Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240714

Where is the going going . Somewhere behind all of that fog. Well see a lot more cloud cover today. Were going to be running a few degrees cooler. The reason for that, we have a system, a trough off in the Pacific Northwest that is keeping our temperatures slightly below seasonable for today but its still warm through the inland areas. You can see here on satellite radar the system just off to the north, im going to zoom in a little bit closer, you can see how its bringing that cloud cover and thats whats going to keep our temperatures slightly more comfortable today but still pretty hot. As we head into the start of the work week, were going to start to notice those winds kicking up, and as those winds kick up, High Pressure is going to roll back in and then the concern for fire danger is really going to play a part in your monday through wednesday forecast, and as kira said, into next weekend, were tracking rain chances so ill go over all of that info that i just threw your way coming up in about 15 minutes. I only knew that because you told me for the record. Vianey, well see you in about 15 minutes, thanks. New this morning, elderly residents of a care home are without a place to live, following an Early Morning fire. It happened in North San Jose, at a home operating as a care facility on massachusetts drive. Initial reports are that the fire started on the back porch around 4 00 a. M. And spread into the attic. A total of seven people, five residents and two Staff Members were evacuated. Two residents were told are in the hospital for evaluation. The fire was under control in just about an hour by 5 00 a. M. The cause of that fire is under investigation. Now to a string of mysterious fires sparked in the same area. This morning, the search for a cause as crews still work to contain the flames. Six fires in total, all in the milpitas foothills scorched more than 100 acres yesterday. Investigators are looking into the possibility they may be the work of an arsonist. Today in the bays Marianne Favro with this report. Reporter a nighttime battle for containment, after six wildfires, some miles apart, scorch at least 128 acres. Six fires is unusual and we have investigators out there right now. They are looking into this. It is u investigation and were not ruling anything out at this time. Reporter just yesterday, cal fire responded to three fires that burned ten acres in this same area, adding to concerns about arson, and the air, blanketing the area with fire e retarda retardant. Ground crews are dealing with tinder dry grass and steep hills. Working in the terrain, its working at nighttime. Currently we have close to 300 firefighters out there, between the fire engines, the bulldoz bulldozers, the hand crews that are there. Reporter calaveras boulevard will remain closed. There are few homes in the area and no buildings burned. Marianne favro, nbc bay area news. The high heat and fire danger has pg e considering shutting off power in parts of the north bay and other areas are on alert for power shutoffs. On the utilitys weather website, zones three, four, and five which include San Francisco, oakland and san jose are on alert through tuesday. Trouble to me for a couple of reasons. One is that i like to make sure im ready at home so i keep a half tank of gas in my car. Right now its hot and dry, but the wind has yet to pick up. If it does, pg e will send out more notifications. If the power shutoff is imminent, residents will get more detailed information. Be sure to download the nbc bay area app. Its free, where you can get the most uptodate Weather Information and even tailor the forecast for your area. Its available for android and iphone. Now to a close call for two children playing video games in a Contra Costa County home, when a truck crashed into their living room. This happened in brentwood, just before 5 00 yesterday afternoon, east Contra Costa County firefighters told us the truck drove through the garage and then into the house on just the other side of the wall from the car, the two kids playing video games, fortunately, they werent injured. The driver blames a mechanical failure for the crash. Some bay area city leaders are joining forces to fight homelessness. We have video from the American Leadership forum yesterday in san jose. It was a summit to share ideas on fighting the Biggest Challenges Homeless People are facing. One idea suggested the san jose area is something we hear all the time, to build more lowincome housing. A bay area family searching for answers, more than 20 years after their loved one was brutally murdered. Yesterday the victims victims friends and family held a vigil to help bring a new focus to this still unsolved case. Heres today in the bays sergio quintana. Reporter for many at this event, there are nothing but fond memories of 21yearold Priscilla Lewis. We went to school together, cut school together, got in trouble together. Reporter this is not a happy gettogether. A lot of people at this vigil knew Priscilla Lewis very well and havent seen each other in years, so this is kind of a reunion, but not an easy one. Is it weird to be here 23 years later . Its awful. Reporter there has never been arrest so family and friends say there has never been any closure. It got a little tense during a prayer at two people on motorcycles interrupted and roared off. I think thats why you guys are feeling a little bit of a weird vibe because theres a lot of emotions built up over the years. Reporter lewis was killed september 21st, 1996, exactly 23 years ago. She was on an evening break from waiting tables at the four corners pizza parlor. Coworker raymond dole may have been the last person to see her alive. He talked earlier this week. Smoked a cigarette with her. Im going back in. I went back home and 15, 20 minutes later when i started hearing a bunch of sirens coming by. Reporter lewis was found in the restaurant basement, she was strangled. Found in the mens bathroom with her head in the toilet. She was brutally murdered. She was beat. Reporter troy kinslow is lewis cousin and organized this effort. He and everyone else is hoping someone can help with new information that can help them get resolution. Whoever is responsible needs to be brought to justice. Thats all there is to it. Reporter in crockett, sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Now to butte county where deputies are looking for a woman theyre accusing of stealing 63,000 from the victim of the camp fire. They want to find this woman, brenda rose asbury. Investigators say her victim is a Senior Citizen who was among the vow thousands of people who lost their homes in the paradise area near chico. The stolen money reportedly was part of an insurance settlement. The 2018 fire killed 86 people, and was the most destructive fire in california state history. Back here locally, the 35th annual Coastal Cleanup day in the bay area turned into a friendly Competition Among the bay areas biggest cities. The mayors of San Francisco, oakland and san jose started something they called the battle for the bay and the goal for each city was to clean up and improve neighborhoods. To stop Illegal Dumping into waterways. Volunteers cleared up channel park near lany college art center. Mayor libby schaaf says the battle of the bay inspires thousands to beautify their communities. Good news is that no matter which mayor wins, we all win, because the bay is something that is shared by all of us, and all of our cities have streets with storm drains that bring trash from every neighborhood into our precious waterways. The winning city will be determined by measuring the number of volunteers, the amount of garbage removed and the best beautification projects. Over in san jose, these volunteers teamed up to clean up coyote creek. Near capitol expressway Pablo Pereira volunteers say in the past five years theyve collected more than 150 tons of trash from the creek, unusual items like an atm machine, to usual litter like candy ba wrappers. Volunteers say the battle of the bay in the long run will help make all of our bay area cities better places to live. It benefits the wildlife, and thats what we really want to do is see our wildlife be healthy so that the city can be healthy. Wouldnt it be great to have people play in our streets again . Thats something wed like to see. Indeed. About 2,000 people signed up to clean sites across santa clara county. At 7 09, we have much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, we are live in washington to talk politics with chuck todd, moderator of meet the press. Also, look up in the sky, the bat signal is up. Well take you out to gotham city for batman day. Ive booked your shower, sir. How far you travel, is up to you. How comfortable you travel is up to us. Fly emirates. Fly better. It is time for our weekly chat with chuck todd, and Larry Gerston. Hi, chuck, thanks as always for joining us this morning. This week, we got new numbers in the 2020 democratic primary from our nbc news wall street journal poll. This is sort of a selfish question for me, because i just came back from Maternity Leave and havent really been following all summer. Has the race changed at all since the start of the summer . Oh, darn, we must have lost our contact with chuck. I dont think he could hear us in his ear. Would you like me to play chuck . I would love that. In fact, i wonder if were maybe going to try to get a hold of him and maybe come back for this segment. Lets do it. Lets try to do that. Well be right back after this. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. We are back now other news. Their remains were sitting on a shelf at a santa rosa mortuary for 65 years and just yesterday the cremated remains of 38 veterans were escorted to their final resting place at the National Cemetery in dixon. Hundreds of people turned out for this special ceremony. The delicate move was organized by the Sonoma County chapter of the missing in america project. The remains include six world war i veterans, 24 world war ii veterans, six korean war veterans and two vietnam war veterans. They were the ones that signed their names and were willing to pay the ultimate price and a lot of them served in many different war periods from world war i up to vietnam, so im very happy that were able to lay them to rest. It is not clear how the remains ended up in limbo in the first place at santa rosas chapel of the chimes. The remains are now in marked graves at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery. Kids in oakland are getting some new kicks, its all part of the 23rd annual back to school shoe giveaway. Oakland arena and ring central coliseum came together to give new shoes to more than 3,000 families across alameda county. You can see the lines wrapped around the arena. Volunteers not only gave out shoes, but free meals and free haircuts. The organizers say this is a way for kids to put their best foot forward for the new school year. Kids that go to school with a new pair of shoes on feel better about themselves, theyre excited. The parents are excited because they couldnt afford the pair, now they have a pair of shoes for their children. The program has helped more than 3,000 kids since it started. All right, did you know this . Batman is celebrating a big birthday this weekend, 80 years old, what better way to commemorate the anniversary of the comics debut than a bat signal in new york city. The bat signal lit up the sky to the iconic domino Sugar Refinery building in williamsburg. The Empire State Building lit its fire yellow and white. Batman first appeared in Detective Comics number 27 back in 1939. 80. Wow. I dont know why this is going to sound weird but the bat signal reminds me of when i was a kid in a room, the flashlight with little different hearts and stars. And shine it on the wall. I wasnt a comic kid. I wasnt either but that was cool. It was cool. 80 years. Shout out to batman. Hes going to be dealing with some interesting skies if he has to fight off any crimes or yes, fly, wait, superman did. Microclimate highs today are going to be interesting. Look at this shot of San Francisco. This is supposed to be a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge but theres so much fog that you cant even see it. It looks like a beautiful billowy cloud but its clouds but fog, not above but below near the Golden Gate Bridge. San francisco 57. 54 degrees in palo alto and we have a number of changes ahead. So lets get right to whats going to be affecting our temperatures for today and thats a system to the Pacific Northwest. We have this trough right here, ill zoom this in closer, its going to bring our temperatures down a little bit and also going to bring a lot more cloud cover. Yesterday it was hot, it was sunny, it was dry. Today were talking about a little bit more of cloud cover and lingering in through the inland areas and temperatures running a few degrees cooler. Lets get right to the temperatures. Because of that system off to our north were also going to notice an increase in some winds tonight. San francisco 73, very comfortable, no major changes there. Look at the interior valleys, concord 87, antioch 88, down through the south bay and san jose 86 degrees. Santa cruz still going to be warm at about 84 degrees. I really want to get you into your weather setup so we can go through the changes were expecting. Its going to be seasonable today. We have that trough just off to our north and look ahead at this timeline. I want to turn your attention towards this because sunday, monday, tuesday into wednesday we get this ridge of High Pressure thats going to warm us up and also going to kick up the concern for fire danger, because were getting a dry wind thats going to move in over the bay area. Once that does move in, were going to have to keep a close eye on all of those hilltop areas which is why a fire weather watch is expected to begin tomorrow at 9 00 p. M. For the north bay and east bay hills, the dry northerly wind is going to dry out the humidity levels and remember, any time were seeing hot temperatures, low humidity and gusty winds it is the perfect mix for elevated fire danger. Well see the wind increase into Tuesday Morning and our hourbyhour outlook right now shows 80s and 90s for the bay into monday, at about 3 00. You can see the temperature trend through here, but look how much hotter it gets as we inch into tuesday, and wednesday when that High Pressure rolls in, our temperatures start to jump to 97 in concord. 96 in santa rosa, and remember, those east bay hills and all of the hilltop areas have still plenty of dry brush, so were going to keep a very close eye. This is looking way out into the future, as that High Pressure rolls in, into monday, tuesday and wednesday, by next weekend, we have a nearby system thats going to bring the chance of seeing some rain friday into next weekend. Early estimates right now for the models show not that impressive in terms of rainfall totals but it will be just enough to where were definitely going to notice it and also bring sierra snow. I want to give a shout out to san jose, because i know they have their sixth annual viva calle walk. They close several miles, several stretches of streets in the downtown san jose area specifically for this festival and everybody can roam the streets, not worrying about cars on the road. It takes place from 10 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. And the temperatures are comfortable today, 83 degrees. Again, a combo of sun and clouds and here is your setup for the next seven days. This gives an explainer of what i spoke about earlier. Remember, tomorrow is our First Official day at fall, and the dry fire danger really kicks up into tuesday. We get a significant drop in the temperatures by wednesday and increase in cloud cover heading into friday because of that nearby system, and then look at saturday, stay tuned, were monitoring the chance of seeing rain in San Francisco and throughout the entire bay area, so we go from 80s to 90s, upper 90s, back down to the 80s and talking about a cool 72. Roller coaster or what, kira . That is a roller coaster if i ever saw one. 6 and sunny to 97 to rain. Yep. All right. Well get on that roller coaster with you, vianey, thanks. It is 7 22. To a new story now about an old bay area icon used for a new piece of art. Parts of the eastern span of the bay bridge have been reenvisioned and will be unveiled on Treasure Island today. Heres today in the bays joe rosa rosato, jr. , with a sneak peek. Remember this part . Reporter on the shore of Treasure Island were good. Reporter a day artist tom laughlin has waited for. Its existed in my brain for four years. Reporter its installation day for his new art sculpture on the islands scenic edge. I think were ready to set it. Reporter the art is new, forged in laughlins imagination. But the materials he created it from will be familiar to anyone who has driven the bridge between oakland and San Francisco. And that never worked with the material that was as unique as this steel is. Reporter this unique steel pieces of the old east span of the bay bridge recently demolished and replaced. Well, we took 22 tons of steel and turned it into a ring. Reporter laughlin was among artists awarded some of the bridges salvaged steel by the state to create public artwork. Have it live on here in the bay area as a visual icon and a memory of a bridge which really was important to many of us here in the bay area. Were two inches off it. Reporter laughlins piece, a 22foot steel ring, bears all the detail and history of the bridge that carried millions. To see this incredible material, to see the size of the rivets and the pattern of the rivets, you can see the word bethlehem written repeatedly from the legacy of the piece being built in the 30s. Reporter the art piece is temporary, not like the span which carried passengers from 1936 to 2015. People thought it would last forever. We never quite know what the future holds. Reporter through art, the span builds on from joshua tree to truckee to petaluma. Theyre being made into new experiences. Reporter the piece will remain on the island for several years and will vibrate to mimic the sound of a foghorn, a new experience with an old friend. Like everything else, its going to vanish in history if we dont work to preserve it. Reporter joe rosato, jr. , nbc bay area news. Very cool. It is 7 25. We have much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, joe biden is fighting back against President Trump, that mysterious phone call with a foreign leader and what was reportedly said that has the former Vice President fired up. Plus as flu season rapidly approaches, theres a new convenient way to fight the virus. Well tell you how thousands of people in one Bay Area Community can get their flu shot without getting out of their cars. Are you ready . Are you ready for some fun . Are you ready . We cant stop, weve only just begun. Oooooooooo. Ill show you something neeeeeewwww. Ill show you something, ill show you something. Neeeeeewwww. Good sunday morning. It is september 22nd. Levis stadium the 49ers home opener is happening later today against the pittsburgh steelers. It will be hot out there on this last sunday of summer. Thanks for joining us. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana has a look at our microclimate forecast. Weve got a lot to talk about today. But i want to start off by saying that its going to be a great day today, the weather is going to be comfortable. Were going to get a little bit more cloud cover, so if you are planning out your football sunday, its going to be a great day, whether youre hanging out inside of a bar watching the tv or going to a game today. All right, so San Francisco 57 and san jose is at 55 right now, but really satellite radar showcasing exactly whats going on with our weather. If you look off to the north, im going to zoom this in closer for you, weve got a system, could you see it over seattle, portland, well thats whats going to keep our temperatures a little bit cooler today, but still seasonable, and a lot more cloud cover. Also expect breezy conditions to start picking upy tonight, and then this is really going to shift our pattern, heading into monday. Well notice the breezy to windy conditions kicking up at night and once we head into monday, High Pressure is going to roll back in. We went from a hot day yesterday, got a little bit of a cooling trend today and ill talk about the possible rain chances, sierra snow, all that coming up in about 15 minutes. I cant believe it. I welcome it, because i dont have air conditioning and yet was hot. Well see you in about 15 minutes, thanks. New this morning, elderly residents of a care home are without a place to live following an Early Morning fire. It happened in North San Jose at a home operating as a care facility on massachusetts drive initial reports the fire started on the back porch around 4 00 a. M. And spread into the attic. Seven people, five residents and two Staff Members were evacuated. Two residents are in the hospital for evaluation. The fire was under control in an hour by about 5 00 a. M. The cause of that fire is still under investigation. Now to a string of mysterious fires in the same part of the bay area. Six fires all in the milpitas foothills scorched more than 100 acres yesterday. Investigators are looking into the possibility they may be the work of an arsonist. Today in the bays Marianne Favro with this report. Reporter a nighttime battle for containment, after six wildfires, some miles apart, scorch at least 128 acres. Six fires is unusual and we have investigators out there right now. They are looking into this. It is under investigation and were not ruling anything out at this time. Reporter just yesterday, cal fire responded to three fires that burned ten acres in this same area, adding to concerns about arson, and the air, blanketing the area with fire retardant. Ground crews are dealing with tinder dry grass and steep hills. Working in the terrain, its working at nighttime. Currently we have close to 300 firefighters out there, between the fire engines, the bulldozers, the hand crews that are there. Reporter calaveras boulevard will remain closed until at least morning, eliminating an option for people trying to bypass sunol grade traffic. There are few homes in the area and no buildings burned. Marianne favro, nbc bay area news. The high heat and fire danger has pg e considering shutting off power in parts of the north bay, and other areas are on alert for power shutoffs. On the utilitys weather website, zones three, four, and five, which include San Francisco, oakland and san jose are on alert through tuesday. Trouble to me for a couple of reasons. One is that i like to make sure im ready at home so i keep a half tank of gas in my car. Definitely good to know in advance. Right now its hot and dry, but the wind has yet to pick up. As spreeian anysaid, it will start to pick up tonight tomorrow into tuesday. If the winds pick up, pg e will send out more notifications. If the power shutoff is imminent, residents will get more detailed information. Be sure to download the nbc bay area app. Its where you can get the most uptodate Weather Information and tailor your Weather Forecast for your neighborhood. Its free for iphone and android. Now to a close call for two children inside a Contra Costa County home, when a truck crashed into their home. Take a look at this. It happened in brentwood, just before 5 00 yesterday afternoon, east Contra Costa County firefighters told us the truck drove through the garage and then into the house on just the on the living room, on other side of the wall from the car, the two kids playing video games, fortunately, they werent hurt. The driver blames a mechanical failure for the crash. Some bay area city leaders are joining forces to fight homelessness. We have video from the American Leadership forum in san jose. It happened yesterday. It was a summit to share ideas on fighting the Biggest Challenges Homeless People are facing. One idea suggested the san jose area is something we hear all the time, to build more lowincome housing. Now to new reports that President Trump repeatedly pressured ukraines president to investigate joe bidens son. Now the former Vice President is fighting back. Nbcs hans nichol explains. Reporter a fiery joe biden on offense, attacking President Trump amid reports the president pressured his ukrainian counterpar to investigate bidens son. You should be asking him the questions, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader . Reporter bidens comments coming after the wall street journal reported mr. Trump pressed ukrainian president eight times in a july 25th phone call to work with his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, to investigate hunter biden for his ukrainian business dealings, according to people familiar with the matter. Trumps doing this because he knows ill beat him like a drum and using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. Reporter today the president again defended his phone call. Call it the ukraine witch hunt he tweeted. Nothing was said that was in any way wrong and ukraines foreign minister disputing reports of any pressure from mr. Trump. This conversation was long, friendly and it touched on many questions. With continuing concerns about why the Trump Administration delayed military aid for ukraine, the pentagon announced the u. S. Will deploy additional troops and military equipment to saudi arab, aft its oil fields were attacked last week. The president has approved the deployment of u. S. Forces, which will be defensive in nature, and primarily focused on air and missile defense. Reporter the saudis still trying to determine where the hostile missiles came from. We hold iran responsible for the attack but we are investigating where the launch emanated from. That was nbcs hans nichols for us. Now to housing and urban Development Secretary dr. Ben carson who is defending comments he reportedly made during a trip to San Francisco. Carson joined hud workers at a meeting last week and some say he insulted transgender women. The Washington Post reports carson expressed concern about transgender women entering womens homeless shelters, reportedly referring to them as big hairy men. The paper is now reporting that dr. Carson sent an agencywide email saying his comments were blatantly mischaracterized by the media. He says the comments were actually from his talks with womens groups. He says women in those groups told him they felt unsafe in shelters because men would claim to be women. Now to stanford, where the campus wants to build a lot more classrooms and housing for students and staff and now we know when the county will consider that plan. There are four tentative dates for hearings on the schools 3. 5 million square foot expansion. Theres a workshop this coming tuesday at the county building in san jose. The first public hearing is next month. Now to the 35th annual Coastal Cleanup day. It was yesterday here in the bay area, you may have learned from our newscast that it turned to a friendly Competition Among the bay areas biggest cities. The mayors of San Francisco, oakland and san jose started something they call the battle for the bay. The challenge was to see how much garbage could be cleaned up in each day. We want to take you to oakland, where volunteers cleaned channel park near lany college art center. Mayor libby schaaf says the battle of the bay inspires thousands of people to take pride in their own communities. Good news is that no matter which mayor wins, we all win, because the bay is something that is shared by all of us, and all of our cities have streets with storm drains that bring trash from every neighborhood into our precious waterways. The winning city will be determined by measuring the number of volunteers, the amount of garrgarrbage collected and te best beautification projects. Over in san jose, these volunteers teamed up to clean up coyote creek near capitol expressway. Volunteers say in the past five years theyve collected more than 150 tons of trash from the creek, unusual items like an atm machine, to usual litter like candy bar wrappers. Volunteers say the battle of the bay in the long run will help make all of our bay area cities better places to live. It benefits the wildlife, and thats what we really want to do is see our wildlife be healthy so that the city can be healthy. Wouldnt it be great to have people play in our streets again . Thats something wed like to see. About 2,000 people signed up to clean sites across santa clara county. Kaiser is setting up its annual flu clinics. This one in fremont is unique so we wanted to highlight it. Thousands of people got their flu shot without getting out of their cars. Its a drivethru clinic, first come, first serve, no need to make an appointment. Folks pulled up to the station, lifted their Shirt Sleeves and got a flu shot in just minutes. For some, it wasnt just about protecting themselves. Listen in. I want to protect myself, and i also want to protect others from i mean if i got the flu, i would spread it to other people so i dont want to be a part of that link. Flu season in california usually runs from october or november until about april, and it peaks between december and february. At 7 39, still ahead on today in the bay, california is in a battle with the white house over auto emissions standards. Political analyst Larry Gerston rejoins us in just a few minutes to discuss the latest move by the Trump Administration, but first, you see it there, the as take another step towards the playoffs birth and san jose state pulls off a shocker in college football. Carlos ramirez is next with sports. The juul record. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. No to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. The as needed a comfort win against texas to keep their arms fresh, they scored seven runs in the first inning alone, you get a run and you get a run and you get a run. Oakland took care of business with a 123 win. Marcus siemian hit his 32nd home run of the year. Bryce harper and the phillies beat cleveland coming from behind with this monster jack by harper. The phillies won 94, and the red sox on the other hand were of no help. Nate lowe a walk yourself homer bottom of the 11th to give the rays in the retrounis the win 54 over the red sox so that means that the as maintain their twogame lead over tampa bay in the first wild card spot but now they have a threegame advantag over cleveland. The indians are one game out of the wild card spot. This race is really tight. Stanford football say mess right now. Justin herbert threw three touchdown passes and 259 yards, a 216 win for the ducks, Third Straight loss by the cardinals, the worst start since 2007. San jose state beat arkansas in a major upset on the road 3124, the first time the spartans get a win against a Power Five Team since they beat stanford 13 years ago. We leave with you this a 49ers tweeted out the first look of the Terrell Owens 49ers hall of fame statue. The team will induct t. O. At a halftime of the steelers game. Im carlos ramirez. More news after the break. Adios and good night. Ines marke. Its free, its easy, we come out and mark your lines. We provide you the information so you will dig safely. Leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. Welcome back. The battle between california and President Donald Trump reached a new pitch this past week. The president instructed the Environmental Protection agency to revoke californias longstanding ability to set auto emoigss standards that are more firm than federal rules. Nbc bay area political analyst Larry Gerston rejoins us now. This seems surprising, these were policies since the reagan administration. Whats this all about . Get ready to rumble. Lets put it that way exactly. It has to do with something, think about automobile mileage requirements, that kind of thing which have been periodically established by the Environmental Protection agency for a long time. A few years ago in an orderly way the Obama Administration set a requirement of 54. 5 miles per gallon for cars built in 2025, many years from now. The Trump Administration roen y recently rejected that mandate for a considerably lower option of 37 miles per gallon. The president claims his version would make it less expensive for Automobile Companies to retool, which they have to do, maybe 2,000 a car, rather than the 3,000 per car, which would take place under the Obama Administration. As a result, he says that would benefit consumers. Thats the president s angle. Okay, so i have to ask, is this just about Consumer Prices or do you think theres something more there . Suspicious, perhaps . Well, youre right. Oh. The trump critics contend something different. They contend that this change comes at a great environmental cost. Experts have determined that the trump recommendation would result in a difference of get this 6 billion tons, with b billions, 6 billion tons of Greenhouse Gas pollution over the life time of those cars, this is particularly important in california which has a long history of suffering from air pollution. In fact, seven out of ten most polluted by air areas, urban areas in the nation are in california. By the way, the san jose, San Francisco, oakland area ranks as the eighth most polluted region in the country. Let that sink in. Thats disturbing. We just came off a week of looking at our climate crieses here at nbc bay area. So how does california deal with this issue . It sounds like it is problematic. Yep. Theres an answer. At least there has been an answer in the past. So the 1970 Environmental Protection act, thats what were talking about here, which was signed into law by the way by republican president richard nixon, granted california the right to receive federal waivers if the state passed stricter tail pipe emission laws, laws that would be better, if you might put it that way, to the federal rule. Thats where the miles per gallon and tail pipe emissions come in. Since 1970, california has requested and received 45 waivers, and the Automobile Companies have accepted those waivers as national standards. But this time, the Trump Administration has refused to grant a waiver,laiming that the different tail pipe requirements would be unnecessarily costly to Automobile Companies and consumers, which gets back to the figures we made earlier. So why is there such a focus on these tail pipe requirements . Thats the heart of the emissions issue. Thats the heart of it. Tail pipe emissions are the single largest source of Greenhouse Gas emissions in the united states. 30 of the nations Greenhouse Gas emissions and 40 of californias Greenhouse Gas emissions come from automobile and truck tail pipe emissions. Theres a question of health. Recent study by mit found that 21,000 californians died prematurely each year because of air pollution related diseases. So when you consider the impact of Greenhouse Gas emissions on everything from Climate Change to respiratory diseases, were talking about a critically harmful element in society. Thats disturbing, 21,000 premature deaths. So do you think this is just a problem between the Trump Administration and california, or is there more . Actually, there are 13 states that go along with california. They agree with californias approach. Together with california the plop police stati populations of these states account for onethird of the nations residents. Compounding this issue for the president is a deal between california and four Automobile Companies to produce automobiles by 2025, the new date, at the 54. 5 milepergallon rate. The Trump Administration declared this agreement null and void. Null and void because of its intention to implement the lower miles per gallon requirement leading to the higher tail pipe emissions. The irony here is, and there is a rich irony, the irony here is that californias director of automobile emissions parallels the Trump Administration value of states rights when it comes to all kinds of things. Remember the president with state rights reduced National Requirements on a range of policy areas including mine safety, water pollution, land toxicity in favor of state management, yet here hes insisted on a National Requirement with tail pipe emissions. Very interesting. Larry, as always, wish we had more time, but boy, thanks for that insight. Well be right back after this. White house whitle blower controversy, heavy hitters make or take jabs on sunday morning shows. Plus monday marks the beginning of fall. Will the temperatures fall . Kari has an eye on your forecast. Join us monday morning 4 30 to 7 00. Good morning, its 7 53. Buenos dee was, its sunday, the last day of summer and were in it with a bit of an interesting weather pattern. We have the fog rolling through in San Francisco, look at this beautiful shot from our san bruno cam, and you can definitely see the fog if youre anywhere near the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see it kind of look at this, you can see the San Francisco skyline peeking through and all around it, all of that fog. Now, if youre going to be further inland, youll get a combo of a little bit more cloud cover and also cooler temperatures. Here it is, here is the reason why. We have satellite radar, showcasing that trough just off to the Pacific Northwest bringing in some rain in societile and portland, but were going to get that tail end keep us cooler and cloudy through the afternoon. Were on a little bit of a cooling trend for today by a couple of degrees. Lets get right to those microclimate highs so you can plan out your afternoon. Yesterday was really hot, today its going to be hot but just a little bit cooler in some spots, not all. San jose 86 degrees. East san jose 89. Los gatos 88, so notice how were not really seeing as many 90s as we had yesterday, but were still in the upper 80s for concord. 87 degrees, pleasanton inching near the 90s and near oakland we cool down significantly, yesterday we were in the 80s. Today were going to be in the upper 70s. Along the peninsula i expect breezy conditions as well for the afternoon. Redwood city 83. San mateo 78. If youre going to be in San Francisco, were going to be topping out in the low 70s. Again well keep that fog rolling through a little bit longer through the evening. Santa rosa 87 degrees. Novato 85 and point reyes 70 degrees. We have a lot going on this week. Weve got the fire danger that is going to start to dominate in our forecast, starting tomorrow, especially, because that High Pressure rolls back in, and those dry north to offshore winds paired with the hot temperatures certainly raises that high fire risk. Were expecting that monday through wednesday so were going to be keeping a very close eye especially in the Higher Elevation areas for the north bay mountains and the east bay hills. A fire watch will be in place starting tomorrow night, and then yes, rain chances, so this is looking way out ahead into friday and saturday. It looks like we get a system that could bring the chance of seeing rain and sierra snow as early as saturday into next sunday. Also bringing significant cooling to parts of the bay area, again, i want to emphasize that the fire watch begins tomorrow at 9 00 p. M. For the north bay and east bay hills. Were talking about dry northerly winds, low humidity, always a cause for concern in the bay area especially because we are in fire season. Again if youre heading out to viva calle san jose, that takes place from 10 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. Near the streets in downtown san jose, they close off the streets so plan accordingly if youre driving down there because they close off a lot of streets. The next seven days, fall officially starts tomorrow, kira, cant believe it. Im ready for fall. Fall is probably my favorite season. I could see that. You like candles. Candles. As i know and Pumpkin Spice lattes, right . Thanks, vianey. Finally this morning, everyone should have a friend like klay thompson. The warriors guard gave Zsa Zsa Pachulia a rollsroyce. Zaza just retired from the nba and works in the Warriors Front Office as a consultant, so thompson got him a really nice retirement gift. Thompson is recovering from his torn acl he suffered in this years nba finals. He is expected to return to the court sometime after the allstar break in february. Clearly there are levels to this gift giving, because i typically gift like a bottle of ne and not like a super fancy bottle of wine. Wine is wine to me. Yes. Yes. But a rollsroyce. Wow. Not to mention, yes, he retired, but theyre still going to be seeing each other on a semidaily basis. A good friend to have and i appreciate you no matter what wine you give to me. Thanks for making us a part of your morning. No 5 00 or 6 00 news tonight. Its sunday night football in america. We are here to discuss jessies online time. And out of respect, we will let you make the first offer. Thirty minutes. Thirty minutes . Objection overruled. One hour. 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