analyst believe that verizon paid way too much so in this says meyer is the best thing that could have happened to yahoo investors. Uber in trouble again. The head of ubers efforts in india was fired after it was revealed he obtained the medical records of a woman who said had been rained by an uber driver in india. Our sister blog recode was the first to report that Eric Alexander showed the medical records of the woman to ubers ceo and uber Vice President emile michael a year ago. Uber has been on a firing spri trying to get rid of the bat apples that has come to define uber as a company. Wall street will be watching the comey hearings with the rest of us. You have the election in great britain. We assume we know whos going to win that one but we said that before. The dow gained 37 points wednesday, nasdaq up 22. Sam and laura i wanted to show you a little clip. The state capital in sacramento, thats a fellow named ian from San Francisco, comcast, our parent company, giving away scholarships to hundreds of california kids. They were kind enough to invite know take part in the ceremony. A lot of kids got money but 10,000 each went to ian chang from Balboa High School in San Francisco, he doesnt know where hes going to college yet. But mary lee, another student, is going to santa clara. Helping bring the tuition down a little bit. A little bit. Good for them. Congrats. By the way, were talking about races, this is a local race. A Washington State teenager isnt old enough to vote but hes running if political office. 17yearold jordan sears wants to be elected to the school board. He lives in a town just northeast of seattle and says he wants to give teachers and students a louder voice in the issues that affect them. He attended a School Board Meeting last year to speak in favor of a school bond issue, the bond failed but he says the experience inspired him to run for office. I want to make a difference in this world. Middle and High Schoolers make up 18 of the population but they make up 100 of the future. Get it straight from the source. Sears is not turning 18 until next month so he had to register as a writein candidate. Hes facing two challengers this november. Good for him e. He has a great perspective. Someday hell be in washington, d. C. Hopefully changing things. Well see. Very mature young man. More beard than ive ever had in my entire life. And only 17. You have baby skin, mike. Not a fair comparison. No credit card test this morning but umbrella checks. Yes, grab the umbrella. Its been so long since weve had to say that so dont forget it before you walk out the door, we are seeing showers coming down in parts of the bay area. Lets check out the radar where its covered in most of sonoma, napa county marx written county with pockets of heavy rain moving through and then it continues to extend off to the east at fair field, vallejo and the Sacramento Valley seeing rain moving in now. San francisco youre dry but roads may be wet after Early Morning showers move through and there will be more rain on the way. Its moved over towards oakland, san leandro and san lorenzo and approaching the trivalley. Tracking rain moving into the peninsula that will move closer to palo alto within the next eight minutes and moving across the by a to newark within the next 30 minutes. So well watch as that continues to move through. Hour by hour, pretty good coverage of rain here. Looking at showers by 1 00 still moving into the east bay, it becomes lighter as it approaches the south bay later this morning into the early afternoon. And looking at san jose, not expecting much there and our skies will be clearing as we go into tonight and rainfall totals may reach what we normally see during the whole month of june, the possibility of getting about five one hundredths of an inch for palo alto and san jose. If you see weather happening, send me your pictures. This came from Alvin Mcmanus in san martin showing clouds yesterday. This there kari lynn showing clouds rolling by ining by. Mike, youre tracking whats happening now as you head out on the roadways. Were getting help from alvin on the roadways. He often treats about traffic. No problems from san martin towards the south bay. We are looking at the road weather index showing green, that highlighting on the map means you will have slicker roadways and coming down toward well, let me talk about the dumbo in a second. Southbound 101 a cr

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