day on capitol hill. a live look as house lawmakers prepare for a new january 6th public hearing. will this hearing shift public perception ahead of the midterm elections? repeated break-ins at one bay area barber shop. what the business owners believe the thieves are after and why the efforts to fight back with not going as planned. bracing for the jump in flu cases, the advice from bay area doctors about the best way to stay protected, the measures they're urging everyone to take. this is "today in the bay" streaming live on roku, amazon

fire, apple tv and online. good morning to you, bay area, happy thursday, i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. we will check that morning commute with mike in just a little bit. vianey is in for kari, she has a look at you are our forecast. >> it will be a good one, a little cooler heading into the weekend, we do have some changes. i'm going to help you plan out -- i know it's thursday, but we always look ahead. >> always. >> take a look at the visibility, too. your current temperatures out the door, not too bad, you will maybe want a light sweater, 59 degrees in san jose and if you look at the skies we do have those cloudy conditions, beautiful view of downtown. so how is the rest of the bay area doing? pretty much seeing 50s throughout in through areas like concord, dublin and livermore. we will see that warm up again into the 80s but no 90s for today. as far as your fog and visibility, notice it's not as foggy as what we've seen earlier in the evangelical but we do still have areas sachbt rosa 5 miles of visibility and morgan

hill with 2 1/2 miles of visibility. let's see how those roads are doing, let's check in with mike. >> we will take a live look, here is dublin, the traffic coming toward us 580 your commute out of the altamonte pass approaching the dublin interchange traffic is moving smoothly. this is not the dublin interchange, we are crossing just shy of that, but just past that we are looking at north 680 off the 580 dublin interchange crash reported there, no slowing. it's been there for quite some time and we haven't had any problems. we will track that. the whole drive moves smoothly. the altamonte pass a little slowing off the 205 and 580, a crash off of 580, we will track that, no real impact for the volume of traffic which is light south bay, peninsula and the maze back to you. a live look at the capitol this morning where the next january 6th house hearing gets under way at 10:00 a.m. our time. >> scott mcgrew says this is supposed to be the last hearing before the midterm elections.

scott? >> it is scheduled to be, but then again at one point we thought we had already seen the last hearing. the committee has extended its schedule because as people come forward bigger and bigger names, it in turn inspires more people to step forward as witnesses and the hearings continued. there have been eight so far, this will be the ninth. the most recent hearing was in late july, each hearing has a focus or a theme. the most recent connected former president trump's actions or inactions during the actual attack, and we saw the behind the scenes footage of trump finally taping a message to the attackers telling them to go home. >> but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don't want to say the election is over, i just want to say -- congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay? >> but congress -- now congress

has certification. >> i didn't say over. let me see. go to the paragraph before. >> the committee has made progress since then. authorities have seized dozens of cell phones from secret service agents on duty that day and as we've previously reported, virginia thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, sat for an interview. we know from text messages she was in contact with the white house and chief of staff mark matthews the day of the riot telling matthews to stand firm and not concede the election. now, this is the makeup of the house select committee and while it's possible we will see more hearings after the midterm elections, some key committee members have just months left to serve. republican co-chair liz cheney lost her primary in wyoming. republican adam kins ger and democrat stephanie murphy are not speaking reelection. of course, if the republicans win back the house, they will

disband this committee. 4:34. one south bay barber shop can't seem to catch a break. workers are scraping along after surviving the pandemic, first a fire, now they had break-ins, the latest caught on camera cost the business thousands of dollars. "today in the bay's" stephanie mag yoan explains how the thieves got in. >> reporter: a fresh cut, a little fade and a lot of frustration. these bashers say in just the past four days their business was hit twice by thieves. >> we finally make it through the pandemic, boom, next time we have our neighbors catching a fire, so we are down for a couple weeks from that and now we're on our second burglary. it's like, man, what's next? >> reporter: the first burglary happened saturday night, cameras showed two suspects with backpacks scavenging the place. >> all the tools were gone from our stations. >> reporter: proper cuts barber shop has eight bashers, each lost about $2,000 worth of

tools. let me show you where the burglars came in through. i'm told there is an empty building next door, they came through there, broke down this door and quickly came down here and into the dasher shop. >> the second time -- >> reporter: after that incident owners shawn and christian decided to invest in the adt alarm system but the thieves came back early wednesday morning through the same door and destroyed their atm. they say adt never notified them or police. >> we contacted them and they said there was a glitch in the system and they apologized for that happening and that they would refund us $500 or give us $500 in advance, but unfortunately what we lost was more than $500. >> reporter: our team contacted adt security but we have not heard back yet. meanwhile christian and shawn say they are not giving up and hope our city leaders won't, either. 4:36. what was supposed to be a normal walk for one san jose dog lover suddenly turned into a trip to the er.

he says that his pooch got ahold of some meth amphetamines on the swauk. david espinal took his 10-year-old husky loki for a walk on monday night. when they got home loki just would not calm down. he ended up taking the dog to a 24-hour clinic. vets gave loki a drug test confirming me get was in his system. >> i didn't think he could just rummage through the bushes and find meth. >> our doctors used to see a couple cases a year, now we're seeing one to two in a month. in the last 48 hours we have had two cases. >> vets say this is more common than you think. it actually happens more frequently in urban areas. sometimes those dogs can even eat a piece of drug paraphernalia. on the covid-19 booster shot kids as young as 5 years old can get. >> the fda giving the okay for kids 5 to 11, the moderna shot was cleared for kids 6 through

17. people are asking what about the flu shots? well, that flu is coming back, you know, with vengeance in some parts of the country, "today in the bay"'s audrey assist joe has that story. >> reporter: it will be the first one expecting a high number of flu cases, ucfs infectious disease expert dr. hong says the convergence of viruses could mean a busy winter season to come. >> the writing on the wall is the fact we saw earlier and more flu in australia, new zealand, brazil, argentina, south africa, it same earlier, hit hard and we are starting to see that in the u.s. >> reporter: including here in the bay area. to try to ease the blow the santa clara public health department launched a dashboard online and is offering free flu shots. >> this brand-new dashboard helps the public know how much flu is out there and how to protect themselves. just as you said, we are seeing

hire levels right now than we normally do this time of year. >> reporter: this as a couple new covid variants are making health experts a little nervous right now. the doctor said the covid numbers in the u.s. are still low, but so are the number of people fully vaccinated. >> i'm particularly worried about people who are unlocking vaccinated an unlocking exposed, they have never seen covid before, particularly if they are older and for older folks you have to have at least one booster because we know that those folks are dying at a higher proportion. >> reporter: for everyone else dr. peter said you don't have to worry about it if you are up to date with your flu and covid vaccines. if you aren't he suggests getting your lots by halloween to get an increase in antibodies by the time we expect cases to rise. 4:39 for you this morning. former president trump's app truth social now available for android users. coming up, what users can expect, this is after google lifted its ban. plus withholding worker

benefits, why one apple store location now putting things on hold following the recent decision made by employees there. stay with

and it is 4:42. we are waking up to some patchy fog, areas of cloud cover. temperatures right now in the 50s, but notice by 10:00, 11:00 a.m. if you are heading to work we will climb into the 60s and we will be running a few degrees cooler today. i will have an extended look at

your seven-day forecast coming up. it's the climb. over here it's the high street off-ramp which is at the top of the screen. smooth drive. look how light the traffic is on the northbound side with the taillights heading toward the bay bridge. a lot of folks waking up with us, thank you. getting on to the roadway no problem. good morning. i'm sylvan in a hen that you from cnbc. wall street expected to open higher as investors await a key report on consumer prices before the opening bell. it is expected to show inflation rose at a faster pace than in august but moderated a touch from a year ago. stocks slipping following the release of the minutes from last month's federal reserve meeting. they show the central bank expects to keep hiking interest rates until it sees inflation drop. also in focus today jobless claims and earnings from delta airlines and walgreens. truth social the social media app created by former president donald trump is now

available on the google play store. google had banned the app this summer over its lack of content moderation. truth social has been available to download from the apple app store since february and google says they have agreed to enforce moderation measures on user generated content. apple is reportedly withholding new benefits from workers at its only unionized retail store. bloomberg says the employee in maryland will need to negotiate with apple as they hashed out a collective bargaining agreement. the benefits in question include additional health care and money for education. the report comes just as workers at a another apple store in oklahoma city are set to start voting in a union election today, guys. >> we will be here covering it. >> thank you. it is 4:44 for you right now. saving the declining cat population. coming up here we will tell you what's happening here in the bay area. the detrimental consequences experts say that our climate

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welcome back. all i have to do is point here to the richmond-san rafael bridge. the disabled vehicle reported somewhere around this toll plaza. we don't see any interruption. these are the lanes reportedly affected if any at all. no slowing on the sensors, we just mark it on the map. coming out of the area san quinton an on ramp issue, may be a disabled vehicle as well.

freeways over from the north bay, through the north bay, contra costa county no major problems. a little build 580, 205 light traffic, sake for vasco road. a smooth flow of traffic for the rest of the bay. vienna, we will look at the san mateo bridge. we can see the sparkling lights. >> we're still seeing some areas of drizzle as well as those low clouds and we're going to expect to keep that around at least for the first half. look at san francisco, live look but you can see the buildings. as far as temperatures out the door starting out in the 50s in san francisco, 55, san mateo 57 and we do have some areas of patchy fog including down through morgan hill, take a look, down to about 3 miles in visibility, up through santa rosa this has been one of the areas with a lot of fog this past week and it's down to about four miles right now, in through

half-moon bay seven miles. daytime highs today will be even cooler than yesterday. we will only top out in the low 80s, upper 70s, even in through areas like concord and livermore, morgan hill 78, oakland 60s, san francisco 64. we will get some afternoon sunshine mainly away from the coast. as far as your air quality goes if you are go to be out and about we will be anywhere from god to rod rat for the north bay good, coast bay and east bay moderate conditions and south bay we will be good. this will lead us into a nice comfortable weekend ahead. speaking of the weekend ahead, you thought today was going to be cooler but the weekend will be even cooler, even in through inland areas. saturday and sunday our daytime highs are finally going to feel more like fall in the mid and upper 70s. great weekend to enjoy the outdoors. looking out ahead we are monitoring a system that could bring some influence heading into next wednesday just to our north. all right. now let's switch it up for today's climate in crisis.

we are taking a dive into the health of the california coast as climate change accelerates one ecosystem struggling to keep up and that is kelp. according to noaa kelp is on the decline and over 95% of the historical kelp forest of the california coast are gone. warm ocean waters have resulted in a rising your honoren who pr eat this. their goal is to bring down the sea you are chin population and boost the recovery efforts. >> there are a lot of problems in this world that feel insurmountable, right? bringing back our kelp forest is actually not one of them. like this should be a real reason for hope, right, is that climate change is a global issue and the only solution to it long term is for us to bring down the

emissions that we're producing and at the same time sequester and soak up the emissions we have already put out there and the best way to do that are these coastal ecosystems that that's what they do, they're super powers in doing this. >> and kelp forests are vital in tackling climate change because they can store carbon dioxide up to ten times more than land forests, they also provide coastal communities protection from storm waves and serve habitat to species like the monterey bay sea otters. for more stories like this visit up at nbcbayarea.com and click on the climate in crisis tab. marin county you have one countywide decision to make and that's measure b. it would increase parcel taxes to improve county libraries, more books, better children's programs, better senior programs that kind of thing. it needs a two-thirds yes vote to pass.

a number of towns have measures on the ballot, for instance, measure g in larkspur would add a sales tax to pay for city services from parks to fire departments. measure j increases an existing tax to do the same thing. belvedere and fairfax have property tax proposals that will do much of the same. sausalito voters consider measure k which would remove a ban on cannabis stores. if they are allowed stores would have to give 7.5% of their profit to the city. as always check your voters guide, more information about statewide issues at nbcbayarea.com. >> thanks, scott. can we predict earth cakes. coming up next the reason one group of local researchers say it could soon be possible. happening now california is leading the nation in zero emissions school buses, this is according to a report from the california air resources board. so the state has electrified 2% or 1,800 buses in their fleet.

this is compared to 880 school buses in the entire nation. now they are electrified of course. this is all part of california's transition to sell exclusively electric vehicles by the year 2035. so far california has invested $1.2 billion in the transition of school buses. the state is planning to invest the state is planning to invest an additional $1 billion.8 cotton candy. pink lemonade. bubble gum. when tobacco companies sell candy flavored products, they know exactly what they're doing because four out of five kids who use tobacco start with a flavored product. and once they're hooked, they can be addicted for life.

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it's been a long ongoing question, especially here in california, is there any way to predict major earthquakes? >> a bay area group called quake finder says it is possible and it's been setting up a magnet owe meters along the fault lines in california all to monitor

magnetic field activity in the days before the earthquake. they just released a study showing there are signals that could indicate a quake is on the horizon. >> so this publish -- this study points in the direction that there is something to be looking for in the magnetic field and the major obstacle is the will to fund the research. >> quake finder says that it could take years to get that confidence up to a high level and that will require more findings. another thing to tell you about happening today, another political heavy hitter makes its stop -- or her stop here in san francisco. hillary clinton will be speaking at an event in an as yet indicated location, we don't know where it is just yet. she is appearing to support prop 1, that is on the ballot measure that would amend the california constitution to be a person's

reproductive freedom like the right to an abortion or contraceptives. we continue to count down to the primaries. coming up next on "today in the bay," we break down measure w and the impact it will have on oakland voters. also how it could possibly affect future campaigns. and it is 4:57. look at this great shot of walnut creek. you can see some clouds but we do have some changes. what can we expect when it comes to the temperatures? forecast coming up. no delays for the walnut creek bart station which is by our camera. bart reminds us there may be a tube delay for trains going in either direction through about 6:15. they continue with an earthquake retrofit project, this phase taking longer in the morning. so far no major problems for the transit agencies rorted as far transit agencies rorted as far ep

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the select committee i think has done, you know, outstanding job. i think he needs to be held accountable. right now at 5:00 a key hearing on capitol hill as the january 6th committee holds what will likely be a final public hearing before the midterm elections. we are live in washington with a look at what's on tap in a matter of hours. plus remembering a life lost to deadly gunfire near the cal campus, ahead a live report details on one young man's journey to america only for his life to suddenly be cut short. this is "today in the bay" streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. good morning, thanks for starting your thursday morning with us, i'm laura garcia.

>> and i'm marcus washington. we are going to get a look at the commute coming up in just a bit and that forecast is something i'm sure you will want to know about before you head out this morning. meteorologist vienna arena is looking at that. >> we still have some areas of fog and a little drizzle but we are going to see a drop in temperatures. it will be nice to finally feel like fall, not only in the daytime but also in the afternoon. right now a live look, you can see the fog right over san francisco and i do want to get to those temperatures because currently we are in the 50s in saratoga 59, fremont 57 and that's kind of what we're used to waking up to. not a big change in the past 24 hours as far as your morning lows, but if you notice we do have some of that fog pushing down through palo alto, morgan hill, san jose in through areas like livermore and of course up through napa, half-moon bay. i will guide you through all of that and what to expect. 5:00 right now. a new report shaking things