right now at had:30, a heat wave hitting the bay area. meteorologist kari hall is tracking a microclimate weather alert. ahead she breaks down how hot it's expected to get in your neighborhood and how long it will last. plus -- >> the most important thing, if we can't prevent them, we need to hold people accountable and make arrests. >> addressing attacks, finding out the steps the department is taking to help the asian community and we discuss the town hall plan tonight and how you can take part to make sure your voice is heard. this is "today in the bay," streaming live on roku, amazon

fire, apple tv, and online. here we go, tuesday morning, yea! thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. mike has an eye on the commute. we'll get to him in a bit. first meteorologist kari hall has the heat. >> the peak of the heat, all of the shaded oranges where we have the hottest temperatures for inland areas away from the coastline and inner bay. we are under a heat advisory starting at 11:00 in the morning continuing through 8:00. these will be the hottest hours of the day. as we get a closer look at some of the areas, some of the mountains, the upper elevations including the delta, much of the tri-valley and down to the south bay where you do want to limit your time outside, drink lots of water and there will also be the increased risk of heat-related illness that's dangerous today as we talk about these temperatures that will reach up

to 101 degrees in dublin, 105 in fairfield and livermore and reaching 97 in santa rosa, but san francisco is going to be in the upper 70s and low 80s. we will see a cooldown eventually in the forecast, and we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. mike, how is it looking in the trivaluey? >>over all, things are green sensored. we know about the red section here, the closure for niles canyon that should last another half hour or so, maybe a little bit less. also a connector from 84 to 680 south. the connector should have been reopened any time soon. we see the slowing on the approach so there should be crews getting ready to move for the morning commute. i'll check a couple other sources and see they have an extension onto the closure. now get through on surface streets, stanley, holmes or the dublin interchange, all the options are moving completely clear. back to you. >> thanks, mike. day two of a state-wide

strike led by kaiser mental health workers, 2,000 are taking part. they say the contract negotiations have stall and their union wants higher pay, increased staffing and shorter patient wait times. kaiser says it's made a fair offer to the union. >> if someone has to wait three months, six months and they're already in acuity of a crisis, that crisis is going to become full blown, they need a lot more services and care at that point. >> the union's proposal to reduce time directly seeing patients comes at a time when we're faced with a 30% increase in demand for mental health care. >> kaiser goes on to say in a response it hired nearly 200 new mental health clinicians and patients will still receive care during the strike, this is from clinicians who chose to keep working. that strike will take place from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at locations in oakland, santa clara, and santa rosa.

san francisco's laguna honda hospital is getting an extra two months to try to stop a forced shutdown of the facility. the feds recently cut funding and decertified the facility citing years of issues,s coulds of long-term care patients were ordered to be moved out by next month. however, two weeks ago, the city-run hospital stopped discharges when multiple patients died after being moved out. the city then filed a lawsuit to try to stop the closure. the new november extension granted by the feds will give the city officials more time to make their appeal to keep that hospital open. many are calling for swift action in response to an increase in recent attacks in san francisco and there is growing frustration and fear among the asian community. later tonight, a town hall is being held with community leaders to try to address the issue. joining us is san francisco police chief phil scott. thanks so much. i know your time is valuable. we appreciate you being here. chief, it seems that petty

crime, crimes of opportunity really they appear to be getting worse in san francisco, robberies and burglaries as well as many community leaders feel that there isn't enough accountability for some of these crimes. is it that bad? >> well, it's bad, definitely bad when you're a victim of it. in some categories, you mentioned burglaries, we statistically are below where we were this time last year, but that doesn't give any solace to people who are victimized by these crimes. with our aapi crimes, statistically we're lower quite a bit lower than last year at this time. >> are there any tangible actions that your department issic taking that you're telling your force when they go out on the streets? >> sure, yes we are and there's a number of things we're doing. let me just name a few. in terms of the robberies and the street-related crimes, you know, of course an increase in presence is always helpful in that regard.

you know, we have evidence-based research that shows when we're out there, assaults and certain types of crimes tend to happen less, so we are augmenting our staffing levels with as much overtime as we can work. our officers are working very hard, they're working extra shifts. officers are tired but they're out there and they're working, so that definitely helps. in terms of the investigative side, we doubled the size of our burglary unit for instance and we think that has contributed to at least a decrease statistically in the burglaries year to date. in terms of some of our aapi crimes, the most important thing if we can't prevent them, we need to hold people accountable and we need to make that arrest and then it's up to the prosecutors and we give the best evidence to make sure there's accountability throughout the criminal justice system. >> following growing calls from the community, you and the district attorney are holding a town hall tonight, tell us how

you helped in gain that? >> we want to hear what the public concerns are, we want to work with our community stakeholders to solve these problems because policing we use the term community policing quite frequently. watch the entire interview on our nbc bay area app or on roku or apple tv. the end for an era of a pair of muscle cars is here. ahead on "today in the bay," the reason why dodge is

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very quickly especially after noon. we are going to talk about how hot it gets for all of our microclimates in the forecast, coming up. >> we're looking over here, palo alto on the peninsula, a smooth drive, easy flow of traffic for 101, as you travel along this side of the bay. in the east bay i'm tracking the slowing coming out of the livermore area, highway 84. we'll check on that, hoping to sort out some of the business on the street. let's check in with bertha. >> hey, good morning, mike. i'm bertha coombs from cnbc. we've got wall street looking like it's going to open flat. the markets posted gains yesterday. the dow and nasdaq and s&p all rising about half a percent, led by consumer-related stocks. oil prices are extending big losses with the u.s. crude trading below $90 a barrel overnight. that's the lowest level since before russia invaded ukraine in february. folks worried about demand and the global economy with china's economic data looking kind of

soft. in focus today, we'll get reports on housing starts and industrial production later this morning. we've got an earnings from walmart and home depot, both of those better than expected, helping to boost the futures just a little bit. uber eats is teaming up with office depot to deliver office and school supplies. uber eats customers can place orders from 900 office depot and office max locations nationwide. if you're a member of uber's monthly subscription service, uber one, you can get special benefits like free delivery and a 5% discount on all orders over $15. meantime, dodge is going to discontinue the gas-powered charger and challenger muscle cars at the end of next year as it shifts over to electric vehicles. the models have been stalwarts for dodge since being resurrected in the mid to late 2000s but they've also been an emissions and fuel economy problem for dodge's parent

company. dodger's ceo hinted the charger and challenger names could be used for future electric vehicles including an electric muscle car in 2024, but i don't know, marcus and laura. i mean, can you make an electric muscle car that has that roar of the engine because i think that's part of the whole experience and electric cars sore quiet. >> that's the thing a lot of people who love those cars, they will miss, they say. >> they want to hear it. >> you want to hear the varoom, varoom! now you'll hear mmmm. >> guess there could be a software patch to do that. >> i would imagine. >> then you add to noise pollution. >> sound effects. >> hmm. >> but the charger name could still work. in a whole new way. >> thanks, bertha. it is 4:43. more for you this morning, taking a stand against injustice. coming up here on "today in the bay," we'll tell you about this unique way one activist and artist is creating change in the equalities black andrown equalities black andrown co bmm

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good morning, folks. welcome back. we're looking at a beautiful drive right here over in fremont, underneath that overpass, a smooth drive right now, but not far, these folks heading south toward dixon landing road i'm a little concerned. reports came to chp through this stretch of a nimitz a mattress in the middle of the roadway. we'll track that. there may be a traffic break headed to milpitas off the mission and crossover.

take note over the next few minutes as you leave your house, there may be activity coming up. niles canyon smooth drive, a slow for 84 as well. there was a construction crew coming toward 680, that may still be in the roadway. that would be what's causing early slowing but it's late for that crew which i believe cleared that roadway section. looking toward contra costa and the bay bridge a smooth drive. highway 37 reopened after overnight work. kari? >> the heat is what we're talking about today, today is the peak of it. it's clear in san francisco. there will be a hazy sky as well with more wildfire smoke coming in and you may see signs on your way to work, it's a spare the air alert day and they're advising to you catch public transit and bike to work or walking will be a great option. we're going to see unfortunately more of that smoke from the mckinney fire coming down from the north. it is 95% contained, but it

burned over 60,000 acres and some of that smoke still lifting into the air and now being pushed down into the bay area. this coming as high pressure kind of pushes it down toward the surface, traps it in a lot of our valleys and that's where our temperatures today are headed over 100 degrees. we'll see that in concord, reaching 104. 105 in fairfield and livermore. san jose up to 93 degrees, and 101 in morgan hill. we're still in the upper 80s for parts of the inner bay. san francisco will warm up as well with upper 70s but there may be some spots in the city that reach into the mid 80s and our north bay highs reach up to 97 in santa rosa. tomorrow, notice how our temperatures come down a few degrees, but it's still going to be hot, reaching 98 degrees in the tri-valley and san jose in the upper 80s and then near the coastline is where we get some real relief with san francisco in the upper 60s by thursday, but still some 90s for the inland valleys. we will have higher humidity

surging in the return of that monsoon moisture. look at the green coming our way, that's mid-level moisture and when it's dark green, that's a really high amount of moisture but it looks like a lot of that evaporates before it has a chance to hit the ground, so we're not getting any rain, but there will be a chance that we could see some dry lightning coming in, that's late wednesday into early thursday morning. and as we look at the cloud cover, it shows some clouds moving in but once again no green, indicating there could be in any rain. as we look at temperatures we're coming down from the triple digits to upper 90s and low 90s and then the weekend it's going to be a little bit better with upper 80s in some of our hottest spots inland and for san francisco we're seeing upper 70s today, but we do have those 60s back in the forecast, especially as the fog returns just in time for the weekend. now let's turn to our climate in crisis. we know the impacts of heat waves and air pollution, water contamination and all that comes from a warmer climate affects

black, brown and indigenous people the most. communities of color are taking a stand against environmental injustice by joining organizations and increasing awareness. i spoke with a community activist who is using his app to add color to the movement. >> we use that voice to highlight all the justice issues that we deal with as people in the hood. hip-hop has always been a tip of the social political sphere so it makes sense i'm from hunter's point and grew up next to the superfund site, the coal plant down there, a lot of black and brown people are dealing with the burdens of environmental pollution while a lot of the environmental industry is talking about polar bears a world away. i think right here in san francisco in oakland and the bay area we really need to highlight the things that humans are going through because we have kids that are having issues with learning because of lead in fruitvale, because of the

industrial kind of level pollutants that are going through the air and par tick particulates coming through the air. we highlight the young black and brown kids that industry is just sitting on the backs of. that's why we have environmental summit and it's also a lot of fun, too. >> you can winatrview and find about the environmental justice summitng this saturday on the main presidio lawn. go to nbcbayarea.com and click on the "climate in crisis" page. >> thanks, kari. 5:51 right now. some creators are making some real money in the virtual world. >> that includes the massively popular road blocks world. cnbc's steve kovitt spoke with one of the everyday metaverse creators who are bringing in billions of dollars. >> daniel jordan seems like a

typical 23 years old. pretty soon he gets ready to start his fashion business. >> i made $30,000 for fashion and in 2020 i made $600,000 designing digital items on road blocks and in 2021 i made over $1 million designing items on road blocks. >> roblox is jordan's virtual world of choice, an open world gaming platform that claims more than 54 daily users. jordan has been fm now? >> not at all. >> reporter: today it's a full time job. he sold more than 25 million digital clothing items and accessories, hats, earrings, wallet chains that players buy through virtual currency and creators turn back into real dollars. talk about the digital goods you

make. how much is one t-shirt for example sell for typically and how does that translate to money in your bank account? >> when i sell digital items they're between 50 and maybe 150 roblox which translates to 50 cents to $1.50 for players to buy. jordan says people take their virtual image as seriously as their real one. >> when you see someone in the digital space that's how you get to know them. you'll pay to express yourself in a way that feels authentic to you. >> reporter: the company says 5,500 developers made real cash but rohblox. they keep 28 cents on the dollar. jordan is one of the biggest earners and recently bought his first home with his metaverse earnings complete with a pool in the back and a tesla out front. did you ever think you'd be able to buy something like this just

by playing video games? >> never. >> that was cnbc's steve kovach reporting for the news with shepard smith. >> interesting there to see. it's 4:53. making a mark in the south bay, still ahead on "today in the bay," we introduce to you one local artist helping to spread love and joy through her large-scale work. but first, happening now today marks ten days since placer county teenager kiely rodni disappeared. a ram sticker under the rear wiper blade of her silver honda crv, rodni disappeared attending a party at a truckee area campground. a reward to find her now stands at $75,000. we'll be right bac we'll be right bac k.

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4:56 for you this morning, and new for you, a san jose developer is teaming up with a well-known artist to breathe new life into the city. >> republic urban property is moving into new headquarters on willow glen on lincoln avenue. the building will also soon be home to a new restaurant comida, they'll have tequila, really nice on the rooftop. they allow muralist lie lato make the new canvas. it's going up for the past several weeks. the hope is that the art will draw in customers. >> the climate for developers post covid is tough. costs are high. what we try to do is maximize the beauty of a building that creates additional value and there's no better value to a

community than public art. >> it's tremendously rewarding to add to my city. i'm from here and i love being able to be a part of how people walk around and experience it. >> the mural is san miguel in mexico. the muralist says it will showcase the spanish culture. it's right there on lincoln and willow. >> beautiful. >> really cool. can't wait until the restaurant opens. >> i like that, margarita. walking off the job for a second day. coming up next on "today in the bay," we'll talk about the demand thousands of kaiser workers are making and the response from the hospital.

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