Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20170427

Highs reaching into the low 70s. It will be windy with that sun as we transition from cooler to warmer weather, well talk about that in the forecast for the weekend in about five minutes. Make is now tracking two crashes for the east bay. More cars hit the east beay freeways. South bay peninsula no surprises. The trivalley moves well. The east bay, one concern is southbound 880 just before you get to a street, past a street you see a crash that may be blocking one lane so we have slowing and off the Castro Valley y, as the volume builds its lighter than we often see. We have this crash. Highway 4, it involves a motorcycle. This is the second of the morning, everything is off the shoulder but motorcycle involved krashlgs, we see people standing around and more spectators, a smoother drive toward the bay bridge. The backup at the toll plaza. Back to you. Mike, thank you very much. Happening later today, police in berkeley bracing for potentially nasty protests amid what has been a heated battle over free speech ann coulter was supposed to speak at cals campus. The speech was canceled because of safety concerns. Today in the bays bob redell live with details on a rally being planned amidst the controversy. Good morning, bob. Good morning, the university and Campus Police are preparing for possible problems on campus today as you can see behind me. The University Police department has blocked off the road leading up to their headquarters even though ann coulter is not scheduled to speak here like she was supposed to at 4 00 this afternoon. She has hinted she might show up at cal and at least three groups are planning rallies. Theres a procoulter rally near mlk park, an anticoulter News Conference scheduled for noon and a rally in support of her First Amendment rights scheduled for 2 00 at berkeleys Civic Center Plaza with a possible march to the cal campus where coulter was invited to speak by campus republicans but the university canceled her speech over safety concerns. The cam with us was worried there could be a repeat of the violence that erupted when milo yiannopoulos, a supporter of the socalled altright tried to speak here at cal. Kou coulter appeared on fox news to express her disappointment. My allies, whom i love, were on the same side but they ran away, they gave in. And then i was there was nothing i could do. Were citizens. We have a First Amendment right to be here. We come to berkeley because this is supposed to be the home of the renewal of freedom of speech in the state of california. Our commitment to the First Amendment is unwavering and unshakable but so is our commitment to the safety of our students. The University Said they did propose an alternative date for coulter to speak, again citing concerns of safety and threats of violence. . An email to the Associated Press coulter hinted at an impromptu appearance on campus writing i have my flights so i thought i might stroll around the graveyard of the First Amendment. Reporting live from the cal campus, bob redell. From cal to stanford where we were bringing you live pictures. Theres been another report of a sexual battery. Campus police say a female staff member says a man grabbed her while she was drinking from a water fountain at the Mitchell Earth Sciences building yesterday. Police found the suspect but the staff member declined to press charges. Police say the suspect doesnt match the description of a suspect who groped two women earlier this month. Police are still looking for that person. Were following a developing story out of the south bay and no doubt its a dangerous job to begin with. Two construction workers injured after an incident at facebooks Head Quarters in menlo park. Thats where we find kris sanchez to explain what is being called a catastrophic equipment failure. Good morning, chris. Reporter it has to be a catastrophic failure for a beam like that to fall from 40 feet above the ground. Thats not supposed to happen and the fact that those two workers who were safety harnessed to that beam were catapulted from it, the menlo fire chief says its a miracle they survived the whole ordeal. Lets look at a picture from the scene. You see the three men in the picture looking up at the beam that failed and fell 40 feet almost to the ground. It fell about halfway down before it caught and stopped abruptly, catapulting the workers to the ground. This is video of the construction scene this morning where the work will stop phenomenon cal osha gets to the bottom of how the incident happened. The sunny vailbased contractor level 10 construction also built facebooks building 20 which the Company Claims praise from Mark Zuckerberg for being ahead of schedule and under budget when it was completed in 2015. When we hear from the construction company, cal osha or facebook, we will update your story and if were not on the air you can find us on our social media platforms. Im krisnbc on twitter. With. Were learning new details on a robbery heist on board of a abort train. This has barts board of directors getting ready to meet to talk about safety. Surveillance cameras are being used to identify a mop of teenagers accused of robbing passenger this is last weekend. As we reported, 50 teenagers poured on to a train at the coliseum station last saturday night. Bart police say they robbed seven passengers and ended up injuring two others. Now weve learned that Surveillance Video from inside the train has led police to the suspects. At the moment theyre at the process of arresting them. We may learn more about how Contra Costa County voters feel about the proposed west county jail expansion. Supervisors in february voted to move ahead with the project. The board is hoping to get state funding for a new high security wing. Richmond city leaders are among those opposed to expanding. A Market Research firm will present their results in a survey of votes. We are learning about the arrest another arrest of a cable car operator accused of skimming. 55yearold david reyes is accused of stealing fares in San Francisco. Investigators say reyes was pocketing cash fares. This is on the heels of what we found out last week, conductor Albert Williams of napa, arrested for allegedly doing the same thing. 32,000 in cash was found a williams home, even though hes accused of stealing about 900. The embezzlement investigation began two months ago at munis request. More signs that Climate Change is changing our ecology in california. The press democrat reporting its causing moss animals found in the waters off the sonoma coast to die off. The organisms change their chemical structure when the water warms up but then disappear by dissolving as the water cools down. Scientists at uc davis says this could happen to sea stars, sea urchins and many more kinds of marine life. Those are food sources for many, many more mammals and animals. Its 6 08. I want to get you up and awake with this beautiful view of heavenly. This will put you in a great mood. Thats a live camera. This weekend will be a warm one at 50 degrees tomorrow for the high and 58 degrees on saturday. Yeah, we have a lot of snow on the ground but i expect it to be milting as on sunday well be up to 65 degrees there. Maybe today you plan on hitting the links at half moon bay, expect sunshine, temperatures in the low 50s to start but upper 50s throughout the afternoon. As we head now to make tracking highway 4 and 92. Highway 4 because we have continued issues coming down out of pittsburg and bay point. The map looks great. Well talk about highway 92 in a second but i want to show you things are moving better at port chicago highway where the crash is on the shoulder but the backup continues to build out of pittsburg and bay point. Thats an issue. Cut down through kirker pass, a lot of folks use that. Now the san mateo bridge. I just learned about a crash. A vehicle with a bus it sounds like traveling westbound. Your commute direction. That could be an issue for folks getting there but the travel is still nice and smooth. I do see brake lights being tapped about midacross the flat section considered the dunbarton bridge. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Starting to build there. All the buzz right now of bee swarms in Northern California. Coming up in three minutes, the reason bees are more active right now and what you should do if you find a hive in your backyard. Probably not that. San francisco takes on President Trump with a new slogan. Well look at that in business and tech. Mike trx mike ad libs good thursday morning. 6 12. We still have clouds over the south bay as we take a live look outside at san jose. The temperature trend for los gatos, it will be 57 at 9 00 this the morning. Your lunchtime temperature at 65 into the upper 60s and briefly hitting 70 degrees today. It will be a beautiful afternoon but as we head into the weekend, really heating up. Well talk about that in five minutes. And right now looking at travel times and still 23 minutes, not bad, from highway 4 to the bay bridge. Thats the east shore freeway. The bay bridge moves well. Were watching the san mateo bridge and well see the shakeup from the crash. Mike, thank you. 6 13, bees are on the move and beekeepers in Northern California are seeing more swarms than usual this year. Experts say bees are especially active right now because of the rain weve had in recent months. That prevented the bees from getting out as much as theyd like. Until now, a beekeeper explains why this is creating issues for bees. That causes the hive to so massively reproduce, mike is many bees, new bees if a hive gets too crowded, some bees leave and the swarms they create get attached to nearly everything including items in your back yard, even your home, hopefully not on to your shirt. The swarm will Start Building combs that cause structural damage to the property so its important to have professionals remove the bees as soon as you find them. What is he immune to bees . He doesnt have a suit on or anything. 6 14 right now. Students in one north bay city will get extra sleep starting next year. How great does that sound . The board of directors in novato approved this week later start times at all schools. The first bell will ring at 8 00 a. M. For high schoolers, 8 20 for middle schoolers and 8 40 for the kids in elementary school. The superintendent says starting school later will give students extra time to sleep and then you have to be prepared to learn. Every last minute counts in the morning, as we know. Kid or adult, doesnt matter. Wall street pleased with the tax reform proposals. They think the overall plan is too vague. Reporter we were expecting details. We got a onepage paper with a lot of white space. Well talk about the details and what it means for you and your family as we look at politics in a half hour. But futures are flat, dow down slightly wednesday. Nasdaq stayed above 6,000. San francisco is going to try a new policy and a new advertising slogan. Theyre going to call it always welcome. This according to the San Francisco business times. San francisco tourism worries about the affect that americas image may have on the city. United airlines has released an 11point internal report on that violent removal of a San Francisco chicago passenger from a st. Louis flight. Some details we already knew. United is upping the value of its travel vouchers to as much as 10,000. It wont call police if the situation isnt a crime. Probably the biggest change. It will try to figure out what flights people are likely to give up seats on and what theyre not. For instance, passengers on flights to smaller cities or the last flight of the day are less likely to give up their seats willingly. The situation with dr. Dao was terrible but the ceos reaction added to the controversy. When oscar munoz first reacted its like he hadnt even looked at the video. Lester holt will talk to munoz just ahead on the today show. Primarily, if we start with the basic premises in all our policies and how we fly, putting the customer at the center of this, i think the policies will fan out and avoid issues like that. Add we had in place what weve rolled out today, a couple items, the incident with dr. Dao would never have happened because we would have never called Law Enforcement to take somebody out of a seat they paid for and were just on their way home. Thats ahead on the today show at 7 00. All kinds of stories are popping up. This morning were hearing about details of a delta passenger who claims he was kicked off a plane after he stood up to go to the bathroom while the plane was waiting for takeoff, despite instructions from the flight crew not to. Some reports say the plane has been waiting on the ground for 30 minutes. The plane taxied back to the gate and he was removed. Were waiting on details. There is a Youtube Video. It doesnt give us any idea how long the plane was there. I think theres a difference between gate to runway, oh, ill go to the restroom and weve been sitting here forever. Were still waiting to understand the details. Theres always a Youtube Video now days. Especially after the United Airlines flight more videos in general seem to be popping up here, scott. Everybodys got a camera. 6 17 right now. A hollywood actor hosting a special prom next month in sacramento. Its the annual evening of dreams which is a prom for students with special needs. This week actor jermel nakia flew to sacramento to help with a special tuxedo fitting. He became interested in helping after seeing a viral video of a Folsom High School quarter back asking his date to evening of dreams. Just because someone is different the way the world may see them, they still can have things that are normal. The evening of dreams prom coming up on may 20 and nakia plans to help out on the big night. Getting ready to party. Well be partying into the weekend with sunshine and it will definitely be a week end to head to the beach. It will feel like summer but not yet. Heres a look live at san jose. You see clouds rolling buy and this will move out very soon 52 in livermore, 52 in oakland and San Francisco as you get ready to head out the door. As we go through the east bay it will be 72 in danville and antioch 74 degrees. Well also see upper 50s along the coast but mid60s as you go into the inner by a and down the peninsula. 62 at the outer sun set while 72 in novato seeing sea gulls flying by, theyre the only one. I guess the crew getting the field ready. If you will will heading out to at t park for the giants game it will be an early afternoon game and at noontime were at 61 degre degrees. Gusty winds will be blowing around a lot of the pollen. Were still moderate on the tree and grass pollen count and its mainly oak, pine, and juniper, thats what were seeing as far as tree pollens. Let me show you. Motion of us are feeling wind speeds at 15 to 20 miles an hour so it will be breezy. Much more gusty along the coastline. These winds stay up throughout the day tomorrow as our temperatures go from cool to warm and you see that transition happens quickly. So this weekend well be in the mid70s in San Francisco, upper 70s by next week and summertime temperatures for the inland areas, look how hot it will be by wednesday and next week. As we those mike giving us an update on the san mateo bridge. We talked about the crash reported midspan. That turned into a car dragging a chain. Some of you might have heard my report or others while you were on the road. We were looking at a light build through the trivalley and a crash at wynton toward the san mateo bridge on the shoulder and you see that across the san mateo and dunbarton are moving well but our waze report says getting across from hayward in toward redwood city you can drive across the san mateo bridge and its only 41 minutes. 42 minutes if you travel toward the dunbarton bridge so both looking good right now. You go ahead and make your choice as well either now or wherever youre leaving. Go to your waze app and make sure youre on our team, click your profile and join nbc bay area wazers and we can share the Community Online and trade information about possible alternates or what is going on on the roadway ahead. Back to you. 6 21 right now. Its a controversial netflix show sparking discussion about Critical Issues facing teenagers. Coming up after the break, the reasons some critics say 13 reasons why is dangerous. Someone elses loan tarnishes her Credit Report and no one is taking action. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. A popular netflix show is confronting some of the most important is 6 24 on your thursday morning. A popular netflix show is confronting some of the most important issues in schools across the country but some critics say its glamorizing suicide. The Netflix Original show 13 reasons why is a fictitious show about a teenagers suicide and the 13 tapes she leaves behind explaining why she took her own life. Its become a popular show among teens and adults confronting issues like bullying rape and suicide. A journalism professor at Quinnipiac University says the show has been successful because of its realness and controversi controversial content. Netflix hit the right notes in terms of show content, show demographic with the understanding that it would do extremely well on social media bauds thats where conversations tyke place. Critics say the show glamorizes suicides and could be dangerous for teenagers having suicidal thoughts. Nbc bay area responds to a Pleasant Hill woman who was told to pay off a loan. The loan wasnt hers. She turned to our Consumer Team for help. Chris chmura joins with us another success story. Reporter Christina Thompson received an alert her credit score dropped last may. After digging around she found a delinquent loan on her Credit Report with a balance of 2900. But christina said the account wasnt hers so she contacted the lender, net credit financial. They insisted the loan was christinas. She said she did everything she could think of to prove otherwise. She turned over her Bank Statements to show she never received funds, she filed a Police Report but net credit financial didnt budge. It even turned her over to a debt collector. Late fees and penalties pushed the balance up to 32, 00 so christina asked us to call net credit financial. We did and it removed the loan from her Credit Report and called off the debt collector. The company said it linked the error to fraudulent activity it said its story ms. Thompson was targeted by these criminals. Net credit takes seriously the responsibility to prevent, combat and investigate fraud if someone demands you pay off a debt that isnt yours, off federal right to make them prove your obligation. Start by sending them a letter, can we help you, too . Call us the number is 888996tips or log on to nbcbayarea. Com responds. A south bay woman is asking for help after her wedding ring was stolen from a car. Up next, the clue that could lead to a break in this case. It made national news, a flash mob style robbery on a bart train. The steps bart is taking to make sure it doesnt happen again. Youre watching today in the bay. Find pingpong. Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. Thats amazing there is a place where heroes hspiderman. Black widow. Captain america. And eddie . So, whats the plan . Breaking out the guardians, pal. Come celebrate the allnew guardians of the galaxymission breakout during the summer of heroes, only at disneyland resort. Hero up we ve got some patch clouds to start but then they ll clear out, and things will start warming right now at 6 30, we have some match patchy clouds but th theyll clear up. Looking over downtown san jose this morning, welcome to thursday morning. Thanks for starting your day with us. Im laura garciacannon. Im sam brock. That was san jose and it was cloudy there but we can see the bay bridge behind us. A big improvement. In San Francisco theyre saying what clouds because this weather system is rolling out and we are still seeing them linger in the south bay and peninsula as well. We are looking at live cameras and the current temperatures. Its 55 with clouds in the south bay but starting to clear in the peninsula and the trivalley where its 52 degrees. Also 52 in San Francisco, northbound 51 with high this is afternoon reaching into the 70s. Its going to be a beautiful day. Get up, get moving, well talk about the weekend forecast in seven minutes. Mike is talking about the roadways. Is it looking good . I can help with the get moving but not the get up. Its tough for everybody to do. Folks, when you get up, on the roadways youre moving well, northbound just a little build for the silicon valley. No problems san mateo through the peninsula and east bay and trivalley a smooth flow of traffic. We have a 34minute drive from highway 4 to the bay bridge toll plaza so we have traffic through berkeley out of richmond but nothing dramatic, metering lights are on. Back to you. Happening today, a bart crackdown on crime. The board of directors is meeting to talk about preventing fare cheaters and what to do about the wake of flash mob style robberies that happened over the weekend. Pete suratos joins us live with a busy day for bart conditioned concerns for passengers. Reporter according to bart. Theyre saying they lose between 15 million to 25 million every year from the fare cheaters and thats why it will be discussed during the evening board of directors meeting, a rare meeting taking place in downtown oakland later today. Theyre saying the meeting was planned in december to accommodate the public since the meetings usually take place in the morning. The topic is relevant following the incident with teenagers hopping fare gates at the Oakland Coliseum stop, jumping on a train and snatching cell phones and purses from passengers on bard. I got a chance to speak to the board president of bart and she says the fare evasion has been a longtime concern for riders and solutions will be discussed tonight. There are Solutions Including Capital Investments so making the barriers higher so people cant jump over them. Doing things with the fare gates to make them harder to fare evade and some solutions involving enforcement to have more officers out there. Bart officials are pushing for the solutions to be a part of the upcoming budget which will be discussed during the meeting tonight. This is the first evening meeting in two years and it will take place at 5 00 p. M. In downtown oakland at the kaiser center. Live in millbury, pete suratos, to today in the bay. Vallejo fire investigators trying to determine the cause of an Early Morning hours fire. It started on benicia road. The Vallejo Fire Department posted this video. Crews say there were no injuries. New details on a story we first broke here on today in the bay. The search continues for the suspects involved in a violent beating in the san jose state camp campus. That fight was caught on Surveillance Video. The video is disturbing. Its a brawl that broke out about 1 30 yesterday morning outside of a nearby jackintheboxed on 4th and san carlos. Police say the victim was a come in dark clothing getting punched. Several other women also throwing punches. The victim is thrown to the ground and kicked. No word on the victims condition. A south bay woman is on a mission to reclaim her most prized possession, her wedding ring which thieves stole during a car break in. Carrie perez of morgan hill ran the rock and roll Half Marathon in San Francisco a few weeks ago. She turned to her car on golden gate near franklin to find this, it was crashed. Several bags gone. That included hers per where she left her engagement rink and the wedding band. We only got married seven months ago so the ring is super sentimental. It means a lot. There is a chance police could solve the case. A private investigator obtained i have owe he says shows two people using perezs credit card after the break in. She says she would pay an award if an arrest is made. There are blistering allegations being leveled against wells fargo reportedly tied to the massive fake account scandal. The mercury news reques obtai documents that claimed wells fargo were ordered to go into neighborhoods with high numbers of undocumented immigrants and coax them into joining bank accounts. Video view yours secretly recording women is actually a crime on the rise in the bay area. And a creepy one at that. Vic vicky nguyen is here with the report. Reporter imagine being reported in a private moment. It happened to this bay area woman. She turned to us for help after discovering a hidden camera in the ladies room. This has happened more often because cameras have gotten better smaller and cheaper. A coworker found a small camera in the paper towel dispenser. She was stunned and shocked by the Police Response. I feel really really disappointed. Do you think your officer could have done a more thorough information . We always learn and try to do bett better. Reporter we investigate the Police Response case and tell you what not to do if you find one of these cameras. We investigate tonight at 11 00. If you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call or send us an email to the unit at nbcbayarea. Com. Just about 6 37. Watch the clock change. Theres a little build for the trivalley, east bay and south bay moving north no surprises, i want to take you to San Francisco just got word of a crash northbound 101 at the hospital curve area that may impact lanes a smooth drive on to and off of the bay bridge transit systems are reporting delays for ace trains 1 and 3 but bart not reporting problems. An easy drive around the bay, 880 southbound. The flag flaps just a bit so driving through fremont is a breeze right now. Thats what i got. [ laughter ] easy for you to say, mike. It easy to say that we are now only one day away from friday. Easy because we are and it will be a great weekend. Friday eve were looking forward to the weekend. We know its been a cloudy week and were looking ahead to sunshine. Heres saturday and sundays forecast for the peninsula upper 70s, San Francisco will be very comfortable. Nice breeze on saturday up to 70 degrees. As we go from the south bay it will be 08 to 82 on saturday and sunday to the east bay, so expect sunshine and also some very comfortable temperatures. We have so many events including the butter and egg days in petaluma. The parade starts at noon. Look at how the temperatures warm up. Have sun block and something to protect you from the sun like an umbrella as you will be out there for a long time also enjoying parade in San Francisco for cesar chavez day and the mission district. Mostly sunny skies. We talked about the lower 70s. Drink lots of water. For the peninsula, at moffit field we have botball. A cool start but look at how we worm up through the afternoon into the low 80s with sunshine and in oakland theres a dense festival at Jack London Square at noon. It will be in the upper 60s, mid70s throughout the day and mostly sunny skies. Hot weather heading down to paso robles. 79 for tomorrow. Look how hot on sunday. Thats the kind of weather we may see if you want something nice and breezy and relaxing, how about heading to santa cruz . It will be in the low 70s throughout the weekend saturday and sunday and if you want to check out snow, its still happening at kirkwood. Its still on the ground but the sunshine will melt some of that snow and it will be in the mid50s for the end of the weekend. Well look at the forecast as it warms up here in just a few minutes. You have to love california. Something for everyone. 6 40 right now. The culture controversy continues. The event planned in berkeley today even though the controversial speaker will no longer be visiting the cal campus. We know more about the tax reform President Trump wants to perform. Well tell you what it means for your family ahead on day 98. Youre talking taxes and tech earnings. A big issue for wall street. The Dow Jones Industrial average up six points to 20,981. Alphabet, amazon and intel reporting after the closing bell. Back in two minutes. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. mike ad libs traic 66 43. We have sunshine breaking out across the peninsula. Heres a live look outside palo alto and 101. All dry and in sunnyvale our temperature trend starts out at 60 degrees. Throughout the afternoon it warms up quickly 70 degrees later today and we can see 80s in the forecast. A look at that coming up at about 6 49. Travel times look great for the east bay and tri valley. A lee slower flow but a lot mor slowing in San Francisco. Ill show you whats going on getting into the city. Thank you very much. Its 6 43 right now. A live look at berkeley where conservative commentator ann counter wont be showing up today but protesters might. Her speech was canceled due to safety concerns. She expressed her disappointment at the groups who invited her to campus saying they caved to the pressure to cancel, several groups are planning rallies amid the controversy. One begins at 10 00 a. M. , a second is planned for noon at bran kroft a bancroft and telegraph. Well cover that for our midday newscast. 6 44. Developing in sacramento authorities are looking for the man who randomly attacked two women, killing one with his bare hands. Neighbors say the two women were on a daily walk on this dirt track at a local high school. One woman in her 80s died from her injuries. The other woman in her 60s is recovering in the hospital. Turns out the attacker jumped a fence and rabb off. Investigators havent figured out any kind of deeper motive. General motors is trying its hand at car sharing and using San Francisco as one of its guinea pigs. The new service is called gig, users can rent gm cars and use an app to pick up the vehicle. It will be in beta testing today if San Francisco and san diego. A lot of athletes tested out and tonight is the night. Happening today a look right now at what at least for the moment are two hot beds of football activity, levi stadium on the right side and fans are focused on one thing for both teams start of the nfl draft is this evening. The 49ers, of course, picking second overall and the raiders are selecting 24th. Fans for both teams will be holding draft parties. The 9ers event is happening at levi stadium. For the raiders, the fox theater in oakland. A live look at at t park where wins like that comefrombehind victory in the last innings could be just what the giants need. Two home runs, Christian Arroyo going deep to left field and the second one to tie the game, michael morse, he brings the giants back, thats three all there after that eighth inning homer. Morse did huge homers during the giants last world series run hunter pence, a sac fly to left field and the giants go on to win this game 43. If they win today they have an afternoon game, that would be three out of four from the rival dodgers. Great day for a baseball game. 6 46. If you are Walking Around the Berkeley Hills look out for pipes above. Youll see a lot of them being airlifted today. East bay municipal utility districts will be airlifted 4,400 feet of pipe. They have to replace aging water mains in the panoramic way neighborhood next to the claremont canyon roegional preserve. A man is in jail for allegedly setting two fires at the trump hotel in las vegas. Both fires were set last night. One of them was on the pool deck level. The other on the 17th moore from of the hotel. Police say toasters, towels and other materials were used to ignite the fire. One Security Guard was injured. We dont know the extent of his injuries. The House Oversight committee will be holding a propose proposed wall on the mexican borders. Border patrol and immigration experts will be testifying later today. Congress can talk about President Trumps wall all it wants but it appears it wont fund it. One of the many defeats for the president in the last week. Reporter defeats and 180s. Trump when he was candidate said he had a number of priorities including the wall, he said he would label china a currency manipulator. Said hed do that the first day and the nuclear deal with iran number one priority he said and he said he would throw nafta in the trash. Not only has he done none of these things, he takes the opposite position on many of them. A short time rag the president tweeted he had a cell phone call with leaders of mexico and canada and they convinced anymore not to withdraw from nafta, the north American Free trade agreement. He tweeted i received calls from the president of mexico and the Prime Minister of canada asking to renegotiate nafta rather than terminate and i agreed. Were looking over that new tax proposa proposal. Its vague, a little shorter thatt e than we expected but theres good news for you the taxpayer and me the taxpayer. Standard exemptions will be bigger. The deduction on mortgage interest stays in. Bad news, though, you are going to have to pay federal taxes on the money you paid already for property tax and state income tax. This is bad news for californians. What does it mean for 3ru6rpres trump . Reasonable question. Reporter will the president pay more or less taxes as a result of this plan . I cant comment on the president s tax situation since i dont have access to that. No one knows what mr. Trumps taxes show except for mr. Trump and the irs. Hes refused to release his taxes so we dont know how he benefits from his own tax reform proposal, mnuchin claims those tax cuts will pay for themselves, using an unproven theory that george h. W. Bush call vood do economioo economic. Theres a theory if you cut taxes the economy will expand, people will make more money and pay more in money in tax. Critics say its like a diet where you eat potato chip so you wont be hungry therefore you wont eat and lose weight. Potato chips are very filling. What a diet plan. A diet i would like. Scott examines our president s tweets, executive orders and speeches each and every morning on today in the bay. He would like to hear from you. Share your thoughts on twitter scottmcgrew. Heres a tweet for you. Oh, my god yeah, a very special treat. Take a look. Do you recognize this . For disneyland goers, johnny depp was dressed up as captain jack sparrow. He surprised people in the pirates of the caribbean ride. The video was posted on twitter late last night and its been shared thousands of times. Can you imagine going by slowly in the boat where youre seeing the regular old pirates . That looks really real. That guy has a really good costume. Theyre doing Amazing Things with rides. So life like. Id jump off to get on that island. We have some great weather, if you will will hitting the road and heading out of town for the weekend we are going to have some great travel weather but youll want to stay right here as you step out the door right knew. 52 degrees, 52 in the try val trivalley. In San Francisco its bright and beautiful, all clouds are getting out of here so thats what we are in for for the rest of the afternoon. Its a nice and cool morning, you need a jacket and throughout the day it will be much more comfortable as the sun warms us up and lots of sunshine through the afternoon as our high temperatures reach into the 60s. Youll want to go outside and if you will be out there at at t park for the giants games, first pitch 12 45. Well stay in the low 60s throughout the day but the winds will kick up so make sure you have on long sleeves and something to protect yourself from the sun. Especially if you will be out there in the bleacher section. Heres the live look outside in san jose. It looks gloomy now but youll need the sunglasses today. As we will see, a lot of sunshine and also a tshirt to keep you nice and cool as our temperatures warm up and well have more tshirt weather into the weekend as highs go from the mid70s in San Francisco to the upper 70s for next week. No rain in this forecast. Were wiping that out. The inland areas from 75 to 82 for the weekend and then 87 degrees next week. All three seasons, id say, in one forecast, mike. What does it look like now as you get the update in San Francisco . Not as much variety as your forecast shows but we have a slower and better speeds throughout the south bay, better than we often see, same thing in hayward across the san mateo bridge but the big deal in San Francisco is we have lanes blocked northbound closer to octavia but we have that slowing there so you can take 280, the extension, in towards city streets, that might be a better option, getting out of the city well show you options on waze. A nice easy drive out of San Francisco and down towards san mateo. Half an hour if you take the 280 route for folks closer to the daly city portion. If you take the green route, 101, youre throwing through san mateo and burlingame so that adds five or six minutes. If you cut over to 380, you take the longer of both routes so thats not a wise choice. Make your wise choice for waze. I want you to join our team. We can benefit from your information, you can benefit from ours. This is nbc bay area wazers. You can join through your profile. Back to you. Looks good. This doesnt. A wave of rock and dirt blocking traffic in mendocino county. A driver caught this video on highway 101 north of the town of leggette. Construction workers closed the highway because of the hillside then that happened. At one point workers started running down the highway to warn people to just stay back. Good advice there. Coming up next, well take a quick look at top stories on today in the bay. That includes two construction workers falling 40 feet and injured on facebooks centraling menlo park campus. The one thing they did that the fire chief said saved their life. Happening now on digital platforms, a Russian Navy Ship has sunk off the coast of istanbul. It collided with a freighter. 15 russian sailors had to be rescued but everyone is accounted for. Plus a payday for our former president. Were learning president obama will be paid 400,000 for a speech to wall street. It will be in september at a health care conference. Well be back here with more in just a few. Before you head out the door here are the top stories on today welcome back. 6 57 on this thursday morning before you head out the door, here are the top stories. These are live pictures from facebooks headquarters in menlo park where firefighters say it is a miracle two construction workers are alive this morning. The workers were harnessed 40 feet on a beam when somehow the beam shifted forcing the workers to fall. This was a catastrophic failure. Their fall was stopped abruptly, though, by their safety harnesses, that saved their lives. The workers were injured and taken to a hospital for care. No word on their condition. Live pictures from Stanford University this morning where theres been another report of a sexual battery. Campus police say a female staff member says a man grabbed her while she was drinking from a water fountain. It happened at the Mitchell Earth Sciences building yesterday. Police found the suspect but the staff member declined to press charges. For the first time in two years, bart will be holding a rare board of directors meeting in oakland at night. That meeting is more relevant following the incident over the week end where roughly 40 to 60 teens hopped fare gates at the coliseum station, jumped on to a train ledding to dublin and snatched cell phones. Two people were injured as a result. The board president for bart says fare evasion has long been a concern for riders and they plan on talking about safety and solutions during tonights meeting. Lets talk about the weather right now. Its a good thing across the bay area today. Yes, especially when you look out the window and see the sunshine. Were seeing that in San Francisco but not the south bay. We will get breezy winds in San Francisco, a high of 64 degrees. 68 degrees tomorrow. And then the weekend. It all clears out and warms up. Were into the mid70s, upper 70s by the middle of next week. Were going from spring to summer all within just a few days. Looks good. The weather is a hot topic for the weekend. Mike you are tracking a crash in San Francisco . I am. Karis forecast hot temperatures, not so hot for the drive but red means slowest temperatures. South bay and the trivalley, showing a light typical pattern, north 101 in San Francisco, jammed from the 280 split, a crash blocking two lanes of north 101 before you make your split to the bay bridge. That will delay folks on to the span and trying to get crews over there. Good luck. Its take your kids to work day if you happen to be doing that. Ill have some kids in the newsroom today. Three of them, i believe. I believe so. Should i bring my pomeranian . Thats my kid. Theyre your babies. See you for the neighbors bay area news at 11 00. Good morning. Deal good omorning. Deal or no deal. President trump now says he will not immediately pull the u. S. Out of nafta even though earlier in the day his advisors say he was considering it. What has the fate of what trump once called the worst trade deal ever . How will the white house pay for what may be the biggest tax cut in u. S. History . The treasury secretary will join us live. Nbc exclusive, united ceo speaking out as they release the report on the passenger dragging incident and acknowledges a string of mistakes and vows to make changes. This morning, lester holt goes oneonone with united ceo. Plea for help