housing pledge. "today in the bay" continues right no a very good now wednesday thanks so much, for starting your day with us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we'll get to the morning commute in a bit. first we want to talk about the weather, we'll experience high winds today as well as hotter temperatures. >> and the low humidity, that combination makes for a high fire danger as we start to see winds coming from the north and northeast. as we go through the day we could see some gusts reaching over 60 miles per hour, especially in the higher elevations, so we are going to have this high fire danger for not only the north bay, but the east bay as well as the santa cruz mountains. this starts at noon, as we get the low humidity, and that very dry air. we'll talk about the temperatures also in the 90s in the forecast coming up. mike, some folks are heading out to work a little early. >> for a wednesday, kari. we're seeing the fastrak lanes build in. we saw the left cashanes building over the last 15 minutes. what may be happening, some

folks may be planning to go to work today and see how the outages go. that may be the case. we'll see how the morning progresses. there are no major problems getting toward the bay bridge but again the early backup shows coming off of the maze, a smooth drive through contra costa county, and from the north bay, both across the carquinez bridge and the golden gate bridge. no problems through the south bay or peninsula and disabled truck we'll talk about that counter commute, guys, coming up. back to you. >> thanks so much, mike. back to the red flag warning set for later today in the extremely high fire danger, and noon, pg&e will announce exact areas where they will shut off power later today. pg&e says the move just like two weeks ago will prevent downed power lines from starting fires. impacted areas include parts of san mateo, napa, and sonoma counties but the south bay and east bay will not see shutoffs and that doesn't mean people should not stay on alert. bob redell joins us live in walnut creek this morning, talking about some of the

concerns out there. bob? >> reporter: well, we're talking about the red flag warnings that are pretty much throughout the bay area, laura, why firefighters are reminding people you want to have at least 30 feet of defensible space around your home especially if you live in wildland area like walnut creek. the national weather service issued a red flag warning for here in contra costa county and every other county in the bay area, except for san francisco. it starts again this afternoon, runs until tomorrow afternoon. the highest threat of wildfire will be in eastern coco county. the city of berkeley is so concerned about this year's fire season, last week the city council passed a resolution to make fire safety a top priority, and you can understand why. many homes there and other parts of the east bay hills are built so close together on steep terrain, surrounded by lots of vegetation. we saw what happened in 1991,

when 25 people died and 3,000 homes burned, which is why again firefighters are pleading with homeowners to clear the brush from around your home. >> sometim almost think we're doomed, although thank goodness 36 years of living here, we haven't been doomed yet, but it's a lot of it is luck. there's way too many trees, people don't want to trim trees as much as they should. >> it is tricky in the east bay hills because houses are built so close to each other. it's hard to meet the standard of 30 feet that is what people strive for. >> reporter: you'll recall a couple of weeks ago the 50-acre wildfire that burned in the hills behind a gated community not far from here in moraga, firefighters said it could have been disastrous if they didn't sop it in time. police believe a vape pen could have caused that fire because one was found right where the fire started.

reporting live in walnut creek, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks so much, bob. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking this weather system all week, kind of warning us it was coming but you have an in-depth look at what's happening. >> we'll see our winds picking up today because of some high pressure moving in. it's going to force our winds offshore, and then we are going to see our winds coming in especially for the north bay, starting a little bit earlier in the day. at noon we're seeing clearlake and winters and napa seeing 15 to 35 miles per hour. it's going to be even higher for some of the higher elevations, as you go up above 1,000 feet, so our mountains and hills will have some of the higher wind gusts, and then going into this evening, we're still seeing the gustiest winds in the north bay, but then we start to see a little bit coming in to oakland, with winds at 7:30 tomorrow morning, at 31 miles per hour in the oakland hills, as well as san francisco, blowing off the shore, half moon bay at about 25 to 30 miles per hour.

then as we go into tomorrow evening, we start to see the wind shift and we also see conditions calming down. we have a pretty big window here of some very low humidity. this shows our hour by hour, and the humidity and percentage, the relative humidity, when it gets below 15%, even 20%, that's very dry air, and so you get a spark, very low humidity, and some high winds and any fires could spread very quickly, going into the next 24 to 28 hours, so this is the time frame we're watching for this high fire danger, and we'll have more updates all throughout the day. marcus and laura? >> thanks so much, kari. nbcbayarea.com and our app is your source for the very latest on the possible outages. we'll stream pg&e's noon power outage announcement on all of our digital platforms. >> tomorrow we'll start the show early for you to get you ready with the day. it's going to start tomorrow morning, that's thursday at 4:00

a.m. 5:05 for you right now. breaking news in hong kong, where a highly unpopular extradition bill has now been formally scrapped. the plan sparked months of chaotic protests that have since morphed into a campaign for greater democratic change. hong kong's security secretary today announcing a formal withdrawal of the bill, but as pro democracy lawmakers tried to question him, he refused to respond. also breaking right now, a horrible story emerging in southern england where 39 people have been found dead in a locked big rig trailer. all the bodies are believed to be those of bulgarian immigrants. authorities say the truck came from ireland and entered the country on saturday. ambulance workers discovered it. a 25-year-old man from northern ireland is now in custody, accused of driving the truck and transporting the victims. british prime minister boris johnson pledged in a tweet to work closely with essex police

to establish exactly what happened. classes resume today at ridgeway high school in santa rosa, where a shooting yesterday injured one student and prompted a lockdown. it all unfolded yesterday morning, when police arrived, they found the teenaged suspect in a classroom. later, they determined the 16-year-old victim drove himself to the hospital, despite suffering two gunshot wounds. he is said to be in stable condition. police say the gun has not yet been found and they believe it may have been shoved into a student's backpack. the south bay is getting a major funding boost for affordable housing, from a voter approved bond, and from a major tech company. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez joins us live from san jose with one project that will add nearly 200 units, kris. >> reporter: hi there, marcus. not much so look at now, just a chain-link fence but the open ar is soon going to be a development for folks in the low income scale in the city of san

jose. now the santa clara county voted to spend $33 million on two more developments, about half of the funds come from the housing bond that santa clara county voters passed a few years ago, so your tax dollars at work, and then about half come from the state housing and community development no place like home program. one development is here and the other at gallop and mesa. the county is on track with its control of creating 4800 units of housing by december of 2027. >> i'm just as happy to have a low income affordable housing here as to have market rates. >> reporter: why? >> because we need something on the site and we need people to have a place to live and t homeless need a place to live as well as anybody else. >> reporter: at least here we have neighbors showing some support. yesterday facebook pledged to

spend a billion dollars over the next ten years of san jose the social media giant says this will help develop 20,000 units of housing, they say will help teachers, nurses, first responders live a little closer to where they work. back in june, you might remember that google also pledged a billion dollars toward affordable housing, and helping with the homelessness crisis. in san jose, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." right now it's 5:09. we are under a microclimate weather alert. we are expecting a high fire danger today. it will be hot and dry in the hills, we could see gusts up to 60 miles per hour, with winds peaking tonight through tomorrow morning. we do have red flag warnings across the bay area, and then the winds start to decrease on friday, but let's go through these temperatures for today, and all of our microclimates at 9:00, we're mostly still in the 60s, anything outdoors you want to make sure you get it done or if you're clearing that defensible space around your house, try to get out there early in the day, before it

heats up, and the winds increase. at noon we're seeing already some mid 80s in napa, some upper 70s in san jose. we're headed into the upper 80s and even a few low 90s and then as we go into 7:00, we're still going to have some gusty winds, and some very dry air, with these temperatures in the low 80s in concord. so we'll talk more about what's ahead, as w look at our east bay temperature trend, but mike, you're saying the traffic is taking a break on the peninsula. >> taking a break and getting back to traffic and taking another break, as they clear the crews, finishing up their day. we just missed this backup, sorry, not crash, backup approaching willow where you see the lights on the overcrossing now, continued changes for the project adding the express lanes through the area. we see a smooth drive on the speed sensors around the bay but watch for the road crews as between now and 6:30 you'll see them moving from the area. moving from the roadway eastbound 580 that disabled big rig i was going to tell you about is gone as you approach greenville. great news, counter commute and

your commute westbound is not a problem. this commute getting toward the bay bridge look at the speeds, close to the limit, for all of your approaches including the top number the east shore freeway, you get toward the bay bridge looks, i want to get back to the live shot because we see things sorting themselves out for the typical pattern for the fastrak lanes and approach. >> 5:11. still ahead on "today in the bay" a possible shakeup coming to one contra costa county, ahead at 5:25, the reason half of richmond city council may need to step down. you think you have a tough wednesday ahead, be glad you're not mark zuckerberg. he may have pledged $1 billion yesterday, today he has a tough day ahead. cringe-worthy moments playing out live on local sacramento tv, what this reporter did to a couple of classic cars that got him fired. it's a must watch. you don't want to miss that. we'll have it for you when we come back. ouch. you're watching "today in the bay" been. >> tt hurt. tv just keeps getting better.

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good wednesday morning. right now at 5:14, we are under a microclimate weather alert. hot temperatures moving in today, along with gusty winds and a high fire danger. in fremont, as you head out this morning, expect upper 50s, a mild start to the day, leading into some very warm temperatures. we'll talk about this and what's ahead in the rest of the forecast, coming up in less than five minutes. and the san mateo bridge has a nice easy drive over on your right, the westbound commute, which has not yet kicked in. we have an issue which may be a

factor for your contra costa drive near the walnut creek interchange. we'll show you that coming up. good morning. very happy wednesday to you. tesla reports its profits today. now, we care less about the profits and more about how much cash tesla has on hand, and how many cars it built. the ceo of service now in santa clara john donaho is leaving to become the ceo of nike. they liked john at service now and the stock moved lower on the bad news. today is the day mark zuckerberg will return to congress, talking to the finance services committee ostensibly to talk about lib rah, facebook's new cryptocurrency but i'm going to make that bet that doesn't come up much because members of congress in both parties have all kinds of issues with facebook that have nothing to do as something so obscure as cryptocurren cryptocurrency. also the financial services committee got really smart and direct to the point members, the

chairwoman is california's maxine waters, she's really tough and new york's alexandria owe casio cortez seeing here questioning michael cohen, turned out to be savvy and a prosecutorial questioner. yesterday she asked twitter, hypothetically, if you were, say, a member of congress sitting on the financial services committee given five minutes to question mark zuckerberg, what would you ask? one of her twitter followers answered "ask him, did the russians really pay for their election ads in rubles? really? really? really? repeat until timeexpires." i was talking earlier this week about existing home sales. we got the data and it shows a slowdown and you think that would be good news for buyers, but looking deep into the data, it's not. a more reflection of the lack of homes out there for sale that low supply unfortunately keeps prices high. if you tip your rideshare driver a group of social

scientistists foundenre more likely to tip than women, and the most likely time to get a tip for a driver is early early morning like 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., which they attribute to people on expense accounts getting to the airport and people that are really late who are perhaps a bit more generous after their night of fun. after that men tip more than women thing, here is the possibly tacky side of it, the younger the driver, the woman driver, the more tips she will get from a man. >> we talked about this yesterday. >> we did. >> i always tip. >> i don't always tip. >> sometimes you open up your uber app, remember that ride you took three weeks ago? i don't tip on those but i'm like i don't remember that. >> if they were helpful and did some things but if they drop me off, have a good trip. >> for the record, i don't use uber. lyft. >> okay, there you go. >> there you have it. 5:17, trending this morning,

something you have to listen to, a classic car catastrophe. a former reporter with "good day sacramento" he was fired after getting a lot of criticism from jumping on top of classic cars, 1950s thunderbird and striking a silly pose. >> what was he doing? >> reporter: angel cardenas reporting live from "sunday sacramento" auto show jumped on the hood of the new suv, between that he dinged another car, classic t-bird door. >> look at that. >> according to "sacramento bee" kmax tv fired him. >> those car owners -- >> those are expensive. >> and i mean they're classics. that's amazing. >> you can't just take it to the top, smooth that out for me. >> going to rub it out, that's fine. >> if you don't own the car, don't jump on it. >> oh my gosh. they're not going to let people in to do those anymore. >> that hurts for next year. >> exactly. >> ouch.

>> ouch. >> not like it's on tv, only it was. >> exactly. call his insurance adjuster. >> switching gears for us. >> is it ding weather, kari? >> not so much. >> what is that? >> i have no idea. i have no idea. >> sounded good at the time, right? >> i'm not a meteorologist. >> hopefully no dings going on out there. here is a live look outside in palo alto looking at highway 101. as we are starting out this morning it's clear, nice and quiet. we're going to have a nice start to the day, but then as the day goes along, it starts to heat up and we're going into the upper 70s by early afternoon. we do have a red flag warning that will be in effect starting first in the north bay, beginning at noon, ending tomorrow at 4:00, and we could see some of those mountain gusts at 15 to 20 miles per hour. those are the sustained winds, actually the gusts could reach up to 60 miles per hour in the valleys. we're looking at about 35-mile-per-hour gusts. then for the east bay this afternoon, it begins at 3:00,

and ends tomorrow afternoon, some of those mountains in the east bay could get 30 to 40-mile-per-hour winds, while the valleys will have more of about a 15 to 20-mile-per-hour wind. for the santa cruz mountains, we're going to see this red flag warning starting a little bit later at 7:00, and then we could here see winds mostly at about 10 to 20, gusting up to about 35 miles per hour. not only that, but we're also going to have some very warm temperatures, reaching into the mid to upper 80s today. while this is well above normal, i don't think we'll set any records, a daily high temperature record, but we're going to be very close in some spots like concord, reaching 90 degrees. up to 85 in redwood city. san francisco in the upper 70s, and the north bay reaching up to 93 in santa rosa, and napa. we have a high wind event we're expecting todays well as tomorrow due to a strong offshore wind, as high pressure builds just to our west, and then we're going to see that

moving away, but then a storm system moving in to the pachk northwe pacific northwest drops cooler temperatures and make the winds gust again going into sunday as well as monday. we have two possibly high wind events in the forecast for today, and then again on sunday, but a big change in our temperatures going way downhill, headed into early next week. mike, you have not a ding but a car fire. >> that's right, kari. the winds tomorrow, this is the type of thing that will be extra concerned about but still concerned, the bay bridge backup pretty much back on schedule now, as the build toward the metering lights, is over here southbound 680 approaching 24, just before the interchange i'm told is where the car fire is, no slowing shows up. no lanes reported blocked but we'll track that for an update. i think it's a smoking vehicle but that's a a concern we keep tracking. over here just over 20 minutes as you travel out of brentwood and out of byron for vasco road south toward 580, typical pattern and build.

the altamont pass and 84 typical slowing spots for the tri-valley. south bay and peninsula, no major problems, and you're pretty much at speed, watch the traffic breaks in palo alto. back to you. >> thanks, mike. coming up here on "today in the bay," new details we're learning this morning over the controversial billboard attacking san francisco mayor london breed. what's happening to the billboard, coming up next. and arrest of an oregon state student going viral. the law she allegedly broke that forced state troopers to tackle her down to the ground. you're watching "today in the bay."

5:25, and a controversial billboard many argue attacked san francisco mayor london breed has now been taken down. this is where it once stood south of market. now it's just a blank space. it was put up by a fringe mayoral candidate named ellen zhou and included a cartoon depiction of mayor breed counting money thinking about homeless people. it included the phrase stop slavery and human trafficking in san francisco. there's no word on what exactly led up to it being removed. look at the dramatic video coming out of washington state this morning. this is a river outside of seattle, it's expected to crest today, which they say will lead to major flooding down river in fall city, due to heavy rains and melting mountain snow.

in oregon, two state troopers are accused of excessive force and racial profiling, after stopping an oregon state student for riding her bike on the wrong side of the road. when she questioned why she needed to show her i.d. and refur refused to do so, the troopers arested her. in the body cam video you can see the troopers tackling the student, naacp is outraged and the arrest under investigation. it looks like the city of richmond will be the latest in the bay area to move to district base city council elections, that's what councilmembers indicated last night during the meeting. cities with at-large elections like richmond have faced costly civil rights legal challenges that they've ended up losing. richmond leaders say that rather than fight legal action, they may draw up districts in time for the next election. as a result, up to half of the current council may have to run against each other or step down. today i get to do something pretty cool, this afternoon i

get to help honor women who have made very significant contributions to their communities. it's a great event. i get to emcee the notre dame high school 11th annual women of impact luncheon. it's being held this afternoon at the san jose state convention center. this year's honorees are alumnae and journalist rita beamish and chief legal officer kimrey ves . it's sold out and so great and notre dame puts out some of the most inspirational young ladies. it's amazing to see their growth and development. >> they have the right person emceeing. >> i'm just at the mike. amazing girls there. it's 5:27. coming up next on "today in the bay," top stories we're following for you on this wednesday morning. >> including the wind watch, gusty conditions are just hours away. a live report on school closures and power outages straight

ahead. plus kari hall is tracking conditions. >> we'll start to see winds picking up in the north bay starting at noon today. we can see that areas like clearlake and winters we could see winds already at 30-mile-per-hour gusts. we'll talk more about what's ahead coming up next.

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dangerous temperatures and winds, conditions ripe for fires. microclimate weather alert is in effect this morning, a lot going on. thanks for starting your day with us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. let's keep it going. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking those conditions for us. kari, what can we expect today? >> we are going to have some hot and dry conditions, as you get ready to head out. let's switch it over to our weather maps, as we are going to see some temperatures today reaching into the 90s. our hills will gust 50 to 60 miles per hour, and our winds will peak tonight through tomorrow morning, so that's the time frame, when we will see the potential of any fire spreading more rapidly, as that red flag warning goes into effect. our winds will decrease on friday, but then we take another live look outside in walnut creek, as you get ready to head out the door, we have some mid-50s, reaching into the upper 70s already by noon, it's going to be very warm, with highs in the 90s there. we'll talk more about this coming up and mike you're tracking the roads.

how is it looking? >> bay bridge standard back to our normal pattern. bes we saw an early backup, the bay bridge metering lights on schedule no, problems on the approach. kari showed you the walnut creek camera where the car fire is supposed to be, we took a look and it wasn't blocking lanes or showing smoke. we're watching through hayward, another crash closer to san leandro, we'll get details from chp but the speed sensors look great up and down the peninsula. the south bay shows a build for north 101 through san jose and no major problems other than the fact that something happened to the color but it's yellow, a little slowing through vallecitos and i'll find where the yellow went. back to you. >> thank you. later this morning, pg&e will announce exactly which areas of sonoma, napa and san mateo counties will experience planned power outages. "today in the bay's" pete suratos is live for us in santa rosa. i know pg&e isn't confirming if

power will be turned off but some school leaders already making that decision to close tomorrow, right? >> reporter: good morning to you, marcus. school leaders are making that decision including hidden valley elementary in santa rosa, which is going to close earlier today, and be closed through tomorrow due to the potential power shutoffs in the area. i want to show you a list of the schools in santa rosa, only about a handful of them, about four schools listed there on your screen. of course we mentioned hidden valley elementary. you see the other schools listed there, and these four schools actually close earlier today just before 2:00 p.m. you want to check in with the school district website for information on that. it will remain closed through thursday. the santa rosa unified school district deciding to do this as you mentioned ahead of these potential outages, before pg&e actually confirms if power will be out in the area. this means that afterschool programs will also not be available to students as well. with this potential second power shutoff due to fire danger in the area, this means pokes have

to get prepared all over again. in fact, in santa rosa, you got folks stocking up on supplies, in fact it's a reminder to have supplies on hand such as flashlights, batteries, first aid kits, perishable food and water, have the coolers there as well, in the event of these outages. of course for residents in santa rosa and beyond, just for folks overall impacted by it, it continues to be an adjustment. >> well, due to the previous power outage, we learned that you have to stock up on ice, and if you'd like to cook your food, you need some propane, and coffee maker goes with the power, so you got to get a little coffee if you want to have it in the morning. so just your basics. >> pg&e's website did crash during that first shutoff, and they vowed to upgrade it to better communicate with customers, but when they did test out the more powerful version, it did crash. we'll have to see how that shakes out but the potential power shutoffs could begin as early as 2:00 p.m. today. reporting live, pete suratos for

"today in the bay." >> certainly could be a busy day tomorrow. thank you so much, pete. >> very much so. nbcbayarea.com and our app is your source for the very latest on possible outages. we will stream any power outage announcement on all of our digital platforms, and tomorrow, we are actually going to get here early starting the show early at 4:00 a.m. join us for the very latest news. ahead of the planned power shutoffs, pg&e bankruptcy proceedings will be in focus in san francisco. monday was the deadline for victims of recent wildfires to file claims against pg&e, as part of the company's bankruptcy plan. in san mateo county today, sheriffs office and i.c.e. will face renewed pressure from immigrant rights supporters. protesters plan to gather outside a supervisor's meeting in redwood city to oppose the county's transferring of undocumented immigrants in

custody to i.c.e. authorities. sheriffs office representatives are scheduled to attend this afternoon's meeting. south bay immigrants received a powerful message last night to know your rights. san jose mayor sam liccardo along with police and other community leaders took part at an event at universal church. he says the goal is to help neighbors better understand their rights and show families what kind of resources are available to them, whether or not they're here legally. >> it's important that families know that their kids should go to school, and they can go on with their lives and go to work, and go to the doctor's office, do the things they need to do, and the only way they to do that is if we empower them with information. >> san jose was one of a half dozen u.s. cities that held similar know your rights events yesterday. police are hoping a new sketch could help track down a south bay child predator. take a look at what the attacker looks like. police say he molested a 13-year-old girl three times last summer in san jose. it happened as the girl walked

her dog on the los alamitos trail between harry road and camden avenue. if that face looks familiar, call san jose police. >> 5:36. the battle over school closures in oakland may heat up again later today. angry parents and teachers are vowing to show up at today's school board meeting. already this week opponents shut down a meeting involving education leaders and city councilmembers. they're angry about a plan to close two schools and fear more schools may be on the chopping block. the district cites lower enrollment and ballooning budget deficit. today's meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. >> 5:37 for you right now. in a few hours stanford lieders cut the ribbon on a new state-of-the-art medical facility. the new hospital seven stories and covers 824,000 square feet. it also includes 368 patient rooms, 20 operating rooms and an emergency room twice the size of the old one. it also is a lot more

seismically safe, compared to the old building. the new hospital is expected to be fully operational in a matter of weeks, and it will include transferring patients from the old facility next door to the new one. outstanding work over there by stanford and animation as well. this animation looks great because there's a lot of green. we love that for the morning commute, starting to build in your usual patterns. check on the crash northbound 880 approaching 238, out of lanes, the commute coming out of castro valley and south 880, opposite that area. the tri-valley not a problem over toward the dublin interchange, zoom up here, we're looking at a few scattered incidents highway 4 the top of your screen, westbound at loveridge a crash on the shoulder, and farther to the right at the antioch bridge there's a crash headed up toward rio vistaen othe shoulder but it's narrow so be careful. look at that, nice green. good color. >> looks good. >> speed sensors. >> you know what looks good,

too, a nice weekend. >> looking forward to it. >> this weekend a lot of halloween celebrations, the fall harvest festival and it's going to be nice, a little warm on saturday, still with some of our inland valleys reaching the upper 80s and the bay will reach up to about 83 degrees. coastal areas in the mid-70s, so saturday is probably your better day to head to the beach, because it will be cooling off on sunday, and we'll see that also for the inland areas, that 77 degrees there, got some gusty winds picking up for the bay. we're looking at highs up to about 73 degrees, and if you are making some beach plans, half moon bay will be most comfortable and warmest on friday. we're going to see the highs there in the upper 70s and then coming down to the upper 60s by saturday and sunday. if you're going up to lake shasta this weekend, also look for some big changes, with some low 80s expected friday. saturday is a pretty nice, 74 degrees, and then coming down to 61 for the high temperature on sunday, with some high winds,

and pa sew robels also some big cooling on the way going friday 3 degree temperature to saturday 90 to a high of 76 on sunday. l.a. will also see some cli but it happened most likely after the weekend, we'll see the temperatures going from the mid 80s on friday to 82 on saturday, and then more clouds and some low 70s on sunday. so let me know where you're headed this weekend. i'm @karihallweather on twitter, facebook as well as instagram. i'll look at today's south bay temperature in three minutes. coming up, 5:40, a crucial day in the murder trial of a peninsula heiress accused of orchestrating the murder of her ex-boyfriend. and in washington an insider who knows everything there is no know about the relationship between the u.s. and ukraine speaks out and it's devastating. and talk about spooky, see

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good wednesday morning. we are under a microclimate weather alert at 5:43. a live look in dublin getting ready for a hot day today and a high fire danger, but we start out with some mild temperatures. we have some upper 50s as you head out the door, but we go

from the upper 50s to the upper 70s by 1:00, eventually we'll see the highs reaching near 90 degrees today. i'll have more on that and when the winds pick up, that's coming up in less than five minutes. >> we have a nice easy traffic flow, a gentle build out of richmond headed across the bridge to san rafael, but i did get word of an incident on the nimitz, concerned, we have a lot of debris on the roads. now to a follow-up in redwood city, closing arguments could begin as soon as today in the murder trial involving a local heiress. tiffany lee is accused of arranging to have her ex-boyfriend keith green killed. she was allegedly scared about losing a custody battle with him. prosecutors say lee arranged with her then boyfriend to kill green but her attorneys argue she's being wrongly accused for a crime by one is. someone else. they argue that green was killed in a botched kidnapping.

a sheered off fire hydrant sent water shooting into the area. the water is off but authorities are still trying to piece together how it happened. firefighter ngs southern california continue to push to fully contain two sfirz that started earlier this week, worried about the hot, dry winds that are expected to intensify starting later today. monday's fire in san bernardino damaged three homes, a fire in pacific palisades threatened hundreds of others, but firefighters in that case managed to prevail. as of last night, both were about 25 to 30% contained. new for you this morning, a california federal court district is facing a shortage of judges. the eastern district includes over 8 million people in the central valley. its main courthouses are in sacramento and fresno. u.s. senators dianne feinstein and kamala harris recently received a warning letter that says criminal cases may have to be dismissed due to the inability to comply with the

speedy trial act. staff members are now working to find qualified caidates. 5:45 and environmentalists are blasting a new white house plan to govern water usage in california. the new plan gives more water to farmers, but critics say that it will further threaten endangered fish, including delta smelt. the plan does include new money to monitor rivers and promises to reduce water pumping if necessary. but environmental groups are not convinced. they're already vowing a legal challenge. >> 5:46. congress has heard some of the toughest testimony against donald trump to date. >> it comes from someone who the u.s. government has trusted for decades, scott mcgrew. >> william or bill taylor, marcus. i'll get to his bona fides in a minute. he's america's top diplomat to ukraine, technically not the ambassador, the senate hasn't confirmed him. as charge d'affaires he was in

the middle of the talk withholding military aid in exchange for a ukrainian investigation that would benefit the trump campaign. something the acting chief of staff says happened. taylor testified behind closed doors on tuesday, but we've seen his opening statement, and in it, he says he was there when diplomats working for trump and working outside the usual channels set up a quid pro quo arrangement with the ukraines. you'll remember we're talking about text message exchange. taylor and other diplomat head "are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations?" and ambassador to the eu gordon sondland says "call me." thanks to the testimony, we now know what they said on the call. according to taylor, on the phone call, sondland said "everything" was dependent on such an announcement from the ukrainians they were investigating biden's son,

including security assistance. that is devastating testimony, it is that quid pro quo, this for that and it's impeachable. who is taylor? taylor is a west point graduate. he led vietnam troops, troops in vietnam. he's worked for the government for decades and repeatedly was appointed to important offices by republican presidents. he is not a partisan. you know who else describes this to a "t" robert mueller. he went to officer candidate school, not west point, a marine, not an army officer, but the same. during this investigation, president trump accused mueller of committing crimes, being a democrat, he's not, and said he would sue mueller. he did n't. president trump will speak in pittsburgh. if we don't hear his response on twitter or outside the helicopter this morning we'll get it on the speech at the shale inside conference. we wait for president trump's response. follow me on twitter

twitter, @scottmcgrew. >> 5:48. just in time for halloween, look closer to your screen there, you see that creepy face of an infant sleeping next to this little toddler? what a frightening there, the mother was disturbed but when she checked on her son, she found nothing, but the next morning she found this. a sticker with a baby's face underneath the crib sheet. she blamed the dad, he foo put the mattress protector on after the wash so it shown through on the sheet. >> can you imagine what the mother was thinking? >> it's not there. i get the reflection of probably light on it. >> yes. >> scary. >> going to take the sticker off? >> put the mattress cover. >> every time. >> i willering is key when it comes to infants i found. layering is key when it comes to infants i found for other reasons. >> true that. we've been talking about that weather for you.

meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that and a lot of concern with the power shutoffs. >> right, we've been watching to get an update from pg&e on when and if they're going to shut off the power. this is a look at the map on their website. it hasn't been updated since sunday. so here we are, on wednesday, and we're wanting to know if we're going to see our power shut off, and we haven't had an update from them as of yet. so we are going to have our red flag warning in effect today, starting in the north bay at noon, and it's all of these areas, so pretty much everyone in the north bay will be under a high fire danger, as we start to see our windscreasing, gusts in some of our mountain peaks to 60 miles per hour, the valleys and the coasts up to 35 miles per hour. for the east bay, the red flag warning starts at 3:00, and continues until 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. here we could see gusts 35 to 40 miles per hour. for the santa cruz mountains, the red flag warning starts at 7:00 p.m., and it continues until 4:00 tomorrow.

here we're looking at some lighter winds, but still up to 3 35-mile-per-hour gusts. we see the time line winds increasing on our computer models some of the north bay areas the bright colors showing the highest winds and that continues throughout the day today, into tonight, and then we start to see the winds getting a little bit stronger for the east bay hills, going into tonight and early tomorrow. high temperatures are going to be really high, reaching into the upper 80s and low 90s, all because of this offshore very dry wind we have in place, going into the weekend. we'll start to see the winds calming down for a little while, but picking up again on sunday with some cooler air moving in. look at our temperatures going from 93 tomorrow to 77 on sunday. some big changes ahead, going back to fall, pretty soon we have to make it through this and mike you're tracking ing ing a on the nimitz. >> maybe nor complications but

following the report i'll explain here. this is the typical traffic we follow, the flow north toward the bay bridge, that's not a problem from high street and the coliseum up to the toll plaza, where the metering lights are on and you see that the maps show a typical plan coming out of contra costa county and through the maze. at the bottom of your screen southbound 880 from 238 all the way down to "a" street in hayward out of san leandro. a lot of slowing, reports of a disabled big rig in the middle of the freeway. they need a big tow truck to help it out of there. chp is there and also seven mail carts. i don't know if this is offic l officially postal service equipment and if there is mail out there or if that's just the description that was called in, because there are some carts. we'll track that of course, very closely. there will be slowing right now and we'll let you know if there are further complications as far as the content goes there. the rest of the bay shows a smooth drive, so right now trouble south on the nimitz toward that san mateo bridge. back to you. >> thanks, mike. happening now, turkey's defense ministry is signaling it

won't resume its offensive in northeast syria. this comes following separate agreements reached with the u.s. and russia. the u.s. says that syrian kurdish fighters completed their pullout from areas held by turkey, and some of the area is now in russian control. and next, more local news for you. can you feel the magic? why the wizarding world is whipping up excitement in san francisco today. but first, the huge rent hike for one of the oldest and most historic coffee bars in the world. you won't believe the numbers. we'll also talk about the temporary legal victory for the shop. you're watching "today in the bay." ♪

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you can always find our team on social media, tracking those possible pg&e power outages on social media as well. nbc bay area's gen elle posted this video. follow our team on facebook, instagram and twitter. it is 5:56. this may feel familiar to everyone paying to live in the bay area. rome's oldest coffee bar won an illegal stay of eviction as it fights a massive rent hike. >> cafe greco was playing $20,000 a month. it is so close to the spanish

steps it should pay $133,000 per month. for now the coffee shop owners think they're safe until january when the appeal will be heard. cafe greco has been there since the 1760s, long time. arthur charles dickson has visited. >> i'm not that special but i've been there, too but not that caliber. b.a.r.t.'s new general manager making a so stop on his so-called listening power. tour. robert powers says he wants to hear directly from riders to get feedback about the transit service. this morning, powers will be at san leandro's bay fair station talking to riders on the platform starting at 8:00 a.m. during the evening commute, he plans to stop at san francisco's civic center station. thousands of kaiser permanente workers are expected to hold candlelight vigils.

they say the company did not provide access to suicide mental health care, part of efforts to work out a new contract with the company. they've been working without one for more than a year. the company says in part that they've hired hundreds of new therapists and are building dozens of new treatment facilities. if a deal cannot be reached those workers are threatening to go on strike next month. happening today, a highly anticipated play debuts in san francisco, harry potter and the cursed child begins to run tonight at the curran theater. it has four acts split into two performances so audience can choose to see both installments at the same time on the same day or split them on different nights. the play is based on the original story by rowling and follows the events of the book, all of the books and it's already had a long run in london's west end. turning to sports now, klay thompson's return from injury this season is apparently not a

certainty. head coach steve kerr says that he may be recovering all season from his injured knee and he's not ruling out klay's return after the all-star break. the season has now officially tipped off. the warriors start tomorrow at the new chase center, but last night, the lakers took on the clippers in los angeles, and right now the clippers look like the team to beat. they won 112-102, that's who the warriors open against tomorrow. right now at 6:00, high fire danger, communities across the bay area are on alert. this morning, the preparation in the east bay, where pg&e is not threatening to shut off power. plus, breaking news, two big stories from overseas overnight. a major development on a bill that sparked violent protests in hong kong and the gruesome discovery in england. back here at home, affording a home. the steps towards plans to add even more housing in the south bay. "today in the bay" continues right now.

we thank you for letting us into your home, so early in the morning. thanks so much for joining us and waking up with us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. of course we will get to that commute in a minute with mike inouye. first we talk with meteorologist kari hall. tracking the conditions, the times we could see the wind increase as well as the fire danger. >> high fire danger today, hot temperatures and low humidity, as we get started this morning, things are fairly calm and temperatures are cool, but it will heat up this afternoon, and winds will gust up to 50 to 60 miles per hour in elevations above 1,000 feet, and our winds will peak tonight through early tomorrow morning, that red flag warning staying i effect, and the winds will finally decrease on friday so we're going microclimate by microclimate, seeing our temperatures heating up today. we'll reach into the mid to upper 80s by early afternoon, and a few spots in the low 90s. we'll talk more about this and mike, you're tracking a traffic alert out of the