right now at 5:00, coming back from covid. after suffering big losses during the pandemic, the major san francisco tourist hot spots set to welcome back visitors starting today. we'll tell you all about it. good monday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. the team all here, mike is keeping an eye on the commute for us, we'll get to that in a bit. first the monday forecast getting us ready for the work week. kari, how is it looking? >> it looks pretty good. if you're getting ready to head out the door in the east bay, let's check out our forecast for pleasant hill. it's going to be in the low 50s

this morning, nice cool clear and hopefully calm. we're going to see more of this nice weather today with our temperatures warming up, it's going to be a little bit warmer this afternoon, compared to yesterday, and some of us will head into the low to mid 80s today. we'll see that in livermore, morgan hill and 81 today in napa with some mid 80s for fairfield and antioch. we'll talk about our temperatures going up and down as we head through the week with still no rain, coming up in a few minutes. mike, anything happening right now for the commute? >> well you know, kari, overnight chp gives little warnings once in a while when a cruiser calls in. they said it might be windy and might be foggy at the golden gate bridge. it's not that foggy and i can't tell about the wind but neither are a problem here so there you go, clear drive right now. we can see the sun starting to show us some silhouettes. looking at the maps, showing green, green sensors around the bay, good stuff for the bay approach, no problems early drive for contra costa county, standard slowing out of the altamont pass, south bay and peninsula looking great.

back to you. >> the state's positivity rate is now at a record low, talking about 0.9%. this is the first time it's been below 1% since the start of the pandemic, and our area the numbers are low as well. look at what we're seeing across the area, san francisco, san mateo, santa cruz, santa clara counties all below the 0.5%. alameda is nearly there as well with similar numbers down in southern california. now the number of people needing vaccine declining as well. oakland's coliseum mass vaccination site closing yesterday, up and running since mid-february but county leaders made the decision due to the dropping of the number of people getting vaccines to about 400 first doses per day, down from the peak when it was around 7,000. they want to focus more on those underrepresented areas. >> now is the time that we have to go deeper into the community really engaging people one on one to help them get past

whatever it holding them back from getting vaccinated. >> the oakland coliseum site helped vaccinate about half a million people since its opening in mid-february. and it's not just happening in oakland, the vaccination site at moscone center will also close down. the clinic will shut down on friday after the last remaining second dose appointments that they have there. more than 300,000 doses have been administered there over the past three months. more fully vaccinated americans also means fewer people that are being tested for covid or even needing to be. last week, the cdc rolled out screening for the virus even if you're exposed to someone infected as long as you receive your shots and you're not showing any symptoms. here is a look at the traffic right now as you see right here, you can't see too much of the traffic but i want to give you a look, police in fremont made an arrest in a recent string of sexual assaults that left some people

underserved there. police say three attacks happened in the span of eight days, all targeting women over the age of 40. yesterday residents gathered to learn what they can do to better protect themselves. fremont's police chief took part. >> we can't be everywhere at once especially in a city of size of fremont. we encourage neighbors to get to know one another, to organize. we have a neighborhood crime watch program, it's about 150 areas strong and we need more. >> even the chief calls at tacks unusual and the last one a woman was beaten so badly that she was hospitalized and broken bones and major injuries. that's when a witness saw what was going on and managed to call 911. officers later arrested that suspect, now identified as 28-year-old alexander lomax. trending this morning there's a lot of talk after a mysterious appearance in the bay area over the weekend. a lot of people took to social

media and called our station asking what the string of lights were spotted saturday night. many are speculating they were ufos but in fact that he are spacex starlink satellites, a collection of 2,000 satellites orbiting around the world to bring internet access to underserved areas of the world so no ufos, folks. no ufos. let's turn to meteorologist kari hall, all things in the sky this morning as well, that story got a lot of attention over the weekend, kari. >> it did, yes, and i know a lot of people got pictures of it and while the government has recently confirmed that there are some ufos out there, we are going to talk about these starlink satellites. it looks like we won't have a viewing within the next five days but it does appear as a train of lights going across the sky and it's really cool to get those visuals but it's a collection over 2,000 satellites now, there's the possibility

that in the future there could be up to 30,000 of these satellites orbiting the earth and once again they will provide some internet worldwide, so we are going to see possibly enough of a clear sky to have a viewing of that as well as the lunar eclipse we're getting ready for in a couple of days. we're going to talk more about that but overall, our weather is fairly quiet here, and hopefully, mike, your reports are quiet as well in traffic. >> yes, and the trains are running fine but i don't have specifics on the satellite trains. my wife came in one night and said she saw the string of lights and i humored her and we checked twitter and she wasn't the only one. that was good. the string of chicklets as we look at the map, south bay, even the south county looks great right now. easing into this commute and looking at no major problems. the drive through contra costa alameda county highway 4 early start from antioch at speed,

vasco same thing out of brentwood, discovery bay to 580 slows through the altamont, typical build there. >> thanks so much, mike. anxious coming back from covid but starting today, there are two big steps in making that happen. "today in the bay's" moving you forward and following these changes every step of the way for you. "today in the bay's" cierra johnson joins us live in san francisco with a major step one landmark is trying to take to get visitors back into the city. i'm ready to go, cierra. >> reporter: yes, good morning. it's hard to believe it's been about 14 months since this hotel had any guests, any convention and any of those employees were inside, but today is the day the hilton at union square, one of the largest hotels in the state is officially reopening and that's good news -- [ muted ]

>> okay, i think we lost her audio there a little bit, but the hilton hotel is one of the hotels that's opening of course trying to lure all these visitors back into the city. the convention and visitors bureau of course, they know that so many people usually visit the city and so revenues have been down. we'll continue to follow the story and work out the microphone issue with cierra as well. 5:08 right now. is your grocery bill skyrocketing? you're not alone. what shoppers say they're paying more for these days. inflation certainly is an issue but people are out there spending money on just about everything and it depends on who you are how much you spend. we'll take a look. plus -- >> ouch, charlie! ow! charlie, that really hurt. >> the video that just keeps on giving. we'll tell you how one of the

earliest viral videos on the internet is translating to a six-figure payout. oh, yeah, it hurts that bad. we'll talk to you in a minute about this. it's 5:08. you're watching "today in the bay."

right now at 5:11 on your monday morning, here's a look at our start in san jose, yes, it's cloudy, but we won't see those clouds for long. it's going to clear out and our

ten tour also be slightly warmer today, going from 53 now to 70 at lunch alk about what's aheluk being food already. out to the roadways, some folks are thinking about leaving the house, a nice pleasant drive across the san mateo bridge. i did see taillights going west, i saw a set of flashing lights, there might be roadwork being done and the crew is slowly moving across the span. we'll keep an eye on the reports and live cameras, more coming up. good morning, very happy monday morning to you. tesla needs to prove itself this week to investors after five straight weeks of losses on the stock market, that's the longest run of down weeks for tesla in three years. tesla is suffering a number of negative headlines, recent crashes that may involve its so-called self-driving ability and ford unveiling its new

electric ford f-150 with lots of offers. the value of bitcoin fell to $31,000, well below its all-time highs. chances are people lost money on bitcoin in the last week or two but it is a good opportunity to remind folks who are new to the bitcoin trade, if you do make money and you have the potential to make a lot, the price goes up and you sell, you will owe capital gains tax, sell quickly and that capital gains tax could be around 20% to 37% depending on your income so set that money aside to pay the taxes. in the interesting economic study by a financial company called cardify americans are outspending money on all kinds of things, meals out at restaurants, airline tickets, you name it, but it's the non-vaccinated who are spending more. the study published this morning in the "wall street journal"

shows people who are vaccinated are still being cautious despite the cdc guidance that says it's okay to go out and live your normal life if you're vaccinated. so what's happening according to the economists who ran the numbers is the world's opening back up because so many of us are vaccinated, but the first people to take advantage of the reopening are the unvaccinated. for instance, traffic to places like airports and hotels back to 71% of pre-pandemic norms a. in states of poor records of vaccinations, 52% than more vaccinated states. traffic at gyms 87% of what it was before the pandemic. with higher vaccine rates 68% so the folks who are looking to have it open up are the unvaccinated. latest statistics show about 58% of eligible americans have gotten their first shot at

least. here in the bay area as you know, it is much higher. i was in burlingame, downtown yesterday. i'd never been to downtown burlingame, it was packed, amazing. >> a lot of people getting out. >> i have a friend who went to, i didn't go to the mall but she went to the mall yesterday and said it seemed like it was pre-covid, it was packed >> weather is pretty, people are vaccinated. >> and burlingame is lovely. i'm glad you got to visit it. thanks, scott. 5:15 right now. if you're among those feeling a little bit of the pinch from some higher food prices you're not alone. bloomberg finds more people are getting hit by inflation, one in three adults believes they are spending more on groceries than they were at the start of the year. 65% say red meat is more expensive.

the numbers are slightly less when it comes to higher chicken prices along with fruit and the beloved toilet paper. federal data shows costs for many food products are higher year over year, some as much as 10%. 5:15. follow-up on a sale for one of the most popular videos ever you may soon lose the chance to view ever again. >> let's show you before we can't show it to you anymore. take a look. >> ouch, charlie! oww! charlie, that really hurt. >> there it is, the video, it's called charlie bit my finger, so over the weekend that original nft file sold for more than three-quarters of a million dollars. the boys are grown up, probably should help pay for college. the video seen on youtube close to 1 billion times, billion with a "b" since 2007 and part of the sale the family promising to

delete the video from the internet forever. we've got some breaking news that we're following for you on this monday morning at mission peak regional preserve in fremont. there's 1.5 acre wildfire burning there right now. the call just came in at about 4:30 this morning, but we know that steep terrain could be a challenge for firefighters and no wind, slow rate of speed they're reporting so far, so we're working to get you live pictures from the scene in fremont this morning. so far they don't know the cause of this fire. let's check in with kari right now. no wind at least for the moment, but we know such dry conditions continue out there. whether wise this week, is it going to be a h >> yes, it's going to be slightly warmer for today and i don't think that's going to be too much of an issue. we are seeing some higher humidity this morning, and we've

also had at least the light wind to start out this morning. so as we take a live look outside in walnut creek, we are seeing a clear sky here as you get ready to head out the door for work this morning. low 50s, nice and cool, jacket weather but we'll continue to monitor what's going on nearby here and meanwhile warm springs at about 51 degrees, and then going into the mid-60s by 11:00, and then some upper 60s at noon. we'll continue to warm up for the afternoon, but then as we take a look at what's ahead for the rest of the week, we are going to see the rain staying to the north of us, if you will be traveling, heads up that there will be some showers close by, just not here in the bay area, and then it starts to warm up as we head toward the memorial day weekend, into early next week, we're going to see temperatures at least for the inland areas reaching into the low 80s. we've also been watching to see if our sky will be clear for the lunar eclipse coming up this wednesday morning, and it looks like there still may be some

coastal clouds but the inland areas should have a clear viewing for this happening from 1:47 in the morning, the peak at 4:18, and then at 6:01, we'll be at the end of it during our "today in the bay," so make sure you check in with us. but the peak will be just before our show starts. so as we go into the week, we are going to see our valley temperatures heating up a little bit with highs in the low 80s and it will be a little bit breezy and cooler for tomorrow, but you can see that doesn't last long. we'll see temperatures going up and down throughout the week but fairly quiet weather conditions continuing with fog lingering near the coast so we'll see more of that in san francisco. mike, what are you seeing right now for the traffic? >> kari, just checking, looks like the last of our crashes cleared out of the tracey area coming into the altamont pass, looking at the map it hasn't really changed the flow. there's still the slower drive as we lose lanes or folks lose lanes and they emerge 205 and 580 on the right side of your screen. let's look over here first

though, laura talked about the fire, on mission peak there, folks familiar with the area snow stanford avenue is one of the access points, where we're hearing about fire crew activity so avoid that and taking care of the steep terrain, bob redell follows the story. no freeways, no major roadway its affected. looking at 84 and 580 through the altamont pass, typical drive and no delays contra costa, highway 4 looks great, bay bridge toll plaza no backup. let's stick with the maps and continue our coverage for asian-american pacific islander month. i'm talk about a common misunderstanding about the pacific islander community i posted on my facebook page, another map of the pacific islands including yes, hawaii, but that doesn't mean that folks from hawaii are called pacific islander, not the natives. the u.s. has a special status for native hawaiians, complicated matter, lots to discuss and lots of talking

points on my facebook post and i try to expand the discussion of all things aapi all month long as part of our heritage month coverage. marcus and laura, today's post includes information on native hawaiians, the federal government relations there and also native hawaiians who were at sutter's fort, yes, for the gold rush. check it out. >> the more you know, following mike. >> there you go. i love it. love history. perfect, thanks, mike. 5:21 right now. coming up next on "today in the bay," "nbc bay area responds." >> you might be able to shave $50 a month off your internet bill with the help of uncle sam. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. we'll show you how next.

5:24 and when it comes to finding those tools to help move forward from the pandemic, international access is often required. >> and the internet access costs money. consumer investigator chris chmura shows us how you can tap into a new program to cut your bill $50 to $75 per month. >> let me show you how to get the emergency broadband benefit. the fcc, the federal communications commission just rolled it out. the fcc says the ebb offers a discount of up to $5 per month on household broadband internet service but not everyone is eligible. to qualify, your annual

household income needs to be 135% of federal poverty guide lines or less. for a family of two, the cutoff is $23,517 a year. for a family of four it's e got federal pell grant this year, received free school lunch, used certain assistance programs or suffered a large income loss, you can apply online and get emergency broadband.org. if you don't have internet call in, 833-511-0311. the fcc will mail you an application. fair warning, when we called, it was a 72-minute wait to speak with someone. >> thanks, chris. now to a live look at the bay bridge and sfo, where vaccine rollouts are under way and people are looking for the next summer vacation

destination, after a year in quarantine. so the average week-long vacation for a family of four is ringing up to $4,500 and aaa predicts 37 million people will kick off the summer travel season over the memorial day weekend. >> that's a lot more than travel last year but lower than in pre-pandemic years. >> there's high demand and rising prices with air fares and hotels and rental cars. >> no matter where you go, experts ask you remember we're still in the pandemic, wear masks when needed and don't abandon all common sense. as more and more people are making plans for road trips, the average price of gasoline is certainly on the rise. it's $3.10, that's nationwide, up eight cents in the past two two-weeks. according to aaa, the average price in san francisco is $4.30. in oakland and san jose averaging about $4.23.

analysts site the supply disruptions from the colonial pipeline outage and corn prices used for ethanol in some increased prices. kris? >> i'm cierra johnson at levi's stadium. the vaccination effort continues, though the cdc is looking at a small number of cases of reports of heart issues in younger people getting vaccinated. >> and we're following breaking news this morning out of fremont, where crews are on the scene right now, we'll have a live report on the steep challenge crews are having as they continue to try to fight that fire.

good monday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. a brush fire in the mission peak regional preserve, bob redell is out there live. you just got to the scene. what have you been able to find out? >> reporter: marcus and laura, fortunately this is a small brush fire, two miles up from the trail head, where we're parked. the challenge for the fremont fire department as well as cdf, they have one crew as well is the steep terrain. they had a log jam of four vehicles trying to get up there but they have able to hoof it into the fire, estimated around two acres. they have one flank surrounded, the other side is the side they're still trying to contain. fortunately i just spoke with the batallian chief with fremont fire, there's no wind right now and obviously no sun on this

fire and i don't know if you can see, you can't see the fire from our vantage point but the inversion is also good. it keeps things cool. if there were so be sun worst case it could spread to ten acres. no idea what the cause is, one reason why this is seriously, we're in the middle of a drought and seen what wildfires can do in dry conditions so that's why you see the large response from fremont fire and the california division of forestry which has one unit out here. for more on the weather we send it over to meteorologist kari hall. >> the crews know very well you have to tackle this early and while weather conditions are favorable and that's what we're seeing now. temperatures cool in the upper 40s in that area and we've seen a calm wind for the past several hours and that continues right now, as we go into today, we

will start to see those winds gradually picking up and of course they want to make sure it is fully contained and out by later today, we start to see winds picking up at 15 to 20 miles per hour, and the humidity levels will start to drop as well as we get more sunshine on that area. so we'll continue to watch out for those conditions, we'll talk about what's ahead here in the bay area for the rest of the week coming up. mike, how is it looking for the commute? this morning, many parents are concerned to a possible connection between the vaccine and a heart condition. the cdc is investigating whether a rare heart issue reported in young people is connected to their vaccination for covid-19. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is live in santa clara county with what we know so far. >> reporter: of course there is reason to be concerned when you talk about your children but at this point the cdc says there is no direct link between these

heart symptoms that are arising and the vaccine itself, although there are several agencies now investigating. this is an issue called myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle which can lead to fatigue, chest pain and in some cases abnormal heart rhythms. it is a condition that can happen after infection. here is what we know. the cdc is investigating what it says is a relatively small number of teens and young adults reporting this condition, though they don't specify exactly how many. california, oregon, washington, submitted seven cases for review by the "journal of pediatrics" so that will be happening. the symptoms were reported within four days of the second dose of the pfizer vaccine, more common in boys and young men than girls and young women. overall at this point, not a a rate higher than what is normal. both the former cdc director speaking on the "today" show this morning and stanford pediatric infectious disease

doctor says it's worth watching but the vaccine is still safer for kids than getting covid. >> so far they're saying no, there aren't more cases than we would expect but we want to make sure there aren't some that we missed, we want to make sure there is no connection. >> as i mentioned, these cases of myocarditis have been showing up in the reports but in many cases, these reports have been in older individuals and it's still not clear even in the older individuals that they're related to the vaccine. >> reporter: so the cdc did put out guidance to doctors and to clinicians to watch for some of these symptoms and to report them so that they can look at an accurate data set. >> all right, kris, thank you. you know the covid cases across the u.s. they are at lows, not seen just about a year in the bay area. the counties here have seen the lowest case rates anywhere. look at this, a group called

covid act now are tracking the case rates for nearly 400 metro areas across the u.s. and the tracker lists san jose with the eighth lowest, this is at 0.8 per 100,000. five other areas in the metro area are in the top 25, talking about sla sa lie salinas, santa cruz, and los angeles is ranking number ten right now. most sonoma county businesses are choosing privacy over larger number of customers. the county is still sitting in the orange tier and according to "the press democrat" businesses are opting mott to require proof of vaccination or negative covid tests to boost capacity. come june 15th at full capacity vaccine passports will no longer be needed. america's top doctor is offering his take on vaccine passports, who believes americans can stay safe without them even when all

mask orders are gone. >> in the real world setting, the vaccines are spectacularly effective, even better than than in the clinical trials. >> you can check out the entire interview on nbc lx. 11-15 over the air, channel 185 on xfinity cable or any time at your leisure at lx.com. the srjc petaluma campus clinic closes june 5th and the site at healdsburg high school closes at end of june. four sites slated to stay open the grace pavilion at the sonoma county fairgrounds, make your appointment at myturn.ca.gov.

happening today, governor gavin newsom will highlight a plan to protect the state from wildfires. the governor is investing $2 billion in emergency preparedness, the most pledged in wildfire safety in california history. the governor is expected to show off new fire fighting equipment. we'll have coverage on our air and digital platforms as we continue to cover everything here on "today in the bay." to keep you better prepared for the fire season, sonoma county releasing evacuation zone maps, look at them by heading over to nbcbayarea.com. here we go this morning, san francisco wake up. time to go. it's monday morning, taking a look at a hazy san francisco this morning. sometimes i don't know if it's the camera or if it's really just that foggy there, but let's turn to meteorologist kari hall. i assume that's just foggy there right now? >> yes, that's our typical may

gray that we see and those cloudy starts to the morning. our marine layer that keeps it cool, we're not seeing that much of that as you head into the tri-valley, getting out the door in dublin. we'll see the sun rise and temperatures in the upper 40s so a chilly start to the morning but a mild afternoon. at lunch time we're already at 72 degrees and it's going to be a little bit warmer today compared to yesterday, mid 80s in fairfield and antioch, 80 in livermore and morgan hill. san jose 76 and oakland 72 and 82 in santa rosa. temperatures going up and down. we'll talk more about that in the forecast coming up. mike, any problems for the commute? >> maybe one, contra costa county. i'll show you where there's more slowing that we need to be concerned with, starting in the san jose area, the typical pattern but it has built on schedule. standard flow for the tri-valley. here we're talking about coming out of walnut creek southbound

680, right around olympic boulevard just past there, reports of a wheel barrow in your light lanes. watch for a possible traffic break from the walnut creek interchange, heading southbound 24. we'll track that, nothing major but it is major if you hit that wheelbarrow. slowing at the bay bridge for the incline, standard fare there as well and the travel times look at this, highway 4 starting to show a little slowing as folks are traveling pittsburg through bay point and into concord toward 242. nbc baig area is changing up in the late afternoon adding another newscast to give you more local news you want and "nightly news" is moving to a new time period and starts june 7th. let's loong at that new lin p.mo half-hour "nbc bay area news" casts, 4:30 and 6:00 p.m.

"nightly news" at 6:00 p.m. and a brand new program at 7:00 p.m., ""nbc bay area news" tonight" followed by "access hollywood" at 7:30. all of this starts on june 7th in just two weeks. exciting time. 5:40 for you this morning. coming up a mother's heartbreak. >> as i was merging away from the carpool lane i heard a loud noise and i heard my son say ow. >> a sad story, a manhunt now under way after a 6-year-old boy dies in a violent road rage incident. what his mother is revealing as investigators in that investigation offers a new incentive to solve this case. just terrifying. well in washington this morning, president biden saying one thing about student loans, but doing quite another. we'll take a look. we're focused on celebrated

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the time is 5:43. let's get you started on this monday morning. if you're going out for a run, morning activities, maybe working in the yard, you want to get in those activities early in the day while it's still cool in concord we go from 52 degrees to the low to mid 80s later today. so we'll talk more about that warmup in the forecast, it's coming up in a few minutes. >> and the traffic's building up a little bit, sensors are slowing on the bay bridge incline but live look at the toll plaza shows you what you expect, an easy drive now but trust me, we've got more traffic flowing and see how the buildup

affects the travel times through contra costa area. there are some stories that are just so hard to tell you and this is a really heartbreaking one in southern california, where authorities are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a 6-year-old boy friday morning. it was a road rage incident. on their way to the kindergarten class in the city of orange, sitting in the booster seat in the rear passenger side of the car when someone fired a shot through the trunk and the bullet hit the boy through his back over the weekend and his mother spoke out, breaking down in tears, understandably while asking for justice. >> i heard my son say ow and i pulled the car over as soon as possible, that he had been shot, and i tried to save him while

calling 911, but -- >> i can't imagine her pain. authorities are looking for the driver of a white volkswagen sedan. 5:45, and a fire video led to a party that got wildly out of hand in huntington beach over the weekend. police say they were forced to fire nonlethal rounds into that crowd to break up that party saturday night. at least 2500 people showed up to this birthday party, dubbed adrian's kickback on the beach. some climbed life guard towers, setting off fireworks. 50 people were arrested. hundreds gathered on the beach continuing the party causing police to issue an overnight curfew. president biden indicated he won't take action to forgive portions of americans student loans. scott mcgrew joins us now. that was one of his campaign promises. >> yes, it was and the democrats

are passionate about making it happen. lawmakers to the left are wanting the figure far bigger $10,000. according to the "washington post," biden will not include student loan forgiveness in his upcoming budget. we've gone from the white house looking for ways to forgive $10,000, public talk of even $50,000 to saying the biden administration supports the idea but thinks congress should take action instead, not the executive branch. now in a speech, right after the election, president-elect biden said "it's holding people up. they're in real trouble. they're having to make choices between paying their student loan and paying the rent, those kinds of decisions. it should be done immediately." but on friday, he told the "new york times" "the idea you go to penn and pay a total of $70,000 a year and the public should pay

for that, i don't agree." this is not the first time that biden picked an ivy league school to illustrate his point. also worth pointing out donald trump went to penn. biden sometimes uses harvard or yale as well to make the exact same point but a cnbc analysis shows less than 1% of student loans go to ivy league so the vast majority of student loans are made to regular middle class families with students in public universities. republican senator susan collins said over the weekend she would not support the white house's new compromise of a smaller infrastructure bill, she accused the white house of simply moving some of the cost to a bill already under consideration in the capital. president biden says he knows he has the votes to push a big bill through but wants to compromise and find a bipartisan solution. the clock is running.

police reform, immigration reform, infrastructure all in the plans, but washington's headed toward a big debate on the budget and debt and that will dominate lawmakers' time. the president will visit fema today, with a briefing on the hurricane season. hurricanes are horrible in terms of lives and property lost, but they also have a huge influence on how the public sees a president. a couple cases in point for you, the one americans remember during hurricane katrina the quote "you're doing a heck of a job, brownie" referring to michael brown who was not doing a good job at all. he was fired seven days later. president trump with his hand drawn sharpie map showing hurricane dorian headed toward alabama even though the original map and forecaster said it wouldn't and it never did. president obama's challenger in the 2008 election mitt romney called for a large budget cut

for fema days before hurricane sandy devastated the east coast, combined with images of obama working with republican governors to fix the damage, sandy was a significant blow to romney's campaign. we'll hear what fema tells the president. follow me on twitter, i'm @scottmcgrew. some believe the biggest loser yesterday was father time. phil mickelson beat him soundly, not to mention the rest of the field. check out this par 3, the 5th hole and when he sank that birdie from the sand. so back on the back nine, mickelson pulled away and what phil did yesterday just historic and he had those fans going wild there. this is his two-shot win and at 50 years old he becomes the oldest person to ever win a major championship.

>> the belief that i could still do it inspired me to work harder and i just didn't see why it couldn't be done. it took a little bit more effort. >> he did it. this is phil's sixth major overall. bookmakers actually coming into the tournament put his odds to win at 200:1. >> wow. he certainly showed them. he's a fun golfer to watch. trending this morning, definitely not a $5 foot long. new sandwich at disney land is going to cost you $100. it's a panini, sold at the avenger's camp set to debut june 4th at disney's california adventure park. the sandwich comes from ham, sun dried tomatoes, provolone, get marinara dipping sauce and arugala sandwich on the side. it feeds six to eight people so if you do the simple math there

it's only about $12.50 a person. all in the presentation but if you're like it's a $100 sandwich! everybody goes crazy and gets a story on tv. >> the turkey legs are expensive. >> the huge ones? remember renaissance festivals, people walking around with a turkey leg. >> turkey legs and funnel cakes. my favorite. >> i haven't seen those in a while but as things are emerging, people coming out, things are changing. >> looking good, kari for the weather. >> we are going to see changes as well. waking up to the morning fog we're seeing in san francisco. that's helping to keep it cool here, and it's going to be a little bit warmer for the inland areas so if you're getting ready to head out the door, you're going to be loading up the backpacks and get the kids to school in mountain view this morning expect a mostly sunny

sky here, temperatures in the low 50s. heading to 66 degrees at pickup time and we're going to once again see our inland valley temperatures just a touch warmer compared to yesterday, but we'll have a cooldown headed our way for the middle of the week. you can see that at the bottom of the screen. antioch, fairfield reaching 85. 82 in santa rosa. morgan hill expect a high of 80 degrees and mid-70s for san jose as well as palo alto. oakland reaching 72 and 64 in san francisco, so with our temperatures feeling a little warmer today we better get used to it. we're going to see more of that but at least we have a clear sky, all of the rain staying to the north of us and as we head into the memorial day weekend it's going to warm up a few more degrees but a heads up if you are traveling, there will be some showers across the pacific northwest, staying away from us here in the bay area. so we'll be watching that. mike, what are you watching for the morning commute?

>> i'm watching yellow to orange and orange back to yellow. speeds are getting better in san jose where i've got the area circled there on the map. this is right on schedule, so if we clear this up by 6:00, even 6:10, there's no surprises for the south bay. the second burst kicks in about 6:40, so no big deal there. we look at a signal issue for love ridge getting on to highway 4. they removed it from the grid, maybe that's cleared up. so far that's the only slowing we see. concord cleared up a bit and the bay bridge just has a little build, also the live look out there shows you palo alto with no major problems. want to show you a little haze, that's all. back to you. >> thanks, mike. happening now, more libraries in the south bay will reopen in just a few hours. several san jose branches will allow people inside for five hours a day. those visitors they can browse book and materials and check out items and use the library exciters. masks are required and people

are asked to not stay longer than an hour. >> that makes me happy. good news there. head to the library. much more ahead on "today in the bay" including he spent more time on the rock than any other prisoner in history. coming up next, all new this morning what one very knowledgeable park ranger is saying about his time at alcatraz ahead of his retirement. also ahead, live team coverage on the pandemic and the progress being made across the country and here in the bay area. the drop in covid cases and the big milestone as more businesses are reopening. a lot more news ahead on this monday morning. you're watching "today in the bay."

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it is 5:58. you're watching "today in the bay." this morning, two people are recovering after being rescued from high surf, it happened yesterday afternoon at san francisco's ocean beach. both caught in the rip current and rescued by golden gate national recreation area life guards and san francisco's fire department's ocean rescue. another whale washing ashore in the bay area. this time in pacifica on lydamar beach. since february, 11 o the bay.

malnutrition, entanglement and trauma from ship strikes are the most common causes of the deaths in recent years. the investigative unit has been tracking this and find out ba bigad shaban found, watch the piece visiting nbcbayarea.com and clicking on our investigations. governor newsom is tow toeing a fine line with short term changes for drilling. long-term he wants to eliminate drilling by 2045 but imposing a and hospitals. environmentalists favor this and the oil industry and unions do not. some say newsom's decision will set the tone for next year's election. right now at 6:00, new sign of return to normalcy from coast could coast as covid cases keep

dropping. >> really looking forward to things moving back towards normal. >> coming up, the new milestone just reached right here in the golden state. plus more and more people are getting vaccinated, there's more signs of hope for the bay area economy. a live report on the big hotel reopening in san francisco and how other businesses are preparing for the return of tourists as the third hour of "today in the bay" continues right now. and good monday morning to you. thanks for making us a part of your morning. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. first we have some breaking news we are following out of fremont, a brush fire in the mission peak regional preserve. "today in the bay's" bob redell arrived on the scene. what is the latest out there, bob? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura and marcus. when we last saw you, we were in the parking lot and moved up about a mile into the hills so you can see where the firefighters are at. you can see the main issue for them is and