For us . Its going to be a little bit hotter for today and still some smoke drifting in but a very nice start to our friday morning as we head over to pleasant hill. Upper 50s and then atcroclimate coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Kari, overall green sensors for the commute routes. A lot of closures on our map as well. Were looking at the czu and the scu areas. We do have a new stall southbound across the benicia bridge. Everything should be fine. Ill follow that. Laura, you are following the north bay where we also have closures. Cause for celebration for some affected by the czu lightning complex fire. More evacuation orders are being lifted meaning more can return home. What music to their ears. Jackie ward is live in scotts valley. But theres still, jackie, a lot of people in limbo out there right now. Reporter yeah, thats right. Good morning, laura. 20,000 people are home but that means about 50,000 remain evacuated. We are learning some incredible stories about the people who live around here. Get this, one family from pescadero returned home with a new family member. Lauren tippets tells us the night she and her family had to evacuate she went into labor and had her son. In the days leading up to her sons delivery she was already hard at work. She shared this photo with us of she and her husband spraying down their property and all their efforts paid off because fortunately their home remained unscathed. It wasnt the typical way of starting life with a t least. Thursday nab and i had him. We were at the hospital for a few nights and then stayed with my inlaws over the hill. Reporter just to add craziness on top of the chaos for sure. Another cause for celebration for bridget after already surviving a fire years ago that burned down her home in the middle of the night, she was really hoping she wouldnt have to go through that heartbreak again. When she returned to her Still Standing restaurant yesterday she said she was more than relieved. She was downright giddy. Who could blame her . Yesterday at this time more than 23,000 structures remained threatened by the fire. After lifting some of the evacuations now there are a little more than 13,000 structures that remain threatened. Still a high number but 10,000 less than at this time yesterday. Cal fire is briefing us once again in just a little under an hour this morning and hopefully there will be more good news for more people to get back home. Live in scotts valley, jackie ward, today in the bay. A lot of people are excited about getting back home. Thank you, jackie. To decision 2020 and President Trump heading to New Hampshire today for his Campaign Stop on the heels of his speech to close out the Republican National convention. He says voters have a choice between two visions his and joe bidens. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in washington with that. Tracie . Reporter marcus, good morning. Good morning, everyone. The president , despite criticism, unabashedly did this speech from the grounds of the white house. He was accused of mixing politics with his job as president , nevertheless the president not only laid out the vision but also used this 1 10 second longest Convention Speech weve ever seen to really relentlessly go after joe biden. This election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. Reporter meantime, Kamala Harris on the today show talked about what she hopes will be one of her initiatives. She was sort of the democrats prebuttal to the president s speech and says he hasnt done a good job at all dealing with covid19. Now she is suggesting that the country needs to focus on everyone wearing a mask. Look, nobody likes to wear a mask. Come on. Nobody likes to wear a mask. This is a universal feeling, right . So thats not the point. Hey, lets enjoy wearing masks. No. The point is this is what we as responsible people who will have our neighbor. Reporter harris accusing the president of standing idly by and making a deadly decision not to be more aggressive with his covid19 response. Marcus . Those masks, a lot of people dont like them, but we must wear them. Election now 67 days away. You may have questions about casting your ballot. An interactive plan your vote tool. You can find that link on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Happening today, thousands expected to gather at washington, d. C. s Lincoln Memorial to march for Police Brutality. Its called get your knee off our necks march and coincides with the anniversary of the march on washington and the reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. s i have a dream speech. The reverend al sharpton organized todays march along with kings son and benjamin crump. Fami Police Brutality victims including george floyd, Breonna Taylor and jacob blake will also be in attendance. Laura, whats happening now is sparking a lot of conversations and weve been leading a lot of those conversations for the past few months now and were going to continue that conversation. Our next one next month but all the past ones weve had, you can go to our website, nbcbayarea. Com raceinamerica. There you can find those conversations and start those conversations with your friends and family. Laura . Well, continuing our coronavirus coverage as well, a quick look at new confirmed bay area cases which now total more than 81,000. More than 1,000 people have died. Health leaders have order add Central Valley foster facility to close. The facility is suffering a massive outbreak. 358 workers have tested positive for the virus. Eight have died. That outbreak started back in june. The county says the facility ignored orders to increase testing and boost safety measures. Foster farms has not issued a response. California counties may get clarity on how to proceed if theyve recently been removed from the states watch list. Heres an updated map on the counties on and off the list. In recent days napa and santa cruz counties have been removed, theyre in limbo on guidance allowing businesses to reopen not to mention schools. The governor is expected to lay out new guidelines during his noon News Conference. Happening today in San Francisco a section of hayes street near alamo square will be the latest to close to traffic on weekends. Starting today at 4 00 p. M. This will allow people to have more room to do some social distancing and enjoy hayes valley restaurants and bars. And when they head outside there, kari, how is the Weather Forecast going to be as well as the air quality . Thats been a big issue for a lot of us in the bay area. It has been. Some drifts of smoke coming in and im already seeing worse air quality this morning. It shows our weather pattern is changing. As we look at some of the numbers now its a moderate for many of our microclimates now. Better for parts of the north bay. As we go into the afternoon theres a possibility for the north bay and east bay. Well see some unhealthy air quality as temperatures head into the low to mid90s. For the south bay were reaching 86 degrees and still some 60s in San Francisco. Well talk about the weekend forecast as well as the air quality coming up. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . Overall, kari, the commute looks great. We take a look at the maps. Green sensors all along the edge of the bay which is the perimeter of the bay and across most of your bridges. 680 theres a disabled vehicle mid span heading down out of benicia and into martinez that may slow you down on the span but not enough to cause the sensors an issue. Watch that if you are coming in out of the north bay. Heading to the city from oakland, the bay bridge toll plaza is cleared as are all the other westbound routes. That is your commute direction. Back to you. All right, thanks so much, mike. 5 09. Colleges and covid. Till ahead at 5 29 on today in potential new outbreaks as students in some cities prepare to return to campus. More records on the stock market and a new device that may very well be able to read your mind. Its us against the world wow. I love that song right there. Were going to introduce you to two california girls who may be some of the biggest and youngest beyonce fans, and very devoted, i might add, a special moment between the two now touching so many people across the country. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. Right now at 5 13 lets go to concord and check out our temperature trend for the morning. We will start out with upper 50s, a few clouds but then some sunshine today. The issue will be the air quality and slightly warmer temperatures. Well take a look ahead to the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. And, kari, were looking at a smooth drive around the bay, the sensors look great. So does our view of the nimitz through frefremont. Theres some smoke in various pockets. No problems for drivers reported on chp. Well, good morning and a very happy friday to you. The latest news of billionaires trying to change the world on this friday morning comes from elon musk who this afternoon will demonstrate something called neurolink. Its a device that musk eventually hopes will be able to read your mind and, yeah, he is very serious about that. The demonstration will be streamed live on the web this afternoon at 3 00 our time. Musk promises a working demo. It probably wont read your thoughts but apparently you can use it to control devices, say, for instance, an electric wheelchair. Musk has talked about piping music directly into your brain as well. Now if i could read your mind, im not sure your thoughts would tell me you want toli, but im going to do it anyway. Yesterday fed chairmanll announ worry less about inflation and more about job growth. And that is a gross oversimplification but it is friday morning, youre trying to get the kids out the door. Well go with that one. The fed is less likely to step in with higher Interest Rates if and when the economy recovers. Now wall street loves that. In fact, today we are set to erase all of the losses in 2020 even though there was a pandemic. Theyre basically saying what pandemic . Except, of course, for all that human suffering. Futures call for the dow to jump more than 100 points on the open. This despite the fact we learned yesterday a Million People had to file for unemployment last week. The second week that number was a million or higher. S p 500 set a record for the fifth day in a row. I want to quickly mention derajpanday is retiring. He came to america with 28 and turned hundreds upon hundreds of everyday tech workers into millionaires through his successes. It is a wonderful Silicon Valley story. And amazon is announcing the amazon halo. Its a bit like fitband, a band that works with an app on your phone. The band has no screen. Its just there to monitor you and it really monitors you, not just your steps or the quality of your sleep. The halo will listen to the tone of your voice during the day to determine whether you are happy. Obviously Mental Health is an incredibly important part of health, but it is a little spooky to think of something on your wrist listening to you all day, hey, you might be prettier if you smile. Imagine if we wore it, the stories we talk about all day, some are happy, some are sad. Oh, thats true that is interesting. Thats a great point. Alexa is w turning into our therapist. Laura, i ordered you some ice cream. It seems like you need it. What . What . Thanks, scott. 5 16. United airlines plans to furlough more than 2,800 pilots unless it receives new federal stimulus money to cover the cost during the downturn. United tells pilots it will send notices to them the next few days with the cuts starting in october. Uniteds numbers are higher than those recently announced by delta and american. Airlines and other unions are lobbying for another 25 billion in aid. They say would help cover payroll the next six months. Trending this morning this weekend is a great time, really anytime, to support black business. Independent bookstore day is saturday. O, oprah magazine, shows black owned bookstores. While currently closed due to the pandemic you can support it by going to its go fund me page. It is also black restaurant week, so go out and try something new. On our website a link to dozens of blackowned restaurants across the bay area. We must be hungry. Maybe some breakfast. Also trending this morning, two 2yearold cousins are going viral after a moment they shared together watching none other than the queen bee. It will warm your hearts. Look at that. I just want to hug them. They put on the video brown skinned girls. They are dancing and hugging after seeing beyonce and singer kelly roland on screen hugging each other. Theyre like sisters, too. Thats just really cute. It warms my heart to see those two little girls just hugging right there. Theyre adorable. Adorable. I miss that age. It goes so fast. It does. There were only two of them, laura. Whats the phrase, the days are long but the years are fast. I have to remember that, too. True. Well, today is friday. Exactly. Its friyay. Will we have a chance to take the kids outside today, kari . There will be times when we see a little bit of a blue sky, but then youll look out and it may be that brownish hue weve gotten used to. You need to continue to monitor the air quality. When it clears up, it is safe to go outside, and so were looking at now that view over the south bay as we look at our air quality. Were going to see still some unhealthy air quality in santa clara valley. What makes the difference is that slight shift in the wind direction or the wind speed, and so we are going to, unfortunately, see that spare the air alert extended into sunday now. But there will be some spots where we get some clearing especially along the immediate coastline and parts of the inland east bay as well as the south bay. As we go into the forecast, were going to notice some slightly warmer temperatures today as we reach up to 77 in oakland. 88 in napa today. And for the south bay well see high temperatures in san jose reaching 86 degrees with some mid90s in livermore. As we go through this weather pattern and whats ahead for the next few days, more heat for the valleys as we are going to see this High Pressure nudging in just a little bit closer and that will make all the difference as well s temperatures. So were not going to see a break here. Highs reaching into the low to mid90s, even some mid90s by early next week. Temperatures peak on tuesday at 97 degrees in some of our warmest spots inland while the coastal areas go from the mid60s to the low 70s. Only subtle changes there. And, mike, youve been watching the commute. Any changes for the morning drive . Only subtle changes there. I think i heard that from someone very smart a couple seconds ago. Over to the roadways though as we reference the Speed Sensors, well call out the bay bridge. No major problems and no slowing on our sensors. Its friday. We see the build there. Later, if we see the metering lights on at all, as we drop south, no major issues. There is a build, a subtle change, the altamont pass, a little more slowing as does 84 through livermore and pleasanton. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Ahead of our fire coverage as it continues with a shocking look at how many homes across the state are in danger. Welcome back. 5 24 for you this morning. And turning back to our wildfire coverage for you, this is new video showing an up close look at an air drop. Since midaugust nearly 1. 5 million acres have burned statewide. More than half of that includes the three bay area complex fires. According to a recent study 4. 4 million california homes are in whats known as wui area. Thats more than 11 Million People and more than any other state. Many of those families returning to their now destroyed homes and soon Insurance Adjusters will join as well. Thats right. Consumer investigator chris chmura says dont feel rushed. Taking your time might be beneficial. Reporter if youre filing an Insurance Claim after a disaster like this, there is absolutely no rush to take the first offer from the insurance company. Theyll send out an adjuster who will assess how much your home and its contents were worth. If you disagree with that number you dont have to accept it. In california you have the option of hiring a public adjuster, someone who can come out to the remains of your home and provide their own assessment of how much your home and its belongings are worth. Then you can compare that against the Insurance Adjusters claim and begin to negotiate. Its your right under california law. Our team has consolidated more great firerelated advice. Be sure to book mark nbcbayarea. Com wildfirehelp. At San Diego State about 2,500 students have moved back into the dorms, but way down from a normal year. Students Must Wear Masks and follow those social distancing guidelines. If not they could be suspended. The college has closed communal restrooms limiting each dorm room to two students. They say its just a matter of time until theres an outbreak. Its unwritten theres going to be an outbreak. I think its healthy and good to be back on campus. Why have students live back in the dorms when all of the classes are online . One week in at usc there are covid19 outbreaks despite the university mostly going online. Athletes are in isolation after testing positive from off campus activities. New video to show you whats happening when a shark was lurking near a group of offduty coast guard members swimming in the ocean. So those crews onboard fired into the water to hopefully scare away the sharks. They believe they were about seven feet long and they believe that the shark was not hurt. We do know no swimmers were injured in that situation. Scary there. Next for you, the top stories including ready to reopen outside. The businesses in two bay area counties that will get to re