out from the mid-term elections. this is "today in the bay" streaming live on roku, apple tv, fire and online. i am marcus washington. >> i am laura garcia. we will check the commute with mike in a bit and the forecast with kari in a bit. first, from thailand a shooter in a child care center. >> first, we want to get to the forecast. >> it's a nice and cool start. we will see slightly warmer temperatures as we go into the afternoon. outside look at dublin, it's kind of clear and we see fog drifting around other parts of the bay area. we are going to see temperatures warm up and head for the upper 60s and low 70s near the coast. as you make your way inland we

will see temperatures headed for the upper 70s as well as some low 90s for livermore, fairfield as well as concord. we will take a look at all of the microclimates in the forecast coming up. mike, you are watching a crash in the east bay that started to clear? >> it's an interesting dynamic we have over in this portion. vasco is where the deadly crash was. there was a critical backup that cleared and has had a good and quick recovery. we are watching the crash in hayward for southbound 880. we are down to half an hour from marsh creek road, and the big backup for vasco now is getting out of basically out of brentwood into diablo. and all these folks combining out of the maze. we had traffic stopped up, all lanes, and now all lanes are moving and they are doing better

than creeping along, and this is much better than sometimes that we see at 6:01. we will watch this coming off of the maze. back to you. breaking news out of tie thailand this morning in a small town about 300 miles northeast of bangkok near thailand's border with laos. the shooter killed 36 people including 22 children. his own wife and child among the victims. some of who died outside the school as the gunman fled. the shooter was a former police officer that took his own life before officers could detain him. he had just been in court on a drug charge that actually got him fired from the police force. 6:02 right now. let's take a live look in new york. this is where president biden is heading tonight for a democratic party event. >> first, today he will travel

to poughkeepsie with the economy front and center. the president plans to tour ibm's campus and talk about jobs. brie, with mid-term elections a month away, the economy is a key issue. >> absolutely. good morning, laura and marcus. the economy is top of mind for many voters, and today president biden will be back on the campaign trail to help boost democratic candidates and to tout his economic agenda. this is coming after oil producers deliver a blow to efforts to bring down gas prices. new concerns about the economy this morning. opec, a group of some of the world's most powerful oil producers plan to slash output by 2 million barrels a day, and that is expected to cause more pain at the pump for drivers after months of decline.

president biden called the decision short sighted. the administration is vowing to do what it can to keep gas prices low. >> we are working every single day to make sure to the best of our ability that, again, energy supply from wherever is actually meeting demand in order to ensure that energy is on the market. >> it could add insult to injury with consumers already struggling with inflation. >> higher places for heating and travel. >> republicans are looking to take control of congress with midterms just five weeks away. >> people are energized, and they are pissed off at the idiots in washington with the direction of the country, and they are mad at inflation and mad at gas prices and mad at crime. >> and also on the ballot, trump's influence on the gop.

liz cheney warns against complacency. >> they need to demand from our republican leaders they not accept this unraveling of democracy. >> it's also a referendum on president biden and how voters feel about the country's direction. in the september jobs report, it comes out on friday and it's projected to give clues about the health of the u.s. economy. the federal reserve is also keeping a close eye on those numbers as it looks to tame high inflation. laura and marcus. >> thank you for the latest. let's get a check at sfo. a live look this morning. this is where later today the first lady will arrive for a bay area visit. dr. jill biden is coming as part of the biden administration's cancer moonshot initiative. tomorrow she will head to the

cancer center to highlight its work in cancer research and