1 00 this afternoon. Were looking at some low 90s in antioch today as well as spots like clear lake and ukiah while San Francisco will stay in the upper 60s. Well get a look at the rest of our micro climates and a nice cooldown by the end of the week coming up. Mike, youve been keeping an eye on the roads. Whats going on right now . Well, right now, kari, i see another blip at the bottom of your screen as we take a look at the maps, highway 85 shows a little more out of sunnyvale, a smooth drive otherwise. Well doublecheck but we know about the slowing youll see out of the Altamont Pass through west 580 and its there. Everything is fine getting over to the bay bridge but do note if youre coming through brentwood and clayton, if youre not a local stay off marsh creek road. Marcus, you have the very big reason why. Thats right. Thats that breaking news out of Contra Costa County. Firefighters are still there at the scene of this late night grass fire that threatened a lot of homes around there. This is near clayton Palms Mobile Home Park on marsh creek road as clayton runs. That fire started around 11 00 p. M. They managed to knock down the flames before reaching homes. It burned nearly ten acres and damaged power lines. Pg e says 150 customers without power this morning, of course we are still looking into what possibly cause this had fire. Bob redell is still there. Hell have a live report for us coming up at the bottom of the hour. Marcus, the white house and russia both denying reports that russia paid bounties for the killing of american troops. This morning the white house says President Trump was never briefed, while a spokesperson for president putin speaks for the very first time about that report. I want to check in with today in the bays tracie potts live in washington this morning with a new russian response. Good morning, tracie. Reporter laura, good morning. The white house says the president did not know, and russia says they were not involved. The kremlin spokesperson strongly denying this report, broken first in the New York Times that russia paid militias linked to the taliban to hunt down and kill u. S. Soldiers. And according to one official familiar with the intelligence, u. S. Troops were actually killed and so were some afghan civilians as a result of this. But russia is saying that whole story is wrong. Those statements indicate that those reports were not so trustful. Thats why wed better speak to those and the president of the united states. Reporter but its not just the times reporting this. Also the Associated Press says that the president was aware of this back in 2019, last year, quoting former National Security adviser john bolton saying that he told colleagues that he had briefed the president himself. Bolton not commenting this morning on that ap report. Laura . Very interesting. Tracie potts live from washington with all the latest. Well check back with you later in the newscast. Thanks. Happening today for you two bay area biggest cities, in San Francisco minors may soon have the right to vote. And in san jose its all about the power in the mayors office. Thats where we find today in the bays kris sanchez live for us this morning and, kris, both issues getting a lot of attention, and no surprise there. Reporter were going to start you off here in san jose where the council may try to line the Mayoral Election along with the president ial election. Usually theres better voter turnout when you come to the president ial election years. Now if the issue goes to the ballot and passes, mayor sam liccardo would get two more years in office, would serve until 2024. The council is also considering shifting some of the powers of the city manager to the mayor in whats called a strong mayor government structure. If the council puts this on the ballot, san jose voters will have to decide this fall. The current impetus seems to be to give the mayor the power to eddie garcia to fire those who posted on social media. Currently i dont have that authority under the city charter. And we have advocated, several of us have, to change the city charter which, of course, requires the council taking this matter to the voters in november. Reporter now the San Jose Council will vote on that today, but while in San Francisco supervisors are going to talk about whether the voting age should be lowered to 16 for some local measures. That issue would have to go to the ballot for voters 18 and up to decide. Now theres momentum for sure but a similar measure did fail just four years ago. On this particular issue i would love to hear what you have to say, whether you think its a good idea for youngsters, 17, 16, to be able to vote on some of those local measures. It would make San Francisco the biggest city in the nation to do that if it goes forward. Ill post the poll on twitter and lets have that conversation on facebook, too. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Some people say if you can operate a car, you can vote. Well have to see. Waiting for that, kris, thank you. 5 06 now. Continuing our coronavirus coverage, in the bay area were not alone this year in dealing with a painful possibility. July 4th beaches closing to prevent the spread of coronavirus. A similar, if not bigger story now playing out down in southern california. The l. A. County Sheriffs Department announcing the closure of all beaches, piers, and even those bike paths. This is all closed for the entire holiday weekend. Now this is due to the huge surge in cases down there. Those fines for trespassing are not cheap either. It will cost you 1,000 if youre caught and then fined. The mayor of pacifica and Half Moon Bay warned yesterday that people need to stay away the holiday weekend. Well, new this morning, a new statewide push over sunshine laws to expand them covering police use of force. East bay senator Nancy Skinner entered two bills yesterday, one would ban and strengthen the transparency measure that she authored back in 2018 by increasing Public Access to Police Records tied to wrongful arrests and searches. It would also prevent officers from keeping records secret when moving to another agency. A separate measure would change when Police Officers get called to nonviolent crimes. With the idea of using social workers instead. Skinners original sunshine measure was tied to sexual miscondu misconduct. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza this morning, no relief for those drivers who cross it every day. Thats because a state Appeals Court has upheld a toll increase for seven bay area bridges approved by voters back in 2018. Now a Taxpayer Group sued arguing that the 55 voter approval was illegal. This is because it should have had a twothirds majority. The first 1 toll increase took effect in 2019, and youll pay a dollar more in 2022 and in 2025. Happening today it is Graduation Day finally for some high school seniors. Todays ceremony in San Mateo County will look a lot different this year. The Jefferson UnionHigh School District is holding a virtual graduation for more than 1,000 seniors. Ceremonies are scheduled for terra nova, thornton and oceana high schools. Congratulations to them. Im glad they took the time, delayed a little bit, but we got graduation actually happening. They deserve that. I know. Well deserved. These poor teenagers, really college graduates, too. Just not getting that traditional ceremony. Everything is a little different right now. They will have a story to tell. All right, 5 09 for you that morning. We want to get a look at the forecast for you because, kari, it is going to be a nicer day out there for us, you were telling us. Yes. Its going to be a beautiful day. We are looking at still a wide range in temperatures. As the sun comes up it is a nice start to our tuesday as we check out whats happening in walnut creek and then as we go through our temperatures were in the upper 50s this morning. You can see that trend. Were at 70 degrees at 9 00, still comfortable. At noon it starts to heat up. Were in the mid80s. We see some of our inland spots back in the 90s today. We are going to have a hot start to the week and then a cooldown by the end of the week. Ill have more on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, youve been keeping an eye on the commute, and so far it looks pretty good. Yeah, it does look great when i show it to you. When i look at the map i see slowing. Let me show you whats going on here as we look overall green sensors around everywhere except the Altamont Pass. Looking down to the bottom of the screen, 85. A lot of slowing. Stuck around for 10, 12 minutes and the area where the arrow is out of sunnyvale and into cupertino just cleared as kari took to the screen. That is good news. Easy drive to the bay bridge. A quick look outside, well show you oakland and 680, the reason youre able to get there quickly. Youre at the limit. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Well, a party stable now eliminated at costco. Why many shoppers are sour over a sweet treat you wont be able to find anymore. Social networks taking some extraordinary action today. Ill walk you through all of them coming up. We were just talking about great grads. This is our little tribute to the class of 2020 here on today in the bay. Were trying to highlight these graduates. They made it through school but didnt get the ceremony. In our great grads segment a big congratulations to these students. Look at those smiles. Send us your candids as well. You can find marcus and myself both on facebook. Im laura garcia nbc bay area, and hes Marcus Washington nbc bay area. And were both here for you when we come back. 5 11. Businesses are starting to bounce back. But what if you could do better than that . Like adapt. Discover. Deliver, in new ways, to new customers. What if you could come back stronger . Faster. Better. At comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back, but bounce forward. And now, with one of our best offers ever, were committed to helping you do just that. Get a powerful and reliable internet and voice solution for only 29. 95 a month for three months. Call or go online today. Time to get up and moving right now at 5 13. Lets check out our current temperatures, nice and cool start to the morning. Most of us in the 50s, but we do already have a few low 60s in concord and in san jose. We will have a spread in temperatures for this afternoon. Well talk about the range well see from the coast to the valleys coming up in a few minutes. And on the roadways, not much of a range. Pretty much the speed limit as we travel across looking at the san mateo bridge, a smooth flow. Theres a little at the light. Great news for travelers, visibility is just fine. Well show you where slowing does show up coming up. And good morning and a very happy tuesday to you as well. Something is really extraordinary is happening on social media this morning. I think its mostly coincidence but all of a sudden all kinds of companies are banning all kinds of things all at the same time. Lets go down the list. Youtube has kicked three people off its site who promote white supremacy. Reddit removed hundreds and twitch has removed Donald Trumps account altogether. Lets start with twitch, an online Video Streaming Service normally used to stream games, but the Trump Campaign uses it to show videos, and it added President Trumps very first speech as a candidate. The one where he says mexico is sending rapists to the united states. It shocked america at the time. Many thought the first day marked the end of his candidacy. When the trump account added that to twitch very recently twitch took the whole account down temporarily. Trumps account banned for something he said in the first minute of the first hour of the first day of his candidacy. Reddit took down a subreddit as theyre called, run by volunteer moderators and they say the moderators had been warned about the amount of racism that people were post iing to the fan secti. David dukes and richard spencer, this is file video here of spencer. The Southern Poverty Law Center called spencer one of the count countrys most successful young, White Nationalist leaders and an academic racist. Facebook watching more advertisers walk. The latest to bail out adidas, pepsi, which joins coke in leaving facebook ads, dennys, conagra and clorox. The ad boycott is temporary and many of them are leaving social media in general. This boycott created by the naacp, which has been just wildly successful. Marcus and laura, facebook has responded by adjusting some rules. Historically of all of the services, facebook has been the one that has been just the most uneasy about regulating speech. Youtube, facebook, twitch, reddit all making moves. I wonder if it was a collaborative effort. Thats interesting the timing of it. What are we going to do for our next pot luck, which i guess were not going to have anyway, but more proof this morning you cant have your cake and eat it, too. At least not if you shop at costco, which is facing a big slice of backlash this morning for pulling a popular bakery item. Last month it announced the end of its popular half sheet cake to make way for a new 10inch round. Now customers are demanding the sheet cake return. The uproar. Some hope this morning its just a temporary move tied to the pandemic. Here is the possible icing on the cake, which were always looking for, employees say dont get your hopes up. Which i dont know why thats the icing on the cake. You know how people always bring those to parties. I know. Maybe we just have to do those homemade cakes now. Well bake. Well bake something personally just for you. Yes, thank you. 5 18. And there is something good to tell you about. A wisconsin family, well, they saw a bear facing a bit after sticky situation. Thats right. So they were fishing on a lake when they spot this had dog struggling in the water and when they looked closer they realized it was a young bear, though. It had a plastic jug stuck on its head. They jumped into action and after two attempts were able to remove it. Wow. Right . He was probably trying to eat something. I have a hummingbird feeder up in tahoe and, boy, that not only attracted the hummingbirds but attracted the bears as well. Im glad they were there. Perfect timing for that. The right place, right time. Isnt that winnie the pooh gets stuck in the honey pot. This is true. Too much reading. Oh, winnie the pooh. Oh, eeyore. Is it an eeyore kind of day, kari, or a little piglet kind of day . I guess a piglet day. Its been pretty nice around here, but warm in some spots. We get a look at our sun rise this morning, we are starting out with a beautiful start to our Tuesday Morning. Our temperature trend as you make plans for the day in willow glen well be in the upper 50s, but you can see our trend going up as we go into late morning and the afternoon at 1 00. Were in the low 80s, and its going to reach into the mid to upper 80s here. As we go through our micro climates, morgan hill reached 90 degrees and well see some mid80s in downtown san jose. For the east bay well see some 90s here as well. Up to 93 degrees in antioch. Martinez will reach 87 degrees and some upper 70s for oakland. Half moon bay will be in the mid60s today. You head over to palo alto were up to 84 degrees. And for the embarcadero up to 69 degrees today. The north bay high temperatures anywhere from 70 in point reyes to 90 in clear lake and napa today reaching 83 degrees, so it looks pretty nice here but its still a little warm and our High Pressure is giving us more of a northerly wind. But more of an ocean breeze will pick up as we go to the next couple of days, and that will help us cool off as we get that natural air conditioning. But in time for the fourth of july holiday weekend, were going to start to warm up once again looking at the highs trending back into the 80s and 90s as we go through the sevenday forecast. We are warm today and tomorrow. And then a nice cooldown for thursday and friday. And then warming right back up again for early next week. And, mike, anything new popping up out there for the commute . Were pretty cool. Very nice, very pleasant right now overall. As we look at your map were seeing green sensors. Ill take you to the spot where we consistently see slowing because highway 85 shows me the slowing and it clears. Again, no construction and no problems in the south bay. That freeway, were looking out to the Altamont Pass where we see that build and even the Altamont Pass road we see slowing once you get into livermore, everything is just fine out of the pass. A look at the approach to the bay bridge, great. A live look shows you no backup. Yesterday we saw the metering lights turned on before 6 00. Only lasted a couple hours. Looks pretty light right now. Well track it. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Coming up for you nbc bay area responds. Reporter she tried to cancel a Ride Share Service but the company continued to charge her. Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. 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