we'll talk about the weekend warmup that's coming up in a few minutes. mike, what's going on right now as we have to crank up the heater in the car? >> yeah, you're going to have to slow down just a tad bit in san jose. i've marked it on the map with the arrow, north 101 heading up from 680 to oakland road. traditional spot, traditional timing. but at the bottom of the screen they still have the closure for the investigation after a deadly crash involving a single vehicle on santa teresa boulevard so use monterey road if that is where you're traveling. the area will stay closed possibly all morning long. for the peninsula, the earlier disabled vehicle has cleared 101 at the peninsula and the bay bridge toll plaza is an easy, clear drive. back to you. 6:00 where the battle is playing out over the future of the republican party. in a matter of hours, the house will vote on whether to strip embattled republican congresswoman marjorie taylor

greene of her committee assignments. >> "today in the bay's" tracie potts is live in washington, d.c., with more on what's expected. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: hi, good morning. let's start with republican liz cheney whose job was saved. she will remain in leadership after a secret vote of republican members. she was one of the ten republicans who voted against former president trump in favor of impeachment for inciting the january 6th insurrection at the capitol which killed five people. house minority leader kevin mccarthy said he was a very goo conference. members together. but the number one thing that happened this conference was unity. people were able to air their differences. people were able to focus. >> reporter: it was a secret ballot, but three sources told

nbc news that republican house members voted 145-61 in favor of cheney. now, today the vote on whether to strip embattled republican freshman marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments. she's made several controversial comments, mocking a survivor of a florida school shooting, pushing violence against members of congress, democrats, and supporting qanon conspiracy theories. mccarthy talked to her, condemned her comments, but declined to take action. but take a look at this. an axios favorability poll is hinting at where republicans may go on this vote. green actually has higher favorability than cheney did. republicans are arguing that today's vote is premature, that this needs to go through the ethics committee first. >> so much going on. well, before you go, i want to talk a little bit about president biden as well today.

he's heading to the state department later. >> reporter: he is. he's doing his first big foreign policy speech trying to make good on that inauguration day promise to restore our relationship with our allies and get america more engaged in the world. a.p. is also reporting that he wants to scale up the number of refugees that are allowed in the united states. that number, that cap was dropped significantly under the trump administration. >> all right, certainly a busy first few weeks in office. tracie potts live from washington, thank you. governor newsom has announced the state of california is expected to receive another million doses of the covid vaccine this week. this as many californians receive or are preparing to receive their second shot. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live. bob, you sifted through a lot of data this morning. how are those numbers looking? >> reporter: good morning to you. we're obviously nowhere near

herd i area, we're starting to see that number climb. take a look at this graphic we put together for you on your tv screen. this is based on the information we've been able to find from respective county health departments. santa clara county, 48,000 plus people in that county have already received their second dose of the covid-19 vaccine. contra costa county where i'm at, just over 24,000. sf, 19,000. san mateo county around 15,000. sonoma close to 10,000. marin over 5,000. now if you look at it from the point of view of percentage of population, again these are the counties reporting the percentage of population that have received the second dose and that's where you can see we're still got a long ways to go. san francisco, 3% have received their second dose. here in contra costa county, 2.6%. and in marin county, 2.1%. so let's say you received your second dose. the vaccine is 95% effective.

can you resume your pre-pandemic activity? not so fast say the health experts. you're still supposed to wear a mask and maintain social distance. as "the chronicle" reports it's not clear whether those who have been vaccinated can still transmit the virus to others, so that's an issue. there's also the question about whether the new variants of the virus can make these vaccines less effective. reporting live here in san ramon, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> so who should get a vaccine next? the "sacramento bee" says state health leaders are considering putting people with a disability or medical condition next in line. they can only get the vaccine at a clinic or hospital. the policy would not apply at mass vaccination sites. as more than 760,000 doses. line, head over to nbcbayarea.com. developing this morning, san

jose police are questioning a man they say made social media threats to shoot up a mall. it happened yesterday at valley fair mall. that's where authorities say he live streamed his threats on snapchat. within an hour officers located a man fitting the description and arrested him. they say he was armed with a gun. >> he was an adult male with dark clothing and was wearing shoulder-length hair, purple in color. i would say a very distinctive description. >> the mall never fully closed, but police did shut down one area as they quietly moved in. a bomb squad was later seen in the parking lot checking a car believed to be the suspect's. a follow-up for you now. talk about a long time on hold. spectrum and verizon customers across the south bay yesterday suffered through a lengthy outage. this was in morgan hill. as of late last night it was still ongoing. a construction crew hit a fiber line early yesterday morning, knocking out internet and cell

service, causing some pretty big headaches for a lot of people. they had to re-route 911 calls as well. we're told most if not all internet service was restored around 9:00 last night. so far no update this morning from verizon. oakland is now getting major legal pushback on its plan to require an additional $5 an hour hazard pay to grocery workers during the pandemic. the california grocers association has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, claiming the approval of extra pay violates federal and state law. the association also says higher pay will not increase worker safety. san jose and los angeles are also considering the so-called hero pay for grocery store employees. long beach recently enacted it triggering the sudden closure of two grocery stores. new this morning, possible new life soon for a building that housed a landmark san francisco restaurant, talking about the cliff house here. it closed late last year. "the chronicle" is reporting the

national park service is actively looking to fill the space with something new. in a perfect world they say it will be a new restaurant. they're hoping to find a new long-term taengt by this spring. well, let's head outside on this tk from our tri-valley camera looking at dublin right now. that's one of the colder spots. meteorologist kari hall joins us. kari, should we be looking out for iguanas like there are in florida? >> right, this is a pretty crazy story but it happens like once a year. take a look at how cold these temperatures are across the country and miami is no exception. let's get a live look at our camera there as they're waking up this morning. they are having to look up and it's such a beautiful sight there, but yeah, those temperatures have been pretty chilly. and let's get a look at what the national weather service had to issue for today. a falling iguanas advisory and social media remains undefeated.

they put some of bernie's mittens on the iguana. they're cold blooded and when temperatures get too cold they just become immobile and may fall out of the trees so that's what they're watching for there. of course none of those here in the bay area and i am so glad. we are going to have a nice, warm day today reaching into the low to mid-60s in parts of the north bay. we'll talk about some warmer weather in our weekend forecast coming up. mike, what's going on right now with the commute? >> i'm actually thinking about you having the rain cloud that shows when there's rain. what would be the picture you put on your maps for the iguanas. i have a better picture on my maps. we're looking at the blue box that says cleared. the exit from northbound 680, the activity closed the off-ramp and it's now open. the freeways are open with an easy drive getting toward the bay bridge. a live look over at the toll plaza shows you, unlike the

previous two days, we do not have a backup or metering lights right now at 6:09. back to you. >> thanks, mike and kari. all right. do you have plans for store. coming up, how lovebirds canlow. i don't know if it's my cup of tea, though, scott. also we'll take a look at a thing that just always hits silicon valley every couple years and that is rumors of an apple car. and we'll take you to the markets this morning with a mild rise in the futures. you're watching "today in the bay."

well, good morning. very happy thursday to you as well. today the new treasury secretary will gather some of the country's most important financial regulators together and ask what are we going to do about gamestop? or any other stock where amateur investors rush in and cause huge fluctuations in price. what wall street calls volatility. or do we not do anything at all? yellen will meet with the heads of the s.e.c., the federal reserve, which she used to morning. now, as we've been talking about before, it is not exactly clear what regulators could do in that it doesn't appear on the face of it that anybody broke any rules. or if you wanted to prevent such a frenzy in the future, what

rules you could invent. but if there's a takeaway from this, it's this. it's that the biden administration is not afraid of getting its hands on some financial regulation if necessary. yelp is going to sell its san francisco headquarters building as it downsizes its workforce. this according to "the business times." that's the old pacific telephone and telegraph building on montgomery. the company hasn't said where it will put its headquarters, in san francisco or elsewhere. stitchfix says it will sell its san francisco warehouse and cut staff. stitchfix is a subscription clothing service that offers you clothes its stylists think would suit your individual tastes. new jobless claims are down around 780,000. that's the lowest we've seen in months. we'll get the big jobs report, the number of jobs gained or lost in january, that comes tomorrow. the ceo of parler says he was fired from that company. he was trying to introduce some rules about what you can say on the app like don't call for violence, that kind of thing.

parler originally billed itself as a place anyone can say anything and got itself kicked off the app marketplaces and web services because of it. there's a new report going around that apple will launch an apple-branded car built by hyundai. i have been covering silicon valley for 20 years. apple car is a story that pops up about every other year. it is entirely possible that it's real this time, there will be an apple car. cierra, i have richard scary's books and lowly worm was the original o.g. on applecars. he had one even before apple was a company. >> thank you, scott. well, president biden's covid-19 stimulus package gaining support among americans. a new quinnipiac university poll shows 68% support the nearly $2 trillion proposal, 24% oppose it.

a $1,400 direct payment plan is even more popular. 78% support that part of the proposal even though it's been a sticking point in negotiations. okay, this story is cracking me up this morning. lowe's is betting couples hunker down at home during the pandemic will want nothing more than a trip to the hardware store for valentine's day. the company is sponsoring what it calls a night of lowmance on february 14th. it's taking reservations through its website. 50 couples across the u.s., including san francisco, will qualify for an after-hours store experience, including splash painting. you can splash paint a large canvas together. couples need to live within the metro area and agree to follow covid guidelines. brings new meaning to a stud finder. trending this morning, a country music star is actually facing fallout for comments he reportedly made. >> that's right.

marcus washington joins us now with that and more. >> good morning to you both. we're talking about country music awards 2020 new artist of the year. a lot of people talking about morgan wallen. now, his music recent incident with him allegedly caught on video obtained by tmz using the "n" word. it shows him shouting that racial slur. he was suspended immediately from his music label. country music stars are expressing their outrage while singers like kelsea ballerini suggests that wallen's actions do not represent country music. nbc news has reached out to wallen for his response but haven't heard back from that. he did issue an apology, tmz capturing that. it says in part, quote, that there are no excuses to use this type of language ever. singer taylor swift facing a

new lawsuit against a theme park in utah. so evermore parksith the title violates the park's trademark rights. swift's lawyer says those allegations are baseless. evermore parks probably did win because now we know where it's located, in utah. and today the nominees for the 2021 screen actors guild awards are set to be announced later this morning. lily collins and david digs will host that event on instagram live via the s.a.g. awards account. a lot of people are wondering whether "the crown" will repeat all of the nods it got during the golden globe awards. it is now the most nominated show of 2021 right now, so it's a good series, i watched it.

so if you haven't, maybe you should get onboard. >> sounds good, thank you, marcus. >> yeah, it's really, really good. love those stories about the royals. it's 6:18 right now. i want to check in with our own queen of the weather, meteorologist kari hall, who's got a look at our forecast. >> we're starting out with a nice sunrise. as we take a look outside in walnut creek, we're just about 45 minutes from seeing the sun coming over the hills and are making plans for today so let's head over toward brentwood. it's a home schooling day for a lot of us and the kids getting out in the backyard and getting out some energy and giving us a chance to relax. we'll see temperatures warm up by late morning into the upper 50s, eventually later today reaching about 60 degrees. if you're able to go out for a today but that sunshine really

helps it feel a lot nicer. we're going to have a lot of dry weather in the forecast. high pressure setting up. that causes the air to sink. as it sinks, it warms up. that will keep us from getting any chances of rain while it's here and slowly move all towards the east. even by next wednesday we're not seeing many storm systems moving our way. so our weather will be dry as we go through the next seven days and warming up as well. by the weekend we're looking at inland temperatures reaching into the upper 60s. a slight cooldown early next week. san francisco will be in the mid-50s today, but we can expect some 60s for tomorrow into saturday. overall a fairly quiet weather pattern as we can get out and enjoy some nice spring-like weather for some of us. let's head over to you, mike. what's going on now with the morning commute? >> kari, i spoke too soon because the bay bridge metering lights have been activated. take a look at this live camera

we have at the toll plaza, though. just wait, there's less. less traffic than the last couple of days. so even though they turned on the metering lights, it's not an issue. but we'll look at the span, they may have turned it on because 80 stretchin is calming down even now without much backup at the toll plaza. just between the plaza and the metering lights is where we have the slowing. the rest of the bay shows green sensors all around the bay and that's great news. i'm still watching carefully for eastbound 84, that's the dumbarton bridge away from east palo alto and menlo park. two lanes are reportedly still blocked toward the high rise by crews possibly there until 10:00 a.m. right now the speed sensors are at the limit. back to you. >> thanks, mike. coming up next, mother nature's foam party in south america. check it out. looks like fun. up next, how it all came to be. >> love a good foam party. also up next, nbc bay area responds. >> we found an app that might save you hundreds of dollars a

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moment but, kari, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. i think i need to spend some more time outside. >> well, you're probably glad that you're starting the day inside because it is cold out there. we're going to have more mornings like this but it is clear and we'll have temperatures warming up today. as we go into the weekend we're talking about high temperatures near 70 degrees. we'll see more of that nice weather but also very dry as you get ready to head out the door in the tri-valley. we have temperatures starting out here in the low 40s. we'll talk about what's ahead as we go into the weekend coming up in a few minutes. mike, how's the drive across the bay? >> so far, specifically across the bay, hold on for that. as we look around the bay, the big news shows green sensors all around. zooming into crossing the bay specifically, look at the slower sensors still across the bay bridge westbound.

that is a major commute spot. the metering lights were just turned on but the live look shows you it's taking about 20 minutes for the backup to start showing up on our camera as you approach the toll plaza. be advised. back to you. >> thanks so much. let's take a live look in san francisco this thursday morning. a big announcement is expected just a few hours from now on the opening of a new mass vaccination site. the announcement will coincide with an emergency hearing on san francisco's vaccine distribution. but what gives? pete suratos joins us live from san francisco this morning. pete, what do we know right now? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. as you just mentioned, we're going to get this announcement on this mass vaccination site opening at the moscone center tomorrow. you have the board of supervisors holding this emergency meeting asking for more information on mass vaccination sites so we can see why there's a little confusion. hopefully things will clear out as the morning goes but here's what we do know. we know that mass vaccination

site will open at the moscone center in san francisco tomorrow. that announcement will take place in a few hours. the vaccine will be available for folks that are 65 years and older and health care workers. it will be appointment only. but the goal by the city is to administrator anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 doses per day. we're going to have an emergency meeting being called by the san francisco board of supervisors. they're calling for more vaccination data from the department of public health as well as information on mass vaccination sites. now all of this is happening as the city sued san francisco unified school district to reopen its doors. one legal expert says the city may have a case. >> it certainly has put some attention on the fact that san francisco has not educated any kids in person during this entire pandemic where a lot of other school districts have. >> reporter: san francisco

supervisor matt hainey is the one calling this emergency meeting. this is a tweet that he sent out yesterday saying he didn't have a firm date on the opening of this moscone center site so hopefully we'll get more details from mayor london breed who will be at that site today at 11:00 a.m. bay." as infection rates fall, california is still dealing with an alarming death rate. the highest since the start of the pandemic. nearly 7,600 people died over the past two weeks, an average have 542 per day. total deaths top 41,000, equaling the entire population of danville. kaiser permanente is appealing recent fines issued by cal osha. the fines together amount to $100,000. in one case at its walnut creek facility, cal osha says kaiser failed to properly handle or

prevent possible worker exposure to covid. in the other caseworkers in san leandro were allegedly forced to use defective ppe gear. in a statement, kaiser calls the allegations isolated and from early on in the pandemic. kaiser was hit with similar fines from cal osha at the end of 2020 that also topped $100,000. here's a follow-up, the new director of california's problem-plagued edd promising to clean things up and vowing recent mistakes will not be repeated. the department is believed to have handed out billions and billions of dollars to people who filed bogus jobless claims. yesterday the new director appeared before lawmakers sidestepping the specifics about missteps made in the past but promising it will not happen again. lawmakers are reviewing two audits and may review more later this morning. muni is facing yet another budget shortfall. sfmta met twice this week to try to hammer out budget agreements for next year. it's facing a $134 million shortfall due to the pandemic

and its unknown where cuts will come from. the transit system is completely dependent on outside funding. according to "the chronicle" the board's transportation director says pre-pandemic muni now to our climate in crisis series. for the past several weeks our entire weather team has been meeting with scientists to discuss the impacts of climate change that it's having on the bay area. >> forecaster vianey arana explored some of the issues surrounding discovery bay. this is really interesting. what were you able to find out? >> it really is interesting. you hear us covering your weather every day. kari does it in the mornings and throws in a science lesson or two. but when you meet with experts you really do get an idea of what exactly is happening in areas like discovery bay in stockton, which is where we're talking about toxic algae

blooms. it might look picture perfect from above but there is something toxic underneath lurking in the water. if we don't act fast before those blue waters may not be blue anymore. toxic algal blooms are increasing and the toxicity levels are hurting our wildlife and can hurt our health if we don't make a change. we spoke with john rosenfield who said the warming temperatures is making it worse. >> harmful algal blooms are microorganizisms that when they multiply a lot form these mats that look like algal blooms. they're green and on the surface or just under the water, except that these, unlike regular old pond algae, these algae release a toxin that can be very powerful. >> to watch this full interview about harmful algal blooms go to

nbcbayarea.com and click on the climate in crisis tab on our top trending bar. then you simply click on climate hot spots and it's right there. in addition to that, we also announced climate hack basically i show you eco-friendly swaps for every day items like your toothbrush, your hair ties, anything plastic that canlandfills. just follow me. see you on social. >> sounds good, thanks vianey. coming up next on "today in the bay" living up to its promise. we'll look at the progress president biden is making on his push to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days. and how it's impacting the rollout in california. plus -- >> president biden also wants to send checks to american families but needs republicans' help or at least he wants it. he may have a solution. we'll look at that. plus let's take you to the big board this morning. stocks mildly higher.

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right now at 6:41 as we check out our current temperatures, it is a sold start as the sun rises and we're even below freezing in parts of the north bay. we're watching these numbers that will warm up into a nice afternoon. we'll talk about this and what's happening in the sierra as well as our weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. we're tracking the pledges made by president biden during his first 100 days in office.

>> this morning we have live team coverage. kris sanchez is monitoring his vaccine promise but we begin with scott mcgrew. the president wants those relief checks sent to american families as quickly as possible. >> yeah, that's right, good morning to you. remember, democrats have th votes right now to do it but president biden kind of compromised reached with republicans. the latest idea is to keep the amount of the check at the same level, $1,400, but decrease the number of americans who would qualify to get them. the last checks went out to anyone earning $75,000 or less a ar. th new proposal would decrease that to people making less than $50,000 a year in hopes of getting republicans to sign on. getting money i a priority, getting money to people is a priority to the white house. we saw another 780,000 americans lost their jobs just last week. president biden met with democratic senators at the white house yesterday. on monday he met with a team of

republican senators. other news, republicans made a very significant decision not to strip wyoming's liz cheney of her leadership position. cheney supports donald trump's impeachment. that had angered the trump wing of the party, which wanted her demoted. that did not haen. inact the reported vote wasn't even close. behind closed doors the members voted 145-61 against punishing cheney. the other big decision, though, involves representative marjorie taylor greene. the republicans are under pressure to take away her committee assignments. greene in the past has said that an airplane did not hit the pentagon during 9/11, that parents at sandy hook elementary staged their own children's deaths, and she endorsed internet posts that called for the murder of the very people she works with in the house. the full house, which remember is controlled by democrats, will vote today to strip greene of her assignments if her party doesn't do it first. >> it is about accountability

and about upholding the this institution. now, if this isn't the bottom line, i don't know where the hell the bottom line is. >> greene had tweeted out the democrats don't want her sitting on the house education and labor committee because she's, quote, white, a woman, wife, mother, christian, conservative and business owner. now, her boss on that committee, fellow republican and ranking committee member virginia fox of north carolina is all of those things too. she owns a plant nursery business and she's especially conservative. she voted against certifying the election for joe biden. i can't really find an example of a full house stripping a member of a committee assignment in the past. the house has the power to do it but it's really been up to the individual parties in the past. in defending greene, house minority leader mccarthy says greene regrets her past statements. today the president makes his first major address. he'll

i'll be covering that on twitter and at the midday news as well. perfect. we'll wait for that. thanks so much, scott. now let's go kris sanchez on how biden has been doing on his vaccine promise, 100 shots in 100 days. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we want to tell you what's happening here locally first. we expect to hear an update from santa clara county public health leaders this morning. they previously had been frustrated with how the vaccine rollout has been going. this afternoon, other county leaders and state leaders are expected to pressure the governor on distribution and equity. now let's start with the vaccine by the numbers. you were talking about in all, california has gotten 6.3 million doses but just over half of those have been administered. here in the bay area santa clara county has given 200,000 shots, alameda county 151,000 shots, 139,000. i didn't list the rest of the

counties because they're smaller. county has gotten and given the most vaccines in the bay area as it is the most populous, but it is still not enough to vaccinate everyone 65 and older who wants one who the governor made eligible just a few weeks ago. only alameda county was tapped to host a mass vaccination site and that is at the oakland coliseum. it is a partnership with the federal government with the goal of giving up to 6,000 doses a day. the state says that site will not take away from any doses that are allocated to other locations, these are new doses. in addition to the doses headed to 100 cvs stores in california and walgreens pharmacies which are also gearing up to offer the vaccine, we know that two new one-dose shots, that astrazeneca shot and johnson & johnson are closer to requesting emergency use authorization here in the u.s. all of this of course is part of the biden vaccinating 100

million within the firstoffice. we are averaging nationwide about 1.3 million shots a day. now, the biden push could impact newsom's legacy too as the governor's approval rating is plunging. about half of people approved of the governor's job that he was doing in handling the pandemic about six months in, but once we got that vaccine and that vaccine failed to reach our local counties and regular people who want that vaccine, that approval rating continued to drop. it's now about a third of people who approve of the job that he's doing. we're going to track the press conference coming out of the santa clara public health department and also the other one happening this afternoon for you. >> all right, sounds good. thanks so much, kris. well, as so many of us are not vaccinated, we still have to remind ourselves we are in this pandemic despite a lot of people wanting to gather for their

super bowl parties. there's some big concerns. this is a live look at tampa, florida, where two kansas city chiefs players are actually now on the reserve covid list. this comes after a barber tested positive. espn is reporting 20 people, including quarterback patrick mahomes were in line for a haircut but only demarcus robinson and center daniel kilgore were deemed to have come into close contact with that barber. they'll still be able to play sunday provided that they test negative. let's hope that everybody is okay. let's check in with "today in the bay's" marcus washington this morning. >> marcus, you're looking at other super bowl stories that are trending this morning. >> yeah, you know what, the bay area will be well represented. a bay area native will take center stage of the super bowl. no, i'm not talking about tom brady, i'm talking about educator tremaine davis. he will be an honorary captain. he was born in pittsburg and now works at ucla helng underserved students as a those

students have resources and the motivation to succeed in high school, college and throughout their career. davis knows that struggle from firsthand experience. he is the first in his family to graduate from high school. another bay area native that is going to make a big show at the super bowl. >> 'twas the night before super bowl and what to my wondering eyes should appear but the super bowl legends of yesteryear. >> there he is, marshawn lynch in the frito-lay super bowl commercial. it's going to take on the famous christmas poem. you know who also will show up? joe montana and jerry rice. so even though the 49ers will not be playing this year, we are going to be well represented throughout the game. also i want to mention that her, the grammy award-winning artist from vallejo will sing "america the beautiful." so singing, playing, we're all over the place. >> sounds good, thank you, marcus. >> yes, a lot to look forward to, thanks. hey, let's check in with

meteorologist kari hall, talking about looking forward to things. the forecast looks gorgeous coming up the next few days. >> it does. yeah, take a look at this sunrise that we're seeing over san francisco right now. it's all clear, but i'm also watching something else because i just got the update of the drought monitor and we were hoping for some big push, an increase in our drought conditions are looking better for us, but because of all of the rainfall, mostly targeting the central coast, that's where the improvements were. for us here in the bay area, we really didn't see too much of a change. unfortunately still much of the north bay is in an extreme drought and we are seeing some of those severe drought conditions continuing but there was some improvement from the santa cruz mountainsro the central coast. we're heading back into some dry weather. high pressure setting up. it's going to block any chance of any additional rain from

moving in over at least the next week. even as it moves off towards the east, there won't be any new storm systems headed our way so we're going to be watching out for that as we go into the next several days, but the climate prediction center putting out their outlook saying we are going to have below average rainfall the next couple of weeks and that's what we are seeing but it was so great to see all of that snow in the sierra. this is a live look at squaw valley. if you are lucky enough to go there this weekend and enjoy it, we are going to have some great weather. take a look at how warm those temperatures will get. you can see how much snow they have had recently, getting anywhere from 94 inches of snow in the lower parts of the mountains up to 105 -- 115 right now for the upper mountains. so great weekend for the sierra and us here in the bay area. we are going to see more sunshine. warm weather temperatures making it into the upper 60s in the inland valleys. it will be slightly cooler next week. and for san francisco, expect those temperatures to come out of the 50s into the 60s.

we're going to see that continue into early next week with this dry weather. heading over to you, mike. what is it looking like for the morning commute? >> well, kari, there's a buildup at the bay bridge toll plaza but the live camera shows you for the folks coming off of the maze and the 880 overcrossing. the folks off the freeway, look at the map, we have what i've circled west ain't around solano avenue in richmond a crash and debris blocking two lanes. as we look at the rest of the baook at the bigger view, we do see a smooth drive across all your bridges, including the dumbarton bridge where that cleared from the eastbound side. happening now, the leader of the tokyo olympic organizing committee says he will not resign despite fallout from

derogatory comments he made about women this week. a japanese newspaper reports the tokyo 2020 president said women talk too much in meetings. the ioc not doing much about it. it's one more problem for the postponed tokyo games, which organizers are still trying to pull off in the midst of a raging pandemic. it is 6:53. coming up next, a quick look at our top stories, including take two. more people are receiving their second dose of the covid vaccine. we'll have a live report on how far bay area counties still have to go to reach herd immunity. you're watching "today in the bay."

welcome back. a quick look at the top stories that we're following this morning, starting with the vaccine rollout. >> that's right. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live this morning looking at the ramp-up of second doses in the uphill battle bay area counties continue to face. bob? >> reporter: good morning. yes, we're seeing a small percentage of people who live here in the bay area, we're talking about 2% to 3% who have received a second dose. here's the breakdown by county, at least from the information we are able to get from the respective public health department websites. you can see santa clara county over 48,000 people there have received their second dose. in contra costa county where i'm at, it's over 24,000. san francisco, shy of 20,000. they're in the 19,000 range.

san mateo county just over 15,000. sonoma county a little shy of 10,000, marin county approaching 5,500. when you look at the percentage of the population, san francisco, that's just 3% of the population there who have received that second dose. here in contra costa county, it's 2.6%. marin county just over 2%. so let's say you received that second dose. remember, the vaccines have been proven to be 95% effective through the vaccine trials. the question is can you resume your pre-pandemic activity? experts say not so fast. you're still supposed to wear a mask and maintain social distance. as the chronicle reports, it's not clear whether those fully vaccinated can transmit the virus to others. there's also question about whether the new variants can make the vaccine less effective. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> interesting info there, bob, thanks. so who should get the

vaccine next? the "sacramento bee" reports state health leaders are considering putting people with a disability or medical condition next in line. they would have to receive their vaccine at a clinic or a hospital and be able to have their condition verified. the policy would not apply at mass vaccination sites. and this is a live look at sfo where in a few hours airport workers and other essential workers will hold a rally. they're demanding governor newsom put them back on the vaccine priority list. they claim newsom moved them and tens of thousands of other vulnerable essential workers down on the priority list. that rally starts at 11:30. i think we have a live look coming up from walnut creek. pretty sight there. you can see the sun coming up there behind those hills. should be a nice day. it's going to start off a little cool. kari, what exactly is going to play out today? >> yeah, we are going to have a really nice day ahead.

we are going to see our temperatures today reaching into the upper 50s and low 60s going into the weekend. we have some nice weather ah of course it's going to be dry but we can get out and enjoy it. let's head over to you, mike. what's going on with the commute? >> well, kari, we have the one trouble spot on the east shore freeway from san pablo getting into richmond. we're looking at this crash which has your left two lanes blocked by a crash and debris. i'm not hearing about major injuries. that's the good news. and i guess a side effect of that is at the toll plaza where the metering lights have been on since just after 6:00, the live look shows you that the traffic being held up in richmond and san pablo making things much easier traveling over from oakland into san francisco. >> all right, well, thank you, mike and kari and thank you for watching. that will do it for us today. >> that's right. we'll leave you this morning with a live look at the golden gate bridge. so iconic, so beautiful. a nice start to our thursday morning. kind of cool out there.

grab a jacket before you head out the door but that sunshine is certainly going to shine through. enjoy your bay area morning. the "today" show is coming up next. and of course join us for our midday news at 11:00. good morning positive signs u.s. cases of the coronavirus dropping to their lowest levels in months. vaccination rates on the rise with more mass vaccination sites opening from coast to coast. >> we are on track to meet the president's goal of 100 million shots in 100 days. >> health officials keep a close watch on the new highly the battle over masks flairs up once again