dada! i wish... get hefty® ultra strong™ costs less than glad® forceflex where sold head to head. breaking news out of the south bay. two people dead after a wrong-way crash on highway 85. it is horrific. >> it really is. "today in the bay's" bob redell just arrived on the scene in mountain view. i understand you spoke to chp, bob. >> laura and scott, all northbound lanes of highway 85 are shut down here at central, so we're going to have you getting off at evelyn while they try to clear the scene here. the two vehicles, the vehicle in the back that's burned, that's the suv, that was the wrong-way driver and as you can see right now the fire department's trying to remove the body of that person. unfortunately another driver in this sedan right here that was a man also killed during this head-onlirivi

was drunk or something else was going on. there are two other people who witnessed this wrong-way driver as they were headed north watching this driver head south, but their phone calls to 911 didn't come in until unfortunately after this fatal head-on collision behind me. you can hear the sound as the fire department is using a saw to try to cut through the metal of that suv, trying to remove that one body of the person who was the wrong-way driver while the other one has been removed. the estimated time of reopening is 6:00, though the sergeant told me that was, he was trying to be conservative, maybe they'd have this open a little bit sooner, so again, northbound 85 you're told to get off at evelyn in mountain view until the scene is cleared. reporting live in mountain view. >> he was live in mountain view. you just saw the horrific mass of metal there, must have been a

been monitoring this as well with the maps. this is going to be a huge problem. it's a tragedy and a huge problem. >> tragedy, we follow back to the practical traffic aspect. these photos off instagram by fire associates santa clara valley. they provide help, relief for the folks out to major incidents like this, they sent this so we can use it, all of the crews on scene, you saw the activity with bob and the horrible scene behind him with the two cars hit head-on northbound 85 shut down. we'll give you a locator, at the border of sunnyvale and mountain view. folks already grumbling about it either way. north 85 is shut down right there just before you get to highway 101 so coming out of cupertino for example, north 85 is closed atelyn. if you get off evelyn, take central expressway to shoreline, city streets, minbound 101. right now everything should move smoothly, use caution.

there are signals, surface streets getting you past shoreline, the am tee theater and google, linkedin, taking you back to highway 101. the rest of the freeway is moving smoothly. we'll track the expressway with bob. the commute moves smoothly. kari, we have a heatup going on today. >> that's the other big storier for us, we are under a heat advisory that starts at 11:00, for all the areas shaded in orange which also includes san francisco. we'll see some coastal areas warming up. a live look in san jose as you get ready to head out n carp bell the mid-60s to the mid 80s by noon. we'll continue to track the temperatures. another update coming in a few minutes. people living south of salinas may have felt the shaking after two small quakes a few hours apart. the most recent a 3.8 around midnight. a few hours about that 3.4.

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the debate with the democratic supporters in san francisco. >> automatically enrolled. >> reporter: as the front-runner in the polls, former vice president joe biden is often the target of his fellow presidential candidates, julian castro, president obama's former secretary of housing and urban development took aim at biden's health care plan and a bit more. >> you do not have to buy that. >> you said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. >> can't afford it. >> you said they have to buy in. >> if you qualify for medicaid, it's automatically enforced. >> did you forget? >> reporter: in the mission where we watched the debate reacted pretty much the same as the audience in houston and there were plenty of other swings, longer answers and rebuttals during the three-hour debate, the candidates looking for the extra time to give them some traction on the campaign trail. this is mayor president president taking on president ld china. >> when i first got into the race president trump scoffed and said he'd like to see me making

a deal with xi inpenning. i'd like to see him make a deal. is it just me or was that supposed to happen in april. >> in odessa and midland there weren't enough answers to get to them in time. hell yes we're going to take your ar-15s and ak-47s. >> reporter: vice president joe biden's name came up the most for audience members which skewed kind of young and that wasn't necessarily a good thing for him. >> didn't give me anything. i feel a lot of people in my age group of critical of him and i was hoping to see him, restore my faith in him. >> i think he did very well to highlight he's from a generation that needs to hand the baton on to the next. >> reporter: sergio quintana, showing a burglary attempt in pleasanton wednesday morning. bam, you see that man, look at him kick the front door. he did it several times until it eventually opened while the

homeowner was upstairs in the shower. the kicking door didn't realize anybody was there. the homeowner started screaming and he took wrapped myself in a towel, again, just yelling as loud as i could, because i didn't know what was going on. >> quite frightening. the thief ran into a nearby car, drove away from the scene. police are now working a few leads. amtrak services back to normal this morning after a train struck and killed two men last night on the tracks in berkeley, about 8:00 p.m. near second street and university avenue. we don't know why they were on the tracks or why neither were able to escape an oncoming train. union pacific says normal train service resumed before 1:00 a.m. if you have friends checking out the bay area site, brace them. san francisco cable cars will be out of service. crews will be doing repair work on the 20 ton gear boxes, who move the cable cars along san

francisco's steep hills. tourists were caught by surprise yesterday the powell street turnaround. >> decided to leave our hearts find out that we we would h couldn't ride the beautiful cable cars. >> for the many tourists who no doubt will be caught off guard, buses will run along the same line. i know, it's not the same. ding, ding! the buses won't stop at the cable car boarding areas but nearby bus stopses, where buses stop which we're guessing is not quite the same experience. >> we don't have any more so sourdough for a couple things, wonder bread, though. coming up on "today in the bay," what the american top ceos are saying about president trump's trade war with china, the result of a new cnbc survey coming up next. plus reporting real news, the adjustments google and facebook are making to make original reporting stand out.

breaking news on this thursday morning, if you are just waking up, there has been a horrific crash on northbound 85 in mountain view. >> that's right, for this friday morning, it's very bad. >> friday, yes. >> "today in the bay's" bob redell joins us this morning. he arrived on the scene and he spoke to chp. >> reporter: i this of course involved a wrong-way driver as we've been talking about all morning long and the chp sergeant they haven't been able to determine this yet but

are telling us, this is not a surprise to anyone, usually wrong-way drivers are drivers under the influence, trying to get the message out if you are going to be drinking, please designate a driver or take an uber or taxi cab. what happened is you have that suv that's in the background, that was the wrong-way driver. they collided with the honda civic that's in the foreground and when that happened, when that collision happened, the suv caught fire. the wrong-way driver is dead and they're trying to retrieve his or her body, it's not clear what geriver of thisg this collision. we got some information on that driver, 35-year-old man from amer don't have their identity. this accident happened a little bit before 1:00 this morning. there were a couple of calls to 911 just after the accident, they had seen the wrong-way driver. unfortunately the calls came in after the accident were not as much use as far as preventing

this from happening. northbound highway 85 shut down just before evelyn, at evelyn and their estimated time reopening by 6:00. reporting live in mountain view, bob redell, "today in the bay" >> thank you very much, bob. going to be quite a traffic backup in that area as well. mike is looking at work-arounds for you. and coming up, kari hall has our weather. >> a microclimate weather alert due to a heat advisory. walnut creek starts out mild and gets really hot fairly quickly today. we'll get a look at all of our microclimates and how hot is gets, coming up next.

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welcome back, everyone. we continue to monitor breaking news that is happening northbound 85 this morning. there's been a really bad head-on collision there. we want to check in with mike inouye because he's monitoring now the work-arounds. two people died in this. >> you can see from the scene, guys, this is on northbound 85, this video taken is showing you the damage, two vehicles head-on crash, one was going the wrong way on the highway. another, folks were able to see it, a few called it in but wasn't notified to chp in time to stop this from happening, the fiery crash there, shutting in down as you said, laura, northbound 85, as you're exiting sunnyvale and into mountain view on the northbound side. let's take you to the maps. here is silicon valley. san jose is over here.

too early for traffic to be an issue as far as the volume but over here the circle coming up in cupertino, sunnyvale and at the border you're forced off the freeway at evelyn because of that scene you just saw. evelyn will take you to central expressway over there via castro, over near downtown moun day view, not too far away. taking central expressway continuing toward shoreline taking you past google, linkedin and amphitheter, take you to highway 85. central expressway to shoreline boulevard back on to north 101, there's moffitt as a locator for folks issue is getting through the scene live from that location. wreckage. bob continues to follow that the rest of the bay has a light flow of traffic, a minor crash on the shoulder west 580 coming in touend a smooth drive forost. we have a disabled vehicle major problems. reported around powell, we have more detail from the chp, but nothing as significant as that

full closure and the deadly crash on north 85. now what's going on over here at the bay bridge toll plaza, we also have the backup. the cash lanes typical over there, so both sides with some slowing, we don't have anything major. it's friday, we expect the lighter volume, the closure of north 85 is causing quite an issue, hopefully clearing, kari, before 6:00 a.m. >> as we get ready to head out the door a live look in san francisco. we see all clear skies and we have another spare the air alert day as we are going to see some of the smoke drifting in from the north bay and also for the inland east bay and into the south bay. and then here is a live look outside in san jose, we're headed over to campbell to check out our temperature trend, we'll be in the mid-60s to start and going into the mid 80s. now our normal high temperature is about 81 degrees and we'll be above that before we get to lunch. as we go through our afternoon high temperatures we're reaching over 100 degrees for the south county, morgan hill up to 101

degrees. milpitas 98 and for the east bay, a lot of triple digits here reaching 102 in antioch, 101 in walnut creek. oakland today reaching 91 degrees. half moon bay 77, and 92 in san mateo. notice in san francisco we'll have some upper 80s, wouldn't be surprised to see a few low 90s. be aware it is going to be very hot especially if you don't have air conditioning today and then reaching 99 degrees in novato as well as napa. as we go into the next several days, big changes ahead. we have several storm systems moving into the pacific northwest, and we are seeing some high pressure starting to move in, but then by the end of the weekend, that high pressure moves out of here, and there will be an approaching storm system that looks to give the bay area a slight chance of rain on monday morning, starting out in the north bay, and then continuing to kind of fizzle out as it makes its way across the rest of the bay area, but once again, a chance of showers in

the forecast on monday, especially for the north bay. so we're going from some dangerous heat to temperatures starting to back off on sunday, and then more clouds and a slight chance of showers on monday, highs in the mid-70s and we're going right back up by the end of next week, while san francisco has some high temperatures today, feeling much nicer going into the weekend. i'll continue to track that and the high heat coming up in the forecast, in a few more minutes. >> all right, we'll check back with you. thanks so much, kari. 4:50. one man's recovering from burns after a chaotic confrontation outside of a liquor store, happened on meadow lane in concord. the man was of fight with several accidentally himself. police believe he may have somehow unintentionally set himself on fire. we spoke with a neighbor who do. >> he was basically clotheless,

his clothes were on fire, burnt. >> the man suffered severe burns. police say are not life-threatening. right now they're not saying anything about arrests but the investigation continues. 4:51 on your friday morning, elevated e. coli levels found in part of the american river, popular among swimmers. the "sacramento bee" found the highest levels along the lower stretch of the river and in the city near where it meets the sacramento river. that area has a high homeless population. human waste is thought to be the big contributor. "the bee" saysune ceeded federa antate standards, but the city has not issued any warning yet. >> 4:51. at the state capitol, lawmakers are looking to tighten rules about kids using social media. senators passed a bill for students to receive consent from a child's parent before creating

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time like when our "nbc bay area responds" team helped the tse family in oakland, having trouble with a hospital bill, 790 bucks on the line. we got it back for them. and over at telemundo 48 consumer investigator arlen fernandez helped someone in oakland, it was manor, his car was totalled in a crash but his insurance company didn't send the $3,100 payment until arlen stepped in. if you aren't getting anywhere, spanish 844-408-4848. >> thanks so much. so much. coming up next on "today in deadly " the latest on the crash on highway 85 in mountain view. mike is tracking it all for us. >> there it is, the activity, the reason why it's closed, traveling north, sunnyvale

through mountain view. you cannot access that using 85. we'll give you the alternate and talk about the progress. it does look like that flatbed tow truck is getting ready to move one of the vehicles. we'll know more about what exactly happened coming up. parts of the bay area under a microclimate weather alert with some very hot temperatures headed our way. in concord we're up to 91 degrees at noon. we'll get a look at all of our microclimates coming up. you're watching "today in the bay."

breaking news this hour out of the south bay, two people are dead after a horrific wrong-way crash on 85. >> "today in the bay's" bob redell just arrived on the scene, mountain view, he's been there about half an hour there, shortly after it happened. anything new, bob? >> reporter: well they're almost about to remove the other body. we're trying to have the road here northbound highway 85 at evelyn reopened by 6:00 but it could be sooner. two people are dead unfortunately as a result of a wrong-way driver, the wrong-way driver a white car, suv, used to be a redford suv colliding with this black honda civic, this happened around 1:00 this mo