sam brock, nbc news. >>> well now to decision 2020. former vice president and presidential hopeful joe biden will visit the bay area this week. he'll attend two campaign fundraisers thursday. one in palo alto and another in san francisco. tickets will cost between $1,000 and $3,000. his wife spent the weekend fundraising here in the bay area making stops in sonoma and fremont. >>> americans apparently not as ready as they should be for the new real i.d. program next fall. that is the findings ever a new travel industry survey finding that 57% of americans were unaware of the real i.d. requirement. seven out of ten think their kushts i.d. is complaint and 40% don't have a passport or alternative form of identification that would also be acceptable to get through airport security. >> i already hate this picture. >> do you have a passport? >> no, i don't. >> so you still have a year. >> i have a year. >> my birthday is in february. >> so you get to go to the dmv. >> oh, yeah. >> good luck. >> it is a process. we all have to go through it

here is nbc's sam brock. >> reporter: good morning. when this happened a few weeks ago, the 911 call from a 10-year-old boy was enough to raise alarm bells for parents, but now bus cam video which came through a public records request paint at whole new picture of the >> reporter: for the first stunning video coming to light of elementary students shrieking with terror earlier this month as their washington state school bus driver, allegedly drunk at erratically.>> am crazy. i am totally crazy i am so fun crazy. because i love rides. >> she was drunk, because she passed three red light, and she got on side roads. >> reporter: a 10-year-old boy on that bus phoned 911 once he got home >> as a system, this should not have happened. >> reporter: the long view school district now promising to screen drivers before they get behind the wheel >> yeah, yeah! >> reporter: 48-year-old katherine macarone ran two routes, one with high schoolers, and then another with elementary students, in total up to 90 kids even continuing her rants to an empty

nbc's sam brock has the story. >> oh, no, no!t time stunning video coming to life of elementary students sleeking with terror earlier this month as their washington state school bus driver allegedly drunk at the time rambles and drives erratically. >> i am crazy. i'm totally crazy. i'm so fun crazy. because i love life! >> she was drunk because she passed three red lights and she got on side roads. >> reporter: a 10-year-old boy on that bus phoned 911 once he got home. >> as a system, this should not have happened. >> reporter: the longview school district now promising to screen drivers before they get behind the wheel. >> yeah! yeah! >> reporter: 48-year-old katherine ran two routes, one with high schoolers and then another with elementary students. in total, up to 90 kids. even continuing her rants to an empty bus. >> my marriage sucks. >> reporter: before dispatch forced her to the side of the road. according to the police report, her blood alcohol level more than double the legal limit for a bus driver. and she advised deput

here's nbc's sam brock >> reporter: good morning.s happened, the 911 call from a 10-year-old boy was enough to raise an alarm bell for parents. now, bus cam video, which came through a records request, paints a new picture of a hair-raising ride. >> oh, no, no, no! >> reporter: for the first time, stunning video m cooing to life of elementary school students sleeking with terror as their washington state school bus driver, allegedl the time, rambles and drives erratically. >> i am crazy. i'm totally crazy. i love life >> she was drunk because she passed three redt onide roads. >> reporter: a 10-year-old boy on that bus phoned 911 when he got home >> this should not have happened >> reporter: the longview school district promising to screen drivers before they get behind the wheel. >> yeah. yeah catherine maccarone ran two routes, one with high schoolers and the other elementary students 90 kids. even ranting to an empty bus before dispatch forced her to the side of the road according to the police report her blood alcohol level more

. >> reporter: >> a complete transformation from darkness into light sam brock, nbc news. >> if you haven'tate some birthdays today. bruce springsteen is 70 years old, mary kay is 7 >>> and good monday morning to you, september 23rd. let's take a look outside. here we are in oakland, a little hazy shot there for us this morning. it is the first official day of fall but it's not going to feel like it especially in some spots tomorrow. good morning to you. thanks so much for joining uts.s. i'm marcus washington. laura will be with us in the next half hour. kari i'm holding on to spring, bringing it in. >> yes. it is going to be really hot the next couple of days and it's going to raise some other concerns as we go into especially tonight into tomorrow. let's get a live look in dublin as you get ready to head out the temperatures starting out cool upper 50s our highs

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washington state behaving erratically behind the wheel of a bus full of terrified children nbc's sam brock morning. >> reporter: craig, good morning, you know, this is such a scary thought for parents even scarier after you see this video. that driver had multiple routes that day, first it was high schoolers, then elementary students now, one student on that route says that she ran three red lights, making it somewhat miraculous that nobody was injured. the shrieks speak for themselves this washington state school bus driver ranting to roosevelt elementary students at one point talking to herself on an empty bus. >> you know why i'm doing this, because my marriage sucks. >> reporter: a 10-year-old boy calling 911 after he got home. >> she's like wobbling and then her eyes, you can tell, she was drunk. >> reporter: did she smell of alcohol? >> yeah, her breath sort of smells like alcohol. >> reporter: according to a police report, 48-year-old catherine maccarone took a preliminary breath test registering a blood alcohol level double the legal limit for bus drivers. she denied drinking that

sam brock, good morning and welcome. >> sheinelle. good morning. thank you very much.re is no disagreement over the facts here. felicity huffman acknowledges cheating on behalf of her daughter paying for higher test scores but huffman is asking for leniency on jail time, nonethele nonetheless, something prosecutors don't want to budge on. >> felicity huffman is facing jail time behind bars. prosecutors are saying she spend a month in jail and pay a $20,000 fine calling her conduct, quote, deliberate and manifestly criminal. prosecutors say neither probation nor home confinement in a large home in the hollywood hills with an infinity pool would constitute meaningful punishment. >> hey, guys. whatcha doing? >> the former desperate housewives mainstay now desperate to avoid jail expressing her regret for paying $15,000 to have a proctor prop up her daughter's s.a.t. score by as much as 400 points telling a judge, in my desperation to be a good mother i talked myself into believing that all i was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot. i see the irony in that statement n

i know firsthand just how tall sam brock is, having sat next to him for years here on "today in the bay now gadi schwartz knows as well, down in l.a., poses sam against a trick wall designed to make movie stars look tailer. sam is nbc's newest network correspondent. >> he's doing a great job. >> we wish him well. i saw him recently, he's doing great. happy for him. >>> tickets go on sale for oprah winfrey's first tour in five years. >> coming to the chase center, announcing the dates for her wellness tour, share her experiences with health and wellness. >> we're calling it 2020 vision, your life in focus. i've had my share of lives ups and downs and help you write the next chapter of your own journey. so put your life in focus and become the best version of you. >> each stop will include special guests. the event is in february. 5:57, we're hearing from ranchers in california who have a beef with the burger trend. >> more fast food chains sign on, revenues for plant-based meat relatively small, $240 million this year, compared to the national beef herd worth $67 billion. the meat indust

here is part of a report from nbc's sam brock. >> reporter: the former desperate housewives mainstayperate to avoid jail, expressing her regret for paying $15,000 to have a proctor prop up her daughter's s.a.t. score by as much as 400 points. telling a judge in my desperation to be a good mother i talked myself into believing that all i was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot. i see the irony in that statement now because what i have done is the opposite of fair. >> joining me now is msnbc legal contributor katie fang and criminal defense attorney ashley merchant. good morning. >> good morning. >> how likely is it that huffman actually serves jail time here, the first person sentenced in this scheme was a sailing coach from stanford, they only spent a day in jail. >> it's a good question because you want to feel like there's going to be some consequence with you you pay to play. so in terms of the justice system, you always want to believe that there's equity there, that justice is going to be meted out to those that have money, to those that don't have money. theres a concept c