Attention on the big kickoff forecast here on nbc bay area. 49ers on sunday night football. That in a moment. Clear skies with areas of smoke. Youre seeing some of that around san jose. And look at the fog closer to San Francisco. The temperatures, as kira mentioned, is chilly. 48 in santa rosa. 59 in san jose. Good news in terms of the air quality this is a pretty big change. Good to moderate back in the green and yellow around san jose. The same for San Francisco and the east bay. Just around the glass fire. The forecast, hazy skies. We dont think air quality will be an issue. Kickoff temperatures in the mid80s and for your tailgating from home around the bay area today another warm day inland. Lots of 90s. Midafternoon for the valleys. 70s and 80s bay side and then stay tuned, look at the extended forecast. Rain making a comeback. Well talk more about that coming up in about 15 minutes. A Welcome Change from the dry and smoky weather weve had the last few weeks. Welcome indeed. I love hearing you say the word rain. We look forward to your forecast, rob. Thanks. We begin now with president Trumps Health as he wakes up in the hospital for a second morning with coronavirus. Were getting a new look at the president as a covid patient. Last night new photos released presenting a positive image showing the president working in the hospitals president ial suite on a day of conflicting reports about his condition. The white house physician evading questions during a press conference yesterday and giving a different time line of the president s illness than the white house had previously given. Here is a live look outside of Walter Reed Medical Center where you can see on the bottom left of your screen a crowd of supporters remain, groups gathering outside the hospital, some without masks since the president was admitted to the hospital friday afternoon. The white house now saying these next couple of days will be, quote, critical for president Trumps Health after the president s chief of staff mark meadows described very concerning situation friday when the president s blood oxygen dropped and he was put on supplemental oxygen. Jackie ward reports on why more transparency is important. The whole first seven to ten days can be critical from when you are exposed to the illness to about day five when you start to develop symptoms. And then were seeing people around day seven to ten when they worsen and come to the hospital. Reporter a covid19 expert as the Principle Investigator for the regeneron antibody trial. The antibodies are still only available as an experimental treatment. President trump is also on a fiveday regiment of remdesivir, developed by foster citys gilead sciences. It is expensive but compared to the icu on a ventilator, all the other outcomes that youre trying to prevent just in the hospital, quite frankly, i think is quite cost effective. Reporter with a lot of speculation swirling on the president s medical condition saturday evening he released this video message. So i just want to tell you that im starting to feel good. You dont know over the period of the next few days thats a big test. Well see what happens over the next couple of days. Reporter that message part on the president s health. A briefing with the president s personal doctor spurned more questions than answers about the time line when the president started to feel sick. The white house later issued a memo correcting the time line dr. Sean conley offered. Quote, i incorrectly used the term 72 hours instead of day three, end quote. Doctors also offered only vague answers on whether the president had been given supplemental oxygen. The timing as to when President Trump knew he had covid19 is critical because he attended several Campaign Events this week with many people without wearing a mask. In San Francisco jackie ward, nbc bay area news. While the source of transmission is not clear, several people in the president s inner circle have tested positive for the covid disease. The most recent being former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and President Trumps assistant nicholas luna. As we told you yesterday morning this likely is the event that touched off the spread of coronavirus. Last saturday more than 100 people gathered outdoors in white house rose garden to celebrate nominee amy coney barrett. Some hugging and kissing, many without masks. And then gathering inside for a meal. So far about ten of those people including white house journalists who attended the ceremony have tested positive for coronavirus. You can see some of them highlighted in this picture where they were sitting that includes kellyanne conway, trumps former Senior Adviser, trump adviser chris chchristie, aide to Jared Kushner, hope hicks, and mike lee of utah, thom tillis and johnson of wisconsin. Two of the new coronavirus cases in washington involve those republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee as i just mentioned, thom tillis and mike lee. Both who did attend that rose garden ceremony for judge barrett. Their cases are raising questions now about the confirmation process. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says the confirmation process still will start on october 12th whether some members have to join virtually or not. He has requested all other Senate Business be delayed, though, until october 19th. Democrats are calling for a delay in those hearings. And First Lady Melania Trump, also diagnosed with coronavirus, continues isolating at the white house. A spokeswoman says the first lady is doing well and we are told her symptoms have not worsened. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden did not take a covid test yesterday, this after taking one friday, while leaving st. Josephs Catholic Church in delaware. The former Vice President says he does intend to take a test this morning. Have you been test this had morning for coronavirus . You were not tested today . I was yesterday. Biden did test negative for covid twice on friday. Hes committed to releasing the results of his covid19 tests he takes. More people in Sonoma County are back home although in other areas the danger is far from over. Windy conditions caused a few flareups yesterday, flames reaching high up into the night sky as you can see here. Fire crews working in the dark to get a handle on the new flareups in the glass fire. Before the sunset this large fleet of helicopters kicked into action trying to protect nearby homes. Neighbor who is live in st. Helena watched as helicopters dipped into irrigation pools. They tell us the flareups are concerning for them especially after they saw how quickly the flames moved earlier this week. This flared up from the wind. Weve winds are flowing south because we live in this area here. Fire crews are tallying the number of structures destroyed hoping weather conditions improve so they can get a better handle on the glass fire. As meteorologist rob mayeda spoke a few minutes ago this bad air quality could impact tonights Football Game nfl on nbc. A live look at levis stadium in santa clara, the nfl and the 49ers are closely watching these orange, hazy skies monitoring air quality levels. The nfl has said it would consider postponing or removing a game if the air quality index is higher than 200. Fortunately for niners fans the aqi is not expected to get any higher than about 150 today. And you can watch sunday night football here on nbc bay area. We have you covered for the niners game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Our own janelle wang and raj mathai will be at levis stadium for a special pregame newscast at 3 00 p. M. The game kicks off at 5 25 and then following the game is our prime time newscast live from levis stadium. Wish i could go. 7 09. Much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, live to our conversation with chuck todd who has a preview of this weeks meet the press. Plus, its an app that could help tell if youve been exposed to covid. But who is using it and when could california be jumping onboard . An update next. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. Welcome back, just like every sunday it is time to bring in chuck todd, nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press. Questions as always thank you for joining us this morning. Just about an hour ago we got some breaking news released that an nbc news wall street journal poll taken after the debate but before President Trumps covid diagnosis and hospitalization show that joe biden had a 14point advantage. Adding on trumps coronavirus infection, how does that all affect the president ial campaign . Our poll shows the debate had a huge impact on the president and the impact was very negative. And it went to the benefit of joe biden. His numbers only went up two points. The president s numbers dropped four, most to undecided. Where you saw the real shift was among seniors. Voteers thrs that are 65 or old. You cant wonder if the two issues of covid and civility had an issue there, one of the best explanations we can come up with. You asked an important question, what now with this race . I think were in suspended animation. Were sort of in pause. The president is off the trail. Joe biden has pulled negative ads. Joe biden has a very strong lead and you pause for too long and the president is off the trail. This lead may become insurmountable for the president. That actually was going to be my followup question. If the president is theoretically down for ten days, joe biden has pulled his attack ads, but trump still has his running. Does this allow joe biden to campaign less, reduce exposure, or does he turn up the heat . Well, they have decided to start ramping up Campaign Events, more inperson events. Stricter guidelines than the Trump Campaign does. The shortterm question right now the white house is blowing right by it, it is surprising to me that the Vice President , mike pence, is somehow going to keep a very busy travel schedule. The continuity of government issues, if both the Vice President and president were to come down with the virus at the same time, that would be highly irresponsible of the government at this point. You would assume that Vice President pence should be almost in somewhat of his own quarantine, if you will, until the president is virus free and out of the woods in the hospital. Apparently theyre not going to keep him from traveling. They could do this debate remotely this week. Theyre going to have him travel to the debate site. That, to me, is a question im surprised that theyre answering the way theyre answering. Yeah, and theyre going to move them instead of 7 feet apart, theyll be 12 feet apart. The debate shouldnt be happening in person. Should not be happening in person. We always appreciate your insight, chuck. It will be interesting to see what happens this week, to be sure. We hope you join chuck for this mornings meet the press. He will have Trump CampaignSenior Adviser jason miller at 8 00 a. M. Right after this newscast. We hope you stick right here for meet the press. And coming up in about 30 minutes from now we will talk to nbc bay area political analyst Larry Gerston for our weekly segment and continue to look at the covid19 outbreak at the white house that sent the president to the hospital. Okay, sticking with coronavirus here, about six months after it was announced the app built by apple and google to track covid19 is gaining momentum. Ten states now are using it and california is likely to join that growing list very soon. Right now the state is testing apps and pilot programs and if it works as its meant to, the apps will send push alerts to users who come in close contact to another app user who tested positive for covid. Despite more states starting to use the technology only about 21 of americans now have access to a covid19 app. That could be a great benefit to all of us. Childrens fairyland in oakland welcomed back families for the first time yesterday since shutting down in march. There are a lot of new rules and changes in place, but most of the magic is still intact. Just about alm of the park is open except for group events like story time. Fairyland has lowered capacity, drawn social bubbles everywhere and split visits with a sanitation shift in between. I really need to take my son there. It is time at 7 16 to check in with meteorologist rob mayeda who could probably also take his son there. If the weather lets up, if we get a break with the smoke. Were seeing encouraging signs out there looking a lot better than the same time yesterday and the model over my shoulder shows that smoke getting pushed off to the east again as we head to the evening. Lets take you out to the allimportant game time forecast, 49ers right here on nbc bay area. Were expecting some smoke, hazy skies but not all that bad. Theres the theme song. 85 degrees kickoff time. 5 25 temperatures dropping to the 70s as the game goes on and we do think mostly moderate air quality. That is good news there. If youre doing your tailgating from home plans, look at the temperatures for today. Not quite as hot as we had yesterday. Well see 90s inland, 80s bay side, 70s closer to San Francisco. And here a closer view of that model that shows smoke increasing around the glass fire. That should be pushed to the east as we head into monday morning. Air quality conditions for today, locally unhealthy for the north bay. The red you see here on the fiveday air quality outlook. Notice the trend in our air quality actually Getting Better wednesday and thursday out ahead of the rain chances later in the week. San jose, 59 degrees. Some pretty good visibility. Dublin currently 57 degrees. You see more smoke out around the trivalley this morning. Theres the fog. 80s closer to observing. Upper 80s near san jose. Still some mid90s inland for inland Contra Costa County and down to morgan hill, a high of 92 degrees. Here is where things get interesting. What is left of hurricane marie will weaken. This moisture will start to drift to the north interacting with the weather system that will be on approach around the bay area late thursday into friday. This is how it looks like it will play out. As we go through thursday and friday showers approach the coast. Friday there is system number one and then another system dropping in towards saturday. So pretty interesting as we take a look at the longrange models. Weve not had a chance to see this in quite some time. This is one of the longer term weather models we look at. This one shows us pretty good rain down the central coast. Its counterpart also advertising rain, more so for the north bay. This is an encouraging sign the last three to four days, longrange models show rain chances. Increasing friday with the first system and perhaps another one dropping in for saturday. So finally some good news in the weather forecast. The spare the air days i believe still continue to tuesday especially for the north bay around the glass fire. San francisco, your temperatures cool off as we head to the second half of the week. The north bay rain chances possibly as early as late thursday night based on the current expectations. So were going to get cooler temperatures, better air quality, and increasing chances of seeing some rain friday into next weekend. It seems like its been since midaugust when the lightning strikes hit the bay area. We havent had many pleasant things to talk about in the weather. That is some positive change, we hope, heading our way later on this week. Kira . Hard to believe we are almost approaching two months since that nightmarish night that ignited all these fires. Rob, thanks so much for that bit of good news. It is 7 20. We have so much more ahead on today in the bay coming up. Reporter unanswered phones, unopened mail, and state workers who actually arent working. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. A revealing look inside the Unemployment Office next. Welcome back. Imagine applying for a job, getting hired and getting paid to do nothing. Thats exactly the gig the state gave hundreds of californians, and you paid for it. We all did with our taxes. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here with more troubling findings inside the state Unemployment Office. Reporter the Employment DevelopmentDepartment Just paused new unemployment applications to reset and address a backlog of 600,000 claims. But thats not the only misstep that triggered this sudden pause. State workers walked away from their phones, ignored important mail and, yes, hundreds more state workers hired and paid to do absolutely nothing. Laidoff workers could not reach the edd to file for Unemployment Benefits. 300 calls just to get through to someone on the other line. Reporter Governor Newsom said his office responded with a heroic effort. We moved people to work the phones. Reporter but throughout the summer people still couldnt get paid. Now we know why. This new review found many of edds new hires lacked the training to help laidoff workers over the phone. Those operators only resolved 1. 4 of peoples calls. The report is blistering. Hiring more staff that cannot handle the