For the total eclipse. See some clouds along the coastline. Inland areas will have partly cloudy skies. There will be some times that we will be able to see that peak time of the eclipse right there at 10 16 this morning. Well continue to talk about this, where well still see the clouds coming up in a few minutes. As we head over to mike theres a truck stuck on the bay bridge . You cant see it from the emeryville camera. I do see the lower deck moving smoothly out of the tunnel. That counter commute is not showing any traffic. Slowing at the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights are on. Unexpectedly slow off the dublin grid. That is enough distraction to kick off the slowing there for the trivalley. The rest of your trivalley, the south bay and peninsula look standard. Thanks a lot, mike. 6 02. Hours away interest the Great American eclipse. Todays eclipse stretches from coast to coast along a narrow corridor starting in oregon and reaching South Carolina about 90 minutes later. People are counting down to this historic event. A lot of news here, bob. Reporter good morning. 10 15 this morning is when were going to see the of the Solar Eclipse. About the moon covering 75 of the sun. Not totality like in oregon. Still a good chunk of the sun being blocked out. This applies for any day, yesterday, tomorrow today, do not look directly at the sun. You want protection. If you can get your hands on the special solar filter glasses. You want to make sure theyre not damaged. Make sure you have these special solar filters. Not enough protection. If you use a telescope or binoculars do not look directly into the sun and dont use the reflection of a mirror. It could damage your eyes. Take breaks from viewing to give your eyes a rest. You want to have a solar filter so you do not damage the equipment inside. You should be okay. Our understanding is that it will not damage that piece of equipment. We feel like they can take a glance at it actually. Some people will try to do that without any protection but even given that you really are rolling the dice when you do that. Those are really precious to you. Reporter now lets say you dont have the telescope with the solar filter, were here in cupertino talking with the manager. There are simple you can do, take two pieces of paper, poke a hole in one, aim it at the sun and get the reflection of the crescent of the moon, see the shadow of the moving over the sun or use a strainer and aim that with the sun shooting down and you have the reflection back here and youll get about 100 different reflexes here. Just dont look at it directly without protection. And bob mentioned make sure they have that iso if you are lucky enough to get a pair that they have the iso label. Theres some fake stuff. Continuing our Team Coverage. Will the plants close up during the eclipse, that will be something to watch. Will the animals act weird. Mine do. Some clouds along the coastline. The peak time for us when well have 75 blockage will be at 10 16 this morning. It will be covered in clouds. Something not factored in the computer model today, usually the solar energy helps dissipate that marine layer that will not take place today. Clearing may be more slow. Temperatures cooling three to five degrees. A lot of interesting things to watch as we head through the next several hours. Thats pretty cool to know. Thank you, kari. So many places around the bay area hosting eclipse events today. Nasa hosting a Public Viewing Party at 8 00. You have to be registered, though. For some other School Events happening around here hosting the viewing parties for students, one example Martin Luther king jr. In oakland, where the district superintendent says that shell watch. In San Francisco the explore tore yum at pier 15 will have live musicians to play during the eclipse. On air and online as well. Learn more about how you can safely watch the big show. Well be providing live coverage throughout the eclipse here on nbc bay area. The Solar Eclipse starts. And at 6 07 breaking news, this out of france. Police say one person is dead and another is hurt after someone drove a car into two bus shelters overnight. It happened in marseilles within the last hour. France says the incident is not terror related. The Associated Press says the driver has been arrested. This follows the deadly van attacks in spain last week. It will be a Rare National address. The president will focus on afghanistan and southern asia. And this comes on the heels of large antihate and racism protests over the weekend. Live in washington with what we can expect tonight. Reporter good morning, marcus and laura. The president increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress. Back from his working vacation, President Donald Trump will discuss his strategy in afghanistan. The president met with his National Security team at camp david over weekend to discuss the path forward in afghanistan and south asia policies. Until we knew what was the strategy, what was the commitment going in. In that regard the president has made a decision. Reporter the president already increased to 8,400. The real question is what is our strategy. The question can kind of answer itself. I think we should begin to leave and then i think we should reserve the opportunity with our forces in the region to be able to strike. Reporter we will find out the president s final decision tonight at his address. And the speech will be held at ft. Meyer in virginia not the white house. The president will be surrounded by the military in his role as commander in chief. Thank you very much, edward. Controversial former breitbart editor says hes coming to uc berkeley. On the schools campus he says it will be a festival for people who have been kept from speaking at berkeley. The greatest risk to the america republic, the assault on free speech committed by the media, sill valley, politicians, hollywood producers and the academy. That event was canceled after violent protests. We check with uc berkeleys event page and free speech week was not listed. So far we have not heard from the school. It is 6 10. Ten u. S. Navy sailors are missing after a Navy Destroyer collided with a merchant ship. The guided missile destroyer uss john mccain was headed to singapore for a routine visit when it crashed. This morning it is docked at the naval base with significant damage. Search and rescue efforts are under way. This is the second crash in just two months. In june the uss fitzgerald and a containership hit each other in the waters off japan. Its 6 10 now. As you head out for school this morning exciting first day for San Francisco and oakland today and its a historic day as well. Youll be watching the eclipse at recess for some kids its been planned out. Hopefully theyll at least learn about whats happening here and then this afternoon mild. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Well talk about the cloud cover during the eclipse coming up. That truck has cleared from the bay bridge. That traffic flowing just a part of the exit at Treasure Island getting out of San Francisco. Now that is clear. Getting into San Francisco this should clear quickly. There wasnt a mattress reported in the slow lane as you approach on 280. On the other side of the bay the metering lights, good recovery after the earlier crash cleared for west 580. 680 southbound. No problems getting into the bay bridge. 6 11. Up next, the man cuesed of shooting and killing an oakland firefighter in san jose was expected in court. The charges hes facing. The major food chain getting in spirits. Mike trx its 6 14 with a cloudy start as we take a live look outside in san jose and the temperature trend for santa clara. We will have a few clouds for those spots even inland as we head into the next of hours, highs near 80. Well talk about the cloud cover forecast and the eclipse coming up in five minutes. And a little general slowing for the trivalley. Thats what we have on this travel time. Well see the bigger look at your commute coming up. 6 15. Continuing coverage now. We expect a man charged with killing an oakland firefighter to make his First Court Appearance this week. Late thursday Oliver Juneau shot two offduty firefighters in japantown. Jake walter died. The other firefighter has nonlife threatening injuries. And business and tech news now. Wall street could get off to a rough start when the markets open in about 15 minutes. For more on that landon dowdy is live at cnbc world headquarters. Good morning. Wall street could struggle out of the gate today. Futures are lower. The markets are coming off a negative week. The fed minutes and the terror attack in spain. Two straight weeks now and the nasdaq down four straight weeks. Housing and durable goods. The nasdaq slipping five to 6216. Hpc is dropping the price of its Virtual Reality headset by 200. Facebook made a similar move for its goggles. Thats 200 more than the rip. Sales have been sluggish. There hasnt been a block buster. Hardware is flying off the shelves. And the day has come, it is eclipse day. Offering special deals that cannot be, well, eclipsed. Krispy kreme is selling its original glazed doughnut with a chocolate glaze. Pizza hut has a youtube video. A pin hole projector out of a pizza box and the maker of moon pies want you to tweet a photo with pie eclipse. The best pose could win a years supply. I havent had a moon pie in so long. Video of the massive traffic jam as millions of people headed to spots along the path of totality. That is where the moon will block the sun. That is where we find today in the bays jay gray live with a closer look at what we can expect. Reporter good morning, marcus and laura. We are on a bridge, a beautiful spot to watch this eclipse. Thousands to join us on this daytime shifts to darkness here. There is a sense of history here. Its been almost 100 years since weve had a total eclipse. In just hours now the shadow of the moon will travel across the United States from oregon to South Carolina at close to 1,500 miles an hour. Each spot along the path going from daylight to darkness. The brightest stars and planets will show up. The temperature will drop maybe up to 10 to 15 degrees. Kt. Reporter it will only last two and a half minutes or so. The experience will last a lifetime. It can be a transformative event. An emotional, even spiritual event. It really gives you a sense of elation and humbleness that we are so tiny and small in this incredible universe. Reporter reactions now hours from becoming reality. The only thing that would really prevent that happening would be cloud cover and its been beautiful all morning, guys. Hopefully it will stay that way. Thats the latest live here in casper, marcus and laura, back to you. You have the right spot there. Put glasses on, jay. Wow, people with tears streaming down their eyes and oneman bands all over the place. I was wondering if my morning glories close up. That will be really interesting. For us the problem is the clouds. And even though we wont have totality here we will be able to see something, of course, safely with those solar glasses or projections. We are going to start out with mild temperatures as you head out the door. Still cloudy and we normally start to see the sun working on the marine layer but with the eclipse happening that may not be the case today. Clearing may be slow. Well see the high of san say up to 80 degrees. You can check out the sevenday forecast, showing you warming as we go through the week, up to 7 degrees in napa and 66 in San Francisco. Lets talk again about the cloud cover and the possibility of some viewing opportunities. It will still be cloudy along the coastline and most of pa rin county and parts of the inland areas as the eclipse begins as 9 01 this morning. There will be some clouds but we may have some clearing and a chance to view it for some of the valleys land as our temperatures will actually cool about three to five degrees during that peak eclipse time and that will keep the clouds and the fog near the coastline. As the eclipse wraps up at about 11 37 this morning we will start to see more clearing and then later today more clouds moving in as we get a surge in monsoonal moisture and the possibility of some thunderstorms firing up and pushing some of the humidity into the bay area. There will be muggy tomorrow and our temperatures in San Francisco and the rest of the week reaching into the 60s. Inland looking at 80s and then warmer as we head into the weekend. Heading over to mike now an update on whats happening on the roads. A reminder for drivers just keep yours on the road. Were looking over here, nothing to look at. The south bay looks great. The san mateo bridge. We see the volume increasing westbound but still moving well. Lets take you to the waze system and well talk about your slower drive developing from the east shore freeway from hercules down. Just about the same amount of time. Dramatically different in the amount of mileage. Join our team on waze. Nbc bay area wazers. Back to you. Up next today in the bay volkswagen is supposed to buy back his car but the process has stalled. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. Hey, is this our turn . Honey. Our turn . Yeah, we go left right here. woman vo Great Adventures are still out there. Well find them in our Subaru Outback. avo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Get 0 apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 Subaru Outback models. Now through august 31. Nbc bay area responds to a San Francisco driver whose communication with the auto manufacturer broke down. Chris chmura took his case. We were written to say volkswagen was dragging its feet buying back his beatle that was part of the emissions scandal. The website explains the buyback paperwork takes about a month to process. Barry said he applied back in november but his file went nowhere for about three months. He called us. Within four days of our calls barry got his buyback offer of 3,500. Barry said amazing. I heard from them. Thanks for stimulating this. I am still burned from the four months of drag. Faxed us twice and sent a page from february. Our nbc sister stations around the country have logged dozens others. Volkswagen told us it has bought back half the cars its required to and its proud of the process. It said the pace of the progress is a testament to the hard work and dedication of volkswagen employees and contractors. Call us or online at nbc bay area. Com respond. Thanks, chris. Up next on today in the bay, countdown to the Great Eclipse as excitement builds for the historic Solar Eclipse. Reporter all of those solar panels you see around town maybe even up on your own roof they wont have any sun light to capture. Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Historic Solar Eclipse. But will e right now at 6 30 we are counting down to the historic Solar Eclipse. Will the weather be all right for people trying to watch . A live look at moffitt field. Good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining. Im laura garciacannon. And im Marcus Washington here as we get ready to watch that eclipse. Kari is keeping track of it all. As you step out the door right now you see those clouds and youre like, oh, my goodness. Going to be the big question. Let me show you the time frame of what were expecting when that Solar Eclipse will be appearing for us. We will have 75 blockage here in the bay area. Weve been talking about some towns youve never heard of big in the news like madras, oregon. Thats where we will have totality today and for us it will be all about marine layer that will be slow to clear. I dont think well see any clearing in San Francisco and along the coastline and the timing of that will begin at 9 01 this morning. We will have 75 blockage at 10 16 this morning there will be some clearing asome of the inland valleys and parts of the bay area. But without that solar energy helping to erode the marine layer that may occur slower for some spots. Well actually have some cooling temperatures at the peak time as well. A lot of interesting factors. Parts of the bay area especially along the coast once again will be mostly cloudy during the time of the eclipse. Well continue to talk about this and what you can expect as the morning goes along coming up in a few minutes. As we head over to mike now slowing for oakland. Thats the positive headline. A little slowing through oakland where we could have big slowing but, remember, oakland schools getting back in. What a historic day to start your school year in oakland or San Francisco. That may be an issue as far as the morning commute making it lighter. Theres a disabled vehicle blocking the slow lane southbound 880 shy of hyatt street. We dont see any lanes blocked. We do see a good flow of traffic. Ill track that and let you know if chp is cleared from the scene. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. 6 32. Happening today just hours away from the start of the first total Solar Eclipse in the United States since 1979. And some places along the path of totality there will be several minutes of darkness. Here only a partial eclipse. Today in the bays kris