we'll look at that, coming up. and we're looking across the bay, there's low clouds pushing down. sometimes affecting your drive. we'll track that, looks smooth right now. new crash kaub an issue for 101. we'll keep tabs of that as well as the 90s that rob just mentioned. live look outside, it is thursday, august 14th, this is "today in the bay." from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." and a very good morning to you, thanks for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. those are tear gas canisters exploding, also molotov cocktails, this was the fourth straight night protesters in a midwest town raging out of control sending even the media running for their lives. this is in response to an officer shooting and killing an unarmed teenager in st. louis.

"today in the bay's" bob redell here with us, bob, this just continues to develop, what's the latest here? >> reporter: good morning, law enforcement has been asking the citizens to be patient as they try to investigate what happened saturday afternoon when a white police officer shot and killed a teenager who was black and unarmed. an incident that many people in this suburb of st. louis was racially motivated. that call for patience doesn't seem to be working. >> they're firing on to the crowd. ouch. >> reporter: overnight, protesters confronted police on the streets of ferguson. there are reports that some of the protesters had thrown molotov caulk tames at police earlier in the night which escalated the tension with police and riot and tactical gear responding boy lobbying the tear gas in an attempt to force order. now the parents of michael brown, the young man shot, several times by a ferguson police officer have condemned

the violence and the looting, as have police, public officials, and local pastors. >> everybody is angry about a lot of stuff, but we need to do it peacefully. >> we're just asking people to be peaceful, and that we are actively working to resolve this situation to get the truth and it get justice. >> reporter: earlier in the day yesterday, protesters were peaceful, marching through downtown demanding justice for michael brown. at night is when the situation became violent. you can see media covering this event, got too close to the action as well. that's an al jazeera crew running for safety after tear gas was lobbed in that direction. two reporters were detained by police, we'll hear in the next half hour. it is 5:02, man accused of stabbing a stranger on a bus in berkly is expected to -- berkeley is expected to face a judge today. this happened monday night.

investigators say eric palmer told passengers, watch this, and started stabbing a woman. they say she midnight have survived, but a man nearby beat off the attacker with a skate board. palmer is charged with a attempted murder. new fallout this morning surrounding last year's deadly plane crash at sfo. this. morning the family of the 16-year-old girl struck and killed by a fire truck while she was lying on the runway is suing san francisco. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez life in burlingame this morning, gathering information for us. she will have the very latest coming up a bit later in a live report. in the men time, it is no -- meantime, it is no secret that scientists expect a major earthquake to hit the bay area at some point. that's why several organizations are holding a three-day intensive training event at stanford university. starting today, medical staff and volunteers posing as victims will sleep in tents near stanford hospital eating only rations and living as though a

high magnitude quake just hit. university hopes the event will help them prepare for the real thing. just a couple of hours, commission that runs pge will consider a proposal that could cost you a quarter every day. pg hopes they'll approve a general rate north carolina to maintain its system. this happened every three years, it's not that unusual. this time, pge wants to use the money for an all out makeover. >> and we really want to focus on modernizing our system for the 21st century. keeping safety as our top priority. >> if approved, you'd have to pay an extra three dollars for electric and $4.50 per month. they want to have staff at call centers increase here in california. crews will spray for mosquitos again tonight. this is a look at the area, includes san jose. parts of the expressway and guadalupe parkway, fogging set to start at 11:00 tonight and in

the last several hours, vector control found mosquitos with west nile virus in the area last month. and officials hope the spraying will prevent human cases of the virus. 5:04 right now, let's see if the temperatures are going to creep up in some parts. checking in with rob mayeda. >> temperatures climbing into the upper 80s and getting closer to 90 degrees. but the story of the morning is the fog that we have over downtown san francisco, parts of the north bay reducing visibility's down at times, and you can see perhaps a mist across the tops of the building in san francisco. right now less than a half mile visibility in santa rosa. around san francisco and san jose, the low clouds up aboveground level. you have the overcast of gray across the skies in the morning even for some of the inland valleys. through the afternoon, we'll see some clearing after the drizzle and low clouds clear. valleys warming quickly later on today. we'll be easily into the 80s and some spots getting very close to 90 degrees. including morgan hill today near

90 degrees. san francisco, upper 60s to near 70. 80s across the north bay, pleasanton, 88 degrees on the way for the tri-valley as we head towards tomorrow into those low 90s. in fact, that be snapshot of your weekend forecast too for pleasanton. you can see the numbers, low 90s saturday into sunday trending cooler towards monday. now here's mike. we're looking towards sfo, i talked about this area southbound 101, the off-ramp to sfo. that's where we're hearing about a dollar. single car may be involved. chp maz yet to get on scene. we'll track this one, that's about it for the peninsula. in fact the rest of your bay moves smooth ri right now. slowing as you might expect. we'll talk about in a that in a second. i want to focus on the rest of the commute heading to the areas including the roads and the rails. now with the return of schools for example, south san francisco, as we talked about and of course morgan hill today. we're going to windchill for

more folks riding the buses. watch the walkways, no delays for any of the systems so far. we're talking about the tri-valley, west 580, you're up above 50 miles per hour for much of the trek. slowing out of the altamont pass, things really slow down, but an easy drive towards the dublin interchange. 84 slows a bit. it's a major street but we expect to see the slowing. the golden gate bridge, that's one of the issues you'll see. fog, low clouds hovering, and right there they're moving the cones, getting ready for the morning commute. they don't have the center divide, but they are doing that construction in the area. keep that in mind overnight, back to you. bitter sweet good-bye for fans at candlestick park and for paul mccartney. set to perform there tonight in the final concert. >> that's where the beatles played their final concert decades ago. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang live at the stick. big show planned for tonight, steph. >> reporter: very big show, big

fanfare. good morning, laura and scott. officially the show starts at 8:00 tonight. imagine 49,000 people trying to get here to candlestick park, people say get here early. you can see the lights are on, typically they are not. of as we prepare the hours before paul mccartney performs. you see the sign, welcome back to sf, paul, this is part of his out there tour. it has been 48 years to the month since the beatles played their final concert that was august 29th, 1966, here at candlestick park. bitter sweet times too for paul mccartney who will be playing the final show. he is set to perform three hours, featuring some of the most famous and beloved songs spanning his career from a solo artist to a member of wings, and then of course the beatles. here's part of his message to fans on his night here at the stick. >> come along been apart of it, 149 of august, candlestick park.

let's do it. >> candlestick. >> reporter: how can you not be excited after hearing that? of course expect state of the art technology, and the highest of production values. lasers, massive screens, fireworks, our nbc bay area chopper was able to get shots of people working on the set yesterday. some including setting up a big stage on the ten yard line. now the box office will open at 3:00 this afternoon at gate f. parking lots open at 3:00, doors at 5:00, and the concert should run from 8:00 to 11:30 tonight. back here live, note that only muni and taxis will be able to pick up and drop off here at the venue. so be mindful in terms of parking, it's cash only, $40 for cars, 100 bucks for buses. should be a great time. muni running special service from 4:30 until after the show. and will have more coverage going on through the morning and

on the midday show here on nbc bay area. now live at the stick, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> it's going to be good, thanks, stephanie. in danger of collapse, what officials are saying about a key part of the water system. off the price of an ipad, there is a catch, details next. san jose this moerng, and another fine day as we welcome kids back to school this week. drive carefully out there.

you're watching "today in the bay." a very good morning to you, taking a live look outside, taking you up north, up near san

rafael. that's the big s surve, folks are out and about, not a lot of traffic holding things up. a lot of kids heading back to school. washington state police are asking the public to stop tweeting during shootings and man hunts to avoid telling the bad guys what officers are doing. it's all part of the tweet smart campaign that started last month. . aims to raise awareness about social media's impact on law enforcement. some say the campaign could lead to censorship. social media expert says she's not aware of any post that's led to an officer injury, however, she says there have been a few close calls and some tweets have interfered with investigations. an app design as a new way to organize your iphone's contacts launches today. human organizes your contact based on your relationships to you. it combine combines from multiple sources into a list by mutual friend or where you met. over time, it'll learn which people are most relevant in a

particular context. and then displays them first. it'll be available in a few weeks. starts on apple. uc san diego researchers have developed a skin patch that makes electricity from sweat during a workout. they revealed it at a conference in san francisco yesterday. certainly the technology can only produce a small amount of power, not enough to turn on a lightbulb, it could power small devices like heart monitors, watches, maybe even your smart phone. look at the markets, let's check news before the bell, we are live at cnbc, good morning. >> scott, good morning, futures are lower after stocks rose for the fourth time, boosted by tech biotech and airlines. today those futures are lower. investors are reacting to news today about germany's economy failed to grow this spring. today look for data on own employment and earnings from walmart. rising 91 points. up about 44.

san francisco plans to cut #,000 jobs or 8% of the work force. at&t is giving customers a $200 on a discount. you must sign a two year contract and buy a new iphone at full price. they account for a big percentage of growth for at&t, veriz verizon, sprint, and t-mobile. scott. >> all right, thank you much. it is 5:15, an essential tunnel used to transport water to millions of bay area families is at risk of a quote catastrophic collapse. that's according to the san francisco public utility's commission. the hetch hetchy tunnel is 19 miles long and sits outside yosemite national park. the chronicle reports city officials have known for 25 years the tunnel needed work, but it was left out of the water

system improvement program which makes bay area water facilities earthquake safe. the tunnel is 9 years old and would cost more than $100 million to repair. no word if any of of that money will come from a $7.5 billion water plan just signed into law by governor brown. lawmakers approved that plan last night. it is the biggest water investment in decades, it includes money for building new reservoirs, cleaning up ground water, and focussing on water treatment tech knowledge. only one lawmaker voted against it. well let's check in with rob mayeda today, we've seen low clouds, foggy start to the day. >> north down, half mile ore less at times. something our own mike inn way is -- inn -- mike is tracking right now. and right now, little bit of

mist possible too across san francisco for the morning. not so much in the way of low clouds around san jose. the north bay seeing the low clouds reducing visibilities from santa rosa down to san rafael. half mile at times for the morning. next two days, not much change for the coast. low cloud inland for the morning, staying out in the coast through the afternoon. should not see any thundershowers on the northern coastal mountains, that's a bit of a change as a lot of that monsoon moisture has moved off to the east of the sierra. some of the changes we'll see today will be that summer spread of temperatures where we go from cool to warm, just in a drive or a right from the embarcadero. you'll have 69 in san francisco later on today. then as the sun comes up, we will see 88 degrees for pleasanton through the afternoon. the winds will turn breezy later on today. it's the same onshore wind this morning, which has helped to push in the low clouds into fairfield and napa. all the wind air roes pointing inland. they will weaken a little bit.

places like pleasanton and the tri-valley, you'll see the warm-up through the afternoon. next five days, temperatures beginning to climb on up into the low 90s as we kick off the weekend and trending a little bit cooler as you approach monday. around the bay area today, 83 degrees near 90 in morgan hill. san francisco into the upper 20u6 near 71 degrees around the hayes valley. north bay, high in the low to mid-80s. pleasanton, 88 degrees for today and close to 90 out by livermore. this evening as we wrap things up at candlestick tonight. they said it was chilly, kind of chilly back there in 1966, chilly again tonight, temperatures in the low 60s and an early view of the weekend. temperatures staying cool around san francisco, but inland and the tri-valley, 90s for the weekend, south bay seeing the temperatures in the upper 80s at times for saturday. now for a check of your morning commute, let's go to mike. >> all right rob, thanks again for covering double duty while i was gone. appreciate that. over here this often takes the brunt of the morning commute, bay bridge, right now the toll

plaza looking clear. there are some of the low clouds rob's talking about. we'll talk about that on our maps. smooth drive through the east bay, east shore freeway. 24, no real issues as far as traffic slow getting through the bay bridge. aside from low clouds. from time to time, right now visibility's just fine there. and it is our road weather index, traffic and weather maps tied together for the data. so i have this, the fog showing up where it's orange on the map. that's where the index says you might have trouble seeing in patches from 101 down in towards san rafael. watch that 37 as you're getting over towards 101 in nevado. that'll change over the course of the morning, no problems as a result by chp at least. over here, this is a problem, 101 southbound right at the sfo exit. we have reports of a crash, it's either affecting the onramp or off-ramp. as you're heading towards the area because the crash is blocking the slow lane. right now no slowing shows up there or anywhere else on the

peninsula though. 101 and 280 at speed throughout the south bay. remember, san jose unified kicked off the school week. we're going to see more of the school year yesterday. a lot more surface street traffic. westbound, more traffic because that's the volume of the commute coming westbound. 580, no big surprises. we'll look at fremont further between the the two shots south bay and the east bay. look at this, nice drive past the truck skams north and southbound smooth towards mission, back to you with the clear drive. >> thank you. highest ranking american troop to be killed in san francisco will be layed to rest today. army major general harold green will be buried at arlington national cemetery killed last week in afghanistan by a gunman at a training facility. the gunman was a military police officer who had reportedly been hiding in a bathroom. he was not an american military police officer, of course. 5:20 at a new york cemetery, race car driver kevin ward jr.

he was killed by nascar champion tony stewart. it happened on a dirt track before. accident stewart bumped ward, sending ward's car spinning into a wall. ward climbed out, gestured towards stewart's car. stewart couldn't stop in time and hit the 20-year-old. no charges have been filled, but the investigation is ongoing. a bay area mother hopes her story will help prepare parents who are about to send their kids off to college. debbie smith invited nbc bay area to watch lifetime channel's campus nightmares last night. they learned the episode about the death of her son matt. >> matt was in a fraternity, he was forced to chug gallons of water for hours while fans blew on his cold body and hundreds of push-ups, eventually had a seizure and died. the mother helped pass matt's law here in california which toughens the laws against hazing. >> i don't care where you send your child to school, and what they say, because hazing is the

best kept secret, and that is why it continues. >> she hopes to set up a national hotline for people to call when they see hazing in progress. some of the men who took part in hazing matt were convicted of felonies. 5:22, coming up, change of heart. why a bay area city will toss out a sex ed book. mark zuckerberg takes on the ice bucket. who he's now challenging coming up. sure... hey canyou bet! this? that's our new interactive speaker wall. 'sup? thinks it's a speak-ing wall. this can even dim your lights. your 3-d-printed girlfriend will love that. real mature. there you go. a laser drone for cats. i wish i had lasers. i don't. pew pew pew... the new radioshack is finally here. the store of your past is now the store of your future. come see one of our remodeled stores and get a free portable power charger with a $15 purchase.

you're watching "today in the bay." welcome back. today the holy grail of comic books is hitting the auction book. >> so rare, only a few dozens are believed to be in existence. a near preseen it copy of action comics number one, featuring superman's first appearance as being sold through ebay. its believed there are less than 50 unrestored copies left in the

world. it could reach more than $2 million. the original owner bought the book back in 1938, put it in a cedar box, preserving it. >> how cool. mark zurkerburg has been the late to take on the ice bucket challenge. he was called out by new jersey governor chris christie. >> governor, i accept your challenge. and after i dump this wukt of ice on my head, i goat nominate tle knew people -- >> he nominated bill gates, and reid haystings. they'll have to take it on to 24 hours. in the past week, everyone from kennedy to justin timberlake have taken part in the challenge. presumably, some of them also contributed. if everyone's just dumping ice, nobody's giving. >> i think they made a huge amount of money. >> i know my husband got the challenge.

hmm, i don't think he's take telephone just yet. he knows better than to challenge me. >> let's check that forecast now with rob, rob will do it. >> maybe we need to check in with him. >> yeah. this morning right now we have low clouds and fog around the bay area. look at san francisco, downtown clouds low enough, the city lights making the clouds glow for you this morning. 61 degrees right now. that fog thick in the north bay something that mike inouye is tracking this morning. as we head through the afternoon, skies will clear around san jose. upper 60s, closer to 60s. inland around pleasanton. santa rosa, about 81 degrees today, mike. hey rob, live look out here, look at this west 580. we already see the build coming already here westbound out of the altamont pass and in towards the dublin interchange. this is around el charro, tastz hare ra. this is the -- tassajara, starting to see the build right there. that's over it the past ten

minutes. volume coming out of the altamont pass. west 84 through the areas around the area, typical build there. north through san jose. we talked about the unified yesterday getting their kick off. morgan hill further south. watch the surface street. around the school zones, got to be careful. a lot of folks hitting the roads there. over on the peninsula 101 at southbound at sfo. we have a crash near the onramp and look at the golden gate bridge. the fog is not a factor coming from the north bay, back to you. 5:27, coming up, the textbook too racy for students in the bay area. plus a new law enforcement filed by the family of the victim on the asiana air crash, why crews didn't do enough to protect the teen.

asiana air crash at sfo, why the family of the teenager killed on the runway is suing san francisco. plus another night of violent protests in the streets of missouri.

bob redell tracking the very latest developments. he'll have an update for us next. and we're seeing a foggy start to the morning there in san francisco and temperatures this afternoon, approaching near 90 in the warmest places around the tri-valley. we'll talk more about a second half of the workweek warm-up coming up in just a couple minutes. so of course we're tracking how the fog will affect your drive into work this morning. right now crash near sfo. that will affect 101. and let's take a live look outside at the bay bridge. you can see the low hanging clouds. today's thursday, august 14th, and this is "today in the bay." from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." well good morning everyone, thank you for joining once i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. the city of san francisco is being sued by the family of a teenage girl struck and killed by a fire truck right after last year's asiana airlines crash. kris sanchez joins us live in burlingame this morning.

kris the family says the fire department did not do enough to protect their loved one. >> reporter: no, laura, these are pretty serious allegations. they say that the firefighters and the first responders were not only reckless, but that they were not properly trained to deal with a disaster on the scale that we saw last summer. the parents of 16-year-old ye ming say the daughter lay on the ground outside the wreckage of the plane and crews failed her on several occasions. it was certainly a chaotic scene as we can see from video from a camera mounted on a firefighter's helmet, but the parents contend that emergency personnel should have known how to deal with the disaster like that. asiana flight 214 charactered at sfo after hitting the sea wall during landing as the national transportation safety board determined it was too low and too slow. the san mateo county coroner concluded that she survived the crash, miraculously, but died after being run over by two different fire trucks.

video shows that the girl was covered in fire suppressing foam, but the family's attorney contend that responders knew she was there before the foam was deployed. her parents suit claims that quote, inexplicably they failed to treat her, mark her location, or remove her from the pearless condition and location i should say where she lay curled in the fetal position. san mateo county district attorney did not file criminal charges against any firefighter responding that day, saying that her death was a tragic accident. she was one of three people who died as a result of the crash. coming up in the next half hour, we'll talk about some of the other lawsuits still pending against asiana airlines because of that crash here at sfo. in burlingame, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> i think a lot of people expected it, thanks kris. developing right now, police in tactical gear, lobbing canisters of tear gas make a midwest suburb look like a video

out of the middle east. more unrest overnight as protesters and police try to beat each other back after the shooting death of an unarmed teen. "today in the bay's" bob redell joins us. this has got the president's attention. >> reporter: it has, good morning, scott. the situation so serious in ferguson, missouri, that president obama was briefed on it while on vacation. expected to be briefed again within the next few hours. the parents of michael brown, the 18-year-old man unarmed when he was shot several times and killed by a ferguson police officer saturday afternoon, they're calling for peace. so have local pastors, law enforcement, but that message is not getting through. at least not when night when the sun goes down on the st. louis suburbs. those are the sounds of smoke bombs and tear gas grenades that police have been lobbing at protesters overnight trying to enforce an order of no large crowds after dark. according to reports, police were provoked when some people had thrown molotov cocktails at

them. earlier in the day, police chief praised his officers show of restraints, saying that they have been shot at over recent days and it had rocks and bottles thrown at them. now that's not to say police have been appropriate in their response, for example, there are questions as to why two print reporters, one with the washington post, one with the huffington posts were cuffed and detained while working on their stories at a mcdonalds. >> slamming their sew dear machine, grab midbag, phone, and put me in temporary restraint. >> reporter: one reason they are so angry, ferguson police have refused to ieft officer who shot and killed michael brown. arguing there have been death threats made against this officer. and it could be a while before law enforcement releases details ebt the reported scuffle between brown and the officer that led to his shooting death. the st. louis prosecuting attorney says that evidence will need to be presented to a grand jury first, and that could take a couple of weeks. coming up, we'll show you what happened to one tv crew when they got too close last night. laura, scott.

>> all right bob, thank you much. it is 5:34. now to an update on a local story that's gotten national attention. a publisher is scrambling to revise a sex ed book that parents in fremont say is too graphic and inappropriate. last night at a fremont school board meeting, parents once again voiced their concerns about the book which was supposed to be given out to ninth graders this year. the school district voted to buy the books in june, be up there's been a huge backlash. more than 2200 people signed a petition saying it was too explicit. some of the language including descriptions of sexual practices. many people at last night's meeting agreed, others stood up for the textbook. >> these are thing i discussed with my future spouse a few months before we got married, not something that high schoolers should be discussing. >> if you listen to popular muszic, if you read popular book fwbs you see popular movies, none of the content in the book contains anything that our kids haven't already been exposed to.

>> the district has put the textbook on hold while the staff and publisher work on a revision. san francisco teachers are just days away from picking up the chalk, but fist they'll have to vote on whether to go on strike. the vote is the result of negotiations that have not led to a new contract. strike is still away's away though. depending on how the vote goes, teachers may have to take another vote before hitting the picket line. teachers want a 21% raise. district only wants to give them an 8.5% raise. speaking of school, welcome back to school, students returning to class this morning. this includes those in the jefferson union high school district, morg, hill unified, and students at mountain view st. francis high school and presentation in san jose. >> speaking of san jose, let's take a live look outside this morning. looking much more clear, rob mayeda joins us now with a back to school forecast. >> yeah the forecast this morning, we have clear skies over san jose, but other places dealing with quite a bit of low

clouds and fog including daly city. temperatures there around jefferson, 68 degrees through the afternoon today and morgan hill, one of the warmer spots approaching 90 about 4:00. into mountain view, st. francis, temperatures today in the low 80s and into san jose, presentation high school, looks good. we'll see numbers in the mid-80s this afternoon. so warm, but not exactly too hot for most of us as we go through the day. low clouds and drizzle will be the story of the morning then clearing quickly warming valleys heading into the afternoon. and the valley temperatures today making a run at the mid to upper 80s and the warmest place including morgan hill. 83 closer to downtown san jose. upper 60s for san francisco and for the north bay, you'll see highs in the low 80s with temperatures climbing into the mid to upper 80s around pleasanton and on our way to 90s through the weekend. warm start to the weekend, trending cooler approaching monday. now back from hawaii and back on traffic, we have mike. >> thanks rob, and thanks for

covering for both of us, traffic and weather. over here covering the cash lanes, these folks waiting in line. typical pattern here. fast track, not a problem, it's 5:37. we should see the lights turning on. we see a good volume coming down east shore freeway. no slowing right here, just a tad bit right at 16 miles per hour. not a concern right here approaching the berkeley curve. 24 as well as 580 and 880 moving smoothly. remember the traffic and weather systems are tied together, this orange here, that's weather data indicating there may be fog an issue for 101 on highway 37 through nevado. and further north through santa rosa, for example, patches of fog from time to time. just a note for the drivers up there. easy drive across the golden gate bridge, low clouds hovering around near sfo. southbound 101 right at the onramp as folks are joining from the airport. we have a crash blocking your slow lane. it's an easy light flow of traffic right now. the only slowing are blips as

the volume increases around 380. dumbarton bridges, the south bay and no major problems. just a build for northbound 101. typical including the trek through the tri-valley. upper 50s as you're approaching that dublin interchange still. also the bill for west 84 around there, the typical pattern here. no delays reported for the transit agencies. as schools come back online, more folks on the surface streets. use caution, be careful, and watch for the shorter pedestrians just around the hood level guys, be careful, back to you. >> fair enough, thanks mike. it is 5:39, up next, progress in iraq. why the u.s. says it will not have to air lift refugees trapped by isis militants. stephanie chuang live at candlestick park where paul mccartney is set to the put on a

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developing this morning in iraq, u.s. forces say the conditions of the country's refugees trying to escapist sis militants are not as grave as first reported. "today in the bay's" richard jordan live in washington, d.c., this morning with what the administration plans to do next. good morning, richard. >> reporter: hi laura, good morning. it was about 20 u.s. special forces that went to the top of that mourn in northwest iraq to assess the situation there. they say they found far fewer yazidi refugees than they had expected and those there still in the thousands, but they were

in better conditions than had been anticipated as well. the humanitarian air drops of food and water have been helping the refugees stay nurtured. also the air strikes pushing them back. now the u.s. intervention comes into play whether or not, or how far the u.s. will be involved here. the white house has said there will not be combat troops on the ground, that is still not a possibility here in iraq, but what they are considering is possibly supplying some air cover so that the kurdish fighters who have been taking on the isis militants on the ground can help to evacuate some of those refugees that have been stuck on the mountain, although this is some good news you could say because there is, there seems to be the u.s. efforts are paying off, it is still very dangerous there, those isis militants are still threatening to kill them because of their religious believes. we're also learning that britain plans to send special forces of their own to iraq much like the u.s. support team that is already there, laura. >> one to continue to follow,

thank you so much, richard. now despite briefly exchanging rocket fire across the border, israel and hamas say their truce is holding up. . cairo, both sides agreed to extend a cease-fire by five days. just minutes before the hold one was set to expire. the new truce will allow them to continue to negotiate to end the violence in gaza. hamas says important disagreements remain over the wording regarding security arrangements and reconstruction efforts for the gaza strip. police are scouring hours of surveillance video hopes to catch a glimpse of whoever beat a san francisco man to death. brian higgins was found brutally beatingen in castro district over the weekend. he never recovered. at the exact time higgins was taken off life support yesterday, many joined hands at the park and paid tribute to his life. >> we're all in shock and a little bit freaked out by the whole situation.

seems like we don't have all the facts yet either. that somebody would hurt him seems just insane. higgins was a member of the radical ferries. movement of gay men searching for spiritual dimensions of their sexuality. investigators say they do not know yet whether there was a hate crimes. new details on a reports of fire in cupertino. it was evacuated when people inside started smelling smoke. by the time firefighters arrived, they didn't see flames, but they did see lingering smoke in the air. because the mall is so large, firefighters called for back up to find where the smoke was coming from. eveningly there was a fire in a freight elevator near a movie theater, but the flames were put out by a sprinkler system. wolf road at interstale 280 was closed because there were so many fire trucks in the area. no one was hurt. 5:45, it is the last hurrah for the stick. paul mccartney will perform at candlestick park tonight, the

final event in the historic venue. >> so want a ticket, but it's a somd out show, but expected to have 49,000 people pack their stands. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang live at candlestick park, steph, even sir paul excited for this one. >> reporter: good morning, 49,000 people expected to show up at the stadium here, the former home of the giants and the 49ers. we can hear the buzz of the lights that are on right now. typically they are not, but they're on 14 hours ahead of the show slated to begin at 8:00 tonight. the parking lot opens at 3:00. doors open at 5:00. the message, get here early. its been 48 years to the month, that was august 29th, 1966, that was the third and last commercial tour of the betty unless america. tonight mccartney is set to perform three hours featuring some of the most famous songs. spanning his career from his

years as a solo art tois wings and of course a member of the beatles. now here's a little part of mccartney's message to fans about his night here at the stick. >> it's actually going to be the last night, we're closing it down. >> candlestick. >> there's going to be a very emotional night, going to be a great night, we are going to rock. i have some very special memories, as you know -- >> candlestick. >> of candlestick park. come along. >> reporter: nice view of the fun to be had here tonight. there will be state of the art technology, highest production values here as you would manage. lasers, massive screens, fireworks, our chopper, nbc bay area chopper was able to get the shots of people working on the set yesterday. some of the preparation included setting up a big stage on the ten yard line. lots open at 3:00 here. this is cash only for parking, $100 her bus. and only taxis and muni for drop off and pick up.

back in 1966 for the beatles last show, it was not sold out, i'm told it was 25,000 tickets sold out of 42,000. that's of course very different in this time. tickets were 450 to 650. this time if you were lucky to get a ticket, it was $50 to about $250. so a big difference there laura and scott. coming up in half hour, actually found a nice gem of a selfie taken here by the beatles. and we'll have that coming up. >> that's cool. >> reporter: live at the stick, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> what a good show. my sister saw him in southern california and said it was phenomenal. >> three hour show, that's incredible. >> yeah. exactly. yeah, it's cool out there for candlestick, but we have a big event opening up this weekend. that is levi stadium. >> that's right. >> as we open up the brand new stadium, preseason football, broncos versus 49ers should be quite nice this weekend. it'll see temperatures climbing into the mid-80s with mostly sunny skies around santa clara

as we head through the weekend. and that's a sneak preview of the warming temperatures we'll see here over the next couple of days. right now this morning, you have career skies in san jose, over towards downtown san francisco. that's where the fog has been thick this morning. the fog at times reducing down to a half mile of parts of the north bay. the trend, well it's a summer time trend we see with the low clouds inland for the morning, staying out on the coast for the afternoon and doesn't look like any monsoon moisture. but what we'll see is a granl yul warm-up for the inland valleys, in fact for places like pleasanton and out towards the tri-valley, you're going to nice the warm-up today carry through the start of the weekend. temperatures climbing up into the upper 80s today then low 90s saturday and sunday, and the culprit here will be, we still get a breezy afternoon, the winds inland will not be the as strong. we have an on shore push to bring the low clouds in, the wind speeds around fairfield and livermore will back off a bit as the marine layer gets compressed down. so if you want to find the heat, the valleys will be the places

for you. we'll see a big spread of temperatures from the upper 60s, closer to san francisco to the upper 80s today around the pleasanton. that trend should carry through, if not get slightly warmer for places like the tri-valley as we head into the weekend. today around san jose, 83 degrees. planes temperatures in the midup toer 0u. foster city about 75 degrees and as you heard, candlestick closing down after the paul mccartney concert. temperatures cool. we have the numbers in the 60s for you this evening. breezy and cool with low clouds and fog. north bay, clouds in the low 80s and pleasanton and livermore, highs preaching 90. we're looking toward the golden gate bridge with some of that sort of visible. glow to the lights and it's hard to see the south tower, can't see the north tower. so far its all right. i just saw the crew late moving that cone over there preparing for the morning commute as well. finally finishing that work, look at the bay bridge where we have this work just getting started here as we have the

metering lights turned on a few minutes ago, about seven minutes ago and filling in the entire toll plaza. lanes past the overcrossing for all the lanes. a little bigger build off the berkeley curve. we're talking about the north bay, north of the golden gate bridge. patches of fog possibly down to 50 feet of visibility in some spots. 50 yards i should say as we're looking at a smooth drive. it's going to be tougher to see in patches for 101. we're not going to have time to issue in that anyway. east bay, typical drive, east shore freeway, upper east shore, smooth drive off the bridges. we're looking at antioch with the typical flow for highway 84 and standard build as well for 580 westbound through the tri-valley. no surprises for 84 or the dublin interchange and that nice easy drive down south through sunol. the south bay itself, northbound routes start a build for northbound 101. watching for slowing down starting to register for south 17 approaching 85. likely just a burst of traffic.

we'll track that and of course the crash over by sfo southbound 101 has your slow lane blocked. no injuries there. back to you guys. >> thank you, mike. for millions of fans, the shocking death of robin williams is still raw. his loss was felt on broadway last night. the great white way went dark as the silent salute. the marquees of the new york theaters killed in williams's memory. known for movies and standup comedies, he did star in productions including a show costarring steve martin. he started in 2011 with bengal tiger at the baghdad zoo. daughter of robin williams suspending her twitter and instagram accounts because of hurtful messages. he spoes posted her raw reactions on twitter. thousands of people of course showed their support online, but a couple sent hurtful messages instead. and even tweeting her photoshopped pictures of what they claimed were her dad's body. >> abuse doesn't thyme promote any particular public value.

it just aims to cause pain for pain's sake. >> twitter deactivated the accounts. technology, ethics professors say people should not be disheartened by trolls because they represent an incredibly small minority. well its been a steady stream of support for williams and his friends and fellow comedians sharing memories of his life. to read more, go to nbcbayarea.com. it is 5:53, still ahead on "today in the bay," encouraging you to give blood. how the giants are raising awareness for the nationwide blood shortage.

you're watching "today in the bay." welcome back to you, 5:55. live look at at&t park this

morning. giants are enjoying a day off before welcoming in the phillies tomorrow. that game can be seen right here on northbound bay area -- nbc bay area and coverage starts at 7:00. entertaining yesterday. with this play at home, watch gregor blanco is out by a mile, but the catcher blocked the plate, you can't do that because of the rule change. here comes the white sox coach. the change sparked by that devastating collision. of course it took out buster posey a couple years ago. calls reversed, blanco safe, giants score seven times in the inning. beat the white sox 7-1. well couple of the giants will spend their day off encouraging people to donate blood. >> infielders brandon crawford and joaquin arias are going to greet and thank owners at the ymca blood drive. it comes when the red cross is in dire need. they're going to post for photos, sign autographs, the blood drive itself running from 10:00 this morning until 4:00.

>> probably hold you up if you're weak in the knees. 5:5 of right now. molotov cocktails explode in the streets. tear gas too coming up. new developments on the violence in missouri sparked by deadly police shooting. and spoke forces dozens of out of a popular south bay movie theater. what firefighters are telling thus morning about a late night fire at valco shopping mall. and out live in san jose this morning as the sun comes up, it's back to school for so many kid. back in a moment.

chaos in the streets as protesters clash with police. new details about the escalating tensions fueled by a deadly shooting. plus the south bay mall evacuated as smoke creeps into a movie theeter. >> i remember seeing clear skies in san jose right now with fog around san francisco and temperatures heading into the

afternoon climbing into the mid-80s to near 90 in parts of the south bay. a look at your forecast straight ahead. that fog will make the lights tougher to see on the commute. we see the lights backed up because the metering lights are on. update on the crash right near sfo, coming up. looking live outside, golden gate bridge, you can still make it out despite the fog for this thursday, august 14th, and this is "today in the bay." from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." and a very good morning to you, thanks for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. overnight molotov cocktails answered with tear gas for the fourth straight night protester in the med west rage out of control sending the media running for their lives. this is all in response to the officer shooting and killing of an unarmed teenager near st.