right now at 4:30, reduce your water usage immediately. that's the plea from one east bay city this morning, and why the drought is not to blame. plus, covid cases on the rise, the all new concerns as summer travels begin to pick up. and it is the start of a new work week, meteorologist kari hall is tracking when we could see more rain in the bay area and who got what over the weekend. this is "today in the bay." all right, it is monday morning, and it's time to get things going for you. i'm marcus washington. >> we are going to get things

going for you. that's my energy level. if you have a smart tv you can watch us live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online. all right, mike and kari standing by with a look at the commute. let's start out with the forecast, kari, how is it looking? >> looks good. we're starting out with a few clouds, misting in some spots, we'll be watching out for that in san francisco. for the most part it's going to be a cool and windy day heading up for 62 degrees in napa and in the east bay, dublin only 59 and 62 in san jose. tomorrow we could see some spotty showers, possibly a few isolated thunderstorms as our temperatures once again stay well below normal for this time of year, but by the end of the week, it's going to crank way up. we'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes. mike, how is it looking for the early commuters? >> the crash in oakland on 4 cleared about an hour ago. pittsburg into bay point just

fine. you're at speed across the bridges, across the city oakland from the bay bridge and into the south bay, no slowing coming out of the south county. 580 shows a speed dip below the limitage through the altamont pass, through dublin a good amount of traffic, typical and also at the speed limit. back to you, marcus. >> thanks so much, mike. developing for you this morning, investigators so far not revealing many details about a body found last night in the hills near tilden park, about a quarter mile from the children's steam train ride. the cause of the death unknown but oakland police have a homicide unit working that case right now. and this morning the city of benicia is issuing an emergency alert and asking residents to reduce their water usage by 30% immediately. >> 30% is a lot but not because of the drought. it's because the city's water treatment plant has a pipeline break. "today in the bay" has the

story. >> benicia is facing a water emergency and everyone is being asked to conserve water immediately. >> so i got a text on my phone and also a phone call from the city of benicia, they were indicating that there was a pipe burst in the water treatment plant. >> reporter: crews identified the problem and are working around the clock to fix it, but this could take a week or more and it comes at an especially bad time after your record-dry start to the year which is why the city is asking businesses and residents to cut their water usage by 30%, that means no outdoor water use. >> i turned off my sprinkler tonight once i heard that. >> reporter: this video from the solano resource conservation district shows us benicia's water treatment plant and the problem is right underneath it. the mayor says the problem started saturday night or early sunday morning after a water line burst and inundated the plant's bottom floor. >> we're not going to let the city run out of water. if necessary we'll bring in

water from outside sources. >> reporter: as for the water coming into your homes and businesses now, the mayor says it's safe to continue to use even during repairs. >> we are confident that we're going to get this fixed without too much trouble, but you never know until you digou see how big the problem is. >> reporter: the city's expected to give an update on the situation first thing monday morning and the meantime, the city asks people to cut back wherever they can. steph me margajon, "today in the bay." firefighters are not saying whether they know what sparked a fire in a damaged two neighbor duplexes next to each other. everyone made it out of the homes but more than two dozen people are displaced. the red cross is assisting the victims. today russia is marking victory day celebrating the soviet union's victory in world war ii with a military parade.

russian president vladimir putin spoke at the annual parade of soldiers, vehicles and military hard ware drawing parallel against nazis in world war ii and the war in ukraine. allies announce new sanctions against russia and the first lady's surprise visit to the war zone. chris balon has the latest. >> reporter: in moscow a victory parade not for russia's war in ukraine but defeating the nazis in the world war ii. they are watching whether vladimir putin might use this to investigate 80s salt on its neighbor. one of the u.s.'s top diplomats says russia has nothing to celebrate. >> they have only succeeded in isolating themselves internationally and becoming a pariah state around the globe. >> reporter: a pariah for attacks like this, russian forces bombed a school used as a

shelter in eastern ukraine. 60 people are feared dead. the u.s. and its allies increase support for ukraine's defense announcing new sanctions targeting russian state controlled media and agreeing to ban russian oil imports. jill biden made a surprise visit to ukraine to meet on mother's day with her ukrainian counterpart who hasn't been seen in public since the war began. >> this war has been brutal, and that people of the united states stand with the people of ukraine. >> reporter: one republican leader says more is needed. >> to make sure that ukraine can expel russia and that putin's a war criminal in the eyes of the world and he's prosecuted. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: in new remarks commemorating victory day ukraine qwan president zelenskyy said about his country's fight against russia "we have no doubt that we will win." chris pollone, nbc, washington.

covid is on the rise. new subvariants popping up posing new challenges to the current vaccines. in six months since omicron emerged, at least four new subvariants popped up, one of them omicron, now makes up more than a third of current cases. that is the ba.2.12.1. if you had omicron, you still could get sick again. >> if we don't get ahead of this thing, we're going to have a lot of waning immunity that's the virus continues to evolve and we may see a pretty sizeable wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths this following winter. >> moderna and pfizer are working on new shots to better target those contagious strains. in california our positivity rate is at 3.9% and in the last day the state reported more than 22,000 new infections. doctors say it's important we

keep an eye on hospitalizations. for the most part, those have been staying relatively low, but the number of covid patients is starting to creep back up. 1,100 californians are now hospitalized with the virus. marvel does it again. coming up on "today in the bay," the comeback at the box office. plus the price of gas is about to top offal an all-new high. the reason behind the nationwide hike and how much more you could expect to pay to fill up. stay with us. you're watching "today in the bay."

good monday morning to you. it is 4:40. a live look in san jose as you head out, you see a few clouds krift ing drifting by and we'll see that continue throughout today. the sun peeking out as our temperatures go from 51 to the most 60s, still breezy and cool and some spots may see some rain. we'll talk about that in the forecast coming up. we're watching for that and we'll watch your report carefully. right now we're watching fremont where traffic flows smoothly 880, lights off to the left, parking lot maintenance vehicle no worries here. see if there's anything to ory about. we check in, in general with contessa. >> good morning, mike, good morning, everybody. i'm contessa brewer from cnbc. you want to worry about something, look at the dow futures, it looks like we're opening down more than 500 points. wall street is trying to regain

some footing following a volatile week of trading. the dow on a six-week losing streak and the s&p 500 and nasdaq stretched their losing streak to five weeks. the dow had its best day of the year wednesday following the federal decision's rate to hike rates and erased the gains thursday and further on friday, real worries about inflation and slowdown in global growth, continuing to linger over the stock market. this week we'll focus on two key reports on consumer and producer price inflation as well as jobless claims, import prices and consumer sentiment. speaking of prices, at the pump, they're jumping, the average price going up 15 cents over the past two weeks to $4.38 a gallon, just a nickel below the highest average price ever, $4.43 a gallon which was set on march 11th. prices are more than $1.30 higher than at the same time last year and by the way, we're still three weeks away from the official start of the summer

driving season over memorial day weekend, typically when gas prices increase even more each year. the summer movie season, "dr. strange and the mull vie verse of madness" took in an estimated $185 million at the box office according to comscore, the biggest opener this year and trails only "spider-man: far from home" during the pandemic. dr. strange appeared prominently in that and a halfie and it's in that movie and it's playing in thousands of theaters, one reason you can sell so many tickets if you're playing in so many theaters. >> easy access, thanks, contessa. we're counting down to the june primary. next as the mail-in ballots go out we hear from the santa clara county sheriff's candidate, what you need to know before casting

that vote. we'll be right back.

here's a look out our window over san francisco, and it got really chilly all of a sudden yesterday, kari, halfway through the day. >> yes, we had that cold front sweep through, the winds picked up. there were a few spots with spotty sprinkles. for the most part it was dry and we're feeling the cold air settling in.

if you're at home in the bed, the heater may be kicking on, try to warm up the house a little bit, in the mid-40s in dublin and low 40s in much of the north bay and saratoga it's 43 degrees and 40 in scotts valley. so after this chilly start it will stay on the cool side of today across the bay area, only reaching into the upper 50s for san francisco, 60 in san mateo. we'll see a high of 60 in livermore and fremont and 66 in fairfield with gusty winds. very windy at oracle park for tonight, first pitch at 6:45, we're going to see temperatures only at 54 degrees so layer up out there for this windy and cool game that gets even cooler as we go through the night but at least it does stay dry after a chance of some spotty showers. this is what's going on across the region. we are seeing some light rain farther to the north, even some snow in the upper elevations and the snow continues for the sierra. we'll have a chance that we could see some off and on rain especially for the north bay, but that could also move into

the east bay by this afternoon, and once again very hit or miss, spotty showers but nothing widespread here. we'll see about the same thing tomorrow, mostly in the north bay. still kind of active as we get the cool temperatures, some unsettled weather and going toward the end of the week, high pressure is going to be building, and we're only looking at here maybe a few hundredths of an inch of rain across the bay area and then we transition from a cool start to the week to spring and then to summer this weekend, it's going to get hot going toward saturday and sunday, so a lot of changes ahead. you've probably already seen that at the bottom of the screen, so let's take a closer look at our seven-day forecast. a couple of spotty showers today and tomorrow, with highs in the low 60s. by thursday, it's cranking up to 75 degrees, 82 on friday, and some mid to upper 80s for the weekend with sunshine. for san francisco it's also in the upper 50s, gusty winds, as we see still the cool weather on

wednesday, and then we start to warm up on friday to the low 70s and that's what we'll see for the weekend. and mike, it seems like right now it's a quiet commute. >> right now it is, 4:48. good morning. look at the san mateo bridge where traffic is flowing smoothly, very calmly here, well-populated lanes both directions between the peninsula and the east bay, same thing just a bit to the south of the dumbarton bridge, giving you an overall view only some slowing out of the altamont pass. no advisories from chp. a little slowing off of 205 with the merge and vasco road is fine cycle. you might have heard about a deadly crash overnight in the oakley area that cleared from the freeway and looking at the commute, highway 4 in both directions is fine as you head to i-80, the bay bridge toll plaza and getting over to the city, no problem. back to you. >> no problem, that's what we like. thanks, mike. let's take a live look in san francisco this morning,

always a beautiful shot there. a major project designed to get muni riders around town faster begins this morning. crews are set to break ground on the second phase of the 16th street improvement project. it will ultimately add bus-only lanes between church treat and potrero avenue. the popular 22 bus should be able to move through the city 25% faster. >> the 22 is completely full, so it's important to a lot of people getting up and down the street and getting everyone there faster would be great. >> so like it's going to cause a lot of traffic in the area and there's already a lot of traffic as it is, because of the stadium and yeah, hopefully like it brings less traffic in the area, but meanwhile, i think it's going to be super backed up around here. >> less traffic with more business i'm sure they're hoping for. the project won't be completed until the end of summer 2023, meaning traffic through that area during the next year-plus

will be disrupted. >> it's always worse before it gets better. >> that's how it is. 4:50. now to decision 2022 and vote by mail ballots for the june statewide primary election will go out by mail. >> in santa clara county five people are running to replace laurie smith. we reached out to each candidate to ask what they wanted voters to know. the videos follow the order the candidates will appear on your ballot. take a look. >> we've had over three decades of bad leadership, wrongful deaths, retaliation, racist texting and coverups. i'm the only person running who has spent a career fighting for better public services. accountability and transparency is what we need. together let's do better for our community. let answer not vote the status quo. vote for sean allen. >> we need our community to be

safe but we need the changes from a warrior club than a guardian. as sheriff i will initiate reform while keeping our communities safe from crime and violence and also implement an independent review of all law enforcement practices. >> i'm the son to the assistant chief of corrections and all the divisions and oversight and executive manager in between. i've called out corruption at the highest level for the last 12 years and ready to make the changes that need to be made. the people that trust me most are the people that endorsed me at 97% of the working force. help me to help santa clara county and get us back where it belongs. >> i have over 36 years of experience ranging from a deputy sheriff to chief of police. my paradigm is not through the lens of just one organization. as the chief of police i have advocated for greater transparency and accountability and addressed mental healthish

you oops and a proven record for reducing crime. >> safety, moral judgment and upholding the constitutional principles are the reasons i seek your vote as your county sheriff for santa cl i am ahn colton, a wife, a and i believe it is time for a change in our leadership. >> and there you have it. you can watch these full 30-second pitches from each of those candidates right now on our website at nbcbayarea.com. we also have full election coverage including key voter registration deadlines for decision 2022. >> 2022, and that was helpful as a voter in santa clara county i appreciate it. an unusual rescue in san francisco. ahead on "today in the bay," firefighters say this teenie fox was found trapped in a trucking hall. you heard me right. the three rescue workers are

dealing with, man, it's cute. police in los altos are ramping up efforts to crack down on catalytic converter depths. the program allows drivers to get their catalytic converters etched for free with the license plate or vin number in case it's stolen. last year, state farm paid $23 million to california drivers due to catalytic converter thefts. our consumer investigator chris chmura breaks down how to mark your device. look at his "how to" video right now on nbcbayarea.com.

4:56. welcome back. over the weekend, great america

filled with hundreds of very special kids and their families. this is all for the 33rd annual courageous kids day at the park yesterday, that event was put on by the american cancer society, this was a young cancer patients and survivors so they played remote controlled cars, face painting, games, obstacle courses, all things i still love to do and you probably guessed it, one of my favorites, too, the kids got to get on the rides, a highlight i'm sure. the courageous kids were given red capes to wear in the park there because they are the superheroes. they had to wear "superhero" on the back, super cool. >> nice to see them being kids. look at this guy, san francisco animal control has a cute and cuddly mystery on its hands, in its hands actually baby fox rescued from a construction site in mission bay. rescuers cut away a steel pipe saturday, just a pup, i think

they're called kits. it's having some kibble there. it's not clear how the fox got trapped in the pipe. they'd like to get it back to its native wildland if they can figure out where that is. the big mystery is -- ♪ what does the fox say? ♪ >> i have no idea. new this morning for you, the u.s. is issuing new sanctions targeting the russian economy. ahead on "today in the bay" the ramped up pressure on the nation to abandon its war against ukraine. more ahead.

we're not going to let the city run out of water. if necessary, we'll bring in water from outside sources. >> right now at 5:00, conserve water immediately, that is the plea from one east bay city this morning. why the drought is not to blame this time around. new pain at the pump with the average price of gas reaching new heights across the nation, ahead in a live report, where bay area drivers are feeling it most and how costs could impact your summer plans. this is "today in the bay." thanks for joining us on this monday morning. i'm kris sanchez. >> and i'm marcus washington. don't forget this morning, if you are on the go, you can also watch us live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online, take us with you on your phone. >> let's go. let's look at the forecast