"today in the bay." and a good friday morning to you, it's 4:30, i'm sam brock. >> i think you stressed that friday a little, right? well if you didn't, we would. i'm laura garcia-cannon. right christina, she has a look at the friday forecast. >> yeah, we made it together. and you know what, it's going to be an absolutely lovely weekend all across the bay area. temperatures right now, comfortable, we're in the 60s just about everywhere. 62 for concord. 63 in oakland. and there is some fog out there this morning, especially right by the water. here's san francisco, mostly clear for now in pleasanton. between about 7:00 and 9:00, low

clouds. here in san jose, so clear you can see the slither of a moon out there, mike, overall looking for the weekend. over to you. we have an issue right now, christina, we're looking towards 580 and the live shot will show you a smooth slow heading westbound. that's in through dublin. look at the maps. we have the construction typical for 580 around highway 84. airways where things clear up in the westbound direction. as some use highway 84 to cut through pleasanton. right now that's a problem because right around the southside of 84 heading toward the sunol merge with 680, we have reports of of a head on collision. we don't have a lot of details on the injuries involved, but i'm imagining there are at least some with al head on collision and there is one lane in each direction blocked. expect slowing although i don't expect. if they don't know when lanes will reopen. we'll talk about more of the north bay coming up.

back to you, laura. >> thank you very much, mike. sacramento patient being held over fears of ebola does not have the deadly virus. the blood test results came back negative. the patient was admitted tuesday due to fears of possible exposure to the virus in west africa. in the men time, two american aid -- meantime, who american aid workers are waking up in their own beds this morning. kent brantly walked out of the hospital in atlanta yesterday after doctors declared he was virus-free. he spoke to crowds of media, calling his recovery miraculous. we've also learned the other aid worker, nancy writebol was quietly discharged earlier this week. she's now home with her husband. this morning in the "today show" writebol's two sons will talk about their mother's experience and really that amazing recovery. it's coming up on the today show at 7:00. >> looking forward to that. meantime back here in the bay area, family of a san francisco man shot and killed by

police officers earlier this year is now suing the city. this morning, alex's family is holding a remembrance ceremony at the park where she was shot in march. police say he pointed a taser at officers whom mistook it for a real gun. this afternoon the family will march across san francisco and hold a rally at the federal building where they will file a lawsuit officially against the city. police are hoping new video can help them track down whoever beat a san francisco man to death. police are calling the man in a video a person of interest for the killing of brian higgins. higgins was found brutely beaten in the castro nearly two weeks ago. this video shows a man chasing higgins the morning he was found unconscious in the triangle nand. he was take nl off life support last week. he was member of the radical ferries, a movement of gay men searching for a spiritual dimension to their sexuality.

the names of the officers involved in the pepper spray incident at uc davis in 2011 are now public. the california supreme court upheld a lower courts ruling that the public has the right to know the names of all police officers involved. if you'll recall, the video that went viral in november of 2011 when campus police pepper sprayed the protesters. the names of the officers involved were removed. last night, the full report including names were made public. the group friends of the berkeley tuolumne camp will hold a special event tonight to mark one year since the devastating rim fire. tonight, the nonprofit group will hold a campfire sing along at the park in berkeley. starts at 5:30d. the sing along is one of three planned by that group. it'll also hold a candle light vigil on monday. the next monday there will be a fund raising golf tournament to help rebuild the camp. the rim fire was one of the

largest and most devastating wild fires in state history. earlier this month, prosecutors charged keith emerald for starting the fire. he pleaded not guilty. emerald apparently started a campfire that then grew yonld his control. he's currently out on bail. if convicted, he faces 11 years in prison and more than half a million dollars in fines. move to reopen a beach does now awaiting the governor's approval. the state senate passed a bill yesterday calling for negotiations to give access to the public to martin's beach. a man owns the land and closed four years ago. the new legislation would give him one year to work out a deal with state authorities to allow beach access. if there's no deal, the state would use its power of eminent domain to acquire the land and reopen it to the public. santa clara county officials are responding to concerns about the uptick in west nile fogging. according to the mercury news.

a part of the spraying say there's few in the past decade. they say television unnecessary -- it's unnecessary. vector control planned another round of spraying around the capitol expressway automall. it's 4:36, 49ers still breaking in their new stadium, but a major problem has come up. >> just a few month's ago, the field crew was laying the fresh turf on the field, yesterday the field was all dirt once again. est that not good. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live outside the stadium. bob, you already saw new turf brought in this mortgage, right? >> reporter: correct with the idea being it'll be installed later this morning. the 49ers expressed confidence that the field will be ready for sunday's preseason game. and the turf company while not allowed to comment did tell me that everything was going to be okay. in spite of the fact that the playing surface itself is still parked outside the stadium. you're looking at the rolls upon

rolls of new sod waiting to be installed some time later this morning. we've counted five truckloads so far. and based on the conversation with one of the delivery truck drivers, the team will be reinstalling the same kind of sod. it's a strain of grass that the team has chosen because it needs less water and can handle the riggers of an nfl game, though that has not provening to the case so far. yesterday the organization, you're looking at video from chopper tore up a huge section of the original sod. we're talking about 100 yards long by roughly, maybe 25 to 30 yards wide. it's a very large section of the field. taking out because of proks with the playing surface. these are problems that became apparent during wednesday's open practice when a couple of players slipped during maneuvers as pierces of the field came up. they became so bad that coach harbaugh called practice and moved to the training field next door. apparently the sod hadn't taken root yet, even though it was planted about four months ago.

source within the city of sanlt clara tells us that the grass isn't the problem, it's the sand underneath given that the original sodded did not take root over time, it's not clear why the team thinks that this new sod will be ready for the 49ers preseason game on sunday when there's only just around 48 hours left. reporting live here at levi stadium in santa clara, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> it's crazy how much water they're using as well. >> one quick question, it took four months potentially for the sod to take the first time around, how are league officials are going to handle that will if it doesn't take? >> reporter: well the 49ers, they only rel leelgsed the statement -- released a statement wednesday, we reached out yesterday and they referred us back to the statement. we were going to reach out again this morning so see if they have new information. again, as it stands right now. the field inside levi stadium, that huge chunk is there, the grass itself, we just saw those trucks driving by wnl the past

few moments, they're parked outside. if you can do the math, you have the lob nature, things take time to root, you can't make it, unfortunately there's no miracle grow that can make things grow faster than you'd like them to. so it'd be interesting to see what the work around will be. >> no kidding. thanks so much. there is. doesn't grow that fast. >> the league will wait to decide whether the field is safe for sunday's preseason game. if it does cancel the game, it would not be the first time field problems stopped play. in august. dwon, the philadelphia game was called off because of unplayable fields. and in august of 1995:00 with the san diego houston game was canceled because of the field at the astro dome was unsafe. you know what, there's candle stick. >> tell me something good. that's very great. more importantly we have a weekend come og up ahead of a us -- coming up, ahead of us, all important weekend. >> we have to get to work as well this morning and weeks away

from the first regular season game, september 11th, the steelers taking on the ravens. and yeah, that is just a couple weeks away. hard to believe football season has almost begun officially. 61 degrees in san francisco. we're at 63 in san carlos, and 62 degrees in san jose. so a really good looking day and a gorgeoust your way. not too hot, if you want to get0

that big rig was not wunl of the duothat was hit head on. it was there as a secondary i believe, minor injuries is the update. minor injuries at most, and again like i said, somebody ran away from the scene as well. we're still getting more details from chp, likely they'll tell us when that is cleared. this is a factor forfolks who travel westbound 580 and jump off at north livermore and avoid the construction slow down. there may be a slow down because they're removing debris, one lane in each direction. that is it the issue as you head into our out of livermore. south 680, there's debris in the roadway, but nothing dramatic as far as the slowing, and i don't know what that debris is, just there's a crew heading there to clear whatever it is. smooth drive to the bay bridge, quick look shows you no problems, no backup and no problems on the peninsula either. smooth drive for 10e 1. back to you. >> thank you, mike. possible change to your morning commute, crews worked early this morning to shift the

680 north carolina onramp at mission boulevard in fremont back to the way that it was. construction crews had to make a temporary change to the ramp so they could replace and retrofacility water pipelines, we're happy to report that work is now done. it is 4:42, stick around for this. christina loren does the ice bublgt challenge. we're going to show you the drought-friendly alternative she picked. >> of course still ecoconscious. could the south basis become the new napa valley? the new effort to attract wine connoisseurs next. and a bay area football team hits the big screen. when the game stands tall opens nationwide today. we'll take a look, coming up.

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ret mains of 20d malaysians was shot down over ukraine arrived in kuala lumpur today. the victims were received in a solemn ceremony on the runway. they were draped with a malaysian flag and carried by soldiers to waiting cars before being taken to private funerals. all 298 people on board the

flight from amsterdam died last month when the plane was shot down over rebel held territory in eastern ukraine. chilling warning from chuck hagel, he says the threat by isis is beyond anything we've seen. in a briefing at the pentagon yesterday, hagel said the u.s. must prepare for everything. the terror group has threaten to execute a second american journalist steven sotloff if the u.s. does not end air strikes in iraq. he was kidnapped about a year ago. earlier this week, militants beheaded american journalives james foley. >> they are imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it's in iraq or anywhere else. >> while the president promises the u.s. will not be on the ground in iraq, state department asked for 300 more troops to secure u.s. facilities there. the government is now investigating gm accusing its employees of concealing evidence about the faulty ignition

switches that led to a number of deaths. bertha coombs live this morning, good morning and what do you know about the investigation? >> good morning, sam. according to the wall street journal, federal investigators from the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office here in new york are looking into whether employees of general motors legal department willfully concealed evidence from regulators about that faulty ignition switch that led to a massive recall revenue vehicles. according to the journal, this latest round of scrutiny is looking at gm's legal department and adds to larger possible criminal probe into the misconduct of the car company. futures this morning were pointing to a flat open at this hour after we saw the s&p 500 yesterday close at its 28th record high of the year. today, we're going to get

earnings before the bell from couple of retailers, locklocker and -- footlocker and ann taylor. stocks rallying yesterday popping the dow back above 17,000, gaining six points for the dow. the nasdaq was up five points to 4532 and we are within 10 points of s&p 2,000. bad news meantime for jell-o makers. jell-o is alive was the old slogan, maybe it's time for something new. jell-o sales have slimmed almost -- slipped almost 20d % from -- 20% from five years. it is falling out of favors as folks feed their kids greek yogurt instead. and college students aren't doing jell-o shots nim. >> i'm not sure that's accurate. we need to look into that more. >> see, its been so long since i've been in, but that was the

last time i had jell-o. >> fair enough, thank you bertha. i want to check in with hey, take a look at this. oh my gosh, this is what you've got to see. christina loren promised to take the ice bucket change p challenge. oh, did she deliver. she's cool as a cucumber. christina doing the responsible thing as a meteorologist dealing with the drought, she's the ice cold bucket of coconut water instead. >> she got a hug, how about that? >> also that hug, you have to know the truth. coconut water, good for your hair, good for your hair. you might consider that, californians. 61 zreez in san francisco. 62 in san jose and temperatures are going to be really comfortable all weekend long. we have the fog setting in right along the coastline this morning. not much to show you here from high atop mt. hamilton. the lights throughout the day, more of the same, temperatures down by a couple degrees from

yesterday's high. yesterday was rather warm. 83 degrees from 85. 67 san francisco, 77 on the east shore, and the peninsula is at 80 degrees. so we have a lot to go over this morning. there's a lot happening across the bay area. first event i want to talk about is in san ramone, have you ever wanted to watch a movie while floating in an inner tube? tonight you'll get a chance. it's a dive in movie. and yeah, they're going to have free popcorn, the event is entirely free for you. otherwise, superb summer weekend all across the state of california, lake tahoe looking good, mid-70s for you all weekend long. if you want to head up to the russian river valley, warm, but not bad. mid to low 80s, and also good 17 mile drive, beautiful weekend for that. central coast, mid-70s all weekend long. as we meet back here next week. not much to tellout about except for the fact that temperatures will climb. tuesday into wednesday, you'll notice that warm yum, then towards the end of the week, you see here we get even warmer.

but got a lot to go over as you know, we have that game happening in the santa clara, and a couple issues when it comes to the new stadium when it comes to the heat coming in. we're going to talk about that coming up larlt, but right now back to you sam and laura. >> picture perfect weekend in store, thank you, christina. when you think of california wine, south bay may not be the first place that you conjure up in your mind. new wine trail hopes to change that impression. santa clara board of supervisors will launch the santa clara valley wine trail. the trail will do that. morgan hill, gilroy, and sarnt clara county. >> there are some good wines. >> looking good, the trail is on. the storied history of a bay area high school team, football team i should say hits theaters nationwide this morning. don't let a game define who you are, but the way you live your lives through that. >> that speech came after

delasalle had its 151 consecutive winning streak snapped. when the game stands tall, highlights, what led up to the game including the death of a teammate clarence kelly. also focuses on former head coach bob lacer who led the team during the 12 year winning streak. he's played by jim. zblnl you know, you can play jesus, but there's no footage on him. and people will remember judge pretty hard. >> we had a really tough time getting that team started, overcame a lot of adversity, and that's basically what the film is about, it's overcoming obs kms too. >> he retired as the team's head coach last year but helps out as an assistant coach. current plays say it's featured in this new movie. got to the check it out. >> very neat. 4:52 on your friday morning, amazing nut video to show you, police get slammed into by a wrong way driver.

what we're learning about the man behind the wheel, next. i'm faming a head on crash over there between livermore and sunol. here we're getting ready for the morning commute, they have the cones con figured for last night, we'll track this as well coming up.

you're watching "today in the bay." police in britain just released dramatic video of a car going the wrong way and crashing into a patrol car.

>> he's going to hit, he's going to hit, he's going to hit. >> oh my. >> terrifying. than video was shot with a dash board camera. as you heard one of the officer repeat dliz shouting he's going to hit us as the car slams into that police cruiser. police say the driver was a 77-year-old man with dementia and was not hurt in the crash. one of the officers suffered minor injuries. >> wow, they're lucky it wasn't worse. i want to check in fact the morning commute this morning, there are problems out there, how's it looking, mike? >> we're also lucky that this head on crash wasn't worse. we're talking highway 84. sunol, the transition there, around the ge plant, maybe closer towards the ruby hill area. we have reports that two cars crashed head on was the description, then the update on a location and the incident say you are still debris in the area, but minor injuries at most, one person ran away from the scene, they were mobile at least. we're watching for the lanes to reopen. chp doesn't know when that will be, concern, but not a huge as

because that's the morning commute starting westbound 84 with the flowing. typical pattern there, we'll track this again. rest of the bay moving smoothly. san jose in the south bay just cut off from the map, there's a light volume, predictable for a friday and across the bay bridge, smooth drive as well. clear view between san francisco and oakland. back to you. >> doesn't look real, thanks. 4:57 on your friday, berkeley police on the lookout for a missing woman. details for you next. family divided, how the death of this little girl is tearing one san francisco family apart.

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a run rise individual sl about to get under -- vigil is about to get under way for a san francisco man shot and killed by police in march. what his family is planning to do. new sod being rolled in in santa clara early this morning. the vush on. the latest on efforts to make that field ready for sunday's game. >> and we're going to take a look at the forecast for that game for today, you made it to

friday, spectacular conditions coming your way. cloudy start, collage yul clearing, and -- gradual clearing and comfortable finish. the crew is moving the cones, no alarm there, we have a crash still waiting to hear about the clearing that's going on for highway 84 causing a problem if folks are heading out of livermore in towards sunol, coming up. a lot of things going on on this friday morning, august 22nd, we have you covered, this is "today in the bay." from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> and a very good friday morning to you, thanks for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. happening right now, family and friends are holding a sunrise vigil for a man shot and killed by san francisco police. the shooting happened earlier this year at the park. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang joins us live by the vigil. stephanie the