. >> call josh harris's office right now. >> i'll call josh. my partner, josh harris, who owns harris casino, right across the street from the jail. and when even within ten minutes the set of two for us to land. their >> tip off was only three hours away. >> on the helicopter, six years star point guard ben simmons facetimed rubin. >> going to pick him up right now! he's gonna be at the game! you have to win by 50. we're on the helicopter right now. we're going literally to pick him up right now. 100 percent. [laughs] >> oh, my gosh. i've never been more excited in my life. >> minutes away from the prison, rubin gets a call from kevin hart, who had visited meek just hours earlier. >> we're going into the jail right now. literally, everyone's going crazy. >> this, do you understand how big this is? >> yes. >> there's no discussion. [applause] >> the news was barely an hour old by the time rubin arrived at the prison. but fueled by social media, big crowds had already beaten him there. >> free meek! free meek! >> an hour later, meek mill, the fa

we sat down with some of the actors that play euzy and josh harris. >> nobody has any idea of what is you don't know how to fix it. you are just in it for the rise and you are doing your best. that's what is happening in the world right now. >> you can watch it every tuesday night here on bay area, and it comes in at 9:00 p.m., followed by an all-new amsterdam. i love that show. >>> more to come. >> fighting back on misinformation tied to the pandemic. new extreme measures being considered today in one bay area county. >>> right now at 5:30, the fire danger not over yet. the wind remains a top concern as the red flag warning continues across parts of the bay area. meteorologist, kari hall, breaking down the areas most at risk. >>> cracking down on covid misinformation. a live report on the action contra costa leaders are set to take today. plus -- >> we're going to take it to the end and win. >> the celebration continues. the giants beat the dodgers. now the team is one step closer to eliminating l.a. highlights and fan reaction ahead for you this morning. this is "today in the bay."

josh, thank you so much my friend. >>> let's go to breaking news in houston in the vein of what we've been talking. a gunman ambushed three harris county deputies, killing one, wounding the others. the deputies were trying to apprehend a robbery suspect outside a nightclub. that's when it's believed another man with a rifle approached them from behind and opened fire. houston police took one person into custody. unclear if that person is a suspect or a witness. >>> let's go to the day's other major headlines. first up, what could be a critical development for president biden's social spending package that's being negotiated in congress. multiple sources tell nbc news, the clean energy performance program, which is a linchpin of the president's proposed climate change legislation, is likely to be dropped from the democrat's spending bill due to opposition from moderate senator joe manchin. last hour house budget committee chair john yarmuth getting his reaction here on the show. >> it's a shame that we would have to strike the climate policy initiatives out of this package, but we have to get 50 votes. >>> meanwhile, the u.s. is

josh, welcome. the who white house -- is it confident the congress can move his economic agenda forward? >> publicly it is possible all the way. we heard the vice president kamala harrising they are confident they will make a deal. and nancy pelosi said they are 90% of the way toward resolving all of the lingering issues. 90% of a deal is not a deal as we have seen from the deadlines that have been missed so far. this is a rubic's cube. there are disagreements what they should spend the money on and to pay for it. once you start messing with one side of the equation you have to mess with the other side of the equation. in the midst, democrats are having to make difficult choices about some of the priorities you can see on the screen right now that are not going to make it in this bill because of the smaller size. including free community college, a major priority for democrats. it will not be in there, from what we understand. the expanded medicare likely to go and the paid medical leave shrinking from 12 weeks to four weeks. white house press secretary january psaki reacted to these things getting pared town. >> the president's belief as you heard him say last night