right now at 3:00, mask up, even if you've gotten your covid-19 shot. this afternoon a reversal by top health leaders. but there's one bay area county that's not going to follow this recommendation. also soaring rental prices making it difficult for you to make it in the bay. but there's one place where you may still find a bargain. plus simone biles is out. the 24-year-old pulling out of the team final event, leaving the world to wonder why. happy tuesday. the news at 3:00 starts right

now. thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang. >> and i'm jessica aguirre at because of the olympics. simone biles said she is not physically hurt but she is working something out. >> her move has everyone stunned as the top of the athletes. >> reporter: saying she has the world on her shoulders, gold medal winning gymnast simone biles withdrew from the competition in tokyo, posting on instagram that it wasn't an easy day. >> how are you feeling? >> we're going to take it day by day and we're just going to see. >> reporter: telling the "today" show that she's putting her trust in her teammates. >> you guys need to relax. you're going to be fine without me. go out there and kick some butt like you have in training. lay it out on the floor and see

what happens. >> reporter: psychology consultant susan zaro says athletes like biles and naomi osaka should be praised for bringing mental health issues to the forefront and showing how quickly things can change for athletes in the spotlight. >> then you have this breakout and you don't know how to deal with it. all of a sudden all these people want to know you, you have to talk to the media. >> reporter: she said it's tough enough being a young person, but a young person in the global spotlight? >> when i listen to questions that reporters ask athletes sometimes on an international scale, sometimes i'm stunned by the questions. >> which leads to susan zaro's suggestions on what we and the spotlight can do to lighten pressure on these athletes. for instance, one-on-one interviews where rumors won't get spread like they do in press

conferences. >> we have to keep remembering, sigh money biles is 24 years old. some of us have kids that age. imagine the kind of pressure those kids are under and in the events that they're doing. i praise her for really being able to be that secure to say i need to take care of myself first. it's a great example. >> speaking out is truly helping so many people. thank you, scott. >> you can watch simone biles and team usa gymnastics tonight at 8:00. it will air right here on nbc bay area. you can also watch on peacock and nbcbayarea.com. mask up. that is the message from the cdc as the delta variant spreads rapidly across the country. we keep telling you this every day but now the cdc bringing in new guidance. even if you're fully vaccinated, kids in school should start wearing masks indoors. a reversal of the guidance just

two months ago. a majority of the bay area was ahead of the cdc's announcement. eight of the nine bay area counties made that same decision a few weeks ago. but today there is one holding out and that's solano county. the mayor there said he's not backing down. the positivity rate is 16.8% and 58% are fully vaccinated, but they said they will not recommend wearing a mask indoors. jodi hernandez takes a look why. >> reporter: solano county has seen 100 covid cases a day. that's nearly double than last week. but the county commissioner said masking up indoors isn't the key to turning that trend around. folks at art centric in venetia have been enjoying creating art without their masks on. but that may soon change. the cdc says with cases surging nationwide, the science suggests even vaccinated people should resume wearing masks.

>> in areas with substantial and high transmission, cdc recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings to help prevent the spread of the delta variant and protect others. >> nothing has changed with respect to the science to warrant cdc's change in recommendation. >> reporter: solano county's health officer says he's not going to follow the cdc's lead. he calls the recommendation misguided. >> the transmission that is occurring, that is causing the surge is all in people's homes, backyards, parties, camping. it is not in the environment where these mask recommendations are going to apply. >> reporter: most of the people we talked to in solano county said they will follow the cdc's guidance despite solano county not echoing the recommendation. the owner of art centric put her masks required sign back up again this afternoon. >> but now that we're seeing cases rise, i have to protect

myself as well as my customers. >> because i'd like us to be finished with this. everybody get vaccinated so we can get past the masks and just get past the whole covid thing altogether. >> that's jodi hernandez reporting. president biden released a statement on the cdc's new mask recommendation. it reads in part, today's announcement also makes clear that the most important protection we have against the delta variant is to get vaccinated. although most u.s. adults are vaccinated, too many are not. the president also said he will lay out next steps to get more americans vaccinated, and he'll make that announcement on thursday. let's take a look here in california at the state's positivity rate. it's been steadily climbing over the last several weeks, and today the 7-day average is sitting at 5.4%. at the height of last year's surge, the one we had over the holidays, our positivity rate was over 17%. but during that time we saw a

similar spike to what we're seeing right now before that pike. the hospitalization rate, you can see a slight drop, but now it's creeping up again. right now more than 3500 californians are in the hospital with covid-19. a quick change from the california college system said it would require all students and staff to get vaccinated before the fall semester. currently the vaccine is fda authorized only for emergency use. csu says the change was sparked again by the spread of the delta variant. the move follows both uc and stanford which also are requiring students and staff have their vaccinations before returning to campus. we'll continue our reporting on line and our nbc bay area app. we'll keep you updated on what

is constanting changing when it comes to covid-19 and what you should be doing. painful and emotional testimony today as the select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol held its first hearing. committee members heard from four police officers who recounted the day saying it was scarier than his entire deployment in iraq. they describe being called traitors as they were beaten, repeatedly tased and threatened and told they would be shot with their own guns. >> i feel like i went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room. but too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist or that hell actually wasn't that bad. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. >> san jose congresswoman zoe is

a member of the committee. the dream of gold got dashed by japan. japan beat the americans 2-0. team usa gets the silver. meanwhile the women's soccer team is moving to the elimination round of the olympics. they'll play the netherlands on friday. and marin's kate courtney places 15th in biking. she hit a muddy track after a tropical storm hit parts of japan. >> they bring soaring lies and then just crushing lows. >> they also bring moments that have us talking, laughing and sometimes smiling. garvin has stories from the last 24 hours. hi, garvin. >> remember yesterday when we saw the swim coach going absolutely bonkers celebrating a win? we might have topped that.

because the entire town in alaska went crazy. lydia jacoby got a gold in the breaststroke. the population just about 3,000. they have been totally behind lydia. one restaurant fundraised for her by selling stickers. every time a sticker was bought, the owner would yell, go, lydia, and the entire staff would do the same. shears something you might not know about her. she sings and plays bass in a bluegrass band. some other news off the field, that's the mask the team is wearing on the medal podium. designed by nike, they're supposed to be a nod to the japanese origami. some folks find them kind of villain bane. we have the cutest video you'll see all day, i promise you. this little girl in india is

mimicking her newest role model marabel shunu. there's the little girl as she carefully copied every one of her moves. this little girl winsthe gold. isn't that adorable? >> that's so sweet. >> i want to go back to the seward thing. when i was young, my family vacationed in seward. we saw signs all around town for lydia. i texted my wife, do you remember when we saw the sign in seward? it was for lydia. >> so you have a personal stake in go, lydia. >> go, lydia. a double standard for katie ledecky. she's going to compete in the 200 meter freestyle and then for

the 1500 meter freestyle. then brown will face off in judo. then men's basketball will be on tonight at 9:40 on nbc team network. and the women's water polo team faces hungary tonight at 8:00 p.m. you can catch the highlights tonight on nbcbayarea.com and also on our trending bar. we are getting closer to the recall election and a task for governor newsom. the reason why he chose a walgreen's to make his point. another outbreak at a concert venue. now people are asking, are we opening too fast? >> you can see some storms

longstanding. we'll talk about the heat and humidity. we'll talk about the cdc's new mask-wearing guidance and a new concern about vaccinated people. we'll look at athletes under pressure at my conversation with the woman of golden surfing on "nightly news."

going into the first wave in the gold medal match. >> looking for something spectacular. he's broken his board, has he?

>> drama we've had at the start. he needs a new board. >> that was critical. >> now a gold medal belongs to . it has been four months since the deadly rampage at a string of massage parlors in atlanta that sparked fear in asian americans. today the man accused in that case pleaded guilty for four of the killings. back in mid-march, officers say robert long killed four people. he was handed four sentences of life without parole. however, he still faces the death penalty in four other deaths being prosecuted in another county. six women were of asian descent. he says the crimes were motivated by his sex addiction. governor newsom is picking

up some momentum. that's according to a new poll by one of the most respected groups. one of the people who hope to replace governor newsom made his own case. >> reporter: with just seven weeks until the recall election, kevin faulkner was in san francisco, taking a swipe on the governor's stance on crime in the city where newsom was born and where he, too, was once mayor a decade ago. >> people want a governor that understands if we don't have a safe state, we don't have anything. >> reporter: faulkner making his case outside a walgreen's store that was among several closed after years of brazen retail theft. a new poll released by the berkeley institute of government studies today suggest faulkner and other republican hopefuls may be gaining traction in their effort to recall and replace the governor. it found 47% of likely voters now favor recalling newsom while

50% want to keep him in office. the poll of 6,000 likely voters also shows republican broadcaster larry elder leading the way on the gop side with 18%. and faulkner and fellow san diegan john cox at 10%. >> when we look at those numbers, what you're seeing is californians saying we need a change at the top. you're seeing that on the recall. >> reporter: we reached out to the governor's office for comment but our calls have not yet been returned. meanwhile a san francisco election official tells the bay area military's ballots should go out on monday, and everyone else should get their mail-in ballots by august 16. nbc bay area news. governor newsom today visited a fresno health clinic to sign a law extended public health care coverage to low-income, undocumented immigrants age 50 and over. previously the state expanded medical to undocumented children

in 2016 and young adults in 2020. today's extension will apply to nearly a quarter million people. >> regardless, again, of their ability to pay, regardless of their preexisting conditions and regardless of their immigration status. it's a point of pride, it's a point of principle and it's what marks our values here in the state of california, a universal state. >> reporter: lawmakers say many who will benefit is the state's economy who has kept it functioning during the pandemic. an outbreak at felton music hall, about eight miles from downtown santa cruz, held a concert on july 18th. now almost all the members of the band and the crew tested positive, along with fans as well. they are asking anyone who was present at that conference to go and get tested. in the meantime, it will stay

closed until thursday when all of that testing has been completed. livermore has just started a three-day strike. more than 200 employees at lawrence livermore national lab came out to strike, including electricians, sheet metal workers and carpenters. the workers union filed charges against the lab's owner for not negotiating mandatory on-call rotation for staff members. workers say frequent on-call work can be a headache and they want a chance to fairly bargain the terms. >> a lot of our guys have gotten off the volunteering on-call because it's become very onerous for them. they have made it so if we take an hour off to go to the dentist, we have to jump through a lot of hoops to get paid for our time that's on call, so a lot of the guys have gotten off of it. >> the case is set to head to court in october. we want to show you video now of a harrowing rescue by the coast guard as they hoisted a stranded swimmer to a hovering

chopper. the woman was found missing this morning at dead man's point. the boat crew located the woman on a rock. moments later a crew was able to hoist her on board a helicopter which transferred her to an emergency medical crew and she was treated for minor injuries. a warmup, wow. i felt like i had to turn on the ac by 11:00 a.m. >> kind of sticky outside. we'll continue with this heat as we roll into tomorrow. with a look at our high definition network, we did have coolness along the coastline, but the heat caught up with us. we're still continuing to warm as we head into the next two, two and a half hours. pleasanton 95, concord 94, st.

helena 93. we have this hot area of high pressure and this is what's bringing in the humidity, also the heat. then we've got this smaller little system right offshore. this is only just emphasizing the pattern. it's not doing a whole lot but it's hoping to conveyor belt the heat as well with some isolated storms. we did see some activity this morning. nothing major, thankfully. the last thing we need right now is any kind of lightning. we didn't have any lightning outbreaks and that's good news. you can see we had some rainfall off to the north and this is really pulling away on this spotty rainfall just north of clear lake, also ukiah. we're on the downside of things, so as we move to tomorrow morning, we do expect mostly sunny skies to start on the early side at 7:00 a.m. but watch this. we'll see clouds bubble up from the south as we head to the day tomorrow. not quite as sunny. we'll hang onto the humidity. the best chance of showers would

be to the north of us, also the east over the sierra. as we bring it to tomorrow morning, we're in the 60s in the south bay, tri-valley 67. it might feel kind of strange again with that humidity lingering. san francisco at 59 and north bay at 52. another warm day as hot as 100 am brentwood. 96 in livermore, 97 in concord. san jose not too bad at 86. probably the best day in oakland at 70 degrees. this weekend more of those 60s rolling on in and through the inland valleys. once again, hot weather tomorrow, 96. then we hold onto these mid-90s thursday to friday, then the 80s rolling out next week. let's talk about tokyo real fast. this is the hottest weather they've seen in recent memory. heat indexes going to the mid

and upper 90s. next week we could have a heat index up to 100 with those off and on chances of thunderstorms. i'm hearing from a lot of folks reading about the weather and what's happening over there. people knew it was going to be bad, but this is the worst of the worst even for tokyo standards. >> talk about testing the athletes to the limit, right? >> for sure. coming up, a bay area bargain when it comes to rent. the one place you may be able to find it and help you make it in the bay.

a new rent report continues to show why renting an apartment in san francisco bay is so difficult. it's still the nation's most expensive city. they report mountain view has the next highest rent with $2,370 for a one-bedroom. in emeryville, apartments rent

for $2,310. the place you should look at is concord. with places renting at $1,840, it is the most affordable in the bay area. the museum of ice cream in san francisco has officially shut its doors. you've likely seen the vibrant displays on social media. ice cream lovers submerged in a pool of sprinkles. so colorful. they closed their san francisco location at the start of the pandemic and has never reopened. but its owners only recently confirmed the closure and just took down the signage. there was also a lot of excitement when the museum opened in san francisco back in 2017. the museum is set to open a new location soon, including austin and singapore. we are back with a story of resilience and hope, of course, on display at the olympics. it's a new day. and it's coming at you fast. it could be the day your workforce doubles...

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as you're watching the olympics in the next couple days, really try to focus and

watch them give a colorful bouquet of flowers to each medal winner. >> there is a story behind the flowers. the yellow, green and deep blue flowers grow mostly in the three prefectures of northern japan that were hardest hit in the devastating earthquake and the tsunami that took 20,000 lives. they make a total of about 5,000 bouquets for the olympics and paralympics combined. a doubleheader for katie ledecky. she'll compete in the 200 meter freestyle and the 1500 meter freestyle. judo at 8:15. men's basketball will be tonight at 9:40 on nbcsn network, and the women's water polo will be on tonight at 10:00.

i was looking when maggie stefan won in brazil. i was like, yay! hope to see you at 4:00. bye. tonight the cdc's major reversal on mask guidelines for fully vaccinated people. the cdc now saying that fully vaccinated should resume wearing masks indoors in areas of high or substantial transmission. xxxxx