meteorologist kari hall is monitoring the water. this is today in the bay streaming live on roku, amazon fire and apple tv . >> here we go point thursday morning. they are investigating a string of a three suspicious fires. they quickly put all of them out. this happened around three hours ago. police are also investigating this. >> let's check in with caracol, she is checking the fire danger . >> yesterday getting there with the big slowdown going to the ultima past due to the fire there on the shoulder. this is what we will see going into the next several days high, high winds as well as extremely vegetation and low

humidity leading to a high fire danger for areas are shaded in red, that is the highest level of a warning, the red flag warning. but also for a lot of articles in the east bay hills will be under wind advisory. we do have to be really careful. already we have seen some of the wind gusts in san francisco reaching about close to 40 miles an hour there. mostly 20 to 30 mile-per-hour winds over the past 24 hours. it could get even stronger going into tonight. we will be watching that and talk about what is ahead for the weekend coming up point >> will check back with you. developing right now, a mystery this morning for authorities over in oakland. this is where at least two people are now hospitalized after their car crashed on interstate 580. the cart riddled with gunfire. >> we are joined love along the corridor this morning. what are you learning about the victims? >> reporter: good morning point we know that at least two, possibly three people were taken to the hospital. we are trying to confirm whether or not one of those

people might have died. were trying to confirm that through chp. this happened last night about a: 30. we put this map together so you can get an idea of where this happened. it was in oakland on eastbound 580 near the seminary avenue offramp not far from the highway 13 split. the call came in with a vehicle crash with injuries. but when chp arrived they realize that the people in the car had been shot, not cleaned the shooting happened on eastbound 580 itself or if the occupants were shot on a local side street and then got onto the freeway to either get away or to head to the hospital or someplace else. chp's shut down the shut down the offramp so they could search for evidence. the entire area has since been reopened. so for this year there have been 48 shootings on the freeways here in the bay area. you may recall last week a governor newsom announced funding to install cameras on the freeways. these cameras would be going in alameda and los angeles and orange county. reporting live, bob burdell.

we have a live look at capitol hill and the white house where the biden administration and congress are now try to speed up the production of baby formula as they begin to ask her what led to the nationwide shortage. today chris pollone joins us live in washington. chris, whatever the strait of will likely get the grilling from lawmakers agree >> reporter: that is ahead of the few fda scheduled to go before a house subcommittee a little later this morning. president biden is now invoking the defense production act to help give some relief to some of these desperate parents. >> responding to the baby formula crisis the white house taking action. >> of directing my team to do everything possible to make sure there's enough safe baby formula and is quickly reaching

families that need it the most. >> reporter: invoking the defense reduction act to force companies to prioritize baby formula. >> the bell is fast. is also taking action to cut red tape for parents buying formula with government assistance and to provide more funding to the fda, the agency which oversees a safety at the plants which makes formula. >> we hope no one will block it. it is such an immediate need. >> reporter: distorted so severe now it is leading to hospitalizations, to tennessee children with special dietary needs had to be admitted after the parents couldn't find the right formula. >> this is a crisis for us in healthcare. >> reporter: freshening the government actions regarding a michigan baby formula plant which makes a large percentage of the nation supply point

>> i have questions about why we allowed the fda to leave this plant shutdown process along. and while we are not better monitoring the potential shortages that occur when we have things like a plant go off- line. >> reporter: the plan set to reopen within a few weeks, but not soon enough for many anxious parents. >> don't expect the fda's funding bill to pass quickly. there are many republicans who do not believe it will help with the current situation. >> in the meantime, the parents need to feed those babies. thanks for the very latest. leaders in sweden and finland are both in washington today. this is where they will meet with the president biden about joining nato. most countries recently applied for nato membership in the wake of the russian-ukraine war. >> a san francisco firefighter facing felony charges in an

connection of it as sort of a coworker. investigators say robert muhamed confronted another firefighter at his oakland home in february when they were both off-duty. muhamed is accused of using a rich to strike the man. sources tell our investigative unit that it broke the man's arm pick is accused of assault with a deadly weapon. motive is still unclear. moving forward on the fda approval of a covid booster shot for children ages 5 to 11, center for disease control advisers are expected to meet today to issue a recommendation for or against the booster. if the recommendation is given, the cdc director has the ultimate say. only about 30% of all children 5 to 11 are fully vaccinated here in california. that ratio goes down to about one fourth nationwide. >> it is 6:06 on your thursday morning. taking a live look outside pick a nicer look at san francisco on this thursday morning. your weekend plans involve going to the city by the bay. it has been nice. it has actually been warming up.

>> it looks like it is definitely wide-ranging temperatures. if you are in san francisco, it is a nice and cold. if you are dublin, it's going to be heating up. take a look at the thursday morning. upper 50s. that's already a little bit warmer than what we typically see. we have a light one now, but the winds will continue to pick up. and headed for the mid-80s by early in the afternoon, eventually reaching 85 in livermore. was he a high of 84 in martinez and never reaching 86 degrees. look at san francisco. san mateo and half moon bay are in the 60s today. we will see more of those cool temperatures near the coast continuing into friday as well as the weekend. for the inland areas with the hot weather, we will also have a fire danger as those high winds continue. we will talk more about that coming up. let's have a look at what we can find lower gas prices. 5:79 is the best we could do over in oakland. it is that alaska gas station at san pablo avenue. watch for that one.

but also 47 in antioch and in san jose, $5.45. over here, no breaks. research and see the buildup typical about this time in traffic. a slower drive. i just turned over the clock, it just turned from green to yellow and now to read for the stop you so on the camera. a smooth flow for the rest of your county. there's a crash around san pablo area. the rest of the patient is a very predictable pattern pick san jose does show the release from the first burst a couple of crashes. one at 880 or above san jose. will check on that coming up. coming up tent day on today in the bay, the tiktok trash tylar bacome you seen this guy? we are going to ask blaine what

he is doing and talk to a guy that actually caught him. will take a look at the numbers as well. rough day on wall street yesterday. let's see what kind of day we may open with this morning. it is looking like not a great thursday either. order up will tell you have dozens of cheeseburgers ended up on this woman's doorsteps and what the corporate finally has no clue what he did. we will be right back.

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a thursday morning to you. the time is now 6:11 as you're heading out to oakland. it looks like things are heading in pretty good there. western with the bit is a little bit warmer than what we typically see around 60 degrees and headed for the mid-70s today. a lot warmer for the inland areas. we will talk about the range and temperatures and an update on the dock coming up in a few minutes. we will look at san jose 280 for the people headed to the left, going north, you may find an issue just north of the 280 interchange. the crash that we are on top of. we will talk about the details if the howitzer will give us an update. coming up. good morning. very happy thursday to you. it looks like another really rough day on wall street today. marcus markets were hit hard yesterday. the scepter to big box stores, walmart and target says inflation was hitting their process hard. super important part of the story, for those of us that shop at places like target,

target said it would do it's best not to pass those costs onto customers. it's that inflation would cut into store profits, but they would spare the customer as best they could. target start fell hard on what is bad news for target, but good news for you. when you see all of this bad news about the market and by extension your 401(k), there is at least some good news are to be found there. look at the big board yesterday. now fell 1100 points by the end s&p 500 down more than 400%. other news, the investigation of a crash of a tesla that killed three people in newport beach. the investigation will focus on whether the car was itself driving mode. tesla, by the way, just removed from the s&p 500 esd index. it is environmental and social governance, awarded the two companies are progressive in those categories. s&p 500 points to the scratches

and the conditions that tesla factories as factors in removing tesla from the index. picking up the environment, have you seen this? this is going viral on tick- tock. follow on a boat who looks right into the camera and in a number of videos that he is posted to tiktok throws beer cans in the water. he says he is feeding the turtles. he seems to dare people to find him. well, he has been found. the miami florida city commissioner was behind the manhunt posting his own tiktok's. ken russell says he is an active surfer and politician who has worked to catch polluters before. he asked the internet to help them find your can tossing guy. >> guys, i think we found a winner in today's stupid game and stupid prices. i would love to give them a trophy. >> it work. the internet was able to track down the tick-tock or to louisiana.

>> them mind-of a tiktok was very active. it took less than two hours to identify who the person was, where he lived, where the marina is, in the name of his boat that he uses. i realized he was outside of my jurisdiction, and i handed it over to the louisiana authorities. >> in this internet world, there comes this idea of a, we are going to dachshund, we're going to cost him his job, that sort of thing. that wasn't your intention, and you didn't do that? >> i was very clear to my followers, which are over 200,000 as of today, that the goal is a simple accountability. i didn't want anyone attacking his family or his job. i said so in my videos. in fact, i have never posted his full name or his address on any of our postings. >> i really like the conclusion of the story. the answer is you see somebody do something wrong, alert the authorities, don't dachshund him . >> right. which could happen today.

>> it happens all the time. alert the authorities and then be done with it. 6:1540 this morning. too lazy to cook, you know what, we pay way too much to have that food delivered to our doorstep. >> recently won texas mother didn't really have a choice, but her 3-year-old son did. this week, he ordered 31 cheeseburgers on door dash from mcdonald's. this is the mom saying how it all went down. >> you like to take pictures of himself. he was doing that. i thought i locked up the phone. apparently i didn't. the door dash came with 31 cheeseburgers. >> look how happy he is. >> the glenn total was nearly $92. the even gave the driver as a two dollar tip. his mom offered up the burgers for free on her facebook page.

>> call the neighbors. everybody come get a burger. >> leave it out there for the delivery driver too. little kids. >> got to love them. >> give them back to the parents at the end of the day. >> 6:17. some serious stuff to talk about here. we've been talking about the drought and fire dangers in our area. >> it has been so dry recently. we know that. usually we are not talking about the fire danger in mid- may. that is the case because of the widespread drought that we have, as we get the.monitor update you, you can see a lot of red across the state of california. that is the extreme doubt. but also notice the dark red, but the exceptional child that

is spreading and nevada is starting to make its way into san bernardino county and making conditions worse in southern california. as we look at what we are expecting right now, that is a severe drought. that is continue. the extent extreme drought just to the east. such a dry start to our year. we are dealing with the high wind is starting to pick up. also off towards the east, we are going to see the winds increasing for the hills, the north druid hills, east bay hills under a wind advisory starting tonight and continuing through tomorrow. as far as the temperatures, it is still been pretty warm. we should be in the mid-70s. we are headed to the mid-80s today and even i-291 in fairfield this afternoon. going into tomorrow, it is only fast slightly cooler. we still do see the cold weather continuing, san francisco and near the coast. we are looking at highs in the upper 60s and low 70s. more of that going into saturday as well. that is not much of a cool down for that north bay and sulfate

valleys. going into the next several days, we are going to continue on with dry conditions. but then towards the end of the forecast, possibly leading into memorial day, yes, that is next weekend, we are going to see a chance of cooler weather and possibly summary nearby. as we take a look at our seven- day forecast, highs in the upper 80s for the interior parts of the bay area and then more sunshine. getting even harder for early next week, with the some mid- 90s and the forecast on monday and tuesday. for san francisco, it stays really nice here. a breezy wind. we will see more sunshine as our temperatures reached near 70 degrees at least until early next week. mike, how was it looking going up for the commute? >> we are looking right here. this is a north north 80. just ahead of the interchange i showed you. a crest reported. everything i do the right shoulder. no major interest or injuries. everything is fine for the south bay, even the slowing has not kicked in for the second burst yet. along the peninsula, you're fine.

in fact, the east bay looks pleasant as well. the slowing that we had earlier through hayward has cleared. that will build we are saying a bigger time. tabasco road is over in half an hour. we use a will that change to the orange. how we for shows a build in bay point now. >> thank you, mike. a new story to tell you about. they closed the only nuclear power plant still operating here in california. the action that of our minimums are taking. a debate about whether it helps or hurts on funding crisis. >> as you can tell, we are very excited for herself to kick off the summer concert series. he has a right as well. you can catch him later today providing well on the today show on the plaza. it is it 7:00 a.m. right after today in the bank.

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right now to 6:30, paying to park at work. south bay employees protesting to and a new fee at a popular mall and how this may affect your shopping plans. >> when it comes to serious misconduct, i have made my life clear. if cost, it will be your last day as a police officer. >> the police chief says mistakes have been made and actions need to be taken with the reforms he is laying out after several cases of officer misconduct. this is today in the bay streaming live on donbas,

amazon fire, and apple tv. >> a very good thursday morning to you. thank you for starting your day with us. i am a laura garcia. >> must a live look outside. this is where one of a kind experience is kicking off. just enjoy the sounds. rejoice. you can experience this. you don't want to miss it. >> i wish i can play like that. we will also have a look at the commute ahead in just a little bit. first, terry hall is checking the weekend warm-up for us point >> it is going to be warm and windy. with that, unfortunately comes the high fire danger we are already talking about in the middle of may. tomorrow, the driver went continues in our valleys. as we are starting out on this thursday morning, we have a beautiful sunrise still a light

breeze yesterday to dust kicked up to about 34 miles per hour in san francisco, mostly 20 turned 30 miles per hour wind that will most likely get stronger going into the night. we will talk about the forecast and the wind is and what is going on this weekend. >> that sounds good. will check back with you. breaking overnight, new zealand and parts of australia rattled by a 6.7 earthquake. happened within the last two hours or so. it was centered off the coast of both nations. it triggered a local tsunami warning, but it was lifted. there are no reports of damage. >> new this morning, attention shoppers, beef over packing may impact you. the people that are behind it and who are upset, they actually work there. we are outside of the valley fair mall. phyllis and about this. this dispute has been going on for some time. >> yes, there is a protest plan

for 10:30 this morning. this is one in a long line of protest over this parking policy. it is not in effect since february. workers and allies have been pushing back against management plan since this plan was first announced. this is a practice back on february 20th. workers point out that minimum wage forcing them to pay to park really takes a chunk out of their paycheck. westfield valleyfair now charges employees three dollars a day or $40 a month to park. that monthly fee amounts to two and half hours of work. guests get to park for free for two hours. management's hope is to deter non-parkers, non-shoppers from taking up that valuable parking space. we talked with one ofhe protest organizers. understand why they must take out the money of the employees

just so they can make that little extra profit. it is definitely issues of classism, the elite trying to continually oppress those who are of lower income. >> reporter: to be fair, we asked for westfield valley response, they say we support the right of employees who work at the center to voice their opinion, will your main community are controlled parking plan. retailers and employers here at the mall can pay for their employees parking, but not all of the businesses here have opted to do that. the protest is planned for 10:30 this morning. >> that is really tough if you are not making enough money to make it in the bay and then have to pay to go to work. thank you. >> that is tough.

it is 6:33 right now. happening today, two men charged in the death of a young girl at a south bay church are scheduled to appear in court. authorities this week arrested rene fernandez. police say the pair are grandfather and uncle of a 3- year-old girl who died last fall in a church in san jose. must get her to leave the young girl suffocated during some sort of exorcism ritual. the girls mother was arrested in january. the same church where the alleged exorcism happened is not tied to the recent kidnapping of a three-month-old boy. he was recovered and returned to his mother. >> san jose's police chief laying out a string of new reform measures to clean up the department. the mayor joined chief anthony mata to present the plan. the chief says that he means business, reminding everyone about the recent dismissal of four officers. the department facing accusations of officer misconduct involving drugs, booze, and sexual improprieties. he said that it is time to restore the public trust. >> when it comes to serious

misconduct, i have made my line clear. if cost, it will be your last day as a san jose police officer. >> increased drug and alcohol testing and random body camera footage checks. most of it requires a compromise from the union before it becomes a department policy. >> 6:35. this one my health secretary and former attorney general have the latest and the white house to test positive for covid. according to a smart person, he is fully vaccinated and boosted, and he is experiencing mild symptoms. he tested positive for the barbers yesterday morning during a trip to germany ahead of a g7 summit with other health ministers. if i to continue with his duties while isolation -- in isolation, i should say, and berlin. >> did you see the game last night? the warriors off to a great start in the western conference final. >> hopefully game one becomes a trend.

>> sure a lot of cheering fans and for good reason. even before the game, chase center had some serious bus pick the winner goes on to the nba finals, where the warriors were last when they played over in oakland. >> game one just what the warriors needed. head coach steve kerr was back on the bench from his bout with covid. they cannot hot against dallas. 10 point lead lead to 19. steph curry led the weight with 22 points, seven warriors had double figures. the final score, 112, 87. tomorrow night back at the chase center. >> charles barkley was out there. i was hoping he was watching this morning. that's on my bucket list, to take a picture with them. he is so tall. let's take a live look outside on this thursday morning.

kerry has a look at the forecast. we want to keep the games going. we have game two tomorrow night. right next door, we have oracle part and the padres coming into town. it is going to be busy in that area. temperature wise, still windy with temperatures in the upper 60s at 6:00. first pitch, we are singer temperatures coming down to about 63 degrees, continuing to qualify for tomorrow evening. if you want something a lot more chill, instead of the roar of the crowds, maybe some waves crashing, you will see some nice weather in santa cruz, some mid-70s on friday. it will be cooler on a saturday and sunday, but still we keep the sunshine. the weekend plans take you out of town, maybe down to l.a., it's going to be in the mid 60s for friday and then warming up as we get into the weekend up to about 70 degrees. we will talk about what is ahead for this weekend in the bay area and the fire danger that is coming up in a few minutes. mike has art traffic. >> we had some weird spacing out here. it seems to be filling in all

lames was again. the toll plaza itself, the problems reported. pretty standard across the county and even at the richmond bridge. that is now looking for tomorrow, like events, talk about the giants on the warriors but playing, look how close these arenas are. what is inside and one is outside, but they are both on the side of the bay. we will look for the slowing tomorrow just about 6:00 to 7:00. the rest of the bay a pretty easy drive right now. back to you. >> shining the light on mental health. >> i might have the tools to help somebody else, but i still did not have the tools to know how to help myself. >> we are marking mental health matters much. >> finding new allies, finland and sweden making the case to join nato. that is not nearly as bad as we

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happy thursday to you. right now it is 6:31.

milder temperatures in one is great. let's take a look at the nbc bay area? or in the upper 60s and we will had . it is going to be another warm one. the winds picking up will cause a some other problems we will talk about than in the forecast. >> just an observation, the flags are lapping. a little bit of track care. on the bottom line, we just hear about the problem on the track. 10 minutes delay. we will watch the tracks coming up. >> sounds good. 6:42. the president will meet with leaders of sweden and finland today. >> they have made it official that they want to join nato. >> nato is going to try to make that happen as quickly as possible. it doesn't need the agreement of all member countries, and that means the approval from our senate, which approves all

u.s. treaties. we expect the prime minister of of finland to speak at the countries set their applications to the general secretary of nato. i mentioned all countries in they don't need to agree. right now, two countries, turkey and hungary are agreeing. but the run by strongmen. turkey objecting to the nordic countries relationship with the kurds. turkey has weight, the second- largest military force in nato. a lot going on and the baby floor me a crisis. president biden invoked the american defense production act that we all hope will speed up production. we were talking about this at the top of the hour. will continue to monitor it. president biden will head to japan and korea this afternoon. asia and the threat of china have been something that biden had hoped to focus on, but richard has been getting all of the attention. know whether we should never

worry about china or russia most has been in debate for years in washington. you may recall during the obama romney race, obama said china. romney said worry about russia. unfortunately it is hard to tell who was right, maybe both of them. some good news, the american embassy in keys is back open. the stars & stripes was again flying in the capital of ukraine. france, germany, and britain have also reopen their embassies. as the baton from former president george bush who ordered the invasion of iraq during his presidency, innovation to capture weapons of mass deception that were not there. the president met to speak about ukraine. >> the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq -- i mean of ukraine.

anyway. i'm 75. >> we will be watching what is happening in washington, particularly that meeting today with our possibly future nato allies. on twitter you will find me at scott mcgrew. >> thank you so much. we are just into a new term, pete williams is set to retire. at the team in 20 out the announcement after nearly 3 decades at the network, he has decided to retire at the end of july. he has covered many historical events in washington throughout the years. he is so connected. he is often at the forefront of so much breaking news. we wish him well. we hope he really gets a chance to enjoy his retirement. >> he will be missed.

>> it is a quarter to seven right now. may is mental health matters much. california rolling out events and programs that are aimed at raising awareness. >> they are getting some help from one of the stars of the tv show. we talked about his own mental health journey. >> i was dealing with anxiety and suicidal thoughts. i was also dealing with a lot of color and some, mental abuse, emotional abuse. it spiraled into drug use for a little bit. i just was, i don't know how to get out of this. >> he told me that he also had to learn what the signs were of his own mental health. he is partnering with take action for mental health.org. this is to help others find resources. >> you can find so many resources to help you or help someone else. and i say these things because i am like, i have been through there. i've made it through. >> we spoke on a lot of things. including his new book. we also talked about pride month and why he was wearing that l.a. dodgers had during that

interview. you can watch the full interview right now. you can download it for your amazon fire and apple tv for the full interview. >> i think he had some pride for the boys in blue. >> happening for you today in san francisco, music and nature about the hit a new note for us. it is a new series that organizers say will provide a one-of-a-kind experience point >> it is a really cool concert. it is right here in the bay area as botanical gardens. this is a really cool event. >> good morning. i think cool may be an understatement. this is a really unique experience. you can see the surrounding as they take place in the sea immersive experience. i am joined by the pianist, the

creator of this experience, as well as brendan lange, he's with the san francisco botanical gardens. just a little bit of background it took a little while to get here. this was supposed to arrive a couple of years ago. >> we wanted to partner in 2020, we had 12 pianist throughout the garden for five days. it is coming back this fall because course, 2020 pandemic at and we were unable to do that. we are really excited to bring hunter back this year and bring piano music back to the botanical gardens. >> this is really just the perfect setting. it is a beautiful scene. folks have a chance to walk around. the unique part about this is the headphones. talk about the idea behind it. the fact that people can wear headphones and walk around and still hear the beautiful music. >> it is called in a landscape classical music. we take this to parks and

gardens and amazing spaces in the west. we are seeing 60 concerts this year. i play and people walk around with wireless headphones, and it gives them the flexibility to enjoy and connect with nature and connect with the music in a way that they might otherwise not. >> san francisco sets off this tour. give us a snippet of what folks can expect to hear. >> we will be at san today. look at you dunn up in one country by early next week. i will blow play a little bit of chopin.

>> this is beautiful. i was being told that this is members for san francisco residence. and also just to get out and enjoy nature and enjoyed the very talented pianist right here. it is beautiful. it is a really nice time to spend time with your family here at the botanical gardens. >> she has one of the best assignments of the day. >> when i hear someone play the piano like that. >> it is beautiful. is the emotion that music brings. >> what happened? >> i guess we have got to move on. we couldn't listen to that all day. we do need to talk about what is going on in the weather department. we are now getting

the drought update this morning. a lot of a read here. that continues with the extreme drought across the central value and to southern california, also starting to see the exceptional drought out of nevada starting to spread into southern california. we will be watching that. for us, we do continue with the severe drought for most of the bay area with the dry conditions coming away for the weekend and some high winds and extremely dry vegetation, we do have the concern of fires they can develop and spread quickly because of the gusty winds that we will see picking up red flag warnings in effect starting late tonight. we do have wind advisories for these areas in orange. that is the upper elevations for the bay area where we could see fires and spreading quickly. we have also seen some much above temperatures for the past couple of days that continues today with highs in the upper 70s for san jose. tomorrow it is much more the same. notice how the coast and san francisco stays comfortable with

highs in the upper 60s and low 70s. we are also going to stay on repeat on saturday with hot ballet temperatures going into next week, still more dry weather. but there may be a change in torts at the end of next weekend. yes, that is in time for the memorial day travel day. we could possibly see some rain close by. we are still looking at dry weather once again in the near terms, temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s, even mid- 90s early next week. san francisco will be near 70, with gusty winds at times into the weekend. how's it looking now? >> it is actually pretty pleasant. the celebration is a different pattern. notice that one-to-one starts back at capital expressway, past the city for normal. up at the airport, and at the top of the screen and towards mountain view and palo alto, the build is right for the express lanes open up. sellthrough san helen so, slow as well. >> 6:52 right now. happening now,'s self activities need your help finding a man. he had not been seen since leaving his home on a saturday.

he took off in a wide two-door honda's crc. mom also go by the name peter. he enjoys hiking. if you know where he is, called the santa clara sheriff's office. >> overnight, a look at the top stories that we have for you, a suspicious fire in the east bay. the update from investigators. that is the bay area braces for a warm-up. >> another possible freeway shooting here in the bay area with the latest update on the conditions of the victim. stay with us. you're watching today in the bay.

>> welcome back it is a 6:55. we are moving forward with a look at the top stories here on today in the bay. >> with following breaking news after a devastating day on the stock market yesterday. does continue to move lower taking a look at the big board right now is now down to about 77 point it open about six 30 this morning. today show also following the concerns we have a live report just minutes away. >> three overnight suspicious fires started around 2:00 in the morning. they quickly put out all three of the fires. police are also investigating? >> developing right now the mystery this morning for authorities in oakland were at

least two people are hospitalized after the calls crest on 580. it was struck multiple times by gunfire. this is frightening. what we know about the victims? >> morning. we believe at least possibly three people were shot and taken to the hospital. we are trying to conform with one of those people might have died, trying to confirm that through chp. take a look at the on your tv screen. happened about a 30 last night. this was in oakland near this seminary avenue. not far from the highway 13 split. the call came in as a vehicle crash with injuries on the freeway. but with chp life, they brought the people in the car had been shot. it is not clear the shooting happened on is down five adsl for the occupants were shot on a local side street and then got on the freeway to either get away or head to the air force or somewhere else.

officers could search for evidence, the entire area since been reopened. so far, there have been 48 freeway shootings in the bay area. you may recall last week, governor newson announced funding for cameras on the freeway. that would be installed in los angeles and orange county and others. reporting live, tonight. >> taking a live look at capitol hill and the white house. the biden administration and congress are now trying to speed up the production of baby formula as they begin to ask what led to the nationwide shortage. ahead of the food and drug administration, it goes before the subcommittee to answer questions about how the crisis unfolded. it comes as president biden is invoking the defense production act that authorizes in part i was a slight report baby formula. a live look outside, right here in studio, is going to be another warm one. >> especially for those inland areas.

we are feeling the heat. temperatures are ramping up to the upper 80s and only slightly cooler tomorrow. that comes along with some gusty winds. we do have the concerns of high fire danger and we will keep you up-to-date on that. >> laura, we have a live look outside. this is the toll plaza. it is a little bit lighter than we often see at this time. he was a weird pattern there, but no problems. we're going to watch that and expect maybe a bonus. we do have more traffic heading west across the san mateo bridge right now. we have some different patterns, slight changes. i'm monitoring my twitter account as well. >> we want to take a look right there at the today show, this is where the summer concerts get underway with harry styles. >> there have been people waiting out they are.

it is raining in new york. they have been waiting for days just to see him. quite the talented performer. weight until you see his outfit coming up on the today show this morning as well. we will be back with a local news update and about half an hour. have a great morning. good morning, breaking overnight, crisis mode the white house taking emergency steps to address the nationwide baby formula shortage. invoking a war-time act to boost supplies and ordering u.s. planes to speed up shipments from overseas. this morning everything parents need to know and why critics say the drastic measures should have come much sooner. nose dive. all eyes on wall street after the worst drop in two years. the dow plunging more than 1100 points just ahead, the troubling news