Always unpleasant topic. This started at 3 30 in the morning, still have activity there. The speed sensors, most of the area looks fine as far as the flow of traffic. We are starting to see slowing on northbound 101 at highway 12 where the connecter is closed and two right lanes are blocked. A coroner arrived on scene. Usually after that happens, it takes another 40 minutes before the roadway can be cleared. This is northbound 101 at highway 12. Meanwhile, getting toward the bay bridge, still very pleasant from highway 4 to the back up at the toll plaza because the metering lights are on. Back to you. Thank you, mike. The high heat continues today. There are more concerns this morning about fire danger across the area. Pete suratos is live in santa rosa where crews will be on alert for the high fire danger. Pete, you are behind one of the many casualties or in front of it, i should say, one of the schools there. Its hard to recognize. Reporter yeah, good morning to you, laura and marcus. Yeah, definitely hard to recognize in santa rosa. If you are familiar with the Hidden Valley elementary off parker road, this is whats left of it, following the north bay wildfires. As you mentioned, fire crews are on high alert because of the heat in this area for a combination of reasons. We are talking about the dry heat and dry hills. Because of those conditions, it makes this area or areas in santa rosa following the fires very susceptible to fire. Think about the hot spots and the combination of the dry heat and the dry hill. With the little bit of rain we got at the end of last week, cal fire says they are keeping their guard up, looking for those hot spots. We have over 400 people out here working on the fire lines. Reinforce the containment. Make sure any hot spot is found and put out. Reporter the crews are clearly on high alert as a result of the heat and following those north bay wildfires. I want to point out the school is one of the many schools that were damaged as a result of the wildfires. All 20 schools in the district had to close as a result. Half of the schools will reopen on friday, the other half on monday. Live in santa rosa, pete suratos for today in the bay. Hopefully, it brings a little bit of normalcy for those kids. Thank you, pete. You can hear the echo going on. 6 03. A scare for drivers in the east bay that ends in a firy and deadly so low crash. Look at the scene, sadly, that was left behind. Chp says a wrongway driver on 880 crashed into that Center Divider in fremont. That is when the car burst into flames and the driver died. The crash happened after 2 00 a. M. In the northbound lanes near automall parkway. Chp officers were trying to stop that car. The driver has not been identified. A new video of an overnight crash in san jose on montague expressway. Here is what things looked like around 2 00 this morning. Police are looking for people who were in the toyota camry. They all took off after crashing into a semi. That truck driver stayed and cooperated with police. 6 04. The teenager who killed Maddie Middleton will stand trial as an adult. The lawyers will try to fight that decision. These are photos from inside the courtroom. Adrian, a. J. , gonzalez is accused of raping and killing her when he was 15 years olds. The little girls mother says a jury will now see what happened to her daughter. I feel very bad for the jury that is going to have to look at those awful photographs of what he did to my daughter. We were spared the photographs this time. We heard the details. The jury is going to have to see it all. You cant unsee things. If gonzalez remained in the youve nile system, he would have gotten out before his 23rd birthday. If convicted as an adult, he will face life in prison. New this morning, a man is facing charges for a wild ride over the weekend. This is in the south bay. Santa clara county Sheriffs Department says this man here, Justin Rucker drove through a front yard of a home and led deputies on a chase. This is before finally crashing. It was around 4 00 on sunday. Among those items, investigators say they found in his car, a crowbar, nylon and halloween mask. Also, stolen mail, credit cards and checks. It is 6 05. New this morning, the Housing Market might be cooling off according to a survey released by the California Association of realtors. Kris sanchez is taking a look alt the results and what it means if you are looking to buy or even sell. Good morning, kris. Reporter hi there, laura. This is a good news bad numbers story. If you are looking to sell, the average median price over the last september went up 125,000. If you are looking to buy, chances are you are going to continue to struggle with the low supply that we have been talking about for months. Overall, bay area home sales dropped 4 this september over a year ago the average home price went up 11 according to the California Association of realtors. What really matters is where you live and where you want to buy. Right . We broke it down with the county numbers. The biggest changes were alameda county, a 50 decrease in home sales this september compared to a year ago. Contra costa county saw a 5 drop. Napa 12 drop over last september. The one county with more sales marin, 24 increase in the number of homes sold. The counties largely unchanged were santa clara, San Francisco, san mateo and sonoma. From this graph, sales in blue are down. Supply, in yellow, is down even more and nowhere more than the bay area where there were 20 fewer homes for sale this year over last year. This is going to be a really big problem for folks in the north bay, where so many people lost their homes in sonoma and napa counties. I posted a poll asking what you are seeing in your neighborhood. Its not scientific. A third of you are seeing fewer sales. A third say you are seeing more sales and about a third of you say it is just about the same. You can still join the conversation. That poll is up on my twitter feed. I posted county by county numbers for you to decide whether this is good news or bad news. San jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Very interesting. Thank you so much for that one. Happening today, Bay Area Transportation leaders will get a view on how hov toll lanes are looking on 680. They run between walnut creek and san ramon. Drivers with fast track can use the lanes for a fee that is just depending on traffic levels. S 6 08. The proposal to close john f. Kennedy drive is facing tough opposition. They oppose closing the roadway permanently. Right now, it is closed on saturdays, but just during the summ summer months. We have a clear start this morning after setting several record High Temperatures yesterday afternoon. We are going to be close today. Enjoy the cool weather while we have it this morning. 58 right now in the peninsula and trivalley, 54 degrees. We are in the low 50s for the north bay, San Francisco, as you head out the door, 63 degrees. As we look at the day planner for oakland, 60 degrees at 8 00. Noontime temperature, 76 degrees. Lower 80s there today while some of the inland valleys will be heating up, again, into the low 90s. Well break it down in a few minutes. Mike is tracking a new crash in hayward. Thats right. It may be complicated over the next few as we look at the speed sensors. Hayward, we have the zpent icon. Southbound 880, the highway 92 transition, just before, judging by the speed sensors. Four vehicles in the middle lane. Thats causing more slowing. Its a gradual build out of san lorenzo. If it doesnt clear soon, a slow off 238. So far, castro valley, here, southbound 680 moves smoothly. Another crash blocking at least one lane. We are looking at the bay bridge, a smooth flow of traffic down the east shore and the peninsula looks great. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Next on today in the bay, a disturbing travel warning about a particular airline. Get her off my flight. She is a threat. She is belligerent. She is a threat to me. The reason the naacp is telling africanamericans not to fly American Airlines. Plus, apple seems to have trouble with its. Lets take a live look outside in san jose at 6 13 as you get ready to head out the door, a light jacket. Temperatures starting out in the upper 60s. Willow glen, 63 degrees. By noon, above where we should be this time of year, low 70s. Heading back to the upper 80s again today. We will be close to the record high, but we will take a look at where we smash those records coming up in five minutes. The trivalley is holding up steady. Not too bad for 680 and a crash. Well track that. Thanks, mike and kari. It is 6 14. California lawmakers are Digging Deeper into governor browns socalled water fix project. The 16 billion plan is far from being approved. Five california decmocrats say recent audit uses taxpayer money for funding the project and it may be illegal. They decided a review is needed. Allegations of Racial Discrimination is prompting a new warning, advising africanamericans to avoid flying American Airlines. Naacp says the airline may subject passengers to disrespectful, discriminatory and perhaps unsafe travel. A harvard law student says an American Airline pilot called police because she could not go on the plane. I then told them i cannot leave the flight without my stroller. I have too much stuff. He says get her off my flight. She is a threat. She is belligerent. She is a threat to me. The woman says they had to spend the night at the airport. 6 15 right now. President trump is expected to sign a bill expecting to make it harder to make Consumers Sue Companies that hurt them. It passed the senate last night. Scott mcgrew, just barely. Just barely, by the smallest margin. Vice president pence had to come in and break the tie. It was 5450. It unraveled protects put in place by protection agencies. Protections that allow them to team up in class action suits. Protections that would have undone the fine print requirement that you go to arbitration instead of suing. Companies like wells fargo try to use mandatory arbitration agreements to avoid those lawsuits. They are not uncommon. Senators who support the change say the lawsuits cost too much money and the money that the Financial Companies are going to save will be passed on to you. Wall street likes those new rules. The dow closed at another record high tuesday, pushed higher by caterpillar. S p is a better indicator of overall market. Look at the screen there. It was up by a few points. About 30 minutes ago, amazon announced a smart lock and Security Camera that work with alexa. They will allow you to see a delivery person at home while you are at work and let them in. Apple having trouble getting iphone x out the factory door. They are warning consumers to order them early. A Japanese Company says apple cut the production of the iphone x in half. Tim cook turning that into a positive. Not as many apples, turn it into lemonade. Most people preorder them and u. P. S. Shows up, hey, here is your new phone. Used to be a thing. We used to send bob redell out there. Fumbles and broke his phone. I remember that. We should pull up that video. I want to see that one. He gets a brandnew iphone. Showing it to reporters, no. It smashed. I think apple replaced it. I think so, too. Anyone sing in the car around here . Me. Im guilty. This decision to belt out a 1990 dance hit inside his car landed him a 149 ticket. What . For being too loud in public. Thats right. He was singing. Everybody dance now. He denies the singing was deafening as authorities claim. He was happily singing along with the windows mostly rolled up to cnc music factorys gonna make you sweat. You remember that one from 1991. An officer issued a fine for screaming in a public place. They asked me. I said, no, i was singing. He said, okay. I need your driving license. Reporter were you screaming in your car . I was singing. You were singing . Everybody dance now. He thought Montreal Police wanted him to move out of the way. They wanted him to stop singing. Everyone is a critic out there. Can you imagine the confines of you and me, laura . Oh, my gosh. You sing all the time. What about car pool karaoke . Thats right. Dont go to canada. I guess not. A judge now, judging all the talent. Its a no for me. As you are heading out the door, dont sing too loud in the car this morning. You may have the windows rolled up anyway. Its a fairly cool start. We will have a day where we will have the airconditioning on, once again. We were setting new records yesterday. Let me show you the numbers. Where we were in the low 90s and some spots, the normal High Temperature for perspective here, 72 degrees in san jose. It was 94 yesterday. This record that was set back in 1959 went down by several degrees. Santa rosa set a new record. Livermore, 91 degrees. Oakland, 92. We had 92 yesterday in halfmoon bay. Still going to be warm today, but not that hot. We start out this morning with low 50s in the north bay, upper 50s for the south bay. As we get a look at the High Temperatures today, cupertino, a high of 87. Morgan hill, 91 degrees. Some low 90s from concord to walnut creek and down to danville. Hayward up to 85 degrees. Also 85 today in san mateo. Mission district 83. 80 for the high. 90 in napa. Its a very warm start to our day. In some parts of the bay area, as you head out for school, you may need long sleeves. Have the name on the tag of the jacket. Look how hot it gets. Temperatures mid80s, walking home so the kids will not have is that jacket on later today. For the after School Activities like football practice in the east bay, at 3 00, its going to be very warm. All that sunshine making it into the upper 80s. You want to make sure the kids stay hydrated. The winds pick up as we head into the evening, as it slowly cools off. San francisco, more of a cooling trend for several days. Upper 60s in the forecast. For the inland areas, its going to be warm heading into the weekend. Sunday looks much nicer. Mike is tracking the east bay commute building. You are expecting it to build. We are going to talk about approaching the bay bridge. That is actually looking great. Slowing down east shore freeway, steady from richmond. Slowing for 680 toward 24. This was a concern. We are seeing gradual slowing from san lorenzo to highway 92 from the nimitz. It must be on the shoulder, the traffic pattern is smoothing out as far as the speeds go. Theres slowing here, too. I want to take you to waze. Anyone who joined nbc bay area wazers, you are on the team. The slowing northbound heading to the scene of the crash. Why . It is blocking two lanes. One is an hov lane. We want to say thank you for the information. It helps us understand why the pattern is so weird. Back to you. Next on today in the bay, helping north bay wildfire victims. How the mlb champs are giving back before game two of the world series. You are involved in an accident with a ride share driver. Whose insurance pays . Im consumer investigator, chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds, next. Hey grandpa. Hey, kid. Really good to see you. You too. You tell grandma you were going fishing again . Maybe. vo the best things in life keep going. Thats why i got a subaru, too. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. He was hit by an uninsured nbc bay area responds to an alameda bicycle who was hit been an uninsured lyft driver. Lyft didnt tell him they were going fix his banged up bike, so he turns to chris chmura for help. Hes been biking for 30 years and never had an accident until this past june. Joe says he was stopped at a red light. I saw her coming at the last instant and dove to the right as she plowed into my bicycle and pinned it under the back end of her car. The driver was working for lyft. She told joe, she had a customer waiting so gave him her insurance card and left. According to the card, her policy expired. Joe then asked lyft to pay to fix his bike. The only response he got was automated emails. So, we reached out to lyft. A claims adjuster called joe and days later, he got a check for 1600. That was the cost to fix his bike. Lyft says it was in the process of handling joes claim before we got involved. Even hoe the company paid up, lyft requires drivers to carry their own insurance. Whose insurance protects you . The drivers or lyfts . That depends. Well lay out how that works tonight at 6 00. If you have a Consumer Complaint call us. We are online at www. Nbcbayarea. Com responds. See you tonight. Thanks, chris. The dodgers took game one against the Houston Astros yesterday. Today, the team from l. A. Are packing supplies for the fire victims. The dodgers join l. A. s boys and girls club to get the supplies together. They will be distributed by a petaluma nonprofit. Try to end that rivalry a bit. 6 27 right now. Coming up next on today in the bay, new this morning, a Police Officer is hospitalized after getting hit by a car. The search is under way this morning for the driver. Reporter a rape reported on campus here at Stanford University. What Campus Police are saying about this assault. A live look outside at downtown san mateo. Right now at 6 30 on your wednesday morning, lets take a peek outside overlooking downtown san mateo. Nice and inviting. Now is the time you can get a parking space. Just saying. Good morning to you, thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. It is going to heat up. Lets go meteorologist kari hall. You have been tracking it. Cooler than yesterday . A little cooler, but watching the records through the day in a few spots. I dont think we will set as many. Look at the highs for today. It will be low 80s in San Francisco, 89 degrees in palo alto and upper 80s to low 90s for inland areas. Concord bracing for another hot day, up to 91 degrees. As we head through the forecast, it will be cooling off. Check out the weekend in San Francisco. Mid60s. While the inland valleys will still make progress. Well talk about the upper 70s and that halloween forecast coming up. Mike,