one flood does far more damage than that. >> that was greg bledsoe reporting. can watch more stories like this on nbc lx on lx.com or on xfinity channel 185. you can also watch over the air on channel 11-5. >>> heading to the wild, wild west. still ahead on "today in the bay," "quantum leap" dropping into a new time period. a sneak peek of what you can expect in the next episode. >>> a meal kit company will soon say good-bye to its east bay production facility. hello fresh will close its richmond plant on december 11th according to a letter sent to the california employment development. more than 600 employees will be laid off as part of that move. the german-based company told the san francisco gates the lease in richmond was set to expire next year and leaders decided to close the location after an extensive analy >>> good news if you are a fan of nbc's "quantum leap." the network announced it picked up the series for another full season. marcus said he loved it when he was a kid. i don't know if he's seen it yet. >> i hope so. >> tonight's new episode showca

here is greg bledsoe. >> these mushy waters lined the coast of california. there are important. they protect us from flooding and erosion. but right now, we are facing that all of this could one day disappear. the campus extends all the way down there. >> we are basically on the edge of silicon valley. >> reporter: home to some of the most valuable companies in the worl right across the street from some of california's most vulnerable land. >> i do not want to see us lose our coastal marshes. the more we study them, the more important we realize this is for protecting our coast. i'm a professor of geography. you know, they provide sort of a barrier between storm surges and title surges. marshes are often thought of as a sponge. they observed that force and slow it down and diffuse it. they protect our roads, our communities. everything. here is the problem. what if the entire sponge were underwater? global sea level is rising. it's accelerating. that threatens to drown these vegetated coastal wetlands. >> of these disappear someday? >> we did a study with the u.s. geological sur