curve ball headed in the wrong direction. the virus is on the rise every where, including here at home. one local county being hit the hardest. >> heading back to the classroom with masks. what the president is just saying about that this morning. >> just under 24 hours away from the olympic opening ceremonies. the pandemic still front and center but this came morning new controversy. allegations of racism. this is "today in the bay". you made it to thursday morning. now just making it through your day. thanks so much for starting your day with us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. what can you expect from the temperatures. kari hall has a look at the temperatures. >> let's get out the door and headed to work as we get a look at our temperatures that will start out in the mid-50s and a few clouds as we'll see it clearing out again today going

from the mid-50s to low 70s. here's a look at all our microclimates p.m. warm inland and cool near the coast. slight changes going into the weekend as our highs in san jos. livermore as well as concord up to 88 degrees. 84 in napa and santa rosa reaching 84 degrees. we'll see some clouds and fog near the coast and that's going to keep it nice and cool there. we'll talk about a weekend warm up coming up. any problems with the morning commute >> a delay along the eastbound 80 right near the toll plaza to get on the bay bridge because it looks like there's unfortunately a semi that is blocking the number three lane. it broke down right here and as you know with a semi it's not working, take some time to get it out of here. again this is blocking the number three lane on the eastbound lanes near the toll

plaza. so that's something to look out for. i haven't seen any major slowing of the speed sensors, no yell or red which indicates that traffic is still flowing in the other two lanes. still pretty easterly so we'll see how it impacts heading in to the 6:00 a.m. the chp traffic report says they have issued a wind advisory for the altamont pass. keep that in mind as you're traveling in to the city or down towards the south bay. we're noticing construction as well on 580. so expect to see a little bit of a delay through that stretch at least for the first half of the morning. so far-right now, those quick check of your tri-valley drive times, westbound 580 from grant line road to 680, 22 minutes. southbound 680 from 580 to vargas road. 10 minutes. i'll have a closer look at how the rest of your bay area drive times are doing coming up in just a few right now hospitals s

of the country once again being overwhelmed. this time because of the delta variant that's on the rise worldwide. the latest wave of covid spreading at an alarming rate. many of those outbreaks are where the vaccination rates are below 45%. data shows that the u.s. is averaging 1,000 new cases every hour. >> we're breaking down numbers closer the home. what we found is during. one county the average daily number of people hospitalized with covid-19 has grown 50% in the last month. we're talking about costa contra county where vaccination numbers are strong. as of this morning there are 67 people momentized in -- hospitalized in costa contra county. >> currently about 80% of county residents over 12 are vaccinated. getting that last 20% is difficult. >> the state department of public health says during the week of july 7th there were 13

per 100,000 covid cases involving unvaccinated people in california. compare that to the case rate involving vaccinated people, only two per 100,000. >> with all that going on many families in the bay area preparing to go back to school in a matter of weeks. students in brentwood start in less than a week. >> the president said the cdc will advise children who are not eligible to be vaccinated to wear masks to school. biden making comments during his town hall with cnn last night. while boarding air force one ahead of the event he told reporters that when it comes to those break through cases due to the delta variant the rate of infection is very slim. >> at a minimum i can say that even if they did contract it, which i'm sorry they did, it's is not lifereatening. >> now one quick note here abo

state guidelines require all students and staff to wear masks when they return to campus but california is allowing each district to decide individually how to enforce it. some districts say they will not enforce the rule and the state has not indicated if there will be penalties for those who ignore the order. so we'll continue to follow that. so really check with your district. of course you can get all the news when it comes to all the schools going back. i feel bad because my kids are like, no. >> some are starting next week. >> yeah. >> gosh, it's really coming up quickly. so we're just trying to enjoy these last few davis summer for he some of our kids and even getting out the door this morning. we'll see temperatures around the bay area starting out in the mid-50s. that's a live look at walnut creek. it's 61 degrees where we see temperatures warming up today. a lot of sunshine. we also had at times of hazy

skies. air quality is pretty good near the surface. at lunch time 75 degrees. still good for playing outside, enjoying your lunch out there as well but will be warming up into the upper 80s in spots like concord and livermore. san francisco is at 65. napa reaching 64 and san jose coming up a degree or two warmer compared to yesterday with some low 80s and we'll talk about the weekend ahead coming up. any issues for the morning commute? >> stayed pretty quiet overall. we still do have that one big rig stalled out on the number three lane eastbound side of the bridge but look what happened now. that just disappeared. these are real-time traffic updates. my map gets updated as the chp don't update. that's good news. that cleared out of the map. no big delays. let's get a quick check of bridge drive times. westbound 80 towards the bay bridge seven minutes.

westbound 92 towards the san mateo bridge, 12 minutes. i'll have another update in just a few minutes. we're counting down the opening ceremony of the tokyo olympics. they are less than a day away. can you believe that? >> finally. >> those covid concerns weigh heavily on the athletes as well as the city of tokyo. >> we go live to tokyo for that and the rest of the morning's top headlines from the games. finally we're almost here. what's feeling on the ground? >> reporter: well a lot is happening here. right? this is the last 24 hours before the opening ceremony. you have the covid concern. there is some excitement building in tokyo. the numbers, those we'll start with the covid numbers. they are rising every day we get a new batch reports. 91 people who are officially connected with these olympics have tested positive. that includes about a dozen athletes. really we just have to manage our expectations. there are several athletes

likely to come in the next several days that will test positive that will have to sit out of these olympics. but, you know what? they won't be allowed to compete and the show goes on. the train is leaving the station at this point. the games are full speed ahead and that's now sinking in. the reality is sinking in to the people here in tokyo. what happened? how did the most wired futuristic and stylish city in the world get left behind in this race to vaccinate? in a nutshell tokyo was slow in its clinical trials, a lot of government red tape, and vaccine hesitancy. anti-vaxors. a dangerous mix that led to a lot of backlash. >> not too many people are vaccinated in tokyo, in japan, so many people still getting infected every day. and my family as well, they worry about me in tokyo. >> reporter: the latest public opinion poll more than 80% say

they are concerned about hosting the games. but concern doesn't mean cancel. >> how they prepared for this event, you know, if you think about it, it's grassroot, initially primarily. so i hope, you know, they can do what they do best. >> japanese government as well, i think, they just want to hold this competition or this event because they are still losing money if we put this to next year they will lose more money. so they better finish this as soon as possible. >> reporter: here we are. full speed ahead. not knowing how this will turn out. and we really don't. here's the deal. we're all in the same boat here. we're crossing our fingers and hoping for the safest outcome for fans here in japan, the residents, i should say, the athletes and everyone associated

with the games. what else is happening on this thursday night here in tokyo? let's take you inside the olympic stadium where the opening ceremony will be. it is ready for the world. of course no fans will be allowed and two key people will be missing. there's a bit of a controversy as we head into these opening ceremony. today the director of the opening ceremony was fired because of a holocaust joke he made back in 1998. on the left that's kobayashi. the music composer was passed out because of past bullying issues. we move forward. guess who arrived in tokyo today. let's take a look at the first lady, jill biden in the red touching down at the okada fares base. the first lady is planning to attend the opening scene mother tomorrow. she will meet u.s. athletes. she will leave tokyo on

saturday. that opening ceremony live here on nbc bay area, 3:55:00 a.m.. so either just stay up all night tonight or, you guys are always up. >> a normal day for us. >> that's great. primetime tv for us. >> reporter: marcus, usually the day before the opening ceremony that's when all the vips start flying in, the billionaires, guys like me and you we watch on tv. vips start coming in. >> i just live through her. >> we'll stay right here. watch like everybody else. it will be fun. >> thanks. all right. three olympic specials. today at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. from bay area to tokyo. tomorrow 1:00 p.m. check out more stories on our local athletes. track the

nbcbayarea.com/olympics and tomorrow the "today show" savannah guthrie will be live from tokyo hosting that opening ceremony. it will be followed by a special edition of "today" at 8:00 a.m. we'll be here tomorrow morning. excitement is here. much more ahead including down the yellow brick road and not in emerald city. we told you about the dress that dorothy wore that was found decades later. now there's more to that story. a new lawsuit dredges up some really old painful memories for e-bay. what do you think of this? $20,000 for a trash can. san francisco might be paying that price tag. why the city is considering investing in the these pricey ver problems,

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good morning, a very happy thursday to you as well. those horrible accusations against former e-bay executives are back in the news. you may recall five former e-bay executives are accused of harassing a couple that wrote a blog that was critical of e-bay. the alleged harassment was awful. there were already federal charges against the former e-bayers. one pleaded guilty. the couple is suing individuals and e-bay. here's their lawyer reading from the alleged e-bay memo. >> we're going crush this. we're going to do everything we can to take her down. now is the time. take her down. burn her down. i want to see ashes. >> former executives alleged sent the couple a bloody pig face. we won't show you that one. they also sent a book on how to survive the passing a spouse to the couple. the threat fairly obvious. e-bay for its part acknowledges

the harassment happened but denies the conspiracy rose to the top in the ceo's office. they have a new ceo. the e-bay in a statement said the misconduct of these former employees was wrong and we will do what is fair and appropriate to try to address what the steiners went through. we're very sorry for what they endured. tesla's elon musk said the car company may take bitcoin as payment. tesla invested more than $2.5 billion of its own cash buying bitcoin. since that time the valve bitcoin has fallen hard. lost half of its value since april. tesla's losses will show up on its next balance sheet. this is a problem. bitcoin supporters and critics come to notice elon musk himself appears to be the single biggest influence on bitcoin. what he says moves the market.

when musk was originally said tesla would accept bitcoin from people who wanted to buy cars and tesla had bought billions of bitcoin the price went way up. later musk changed his mind said tesla would not accept bitcoin, the price fell and tesla's bank accounts fell with it. bitcoin fell below the 30,000 mark. today bitcoin up 8% after tesla says they might start accepting bitcoin again and that helps tesla's bottom line. >> right. thanks. her dress not in kansas any more. do you remember this? the famous dress believed to be worn by judy garland as dorothy in the "wizard of oz" has been found. now the finding was authenticated. >> the dress was gifted to the catholic university in washington, d.c. by a friend of judy garland in 1973.

the dress disappeared. was missing for several decades. this month faculty found the dress inside of a shoe box on top of some mail boxes. now dorothy's "wizard of oz" dress is in university's special collection. >> do you ever put something away. i put it somewhere to keep it safe. >> then you don't know where it is. >> went up in a tornado or something. >> that's what happens. no tornadoes to talk about today but maybe a tornado as you're rushing out the house. get in the car, get on the road. >> rushing out of the house does create its own tornado. running later. i don't know what it is. i'm not working from home any more so he assumes and tries to go into the work from home office. so let's talk about your traffic report right now. good news we have no big accidents to report.

this did just pop up on this side. not sure what that is. real-time traffic. westbound 80 from highway 4 to bay bridge, 14 minutes. we're looking good out there. let's hope it stays out there. kari, how is the weather doing? >> pretty clear around the bay area. dublin starting out with clear sky. l.a. seeing coastal fog still lingering but looks pretty good as we see a wide range of temperatures. cupertino, up to 80 degrees. for the east bay there will be a couple of low 90s but mostly upper 80s. seven day forecast is coming up at the bottom of the screen starting in the south bay as we take a look at our east bay high temperatures, hey ward reaching 74 degrees. in the low 60s near the coast. san mateo reaching 72 degrees. san francisco basically still in with the clouds and fog early in

the morning but clearing out a little bit during the afternoon and reaching 84 degrees in santa rosa. clear today. still heading into the upper 90s. we're seeing some changes as high pressure across the desert southwest comes in closer. it will change our inland temperatures but not so much near the coast. notice that by next week we see green popping up here that shows there will be the potential of some more showers possibly some monsoonal thunderstorms in the sierra and does get very close to the bay area. as we look at our temperatures for the seven day forecast, not too much of a change here. averaging out those inland valleys reaching into the upper 80s and low 90s. slightly warmer for the weekend. most of us won't notice too much of a difference. mid-80s for early next week while san francisco sees a little bit less fog for the weekend. it's going to be nice and sunny. highs in the upper 60s and we'll see more of that into the start next week. now let's turn to our climate in

crisis as we're now placed under a la nina watch. it's basically the schooler water near the equatorial pacific and that can drive the storm track further nor. during el nino years that can bring in more storms. what we're seeing right now, cooler temperatures there and it's really going to stems deve during the winter. we usually get a strong the storm track further to the north. so what does thatoi into winter could be up around the pacific northwest near seattle. that is not good news for us because as we know that if we go into the winter with a la nina once again we could have a dry season and this is part of the reason why we're in this mega drought. we'll be watching that.

we have to really prepare for the possibility of another dry winter and we're going to talk more about this on our website. check it out, nbcbayarea.com. we have a lot of stories about our climate in crisis. check on the tap "today in the nbc responds. >> new rules for unemployment checks. we'll show you how it works next.

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a lot of people are still collecting unemployment checks. recently the rules changed. >> to keep those checks come underground have to show you're looking for work. we'll show you how to do that especially if you're self-employed. >> reporter: let's get this out of the way fir. lying to the state about whether you're looking for a job is fraud. if the state catches you lying they will stop your unemployment checks he and possibly prosecute you. the tell the truth. edd says it will ask when you certificate at the the if i which you should be doing every two weeks to get paid. what qualifies looking for work? that depends on the job you had before the pandemic started. if you had a full or part time job as an employee you're on regular unemployment. you're looking for work if you set up an account on the state job board, create a profile on

job websites. if you had a gig job or self-employed, the rules are different. you're looking for work if you're trying to get new clients, expanding your network or enrolling in training. whatever you do keep a record of when you look for a job, where you applied and any training you enrolled in. that way if the state starts asking questions you have proof you've been keeping up your end of the bargain. good luck. we hope you get back on your feet soon. >> thanks, chris. 5:27. coming up next the top stories we're following you including the growing debate about wearing masks indoors. why doctors say a mandate is looming in the bay area.

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delta has changed all of the facts on the ground. >> right now at 5:30 mask mandate looming. top doctors in the bay area say it could happen in a matter of weeks. >> plus chinatown lawsuits hundreds of alleged disability violations. why the district attorney is now stepping in. struggling to make it in the bay. just how many of your neighbors aren't make enough to survive here and the numbers are shocking. this is "today in the bay". good thursday morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. of course we're broadcasting on television and streaming live on nbcbayarea.com. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington.

first this story everyone mandated here in the bay area. >> one local doctor is weighing in on the benefits of going back to mandatory masking. doctors are changing some of their guidance here? >> reporter: correct. good morning. this is because of the delta surge, the surge that delta variant right here in costa contra county. they've seen a jump in hospitalizations of 40% in the past 30 days. all counties are now recommending that you maverick up when you go inside businesses like the ones behind me here. but you thought you didn't need a mask when you were fully vaccinated, right? that's what the cdc was telling us earlier this year. we spoke with dr. bob wachter. we asked him for an explanation. he's vaccinated but he's wearing

a mask again indoors now and says that you should too. for three reasons. the delta variant is circulating more widely now. two, he doesn't want long term symptoms, something you can get even after a mild case of covid. and lastly he says still there's not enough people who are vaccinated nationwide. >> san francisco is essentially 75% vaccinated. two months ago i would have said to you i think that's maybe high enough to have local herd immunity. that's going to be high enough to bump down the cases even if people do take their masks off. with delta it's not high enough and that's why we're seeing a surge. really delta has changed all the facts on the ground. >> dr. wachter says the surge is much worse than the bump we expected with the re-opening of our state. he thinks the area will follow the lead of los angeles and mandate indoor mask use. he thinks that could happen within the next few weeks.

reporting live here, bob redell, "today in the bay". let's talk about this, statewide those numbers are starting to inch up as well. this morning california's positivity rate. take a look. 4.5%. now some perspective. the last time it was above that number was mid-february. and before that the state was below 1%. hospitalizations just barely starting to creep up. since mid-april, this is april we're talking about, this area right here. for the most part the number of people hospitalized with the virus was held steady. this morning 2,600 californians are battling that virus in hospitals. >> san francisco's district attorney said his office is launching an investigation into demand letters and lawsuits sent to business owners in chinatown, letters spelled out alleged violations of american with disabilities act. d.a. is investigating to see if any of them are fraudulent. we go live to san francisco with

more information on who is behind these letters and how business owners are responding. >> reporter: good morning. that's exactly right. the district attorney here in san francisco said his office is launching an investigation after about 100 shop owners in chinatown received these letters saying they were in violation of some aspect of the ada but he said his office isooking into whether or not these letters are even legit. so on wednesday district attorney joined business owners and community leaders from san francisco's chinatown. at the event the business owners expressed concerns about potentially being exploited by lawsuits and those demand letters that may potentially have no merit. chinatown's be chamber of commerce is putting together $25,000 legal fund to help shop owners respond. allegations of violating the ada are very serious. >> we will not tolerate fraud or

abuse of legal process. we will stand with our small businesses. we will open an investigation into these allegations. and we encourage any small business owner in san francisco, in chinatown, to come forward, to cooperate with our investigation, to help us get to the bottom of whether or not these claims are, in fact, fraudulent. >> all they have been doing is able to serve take out orders only and based on the claims i don't see any way possible that this person was going into the establishment. >> reporter: and our team has reached out to some of the attorneys behind this lawsuit. a member of our team was successfully able to reach an attorney. that attorney kept the conversation very brief explaining he would not go into details of that demand letter and asked that we contact him later. see a lot of these cases throughout our state.

thanks so much. new this morning, how much will it cost san francisco to take out the trash? well that's the burning question this morning. as the city considers to redesign its trash cans. the new prototypes of the receptacles will cost between $12 and $20,000 each. that's partf pilot program for 15 cans which will be paid for by the city's budget. the board of supervisors will have the final say. >> residents are urging town sill to fill the a seat that's been vacant since last month. the disagreement centers whether the appointment to the position or just hold a special election. sam took over the position of the town's mayor. former seat has been empty ever since. the topic is expected to be discussed in a special meeting next week.

the deadline to make a final decision is august 1st. 5:36. happening today legacy of a chp officer killed while on the job will be cemented in the north bay pap section of 505 will be named in the honor of kirk gritz. he was killed a year ago during a traffic stop. a car slammed into him and another officer killing them both. 5:37. happening now. the tamarac fire raging in two states. the sky is glowing orange as you see that chopper dropping water on the flames. that fire burning south of lake tahoe and those flames crossed into nevada. crews trying to keep it west of 395. that fire sparked on july 4th but really exploded over the weekend. those flames have not burned nearly 44,000 acres and there's

no containment. st. helena looking to cut a deal with napa county on its water use. so far the city used 500 of 600 feet of water that napa county gave them in the last fiscal year. napa valley register reports the city manager may request the county reducehelena's water bill since it didn't use all the water. the other option is to give st. helena the rest of the water they didn't use. still dry conditions throughout the bay area. i guess some right side the weekend is coming up. >> we have had some nice weather around the bay area. nice and cool near the coast. let's get you ready to hit the road for the weekend. if you're going to l.a. check out forecast.

low 80s as well as on saturday. cooling on sunday. nice weekend. for paso robles highs in the 90s. mid-80s by sunday. you can see a little bit closer to home overall trend will be for some comfortable weather, little bit of some clouds and fog but we'll see some more sunshine in muir and more of the same on saturday. let's check out our beach forecast. the valleys will be hot. stinson beach, 70s for friday and for the weekend as we get more clouds and fog, slightly cooler there as well as half moon bay staying in the mid-60s and monterey looking nice and cool with highs in the mid-60s. we'll have the updates on what's happening for the weekend and we'll talk about the bay area forecast in a few minutes. how is it looking driving around the bay area? >> still doing good.

we're starting to see a build up traffic around this time. nice to see no big accidents being reported at least not along any of our highways. i did look into that crash that popped up earlier on my map in the south bay. unfortunately it's a pedestrian involved accident and it looks like there is chp on scene sort of trying to investigate what's going on there. that's right near wright road. you might encounter that. westbound 80 from highway 4 to bay bridge 14 minutes. back to you. 5:40. coming up an unwanted spectator at the olympics. ahead the unusual site and the best of the best. local aquarium once again ranking the top in the u.s. >> a fight over a fight. republicans and democrats can't agree on how best to investigate the capitol attacks. >> struggling to survive. bay area families are not making

enough. how much do you need to earn to make it in the bay? >> we have much more olympic coverage this morning. we know there's a lot to keep tr nbcbayarea.com, click on the olympics newsletter up on the bar. there you can sign up for all the latest headlines out of tokyo.

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thursday. take a look at this view from the cupertino hills over towards the south bay as the sunrises. temperatures in the mid-50s and headed for the mid-70s by lunch time. a look at all of our microclimate in a few minutes. >> if you live in brentwood, eastbound 4 transitioning to northbound 60 reports of a small grass fire. could cause a little bit of delay. head out now. i'll have more delays in a few minutes. >> 5:44. we know a lot of people are struggling to make it in the bay. this morning a new study shows just how hard that struggle simple. >> chris sanchez is live in san jose. we're talking about a lot of people here. >> reporter: we're talking about one in four bay area families just struggling to pay the bills and keep the lights on and keep food on table. according to a study by the

united way in the bay area one in four families or more than 600,000 cannot afford basic necessities like housing, food, medical care and child care and that reflects what was happening even before the pandemic. now across the state in three people or 3.5 million families can barely make ends meet. 97% of these households are considered working poor which means they are working, they are employed just not making enough money. half of these families have children under the age of 6 and in some places child care is more expensive than rent and that's an analysis from census data of 2014 to 2019. we're tracking resources for families trying to make it in the bay from the push to get rental assistance out faster to families to eviction moratoriums and how to make sure to get your child tax credit from the

federal government and find all of that at nbcbayarea.com. in san jose, nbc. quarter to 6:00 right now. biden's attorney general is declaring him independence today. merritt garland wants the department of justice to be totally independent. >> which if you remember your junior high level civics class is how it should be. really doesn't need anyone to remind us but merritt garland would like to remind americans that joe biden appointed him he does not work for joe biden. criminal and civil investigation should not and cannot be influenced by the white house he says. garland wrote that up in a memo. to be clear biden 100% agrees with that. donald trump felt very differently. firing his first attorney general for not protecting him in the russia investigation. excusing jeff sessions in a tweet of not being loyal. this is not the attorney general's job. trump's next attorney general bill barr, very much protected

the president. misrepresenting the results of the mueller report before the public could read it. barr directing the doj to drop a case against michael flynn shortly after trump said he should do so. at the capitol, a very unusual move by nancy pelosi, rejecting serve on the house select committee to investigate the attack on capitol police and the capitol. pelosi in a written statement said representative of jim jordan and jim banks of indiana were not suitable to help run the investigation because they themselves supported the big lie that trump had won the election. the man who picked jordan and banks house minority leader kevin mccarthy was incredulous. >> speaker pelosi has taken the unprecedented step of denying the minority party's picks. this represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee.

it's an egregious abuse of power. >> senate republicans reject ad deadline for the first vote on infrastructure. as we've discussed the nature is behind. democrats want to take the first procedural vote without a way to pay for it. biden back from ohio where he pushed for the infrastructure bill. he'll meet with business leaders. first lady in tokyo. you can talk to us on twitter tell us what you think. find me on twitter. >> thanks so much. it's 5:48. new this morning a north bay city is receiving top grades on its beach report card. the environmental group heal the bay said 24 beaches in marin county received straight as for water quality last summer. they looked at 500 statewide beaches. the reason for good marks not necessarily a good thing. it's the lack of rain.

water quality leaders say when there's a drought or a small amount of rain less pollutants flow out to the ocean. no surprise here. famous monterey bay aquarium once again gaining national recognition. travel and leisure magazine just named it among the top ten best aquariums in the u.s. it's the only one in california to make that list. magazine cited the aquarium's living forest as among its many highlights. >> those otters are so cute. >> a surprise visitor showed up at the games. >> fans are not allowed in the stadium. but an asian black bear has been seen twice. guards are trying to blast loud music. using fire crack stories scare the bear away. it's worth noting team usa beat canada in that stadium overnight. maybe a lucky bear. >> should be. i saw this thing on the line other day with this bear walking up to this man and putting his

arms around that man. >> a man in a bear suit. >> oh, wow. you know. >> i don't know. >> i'm used to seeing the taco bears getting in cars. >> opening ceremony happening tomorrow. we're excited about that. i want to show you the weather what it will be like as we're watching it on tv from afar. but, of course, take a look at that swirl of clouds there he at the bottom of the screen. that's at the -- that's a typhoon. we're only seeing the outer rain bands affecting japan. this heading towards china so pretty powerful typhoon. but we're still going to have a chance of thunderstorms here for tomorrow and it's been so hot and humid we will be watching that as well. and as we bring it back home take a look at our high

temperatures. 80 in san jose and 85 in gilroy. hot in a few place but hotter for the weekend. antioch reaching 93 while hey ward heading towards 74. daly city 61. nice, cool, foggy we'll see that cont francisco. and for the north bay mostly mid-80s today but still hot further to the north. i want to take you to brentwood where one of our spots where we typically see warmer temperatures could reach the triple digits over the next couple of days. for tomorrow as well as saturday up to 102 degrees. then we see it cooling down by sunday into monday and next week also pretty warm. kind of averaging out our inland areas where we see our temperatures reaching into the . not too much of a change where you feel that he. it will continue. where you seeing the school and foggy weather that will continue.

san francisco seeing some upper 60s but could see more sunshine for the weekend. heading out the door this morning, any problems for the morning commute? >> some slow spots pretty normal as we head into the 6:00 a.m. hour. if you live in brentwood, listen up. chp is reporting a grass fire transitioning to the 160. keep that in mind and we could see some delays depending, you know, on exactly what's going on. i'll definitely look into mr. details on that. center divide, transitioning to 160. tri-valley drive times. 580 to grant line, 24 minutes. westbound 84 to 680 you're looking only at ten minutes. if you live in the tri-valley head out now. that traffic is building. i'll have another report in a bit. happening now, san francisco

taking action combat climate change. supervisors passing an ordinance to speed up the cutback on greenhouse emissions. it updates the city's environment code. it focuses on energy, transportation, housing, building, zero waste and roots. requires the city to repair a climate action plan by the end of the year. san francisco's ordinance wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 61% by 2030 and reaching net zero. >> much more ahead on "today in the bay" including behind bars. the fraud ring busted for targeting california's unemployment program and millions of dollars taken that should have gone to those struggling. concerns are growing once again about vaccine hesitancy. why a number of younger californians say they still don't want to get the shot. you're watching "today in the bay".

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5:56. welcome back. our according to cdc 42% of americans ages 18 to 24ow trait older age groups. that report published last month found one of the main reasons

many were not vaccinated was due to concerns about possible side effects. some younger unvaccinated people around pacific beach say that the rapid spread of the delta variant and vaccine. travel requirements in some places changed their minds. others say that they are still not convinced. >> i chose not to get vaccinated i know people that got the vaccination and still got sick. so to me there's no point. i'm a pretty healthy guy. i'll stick with my immune system. >> young adults can die from covid. cdc says the benefits of the vaccine still far outweigh its risks. >> words no one of wants to hear. you have cancer. there's a new effort to highlight the care those have access to. 71 cancer centers are being recognized by the national cancer institute including two in the bay area.

stanford and ucsf. many are surprised to hear world class facilities are availability to new patients with an average wait time of one to two days. >> you have to have folks that really understand many different specialties and diseases and not only have the appropriate surgeons and medical on oncologists. >> watch the full story on the "today" show. a follow up about the dead lie condo collapse where the rubble has been removed. a judge says victims and families who suffered losses will initially receive a minimum of $150 million in compensation. that sum includes insurance on the champlain towers south building and expected proceeds of sale of property where the 12 story structure once stood. it does not include proceed from

any of the multiple lawsuits filed. the collapse killed 97 people. there's some new images we're getting in from florida state senator. you can see the rubble is completely now clear from the scene. >> another follow up for you. this one surrounding harvey weinstein. he pleaded guilty to four counts of rape. the 69-year-old convicted rapist remained in a wheelchair. these charges involve five women and span from 2004 to 2014. his attorneys entaerd motion to dismiss the charges. bond was denied. former movie mogul is due back in court next week. ten people in louisiana are being accused of scamming unemployment pandemic programs. eight of them are accused of getting $100 million from california. six of the suspects have been arrested. two more are still being sought.

right now at 6:00 here's what's happening "today in the bay". >> a covid curve ball. covid cases on the rise across the country and here in the bay area. we'll talk about the county that's seeing the sharpest spikes. >> also coronavirus in the classroom. could your kid be heading back to school wearing a mask this fall? biden weighing in on the controversy. the all new guidance that could be coming. >> let the games begin. a live look at tokyo less than 24 hours to go until the olympic opening ceremony. we have more on the growing pandemic concerns and he's breaking down the controversy surrounding one of the top event organizers. this is "today in the bay". good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us here "today in the bay". a lot of stories to get to this

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