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we can see it as the sun rises. then more, hot sunny weather. there's a look at all the microclimates in san jose, mountain view 96, financial district will be at 82 degrees today, outer sunset, the place to cool off at 70 also point at 70 degrees. fremont, 90, and san ramone today topping out at 100 degrees. we'll see this heat backing off eventually this week. i'll have more on that coming up in a few minutes, right now let's see how the roads are moving with mike. >> this is a horrible backup for the freeway, southbound 880, here's 66 all the way south, let's look at your map, we've been working for over an hour on this crash which is still blocking two planes at davis street. minor injuries, but a major backup, eastbound 580 is your option there. there's the bay bridge, that's your other source of congestion. we show you all the the span westbound across toward treasure island. i heard rumor there might be something going on there.
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crash in the tunnel, but it looks like trachk moves smoothly. we'll let you know if we have anything, back to you. >> thanks very much. new this morning, gruesome scene overnight. this is all that's left of one of the cars involved in a fiery crash. three people died, and another person is in the hospital this morning. and now investigators want to the know what led to it all. >> the crash happened late last night on san pablo dam road not far from the san pablo reservoir. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang is live at john um medical center in walnut creek this morning, that's where the driver was taken. steph, it looks like alcohol may have been a factor as well. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, kris and sam, the driver brought here to the hospital with major injuries, what is clear is what chp subpoena saying. which is that it is likely he was under the influence and speeding when this crash happened. he was the only one in his red camaro to survive the deadly
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crash taken away by the ambulance after 10:00 last night from san pablo dam road. you can see how bad this crash was. chp says it appears the driver of the camaro sideswiped a silver honda civic and then burst into flames. there were witness kkts of street racing that might have happened, that's unconfirmed by investigators who are trying to figure out exactly what went wrong to cause the crash. >> yeah, it's got some turns and twists here, but this portion appears actually pretty straight, so as far as what happened with the camaro coming into the other lane, i'm not sure what happened there. >> reporter: the honda driver was fine, suffering either very miner or no injuries. duo not have the identities of those killed. it is also unclear that because of the crash of the tree or because of the fire. san pablo dam road reopened earlier this morning. we were there earlier this morning as well and the only signs of the deadly crash just
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debrae from the layers on the roadway. live here in walnut creek, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." in san jose, police are investigating the city's third deadly officer-involved shooting in one week. police shot and killed a man they say reached for a handgun. >> this happened at a strip mall on center road, not far from monterrey road. we are there right now, and damian, as we see from what it looks like, it's a an active scene almost eight hours later. >> reporter: yeah, in fact that's what's going on right now. investigators are still here, that crime scene truck has been awfully busy investigating one shooting after another here in san jose. we are across the street from andrew hill high school where classes resumed earlier this morning. all police will say is officers were conducting a followup investigation. they won't say what kind of investigation. now when they approached the man here until the parking lot of a strip mall on center road. police say that man. uled a gun on officers. two officers opened fire and killed the man.
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he has not yet been identified, nor have police said if he is the man officers were looking for in their followup investigation. it happened again just after 10:00 last night, this is already the seventh officer-involved shooting of the year here in san jose. now of those shootings, four have been fatal, the last year the city registered five officer-involved shootings. there are several businesses here because center road is closed, the northbound side is for about half a block, it affects several businesses, there's a 7-eleven and gas station opened. they've been closed for eight hours as police conduct their investigation. that's the latest on the center road in san jose, "today in the bay." >> as we can see, folks walking as well. san francisco police hope that a new crew will help them catch the suspect involved in a double homicide from seven months ago. take a look at the surveillance video, investigators believe the suspects were in that black truck, likely a dodge ram.
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they're hoping someone will recognize the truck in that location. it was back in january that a mother was killed in a drive-by shooting and likely just trying to protect her children who were playing in front of her home. a man was also shot and killed. kris, violent weekend on oakland streets. we saw two people die, to more sent to the hospital. police responded to three shootings within an hour of each other early yesterday morning. the first one happening on international boulevard. three more people were shot on broadway just 30 minutes later. one of whom died, and another is the in critical condition. then there was a third shooting which killed a juvenile on foothill boulevard. police have not arrested any suspects and have not said whether any incidents are related. officers investigating a hit-and-run crash in vallejo say this is a homicide investigation. police are still piecing together what happened, here's what they do know, on saturday night, a u-haul truck driver
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took off from the scene after hitting two people. the side of the buildsing was also danieled. one of the victims died. what's unclear is that police say the driver may have been stabbed by one of the victims before he hit the two with the truck, and no one knows why. 6:0 #, a man accused in the attack and armed robbery of two news crews heads back to work later today. our crew was reporting along the embarcadero last month, they were attacked along with another news crew by three men driving a black bmw. one of the suspects, 23-year-old michael jones was arrested last month. he's in court today for a status update. san francisco police say they're closing in on his accomplices. we are learning more about the recent victim of a hate crime in san francisco. over the weekend, we showed you this video of a man scrawling a racist message on the garage door of an asian family. it turns out to be the home of justin kahn who sold that video sharing platform twitch to
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amazon last year. he told us he lives in a lower house with his brother and his fiancee. and he's pretty sure his family was targeted, he just doesn't know why. >> i was pretty shocked, i guess, surprised, i haven't really gotten any overt race im. it was out of the blue. you know, both my fiancee and i were bewildered. >> the family did file al police report. they painted over the graffiti and shared the video on twitter. investigators are hoping someone recognizes the suspect and will call police with information. developing news right now in the pacific northwest, firefighters in oregon and washington are battling wild fires on all sides. and thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. in the small washington resort town, many had to stand and helplessly watch as their homes burn dound. >> it was heart breaking. i don't like -- i mean, i'm standing in my backyard, i'm
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looking at this hole hillside, and people that we know, that we love, i'm getting phone calls from people saying, can you see if my house is on fire? >> such feeling of helplessness. more than 100 large fires right now burning out of control across the west. in oregon, two massive fires have scorched a total of nearly 200 square miles and burned dozens of homes. a level five fire alert right now is in effect, which means that all federal firefighters are on call. the national guard has also been called in to make water drops. here in the bay area, we are feeling the affects of dozens of wild fires burning throughout the state. if you were outside at all this weekend, not only felt the extreme heat, you likely noticed the hazy skies prompting a spare the air alert. >> we're also getting smoke from northern california wild fires that's coming into the bay area. we're getting these two factor at one time which normally we don't see, and it's impacting
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how we breathe. >> overnight t pg&e crews worked to fix outages. as of this morning, a few hundred people remain in the dark. live look outside right now as the sun rising over the skies in gilroy, it was 107 yesterday or thereabouts. kari will have more, today is another hot day, not quite as hot is as yesterday. our meteorologist kari hall joining us with the forecast. >> still hazy today, and we've had this high heat combining with a smoke and high ozone level to create such poor air quality across the bay area. . continues today, high pressure produces a cap, which just pushes the air down to the surface, and it causes a buildup of that smoke and oe scone, and we're in day three of it, every day it just gets worse. until we have a shift to help just clear some of that smoke and push it further off towards
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the east. we're still dealing with that today though as our temperatures start out in the mid-60s, and it will be another hot one with a a high of 100 degrees in the south bay, 82 in san francisco, east bay, 90 degrees, and the tri-valley, still over 100 degrees. it will get better as we go through the week,ville more on that coming up in -- i'll have more on that coming up in a few minutes. you can see the jam in the east bay, is it still looking really bad there? yeah kari, no improvement as far as the lane situations goes. 880 jammed, kari was showing on her live shots. this is 880 southbound passed 66, 98, and toward the davis area. let's look at the map, it's jammed from before the coliseum, approaching high street all the way down past david street. two lanes open, two lanes closed there. san leandro boulevard, international boulevard, and eastbound 580 to take you around that one backup. the rest of the bay is moving smoothly. we have the bay bridge toll
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plaza. slower drive for 580 west, south from dub flin toward pleasanton. the peninsula, we'll show you the traffic flow south bay and the peninsula starting to see a few more cars. here's no real problems, back to you. >> could be an issue all morning long, thank you very much, mike. coming up next, history at the hospital, how technology is improving the live undergoing surgery for lung cancer. plus is amazon truly a brutal place to work? we'll look coming up in business and tech. and the death toll rises in china as new concerns arise over toxic air near the site of a massive explosion last week. china - fling tho massivexplosit
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new concerns this morning in china following the massive explosions last week. storms right now are moving into the area, and environmental officials are worried about poisonous hydrogen cyanide being released into the air. officials there say search crews have recovered ten more bodies from the debris. raising the total death toll at this point to 114 people. 70 others are still missing, nearly five days after the explosion. developing right now in indonesia, search and rescue teams are trying to reach the wreckage of a indonesian passenger plane that crashed with 54 people on board including several children. late yesterday, crews spotted the wreckage in a remote mountainous region of the country. smoke was spill bill lowing from
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the crash site which is reportedly just a few miles from the flight's destination. villagers reported see egg the plane flying low, then slamming into the mountains. now investigators believe bad weather may be to blame. the pilot was reporting visibility was too poor to land before air traffic controllers lost communication with them. >> if, in fact, they're in the side of a mountain is as reported, they may not have recognized where they were, and that impact may have been as much a surprise to them as anything else. >> now there were 44 adult passengers, five crew members, and as we mentioned, five children on board when the plane went down. it is unclear right now if anyone survived. five people have also died after two planes collided in the skies over san diego. the faa says that both planes were about to land. this happened yesterday morning just a few miles from the border of mexico. those planes came down between a freeway and a prison. one was carrying four passengers who work for the military contractor bae systems.
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pilot of the other plane was on a cross country trip. new at 6:00, concord hospital became the first in the east bay to perform a major lung surgery with a robot. doctors at john um medical center successfully removed a tumor from a lung cancer patient with help of robotic technology. instead of making a large incision on the chest, the robot allowed doctors to complete the surgery with just a few small incisions. the hospital says this resulted in shorter recovery time and less pain for the patient. amazon is using more robots. strong reaction this morning to a sunday new york times article that called am zone quote, a bruising place to work. >> back stabbing, and tears in the board room too. >> a brutal article, kris, brutal company if you believe the times which says it interviewed more than 100 employees and former employees to understand what happened that there. the times article talks about people pass over for promotion
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or ian let go for calling in sick. marathon conference calls scheduled for easter sunday, and employee evaluation system used by some to get rivals demoted or dismissed. the ceo said by an internal memo quote, the article does not describe the amazon i know. now it was quite a weekend for the times, on saturday the newspaper revealed new details on how it says taet helped the government spy on at&t customers forwarding at least a million e-mails a day to the nsa. so here's something that's kind of a secret, but not really, we expect, if thing goes as they have always go, apple will hold a special announcement special 9th, and it'll be cagey about what, we all know it's the iphone 6s. apple has ended the concept of standing in line at the store. maybe after eight new iphones,
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they'll find a different way. carly fiorina is speaking in iowa right now talking to a cause kus who decide whether she'll be the republican nominee for president. over the weekend, the top republican candidate, donald trump called fiorina a terrible ceo, he said she's nice. specifically, she's a very nice woman, got fired, did a terrible job at hewlett packard, other than that, he adds she's a nice woman. he has a strange way of talking. >> his compliments are painful. >> yes, they are. >> not warm and fuzzy. but can i show you something that is right now, thank you very much, scott. thousands of pets waking up in a new home. we just want to say from everybody here at nbc bay area, thank you so much to all of these humane centers that help sponsor the event. nbc station from across want countries including here at nbc bay area, talking o a parrot --
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>> paulie want a cracker. >> something that you could parro. numbers are in, more than 17,000 pets have been adopted nationwide. there's kari with her pooch, that includes nearly 1,000 pets right here in the bay area. a heartwarming event to say the least. >> kari must have resolve because you don't have a dog at home, and yet, you take one. >> i can't have one. you know, some people have housing restrictions. >> cat jumped on you. >> yeah, jumped on my neck, pretty sure some of you saw it, you know, it was fun. you know, nonetheless. >> backless. and we still see that smoke and haze over san francisco right now. it's going to be a hot day once again. so we start out with some hazy conditions that get worse as we go into the afternoon. combine that with highs in the 90s and even over 100 degrees, it's going to be another unbearable day. so get ready.
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and some of the hot temperatures we had yesterday, 104 degrees in santa rosa, san francisco, 90, and mountain view in san jose, 97 degrees, a few more of those, there were so many all across the bay area, new record set as we we had widespread readings. and it'll still be that hot today, couple of degrees lower, but still unbearable. mountain view will be 96 dreen and financial district up to 82 degrees. sunshine across the bay area, point raies is where you want to cool off, 70 degrees. brentwood 101, and 103 in dublin. with the hot weather to start the week, we will have a change in our weather as go towards the middle of the week, just da couple more -- just a couple more days before we get there. on shore flow will bring in cooler temperatures and will push that smoke further off towards the east. so there will once again be some improvement, but we'll be suffering these next couple of days. hot and hazy, along with the dry
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heat, 100 degrees, 103 degrees today in livermore, 92 tomorrow and wednesday, we'll be at 87 degrees this weekend, we'll still be a weekend to have outside, we'll be able to get out and enjoy some milder weather. something closer to average for this time of year, we're looking at about 70 degrees in san francisco, and the south bay still in the lower 90s. let's see how traffic is moving now with mike. >> it's going to be moving much better, kari. still jammed past 66, heading down towards 98, traffic is visibly moving, let's look at the map, all lanes just cleared a few minutes ago, you see those going from red to orange now, and there's improvement as you're approaching high street. this is the section with the big jam, minor jaurs, we have that tied up for over an hour there at davis. all lanes are clear south 880, eastbound 580, and light volume towards the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights are on there.
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as we look at the bay, slower for west 580, and the build for south 680, there is a crash on 84, not affecting your major route, down through sunol and fremont. we'll show you the volume also heading south right here from the westbound road all the way down to the golden gate bridge. moving very smoothly right now, back to you. all right. coming up next from the campaign trail to the courthouse, donald trump takes a break from political appearances for an appearance in court. the details, next.
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decision 2016, they have to go. those are the pointed and controversial words straight from the mouth of republican candidate donald trump. referring to undocumented immigrants. he outluned his plan, here is edward lawrence with more. >> reporter: donald trump plans to take a very hard line on immigration if he becomes president. on meet the press, trump says he would reverse all of president obama's executive orders on immigration, and deport all undocumented immigrants. >> we have to make a whole new set of standards, and when people come in -- >> you're going split up families, deport children. >> no, we're going to keep the families together. we have to keep the families together. >> keep them together out. >> but they have to go. >> reporter: trump plans to force mexico into paying far wall on the u.s. border. >> they will pay for the wall.
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they're sending drugs, and they're taking money out. they're making a lot of money. mexico's making a lot of money. >> reporter: the detaildetailed angered some opponents. >> our leading contender, mr. trump is going backward on immigration, and i think he's going to take all of us with him if we don't watch it. >> finish the wall and make it clear, anybody that comes over once we've done it, you're going back. >> reporter: trump says if mexico refuses to pay, u.s. will raise fees on visas and border crossing cars. edward lawrence, nbc news, washington. >> meantime donald trump is taking a break from the campaign trail today to head to court. trump will report for jury duty in manhattan this morning. according to his campaign, the republican presidential candidate is looking forward to appearing like most red-blooded americans. earlier this year, trump ignored five jury summons since 2006. a judge fined him $250.
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get interest-free financing until 2018 on tempur-pedic. plus, helpful advice from the sleep experts. don't miss mattress price wars at sleep train. good monday morning, i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez, laura garcia-cannon is off this morning. we are keeping our eyes on the skies and roads. we'll start with kari hall, hot
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microclimate forecast. >> hot today, and hazy too. we still have the smoke floating through the air that makes it look a milky white sky, and now it's 67 degrees in the south bay. san francisco, 61 degrees, wow, it's mild to start, and look at these temperatures today. it will be 100 degrees in the south bay, east bay, 90, peninsula,le 7, and san francisco reaching 82 degrees. more of this hot weather today, but it does break this week. i'll detail in a few minutes, right now let's see how traffic is moving with mike. >> you're looking ahead to a break in the temperatures, right now a break in the traffic, much better flow 880 through the haze right here, at the coliseum, you're just fine. over the last 20 minutes all lanes reopen, and traffic is light through the area. it recovers quickly for southbound 880, minor slowing now towards san leandro. there's build for the castro valley through hayward, and 680
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through pleasanton and sunol. we'll show you the sensors around the south bay starting to light up. slower through 101 and san jose. no big concern. here's 101 at 680, and that's where the bulk of the traffic starts to build, back to you. breaking news to bring to you now, a large explosion rocking bangkok. this is a live picture from thailand right now during the rush hour commute. that explosion killed at least 12 people. dozens of others are injured. the explosion happened at a busy intersection near a popular tourist landmark. its been the center of many contentious political demonstrations in recent years. we'll continue to follow the story and bring you any updates we have as soon as we get them. also new this morning, a gruesome scene overnight on an east bay street. that is all that's left of one of the cars involved in a fiery crash. three people were killed, another person is in the hospital this morning, and now investigators want to know what led to it all. >> the crash happened late last
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night on san pablo dam road, not far from the san pablo reservoir. stephanie chuang joining us live from the medical center in walnut creek, steph, the driver of one of the cars was taken, and alcohol likely played a role in that crash. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, sam and kris, unfortunately. the driver brought here to john mere medical last night with major injuries. the chp saying it's likely he was drinking before he took the wheel and was speeding with three other people inside. those three passengers all died, he was the only one to be taken away by the balance after 10:00 last night from san pablo dam lane where his car hit at tree and burst into flames. he veered, sideswiping a honda civic. this morning the c shp trying to answer questions to determine exactly what led to the crash. mostly about the driver. >> it was a male driver. as far as his age, i'm not sure of that right now.
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he was transported pretty much as i was arriving on scene. so that's something that we, we have an id on him. >> reporter: it's unclear what condition the driver is in right now. the driver of the other car, the honda, walked away with very minor or no injuries. san pablo dam road dus duz have twists and turns, but this stretch is straight. there were some witness reports that there might have been some street racing going on earlier, but it's unconfirmed by investigators. live here in walnut creek, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. in san jose, police investigating the city's third officer-involved shooting in just one week. police shot and killed a man that that say reached for a handgun. >> this happened at a strip small on center road, not far from monterrey road. that's where "today in the bay" is this morning, damian, police seem to be seeing a bit more this morning. >> yeah, a lot of the tape going up in the last couple of weeks here in the san jose, and these
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investigators have been here for the past eight or nine hours or so here on the strip mall on center road in san jose. they've been here gathering evidence and processing the scene. now so far, police are not releasing much information, they do say this is, they were doing a followup investigation when they were confronted by the man they shot on this strip mall. the man pulled a gun on officers. two officers opened fire on him, that man has not been identified. and police are not saying if he is a man who they were doing that followup investigation on. this is is the seventh officer-involved shooting of the year in san jose. four of them have been fatal. last year saw only five officer-involved shootings all year. at one point i'm told there were as many as 40 police officers here on the scene, it happened just after 10:00 last night. one other person may have been injured, but not seriously here at the scene from shattered glass at a laundromat here at
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the strip mall. sources tell me that the suspect in this case was a, quote, big fish. and someone they had been tracking for some time. we're waiting for word, official word from san jose police on who in fact they shot here on central road. "today in the bay." >> all right, thank you very much, damian. happening today, we're expecting to learn more about a deadly officer-involved shooting, this one in sunnyvale. and the search far second suspect still on the run. shooting happened saturday afternoon when officers responded to some suspicious activity outside a motel 6. officers chased two men running away, one of the men was shot and kill, the other suspect though got away. dozens of officers continued to search the area for that missing suspect. >> with all the police activity, i did sense that there was somebody at large, and that was possibly armed and dangerous. >> investigators say they did find a gun near the body of the suspect who was shot and killed by officers. and another gun in his backpack,
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but police have yet to release more details. they say they'll release more today, there is a news conference for 10:30 this morning web, and we'll be there. distance placed this morning after an explosion and a fire brip ripped right through their house. fire broke out around 5:30 last night in a house on byrd avenue and willow glen. the three people who live there and their house and dog all got out safely. the flames destroyed much more than his two bedroom home. >> my money, all my tools, my livelihood, my truck, dirt bikes, other street bike everything i own in the world. and i don't have a bank account. everything, everything i own is in that house. >> that gentleman and his girlfriend and son were home when they heard an explosion in the garage. then flames quickly spread throughout the house. 35 firefighters battled the flames keeping that fire from spreading to other neighbor's homes. investigators right now still looking into the cause. yeah, developing news in the pacific northwest where
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firefighters in oregon and washington are battling wild fires on all sides and thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. in the small washington resort town, rather washington state resort, many people said the flames came so fast they could only escape with the clothes on their back. >> within half an hour or an hour, the emergency teams came down and said get ready to leave. and ten minutes later, another guy came down and said leave now. >> more than 100 large fires are burning out of control across the west. in oregon, two massive fires scorched a total of nearly 200 square miles and burned dozens of homes. a level five fire alert is in effect meaning all federal firefighters are on call. the national guard has also been called in to make water drops. and kris, this kind of activity we're seeing it here in the bay area too.
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we are feeling the affects of dozens of wild fires in our region. not only dl you feel the extreme heat which including 90-degree temperatures in san francisco, but you likely noticed those hazy skies prompting a spare the air alert today. >> we're also getting smoke from northern california wild fire that's coming into the bay area, we're getting these two factors at one time which normally we don't see. it's impacting how we breathe. >> overnight pg&e crews worked to fix thousands of heat-related power outages in the south bay. a few hundred people from gilroy to mountainview remain in the dark. no power means no ac. rough night for that as we look live over the sun rising over san jose. today is another hot day, so not quite as hot as yesterday. meteorologist kari hall joins us now with the microclimate forecast, are a couple degrees going to make a difference?
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>> i don't think so, especially when you don't have air-conditioni air-conditioning. we do have such poor air quality because of high pressure kind of trapping that smoke near the surface. so the pollution gets trapped, and each day the pollutants just build up, so we're in day three of this, and it will get better as we go through the week, but with the hot temperatures, well, we'll have to deal with this for a little while longer. so as that high pressure continues to build, it also produces some very hot temperatures as the air sinks. and today it'll billion 100 degrees, mountain view, 96 degrees, and still in the 80s in san francisco, but you can cool off at the outer sunset. it'll be 70 degrees, also 70 in point rays brentwood and 101 degrees in san ramone today. topping out at 100 degrees, it goes down as we go to the middle of the week, and i'll show you those temperatures coming up in a few minutes. right now let's see how the roads are moving with mike. >> good morning, kari, good recovery right here, look through the haze, this is the
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smoke and haze they were talking about. norcal fires. went on from haganberger to 98, maybe davis. and in the slower drive, i can't see it, but there's a stalled vehicle there. look at your map though, this is the worst part of 880, right there compressing down in to san leandro. 880 southbound, 680 southbound, your typical patterns around here are now making their way over towards the peninsula, no drama for 101, the south bay starts your northbound build, that's the typical trend here, of course the bay bridge has your backup. no major backups here. i meant plaza, that's my nickname, back to you. >> from boston, mike? 6:40 right now, in san francisco people are being warned about a spike in car break-ins. according to to the chronicle, police is received nearly 12,000 reports of car burglaries in the city from january through june alone. that figure up nearly 50% from last year. police are blaming the spike on
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recent changes to criminal law, reducing penalties for non-violent offenders. crime experts say there are likely a multitude of contributing factor. a big change for the better, bart riders surveyed say nay noticed restrooms and platform areas are getting cleaner. this is according to to the san francisco examiner, on a scale of one to four, one being four, four being excellent, bart was close to a three which was just sigh of good. officials have hired crews to repair lighting and paint and scrub the walls, but they are still working to improve. so close to good. >> keeping that rating system very simple. almost good. coming up next, 6:41, a potential fix for california's crumbling road, but it comes with a price tag attached. why a new plan could hurt you and your wall. apple self-driving car on those crumbling roads. we'll look at that and a live look at the big boards this morning. losing about 124 points on low oil prices which hurts energy
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california. benjamin ashley got into a shootout with sheriffs deputies on saturday. he had been on the run for 18 days. he was accused of killing a retired dentist, taking three men hostage, and shooting two deputies. 30-year-old man in police kus dhi morning. this in connection with to the stabbing death of morgan freeman's step granddaughter. police in new york find 33-year-old adena hines stabbed on the street. the man suspected was in a relationship with the woman. freeman says the world will never know how much she had to offer. it is the last day on the job for san jose state's president. today mohamed's last day on the job. he will become chief advisor for infrastructure and technology for afghanistan's president. he has had a rocky four years
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heading san jose state, critics blamed him for low moral amongst students and said he dealt poorly with a hate crime case and sexual assault case. susan martin, the former president of eastern michigan university will be the interim president. state lawmakers are back from summer break and they're working on a fix for california's crumbling roadways, but tax payers may not like the solution. the current gas tax revenue only covers a fraction of the state's annual lernl. business organizations are seen to raise at least $6 billion a year with higher gas and deezle taxes as well as higher vehicle registration and license fees. governor brown supports the plans but two-thirds of lawmakers have to approve the change, that's what it takes to raise the taxes. kris, new rules are making it harder right now for ride sharing companies to operate in silicon valley's airport. the mercury news reporting this
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morning among san jose's new rules, über and lyft drivers must get business licenses to pick up passengers from the airport. the policies is too strict drivers say and costly. they already comply with background checks. those new rules will take affect starting next month. more this morning about the recent victim of a hate crime in san francisco. over the weekend we showed you video of a man scrawling racist messages on the garage door of an asian family, and it turns out that that home belongs to someone with high profile. justin kan, he sold the video sharing platform twitch to amazon for near lay billion dollars last year. he told us he lived in the lower house with his brothers and fiancee and he's sure his family was targeted, he just doesn't understand why. >> i was pretty shocked, i guess, surprised. i haven't really gotten any overt racism since i've lived in the bay for nine years. it was out of blue. you know, both my fiancee and i
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were just like bewildered. >> how the family did file a police report, they paged over the graffiti and shared that video on twitter. investigators are hoping someone recognizes the suspect and calls police with information. and before he was a billionaire, kan was just a kid with a web cam. >> remember, justin? yeah, nearly ten years ago, scott. >> yeah, justin tv, he's that justin. one of the very first people, kris, to strap a camera to his head and broadcast his whole life live on the internet. back in 2007, this was a radical idea. i mean, we're talking before periscope, go pro, just the idea was amazing. justin took what he learned about live video and turned that sfwoo switch and that made his quite wealthy. we get the fed minutes this week, the it was the expected to raise interest rates next month with the move in the chinese wan make our dollar stronger, makes inflation less of a worry.
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that could change plans for a rate hike. it was a weekend for newspapers on saturday the new york times published new revelations from edward snowden. today it helped the spy and customers in ways we did not know before. the times also ran an in-depth article which was very critical of amazon, and how that company streets its employees. and the british newspaper the garden published never before seen documents about a self-driving dprar apple. here you see the google self-drive karg. apple wants to test its low bot cars on the old concord naval weapons depot. its long been suspected that a.m. was working on the self-driving car, the fact that they are looking for a place to test it says that may be further along, guys, than we first thought. >> yeah, where'd that come from, right? >> thank you very much. so, we know a little guy who first made $15, now he's raised in the thousands of dollars. >> for a great cause, nonetheless. an eight-year-old boy has
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created the perfect recipe to raising money for cancer research and for those stricken with cancer. first made headlines a few months ago when he braved the freezing cold in denver and set up a hot cocoa stand. now he's serving lemonade in the summer heat, all in honor of his friend who's fighting cancer. >> my friend had brain cancer, so he, he went to children's hospital, and they saved his life. >> his lemonade stand, get this, made more than $300 yesterday bringing his total to nearly $750,000. >> wow. >> little by little. here's kari hall, and we don't expect to be even a little bit cooler today. >> not, i really don't think we'll feel a difference between three or five degrees cooler than yesterday. we won't catch a break until about wednesday or thursday. that's when we'll say oh, i'm so glad the heat is behind me. now as we take a life look at
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the bay bridge, we still see that smoke and haze in the air, mostly clear skies, and we're getting ready for another hot day. this is where we're starting right now. it's 55 degrees in the north bay, but it's 66 degrees in the pence last in the south bay at 67 degrees. highs will top out still over 100 degrees in the south bay. the pence laes will be at -- peninsula will be at 87 degrees. look how hazy it is, you can tell by the still, the haze in the air, 103 degrees in the tri-valley, and san francisco, 82 degrees. check out how hot it was yesterday, san francisco, 90 degrees, we have records just smashed all across the board. and i'm talking about like ten degrees above the record in some spots. 104 in concord, san rafael with 102 degrees, and we do still have more of the heat as we go through the day. by the middle of the week, the sea breeze comes back, it'll push that smoke out of the air,
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well to the east of us and we'll have some much improved weather. here's a look at the temperature trend for san francisco, 82 today, but by wednesday, we're at 68 degrees. so the relief is coming and soon. just hold on. let's see how traffic is moving with mike. >> i'm trying to fast forward to wednesday, no, still hot today. okay. we're looking over here, the bay bridge, you won't fast forward to this because there's a crash at west 80, blocking one lane, but moving to the shoulder, that's in the backup for the upper east shore freeway. crash south 680 is building, and of course right here, wie looking at southbound 880. earlier crash at david. there was a stall, there's a backup there, let me show you the camera at the coliseum, we did have that backup, flashing lights but they just cleared minutes ago. there's a haze, it's not a great shot. i'll show ewe better one at the san mateo bridge, but you're building right here, let's get you back to the maps and we'll show you that even though 92 builds westbound, it's not bad
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on the peninsula. looking good, and your northbound routes through san jose and the rest of the silicon valley just starting right now. a crash over on the shoulder right by the airport on 101. coming up, san jose police investigating yet another deadly shooting involving their own officers. it is the third officer-involved shooting in a week. plus a crash, explosion, and fire kills three people overnight. now investigators think they know what led up to it all. kblap
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. and we have breaking news you might have all right felt in your bones this morning, there was an earthquake centered in piedmont. we're getting reports from the usgs right now that it was a 4.0 magnitude quake. strong enough to be felt in san francisco, our chief meteorologist felt it there, and we know viewers have felt it in the east bay as well down in the south bay, not a lot of reports of folks who felt it. we are tracking this one for you. we're trying to get more information from the usgs, we'll have it for you as soon as we get it. meantime if you felt it, let us know, go to facebook or twitter or send us an e-mail this morning. also new this morning, three people are dead, killed in a fiery crash in the east bay overnight. >> "today in the bay" stephanie chuang joining us live in walnut creek with more, steph. >> reporter: yeah, the driver of the car that crashed brought here to john mere last night with major jaurs, it's unclear what condition he is in right now, but the chp says he was likely under the influence and speeding when he crashed last
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night. the only one to survive in his red camaro, thvz after 10:00 at trilane. chp says the civic coming from the other direction, crashed into a tree and burst into flames. again all three passengers inside died. we do not know who they were, there were witness accounts of street racing that may have happened, that was unconfirmed gi investigators, that stretch is straight. the road reopen ed earlier morning. the good news, the driver of the other car walked away with very minor or no injuries at all. live here in walnut creek, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." and now let's go down to the south bay, nbc bay area damian is live where police are investigating the third deadly officer-involved shooting in a week, damian. >> reporter: it happened just over nine hours ago. investigators are still processing that scene for evidence and trying to figure out what led up to this shooting. all police will say is officers were conducting a followup investigation, they won't say what kind of investigation.
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now when they approached the man here in the parking lot of the a strip mall on center road, police say a man pulled a gun on officers. two officers opened fire and killed a man. he has not yet been identified nor have police said if he is the man officers were looking for in the followup investigation. this is already the seventh officer-involved shooting of the year here in san jose. four have been fatal, last year there were five, we are across the street from andrew hill high school and children are walking to school ands,ing the crime scene here. we're live in san jose, "today in the bay." >> all right, thank you very much. new at 6:00, concord hospital deemed the first in the east bay to perform a major lounge surgery with a robot. doctors at the medical center removed a tumor from a lung cancer patient with the help of robotic technology. so instead of making a large incision in the chest, the robot allowed doctors to do the surgery with just a few small incisions. the hospital says this is shorter recovery and less
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painful for the patient. all right. right now we are following breaking news to bring to you. we mentioned a second ago that that earthquake, which initially was reported by the usgs a 4.2 in piedmont has been downgraded to a 4.0. >> certainly folk have felt is in the east bay, one of our colleagues felt it in san francisco. so we know you probably felt it this morning. here's meteorologist kari hall, you've been watching as well. >> we'll keep you up to date on that, of course you'll have the aftershocks through the rest of the morning. and it's still going to be a hot and hazy day. here is a look at what to expect this afternoon. still the heat over 100 degrees in the east bay and tri-valley. >> 880 in oakland has been a trouble spot. >> much better now that all lanes have crashed. you see the minor slowing passing davis. as we look at the map, you see your trap, i'm going to move
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this south as well. we're going to stick on the maps guys and note that any sort of earthquake like this, expect some minor delays and we'll let you know if there are any problems. that's what's happening "today in the bay," we'll see you back here in 30 minutes. good morning. tinderbox. wildfires raging across the west. dozens of homes destroyed by an unprecedented blaze in washington state. braering overnight, a major bomb ek exploding in bangkok. we'll have the latest. from campaign to court. donald trump arrives for jury duty this morning. after he gets specific on key issues in the presidential campaign. immigration. >> they have to go. >> -- sending ground troops back to iraq. >> you knock the hell out of the oil, take back the oil. >> and the surprising place he gets military advice.
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