mike, you were concerned about vasco road. >> vasco is a critical connector.e the build around marsh creek near the 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 amon

vasco road northbound. no major issues going on there. no major slowing.re at 16 minutes, 17 minutes from marsh creek down to 580. that 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

it is vasco road. this car fire should be cleared from the roadway.ke things are wrapping up. we do have the issue of the fact it's a very important roadway getting out of brentwood and down to 580. no slowing shows up. the car fire, no major injuries. should be clear. va5 minutes down to 580 itself. lighter traffic out of the altamont but it will build, marcus. >>> the national report card in math and reading is out and it is not looking good. the national center for education statistics recently released its national asoesment of educational progress and it found that student test scores decline nationally especially in math. they look at fourth and eighth grade students. students experience a steep decline. here in california two out of three students tested did not meet basic math levels. fifth grade math scores dropped five points. eighth grade math scores dropped by eight points. there were also some drops in reading. a three-point drop for both fourth and eighth graders. the founders of a nonprofit that focuses on developing children's math ski

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 cele

vasco, reports of debris, garbage across all lanes. maybe somebody dropped a bag of garbage. no major problems. and the travel times out of brentwood, still just 16 minutes. back over to you. >> thank you, mike. >>> officials are monitoring air quality again because of a fire that started in the pittsburg march back in june is flaring up again. >> since june, yeah. after months of efforts to douse that area, it is still smoldering underground. how this could impact nearby people. >> reporter: back in june flames from the marsh fire were large, but firefighters got most of it under control. the area by willow pass road and the delta near the marsh itself proved to be more difficult. contra costa county fire pumped tens of thousands of water per minute into the area over the summer. now the fire district says the fire is again burning below the surface in naturally occurring soil. they asked the owner of the property to step up efforts to put it out and says the owner has hired a private water tender to help. >> it's only smoldering so it's not a great volume of smoke. >> repor

a little build 580, 205 light traffic, sake for vasco road.mooth flow of traffic for the rest of the bay. vienna, we will look at the san mateo bridge. we can see the sparkling lights. >> we're still seeing some areas of drizzle as well as those low clouds and we're going to expect to keep that around at least for the first half. look at san francisco, live look but you can see the buildings. as far as temperatures out the door starting out in the 50s in san francisco, 55, san mateo 57 and we do have some areas of patchy fog including down through morgan hill, take a look, down to about 3 miles in visibility, up through santa rosa this has been one of the areas with a lot of fog this past week and it's down to about four miles right now, in through half-moon bay seven miles. daytime highs today will be even cooler than yesterday. we will only top out in the low 80s, upper 70s, even in through areas like concord and livermore, morgan hill 78, oakland 60s, san francisco 64. we will get some afternoon sunshine mainly away from the coast. as far a

you know what vasco road is open, steve, which is the good news?re a little earlier. it has been open now. so vasko road is once again usable between livermore and contra costa county. right now, we're looking at the bay bridge that is becoming a little slower. metering lights came on. it's going to be a few days of crowded conditions in san francisco. because of blue angels and fleet week. my best advice to you is to use public transit. the bridges just like this one going to be a little bit crowded. san mateo bridge is less crowded right now heading across the bay, but, yeah, if you want to, you know, get over to fleet week. probably the best thing to do is to use transit to get in and out and around san francisco 601, let's go back to the headlines. thank you, sal. today all classes are resuming at the east oakland education complex where six people were shot and injured last week. ktvu is amanda quintana joins us now from oakland, with the safety changes now in place to help keep people safe, amanda well, that campus is a cluster of four school

not a primary commute cord or were not point to focus on it but there is a deadly crash reported on vasco road at old rooney road in livermore this morning. unfortunately starting the commute with that but we want to begin with a more impactful issue for our primary commute through the golden gate bridge area. it is fogged in so there is a fog advisory. they are switching over the lanes may know as well. it is -- right now as well. it is foggy into the tunnel across the bay bridge but clears up into san francisco and the toll plaza is cleared in that area. dry times here, antioch to hercules, on time at 26 minutes. highway 85 to the san jose airport seven minutes. an overall view of our maps, our biggest slowdown is coming out of here. reggie: terrifying moment for a lift driver, but scary moments involving a passenger. only on abc seven. kumasi: workers at san francisco nonprofits say there burned out and overworked. the effort to form a union. reggie: ice cream shop closure, why a popular source of its stores in the east bay. kumasi: a live look outside at what's it like having xfinity

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

if you're traveling along 5.80, right now from livermore vasco road to 6.80, into blood. >> about 11 minutes of traffic is still pretty light as you're traveling along 5, a and 6, a through san ramon in pleasanton heading into the maze that fremont street exit. now the richmond, sandra fell bridge little sluggish. 15 minutes for your drive tolls to 101 out of richmond highway for if you're hopping on their 26 minute drive from any acts. one 60 in to conquer to 42. let's get a look at 5, 18, 80 crockett down towards the maze. 60 minutes for your drive and the south bay 101. 85 up towards menlo park. 34 minutes while to 18. 82 still put you at the limit. darya james, back to you. >> 7.16, and kron 4 is your local election headquarters and there's a weekend after the election now races across the bay area are heating up. and yesterday we told you how oakland mayoral candidates, lauren taylor and trevor reed formed an alliance encouraging supporters to select each other as first and second choice in whatever order they prefer. the second choice votes can make a difference because these a

coming up next, but right now sale i find the busiest spots for me about this time of the morning from vasco north livermore. you know that area is on my radar. and this morning, it kind of looks normal. i'll show you on the maps and just a second roberta, let's start with the bay bridge. and i'll show you that westbound bay bridge is typically slow coming in to the area. you will see the traffic is going to be busy if you're driving there to 80 in san jose is also getting busy now in the middle of the bay on 5, 86 80 and on 8 85 80 coming in through the area tracy into the central area. vascular road is slow. we haven't had any crashes there. you know the trouble spot in the east bay is 8 80 south. we've had a couple of crashes in fremont and traffic is backed up. from hayward. when we come back, we'll touch on that south they commute. 7 32. let's go back to the headlines. thank you . baby area students are going back to classes now after police rushed to six high schools yesterday because of fake reports of active shooters. ktvu is amanda quintana. you're at south san francisco high school

we do have a crash on vasco road near camino diablo, and that has caused some slow traffic getting in and out of the byron area. if that is your commute please give yourself extra time. and also we look at the rest of the east bay commuter highway four is getting a little slow and so is 80. now these are just in the preliminary preliminary backup stages. mateo bridge looks good. and so does the bay bridge toll plans, although it is back to backing up now beyond the parking lot, so things are beginning to change now. 6 11. let's get back to the desk. all right. thank you. sal tests. has turned into a massive fight at uc davis will tell you where the protesters blame a far right wing group and why the organization behind the event is distancing itself from that allegation, plus. and it. i don't know what the only difference is here is that other than our predecessors were white, and we're black. that's not right. the mayor of anti ox peeking out after he says someone attacked him after a speech at a luncheon why he says that he and other city council members are being vo: climate change

. >>> if you know vasco, vasco is the critical connector from these areas, brentwood and on 580 there'sa deadly crash, and we have a couple lanes and both southbound lanes are blocked. the coroner was called in early this morning, and it's almost half an hour out of brentwood down to the scene. the rest of the bay shows a nice and easy drive for the freeways, but we have fog. back to you. >> thank you, mike. >>> we begin with breaking news coming out of thailand this morning. a deadly shooting rampage in a childcare center. it happened 300 miles northeast of bangkok. we have video of the aftermath. the shooter killed 36 people, including 22 children, his own wife and child among the victims, and some died outside the school as the gunman fled. the shooter is a former police officer who took his own life before officers could detain him. he had just been in court on a drug charge that got him fired■ from the force. >>> let's take a live look at new york where president biden will travel to tonight for an event. >> he plans to tour ibms campus and talk jobs. the economy is a key issue, br

vasco is where the deadly crash was. there was a critical backup that cleared and has had a good and quick recovery. we are watching the crash in hayward for southbound 880. 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 g

the same thing for vasco road.e out again as we look at the commute build out of both regions in the east bay. >>> all right. 6:15 now and we are looking live this morning, though we might want to avert our eyes. wall street set to open lower adding to yesterday's losses. the dow fell 250 points while the nasdaq dropped 1%, close to a two-year low. investigators -- rather, investors are weighing comments from jpmorgan's ceo who tells cnbc the u.s. will likely fall into recession over the next six to nine months. he says the markets could drop another 20% dependsing on whether the federal reserve can engineer a so-called soft or hard landing. >> it will be interesting to see if people will be spending their money this prime day are being conservative. amazon's second prime day of the year event starts today. the company is trying to boost sales. revenues have slowed considerably. the drop comes after demand reached record levels and sales rose by 40% during the pandemic. some analysts estimate the second prime day c

and notice the green sensors, and this is a major portion of your commute, slowing already, vasco.there's a crash and it may be blocking the entire roadway once crews arrive there, and it will be an issue for brentwood and discovery bay. that's one major issue for the roadways, and the other is there's fog in emeryville so it may be tougher to see. >>> we begin with breaking news coming out of thailand this morning. a deadly shooting rampage in a childcare center. it happened in a small town 300 miles east of bangkok. this is new video of the aftermath. police tell nbc 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. he took his own life before officers could detain him.

mike, you were saying we need to head back to vasco road. >>> much less of a concern. i hit the refresh button so many times i thought it was broke. it could be a problem for contra costa county, but it's a box on fire. that is the bulk of the commute right now out of brentwood and discovery bay. the rest of contra costa county looks great. europe at speed getting to the bay bridge. an easy flow. the rest of the bay, green sensors. that's a good start. back to you. >>> we are following breaking news this morning. a deadly shooting in san francisco. this happened a little after midnight at turk and taylor streets not far from warfield theater in the tenderloin. an unidentified person has died in the shooting. it did close turk between market and taylor. >>> just in a matter of hours the man accused of killing several people in stockton will appear before a judge. >> "today in the bay's" bob redell joins us from the newsroom this morning. law enforcement talked about this case, but do they know a motive yet, bob? >>> good morning to you, laura and marcus. the police chie