Coast. So that 7. 9 magnitude earthquake was at 1 31 in the morning and that caused some waves underwater to start to move. So as that is that watch is issued, here is how you should prepare. You should make sure that you are tied in and know exactly whats going on, keep the tv on nbc bay area. If you do have to leave, make sure that your smartphone is on nbcbayarea. Com or you have the app. And then you should also make sure that you know those Evacuation Routes and plan to leave with your family. Make sure that everyone knows exactly whats going on. Then if a tsunami watch is issued you should pack your valuables and Important Documents and its unclear at that time when you would be able to return. So just make sure you have everything you need spatial in the coastline and also in San Francisco, but we do not have the tsunami watch, but thats something we will continue to monitor as the day goes along. Thats good advice. We should all prepare for an earthquake, but the watch has been called off this morning. Our Team Coverage continues with today in the bays pete suratos he is live in San Francisco with a warning for people to really continue to stay away from the water. Reporter good morning, laura. Yeah, we just spoke to the department of Emergency Management here in San Francisco, a spokesperson that weve talked to and they said they are still telling people to stay away from the coastline for at least the next 12 hours despite the fact that that tsunami watch was canceled. Here he is moments ago explaining the importance of staying away from the coastline because of those dangerous currents. As of 4 00 a. M. This morning the tsunami watch was canceled for the u. S. West coast and that including San Francisco, however, you know, theres always the possibility of dangerous currents in the water even though the watch has been canceled. So its advisable that you stay out of the water at least for the next 12 hours. In the event there is some dangerous currents out there that, you know, you can get in trouble in if you are in the water. Reporter so i want to point out that includes shoreline areas, marinas and harbors. We were at the marina green for our last live report, that would be one of those areas considered to be in that tsunami zone, but you see that he says there to stay away from the coastline for at least the next 12 hours and an important note, he said if a tsunami were ever to hit to always go inland. Thats an important piece of information he wanted to share with our viewers. Were live in San Francisco, pete suratos, for today in the bay. Certainly helpful information there, pete. We want to continue with that today in the bays bob redell is live in santa cruz this morning to show us the conditions there. Certainly the current thing that a lot of people were talking about. Reporter good morning, marcus. The number of people who live on these boats behind me in the Santa Cruz Harbor you have to imagine they are very relieved this morning because they were awakened by Harbor Patrol officers overnight to let them know that this tsunami watch was in effect and that they might have to evacuate. Fortunately as weve been reporting that watch has been lifted so these people are safe here in the harbor. This is something that people here take very seriously because of what happened several years ago back in 2011, you will recall that japan earthquake, the 9. 0 magnitude earthquake off the shores of japan that created a large tsunami that destroyed parts of japan and had a huge impact here on the west coast in the Santa Cruz Harbor, that wave came in, it sunk 17 vessels, damaged many more and estimated it caused around 17 million at least in damage to the infrastructure. So again, people here will remember that, know that this can happen here even if the earthquake is hundreds of miles away like it was overnight in alaska. Reiterating what the San Francisco department of Emergency Services was saying, we spoke with the National Weather service out of monterey, this he said there is still a chance that the bay area, the Northern California coastline could experience some sort of tsunami experience, and im quoting them on that, and were talking, again, about stronger than usual currents. Something to keep in mind if youre swimming out in the ocean or if you are on a small boat or a kayak. Reporting live here in santa cruz, bob redell, today in the bay. San francisco telling people to stay away from the coastline areas until about 5 00 today. Big reminder for everyone along those areas today. Now, as we mentioned thousands of people evacuated from their homes in alaska after that earthquake. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live at the usgs this morning in menlo park, updating us on those new updates that youre getting, kris. A lot of things could change minute by minute. Reporter thats right. Things happened very fast, marcus. We know this is a very powerful earthquake, a 7. 9, but luckily that tsunami threat is now averted for us here and also in alaska. But here is how the usgs described what that earthquake actually felt like and how it happened. The 7. 9 occurred as a result of a strike slip faulting at its location, the pacific plate con verging with the north america plate. It is a sideways movement kind of like what we saw along the hayward fault, what we saw in napa a few years ago, also along the an andreas fault. It was Strong Enough to trigger a tsunami warning for parts of alaska, the most serious kind of tsunami advisory. This is a line of people taking that sear seriously, evacuating kodiak alaska by car. Kodiak island is south of anchorage so getting up to Higher Ground quickly was critical for those folks. It seemed pretty orderly, but the folks were rattled. I got dressed and came out to my living room and i have a great view of downtown and, you know, all. Gb;hahe traffic goes y house on the evacuation road up to the high school, im two block358jaz the high school. I was watching all thet n peopl walk. From downtown and coming up and walking across the street. Some cars werent even slowing down to stop to let them pass. This morning on twitter i posted the difference between a warning, a watch and advisory so you can familiarize yourself because the next time it might not be a drill for us. I also posted what the usgs describes as that strike slip if you want to find out more about that. A lot of us who live in earthquake county are interested in the science of it all and its nice to be able to learn about it when there is no damage that we know of at this point. In menlo park, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Our breaking News Coverage continues online. We been posting updates all night long. Head over to nbcbayarea. Com for the instant coverage. 6 07 on your tuesday morning. Looking live in washington, d. C. Federal workers will be back on the job today across the country. The government is officially back open. On monday Congress Approved and the president signed a measure extending the budget deadline by three weeks. For the average worker some are relieved, others bracing for another standoff, but many d. R. E. A. M. Ers are not happy. We are really disappointed, one, to republicans because they keep playing games, this he keep trying to pass some sort of antiimmigrant policies against not only undocumented students, youth, but families, and second to democrats that they couldnt hold the line. Were not pieces on a chess board, were human beings. We will be back to the same situation, which is ridiculous. Democrats agreed to end the standoff trusting a republican promise to address daca next 2 month. Right now itse4 6 08. As you get ready to head gc oute door we are seeing patchy fog in parts of the north bay. Inej san rafael thats where wee seen much of the fog, there and in in a. Pa, santa rosa, visibility down to a quarter of a mile so allow a lot of extra time to get out the door and to work. As we go throughout the day once that fog clears we will get some sunshine and it will be a very nice day. Here is a look at our High Temperatures up to 55 degrees in santa rosa and 57 in concord, livermore, oakland and this palo alto. San jose expect a high of 59 degrees and the next round of rain arrives tomorrow night. So i will have a look at the timeline for that coming up. Mike is tracking two crashes for the nimitz freeway. A tough time for 880, this is right when we see traffic key spot. First the slowing we saw coming down into fremont out of union city, it was southbound 880 at alvarado boulevard, i say was. The crash is still there but on the shoulder out of lanes. We see traffic starting to backup on the approach and clear as you get closer towards the dumbarton bridge. The activity on the shoulder will distract you out of san leandro out of hayward. Farther north we have an issue coming in through oakland toward the coliseum. High street north of the coliseum we have some slowing because of a crash there which may still be blocking the fast lane. Chp has to get there and we have a big backup forming quickly coming down off of 980 and through downtown oakland. 580 much clearer, we will track that as well. The bay bridge metering lights are on. North of there we watch for the fog creeping over to the upper east shore freeway. No major issues getting down toward the richmondsan rafael bridge. We will show you the live camera from the toll plaza, you see more cars but we dont really see fog impeding the view. We will track the shift. Back to you. 6 10. Coming up next on i object too, c noise in south bay. c noise in the plans that could help people who are tired of planes Landing International airport. Andgiian says it will cost tens of millions of dollars to cancel certain shows, lets call it the cost of kevin, when today in the bay continues. Right now at 6 13 weve had mainly Clear Conditions across the south bay. Weve seen some fog in the north pay. A live look outside in san jose right now, lets go to campbell for our temperature trend, a chilly start throughout the morning, through 10 00 we will still in the 40s but our High Temperature today up to 59 degrees which is just a little bit warmer than normal. We will keep the sunshine today but tomorrow the clouds move in and the rain wont be far behind. I will give you the timing of the arriving rain coming up at about 6 19. And an update not one you like. Now the left two lanes are blocked southbound 880 just shy of high street. This crash coming through downtown oakland and the backup corporal forming just past 980. We will track the progress. Happening today the Santa Clara City Council is set to discuss the oz÷ncitys rules ab marijuana. Councillors will study possible fees and taxes. Last year Santa Clara County temporarily banned recreational growing, selling and use in unincorporated areas. Happening today, Mountain View leaders will discuss plans to hire a Consulting Company to look at ways to reduce airplane noise. The company specializes in sound mitigation. Residents have been frustrated with noise from aircraft descending into San Jose International airport. Mountain view Council Members want to work with a deal in hiring consultants. A big announcement in apple this morning. The Company Ready to take on alexa were hearing. Thats right, apple says its apple home pod device will be ready by next month and the Company Announcing that news a few minutes ago. Take a look, its not much to look at, but apple says its a darn good speaker. These home assistants like a. M. Zos echo and google home have been huge sellers. One in six american households have one of threes. Apple says its home pod will be available for pre order this friday and in stores in three weeks. Now, its expensive, more than 350 bucks, but apple says it has state of the art speakers could it could replace your stereo. Amazon echo is just 100 pucks and echo dot is just 50 bucks. Its earning season when Companies Open their books to investors and netflix is queen of all she surveys. The company it urnd in phenomenal numbers sending netflix shares skyrocketing overnight. It will spend 8 billion on new content. The company did say cancellation of certain shows cost the company about 40 million. Didnt name the shows, but we suspect this one is one of them. Netflix as a company now worth more than 100 billion. An interesting day on wall street, futures turned south overnight. That said we will start at new records for the dow and nasdaq. Of course, the government is back open, maybe that will help spur a little action as well. The markets have been on fire. 6 16. Major honor for a hollywood icon. Mini mouse finally joining nicki, donald duck, winnie the pooh, tinker bell and snow white as disney characters found on the hollywood walk of fine. About right. Yeah, right. The year of the woman. All right. She worked 90 years since mini appeared in his first movie. Katy perry channeled her inner mini and introduced the mouse she calls a dear friend. The definition of icon may fluctuate through the ages but there are some undeniably special characters who are iconic and i cant think of anyone home bodies that more than my dear friend, minerva mouse. Perry went on to say its about time mini got her star. Its been 40 years since mickey received his. There you go. Behind every great man is a greater woman. Christmas Tree Lighting one time mickey and minnie were there. I kissed the mouse and i liked it. Did you . Nice. Nice. Well move along. Lets move along with that one. Were going to start out with fog in parts of the north bay this morning. Once that clears out we will have a great day and tomorrow the rain will be back as we get a look outside right now, san jose starts out with some clear visibility and here is what to expect, 46 degrees thats a chilly morning and we will be up to 59 later today. Mostly clear and cool start and then by the afternoon we will have some sunshine once again, a pleasant day. Tomorrow we will start to see that rain moving into the north bay first during the early afternoon, south bay during the later hours of the day tomorrow. So as you get ready to get the kids out the door its definitely a nice warm jacket day. It will be 44 degrees walking to school or going through that drop off line and then as you pick them up later today its going to be much more comfortable in the upper 50s by 1 00. Here is a look at all of our High Temperatures today, in the upper 50s in san jose, for the north bay mid 50s, santa rosa 55 degrees, 54 degrees in San Francisco. As you check out that sevenday forecast at the bottom of the screen you will see that rain moving back in by tomorrow, highs only in the low 50s. This is what it looks like as the radar could show heavy rain by 3 00 tomorrow afternoon, moving into San Francisco and oakland by early afternoon there, later into the evening commute for parts of the east bay and the south bay. Back behind that we will still have rounds of some scattered showers moving through throughout the day on thursday as well. Before all is said and done we are looking at the potential of getting a half of an inch to over an inch of rain why some of the heavier showers set up. While we get heavy rain the sierra will get heavy snow. The potential of close to two feet of snow for much of the elevations above 6,000 feet. Looking good to get additional snow before it clears out for the weekend. We are going to get some sunshine here, San Francisco reaches into the low to mid 50s by the weekend. Inland areas will be gradually warming up and by sunday we will be up to 64 degrees and then we will be tracking more rain early next week. Now, mike, youre tracking a crash thats happening in oakland. Thats right. North of the coliseum. Folks, look at this, we have our camera at the coliseum. Northbound slowing right before our eyes the brake lights just shy of the high street off ramp north past the crash on the opposite side of the freeway. Crash blocking the two lanes close to the center divide. Its north of the coliseum and thats the slowing we showed you with the camera. Southbound even worse but holding just about 23rd and the overcrossing there. Traffic jams up past that scene, still waiting for one tow truck which says it can handle both vehicles it has to clear from the left two lanes. Two lanes open southbound 880, eastbound 580 is a clearer route, but those arent great options for a lot of people. You can stick it out but allow another 10, possibly 15 minutes to get through your drive because things will get slower as the tow truck arrives over the next few hopefully. A build for concord and walnut creek and the fog creeping in through vallejo into richmond for interstate 80. No im maar problems for those areas. The drive for west 37 slow, but slow through mere island gentleman en way. South of there looks great. We do have this crash on the shoulder south 880 at alvarado boulevard. Things have smoothed out coming down through union city and the dumbarton bridge. Crash 101 at 280 out of lanes. Coming up next on today in the bay, growing concerns about the deadly flu epidemic. The reason everyone should be cautious this flu season. Youre watching today in the bay. Developing now, one person reportedly dead after a volcano eruption and avalanche at a japanese ski resort. A web cam captured a view of the falling debris and smoke. Several people were trapped in the avalanche, all but one were rescued. At least ten others are hurt. New this morning the new commissioner of the food and Drug Administration is talking about americas Opioid Crisis. In an interview with nbc news he