deadly accident involving a tour bus is all being cleaned up and down right now. investigated. complete cover am right now. first, good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. right now we want to get over to the accident. mike inouye, what can we expect from the roads? >> -- coming up north past the alvarado off-ramp. the crown plaza sign is the exit off where everybody on northbound 880 are forced off. you see the flashing lights because of the deadly crash. as i take you out to the traffic maps i'll show you wt' here, lo fremont. one of three closures right no

deadly crash or a crash of any sort. the other two are construction related. north of the dumbarton bridge you're forced off of the freeway at alvarado niles, west of the freeway toward whipple, using direrialha you'le h to take that since about 10:40 last night. we've been tracking this. bob redell is on the scene. you're in union city. what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning to you, mike. we just heard from a chp sergeant who gave us an update. they expect it to probably be at least another hour and a half before they're able to open up northbound 880 on the border with union city and hayward. one reason it's taking so long, they have their major accident investigation team out here trying to recreate this accident in which two people were killed. to give youd 10:40 last night there was a small tour bus headed northbound on 80. this was a construction zone at the time, and for whatever reason, it didn't stop. it was stop and go traffic, but it ended up hitting one car.

it went on top of tlexis. it killed the driver in that car and other passengers and through a chain reaction it pushed a second car ups big rig a, drivers of thei passengers, and the tour bus operator and the big rig drivers were not hurt but they are both cooperating and tour bus driver is also as i mentioned cooperating. they do not suspect drugs and alcohol were involved. they will look to see'driver was distracted, falling asleep or other possible causes. this is under investigation. the coroner is out here, doing removal of the two people, a man and a woman, who were killed in their cars, and they have shut taking place around whipple road, the border of union city and hayward. the traffic is being stopped and divertedth'ake a live look, we just came to the backup a little bit earlier but as you are well aware it's only 4:30 in the

morning so the backup is not as severe as it could be as the morning goes on. chp expecting the estimated time of reopening of northbound here and hayward, union city, to be around 6:00 so about another hour and a half. reporting live in hayward, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> that could make a rough morning commute. sad for the family loss this morning. right now, we head over to meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast for the week. >> we are still in a microclimate weather alert until about another hour and a half. we have hey high wind gusts in% parts of the north bay and inland east bay, especially above 1,000 feet with our highest wind sweet at mt. st. helena at 62 miles per hour. low humidity and some breezy winds. getting you out the door in willow glen, we will have some wool temperatures, only in the upper 40s, and heading into the mid-60s by noon. i'll have a look at that halloween forecast coming uphec.

thank you, kari. 4:4. a man caught on video with bingham boarded a train .t.tric during the monday evening commute and started waving the chainsaws around. he was arrested at the merritt station in oakland. the passenger who recorded the video said she was stunned and couldn't believe her eyes. >> he's trying to start it and he's like making all these noises, talking about texas chainsaw massacre, and talking about he's b.a.r.t. massacrer. >> that's frightening. bingham is facing several charges inclung threatening to the plan to transform cupertino's runned down shopping mall faces a potential new hurdle. vote demolition began earlier this month and councilmembers are finalizing plans for a future housing and shopping complex. opponents announcing they collected enough signatures for

a referendum on the 2020 ballot. developerseresponded saying the possible referendum will not slow down the construction. legal request for an they live in a mobile home park in hiayward and haven't had watr since sunday when an aging water main broke. >> ross plater explains what's taking so long to fix the water main. >> reporter: half a lose po port-a-pot port-a-potties, residents scooping from a swimming pool to flush their toilets. in this 55 and over mobile home development, the frustration is growing. >> i paid cash for my home, one of the newer homes in the park, i paid $198,000 for this house and i can't even take a freakin' shower since sunday. >> my dishes are piling up, laundry piling up and starting to smell.

>> reporter: a maian old water main cracked. the repair work has been hampered because there are gas lines built on top of the tmain. crews can start replacing the broken pipes, but meanwhile residents got pizza for dinner, a jug of drinking water and the. >> we hars oen and how the heck are they going to climb up into that outhouse? >> reporter: some neighbors say it's seniors who can't get around on their own they worry about most. >> it's a tragedy. i can walk. i can go to home depot to go go to the park in the morning to wash my face and brush my teeth, you know, but it's embarrassing. i feel like i'm homeless. >> that's sad. 4:36 right now. moving on to other news of the day the search for a tortoise missing out of fairfield. her name is ethel and has quite the following on instagram, 6,500 followers. no one's seen her sadly since

thursday. some work was being done on the owner's homes and crews accidentally left a gate open. the owners pay they'll pay $500 for the person who finds ethel. who knew turtles could be so cute? >> i don't know, but it happens. coming up here on "today in the bay," california is the first state to permit a self-driving car without a backup driver, when and where you can see these cars on the road. plus delivered hot and fresh, the partnership between a national pizza chain and car company to make your pizza as it's being delivered. maybe you could save energy by

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thanks frank good morning, i'm frank holland here at cnbc global headquarters. here are today's top business head lines. wall street is pointed toward more gains at the open after stocks finished higher yesterday, easing some of october's b losses, but as we head into the final trading

ay of october, the dow was d the nasdaq rising 111 t karocar performance since august of 24 company the first to be approved without a backup driver, it's in the santa clara area not too far from you guys. it includes tested speeds up to 65 miles per hour as well as during foggy and rainy conditions. pizza hut is teaming one toyota on a new delivery vehicle. it's called the tundra pie pro, a concept hydrogen fuel cell truck that not only cooks pizzas but uses a pair of move them along. th the whole process takes about seven minutes, so the truck could maker pizza while it's driving to your house, but don't expect to see this on the road any time soon, due to the high cost and lack of hydrogen filling stations in the u.s.

there i cnbc business headlines. i remember when 30-minute delivery was a big deal. >> they used to guarantee or something. >> now it's hot and fresh when it gets to the door. >> literally. who do you comp >> i don't know, but give this man some cheese! thanks a lot. you got a little angry there. >> you didn't see that side of me. >> we're learning something new about marcus. >> come back and see the softer side of marcus. >> a lot of people get pizza on halloween. you don't want to have to cook. we're starting out this morning, chilly temperatures, a live look outside in fremont, only in the upper 40s as you get ready to head out and mid-60s by noon. we'll talk about that halloween fostg up next. and kari, we're following this traffic alert that's been continuing since last night. all these folks here are getting off of the nimitz, coming toward me. let me talk about where they have to go and what the deal is over in the east bay.

jose. and good wednesday morning, halloween morning for you today. taking a live look out on the road there in san jose, as people get on their way this morning. the lights are flashing but we're keeping it moving right here. quarter to 5:00 right now, a nasa probe made at uc berkeley will make its first solar encounter. it launched back in august. the park solar probe is closer to the sun than any other spacecraft and broke a record

for the fastest spacecraft its extreme heat ando the suoute >> going to maksunseen over it. >> prettyrighnow and a cool start to our morning? >> it is chilly out there, because we have dryair, you ha a big range in temperatures from the morning to the afternoon. the low humidity and the gusty winds have prompted a red flag warning that is going to be expiring here soon at 6:00 a.m., and our conditions will improve as we go throughout the day. so some really good news and hopefully we'll keep everything all nice and quiet. right now our winds are a little bit more breezy for parts of the north bay, with fairfield current wind speeds at 17 miles per hour, and about 16 in napa. elsewhere fairly light winds as you get ready to head out the door. high temperatures for today at about where we were yesterday in just a few degrees warmer in a few spots. 'r up to 82morning, you do need

for those chilly temperatures hat, too, but then you can take off some of those layers as we go throughout the day, and our temperatures warm uhm. we're making plans to go out trick-or-treating today and for the bay, it's going to be about 71 degrees at 5:00, and then cooling down quickly as we go into the evening, going from 71 to 65, down to 61, and then for the inland areas like the tri valley, it's going to be 81 degrees at 5:00, and keep in mind, sunset will be at about 6:10, and then you can go out trick-or-treating around that time and staying clear at 7:00, we're at 72 degrees. now we've had some warmer than pressure, and it's keeping us from seeing any clouds. we've had some really clearflow look at the ose are some offshore windsti of year. going to see another few days of keep i talking about mid 80s for the inland

valleys, and then on this sunday morning, we set our clocks back one hour at 2:00 a.m., maybe you do it saturday night before you go to sleep, and san francisco 60s and breezy throughout the day. mike, you're tracking a few freeway closures. >> one of them is that tragedy on the nimitz we covered last night, about 10:40 when the deadly crash happened at union city. let's look at your entire map, great drive for most of the bay. three closures i'm following, though. the big news of the morning we have this closure of northbound 880 at whipple road, as you're traveling north out of union city, just at the southern border with hayward, where the union city shops rado niles whee folks are forced to get off,nde and over -- sorry, over the free-throw way and toward dire re taking you on to whipple at industrial and you should be about your way. bob redell is on the scene of

the crash. two people have died, as i understand it, as a result of the the investigation continues until at least 6:00 in the morning. that will be your alternate for the time being. north 680 fremont toward sunol this overnight roadwork was planned around vargas and we should have it cleared up in the next few minutes. i've been watching sensors for the last 10, 12 minutes and they have changing. it's a typical pattern we tend to see as crews start to clear from the overnight construction scene. west 580 is open for business as folks travel their commute direction toward the dublin interchange and out of contra oming into that area. northbound 880 the third of our three closures at 23r toverhead continue to remove some of the construction equipment and other apparatus, so that is the reason why they've been closing it, southbound earlier last week and northbound this week, they're off and then back on the freeway and finally the bay bridge toll

plaza, that's very light right now, because it's just 4:50. no delays through cocoa county and no problem for fog at the golden gate bridge. loophole that opens the door to fraud. >> lawmakers cited their own abuse. bigad shaban is here with the story. >> reporter: good morning. landlords in oakland who live in their own duplexes or triplexes are legally allowed to evict everyone else in the building for no reason, but our reporting over the past few months exposed a serious lack of oversight that may be allowing landlords to abuse the system, and pretend to live in one place when they really don't. >> any neighborhood where you're seeing increasing property values, you're going to have a perverse incentive on behalf of landlords to try to scam the system. >> reporter: voters here in oakland will get the chance to decide whether landlords who live in their own duplexes or triplexes should be allowed to evict renters without cause. that issue known as measure "y"

is on the ballot next tuesday. to watch our full investigation, logon to our website, that's nbcbayarea.com/investigations. >> and if you want to get a h c 888-996-tips or logon to our website nbcbayarea.com/investigations. coming up next on "today in the bay," "nbc bay area responds." >> a $600 dispute at the dry cleaner over just one item. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura, "nbc bay area responds," next. but first, happening now, india unveils the world's largest statue. check this out. it's nearly 600 feet tall and it depicts indian national hero sadar patag. it was the first for the country's prime minister and helped turned hundreds of indian states into a state union. for reference the statue is more

than twice the size of the statue of liberty. more news for you right after the break.nbc bay area respondsa

san francisco man who took in "one" shirt to get it dry- >> 4:54 right >> consumer investigato chris chmura's tea dispute. >> goo one dress shirt that was worn just once.hos tha tom ford shirt for his wedding. we had to look up the price. some shirts are more expensive than joel's. before tying the knot he dropped his shirt off at mulberry's cleaners on philbert and never saw his $600 shirt again. the kleber told him they lost it. joel said they reimbursed at ten times the cost of cleaning. he told us he paid $12.50 to get that shirt cleaned. multiply that times ten and end up with reimbursement of $125 for $600 shirt. joel felt that was unfair.

he said the cleaner though wouldn't budge. so he contacted us. our team contacted agreed toshis $100. joel still thinks the cleaner consumer complaints in full. s just like joel did online los altos girl has quite the halloween costume. >> 5-year-old elisa uses a wheelchair and wanted to be a unicorn. yesterday she became one. three employees spent two months making this to fit her chair. isn't that cute? they're all connected through the non-profit magic wheelchair. >> what do you like about it? >> that the unicorn's hair is so soft. >> and for her to have something that's just for her, just made for her, uniquely hers, pretty ait to show her

nteers plan to mfuakere.ol.vo and in michigan, a group of halloween heroes really helping took over several floors there of the mary freed bed rehabilitation hospital in grand rapids. engineering students helped the kids create their costumes, built wheelchair costume there is. check them out there, among them those creative items a steam engine with the coal car, an army thtu with real bubbles. pretty cool. >> i love that. it makes it fun for themse big one. >> a little big one. hey, let's check the forecast. tonight there will be a lot of trick-or-treaters out. >> there will. we'll have great weather across the bay area. let's get out the door in brentwood, cool with low 50s at

7:00. sunshine and nice and comfortable temperatures, a look at all of our microclimates coming up next. >> as the east bay commute builds for the nimitz, you see all these folks waiting to get off of the freeway andeway cg i'll try to talk you through where you have to go. artist:

good morning and thank you for joining us. i )m marcus washington. right now at 5:00, breaking news, a horrific crash in the east bay. two people are dead, and northbound i-880 is completely

shut down. good morning and thank you for jo >> and i'm, go xw laura garcia. that crash is having a major effect on the morning commute. mike, is it expected to be closed for some time? >> that's right. bob redell is on the scene. i want to point out two closures for the nimitz in addition to a b.a.r.t. alashbee station. north 880 at 23rd overnight crews should be clearing from the scheduled construction closure