Mike is keeping his eye on the commute. First, meteorologist kari hall and the beautiful shot behind you. Whats that, kari . Well, just a fake background of san jose. Lets talk about whats going on for the bay area for today. Now we will have some hot weather in the valleys and also the north bay wind gusts will be pretty high today. Were worried about the high fire danger as well for today and the next several days as our winds could pick up. Hotter as we take a look at our high temperatures for this afternoon. 83 today in palo alto. Mike, whats the update on the commute . I have real monitors behind me with real Speed Sensors showing you actually changes for oakland. Lets take that up. Well zoom in to the nimitz. The northbound side got the all clear saying they are clear. The southbound side the last two minutes have speeds back to the green level. That construction is cleared heading to 23rd away from the bay bridge. In a couple minutes well show you what things are like and why theres a warning for the golden gate. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Decision 2020 and shut down the microphones. That is the new rule for thursdays president ial debate. This is to prevent the constant interruptions in the last president ial debate. Tracie potts is live with more reaction this morning from the president s team. Tracie . Reporter exactly, marcus. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. We have not heard from the biden team but we have heard from the trump team and the president himself on shutting down these microphones at thursdays debate. The president says hell show up but he doesnt like it. To prevent a repeat of this the radical left will you shut up, man. Reporter the president ial Debate Commission announced they will mute the opponents microphone during each candidates twominute response at thursdays debate. The Trump Campaign calls the commission biased, changing the rules to provide advantage to their favorite candidate. And theyre disputing the topics. Were going to win the state of arizona. Reporter polls open in 37 states. President trump reportedly wants to boost his rally to five a day telling Campaign Workers people are tired of covid. I have the biggest rallies ive ever had and we have covid. People are saying, whatever. Just leave us alone. Theyre tired of it. Reporter the democrats Vice President ial nominee senator Kamala Harris slamming the president in florida for not listening to scientists. Deny facts, deny science, and lie to the american people. So we know we need a change, and a change is coming. Reporter democratic nominee joe biden taking a break before the debate is warning his team against being complacent. Polls show him ahead by double digits, but tighter in swing states. Coronavirus continues to dominate the campaign. This aint no joke. Its killing people. All you have to do is look at the numbers. Reporter the virus surging in 38 states with cases up 10 in the last two weeks. Tracie potts, nbc news. And the final debate is being held at Belmont University in nashville. Nbcs Kristen Welker is moderating. You can watch it here on nbc bay area. Our coverage begins thursday at 5 30. Well, this Tuesday Morning a live look at capitol hill for you where according to House Speaker nancy pelosi progress is being made before todays deadline to reach a deal on a new pandemic economic stimulus package. They negotiated for nearly an hour yesterday. The session was called productive by both sides and theyre set to meet again today. But time is running out for congress and the white house to deliver aid to americans before the election. In california there are now more than 880,000 confirmed covid cases. Across the world more than 40 Million People have been infected with covid19. Lets go to today in the bays kris sanchez live in san mateo where they have drivethrough testing under way there today. Reporter theyre going to expand it to test children who are 5 years old and older. This is the first time here in San Mateo County and it will happen here at the event center. You do have to have an appointment. If you come with your child 5 and ole der, you will be turned away if you dont have an appointment. Thats one story this morning. Also, ive had a couple of covid tests myself. The kids are not going to like it but testing is such an important test of the reopening. Other states are seeing covid surges and second and third waves of coronavirus. Californias slow and steady reopening plan is working despite the fact that a lot of us feel pretty cooped up. Better news here in the bay area is the bay area has the lowest coronavirus risk of any Major Metropolitan Center in the state according to the mercury news. The dark spot here in the bay area, though, is Sonoma County where covid is still spreading a lot faster than wed like to see. The county is considering spending 16 million on a Public Health strategy and provide incentive for folks to get tested. They know if theyre positive they will have to stay home from work or school. Also a stipend for those who test positive and feel they dont have anywhere to go because they condition miss work. Those are conversations happening in Sonoma County this morning. The transmission rate in sonoma is much higher than what the state allows for reopening so the leaders in the county are struggling to make sure they bring the numbers down as quickly as possible. The big story in San Mateo County, now available for children 5 years and older in a drivethrough setting but, again, you have to have an appointment. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Okay. All that information just on the heels of a ucsf pediatric professor saying now is a good time to reopen bay area schools. One of the reasons is the low virus transmission rate in alameda and santa clara counties holding below 2 . Getting back to inperson learning is good for economic and mental health. In new york there are no signs of outbreaks related to schools reopening. We cant sacrifice teachers and families but its so important for kids and we have this opportunity with low numbers to do that. She says if Indoor Dining is reopening, schools could, too. But it must include masking, distancing and ventilated classrooms. Happening today San Francisco supervisors look at making juneteenth a city holiday. The resolution would declare june 19th to be observed as a holiday to honor the black community and the end of slavery. If passed it would encourage all businesses to either close on june 19th or pay workers overtime. Santa clara county voted to make it the countys 13th paid holiday. It was the first in california to do so. Weve been watching and listening as change happens. Jessica aguirre and i host a conversation called race in america and you can watch all of our previous specials on our website. Go to nbcbayarea. Com raceinamerica. 5 08. Time to check in with meteorologist kari hall. She has a look at our forecast. What is this, a lesson on masks . Right. So im just helping you get ready for the day and people who work outside need more than one mask. I think today because its going to be so hot, its a two to three mask kind of day. You might sweat through one and you dont want to be stuck with just that one with temperatures reaching into the upper 80s in the valleys today. As you get ready for the day were going to have temperatures once again warming up. A lot of sunshine for the afternoon with concord today reaching up to 89 degrees. So well talk about what else is ahead in the forecast with a cooldown coming up. Mike, how is it looking right now for the drive . Kari, you said two to three masks but not at the same time. Thats for switching off one after the other. The roadways, folks are switching around for their construction crews and fremont shows a little bit of slowing. Crews are clearing, around vargas, circling the slowdown we saw around spencer for 101 north of the golden gate bridge. Looks like that cleared along with the crew. Its not clear as long as the view. You knew about the warning but ill do them a favor. Back to you. 5 10. Ready to live stream. Next, apple launching an all new video service. Why many are comparing it to the old School Version of mtv. You might eat outside right now but probably not as much this winter. Economists are trying to figure out how many jobs might be lost. Plus, gone but never forgotten. An all new look at the late bosemans final role on the big screen. 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Looking over here to the roadways where things are improving, that does mean slowing as crews start to clear. 680, well track the changes coming up. Good morning. A very happy wednesday to you. Kari says it will be warm today but that will not last forever. Economists looking over the predictions for what will happen when Colder Weather sets in. One Economist Says he he can inspects more than 33,000 people working in the San Francisco bay area in hospitality and retail will lose their jobs as fewer customers show up. Hes one of many economists calling for more stimulus to help save the economy. This pandemic has really galvanized economists around the idea of government spend iing particularly now. We dont want to hold it against businesses that they didnt have cash set aside for a global pandemic. Its the risk governments are set up to intervene in. To allow businesses. Maybe its not the best to be indoors close together. He says most stores cant allow more than a few people inside at a time and people may not be willing to stand outside in winter months. As for the stimulus no sign of it yet. Wall street closing slightly lower. The santa based Company Selling off for 9 million. About three years ago fox con which makes apple iphones promised it would build a huge factory in wisconsin, it was one of the very first to say it would move manufacturing to the United States in exchange for big tax cuts. Wisconsin says it may not give those concessions because foxconn didnt build the factory it promised and is not employing as many people called for in the original deal. Nowhere near it. A Big Oil Company took the unusual step to clarify something President Trump said while campaigning in arizona. He said he could call anyone on wall street and ask for tens of millions of dollars in donations and that the ceos would say, yes, sir. And he used exxon as an example of a company he could tap for funds theoretically. Exxon took the unusual step of making sure americans understood that was purely theoretical. Just so were clear, exxon says, it never happened. The president was trying to make the point he could ask for corporations donations but that he would be beholden to them. I think he was also defending the fact hes significantly behind as far as fundraising goes. 5 15 this morning and apple launching a new music Video Streaming Service called apple music tv. The free service is part of an apple tv app. Some say it reminds of mtv back when they first started and only played music videos. Remember that . One Upcoming Event is being planned. Its a day dedicated to playing Bruce Springsteen videos. Fans of the boss will be happy. A surprise announcement from actor jeff bridges. Hes been diagnosed with lymphoma. Bridges may be best known for his role. He shared the news on twitter. Writing in part, quote, although its a serious disease, i feel fortunate that i have had a grit team of doctors and the prognosis is good. Bridges did provide he probably did not provide any other details on his diagnosis. Very sad, though. Hes a great actor. Absolutely. You know what, Something Else is trending this morning, the first trailer for bosemans final film. I know what im doing. I dont care. The black panther star died in august. The final role on the upcoming netflix film alongside viola davis based on the 1982 broadway play. Boseman plays the horn player. This performance is already generating oscar buzz. What a talent. It will be interesting to see what happens. Some of his last great work and what he was dealing with. Kari hall tracking Tropical Storm epsilon. We are already way down in the greek alphabet. This will not affect a lot of land. Were expecting the system to move very close to bermuda, strengthen to a hurricane and weaken once again as it stays out over the ocean. Were concerned about a high fire danger. Winds could gust up to 40 miles an hour and sustained winds at 10 to 20 miles an hour along with that very low humidity. The diablo range to the Santa Cruz Mountains well have high fire danger with a fire weather watch going into effect. This will be from tomorrow night through friday morning and once we get closer to the next wind event, some gusty winds and thats coming along with some of the very low humidity. 15 to 20 miles an hour, enough for any fires that do start to spread rapidly and the winds are gusting even higher as you go up in elevation. Hot temperatures in the upper 80s. We move off to the end of the week. Quite windy but then look at the weekend. Its going to be a nice weekend with highs inland in the low to mid70s and for San Francisco temperatures that will go from the 70s back as the fog returns this weekend. How is it looking as folks get ready to head out the door . Looks like folks are just getting ready to go and not already on the roads. The changes that ive seen over here look on the right side. Overall the green is dominating. We had slowing for about ten minutes. I think that crew cleared about 45 minutes heading up to sunol. Thats your commute and its standard. Track just now starting to build. No metering lights. Back to you. Looks light for the moment. Up next on today in the bay, nbc bay area responds. Reporter her online order was delivered to a store 65 miles away, and her request for a refund went missing, too. Im chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. But first our team always on social media. Check out this photo of meteorologist kari hall posted on social media. She says her husband got her this new coffee mug because mornings can be hard. Be sure to follow kari on facebook, twitter and instagram. She posts updates to the forecast. Woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. Their laundry smells moremily amazing than ever. In flings, uh, honey . Isnt that the dogs towel . Hey, me towel su towel. Theres more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze odor remover in every fling. Gain. Seriously good scent. 5 24. Developing now in Colorado Wildfires still raging out of control. Powerful winds are making it tough for firefighters to contain the flames. The fires have forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes. In Boulder County the fast moving calwood fire sparked and has exploded to over 9,000 acres. No reports of damage from the 7. 5 earthquake that triggered a tsunami warning in alaska. This capturing the moment the quake hit yesterday. This is near the islands. The quake also triggered waves that were about two feet high. The tsunami warning was lifted. Jeffrey epstein confident Ghislaine Maxwells testimony tied to a now settled 2015 civil suit involving an epstein accuser. Maxwell argued her chance at a fair trial would be harmed if her deposition is made public. The Appeals Court disagreed. Its not clear how soon her deposition will be made available to the public. Miamidade county will once again be able to enforce a midnight curfew to stop the spread of covid19. This is in miami. Last week a judge sided with an Adult Entertainment company challenging the ruling. Another judge reversed the decision. And in wisconsin a judge has ruled that the governors order restricting capacity at bars and restaurants at 25 can stay in place despite a lawsuit. Nbc bay area responds to a clayton woman who says the refund for an online order went missing. She turned to chris chmura for help. Reporter good morning. Katherine paid jcpenney 38 for a no coat that was supposed to be delivered to her house. Somehow that coat went to a Jcpenney Store in san jose, 65 miles away. I wasnt worried because the email confirmed shipment, clearly stated if the coat wasnt picked up by a specific date the order would be canceled and a full refund issued. Reporter so she let the deadline pass and expected a full refund. Just like the coat, her refun never arrived either. She went back and forth with an Online Payment Servi