Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240713

Into the middle to end of this week and well see for the weekend things starting to calm down but for San Francisco, we have some low 70stoday, and well drop it back to the 60s by tomorrow. Mike, youve been tracking a Traffic Alert and now a crash. Thats right. We got converted, kari to two Traffic Alerts, the second crash on the. He ininess lasoun is more significant. Highway 101, southbound 101 as you exit belmont down toward redwood city at britton avenue, a crash blocking two lanes. There may be a pedestrian involved, someone walking on the freeway. Were checking out the extent of injuries and duration theyll have. Its been called a Traffic Alert by chp because two lanes in the commute direction are blocked. El camino is a good option for you through the area and on the other side of the bay, the other Traffic Alert is westbound 580 at 35th, there are two lanes blocked there by a fourcar crash, watching for progress, speeds are starting to build off of the warren freeway. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. 6 01. And developing this morning, preparation and planning across the bay area for possible Power Outages. Pg e warns it could mean days without electricity. The outages could take effect within the next 24 hours and this is all in an effort to avoid devastating wildfires. Thom jensen is live in lafayette, one of the places where there are concerns about hot, dry winds, potentially damaging Power Equipment and sparking a fire. Reporter thats right, also in areas like maraga, orinda, walnut creek, Pleasant Hill, any of those hilly areas that normally experience these wind events are in danger but pg e also warns that evening a Shopping Center or other neighbors nearby the areas could have their power shut off. It really depends on where they determine they have to shut the power down. This is the height of the most dangerous part of the fire season, according to a long time Contra Costa County firefighter who i talked to yesterday. His crews were on the tubbs fire after it started two years ago today, just like so many in the bay area, and they train and prepare for this time of year specifically. They also work with pg e, which monitors the conditions of its equipment from an Emergency Control Center in San Francisco. Pg e will ultimately make the final call on when power will be shut off, and its asking the public to do its part to be ready to prepare at home. One lafayette woman i talked to in the Shopping Center said that shes ready with extra ice in the freezer to keep her food fresh and portable power for her familys qudevices and a Power Generator is probably next because this is just the way of life for years to come. We think that its something we should do in the future for sure, and thats on our list of things to do. Reporter Deborah Mitchell is not complaining. Shed glatly endure the Power Outages and the expenses if it means avoiding another destructive wildfire. Pg e is also out on social media and on radio reminding customers to sign up for their warnings and their updates to update their contact information. We have an easy way for you to do that, go to our website nbcbayarea. Com. Were live in lafayette, thom jensen, today in the bay. Ive linked those to twitter and facebook this morning, too. Its really great. Thank you very much, thom. People can put in their address which you know kind of gives you the alerts as well. Absolutely. Kari, youve been talking about a cooldown but the threat for fire danger exists. Yes, its not just hot temperatures that could cause a fire danger. We have low humidity and gusty winds, and so this is the pg e power outlook thats posted on their website, and it shows the area that they put under what they call a Public Safety power shutoff potential, and that starts tomorrow, continues through thursday. And so we have a little bit more time to prepare before those winds start to pick up. This takes us through tomorrow morning. We seehe humidity still at a decent level but look at what happens as we go throughout the day. The humidity will continue to drop. The bright colors that youre seeing here show where the winds will be gusting, and so there will be not only very low humidity down to the single digits, but the winds will be increasing coming in from the north and also the northeast, going into tomorrow afternoon. And it does stay low, even going into tomorrow evening, and not much recovery, meaning it doesnt rebound as high, going into thursday morning. Thats the reason why we have the red flag warning in effect. It means that any fires that spark up could spread rapidly in any of these areas shaded in red. Well continue to monitor that, make sure you have the nbc bay area app for those push alerts. Thank you, kari. If you happen to face an extended outage due to the fire threat, pg e has some tips customers need to follow. So take a look at your screen right here. Make sure you have enough food and water. This is to last a week, and make sure you have ice to keep it cold as long as you can, and backup chargers for your phones and if you leave home, make sure you know how to manually open your garage. You might want to consider staying with friends or relatives during that outage. Our coverage conditions all morning. At 6 30, were live in the north bay as people prepare for outages on the twoyear anniversary of that string of deadly wildfires. Also at 6 30, what people in the south bay need to know, you can go to our website right now as well to check your address to see if you are in that fire zone. It is 6 06. In the midst of an epidemic, san carlos is cracking down on vaping. Today the city will start enforcing its ban of flavored Tobacco Products. San carlos adopted the ordinance six months ago but allowed time for retailers to get the products off their shelves. As of this morning, flavored Tobacco Products will no longer be sold in pharmacies, and using any flavored Tobacco Products including ecigarettes will not be allowed within city limits. Happening today, Santa Clara County supervisor cindy chavez makes her pitch to make over the county fair sxwrn grounds. Chavez is talking about opening the fairgrounds for possible business partnerships. It may include a new sports facility. You dont have to worry about losing the county fair or other events tied to the fairgrounds, shell present during todays board meeting. 6 07. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments surrounding federal protections for lgbtq workers. A set of cases being brought by three americans who all say they were fired based on their sexual or gender identities. Historically the court has expanded lgbtq rights such as samesex marriage. However, cases dealing with lgbtq issues have never been heard while justices neil gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were on the court. Both were recently appointed by the Trump Administration. The courts final decisions are expected by june. Developing now, so far no military strikes are being reported between turkey and syria, and nbc has learned u. S. Military forces are still in place on the ground with syrian kurds. New video showing turkeys military gearing up for action this after President Trump on sunday announcing withdrawal from that area. This is something a lot of people have been talking about, and i can tell you that without any warning, the u. S. Military or lawmakers, President Trump made that decision. Many fear a u. S. Troop withdrawal will leave kurdishled forces that have long been allied with the u. S. Vulnerable to a planned offensive by the turkish military. Yesterday President Trump threatened to destroy turkeys economy if the country takes a planned military strike in syria too far. The u. S. Military source tells nbc u. S. Forces are now in a wait and see mode. Meantime in washington, a key figure in the ukraine scandal set to announce their questions today as congress is seeking more evidence in the President Trump impeachment probe. Tracie potts has the latest from washington. Reporter Gordon Sondland is in the hot seat today, a trump appointee ambassador to the European Union. Democrats want him to explain Text Messages offering ukraine a white house visit in exchange for investigating joe biden. Its a scam by the democrats to try and win an election. Reporter in those texts, sondland tried to shut down a diplomat who questioned withholding aid from ukraine. Lawmakers have subpoenaed the secretary of defense, and white house budget director for documents on that. Lets hear all the fact. Reporter theyre still trying to determine if the original whistleblower will testify about President Trumps phone call with ukraines leader. It will be interesting to know if either one of the whistleblowers were legally allowed to or did they get illegal dissemination of information. Reporter the Washington Post reports lawmakers are coidextreme measures including a disguise and meeting at a secret location to protect the whistleblowers identity. As for the other state Department Employees who were supposed to speak with lawmakers, thats still in limbo. One was a no show yesterday. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Right now at 6 10, as we get up and prepare for the day, we are going to see our skies stay clear, temperature also be slightly cooler. Here is a live look outside in san jose, and heading out the door, well be in the upper 50s, and it will warm up again today, just not as hot as yesterday. Here is a look at our high temperatures and what we are expecting for today. Up to 85 in livermore. 84 in san jose, and it will be warm, morgan hill reaching 87 with some mid 80s in clearlake as well as napa. In fran yesterday we were in the mid 80s but today a high of about 70 degrees so much cooler there. Well talk about whats ahead coming up in a couple of minutes. Mike, youre busy with two Traffic Alerts. The other crash thats going on for 680 as well. We call this out not an alert, we have one crash causing some slowing for the build, Pleasant Hill toward walnut creek. The Traffic Alert and well look over here toward oakland, westbound 580 is jammed up from the split with the warren freeway, thats highway 13. A crash blocks the two left lanes and there may be traffic breaks going on right now as we speak as the slowing traffic to hopefully remove the vehicles from the left lanes and get them over to the right shoulder. There are four or five vehicles reported involved in that, so well track that. 880 or highway 13 a better route through oakland there. On the peninsula south 101 jamming up approaching britton avenue out of belmont, el camino or 280 are clear. This crash may involve someone walking on the freeway. Two lanes are blocked but were looking for detail on that. The rest of the peninsula is clear. Thank you, mike. Coming up next on today in the bay, the way california is working to make it easier for drivers to charge electric cars. Plus china seems to be a bit fr fragile when it comes to criticism. Good tuesday morning. Coming up on 6 15 and the cooldown begins today. As we take a live look outside in palo alto, we will have clear skies, just a few clouds passing by later on this morning. Well go from 56 degrees to 80 degrees by early afternoon. We will continue this cooldown, even as the winds pick up. Ill talk more about this and whats ahead for the rest of the week in less than five minutes. We have two Traffic Alerts, oakland west 580 at 35th, the other on the peninsula southbound. I have a better alternate, instead of el camino try industrial road. An update they just opened lanes for highway 101. Well talk you through whats going on, on both sides of the bay. And good morning. Very happy tuesday to you. A happy tuesday to you as well. Fed chairman powell speaks at a conference today. San franciscos levi strauss reports profits after the closing bell. Activision suspended a professional video game player, taken away his prize money after he supported prodemocracy protests in hong kong, this comes after china started to punish the nba and the Houston Rockets in particular after an official with the rockets said he supported protesters in hong kong. The rockets and the nba back pedaled fast. Chinas reportedly banned an episode of south park that was critical of china and its influence on american art and culture erasing any evidence of this episode from chinese social media and their version of youtube. South parks creator responded with a tongueandcheek apology. Like the nba, we welcome the chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We, too, love money more than freedom and democracy. The white house put together a new black list naming 28 companies that will not be permitted to do business in america or buy American Products including a Company Called sensetime, this is the Worlds Largest ai startup. A picture of sensetime offices in china. The u. S. Says the company is involved in tracking muslims in china, particularly the uighurs, using facetime technology. Nvidia makes powerful chips used in ai. Nvidia not responsible for any of this but watch shares of nvidia today. We know house prices in the bay area are expensive but the Silicon Valley Business Journal says palo alto is the center of expensive homes. Six of the ten most expensive in the u. S. Sold in palo alto, this standard home, thats not a standard home. Standard homes are 3 million. Ill take it. 11 million. I dont think i could afford the 3 million either. This one has seven bedrooms, 6,000 square feet 11 million. Hmm. A little fixerupper. Ill take it. Thanks, scott. 6 17. California are trying to make it easier for you to charge your electric cars, so if you have an electric car listen up. You know most electric car stations dont take credit cards so drivers have to download an app, set up an account, add the credit card information, but now the California Air Resources Board is requiring charging companies to install credit card readers at gas stations by 2022. Were preparing for the potential Power Outages, dont forget your cars, my goodness. You have to. Thats true. All of your batteries. That would be very interesting. You have an electric car, too. But i can also get some gas to run the generator. Thats true. Youre okay. Thats good, kari hall there be here. And thats the big concern going into the next couple of days is will we have power . We will have some very critical weather conditions that could mean that pg e has to turn it off inome areas. Lets get out the door this morning, as we are seeing the return of the fog. This is going to provide some cooling for San Francisco, but its really the immediate coastline thats going to feel the biggest cooling today, and so we were in the mid 80s yesterday in San Francisco, but today low 70s. Lets head across the bay toward martin martinez, as you get the kids out for school this morning, it will be a chilly start with low 50s but that warmup happens fast, even as they go out for lunch. It will be in the mid70s and then by the time you go back to pick them up from school or walking home its going to be very warm, with some 80s in the forecast today. Our south bay high temperatures reach 84 in santa rosa. 88 in gilroy. We do also see a lot of upper 80s from pittsburg toward danville, and then for hayward were up to 79. Were up to 80 today in palo al alto. You see the big cooling that happens in San Francisco today with the westerly wind but in the north bay, the winds are more northerly, so its still going to be very warm in those valleys. We will see a lot of changes in our wind direction as well as the speed going into tomorrow, and as the winds pick up, it lin crease our fire danger. We could see some gusts up to 55 miles per hour, especially in the Higher Elevations, and thats the reason why we have the high fire danger for not only the north bay but also the east bay hills and over toward the santa cruz mountains, very dry air coming in that will increase our fire danger. So well have more updates on that. We are also going to see our temperatures cool off. Were in the upper 70s and low 80s over the next couple of days that extends into the weekend. San francisco will be up to70 today but well bring it back to 66 degrees by tomorrow. Mike, are you down to one Traffic Alert now . We had two, were down so we have half as many Traffic Alerts. Were concerned about this slowing south 680 coming down toward 24 before the walnut creek interchange, still a crash on the shoulder, enough of a distraction with the build out of Pleasant Hill, concord, pittsburg and bay point that will be slow there. The good news, were seeing better speeds but no lane openings just yet. Westbound 580 at 35th still very slow from highway 13 and the split. The traffic breaks may be winding up and well get an update from chp shortly. Multicar crash there still reportedly blocking two lanes. Well track that, but 880 maintains a nice drive through oakland. Over here on the peninsula, better news. All lanes cleared. This was originally reported involving a pedestrian. If they opened lanes this quickly, there are no major injuries at the scene so thats better news as far as that forecast goes. We are looking at slower drive, industrial is a much better drive than el camino, thank you c coren for shouting that out. Traffic cleared from san carlos but oakland westbound 580. The rest of the bay there is the volume across the san mateo. Back to you thanks, mike. Its 6 21. Next and all new a first for the country here in california, the brand new push to make Mental Health access easy for everyone. Youre watching today in the bay. Hey. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Were now six days into the Santa Clara County Service Workers strike and both sides are digging in. Anyone passing by county buildings yesterday would have seen a lot of picketing. This is a rolling strike meaning only certain segments of the 12,000 Workers Union are walking out every day. Yesterdays walkout shut down critical social Service Agencies in san jose and gilroy. We spoke with one man feeling that impact. I came here to finalize medical services for myself and they told me because of the strike, service will be interrupted until tomorrow. The county says many of the interruptions are temporary and all Urgent Services are still fully operational. Right now, there are no new contract talks sched. Happening today, San Francisco leaders meet to tackle the problem of gun violence in the citys bay view district. Theyre holding what theyre calling the first ever guns down summit. Police will join Community Leaders and city representatives to devise new ways to try to reduce the violence. Senator scott weiner and Governor Newsom are championing the first ever state sponsored Mental Health line set to debut thursday on Mental Health day. These are the times on your screen of the hours it will be available by phone or by instant message. The free service will offer nonemergency emotional support and referrals to anyone across the state. Its an historic move in the fight against hiv. Residents in california have easier access to hiv prevention pills. Governor newsom signed a new bill into law that will allow patients to buy the medication without a prescription. Pre and post exposure drugs are covered, something supporters say is the first for any state. The blue angels start practicing thursday ahead of next weeks air show. There is a veteran art exhibit and today there are several concerts planned including bands made up entirely of veterans. Still ahead at this hour, 6 26, two years later, very tough anniversary for a lot of folks in the north bay as people there and across the bay area prepare for rolling blackouts. The timing and the possible impact on business. Plus we have updates on brush fires in northern california, where things stand today, coming up after the break. Youre watching today in the bay. 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Also new this morning, a shooting on the b. A. R. T. Platform in Contra Costa County. The quick Action Police took and the detaining of potential suspects. Plus all the questions, yes, 30 but really, and here they are. Here they are. They for real, how is 313 . Still undefeated. The niners off to their best start in decades while fans feel great about the team, jimmy g. Just trying to keep it real. Today in the bay continues right now. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Right now we head over to meteorologist kari hall who has fire dangers in the area today. A lot of people talking about that. That fire danger starts tomorrow, when the winds will pick up. Today we start the cooling. Here is a live look in dublin as you get ready to head out the door, already a busy one with mostly clear skies and feels cool with low 50s. At 8 00 were at 53 degrees but it leads into a warm day. Well reach 83 degrees at 2 00. Eventually some mid 80s in the forecast but you see those areas along the coast, much cooler compared to yesterday, as we see some fog returning. Ill talk about that and the fire danger coming up in a couple of minutes. Mike, we still have an active alert for oakland. Dublin busy, yes, but oakland has the problem. As we look around the bay, better news, we talked about this, the clear for the alert on the peninsula, that is fine through san carlos for highway 101 but westbound 580 still jammed up approaching the highway 13 split all the way up to about montana or lets say 53th avenue. Two lanes are blocked and traffic breaks headed up to the scene. The multivehicle crash park is just past that. Cut from highway 13 or 880 you have an easier drive toward the bay bridge. Your travel times right now really delayed as you see its about 36 minutes, highway through that stretch of 580. Back to you, marcus. Thanks, mike. Developing for you this morning, preparation and planning across the bay area for possible Power Outages, and pg e warns it could mean days without electricity. All of this comes almost exactly two years to the day after one of the most destructive firestorms in california history. The tubbs fire devastated santa rosa and one of the neighborhoods destroyed coffey park where pete suratos is live this morning. What is the mood like there today . Reporter good morning to you marcus as you mentioned, theres a second anniversary of the tubbs fire, here in coffey park. One of the hardest hit areas when the fire took place a couple years ago. Right now this morning obviously its early, not too many folks are out. You can see some of the homes that had been rebuilt over the past couple of years following that devastating fire, but it was a much different scene, a couple of years ago. You can see here in this video, homes completely devastated, as a result of the tubbs fire. All together 22 people were killed in that destructive fire, and its taken years to really just rebuild this area, and get it back to normal. Now following these fires, power lines have been a focus when it comes to fire prevention, not only here in santa rosa, but really across the bay area, and its why were seeing pg e conduct these power shutoffs this week. Here is a map from pg e of the areas that will be affected by the shutoffs. You can see several counties there that will be affected, including Contra Costa County, san mateo county, Santa Clara County and parts of Sonoma County. Now parts of napa county will be impacted by all of this. Here is what residents in that area are saying about these shutoffs. Havent been doing anything about it. Letting it come and hoping that everything stands up okay, i guess. If i have to run stuff, ive got an inverter in my car i can run some electricity for a little while. Reporter now shutoffs in in napa county can happen as early as 1 00 a. M. Wednesday morning. Pretty early. The power shutoff also vary in each area. We have more info on our website at nbcbayarea. Com. Were live here in santa rosa, pete suratos for today in the bay. All right, pete, thank you so much. I want to break down the possible outages even more for you in the south bay. San jose alone 38,000 homes and businesses could be in the dark. The veterans housing facility in alum rock is one of those places that could be affected, because many of those residents there use electric scooters to get around, and they even need oxygen every night. That would be a catastrophe for an institution like ourselves, if the internet and loseber net thats night and day and we also lose the ability. Its a look at pg es page were monitoring how most of the south bay mountains and foothills are being watched closely. Well have Team Coverage throughout the week. T as well we put a link to this page on our website, and on nbcbayarea. Com as well as our mobile app. Were going to check in with kari because the weather goes hand in hand with all this. You think the extreme fire danger also continue throughout the week . Its mostly wednesday and thursday, the peak of the wind event. Pg e puts out this information and they issue what they c a Public Safety power shutoff potential, and theyre expecting that on wednesday and thursday, but possibly friday as well. I wanted to show you the forecast. This shows the relative humidity, and the winds and not yet during this fire season have we had this combo of critically low humidity, as well as the wind and then a lot of dry fuels in the hills. Lets take it through tomorrow morning into the afternoon. Look at how low this humidity goes down to 9 in napa, lower for some Higher Elevations and the bright colors that youre seeing show the wind speeds and where we could see some of those higher gusts. The brighter the color, the higher the winds and were seeing even through tomorrow night as well as early thursday, the winds will continue to gust as the humidity doesnt recover that much, going into thursday morning. Still down in the lower 20s for the relative humidity. So well continue to monitor this, and of course well have more updates here and ill have another weather update in a few minutes. Thanks so much, kari. We have some good news on the fire that burned near homes in the American Canyon over the weekend. The fire is now fully contained. It started on sunday near American Canyon high school, but it quickly burned more than 500 acres. The cause is still under investigation. It is certainly a different story in Mariposa County where the fire burns out of control. It has burned through more than 550 acres and only 5 contained. The fires triggered evacuations and forced the closure of yosemites main entrance. The park is still open but rangers say visitors should expect a lot of smoke. Police are questioning five people in connection to gunfire at a pittsburg bay point b. A. R. T. Station. Someone fired shots on the platform at 7 00 p. M. , sending people running for cover. No one was hit by the gunfire but police shut down the station for about half an hour to investigate. Its still not clear if any of the five people detained will be charged. 6 37 right now. Switching gears for you, unless you were asleep last night, maybe you had a date or something, let you know this morning the 49ers still undefeated. Maybe you took them to the game. Fans pumped after the niners easily beat the browns. 40, lets go theyre a little excited. More than 60,000 fans watched last night. They are 40 for the First Time Since 1990. Fans are starting to believe this is the start of something huge. I feel great. Were undefeated. Were going to stay that way. Lets keep it going all year lets go feel great, got my helmet, lets go, as for the game, the niners jumped out to a twotouchdown lead in the first quarter. Jimmy g. Looked like he was in control. This Third Quarter touchdown pass to George Kittle put the game away. After that, garoppolo tried to keep things in perspective. Its a good start. Its really all it is. Four games doesnt get you much in this league, its a good start and we have a good mindset in the locker room, taking it one game at a time, just taking it one step at a time. Whatever is working. The niners face another big test next sunday to remain undefeated they have to beat last years nfc champs, the l. A. Rams, in los angeles. Well be watching. I think weve got t mike, i think this is going to be a good one. I hope so. I only care about the last game of the season, though. The super bowl . Hoping for that one. Looking over here a super commute for the south bay and peninsula, once that crash and alert cleared there. We are looking at this continued Traffic Alert for oakland, so we still have a lot of slowing for 580, that is the troubled freeway and shifting over toward 880, lets talk about why. Well show you waze, the three routes through that area from Castro Valley up through the area, choose between 580 and 880. This blue route coming up 580 past the crash takes over an hour from the Castro Valley y. We can save you 15 or 20 minutes, taking you to the warren freeway which looks much longer but takes 20 minutes less time, so nbc bay area wazers is a team to join, well help you crowd source that commute. Sounds good. Working together. Working toward the weekend . Absolutely. Umhum. Made it past monday. I know fleet week is coming up this weekend, so a lot of people will be outside, were going to have some nice weather. Here is a look at where we are headed for the next several days, with some low 80s on saturday for the inland valleys. Upper 70s expected on sunday. So we will be on the cooling trend, and its going to be in San Francisco, low 70s, breezy and it looks perfect for the area show. If youre headed out of town, you want to see some fall foliage, this shows where we are peaking with a lot of bright colors, in parts of yosemite and Lassen National forest. If youre going there this weekend, you want to get away from it all, enjoy some nature, make sure youre packing extra layers of clothes because it will only be in the mid50s for highs. Those morning temperatures drop down to the 30s. If you want some warmer weather, you want to head to the beach, head to monterey, upper 70s. Friday is the best day. Saturday is looking good but it will be a little cool on sunday with some upper 60s. Also going to see some of that nice weather in Carmel Valley but warmer temperatures go from 84 onrida to 74 on sunday. Well talk about todays south bay temperature trend coming up in three minutes. Sounds good. Thanks, kari. 6 40. Still ahead this morning, other top stories were following. Renters have protections thanks to a bill being signed by the governor. Details on what many may call a publicity tour and where its starting in the bay area. A very important update in the impeachment inquiry and President Trump losing some support from the gop over syria. Well take a look at that. Take you out to the big board as well, dow industrials down 254 points. Youre watching today in the bay. Right now at 6 43, lets get a look at our view this morning in san jose. Were about 20 minutes away from sunrise, and a very nice start. If you are bea to step out the door in south san jose and santa teresa expect mid50s. We go from 56 to 80 by early afternoon. Still a warm day. Well talk about this, the cooldown and the high wind in less than five minutes. Good news, just in the last five minutes, weve had all lanes cleared for west 580 at 35th, that means more traffic traveling on 580 over in toward the maze, thats fine. We still have slowing through g walnut creek. We talk about 680 and the rest of the bay coming up. Sounds good. 6 44. Happening today, governor gavin newsom plans to kick off a housing tour in oakland. While there, he plans to sign a series of bills aimed at helping the states Housing Affordability crisis. Lawmakers approved the measures last month. One will create a statewide rent cap and establish a new eviction protection for renters. Tomorrow he continues his tour with stops in san diego and los angeles. The Trump Administration belonged a key figure from testifying. Gordon sondland was in the center of an arms for investigation deal. Including Text Messages to that effect. Sondland is the guy, the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union texting with the american diplomat bill taylor, where taylor is clearly trying to document the arms for investigation deal. He says are we saying Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations . Sondland says call me. He was supposed to testify in the impeachment inquiry today but he was just ordered by the state department not to. Hes not going to show up. Now keep in mind that in itself could be used as an impeachable offense. Its also curious that while President Trump calls his phone conversation with the president of ukraine perfect he doesnt want sondland to talk about it. A highly placed u. S. Military official says u. S. Forces are not clearing out of their positions in syria despite the president s order. We wish we had more information, but here is what we have been told. No u. S. Troops have lt syria or are leaving. Two units which we reported yesterday did pull back from the turkish border. U. S. Forces are still coordinating with and in places collocated with the kurds. You can read this as you bomb them, you bomb us. This one is worth noting, this coming from u. S. Military, u. S. Troops will defend themselves that would be against the turks. Here is the president yesterday. I have told turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is humane to use the word a second time, we talk about hong kong, we talk about this, they could suffer the wrath of abextremely decimated economy. What is humane, inhumane is unclear. President trump says one person makes that decision as to what is too far for the turks, and its him, saying in a tweet if turkey does anything that in my great and unmatched wisdom consider to be offlimits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. President trump getting pushback from notable republicans, mccobbm mcconnell, haley, graham, haley the former am bass are do to the United Nations says weve left the kurds to die. We will be following it on twitter, you can follow me scottmcgrew. Thank you, scott. 6 47 right now. Today marks a somber anniversary two years since the devastating north bay firestorm. Sadly 22 people died in the tubbs fire alone. Thom jensen was reporting live for us that morning. Help us remember, thom, all that you saw and felt, because you were right there in the thick of it. Reporter we were all up that morning, werent we, and as the sun comes up this morning over the hills to the east here, it reminds me of that next morning, and what we saw the night before as they evacuated hospitals and all of the neighborhoods around Sonoma County, as the tubbs fire that started at about quarter to 10 00 on october 8th, two years ago, had moved all the way in to santa rosa overnight, and already just burned through thousands of homes and schools and businesses, and little did we know that this would go on until halloween, 36,000 acres and more than 5,600 buildings destroyed, most of them homes in Sonoma County, mostly around santa rosa, and of course the 22 people who lost their lives in that fire. It was an incredibly destructive and deadly fire that i think none of us will ever forget, you guys. Right. I worked on air for almost 20 years now and that day when they were wheeling the people out on the gurneys, literally just people driving up cars and putting patients in, ive never seen anything like it. Thom you were there, we have pictures moments ago as that was going on at the hospital just below where you were, was the mobile home community, that also was on fire, and i remember you switching from the hospital down to the mobile home community. What was going through your mind as youre watching two things happen all at once . Reporter and i think that was where we really got the first look at how destructive this was, as we moved from the hospital, where they were loading all of those patients into their personal cars and ambulances and buses, and we got a look over the back of the parking garage there at kaiser in santa rosa, and we saw that entire community was just flattened by fire. That video were looking at now. Reporter we could see that the entire hillside was flattened by fire. We could rememberou guys, we could hear all of the emergency vehicles just in all directions, going everywhere, trying to respond, but there was just so much going on that night, it was just so difficult for them to respond, and as we look at these possible power shutoffs coming up later this week, you cant help but think about the tubbs fi fire especially talking about it today and it was two years ago today when the tubbs fire started near calistoga and turned all the way to santa rosa just hours later. Incredible dangerous and deadly night that was. Some of the pictures of the devastation and destruction afterwards. Remember driving through what used to be amazing neighborhoods, and now just reduced to nothing. I know, and thom, another thing go ahead, thom. Reporter you think about it, and still today an estimated only 10 of those homes are rebuilt, and they still got all of that work to do on their water system that was destroyed in santa rosa, when the fire came through, still so much that all of the people who live in that area of Sonoma County are dealing with. Certainly saw. Were glad youre here with us as well today. Thanks for your perspective on that as well. Because were all remembering back in 2017, but of course now the concerns continue with this threat of possible dry weather, low humidity. Theres a lot of preparation and planning going on across the bay area right now for possible Power Outages. Weve been telling you about it all morning. Thousands of bay area customers could be in the dark for days due to the high fire danger. Pg e is considering socalled Public Safety power shutoffs for parts of every bay area county except San Francisco and marin. Lets give you more details of what to look for courtesy of pg e. You can check your address on the website. Officials are warning that this could mean days without electricity. Its a good time to look at that now, so you know what to do when that time comes, and kari, what weve been talking about is how weather plays a big role in all these fire dangers. We havent yet so far this fire season seen this kind of combination of high winds and very low humidity, so thats the reason why we have the high concerns, but we are also cooling down and so thats what we are seeing this morning as you get ready to head out the door. The fog returning to the Golden Gate Bridge, and its very shallow, only at about 200 feet, but it is obstructing some of that visibility for some people driving across the Golden Gate Bridge in spots, and will provide some cooling along the immediate coastline. We head down to Mountain View with a look at our temperature trend. We start out with some mid50s as you get ready to head out the door. We go from 55 at 7 00 to some upper 70s by early afternoon. So youll feel the difference compared to yesterday. But it will still be warm in some of our inland spots. A little bit warmer than where we should be for this time of year, reaching 84 in san jose. 87 in antioch and napa reaching 85. Look at the change in San Francisco, yesterday we were hitting the mid 80s. Today only 70 degrees for that high. And then we are also talking about the high fire danger, the concerns we have, that starts tomorrow morning. This is when the winds will start to pick up and it includes all of these areas shaded in orange, which does also include parts of marin county and some of the Higher Elevations as well as the santa cruz mountains. We go over toward the east bay hills and diablo range and the north bay hills, and thats where we are going to be watching out for that as the winds pick up, the fire danger increases, as we could see some of those gusts especially higher up, up to 55 miles per hour. As that air descends across the central valley, moves into the bay area, it also dries out, so the high fire danger will be for the north bay as well as the south bay and east bay hills. So we will continue to have more updates on that, and make sure you download the nbc bay area app to get those push alerts for any new information we get, we send it right to you. Our temperatures will be cooling off. Well be in the upper 70s and low 80s. As we go through the rest of the week, it will feel nicer but the wind will be the concern. That will start to calm down on friday, and still win in San Francisco through thursday, and our temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s. Mike, youre looking at a traffic shift in oakland. Thats right, looking at the oakland camera past the coliseum and northbound, traffic starting to bog down around high street. It smoothed out the last few minutes. My concern is because of the earlier Traffic Alert past tense, we talked about the clearing, the lanes cleared for 580, but folks avoiding that Traffic Alert and sticking on 880 have the option, both freeways are open and slowing here as you approach the warren freeway for 580, that is in recovery mode, 880 showing more traffic flowing in the area, all Traffic Alerts we had over the last 45 minutes have cleared. Im still concerned over this crash south 680 around the 24 interchange on the shoulder but its a distraction. More slowing through concord and built highway 4 out ofpittsburg and bay point. Other than that, no Major Concerns through the area, as we have recovery for the east bay, the south bay shows the build for northbound route through san jose and of course the dumbarton bridge westbound is your commute but eastbound reports of a lot of paper that scattered across the roadway, so be careful as you get over toward the newark and fremont side. On the peninsula a beautiful view of the traffic flow for the bay shore freeway and some of that sun coming up. Bring those sunglasses as you travel southbound. Westbound across the san mateo bridge we see that build continuing to the peninsula, where youll see slowing soon for san mateo. Back to you. All right, thank you very much. Its a bird, its a plane, its a world cup of sky diving, about 300 of the worlds best skydivers are in arizona competing in the world cup formation of artistic sky diving. Skydivers are from 20 Different Countries including right here in the u. S. Judges will score the teams based on formations and artistic expression. The competition goes through saturday. And the story that everyone is talking about today, fire danger. A story that were talking about today that will continue throughout the week. Kari will give us an update on what we need to know and be mindful of as that danger gets er lot of people throughout the bay area. More of that when today in the bay continues. Your business can do a lot in 10 minutes. Like make a big sale. Surprise and delight a customer. Or come up with the winning idea. And 10 minutes is all you need to finally give your business the Internet Technology it really needs. Well prove it. Give us 10 minutes. If we cant offer you faster speed or better savings than your current internet service, well give you 300 dollars for your time. Call now to get your comcast business 10 minute advantage and take your business beyond. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Welcome back. Before you head out the door here are the top story, with covering on today in the bay. Coverage of a possible power outage that could affect a large part of the bay area this week. A live look across the bay. Pg e is warning hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses could be affected. The outages could start tomorrow morning around 4 00 a. M. Up to 600,000 customers could have power turned off because of the increased fire danger, and it is possible the shutoffs could last days, depending on the conditions. A look at what we can expect for the conditions. Kari you said wind is a big possibility tomorrow. Tomorrow early in the morning, the reason theyd turn it off earlier before the winds pick up so its going to cool off, but the dry and high wind will be the issues that well have to face over the next couple of days. In the meantime, were seeing a little bit of a recovery for the east bay commute. Thats right the oakland Traffic Alert has cleared. Lets look at travel times. The middle number is about 40 of what it was before, so thats a much better drive, as that crash cleared for oakland just past the highway 13. Recovery 680 through walnut creek and the rest of the bay a standard pattern now. Thats whats happening today in the bay. Were back at 7 25 with a live local news update. Join us for our midday newscast at 11 00. See you then. Have a great morning. Good morning. Backlash, mounting criticism against President Trumps decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from northern syria. One of his staunchest republican supporters says its a disaster that ensures an isis comeback. Pentagon oicials and allies overseas blind sided by the move but the president insists he made the right call. Were policing. Were not fighting. Were policing. Were not a police force. We are live in the region and in washington. Break news, not happening