joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. as we've noted it's very calm in the bay area today. but on the pacific coast, on the atlanta coast, watching hurricanes in both directions right now. >> tracking herman earlier, the one headed for florida. you can see here we've got some actual video. i believe this is the one that we were talking about that could be impacting testimony a, even pensacola, over toward tallahass tallahassee. expecting six to ten inches of rainfall additional in florida as the system continues to slowly move. let's switch gears and talk about lester. this is the one headed towards hawaii. the one we will be watching for labor day holiday by friday. could be off the coast of hawaii as a category one. back at home. quiet weather. morning fog. nice, comfortable afternoon. 60s and 70s. a few 80s for inland valleys. we'll talk about that weekend forecast coming up in a bit. mike, let's get you into that morning commute. >> good morning. the morning commute itself

moving well. light traffic flow as you would imagine at this time of morning. we are also looking at the possibility of fog flupsing your drive. not so much on the map we're looking at but as we move up here toward the golden gate bridge and sinking down across the bay bridge. before we get that live look i want to show you eastbound across that span. we do reason issue. disabled vehicle blocked the on rach getting on toward the lower deck. getting on toward the eastbound direction. we'll track that. live look we'll show you that we can't see anything beyond treasure island and we can't see the top of the tower. low clouds hovering around the deck as well for the bay bridge. but not a major concern. over to you, laura. moving on to decision and 2016 and taking a hard line on millions of immigrants in the united states. donald trump made his vision on immigration very clear. he wants to send undocumented immigrants back to where they came from. "today in the bay's" tracie potts monitoring the reaction from his much anticipated speech

last night. >> reporter: donald trump in arizona last night. >> mexico will pay for the wall. 100%. >> reporter: and trump hours earlier in mexico with the couldn't's president. >> we kent does who pays for the wall. >> reporter: he later explained. >> they don't know it yet but they're going to pay for the wall. >> reporter: clinton campaign is out with a new web video this morning claiming the great negotiator choke and then lied about it. the mexican government tweets, they did discuss who pays for the wall, that mexico won't do it and that's not negotiable. clinton claims trump failed his first foreign policy test. >> it certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. that is not how it works. >> reporter: in the arizona speech trump lays out his immigration plan. immediately deporting 2 million criminal immigrants, verifying

that workers are legal, cracking down on those who overstay visas. the focus, trump says, should be on americans not immigrant families. >> no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement. >> now, after saying that last night trump lost some support from people who had been working with his campaign, hispanic advisory council. these are the folks who had been going out trying to get him support in the latino community. this morning some say they feel betrayed, misled, disappointed that he took that hard line on mass deportations last night. >> and the conversation will certainly continue. tracie potts live from washington, st washington, thank you. stay with nbc bay area news. you can head to our digital platform on how people are reacting to trump's speech, including hillary clinton. back at home. eerily similar over heingly

tragic situation playing out again. two young girls who love to sing and dance are being remembered at their elementary school in rohnert park this morning. gonzales sisters 7-year-old sayra and 9-year-old delilah died yesterday morning on their way to school. their mother lost control of the car they were driving in and it went into the petaluma river. 26-year-old hernandez survived but was not able to rescue her daughters. parents at waldo rohnert elementary school are having an emotional talk with their kids today about losing two of their classmates. >> they were asking questions. we explained but he was sad. >> family members say delilah and sayra's parents are devastated. the chp says hernandez told investigators someone cut her off and she drove off the road as she tried to overcorrect the car. now, hernandez reportedly did not have a driver's license. investigators are urging witnesses to come forward. it's a crime spree you should be aware of this morning. it is spanning three bay area

cities. alleged armed robbers are breaking into homes with home own owns inside. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is live in fremont where the latest incident happened. kris, what can you tell us about this? >> reporter: well, you know, this fremont couple watched people break into their home in realtime via surveillance video. they were out of the house. the police say it's likely that those robbers were hoping that those homeowners would be home at the time. take a look at the video. we show you a snippet but five men crouched down with some serious firepower. fremont police tell us that those guns had extended magazines, that is extra bullets. now, the thieves grabbed what they wanted and left before police arrived but police believe the same gang of thieves showed up at another fremont home specifically when the family was home. listen to how similar that description is to what piedmont police are also investigating. >> came through the open garage door. went straight to where the

family was at. controlled them at gun point. controlled their locations. asked about where things were. >> three people walked in. they asked if they had a safe at home. they asked them for the cash and the valuables. >> reporter: others are two different police departments. that family was held up at gun point in the same neighborhood where three construction workers were also held up at gun point and there was a similar robbery in the oakland hills as well. and in more than one of those robberies and home invasions style burglaries the people got in through doors that were left unlocked. so that's the takeaway. for the rest of us, check your doors as your home -- during the day or at night. in fremont, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. a family mourning the death of a 6-week-old baby and her father will be back in court today charged officially with killing her. matthew zabala could enter a plea in this case. officials say the baby suffered a skull fracture and wasn't

breathing when deputies arrived. doctors found broken ribs and fractures to her arms and legs at different stages of healing. she was eventually taken off life support on friday. zabala is being charged with murder. it's 5:07. happening today, the 49ers are squaring off against the san diego chargers and the entire country is going to be watching an nfl preseason game, not necessarily for the game but for the national anthem that comes before it. this is the colin kaepernick debate continues to rage on. tonight's game is the chargers 28th annual salute to the military. the military community has been very conflicted over this issue. it's been part of the debate. like the general public, veterans and active duty members are split on what kaepernick -- >> it's a disgrace to be honest with you. it's pretty much saying he doesn't care for our country. >> i think our nation makes drama out of things that are not dramatic or are far more issues that we should be focused on than what a quarterback stands

or sits for. >> tonight's national anthem is going to be performed by u.s. navy officer while more than 200 servicemen and women hold the flag. after serving 90 days in jail for three felony counts of sexual assault former stanford swimmer brock turner is set to be released tomorrow. right now the sheriff's department is preparing and taking extra precautions as numerous groups plan on protesting turner's release so the sheriff is beefing up her staff. >> he will be leaving the jail exactly as everyone else does, through these doors at a normal release time. >> you have to take extra security? >> we're going to have some law enforcement here because we're hearing of protests. there's some angry protesters. we'll just be here keeping the peace merely. >> part of the anger, turner is being released three months into a six-month long jail sentence for good behavior. he's expected to be released sometime tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

5:00 a.m. on. we're going the bring you live updates. we will have a crew up there. if you drive along the peninsula there's already a lot of construction on willow road and highway 101 and menlo park. things will get much worse before they get better. city secured $70 million to replace the interchange with a new wider bridge. construction is set to begin in early 2017. right now there's construction going on in the third southbound lane on willow road at new bridge street. facebook which is just about a mile from there is going to pay for the extra lane so you pay the price right now waitinger to it to be repaired but in the long run should be better. >> hopefully clearing things up. very clear outside at least. anthony slaughter is joining us with a look at your weather. >> we're not look at a lot of cloud cover. the fog just staying put at the coastline. across the higher mountain tops across the peninsula. right now you see in san francisco, 61 degrees. foggy skies there. even across parts of the north bay not so bad. you can make out the city from belvede belvedere. we've got a few clouds this morning. as you get going we'll have a

nice bright sun rise. remember the shades as you hit the road. 82 for the tri-valley. still another warm day for inland valleys. 79 for the north bay and 78 today for the south bay. we'll talk about the weekend holiday and warmer temperatures and in the meantime let's toss things over to mike. what are you tracking? >> crash in fremont. i was slowing slowdowns. in the east bay 880 will slow south of dumbarton bridge because the road crews are pick up the cone. as you come down toward the dumbarton bridge out of union city and the san leandro area having a slow down, crash reported just before you get toward that dakota or dumbarton bridge turnoff in the middle of the freeway. it happened about 35 seconds before i came to the set. so that will be an issue at least for the next few minutes. check with chp as they should arrive quickly and quick work. we'll check at the rest of the approach toward the bay bridge. that moves well. over here. i told you about eastbound, a stall on treasure island. as we get a look at the span, we're watching westbound.

there's no slowing reported but a truck is reported somewhere right around that treasure island tunnel. that's the light there. may be blocking the lane. update from the bridge crew. back to you. >> thank you very much. just talking about this a second ago. up next, tech companies bogging down bay area cities? what one peninsula mayor says and what he plans on doing about it. worries this morning over cellphone fires. i'll tell you which one coming up in business and tech. plus, help is now just a text away. the new innovative program for victims of sexual assault or domestic violence in the south bay.

welcome back, everyone. thursday morning, 5:14. for the first time in santa clara county help is now just a text away for domestic violence and sexual assault victims. it's a story you will only see on nbc bay area. the texting plan is an innovative new program. first of its kind in the state. the program is called safechat a in silicon valley launched this month. victims can text or send an instant message to trained crisis counselors. >> so far we've gotten some people who are experiencing crisis, people who are curious about what domestic violence actually is. sometimes they're not sure if they're in a domestic violence relationship or not. >> 90 people have already used the new service in just a few weeks. big tech companies creating

too much congestion in palo alto? the mayor in the city says yes and he's hoping to do something about it. mayor patrick byrd is looking into revamping a decades old zoning ortd nance to force tech companies to move out if they get too big. the goal is to make room for more start-ups. large companies have office space in 20 downtown -- space in 20 downtown buildings. that's about 12% of the overall commercial space in downtown. mayor byrd is also concerned with the lack of affordable housing. samsung has a problem with its hot galaxy 7 cellphone. >> scott mcgrew, trying not to catch fire. >> i'm trying not to catch fire. this is the phone in question. there are reports from users that battery can burst, the phone will catch fire. samsung hasn't confirmed that but it is delaying shipments of the new phone and we've seen several pictures and video online of burned cellphones and angry cellphone users. samsung lost a staggering $7

billion in overall value on that news because it's terrible timing. this is the phone that samsung is going to use to compete with the upcoming iphone 7. we see the iphone 7 early next week. speaking of apple, tim cook spoke to irish radio this morning about that huge tax bill it's going to be forced to pay irela ireland. >> i'm sure your listeners can relate to this. when you're accuse of doing something that is so foreign to your values it brings out an outrage in you. >> has apple done anything wrong here? does apple have anything to apologize for? >> no. >> both apple and ireland are appealing the demand to pay more tax. let's check the rest of the news before the bell. landon dowdy is live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, landon. >> scott, good morning. wall street will try to start september out on a good note. futures are higher. the markets ending august in the

red, dragged down by energy stocks. the dow snapping a six-month winning streak and september may not look much better. it is the historically the worst month of the year for stocks. you want to look for data on unemployment sales. the nasdaq down 9 to 5213. scott, back over to you. the state of california just gave autonomous driver's license to the chinese company bidu. expect to see more robot cars on the road and hiring in silicon valley. if your children are thinking about what they want to be tell them to be automotive engineers. sam and laura, update to that strange signal from space. the russian scientist who first noticed it say it's probably came from earth. >> really? radio signal or something? >> at&t labs years ago couldn't get rid of a sound, they couldn't figure out what it was. they thought it was coming from earth but it came from space and proved the big bang. are we feeling something locally or hearing something from far

away. >> this was supposed to be from 95 light years away. >> yeah, probably just a guy named bob. >> we just deal with the sound in the car, what is that? >> tinfoil, okay. thank you very much. boys, are you waiting to dpli to the moon? is the place you might do that one day. space port america hopes to be the airport to space. do they have tsa? 27 square mile taxpayer funded facility in the new mexico desert. it's been around three years and has performed two dozen launches. virgin and spacex have moved in but their launchpads are qui sglet virgin has not done a launch nor has spacex. we're ready. >> the space port is operating at a deficit but it hones to be black in the black in two years when they say activity will pick up. >> not making a lot of money if people are not using it yet. >> exactly. >> one day. okay. how about today? we're looking at your weather

forecast. anthony sdaulaughter in for kar hall. >> the first day of the meteorological calendar, fall, as we put it, the first day of fall begins september 22nd. just about 21 days away. but when you lump it all together and average, september, october, november, that is how you kind of base what your fall months will be about. there's a little weather science for you this morning. all right. let's talk some regular weather, shall we? we have fog this morning. that's something you can understand. san francisco, you've got low clouds. you can see across the rest of the bay area, we're looking at a few high and mid-level cloud comp. once the sun comes up we're not going to see an overly cloudy start for the day except for san francisco. where temperatures will stay cool. 65 degrees. headed your way there. 82 for the tri-valley. 78 for the south bay. winds today out of the northwest. that's a cool ocean wind. that's going to continue to breeze on through. picking up a little bit at the coastline this afternoon. but not overly gusty.

15 to 30 miles per hour. we do it all over again for tomorrow afternoon. winds die down tonight. then they ramp right back up for tomorrow. the thing to note though here a lot of our winds today and tomorrow, as we head into the weekend, we'll be onshore. keep the smoke out of our area. the fog will continue to drift on through. again, not looking at thick cloud cover. even at the coastal locations. from san francisco down towards half moon bay at lunchtime we clear out. as we head towards the next couple day, looking at the similar kind of weather. 60s and 70s for today even at the coastline. 65 for san francisco. same for santa cruz. 77 for palo alto. oakland you will be at 72. 82 today for livermore. seven-day forecast does show labor day holiday weekend. you will notice on labor day, nice and comfortable. similar to now. san francisco stays in the 60s. mike, you are tracking that morning commute. still tracking that crash? >> in fremont, little more information but the speed sensors showing the slow down. show you all over the bay pretty much the speeds you would expect. the concern is not that crash

south of here just registered on our map. but the slowing shows up right here. right around avenue rad do down toward the boulevard. those are two separate areas and two separate roadways but that stretch is showing a lot of slowing and the crash registered around the boulevard in the middle of the freeway it does look like that's what's happening. again, chp shy on the details right now. we'll get there very quickly. no problem across the dumbarton bridge if that's where you're headed but if you are north of there use that san mateo bridge because that will keep you out of that backup. heading toward the bay bridge, smooth flow. map doesn't show slowing or in the north bay. let's give you a live look and show you the bay bridge itself moves well. reported a slow rolling trek across and the golden gate we might show you down a bit by fog on the north side. just the north side. back to you. all right, a weird crime repeating itself. bizarre vandalism. it's happening again in san jose. the search to find the poern who keeps defacing utility boxes.

vandals seem to be at it again in san jose and in a very bizarre way. someone splashing white primer paint on utility boxes that you see are there with muir r murals. the boxes are located in willow glen neighborhood. that vandalism started showing up in january and then it didn't happen again until this past sunday when police say a box on the corner of meridian sav knew

and dry creek road was hit. the artist has since repainted that nur rmural. emotional symbol in the south bay is suddenly gone. a pile of white crosses that once kored the lawn of guadalupe church in san jose honoring homicide victims. the church tells us some parishioners felt the crosses made the parish look eerie like a cemetery. so they were removed. the pastor gave a pink slip to a group named amigos de guadalupe. >> it's just sad that i don't think we've had chance, they don't have a time to know us, who we are. >> in a letter to parishioners the pastor explains the church needs the space to provide bible studies and other faith-based classes. follow-up on the berkeley balcony collapse. there's been a bill to increase oversight of contractors.

its pat is on the governor's desk. legislation is in direct response to the deadly balcony collapse that killed six people and injured seven others last year. if the governor signs that bill into law, it would ensure that state agencies oversee construction, industry and improved building standards. the state senate and assembly unanimously approved that lemg lags yesterday. now on a lighter note for state news. >> i was going to say, if the governor gets out his pen to sign this as well, maybe his blue pen because you can start rocking those bluejeans. denim could be the fabric of the state. >> the texas tuxedo, right? now we have the denim tuxedo. >> california cool. >> it is. 59-3 vote state legislatures passed the bill to make denim the official state fabric. propose bid mark levine of marin county. his colleagues showed their support by wearing jean jackets during his presentation in sacramento. governor brown has yet to weigh

in on that. >> a lot of jeggings in that, too. no mom jeans. coming up next, a crime spree that's spanning several bay area cities. the search to find a ban of armed robbers crouching waiting to attack. they're breaking into homes while homeowners are still inside. >> reporter: 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick vowing to continue his national anthem protest at tonight's preseason game. i'm bob redell. we're going to have that story coming up. pete suratos in petaluma where folks in sonoma county and another car accident involving two young girls. we'll have the details coming up.

good morning. 5:30 on your thursday. glad you're with us. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. if you're lucky enough to say aloha that's a great thing if you're headed to hawaii but, boy, also some hurricanes. >> oh, yeah, you definitely want to pay attention to the forecast, especially over the next couple days as things continue to change. let's talk about what's headed their direction. just got finished dealing with madeline. but here comes lester, category 2 storm. it is expected to impact the big island and maybe some of the other island chains as we go towards the holiday weekend. keep an eye on that if you're doing traveling that direction. here at home, quiet weather. patchy fog especially across the north bay where visibility is down to zero miles in santa rosa. so later on this afternoon we'll see a nice comfortable day.

60s and 70s for most of us. let's get you to work on time. mike, what are you tracking? >> that note for santa rosa was a good one on 101. keep that in mind. very low visibility, down to zero. but you can see in front of the car. meanwhile, you can see the sensors are not a problem except for fremont coming out of hayward. 912 down toward the scene of the crash here just shy of alvarado boulevard. still a crash registered in the middle of the roadway. by the dumbarton bridge you're okay. but consider the san mateo bridge instead of the dumbarton bridge if you are in union city or hayward because of that tougher drive. the bay bridge, the backup starts because the metering lights are on. that's right on schedule. we are following break news of the of oakland where police are investigating a double stabbing at an apartment building. this is video just in from the scene. police were called just before 4:00 this morning to harrison street near 580. when they arrived they found two men stabbed inside that building. officers were able to eventually track down a suspect and use a

tazer to bring him into custody. two victims were taken to the hospital. this morning we are remembering two young lives cut short. grief counselors are going to be at a sonoma county elementary school after two sisters who friends and family members say loved to sing and dance, died when their mother drove the family car into a river. >> pete suratos is where that crash happened. pete, the community is certainly stunned. >> reporter: certainly stunned, indeed. good morning to you, laura and sam. we're here off of petaluma boulevard north and goes sage avenue where that mother lost control ending up in the petaluma river and losing her two daughters as a result. we were just over there near that area. we have new video of that memorial. you still see the balloons and the candles that are there from the community. will be coming out here to support that family. according to chp, the mother had just dropped her husband off at work around 8:00 a.m. yesterday and was taking her daughter, 7-year-old sayra and 9-year-old

delilah to their school in rohnert park. she said someone cut her off and that's when she over corrected and drove into the river. now, chp says the mother did not have a license. now, this is tough for folks here in sonoma county because it happens only a week after a another pair of youngsters died in jenner when their mother lost control of the pickup truck and drove into into the nearby russian river. here's the memorial for those girls in petaluma last night and from parents at the girls' school who have to explain too their children what happened. >> pain is pain. you know? no matter how you see it ordeal with it, and losing a child is very difficult. >> he was asking questions. we explained. but he was sad. >> reporter: clearly an emotional time for folks out here and grief counselors will be at the school this morning for classmates of the two girls as this is still on on going investigation. if you have any information

contact chp and many chp officers at the scene at jenner a week ago were also here in petaluma. we're going of hear their reaction coming up in the next hour. live in petaluma, pete suratos for "today in the bay." a rash of brazen break-ins spanning three bay area cities could be linked. surveillance video shows a group of armed robbers breaking into a fremont home. the homers were not there. the suspects are hoping to confront the home eners to lead them to valuables. similar break-ins have taken place in piedmont and oakland hill which has authorities investigating whether they're related. >> you have five armed individuals and they're not just armed with anything. in the video they're armed with extended magazines. >> thankfully no one has been injured in the three reported break-ins. right now there's been another attack on a muni buzz in san francisco. this time the man was hit on the head with a bottle and cellphone was stolen. tuesday morning about 10:30 on a 14 line outbound bus driving

through the outer mission. the victim was approached by two men. one distracted him while the other attacked him. no arrests have been made. the police are combing through security video right now from that bus. in recent weeks a couple of muni drivers have said they've also been attacked. more san francisco police officers are getting body cameras today. more than 150 officers are already wearing them. the department started issuing those devices back in july. their goal is to equip all officers, lieutenant, and below with cameras by january. today officers in the ingleside station will receive their new devices. the department has been under intense scrutiny lately to reform following multiple shootings of suspects by officers. this morning the niners are gearing up for game against the san diego chargers. it's a team's last preseason game but football has taken a backseat to politics as controversy continues to swirl around colin kaepernick. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live from levi stadium with reaction ahead of tonight's big

game. this is a watched game for the entire country. bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, sam. as you recall a quarterback 49ers colin kaepernick has promised to silt down again during tonight's anthem. it will be a much different b atmosphere in san diego as tonight the chargers will be paying their annual tribute to the military. if you're not similar san diego is home to thousands servicemen and women. very much different at moss fear than what happened here last here at levi stadium when few people at a time even realized that colin kaepernick had been sitting down during the national anthem to protest what he says is police brutality against minorities in this country. yesterday kaepernick not surprisingly found support from members of the black lives matter movement, a small group of people blocked the entrance to the san francisco police officer's association and they were protesting the letter that the poa sent to the nfl commissioner and the 49ers' ceo. in n. that letter the poa was

demand that kaepernick apologize for his comments regarding officer involved hoshootings an called him an embarrassment for misinformation. >> the criticism he received is no different than criticism that all have received. >> it's a disgrace, to be honest with you. it's pretty much him saying he doesn't care for our country. >> reporter: that was a woman at yesterday's chargers event, the san diego chargers yesterday signing autographs at marine corps air station in miramar before tonight's game which again is the chargers annual salute to the military to honor the thousands of servicemen and women who live in the san diego area. a u.s. naval officer will sing tonight's anthem while more than 200 members of the military unfurl the u.s. flag. gan again, a much different atmosphere than the preseason game last friday night here at levi stadium. it only became apparent after someone tweeted the image of kaepernick sitting down that people here in the public became

aware of his protest that actually started a few games prior. reporting live outside levi stadium in santa clara, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thank you. controversy there, controversy here. who will pay for the wall? donald trump says he did not talk about that specifically with the president of mexico when the two met. president enrique pena nieto says he told trump mexico will not pay for the wall. after that meeting trump gave his much anticipated speech on immigration in arizona. >> they don't know it yet but they're going to pay for the wall. and they're great people and great leaders, but they're going to pay for the wall. >> reporter: trump sticking to his primary promise, build the wall and deport millions of illegal immigrants. he says as preside he would create a special task force to deport criminals. hillary clinton earlier yesterday said trump cantor race things he said in the past. >> certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by

dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. that is not how it works. >> there are reports several of trump's latino surrogates quit after last night's speech. one tweeted he feels disappointed and misled. more details now on trump's plan. he wants to set up a tracking system to find people who overstay their visas. he promised not to issue visas from people from parts of the world will adequate screening cannot occur and he wants to set up a test to ensure that immigrants share american values. trump insisted that a documented immigrants who seek legal status in the united states must return to their home countries in order to do so. of course stay with nbc bay area for continuing coverage on decision 2016. you can head to our digital platform for more on how people are reacting to trump's speech, including hillary clinton. >> we can agree on the fact that we love fall, great season, and technically, anthony, you said

starts today for the meteorological season. >> yes. when you look at the data in order to lump sum all the averages of all the months in the year and the da that that goes back, of course, september is the start of it. you can see this morning we've got fog. we've got drizzle as well. this is the outer sunset. i want to show you the camera because you can see the droplets on the lens. not so in san jose. we've got clear skies. you can see the horizon as the sun is about to come up. the thing to note again right now fall beginning to start, in fact as we get toward the end of the month our sun rise gets later. cooler days and visibility issues, especially for your early morning commuters can see we're looking at visibility to one mile in santa rosa. four miles in half moon bay. high temperatures will be comfortable and rid of the clouds. 70s and 80s for inland valleys. we'll talk about the weekend ahead, mlabor day on monday. we still have a kroosh on fremont so that's still a major issue. the rest of the bay not so bad. note for the bay bridge coming up as well.

right here southbound 880 jammed from just before you get to 92 about a street down to alvarado boulevard where a crash is in the middle of the freeway. tow truck, latest detail is the tow truck should be arriving any second. crash is reported in the backup at a street as well. could grow back in towards san leandro. the tri-valley by comparison looking light. bay bridge to san francisco if you want to exit at treasure island lop back because there's a spill blocking the off-ramp. back to you. >> thanks a lot, mike. coming up, both coasts bracinger to storms. the systems that are barreling towards both hawaii and the gulf coast and florida. we have live coverage as one tropical storm hits. plus, tesla has more problems, needs more money. we'll take a look coming up in business and tech. keeping your family safe on the roadways. the auto maker is getting praised for making it easier to use child safety restraints.

child safety seats are becoming easier to use. automakers are praises for improvement. >> for many parents finding the right latch or anchor to safety secure child restraint seat, it's pretty tough. the insurance institute for highway safety even found parents using adult seat belts because they couldn't locate latches or anchors. so a year ago new standards were set making finding latches

easier. several automakers are already made those changes. >> part of the improvement is that the tether anchors are higher up and it in mid of the seat back easy to find location and clearly labeled. >> thank you. the institute just concluded tests on 170 vehicle models most of which earned a good or acceptable rating. the audi q 7, lexus rx and toyota pri russ are getting the highest marks of a good plus. no you to your health. app that can map a community's health much like it does the weather. the smart thermometer is being made in san francisco. the company's called kinsa and launching a new program to help people in zika infected areas. it's sending free stick thermometers for patients. the stick model plugs into a smartphone and an app records patient's temperatures and other vitals. that information all goes into a group health map that gives folks a realtime picture of community health. the company believes that smart thermometer can stop the spread of a disease.

it's 5:45. brutal reality for tesla this morning. it needs more money. >> or scott mcgrew would say tesla needs more money again. >> again, tesla i filed financial papers wednesday saying it would have toette other put yet more stock on the market or borrow more money in the form of bonds. it's only been four months since the last time tesla said it needed more money. tesla has two financial challenges it needs to build the equipment for the upcoming model three and it needs to bail out its new purchase of solar city. i'm not even including building that battery factory. if tesla goes back to the stock market it's called a secondary offering. investors hate secondary offerings. as a rule of thumb you're only supposed to do that once. this was back in june of 2010 when tesla first offered stock and raised funds in its ipo. tesla was already in a cash squeeze. it made its situation squeezier by buying solar city which also had debt. in fact, reporters at the wall

street journal ran the numbers ansaid that solar city owes more than 300% of what it's worth. we get the big jobs numbers tomorrow. today is the first day of september. august end we'd a market on a lots. not unexpected. nor generally is the jobs number good for stocks. but we look forward to that tomorrow. coming up we're going to talk about the new samsung phones that could very well catch fire. leave that right there. >> thank you very much. leave that over there. didn't know you had one of those. hurricane lester moving closer towards hawaii. it's about 800 miles away. it's expected to downgrade to a tropical storm by the time it reaches land this weekend. tropical storm herman is approaching florida. seeing heavy rain and wide spread street flooding there. 51 of the state's 67 keens are under emergency. good morning, sara. what are you seeing?

>> well, right now we have just starting to get a little bit more rain this morning. we are just below the path of where tropical storm hermine is in florida. cedar key florida. there's lots of warnings across our area. we have a tropical storm warning and hurricane storm warning. this is the first hurricane storm warning on florida's gulf course since 2012. that was during hurricane isaac. many residents are being told to stay inside and stay off the roads. they've had time to prepare for the storm some people are not heeding the warnings and that's where we're seeing the problems. the drivers stuck in their cars in those flooded waters. so far hermine has flooded streets especially in the middle part of the state, south of where this storm is hitting in the tampa area we've seen people trapped in their cars there. we've seen people in apartment complexes, evacuating because the ponds in their apartment complex ves overflooded because of the rain. so many people evacuating there. and while people are rushing to get out of their homes and those

flood prone areas other people are rushing to get sand ba bbas. in ocala, 15,000 sandbags in two days. this is the biggest weather event here on florida's gulf coast since tropical storm colin which was just two months ago. neighbors know what to expect. they know that about the threat of potential tornadoes and storm surge and more flood that the storm system will bring. they're just hoping that it passes quickly. good news here though, according to the latest track this tropical storm is expected to move out of this area by tomorrow. but the bad news is as it continues to move north it brings the same threat that it brought here all along the east coast to people that could be impacted by its path there. reporting live at cedar key, sara rosario. >> as we just saw the situation is already bad with cars getting stuck. people in kayaks and canoes. it was downgraded within the

last day or so to a tropical storm. >> it's been that same system that we heard about, twitter famous over the past week or so. invest 99 and wobbling through the caribbean and brought some rain to the florida keys and now the gulf. i want to take you back to the pat. the good news in all of this even though it is expected to strengthen over the next 24 hours, landfall to a hurricane, is it's going to mort north of tampa and south of tallahassee. the good news, again, not impacting huge cities, especially right along the coastline because that's when you deal with that storm surge. still expecting six to ten inches of rainfall. back here at home, looking at fog moving through parts of the bay area. san francisco in the north bay, visibility is down to less than a mile in some spots in santa rosa. 65 in san francisco. get rid of the clouds. and really across the bay area to this morning not waking up to lots of cloud kor even across parts of south bay just a few high clouds there. 78 for your afternoon high in the south bay. as we go towards the next 24 hours, fog will be the main

story each and every morning. you will notice again the visibility down to one mile in santa rosa. down to four miles in half moon bay. winds will start to pick up as well toward the afternoon hours for today and for tomorrow. and that's going to lead to, again, a nice comfortable breeze because our temperatures aren't going to be too hot. kind of like where we like them, right? 60s and 70s for most of us. this is temperatures below average for this time of year. 82 for livermore. 78 for san jose. 77 for palo alto. and 60s along the coastline including san francisco. here's a look at the seven-day forecast. this weekend, temperatures go up a little bit but labor day will be comfortable. close to 90 degrees for our inland valleys. get ready for that even at the coastline. things will warm up by tuesday and wednesday. even in san francisco. mike, what are you tracking for fremont drivers? >> better news so we do have a lot of slowing but tracking improvement. the south bay has a typical patte pattern, peninsula as well. i want to show you 680 improving

speeds where there was one crash moved to the shoulder down toward alvarado boulevard where the other crash has cleared from lanes. you see a quick improvement but stick around for slowing through hayward because that is morning pattern. over in the tri-valley, no major problems. typical slow down through pleasanton. bay bridge teoll plaza metering lights are on. eastbound, the bay bridge out of san francisco. westbound your bay bridge toll plaza looks like this. backup filling in all lanes. standard there. in san jose i said i would show you is lowdown. breaking up north of 680. i'm track out what that flashing light is. special night in palo alto, a soccer match that was way more than just that. it was about politics, oppression, and determination. >> the afghanistan women's national soccer team is training here in the bay area. partly because of our large afghan population. the taliban tried to shut it down when i'd formed in 2007. players received death threats. now they say they are better

than ever. last night they played a friendly soccer match with teen ablers from the palo alto soccer club. the afghan women say they hope inspire young girls back home. >> if girls like us can do it they can do it. we want them to get out of their comfort zone, get out of their homes and get into sports. >> it's really, really nice to see a group of girls come out here and fight for what they want in life. >> such a great example. the team will play in a soccer tournament in the bay area this weekend as they repair for major tournament in india. we wish them the best. >> the coach just gets choked up talking about it. coming up next -- >> this is a much bigger thing than people realize. >> billion dollar problem. and it has to do with stolen identities and also stolen lives. you may think you've heard everything there is to hear about identity theft but you haven't heard this story and it could cost you a fight to stay out of jail even if you've done nothing wrong. happening now on our digital

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at 5:57 now on thursday morning. only on nbc bay area, an emotional symbol at south bay church suddenly gone. parishioners say it's because of a new leader. white crosses once covered the lawn of guadalupe childrurch in jose. the new pastor would not go on camera but the church tells us that some parishioners made the crosses made the parish look eerie like a cemetery. so the crosses were taken taken down. the pastor gave a pink slip to a group called amigos de guadalupe. >> just sad to see that we're not even given a chance. i don't think they have had time to know us, who we are. >> in a letter to parishioners the pastor explains the church needs the space the group uses to provide bible study and other faith-based classes.

critics say these decisions are dividing the parish. shifting gears. it is one of the fastest growing crimes in america. one that's costing american citizens more than a billion dollars every year. >> and you think you may have heard about identity theft before but wait until you hear the special insidious form of identity theft. senior investigative iviver rec. >> we discovered that thieves are stealing not only people credit's histories or stolen credit card numbers but they're now hijacking people's entire lives, buying house, boats, even committing some crimes using these stolen names. take the case of jennifer, that's her married name. another person sold jennifer's identity using her maiden name. at one point contra costa law enforcement tried to arrest jennifer for crimes committed by the other person in san quentin fer's name. jennifer avoided jail because she had an airtight alibi. she was giving birth in a hospital in new york when the

crimes were committed here in california. the u.s. secret service says this type of crime cost americans $1.2 billion every year and we discovered that in cases like jennifer's, even when you report your identity stolen to police and the bank and the credit companies, sometimes the system is so broken that it cannot fix this. it's so fragmented it's often not enough to fix the problem and save you from a lot of hassle, decades of hassle. you can watch the entire story on our website just go to nbcbayarea.com. guys, back to you. >> very important notes there. thank you. if you have a tape for us, call us at 888-996-tips. or send us an e-mail theunit@nbcbayarea.com. triple threat in stocking three powerful storm systems with major impacts for million os people ahead of this long holiday weekend. a band of armed burglars hitting homes while people are at home and police say it's no

accident. i'm kris sanchez. i'll show you where it's happening and what the take away is for everyone else. we will build a great wall along the southern border. >> clear and bold words. donald trump lag out his immigration plan while re-enforcing his push for building a wall at the u.s./mexico border. reaction right now as "today in the bay" continues. >> a very good thursday morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. we are going to start this morning right now on roadways. you are watching a recovery. >> recovery, we like that term because that's improvement. maps what you would expect around the bay. zooming the in over toward hayward and fremont. slow drive for 880 as the build happens south from 238, nimitz freeway toward the san mateo bridge. you expect that improvement from lanes down alvarado