it started in late may at a homeless encampment at marsh creek road and walnut boulevard in pittsburgh. it burned more than 500 acres cause smoky skies and really bad air. quality fire officials and the property owner put out those flames in mid july. but according to the chronicle, it started burning again in september. the property owner is closely watching it. firefighters may be sent out if needed. air quality is in the acceptable range. right now, county health officials are watching that and say they'll alert residents if things change. time now is 708. and right now we're going to start in the east bay because a lot of that traffic is going to be slow , some because of earlier issues others because just as the monday morning commute, the bay bridge is in that latter category. it's just going to be slow as it normally is. approaching the bay bridge toll plaza interstate 8 80 the same thing now the sonoma grade had some earlier issues. there was a crash. chalcidice rode the same thing. those prices are gone, but traffic is very slow and during the time when the crash was active. w

the marsh fire started in late may at a homeless encampment and marsh creek road and wanna boulevardtsburgh. the fire burned more than 500 acres, cost, smoky skies and unhealthy air. fire officials and the property owner put out the flames in mid july. but according to the chronicle, the fire began burning again in september. the property owners monitoring the fire, and crews will be sent out if needed their qualities in the acceptable range right now in county health leaders say that monitoring the situation and will alert residents if conditions change over the weekend, governor gavin newsom praised new legislation encouraging california to install drought tolerant landscaping assembly bill 21 42 enhances the value of rebates for installing drought tolerant landscaping by exempting them from being text. governor newsom says the legislation alliance these rebates with other permanent water efficiency and energy conservation rebates. water districts are already offering rebate programs for lawn replacement. and now with this bill, or reinstating a personal tax exemption for those reb

the marsh fire started in late may at a homeless encampment at march creek road and walnut boulevard in pittsburgh. now the fire burned more than 500 acres in caused smoky skies and unhealthy air quality levels. fire officials in the property owner put out the flames in mid july. but according to the chronicle, the fire began burning yesterday. the property owner is monitoring the fire. fire crews will be sent out if needed. air quality is in the acceptable range at this point, and county health officials are monitoring the situation. they say they will alert residents if those conditions change time. now for 13, we're getting more reports of dogs being poisoned in the south bay after we told you about a similar case just last week in san jose, reports from a veterinary clinic that two more dogs act two deadly eight the drug methamphetamine while out on the what now, while let's say this is not a new trend, they say in recent months , reports a growing about more dogs eating drugs. normally they're just a handful of cases a year. but now doctors are saying one or two cases a month ,

antioch all the way to concord and we're looking at vasco road still at speed. marsh creek down to 580. the slowing typical out of the altamont pass. back up to speed just before -- just after you get to grant line road. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> a lot of bling and a lot of smiles at chase center as the world champion warriors receive those championship rings. >> showing off the bling. they got a win in their season opener defeating rival l.a. lakers. "today in the bay's" cheryl hurd reports dub nation packed the chase center for the celebration. >> klay thompson! steph curry! >> reporter: the four players who brought four championships to the franchise, stephen curry, andre iguodala, klay thompson, posted with their new championship bling. >> it's awesome. history. for them to win another championship says a lot. bringing another ring to the bay, awesome. >> reporter: it was all about the warriors' home opener and the ring ceremony. >> this is a long journey. >> reporter: but stephen curry sharing the spotlight with wnba star brittney griner who is celebrating her

vasco road slows more here through marsh creek down into 580. that major commute is over half an hour now. back to you. >> yellow is better than the red. thanks, mike. >>> 6:21 right now. coming up next on "today in the bay," nbc bay area responds. >> reporter: if you have student loan debt, you might be able to erase as much as $20,000 of it. if you apply. i'm consumer iestigator chris nv >>> 6:23 right now. if you have student loans, the door for forgiveness may finally be open. you may be able to get up to $20,000 wiped clean. >> that sounds like a good thing for a lot of students or graduates. the federal government's application just launched. chris chmura shows us how to apply. >> reporter: the feds don't usually make things easy. luckily uncle sam made the student loan forgiveness application pretty simple. the education department says it only takes five minutes. we did it and that checks out. first, and this might be the hardest part, find your tax return from 2021 or 2020. next, go to studentaid.gov carefully this is what the real home

road northbound. no major issues going on there. no major slowing. we're at 16 minutes, 17 minutes from marsh creek down to 580.t is the bulk of the commute out of contra costa. a smooth flow for altamont pass. windmill farms, of course. the north bay and contra costa county looks great over to the bay bridge. the toll plaza itself very light traffic. you can clearly see emeryville there and, kari, we had a lot of low clouds showing up today. >>> we are seeing that as we head through the tri-valley with clear visibility with this live look in dublin checking out 580. visibility down to a quarter of a mile in parts of the north bay. moving from gilroy into the south bay our temperature starts out at about 50 degrees. it's a cool start and is foggy around the area. the sky will be clearing and it will shape up to be another really nice day. take a look at our high temperature for this afternoon. san jose reaching 80 degrees and 88 in morgan hill. milpitas 81 degrees. for walnut creek, 89. we compared that to the low 70s in oakland and low 60s for half moon bay. daly city, 76 degrees. we'll see temperatures mostly

road. >> vasco is a critical connector. notice the build around marsh creekthe top of the map as we come closer. you see the speed sensors have been turned off for a section and i think that may still be the issue southbound commute direction may have lanes blocked because of debris from a crash on the northbound side. so that is an issue. there's not a good alternate. there's a crash near harbor and maybe out of the lanes by now. there's more slowing and more build heading into concord. we'll track that critical connector on vasco road. back to you. >> thank you, mike. 5:32. bay area cities are among the safest and riskiest places to live in the country according to a new ranking released this morning. >> "today in the bay's" ginger conejero saab breaks it down for us. ginger, where do our bay area cities rank? >> reporter: good morning, kris and laura. two bay area cities find themselves on opposite ends of the spectrum. we'll talk about the first one, a little bit of good news for fremont. it ranked among the safest among california cities as a 17th safest

marsh creek down to 580. all that slowing getting to 580. the south bay a smooth flow. now the pattern for 101 and 87 both slow around capital expressway, slowing again up to oakland road. airport and now, there we go, kicking off for 237, 101 into sunnyvale and up into palo alto. back to you. >>> happening now a source tells "pro football talk's" mike florio a possible suspension for davante adams for pushing a photographer to the ground. adams has since apologized. but the photographer has now filed a police report claiming he was injured. the raiders have a bye this week. they play again on october 23rd. >>> next, a quick look at our top stories including a violent altercation in the south bay and one of the people injured was found nowtogether. >>> plus, draymond green set to return to the court as the team tries to move on from his infamous punch of teammate jordan poole. we'll show you what warriors head coach steve kerr >>> welcome back. we're moving you forward with a look at the top stories here on "today in the bay." police in milpitas investigating a violent stabbing. we have a live look at where it happened in an apartment complex on murphy ranch road. a lit

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 fron