good tuesday morning. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm kris sanchez in for laura this week. we want to get to breaking news coming into our newsroom this morning out of antioch where crews are investigating two fires in a neighborhood south of highway 4. right now there is a vegetation fire so grass fire burning in the 3200 block of g street blocks away from sutter elementary school. there are several crews on the scene right there, but then about two miles from that scene, around 2:00 this morning of there a fire on buchanan road and lucena way. we don't know the extent of the

damage or the cause of either fire was. "today in the bay's" bob redell is on his way to the scene to ask those questions and he will have a live report coming up in a few moments. sonoma county and the search who is behind several suspicious fires that broke out around healdsburg. firefighters working hard there. those flames, they could be seen along at least one roadway, mostly brush burned along those downed trees you see right there. one lawmaker got the word out late last night. senator mike mcgwire tweeted just after 10:00 p.m. urging everyone to be alert and report any suspicious activity. turning to our weather a live look across the bay area and let's bring in vianey arana she is tracking the conditions for firefighters today. how is it shaping up? >> right now in the fight against fires, it's an ideal time because we get to see nice recovery with the humidity. current temperatures right now in the 60s so not too hot just yet. if you think about the wind

factor that plays a huge role. winds are calm right now, but right now is the time. take a look at what happens around 3:00. we start to see those winds pick up, so we're going to see dry conditions yet again today. under a spare the air alert. here's a closer look at what we're expecting. later into the afternoon, we are expecting some dry west/northwest wind at times that will bring fire danger especially inland. not to mention the fact that valleys are going to be in the triple digits again. i will go into full details coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you very much. developing this morning as well, conditions taking a bad turn for firefighters on the frontlines of the dixie wild fire. firefighters talked about a battle to save homes in dixie valley and there was a series of power outages in plumas county tied to the fire. the flames have burned 900,000 acres in five counties. the fire has been burning nearly two months now, you know because

we've been talking about it. containment is inching up at 58%. all evacuation orders have been lifted for areas surroundings the auburn fire. fire crews stopped forward progress on the fire and containment is up to 15% today. the fire broke out sunday afternoon and has burned 411 acres plus. crews will now continue to monitor all hot spots in the area. meanwhile auburn's state park remains closed. keep track of the air quality in your neighborhood impacted by all of those wildfires. head to nbcbayarea.com and click on check your air quality in your neighborhood in the trending bar. if you type in your zip code it will take you to the map. free housing for nearly a year in the bay area. sounds like an ideal offer, right. that offer now being met with protest. so the offer is being extended to people living at the homeless encampment near san jose international airport. that location owned by apple and the tech giant says they've

offered every person at the site nine months of temporary housing and a year of case management support. residents in that area plan to protest the relocation today. however the company says that it's part of their commitment to help ease the housing crisis. they leased a statement that reads, quote, as the challenges for renters and potential homeowners continue to increase, we've accelerated our support to have already deployed over $1 billion in new projects since the start of 2020. schoolchildren under 12 in windsor reportedly won't have much time on their lunch break. this is to cut the chance of covid quarantining. the press democrat reports the district will introduce new rules to minimize the time that triggers quarantines do to close contact. the 20 minute lunch period is 14 minutes, one minute less than what would be required for students to be sent home for a ten-day stay, because they have close contact.

the masks for children who also have been -- also have to be worn outdoors. while none of the district's 30 covid caseses this year are linked to in school spread nearly 10% of the students have been quarantined due to close contact. >> so much to follow. a recently cdc study finds states with the most unvaccinated children haves the highest rates of kids with severe covid cases. for those states hospitalization rates are nearly four times higher compared to states with the highest vaccination rate for children. emergency room visits in those states are about 3 1/2 times as high. in the north bay, starting today, all sonoma county workers will have to show proof of vaccination or undergo weekly testing. this is a new mandate that applies to 4,400 county employees. a similar mandate for first responders has been delayed until september 24th but we'll fol that for you. one week left to get out the

vote in the recall election. get ready, california, governor newsom and the candidates hoping to replace him are sending tens of millions of dollars in to bring out the star power to get your attention and your vote. here's "today in the bay's" jean elle with more. >> reporter: governor governor gavin newsom fighting to keep his job on labor day in southern california. >> eight days. let's turn out this, let's turn on the alarm bell and let's wake folks up. >> reporter: leading recall replacement candidate larry elder out urging a yes vote on the recall and a vote for him. >> nearly a third of all small businesses are now gone forever because of the way this man shut down this state. >> reporter: with just a week left until election day, candidates along with supporters and opponents of the recall effort are hittings the campaign trail. governor newsom will appear with vice president kamala harris in the bay area wednesday. the idea is, the hope is they

could ring out every last voter and make sure they come and vote. >> reporter: political analyst larriers goton while voters have mailed in millions of ballots, governor newsom still faces uncertainty. >> if the democrats can hold on to their own and get them out, this should be i don't want to call it a slam dunk but an easy victory. but if they don't get out their own and if many of them go ahead and [ inaudible ] unbeknownst to anybody else it could be a chose one. >> reporter: the president of the san francisco republican party says republicans will turn out. >> i think people are still deciding which of those candidates they want to support and so that's sort of dragging out the process a little bit. i think we'll see a flood of late republican ballots. >> reporter: san francisco republicans are recruiting volunteers to monitor polling places and ballot counting. mail-in ballot counting is expected to extend past election night. >> we know in special elections

that the participant rate is usually low and benefits republicans by the way. if the participation rate goes up two things, it will benefit democrats but take us longer to get the answers. >> reporter: jean elle, "today in the bay." if you have questions about the recall election, we have answers for you. all you have to do is head over to nbcbayarea.com for an entire page dedicated to the newsom recall. click on newsom recall on the top of the home page. we want to get to vianey arana who is tracking some weather that seems mild to start this morning. >> it is pretty mild but they did decide to extend the spare the air alert for today. it was supposed to extire poud. it's mainly because of the conditions in the santa clara valley. the high pressure still very much a story bringing on these dry conditions and low humidity once the sun comes up. look at concord, antioch and livermore. above 103, 104.

down through the south bay, 92. let's talk about the air quality. from the north bay to the south bay, this is still considered a bit of an air quality advisory by the moderate scale, but it's the santa clara valley unhealthy for sensitive groups. it's all because of the mixing. i'll talk about that and what to expect for the rest of the week in a few minutes. let's check in with mike. >> vianey, the air quality not looking good. the drive quality looking great right now. the only incident here is in san jose. north 280 at ray street a disabled vehicle near the exit, possibly sticking out into one lane, so watch that. that's the only thing i have on our chp report to report. not even construction closing 84 or 680. we changed from green to yellow here just a little bit of slowing out of the altamont pass so there are folks making the longer drive. no problems through contra costa county. from brentwood to 580 you're at speed. back to you. >> thank you very much. sending shock waves, coming

up on "today in the bay," the abortion restrictions in texas are causing concerns all the way out here in the bay area. we'll show you why one group says women need to act regardless of where you live. plus, wheels up. good news if you plan on taking off this fall. flight prices are dipping. we're going to tell you how low. >> isn't that nice to report once in a while. never say that. looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza, where your toll is not going to change but at least you have smooth sailing if you're headed the out the door in the next few minutes. mike will be tracking your commute all morning long and we will be right back.

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good morning. it is 4:42. another day with air quality concerns across the bay area. right now in livermore 68 degrees. expect to see a warmup yet again into the triple digits for some inland areas. full forecast on what to expect coming up. looking at oakland the nimitz expecting a buildup but tuesday after labor day might not see much. doesn't look like much right now. there's company. the nimitz is at speed. we'll give you a bigger look coming up. so texas governor greg abbott today is going to address the very restrictive abortion law that passed in his state. the justice department is going to protect abortion seekers in the state of texas according to the associated press. we do know that president biden had asked his department, both

the justice department and the health and human services to take a look at what they could do to protect people who seek abortion in texas. attorney general merrick garland says his agency will not tolerate violence against anyone trying to ob train an abortion. he also says that federal prosecutors will explore options to challenge that new restrictive state law. now in berkeley, an emergency meeting in response to the new abortion ban in texas. some are calling this the most aggressive challenge to women's rights since roe versus wade 50 years ago. organizers say women need to act because a woman's right to choose is at stake. >> the silence following this law has been deafeningp in there haven't been the millions in the streets. >> it's not just the abortion that's under attack. it's also whether or not a woman has a right to birth control. >> last night's meeting was held at the revolution book store in berkeley. the new law blocks abortion once

a heartbeat is detected in the fetus which could be around six weeks and allows anyone to sue anyone helping someone receive an abortion after that time. new for you this morning, a woman whose accusations sent bill cosby to prison is speaking exclusively to the "today" show. >> when you watched him celebrate, how did that feel? >> disgusting. didn't surprise me given the level of the arrogance. having no remorse during the time he was incarcerated. absolutely zero reprose morse for what he did to me. >> he has said he will never show remorse, because he, in his words, never did anything wrong. >> he's a sexually violent predator who was let out of jail. >> that's andrea constand and her reaction to the decision this summer by the pennsylvania supreme court overturning cosby's indecent assault

conviction. she's out today with a new memoir as well. you can catch that interview this morning on the "today" show coming up at 7:00 after "today in the bay." it is 4:45 and coming up for you here on "today in the bay," air quality concerns continue. vianey arana is tracking where we can actually see the worst of it. >> yeah. we've also got some fog rolling in so expect another day of hazy conditions. san francisco 58 degrees, but even around the bay expect a warmup. full forecast coming up. there it is, traffic wise as well, the big deal is the fog on the golden gate bridge. there is a crash north of here. we'll show you that. traffic is about the same volume i would imagine.

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look what dropped from the sky! don't do it dennis. that's the way you execute a midnight snack run. stand up to cancer and rally want you to reduce your risk for cancer, go to takeahealthystand.org. . it's about ten minutes to 5:00 right now. take a look out this window this morning. that is the bay bridge and we can see it so some of the smog may be cleared out right at this point. vianey is track where it is headed and how long we could see smog in our forecast. we also want to get a clear picture at what's happening in business and tech. >> good morning. i'm contessa brewer. stocks are set to open mixed after the dow slipped friday before the three-day labor day weekend. the losses came after the august jobs report came in short of

expectations. it highlights really these continued concerns about the spread of the delta covid-19 variant. one week into september, the major averages are all up, despite this muted kickoff for the month. hyundai has debuted the vision fk concept, a 670 horsepower fuel cell plug-in hybrid sports car. >> we'll get back to business and tech later in the morning, but we know some airlines are dropping fares for the fall. we've been looking up on expedia and what not this morning. >> mike moving into the frame there. >> that's right. >> getting ready as we get started with this day. >> zooming it through the morning. flying across it. vianey has a look at forecast for us today. air quality still the big concern for us in the bay area with the fires burning around. >> indeed. one thing we always like to

mention this is a changing situation. there could be a new fire that stoortsz change in the direction of the wind. right now where we're expecting to see some of the worst air quality is going to be in the santa clara valley. that's the reason why they decided to go ahead and extend the spare the air alert. 65 degrees, the bay area air quality management district i mean. san jose live look. livermore 68 degrees. we're starting out kind of mild, i want to say warm. to start out in the 70s even though yesterday was the unofficial end to summer, doesn't feel that way. 24-hour temperature change, five degrees warmer in livermore compared to the past 24 hours. concord four degrees warmer and through santa rosa and napa as well. as far as your hour-by-hour outlook, we will get a couple morning low clouds pass through. any time we see cloud cover mixed with the smoke it does create the layer of haze, but the inland heat and the rise in temperatures with the high pressure also plays a role in all the gunk that stays at the surface level which creates pollution for us.

concord, 103, antioch 104, down to the south bay, 92 degrees in san jose. check out the coastline. we have 60s and 70s. so how long are we expecting to keep this air quality? well, we don't have much in the way of wind, but by this evening we could see some west/northwest winds start to pick up and that could help push out some of the smoke. for now we have a mix of an air quality advisory and spare the air alert. the advisory remains from the north bay to the south bay. santa clara valley specifically. once the aqi gets above the 101 mark or the at 101 mark that's whens the district decides to issue a spare the air alert. as far as cooling goes we're going to stay hot for the next several days, but we are monitoring a chance of some shower activity really to our east, though. not really going to come in the form of rain for us, but it's going to bring us cloud cover, a little bit of cooling and maybe a possibility of seeing some sierra showers and maybe even

some thunderstorm activity. over the next seven days a closer look. wednesday, thursday, notice the temperatures are going to stick in the 70s and then into the weekend we finally get relief. by slight i mean upper 80s. let's get a check of how the roads are doing with mike. >> no 80s. shouldn't be going 80. the roads are clear. easy drive. a lot of folks drove back perhaps later in the day yesterday easing into their tuesday after a holiday weekend. looking at highway 29, no holiday for one car. a crash here southbound 29. before you get to the cut over. you see slowing on the sensors. only a couple lanes there. no major injuries reported. this commute right here not much of one right now. we'll send it back to you. >> thanks, mike. coming up on "today in the bay," helping crews in oakland. we'll show you how one young guy came to the aid of firefighters during an emergency call.

but first, nbc bay area and telemundo 48 honoring local animal heros for clear the shelters positively good awards. if you know someone doing something nice for animals go to nbcbayarea.com/positively good to submit your nominee. happening now for you, new data is revealing the impact making it in the bay has people have living on the peninsula. according to information published in "the mercury news" 5,000 san mateo residents have turned to the state's food stamp program since the pandemic started. meanwhile, according to the 2019 analysis by feeding america, nearly half of san mateo county's food insecure population earn too much to qualify for state assistance. it should be noted that san mateo county is ranked among the top overall median in north texas in the country. we'll be right back.

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firefighter yet. responding to a fire along 65th avenue and east lawn streets the fire crew saw this man standing by and asked if he could help and he rose to the occasion. he sprayed some water with the hose. the fireman better be careful because he is coming for the top drop. >> keep droppings the age limit. >> he's doing his thing. all right. so much more ahead this morning. of course we want to talk about that suspicious fires in the north bay this morning and how vegetation fire in east contra costa county as well. that and more. meteorologist kari hall is tracking all that for us. we'll be right back. we're talking about president biden heading to view the aftermath of hurricane ida. what the government plans to help.

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breaking at 5:00, a busy night for firefighters. some fires set on purpose along roadways keep them busy. the search for an arsonist as we get word of more fires, this one in contra costa county. this is "today in the bay." thanks for joining us on this tuesday morning. i'm kris sanchez. i'm in for laura. >> i'm marcus washington. >> so we begin with the most recent fire fight in antioch where crews are investigating two fires in a neighborhood south of highway 4. right now there is a vegetation fire burning in the 3200 block of g street just blocks away from sutter