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surprised firefighters again. heart stopping video, a driver rescued just in the nick of time. >> announcer: from nba bay area, this is "today in the bay." a good tuesday morning. thank you for joining us, i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. we do have an swrup tate to breaking news. a hayward neighborhood shut down at this hour. police have swarmed the area to investigate reports of a shooting. it's apg near the corner of arf and morningside in hayward. we started hearing about some sort of incident about 1:00 this morning. the area has been blocked off for police investigation and our crew at the scene tells us a coroner's van just left that area where someone died. these are live pictures from the scene. it looks like some of -- or the patrol cars have blocked offer that area we were talking about. we will of course bring you any updates when we can.
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the rocky fire raging on with no end in sight. as of this morning these,ñm mase flames burned through near 100 square miles of dry rugged per rain not far from clearlake, about 100 miles north of san francisco. >> this animation puts it into perspective how much that this had fire has grown since it broke out last week. at one point it took just five hours for the fire to grow 20,000 acres, "today in the bay" kris sanchez following the story for us. firefighters say this fire is like nothing they have ever seen before. >> reporter: because this is the first fire am this rare area in recorded history. it is prime for, the fuels are bone dry from our years of record drought. veteran firefighters are saying they have never seen anything like it this before. they may not ever again. the fire is so voracious, continuing to grow, continuing to defy efforts to contain t although firefighters held the line at 12% containment, the
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fire jumped a fire line, a major one, overnight. the flames spreading across highway 20 with the winds pushing the fire north toward thousands of homes. cal fire says the fire is driven by plumes that rise up and then create new paths for the fire. >> once it gets heavy hundred it just falls down and spreads the fire in all kinds of directions and that creates all kinds of challenges. >> i've been a firefighters for almost 20 years, i've near 30 year and 40 year firefighters say this is unprecedented. >> reporter: other resources are pouring in. we told you about the two air force reserve c-130 that are dropping water and fire restart dant. it's one of 21 fires burning in the state but is getting a lot of resources. state wide there are 134,000 acres on fire right now, nearly half of them are burning in the rocky fire. of the 9,000 firefighters on duty in our state, nearly a third are near clearlake.
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they must be exhausted at this point, they have been on that fire fight for six days now and cal fire estimates it will not be con and i until at least monday. >> as you mentioned that fatigue has are really got to be setting in for these thousands of firefighters. they are not only dealing with the rocky fire but nearly two dozen other wildfires burning in california. in fact, take a look at this map, you can see there are 21 fires across the state. many of them sparked by lightning. nearly 140,000 acres of land are on fire right now. on an average year cal fire says about 50,000 acres of burned land -- it happens because of fire fires is usually normal. >> 50,000 normal a, we are at 134,000 right now. our coverage of these wildfires continues more throughout the morning. we will have a live report from the fire line in lake county. that comes up in our mention half hour. for updates you can always visit nbcbayarea.com or download our
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an. new this morning flames and destruction closer to home. in san jose this is what's left after a fire ripped through a backyard barn in the downtown area overnight. it happened on ooe william court not far from the 101/280 interchange. several trees also caught on fire. we are told the flames did not reach any nearby homes. no one was hurt and no cause. it was a matter of milliseconds as you just saw. that car spun on to the tracks before being struck by a rain and then deputies in sunnyvale at the right place at the right tile rescue a driver moments before a caltrain slams right into his car for a second time. this happened last night at the intersection of mary and west evelyn avenues. "today in the bay" bob redell joins us live from the scene this morning. bob, crews are still working to repair some of that damage. the story, though, is the rescue. >> reporter: those workers have been working overnight to repair that damaged signal equipment,
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sam, they mary avenue caltrain crossing in sunnyvale. it looks like they should be wrapping up soon. one worker did he will it us whatever they're doing right now will not affect service during the morning commute. now, this is what caused the damage to the crossing. you're looking at youtube video of the collision last night happening around 6:45 between a cal rain and car that was stuck on the tracks. law enforcement tells us the driver who they believe was drunk tried to beat the oncoming train, got stuck by the crossing kbat and because he was so impaired just sat there and he could have been killed or seriously hurt if it weren't for two san mateo transit deputies who happened to be nearby. while one of the deputies tried to warn the train the other dragged the man who they believe was in his 20s, dragged him from the car a couple seconds before the train slammed into his vehicle. >> these deputies did not hesitate, they acted. had they not acted who knows what would have happened. i believe because of their actions this person is alive
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today. >> reporter: deputies did handcuff the young pan, again, they are looking into whether or not he might have been drinking and driving. reporting live in sunnyvale, bob redell, "today in the bay." 6:06. a follow-up this morning, this is the story we first told you about yesterday, an suv suddenly accelerating while going through a car wash and crossing several lanes of traffic. now car wash employees say it wasn't the first time. the 1999 jeep grand cherokee suddenly accelerated out of a car wash in greenbrae over the weekend and across 101. luckily the employee wasn't hurt. he says the jeep was in neutral when it took off. people at other car washes have reported similar problems with that type of car. the chp says water may be short-circuiting the vehicle's electronics. >> we are doing research that indicates there may be a recall involving these vehicles. we did take the vehicle to be inspected by chp investigators.
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>> a source tells us the car wash is considering banning some jeep grapd cherokees. moments ago jeep responded to those claims. a spokesperson says jeeps don't take off by themselves and the cause of the incident is employees hitting the accelerator. former 49er ray mcdonald scheduled to appear in a south bay courtroom where he may be answering to domestic violence charges. last month santa clara prosecutors child him. they said he assaulted his ex fiancé as she was holding theiren fant child. mcdonald is accused of violating a restraining order. west nile concerns are causing vector teams on the peninsula to spray tomorrow night. redwood city and blanford boulevard. canyon road.
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mosquito fogging begins tomorrow at 9:00. time for a check of your microclimate forecast at 6:07 as we take a live look outside at the lush green sunol hills. oh, wait a minute. no. that's not the case. they're brown. >> good thing, we can't sell that, but we hope to sell the fact temperatures have come down and will stay down for a period of time. >> nice mild week ahead. as we go into the day we will start to see a few more clouds moving in, but we have a mostly clear start across the bay and then i think by midmorning we will start to see some high clouds streaming in. as we go into the afternoon expect highs to top out -- look at that -- 72 degrees in the east bay, peninsula 76 degrees, 80 degrees in the south bay and san francisco 69 degrees, 72 in the east bay while the rael tops out at 83 degrees. great weather today but then we get ready for temperatures to warm up as we go through the rest of the week. i will talk more about that in a few minutes. let's see how that traffic is
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moving with mike. kari, barrel, let's say that. for the bay bridge toll plaza, but at all is what we want and that's good enough store the past track lanes. this is the backup getting to the meet length lights, look at your map and you have a smooth drive across that span. typical backup there. look at all these crashes on the nimitz freeway. now, southbound there are two crashes reported but the details are identical so we will say one crash near the oak street off ramp southbound 880, no slowing shows up there. northbound at san leandro and davis street, still reportedly blocking your fast lane. still we're watching that three. the other cash on alameda over on the island. traffic not affecting to or from that portion of the east bay. smooth flow of traffic, steady build out of livermore and out of the altamonte. we have the slowing, a smoother drive knew less an ton. north of the san mateo bridge
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the build is on in the south bay in the san jose northbound 101 and we do see a mild build. this is what we see for most of 101. that one car is pulled over at the gorr point that's where the two roads come together or depart. when we talk about gorr point that's what we mean. >> which looks a little dangerous. >> yeah, but it's better than being in lanes. >> that's true. something else you are probably looking at these days is waste going on in the peninsula right now, a busy intersection in palo alto is closed to crews can install new traffic signals. here is new video of the area we're talking about, several lanes of embarcadero road near town and country village in palo alto high school are shut down until 7:00 this morning. only one lane in each direction is open to traffic right now. maybe it's a good thing school is not in session. >> that's what i was just thinking. >> if you are familiar with that area you know how crammed up it can get, it gets backed up for miles. the new signals reportedly come
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with an improved timing program. 6:10. still ahead, calling for change, the new push to get more women working in the booming tech industry. >> and shares in twitter will begin at all time lows. we will take a look what went wrong with that company coming up in business and tech. pors . p-g-and-e wants you to get paid
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more - for switching to solar. =vo= the utility filed a op morning. pg&e wants you to get paid more for switching over to solar. the utility filed a proposal yesterday asking state regulators to offer more incentives which include smaller electricity bills and bigger credit for people who produce more energy than they use. the public utilities commission says it is considering that proposal and planning several hearings to talk about it. some people get stereo typical here. picture in your head a silicon valley engineer, many have the
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same image. >> shattering the stereotypes. some women engineers are trying to do just that. >> an effort they call i look like an engineer. came out of an advertising campaign, sam, but it's taken a life of its own on twitter. engineers posting their own self-portraits to twitter with the #i look like an evening gear. my favorite is i look like an engineer because i am an engineer. >> intel which has already promised ten of millions of dollars in women education says it will pay $4,000 to any employee to successfully recommends a woman, a minority or veteran for a position at intel. intel has promised its employee population is going to match the population of the u.s. by the year 2020. obviously it this sets up a situation where employees are driven to choose thom nagt coworkers possibly for the money. intel says it knows that but
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still thinks it's worthwhile to help it find employees which would not be normally exposed. so this is the rank and file we have been talking about. we're making progress with the employee numbers, even the executive numbers had. where silicon valley is not making progress is up it at the venture capital level. that's still a boys' club. today venture cap lists are in washington, d.c. pushing for diversity. >> reporter: there's concern that perhaps not enough diversity in representation at the vc level may mean minority entrepreneurs are not getting the same level or enough attention. a recent driver of this discussion is that ellen powell versus kleiner perkins lawsuit that powell sued her former employer for gender discrimination argue that the vc firm did not promote her because she's a woman. she lost that case but it did generate a lot of top. the trade group, which was just formed in december, will tail a plan at the white house swrout
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lining steps for diversity. maybe better human resources policies and more studies measuring diversity. the numbers are not too good. according to a 2011 study by dow jones only 1% of vc partners are african-american and less hand 1% are latino while a ba bson college study said the numbers went down from 10% to 6% in 2014. a silicon valley valley husband and wife are announcing a pledge of $40 million during the neck three years, two initiatives dedicated to gives women and underrepresented minorities more opportunities at becoming entrepreneurs. all of this is happening at the first ever white house demo day, it's happening wherein straighters will be featured from across america. a pretty big stage we are talking about here. >> absolutely. thank you. shares in twitter hit an all time low on monday, the company
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is going to open this morning at 29.25. twitter startled the tech world last week when it said it essentially stopped growing with just 3% more users now than the previous financial quarter. you can interpret that as anyone who wants to use twitter is using twitter, people who don't want to use twitter are not going to use twitter and that may be the total of its growth unless it changes something. >> which will be interesting, unless it can make more monetizing or something, but that might anger users. >> you don't think of twitter as niche bottom line. >> we don't. do you know what, it is. >> interesting. 6:17. all right. ladies, how many of you grab maybe a little cardigan before you head out the door even in the summertime? women in the workplace often teal they're working in a refrigerator. new information may point out why. researchers in the netherlands uncovered the temperature in many offices based on the needs of men. apparently men have faster metabolic rates so they are more
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comfortable when it's cooler and women in the summer are likely to wear lighter clothing when men wear suits and ties all year long. >> i will take off this jacket and put it over you. >> now, that's a true gentleman. here is your microclimate forecast. a look outside from the san bruno mountains. what looks like a nice start, a mild start and that's probably what is in order here as well. by the way, i would lend you my jacket, too, carrie. >> i will be able to turn off the space heater, too. it feels cool this morning pot just inside the newsroom here. this is outside as we get a nice start to the day as we take a live look at the bay bridge and things are looking great. you don't see those typical low clouds. anytime we start to feel subtropical moisture moving in we have a very interesting sunrise and sunset is. as you head out none of those thick clouds and fog this morning and this is a look from
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mt. hamilton. a mostly clear but the clouds will start to move in with cooler temperatures today and a bit more cloud cover this afternoon with some mild weather. slowly clearing in spots later on this evening, sunset at 8:12. temperatures in the mid 60s in livermore while san francisco is now at 61 degrees. so once again, we are seeing some subtropical moisture moving in and look at where it's coming from. tropical storm guillermo, that's streaming that moisture all the way up toward the bay area and we will see more crowds moving in. guillermo right now is producing winds at about 70 miles an hour. the good thing is that this storm will weaken and head just to the north of hawaii as we go into the next couple of days. not producing much of an influence on our weather the next couple of days. a few more clouds and pileder weather. tomorrow more clearing. here we are tomorrow at noon, it
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looks all clear across the bay. we start the warming trend tomorrow as well as thursday as our temperatures shoot up from the lower 80s to the upper 80s by thursday. pens will will go from 76 today to 83 degrees on thursday and in san francisco staying around the lower 70s north bay from 81 today to 86 degrees on thursday, east shore 72 degrees today, tomorrow 74 and 77 on thursday. tri-valley one of the warmer spots reaching 90 degrees by thursday. we will keep you up to date on the weather and what to expect this weekend. right now mike is keeping you up to date on traffic. we have a lighter volume of traffic, this is one of the last due weeks for a lot of folks summer vacation. maybe more folks are out of town. we are looking at a light flow of traffic past the coliseum. we have your crash still on the grid here, southbound 880 right around the oak street or embarcadero off ramp, but the northbound crash at davis cleared quickly from that fast lane before we could see any
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slowing. still a build south 880 through hayward and south 680. look how light this volume it as well. over to the peninsula paving work going on the fort bound side just after 9:00 until just before 3:00 but yesterday the southbound side got very delayed for that project. land on some delay. pacifica midday at least until early afternoon. palo alto moves smoothly for 101 on the peninsula. easy drive past university and embarcadero toward mountain view. on embarcadero at that road work going on there until 7:00 near the shopping center. neighborhoods across the bay area getting ready for national night out, the annual event to fight back against crime. >> it is a major event across the country and also here local locally. if in san jose 133 national night out events scheduled for this evening. thousands across the city are expected to take part including the mayor himself and others in his office.
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across the country close to 40 million people are going to participate in national night out events. >> national night out really about safety. and in martinez today bike safety will be the focus of a national night out give away. diablo bike smarts will hand out free bicycle hell let's and lights. it continues at the chp office in martinez at 3:00 p.m. they will wills do pre child car seat inspections. >> a whole bunch of services. up next, the rare citing that has california wildlife experts very excited.
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>> announcer: you're watching "today in the bay." creative minds here in the bay area are behind a one of a kind event. the empire state building lit up with images of endangered species. obscure ra digital is behind the may azing light show. it took the companies four years to make a one of a kind show shine, but they say it's the beginning of a global campaign. >> we're just trying to reach the world and get people to understand the critical timing of what we have going on with both climate change and endangered species. >> the film calmed "racing
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extinction" is set to be released in december. they o hope is reaches a billion viewers. biologists are excited about this next story. an endangered gray wolfe spotted in northern california. a trial camera snapped this photo in remote sisk eflt yu county. biologists are especially interested because this gray wolfe does not have a tracking collar. fish and wildlife say that the wolfe is not oh-7. you might remember that oregon wolfe became famous when it briefly wandered in california. they assume this wolfe went rowing and broke off from another back in oregon. still ahead, ten spots for its 17 candidates. we're close to learning who will take part of this week yes, sir first republican presidential debate. /vo= and police surrounding haywardneighborhood we're going to be live in washington, d.c. for that story bus police surrounding a hayward
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neighborhood right now, following reports of a shooting. what's going on here? an update to breaking news next. also keeping tabs on your forecast as we awake. looks like we are going to keep an eye on that commute, too, metering lights on at the bay bridge. a lot more news ahead. 6:27.
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good tuesday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. a mostly clear start to the day, but clouds will start to move in this afternoon. more on that in the microclimate forecast. and traffic is moving in from the east bay over to the peninsula.
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here is is the san mateo bridge we're talking about that crash in oakland. we will give you an update for the nimitz. three down days am a row, business days, on the dow as we go to the nyse this morning and the opening bell and now over to the nasdaq as well. net scout ringing the bell. today is tuesday, the 4th of august. >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." and a very good tuesday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. we begin with a look at today's top stories. hayward police right now investigator what's being called a possible shooting. we're not confirming anything but our crew did spot a coroner's van in the area. they cleared the scene around afr and morningside. the driver saved by police in a dramatic rescue may not have sometime to think about what happened. actually it was a sheriff's deputy in sunnyvale here observing clee pulling a man to safety before a caltrain struck.
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investigators are looking into whether he was too impaired to save himself once the car crashed. and that massive clearlake wildfire still growing, it's at 62000 acres burned and counting and 12% contained. now to decision 2016. gearing up for a showdown. there are 17 candidates vying for the gop presidential nomination but only ten will take the stage nurse night in cleveland for the first republican presidential debate. tracie potts live in washington, d.c. many of those candidates were in new hampshire last night but the front runner noticeably absent. you always know when trump is not there. >> reporter: exactly. yeah. trump wasn't there and they didn't really talk about him much, either. brand-new this morning a couple of new polls we don't know if fox is going to consider these or not, but they could be shifting the game a bit when it comes to determining who is going to be on that gate stage thursday night. here is nbc's dee prikd line up for thursday, donald trump, scott walker and jeb bush on
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top, chris christie, john kasich or possibly rick perry rounding out the top ten. all through were talking issues at last night's voter forum. >> you can secure the border, it takes boots on the ground. >> we need a balanced budget amendment. >> reporter: it was a big tune for toes at the top slamming the fight against isis. >> creating a strategy and sticking with it. >> reporter: those in the middle. >> i think we need a new gop. >> reporter: and hose not expected to make thursday's prime time debate, bobby jindal took on iran. >> i absolutely disagree. this is a bad deal. >> reporter: donald trump was a no show even though he's polling 24% in new hampshire. our new nbc wall street journal poll shows republicans almost evenly split over trump is epps or hurting the party. marco rubio is the candidate most primary voters say they could support. >> what we have today on immigration done work for america. >> reporter: as for the democrats. >> i'd love to go against whether it's hillary clinton or joe biden. >> i can't wait to get into the ring with her or joe biden.
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>> and now a new title, grandma. >> reporter: these hillary clinton ads start running in am iowa and new hampshire today. but her positive numbers have been slipping just in the last month she's still upside down like most of the candidates, new this morning polls by bloomberg and cbs, their cut off is 5:00 today after that they will announce who are those top tens for the debate on thursday. >> tracie, we are well past july 4th but those fireworks are coming. a follow-up now, efforts to defund planned parenthood detailed on capitol hill. the senate voted down that bill that would have taken away more than a half billion dollars from the women's health organization. but the fight is not over just yet. the funding may become a sticking point as the congress faces a september 30th deadline to pass a bill to avoid another possible government shutdown. a san francisco judge extended a restraining order blocking an anti-abortion group from releasing secret
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recordings. the tapes were gathered at the national abortion federation's annual meetings. the organization argued its members would be had a raced and intimidated if the recordings were released. the center for medical progress is the group behind the tapes, that's the same group that recent hely released other videos that seemed to show planned parenthood employees talking about selling fetal tissue for profit. this study was performed by researchers from ucsf and oakland's highland hospital and what they found was that nonprofit hospitals in california spend more to serve low income patients but both types of hospitals are even when it comes to paying patients' unpaid medical bills. the reason why, nonprofits get billions of dollars a year in federal, state and local funds in exchange for giving back. it is 6:34. this is time to check the microclimate forecast it this morning as we take a peek
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outside towards san francisco. this is live from at&t park. >> and the giants right now they have hit a little bit of a rut, kari, but they're opening they will pick things back up and they have the perfect weather to do it this week. >> and nice mild temperatures. we are not talking about a huge spike in those -- that warmth as we go through the rest of the week, but it will be warming up just a little bit each day. as you'd to the today, more clouds will be moving in, even though we're getting a nice clear start to the morning and it will be nice and cool as you walk out the door. a bit more cloud cover later on today and mild weather and there will be some slow clearing in spots, sunset will be at 8:12. look at these temperatures right now, in hayward it's 63, santa rosa 52 and san francisco at 61 degrees. today will be a day kind of like yesterday, not as much sunshine, san mateo reaching 7 degrees, outer sunset 63 degrees, north
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bay 80 degrees and napa 73 degrees, oakland and pleasanton reaching 82 degrees, mostly 70s and 80s all across the bay. once again we're getting ready for a warm up. i will show you that coming up in a few minutes. kari, actually moving well for a tuesday. we expect a little more traffic about this time of morning. you know, this is one of the last few weeks of summertime, folks height be taking a last minute get away. here 880 southbound getting away with no slowing past oak street. earlier crash reported there at the center divide, the rest of your approach toward the bay bridge and rest of the east bay no big deal. new crash in concord out of bay point may be an issue. we're getting details. now, we're looking at hayward southbound 880 a little slow down union city for the nimitz. san mateo bridge looks at the volume building. heading over to the peninsula slowing for 92 but not yet for 101.
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101 in san jose a little build 680. that earlier stall looks like a tow truck came to help. err this' getting some help and safely so far as fsp arrives. >> good. hopefully not too much of a distraction. >> thank you for resting my fears there, mike. still ahead at 6:37 on "today in the bay." a woman makes a disturbing find inside of a bag of spinach. and we are taking a look at the big board it this morning. almost flat. we will check the numbers with scott mcgrew.
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after a tragic end to a baseball game in kansas over the weekend.. a baseball league has it is 6:39. after a tragic end to a baseball
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game in kansas over the weekend a baseball league has decided to pull all bat girls and boys off the field for the remainder of the season. the national baseball congress general manager called the move a direct response to honor a tragedy. that tragedy of nine-year-old kaiser carlyle, he died after getting hit in the had head by a practice swing in the on deck circle. though he was wearing a helmet the impact ultimately ended his life. 6:40. happening today, fremont firefighters are going to issue a final farewell to one of their long time leaders. fremont deputy fire chief james martin died on july 24th. he fought a three-year battle with cancer that may have been work-related. he rose up through the ranks from firefighter to deputy keefe and served in that department for 30 years. he was only 53 years old. a memorial service takes place at harbor light church in fremont. a swarm of bees attacked a construction crew in riverside
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killing one man and hurting two others. it happened yesterday orange when crews hit an underground beehive. workers first tried to swat the vicious bees with their jackets but with en that didn't work they turned on a water truck and tried to spray them. an electrician later died from the attack. en e termt nater later revealed the bees were killer bees and there may have been more hives in the area. in some places frog legs are a delicacy, but one woman says she found a ware of them in an unwelcome place, certainly not what she wanted to find them. a woman says she opened a bag of baby spinach and found a dead frog. the spin initial was packaged by taylor farms. a quality assurance director at taylor farms sent a letter of apology directly to that woman. sam's club has not commented as of yet. 6:41. coming up, the rocky fire raging
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on. it's now twice the size of the city of san francisco and it's only getting larger. we are live at the fire line next. and milliseconds separating life and death. we hear from the deputy who risked had his life to pull a driver out of the way of an oncoming train. taking a live look outside, sun is's arrival making everything a little brighter. we are back with 15 minutes of nonstop news, traffic and weather after the break.
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police are no longer blocking a hayward neighborhood. they were there very longing reports of a shooting. all this happened near the corner of arf and morningside in hayward. we started hearing of an incident around 1:00 this morning. our crew tells us a coroner's van was there this morning indicating someone had died in the area. we will bring you an update as soon as we have one available. developing right now, the rocky fire rages on with no end in sight. we've just learned the fire has now burned some 65,000 acres. that's up from 62000 just last night. >> right now flames are threatening some 6,300 structures and 13,000 people have evacuated and that fire, by the way, is only 12% contained. "the today show's" joe fryer is live near the fire line in lake port. joe, firefighters say this fire is like nothing they have ever seen before. >> reporter: we've been hearing
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from firefighters who have been doing this 10, 20, 30 years and they say they have never seen a fire behave this erratically before. this fire was bumped around 100 square miles, that's twice the size of the city of san francisco and it is just 12% contained. late yesterday there was a major development when flames jumped over a highway, highway 20 which had been serving as a containment line on the north end of the fire. that means several new spot fires were created. they were attacked by air tankers and helicopters, but the fire is now moving through new territory with lots of dry land that's ready to burn and that is certainly a concern on the front lines. 2,500 firefighters are on the ground, the majority of those structures are houses, 13,000 residences remain evacuated at this point. we did speak with one man who stayed behind, spraying down his house with a garden hose.
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you will hear what he has to say coming up on the "today" show. we will also give a look up above at the charred land, all that coming up in a little bit this morning on the "today" show. back to you. >> so tough to see for those firefighters as well. take a look at this animation, it really puts into perspective just how much this fire has grown since it broke out this week. at one point it took five hours for the fire to grow 20,000 acres. more than double the size of san francisco. >> which puts everything into perspective. fatigue no doubt setting in as thousands of firefighters not only dealing with the rocky fire, but nearly two dozen other wildfires almost burning in california. check out this map. you can see that there are 21 fires across the state of california, many of them sparked by lightning. it's now nearly 140,000 acres of
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land that's on fire right now, in a typical year cal fire says about 50,000 acres of burned land occurs due to wildfires and that's normal. again, we are at almost 140,000. we are going to continue to track the rocky fire along with any new fires that break out across the state. just download our nbc bay area for all of the latest information. let's get a look at the forecast for today. are those firefighters up against some winds, too? >> today it will be breezy and another concern will be more lightning moving in. that happening on friday. right now we wake up to clear skies had this morning and a beautiful sunrise as we get a look at the bay bridge. we will start to see more clouds moving in, some mid high level clouds as we go into the rest of the afternoon, but the wind forecast once again causing some issues today. winds coming ut of the west-southwest. the good thing we haven't seen any major shifts in the wind direction and the humidity will be at about 25% to 35% as we go
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into the rest of the day. right now the temperatures are around 60 degrees across the bay and a mild start, mild afternoon, too, in the peninsula, 76 degrees, 72 kegs in the east bay, tri-valley today expect a high of 83 degrees and san francisco will top out at 69 degrees. with lower 80s in the north and south bay. into the rest of the day we will be tracking some subtropical clouds moving in from tropical storm fguillermo that is streaming those clouds across the pacific. this tropical storm is approaching hawaii right now and wind speeds are at 70 hours, but the good thing is that this storm will weaken and stay to the north of the islands and by friday it will be moving well to the north of hawaii. here in the bay area highs reaching 80 degrees today and it will be warming up into the next couple of days, reaching 87 degrees on thursday peninsula, goes from 76 today to 83 degrees
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on thursday, san francisco staying around 70 degrees, north bay will also be trending a little bit warmer by the end of the week. on thursday 86 degrees, mainly mild temperatures as we look across the bay today, but even as we go into the weekend it will be a little bit warmer, especially on sunday, but no major concerns in this forecast except for the possibility of some lightning, especially in the hills as we head into friday. we will keep you up to date on that and also another look at the microclimate forecast right now. let's see what's happening on the roads with mike. pretty easy drive right though, although the build is on here south 880 through fremont. a look at the map, we see a general slow down from the dumbarton bridge all the way down to the camera shot and traffic moving down no the south bay, silicon valley the northbound routes start to build. a smoother slower build for the dumbarton and san mateo bridge
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westbound as you trend 101 still flows pretty smoothly across the peninsula. meanwhile the build has hit over for concord and walnut creek. nothing dramatic. upper east shore slows a bit towards richmond. the authority bay a little slowing through an raphael. just a slight increase this volume. it is 6:51. happening now, it is the intersection of palo alto is closed to crews can install new traffic sig is nals. several lanes of embarcadero road near that town and country village in palo alto and palo alto high school shut down for another ten minutes or so. only one lane in each direction open to traffic right now. pur familiar with the area and so many are, it can get very crammed. the new sig false reportedly come with an improved timing program. you hear the thw achl ck of
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that strike, the train and car, a man pulled to safety with just seconds to spare. deputies in sunnyvale at the right place at the right time rescuing a driver moments before a caltrain slams right into his car. all of this happening last night at the intersection of mary and west evelyn avenues. "today in the bay" bob redell is live there this morning. bob, everyone this morning talking being that amazing rescue and there's still work being done to repair some of the damage. >> reporter: within the past few moments you can see the workers behind me here at this caltrain crossing, they actually just finished up repairing the damaged signal equipment there to the right that was damaged during that collision last night. this is a collision now that was captured by more than one camera and posted to youtube. it was around 6:45 last night as you can see in this video, it was a driver who law enforcement believe was under the influence who tried to beat a train across the tracks but got caught by the crossing gate and just sat
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there. fortunately for him two san mateo county transit deputies and to be nearby, one of the deputies ran down the tracks to try to warn the train, the other bend to the car, inside a driver, a man in his 20s -- but impaired according to the deputy and not getting himself out of harm's way. as you can see this this video one of the deputies dragged him from the video and a moment later the northbound 385 plowed into the man's car spinning it off the tracks. >> i'm just glad we were here, obviously it would have been a different result. >> reporter: the deputy did handcuff at that young man, they again as you mentioned are looking into whether or not he hadden been drinking and driving. reporting live in sunnyvale, bob redell, "today in the bay." 6:53. happening today a popular east bay restaurant paying rib out to scott lunger. the famous dave's restaurant in hayward plans to donate 35% of today's proceeds to benefit the lunger family.
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members of the hayward police department will also be there to pay tribute. lunger was shot and killed during a traffic stop in hayward nearly two weeks ago. a bow fwus pizza delivery turned openly invasion in palo alto. three men are wanted for that crime. this happening just before 10:00 sunday night on suzanne drive this palo alto, that's near gun high school. police say a man posing as a pizza delivery man forced his way inside the residence and two other men rushed into the home. the family eventually scared the robbers away. here is a sketch at the fake delivery driver. they believe that family was specifically targeted but the victims did not know their attackers. fixing the new span of the bay bridge might take a different kind of oil. bridge officials are considering using a petroleum-based product to plug up leaky grout around steel rods. the rods are sitting in salt water that could potentially cause the rods to rot.
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the petroleum-based product is reportedly heavier than water and would last longer than the grout in there now. lawyers for an estranged couple in a legal fight for their frozen embryos will give tear closing arguments in court today. mimi lee is in the had midst of a bitter divorce with steven finley over five embryos they froze in 2010 after lee was diagnosed with cancer. she now wants control of the embryos because she says they are her only chance to have her own children. she testified the contract she signed with finley for the embryos was just a consent form and could be changed. finley wants the emzpñv destroyed, which is what the couple agreed to in case they split. from silicon valley to the white house. today venture capitalists from across the bay area are in washington, d.c. making a strong push for greater diversity in the male-dominated tech world. "today in the bay" stephanie chuang joining us live in our san francisco newsroom with more on the first ever demo day and
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maybe we will be talking about this day for years to come as the point if in which things start to change. >> reporter: that's the goal of course. according to u.s.a. today we're talking about 45 different venture capital firms from across the country outlining today at the white house steps to enhance diversity in this very white male dominated profession. steps that include better human resources policies and more studies person ring diversity. now, this may be a familiar face, ellen powell, she sued her former employer kleiner perkins accusing the firm of gender dis naegs when it didn't promote here. she is it lose the case but it garnered a lot of international attention. the numbers here are not too good. according to a 2011 study by the national venture capital association only 1% of vc partners are african-american and less than 1% who are lat know, while a bab tease son college study pound the number of female partners went down from 10% to 6%.
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so today silicon valley husband and wife mitch capor are announcing a pledge of $40 million dollar with an initiative dedicated to giving my mortgages more unit of becoming entrepreneurs. this is happening the same week you have african-american members asking for more diversity in the pork plais. stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." while venture capital works to get its house in order the rest of high tech much more stressful in its effort to diversity. >> intel willing to pay its employees to help out. >> that's right. intel says it will pay $4,000 bonus to employees who successfully recommend a woman, a minority or veteran candidate for a job. inn tell has already set aside tens of millions of dollars in diversity efforts and it promises its work force will reflect the american population by the year 2020. twitter this morning women are
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posting under the #i look like an engineer trying to change our perceptions of what an engineer right look like, my favorite i look like an engineer because i am an engineer. we've talked a lot about stem efforts as far as young girls and that's been very successful. a vast majority of science fair entrants these days are girls. shares in twitter gained 1% this morning. twitter trading at 29.49 this morning, last week twitter warned investors the number of users has stopped growing. speaking of the symptom market, one note of today, the south bay's jflt dsu will no longer traden o the stork market, it's spinoffs will raid instead. i know that's a boring little sort of update for you, but it's an important one if you own that stock. >> and you have you got those words off correctly. >> yes. 6:58. we do have an update to breaking news.
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police just confirmed they are investigating a homicide in hayward. it happened about 1:00 this morning near afr avenue and morningside drive. investigators say a man and woman were walking down the street when they were confronted by several men. after a quick exchange one of the men opened fire, killing the man. then the group took off in a silver suv. the man died at the scene. enough any information hayward police want to hear from you. going to get a quick check of weather with kari. mild conditions to start. >> mostly 70s and 80s across the bay and more clouds moving in. san jose topping out at 80 degrees, 70 degrees in san francisco, the north bay at 80 degrees and oakland look for a high of 73. what about the commute? >> it's going well. fremont, we have a building for 880 southbound and that's continuing off some slowing here. overall fog surprising about the trend here, the south bay just kicking in for your northbound routes and slow 880 southbound, the surprising factor is lighter traffic flow. watch pacifica, highway 1 has that paving work same area as
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yesterday. this time northbound. that's what's happening "today in the bay." we are back at 7:25 with a live news update.

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