so i can get to them. easy prep, cook and clean with reynolds wrap. ready to reopen. the first bay area county now set to move into the yellow tier. what it means you will finally be able to do after more than a year of waiting. >> that process took a couple years. this process is also going to take a couple years. >> what is next for two men convicted in the murder of a police officer in rome? experts break down the legal challenges they'll continue to face in that high-profile case. and looking for a new home? prices are scorching hot. so hot you may want to be prepared to pay above or beyond that list price. >> the bay area tradition now it seems like around here.

good thursday morning to you. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we'll get to your forecast in a bit. first to breaking news with mike. >> unfortunately the 580 interchange. the video from overnight is pretty much the same. the big rig crash and damage. some fluid across 580. chp says all lanes continue to be closed. you see traffic squeezing by and it's the exit lane on 680. take you to the map. west 580 comes through the dublin/pleasanton area. you're going to hit the brakes and slow down, jam up there. you can squeeze by in the exit. back on using the same interchange area. don't continue on north or south if you want to get to the dublin great.

folks know that issue with the on and off ramps. that's what you use to get by the section and folks are using 84. down to sunol out of the altamont and down to the tri-valley. back over to you. a step closer in a return to normalcy. san francisco enters the less restrictive yellow tier. businesses are allowed to expand their services. >> cierra johnson live with more on what the yellow tier means. good morning. >> reporter: yes, good morning. today is a big day, yet another milestone. inching closer and closer to a sense of normalcy. restaurants, wineries and bars no longer have to sell and their

capacity has increased. the biggest change, as i mentioned, that indoor capacity for bars 25%. now the capacity has increased for indoor gyms, wineries, restaurants and tasting rooms. they can open at 50% and capacity for live events now stands at 67%. with all of these changes we can see a domino effect with other industries seeing an increase in their business as well. parking garages, ride share drivers, hotels just to name a few, they could all see a benefit from increasing to that yellow tier. we did have a chance to speak with dr. sara cody for santa clara county, and she says that county is also drifting closer and closer to the yellow tier. as it stands now 2.3 cases per 100,000. so it could be just a matter of

days before i'm standing in santa clara county telling you that they are also open. cierra johnson for "today in the bay." the cases are dropping even more. you can see right here the new cases are just a fraction of where they were january 9th. 254,000, just a little bit over that on the 9th. now in the worst of the winter surge california reported 44,000 new cases a day. yesterday it was down to just over 1,700. groups are forecasting different reopening scenarios. >> just how challenging it was limiting the spread of the most prevalent strain in california.

the west coast strain is responsible for most bay area covid cases and deaths. according to colorado researchers the number of cases there tied to the california variant jumped about sevenfold from january to march. an expert tells us thanks to the vaccine being so widespread the real threat from this variant is now gone. in the meantime, a booster shot of moderna is showing promising results against the variants from south africa and brazil. the company says early data from an ongoing clinical trial shows an encouraging immune response. new details this morning. the toernl for one of the two bay area men convicted in the stabbing death of an italian police officer is already vowing to appeal the verdict. finnegan elder and york of mill valley were led out of that italian courtroom yesterday. they may never set foot on u.s. soil again. they were found guilty and

sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an officer during a botched drug deal in rome. this is while they were on vacation. experts say other courts don't always work like the ones here. >> here i don't think the boys would have been convicted of more than manslaughter or maybe there would have been a plea-bargain. >> when you send your kids abroad they don't take the u.s. america justice system with them. that stops at the border. >> their appeal will likely be a slow process. family members are not commenting. developing right now san francisco prosecutors later today are expected to lay out charges of a man accused in a random stabbing attack. the family of one victim, 85-year-old eng says she is recovering from emergency surgery. the other victim is an elderly asian victim recovering as well.

it happened on market street. officers identified patrick thompson a short time later. one woman said she knew something was wrong. >> it looked like an army knife. i told my nephew, this guy has a knife. something it going to happen. >> matt haney says the suspect has a history of mental issues and should not have been out on the street. caitlyn jenner already throwing her support behind what's become a stalled effort from the trump administration. >> i'm all for the wall. i would secure the wall. we can't have a state, we can't have a country without a secure wall. >> she appeared on fox news with sean hannity touting the border wall and said she would do her best to end california's status as a sanctuary city but acknowledged some undocumented immigrants should be allowed to remain here in the u.s. another replacement candidate, john cox, made a campaign stop

at treasure island yesterday running through a long list of problems. he is still short on solutions or how to even pay for them. happening today san jose lie envision of a project near the s.a.p. center. it will consist of 500 steel rods which move in the wind and illuminate at night. it's expected to cost $150 million. if all goes well it will be finished by 2025. the east bay housing market getting even hotter for those trying to make it in the bay. they show that 21% jump in sales year over year in alameda

county, where overbidding is the most common. they are receiving 12% beyond the listing price. bay area home prices are up 6%. crews managed to control a wildfire in discovery bay. it burned about 15 acres. they found the fireworks of the east bay grass fire say it's still too early to know if that was, in fact, the cause. dry and hot conditions for firefighters. we just don't need something big. another breezy day. the drought monitor will be coming up at 6:00 this morning.

temperatures mostly 60s and 70s in the forecast with those winds per hour.gusting up we'll have to watch out for that. we'll talk more about what's ahead in our forecast as you get ready to head to work. it will be in the upper 50s to start. we need an alternate route because of that breaking news. >> listen up, tri-county, east bay, a look at this, folks. we have the camera over at the dublin area around folks are hitting the brakes right by the dealership.

look at the map. four of four lanes are blocked for the westbound 580 commute. you can use the exit lane on to the dublin great area. maybe 7:30. crews are onscene. out of vasco with no slowing into that 580 backup. that's better news. back to you. >> thanks so much. 5:11. peloton riders beware. still ahead at 5:25 on "today in the bay," a data breach and the latest on the recall alert involving one of its most popular brands. and back to work, literally. several more companies saying when they will allow employees to come back to the office. plus, a story some parents,

i'm sure, will be able to relate to. so the big money this little 4-year-old -- cute little guy, right -- he accidentally spent a lot of money on popsicles. mom wasn't too happy about it. that story up next.

good thursday morning. right now at 5:13 if you're on your way out the door, maybe we'll be headed to oakland and the coliseum. looks pretty good with our

temperatures at 50 degrees and the winds picking up especially going into the afternoon. our brief cooldown and what's ahead this weekend as well as our climate in crisis coming up in a few minutes. and if you're heading out of contra costa county toward dublin, looking at pleasanton, sunol. we have a crash and it won't clear lanes. for over at least an hour. westbound is jammed up. 84 at one of your alternates is getting jammed already. we'll track the backup coming up. new this morning twitter is working to help curb so-called mean tweets, asking viewers to review contest before posting or harmful or offensive content. twitter found that about one-third would reverse their

reply or not even post it at all. well, good morning. a very happy thursday to you. you may be going to work this morning in a home office or at the kitchen table. one step back in the most literal sense. google says 40% will work at the office at least three times a week. salesforce ceo is welcoming back employees to its massive tower downtown just 11 days from now. now the tweet was kind of vague. salesforce has said they expect most employees will never retur bit confusing. restaurant workers are getting back to work. analyzing paychecks by adp shows big growth in hospitality and

leisure. president biden got some tacos for cinco de mayo. he says if he leaves the food in the car somebody will take it. later spoke about the $28 billion restaurant revitalization found. >> the message is clear, help is here. the bottom line is this, the american rescue plan is working. the dow up another 97 points. pharmaceuticals lower. talk of opening the patents to save more lives. an interesting article in "the washington post" this morning. the new apple air tags that help you find your car keys and other easy to lose items, a reporter experimented with whether you could track a person without his or her knowledge, and, yeah, you can.

it will beep every few days and there are some safety mechanisms. some groups are warning this could be used by abusive partners and people would have no idea they're carrying them around. >> never thought about that. >> yikes. i just want to find my keys at this point. thank you, scott. 5:18. an all new pasta inspired by ikea. yeah, it's a new flat pasta. it morphs into 3d shapes. researchers used a special machine to flatten it out. shape and can actually help reduce some packaging. developers say they were inspired by how ikea packs its furniture into flat boxes. kind of cool. hopefully it tastes good, too.

it was nightmare for one new york parent after seeing a mysterious charge to her credit card. >> the mother of this cute little guy right here, the 4-year-old this is noah. well, he purchased some $2,600 worth of spongebob possible popsicles. amazon says it will not take back the sweet treats. they start add gofundme page for his mother. she received more than $5,000 in donations from a lot of people who wanted to help this is when you take noah and you say, son, we don't do this. [ all talking at once ] >> i'm laughing because it

didn't happen to me. >> right. see, that's how it works. here we go at 5:19. mike, you have some breaking news to tell us about on the roads this morning. yes, unfortunately we have to change that tone. thank you for bringing that smile to our face and thank you for funding his efforts. this effort continues after a crash in the tri-valley. look at this video from earlier this morning. this crashed big rig a problem but also a fuel spill, we believe. some kind of fluid across all lanes of 580 westbound. there are four lanes. there's also an exit lane where these folks are exiting to the dublin interchange itself. you exit and get back onto 580. we're told that's okay to do. you can squeeze by. the traffic builds out of the altamont pass and off vasco road to westbound 580. other folks have chosen to take 84 as your cut-throughs often do. they've chosen that option to get past the interchange and that's adding to the backup in

to sunol. the rest of the bay moves smoothly. as we said the jam is on 580. even though vasco road doesn't have a problem, look at the drive time into the dublin interchange. you have to find an option, highway 4 through contra costa county. that drive is clear. okay. we're finding those work-arounds at least in the weather department things are starting to calm down as we wake up and get ready to head out the door. we are waiting on the sun to rise and it will be in about 45 to 50 minutes before we start to see more light in the sky. as we're getting started maybe heading out to diridon station, temperatures this morning in the low 50s. a light jacket needed but then we will see some milder air going into today. it won't be as warm as yesterday but the winds will be picking up. as you take a look at the seven-day forecast, it's already up at the bottom of the screen. we look at our high temperatures today reaching into the low to mid-70s. so that's going to be really nice. a pretty significant cooldown here as we go around the bay

area with temperatures in the low 60s in san francisco and north bay temperatures reaching into the 70s. but we don't see this for too long. we will see a warm-up in the forecast as we start to see a storm system passing to the north of us and high pressure building as we get closer to the weekend. another warm-up heading our way. we'll be watching that as well as those winds. let's head over to vianey arana with a look at one of your useful climate hacks as we get all of this sunshine. indeed. now as summer approaches, and really just rain or shine, sunscreen is an essential part of protecting your skin. but did you know that the ingredients in a lot of our favorite brands are actually very harmful to marine life and our precious coral. it prevents algae from growing, less food for fish and pa reason life. the key thing is when you're

shopping for sunscreen you want to look for nonmineral ingredients. instead of actually soaking into your skin like chemical ones do. not only are they better for marine life but better for your health because they're sitting on top of your skin. just like this one you can follow me at nbc vianey arana. i'll send it back to you. next on "today in the bay," nbc bay area responds. >> reporter: you booked your hotel but did you check to make sure it's actually open for business? i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. we respond to a bay area woman whose weekend getaway was about to be to nowhere. we have valuable lessons for you, too, next.

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we have some new details on the peloton. the company is talking about a recent data breach more. according to tech crunch the leak allowed hackers to find peloton user details including age, hometown and their birthdays. the leak was reported in january but peloton says it just fixed

the issues this week. it comes after the company voluntarily recalled all of its treadmills following several injuries early this week. there was also the death of one child. 5:26. and when you book a hotel, you get the confirmation email, your stay is set, right? >> you'd like to think so. not necessarily a. south bay woman learned that the hard way. so she asked consumer investigator chris chmura and his team for help. >> reporter: good morning. amanda booked in vallejo for tomorrow, but she discovered the hotel won't be open until saturday or possibly later. we decided to check it out ourselves and found an active construction site. it's not nearly done. and the city says it still needs several inspections. amanda was floored. it's clear she needs a different place to stay. >> i want to spread awareness to the public about what is going on, what happened with me, and just use this as a lesson to

always make sure you're double-checking your reservations and sticking up for yourself. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00 we talk with the hotel's ceo to find out why it booked amanda's reservation and why the hotel isn't open yet. we'll also tell you what happened with amanda's trip after we spoke up for her. our door is always open to you. go to nbcbayarea.com and click the responds option from the main menu or call us 888-996-tips. i'll see you again tonight at 6:00. next here a double shooting overnight. this is in san jose in the south bay and that ongoing investigation unfolding and one witness explains what he says happened just blocks away from cinco de mayo celebrations.

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this unplugged device is protecting our beautiful coastlines and more. put off chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm to help keep our state golden. right now at 5:30, shifting focus in the vaccine rollout. one bay area county redirects its efforts as mass vaccination sites lose their mass appeal. a live report on the new clinic opening today bringing that point home and the neighborhood having the most success. and new progress in the fight against the pandemic. cities across the country and in the bay area set to start easing some restrictions. plus -- and the nurse just showed up with such kindness, compassion, courage and resiliency. >> honoring our health heroes as

we kick off nurse appreciation week. one local woman shares her story of inspiration. and the tragic event in her life that helped pave the way for her to help others every day. good thursday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we'll look at that forecast for you in a bit. we want to talk to mike inouye taking a look at the roads. you have some breaking news for us this morning. yeah, and unfortunately still broken as far as your commute goes. 580, the major artery. this is earlier this morning but this crash is still there blocking your functional lanes for westbound 580 at the dublin interchange. you can use the exit there to get off the freeway, the 680, and back on as you look at your map. chp says that's an approved alternate but the build with traffic volume out of the altamont path is coming up past tassajara and making some folks choose 84 more slowing there.

that's the only real ripple we see. the rest of the bay does move smoothly but there is a crash in walnut creek. we do have some new video to show you of a crime scene in the south bay. this is where san jose police are investigating the double shooting. one person died and another is expected to survive. this happened along east santa clara street. just blocks away from cinco de mayo sin downtown. >> it's a little family around here. i never think it would happen the last day for cinco de mayo. >> so far police are not saying much about the details including the suspect or a motive. >> this morning one bay area county is set to jump into the yellow tier. a new clinic is set to open today in the east bay.

pete suratos joins us live in alameda and, pete, some parts of alameda county are showing a high percentage of vaccinated residents already? >> reporter: yeah, we're seeing that in at least one zip code here in alameda county and, of course, you want to see the trend continue later this afternoon in alameda where they'll be administering that johnson and johnson one shot vaccine. i want to talk about the top ten vaccinated zip codes we're seeing so far here in the bay area. this is a percentage of residents who have received at least one dose. now the 94304 zip code in santa clara county has the highest percentage with nearly 99% of residents receiving that first dose. we're seeing a similar percentage in alameda county with the 94707 zip code. and then in contra costa county and marin they make up a majority of the top ten vaccinated zip codes and that

ranges between 89% to close to 94% for those counties. now this is all happening as the oakland coliseum site will be closing in a matter of weeks. requests have drastically decreased. more than 70% in alameda county have received at least that first dose. today's clinic behind me is set to begin at 2:00 p.m. reporting live, pete suratos for "today in the bay." >> good info there. thanks, pete. canada is now the first country to approve that pfizer vaccine for children 12 and older. officials citing a clinical trial showed it had 100% efficacy in ages 12 to 15. younger people may not get the shot for weeks because of the vaccine supply remains low. yesterday u.s. top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci

told the "today" show the fda will authorize the vaccine for that age group within the next several days. san francisco is the first county in the bay area to do so. bars can now open indoors for the first time in more than a year. capacity capped at 25%. those gyms can increase to 50%. >> let's take a live look in los angeles this morning. thanks to a sharp drop in covid cases. it's not just big cities, las vegas and new york city also inching closer to normal. nevada's governor will allow the state to reopen at 100% capacity june 1st and several casinos are getting the green light to open at full capacity. broadway is set to officially reopen this september. and tickets go on sale today. theaters are expected to open at 100% capacity in september.

new york governor andrew cuomo also said that more mets and yankees fans will be able to attend games in person starting later this month. good news. 5:36. an alameda county public defender wood is taking part in an online forum scheduled for tonight called policing and race. along with one-time san francisco and current l.a. district attorney george gascon. the two are sure to cover numerous topics. it's possible woods will address the recent controversy surrounding the death of a man in police custody in the city of alameda. in that case three officers are now on leave after an east oakland man lost consciousness and died. they say he suffered a medical emergency but city leaders are now weighing the changes. a follow-up for you now. tense and sometimes violent

protests will be the focus of a zoom listening session tonight. the actions of law enforcement during its response. they will conduct an independent evaluation. opening new homes to help the homeless. mountain view and the company life moves today up veiled a new interim housing community. 100 homes will be available on leg horn street for families and individuals trying to transition into permanentpeople can stay f months. it will be virtual and starts at 10:00 a.m. it's 5:38 on your thursday morning right now as we approach the weekend. finally taking a live look outside, folks heading to work are off this morning and, of course, on your right a live

look in san jose. already the sun rise over the bay area. a nice start to our morning. what are we expecting this weekend? a little bit of a cooldown, right? a cooldown for today and tomorrow but it will heat up this weekend. some places where you may be headed as you maybe hit the road. let's get a look across the state. tomorrow we'll see those highs reaching 73 in l.a. if you're passing to pasa robles. in santa rosa in the upper 70s. maybe you're going to tahoe this weekend. it will be warmer in some spots. we're mostly looking at for south lake tahoe reaching into the low 60s all throughout the weekend with some sunshine just going to be very windy. they do have the lake wind advisories up. big sur going from 68 tomorrow to some 70s for the weekend.

we'll have more updates on that throughout the day. let's head over to mike for breaking news. 580, look at the live shot coming towards us, the backup extends from our camera around tassajara all the way as far as you can see things are slowing down approaching tassajara. it's jammed up at the bottom of the screen and, in fact, looks like traffic stopped just shy of the edge of that screen. there may be a reason for this. they continue to work and might bring some progress. not sure. all lanes still blocked. 84 is one of your release valves coming out of the area. that is horrible for the tri-valley. the rest of the area, we have that crash in walnut creek, actually a fire. the big rig trailer on fire. getting down to walnut creek. the south "today in the bay" comparison very easy, contra costa county builds as we expect.

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right now at 5:43 as you're heading out the door and a cooler afternoon. we'll talk about that and an update to our drought monitor coming up. and looking to big problems with the tri-valley. the dublin interchange.

it is a huge backup and look at the drive times west 580 but also highway 84. big jam as you come out of livermore and head down to sunol. we're tracking that. it's 5:44. we have breaking news just in to our newsroom. the latest weekly jobless numbers are out more than half a million people filed first-time claims last week slightly lower than estimates down nearly 100,000 from the week prior. 3.7 million filed continuing claims. it's 5:45 right now. america's top republican says he will try to block whatever joe biden tries to do. >> scott mcgrew, this is a familiar threat from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> it is. he said the same thing about obama when he was majority leader, just stop him no said. now during the obama era, mcconnell just tried to interfere with no ideas put forward of his own.

affordable health care, for instance. with biden, mcconnell is proposing alternative ideas. for instance in infrastructure spending. >> we've laid out about a $600 billion alternative as opposed to $4 trillion paid for that deals with things that we commonly refer to as infrastructure -- roads, bridges, ports, waterways and the like. >> other news, the texas house will take up a bill this morning that combined with a separate bill from the texas senate could restrict voting. texas is the third state to take up either voting restrictions or voting reform depending on what party you're talking to. corporate america once again stepping in. an open letter signed by companies like microsoft and unilever and levi's urges texas to make voting easier not harder. you may recall major league baseball pulled its all-star game out at georgia after

georgia changed its voting laws. at least three republicans called to punish private business for taking that stand. i spoke with a political adviser about this idea of parties using the power of regulation as punishment to free enterprise. >> we're concerned that conservatives are trying to use the power of government to punish companies that don't toe their line, and that's about the worst case scenario when you're looking to protect free speech and advance innovation. so we're concerned that conservatives are going down the wrong path. >> in maricopa county an unofficial recount continues. it's being done by a private company called cyber ninjas. the arizona secretary of state who is in charge of elections has warned the ninjas don't seem to have a set of rules on how they're counting. the counters are shining uv flashlights on ballots but it's unclear what they're looking for. one counter told the cbs

affiliate in phoenix they're looking for traces of bamboo in the ballots to derrell if the ballots secretly came from asia. we're on twitter all the time. i love discussing all these issues with you. you can find me on twitter, facebook. today is nurse appreciation day and it kicks off a whole week of honoring those frontline workers. already events are gaining steam. a lot of local hospitals saluting their nurses with social posts. >> this morning one local woman is sharing what inspired her to take on a role in nursing. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez joins us now with more. i love stories like this, kris. >> reporter: oh, i know you do. and i think it's safe to say we've all had contact with a nurse who really impacted us whether we were sick or maybe were in labor or in the e.r. with a sick loved one or maybe a hurt child. and this is the same story for the chief nursing officer at santa clara valley medical

center. jill sproul was inspired to become a nurse as a child, she says, while she was recovering from life threatening burns suffered in a camping accident. >> i saw the teamwork, how compassionate. i loved my nurses and wanted to become a nurse after being in the hospital for six months and in and out continually throughout my whole school years. >> reporter: jill now leads a team of nurse who is have always been there at people's worst moments but who in the last year were often the last faces people saw as they died of covid here in this county. she said there are patients that nurses don't forget and nurses that patients don't forget. and this year she got the chance to say thank you to one of her nurses nearly 50 years later. >> this year i got a letter in the mail, and i read it and it was from one of my former nurses. and she said she had been

thinking about me all these years wondering how my life turned out. i told her because of her and all the nurses that took care of me that inspired me to be a nurse. >> reporter: now she hopes that other people will be inspired to become nurses as well because she says the country is about a million nurses short already and there are a lot of nurses that are aging out and retiring soon. doing nice things for nurses, bringing them treats, wellness seminars and such. one of the best things can you do is reach out to the nurses in your life and say thank you. it has been a rough year. back to you. >> i love that story. it's beautiful. nurses are so giving. thanks, kris. >> amazing. amazing. let's keep the good feeling going. a former san jose teacher turned author gets to say thank you to the woman who inspired it all.

24 years ago while teaching second grade she helped encourage the love of writing. >> the first adult who pulled me aside and objectively told me you are good at this. do you want to get better at this? i can help you? >> last year she published her first book with hart receiving one of the first copies. the pair reunited this past january for the first time in 24 years. more about the special bond celebrating service week with hoda and jenna. nice to go back and say thank you to the people who have made a difference in your life. >> i love it. >> love you guys, too. let's get on with the weather. how about a nice day ahead for us, kari?

i'm glad we had all of those positive stories. we're trying to balance it out. just got the update from a drought monitor and it has worsened for the bay area. we already knew that but saw it expanding across much of california as well as all across the west. so we are seeing those conditions turning bright red here which means extreme drought. now last week we saw it expand for parts of the east bay, but now it's including the south bay, the south county and much of the central coast. reservoirs are dropping only up 28% of capacity, very dry and water conservation is absolutely necessary at this point. we really do have to see what we're going to do as we head into these dry summer months. as we go into our forecast it will be windy today as our temperatures drop. at least we do have a brief cooldown. most of us in the 60s and 70s

for the next couple of days. the seven-day forecast we have a break for our inland valleys. then it heats right back up again and by the beginning of next week we'll be close to 90 degrees. that, of course, also of concern. over to you, mike, closely watching breaking news. we don't know when this will clear up. early morning hours. there was a crash involving a big rig. still something going on and this is jammed up 580. it starts in earnest there and is affecting people on the freeway. built for 580. 84 at the bottom of your screen. folks try to avoid the dublin interchange.

you can squeeze by on the exit. that is adding 15 to 20 minutes on your drive there. a lot of stress for you. in the south bay the only issue is the slowing. typical slowing there, predictable for san jose, no problem for the peninsula and the contra costa area. back to you. >> thank you, mike. happening now the cdc says cruise lines can soon begin trial voyages in the u.s. and u.s. waters. understand cdc guidelines ships will have to carry volunteer passengers who have to wear facemasks and observe social distancing. a lot more ahead. a story you don't want to miss. an incredible physical and emotional journey of survival in the game of baseball about one player in the giants farm

system. then we'll head out live to san francisco with a new set of covid restrictions that are ending. things looking a lot brighter there.

india confirming never 412,000 new covid cases bringing the number to more than 21 million. yesterday a plane delivered

oxygen generators donated by california along with hundreds of thousands of rapid diagnostic tests and n95 masks. they will receive more than $100 million in aid from the u.s. to fight the pandemic. >> the giants may need a little pick-me up but how about this. the say hey kid turning 90. the giants are off but tomorrow will celebrate willie mays turning 90 years old. happy birthday, willie. the aaa team sacramento river cats open the season tonight in las vegas and one addition this year is drew robinson. back in 2017 with texas. now about a year ago during the pandemic he survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he did lose his eye. he's since fully recovered.

he's playing baseball again. we wish him the best. east bay housing market getting even hotter for those trying to make it in the bay. data shows a 21% jump in sales over the year in alme did county and that's also where overbidding is the most common. bay area home prices are up 6%. a video you don't want to miss. >> take a look at this. it's an eastern spotted skunk. it's doing a handstand. can you make it out there? the video was taken last week by florida fish and wildlife who place cameras across the state to learn more about skunks.

this is our "today in the bay" colleague shawn's cat. he can open doors on his own. he goes in and gives himself a little snack. very talented cat there. 6:00 for you this morning and breaking news extreme drought spreads. brand-new data just in revealing how dry it's getting across the bay area. meteorologist kari hall is tracking the week-to-week changes and the drought's dangerous spread. we are seeing scenes like this nearly every day. crews acting fast to knock down flames last night. >> it's early and everything is terribly dry. it's just going to get worse. >> you heard it there. fearing worse problems will be facing the bay area as