tv Today in the Bay NBC September 19, 2021 7:00am-8:00am PDT
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good morning. it's sunday, september 19th, 7:00 on the dot as we take a live look over san francisco. much of it closed this morning as the sf marathon and half marathon winds through the city this morning. good luck to all the runners. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. i am kira klapper. vianey arana joins us with the forecast. i saw some rain on the pavement driving in. >> yeah, just a little bit. we will take what we can get.
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we had a little rain in the north bay which is a big help because we have an active fire burning in the oregon area. we will wake up with some of the cloud cover in walnut creek, but heading into the afternoon it will be cloudy and it's going to be another great cool day. 63 degrees right now in san jose. let's take a look at satellite radar. we had some of that push through. i did see light sprinkles in through the south bay, which by the way, south bay doesn't give to give much rain, and we'll talk about that in the temperature trend this afternoon coming up in a few minutes. >> vianey, thank you so much. happening right now, thousands of people waking up to find out their power is shut off in the east bay. you can see the orange parts of contra costa county, and mostly
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focused in the richmond area. more than 11,000 customers out of power. pg&e is working to restore power and they tell us it should be restored by 5:00 this evening. the largest dixie fire, which has been raging for two months now in the plumas national forest. it has burned more than 963,000 acres, that's nearly 1 million acres. fortunately, it's 88% contained. the dixie fire is the second largest fire in california history. fire crews are facing a brand new fire, the knp complex fire, and it's 80 miles southeast of
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fresno. lightning is the cause of the fire last week. and then the sequoia trees are at risk of being burned. famous general sherman tree, the world's largest tree is there. crews continue to tirelessly battle the caldor fire from lake tahoe. the caldor fire has burned more than 218,000 acres and is now 71% contained. we're going to turn now to the withdrawal from afghanistan and last month's suicide bombing at the kabul airport.
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three marines who died serving their country are being remembered and hailed as heroes. their families and friends gathered yesterday to honor them. today in the bay's marianne fabbro takes us there. >> sergeant nicole was 23 years old when she was killed in an attack in the kabul airport in afghanistan. staff sergeant connell mitchell said she made a lasting impression when he trained her. >> her work ethic and drive made us want to be one step better so
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we would feel fit to lead her. >> she was holding a baby with the caption, i love my job. today even those that did not know her personally came to pay their respect and recognize the costs of doing that job. in southern california, another marine at a riverside church. >> we were told just before he passed he saved three families. he ran back into the crowd when the wife was taken. >> do me a favor. when you go to heaven, you look for my son, and he won't be hard to find because he will be the
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marine handing out candy to children. >> also yesterday a memorial service for hunter lopez in palm springs. the 22-year-old kabul blast aft rescuing children from a rioting mobs. lopez was planning to follow in the footsteps of his parents and serve in law enforcement after his military service. we're turning now to the crisis at the border. the biden administration is taking action today as a surge of migrants overwhelm the border between texas and mexico. images for the last few days have shown 15,000 migrants huddled under the bridge seeking shelter from the sweltering heat in del rio, texas. local haitian groups are urging the biden administration not to
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deport the people, as haiti remains in its own crisis after its own recent natural disasters and political turmoil. a live look at capitol hill where it's quiet this morning. yesterday the city braced for a far-right rally in case it turned into another event reminiscent of the january 6th riot, but it to people gathere express concern. >> despite dire warnings that the potential for violence, a rally to support people arrested for the insurrection. reporters and police far out numbered protesters. the organizer called it the justice for j6 rally, and he
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insists many people at the capitol on january 6th were peaceful protesters that were unfairly prosecuted. >> we think that anybody that engaged in political violence on january 6th should be locked up for a long time. >> what would qualify them as being violent? >> attacked police officers on camera? >> i don't think that happened all that often. >> 70 violent offenders remain in jail and another 70 have already plead guilty. hoping to avoid a repeat of january 6th, more security cameras were deployed and barriers put up. many far right groups stayed away saying they would be arrested. >> some believe this is an
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elaborate trap. there was a small group of counter-protesters who gathered nearby the counter rally at freedom plaza and it was called d.c. means don't come. people took a stand against covid mandates outside of the city hall for a health rally. the city is requiring its workers to be vaccinated. many tell nbc bay area they fear there will be more mandates to come if they don't speak up now. we're going to shift gears and show you a live look at the golden gate bridge this morning, where runners are racing in the sf marathon and half marathon. the first runners started just after 5:30 this morning. the 26.2 mile marathon will take place across the golden gate
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welcome back. it's time for our weekly discussion with chuck todd, nbc news political director and moderator of "meet the press." hi, chuck, thank you for joining us this morning as always. >> good morning. >> just a minute or two we briefly talked on the justice for j6 rally, and it did not turn out to be the turnout security officials were preparing for. is this a sign of insurrection group accepted the results of the insurrection or are they
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saving up for the mid-term elections? >> look, i think that's a very hopeful way of looking at it. i do think the show of force by washington, d.c. and the capitol police served as a deterrence for some of the more violent actors and that in and of itself was the best explanation of the low turnout, and some far right groups telling their members, don't go. look, i think the fact of the matter is it was not violent and so few showed up and it was taking it to a little bit of hope, and i do think the show of force and the unorganizing, if you will, trying to keep people away from there contributed to the low turnout. >> here in california, as we have discussed for months and months on end, finally the election happened and governor newsom survived the effort to
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recall him. what do you think he needs to focus on now moving forward for re-election, or, i guess at the same time, what do you think his opponents need to focus on? >> look, i think he has -- i think he certainly has new strength, okay? when you go, there's an old saying, if you are going to go at the king, you better not missed, well, republicans missed and missed badly. i think this is a chilling reminder to the republican party their party is bleak in california, and i would look at the poll and show what issue number two was, and number one was covid and he was all over covid, and covid has to be second and third priority, but homelessness, i think that's something he has to address sooner rather than later. he signed the bill right after the recall. i think that shows you he is trying to be responsive to the
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rising concerns of the homeless situation, particularly in the bigger cities in california so to get that new zoning law passed, it's certainly a step. but that would be where if you were in the governor's shoes you would be focused on. but i think he looks stronger today for re-election than he looked ever. i don't know where the republican party goes from here. that's for sure. >> i have a feeling we will continue to talk about this for quite sometime. we hope you join chuck for this morning's "meet the press," and he'll have dr. anthony fauci on over the cannot fusion of the covid booster shots, and we'll look at president biden's approval rating. a lot to cover today. we hope you will stick here and tune in to "meet the press" at 8:00 a.m. after this newscast. when your money is stuck in somebody else's hands, our team
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can help to rescue that cash. chris chmura is here with a look at the money we have helped people get back. >> in 2021 we have heard from 1,548, just like mary, who we will talk about in a second. so far this year we have recovered $1.26 million. we kicked off our response team in the middle of 2016, and we have heard from a lot of folks and recovered more than $5.7 million. here's how we get there. one case at a time. like mary in menlo park. she told us she got her vaccinated for covid-19 but not the $50 incentive the state offered for a while way back when. our team contacted the state department and mary got her 50 bucks. the state said it was a procedural error that impacted a few folks like mary.
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mary wrote back and said, many thanks to you and nbc bay area responds. you're welcome, mary. you can go online or call us. now a perfect ending to a historic out of this world mission. that was yesterday. the first all-civilian space crew. the spacex inspiration crew splashed down. they spent three days orbiting the earth. it's the first time there was a tourism mission into space. we want to thank everybody who helped us clear the shelters yesterday. thousands of pets in the bay
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area now have forever homes. >> i am here to adopt marcus washington. >> cute cat! >> he was so handsome and very sweet. >> as you just heard, a cat named after our own marcus washington found his perfect match. the real marcus, there you see with laura garcia, was out at the adopt-a-thon. >> one of the benefits of adopting from your local shelter is that typically all the spay/neuter operations and microchiping as already been done.
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like i have said, who doesn't want to take vianey arana home with them. >> look at her face. >> let's turn to the real meteorologist with a look at our microclimate forecast. >> i want them all to get adopted -- >> yeah, not just vianey. >> yeah, fall is coming up and we need time for a snuggle bug, and a pet is perfect for that. palo alto, a live look -- look how gorgeous these clouds look. we are going to see some of the rain pushing out of the bay area. depending on where you live, you may not have seen any at all. i woke up to pavement that had a little sheen on it, and to me that was a good sign. san jose, 63 degrees. we are expecting to see cool temperatures again today. very comfortable. but take a look at satellite radar. here's the system that passed through last night bringing a lot of the rain, you know, a majority up through oregon and through the north bay, and also
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in through the wildfire areas. definitely a sight to see. forecast for today, clearing skies, and we're going to see the winds picking up. daytime highs comfortable in the 70s. 75 degrees in hayward. 75 in san jose. a little warmer for the interior valleys, but the big next story will be the wind. gusting winds start to pick up, and notice later this afternoon, between 20 and 25 miles per hour, and even gustier for the hilltop areas above 1,000 feet. even though it did rain a little bit last night into early today, there's still plenty of dry brush out there which means elevated fire concerns, and so the national weather service issued a fire watch for the areas highlighted in yellow, expect gusting offshore winds especially above 1,000 feet. mountain gusts could hit anywhere from 45 miles plus per hour, and then it's extremely
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dry out there, so hopefully over the next few days we will see good changes. as far as your temperatures heading into monday go we start to bump back up into the 90s for interior valleys. livermore, 90 degrees and then heading in towards tuesday we warm up into the mid-90s for the interior valleys because we will get high pressure that rolls back around. by wednesday, thursday and friday, we're monitoring the possibility of perhaps another system bringing us a little bit of rain activity head in towards next weekend. overall, the next seven days, really warm head into tuesday. you would think it's not going to be fall on wednesday. now let's get to today's climate hack and this will have to do with fashion. fall is almost here which means it's time to move some of my color clothes to the back of the closet to make room for fall trends. but the fashion has a huge negative impact on our planet.
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the fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world and we go through a lot of clothes. 20 pieces of clothing are made per person each year. hey, vianey, it's time for your climate hack. the next time iin aot this t-shirt as a local thrift store. read the labels carefully. some brands put ecoconscious. another option, shop secondhand. what is the pay off? a typical t-shirt produces 15 kilograms of carbon dioxide in its lifetime. for more climate hacks and climate change info, follow me on nbcbayarea.com/climatehacks.
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good morning, everyone. the giants taking care of business against the braves to keep their lead in the west at two games. alex wood making his first start in weeks after a tough bout with covid. he wanted to pitch more but the giants are kind of building up his strength. bottom of the fourth, two runs score and the giants blank the braves two nothing, and lead the west by two games with 13
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remaining in the regular season. >> that was hit high and deep to right field. rojas back, and that baby is gone. >> matt olson hits it past the angels in the outfield, and the a's beat the angels 3-1. oakland remains 2 back of the wildcard. stanford up 24-17 at the recess. tanner mcgee flips it to a wide open jay simons for the touch. make sure and join nbc sports bay area for the 49ers pregame live this morning, and they will
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get you ready for the 49ers and eagles in philadelphia. to the pitch, temper, temper. the keeper for austin fc not happy. this really has to upset him here. check out off his own rebound, nice footwork and blows it in for the goal. his second of the match. the quakes win on the road, 4-3, the final. i am anthony flores for "today in the bay." we are honoring the marines killed in the kabul airport bombing. we take you to the memorials for three california marines. we will tell you what their families are saying about them. plus, the pandemic shutdown his wrestling school. how this local man pivoted to save his business.
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it's sunday, september 19th. as we look at the bay bridge from emeriville, you can see the shadows from the clouds. boy, a beautiful way to start our sunday. thank you for starting it with us. i am kira klapper. croclimate forecast, and we have seen wet spots driving in this morning. >> yeah, now that the rain has pushed out, i think we will have beautiful skies overhead. it's going to remain very comfortable. 60 degrees in walnut creek right now. a live look in downtown san jose. 63 degrees. the winds are nice and calm right now but we are expecting for the offshore winds to pick up later this afternoon into the evening as well, into the interior valleys. take a look at satellite radar.
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this is a system that passed through. not everybody got to see a lot of rain. we mentioned it would be light rain and especially if you live in the south bay, we will talk about the changes ahead and the start of fall coming up. >> the start of fall on wednesday, vianey. thank you. breaking news this morning. thousands more people waking up in the dark in the east bay. we told you about this 30 minutes ago and it has expanded. this is the pg&e shut off map, and you can see the orange and red covering contra costa county, richmond, and more than 17,000 customers without power. pg&e says they expect to be fully restored by 5:00 tonight. now to the continuing coverage of the wildfires burning across california, the largest is the dixie fire, it has burned more than 963 acres.
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that's nearly 1 million acres. containment is up to 88%. the dixie fire is now the second largest in all california's state history. take a look at the map showing where all the fires are currently burning in the state. fire crews already exhausted and over worked for months now are facing a brand-new fire, the knp complex fire 80 miles southeast of fresno. lightning ignited the fire, and a shift in weather led to explosive growth. a group of sequoia trees are at risk of burning and some have already been scorched. you just saw the photo there, that was the famous tree, general sherman.
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it's the world's largest tree. 17,000 acres have burned so far in the knp complex fire, and containment is at zero. crews continue tirelessly battling the caldor fire south of lake tahoe. this is cool video from the bottom of a firefighting bucket. you can see it picking up water to drop on the flames. containment is 71%. turning now to the withdrawal from afghanistan and last month's suicide bombing at the kabul airport. three marines from california who died serving their country are being remembered and hailed at heroes. they are 20-year-old lance corporal kareem nikoui, and 20-year-old corporal lopez, and
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nicole gee. >> a marine committed to her mission, a life cut short. sergeant nicole gee from rose an attack at the kabul airport in afghanistan. hundreds gathered to honor the woman that gave her life doing what she loved. staff sergeant conor mitchell said she made a lasting impression when he trained her. >> just her personality and work ethic and drive made us want to be one step better so we could feel fit to lead her. >> this photo was one of the last shows her holding a baby with the caption, i love my job. >> the freedom we have is
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because of what these folks do. >> in southern california, another marine honored at a riverside church. a final salute to marine lance corporal kareem nikoui, killed in the same suicide bomber attack. >> he passed up a child and ran back in the crowd when the wife was taken. >> do me a favor, when you go to heaven you look for my son. and he won't be hard to find, because he'll be the marine that is handing out candy to children. >> marianne favro, "today in the bay." >> hunter lopez was also remembered yesterday at a memorial service in palm springs. the 22-year-old marine was killed in that kabul blast. after he was rescuing children
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from a rioting mob. he was part of a special response team providing security for the evacuation. he was planning to follow in the footsteps of his parents and serve in law enforcement after his military service. shifting gears now, starting tomorrow, proof that vaccination will be required to enter large public gatherings in san jose. city council approved proof of vaccinations at any city-owned venue where there are more than 50 people gathering. the rules would apply to sites including the convention center, the sap center. proof of a negative covid test will not be enough for admission. this new mandate takes affect on wednesday. it will impact businesses like restaurants, bars and entertainment venues and fitness
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venues. a live look at the golden gate bridge this morning. runners are racing the annual sf marathon and half marathon. the first runners started just after 5:30 this morning. the marathon will take runners across the golden gate bridge, and two separate half mile marathons will wind through the presidio, and many city streets are blocked off this morning until about noon today. it's the beginning of hispanic heritage month. it's an annual celebration to honor the contributions of americans whose ancestors hailed from spain, the caribbean and mexico and south america. as we celebrate the contributions, today we shine
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the spotlight on a san jose man that not only designs hard knocks, but sometimes delivers them. >> my father used to take me to the events. >> you might not think of pro wrestling as a cultural treasure, but to gabriel ramirez, freestyle wrestling is like a religion. ramirez' parents brought a love of pro wrestling from their native mexico to the bay area. he's passing the baton to new generations through his san jose school, prowrestling revolution academy. >> here you can learn anything, like a backbreaker. >> a school where you run to roll with the punches, and falling down on the job is
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expected. >> it's capes, masks, art, music, and common book heroes come to life. >> ramirez has run the school for 15 years, while staging exhibitions around the bay area. >> it's something that a is huge part of our culture, of how we express yelling for the good guy, yelling for the bad guy. >> it's full contact, closed ring, action playing out in a ring. in other words, all the wrong ingredients for a pandemic. >> it was impossible. >> the pandemic closed his business for what felt like ages. his dream and finances fading with each passing month. >> it put my company in a position where if i was not creative, we would not be sitting here today. >> that creativity after years preserving the culture of
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wrestle, it became his saver. he began designing and selling the masks. >> if it was not for this, i would not have kept the business open. it gives me great pride. >> he has been doing this since before i was born. >> somewhere behind the mask came a life lesson, when you get knocked down you pop back up, because people and the show must go on. >> beautiful, beautiful. >> that's cool masks.
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good 7:42. it's going to be such a nice day today. look at the live shot of san francisco. that is a fantastic clear view of the golden gate bridge. we can expect to see comfortable weather today when it comes to the temperatures. san jose right now, a live look, and we still have a couple clouds rolling through. we did get a little rain early this morning in the south bay. you might have missed it by now, but we had a little wet pavement in the south bay. as we head in towards the afternoon, this system that brought the cooler weather and the rain especially for far northern california, we're also expecting to see gusting offshore winds into this afternoon. clearing skies, over all the temperatures running a few degrees warmer today through the interior valleys, in areas like
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concord, antioch in the 80s today. a little more sunshine today. san jose will be in the 70s and around san francisco we will be in the upper 60s. what can we expect when it comes to the wind. well, once the offshore winds kick up, we're talking about the higher elevation areas above 1,000 feet will be pretty gusting. there's a fire weather watch that goes into effect tonight at 11:00 p.m. through tuesday for the areas highlighted in yellow you see here above 1,000 feet, because, you know, it's still really dry. even though we got just a little relief from some rain, we're still seeing extremely dry fuels because of the lack of the rainfall since last year, really. monday, here's what to expect. our temperatures start to pump
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up here. we had 70s and 80s and now we will see 90s into monday. concord, 92 degrees. oakland, in the 80s. let's look out ahead to tuesday because this is when our temperatures stay really hot and this is why there's a concern for fire danger through tuesday. interior valleys, 90s, and pair that up with wind and we will deal with something to watch out for. long range outlook, we could see the possibility of seeing some forecast will be breezy to gusting at times and really warm on tuesday, and then the official start of fall on thursday. >> thank you so much. larry is up next, and we hope you stick with us.
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the cdc reports the moderna shot is slightly more effective than the pfizer or johnson & johnson vaccine. after four months the gap is significant. the agency says the moderna vaccine is 93% compared effective compared to 71% for johnson & johnson and the effort to recall gavin newsom is over. $120 million spent by both sides of the recall effort and a cost to california taxpayers of nearly $300 million. some question the value of the $400 million plus experience, while others will defend it as the price we pay for democracy.
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larry gerston joins us now. larry, good morning and good to see you. if you can, give us a sense of some of the major takeaways. >> a couple things, kira. for one, the recall moved as it should. this was a grassroots effort. something refreshing, they selected over 2 million signatures, so on that sense, getting on the ballot they did what the framers intended. as far as newsom goes, yeah, he escaped largely unscathed because the folks that attacked him did not have the goods. the covid issue, which really emerged is one where newsom got his arms around it, and by the time of the election, people were happy with what the governor was doing. end of story there. >> let's take a look, if we can, at the results. it was a wide margin. does newsom's victory place him in the driver's seat so to speak
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for next year's election? >> you are right about the results. it was the same kind of spread that he had over john cox, over 20 points in 2018. sure, for the moment he's in the driver's seat but he has passengers in that seat. for one thing, the voters tend to view newsom as elitists and that's not a good thing trying to reach out for voter support. he's got to overcome that. he may find himself against a republican different than elder. if it's a moderate republican, he could have trouble there. for the most part right now, newsom looks like he's in a better place than we thought. >> the recall process, you said it works but may require changes. is that recall reform, or what needs to be done and why? >> think about what you said earlier, kira. $300 million for this little thing. is there a way to cut down the
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costs? is there a way to cut down the people? there are answers to this, and perhaps the biggest problem is the fact that the governor needs a 50% plus one vote to stay in office, but to recall him all it takes is perhaps 15 or 20%. that doesn't sound like democracy. they have to overcome that. one way they might overcome that by the way, is not having the confusing second ballot and having a ballot where if the governor is recalled, the lieutenant governor takes over. you get rid of candidates and you give the lieutenant governor power. we have real nice consistency here, and perhaps a lowered cost to the whole thing. i don't think voters appreciate spending $300 million for an event like this which was one sided and thin when they could make things go along a lot speedier. >> larry gerston with the good
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stories we are following on this sunday morning. firefighters across california are two months into battling wildfires across our state. the largest is the dixie fire north of chico. it started back in july. it has burned nearly 1 million acres. it's 88% contained. southeast of fresno, firefighters are battling a brand-new fire called the knp complex fire burning in sequoia national park. it was started by lightning last week. the firefighters are wrapping the base of the all-important sequoia tree, and the general sherman tree, the world's largest tree, in protective foil so it doesn't burn out. it's as 0% containment. thousands of people are waking up in the dark in the east bay.
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parts of contra costa county, richmond and el cerrito, more than 17,000 customers are without power. at least check pg&e crews said they should have power restored by 5:00 this evening. we want to thank everybody that helped clear the shelters yesterday. thousands of pets in the bay area now have forever homes. >> i am here to adopt marcus washington. >> cute little cat. >> he's so handsome and very sweet. >> a cat named after our own marcus washington found his foreover home. the real marcus, 6'5" along with laura garcia were out at berkeley humane yesterday for the adopt-a-thon. >> one of the benefits of adopting from your local shelter is that typically all the spay/neuter surgeries, the vaccinations and microchipping
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has already been done. >> and here, kira klapper, the husky mix was adopted yesterday. i'm so proud. vianey still needs a forever home. for a full list of shelters go to nbcbayarea.com. let's check in with the human vianey arana with one last look at the forecast. >> i hope she gets adopted. i am excited for her. >> i am sad they did not go home together. >> yeah, i know, sister, sister. we are going to be running a few degrees warmer in inland areas. temperatures top out in the 70s for the south bay, and 75 degrees for san jose. it's cloudy around the coastline, and san francisco is 67 degrees. the system that brought rain, you know, overnight into some parts of the bay area, and not everybody got to see that and we're clearing out this
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this sunday, the battle over boosters. >> we made the decision not to follow the lead, which is to just give the third dose, period. >> an fda panel says no to covid booster shots for everyone. >> it's not clear to me that the data we're seeing right now is applicable and necessary for the general population. >> but yes for those 65 and up or at risk. the split vote undercuts president biden's plan announced last month. >> eight months after your second shot, get the booster shot. >> and leaves many confused. my
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