♪ try my $4.99 barbeque bacon double cheeseburger combo. welcome to thursday morning. taking a live look outside. san francisco there in the distance. nice start to our day. but i must say it is a warm one already. good morning to you, thank you so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> a look at that commute and we'll get to that in a bit. we want to start with the warm temperatures. last night even around 8:00 it was warm. >> it takes a while to cool off and we're also feeling the humidity and the warmth this morning. this is a live look this morning in san jose and willow glen temper whiches in the mid-60sfo heating up again today. all the humidity and temperatures and getting you out the door with the morning

commute. >> roads are quiet right now and our speed sensors all green and a couple crashes in the south bay cleared out and you don't have to worry through there. peninsula, san francisco, east bay all looking pretty good. san mateo bridge. good, smooth commute. i'll have another update coming up shortly. >> thank you, vianey. breaking news. >> bob, what do you know? >> marcus and laura, this happened in foxworthy near this bridge that goes over the guadeloupe river. police were called out when they arrived and they found a man down the water down the steep embankment and when they pulled him out they immediately began cpr. when they had to bring him up, they used a rope to bring him up on the stretcher and on the

stretcher he is unconscious and you can see the paramedics are no longer performing life-saving measures on him. we know he was taken away in an. the video shows police helping another man climb up the embankment. it's not clear if these men are homeless or what reason they were down there in the middle of the night. we reached out to san jose police to get more information. there is water down there, but it is calm and by no means appears to be a strong current. reporter live, bob redell. some residents probably had a nerve wracking night after a fire burned dangerously close to homes yesterday. this is video you see from nbc sky ranger flying over the scene in the foothills. as of last night that fire was 50% contained. fires did destroy barnes.

some of those neighbors fear the worst. >> i see the fire trucks and i think about it. i put that image in my mind. my house is burning down. but when i drive up, i see my house still there. >> right now we're still trying to learn how that fire started. new video and incredible pictures of the aftermath in san francisco. the car is essentially split in two. it happened two hours in the bay view on third and carol. three people suffered major injuries and no word on what caused it. in just a matter of hours, b.a.r.t. will decide on its next leader. >> "today in the bay," pete joining us with those details. pete? >> good morning to you guys. b.a.r.t.'s board of directors will decide on that manager later.

grace decided to retire back in april. she served in that position for about eight years and at the time did not provide any reasons as to why she was leaving or what that next career move will be, but the next general manager will have plenty of work ahead, that includes expansion of b.a.r.t. stations in antioch and irvingten near the b.a.r.t. stop and dealing with the fare evasion problem by installing new gates. evasion costs the agency millions of dollars per year. in our investigative unit uncovered that b.a.r.t. is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to challenge, cost $850,000 to date when it comes to the legal fees. the vote for the next gm will take place at 9:00 a.m. >> thanks, pete. 4:34 for you right now.

two violent carjacking suspects are in custody after a manhunt put one peninsula neighborhood on lockdown for hours. >> two hours daly city police officer spotted two men matching descriptions in the carjacking. the suspect crashed their car near westmore high school during the chase and the suspect took off running. neighbors were told to shelter in place. >> the carjacking in san francisco was a carjacking with a gun. we don't know if the suspect fled with that same weapon. we have to assume that they are armed. >> police say the initial incident, the driver was struck with a metal object while sitting in his car. one of the suspects pulled a gun on the victim's wife as he tried to help. police say tried to hide out in a san jose miniature golf course. ere is his booking photo.

kellen handed a note to wells fargo teller and police tracked him down a half block away after evacuating the area, they found him in the arcade. the man accused, berkeley police say they spotted powell riding his bike downtown and he matched the description of the man wanted in the cases. powell is facing sexual battery charges. coming up here on "today in the bay" facebook slapped with a $5 billion fine, how it is affecting the company's stock. plus, the justice department seems set to allow the t-mobile/sprint merger. the recent move changing some concerns about the impact on consumers. let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where atle backup there. tell us about what we can expect throughout the morning across the bay when it comes to that traffic. 4:36 right now and you're watching "today in the bay."

good morning, i'm frank holland at cnbc headquarters. wall street is set to open up mostly higher today. the nasdaq could be weighed down from disappointing earnings from tesla overnight. yesterday a mixed session for stocks. mixed results from boeing and caterpillar but the nasdaq and s&p 500 both closed at record highs. reports on unemployment and durable goods and a whole lot of

earnings including from 3m, amazon, alphabet and starbucks. you want to watch shares of facebook today. they're higher as inesthavestor don't appear to be flinching. they beat wall street forecast on steady user growth on its site as well as instagram and they related to a big charge on this $5 billion fine over data privacy issues. facebook also says continued costs related to other government probes could hit results well into next year. the department of justice is set to approve t-mobile merger with sprint as well as today. as parts of the deal, they'll sell some assets to dish network. this mergerlders and dish will reportedly get 9 million sprint customers and be allowed to operate on the network for many more years. maintain competition by creating a fourth provider. the question for me, though, how

is the reception. >> very good. >> thanks, frank. 4:41. coming up next, i wish i was in tahoe this weekend. >> it is going to be hot this weekend. we're already feeling it right now. take a look outside at walnut creek. clear skies and aify clouds dripping by as the temperatures heat up. a look at all our microclimates and talk about that weekend coming up. a building commute in dublin. 580directions starting to get pretty busy. a look at how the drive times are doing after the break. you're watching "today in the bay."

and a good thursday morning to you. taking a live look richmond san rafael bridge there. few cars on the road. nothing too crazy and the rest of the bay area looking at. going to tell us all about that coming up in just a bit. 4:44 and when it comes to burgers, no wpper oredwood cityt a $50 burger on the menu. you heard me right, $50. shelby open on tuesdays. they're offering what they call the black label burger like a blackhawk, i guess. mixture of dry aged steak and

short rib and chuck. so, it's served on a brushetta bun and hold the fries. you can also get french cheese and australian black truffle and, definitely, a cloth napkin. i would hope so for 50 bucks. >> that is too much for my taste. >> i like it juicy with some bacon and tomato and onion. >> try out the individual flavors. >> the black truffle and the brioche. >> it makes it too complicated for a burger. >> if you're fancy like that and you got it like at for it. >> it depends on who's paying. >> then he will enjoy his nice bun. >> i'll have two, please. thank you. >> i could split that, you know, $50. maybe not so bad. >> yeah. >> it is huge. so, i don't know. maybe you'll be ordering that today. let's get outside this morning as you have to pay for that and get to wor

here's a live looksiew. it is so beautiful to start out this morning. no fog. and, so, that's going to love t allow the temperatures to heat up today. as you step out the door, it feelsywarm. we're almost at 70 degrees in livermore and this is to start out the day. in oakland 62 degrees while we're cooling down to 55 in santa rosa. the cooler spot on the map there. as we check out martinez in the mid-60s as you head out the door. a few more clouds today and that is because we're feeling a little more humidity and that's going to stay with us into the afternoon. 84 degrees already at lunchtime. in the south bay, we're going to see those highs in gilroy reach 94 degrees. milpitas is reaching 90 degrees and still hot for the inland east bay. we're not looking at upper 90s today and comes down a few

degrees and it is still going to m expect comfortable with some upper 60s in the north bay anywhere from the upp u 90s. and we had a lot of storms blow up over this area yesterday. we're still seeing that rain over parts of southern california and we're feeling the humidity and a slight chance that some of that monsoonal moisture could trigger an isolated thundershower or two across the bay area. we'll watch out for that tonight and tomorrow morning and then we head into the weekend with more hot weather. in fact, those temperatures hitting over 100 degrees. we'll see some very hot weather headed our way and it really hits us saturday and sunday and then comes down early next week into the mid to upper 80s. san francisco will be in the mid-70s. also warming up there for the weekend. getting out on the roads, how is it looking so far?

>> i'm still trying to get over the triple digit heat. i hope you are not going triple digits on the roads. not a lot of slowing going on with the exception of the 580. the stretch along both sides. we're starting to see building traffic. now, i did check the chp reports and i didn't see anything specific could be overnight construction they're clearing out but notice slowing along this stretch. right along the boulevard, you may want to hop off and avoid this area and take surface streets and jump on after that. you can see in dublin we're noticing some slowing. let's look at our drive times. from grant line road to 580 and westbound 84 to 680 about 9 minutes. back to you. >> thanks so much. 4:48. the latest on the new report highlighting thousands of

undocumented immigrants through oakland airport. >> concerned citizens plan to sound off to port leaders at a meeting in oakland. as you may remember the bay area news group said i.c.e. used the airport to deport nearly 43,000 people and they ended the practice last october. the mayor's office said they aric looiare looking further into those matters. legal hot water accused of funneling money meant to go to troops overseas. filed suit yesterday against the sacramento-based charity move america forward. he said the money meant for military care packages went instead for the campaigns for tea party political candidates. the assemblyman founded that charity which also falsely claimed it was associated with the walter reed medical center. move america forward is denying the claim saying it has been completely transparent. governor gavin newsom just

signed a plan to clean up the drinking water. $130 million from state money from a fund to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. more than a million people in the state don't have access to clean water. some environmental groups oppose the plan, even though supporters argue climate change is, in fact, in drinking water. 4:50 for you right now. baseball and baseball eternal truth. can't win them all. >> giants fans keep that in mind after yesterday's series finale against the cubs. pablo sandoval looked like the old, yesterday the giants fell back to earth. gave chicago a 4-1 lead in the fourth and two outs in the bottom of the ninth with a tying run at the plate. brandon belt came up just a little short. the giants have still won 17 of their last 20. their best such run in 13 ent w

some people thinking maybe the a's and the giants can do it, again. but the a's also hit pause on that plan. they lost 4-2 to first-place houston. two-run home run helped give the astros a 2-1 win. the a's still hold on for the second spot there. well, coming up for you right here on "today in the bay." nbc bay area responds. sending the kids back to school is more expensive than it's ever been. where you need to pugdge budget most, next. a french inventor fails in crossing the channel on a aroun but as the bbc reports he fell into the water shortly after takeoff. luckily he wasn't hurt. we'll be back right after this break.

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about $700 on back-to-school this year. welcome back, everyone. thursday morning. 4:54. they say the typical family will spend about $700 on back to school this year. >> that is a lot of money. >> where does it all go? >> chris is here to help with the break down. >> the top expense is clothing. on average, families will spend about $240 on back to school clothes alone. that's according to the nationa. other pricy items include electronics and calculators. shoes $135 and those essential supplies like pencils, paper and backpacks, $117.49.

it all adds up fast. and thousands of bay area families can't afford it. not eve the most basic back to school supplies. that's why all this week, nbc bay backpack donation drive. we are aiming to help at least 5,000 kids get the new school year off to a great start. see how you can join us, even build a virtual backpack yourself on our website nbcbayarea.com/schools. i'll be back at 11:00 this morning with some volunteers who are building those backpacks today. i hope to see you then. >> nice to see that. thanks. 4:55 for you right now. trending this morning, talk about mystery meat. >> buzzing about how an burger ended up on the streets and now we have the answer. >> even though there are no locations near the east coast, but this just in, according to vice news a person who tweeted

the photo said a highd u four b a california in-n-out before leavin apple and she had three burgers left when she ran to catch train. i feel like that was a math problem. en california had four burgers in her bag -- >> good to get kids back in the mode of school. that answer coming up after the break. but before we get to that, we have to talk about some other numbers. those high numbers with the temperature, kari. >> way up there. a lot hotter than we'd like to see as we go into the weekend. then today we're catching a bit of a break. we'll see some slightly cooler temperatures in some of our microclimates. palo alto upper 70s by 11:00 and how hot it gets this weekend coming up next. it's s pretty early. if you head out now, you should be okay.

we do have a building commute, especially in the trivalley. a look at how your drive times are doing and your bridges, coming up in just a bit. plus, president trump sounds off on robert mueller's testimony. a san francisco judge hands a big blow to the administration over a key immigration issue. those new details still ahead. you're watching "today in the bay."

right now at 5:00, breaking

news. a drowning in the south bay. a live report from the scene just moments away. plus -- >> the russian government interfere in our election is among the most serious. democrats and republicans both claiming victory. coming up in a live report what house speaker nancy pelosi is saying about impeaching the president. puerto rico's governor steps down. ahead, what it means for leadership there. "today in the bay" continues right now. and a good morning to you, thanks so much for joining us on this thursday. >> i'm laura garcia. vianey is in today. >> it is going to be hot not only today and the next few days, but a really hot weekend ahead. already warm as you get ready to step out the door. live look in san jose and mostly clear skies and heading over to east san jose and

temperature. we get a look at that and the weekend forecast and vianey has a look at that morning commute. >> the chp right now, pretty quiet. no big accidents we did have overnight and not impacting your morning commute. however, we do have some slow spots and i'm probably thinking the likely culprit is construction. now, westbound 80 from highway 4 to the bay bridge, 20 minutes. so far the rest of the bay area is doing pretty good. >> thank you, vianey. breaking news. two people rescued from the south bay river now we're working to find out their conditions. >> "today in the bay" bob redell at that scene in south san jose. what have you been able to find out? >> i know this happened in the guadeloupe river behind me