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right now at 4:30, addressing teen vaping. we break down data to show how many are using ecigarettes. how you can talk to your kids. plus -- >> our caseloads are unworkable. they're unsustainable and that's mostly why people are leaving. >> plus a looming strike. mental health workers at kaiser are set to walk off the job in a matter of hours. the impact it's already having on patients and the response from the hospital. also, we're tracking a warmup, temperatures set to reach dangerous levels in parts
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of the bay area this week. meteorologist kari hall tracking that and an air quality advisory now in effect. this is "today in the bay," streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online, of course. >> here we go monday morning. good morning to you. the team all back together again. >> finally. let's see for how long. >> i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. we've all taken our little breaks here and there but we're back together and starting with a look at that forecast. >> it's going to be hot these next few days. that's what everyone's going to be talking about. high heat coming in for the inland areas and we are under a microclimate weather alert as a result. let me show you where these areas will be impacted. we'll have an excess self heat watch in effect for all of the red shading here, mostly our inland valleys and also includes the delta as well as we get ready for this high heat over the next few days. we are already going to see a heat advisory for the north bay, but this really kicks in
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tomorrow, so today it starts to get hotter but tomorrow is the peak of the heat and for some of our inland areas, it's going to be dangerously hot, as our temperatures today come up to 87 degrees in san jose. we'll see a high of 100 in concord and fairfield. 95 in santa rosa, but we just showed this, the temperatures tomorrow getting up to 105 in fairfield, and 102 in livermore, so we'll continue to track this, talk more about the air quality coming up. mike, you have a traffic alert in oakland. >> we do, a number of freeways closed early this morning. first of all we take you to off live look 808 in oakland, this is the nimitz. you see all this traffic stopped up southbound just before you get to the coliseum, which is behind me. everybody's exiting at 66th down here at the bottom of the screen you see activity, a deadly crash. i'm not getting a lot of details regarding this crash, unfortunately, at least one person died, i think at most one person died down here, that's too many anyway. we're looking at this closure and everybody getting off at 66
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and i believe they're traversing down to haganberger as best i can tell. chp busy on scene and we're not hearing how long the closure is expected. i believe the coroner has arrived on the scene to do that work over here. in the meantime, 580 is clear. you get over to haganberger, allow yourself ten minutes extra to get through the scene. highway 37 reopened from an overnight closure that, will go on all week. the rest of the bay moving relatively smoothly. back to you. breaking overnight, lawyers for imprisoned wnba star brittney griner are appealing her conviction on drug charges. this follows her sentencing earlier this month to nine years in a russian prison. griner was arrested in february after cannabis infused vape cartridges were found in her luggage. she pleaded guilty to the charges. the u.s. maintains the athlete was wrongfully detained and offered an exchange for her by a
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russian arms dealer serving a 25-year prison sentence. in just a couple of hours, thousands of kaiser mental health worker also go on strike here in the bay area. last-minute negotiations between kaiser and the union representing psychologist therapists and counselors ended without an agreement. >> reporter: the strike starts at kaiser san jose medical center and also in san francisco and some patients have already told us they've had their appointments canceled. with negotiations stalled, these kaiser mental health clinicians are focusing on making picket signs for a strike they say they plan to walk off the job at kaiser's medical centers in san jose and san francisco, in an effort to cut down on patients' long waits for appointments. >> seeing people that are suicidal, that have depression, that are anxious, that have really bad traumas, seeing them once every two months is not enough. >> members of the national union
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of health care workers are also fighting for more time outside of clinical care to send emails and coordinate patient care. kaiser said it offered additional time for administrative duties but the union wants more. iment pending strike is already having an impact on patients. >> i had an appointment scheduled for tomorrow, monday, and on thursday i got a phone call saying my appointment was canceled. >> reporter: laura gamble says kaiser gave her no other options. >> for a person like me who has anxiety and depression issues, i guess who you are. for me, i rely on this person to kind of keep me going and it's kind of like flying without a parachute. >> reporter: we reached out to kaiser, who issued this response saying, "we are working hard to be ready to meet our patients' mental health needs during the strike. beginning this week, our
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patients will receive care from those mental health clinicians who choose patient needs over the strike, as well as from our psychiatrist psychiatrists, clinical managers and other licensed professionals." kaiser also says it hired nearly 200 mental health clinicians to keep up with the increasing demand for care. child psychologist alexis petrakis says clinicians are overwhelmed. >> our caseloads are unsustainable. we lost 17% of our union membership in the last year. >> reporter: which is why she says she'll be joining hundreds of other clinicians fighting for better patient care on the picket lines and possibly beyond. the strike is scheduled to continue all week. marianne favro, "today in the bay." >> we're following this looming strike closely. you can also head to nbcbayarea.com for the latest updates, it's the top story on our home page. we're learning new details
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in the case of the missing teen last seen more than a week ago in placer county. she was seen in a video earlier in the evening of august 6th, wearing a white sweatshirt, shown in this photo on the left. it's unknown what she was wearing when she was last seen. investigators hope this new clue will hopefully lead to more details about her disappearance. the 16-year-old was reported missing on august 6th, this is after attending a party at placer family campground. the world health organization is prepared to rename the monkeypox virus, worried about derogatory or racist connotations. the organization will hold an open forum to rename the disease. it made the decision after scientists gathered to discuss the issue. what it could be renamed or how soon is unknown at this time. a couple days ago the u.n. health agency renamed two families of the virus, it decided to use roman numerals instead of geographic areas. as schools across the bay area start classes again,
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doctors are sounding the alarm about kids vaping and using ecigarettes, this is according to a national youth tobacco study. currently more than 2.1 million high school students are using ecig represents and thousands are vaping. from 2016 to 2020, there was more than 73% increase in kids using ecigarettes. as one doctor explains, ecig represents can damage teens' lungs and brains. >> exposing a developing brain, which is what preteens and teens have to high doses of nicotine contained in ecigarettes leads to addiction very quickly. these devices can be very potent in their addictive capacity. when that happens in a developing brain, anyone of any age can get addicted quickly. >> the doctor adds kids who use ecigarettes are four more times likely to try traditional cigarettes and three times more likely to become addicted to
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nicotine. the american lung association and the ad council are launching a new campaign to encourage parents to talk to their kids about the issue. moving you forward this morning, vta schedules are changing again as the agency works to restore service to pre-pandemic levels. beginning today, service on the blue line will start at 4:30 this morning, so it's already started. weekend services will run from 5:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. the following morning. the green line and orange lines are set to start at 5:00 a.m. on weekdays and run from 6:00 a.m. to midnight on the weekends. in october, vta plans to increase the frequency of buses and light rail to every 15 minutes. pushing for new subscribers, ahead on "today in the bay" the new streaming service google is reportedly working on and how it will compare to an already competitive streaming market. plus, the reported change that may soon pop up on your iphone, the reason some users may be upset because of it. stick around. much more ahead.
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the progress as they try to clear lanes. the coroner has apparently done their work, we're still confirming that and looking at the traffic flow. looks like they're getting ready to make some changes. i'll talk us through what we think we see and what we see with chp coming up. let's check in with pippa. >> good morning, i'm pippa stevens from cnbc. wall street is expected to open lower. the dow, mass nasdaq and s&p 500 gaining about 3% last week on the back of better than expected reports on inflation. that's easing some worries the federal reserve will be as aggressive in raising interest rates as it tries to rein in soaring prices. in foe can us this week, data on housing, resales and industrial production. it's also earnings for major retailers including walmart, target, home depot and lowe's. youtube is planning to launch an online store where you can buy streaming services. the "wall street journal" reports youtube is in talks with
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entertainment companies about being a part of the platform. the store has been in the works for at least a year and a half and could be available as soon as this fall. youtube lets you add subscriptions such as hbo max to its youtube tv service. the new marketplace would allow you to choose a streaming service alacart for the main youtube app. your iphone may have more ads. apple could include ads in apps preinstalled on your ipod and other devices such as maps, books and podcasts. ad tested search ads internally in maps and could show recommendations when you search for restaurants or stores. businesses could pay to appear at the top of search results similar to what developers can do in the app store. back to you. >> thanks so much, pippa. a new health alert for parts of the country. polio is being detected on the east coast. ahead for you this morning on "today in the bay," the preventative measures bay area health officials are urging we
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all take. stay with us. we'll be right back.
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right now at 4:47, we are under a microclimate weather alert as kids head back to school today for the franklin-mckinley school district in san jose. it starts out at 60 degrees, nice weather at drop-off time but pickup in the mid 80s and starting to warm up as we head for 87 degrees today.
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also 87 in fremont, 100 in concord today. check out the seven-day forecast, already up at the bottom of the screen. napang up to 90 degrees and 77 in san francisco. we're fairly mild in half moon bay. head over to san mateo, 80 for a high today and it gets hotter tomorrow. you can see some of these parts of the inner bay get a couple of degrees warmer, but really we're concerned about our inland valleys in spots like livermore, reaching over 100 degrees, close to 100 from morgan hill and san martin and 98 degrees in martinez. on wednesday, it comes down just a couple of degrees, but it's still going to be pretty hot, a couple of days of some high heat. this coming as we're also going to have a hazy sky, moderate air quality as we are going to see some of the most unhealthy air quality in santa clara valley, settles into some of the areas where you don't get the wind mixing around as much, and so if you are sensitive to the smoke, limit your time outside. all of these shades of light
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blue show where we're seeing some of the smoke moving in, it's coming from the mckinney fire right now, 95% contained, but we are still seeing some of that smoke coming down into the bay area. it burned over 60,000 acres and once again, some of the smoke plumes coming up, will be headed for the bay area. we also have another concern, monsoon moisture, so there's a lot going on this week. let me show you what happens as we start to see the green coming in. it's mostly to the east but i'm stopping it right here at 7:00 on wednesday evening, there's going to be a plume of moisture coming right over the east bay and this could possibly, possibly spark off some lightning strikes so that's what we're watching as we head toward the middle of the week and this is coming on the two-year anniversary of that august 2020 lightning complex that sparked all of the fires. so any little thing we're watching very closely. as we head through the next few days, you can see how hot it's going to be this week and it's going to be very dangerous to
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spend a lot of time outside in some of our inland areas especially tomorrow, but at least for the start of the work week, and then getting a little bit better by the weekend. for san francisco, it does stay mild here, we're coming up to the upper 70s and we're back to the 60s for friday into the weekend. mike, you're tracking some progress in oakland. >> some progress, kari, we have one lane 880 southbound open now. they've been removed one of the vehicles from the lanes and we have an investigation, a deadly crash southbound 880 had all but just one lane of 880 closed. also at the top of the screen you see this huge file of traffic getting off at 66, folks are funneling down along this area right here, there's a frontage road, it's an on-ramp and they're not using that to get back on the freeway. they're continuing toward haganberger. it's slowing traffic. the surface treats get you to the next on-ramp south of the coliseum. it is is a big backup. 580 out of oakland clear. this jams up south 880 past the
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coliseum before you get to haganberger and 66 so as you approach joan and the otheroff-ramps you get surface street traffic. chp is trying to help with the related roadways as folks are getting too anxious for their tastes. watch those posted traffic signs. you can only go one way on some of the streets so be careful. meanwhile the rest of the bay outside of oakland is looking just fine. again, we are tracking a deadly crash, jamming up adding 15 minutes onto your drive south 880 past the coliseum. back to you. >> thanks, mike. back east, a new health concern, health leaders in new york city say that polio appears to be spreading. the virus has been detected in the city's waste water after turning up in other parts of the state earlier this summer. researchers in the bay area are wondering if the virus is in our area. "today in the bay's" alyssa gord spoke with health experts about how concerned you should be. >> reporter: to teenagers like this group of friends, polio might seem like something
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they've only heard about but in new york, recent detection in waste water of the virus that causes polio has led health leaders to believe it's likely spreading. polio is highly infectious and while most who get it don't have visible symptoms, a small number of cases can lead to paralysis or even death. decades ago -- >> we're talking iron lungs, ventilators, you know, permanent defects. people were scared out of their mind about it at the time and appropriately so. >> reporter: dr. george rutherford with ucsf remembers waiting in line to get his polio vaccine in the 1960s. he thinks this news from new york is not cause for panic, but -- >> you know, if you haven't been vaccinated, you should get vaccinated against polio. >> i think i was too young to know whether or not i was vaccinated against it. >> reporter: you likely won't remember if you got the shot. the cdc recommends kids get four doses of the polio vaccine with the first shot at 2 months old. >> if people received routine vaccinations in childhood, if
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they remember that, they almost for sure received polio vaccines. >> reporter: dr. dean blumberg at uc davis children's hospital says the polio vaccine has been part of routine vaccinations since the 1950s, plus in california, it's required to attend public schools, private schools and child care. >> i take my mom's word for it, too, yeah but i know i had all my vaccinations. >> reporter: if you don't think you or your child has been vaccinated, talk to your doctor. alyssa gord, "today in the bay." happening today, the san francisco police department will hold a virtual town hall in an effort to be transparent about a recent officer-involved shooting. the incident happened august 6th when an officer tried detaining a suspect near 16th street and south van ness avenue. the short chase on foot took place leading to shots being fired. police say the suspect hid behind a car and kept shooting at officers. no one was hit by bullets, but the suspect was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
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the department will provide more details this afternoon at 3:00. everyone loves a comeback story, right? next on "today in the bay," a popular south bay film festival finally making its in- person return. how you can keep up with this year's screening. but first, happening now, today marks one decade since the deferred action for childhood arrivals or daca began accepting applications. the obama-era program protects the qualifying children of undocumented immigrants from being deported and also allows them access to drivers licenses and permission to legally work. at some point, some people point out that the program was only meant to be temporary. later this year, an appeals court may rule the latest legal
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the curtain rises tomorrow for south bay film lovers. >> when san jose's cinequest kicks off. this is the first time in three years the festival has been held in person. it is the south bay's largest film festival and runs through august 29th. this is going to be at theaters across silicon valley. when we all have you covered, you know when it comes to the field festival, head over to nbcbayarea.com right now and you can find a guide of all things cinequest. still ahead on "today in the bay," new details on the documents fbi agents recovered at president trump's florida estate and the fallout in washington. government agencies are on high alert. happy first day of school for the kids at alameda unified school district. we start out at upper 50s and
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headed for mid-70s. we'll talk about the inland forecast coming up. we're tracking the near closure of 808 southbound, only in one lane open after a deadly crash early this morning. we'll track your progress and give you alternates and continue to give you the updates that we to give you the updates that we get from the scene coming up.
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fallout over the fbi search of donald trump's florida estate. a live report from washington on the political fallout and the alarming rise in threats against federal law enforcement. adding up the help. the learning crisis now impacting students at all levels and the group now trying to provide help to those struggling the most. we are getting ready for some high heat to hit the bay area, especially as we head toward tuesday and wednesday, some of those temperatures hitting near the triple digits with an excessive heat watch in effect. we'll have more on this in the forecast as we have more of all of our microclimates and what you can expect. a very good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we want to get you started today with what we can expect from the forecast as well as the commute this morning. first at 5:00, we have team coverage on this week'

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