Bay area. Catch public transportation, that helps out a bit. This morning, 30s, even freezing temperatures in the north bay and the high temperatures reaching the upper 60s to lower 70s. We will have more on this in a few minutes. Mike says theres a minor delay for bart. A minor delay will not help stations like millbrae. Minor out of the millbrae area. We should see an update and ill let you know if it gets worse. The roadways, very light traffic flow. Tracking one incident southbound 680 at capital avenue. A brush fire off the roadside. Doesnt sound like a big deal, but ill track it. Back to you. We are tracking breaking news. Live pictures where firefighters are watching for hot spots after a garage went up in flames. This happened in sunniville. This is the scene from elcamino real. We have video into the news room within the last hour or so. This is when the flames were at the height of it and firefighters were battling. There was concern the fire was going to spread to nearby homes as well. They were quickly acting, but they were able to contain that fire within ten minutes of arriving on the scene. Happening off that neighborhood, what was the name of the street . Elcamino real. They actually tried to work on the house, but saved a dog. No reports of juries. Crews say a gas line helped fuel those flames. Now, to an nbc bay area exclusive. A juror is speaking out in the kate steinle murder case. We have more on why this juror is standing by the not guilty verdict. Because the verdict has become so controversial, the juror agreed to talk to me on the condition we hide his identity. They simply made the decision based on the evidence they saw. Are you comfortable with your decision . I am. Whatever they showed us, they presented to us. I can put my head and sleep well. Reporter he says the prosecutors were not able to convince him and the other jurors that he set out to kill kate steinle. When the jury went to deliberations, he quickly came to the decision against first or Second Degree murder. The biggest question about manslaughter was the word brandishing. Did he wave the gun in a threatening manner or anger . The prosecution did not provide credible proof he was threatening anyone with the gun. His friends were shocked about the verdict. If i was not a juror, i would think the same way. Why did you let him go free . Again, the reason was they could not prove it. Through all the evidence, i really think it was just a freak accident. Reporter during his weekly sunday address, President Donald Trump brought up the trial and zarate. Free to harm an innocent american because our leaders refuse to protect our border and San Francisco is a sanctuary city. The juror says they were not able to look at his prior record or sanctuary city. It is 4 34 right now. We could get autopsy results on the young Google Software engineer found dead in the south bay canal. The body of chuchu ma was discovered off the bay trail in sunnyvale. They are scrambling for clues in the case. She graduated from the university of texas in austin. She worked as a Software Engineer at yahoo before landing the job at google. Autopsy results could come in today shedding light on what happened to her. A break in a decades old area case. The Hillsborough PoliceDepartment Says a Southern California man is in custody on 5 million bond. Hes been arrested in connection with a 1995 kidnapping. Hes accused of working with another man to kidnap a 9yearold girl for ransom. The girl was let go after being held captive for nine hours. The arrest was made based on information given to investigators. California under siege by the destructive wildfires spreading. In one case the situation is getting worse. We checked this morning. The thomas fire that started in Ventura County burned 230,000 acres. Containment levels dropped from 15 to 10 . The latest evacuations are happening in Santa Barbara as well. Four other fires burning are at least 75 contained. Today is the last day for north bay fire survivors to register with fema for disaster assistance. They can help with costs for shortterm housing, basic home repair and personal expenditures. You may qualify for low interest, longterm loans. 4,000 people registered. We placed a link on www. Nbcbayarea. Com with information on how to register if you need to. Governor jerry brown is headed to france on the second anniversary of the paris climate agreement. President trump pulled the u. S. Out of the agreement, of course. He will represent the United States at the one planet summit. Leaders will discuss how to finance it. Governor brown is expected to speak about the devastating impacts of the wildfires and how manmade conditions are contributing to natural disaster. Coming up on today in the bay. Bitcoin up again. They started selling on the futures market on sunday. Well break down the reason it might be a bubble. Nbc bay area investigates where mom and dad are hiding those prez sents. My kids are curious. Good morning. Im leslie picker live at cnbc global headquarters. Here are todays top business headlines. Wall street is set for a positive open after stocks closed higher following fridays strong jobs report. The dow had a record close gaining 118 points to close at 24,329. Nasdaq closing at 6840. Investors will eye data on october jobs openings from the u. S. Labor department. Bitcoin made a their trading debut sunday evening. The contract opened at 15,460 before reaching a high of 18,700, a 21 gain. Launching Bitcoin Futures gives the cryptocurrency legitimacy. Others warn it could be a classic example of a bubble. In 2017 alone, bitcoin has exploded more than 1,000 . Apple is stepping up its game in music. The company is close to acquiring app shazam. They plan to buy it for 400 million, a deep discount from the latest round of funding r, z valuing the company at 1 billion. The deal could be announced this week and give apple music a leg up on competitors like spotify. Back to you, laura and scott. Thank you. The Christmas Season is upon us. A lot of parents are going to hide those gifts. A survey online says the number one hiding spot is in the trunk of the car. Another top secret location, linen closet, garage, basement, even a friends house. 30 of parents sign tags with their other hand so the writing looks like jolly st. Nicks. The closet is the first place i would look. I used to hide them so well, i forgot where i put them. Now i have a system. And it is . I cant tell. Coming up, a cold start to monday morning, kari that has chilly forecast. As you step out the door, we have 30s and 40s out there. As we take a look at campbells temperature trend, it will be cold to start. Another warm afternoon reaching into the mid60s. Well look at what else is in store for the workweek. Thats next. A clear view of the san mateo bridge, sparkling lights. We are going talk about what we are tracking. We have a delay out there. Thats coming up. This guy is in a hurry. Uh, i was in a hurry this morning. Barely had time for breakfast. Music sting crave van hey guys. Try my country scrambler plate, with jimmy dean sausage, homestyle potatoes and scrambled eggs mixed with bacon, ham and cheese. Part of my brunchfast menu. Come try my country scrambler plate. With juicy jimmy dean sausage, crispy homestyle potatoes and fluffy scrambled eggs mixed with bacon, ham, and cheese. Here you go. Oh, cameras. Hi mom part of the brunchfast menu. Welcome back you re watching today in the bay live pictures who misses sunday . Anyone . Poor monday morning. Come on. Welcome back. You are watching today in the bay. Live pictures from downtown san jose. 70 degrees, not right now, but thats how nice it should get today. Thats how nice it was in the south bay yesterday. That was beautiful. I walked the dog. Lucky dogs, i walked both of mine, too. Look at this. Glad we are in california, dont you think, scott . I watched this game on tv. This is the colts and bills game in buffalo, new york yesterday where it was just astonishing. Look at that. Just amazing. They had to use the power blowers to blow off the markers for people to see where they were. The game went on, though. The bills won. Time to dance in the snow and the snow angels. Football is a real sport. Baseball, they give up if it starts to mist. I was watching it yesterday. One of the guys, he fell down and you couldnt see him. The bills are the same way. I washed army navy. You could barely see them. They were all in white. Are there men on the field . I cant believe they would stay for that. Felt like that at the game. I have never played tackle football, but i imagine when you are getting hit in that cold, its got to hurt. They are so tough, they dont even wear sleeves. Crazy. Here we are complaining that its cold this morning. It is cold. To us. This morning, you step out the door and our temperatures have been in the 30s and the 40s out there. A live look outside in San Francisco. All clear start as you head out the door on this monday morning. 45 degrees there. Then look at santa rosa, 30 degrees. We are below freezing and 31 degrees in fairfield as well. Then we head down palo alto, 41 degrees. Morgan hill at 36. A cold start for us this morning as you get ready. Look at this afternoons temperatures. We are going to be pushing record highs today again, reaching up to 72 degrees in East San Jose and for downtown san jose, 71 degrees. The east bay, 65 in oakland. Also 65 in concord. 66 degrees in san mateo. San francisco, also up to 66 degrees in the Mission District and north bay, 67 degrees in santa rosa. That is actually todays record high temperature. Well see if we match that. As we take a live look outside in san jose, did you get a chance to check out christmas in the park . Its 9 00 today. As you get ready, you need a scarf and coat. We are talking layers. Later on today, because it warms up into the 70s, something light. Light long sleeves and pants to be comfortable today and the next several days, we are not going to see many changes as you check out the seven day forecast. Here is the reason why. We have this large area of High Pressure that is making the air thick. It makes the mornings cool and the afternoons really warm. As you are going out for maybe golfing in the trivalley today, maybe wait until late morning when it starts to warm up. All around the bay area we will have fairly mild weather for the afternoon. San francisco into the mid60s today. 70 for the inland valleys and not much of a change throughout the week. Well talk more about that and those near record high temperatures. Mike, you are saying that bart is recovering . Yeah, there was a minor delay before with technical issues are cleared up. They are in recovery mode out after millbrae. The rest of the bart system and the rest of the transit lines are moving well. In fact, so are the roadways. Look at the green we have. We have a report of a fire at 680 and capital avenue. It was not in lanes and did not impede traffic. We are approaching the bay bridge without delays and travel times from the map show you are at 15 minutes from highway 4 to the toll plaza. As we look outside, the travel times for the trivalley, no delays here. The toll plaza has cash lanes. We dont have all the lanes open this morning. Typical before 5 00. Back to you. Thank you very much. Ongoing problem on bay area highways, bullets hitting a car over the weekend on interstate 80. Chp says a woman was driving down 80 when she heard gunshots. Then, a boom. Officers arrived and found a rear window shattered as well as bullet holes in the trunk and left side door. They shut down eastbound lanes to investigate. Ten minutes before 5 00. If you have something to say about highspeed rail, speak now or forever hold your peace. A part of the plan is the highspeed rail project expected to take passengers from San Francisco to l. A. In three hours by the year 2029. Theres a lot in the plan. Our today in the bay team has been going through it. This is animation of express west train. The all electric train is expected to connection l. A. To las vegas in 80 minutes with trains leaving never 20 minutes part of the 2040 transportation plan. Public comment ends today. 4 50. We have breaking news coming into the news room out of new york city this morning. A fluid scene out there. We are getting our first reports of an explosion near time square. Its 42nd street and eighth avenue. A blast went off underground. Multiple ambulances have been called there. We are expecting live pictures shortly to get the latest information. 4 51. Next years governors race, the state treasurer will attend a Gubernatorial Forum in palo alto. Its put on by the community foundation. Gavin newsome has already participated in the forum. A story seen around the world. A tennessee boy does a post about bullying with celebrities coming in his corner. They make fun of my nose. They call me ugly. They say i have no friends. Keaton jones says his school maits pour milk on him, and make fun of him. This heart breaking video has been seen 20 million times. Jones has a lot of cool new friends. Tennessee titans walker has invited jones to a game. Keaton is learning bullies might be out there, but there are lots of heroes who will stand by him as well. Thats horrible that children well, adults too. Theres a lot of bullies out there. Coming up on today in the bay, we respond. She spent hundreds of dollars on shipping. The box and the refund are nowhere to be found. Im consumer investigator, chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds, next. First, happening now, snow and extreme cold could reek havoc across britain. Hundreds of schools are closed and flights could be canceled as airlines try to catch up from the sunday snowfall. Some places got 12 inches of snow. It was the largest amount to hit london since 2013. Saudi arabia will allow movie theaters to open next year. They shut down in the 1980s. We are going to be back in two minutes with more news. Stick around. Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. Good morning, we have breaking news. Police are responding to an explosion of some sort that happened in midtown, manhattan near the Port Authority bus terminal. This is a major point of departure, the subway train that is go through the station are being evacuated. We want to get to tom winter who is with us by phone. Tom, good morning to you. What are your sources telling you . Savannah, this is very early in the investigation. We dont yet know how powerful or large this explosion was. We dont know for certain this was a natural gas explosion or an intentional act. We know this incident prompted a significant response on the nypd and the Fire Department here in new york. We know the nypd dispatched the arms squad. Thats usually Standard Practice in this incident. Preliminary information we are getting is, this is or may have been a lone act. They have somebody they are looking to talk to right now. So, whether or not that person turns out to be just somebody tied up or whether or not this is some sort of intentional incident. Thats something that is very much under investigation. As you said, we have an explosion at 42nd and 8th avenue. We are looking at images coming to us. We can see a Massive Police response, as you have described. Police said many ambulances have been requested. As you mentioned, we dont know if this is something done as a precaution or whether there are any kind of injuries connected to this explosion. Again, an explosion near new yorks Port Authority bus terminal at 8th and 42nd in new york. It is very close to times square. This is the heart of new york city. So, we will continue to watch this as we get more information but, at this moment, all we know, Police Responding and perhaps, as our reporter mentioned, there may be someone in custody but unclear of the connection. We are going stay on this and well keep you updated with the information as we get it. Most of you will return to today. Im Savannah Guthrie in new york. This is a special news report. Live pictures from the scene right now. breaking news out of new york city. Live pictures from the scene right now. A very fluid situation, but, we are getting our first report of an explosion happening near times square this morning at the bus terminal near 42nd street and 8th avenue, three blocks away from the heart of new york city at times square. We are told a blast went off underground. They dont know if its intentional or not. Subway lines have been evacuated. Well bring you more information in a few minutes. Meantime, good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im scott mcgrew. Marcus has the day off. Im laura garcia. Locally, we are waking up to cool temperatures. Dipping below freezing in the north bay with low 30s in santa rosa as well as fairfield and as we look at livermore, one degree above freezing. Oakland, 38 degrees as you head out the door. We go from very cold temperatures no near record highs today into the upper 60s and low 70s. San francisco will see a high of 66 degrees. San jose, 71. Thats three degrees below a record high. We will be tracking more records as we go into the next several days. Ill have more on that. Mike was saying its already crowded at the bay bridge. It is. We dont have all the cash lanes open. Folks are filling in the last cash lane on the left. On the right approach, things are smooth. Remember, cash lane 14 will remain closed because of a crash. Looking at the parking lot, a lot of activity. No lanes were eve