tv Today in the Bay NBC July 29, 2019 5:00am-6:00am PDT
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your work week, such a heating trend over the weekend but finally a little cooling this morning, kari? >> yes, we had a lot of spots in the inland east bay that topped out over 100 degrees yesterday, but now the fog back in san francisco, and we're going to see the cooling air starting to make its way even into the valleys. as we go throughout the day, our temperature temperatures will heat up, 15 to 20 degrees cooler than yesterday afternoon. here we are at 2:00 in livermore at 80 degrees while san francisco at 64, and then we are going to bring it back down as we head into the evening. nice cool start, as we get ready to head out the door, this is a live look outside at 880 in oakland, so the commute starting to roll, as you head out the door. i want to give you a quick look at the traffic maps as well, because we are going to see overall a smooth flow of traffic, and then we also still have some of those roads closed around christmas hill park, so if you are going to be heading out this morning, make sure that you avoid this area around
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gilroy. we'll talk more about what's ahead in the forecast, that's coming up in just a few minutes. >> okay, kari, thank you. back to that breaking news we were telling you about which we have been following for more than nearly 12 hours now, the deadly shooting rampage at the gilroy garlic festival. this happened a little before 6:00 last night, at the christmas hill park where that festival has been going on for decad decades. >> here is the latest. three people dead including a 6-year-old boy, and we're just getting an update on the number of people injured. gilroy police are now saying 12 people were hurt. police responded in less than a minute, and killed the gunman. he's not been identified but sources tell our investigative unit the gunman was not on anyone's radar as a threat. witnesses talked about a possible second person involved but authorities are still trying to sort that out. there was an extensive search last night. we're expecting another news conference at 10:00 a.m. this morning. we'll have continued team coverage of this shooting. ali wolf has details on the
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youngest victims. scott mcgrew outlining how the suspect got inside the festival in the first place. bob redell is at the scene with more on the harrowing moments. bob? >> reporter: laura, the associated press is reporting that one person actually shouted at the shooter during the exchange of gunfire and shouted "why are you doing this" and according to the ap, the response was "because i'm really angry." this shooter apparently bypassed security to get into the festival. normally you'd walk down this road, you'd walk through the metal detectors, past security guards with those wands. police tell us he cut through a perimeter fence, went through the creek, which is on the border here of christmas hill park, and that's how he accessed the festival. now, a number of people say that they saw the man approach inside the northern part of the park, say he was in his 20s or 30s, wearing a camouflage shirt and hat, carrying a long rifle. a woman selling honey here at the festival tells us that two of her co-workers were shot. she watched the shooter reload and she ran for her life.
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>> only 10, 15 feet away from us. he was loading his clip before he went to our booth, and was shooting but he was shooting rand random. he didn't pick that booth. he wasn't trying, you know, anybody in particular. it was anybody in his way. >> reporter: it was clear he wasn't targeting someone specific. >> no, he was just shooting. >> reporter: what was going through your head when you were running away? >> i don't know, run, save your life. hoefrl ly hopefully he doesn't start shooting this way, wondering if there's any more and why would somebody want to do this. it doesn't make sense. why would somebody want to come in and kill innocent people, you know? >> reporter: and that is a great question that law enforcement is trying to answer. gilroy police engaged the suspect within a minute after he started shooting, and officers shot and killed that man. coming up in a half hour, 5:30, we'll hear from a man who is running a rock climbing gym for the children here, and what he did when that suspect started
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shooting. rorng li reporting live in gilroy, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thank you. one of the three people killed by that gunman is a 6-year-old boy. >> stephen romero was killed. two other members of his family as well were shot. nbc bay area's ali wolf is live at the community college in gilroy with more from the little boy's father. so tragic, ali. >> yes, really tragic, laura, just to think about the fact that a 6-year-old was killed while having a good time with his family at the garlic festival. we know that 6-year-old's name is stephen romerromero. his father describes him as a happy boy who had his whole life ahead of him. his mother was shot and so was his grandmother as well at the festival. this according to his father alberto romero who reached out to nbc bay area and also shared photos with us of stephen. roberto says his son had just turned 6 this summer. he was at the garlic festival yesterday with his mother and
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grandmother, when they all got shot. it was the end of the day, the final day of the popular festival. alberto romero says he found out about the shooting while he was on the phone with his wife. >> so i was asleep, she called me and i first thought she said that they ran him over, but then she started screaming, obviously she was shot herself, that they shot him, and they took him from her, and she didn't know where they took him. >> reporter: and you could imagine the shock from that phone call, and what his wife is going through. stephen romero died last night at st. luis hospital. alberto romero says his wife was shot in her hand and he thinks his mother-in-law was shot in her leg. they were taken to a separate hospital in san jose to get treated for their injuries, but they are expected to recover. that is some good news, but really a huge tragedy, three members of one family shot at
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the garlic festival, and of course, 6-year-old stephen romero killed, just absolutely heartbreaking. coming up at 5:30, we'll have more from that interview with alberto romero and more on what his wife told hill. for now we're live in gilroy, ali wolf for "today in the bay." >> seeing little stephen's photo just pulls at your heart. >> it's a family event. that's the thing. it's the 41st annual gilroy garl festival. we talked about it all last week here on "today in the bay." >> i know. >> so enpla people, at least 100,000 people attend that event. when the gunfire erupted, i found out quite quickly and i headed actually to the scene, i got as far as i could to do reports, but there were so many roads blocked off here, this is leading up to christmas hill park but there were literally people on almost every street corner as you were driving in to gilroy last night, just gathering, congregating, wanting to be together. so many people that were coming out of christmas hill park that i was talking to, they were numb. they didn't even know how to comprehend what they just
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experienced. >> i was just going to say that. you heard a lot of people talking yesterday when we saw the coverage here, they were just in shock, even when they saw, they heard the shots or they saw people running towards them. they say they were in shock. they didn't know what to do. >> it was an eerie feeling. it stays with me as well. there were helicopters circling overhead and so many emergency personnel rushing from scene to scene and still that concern of that second gunman, so people literally are terrified this morning, too. >> you were in some of the neighborhoods and great job what you were doing out there. what was it like for the people who lived nearby? there was a fear of the potential other suspect. >> they were scared. they were scared. there was such heavy police presence from multiple agencies throughout the bay area and people were scared. they didn't know if someone was going to potentially go into their own, knock on their door. and there were so many false stories out there as well because of that fear, trying to sort through that as well. we're trying to give you the
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latest information as well this morning. we should get more information this morning. there's a press conference happening at 10:00 a.m. >> we've been showing you a lot of video. scott mcgrew has been looking over all of those maps to give us more perspective of what's going on here, what happened that day. how did he get in? >> you showed, marcus, the folks this one earlier but it gives viewers a broader look at the area. you have the garlic festival here in christmas hill park. the emergency responders staged here, and that was triage and emergency command center, et cetera, and then families told to come down to the college so they could be reunited with their loved ones. as for the festival itself, we understand from the gilroy police chief that the suspect or suspects crossed a creek. what you've got is you've got the festival about right here and the creek runs right along there, so cross in from the creek they say,he shooting then happened near a rock wall, a climbing wall, which is about right here. let's listen in as police start
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their frantic search. >> we think the suspect might be in the creek south of miller. he's wearing camouflage hat, camouflage uniform and he's got, uhm, a long rifle, with a removable magazine. >> police shot that man in camouflage. they were able to respond within one minute of that first alert. as it happened, there was a police substation on the north side, very close to where we think this shooting happened. let's go back to that radio, as they report the suspect is down. >> we have a shooter down possibly in the northeast, corner of the park. uhm, headed north of the compound. >> that's what we know about the geography. gilroy police will have, as you were mentioning, a press conference at 10:00 a.m. as brg you the updates when we inly have them. >> thank you very much, scott. police still remain at the scene this morning and fbi agents are involved. we are expecting that news conference at 10:00 this morning which we'll bring to you live on air as it happens, most likely
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we'll stream with it as well. stay with "nbc bay area news" for the latest updates and find the latest on our website. we're also tweeting out and facebooking any new information that we can gather for you this morning as well. 5:10 for you right now. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the weather and traffic for us this morning, double duty. >> yes, we are going to have some good news here in terms of our weather, cooling down across the bay area. that's a live look outside at the golden gate bridge, no fog here, and also it looks like traffic is flowing smoothly coming out of the north bay. now as we get a look at our temperature trend for cupertino today we'll be in the mid-60s at 9:00 and going into the mid-70s at lunch time. we're going to stay in the mid-70s there throughout the day, so much cooler air. as you get ready to head out the door in dublin we've had quite a few issues coming out of the central valley into the tri-valley, and so we've seen still a steady flow of traffic there, and so it may be quite a
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long time before they get that issue cleared up on westbound 580 into the bay area, but you can see overall on our traffic maps, everything is flowing smoothly for much of the bay area. i wanted to take you into those spots, where on 580, 205 where they join up there is a lot of traffic in this area, because there was a big rig crash and a fuel leak is going to take possibly another three hours before they can get that cleaned up, so if you have someone coming out of the tracy mountain house area, a lot of problems. we have around christmas hill park area in gilroy, those streets are still closed so avoid that. your tri-valley drive times are starting to add up here on westbound 84 from vallecitos road to i-680 it's about ten minutes, one of the slow spots we're seeing right now. we'll get another look at weather and traffic coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you, kari. >> 5:11. coming up next on "today in the bay" a big announcement expected from the drug industry,
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degrees lower. so we are going to enjoy a much nicer day with our temperatures in the upper 50s to start, and some mid-70s by early afternoon. as you get ready to head out on the roads the bay bridge toll plaza already stacked up. so well a continue to monitor that and the rest of the bay area, coming up in weather and traffic. good morning, i'm frank holland at cnbc headquarters. here are today's top business headlines. a big deal coming up in the -- sorry about that, stocks are said to open lower as investors wait an action-packed week on wall street. u.s. and chinese trade negotiators are meeting in shanghai for the first in-person talks since a truce was struck in june. investors are weighing the outcome of the latest federal reserve meeting. most analysts expect the fed to cut interest rates by 25 basis points and it's the busiest week of the earnings season. spotlight on the bay area, tech giant apple out with its
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quarterly results on tuesday. meantime, a blockbuster deal in the biotech industry announced. pharmaceutical giant pfizer is merging its generic drug business with mylan. the combined company which will sell mylan's epipen and pfizer's viagra could bring in annual sales of more than $20 billion. mylan stock is surging on the news but down sharply from its 2015 amid scrutiny of price hikes on epipen and wider investigation into price collusion and the drug industry. the world of fortnite crowned a new champion yesterday, 16-year-old american kyle "bugha" giersdorf, won the video game's inaugural world cup solo final in new york. giersdorf a pennsylvania native outside the philadelphia area, managed to escape past 99 owe points, earning 59 points through six games. the runner-up scored 33 points. he took home the trophy and a $3 million cash prize. epic games, the company behind fortnite, awarded more than $40
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million across prizes. >> look at where we'd be if we kept up with nintendo. >> you have to be good, we're maybe at the pong level. >> i'm into super mario bros.. >> that's something we can do. thanks, frank. times they are a-changing. instead of astronauts and scientists as a dream career, not necessarily fortnite. a lot of kids want to be professional youtubers. you heard me right, there's a growing number of children and teens enrolling into a youtube camp. >> it teaches filming and editing to branding and marketing. are the camps smart ways for kids to be spending their summer? here's one expert's take. >> when parents are looking at these camps they need to make sure that the camps are being realistic with what they're promising the students, that they're teaching digital safety skills and they're also helping kids manage any potential negative feedback. >> i've learned like platform
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and how to market yourself because like if you market yourself, you're set. >> oh, my. the "today" show will have more on these camps coming up for you at 7:00 a.m. >> i think it's a way for them to use their creativity and sometimes that pays off. >> i like it. >> it does. it's not bad but i don't know. i just have a tough time putting my kids out there. i'm very protective. >> knowing how to do it and sharing it is different. >> i'm a public person with what i do but a very private person as well. >> you have to be with the kids. >> yes. let's get started this morning as we see a nice, beautiful sunrise over the south bay. we are going to start out with some clear skies and the good news on this monday morning is that we'll have some much cooler temperatures. check out the seven-day forecast up at the bottom of the screen. it's already showing some low 80s and even as you step out the door in martinez, you can leave the air conditioning off, give it a rest for a little while, as we have some low 60s through 7:00, and then rising up to
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about 75 degrees at noon. at 1:00, we're at 78 degrees. let's check out our high temperatures for today with concord reaching 86. napa up to 82 degrees, and san francisco seeing a high of 64 degrees this afternoon. so what's happening here? we have high pressure that's been over the desert southwest. it's starting to back off and that's what created this intense heat we had for the inland valleys over the weekend. as we go into today, as well as the next several days, this storm system starts to approach the pacific northwest. it will bring seattle and portland some more rain by the end of the week, but for us, our winds turn onshore and the fog builds near the coast, so that's going to push that cool ocean air into even the inland valleys, going into today as well as the next couple of days, but we will still also have that fog that could create some drizzle near the coastline for the next several mornings. our high temperatures will reach into the mid 80s in some of the warmer spots and just slightly cooler tomorrow. we'll also see it going up a few
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degrees on wednesday, and then back down on thursday, but it will be very warm as we approach the weekend, with san francisco staying in the mid-60s, and want to get you a quick view of the san mateo bridge, as you get ready to head out the door. it looks like everything is flowing nicely here, and overall view of the bay area on our traffic map shows that we do for the most part have a pretty good start to this monday morning. we've only seen a few minor issues except for those drivers coming out of the tri-valley, out of the central valley into the tri-valley. on the 580 westbound there was a sig alert crash, a big rig that caused a fuel leak so there's been a big backup. it may not be until 8:00 when they clear that up. so looking at that and also our bridge drive times. it's going to take you a while westbound 80 toward the bay bridge about 13 minutes at this point so starting to slow down. we'll get a look at weather and traffic coming up again in a few minutes. >> sounds good.
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we'll look forward to it. 5:20. coming up on "today in the bay" a looming battle. the debate over google's mega campus in downtown san jose hits the courtroom. why this time the battle centers around whether the whole deal is in or out. plus the entire bay area news team staying on top of the breaking news out of gilroy, the mass shooting at the gilroy garlic festival. we're posting updates on media. follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram.
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including a 6-year-old child. the gunman was also eventually killed by police as well. witnesses have said there may be a second suspect, but it's unclear that person's involvement is any in the mass shooting. we'll continue to follow and give you the latest developments. 5:24 right now. nearly three months after it started, closing arguments set to begin this morning in the ghost ship warehouse fire trial. derek almena and max harris face 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, one count for each person who died in the 2016 fire. prosecutors say the pair violated terms of the building's lease and did not have important fire safeguards in place. defense attorneys allege that the fire was an act of arson, and something harris and almena couldn't have prevented. both sides rested their case two weeks ago. seven people are under arrest in connection to a nightclub shooting on the peninsula. here is a look at those suspects. six of them are from oakland, the other from orange county. the shooting happened last month outside club shoreview in san mateo.
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fortunately just one bystander suffered minor injuries despite dozens of shots fired. seven people under arrest in connection to a nightclub shooting on the peninsula. here's a look at the suspects, six are from oakland. the other from orange county. i hope to get you those pictures. the shooting however happened last month outside of club shoreview in san mateo. fortunately just one bystander suffered minor injuries despite dozens of fights fired. kaiser permanente workers around the nation and in the bay area begin voting whether or not to authorize a strike. close to 100,000 service workers will vote. if a strike is authorized, it would likely include kaiser bay area facilities workers answer li and begin in october. contract talks are at a standstill. voting is expected to last for more than a month.
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water samples collected near tiburon beaches have shown high bacteria levels for more than two months. signs posted warn visitors to not be in close contact with the water. they say leaking pipes or illegal dumping into storm drains may be to blame. coming up next for you at 5:30, a father's grief. >> my son had his whole life to live and he was only 6. so -- that's all i can say. >> what the family of that 6-year-old boy gunned down at the gilroy garlic festival wants people to know. we're live with team coverage of sunday's deadly shooting rampage. and then at 5:45, a dramatic story unfolding in italy. two bay area teenagers arrested for killing a police officer. an overnight, the community says good-b
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>> you guys, if it looks like i've been crying, i have been crying for two hours. there's an active shooter at the gilroy festival. >> the tragedy among families, one of the victims, a 6-year-old boy. this morning, heart-wrenching stories continue to emerge, as a community is left heartbroken. >> and the heartbreak continues this morning, as people try to figure out why this all happened. right now you're looking at live pictures of the entrance of christmas hill park, that's where that shooting happened yesterday, killing three people. police killing the shooter in this incident there in the park yesterday evening. good morning and thank you for starting your morning here with us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. we'll have continuing coverage of new information coming in from gilroy. in the meantime, we know you want to start your work week as well. welcoming cooling temperatures today. >> yeah, we will have much
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cooler temperatures for the inland parts of the bay area, as we wake up to a beautiful sunrise over the south bay, and we are going to see some cooler temperatures as you get ready to head out the door. in willow glen the upper 50s through 7:00 and then warming up into the mid-70s by early afternoon, with our high temperatures reaching 81 degrees in downtown san jose, and some upper 80s in antioch today. napa reaching 82 degrees. as we head over to our traffic maps, getting you out the door with a look at your overall commute, it looks pretty good but we're starting to see a couple of issues pop up. that's a look at 84 and headed into the bay area. on 680, we're going to see possibly new delay there popping up, but the big problem has been 580 and 205, where there's a sig alert. there was a big rig crash, and there's a big backup coming out of the central valley, into the tri-valley. if you have someone coming in on westbound 580, it may take a long time, it may not be until
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8:00 to when they can get this cleared up, and get this road flowing again. so we'll continue to track that, and also a look at that cooldown in the weekend forecast, that's coming up in about six minutes. >> thank you, kari. 5:32 and that breaking news that we have been talking about all morning long, that shooting that happened yesterday, the deadly shooting at gilroy garlic festival. >> simply tragic. it all started a little bit before 6:00 last night at christmas hill park, where the festival had been held for decades. here is the very latest. three people dead, including a 6-year-old boy, and we just got an update from police, the number of injured now 12. the gunman was also killed. he has not been identified. >> and witnesses talked about a possible second person involved, but authorities are still trying to sort that out. police did respond to that shooting in less than one minute. they scheduled an update that's going to come up for us at 10:00 this morning. bob redell there live at the
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scene this morning and has more on the people's experience as they were dealing with all of this as it happened. >> we have team coverage of the shooting. ali wolf has the details on the youngest victim. but let's start out with bob redell who you mentioned at the scene. he has more on what people experienced. bob? >> reporter: laura and marcus, one man who was here at christmas hill park behind me in gilroy says that what he witnessed yesterday was horrifying and when he first saw the gunman, he said he knew that he was ready to do some damage. those were his words. his name is ryan wallace, we're talking about the witness. he's from auburn, he was running the rock climbing equipment for the children here. he thought the first shots were fireworks. then he spotted the gunman, says he was wearing a vest, a long sleeved tactical shirt, cargo pants, boots and he said he just put his gun up and started spraying rounds all over the place. wallace wanted to run but he felt responsible for those children on his rock climbing gym. >> one of the kids equipment and we had half of them up there, and so i was pulling them out, trying to get them out.
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instincts kicked in, get the kids out and be safe. that was all i could really think of doing. just kind of trying to decipher everything out in my head. >> reporter: yeah, what do you do now? >> exactly. you just got to have your friends, decompression, make sure you got your loved ones. >> reporter: ryan wallace eventually ran and hid under a trail we are some of the other vendors. they obviously came out once they knew the scene was safe for them and they weren't hurt. within a minute of the shooting gilroy police say their officers shot and killed that suspect. coming up at 6:00 in about a half hour i'll have the brief exchange of words between another witness and that shooter. reporting live here in gilroy, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, thanks so much for that update. one of those three people killed by that gunman, a 6-year-old boy. >> it's so sad. stephen romo row was killed and two other family members of his family were also shot. nbc bay area's ali wolf live at gilroy police headquarters with more from the boy's father.
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ali? >> reporter: law va, so heartbreaking to think about, a 6-year-old, so young. his life cut short while atenning a family-friendly festival on a sunday evening, early in the evening. stephen romo row's father tells us he actually found out about the shooting from a frantic phone call from his wife. stephen's mother had also been shot and he also tells us that the grandmother, stephen's grandmother was shot as well, really tragic to have three members of this family shot and of course, the youngest killed in this shooting. now, this is all according to alberto romo row who reached out to be nbc bay area and shared photos of stephen with us. he said his son had turned 6 this summer, calls him a happy boy who had his whole life ahead of him. he was at the garlic festival yesterday with his mother and grandmother when they were all shot near the end of the final day and we told you alberto found out about this shooting from a phone call from his wife.
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take a listen to what he had to say. >> she knows, she was here earlier when they told us, but they took her, they made her leave. >> reporter: and he was still in shock when he spoke to us last night. stephen romo row died last night at st. luis hospital. alberto romero tells us his wife was shot in her hand and he believes his mother-in-law, stephen's grandmother, was shot in her leg. they were taken to a different hospital in san jose to get treated for their injuries. we don't know much else about the other two people who were killed in this shooting. hopefully we do learn more throughout the day, but just really tragic all around. coming up at 6:00, in the next half hour, we'll have more from that interview with stephen romo row's father. for now we're live in gilroy, ali wolf for "today in the bay." >> so tragic, so sad. thank you, ali. police there still at the scene this morning, and now the fbi agents as well are getting
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involved. we are expecting another news conference at 10:00 this morning, which we will bring it to you live on air as it happens. stay with nbc bay area for the latest updates. of course, you can always find the latest on our website, nbcbayarea.com. 5:37. we want to get a look at weather and traffic together. kari hall pulling double duty this morning. >> yes, we can get an overall view of the traffic maps this morning, as you get ready to head out on the road. we are seeing overall a pretty good flow of traffic, but we've had a big problem this morning, coming out of the san joaquin valley on wound 580. we've seen where it meets up at 205. there was a big rig crash and then there was a fuel leak, so that's caused significant delays and it may not be until 8:00 when they get this cleaned up, so i think the morning commute is really going to be a big problem there, coming out of tracy, and in the bay area, your bridge drive times on westbound 80 looks like it will be at about 13 minutes, and westbound on 92 to the san mateo bridge,
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at about 12 minutes there, everything else is flowing smoothly, and then also the bridge drive times from westbound 80 on the bay bridge, about 13 minutes right now at this point in the tri-valley, where we've seen the biggest backups. once again the problem on westbound 580. so from grant line road to 680, we are going to see about a 25-minute delay and so we are also seeing some more of those delays starting to stack up, but everything is looking good on mass transit, so if you're getting ready to head out the door, catching b.a.r.t. or the ace train, that may be a better issue -- a better alternative to driving this morning, as you move into the bay area to get this work week started. >> there you go. in the meantime a little bit cooler today than it was over the weekend. >> much cooler today, and then as we go into the weekend, it's going to start to warm up a few more degrees, so we are going to see our temperatures from the mid 80s to the low 90s as we get closer to saturday and sunday,
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some low 90s, but it won't be as hot as this past weekend so that's the good news there, as we check out san francisco, we're going to see san francisco staying in the 60s and then about 70 degrees on sunday. if you're thinking of going to santa cruz this weekend, looks like a nice one. it will reach into the low 70s by saturday and sunday. we're just seeing a few clouds here and there, and highs reaching up to 74. in the squaw valley area, parts of the sierra looks perfect. mostly sunny skies, 76 degrees for friday, and then up to 80 degrees on sunday, and if you're making plans to go to napa valley this weekend, it will be warm, reaching the upper 80s all weekend long. we'll talk about what's going on today with our forecast and another look at traffic coming up in about three minutes. >>ing looking forward to it, kari. it is 5:39. coming up next on "today in the bay" a look at the rest of this morning's top headlines including new overnight a funeral in italy for the police officer allegedly killed by two north bay teenagers. up next, a live report from mill
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times across the bay area, looks good but we've got a big issue for drivers coming out of the central valley into the bay area. so i'll talk more about that in your full traffic report coming up in about five minutes. >> thanks, kari. 5:43 right now. back to our breaking news, the shooting rampage at the gilroy garlic festival, we're hearing from witnesses who were inside the festival during those terrifying moments. patrice wallace, one of them, was actually saying she was getting a sandwich from a vendor when she heard the gunshots. >> she ran with her 4-year-old and her husband to safety. they were hiding in a trailer, then this happened. >> we stayed in the trailer. we were screaming, we were praying, we were doing everything, and so it stopped, so we thought after a while it had stopped, it was safe to come out. as soon as we tried to come out of the trailer, there were more rounds fired. so we went right back into the trailer and we stayed there until it absolutely stopped.
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once it stopped, again, we get out of the trailer. i go outside of the trailer, and there was a guy standing there one of the vendors, and he said "ma'am, you have a 4-year-old baby, the girl right there. please turn around and don't let her see this. there's a little boy coming. i don't want to you see it," but i couldn't turn away but i turned my baby girl away, and as i'm looking, i see this baby boy that's about the same age as my daughter. >> just tough, tough to listen to. wauh's two other children ran to safety in another part of the park. thanks to uber that family was later reunited at a shopping center. tweeting out right as he got the news? >> we're talking about washington's reaction this morning to what happened in gilroy, and indeed president trump did tweet out right as he got the news let's take a look
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at this, "law enforcement at the scene of the shootings in gilroy, california. reports are shooter has not been apprehended. be careful and safe." police are looking for a possible second person that may have been involved. the governor says "this is nothing short of horrific. tonight california stands with the gilroy community. my office monitoring the situation closely. grateful for law enforcement efforts and their continued work as this situation develops." california's senator willie harris using much the same language as the governor, "simply who are riching. i'm grateful to the first responders on the scene in gilroy. my thoughts are with the community tonight. our country has a gun violence epidemic that we cannot tolerate." laura? >> thank you very much. still such an active story right now. we are expecting to learn more information at a news conference that is scheduled for 10:00 this morning. we're going to bring that to you live on the air as it happens. stay with nbc bay area for the latest updates. also find the very latest info
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on our website. >> 5:45. we're following developing story from the north bay, spanning across the atlantic ocean. two recent high school graduates are in custody in italy >> they're accused in the deadly stabbing of a police officer. "today in the bay's" pete suratos joins us live in mill valley outside the school where those students both attended. pete? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura and marcus. the funeral for the officer taking place in italy this morning. we have new video to show you of that funeral taking place near that officer's hometown of naples. the officer killed was police officer mario rega, taking place at the same church he was married at last month. the latest info we get from italian authorities, they say 19-year-old finnegan lee elder and 18-year-old gabriel hjorth, alumni from tamalpais tried to ex-court cocaine from an italian
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man they claimed ripped them off at a drug deal. plain clothed police officers arrived, italian police say they struggled with officers when rega was stabbed and killed. police say the two bay area men ran back to their hotel, packed their bags and were ready to leave the country before they were arrested. but this isn't the only investigation that's under way. i want to show you some pictures that are emerging showing hjorth blind-folded and handcuffed being interrogated by police in italy. italian police quickly responding to all of this saying they distance itself from the release and disclosure from the photos and carrying out an investigation as we speak into this matter. now as both of these investigations play out, neighbors from one of the suspects had this to say. >> i've never seen them violent. i've never seen him so much as push or hit anybody or yell. i've never heard them yell. >> reporter: now police documents say the pair confessed to the stabbing but blamed each
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other during the interrogation and under italian law, anyone who participates in the killing can be charged with murder but the two north bay men will remain in kcustody until a preliminary investigation is complete. we're live here in mill valley, pete suratos for "today in the bay." >> all right, interesting case there. thank you, pete. 5:48 right now. taking a look at other news, if you missed it over the weekend, baltimore, maryland, the latest target of president trump twitter attacks and people are responding. the president calling baltimore a "digusting rodent and rat-infested mess." he said it after congressman elijah cummings on conditions at the border detention centers. the president said cummings is too interested in the impeachment and mueller investigation instead of his own backyard. some including house speaker nancy pelosi accuse the president of racism. trump accuses cummings of racism. here's what people in baltimore
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are saying. >> we've got some rats but not big a rat as in d.c. >> as much as it hurts to hear things about our city we love and cherish dearly, our city is in need for help. >> cummings responded to the president saying he wakes up every day fighting for his neighbors. former president obama and his wife michelle are also tweeting support for cummings. in just a few hours, immigration advocates plan to file a legal claim against daly city for violating california's sanctuary state law. this is video from may, when jose armando escobar lopez was detained by police and handed over to i.c.e. agents. according to the asian law caucus attorneys he was stopped for a traffic violation. they say it raises questions about the way officers handled the stop. >> if there was a traffic concern, he should be in traffic court, not in immigration detention. >> the city council launched an investigation of the case. last week passed a resolution supporting the immigration
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community in the city. police chief says that he's issued an order barring any cooperation with i.c.e. without his direct review. escobar's attorney says he wants the city to advocate directly to i.c.e. for his release. 5:50 right now. i think most people will enjoy a little bit of cooling trend coming to the bay area today. >> it will be nice to let the air conditioning get a rest for a little while. >> and the bill. >> yes, the bill, we really need a break from that. as we take a live look outside in san francisco this morning, it's going to be foggy this start, but there will be some clearing as we go throughout the day. if you're about to head out the door headed to the pleasant hill b.a.r.t. station, expect some temperatures to be in the low 60s, and the seven-day forecast is already up at the bottom of the screen, as we see our temperatures go from 62 to 72 at 11:00 and 75 degrees at noon, so you will want to take a lunch outside. it will start to warm up in some spots like antioch, but at least we're coming out of the triple-digits like we had
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yesterday afternoon. morgan hill will see a high of 87, and 70 in oakland, and 82, that will be the high in napa today. what's happening here? we have high pressure that's been over the desert southwest, and building some heat for the bay area, but that's going to start to move away, and allow for a storm system that will move in from the pacific northwest, and it will bring in some rain for seattle and over toward portland but for us, the stronger ocean breeze and more fog that will cool us off even in the valleys from today through friday. that's good news there as we look at our seven-day forecast. some of our warmer spots reaching the mid 80s and lower 80s tomorrow. we'll see a lot of 70s. in san francisco expect some mid-60s for today. it will be windy as the skies clear but each day as we go throughout the week we will see at times some clouds and fog to start, and then sunshine for the afternoon. as you get ready to head out the door, we've seen a big backup coming into the tri-valley, but
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it looks like once you get to dublin, everything is flowing pretty well. let's look at our traffic maps. we've had a couple of issues. the first one is a big rig crash at 205 and 580 westbound, but then we've also seen a minor issue coming out 680 headed westbound into fremont, and as we get a look at the big backup coming from mountain house from tracy in to livermore, we still see a lot of red sensors here, a sig alert because of that crash and now a fuel leak that they're having to clean up. it may be another couple of hours before they're able to get that spot cleaned up. we also have a crash investigation westbound 680 once again that's causing a bit of a slowdown coming out of sunol. for mass transit, so far we have no delays reported. so that's the good news there as you get ready to head out the door and we also have our peninsula drive times southbound 101 from van ness avenue to sfo about 12 minutes and everything flowing well on 101 throughout
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the peninsula. we'll get a look at the weather and traffic that's coming up again in about seven minutes. >> all right, looking forward to that, kari. happening now, a sweltering heat wave is giving parts of canada the temperature outside toronto city hall yesterday topped 100 degrees. experts are warning people the hot and humid weather may push air quality to high-risk levels and also suggesting children, pregnant women and people working outdoors make and take extra precaution. 5:53 right now. next and new this hour, your iphone is recording and apple is listening at least according to a new report. the people who may be hearing your private conversations. you're watching "today in the bay." we are here to discuss jessie's online time.
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welcome back. our entire bay area news team staying on top of the breaking news of the shooting rampage at the gilroy garlic festival. we're posting updates on social media. follow us on facebook, twitter and instagram. it is a make or break week for thousands of recent law school grads preparing to take the state bar exam. >> suddenly a mistake by the state bar is throwing everything up in the air. last thursday, the bar inadvertently leaked to 16 law school deans a list of general
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exam essay questions. after realizing that mistake on saturday, it sent an email to the test takers apologizing for the confusion. the email gave them the same information about those essay topics. some experts now feel that this round of test takers have an unfair advantage. >> the people that have a real gripe here are those that have h failed the bar exam in the past because they did not have this type of advantage, because the bar exam was always something that you had to study very heavily for, and it's a very difficult exam, and having the topics prior to the test certainly makes it much easier. >> people who are going to take the test also are furious. they say it's unfair, especially for people who have spent months and months studying while other test takers have procrastinated. new for you today, privacy advocates are asking hey, apple, are you listening to siri's requests?
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apple is not really denying this. the concern from a new report by "the guardian" which spoke to a whistle-blower. they say apple contractors frequently hear all sorts of confidential details while providing quality control. it comes through the grading of the recordings that sample siri exchanges. apple is not denying the claim but does say that only a tiny fraction of siri exchanges are ever heard, and siri requests are not tied to any specific user i.d. 5:58 right now. new research finds that floors, beds and sports cause the majority of brain injuries in kids and teens. >> researchers looked at four years of emergency room records from 66 hospitals. they found 72% of non-fatal brain injuries in young people were linked to consumer products, falls caused by uneven floors, beds and stairs were the most common injuries among kids
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under the age of 10. old he were children were most likely to suffer head trauma while playing football, basketball or soccer. 5:58 right now. what began more than a decade ago with just a single listing in san francisco exploded in more than 6 million rentals worldwide. talking about airbnb. >> senior investigative reporter bigad shaban has been looking into the problem now sitting on the company's doorstep. >> reporter: good morning. you know, some are trying to use the popular home sharing site to turn their apartment into pretty much a full-time hotel. and they're getting away with it by taking advantage of a loophole to skirt city law. >> i just think there needs to be more resources put towards regulating it and monitoring it. if people, if there is that much fraud there has to be more oversight. >> reporter: airbnb says it's complying with current laws. what needs to change to reduce the number of illegal rentals in a town where affordable housing is already at a premium?
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we'll tell you what the mayor's office now plans to do about it, that story tonight at 11:00. right now at 6:00, deadly gunfire at the gilroy garlic festival. [ gunfire ] breaking news, panic, terror, and tragedy, a gunman opening fire on the gilroy garlic festival, sending dozens running for cover. >> he had vest on, long sleeve, tactical shirt, cargo pants, boots. he was ready to do some damage. >> reporter: this morning, the victims. >> my son had his whole life to live and he was only 6. >> reporter: the overnight search for the shooter's motive, as we hear for the first time from first responders who rushed to the scene. >> we have an active shooter at the garlic festival. >> we have several victims down. >> we'll continue to have the very latest. thank you so much for joining us. good morning. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. rit
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