dueling in prime time... for the first time. in tonight's democratic debate, hillary clinton and duelling in primetime for the first time in tonight's democratic debate. hillary clinton and bernie sanders finally forced to do something that both have avoided on the campaign trail for months. a life or death rescue off the coast of san francisco. spot whales find something else turned over oin the pacific. a human skull spotted on a south bay trail, but what could still be buried beneath the ground that has investigators scrambling this morning. "today in the bay" starts right now. and a good tuesday morning, thank you for joining us, i'm sam brock. >> it just feels like a monday

somethi sometimes. >> welcome back. i'm laura garcia-cannon. my fall boots are asking when they can come out. >> what can come out? >> my fall boots. flip-flops still. >> we'll have warm weather as we take a look at these numbers now. 54 degrees as you step out the door in the north bay and all clear skies across the bay area. it's 64 degrees in the peninsula and looking at the highs today, it will be up to 88 degrees in the peninsula and east bay. san francisco up to 82 degrees and 94 in the north bay. we'll take a closer look at these numbers coming up in a few minutes. let's check in now with mike taking us to the bay bridge. >> a few folks waiting and a few cash payers on either side. not unusual. let's get to the maps. should be cleared up in the next few at the bay bridge toll plaza. no delays getting there. 580 stretched just east of grand and overnight road crews there and we've seen the last few mornings with some slowing right before they pick up. a big rig over on the shoulder.

and no slowing there or really for the bay. back to you. a disturbing find in the south bay has investigators searching for more clues. stumble upon a human skull and now authorities are trying to figure out who it belongs to. >> bob has more on what they're finding out. good morning, bob. >> laura and sam, you can see santa clara county sheriff department is keeping people out of the discovery site, but a hiker discovered this skull yesterday morning and sherry's way. this is in unincorporated los gatos. they have brought in cadaver dogs to search the area and see if there are more remains. deputies are certain it is a human skull and they can't tell if it belongs to a man, woman or child. investigators are, obviously,

looking into if it's connected with past missing or murder cases and one case they're looking into is the disturbance of morgan hill and lemar who has been missing for three years now. >> it's a tragic event and we hope it is is so we can give clocher to closure to the family. we don't know right now. all we have is a human skull. >> investigators are also not ruling out the possibility that it could be part of a native american burial site. reporting live here in unincorporated los gatos, bob redell. the three correctional deputies accused in the beating death of an inmate are scheduled to enter a plea. the three men who work as guards allegedly beat and killed michael tyree in late august. tyree who was mentally ill was supposed to be moved to a mental

health program before the incident. two of the three are out on obail. all three are on paid administrative leave. if convicted of the charges, the guards could face life in prison. back in the bay area to face homicide charges. three drifters accused of a wild crime spree, including killing two people arrived in marin county last night. the trio was arrested in por portland last week. they're expected in court tomorrow. marin county prosecutors say if convicted all three suspects will face life in prison or death. a whale watching trip turn under to a rescue mission when a nearby fishing boat overturned. a san francisco whale tours boat carrying 72 passengers went out on the bay on saturday when the coast guard radios to help with a rescue near the fair lawn islands. the fog was too thick for a

coast fward helicopter. the captain quickly answered the call to raced to the accident two miles away. when they arrived the crew spotted two men clinging to the bottom of a capsized boat. >> i was just so happy to see that boat. it was like god sent him there. >> we aggressively powered through. the swell was large. up to 18 feet and the visibility was reduced. >> captain nazar was able to get close to the boat and pull those members, crew members, i should say, helped pull the two survivors to safety. third man, 83-year-old pat booker did not survive. the coast guard is now investigating that accident. now to the latest developments on a fast-moving wildfire to our south. so far 200 acres scorched near hollister and san banino county and no containment updates this morning. the flames erupted around 4:00 yesterday afternoon and quickly spreading. so far no injuries and no homes are threatened, but we'll keep

our eye on that one. >> so hot in the south bay yesterday, probably didn't help. let's check the forecast for today. >> not only will it be hotter today, we'll also have light, variable winds. that could cause the fire to become more erratic and change direction. we are going to start out the morning with more of a northerly wind and then shifts more from the southwest as we go into the afternoon. winds won't be that strong, though. that may be good news. the winds at ten miles throughout the day. look in the highs in the upper 90s in gilroy and dolores heights today up to 82 and 96 in santa rosa and 97 today in livermore. i'll have more on these numbers and a look at the weekend forecast coming up. let's check in now with mike. >> hey, folks a very easy drive right now as you would expect. here's the high rise coming over to the foster city side and behind me the flat section, easy, light drive. we show you a couple slow

sensors a couple minutes ago and double checking with that live camera and nothing going on there and south bay you're at speeds through your northbound route as you expect those to come up later on in the morning and no problem for the maze and no problem on the bay bridge. coming up next, a show down in vegas. the democratic wanna be for presidency squaring off for the first time poised for their first debate. got a tip for nbc's bay area investigative unit. call 1-888-996-tips or e-mail theunit@nbcbayarea.com. nbc bay area, we investigate.

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and lincoln chafee. political experts that all the candidates will follow the republican lead and bring up hillary clinton's private e-mail server and her response to benghazi. meanwhile, clinton herself took aim at the republican frontrunner right in front of his las vegas hotel. >> i don't think it's entertaining when someone insalts immigrants, insults women, that's just unacceptable. >> we need our answers for the problems, not just campaign rhetoric. >> donald trump has said that he is going to weigh in on the debate via twitter. everybody does. but he just talks about it. a lot of folks waiting to see what vice president joe biden has to say, not only about the debate, but about his own possible run and, in fact, there is an extra podium at the ready, at the debate. just in case joe biden decides to show up. >> what an entrance that will be. >> about his last minute,

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just saying that she did not like that heat yesterday. >> well, you know, i'm ready for fall and it was really hot. >> it was so hot yesterday. and i hate to tell you this -- >> pumpkin pie out there. >> bring a spoon. >> prefacing anything with i

hate to tell you this is always a bad omen. tell us what. >> it is going to be hotter today. >> but a cool down is coming. >> yes, we do have some great news in that forecast, including a couple of shots of rain as we go into the rest of the week. let's take a live look outside right now. in san jose, it's all clear. and nice, school start to the morning despite the heat that we had yesterday and expecting the temperatures to ramp up, once again. it's a little warmer than where we should be to start out the morning. already 65 in livermore and sun sunnyvale 64 degrees and napa starts out at 54 degrees. we will see a few clouds around san francisco and moving into the inner bay and then as we go into the rest of the morning, all of that clears out. still some fog hugging the coast and that will keep those temperatures nice and cool for the immediate coastline. but we will still have some very hot temperatures ramping up inland with a lack of wind. as we take a look at the bigger

picture, i'm showing you the satellite this morning because i'm watching the swirl of clouds. that is well far to the south and to the west. but this could impact our weather as we head into tomorrow afternoon. and as well as thursday. computer models showing an increase in humidity and few spotty showers possible and then heading into the weekend, another system will be moving in. a cold front that could bring us another chance of rain. now, as we look at how much rain the models are expecting for us, doesn't look like a whole lot. maybe 0.05 and napa 0.06 and then pretty much trace amounts for the bay area. as we head into the weekend, some spotty showers. possibly some thunderstorms and at least temperatures will be coming down. mostly 70s and some low 80s on saturday and sunday very nice with highs in the 70s. up to 82 degrees in the tri-valley. let's check in now with mike to see what's happening with the commute. >> good morning, kari.

>> taking you folks out to fremont. live view. there's northbound with the taillights. very easy drive both directions. look at your map coming up into that live shot. we have the disabled big rig and as far as i saw when i drove past on the other side of the freeway. a lot of ologologs on the back it. in towards the east bay. here is the tri-valley. a look behind me and we see a few slow sensors coming out of the altamont pass. and no slowing around grand but there is a road crew there, we'll track itp. what's on tap this morning? a big beer deal in the works. >> it is october fest. the rest of the news before the bell, let's turn to landon dowdy at cnbc world headquarters. good morning. >> hey, it's 5:00 somewhere. but not right here. good start to the day in the red. futures are lower and on light volume, columbus day holiday.

the dow extending its winning streak to seven days. earning season really gets under way today with big names such as johnson & johnson and intel reporting the dow rising 17 points and the nasdaq up 8 to 4838. oil prices have been falling sharply for more than a year, but some energy companies are doing everything to avoid having to lay off workers. "wall street journal" reports they are trimming other personnel costs cutting wages as across the board. avoid the massive worker shortages. and investors may be toasting a big merger today. has agreed to be bought by rival anheuser-busch for $104 billion, although it has two weeks to accept a formal bid. the deal could face major scrutiny from regulators in the u.s. where sab has 25% through its joint venture in miller coors. sam and laura, back over to you.

>> all the american beers merge together. >> that's a big conglomerate. >> thank you very much. 4:48 right now. federal laws are supposed to protect workers on the front lines when they raise red flags about issues. >> but the government retaliates against whistle blowers and drags out their cases. vicki wynn reviewed the national data showing what happens when people blow the whistle. >> good morning. we looked that complaints that came in for the past ten years to the federal whistle blower program and seeing for the first time when the government finds in favor of workers who report concerns about public health and safety. not often. we learned fewer than 2% of the cases osha investigates actually result in a positive finding of merit for the whistleblower. 22% of cases resulted in settlements osha calls those outcomes favorable. but we talked with more than a dozen people who say osha unfairly dismissed their

complaints or dragged out their cases. these people work in industries that affect all of us. airlines, nuclear plants, food safe and we found find they wait a long time for resolution. the average case took osha more than a year to investigate. not the 90 days or less as the law requires. critics say the whistleblower program needs major reform and should be removed from osha. now, no one from osha would talk to us, but in a memo director david michaels wrote we are focused on improving the efficiency and the quality of our investigations. he says the agencies worked for more than a year to better train its investigators. you can see our entire report right now online at nbcbayarea.com and click on the investigations tab. >> vicki, thank you very much. if you have a tip for our investigative unit. please give us a call, 888-996-tips or send us an e-mail to

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we've been checking in on our live camera from las vegas here. the political win at work out of the democratic debate, but some wins, like actual winds here in the bay area to start off your tuesday morning. >> live look at vegas this morning. the lights are always on in sin city, right? let's check the forecast now. >> it's going to be hot here. it is going to feel like vegas outside. as we take a look at the livermore hour by hour. starts out nice and comfortable at 5:00 and then look at how those temperatures climb as we go through the day. you probably don't even want to take lunch outside when it's in the low 90s out there.

and then trending into the mid 90s by this afternoon. now, we're watching the temperature here in livermore because the record today, 98 degrees. we're expecting 96 and very close to setting the new record. in the tri-valley mike now takes us to dublin. >> higher temperatures and cool it down a bit because it's not there yet. for the peak of the morning commute, 580 westbound and look at your map and you do see a little dip for the speed sensors right at the dublin interchange. a little tap of the brakes and no drama out of the altamont. everything moves really well. and the crash in fremont cleared from the chp report. no delays here. an event at the coliseum. warriors play tonight and i'll hand it to you for that stuff. >> warriors play their first preseason home game in oakland and team's future home that is grabbing the headlines this morning. the warriors officially purchased a 12-acre of land

right near at&t park. the warriors hope to build the $1 billion privately funded water front arena within three years. comes just days after an agreement ucsf. >> they have embraced the project and fully supports the project with the city and ucsf that fully addressed their concerns about traffic and access. >> the hospital sits across the street from the proposed arena. one obstacle still does remain. the arena still needs to pass an environmental review. >> we'll find out if the warriors can win on both sides of the bay. a bride and groom took an unexpected detour while going to their reception. what happened next became a viral sensation. the tennessee newly weds took some time out when grandma, grandpa and the father of the bride got into a car crash. the bride, sarah ray, is also an emt. immediately sprung into action.

wedding dress and all. >> a lot of people have used the word hero when they're talking about the story and i just, i don't like it. i don't feel like i was being heroic in any way. it's just my family was in an accident and i needed to make sure that they were there and it just happened that i'm a paramedic and i was in my wedding dress. that's all there is to it. >> right time, right place, right action. pictures of sarah at the scene in her wedding dress have reached more than 1.5 million views on facebook. grandma, grandpa and dad are all doing fine this morning. coming up, one of the most precious resource os during an emergency, clean drinking water. a regional plan that looks to reboot water supply for millions of bay residents. a discovery of a human skull on a south bay trail jump starts an investigation about what else might be buried beneath the surface. all eyes are on las vegas -- as

democrats prepare for their first debate tonight. the gearing up for a faceoff. all eyes on vegas as democrats prepare for their first debate tonight. the candidates we expect to take t stage. preparing for the worst. that could save bay area cities in the midst of a disaster. disturbing find has neighbors on edge and the investigation under way following discovery of a human skull. "today in the bay" starts now. and a very good tuesday morning to you, thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon.

>> i'm sam brock. first start a look at your forecast and hopefully tuesday is cooler there, kari. >> no, actually, a few degrees hotter. i'm so sorry. just a last day and then it is looking better as we go through the week. we start out this morning even still mild in a lot of ospots like the south bay and the peninsula at 64 degrees. in the north bay it's 57 degrees and compare that to the 49 degrees we had yesterday morning at this time. as we look at those highs today in the 80s and 90s and even some upper 90s in parts of the tri-valley. i'll talk more about that and give you a look at all the microclimates coming up in a few minutes. let's check in now with mike. how is it looking at the bay bridge? >> good, kari. reminder, you're just the messenger. great at the bay bridge and a couple of cash lanes starting the backup, just starting to slow down as we have a little build. look at your map and no can delays out of the maze. as we zoom out, look at that, no