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 ChallengesHomeless 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 ValleyNational 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