right now at 4:30, happening today hundreds of bay area workers are facing layoffs from major stadiums to biotech. a live report next on the jobs that are expected to be cut today. plus, for the first time ceos of google, facebook and apple will face lawmakers. they're being accused of being bullies by the tech world. and the all-new shocking report of vallejo police officers bending their badges for every person they killed. who is making that allegation? "today in the bay" starts right now.

and a good wednesday morning to you. thanks for starting your morning with us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. we'll check in with mike in just a moment. let's get a peek at the morning forecast with meteorologist kari hall. good morning. good morning. and we're looking at a lot of clouds starting out this morning as we take a live look outside in san jose and heading over to campbell it's going to be cloudy throughout the next few hours are temperatures dipping to the upper 50s. another nice and comfortably warm day for the south bay as we reach into the low 70s by noon and reaching into the low 80s by later today. a look at our microclimates coming up. mike, how is it looking for the early morning commute? >> comfortably warm. first a look at the golden gate bridge. i say that because i don't like the warmth so much. a little fog around the bridge welcome back. it's 4:55. to cool things off. kari knows and locals knows but governor gavin newsom is laying down the law when it comes to

it's not registering to the cities not obeying the covid upper left corner of our map, shouldn't be a problem but it's protocols. the state has stopped giving there around the bay. the usual spots, laura, back to funding, about $100,000 to two you. >> thank you very much. central valley cities. sports, as we well know and really appreciate have been making their way back into our atwater and coilinga. lives amid the pandemic. of course without the fans in the stands. atwater's mayor says the governor is abandoning the small new this morning "today in the city. bay's" cierra johnson joins us live to explain how some of our local arenas, though, are handling it. not a lot of revenue coming in. thisea opener in an empty there's some job cuts as well, cierra. >> reporter: yes, good morning. oracle part. as you can imagine arenas like crowd noise piped in. this are not seeing many people with no concerts or games, no hopefully it's just one of 60 people which, in turn, means no for the giants this year. will myers gave the podres a 5-1 revenue. so several arenas, including this one and oracle park have lead with this homer. the giants could not come back, announced thousands of layoffs. losing 5-3. the news comes from the food l.a. dodgers fans are management company for both missing more than just the boys facilities. "the examiner" is reporting of summer. they have a reason to celebrate this morning. roughly 2,100 food service

workers will be cut. they have the favorite stadium that includes 667 hourly union food delivered to their home. a new service on postmates will workers from here at chase center and 737 hourly union deliver to hollywood neighborhoods. workers at oracle park. dodger dogs, garlic fries and now the paper says 660 of those carne asade nachos are on the workers being cut also work at both venues. so what about those working for menu. the food is pretty good there. the a's? >> it looks good. that organization established a 4:57 this morning. $1 million relief fund for their on capitol hill president trump concession workers that included those working for the third facing backlash for a re-tweet. a live report from washington. party vendors. no word how much that relief fund is still available. plus, not welcome. and now switching gears from preventing federal officers from sports to science, another being deployed to city streets. business is announcing major we'll be back with a lot more news. layoffs. this coming out of san mateo. it's the biotechnical company that has announced 470 permanent layoffs. they just released that information to the state. across the bay area several companies announcing big layoffs in the wake of this pandemic. we're live in san francisco. cierra johnson for "today in the

bay." a live look at capitol hill, this is where happening today four big tech company ceos are in the hot seat. amazon, facebook, google and apple ceos are getting grilled from congress on antitrust issues. today's virtual hearing comes after a year long investigation looking into uncompetitive practices in the digital marketplace. amazon, for example, controls nearly 40% of all online sales in the u.s. one expert explains the disadvantage for other companies. >> when you go to amazon, you ask for a product, you certificate. on it, and amazon decides what to show you. >> facebook and instagram control the world's largest social media while google processes 90% of web searches raising concern about the control of ad revenues. today's house judiciary hearing starts at 9:00 pacific time. now to a follow-up this morning in the high-profile

trial of former theranos ceo holmes, accused of fraud, promoting a blood machine as something that could detect hundreds of diseases. the judge set a deadline to prosecutors to respond to the new motion that the all new overnight oakland covid-related changes to the jury selection process violated moving forward with cutting the holmes' rights. police department's budget in back in april the jury selection half. a live report next on the city's process was suspended due to the plan and how long it will take to make reforms. pandemic. in june it started again and her plus -- >> they're not even saying let's lawyer says no one was notified. get it done. prosecutors have until the end >> it's politics as usual. of the month to respond. the vallejo police department is now reportedly >> the fight over unemployment being sued by one former captain benefits heating up on capitol hill as out-of-work americans who claims he was fired after sit in limbo. coming up in a live report we're reporting misconduct. going to tell you where "the chronicle" reports the republicans and democrats stand captain raised concerns to city this morning. and covid-19 rule breakers leaders including the mayor, city manager and city attorney. in contra costa county can now face fines. among the claims officers were raising a tip from the star on next, how that's playing out on their badges whenever they shot the streets. "today in the bay" continues and killed a suspect. right now. the captain's attorney says he was terminated after 19 years on a very good morning to you and thank you for joining us. the force. the captain now works for i'm laura garcia.

>> and i'm marcus washington. another law enforcement agency. the city did not respond to the mike is keeping an eye on the claim but said there are no current human resource traffic. complaints tied to allegations first kari hall with a look at of badge bending. the forecast as we expect another nice day out there for us, kari. calling it an unsubstantiated let's head over to concord. rumor. back to our pandemic coverage. the latest numbers from we'll see our temperatures in overnight. california is quickly the upper 50s and a few more approaching half a million clouds moving in. covid-19 cases. clearing out today at lunch time there are now nearly 9,000 we're at 77 degrees. it's going to be a hot afternoon deaths. it is a costly waiting game reaching into the low 90s and as covid-19 spreads. some low 80s for the south bay. a look at our microclimates some restaurants are temporarily shutting down whenever an coming up. employee tests positive. mike, what's going on for the commute? kari, warmer weather as that's because health leaders are issuing new guidelines for we've been having with who should get a test. summertime, motorcycles on the roadways. those with symptoms, essential workers, first responders, and everything is clear excep those possibly exposed to a person with an infection. restaurant owners we talked to say they want more testing but would test in short supply. they're waiting longer than expected for results. >> from a business perspective it's important to have that

rapid testing so that we can get back to work. >> health leaders say the new rules focus on prioritizing who wants one. happening today for you the state superintendent of schools plans to issue an education update as schools make plans to resume learning. now this comes following governor newsom's new rules. many students will stay out of those classrooms. all staff and students above second grade who do return to the campus must wear a face covering. more school districts are making decisions every day. we want to make sure it is easy for you to track all of that. you can link to the top of our home page. caltrain's future is still murky even after a new measure passed by san francisco's supervisors. yesterday they approved a hotly debated sales tax plan for the november ballot that stipulates revenues would assist transit for all three counties covered in the measure including san mateo and santa clara.

leaders are already calling the revision a nonstarter and illegal. caltrain is burning through what's left of its funding with about 5% of ridership it had before the pandemic took hold. more help is coming for residents in marin county trying to make it in the bay. supervisors just extended the county's eviction moratorium lasting until september 30th. that moratorium was put in place when tenants were facing difficulties paying because of the pandemic. renters have up to 90 days after it expires to repay back that rent in full. many counties have similar rules in place. happening today the oakland zoo will fully open to the public. but not like it used to be. daily attendance will be limited. visitors will have to buy tickets online and wear masks on zoo grounds. the zoo has been closed nearly four months. zoo leaders were concerned it could have closed permanently because they were just running out of cash. 4:38 for you this morning

and trending for you. what presumptive democratic candidate joe biden was found holding that has the whole political world buzzing this morning. plus, brewing up a new plan to stay profitable. the changes starbucks plans to make as sales slump. you're watching "today in the bay."

good wednesday morning. right now at 4:41 we are heading over to mountain view where our

temperatures stay in the 60s throughout the morning and the clouds will clear out. we'll have another beautiful day. we'll head over to pleasanton for our temperature trend coming up in a few minutes. kari, we had a full closure for a short period on the peninsula, highway 101. we check our camera because it was right around willow, the traffic coming toward us. we don't see any lanes blocked. there may be activity on the shoulder but we can't see a problem with the flow. that's good stuff. let's check in with our friends at cnbc. good morning. i'm dominic chu. here are your top business headlines for the day. wall street is set to open modestly higher this morning. stocks ending the day yesterday lower as investors monitor talks in washington, d.c., from congress on the latest coronavirus aid package and a flood of corporate earnings reports as well. mcdonald's and 3m reporting disappointing results. that pulled the dow jones industrial average lower. in focus data on pending home

sales and earnings reports from boeing and general motors. starbucks estimates it lost out on more than $3 billion in sales in its latest quarter because of the covid-19 pandemic due to stores being temporarily closed, costs to revamp operations, and reduced hours and lower customer traffic as well. starbucks says it plans to offer more curbside pickup service and open more than 50 starbucks pickup only locations in the next year. and amc reaches a very major deal with universal, a division of nbc parent company comcast, to shorten the amount of time between when a movie debuts in theaters and when it goes online. now that so-called theatrical window will be cut down to 17 days from the current 75 days. that means instead of waiting two and a half months to watch a new movie at home you will soon be able to see some new titles in just two and a half weeks after they premiere in theaters. now this deal settles a long-standing disinstitute

between the companies over how films should be allowed to appear on digital platforms in your home. o teorologist kari hall, i don'e you. >> i really enjoyed when the "trolls" movie went straight to our tv. that was great for our family. in pleasanton, a great day. the morning hours are the best time to get outside. we'll talk about the rest of the forecast coming up. all right, kari. i see a little bit of fog on the road weather index, but i'm watching also the crash in concord, highway 4. we'll show you more particulars about your commute coming up.

and a good morning to you on this wednesday, hump day it is. a live look right now at the golden gate bridge. can't see much of the bridge. i'm telling you, it's the golden gate bridge. the gang is all here. we have to start with the forecast. kari, how is it feeling? walking in, a little warmer than i like it to be dark and early in the morning. >> yeah, our weather is basically on repeat. our same mornings with clouds and warm weather inland and cool temperatures near the coast.

looks mostly clear but there was a lot of smoke drifting through the east bay. as we go hour by hour and check out our temperatures we're going to start out with some upper 50s this morning and then around lunch time we're at 78 degrees in danville. 79 in san jose. we're still in the low to mid-60s along the coastline. as we go into the middle of the day our inland temperatures head back into the upper 80s and low 90s while we will stay in the 70s for much of the inner bay. this evening that fog rolls right back in. we'll do it all over again tomorrow as we stay in this weather pattern. we have seen a couple storm systems moves to the north of us, and it will create more of a breezy wind by the end of the week. no change in our temperatures. it will get hotter as the the weekend. as we look at our seven-day forecast, we are looking at

mostly our inland temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s. san francisco staying in the 60s with fog staying overhead or right there near the coastline over the next couple of days. mike, any new updates? anything popping up for the commute? nothing major. there are changes in the santa cruz mountains. these speed sensors, a little bit of slowing out of the altamont. yesterday a big problem in the santa cruz mountains that's long since cleared. the same area, south 17, has that overnight work, landscaping work may be going on there. and then later on today as well. a little slowing around summit road. you see that yellow highlighting there in gilroy. there's fog along 162, 129. do be careful if that's where you're headed but no problems. an easy, light drive. the rest of the bay looking to the bay braj with an easy flow of traffic. a live look at the berkeley

curve shows you no problems, just low clouds hovering around. back to you. thanks, mike. firefighters right now still not confirming the cause of yesterday's massive fire in san francisco. this is near the central freeway south of market. it destroyed six buildings in the area of folsom and 13th streets sending huge plumes of smoke across the bay. one firefighter had minor injuries. investigators believe the fire may have started with a mattress fire in a nearby homeless encampment. that was put out hours before the big fire started. police in one east bay community are trying to find out more answers after a little boy riding a bike was hit by a delivery truck yesterday. it happened in the afternoon in lafayette on merriewood drive. the 10 year year boy was taken to the hospital where he later died. officers say the driver of the truck did stop and is cooperating. immigrant rights groups are blasting contra costa county

sheriff after a meeting meant to boost transparency. sheriff livingston addressed supervisors during the state-required truth forum. he says his department still collaborates with ice when it comes to releasing undocumented immigrants. that deputies in 2018 provided information in at least 100 times of a release and at least ten times i.c.e. agents physically took possession of the detainee. opponents took part in that as well in yesterday's hearing, demanding contra costa county start following sanctuary policies. california's attorney general is filing a federal lawsuit against the trump administration about the 2020 census. new guidelines from the white house excludes undocumented immigrants from being counted when it comes to determining states' congressional seats. just a few hours leaders plan to protest the rule both in person at the santa clara county government center and virtually. so the political world is really in a tizzy this morning

over what joe biden jotted down on a note pad about senator kamala harris. here is a picture. take a close look at it. it's an associated press photographer actually saw this, took a picture of it as biden took questions from reporters. on the note pad across the top says kamala harris and, do not hold grudges, campaign with me and jill, talented, great help to campaign, great respect for her. so what did joe biden say about his vp pick? >> what i said was that i'm going to have a choice in the first week in august and i promise i'll let you know when i do. >> okay. so the first week of august, next week, campaign watchers are now saying that harris, the golden state's own, could be on the top of biden's short vp list which includes women including several women of color.

>> at least on the top of the short little list he had right there. defying health orders on "today in the bay," the state funding being taken away from two defiant california cities. plus, load up the bases. baseball back in full swing. highlights from last night's giants' home opener and the unique way l.a. dodger fans can enjoy stadium food from home. and happening now for you, mcdonald's plans to close hundreds of its underperforming restaurants. it will close 200 of its 14,000 u.s. locations, most of those restaurants are inside walmart stores. mcdonald's isn't the only chain hit hard by the coronavirus. dunkin' donuts and starbucks have also announced closures. more for you after the break.