i'm scott mcgrew. i post to facebook but it's mostly really kind of bland stuff because i have one of those pages they assign to people ob television, a brand, not a person. very few pictures of my kids and a lot of just newsy sort of things. honestly, it's kind of vanilla pudding. but take a look at what facebook thinks it knows about me. these are accounts facebook's algorithm thinks i would be interested in. i highlighted suggestions in fellow there. a photoshop criticism of the president, a fake travel ad suggesting liberals should love or leave america, and an account that criticizes the mainstream media. the last i checked, i am the mainstream media, and facebook wants me to follow an account that hates me. now, don't take it from me. as you know, a former facebook employee says this is all true too, facebook feeds you divisive content intentionally. frances haugen also turned over documents showing current facebook employees at facebook, it's harmful. our professor of law and computer science at

want to bring in scott mcgrew. a book end has caused quite the head scratching here. not even the name change. >> book end. people heard that right. like to prop up books. i have some lovely polished stones on my bookcase. take a look what mark zuckerberg uses. this was part of a video announcement he was making about the latest efforts at facebook. and the name change. he's hiding it, but he'll move away in a second. it's a bottle of barbecue sauce. garcia points out it's sweet baby ray's. why does the ceo of facebook use barbecue sauce to hold up books? that's the mystery. as part of the same announcement he said the umbrella company over all of facebook's properties, instagram and oculus will change its name to meta. also a lot of people noting that book end as well on there. now this is part of their virtual reality where you'll be able to meet together with friends. it refers to the metaverse, something mark zuckerberg has said he wanted to work on for some time. meet with friends, go to concerts, bars, all in virtual reality. >> i was looking at my phone and jus

let's bring in scott mcgrew. lawmakers were not impressed with the outage. >> mark zuckerberg himself lost around $6 billion yesterday. yesterday was a tough day for tech stocks, in general. >> what is facebook's biggest challenge moving ahead? is it the congressional hearing? >> no, they have been blasted in front of congress before, a lot of times. i think it's two things. number one, spotify, open table, all those places you use to log in might want to start rethinking that, and as the bad guy of the tech work, cambridge analytical scandal, russian information, and false information of the election in 2020. that's a lot. tech companies already fight for employees in this economic situation. f your company. facebook has those recruits they will be working for good at a time when you have a former employee telling "60 minutes" they're not. >> certainly one to watch. interesting to see how today progresses as well. >> we'll be watching. >> thank you. >>> 5:06. breaking overnight, johnson & johnson asking for fda

. >> scott mcgrew joins us now. is tomorrow. >> yeah, the whistle-blower revealed herself on the news program "60 minutes" last night. immediately the people running a senate sub committee look into what facebook said, they said they want to talk to her as quickly as possible. this is the whistle-blower. she used to work at facebook and provide the "wall street journal" and securities and exchange commission with tens of thousands of internal facebook memos and slides. employees inside facebook were worried the impact facebook had on teenagers' mental health. facebook provided the slides to the senate sub committee but said the employees that wrote them were overstating the problem. hogan told "60 minutes" the algorithms provide divisive content because that's what drives the ads. >> facebook simply amplifies the worst of human nature. >> nobody at facebook is ma lev lunt, but facebook makes more money when you consume more content. the more anger they get exposed to, the more they interact and consume. >> facebook

. >>> coming up in our business and tech headlines, scott mcgrew will explain what caused the massive facebook outage earlier this week and if it could happen again. >>> new details this morning on the possible cause of the massive spill now threatening ocean life in southern california. a 13-inch split in the pipe now thought to be the source. nbc's magill almaguer has the latest from southern california. >> good morning. officials don't have a definitive cause for the oil spill, but they are looking at the possibility that an anchor from a ship punctured that line, and we learned new information about what happened in the aftermath after the leak was first reported. some say serious missteps were taken. coming up on the "today" show, we'll outline the timeline for what happened in the moments and hours and even the days after this oil spill and what officials say could have been done differently. i hope you guys can join us. >> we will be joining you, miguel. that's on the "today" show coming up right after "today in the bay" at 7:00. >>> bay area leaders may be getting closer to dr

i'm scott mcgrew. i have a printer here in my home office. my first guest has a home office in his printer. oakland based mighty homes prints out buildings like home offices using a giant 3d printer. it's sped up on video here. it usually takes 24 hours. by the time they're done and other materials are added like floors and lights, you get something that looks like this. they can be home offices or backyard yoga studios, small home for the mother-in-law, what the industry calls an adu, accessory dwelling unit. sam rubin is chief sustainability officer. thank you for joining us. what problem does this solve? wood and nails have put up houses for a couple of centuries. what problem are you solving? >> at mighty buildings, what we're doing is addressing the fact we don't have enough labor to build all of the housing we need. here in california we need 2.5 million new units to be on par with the rest of the country in terms of per capita housing. we're looking at the missing middle, firefighters, teachers, more and more can't afford to live there

. >> scott mcgrew following all the developments. what can you tell us about the facebook outage itself? >> very little. we know facebook went down. so did instagram and whatsapp. we don't know why. we understand facebook's own internal systems are affected, work tools, which sounds more suspicious it could be an outside force but we don't know. users reported not being able to log on. this affected anything whether you use a facebook log in, spotify and open table. facebook is well aware of the problem. they are working on it. a facebook whistleblower revealed herself on "60 minutes" last night. immediately the people running a senate subcommittee looking into facebook said they want to talk to her. she is used to work at facebook and provided "the wall street journal" and the securities and exchange commission with tens of thousands of internal facebook memos and slides showing employees were worried about the effect their facebook and instagram services have on teenagers and mental health. take a look. we showed you one of the sli

i'm scott mcgrew. lots of new industries have popped up to help solve the problems that covid has created. masks and gloves and zoom and hand sanitizers. but one of the most unique and expensive i've seen lately is something called covax global, covac as in covac evacuation. for a fee, covac promises to get you home if you get sick. ken mcilroy had to take advantage of that, on vacation to belize only to fall ill during the trip. you've got to get back into the united states. tell me about that adventure. >> you know, you think about i didn't really know whether i was going to get it or not get it. and we were going to belize and we were in the hotel. and you know, there could be a chance. and the last thing i wanted was to be in another country and be sick. obviously i had never had it before, and how sick are you going to be? well, i bought the insurance. and trying to get back to the u.s. and i became positive the day before. >> so, how does that process begin? obviously you call the insurance compa

scott mcgrew joins us with the details, live. >>> thanks for sticking around. apple holding a semi regular event to host new products. >> the event is going on. you were listening in the newsroom. >> this time around they're concentrating on computers. you may remember apple's used to be apple computers before the iphone. now they just call themselves apple. the second event in a month or two. apple music, the answer to spotify is cheaper, 5 bucks a month now and the ear pods, the ear buds will be third generation. >> spacial audio brings music to life with sounds that surround you to create something truly multidimensional. it's a whole new way to experience your favorite music. >> one of the apple engineers who says the new airpods allow the music and movie to use dolby's atmosphere so when you move your head the movie or television movie you're watching will move with you as if you're listening to it in a speaker in front of you. i still have my first generation airpods. good enough for me. >> you did mention how the rumors say the airpods won't have the tai

. ♪♪ >>> good morning everyone i'm scott mcgrew. recognize this object usb charger you probably have several of these in your junk drawer which is where this came from. the path from my junk drawer it went from a factory to a boat to a plane to amazon warehouse to my front doorstep in probably just took a couple of days to do most of that. when you think about it, it's really a miracle. and christopher mims has talked about it where he wrote a book. christopher you picked the usb charger as the object. you followed one of these things across the globe and the global economy. why did you pick a usb charger? >> you know, i picked a us brk charger kind of the trans cyst ser radio of the day if you think back in the '60s. it's kind of just the simplest technology that if you can produce that, you can produce a lot of an other things. where these treasures are made in vietnam and southeast asia, that's the place most smart phones are made, i pods, most of the gag it's we work on, especially work at home. they come from there not china be

scott mcgrew, thanks. >>> new at 11:00, people are returning to work in san jose after a suspicious package scare. it happened early this morning along zanker road not far from our nbc bay area studios. police received a call about a possible pipe bomb being spotted in the area about 7:30 this morning. buildings had to be evacuated as a precaution. the bomb squad was called in and determined the package did not contain explosive material and no one was hurt. >>> also new at 11:00, one person is dead after an early morning fire in oakland. it happened at a home near mills college along pierson street. a woman found inside the home was pronounced dead. the flames spread from the second floor of the building into the attic but firefighters were able to put it out. no word on the cause of that fire. >>> right now, several coastal communities in southern california still dealing with that fallout from the oil spill that began over the weekend. so that crude quickly moving down the coast and could soon stretch as far as mexico. this creating a potential ecological disaster. this comes as the firs

. >>> and then scott mcgrew joins us now.xas will have a tough time winning one fight. >> yeah, texas is out matched on this one. the weight of the law will likely fall on the side of the feds. texas's governor declared all vaccine mandates for coronavirus illegal, even mandates from private companies. the ban would resumebly include mandates set by the federal government, including texas-based american airlines and southwest, because those airlines carry mail and transport members of the armed services. the ban on vaccine requirements is a executive order. congress will vote on extending the debt ceiling today and we fully expect that will pass. republicans and democrats have agreed on a temporary extension. i said it before, but because people still get it wrong, including people in congress, it bears repeating. the debt ceiling deals with debt we already ran up, and it's not money we might spend in the future, and it's not money for biden's build back better. that's not even law yet. former president trump said we should d

. >>> and scott mcgrew will explain what caused the major facebook outage this week, and if it could happen again. >>> and then more on the possible cause of the massive oil spill now threatening ocean life in southern california. a 13-inch split in the pipe is thought to be the source. miguel almaguer has the latest. >> they are looking at the real possibility that a cargo ship's anchor could have punctured that gas line. we are hoping to have new details about that. and we are finding out about what happened in the aftermath when the leak was first reported. coming up on the "today" show, we will outline the timeline in the hours and days after the oil spill and what officials say could have been done differently. i hope you can join us. >> we will, miguel. thank you. miguel is at the scene of the oil spill, as you saw, and that's coming up at 7:00, right after "today in the bay." >>> bay area health leaders may be getting closer to dropping indoor mask mandates. >> all counties but solano require masks, and now there's criteria being looked at of when those masks can be dropped. o

. >>> and then scott mcgrew has the latest warning from treasury secretary, janet yellen. >> yeah, shelunge into recession if we do not pay our debt. this affects whether we pay our armed forces and affect the child credit payments you could be getting, and the entire u.s. economy is at risk. here's the president. >> raising the debt limit will come down to paying what we already oh, what has already been acquired. not anything new. it starts with a simple truth, the united states is a nation that pays its bills and always has. from its inception, we never have fault. >> whether you think the u.s. should spend more money than it has, and there are many americans that say it shouldn't, that's not relevant. democrats and republicans agreed to the money spent in part when trump was president. it's like paying your credit card payment, you already spent the money and you can't change it now. there are 13 days until disaster, and congress has not agreed to raising it. congress has not agreed to the two bills we talked about, the more than $3 trillion bill too big for some democrats. remembe

. >>> and then scott mcgrew, jen psaki, may have used her podium for political purposes? that's against the law. we have seen several white house secretaries do that repeatedly, and rules are rules. the hatch act, it bars them from being involved in political activity. psaki broke the rules when she affirmed president biden's support for the candidate running in virginia. during a previous inquiry by congress, top generals testified they advised the president to keep troops in afghanistan, but the president overruled them. biden later said he did not get that advice. general colin powell is weighing in on all of this, previously, of course. powell says, quote, afghanistan, you're never going to win. that's why i don't have any problem with us getting out of there. we can't go from 100,000 u.s. troops down to a few hundred and think that will prevail. later this evening, the house select committee will vote on whether to accuse trump adviser, steve bannon, of criminal contempt. the complaint will go to the justice department for action. i said it in the past, this is reall

. >>> scott mcgrew, president biden's plan to build back better -- >> yeah, you will remember two bills. the first is the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, and then you have the build back better bill, biden calls it. we thought there would be a house vote on this one yesterday but there was not. our reporters caught speaker nancy pelosi in the hall, and she's hard to hear because of the mask but said there will be a vote today. >> how disappointed that there was no vote, speaker pelosi? >> there will be a vote today. there will be a vote today. >> reporter: there will be a vote today? >> yeah. >> there will be a vote today. pelosi does not need any republicans to support the bill in the house, but she needs left wing democrats and she doesn't have their support even though they don't like the bill. they want to see a solution on this bill before they will vote for this one. and then there was a resolution to fund the government until december, and this is the participation trophy for the senate. it does nothing except for move the problem down a couple months. and then democrats want to

. >> scott mcgrew, they are deciding issues we thought were already decided. >> gun control and othery successful in moving the court to the right, so gun control supporters and abortion control advocates are concerned about what the court could do. the court made a decision back in 1973, roe v. wade, and usually once the high court decides something its extremely unprecedented to reverse itself. in that sense, the supreme court is like religion, not likely to reverse a decision. brown versus the board of education, that helped to integrate schools. that decision reversed in an earlier court decision in which the justices had the idea of separate but equal. brett kavanaugh tested positive for coronavirus even though he was vaccinated. he has not displayed any symptoms and the court says he's feeling fine. the other question over the next year is whether justice steven breyer will announce his retirement sometime. democrats currently control the senate, so that would be better done sooner than later. we'll have an update coming up at 6:45 on the issues. >>> 5:46 right now. we may learn

. >> scott mcgrew, that's in an effort to solve the big supply problems. >> yeah, a lot of merchandisealifornia, or already in a container on the port and not moving. early this morning the white house did announce a deal to keep the ports open 24/7, around the clock work to try and clear the cargo already there, and that will clear the way for more than 60 ships waiting offshore to start their process of docking so they could be unloaded. you could hear this coming. if you get one part of the supply chain moving 24 hours a day with overnight work, you need other parts of the supply chain to work 24/7, too. the containers go on trucks and trains but you need the trucks and trains to show up 24 hours a day. here's is a supply expert, hanna kaine. >> you have a real disaster. i call it whack-a-mole supply chains, because more things pop up, and you spent your entire day fixing the fix to the fix. >> fixing the fix to the fix. the house voted to fix temporarily the debt ceiling, and that goes to the white house for the president's signature. as you see on the vote, no republican voted to

. >> scott mcgrew, those mandates seem to work. >> not government mandates but corporate and organizational mandates, so schools saying you have to be vaccinated, companies like united airlines and fox news and nbc telling employees they have to be vaccinated. the president says those are working and they are nothing new. >> they have been around for decades. we have been living for these requirements throughout our lives. students, health care professionals, our troops, they are required to receive vaccinations from polio to measles to mumps and rubella, and the reason most people in america don't worry about polio, measles, mumps and rubella is because they have been vaccinated. >> the construction company here requires vaccinations for its employees, and he was joined by the illinois governor in the blue mask, and governor pritzker said all schools have to have mask mandates. now, 194,000 jobs were added to the economy in the month of september, and that's surprisingly low, especially since we know there are millions of job openings. there were far fewer government jobs that helped depre

. >>> scott mcgrew, we get our first look at a plan to make the supreme court larger. >> early word isresident biden appointed a special commission to look at expanding the court. the constitution doesn't specify how many supreme courts there should be. there was talk among liberals, in particular, that congress could expand the number of judges and tip the balance of power back towards liberals so biden creates that commission probably to satisfy that wing of his party. the early read of the report shows the committee thinks expanding the court is a bad idea. it does consider the lifetime appointments, pointing out america is the only major constitutional democracy in the world that has neither a retirement age nor a fixed term of years for its high court justices. and then the committee on the january 6th attack is looking to hold bannon in contempt if he doesn't responsibility to the subpoena. trump and his associates made a practice of ignoring practical and legal norms and paid little price for it. what if bannon just keeps saying no? if congress has the legal right to force him t

. >> scott mcgrew says one way to get prices down is get the supply chain moving. >> prices are highis low. president biden announced wednesday the port of los angeles is joining long beach in staying open 24/7 to get cargo moving. fairly simple solution. ports are usually closed nights and weekends. >> by staying open seven days a week through the night and on the weekends, the port of los angeles will open over 60 extra hours a week. in total, that will almost double the number of hours that the port is open for business from earlier this year. that means an increase in the hours for workers to be moving cargo off ships onto trucks and rail cars to get to their destination. >> that means the truck and rail cars have to move at all hours as well and nobody's worked out that deal. unsnarling all this is going to take time. we have been saying for weeks it would be best if you were just about finished with your holiday shopping. the house select committee investigating the january 6th attacks has subpoenaed jeffrey clark, who it was revealed last week worked behind the scenes at the w

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i am scott mcgrew. september. that's surprisingly low, especially since we know there are thousands of jobs openings. it's also fair to call the number disappointing, but more accurate would be confusing. unemployment rates stands at 4.8%. >>> it's time to get a look at the forecast for you. meteorologist, kari hall, standing by with a look at that. >> yeah, we have so much going on this weekend. really excited about the game for tonight. we are going to see the temperatures for the start of the game in the upper 50s, and it's going to drop down to the mid-50s so make sure you are bundled up at oracle park. as we go through the forecast, our valley temperatures will be in the upper 60s and then some low 70s for the weekend, and more sunshine after a start with early clouds and spotty sprinkles. we will see it clear up nicely for tomorrow. our temperatures remain in the mid to upper 70s through next week. marcus? >> thanks, kari. >>> we will have another local news update coming up in 30 minutes. i'll me