are. >> new this morning, the final gubernatorial debate moves to the bay area. we will talk about the questions the candidates might face. >> plus, whoong wrong with letting your girlfriend drive your car? the only trouble, it was his patrol car. good morning. it's 4:30 and heat is going to be dangerous in parts of the bay area today. let's start with rob. >> right now in oakland it's 59

and this is one of the spots under a heat warning as temperatures get close to 90. concord right now and livermore is 67. it is dry out there and we will see the winds picking up around sunrise. we have the red flag up and richmond, oakland, hayward and fremont under excessive heat warning for today into wednesday as well for the temperatures you are about to see the 95 degrees in livermore and 92 in dublin. pleasanton is 95. look at san francisco. 92 degrees and oakland inland across the east bay and lots of 90s. we will see how long the heat will stick around in the seven-day forecast. >> thank you. turning to mike, you are working on something fairly serious? >> we will take you to the south bay where we have a major injury accident. the details on the call say it involves a motorcycle and a sedan and the coroner is being

called. of course we can draw conclusions from that. the accident is currently blocking all lanes. i will encourage folks to use almaden expressway. that will join you towards highway 87 further north and the rest of the south bay is looking smooth. 680 and 880 out of sunol, we are seeing no problems, but we will follow the injury accident. they should have 87 with one lane open soon. i will let you know if a few minutes. developing news out of antioch. there is a two-alarm fire at an apartment at gentry town drive. we are hearing it is under control and at this point no reports of any injuries, but we will keep you updated. meg whitman and jerry brown will get their last face-to-face meeting tonight. the latest average of polls show that brown is pulling ahead.

his lead is now six points. tonight's gubernatorial debate will be at dominican university at san rafael in the east bay's christie smith with live with more on how the university is getting ready. >> dominican university is certainly ready. there metal barricades just about everywhere as they prepare to come for their final televised debate and voters getting a chance to think about the questions they would like to see answered tonight. aside from the political issues, there problems within the campaign. meg whitman under fire for treatment of her undocumented housekeeper and democrat jerry brown, his staffers have a use of a sexist remark when discussing whitman has the campaign under fire. the event certainly allows the candidate to reassure their

base. they say democrats are not as enthusiastic as republicans are. both of course are trying to pull in the undecided. >> the majority of people want someone who will turn the state around and bring it back to where it used to be. >> tonight the bay will be moderated by former nbc anchor tom brocaw. that is the latest reporting live in san rafael, christie smith today in the east bay. >> the debate will air tonight right here on nbc bay area and you can also see it on nbcbayarea.com. we will have live blogging from the site and on air our coverage starts at 6:00. debate at 6:30 and after we will have indepth analysis. rapes, robbery, and domestic abuse are three of the biggest

crimes plaguing oakland. a plan that tries to curb crime against women. as today in the east bay, cheryl hurd reports measure bb has people talking. >> because some people are for bb and others are against it. women who live here in the city of oakland are paying close attention because some are calling it the crime-fighting bill. >> at the moment i feel safe. >> safety is a major issue for kathy who lived in oakland for five years. >> i'm a homeowner and it would help my immediate neighborhood and probably all of oakland to have more police available. >> police staffing a major issue for oakland. some believe measure bb is the answer to put more cops on the street. betsy said it's tied to programs to stop bloodshed on the streets of oakland. >> if measure bb doesn't pass, this and many other programs will have to end.

>> bb is a revision of measure y, a taxpayer initiative that brings in $20 billion a year. programs like street outreach. >> when there is a shooting at oakland, we are in the hospitals and the funeral homes because that's a part of the violence. >> there other programs in 46 cities around the u.s. this young man is a former gang member. street outreach reached out and pulled him out of the darkness and into the light. >> they didn't discriminate how i used to act. they helped me out and i got a job and had a baby. >> this makes cathy and her roommate feel there answers to the crime problems on the streets of oakland. opponents of bb say they are not sure it's going to work. it is a revision of measure y

and they are not happy with measure y. in oakland, today in the east bay. our group of medical marijuana patients, doctors and suppliers will throw support behind prop 19 rallying at city halls in oakland and los angeles at 10:30. they endorsed it that regulates and taxes pot in california. a former oakland police deputy chief under investigation for letting his girlfriend drive a police car which she promptly crashed. lieutenant jeff lowman's girlfriend was driving a police car on thursday when she smashed into a honda on buck's county road. the driver was hospitalized with minor injuries. the girlfriend was also injured. lieutenant lowman was demoted from deputy police chief to lieutenant after a sexual

harassment investigation and is under investigative leave. nurse process test the fact that they haven't had a contract since july and the hospital's proposal would cut health benefits. today in the east bay is live outside children's hospital where the strike will start in a few hours. good morning, chris. >> good morning to you. although everything is quiet here, we expect the nurses will start to arrive in the next couple of hours. it might seem ironic to you that they are fighting for health care benefits since they are providers, but when you talk about health care it costs money and that's what the hospital said they don't have right now. the nurse's union doesn't believe it. they have been going back and forth over the contract since the middle of may and this is where we find ourselves on the picket line today. the health benefits and pay are the sticking points. they want to freeze the pay following years of raises and wants to offer an option that

would require the nurses to pay between $11 and $300 out of their own pocket for their care and the care of their family. the hospital lost $69 million over four years, but one nurse who works here said the hospital could lose much more than money. >> this hospital being able to provide the kind of care it has been, it needs to have the nurse there is to do it. >> reporter: children's hospital oakland has replacement nurses to step in. more than 700 said they will walk the picket line and do that today, tomorrow, and thursday. we expect that to start in just a few hours. we will keep you posted. chris sanchez today in the bay. >> all hail the conquering heroes. the giants are back home, winners of their divisional series with the braves. we have video pulling into the stadium about an hour ago.

the team is going to rest up and get ready for reigning national league champions, the philadelphia phillies. in case huh to go to sleep before the game ended and if you are up this early, you probably did. after the giants scored the go ahead run in the rally on the top of the seventh, closer brian wilson walked two before shutting the door on the braves. so what now? the chance to beat philly, games one and two are in philly. saturday and sunday the games come to at&t park. tuesday, wednesday, thursday are games six and 7. probably not necessary, but they will be in philly. what is it, beat filet? >> i like chick filet. >> they are not open on sundays. >> we have a lot happening. >> i didn't hear that.

>> it was a complete waste of your time. >> that's okay. get to the roadways. we have to change up the attitude because we have an update for that accident. this is a big no for folks traveling through the area. light volume. 87 is currently closed in all lanes from capital expressway towards kerner because of the earlier accident involving a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle. almaden expressway is a good alternate, but this lasts for another two hours if the accident turn out to be deadly with an investigation when which is what it looks like. 101 is taking up the slack as well. a nice easy drive from oakland in towards san jose. back to you. >> thank you much. beat filet. as in beat l.a. i usually just say bad things about the dodgers. the words you can't use on television. >> any time you can bring in

beat l.a., it's good. it looks like a mind trick. around napa and fairfield, mid 70s and the why we got offshore winds gusting across the east bay, that's the reason why red flag warnings have been up. the hottest and driest conditions we will see around the bay area near the trivalley for the afternoon. some of our temperatures around the bay area looking at 95 around livermore. 92 for dublin and pleasant in the mid 90s. that's the reason why the inner east bay has a heat warning today and tomorrow. the seven-day forecast now for the east bay, trivalley seeing temperatures in the mid 90s and oakland close to 90 before both locations cool off for the weekend. >> thank you much. coming up, it could revolutionize the way you watch tv. the first wave of boxes hits stores today. not just for boys anymore.

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>> good morning. we will start with traffic. you have something important to update as well. >> that's why i jumped in and

thank you for accommodating. we will show you what's going on here. we have a major injury accident and potentially deadly because it sounds like the coroner is being called after a motorcycle and a sedan got into it at northbound 87. closed from capitol expressway to kurtner and that is typical and the investigation continues for up to two hours after the scene. northbound 17 and potentially to northbound 101. that is very likely. a lighter volume can go over here. keep that in mind and heading down into the area, 680 and 880 are moving into the south bay. that's good for now. back to you. >> we will check back with you. rob has a lot of heat coming. >> in places you may not expect. oakland will get close to 90 degrees. 61 at concord and a warm start to the morning at livermore. 67 and as the winds pick up

around sunrise, we will see 70s to start off. many of the hill top locations around the east bay. high of 95 and none n fremont and richmond and mo raga should see highs in the low 90s. breezy and dry and that's the reason why we have red flag warnings. heat warning for the inner east bay. look at the trivalleys in the mid 90s through thursday. >> new this morning, news for the bottom line. world markets are dropping and stock features falling. there may not be any more stimulus from washington. for more on news before the bell, let's go to bertha coombs. good morning. >> good morning, scott. we are seeing a little bit of a negative tone ahead of intel's earnings this afternoon. a bit of caution there. meantime you know the situation with the mortgage foreclosure freeze, president obama's top official said the national freeze could make things worse in the crisis.

head secretary shawn donovan said lenders right now are focusing energy on reviewing procedure when is they should be trying to modify and taking other efforts to avoid foreclosures in the first place. the largest pension fund is making changes. calpers said they are severing ties with the pacific corporate group. the firm was managing two global opportunities funds totalling more than $1 billion and a $480 billion clean energy fund. it's part of an overall review of the investment partners. meantime gap is saying yes, we goofed. they are scrapping the new logo a week after launching it following an online outcry by thousands who wanted to keep the old design that has been there for 20 years. the old logo which i guess is the same is that dark blue box with gap written on the tuesday.

this was gap on a light background behind the letter p. gap admits they didn't handle the roll out the right way. with twitter and facebook, you make a mistake and people tell you right away. >> it looked like somebody tried photo shop for the first time and failed. >> kind of like the new coke debacle. it's not broke. why are you fixing it? >> thank you much. >> the controversial new medal of honor video game hit store shelves overnight and it's the newest from redwood city's electronic arts. sale was banned on american military bases because of the way it was originally designed. players could take the role of the taliban attacking nato troops. it was altered last month after intense criticism for military families and even the british defense secretary. the new medal of honor and windows will kft you about $60.

the east bay's lodge tech called review. it continues the trend of offering broadcast to the viewers seamlessly. do you care if you get your video through cable or internet? no, you don't. the service is a factory-installed option on sony's next year other manufacturers may join in. >> attorneys general in as many as 40 states will announce a huge investigation into bank foreclosures today. california is deciding whether to join in. they want to know whether lenders broke foreclosure laws when taking back homes from delinquent borrowers. they are zeroing in on robo signing, a practice in which bank employees and affiliates sign off on foreclosures without thoroughly reviewing thens of required do you means. investigators want to make sure if people are losing homes, they

are losing them for legitimate reasons. >> getting down to the nitty-gritty in politics, republicans hoping to win at least one house of congress, but to do that they have to win seat after seat. as today in the east bay's tracie potts reports, we have a taste of what's ahead as candidates debated in several states. >> send less money to washington. >> kentucky's democrat said it. >> it's not about president obama. it's about jack conway versus rand paul. >> the three weeks where republicans are poised to win big, it is about washington. republicans are trying to tie democrat to pelosi, obama and big spending. health reform. >> this is one of the prime example of what is wrong with washington. >> the health care bill was incredibly expensive and complicated. >> even if the gop wins, health

reform is not going away. >> obama health care is going to be there as long as obama. >> democrats argued it helped the economy. >> for did put a floor, a bottom to the free fall. >> now the issue is tax breaks and who gets there. even democrats want to back off of taxes going up for the rich. >> taxes are counterproductive. >> rare agreement where both sides are trying to distance themselves from what wasn't worked in washington. with president obama's approval rating low, bill clinton, a more popular democrat is hitting the trail in tight races. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> we want to look at what's ahead later today. we go to the newsroom and say hello. >> good morning, scott. we will talk with the man in the middle of to tonight's great debate.

nbc anchor tom brocaw will moderate and talk with us about what he is going to do and why he is involve and what he hopes to accomplish. the giants are now on the way to the nashville league championship and take on the phillies. we will take a look at the matchups coming up and the game action from last night. those stories and more coming up in a few minutes on today in the bay. >> thank you much. breaking new ground from boxing. lauren scott shows us young people are proving that combat is not just for boys anymore. for decades, the boxing gym has been a haven of testosterone. young men train to be champions. >> i didn't even want them in the gym. >> barney flores has been train boxers for 30 years and admits being blindsided with the number of girls taking up the sport.

>> it's really fun. you will get hurt a couple of times, but it's worth it. >> sugar and spice, left and right. >> keep her in the middle of the ring. >> ramirez's mother saw her breaking down emotionally after the death of a loved one. >> she saw us getting depress and wanted us to get out of the house more. >> a year and a half later she has the confidence to challenge boys. >> i beat a girl in 44 seconds. >> they say i hit hard, but i don't like showing off. >> humility aside, she does hit hard. she's a champion. curiosity brought her to boxing and proving herself keeps her here. >> i like showing that girls can do it too. >> you have to have it in your heart and mind.

>> a toughness flores said fighters carry with them when they leave. they know how to get up when knocks them down. >> laura and scott reporting. the 2012 olympics will feature women's boxing as an event for the first time in olympic history. it will be a fight of a different kind. the third and final debate in the governor's race comes to the bay area at 6:30 and former nightly news anchor tom brocaw will be moderating between jerry brown and meg whitman at dominican university. in the east bay, christie smith joins us with a sample. christie? >> political observers say that both whitman and brown need to really work on reassuring their base. that's even more important for jerry brown this go around. democrats are not as enthusiastic this year as republicans are. they will be making their ways to nearly 1/5 of california

voters who are undecided and enthusiastic about the whole thing. whitman's team tried to fire up women voters over a comment of brown's team described as a slur against women. he apologized for salty language. students are excited and this debate is happening here and no doubt they are telling us the questions will be on the economy. >> i got to get a job. >> as a senior, i'm graduating soon and think for everybody it's simple. it sounds like the economy is the biggest thing. >> in a state with a $19 billion deficit, of course voters looking for a candidate who can take the state in a new direction. of course tonight the challenge will be to try to prove it in a debate. live in san rafael, christie smith today in the east bay. >> we talked with tom brocaw as well and we will have comments in a bit. the president gearing up for another trip to california.

he will be here before the end of the month. we will tell you why, coming up. taking the stand in his own defense. the new twist in the los gatos murder for hire trial. the giants back in the bay area getting ready for round two of playos. we will tell you what's in store in a live report.

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