>> i'm in for marcus washington because he is put to work outside, he is in contra costa at pe at peet's coffee shop. we will check in with kari. >> it will be beautiful, starting in the 50s across the bay area, let's get a look at the sun about to make it's arrival over san jose. we can see the skies are mostly clear. santa teresa see warming clouds, make plans to get out there. we will talk about the weekend coming up, mike, the commute is also pretty mild. >> pretty mild, south bay peninsula, the tri-valley, east street shows a little slowing, not a problem. not a surprise, hayward out of san leandro. mild there as well. i do want to calm out this crash near the bridge, the counter commute headed into the north

bay. one lane might be affected by a bakery. i will get more detail coming up in another few minutes. back to you. >> thank you very much. 6:00 right now. we do begin with breaking news on a story we are closely following this morning. nbc news now confirming american taliban and bay area native john walker lindh has been released from federal prison. lindz h was sentenced -- hilindh grew up -- lindh grew up in marin county. pete suros wiatos will have a l story at the bottom of the hour. we get our first look at the series of deadly tornadoes in missouri. this is from the state capital. jefferson city took a direct hit. power lines are down. emergency crews are out there. trees knocked down by this massive storm. so far no death has been reported in missouri's capital

zichlt 50 miles west -- but 50 miles west of here, the storm caught a lot of people by surprise. >> mom come up, 30 seconds, get downstairs now, got downstairs not 30 seconds, windows start shaking, felt the house rattling. >> can you image than panic? search and rescue are under way in jefferson city, the situation is being called chaotic in some of the hardest hit areas. in washington, the dust is still settling after a dramatic showdown between president trump and house speaker nancy pelosi. the president is vowing to not work with democrats on anything until they end their investigation. "today in the bay" craig boswell is live with more on this political back and forth. you really think we're not going to see anything happen? >> oh, chris, good morning. good morning, everyone. yeah, a real clash at the white house. remember, yesterday, we were talking about this meeting that

was planned already between president trump and the two nation's top democrats about infrastructure. >> that meeting ended in anger and drama. president trump stepped into the rose guarden after storming out of a hoteling with democrats, declaring he wait a minute work with them and demanding an end to an investigation. >> you can't do it under the circumstances. so get these phony investigations over with. >> these investigations are so paralyzing to him that he can't function as president and do something that presidents have done and that is build infrastructure. >> reporter: the president angry about house speaker nancy pelosi's public comments after a private meeting with democrats about impeachment. >> we believe that the president of the united states is engaged in a coverup. >> i don't do coverups. >> reporter: more democrats are pressuring speaker pelosi to begin an impeachment inquiry. angry over the white house stonewalling of investigations in the wake of the mueller report. >> all i can say is i disagree with that the house is doing. i thought mueller was the final

word. >> both sides in this dispute need to take their meds and sit down and negotiate like adults, not like kids in the back of a minivan fighting. >> reporter: on the battle over financial records, a judge ruled two banks can hand over the president's documents. >> i anticipate we will see the exact same kind of decision when the house goes to enforce the request for trump's tax returns. >> reporter: it's a part of the investigations into alleged foreign influence on u.s. elections. two federal judges have now ruled that trump financial documents must be turned over to house committees. chris, laura. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much, craig. it is 6:04 right now. police investigating a deadly shooting in east oakland. it hand a little before 7:00 last night on wells street near 78th avenue. the victim has not been identified. elsewhere in oakland at about the same time, police were engaged in the standoff. police say it started about 6:00 p.m. with reports of shots fired

on foothill boulevard near 23rd avenue. they say the suspect barricaded himself in a home for more than 3 hours, then eventually surrendered. happening today, bart's board is expected to approve a fair cost for the yet to be opened various bart station in north san jose. the proposal on the table is $15 a fair for round-trip to the embarcadero stops in san francisco. it might sound like a lot of money. bart says that's what it will cost a driver to park there and take a train. it will be more affordable for lowing in riders, the opening date for the new station has been delayed several times. no word yet on when it is actually going to finally open. it is 6:05. also today, you have to get to the north bay about the future of a major corridor in the east bay. we are talking san pablo avenue near oakland and richmond. the transportation commission wants to make it safer for everyone, one of three

options includes getting rid of most on street parking, reducing auto traffic to one lane and converting the center lanes for buses only while providing a protected bike lane along the curb. tonight's meeting is at 6:30 tonight at the francis community center i should say in brooklyn. on the peninsula, talks of adding a people mover or maybe a light trail in, light rail in the heart of mountain view and it's kicking into high gear. we have been reporting the city wants to connect tech campuses like google on the west side to downtown. the proposal is to put that transit line along shore line boulevard as you see here on the map. you can go to city hall if you want to weigh in. flying the pride flag at an alameda county house. several leaders are saying no as the country gets ready to celebrate pride month next month. the decision came down following a heated debate.

some dublin residents are against it proceeding insults at the gay community. take a listen. >> i believe at the end of the day, another letter wants to be added, the letter p for pedophile. >> my ultimate goal here was to start a conversation about the lbgtq community here and how we might best serve them. >> you also heard from dublin councilman who is openly gay and brought the flag forward. he says he will continue the conversation. news out of dublin this morning. it is now one of the fastest growing cities in the united states. new this morning, the u.s. census bureau is reporting dublin is the 11,000th growing city with the population increasing nearly 5% last year alone. more than 63,000 people now call dublin home. buckeye, arizona, outside phoenix is the fastest growing city. i guess you better learn that name. as far as largest cities go, san

francisco 15, new york city is the largest and fastest growing city followed by l.a. but all large cities lost residents last year and houston is close to taking over chicago's third spot. so our populations are shifting. 6:08. happening today, graduation ceremonies continue at san jose state university. today the school of business and the college of health and human scientists will hold ceremonies. tomorrow's commencement is also there. all tolled, 6800 students are graduating. congratulations to them. >> a lot of high school graduates this weekend, too. we are hoping for good weather. >> it will be good on saturday. we also have nice weather out there. the first graduation starts at 10:00 a.m. so it's going to be beautiful. nice and cool. fought really all that warm with our high temperatures today reaching the low 70s. i think that's perfect. we will see also some mid-70s for parts of the south bay. up to 75 in mill petas.

-- milpitas. it will be toasty in parts of the east bay and antioch and concord reaching 80 degrees. not bad. a breezy westerly wind. we'll get a look at more of our microclaimants coming up. -- microclimates coming up. mike you have an overturned tanker. >> no injuries reported. that tanker, a coconut oil tanker, i didn't know they had that much coconut oil. coco county, coco fire responding, not a problem across the bridge. we'll track it. it looks like everything is fine. the rest a smooth drive. highway 4 building up the volume a little bit. no problems on the freeway. the bay bridge to him plaza. we know we have the metering lights on there. the rest of the bay, look at that tri-valley starting to build now, a little later than we often see.

good stuff. back to you. >> i don't think my give away is at the traffic in campbell. >> oh. come on. 6:09. more tur mail in the uk. -- turmoil in the uk. the drastic steps the prime minister might take and a new election across europe today. and there is a push to put more women's voices in technology. but a push to take them out of gadgets. . and we are live in contoured, at peet's coffee, the lines are starting to form. you get a free coffee. you get a free coffee. you can get one, too. i will tell you all about it coming up in a live report.

good morning and happy . >> right now at 6:13, let's head out to palo alto. a nice warm-up going into the rest of the day, low 70s by 1:00. a nice start out to our long holiday weekend. for some, we'll get a look at that forecast coming up in about five minutes. heading eastbound, here's the richmond san rafael bridge westbound as you head over towards san rafael, here in the east bay, you see the build. >> that is the trend. we see a bigger view coming up. >> good morning, a happy thursday. although it doesn't look so

happy on wall street. headed for more red arrows because of the trade war. the head of the faa says don't put a salen dhar date on returning the 737 max 8s, airlines are hoping for summer. the faa says not likely to fall earlier. we have been talking how poorly retailers are doing, nordstrom turned in terrible numbers. looking at the data, it looks like people buy things in three places, the grocery store, target and amazon, sometimes they do it at target. target is doing really well. facebook says it will no longer give its sales people commission for selling political ads in order to discourage the sales department using the more is better approach. we're talking legitimate ads for legit mad candidates. the redesign of the bill for har

ret tubman won't happen until 2028 at the earliest, well after president trump leaves the white house, even if he wins a second term. mnuchin says design challenges forced the delay until 2028. the "new york times" points out the trump white house has ordered nasa to send a new mission to the moon using new spaceships, part of which we haven't designed and do that by 2024. the treasury won't be able to change a bill until four years after that. the united nations is criticizing amazon, google and apple for using women's voices in their personal assistants saying it's sexist. with amazon of course it's alexa, microsoft core on the na, google doesn't have a name. it is fe fail mail n. siri, you can change it to a male voice if you wish. they didn't respond but in the past they said people prefer women's voices, studies by the air force say people listen to

women's voices. >> when they want to. >> do you? >> i'm sorry, what? >> i also noticed, did you not get coffee? >> did i not get coffee? >> look at your mug. >> it's out today. >> yeah. we are giving it out for free in konta costa county. this is your turn, marcus is at the peet's coffee in the plaza. >> that's right. a lot of viewers are texting me, they're not texting me, they're on social media sending me pictures with you, marcus. that's great. >> how cute. hey, look, i can tell you this ifeel like ellen when she gives away those things at christmas time, that's what i feel. i have the golden ticket. we are in contoured on silvio street, where a lot of people are coming in, i am on salvio street. it was packed a few moments ago, we want to talk about what's going on here, we are teaming up

with peet's, i am joined with ceasar. it feels like the sun was the alarm clock. as soon as the sun came out, the people started filing in. how do you keep up with these customers coming in? besides what we are keeping up with. >> definitely free coffee help. we do our best to put love and passion in what we do. our drinks will always be amazing. more so than that, now we created a convenient way for people to come in. we have our app. you can order ahead, a few clicks on your phones, place your order. you come in, ready for pickup. you can go about your day. >> it's so easy and so fun, they get to meet their mark. >> that's right. >> reporter: we're here until 9:00 at peet's kovl coffee on salvio street. people are coming in the door. i have give them their golden ticket. >> that is where all the fun is. if you are not here in concord with us, you are missing out.

i will send it back to the studio. i will hold it down with us here with these golden tickets. don't you just want one? >> are you caffeine free? >> peet? i think i know him pretty well. bringing life to the east bay this morning. thanks a lot, marcus. >> i do feel i'm missing out. >> i did, not with marcus. it was just me. >> i did the first one, people are like, why? >> what do you mean? i'm like, no, seriously no strings attached, thank you for being our viewer. >> we appreciate that. >> we really appreciate the weather today. >> it will finally feel like may. >> it finally will. it was nice and warm yesterday. the winds picked up. we will see more with sunshine, of course, that itself key as we wake up, we are seeing the storm system that brought us all the active weather the past couple

of days, now moving off to the south and east. so that's a problem for vegas and parts of southern california. now as we get a live look outside, take a look at this beautiful view of the golden gate bridge. we know it's been a wet may. so let's talk about how much rain we've measured and in san francisco, at the airport, we've gotten two inches of rain, that makes at this time third wettest may on record and also for santa rosa, we're setting some records here, it looks like right now where we stand we're at fifth in the rankingsing over four -- rankings, measuring over four inches of rain. this is our forecast for dublin getting you out the door. we'll be at 53 at 7:00, throughout the day mid- to upper-60s, at 1:00, we're at 72 degrees, just perfect. we will be breezy, there will be some rain nearby the region. it looks for the most part it

stays out of the weekend. things will change on sunday as we start to see more widespread rain and snow in the sierra, that could push across the valley into the south bay as well as the east bay. so we're watching out for those rain chances late on sunday, no need to cancel the plans, it looks scattered and light. this will not be an all day washout. we are still seeing snow coming down, that's a look at north star. now our se ira, snow pack around lake tahoe are at 169% of normal. we'll have some additional white snow between now and memorial day. mostly for some of our higher elevations, another 5 to 7 inches of snow. really good to see that. spotty showers here. it will cool off. we won't stay in the upper 70s. we come down to the mid- to upper-60s for the holiday weekend. it warms up again early next week by tuesday and wednesday and when we see highs, upper 70s, especially on wednesday.

and mike it looks like the commute is a little wider right now. >> it does look like that. we have a monday holiday for schools and businesses, graduations, anywhere approaching that spring. we're looking like some folks might be planning out of the office meetings today and tomorrow, getting a head start. >> that is the morning commute, very mild, south bay, slowing. no problems for the tri-valley. 680 needs a little slowing out of pleasanton. dublin interchange is great. i checked there, only the slowing, they come down to one lane, no surprises. unfortunately you do have that slowing out of brentwood towards 580. over here towards the bay bridge. a little slowing, not only the halfway mark. slow tore richmond, a dip in berkeley as well, the backup at the bay bridge to him plaza, look at this, near me, we have these cash lanes starting to ease up the morning traffic flow. we will see another burst of traffic 45 minutes to an hour,

more folks make that rush into san francisco for the later commute. right now if you got there earlier, you are getting there smoothly, finish with palo alto between the peninsula and san francisco, you can drive in both directions, the north bay looks great, back to you in thank you, mike, it's 6:22. the site into east bay, what teachers in the district will do today after a tense night for some parents in the community. . a product arrives addressed to you. so you never ordered it. do you have to pay for it? the federal trade commission says no, federal laws prohibit mailing unordered merchandise to consumers and demanding pavement. as for the product, the ftc says it's yours. you have a legal right to keep it as a free gift. if you have a consumer complaint. let us know, the number is 1-888-996-tips. or online nbcbayareaer.com/responds. alright boys, time for bed.

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nation and the wor . welcome back, everyone, 6:25. here's a look at the news around the world. the reputable "time's" in the you caning says teresa may is stepping down as prime minister tomorrow. it comes in the midst of the start st eu elections over her brexit plan. the detroit news reports that tesla is now in crisis mode

following several recent hits for the palo alto company. one analyst in the article believes shares could be ready to plunge. the wreckage of the last american slaveship has been found. alabama's berylingham news says it sat untouched at the bottom of the mobile bay for 160 years. the number of drivers that will leave town today for the holiday weekend. but first. >> if it's not us, it will be somebody else and not sure what that will bring. >> a big controversy in konta costa county as some people push back on a image to grow one city. all new this morning, the major developments that get a controversial question on the november ballot. and a top story around the world. the bay area men notorious for joining the taliban is now out of prison. so where does he go? what happens now? good morning a

joining us. i )m laura garcia. and i )m kris sanchez, in for . a very good morning to you. thanks, so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm kris sanchez in for marcus, he is out at the peet's location. to get your morning started, we will check in with him a little later this morning. >> that's right. right now let's check in with kari. we're expecting a glorious day. >> a lot of sunshine, warming

temperatures, finally feeling like spring across the bay area. let's get you out the door in los gatos, temperature trends and mostly cloudy, going to see more sunshine into this afternoon. we'll take a look ahead to that weekend forecast in a few minutes. mike, you are getting drivers out the door. it looks pretty good so far. >> pretty good. we'll look at the bay bridge toll plaza, i got reports of a crash in lane number 3, one, two, there is the third lane, you start over at the center. we don't have a problem right here. although folks are backing up a little more, traffic is flowing. we continue to update this chp. we have a filed build for the maze, another crash may be a bigger deal. westbound 880. your commute direction, reports of a motorcycle down. i'm tracking another tanker, i'll bring you more detail on that. the counter-commute, the south bay, peninsula tri-valley showing a standard if not lighter build there. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike.

6:30 right now. we do begin with breaking news in the last 90 minutes or so american news reports american taliban john walker lindh has been released from federal prison. pete, this is a guy who thought, met with the taliban and osama bin laden. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. >> that story grabbing a lot of headlines. a couple decades ago. we are talking about marin county native john walker lindh he was released from a federal prison in indiana in the past couple hours, serving nearly 18 years for that 20-year prison term. he became known as the american taliban after being captured by u.s. forces during the invasion in afghanistan in 2001 months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. he met and fought with osama bin laden at some point in all this we are learning u.s. intelligence showing he was still advocating for global

jihad, serving at that global prison in indiana. an internal memo was circulated warning he remains a committed jihadist. >> with the release he still holds extremist beliefs by all accounts. >> reporter: now lindh use of the internet will be monitored upon his release. he wanted to travel to ireland upon release. his parents plan to relocate him to virginia so at this point it appears he will not be coming back to marin any time soon. reporting live, pete suratos for "today in the bay." >> thanks for the latest. nbc pete williams also lanizing this story this morning. you can watch more on this on the "today" show right after "today in the bay." a major housing dwomd is one step closer to becoming a reality in the east bay. a number of residents are not too happy about it. bob. tell us why some folks are still

upset. >> reporter: well, chris, we're worried about the possibility of increased traffic and the stress this could put on the infrastructure here in brentwood. we're talking about the proposed vineyards at deer creek in this field behind me here. you look at this snap we will put on the tv screen. blackhawk nunn partners want to build on this 880 acre empty parcel of land located east of deer valley road with 80% of the homes designated for seniors, in order nor the city to accommodate this project, they need voter aproposal golf to the brentwood limit line. he tells us he is up to more than the 3500 petition signatures needed to put it on the november ballot. the opposition formed a group alliance for a better brentwood. you cannee the website on the tv screen. they argue no you is not the time for this development.

brentwood needs to first see how it's infrastructure can hand tell hundreds of other homes already approved and construction they worry about the noise and bad air quality that was brought on by this 20-year construction project. they're concerned about the extra threats on the fire district which is deeply under funded. as i mentioned, they worry about increased traffic in the area. >> this property will be developed in brentwood and antioch and after someone else. with us in brentwood, you have a history. you know what we have done there. what we will do there. if it's not us, it will be somebody else. i'm not sure what that will bring. >> our organization's goal is to make this parcel the community separator between antioch and brentwood to remain the county agricultural dry farmland until such a time we need to expand. >> reporter: blackhawk nunn has been developing here in brentwood 30 years. they say of the 880 acres 225 would remain permanent open

space. the project would send millions to the under funded fire district and build a road around heritage middle school and could supply safety improvments on deer valley and invited people to go to other developments built if town during peak hours. they say you will see the traffic is not as bad as it likely will be. now, the city of brentwood is tab lating the signatures f. the voters were to approve such a measure in november and the city gave us approval, blackhawk nunn believes it will be a few years before they start moving dirt. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." day four in the new haven district teacher's strike. the school board meeting turned contentious last night according to east bay times. at one point the superintendent reportedly walked out. parents had some less than kind words as well.

union leaders are supposed to pick up contract talks with the district today. the district says only 14% of students showed up for class yesterday. one school only at four students show up. happening today, memorial day travel officially begins, as mike says, some folks have the day off tomorrow and early release. despite high gas prices, people will hit the road in record numbers. aaa estimates 5 million he will hit the road in the golden state. airports will be busy, too, as we apply that sfo early this morning, nearly one-half million californians will fly during the holiday, a huge jump from last year. >> see how traffic is looking out there right now, mike. >> right now i froze my map clicking too many times. it's got the important part. we have the get away traffic. right now, this just popped up, a traffic alert for westbound 80

is jamming up traffic, hilltop mall on our maps here, coming down off the bridge, two lanes are blocked. the two fast lanes are blocked. the two slower lanes past a motorcycle crash. we are watching, i'm concerned about that motorcyclist through the area. everything else went smoothly. there is traffic off the carcinas bridge into berkeley. we are talking about weather that splits now. have you nicer weather. we want motorcyclists. great weather for that. >> that is true. >> take the extra second to obey the safety code for drivers as well. >> that's right. that's so important. well, that weather looks beautiful. i saw kids out on bikes yesterday. >> what a content in may. yeah, look at that. >> finally it's warmed up enough. >> and we don't have the threat of rain. we are going to lead into the weekend with more of that same weather, slightly cooler. then we will be watching out for the showers again on sunday.

especially during the afternoon. as we can see, some off and on rain, especially for the inland areas. so i'll be keeping you up to date on that saturday is looking perfect for carnivale and parade and of course the grand parade on sunday in san francisco so there may be a few showers, but on saturday, we're going to see mostly sunny skies. we also have the bay area kidfest happening in concord. concord will be a busy spot all throughout the weekend. we got concerts and also a kidfest happening so saturday is the day to get out there and enjo it, if you are going to the sierra for the long holiday weekend, expect squall valley to have times of rain and snow, those temperatures staying on the cool side in the low-to-mid-40s. for russian river valley, it's going to be a little cool to start. then our best day of the weekend will once again be saturday. by sunday it's cooler. we will see more clouds and a slight chance of rain, santa

cruz will have a chance on sunday. we have the long board surf happening. on saturday, it looks good for that. the waves may be higher than they like for that event. we will be watching that. also, our temperature trend for today, that's coming up in about three minutes. >> thanks, kari. 6:39, coming up next, one of our top stories we are following, including devastation in missouri. the trees are all blown down. i never seen anything like this. >> a tornado slamming into the capital city overnight. as the sun comes up, we are seeing more of the damage and hearing from people who lived through the night. the president has been dealt a series of setbacks in his attempt to cover up some of his finances. but speaking of finances, we will take you out to the big board, the dow industrials down 325 points. we warned you before the bell, this is over. >> we are headed back out to concord, where marcus washington

is giving away free coffee, tee and treats with a smile. folks are showing up at los gatos plaza to find out a nice thank you. we will talk with marcus in just a little bipt.

right now it's 6:42. let's get out the door, cool temperatures to start and it will be nice and warm in concord, with our temperature trend at 58 degrees that's 7:00

to 25 degrees at 1:00 today. will you see some wet warmth this weather in the forecast. we'll talk about the changes ahead, that's coming up within the next five minutes. >> it looks beautiful here at the bay bridge, meaning a beautiful lighter flow. as well as the suncounty abrupts

application with the state health department. this follows a lot of community pushback. the change-dot-org petition to stop the harm reduction coalition ) is declaring victory... as harm reduction coalition ) application was withdrawn on the eve of a key state deadline. some of the criticism of the plan is that one of four proposed locations for mobile services was right next to felton )s historic covered bridge park. here in the bay area, there are at least nineteen communities served by syringe services. harm reduction coalition ) already serves oakland and san francisco. big news overnight in india: the prime minister was re- elected. )narendra

modi ) is already declaring victory in what looks like a landslide. more than 67 percent of india )s 900 million eligible voters reportedly cast their ballot over six weeks. that would be the highest voter turnout in india )s history. a series of setbacks this morning for the president.. who is trying to keep his personal information.. away from congress. scott mcgrew.. a judge says banks can show the president )s accounts.. to congressional investigators. that )s the second judge this week to say something like that. earlier.. a different judge said his accountant )s records were fair game. and then.. the washington post found an internal i-r-s legal memo.. saying the tax agency legally must turn over trump )s taxes.. something treasury secretary steven mnuchin has refused to do. on top of that.. the state of new

york has passed a bill.. that the governor is expected to sign.. that would allow the state to turn trump )s state tax returns over to congress. the taxes.. then bank records.. the accountant )s records.. president trump has resisted showing anyone any of those things. nancy pelosi says the president is trying to cover up. checking the facts.. there a number of examples of the president trying to stop unfavorable information from getting out. on top of trying to quash all those records.. we know the president wrote a check to cover payments to stephanie clifford.. . he used several explanations to describe the trump tower meeting. ..even writing a description of the meeting - that he himself had not attended. the president had several explanations for firing jim comey. mgahn says the president told him to lie about his order to fire bob mueller.

and of course.. the mueller report lists ten instances.. in which the president interfered with the legal process. mueller does not make a determination whether these are crimes.. but established they happened. the president will travel to japan this weekend.. to greet the new emporer. here we see him with japan )s prime minister.. shinzo abe.. who will be the president )s host. mr. trump will be the first world leader.. to introduce himself to the emporer.. in a very formal and very choreographed ceremony. -ad lib twitter tease- no flying car yet... but uber just made history with the world )s first )rideshare submarine. ) this is in australia. passengers can book a trip through the )great barrier reef ) from the uber app. a car picks you up, a chopper flies you to an island, then you board the submarine. it costs 2-grand for 2 people.

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now happening now-- polls in the united kingdom are open in elections for

the european parliament. the elections are being highly scrutinized, as the nation is

still wrestling with its plans to leave the european union. support is surging for populists and nationalists who want to rein in the e-u )s powers. results of the four days of voting will not be officially released until sunday night. and next on today in the bay - we )ll check-in with marcus. he )s live in contra costa couny to talk with viewers and pass out free coffee. but first: one of our top stories - a ticket scam for the nba finals.

welcome back. 6:56 right now. before you head out the door, here are the top stories we are covering on "today in the bay." we are closely following a story, nbc news now confirming american taliban and bay area native john walker lindh was released from federal prison. he was sentenced 17 years ago for fighting with the taliban and meeting with osama bin ladin himself, he grew up in rin county -- up in marin county and served his sentence in indiana. the bart station in north san jose, the proposal on the table a $15 fare round-trip to

the embark rcadero stop. there will be more affordable options for low income riders. the opening date has been delayed several times. no word yet on when it will come online. a warning for warrior fans hoping to see the nba finals in person. the team issued an alert. they always do about fake tickets, hundreds of fans have been duped this year, clr concerns problems may escalate. in a nut shell, do not buy tickets from a non-ver tied source check out this new video of celebrity chef. guy fieri cementing his honor. he entered a star on the hollywood walk of fame. we claim him. he's from santa rosa. we're proud of that. he is only the third chef to get a star and joins bobby play the and wolfgang puck. >> marcus is in konta costa talking to viewers and handing out free coffee. >> let's check in with him.

how is it going, mar can us? >> reporter: it's great. i have been putting the good mornings in food and ahhs, people are getting their free pick-me-up. they are getting a muffin or so if you want to. look at this long line, all these people are able to get their free coffee this morning. how does it feel to get that free coffee this morning? >> great. >> reporter: everyone is excited this morning. we are here until 9:00 this morning to give you your free coffee. tea if you don't drink coffee. all looks goods. we want to say good morning to all of our viewers who have been so supportive to us. it's a great way for you to be a part of our lives, we want to be a part of your morning every morning on "today in the bay." we are here until 9:00 at peet's coffee on salvio street. i can't wait to see you all. i will post them on social media of those people that had their free cups of coffee.

it is a great way to get you started. you know, we want to make your morning a little bit easier. so for that i'm going to send it back to you all in the studio. look, i would love to bring you all coffee back. i think we need to save it for the viewers. sorry. >> that's okay. they deserve it. we're thankful for it. >> they get much louder after they get it. >> whoa. >> it's great to see a member of law enforcement in line. >> they say, no, save it for the next person. >> firefighters do that, too. always remarkable. >> let's get to the forecast. >> it's going to be a great day. reach nook the upper 70s in the inland valleys. and as we go into the weekend, it cools off. there may be a few showers on sunday into monday. in the meantime that traffic alert is cancelled. >> the one issue we had in san pablo. a richmond area, has cleared. no major injuries. a quicker recovery, that's much better news. the rest of the bay, look at that, this is of course we are

entering the spring time. >> memorial day coming. >> all right. >> that is what's happening "today in the bay." we'll be back at 7:25 with more live, local news. >> join us at mid-day news at 11:00 a.m. have a great one. good jenna, come on, where is she? this is taking forever >> what are you doing? >> i mean, i'm waiting for jenna, she's at a dance recital with mila. i got to go. >> what are you doing? >> i'm looking for jenna. >> this is when you start your show. >> but she's not here yet. she has a dance recital. >> we have a show to do. let's go. >> she's been here the whole time thanks for telling me. >> we've got a show to do. >> from nbc news, this is "today" with hoda kotb by and jenna bush hager, live from