redemption for the cubs most infamous fan. and a class trip to celebrate a teacher s big day. august 1st, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this tuesday morning. hoda is in for savannah, while savannah enjoys some vacation time. good morning, everybody. the president s new chief of staff, john kelly, is showing it s not going to be business as usual as the white house. he immediately dismissed newly minted communications director, anthony scaramucci. five senior administration officials have been given the boot since president trump was sworn in five months ago. we re going to talk to lindsey graham to get his take on all this. nobody likes morning hours more than senator graham. it s good to have him here. we have a lot of other news to cover, as well. let us start at the white house. nbc national correspondent, peter alexander, h
at the coast mostly sunny elsewhere. 4:0062 around the bay at the coast, 85 inland and then 60s and 70s a delightful evening coming up. how about the commute. the entire bay area lookin good right now, so we ll take it, that s for sure. bay bridge off toya much better start than yesterday. here s a quick check at the toll plaza, no metering lights yet just a little bit of stack up in the cash lanes that we see this time of day. and the drive time in san francisco post the toll booths wide open in the green at just eight minutes. we have an nish sonoma if you re driving through on state route 12. i ll talk more about that in less than 10. now breaking news from the abc 7 live desk. we continue following breaking news. rght now police are investigated a murder in east san jose after a body was found inside a liquor store overnight. i want to show you these live images. this is where it happened in a strip mall there like theed at sim by road and white. still not clear
heart breaking plea to the thieves. and we are also watching the situation in north korea this morning. the u.n. that country with serious sanctions. in response to the missile testing that continues in that country. we will have more on the sanctions and what they are targeting coming up in a moment. and you watched giants last night. the panda, that guy is back. he was back on the field for the giants last night for the first time since 2014. and he had a big hit. good to see. it started a rally in the seventh. we will talk more about that. we are talking about every time i mean, do you think people were mad when he left. he went for money, and he went out to boston and overweight and didn t play well. he s only 30. maybe he can get on track here. i m wondering if people are happy to see him, rosemary. they won last night, right? yes, and a walkoff in the 10th. if we in, the fans are happy, right? right now anything for the giants is a good thing. so
few degrees apart, that tells you we have widespread cooling. 51 calistoga and kelseyville 61. the low clouds will retreat some and firing off to the north and east with good thunderstorms but out of our area now. we have a low in place with the could good breeze, 60s, 70s and 80s. it s been a long time. sal, i have a rule of thumb, a new month and new weather pattern and it carries over for a few days before eventually things change. it looks like our blazing hot july is over and done with. i really do like the fog. nothing wrong with that. good morning everyone. we are off to a good start on this monday, very first traffic report for the week. looking at 580 and the altamont pot pass at 205 is light. now is a good time to get out there before the traffic gets heavy and looking good through livermore, pleasanton, castro valley and into hayward. at 880 in front of the coliseum traffic is moving well and we are off to a good start. one of two suspects linked to the c
and traffic will be doing very well driving into san francisco, and all the bay area bridges are doing well. it is 5:00. pretrial motion set in the case of the undocumented immigrant that is accused of killing kate steinle and lopez sanchez is charged with first- degree murder, and the superior judge that was assigned to the case will hear the legal motions today. kate steinle was walking with her father and family friend along the waterfront in july 2015 and the bullet hit her in the back killing her. lopez sanchez had been deported five times before the shooting. the trial date has not been scheduled but jury selection is expected to start this week. one suspect linked to the homicide in illinois will face the judge today and wyndham lathem will be a rain this morning, accused of being linked to the july 27 fatal stabbing in his apartment and wyndham lathem teaches microbiology and immunology at the northwestern university. officials say he is not doing well psycholog