More progress bay area leaders headline in the l. A. Times. Try to fast track new help for west coast cities leading the the victims of recent fires. World in the worst air quality. Details on that plus todays San Francisco is number three. Visit to the fire zone by portland taking the top spot. Senator Kamala Harris. And all new for you that morning that smoke is not just and cover up or pay up. Bad for your lungs but may be berkeley considering fines for covid rule breakers. A look at who the rules are meant to target the most as the bad for the pinot. Third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Wine growers in the middle of the harvest. Bob . Reporter marcus, the threat thats right, were here for you of socalled smoke taint on the starting at 4 30 in the morning. Grapes here behind me is a real 6 00 right now. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Concern for wine makers in napa and im marcus washington. Mike is keeping his eye on the and sonoma and livermore. Commute. We must start with meteorologist we spoke with steven and he says kari hall. If enough smoke gets on his kari, smoke, pollution something were talking about. Grapes and permeates the skin, the wine can end up tasting like yes, and were not the only what he describes as an acrid, ones seeing it. All of this smoke across the smoky, lick the bottom of the west has made its way across the ashtray type of flavor. The scu fire burned miles away country. Just retweeted someone in connecticut showing the sunrise from his vineyard. With a lot of our wildfire smoke as we look at what were expecting today, another they are waiting on test results unhealthy day across all but we from a lab to see if the grapes were affected by that smoke. The problem is the laboratories is backlogged with so many test requests from other winemakers he wont get the results in time so he must go through with the harvest of his grapes, make his wine and find out three years later whether or not his grapes suffered from smoke taint. If there are issues, we dont know this, its like baking a cake for the queen of england and you dont know whether it was salt or sugar you put in the cake. We really wont know until the product is finished. Reporter the laboratories tells us the smoke may be transitory and could be none at all. They dont think the smoke would affect an entire vintage in any of the wine growing regions. For Steven Mirassou, this is a first for him in his 25 years of making wine. He reiterates he doesnt know if his wines are affected. If it was, he wouldnt be putting it out on the market. Bob redell, today in the bay. One of those waitandsee situations. Thanks for the latest, bob. 6 05. Happening today observing leaders will debate opening more clean air centers. Over the weekend people could escape the smoke and the heat at places including the diamond library. People are asked to follow social distancing rules if they do enter. A look at the impacts statewide from what has now been a month full of wildfires. Some say it feels like a full year. Right now there are at least 26 fires burning across the state. 3. 2 million acres have burned. At least 2 dozen deaths are linked statewide. More people are missing. Happening today for you napa county supervisors discuss fast tracking a relief plan to help recent lnu wildfire victims. Supervisors will discuss authorizing hotel stays longer than 30 days and new price gouging protections for czu fire victims. And San Mateo County leaders plan to hold and honor First Responders for their acts of he roism. The scu fire may be fully contained by as early as thursday. And you can actually view the size of these fires and see how they compare to the size of your own city. We have all of the tools to let you see how this all works on our website. Visit nbcbayarea. Com. Rule breakers facing fines as the fight to slow the spread of covid19 and protect others continues. One east bay city is looking to crack down on people not Wearing Masks. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in berkeley where theres a vote taking place today. Good morning, cierra. Reporter yes, good morning. Im here at cal berkeley where school is in full session. As an extra level of responsibility for the city to not only keep students but those residents safe. So today members of city council will look to vote on an ordinance that would allow the city to enforce the orders of the health officer, in this case, you fines for those not Wearing Masks or following those health orders. The Council Meeting comes as students at cal have documented those not doing their part to slow the spread and stay safe on campus. Some students have recorded classmates heading to parties in large groups. Another has gone as far as even creating an Instagram Account to document the behavior. But the proposed ordinance looks to address those 100 will be issued for not wearing a mask or following social distancing, and that fine would increase for those repeating the behavior. One cal student says she frequently sees classmates not taking the pandemic seriously. Not a lot of mass beks, peop are walking into fraternity houses. Reporter the city of berkeley is reporting seven people are getting infected daily. A spokesperson says this semester theyve received 24 reports of covidrelated violations allegedly happening on campus and off campus housing. Now if passed berkeley with join several other municipalities like contra costa, napa and sonoma counties for enforcing mask or Health Ordinance violation fines. Cierra johnson forday in the bay. All right, thanks for the latest there, cierra. The smoky air, as players not happy about playing in seattle last night. Take a look at the air at tmobile park. The air quality index was above 250, very unhealthy. Oakland starting pitcher told reporters after the first game he was gasping for air. Im a healthy 22yearold. I shouldnt be gasping for air. The as beat the mariners, 90, after losing the first game. But that particulate in the air is so fine and its really dangerous for your lungs. Absolutely. You think youre going to get away from here and the air quality were dealing with here, you go there and its the same thing, kari. Yeah, but theyre going to be heading the road to travel and play against the colorado rockies, so they should see improved air quality there as we are still dealing with all of the smoke here as we take a live look outside in dublin. As we go into today, the next couple of days, its still going to be smoky. There should be improvements down the line. Weve had cooler temperatures and today it will reach into the mid to upper 70s by 2 00 in the afternoon. So a slightly warmer day. Well talk about whats ahead in the forecast. Mike, whats going on with the commute . A number of changes over the last 10 to 15 minutes, kari. Well look at the bay bridge toll plaza. One is the metering lights indeed registered on. Just as were giving the last report we saw that backup forming. The metering lights are on. That should be better news for the span. And then down the decline into San Francisco. More grown heading across west 80. Circles, all red and all green. That construction also cleared in oakland. Great news there. There was a car fire that had vasco road closed for a couple minutes south out of brentwood that has reopened. Well talk more about that coming up. Back to you. Sounds good. Thank you, mike. Marcus, as weve seen californians are really turning around that covid curve. That means more businesses are reopening now. What about the happiest place on earth . Coming up all new details were learning about disneylands possible reopening along with other popular amusement parks. Apple definitely not reopening its big even. Theyre going to have a Virtual Event as they announce new things. Out to the futures board this morning, wall street moving higher. Lots of tech ipos on the way. Right at 6 13, a few more clouds moving by and we are going to start out with those temperatures mostly in the upper 50s and low 60s. It will be slightly warmer this after afternoon. Well talk about whats ahead in our air quality forecast and a look ahead to the weekend. Kari, were looking over at the trivalley where things look standard for the Altamont Pass and for sunol. As folks areut vasco taking you over half an hour down through the earlier area where there was a car fire now clear cleared. Its just slower than you might expect. Good morning and a very happy tuesday to you. It feels sometimes like the world is burning down around us. More high tech firms are promising action on Climate Change. Facebook is joining google in promising not just being car gone neutral which you can do by paying some money out but being carbon negative by using green energy. Facebook says they will be green this year. Facebook is trying to push back against its own users who spread climate denial or even conspiracy theories about why so much of california and oregon and washington are on fire. The Company Calls it the Climate Science information center. Its not going to create statements from oped articles or politicians. President trump assurance those around him as he visited california the climate would get cooler. He didnt explain why he thought that or why it would happen. Well talk more about that as we talk politics in about half an hour. Here is something heating up for you, though, the ipo market, the number of companies debuting on the stock market this week alone. Some funny names. Jay frog, sumo logic, snowflake. Snowflake in san mateo could be worth as much as 30 billion. Wall street seems to be over some of the jitters it had last week though, remember, historically september is always rough on stocks. Energy stocks as people use less oil as the nowhere soon. 583 people died from coronavirus. Apple usually has an event to show off iphones. The company is holding a Virtual Event today. They need a 5g phone. No 5g so far. Todays event will be about ipads and the watch, improvements to things weve seen before. Ro as we were seeing earlier a lot has changed since the early days of apple events. People used to line up to get the latest advice. Now theyre just shipped to your house the day of the release. With the coronavirus situation you dont have the inperson events any longer as well. It will be interesting moving forward, marcus and laura, whether well have these big, giant events even when we do have a solution to the pandemic. Back to you. We shall see. A lot of people want to move forward and that includes california theme parks. Theyre demanding guidelines to planned, six flags and universalnow the california att and Parks Association is creating its own plans to reopen but they need the green light from the state. The plan includes limiting the number of park goers requiring face coverings and, of course, social distancing. Trending this morning if you feel like during this pandemic your life is getting flip turned upsidedown. 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Yeah, we do still have bad air quality for the south bay especially as we get a live look outside, starting out with that smoke once again settling in during the early hours where we have the inversion where the air is pushed down as the air qua quality has been bad. Heading to lunch time if youre planning on heading out for a little while, its going to be in the mid70s as we take a look at what were expecting in concord and livermore and going into the afternoon well see the temperatures near the coastline staying in the 60s while well see some 80s in spots like napa as well as parts of the inland east bay, antioch, 83 degrees. Then going into this evening, a little bit more of a breezy wind still coming in from the south. But our temperatures start to cool off later tonight and fog returns to the coastline. And then as we look at our wind speed forecast, the winds have been picking up, but a southerly wind is just bringing in wildfire smoke from the south and northerly wind brings in wildfire smoke from the north. What we need is a brisk westerly wind and even over the ocean weve had some smoke but we are looking at its looking stronger enough with the approach of this storm system that could help improve our air quality at least going into the weekend. This could also bring in some rain to the Pacific Northwest. And for the end of the weekend for us its going to bring in some slightly cooler temperatures. We lock at our fiveday forecast for the air quality and once again its unhealthy today and still moderate tomorrow. But then look at the yellow colors that we have here as those sensors start to possibly pick up on less of that smoke in the air going from thursday into friday as well as saturday. So as we look at our sevenday forecast our inland areas some of our warmest spots will only be in the 70s by the end of the week and some breezy winds. San francisco staying in the 60s over the next few days. Mike, how is it looking heading out the door right now . Its actually looking better now than half an hour ago, kari. We had road crews in observing and concord, walnut creek. Look at the map, we see a lot of green. Thats good stuff. Well take you out to the bay bridge toll plaza. Were going to jump all over the place looking at the map, a smooth flow of traffic as we look to the trivalley. Vasco road reopened. It still takes you about a half hour out of brentwood down to 580. The bay bridge toll plaza has seen buildup. The middle lanes are still moving. Thats better than some tuesdays at 6 21. Thanks, mike. Getting busy out there. Up next this morning breaking news and the settlement reached in the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of Louisville Police officers. Plus, the west coast battles wildfires and smoke, the gulf coast bracing for a slow moving hurricane. Her name is sally. A live lock at biloxi, mississippi. Up next the new time line on when sally will strike. And nbc bay area responds. Reporter he needed warranty work but the shop was closed due to covid19. Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. Welcome back. 6 25 for you. Breaking right now the city of louisville has reached a settlement with bre onna taylors family. Our nbc affiliate says the city will pay a seven figure sum. Taylor died in march when officers broke into an apartment with a noknock search warrant in connection with a drug investigati investigation. The agreement will be one of the largest in its history. The attorney general now investigating that shooting. Happening now, Hurricane Sally inching towards the gulf coast. Right now the slow moving storm is expected to make landfall late tomorrow as a category 2. The current path could take it anywhere from louisiana to the florida panhandle. Residents are filling up sandbags, boarding up, and stocking up to prepare. Lights might go out. Just to be on the safe side. The storm surge could reach 11 feet and some areas could see a foot and a half of rain. Nbc bay area responds to a south bay driver who had trouble getting Warranty Service on his car thanks to covid19. He asked consumer investigator chris chmura and his team for help. Reporter good morning. Luis walker called us about his 2017 lincoln he bought from carmax in free month in february right before the pandemic started. He says the suvs front end began drifting out of alignment and the sun roof would get stuck. The car came with a 90 day warranty good until may. Because stores were closed early in the pandemic carmax says it provided a 60day extension. That took the warranty to july. He says carmax didntrepairs. We contacted carmax. His warranty. Mr. Walkers concerns are important to us and we are willing to extend to august 15th to allow time to partner with the store. Luis wrote us and said, book, thats what im talking about. A mercury dealer did the work and invoiced carmax 1,599. 76, of which luis paid zero. Thank you, chris. Senator harris heads today to the fire zones in california. As President Trumps comments on Climate Change goes viral. A live report on the battle over science next. And should i wash my car . When do i wash my car . Is ash bad for the paint . Well, well answer all those questions up next. I wish science agreed with you. I dont think science knows actually. Right now at 6 30 polar opposites. President trump denies the impact of Climate Change while joe biden calls him, quote, a climate arsonist. But where does that bitter divide leave californians. Senator harris visits fire zones today. Plus, brandnew details on how pg es error may have cost people in the middle of a heat wave. The latest services to get back to business in the east bay this week. Today in the bay continues right now. And a good, terrific tuesday on this Tuesday Morning. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. We want to check in with kari. The air improving overnight . Yes. Still smoky in the east bay. Take a look at these numbers because we are seeing yellow sensors which means if you have breathing problems this air may still bother you. For a healthy person its not as much of a problem. Way too much red here. Higher levels of pollution in parts of the east bay as well as the soit bay. Ill be monitoring this throughout the day. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Its not looking bad. The backup is there fillin