good morning. it is sunday, october 4th, as we take a look over san jose. looks pretty nice out there. still some cloud cover, some haze and it is chilly. thank you so much for starting your sunday morning with us. i'm kira klapper. meteorologist rob mayeda is in for vianey with a look at your microclimate forecast. you talked about cooling temperatures and i felt i could feel it this morning. thank the heavens. yeah, we're seeing temperatures in the upper 40s, up around santa rosa and all

attention on the big kickoff forecast here on nbc bay area. 49ers on "sunday night football." that in a moment. clear skies with areas of smoke. you're seeing some of that around san jose. and look at the fog closer to san francisco. the temperatures, as kira mentioned, is chilly. 48 in santa rosa. 59 in san jose. good news in terms of the air quality this is a pretty big change. good to moderate back in the green and yellow around san jose. the same for san francisco and the east bay. just around the glass fire. the forecast, hazy skies. we don't think air quality will be an issue. kickoff temperatures in the mid-80s and for your tailgating from home around the bay area today another warm day inland. lots of 90s. midafternoon for the valleys. 70s and 80s bay side and then stay tuned, look at the extended

forecast. rain making a comeback. we'll talk more about that coming up in about 15 minutes. a welcome change from the dry and smoky weather we've had the last few weeks. >> welcome indeed. i love hearing you say the word rain. we look forward to your forecast, rob. thanks. we begin now with president trump's health as he wakes up in the hospital for a second morning with coronavirus. we're getting a new look at the president as a covid patient. last night new photos released presenting a positive image showing the president working in the hospital's presidential suite on a day of conflicting reports about his condition. the white house physician evading questions during a press conference yesterday and giving a different time line of the president's illness than the white house had previously given. here is a live look outside of walter reed medical center where you can see on the bottom left of your screen a crowd of supporters remain, groups gathering outside the hospital, some without masks since the president was admitted to the

hospital friday afternoon. the white house now saying these next couple of days will be, quote, critical for president trump's health after the president's chief of staff mark meadows described very concerning situation friday when the president's blood oxygen dropped and he was put on supplemental oxygen. jackie ward reports on why more transparency is important. the whole first seven to ten days can be critical from when you are exposed to the illness to about day five when you start to develop symptoms. and then we're seeing people around day seven to ten when they worsen and come to the hospital. >> reporter: a covid-19 expert as the principle investigator for the regeneron antibody trial. the antibodies are still only available as an experimental

treatment. president trump is also on a five-day regiment of remdesivir, developed by foster city's gilead sciences. >> it is expensive but compared to the icu on a ventilator, all the other outcomes that you're trying to prevent just in the hospital, quite frankly, i think is quite cost effective. >> reporter: with a lot of speculation swirling on the president's medical condition saturday evening he released this video message. >> so i just want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. you don't know over the period of the next few days that's a big test. we'll see what happens over the next couple of days. >> reporter: that message part on the president's health. a briefing with the president's personal doctor spurned more questions than answers about the time line when the president started to feel sick. the white house later issued a memo correcting the time line dr. sean conley offered.

quote, i incorrectly used the term 72 hours instead of day three, end quote. doctors also offered only vague answers on whether the president had been given supplemental oxygen. the timing as to when president trump knew he had covid-19 is critical because he attended several campaign events this week with many people without wearing a mask. in san francisco jackie ward, nbc bay area news. while the source of transmission is not clear, several people in the president's inner circle have tested positive for the covid disease. the most recent being former new jersey governor chris christie and president trump's assistant nicholas luna. as we told you yesterday morning this likely is the event that touched off the spread of coronavirus. last saturday more than 100 people gathered outdoors in white house rose garden to celebrate nominee amy coney barrett. some hugging and kissing, many without masks. and then gathering inside for a

meal. so far about ten of those people including white house journalists who attended the ceremony have tested positive for coronavirus. you can see some of them highlighted in this picture where they were sitting that includes kellyanne conway, trump's former senior adviser, trump adviser chris chchristie, aide to jared kushner, hope hicks, and mike lee of utah, thom tillis and johnson of wisconsin. two of the new coronavirus cases in washington involve those republican members of the senate judiciary committee as i just mentioned, thom tillis and mike lee. both who did attend that rose garden ceremony for judge barrett. their cases are raising questions now about the confirmation process. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the confirmation process still will start on october 12th whether some members have to join virtually or not. he has requested all other senate business be delayed, though, until october 19th.

democrats are calling for a delay in those hearings. and first lady melania trump, also diagnosed with coronavirus, continues isolating at the white house. a spokeswoman says the first lady is doing well and we are told her symptoms have not worsened. democratic presidential nominee joe biden did not take a covid test yesterday, this after taking one friday, while leaving st. joseph's catholic church in delaware. the former vice president says he does intend to take a test this morning. >> have you been test this had morning for coronavirus? you were not tested today? >> i was yesterday. >> biden did test negative for covid twice on friday. he's committed to releasing the results of his covid-19 tests he

takes. more people in sonoma county are back home although in other areas the danger is far from over. windy conditions caused a few flare-ups yesterday, flames reaching high up into the night sky as you can see here. fire crews working in the dark to get a handle on the new flare-ups in the glass fire. before the sunset this large fleet of helicopters kicked into action trying to protect nearby homes. neighbor who is live in st. helena watched as helicopters dipped into irrigation pools. they tell us the flare-ups are concerning for them especially after they saw how quickly the flames moved earlier this week. >> this flared up from the wind. we've winds are flowing south because we live in this area here. >> fire crews are tallying the number of structures destroyed hoping weather conditions improve so they can get a better handle on the glass fire.

as meteorologist rob mayeda spoke a few minutes ago this bad air quality could impact tonight's football game nfl on nbc. a live look at levi's stadium in santa clara, the nfl and the 49ers are closely watching these orange, hazy skies monitoring air quality levels. the nfl has said it would consider postponing or removing a game if the air quality index is higher than 200. fortunately for niners fans the aqi is not expected to get any higher than about 150 today. and you can watch "sunday night football" here on nbc bay area. we have you covered for the niners game against the philadelphia eagles. our own janelle wang and raj mathai will be at levi's stadium for a special pregame newscast at 3:00 p.m. the game kicks off at 5:25 and then following the game is our prime time newscast live from levi's stadium. wish i could go. 7:09. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, live to our

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welcome back, just like every sunday it is time to bring in chuck todd, nbc news political director and moderator of "meet the press. questions as always thank you for joining us this morning. just about an hour ago we got some breaking news released that an nbc news/"wall street journal" poll taken after the debate but before president trump's covid diagnosis and hospitalization show that joe biden had a 14-point advantage. adding on trump's coronavirus infection, how does that all affect the presidential campaign? >> our poll shows the debate had a huge impact on the president and the impact was very

negative. and it went to the benefit of joe biden. his numbers only went up two points. the president's numbers dropped four, most to undecided. where you saw the real shift was among seniors. voteers thrs that are 65 or old. you can't wonder if the two issues of covid and civility had an issue there, one of the best explanations we can come up with. you asked an important question, what now with this race? i think we're in suspended animation. we're sort of in pause. the president is off the trail. joe biden has pulled negative ads. joe biden has a very strong lead and you pause for too long and the president is off the trail. this lead may become insurmountable for the president. >> that actually was going to be my follow-up question.

if the president is theoretically down for ten days, joe biden has pulled his attack ads, but trump still has his running. does this allow joe biden to campaign less, reduce exposure, or does he turn up the heat? >> well, they have decided to start ramping up campaign events, more in-person events. stricter guidelines than the trump campaign does. the short-term question right now the white house is blowing right by it, it is surprising to me that the vice president, mike pence, is somehow going to keep a very busy travel schedule. the continuity of government issues, if both the vice president and president were to come down with the virus at the same time, that would be highly irresponsible of the government at this point. you would assume that vice president pence should be almost in somewhat of his own quarantine, if you will, until the president is virus free and out of the woods in the hospital.

apparently they're not going to keep him from traveling. they could do this debate remotely this week. they're going to have him travel to the debate site. that, to me, is a question i'm surprised that they're answering the way they're answering. >> yeah, and they're going to move them instead of 7 feet apart, they'll be 12 feet apart. >> the debate shouldn't be happening in person. should not be happening in person. >> we always appreciate your insight, chuck. it will be interesting to see what happens this week, to be sure. we hope you join chuck for this morning's "meet the press." he will have trump campaign senior adviser jason miller at 8:00 a.m. right after this newscast. we hope you stick right here for "meet the press." and coming up in about 30 minutes from now we will talk to nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston for our weekly segment and continue to look at the covid-19 outbreak at the white house that sent the president to the hospital. okay, sticking with

coronavirus here, about six months after it was announced the app built by apple and google to track covid-19 is gaining momentum. ten states now are using it and california is likely to join that growing list very soon. right now the state is testing apps and pilot programs and if it works as it's meant to, the apps will send push alerts to users who come in close contact to another app user who tested positive for covid. despite more states starting to use the technology only about 21% of americans now have access to a covid-19 app. that could be a great benefit to all of us. children's fairyland in oakland welcomed back families for the first time yesterday since shutting down in march. there are a lot of new rules and changes in place, but most of the magic is still intact. just about alm of the park is open except for group events like story time. fairyland has lowered capacity, drawn social bubbles everywhere

and split visits with a sanitation shift in between. i really need to take my son there. it is time at 7:16 to check in with meteorologist rob mayeda who could probably also take his son there. if the weather lets up, if we get a break with the smoke. we're seeing encouraging signs out there looking a lot better than the same time yesterday and the model over my shoulder shows that smoke getting pushed off to the east again as we head to the evening. let's take you out to the all-important game time forecast, 49ers right here on nbc bay area. we're expecting some smoke, hazy skies but not all that bad. there's the theme song. 85 degrees kickoff time. 5:25 temperatures dropping to the 70s as the game goes on and we do think mostly moderate air quality. that is good news there. if you're doing your tailgating

from home plans, look at the temperatures for today. not quite as hot as we had yesterday. we'll see 90s inland, 80s bay side, 70s closer to san francisco. and here a closer view of that model that shows smoke increasing around the glass fire. that should be pushed to the east as we head into monday morning. air quality conditions for today, locally unhealthy for the north bay. the red you see here on the five-day air quality outlook. notice the trend in our air quality actually getting better wednesday and thursday out ahead of the rain chances later in the week. san jose, 59 degrees. some pretty good visibility. dublin currently 57 degrees. you see more smoke out around the tri-valley this morning. there's the fog. 80s closer to observing. upper 80s near san jose. still some mid-90s inland for

inland contra costa county and down to morgan hill, a high of 92 degrees. here is where things get interesting. what is left of hurricane marie will weaken. this moisture will start to drift to the north interacting with the weather system that will be on approach around the bay area late thursday into friday. this is how it looks like it will play out. as we go through thursday and friday showers approach the coast. friday there is system number one and then another system dropping in towards saturday. so pretty interesting as we take a look at the long-range models. we've not had a chance to see this in quite some time. this is one of the longer term weather models we look at. this one shows us pretty good rain down the central coast. its counterpart also advertising rain, more so for the north bay. this is an encouraging sign the last three to four days, long-range models show rain chances. increasing friday with the first system and perhaps another one

dropping in for saturday. so finally some good news in the weather forecast. the spare the air days i believe still continue to tuesday especially for the north bay around the glass fire. san francisco, your temperatures cool off as we head to the second half of the week. the north bay rain chances possibly as early as late thursday night based on the current expectations. so we're going to get cooler temperatures, better air quality, and increasing chances of seeing some rain friday into next weekend. it seems like it's been since mid-august when the lightning strikes hit the bay area. we haven't had many pleasant things to talk about in the weather. that is some positive change, we hope, heading our way later on this week. kira? >> hard to believe we are almost approaching two months since that nightmarish night that ignited all these fires. rob, thanks so much for that bit of good news. it is 7:20. we have so much more ahead on "today in the bay" coming up. >> reporter: unanswered phones, unopened mail, and state workers who actually aren't working. i'm consumer investigator chris

chmura. a revealing look inside the unemployment office next.

welcome back. imagine applying for a job, getting hired and getting paid to do nothing. that's exactly the gig the state gave hundreds of californians, and you paid for it. we all did with our taxes. consumer investigator chris chmura is here with more troubling findings inside the state unemployment office. >> reporter: the employment development department just paused new unemployment applications to reset and address a backlog of 600,000 claims. but that's not the only misstep that triggered this sudden pause. state workers walked away from their phones, ignored important mail and, yes, hundreds more state workers hired and paid to do absolutely nothing. laidoff workers could not reach the edd to file for unemployment

benefits. >> 300 calls just to get through to someone on the other line. >> reporter: governor newsom said his office responded with a heroic effort. >> we moved people to work the phones. >> reporter: but throughout the summer people still couldn't get paid. now we know why. this new review found many of edd's new hires lacked the training to help laidoff workers over the phone. those operators only resolved 1.4% of people's calls. the report is blistering. >> hiring more staff that cannot handle the actual reasons people are calling will improve the call's answer statistics but will have no impact on resolving issues with claims. >> reporter: some existing staffers were even less helpful. when edd employees at one call center started working from h e home. >> they stopped answering the phones. >> reporter: there's more. the strike team says edd hired

515 new workers to do precomputation work. because so few claims getting through and so few workers have training -- >> there's no work for the 515 new recomputation workers to complete. >> reporter: how does hiring people to do nothing help get their unemployment benefits? >> makes no sense to me at all. >> reporter: another deeper audit of edd operations. >> we need to make sure we're fixing it and we need transparency and some accountability. >> reporter: we asked edd how much they're paying those 515 workers but didn't get a response. likely at least $3,000 a month, the salary posted for the lowest paid position currently available handling unemployment claims. and none addresses ongoing fraud. how edd sent them stacks of

unexpected envelopes addressed to strangers. some with benefit debit cards inside. >> i shouldn't just have these in my house. >> reporter: the envelopes are expected to be organized i.d. theft. homes aren't the only place e.d.d. mail is piling up. auditors visited edd offices. >> we saw significant unopened mail. >> reporter: a huge red flag. many people are required to mail pay stubs to edd before they can collect benefits. other workers including veterans who recently left the military are required to apply on paper forms. if they aren't opening the mail or answering phones, what are they doing at edd? >> exactly why we need a state audit to look at things identified. what's going on there. >> reporter: the edd says it's

implementing reforms during its two-week reset. the assemblyman is getting his wish for another audit. a review of edd operations. no word on the time line. you can help the state auditor if you know about problems inside edd call the whistle-blower hotline. the number is right there on your screen 800-952-5665. or call us the number is 888-996-tips. we will continue to hold edd accountable. >> chris chmura, everybody. 7:27. much more ahead on "today in the bay." not out of the woods yet. that's what the white house chief of staff is saying regarding president trump's health. a frantic race to save two people trapped inside a car. hear from some of the good samaritans who sprang into action.

good morning. it is sunday, october 4th as we take a live look outside, the sun shining over levi's stadium. a little bit hazy out there. things are looking better as we look ahead to nfl on nbc tonight. thank you for starting your sunday with us. i'm kira klapper. meteorologist rob mayeda is in for vianey with your microclimate forecast. we remain under a microclimate weather alert but you say things are improving and you have your sights set on the game forecast for tonight. yeah, and the view outside at levi's stadium pretty encouraging. we're seeing much better visibility this morning and the air quality numbers are reflecting that. we'll get to the forecast in a moment. let's show you some views of san francisco, the fog has made a bit of a comeback. that's the reason why your air quality this morning is back in the green. we're in the good range there in san francisco and there's the sun rise view looking off to the east of san jose. some hazy skies. look at the maps, a nice change.

we're back into the green and yellow to the santa clara valley. the east bay similar conditions. good air there in san francisco. the exception to the rule right around the glass fire as some of the smoke has drained down into the valleys. as fire activity picks up, i think we'll see more smoke around the north bay and inland east bay. here is your tailgating at home forecast today. valleys reaching the 90s. bay side temperatures in the 70s and 80s. so that kickoff forecast, keep in mind san jose's high near 88 degrees. santa clara likely seeing upper 80s as well by 5:25. mid-80s we think around kickoff time and cooling under hazy skies and, again, most of the bad air quality moving off to the east as we head through the rest of the evening hours. the seven-day forecast we're talking about rain and better air quality this week.

>> music to our ears. we can't wait to see you in about 15. we begin right now with president trump's health as he wakes up in the hospital for a second morning with coronavirus. he remains at walter reed medical center. a new look at the president as a covid patient. last night these new photos were released to show the president working in the hospital's presidential suite on a day of conflicting reports about his health. the white house physician evaded questions during a press conference yesterday and gave a different time line of the president's illness than the white house had previously given. we have a live look for you at walter reed medical center where you can still see a group of supporters, many without masks. the white house is now saying that these next couple of days will be, quote, critical for president trump's health after what the president's chief of staff mark meadows described as

a, quote, very concerning situation friday when the president's blood "today in the bay's" jackie ward reports. the whole first seven to ten days can be critical from when you are exposed to the illness to about day five when you start to develop symptoms. and then we're seeing people around day seven to ten when they worsen and come to the hospital. >> reporter: dr. subramanian is a covid-19 expert, at investigator for stanford university's in-patient for the regeneron antibody trial. the antibodies are still only available as an experimental treatment. president trump is also on a five-day regiment of remdesivir, developed by foster city's gilead sci >> it is expensive but compared to the icu on a ventilator, all the other outcomes that you're

trying to prevent just in the hospital, quite frankly, i think is quite cost effective. >> reporter: with a lot of speculation swirling on the president's medical condition saturday evening he released this video message. >> so i just want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. you don't know over the period of the next few days that's a big test. we'll see what happens over the next couple of days. >> reporter: that message part of a day of conflicting reports on the president's health. a briefing with the president's personal doctor spurned more questions than answers about the time line when the president started to feel sick. the white house later issued a memo correcting the time line dr. sean conley offered. quote, i incorrectly used the term 72 hours instead of day three, end quote. doctors also offered only vague answers on whether the president had been given supplemental oxygen. the timing as to when president

trump knew he had covid-19 is critical because he attended several campaign events this week with many people without wearing a mask. in san francisco jackie ward, nbc bay area news. while the source of transmission is not clear, many people within the president's inner circle have tested positive. the most recent chris christie and nicholas luna. as we told you yesterday morning this likely is the event that touched off the spread of coronavirus. last saturday more than 100 people gathered to celebrate president trump's supreme court nominee amy coney barrett, some of them hugging and kissing, many without masks, and then gathering inside for a meal to celebrate. so far about ten of those people, including white house journalists who attended the ceremony, have tested positive for coronavirus. some of them you can see highlighted in this photo showing where they were sitting in relation to one another

including kellyanne conway, former senior adviser, trump adviser chris christie, aide to jared kushner hope hicks, and senators mike lee of utah, thom tillis of north carolina, and ron johnson of wisconsin. two of those new coronavirus cases, lee and tillis, involved republican members of the senate judiciary committee which now raises questions about the supreme court confirmation process. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the confirmation process will still begin on october 12th whether some members have to join virtually or not. he has, though, requested that all other senate business be delayed until october 19th. democrats are calling for a delay in the hearings altogether. and first lady melania trump also diagnosed with coronavirus. a live look for you at the white house where she remains in isolation. a spokeswoman says the first lady is doing well and that her symptoms have not worsened.

back here locally a heartbreaking story in the east bay, some good samaritans did all they could to rescue two men from a burning car on i-80 in contra costa county. sadly neither of the man survived. the victims' families tell us they are in awe by the kindness of strangers who tried to help. thom jensen reports. hurry-up! >> reporter: it happened shortly before 6:00 on i-80 westbound at the overcrossing in contra costa county. >> i just can't look at it. it's very traumatic. we tried our best. >> reporter: ricafort pulled over in the rush hour traffic to help after a sedan crashed into an overcrossing wall and burst into flames. >> pull him out. pull him out. >> reporter: his wife sue ricafort wanted to show humanity in action. >> i told my husband to stop and

help. that's what he did. >> reporter: elvis says the rescue became more and more dangerous as the fire grew. >> just so hot. you could hear the flames. >> reporter: trying to smash through the safety glass, the driver's sister said her brother, gearry terry brown, later died. his father, 70-year-old gearry terry brown sr. was in the passenger seat and also died. chp has not confirmed the identities or determined what caused the car to crash into the overcrossing. thom jensen, nbc bay area news. a vice president for versace says he was racially profiled in beverly hills this week. police have since released body cam video of the encounter. >> we're just going to record right now.

you see us recording. you hear it in my voice, i'm uncomfortable and nervous, the climate we're in. >> is there anything i can do to make you feel more comfortable? >> they say they stopped him for jaywalking, which he did admit to doing. then they also searched him for weapons. they verified his i.d. at one point an officer accuses him of trying to change the narrative of the incident. he calls it frightening and unjustifies and argues he was stopped simply for being black. we see them everywhere, qr codes. tech experts say some pose a hidden danger. qr codes can get you information quickly and easily. scan it with your phone's camera. there is a risk if you scan one that's tampered with you could be exposing your phone to hackers. >> you don't always know when you're scanning a qr code if it's taking to you a site you know and trust because a qr code that's legitimate and one that's not tend to look exactly the same.

>> so how can you protect yourself? tonight after the 49ers game on nbc bay area consumer investigator chris chmura shows what you can do right now to secure your phone. i will be watching that. still to come on "today in the bay," political analyst larry gerston joins us in just a few minutes to talk about the potential fallout of president trump contracting covid-19. but first no jimmy g. but the 49ers are getting a couple offensive weapons back, george kittle sharing his excitement about returning to the field for "sunday night football." anthony flores is next with sports. say yes... to the best bargains ever at ross! yes! oh, yeah! yep. yesss! savings on savings on savings? that's yes for less. at ross.

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sprain. the 49ers have a ton of injuries but are getting some star power back, deebo samuel and george kittle expected to play tonight against the eagles. >> 5:25 on a sunday night in levi's stadium is exciting. i know our fans won't be there but we'll feel them and it's just going to be really exciting to get out and play again. i've been missing it. looking forward to sunday. >> it's great getting kittle back. close last week and then you don't and being able to pull that off and still win and get kittle back this week i think excites guys a lot. >> the game can be seen here on nbc bay area. kickoff set for 5:25. now be sure and join us for our special pregame and postgame coverage. there won't be any fans -- well, there might be two, our own raj mathai and janelle wang will join us for a special broadcast. after our show switch over to

nbc bay area for 49ers pregame live at a special time, 4:00. this weekend's patriots/chiefs game has been rescheduled because of positive covid-19 test results from both teams. reports say patriots quarterback cam newton tested positive along with the practice player on the chiefs. espn reports that all other patriots players tested negative on saturday. the game will either be played on monday or on tuesday. to the pitch the quakes taking on the l.a. galaxy. late in the first half, the quakes down but not out. lopez puts it in the pocket. what a blast. san jose would take the lead in the 82nd minute. the penalty kick and 2-1 is your final.

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welcome back. for months president trump has

down played the coronavirus pandemic and derided many who wear masks for protection even as recently as the presidential debate on tuesday. mocking joe biden's largest mask he has ever seen. it has claimed the lives of more than 210,000 americans and now the president finds himself, his wife, and many in his inner circle included in the count of 7 million americans suffering from covid-19. we turn to nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston. larry, good morning to you. thanks for joining us. what does this mean for the rest of president trump's campaign? >> he'd like the last four or five weeks to be done. if you think about all the things that have happened to president trump, most of them self-inflicted but happened nonetheless, we start with this whole idea of the military, what he said about military soldiers in "the atlantic" magazine lose. then bob woodward's saying he

hid covid-19 from the public in terms of its seriousness for weeks. the president is seen not paying income taxes for so many years. then the terrible debate and now covid-19. as i said most of it self-inflicted. the pain is there for the president and i'm sure his supporters. >> and so going back to this covid diagnosis yesterday there was a press conference with the white house physician. he was accused of giving vague answers, evading questions from reporters. is this an issue? if so, why? >> a lot has to do with the time frame, kira. one is 36 hours when he discussed it, one is 72 hours. if it's 72 hours it meant the president was diagnosed and actually then went to bedminster to meet with his highest rollers with the potential of infikting them. if it's later that issue didn't happen. that's why it's so critical and the problem with this president,

unfortunately, throughout his administration they have lacked transparency. and when you really need it more than ever it's hard for people to believe if it's there this time since the track record suggests otherwise. that's the big problem. >> why is the lack of information about the president a problem or the president's health a problem? >> unfortunately, whenever presidents have a problem like this, a serious illness, a health issue, their doctors, their chiefs of staff almost put a cloak over the whole thing. we've seen that before. we saw that with president reagan in 1981, attempted assassination, within a minute or two of death according to his doctors. and they said it's nothing serious. the next morning they had a picture of him signing a bill just like you saw with president trump last night, and yet this person, reagan, was in the hospital for 11 more days. that's the problem. if it just happens because of that, people don't think much about it. they understand, they rally around the president.

but because we've had this transparency problem for so long at every twist and turn all it does is exacerbate the polarity. >> looking at the hypothetical given the president's circumstances now would potentially be the time to invoke the 25th amendment which would give presidential authority to vice president mike pence. how would that work? >> everybody is discussing the 25th amendment so early into the president's illness and that, again, gets back to the transparency problem. they don't know what to think. you can invoke it two ways. the first way has happened three times when presidents underwent some sort of brief medical experience like a colonoscopy. president he came back in the operation. the more serious way of dealing with it is if the president is

just out of it, unconscious. can't see what's going on. and it's so serious the vice president and cabinet can go ahead and vote, take the power away from the president and make the vice president acting president until they say that the president is well enough to take the power back. that's never been invoked that way. that's section 4 of the 25th amendment. i don't think we're looking at that right now. the very fact people are talking about this, kira, so early tells me that people are rattled because they just don't know. they don't know what to think and, so, like a lot of us we tend to think the worst when we don't know in the absence of real information. >> so that would put an exclamation point need to know what's really going on. >> and, unfortunately, given this gap and the medical people not helping out nor the chief of

staff the only people who can get this information are the press, the ones digging, finding every source possible to piece it together. we're not going to get it for now from the sources we would normally expect it. it's a bad time for the president. it's a bad time for the country and we can only hope that things get better for both. >> thanks as always. we'll be back with a last look at weather.

good morning. we are waking up to some more clear skies compared to this time yesterday. perfect timing for 49ers football here on nbc bay area. of course "sunday night football" here as our 49ers take on the philadelphia eagles. kickoff temperatures in the mid-80s. we've bumped up our temperatures a little bit more today. still cooler than the numbers yesterday but we should begin in the 80s. cooling through the 70s. and for your 49ers tailgating from home plans around the bay area today warm temperatures across the valleys for another day. 90s inland. and bay side temperatures actually pretty warm as well. more of afog to san francisco t morning. i still think we'll get through the afternoon. one of the biggest changes we're seeing this morning is that air quality and you can see how things have switched back to green to yellow which is good to moderate. san francisco over to the east bay. and look at san jose and santa

clara. things look better this morning. areas near the glass fire we'll continue to see locally unhealthy air at times as we go through probably midday. the fire activity picks up, we may briefly see a little more smoke especially around the inland east bay and north bay and then the sea breeze picks back up through the evening which should push more of the smoke to the east as we head into monday. a view around the bay area. san jose is not a red sunrise. some haze and dust in the air. 59 degrees in san jose. a little more smoke in dublin. 57 degrees. over to san francisco not much smoke. look at that. the fog is back right around the coast there this morning spilling on the west side of downtown san francisco at 54 degrees. our highs today trending downward from yesterday, 70s and 80s from san francisco to oakland. still upper 80s in san jose and some 90s inland. then all eyes on what's left of

hurricane marie, that moisture will move to the north combined with a weather system approaching the coast by thursday and friday that will bring us a chance of seeing some rain as early as friday and then another system for saturday, so here is the good news. cooler temperatures and increasing odds seeing rain to help rinse out the skies. there you see the temperature trend, trending cooler for san francisco as we approach next weekend and the warmest day. better air quality increasing rain chances making a welcome return to northern california approaching next weekend. >> wonderful news, rob. thanks for that great forecast. and thanks to you for making us a part of your morning. it's sunday into the football, the 49ers taking on the eagles here at levi's stadium right here on nbc bay area. sunday prime time airing at 8:30 followed by a special edition of

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this sunday the president's health. the white house calls the president's condition very concerning, contradicting his doctor's upbeat, public assessment. >> this morning the president is doing very well. >> the white house scrambling last night to get on the same page. >> he's made unbelievable improvements from yesterday morning when i know a number of us, the doctor and i were very concerned. >> mr. trump releasing a video from walter reed last night. >> i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now. we're working hard to get me all

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