. right now at 4:30, mask mandates are set to change. we are moving you forward with everything you need to know about where and when you'll need to mask up this week. >> we're not completely out of the woods yet. i think a lot of this is being driven by very strong demand. >> rising inflation. americans paying more for almost everything. we talk one-on-one with an expert about how long it will continue to impact your bottom line. >> plus, your workweek weather. meteorologist kari hall is tracking much cooler temperatures than last week. this is "today in the bay." a very good morning to you

and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. we're broadcasting on your television, but we're also live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. here's a live look this morning at sofi stadium, home of the champions, and everyone still buzzing about the super bowl last night. highlights from the game, including two touching moments from players. first, we want to get you started with the forecast here in the bay area. meteorologist kari hall is tracking temperatures. we said a little bit earlier much cooler this week. >> yeah, it's going to be nothing like we had over the weekend and you're going to need a heavier jacket for today. big drop init's going to be win there. this week we will continue with sunny and more comfortable weather, but we're also watching for distant rain chances, maybe toward the end of the month. we are starting out with some dense fog as we head out the door this monday morning. visibility down to a half of a mile in santa rosa, but we're

seeing low clouds drifting around. watch out for that for your morning commute. we're going to be watching dropping temperatures and i'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes. mike, that fog may impact the morning commute. >> it will. we got an advisory from chp and an advisory in the north bay, a crash blocking all lanes both directions of highway 160 from the antioch bridge through the north bay. the antioch side is all right, but just under a mile north of the bridge there is a crash involving a big rig and another vehicle, major crash there. and lanes are blocked and no word on when they're going to reopen. it's been going on for a couple of hours. it's a long re-route. if you head over to highway 4 or over to the east through discovery bay and get around, tough getting through the waterways. meanwhile, the rest of traffic flow is moving nicely but there

is a crash in fremont i'm checking out now. breaking news out of france. seven people are dead, including two children after an explosion and fire happened in a small town in southwestern france. the explosion reportedly happened in a sandwich shop on the ground level of a building where residential units are above. so far there are no indications that was a terror act. this morning we are moving you forward with everything you need to know ahead of the state lifting its mask mandate. governor newsom says starting wednesday you can take off your mask indoors if you're fully vaccinated. however, masks will still be required for everyone in some places and that includes public transit, indoors at schools and of course hospitals and health care settings. in the bay area, every county with the exception of santa clarita county plans to lift their mask mandates in most indoor settings. the city of berkeley will drop mask requirements in most indoors settings. uc berkeley following suit, and

that has some on campus outraged. if you missed our report ou next hotel stay. according toveby the american hotel association, hotel operators are seeing a 79% increase when it comes to cleaning and housekeeping supplies. 94% say their establishments do not have enough staff. so the bottom line here is your stay might not be what it used to. a separate survey by the associated general contractors of america shows 20% of construction material costs are up. i sat down with scott anderson, a chief economist with the bank of the west, to ask him if there is any relief in sight for us. >> why is this crisis still having an impact on our prices? i mean, do we see an ending in

sight here? >> not yet. we've got another hot inflation report for january and no sign of a slowdown from january's hot price increases, so we're not completely out of the woods yet. i think a lot of this is being driven by very strong demand. we had unprecedented support from both monetary policy, the federal reserve, as well as the pandemic relief bills, and consumers have saved a war chest of excess savings of about $2.7 trillion in the united states, which they can use to spend here. it's really being driven by goods and durable goods, so we're seeing a lot of inflation coming from used and new vehicles, for example, from the pandemic, these vehicle prices are up 88% from april of 2020. so these are some eye-popping price increases. we're seeing them broad-based now across the board. >> wallets are stretched thin.

is there any advice you could give to people to try to make things work out for the best? >> well, just be really aware of the prices you're paying. if you're going to the supermarket you're probably seeing 13%, 14% increase in things like eggs, milk. you've got to be price conscience in this sort of environment and you've really got to be paying attention to where your prices are going up. and look at a budget, try to budget for things like food, gasoline every month and see if you can stick to that budget. that will help you weather the storm until we get prices under control. >> seems like a lot of people are being outpriced by their budget. scott, thank you so much for your time. i spoke with anderson about so much more, including home prices, the cost of vacations, even airfare. you can watch the full video on our streaming app, download it now or roku, amazon tv or apple.

>> next on the bay, the reason one super bowl ad may have worked a little too well. >> plus, metaverse, a look at the insurance claims now being filed because of damages made in the virtual world. we'll explain after the break. >> and as you're waking up and heading out, we can see low clouds over the south bay right now. san jose with low visibility in some spots and we're going to see clouds linger with our temperatures much cooler than we've had recently. we're going to talk about that coming up next. >> and we're just talking about this crash in fremont. more clarification from chp, they claim right now the crash and debris is affecting all lanes of southbound 880, just past dakota road, heading down toward thornton. i'm going to check things out and we'll bring you the latest coming up.

happy valentine's day. right now it's 4:40, as you're waking up heading out the door, santa rosa starting out at 47. it's also foggy and you're going to have to deal with that on your way to work. we'll start to see peeks of sunshine, but a very slow warm-up in temperatures, as we're only headed for the upper 50s and low 60s today. we'll talk more about that and when we warm up again in our forecast in a few minutes.

>> and as we look over at fremont, i do see some slowing on the map. the live look shows you 880 a little farther from the crash. there may be a traffic break between dakota and thornton. traffic is still flowing. we're watching south 880 just before you get to thornton for the crash which may be affecting all lanes. meanwhile, let's see if we're in the red with bertha. >> we are. thanks, mike. good morning, i'm bertha coombs from cnbc. not much love for stocks this morning on wall street. we are set to open lower, although not as low as it looked an hour ago. investors are tracking tensions between russia and ukraine. this follows a rocky week for the markets, which came under pressure from hotter than expected inflation numbers on thursday and fears of that russian invasion of ukraine. the dow tumbling more than 500 points on friday as the white

house warned an attack could begin any day. oil prices are trading at more than seven-year highs and that's feeding into prices at the pump on worries that we could see a possible supply disruption. russia is one of the world's largest oil producers. also in focus this week, we're going to be watching for a report on inflation on the wholesale level with producer prices, we'll look at retail sales, unemployment and get a bunch of housing data as well. meantime, coin base made its super bowl debut with an ad featuring a bouncing qr code. folks like me thought that looks kind of boring, but it actually might have worked too well. the code brought viewers to a promotional site offering a limited time offer of $15 worth of free bitcoin to new customers, along with a $3 million giveaway. the site quickly crashed after the ad aired during the game. coin base tweeting out a photo of a dog saying, well, that was

more popular than we thought. meantime, a word of warning, if you're visiting the metaverse, an insurance firm says it saw a 31% increase in claims involving vr headsets last year. the average claim for vh-related damages was about $880. most of the incidents involved cracked tv screens. aviva says it's processed a number of claims already this year. coincidently, oculus topped the charts on christmas day, and could be in for a bit of a crash if they are not careful. that would probably be me if i did it. >> you're going to have to have a room in your house with nothing in it so you can play. >> thank you so much. 4:43 this morning. a ransomware attack on a bay area team. we're going to tell you what a

gang is claiming to have stolen from the san francisco 49ers and how the team is responding to the alleged attack.

a live look at downtown san jose. new national weather service numbers confirming something you probably already knew. the bay area rainy season is quickly evaporating. check out how much below normal rainfall levels are since the start of the new year. san jose nearly 4 inches light.

san francisco and oakland right around 5 1/2 inches below normal, lake berryessa is close to 8 inches. it's tough. >> it is tough, and now we're going on day 38 without any rain. and so the last time we did have rain was january 7th, and so we see all of the dry days that we had here on the calendar and most likely this will continue. it will be cooler and windy and we're watching dry offshore winds, which tend to dry out things even more. take a look at some of these numbers. now san jose starting to slip into a rainfall deficit for the water year. these numbers go back to october 1st and we are seeing still some big surpluses in some spots, but each day that has continued to decline. wh 79% of normal.

we've also seen this go down significantly with warm weather, the snow continues to melt. but there may be a little bit of light snow in the forecast going into the next few days. we can see the clouds that are over northern california right now, moving into the sierra as this cold air pushes down. it may produce light snow flurries for the sierra today and early tomorrow. the rest of the week is looking dry. we may see a change in the weather pattern that could bring back a chance of showers maybe by february 22nd, 23rd. there will be a low coming down that will bring in much cooler temperatures and possibly some scattered showers. but that is looking out beyond the seven-day forecast. so taking a look at still the dry weather that continues today and a huge drop in temperatures. you're going to have gusts at about 25-30 miles per hour in the north bay and along the coast. tomorrow slightly milder and we continue on the warming trend

through the end of the week. we'll have cooler air dropping in once again, so between saturday and sunday we're going to see temperatures dropping once again. mike, you were looking at some breaking news on the nimitz. >> yeah, exactly. this has all lanes blocked for a short time as you travel south through fremont. we'll show you the map and you see the closure mark on the map. there's slowing at thornton and heading south to just past mallorie where there's reportedly a crash. it was only blocking one lane but i believe crews are trying to move vehicles to the shoulder. when you can move the vehicles that's usually a good sign there are no major injuries. that will slow you south of the dumbarton bridge. on the peninsula side, everything is moving smoothly. travel times toward the bay bridge, nice, easy drive. still a crash up at sherman island north of the antioch

bridge. the san francisco 49ers have been sacked by a ransomware attack. the team says it recently became aware of the network security incident that disrupted the corporate i.t. network. a ransom gang claiming that it stole the team's financial data and recently posted some of that on the dark web. >> they let you know that they've got your data and they may even put more stuff out there on the dark web and let people know that they have even more data, and at that point they may ask for a ransom. >> so far the cyber criminals haven't publicly asked for ransom. they've notified law enforcement and hired security firms to help. the team said, quote, we have no indication that this incident involves systems outside of our corporate network, such as those connected to levi's stadium operations or ticketholders. victory for the rams.

we wrapped up last night's big game from sofi stadium, including the epic halftime show. >> and happening now, consumer advocates are raising questions about pg&e's ambitious new plan to bury thousands of miles of power lines. the utility last week announced that it puts them underground in high-risk areas but the estimated cost is $4 million per mile. it's not clear who will cover the cost. pg&e is submitting the plan to the public utilities commission february 25th. we'll be right back.

burrow, trying to keep it going. gets it away, and incomplete.

>> a tense game comes down to the last minute, and with this play the rams become champions. what a super bowl game. the rams won it all for the first time in more than 20 years. >> let's face it, afterwards, the game was just the beginning of all the buzz. >> hello from sofi stadium. what did you think? was it better than michael jackson 30 years ago? was it better than prince? the halftime show, a lot of california love. take a look. ♪ >> i don't know, that sounded pretty nice. i was in the stadium and the stands were rocking and swaying. everyone was loving this. california love, dre and snoop,

mary j. blige. let's tell you about the actual game. so many games have come down to the final second. this one did last night as well. here you go. the hollywood ending that the rams were hoping for. the final 90 seconds of the game. cooper kupp, 49ers fans, cover your eyes and ears. the rams win it 23-20. kupp named the mvp. this is the first super bowl title for the los angeles rams. now, after the game, even in defeat, we heard from one of our local players on the bengals who grew up in san jose. >> we know, we gave up a touchdown that we wish we could have got back and it wasn't even a touchdown. it was really the whole drive. we were rattled. but, yeah, you know, our heads are still high. were.

compliments to them. they made a lot of great plays when they had to. >> a lot of people in san jose are very proud of him. joe mixon, the bengals running back, also grew up in antioch and went to freedom high school in oakley. that's going to do it, guys, back to you. >> if you think nbc is done with super bowl coverage, think again. the "today" show will be live at sofi stadium today as well, following "today in the bay" starting at 7:00 a.m. and trending this morning, the rings are the thing and we're not talking about the super bowl rings. >> our producer loves this story. if you were watching the super bowl, maybe you saw the ad yourself. the first trailer for the new "lord of the rings" series. >> have you ever wondered what else is out there? there's wonders in this world beyond our wandering. >> prime video gave the world a first look at "the lord of the rings: the rings of power".

it will drop on prime september 2nd. it's supposed to tell the backstory, hundreds or maybe even thousands of years before. lots of fans, of course, come to know and love over the past 50 plus years. >> wow. >> i've got to get in on that. 4:57 right now. new tensions at the russia/ukraine border. a new report for the urgent alert for those abroad and how the ukrainian community is responding this morning. >> and as you're waking up and heading out, we're seeing light, patchy fog in parts of the tri-valley. make sure you have a heavier jacket and be prepared for cooler temperatures today. not much of a warm-up here. we'll talk about it coming up next. >> and make sure you have your destination loaded, because southbound 880 may be closed off when you get there just south of the dumbarton bridge.

you probably need surface streets to get back what looks like it's still closed, this crash, and another in the north bay are blocking two major highway connecters.

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taken to keep students safe. >> plus, on the brink of invasion. a live report from washington with the new warning for the u.s. embassy in ukraine, as tensions with russia grow. >> and our stretch of dry weather comes to an end today as temperatures drop with gusty winds. we'll talk about that, a look ahead, and also our still dry microclimate forecast. this is "today in the bay." good monday morning to you. thanks so much for making us a part of your morning. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. if you're on the go, we'll go with you. we broadcast not only to your tv, but you can watch us live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. let's take a trip around the world. taking you live outside of beijing. this is at the olympic flame, burning there. you know, a lot of excitement overnight for team usa, and we're also following some breaking news for you on a key ruling for