overnight destroy several breaking news, downtown damage, massive flames in the east bay overnight. destroyed several buildings in downtown laugh yet. we're live with a closer look at the aftermath. good morning to you and thanks for joining us on this busy thursday morning. >> we are going to get to that in just one second, but let's start right now with a check of your forecast, and kari hall good morning. >> good morning. as we get a look at what's happening out there around the bay area, mostly clear skies to start as you get ready to head out the door. we're seeing the mist and drizzle roll across the dpolden gate bridge right now. low vieblts in spots with our high temperatures inland today reaching into the mid to upper 80s for the south bay, low 90s for the tri-valley and oakland

73 degrees there. 70 degrees in medical mont, san francisco will see the temperatures range anywhere from 58 to 68 degrees into mid-80s for much of the north bay. we'll take a closer look at this and temperatures ramping up toward the weekend in a few minutes. mike takes us out there this morning with a early commute. we have an issue that may be a problem for drivers if you exit northbound 280 at steven creek boulevard. reports of an earlier crash stand sounds like all the crash activity has cleared but there's damage to the guardrail. >> i think they're going to hold off on that repair work until late tonight, but we'll follow this. no problems as far as travel times getting over toward the bay bridge but just off hey way 24 i know you got that breaking news because it may be visible from the freeway. that's a good point. this is what it looked like overnight. massive flames in downtown laugh yet leave behind a path of destruction. >> several building are destroyed including the chamberg

of commerce. what you can tell ugs so far, bob, about what happened out there? >> good morning. i just spoke with contra costa fire, they're the fire department that handles laugh yet and they tell us that it's too early to tell what caused this fire right here. if you plook up you can see they've got a ladder that's been dumping a lot of water ornt scene here even though the fire is out. they're still dumping water because they want to make sure that nothing flares back up. you're looking at the remains of 100 laugh fee yet circle in the was an older said the of buildings that how's a number of businesses, restaurants, hair salon, a cpa, the laugh fee yet chamber of commerce. i want you to take a look at the video and you can get a sense of what the fire department was facing around midnight last night. one person tells us the flames were shooting up 100 feet in the

air. they said when he they arrived the two building were consuld and they had to good on the defensive and fight this from the outside. if n other words they didn't have a chance to make an interior attack. they did have to call for three alarms, so that meant a lot of units out here to but the this fire out. they did keep it contained to this address, but there's an apartment complex nearby and we understand that the police department had to go there to wake those people up just as a precaution because the fire was so close. >> it was very reassuring at how quickly everybody kind of like took charge. and the people from the apartment started banging on doors, everybody had like a great community action and they got everybody out. >> reporter: the fire department estimates the damage is just over a million dollars or around

$1.1 million. you look back out here live, this is what's left of 100 laugh fee yet circle for people who live live in this town. this is going to have a huge impact given it did how's the restaurant, hair salon and the chamber of commerce, which say total logs. reporting live, bob redell today in the bay. >> thanks so much, bob. the murder trial of the undocumented immigrant charged with shooting and killing kate styly is set to begin tomorrow. 54-year-old juan francisco lopez a mexican national says he was holding a stolen ghaun accidentally went off and struck styly on pier 16 two years ago. that shooting made national headlines even prompting the house of representatives to recently pass kate's law which extends prison stays for undocumented immigrants who reenter the u.s. after being

deported. new this morning, more than 2,000 south bay customers will soon be paying higher monthly rates. state regulators have proposed a rate hike for san jose water. average monthly bills will increase more than three dollars, a hike of about 4%. utilities passing along recent increase easy in wholesale water rates paid to santa clara valley water district. we'll have more on the increase with a live report in an hour. reporting here on today in the bay, caltrain clec licktry if i occasion project is moving forward. construction is what's next. caltrain is having a meeting tonight on how it would impact people living near the tracks in south san francisco and san bruno. that's at 6:00 at the san bruno library. happening today, san francisco is deciding whether or not to rename the bay center. the transit terminal, future

home the high speed terminal is under construction right next to the any sales force tower, but it needs money and sales force is willing to provide that. the tech company says it's willing to pay more than $110 million for naming rights for the next 25 years. richmond leaders today are going to be holding the first of several meetings to get feedback from folks on a plan to annex north richmond. that calls for them to bring unincorporated north richmond into its jurisdiction. this week they received the results of a fees ability study. four meetings are now planned between now and dept september. new this morning the summer's toxic algae bloom is apparently making its presence felt in discovery bay. health inspectors say water samples detected blue-degree algae. it is make people extremely sick at higher levels and harmful to dogs that roam into contaminated areas. signs are being posted.

coming up next, it's a whale of a tale for a kite surfer in the san francisco bay and we mean that literally. he had a sense that something big was about to go down on a recent one. plus the fire danger across california is exploding right now. where crews are starting to make some head way in putting out these surging flames. stop hitting the snooze button -

you )re gonna wanna see this incredible video. time to wake up, stop

hitting the snooze button you're going want to see this incredible video. it's a kite surfer out on the san francisco bay. he actually goes right over a whale. we'll see it again. yeah, you can see the actual whale breaching the kite sur sfer actually making contact there. isn't it incredible? the video was recently released but it happened last month. he says the whole thing was actually pretty terrifying. >> there's something huge around you. he was going back and coming back and as he was approaching me i was getting more and more scared, you know. he didn't just come out, but he came up with the rolling and trying scare me or something. >> oh, my. that say whale of a tale. this is another tale. it happened under the golden gate bridge, whales are coming into the bay to feed. they're coming cloets to one however is illegal and can come with a $10,000 fine.

>> that is absolutely amazing. happening now at 4:40, several wildfires continue to burn across the state of california this morning. this is a look at all of the fires, the cal fire is currently working on. they're outlined in red. those gray boxes show you the ones that are 100% contained. fortunately crews starting to get a handle on two of the big eftd. one is wall fire that stands at about 6,000 acres burned but it is up to 70% containment. all evacuation orders have been lifted. in the meantime the alamo fire to our south near santa maria has not grown much in the last 24 hours if the is also at 70% containment. warm weather continues today, right, care rhee? >> it will and it ramps up for the weekend so we're enjoying today look at at the temperature trend and it will be up to 86

degrees by 2:00. we're in for some hot temperatures this weekend. more on that and the wildfire danger coming up next. and a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza you see folks lined up that's because lane suchl that's one of your last cash lanes on the left that's still not open. we'll talk about that fire in lafayette coming up. and does it ever feel like you're just circling around and around and around looking for a parking spot? you will not believe how many dozens of hours it's estimated san francisco ians spend looking for that elusive spot.

good morning here on your thursday. we take a live look outside at a few cars that we can see underneath all that fog. i believe there's also a famous bridge but you're going to have to take our word for it right now. that's the golden gate somewhere in there. >> you're going to be looking for somewhere cool i think especially by the weekend. so? >> so does warm-up start today. >> it starts on does. >> two more days. >> that's where we have really hot temperatures and that's going to cause some issues. >> we're having trouble hearing so you we're going to get that mike checked out and go to this mike. >> we'll take you over to traffic and tell you what's going on over here. look at the map and overall as you'd expect this time of day those sensors are reading green. but there is a new crash up in napa, this just happened a few minutes ago and quickly filled

in the chp report. northbound highway 29 reports of an overturned big rig. >> i don't have any word of any injuries but this will affect a narrow area here, highway 29 both directions affected by this crash because of spectators. we will track this through napa. not a big issue for most of our commuters but an issue for that part of the north bay. over here toward lafayette, this is what bob red dell was talking about that fire. you saw the crews dumping the water on to the structures over there including the chamber of commerce just off of lafayette circle. the circle itself is closed that's the perimeter of that commercial area. but mount diablo boulevard and rozza road are both open for traffic and as the flames have died down there's not been much of a problem. it's just south of highway 24. we're also hooking at your travel times over toward the bay bridge and a nice easy travel time as well. light traffic flow but i do want

to show what you highway four is where we'll see the first bill for the traffic and thee easy routes, so ten minutes better on that purple route here than it is comingal wait over on highway four, but that may change if there's any other issues. again highway 24 is no major problem. bottom of your screen, nbc bay area, that's the team that i want you to join. one popular member of our team both on waze and studio. carrie, whaez how's are the forecast. >> the it's 54 degrees and now we're seeing some temperatures at 59 degrees in palo alto, 57? oakland, and it's 63 degrees in fairfield. already a fairly mild start to the day and as we head into this afternoon we're going to see those temperatures heating up to 88 degrees in the south bay and as we get a look. seven-day forecast at the bottom of the screen, you'll see how those temperatures heat up for the weekend and then start to come back down early next week.

we're up to 90 in the tri-valley today and 65 degrees with some clearing later today in san francisco and 90 in the north bay. so as you're looking out the window and starting out the day in the closet getting ready for what will be a very warm day but not as hot as it will be, but you'll be comfortable with some short sleeves and some shorts today and don't forget the sun glasses because we will have some bright sunshine throughout the day. if it's a day where you can go to some of the east bay parks or hiking trails, we will have a cool morning at 60 degrees at 7:00 and 73 degrees at 10:00 and after that it gets a little more uncomfortable as our temperatures quickly warm. we'll be up to 88 degrees gi by 2:00 and with that westerly twind comes back down. over the next few days it will go from the mid-80s to the mid-90s by saturday, so you can see how hot it will be. and looking at san francisco in the temperature trend for the next several days, we'll be in the mid-60s for today and tomorrow and then the weekend

still looking nice, mid-70s there while the inland areas will be sizzling, up to 101 degrees on saturday and then it starts to feel a little bit milder next week but we're still going to stay above average with some very warm weather for the valleys. sam and laura. >> you'll definitely want to be moving to the coast this weekend. thank you very much. but watch out for this continuing coverage right now of that shark attack in santa cruz. water restrictions still in effect this morning after i white character chomped on a man's kayak near steerm lane. the city of santa cruz asking people to stay out of the water through saturday. if you don't, you could actually be cited or fined. >> i was going to suffer steamer's lane today because the waves are a lot better, a lot bigger, but they the beach closed down because of the shark so we decided let's come over to kappa tolla and jump in the water. >> kappa tolla, very nice alternative there. talked about all the nice

raurpts. so far, no citations have been issued. >> we go to the restaurant they want to go into the water. happening today were board of directors set to meet at the palace station. this the president wants to give a tour of the station. they say the purpose is to give a firsthand look at the challenges facing stations in downtown san francisco. today's meeting is set to start at 9:30 this morning. 4:50. san francisco drivers spend 83 hours per year trying to find a parking spot per a new study. tracking analyst company surveyed drivers in three cities, san francisco ranked third worst for parking behind new york and los angeles. they also say drivers overpay for parking once you get to the spot spending more than $400 per year on unused parking. >> that's a lot of hours of your life. 4:50 right now. it's thursday. the healthcare battle heating up

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welcome back right now live look from our nation's capital as the depay the over healthcare heats up later today. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell plans to present a revamped version of the healthcare bill but many members are already complaining about it. that new plan still rolls back much of the architecture of the president obama's healthcare law like the penalties that would have been required for people who don't by coverage and healthcare subsidies will be less again tlus time around. senator mcconnell is pushing for support out of a do or die vote which he is encouraging for next week. new this morning, san francisco federal judge says he is not likely to throw out a lawsuit that blocks president trump's executive order that cuts funding from sanctuary decides at as we've been telling you a lautd by san francisco and santa clara county is what blocked that order back in april the the trump administration argued yesterday that since the scope of the order has been limited, less money will be withheld. the judge said that's not

enough, but he has not officially ruled on the administration's request to throw out the lawsuit. in the meantime, a southern california congressman is pushing ahead for the president's impeachment. representative brad is herman filed an article of impeachment yesterday accusing president trump of on vukting investigation into the presidential election by russia. that impeachment is mostly for showed. he said he's ashurd nancy pelosi he's not asking for a floor vote without consulteding the democratic caucus. now this morning, a new report says six gps tracking policies are leading to juvenile offenders winding up behind bars again. they examine 58 california counties. researchers say policies can be hard for teenagers to understand making it easy for them town tensionally break the rules and be forced back into detention centers. . we are spearhead a special program here at nbc bay area. >> we want to invited you to

join us on our campaign to help bay area students be in need. we've teamed up with several nonprofits to begin supporting our schools. throughout the month you can donate back packs, school supplies or cash this which will be used to buy more school supplies. the full list where you can donate is at nks bayarea.com. the warriors were honored as the best team last night but everyone's talking about kevin durant. >> more specifically they're talking about a joke he made to peyton manning who mc's the event. >> our gymnastics team was so dominant that kevin durant told me he wants to play for them next year. >> his reaction is classic. >> stone cold there. manning went on that durant wouldn't be a starter for the gymnastics team, then he looked at former teammate russell westbrook for confirmation. the clip is going viral this morning as durant's stone face reaction. some say he might have been in

on the joke. by the way, durant woman espy himself for best championship performance. you can tell he can laugh at himself. >> it looked like he was trying to cover a grin there on the second shot there. good guy. 4:57. coming up a look at the forecast enjoy the cooling because it's going to turn up the heat in the kitchen, right? >> yeah. we can cook outside this weekend. we will have fairly mild weather, can't explain about this even though some spots will still be heating up into the low 90s. we'll talk about what's ahead with some triple digit temperatures for the weekend coming up next. and we have this live look at palo alto, very sparsely populated in the is 101 here, we're loork agent 101 in the north bay we have some slowing. let you know why. good morning i'm bob red dell we're in the east bay with breaking news where you can see behind me a three-alarm fire has destroyed the lafayette chamber of commerce and other

businesses. we'll have that story coming up. breaking right now...

buildings gutted.. . breaking news right now to get through this morning, buildings gutded, a massive fire tears through several building including the chamber of commerce in downtown lafayette. to your left the height of the flames overnight, to your right, the aftermath. we are live with what's left behind this morning. quite the scene there. good morning, thank you very much for joining us i'm sam

brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's get straight to the forecast right now. enjoy the cooler temperatures today. we will have temperatures ramping up as we head e head into the weekend and we're going to have a few clouds and fog this morning in san francisco and along the coastline and temperatures reaching into the mid-60s. a little bit warmer tomorrow with a lot more sunshine and bright sunshine for the weekend making it into the mid-70s there while the inland areas will be up to 101 degrees. some dangerous heat on the way and a high fire danger. i'll talk more about that and looking out at a closer look at the weekend coming up. mike takes us out there on the roadways track a few issues. you're looking pretty good overall. we see these centers it's very early. we have a couple of issues. we have that krash told you about highway 20 at tower near the airport. this other one is in the north bay, southbound 101. i saw a lot of slowing. it's actually not a crash, it's a car fire and that was reported there in the area. it looks like they may have the distraction gone because the slowing has just started to clea