. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. marcus washington has the day off. we'll get a check of your weather in a second. >> let's take a look at maps and overall contra costa county looks pretty good. yellow arrow is one of the things we're pointing at north 680 at red gear road a crash just came in to chp. no real problem. you see more slowing on 24 eastbound that's traditionally what we see outside the caldecott. that is not a problem. this is the problem for drivers coming off the east shore freeway and the carquinez bridge. lot of slowing as folks come here and off of that san rafael to richmond bridge as we're looking at the focus of the construction zone around gilman. looks like things started to pick up because the speed sensors are improving and supposed to pick up around 5:00 anyway. the rest of the bay a smooth flow of traffic, no major problems. slowing on 17. there are no crews headed to the summit. it's a slower read because we have no problems. we have low cloud cover in the north bay but drivers seem to be fine. what do you have for us? >> i

i'm scott mcgrew. i had to take apart the family room the other day in preparation for a little home remodeling and started unhooking our home internet router and i was struck how many things use wi-fi. computers, two laptops, one desktop, but two ipads, three iphones, two televisions, we have a roku and apple tv and xbox, security cameras, we have the home security system, the solar panels and alexa and a google home. that is in the laundry room. all of them using wi-fi, all running through a net gear router. i thought, let's talk to the founder of netgear, patrick lowe, what may be the most important thing in the house. patrick is ceo of netgear and an electrical engineer joined by jennifer elias of the business journal, mark million of bloomberg. it is -- have i missed anything? i think i listed every wi-fi. what else hooks to wi-fi that you're aware of? >> ip camera. >> door locks at this point. i think there are a couple ovens these days as well. tell me about the demand for bandwidth? have we got

. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. marcus washington has the day off. we'll get a check of your weather in a

. >>> later analysis of all the news out of washington, scott mcgrew has your checks and balances, coming up at 5:45. of course you can also follow him on twitter and facebook. >>> right now we continue to track the snell fire burning in the napa county. evacuations remain in place for people living in the berryessa estates. the fire broke out saturday afternoon. so far, more than 2,400 acres have burned. cal fire says it's 20% contained and the flames are threatening almost 200 homes. but so far, no homes nor structures have burned. one couple we spoke with chose not to evacuate. last night, they sprayed down their home as that fire burned within yards from their neighborhood. >> we lost our house in the valley fire, and we didn't want to do that again so we've been through that once and that was it. we're going to stay and protect our house. >> nearly 500 firefighters including a crew from san mateo are on those front lines. >>> right now we want to brings in meteorologist kari hall to get a look at the weather because a lot of times the weather can fight against what firefighters are t

. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. marcus has the day off today. we'll get a check of why you are weather in a second. let's check with mike and traffic to get you out the door. >> we'll give folks a local look. our roadways and as you expect most of the bay is smooth but not here. look at that flashing lights across that san mateo bridge over on thees, that's why slowing as we saw flashing lights appear, both vehicles are over on the service area. the lanes are clear but the flashing lights distracted me and you and distracting drivers. that's why there's a slower drive. hayward toward the end of the flat section midway the flashing lights and a little slowing at the incline as well because that's what happened, as folks make that climb up the hill. the dumbarton bridge sees more traffic flow, slowing from fremont through newark and the east bay, facebook a band mark over there, nice light drive through palo alto. the south bay shows a little build as well and i want to show you the quick look at the golden gate bridge, lower clouds hovering aroun

scott mcgrew.. a long list of denials.coats nielsen mattis mulvaney carson mnuchin ..just a few of the people who said it wasn )t me. none of those people will admit to writing the op/ed that questioned whether the president was competant.. and revealed his white house staff was actively working to undermine some of his more irrational orders. donald trump was in montana last night.. at a rather subdued rally by trump standards. he addressed the new york times issue.. calling the author a coward.. and saying.. he feels perfectly competant. the president also said he would not shut down the government at the end of the month.. in order to get his wall. part of the danger of trying to figure out who wrote the op/ed is we then dont ) take tie to consider how serious the charges in the op/ed are. a senior white house official says the cabinet has at least considered the president is not fit to lead.. and his staff is undermining him to protect the country. the other problem with asking officials if they wrote it.. is of course

i )m scott mcgrew in for marcus washington. and i )m laura garcia. as kerry has mentioned.s morning the carolinas continue to take a beating from hurricane florence.. the storm may have lost a bit of intensity ... but it is still delivering quite a punch, as it moves over land. is storm is soasrequired a wide capture it from space. these photos are from the international space station. pical ea of trond storm surge watches and warnings cover about 450 miles of coastline. the ter has already washed over roadways.. and is starting to swallow communities all along the coast. officials are warning people that the severe conditions are just begining. hundreds of thousands have lost power in north carolina alone.. and that number is expected to grow.. stay with nbc bay area for hurricane coverage through the morning. developing right now: some people who escaped from their homes .. say it felt like armageddon: dozens of those homes are now destroyed after a series of gas explosions in massachusetts. at least one person has died. 20 more people are injured .. after blasts that roc

scott mcgrew has your checks and balances at 6:45 and follow him on twitter and facebook. >>> happening today, guess who is coming back to the bright lights in oakland? we are talking of course about the return of raiders head coach jon gruden. live look at the coliseum, quiet now, but in just a few hours it will be rocking. the raiders host the l.a. rams on monday night football. for gruden, this marks the official return to raider nation, 17 years since he last plowed the sidelines for the silver and black. kickoff scheduled for 7:20. >>> we have clear skies, cool temperature this is mornis this fremont. that's a live look, as we get a look at our temperatures, we'll be at 61 degrees at 10:00 and heading into the upper 70s today, 79 degrees at 4:00, very nice and comfortable there and san jose expect a high of 80 degrees and some upper 80s for the tri valley, up toward the delta as well as much of the north bay. ukiah today 88 degrees. in palo alto expect a high of 75 and 87 in morgan hill. our temperatures will be comfortable today and getting even nicer toward the middle of the week

scott mcgrew is watching the hearings. scott, democrats saying there's too many things they don't know. >> not enough time. democrats voiced objections very early as the hearings began this morning. >> mr. chairman? >> to serve as associate -- >> mr. chairman, i would like to be recognized for a question before we proceed. mr. chairman, to ask a question before we proceed. the committee received just last night less than 15 hours ago -- >> regular order. >> documents that we have not had an opportunity to review or read or analyze. >> you are out of order. i'll proceed. >> we cannot possibly move forward, mr. chairman. >> i extend a very warm welcome -- >> not given an opportunity to have a meaningful -- >> so that was earlier this morning. now a live picture happening right now. that's kavanaugh listening to a question. about 45,000 pages of documents from kavanaugh's career were released to senators last night. as you heard kamala harris say, not enough time. >> we have not had a chance to look at the documents. they dump

scott mcgrew has the very latest. anchor.. as you know.. senate judiciary chairman "chuck grassley" had invited both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh to testify.. under oath.. at a higial hearing on monday about school party. where.. ford says.. she was assualted. k. heavauays he was never at the party at all. but the allegation.. by a credible college professor.. has put kavanaugh )s nomination in serious doubt. grassley was sure putting them both under oath.. would give senators the information they needed to make an informed decision about who to believe.. but that )s not to be. ford says she wants an fbi investigation first. president trump could do that. it )s been done before. the fbi investigated anita hill )s claims she had been sexually harassed by it has been done before. the fbi investigated anita that sexually h sexuallyly harassed by coll cla thomas. the fbi know brett kavanaugh very well. they have investigated him several times and this hearing. if she shows up and makes a credible showing, that'll be very addressed and we'll hav

. >> scott mcgrew has been watching. cory booker said he is willing to be thrown out of the senate for this. >> not just the committee, the entire senate. at issue are e-mails the head of the committee, iowa senator had labelled committee confidential. they are e-mails to and from brett kavanagh turned over to the committee as a normal part of the nomination process. some of the e-mails have to do with row v wade. he said he would release pages to the general public. you will hear two sound bytes. the first is booker announcing his plan. >> i will release the e-mail about racial profiling. i understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the senate. >> if the senator to suffer expulsion from a body and to dismissal and punishment for content. >> booker released the e-mails. you can read them yourself. you can read them on senator booker's website. a couple of things to know about the e-mails. there is nothing in them that are really shocking, probably nothing to a change of vote. the whole idea of a commit

scott mcgrew.. that hearing.. very low key. it was worth tuning into just to see very reasonable people asking very smart questions. absolutely no fireworks whatsoever as jack dorsey from twitter and sheryl sandberg from facebook answered questions from senators from both parties about how social networks can better protect themselves from foreign influence.. particularly the russians. notably absent was google. google )s ceo was invited to attend.. but declined. he may have missed an opportunity. you )ll see the senate set up three chairs.. three microphones.. and even a nameplate that just said "google".. but no google. the hearing was remarkable for the bi-partisanship.. both sides trying to come up with answers.. including the senators themselves. here )s republican senator susan collins suggesting if twitter kicks people off the service.. instead of just showing the account has been suspended.. it should do a better job of explaining why. another idea - that came from a senator - is if you figure out an account is russian

scott mcgrew continues our coverage. >> reporter: good morning. it's a claim delivered without evidence. here it is. it's a long tweet. 3,000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit puerto rico. when i left the island after the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. as time went by it did not go up by month, then a long time later they started to report really large numbers like 3,000. this was done by the democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when i was successfully raising billions of dollars to help rebuild puerto rico. if a person died for any reason like old age, just add them on to the list. bad politics. i love puerto rico. as with many of the president's claims, there are truths and untruths. he's right. few people were killed by the hurricane itself in puerto rico, but obviously that's only part of the story. the number of people who died after the storm from all kinds of things, like lack of medicine or electrocution or disease has been estimated by experts from george washington university as nea

. >> scott mcgrew, tariffs, u.s. supreme court nominee in doubt and the russia investigation. >> it's not even 10:00 a.m. in shinon. ju after president trump annou is a full scale tra. this is file video of presidents trump and xi in happier times. in a tweet this morning trump accused china of interfering in the upcoming elections by using tariffs to target voters who support him. >>> and a major change in the russian investigation as well. president trump has ordered the release of classified documents in that investigation. including more of the fisa warrant against trump campaign aide carter page and the text messages from top fbi officials including fbi director james comey. this is extremely unusual. >>> and then of course there's brett kavanaugh, pa low alto university professor christine blasely ford who accuses kavanaugh of attacking her back in the 1980s has been invited to testify in front of the senate ju dash area committee on monday. kavanaugh has already been invited to tough. chuck grassley says brett

i'm scott mcgrew. marcus has the day off. >> and i'm laura garcia. happening now in marin county the update on the future of the long-time ferry line in the bay area, the angel island ferry, has been around for generations and a potential bidding war to operate that line threatened to hurt its bottom line. nbc bay area's pete suratos joins us live from tiburon where a news conference has been under way. what are people saying at this hour, pete? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. the congress will be under way any moment now, looks like they're running a little behind schedule but i did speak to the owner beforehand and they're telling me they're going to be getting some good news as far as when it comes to this bidding process as the state parks department has decided to put a hold on the bid at least for the moment. so that's good news for the angel island ferry. at least moving forward. now, remember just last year there was a request for proposals for a new operator. there was this bidding proposal war i guess you could say going on and the

scott mcgrew, that book went on sale today. >> it did and went right to the top of the charts.ing. best-seller. the publisher says it's printed 1 million copies of "fear." video overnight in washington, d.c., at a bookstore there that stayed open past midnight so it could be one of the first to sell the new book. the white house has been working hard to raise doubts about the book's accuracy. here's the president late last week. >> well, if you look at bob woodward's track record, he had the same problem with obama. excuse me, ready? >> sure. >> he had the same problem with president obama. he had a tremendous problem with president bush. every time he wrote a book, they were complaining about it. they were complaining about the lack of accuracy. and i understand him. and that's what he does. and i fully understood that before. in the end, i'm very happy with the way it turned out, because i think the book has been totally discredited. >> reporter: the book has not been totally discredited. woodward is a two-time pulitzer prize winner who helped bring down richard nixon. he's f

. >> scott mcgrew, that sounds like a lot of money. >> yeah, i certainly think a billion dollars is a lot of money. but the money raised in the initial public offering wasn't as much as the company had hoped. neo wants to make two cars. this very sexy sports car, and an suv, which costs about $60,000. far less than tesla's suv. neo is based in china, but employs about 500 people in san jose. and is looking to hire more than 100 more. the company's american operations are run by warrior, a cisco executive, very well thought of, also on the board at microsoft. they're going to have to compete against all the other car companies out there looking for engineers. ford and tesla and even apple have snapped up some of the best already. and it's going to have to compete with lots of electric cars due to hit the market. now, tesla is the obvious one, but remember, all of the traditional manufacturers, bmw, ford, chevy, nissan, all have electric cars. though not with the range that tesla does. and then there are other companies who have to yet prove themselves. i think neo fits in this category

. >> scott mcgrew, that "new york times" op-ed caused pandemonium in the white house. >> it's reallythis is. we have seen some in the media call this a critical op-ed of the president or saying it skewers the president. it's far bigger than that. the article written by an unnamed senior official to the president says his own cabinet has talked about invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president as unfit. and that his senior staff, his most trusted officials, are working at times to do the direct opposite of what the president orders. i could read you the selections from it, but the whole thing is so shocking, i don't know where you would stop or start. it's probably the easiest thing to find on the internet right now. i urge you to read it inin entirety. the writer whose name is known to "the new york times" but not to us says the white house staff works not as a deep state but as a steady state, keeping america out of disaster. after trump read the op-ed, he tweeted out a single word -- treason. now, while the legal definition of treason is helping a country's enemy, the presi

scott mcgrew you said you thought this would happen. >> yes on tuesday's newscast.he showdown between dr. clis teen blasey ford and kavanaugh might not happen. dr. ford accused kavanaugh of attacking her in the bed room when the two were teenagers. she now wants the fbi to investigate that claim before she testifies to the senate judiciary. this creates a conflict for senate republicans. do they accept that and continue to postpone the vote or go ahead and vote on kavanaugh. that vote could come as soon as wednesday. now the fbi doesn't generally investigate claims of sexual assault because generally speaking it doesn't involve federal law and background checks which they do on nom fins are not the same as criminal investigations. t than the fbi, john, said they background checks over the years, as judge kavanaugh has gone beautifully up the ladder. >> that said, the fbi did investigate anita hill's claims against clarence thomas back in the early '90s, at the request of then president george h.w. bush, and president trump can do the same. that investigation lasted

. >> scott mcgrew, this is not president trump's first weather emergency during his time in the whites right, harvey flooded houston, maria with puerto rico. the president spoke from the oval office on tuesday. the federal government he says is ready to help but people in the hurricane zone need to get out. >> it's tremendously big and tremendously wet, tremendous amounts of water. >> kari hall is monitoring the satellites and radar. much more coverage on the effort to get out ahead on the "today" show. now the storm comes as new poll numbers show support for mr. trump continues to fade, dipping below 40% and in two new polls. you can be sure the white house is well aware of how president george w. bush's poor response to hurricane katrina affected his numbers. you're doing a great job, brownie, he said to his fema director, who quit ten days later. president trump gave himself an a-plus for the responses to the hurricanes that hit texas, and florida and said the fed's efforts in puerto rico were underappreciated and said puerto rico is an inaccessible island with poor electricity and

. >> scott mcgrew, america is preparing for air strikes in syria if they're needed. >> that's right,arkets have made the same warning. the russians and assad's government are bombing the last rebel stronghold in syria, and millions of civilians are at risk. the three allies, u.s., uk and france warning if chemical weapons are used, we will attack. this is video here of russian air strikes using conventional weapons. and then there's north korea. nbc news has reported the north koreans are building new nuclear bombs, but the white house says it's pleased with kim's progress toward denuclearization citing the recent celebration in north korea where long-range missiles were notably absent from the parade and a new leadtter from m jong-un to president trump. the white house held its first daily briefing in weeks. sarah huckabee sanders was asked other than the parade and the letter, what evidence do we have the north koreans are doing anything toward peace? you can hear the reporter ask that, then sanders' response. other than the parade and the letters. >> reporter: so other than the re

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i'm scott mcgrew.le you were sleeping, workers in san francisco removed the controversial early days statue. the statue once stood as the civic center plaza. we told you about it yesterday. the board of supervisors changed their mind and voted to remove it. showed a native sitting on the ground with a commission viqueiro standing over him. the statue is going into storage, city leaders say. >>> nice weather across the bay area, enjoying sunshine, a live look over san jose, and our temperatures starting out cool with some low 50s. we're heading up to 75 degrees today. we'll be up to 78 in antioch and in napa today 75. oakland 70 degrees and 65 degrees in san francisco. our inland valleys continue on with some cooler than normal weather going into the weekend, especially tomorrow, reaching 73 degrees, up to 77 on sunday, and next week we'll see still the continuation of some seasonably cool weather. san francisco clouds and fog and clearing for the afternoon. high also reach into the mid-60s through at l

i'm scott mcgrew. a shooting investigation on interstate 580 in castro valley.ngers in one car fired at another car. that car has bullet holes in it. nobody hurt. the freeway was shut down bri briefly as the chp looked for evidence. happening now, catholic church sexual abuse survivors from the bay area are headed to sacramento. they want california's attorney general to launch a state-wide probe into the alleged abuse. similar to one recently concluded in pennsylvania. survivors -- members of the survivor's network of those abused by priests say the number of priests accused of harming children is far higher than currently reported. >>> and happening today at stanford, students are set to join doctors, nurses and first responders at a noon rally as part of a nationwide anti-gun protest. it's the first national event for the group called safe. similar rallies are scheduled for hospitals across the country. we're going to have more local weather coming up in an hour. in the meantime, check out nbcbayarea.com. morning on today. the latest breaking news coverage fr