developing now at 5:00, vaccines mandates may be coming in a matter of hours for teachers up and down the state of california. new reports overnight that will have all school employees buzzing this morning. breaking now, the united states senate passing a blueprint for transforming america. the big investment that could be coming. how they will actually impact all of us and what's next. this is "today in the bay." and a good morning to you, everyone. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. developing now a report overnight says governor gavin newsom is set to announce this morning new vaccine mandates for all school employees. >> it comes as thousands more

return to in-person this morning here in the bay area. we have team coverage on all fronts. >> we begin with "today in the bay's" cierra johnson live in mountain view with what we know at this hour. quite the controversy, cierra. >> that's right. in just a matter of hours there will be students and teachers streaming into this elementary school here in mountain view but walking into the school building amid a bit of controversy. governor gavin newsom is expected to make quite the announcement regarding a possible vaccine order for teachers and staff at all california schools. now, california employees must either be vaccinated against covid or submit to a regular test proving they are not infected with coronavirus. this is according to the "l.a. times." the governor has issued a similar policy for employees of state agencies and ap absolute mandate with religious and health exceptions for state medical workers. some school districts are doing

this. newsom is scheduled to visit a school in alameda county to unveil the plan later this afternoon. there are also several school districts returning, planning to return to in-person learning this morning including those attending pleasanton unified, mountain view and south san francisco unified. now, these districts are preparing to start a school year as concerns grow about the possibility of covid transmission. covid-19 cases continue to rise at schools in east contra costa county after districts in brentwood and oakley reopened to in-person instruction last week. the outbreak we first told you about in brentwood school district has grown from 10 confirmed cases to 19 in at least 117 students and four staffers there are showing symptoms of covid-19, but have not yet tested positive. so back out here in mountain view we will stream the presser

with governor newsom making the announcement huge for not only the state but probably set precedent across the nation. we will have more information as those details become available for you in our midday newscast and on nbcbayarea.com. i'm live in mountain view, cierra johnson, for "today in the bay." >> all right. thank you so much. i want to bring in "today in the bay's" kris sanchez right now. >> that's right. as cierra mentioned some bay area schools are ordering their teachers and staff to get the vaccination. >> yeah. so the bay area's biggest school districts were already moving ahead with that way of mandatory vaccination proof even before the governor talked about mandating it. that goes for all teachers an staff, contractors, even volunteers. the latest and second largest is oakland unified which will now provide or rather require proof of vaccination by august 27th. you might remember school resumed yesterday or on monday. san francisco unified is requiring proof of -- by september 7th students return to

campus next week. as we have reported, san jose unified got priority for their teachers last march before mandating proof just a few weeks ago and now more than 90% of the staff is fully vaccinated. anyone who does not provide proof of vaccination has to provide weekly test results. san francisco's superintendent says that with this surge, this is the safest way to return to class. >> given that we're in the midst of rising cases and new variants in the community, a vaccine requirement is a necessary step to keeping our students, staff and family safe. >> some smaller districts may follow in the footsteps of larger districts and even as the state requires it as the head of the second largest teachers union, the american federation of teachers, is backing that same mandate. initially they did not. >> but we're also seeing some pushback still with masking even. >> yeah. not as much here in the bay area as we are seeing other places, but san joaquin's board of

supervisors passed a resolution calling for local school districts and parents to be allowed whether to mask or not. someone made an interesting analogy, this is a public health thing, you have your rights as an individual but you can't drive without a seat belt. >> we're not supposed to speed. >> drink and drive is. you have your personal autonomy but if it impacts the larger public that's when it's complicated. >> thank you. live to a live look at capitol hill, breaking news right now, one down, several more to go as the long debated infrastructure bill passes in the senate and heads to the house, not without a bit of resistance from the house leader nancy pelosi. "today in the bay's" tracie potts live in washington, d.c., with a look at these overnight developments for us. good morning, tracie. >> hi, laura. good morning. two different things, that infrastructure bill has passed and is moving to the house, but what they were working on overnight and lawmakers were

there for 14 hours straight, was the $3.5 trillion plan that would address the rest of president biden's build back better agenda he's addressing today, the human infrastructure plan. what they did overnight was create a framework, a first step toward things like free community college, universal preschool, expanding medicare, and other social priorities. republicans say this is a spending spree that will lead to hire gas prices. this all nighter, putting things in and taking things out, came after 50 democrats and 19 republicans approved the trillion dollar traditional infrastructure bill focusing on roads and bridges. >> it's an investment in fixing up our ports, our electrical g and broad bapds network and expanding that. >> this bill will put people to work modernizing our roads and highways and bridges.

>> thank heavens it still is, but it's not the end of the story. >> and that is because house speaker nancy pelosi says she will not consider one bill without the other, traditional infrastructure and the larger effort that democrats want to examine with it. the house is coming back early on august 23rd. meantime today, president biden meeting with governors, mayors, other local leaders doing a bit of a victory lap on the infrastructure bill, but also breaking down what all of this means to his build back better agenda. laura. >> let's talk about what this could possibly mean for california. i mean when talking about roads and bridges. >> right. so there are billions of dollars here that can end up benefitting california. one of the things that's earmarked is wildfire risk reduction. more than $3.3 billion for that. some of that money would come to california. more than $8 billion for water

initiatives on the west coast. a billion of that on water storage projects. old dams and other water infrastructure would be upgraded as part of this bill and that's the one that seems to be moving forward more quickly with bipartisan support. >> and those are the big issues here in our state. thank you, tracie. >> happening today, u.s. secretary of labor marty walsh is visiting the bay area. he's stopping at contra costa county to support president biden's infrastructure bill. walsh plans to visit a plumbers and pipefighters training center in concord and construction school in richmond. police look for a driver in a violent road rage incident caught on camera. we should warn you you may find this video disturbing. >> see that. >> of course. he's coming back. >> he's coming back. careful. >> oh, my. >> that is frightening. that is the moment that joseph l.a.x. broke his tailbone in a road rage incident.

the neighbor caught it on video on sunday. it shows the same car nearly striking the suv, two of three separate times in the oakland hill at girvin. l.a.x. had gotten his girlfriend and her sister back in the car. >> the fact that neighbor warned me saved my life. i had my back turned. i wasn't thinking he would come back. i was trying to get everyone to settle down. a lot of adrenaline going on. >> police are looking for the driver of the car. it is appeared to be a chevy volt. l.a.x. says he's still in a lot of pain and all three of them certainly shaken by what happened. >> wow. signatures are due nouds an effort to recall san francisco's district attorney. supporters need to submit more than 51,000 verified signatures by the end of the day to qualify for the ballot. organizers of recall chesa boudin encountered hostility. one woman walked off with the

group's banner near chinatown. organizer ritchie greenberg says it's not the first time volunteers have experienced hostility. >> name calling, finger pointing and fingers raised and comments like that. to have someone come out with a big pair of scissors and with -- they didn't even care. >> now in a statement, boudin's office says, quote, district attorney boudin didn't let himself be distracted as he worked for criminal justice reform, support for victims and investments in crime prevention. that work continues regardless of what's next for ritchie greenberg and those who want to refight the 2019 election for the next two years. the climate in crisis creating urgency in the north bay this morning. the press democrat reports more are losing their rights. last week new restrictions kicked in for 1500 rights holders including two towns, clover dale and heels berg. today another 300 or so ranchers, grape growers and land owners are losing their rights.

lake mendocino's water storage levels are about 30% of what it usually has this time of year. >> we're seeing that across the bay area. really california right now when we talk about the heat that we've had. >> and the impacts on the agriculture too. that's going to take a big hit as we go through the next few months and hopefully eventually we will get rain. it is dry. as we're heading out the door a look at pleasant hill and our forecast for this morning, low 60s to start, all clear, and then as we go into today, our temperatures head toward the upper 70s at 11:00. you can see how fast it's going to be warming up as we reach into the low to mid 90s even upper 90s for spots concord. 98 in livermore, 91 martinez. in napa reaching 90 decision. very hot for the inland areas but we're still going to keep it cool near the coast. we're going to see the fog rolling back from the coast it so keeps the natural air conditioning in place for the coast and inner bay. we're going to have some more hot valley temperatures and then

add in humidity. we'll talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. mike, what's happening now with that crash. >> overall, the roadways are pretty clear. here in san jose, still not clear. we still have only your fast lane open. the tow truck that was sitting here just a few seconds ago had a car loaded on to it. there's a deadly crash. a pedestrian was hit on 101. i don't know why that person was walking on the freeway at any time of day. that's for the investigation that will ensue but we're waiting for the coroner to arrive. they can clear that only one lane open, south 101 past mckee. if you're trying to get to 280 or 680 you can access just there you saw the closure that clears at that point by our camera at the transition. south 101 slows just for that short section between mckee, alum rock and 680, 280, the rest of the bay is clear. back to you. >> thanks, mike. 5:12 for you this morning, coming up, some hopeful news for the a's fans out there hoping that the team stays in oakland. we're going to tell you the

decision that may help fast track a brand new stadium. >> do your kids like transformsers. maybe you like transformers. i have the car for you. >> do you want to stay up late tonight or you know what, i think you should wake up early like we do. we'll talk about the best times to watch an out of this world meteor shower. california! all of our homes share power. but heat waves can stretch our supply to its limits. flex alerts remind us when to use less energy from 4-9pm.

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morning. more kids you headed back. south san francisco's first day today, drop-off will be in the upper 50s and partly cloudy, but a lot of sunshine and upper 60s at pick-up time. it's going to be a nice one and i hope it's a great day for you. we'll talk about the rest of the bay area coming up. >> unfortunately, not a great day right here in san jose. we have this traffic alert. a deadly crash blocking all but one lane of 101. we're seeing activity here and interpret what i've seen through these lights going on and give you the forecast for when i think this part of 101 will clear. good morning. very happy wednesday to you as well. stock markets will open at new records today. this happens fairly often these days. investors very pleased with the senate passing a bipartisan infrastructure plan. government spending might not be good for budgets, but it's good for economies. some money is coming out of tech stocks. looking ahead, maybe some more money coming off the table as we check the futures board this morning. looks like, yeah, more money coming out of tech.

now investors like government spending, but they don't like inflation. we get a key reading on inflation coming up in just a few minutes at 5:30 this morning. you don't need to see the details of the reports to know that prices are going up on a lot of things. this month's consumer price index probably won't be as shocking as last month's. less of a base affect where we compare inflation over the course of a year. twitter suspended rand paul for spreading misinformation about coronavirus and kicked former giants player aubrey huff off the network forever. not immediately clear why with huff but he's often tweeted misinformation. on instagram he blames the, quote, liberal karns for his ban. twitter suspended georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor green for tweeting false information. skip ahead to this car i was telling you about. this is an audi, a shape shifting car. you can drive it and then hit a button and look at that, the steering wheel folds away, the

pedals disappear, the car actually gets longer. it expands so you can sit back and relax and let the computer drive you. they're going to show it off at the monterey car week. if you want to drive it again, you hit the same button, steering wheel comes back and the car gets shorter again. take a look at this. there you go. that's the button in the middle. and everything pops back out again including the accelerator and the brake and you're -- and the car gets shorter so you can -- >> is this just a concept car? >> it's just a concept car but a real car in the sense they are going to drive it around. but, you know, they've been talking about how do we handle self-driving cars? is there a steering wheel? and maybe this is a compromise. >> wow. i need the foot pedal to come up. >> i want it to go farther away. more leg room. >> yeah. >> i don't need that. >> the car gets longer. >> wow. cool. if i could only do that too. >> all right. thanks, scott. 5:18 for you this morning.

coming out party batman. trending for you this morning, the super hero exploring his sexuality. a new issue of batman urban legend getting buzz not from batman but his side kick robin. robin's alter ego agrees to come out on a date with another man. yeah. an old friend he clearly has more than a friendly feeling for. we won't say he's, quote, coming out but he definitely has decided to explore a little bit within this comic and maybe you're asking, so is he or isn't he? do we know? the next issue coming out in december. if you're a night owl you don't want to miss tonight's meteor shower. the perseid meteor shower. don't eat that yet. he loves his breakfast. you wait around, my friend, for the perseid meteor shower.

it is one of the biggest events of the year. really cool. the peak hours to watch between 11:00 p.m. tonight and 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. it ends before "today in the bay." and i think you should get up early to watch it. super cool. expect to see about 100 meteors per hour and you can make a wish and wish maybe our commercial breaks are longer to eat your breakfast. >> this is what i was trying to grab. my oatmeal in the morning. watch that and look at the meteor. >> maybe you can do a facebook live or something with that. >> maybe we'll talk about -- >> it smells delicious. >> it is quite delicious. >> like cookies. >> has a little protein in it. >> all right. i did see a meteor streak across the sky yesterday morning, not this morning, but i think at any point during the night you can see some, but the peak of the time will be before sunrise and "today in the bay" starts. the meteor shower peaking where you could see 100 per hour but you could see one or two outside of the time frame and we will

have that each morning through friday. it's all clear right now. our temperatures are heating up. take a look at where we're headed today. 94 in morgan hill, gilroy 98 and upper 80s for san jose. we're also seeing upper 90s for antioch today as well as livermore, danville, all of our inland east bay valleys will be hotter this afternoon than we've seen in the past several days. but no change along the coast. half moon bay in the upper 60s, san francisco up to about 71 degrees. and up to 104 degrees in ukiah today. santa rosa reaching 87 and napa up to 90 degrees. we're watching a couple of tropical systems. now this is well to our south and west. this is kevin and linda off of the coast of mexico out there in the pacific. we're going to see over the next several days some of the remnants of those tropical systems get drawn into the monsoon that's been happening. it could enhance the amount of

moisture moving over the sierra and spark thunderstorms toward the next several days and increase our humidity as well. we're going to see the potential of higher humidity for the end of the week and weekend. this coming with temperatures that are not going to cool off. so it's going to be hot and then we're going to throw in some humidity. yes, it's going to be muggy from friday to saturday into sunday. slightly cooler early next week but no change in san francisco. we're going to keeps the fog and watch out for that chance of some thunderstorms well to our east. mike, offer he been watching that crash. what's the update? >> we have been. my forecast was for closer to 6:00 than 5:30 but they started to move vehicles. we see the slowing on northbound 101. that's your commute direction past the deadly crash on the southbound side. for those just joining us, a pedestrian for some reason was on highway 101 was hit and killed just between the mckee and aylan rock areas and that's where you're down to the fast

lanes squeezing by. a spectacle in the northbound direction. we're picking up a little volume and folks are distracted. if the coroner has arrived, about now, which is the time i expect for the arrival, that would be a distraction as cars arrive and adjust and watch the commute and bring you updates. but all transitions are open right now. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> next here on "today in the bay," bad news for anyone still locking in their hawaii travel plans. visitors, they are filling up those hotel rooms. the problem it's creating and covid cases there on the rise. >> you can find our "today in the bay" team always on social media. take a look at this. kris sanchez posting these pictures on instagram over the weekend celebrating her daughter's 15th birthday. hoip birthday. you can keep up with kris at nbc, on twitter, instagram and facebook. we'll be right back.

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welcome back for you. hawaii warns it is running out of covid quarantine rooms. a hawaiian newspaper reports 30 people had to be waitlisted for 64 rooms in oahu. hotel rooms used once to quarantine people are once again filling up with more travelers as they return. at the same time, the delta variant is driving record high case numbers in hawaii. over the last week the state is averaging 514 new cases per day, more than double any period this

morning. a victim for the oakland a's on the field and in the court. there will be a time limit on any legal challenges to the environmental review of the ballpark project. the decision upholds a ruling in alameda superior court and in line with the bill passed in 2018 requiring legal challenges be resolved within 270 days. as for the stadium plan talks are supposed to resume soon. next here on "today in the bay," the top stories starting with bob redell. bob? >> good morning. icu bed capacity healthy in most parts of the bay area except for one, the county now at zero. you're watching "today in the bay."

the beds are filling up. we're not really sure what it's doing. >> right now at 5:30, running out of beds. the new covid wave fueled by the delta variant is pushing hospitals to their limits again. the concerns from bay area doctors and the new procedures starting today. giving teachers a housing lifeline. the groundbreaking happening today that may help them make it in the bay. >> forget fake i.d.s, it's fake vaccination cards. the warning going out to some unvaccinated students. this is "today in the bay." a very good now wednesday morning. thanks so much for starting your day with us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. okay.

kari has been saying to us you know, it's feeling more like miami out there than in some places across the bay area. we're not used to this type of heat. >> we are not. as we take a look at new data we just got out this morning, we are just learning that june and july were the hottest we've had on record. this coming from noaa. i wanted to show you a couple charts that showed the trend in our temperatures and where we are hitting the record high temperatures. so we are going to see some really hot temperatures. we've seen that already. and even looking back at the just couple years ago, just there we go, so temperature trends in california. we were measuring the hottest june and july on record and then as we take a look back at last year, before all of the wildfires in 2020, we had some of the hottest temperatures then as well. it's just getting hotter and, of course, this is something we know with climate change, unfortunately, it does look like it will continue. we'll be following this and talk

more about how hot it will get for our bay area microclimates coming up in a few minutes. >> sounds good. now to the pandemic and the delta covid variant sending icu bed availability in one county down to zero. yeah. bob redell's live in san ramon. hospitals now instituting a new rule to better protect those patients. >> correct. good morning to you marcus and laura. starting today if you want to visit a hospital or nursing home or long-term care facility in the state of california, you as a visitor must provide proof that you've been vaccinated or have a negative covid test from within the past 72 hours to enter those facilities. there are some exceptions that would be made for visits related to end of life, people accompanying minors or support people considered essential to care. you can see the signs that are already posted in the region medical center in san jose. masks are also mandatory. this is as the delta variant send morse unvaccinated people

into the er. some hospitals are now running out of icu beds. right now, napa county is reporting zero icu beds available with six covid patients in hospitals, solano has only eight icu beds with 15 covid patients, marin at 10, sonoma and san mateo they're in the teens. as you can see on your tv screen the remaining counties have plenty of icu beds available. >> in the bay area, we're kind of like not like the [ inaudible ] but the beds are filling up and we're not really sure where it's going. >> reporter: dr. peter chin-hong of ucsf expects infections to peak at the end of this month with hospitalizations hitting their peak a couple weeks later in the middle of september. some hospitals are preparing for a possible surge by halting elective surgery and switching over regular rooms to icu rooms.

here in contra costa county, the nursing staff in many places is already stretched thin. reporting live here in san ramon, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> really concerning. thank you, bob. now we're learning this morning women who get covid-19 while pregnant have a higher risk of having a preterm birth. that's according to a ucsf study. the study found mothers infected with covid during their pregnant were 60% more likely to have a very preterm birth that occurs at 32 weeks. and they were 40% more likely to have a preterm birth that occurred at less than 37 weeks. another northern california criminal justice professor is under arrest in connection with a series of fires set near a massive dixie fire. 47-year-old gary maynard is being held in sacramento. where he made a brief court appearance yesterday. investigators say maynard set a series of fires at lassen and shasta trinity national forest in the weeks since the dixie fire started. he's believed to have worked at california colleges, including

santa clara and sonoma state universities. a sonoma state spokesperson tells us maynard lectured in the criminology and criminal justice department in 2020. the judge says maynard may have mental issues. as for developments in the dixie fire, it is now the single largest fire in state history having burned nearly 500,000 acres in butte and plumas counties and destroyed more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other structures and it's about 27% contained. we're also getting a new look at the destruction from a satellite. look to your left, that is what the town of greenville looked like before the fire. to your right, that is what it looks like now. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. we received a little bit of relief from the smoke from the fires in the bay area. >> we have for the past couple days, it's been clear. think about that when the kids are going back to school, they're going out for recess and having to deal with smoke. this is the first day of school for pittsburgh unified and they're starting out with temperatures in the mid 60s. it's really nice and cool to

start off at drop-off time but pick-up will be hot. 91 degrees and it gets even hotter from there. take a look at our highs for our inland areas and concord today heading up to 99 degrees, oakland reaching 75, 89 in san jose and 84 in palo alto. but really no change in san francisco, half moon bay, near 70 degrees and napa today, up to 90 degrees. our air quality once again has been pretty good. a little bit of haze higher up giving us a little bit of a mix of sun and clouds to start out the day and sunshine for those afternoons with hotter temperatures inland. we'll talk more about our changes ahead. mike you've been tracking that crash. >> the deadly crash. an alert for san jose, southbound 101, drivers are down to one lane at the worst of it that's from about mckee down to just shy of the 280/680 interchange where our camera is. folks are able to make that critical transition, the northbound side, now slows. first distraction as the volume

buildings right now, it's 5:36, we see the slowing happening north of here and happening approaching the scene now because of the distraction and the lights on the southbound side. the coroner has to get there. the caltrans crew needed for cleanup as well and seen a number of tow trucks in the area and a couple leave already but that's the focus of the morning's commute right there in san jose. now 87 and 680 they'll all get past the area if those are your routes through san jose that's fine. everything is fine there. the rest of the bay, pretty much according to schedule, a little bit lighter traffic as we get used to the schools being back in session for many places these next few weeks, we'll be adjusting the times. oakland 880 we have the traffic and we have no problems. back to you. >> thank you very much. 5:37. bart leadership wants your take on the rail system's ongoing recovery from the pandemic. general manager bob powers is starting a listening tour. he's going to go out again where he gets input from riders. today he's visiting oakland's fruitvale station this morning

and san francisco's embarcadero station at 4:00 p.m. over the next few weeks planning to visit the ten busiest bart stations. groundbreaking this morning for teachers struggling to make it in the bay. a knew special affordable housing project will be dedicated to teachers and staff in daly city. the property will serve the jefferson elementary school district and when it's done, it will include 56 housing units surrounded by a courtyard and community building and play area for the children. up to 70 district workers will be able to live there. there's mayor is among those expected to attend today's groundbreaking. coming up next, a lot of college students will need to show proof of vaccination when they head back to campus but some are devising ways to get around the mandate. coming up the full details and the serious trouble they could be facing. the senate passed the infrastructure bill. we should be talking about bipartisanship but we're instead talking about bipartisanship? >> you get a seltzer and you get a seltzer.

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right now at 5:41 on your wednesday with morning. we've been watching our air quality looking a little hazy but as far as what we're

breathing in for the south bay, it's good but moderate elsewhere across the bay area. there still may be drifts of smoke as the fires continue. we'll talk about this and some higher heat in our forecast coming up. and some lower speeds than you would expect for southbound 101. northbound also slows for the morning commute. the pattern is different here in san jose. just between mckee and 280/680 where the deadly crash happened. the activity continues and give you a note on what we see and the updates from chp. >> thank you. the bay area's largest school districts will now require proof of vaccination joining a growing list of others including many college campuses. you know some of those students are getting creative in trying to get around getting the vaccine. >> that's right. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez joins us. you were reporting on the same thing yesterday. >> let's start by reminding folks that falsifying covid vaccine car card is a federal offense punishable by five years in prison and a hefty fine. with mandates popping up, i want

to show you a different approach. let me know what you think on twitter and facebook. this is west virginia wesleyan college not mandating proof of vaccination but charging students who don't provide it a nonrefundable $750 fee and that the university says is to discover the cost of testing. a west virginia has a 45% vaccination rate statewide. and more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide are now requiring proof of vaccination and that includes the entire cal state system, stanford university here in the bay area as well and the cal cal chancellor is urging mandates because his state office cannot. one global health officer says campuses need to weed out fake proof because it provides a danger for everybody it's one thing to falsify a test or something, but this is a public health emergency. >> right.

all right. you get to check, because parent's intuition. >> yeah. >> by the way, like now that we're all being required to have that proof of vaccination, if you can't find your paper card i'm afraid to car from the california public health website. i just took a screen shot i have the screen shot and link and i have a picture of my card. >> right. >> you don't know when you're going to need it. >> i've had to use mine once. >> really? >> i made it. >> weren't going to a college campus. >> no, i was not. >> i would make him show me -- >> step away now. >> kidding. >> new for you, governor gavin newsom is dominating at least one special election race. campaign funding. so according to new numbers of election financing, newsom and anti-recall groups are raised nearly three times as much as opponents and pro recall groups.

you're looking at "l.a. times" numbers from disclosures. john cox has raised the most among the recall contenders but most is his own. president biden says we can work together and the new infrastructure bill is plaintiff of that. >> and building bridges and highways. the senate passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill. then democrats got to work on a second much bigger bill that contains all kinds of ideas and spending including extending programs that send government checks to tens of millions of american parents and expanding public education to include two years of college. but when we think about the first bill, the one that the senate just agreed to, it's a nice sign of bipartisanship. something president biden has been pushing for, not just as president, but back when he was a senator. americans working together. >> folks above all, this historic investment infrastructure is what i believe you, the american people, want.

what you've. asking for for a long, long time. this bill shows we can work together. >> except president biden couldn't resist taking a somewhat veil but cheap shot at former president trump. >> after years and years of infrastructure week, we're in the cusp of an infrastructure decade that i truly believe will transform america. >> biden is referring to the fact that president trump would declare infrastructure week and tried to do some work and do what biden just accomplished and then get distracted or distract us with a tweet or statement that up ended the entire news cycle, perhaps in the spirit of bipartisanship it would be time to move on, though to be fair, republicans also make fun of trump's infrastructure week. here's senator rob portman yesterday. >> there's a joke around town that infrastructure week has come and gone so many times that people are a little cynical when we talk about it.

well, today, is infrastructure day. >> other news the voting machine company dominion sued several right wing news outlets for telling or allowing lies about how its machines work claiming voting machines gave biden a win he didn't deserve. one of the targets of the lawsuit is one american network which would do interviews with this man who the network claimed was a world leading mathematician who claimed the votes were statistically impossible. dominion lawyers looking for his qualifications found, in fact, he was an ex-con without a degree who works as a children's swing set installer on long island. >> that's interesting. thank you, scott. in the south bay some union members working for the valley transit authority want a bigger say in when and how they return to work. light rail trains still not running months after the deadly mass shooting at the guadeloupe

yard. the members cite child care as a key concern. they've petitioned the vta board complaining they feel pressured to stop working from home and being called back arbitrarily without union input. the vta statement says the allegations brought forward presented to the board of directors is being independently and thoroughly investigated by a third party. >> stevie nicks canceled her headline appearance at napa valley's bottle rock music festival and blame the growing threat of the delta variant. chris stapleton will replace the one-time fleetwood mac singer. knicks was supposed to headline the 2020 bottlerock festival canceled due to the pandemic. the festival is set to take place over labor day weekend in napa. knicks has canceled all upcoming performances this year. this trending for you this morning and it seems like these days every alcohol brand are coming up with a seltzer, right. now mountain dew is getting in on the action. >> pepsi and samuel adams

teaming up to create a new dew with alcohol. it will be called hard mountain dew that contains 5% alcohol, zero sugar, some of the flavors include original, black cherry and watermelon and roll out mou >> never had a mountain dew. add that to my list of strange things laura never had. >> bringing back the champagne chiller. >> champagne i've had. >> and the cans in there. here you go. >> yeah. >> not a big soda person. >> i'm not either anymore. >> yeah. >> i had a mountain dew. >> they were trying to get me to have one. they are going to get me a big mac, quarter pounder and mountain dew. i've never had any of those. >> do what you think is right. >> oh, i will. >> and i will eat the big mac. >> that means she won't have it. >> eat something cool and refreshing by later this afternoon. >> it's going to be hot. we've had really high heat and

it does continue today as the temperatures go up a few more degrees so early afternoon or early morning, late morning, is their best time to get out there. by the afternoon it's too hot to go to the park. take a look at danville and our temperature trend at noon 84 and we'll see our temperatures trending more toward the 90s today. we're going to start to feel that in gilroy today. 98 the high temperature, 90 los gatos and upper 90s for spots in the inland east bay from danville reaching 99 to walnut creek, 98 degrees. not too bad in oakland today. 75 and also still cool near the coast and for parts of the inner bay low to mid 80s while san francisco will reach up to about 71 degrees and our temperatures in the north bay reaching 92 in sonoma and 101 in clearlake. i'm watching a couple of tropical systems out there in the pacific and this is well to the south and west of baja california, will not impact many areas tropical systems

expected to stay over open water but the remnants of those tropical systems may get drawn into what's been causing the monsoonal moisture to surge across parts of the sierra. maybe even enhancing the amount of moisture in some of that and giving another chance of some thunderstorms starting for tomorrow into the weekend. and we're going to feel that humidity. so there will be some impact there, even though those tropical systems will not directly impact us. any chance we have a possibility of thunderstorms we watch that because lightening could spark new wildfires. our temperatures are still going to be hot and add in some humidity and it's going to be very muggy out there. feeling unbearable for the end of the week and for early next week. only a slight cool down. san francisco where we can cool off along the coastline, we'll see highs near 70 degrees and that continues even into next week. mike you're using visual clues

for updates in san jose. >> we do that and look at the live cameras with the computer data and updates. we haven't had an update, but we know that caltrans crew arrived and i see the cones laid out and they're prepped. a hard closure where they have a physical to close the lanes not just the flares. south 101, just down to one lane south of mckee but clearing to 280 and 680, northbound side shows more clearing. we had things jamming up as folks were distracted and i think that means something arrived on the southbound side. hopefully that would be the coroner vehicle to do that. part of the investigation. there's a sweeper that's been called in. the update i got from chp says they don't think it's going to get there until about 6 or 6:15 and may mean 6:30, 6:45, 7:00 to completely clear this incident on the southbound side. expect more slowing but south of oakland road. northbound there's the

distraction combined with the morning commute. a slight build for this wednesday. wednesday commute remember a little bit lighter and so things are moving smoothly. the rest of the south bay moves nicely. the bay bridge toll plaza starting to back up. >> thanks, mike. happening now people in the south bay seem to be listening to the water district which declared a drought emergency in june. the first three weeks of data they are actually showing less water use. now homeowners are now using about 9% less water, but the district asking for a 15% reduction. it says that people if they cut the irrigation by half, the county will easily reach that goal. outdoor water is accounting for about half of the county's water total. >> much more ahead on "today in the bay" including still struggling. >> we couldn't get ahead of a disease that we didn't have any answer for. >> a bay area nurse shares what it's like to work in the front lines of the pandemic. and the toll it's having on her mental health.

plus, out of control wildfires devastating communities across the world. the never before track locations where smoke from these fires is now being detected. stay with us. you're watching "today in the bay."

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bay." a bay area nurse opening up about her own crisis with ptsd while treating covid patients. cassandra alexander says she spent months watching patients die from covid-19. she wrote about the trauma she experienced in a recent op-ed in huffington post. in part she says, quote, most americans will never understand what it is like to look someone in the eye as they pant in increasing terror forced to choose between talking on the phone to a loved one they know they might never see again and breathing enough to survive. sadly, this is something many nurses have had to experience during the pandemic. alexander says it really took a toll on her mental health. >> it wasn't necessarily one particular incident that set it off but just this slow increase of sorrow over 15 months where we couldn't get ahead of a disease that we didn't have any answer for and then once we finally started having answers for it, people were still

needlessly dying from it. it just really starts to wreck your soul in a way that you maybe can't fully appreciate until you're almost at the edge. >> she says therapy was able to help her start her recovery process. you can watch a full story on nbc lx, comcast 185 or 11-5 over the air. new details in chicago where an indiana man will face a judge today. he's accused of illegally purchasing a gun used in the shooting of two chicago police officers during traffic stops. 29-year-old jamall danzi is charged with the purchase of a semiautomatic handgun, that killed ella french, her partner critically injured. authorities say he purchased that from a firearms dealer who gave it to a convicted felon. robert durst due back on the witness stand at his murder trial accused of killing susan

berman back in 2000. prosecutors argue durst killed berman because of what she knew about the 1982 disappearance and death of durst's wife. durst was never charged in that case. a follow-up for you, bayer is reviewing its options after the state appeals court upheld $86 million in damages to a livermore couple. the pair developed cancer after spraying mow santos weed killer in their yard for 30 years. this is the third verdict against monsanto and upheld by a state appeals court. jurors determined that the company knew the active ingredient in roundup could cause cancer and failed to warn the couple. bayer announced plans to start replacing round up with a new product in 2023. quickly approaching 6:00 this morning. a new vaccine mandate may be coming just in a matter of hours away for teachers up and down the state of california. the report overnight that will

have all school employees buzzing this morning plus breaking now. >> seems almost certain to be the largest peace time tax hike on record. >> thank heavens it is, but it's not the end of the story. >> the united states senate passing a blueprint for transforming america. the big investments that could be coming and how they'll impact all of us. this is "today in the bay." a good wednesday morning. thanks so much for making us a part of your morning. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. developing now, a report overnight says governor gavin newsom is set this morning to announce new vaccine mandates for all school employees. >> this comes as thousands more students return to in-person learning this morning here in the bay area. we have team coverage for you on all fronts. let's start with cierra johnson, live in mountain view with what we know this hour. quite the controversy. >> good