White house. And fighting retail crime. New funding for Alameda County to help combat the growing trend and new promise from the countys top crime fighter facing a fight of her own with angry voters. This is today in the bay. Good morning. Im marcus washington. Well get a look at the commute, but first lets will first of all, welcome back. Thank you. Im so happy to be back. Ive missed all of you. And better way to come back than nice and early at 5 00 a. M. On a thursday. What other shift would you want . And the weather has been great. It has finally felt like fall. We do have a warmup on the way, so that will change things up, but also rain chances. Lets get to your forecast. Current temperatures are in the fourth and 50s. San jose, 51, santa rosa, 48. And palo alto, 52. This is pretty comfortable, but we do have a temperature difference in some spots including Half Moon Bay, a 14 degree temperature change. And livermore, about an 8 degree difference. And i did mention a warmup. It will be slight. We have High Pressure building. Youve likely noticed the wind the past couple of days. But as the High Pressure brings a slight warmup, out on the pacific we have a system that will bring the possibility of some shower activity depending on where you live heading into saturday morning and even into the weekend. It will also keep the winds around as well. Ill get to the timing of that in a minute. And we have a pretty calm drive right now on the roadways. Green sensors dominate. We had a crash i think until the last few seconds here southbound 101, i believe everything is now cleared south of 101. Slowing sensors have recovered. Huge flow down toward sfo. Ill let you know if anything changes. Over here there may be a new disabled vehicle toward the bridge, richmond still has the three right lanes blocked by the earlier incident. And highway 4 slowing, late pickup, that is now clearing from antioch. Smooth drive building up toward contra comes costa oig county. And there was an Early Morning multicar crash on interstate 880, it happened about 1 00 in the south bound lanes. This is near the north a street exit. And the exact number of cars here involved, not yet clear. But chp is saying that one woman guide there at the scene. Others now in the hospital. There is no word yet on the exact cause. In the middle east, people in tel aviv singing the National Anthem from balconies last night. The video shows many people singing along and the last verse was followed by a round of cheers. And here is a live look in gaza city this morning. The number of dead continues to rise. In are now about 2600 confirmed deaths an almost equal amount on each side of the conflict. Thousands more injured. Israel has now formed a unity government including the ruling and opposition parties. The defense minister vowing to wipe hamas off the face of the earth. And brie jackson is live in washington this morning with the growing tensions and there is new support for israel just a short time ago from the u. S. Secretary of state. Reporter yeah, thats right. Good morning, marcus, ginger. Secretary of state Antony Blinken spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu and to the world less than an hour ago. This is video of blinken landing in israel this morning. Blinken says he is determined to make sure israel get what is it needs to defend itself, to start todays News Conference. Blinken says that he had to speak from the heart. I understand on a personal level the harrowing echos that hamas massacres carry for israeli jews, indeed for jews everywhere. I also come before you as a husband and father of young children. It is impossible for me to look at the photos of families killed such as the mother and father and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home in kibbutz. And not think ofy own children. Reporter and u. S. State Department Said blinken will head to jordan to meet with senior officials there. President biden says his administration is working on the release of hostages. Some of them americans. Ginger, marcus. Thanks a lot, brie. Scott mcgrew is with us. I want to talk about disinformation. Weve seen a lot of that online particularly with the company x, normally known as twitter. And we do still call it twitter. It is promising to clean up its act. But as we talk about promises dont count for a lot when they are associated with elon musk. This is new x ceo linda yaccarino, she is responding to a demand from the European Union that it remove fake articles and content linked to hamas and other terror groups from the service. Saying that the company is moving manpower and refocusing content. The European Commission gave x 24 hours to comply. Yaccarino complying details to the eu walking it through some of the steps in a letter removing or at least labeling thousands of tweets and assembly a Leadership Group she says at the company to take further action. Yaccarino writing further, there is no place on x for terrorist organizations or violent extremist groups and we continue to remove such accounts in real time. Now, elon musk laid off much of the companys content team shortly after he took control of twitter last year. The lack of control over content had already been a concern given the upcoming elections. Not just here in the u. S. , but all over the world. Now, well see what happens at x, but the company clearly does not have the manpower to do what it has promised to do. And promises from musk or any Company Associated with musk tend not to come true. Almost exactly a year ago musk announced that they had put together acontent panel in charge of major decisions about whether or not to allow donald trump would return. And then he decided on his own to let donald trump to return and there is no content panel. And so robo taxis on the road no later than 2022. And he said about a million of them. And we havent seen any at least from tesla. So well see what x can do, but promises can thin. One of those situations where you just have to it with a and see. And you kind of already know the answer. With a and see. And you kind of already know the answer. Thanks, scott. And another live look at gaza. Stay with us for the latest developments, were keeping an eye on the situation. Our website is a great resource. Just go to nbcbayarea. Com, click on the link in the trending bar. And new for you, alamedas count District Attorney turning up the heat on people taking part in organized retail theft. Bob redell is live for us. And this will go to fighting a problem that were seeing across the bay area. Reporter correct. Good morning. Last month the state of california awarded the District Attorneys office here in Alameda County 2 million to fight organized retail crime. That is a growing problem that you were alluding to. Now the District Attorney pamela price said that she is doubling down announcing today that she is matching that grant with another 2 million from her budget. Combined investment will fund two dedicated retail theft prosecutors and two inspectors. It will also funnel more money into the nonprofit Restorative Justice program that the d. A. Office partners within hopes of getting to the root causes. Our First Response is to get to the services you need to stop the behavior from happening. And i believe that is what our residents want, that is what our retailers want. We all want to stop the behavior. Why is it happening. Reporter z. A. Price says she recently witnessed a retail theft taking place at a store in oakland and she said the experience left her rattled and frustrated at how brazen the thieves have become. You might recall last night the city of oakland could have potentially received some of that state grant money, were talk you go about millions of dollars to fight organized retail thefts. But the city missed a deadline to submit an application. The city administrator said opd and Community Partners put together an application but the citys economic award force Development Department failed to follow through and actually submit it. The city is now looking at hiring someone as to specifically handle those kind of grant applications. And back to Alameda CountyDistrict Attorney, people trying to recall her from office because they say that she is anticop and too lenient on crime, they will update us on their partition drive at a News Conference later this morning. Organizers say they have over 900 volunteers and a professional firm helping them collect signatures for a petition to get her recall on the ballot. Bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thank you. 5 10. And you are taking a live look at a view of San Francisco from across the bridge over in sausalito. The beautiful city waking up there. And yesterday it was cloudy, and then really sunny. And now, i dont know what to do. The weather has been confusing because of course we had the heat for a stretch of time and you were thinking, well, it certainly doesnt feel like were about to head into fall. And then we finally cool things off, winds kicked up and of course the cloud cover moved in. Right now were seeing temperatures are in the 50s, but you will notice well still keep some of the cloud cover in some areas along with that wind heading into this afternoon. But the temperatures are going to feel just slightly warmer once we head into the afternoon. If you notice, we have a nice stretch of weather here, we have 60s around the coastline heading down through the south bay, san jose is expected to climb into the 80s with 81 degrees. Concord 81. And up through santa rosa and napa, upper 70s and 80s. Even though were warming up, we are still talking about that possibility of seeing that rain move in estimated especially into early saturday and sunday morning, notice a lot of focus will be in the north bay and ill take you through the timing of those chances coming up in a few minutes. And 5 12. New revelations on the pandemics impact on High School Students. Coming up at 5 25, well tell you how the pandemic and Remote Learning altered the preparedness of many students heading to college. And plus america, we have a winner. Someone purchased a single winning Powerball Ticket for last nights 1. 7 billion drawing. One single tickets. The one store buzzing this morning on one of the busiest traffic corridors connecting Southern California to the bay area. There is a hint for you. Traffic slow 580 approaching the dublin interchange. Hopefully this will clear the next few minutes. It is still clear as expected coming out of the east bay across the bridge. Well check the sensor changes coming up. And good morning, very happy thursday to you. We get key inflation data today, more about that in a second. The united autoworkers say that they will expand the strike to ford plant in kentucky. Ford trade is just f, but it looks weird so we have it as ford. Yesterdays ipo was a mess. The Company Opened at 46 a share and the stock fell as the day went on. In a way birkenstock got off easy. The brothers walked away with nearly 4 build, but 4 billion b it for other companies. Consume are price index is coming up in about 15 minutes. Inflation has been moderating, things have been getting better. If it is a mild number, might be more evidence that the fed wont raise Interest Rates further. We also got a long at the notes from the last fed meeting, the one where they kept rates steady and the notes show about half the fed governors favor a raise, the other half favor once again letting it ride, steady as she goes. No rate hike. And new survey from Investment BankPiper Sandler finds more teams watch youtube than netflix. 30 of their tv time is spent on youtube. And while it was their favorite video tv channel, tiktok their favorite video app. Analysts point out both are free and netflix and disney and hulu and all those others cost money. I will point out if you are a teen, everything is free. Very true. I highly recommend, and people who know me, know i watch a ton of youtube. I pay for the ad free version. But the amount of content on there, history and politics and you can even watch things like last night tonight with john oliver and saturday night live. It is all there. 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And your age was on there, 24 . Youre telling my age . Sorry. Lucky for us the weather has really been if you like fall weather, which i do. I think we appreciate fall in october. And we have the winds expected through this afternoon and change in the weather pattern. Right now the temperatures are in the 40s and 50s. You wont need a big coat because thanks to High Pressure that is building over the region, well see a slight warmup. That is going to bring a nice set of microclimates from 60s to 70s. And of course some 80s in through the interior. If i expand the satellite radar, you can see out in the pacific we do have some activity. We have a system that will make its approach starting tomorrow night into Early Saturday Morning especially for those folks who live in the north bay. Well have the best chance of seeing the shower activity as well. And forecasted highs for today, it will be slightly warmer. 81 in san jose. 81 in concord. And 70s through oakland, palo alto, napa. In San Francisco, it will feel warmer as well in the upper 60s, maybe even hitting some low 70s in through the afternoon. As far as that storm time line that i was mentioning, you will notice friday at about 10 30, we see it just off the coast. But a lot of that will mainly be focused out through parts of the north bay by about 4 00 well see some of that move into the far north. Ukiah, napa, sonoma. Notice 10 00 friday night, know novato, as well. You will see likely some drizzle around the coastline. Mainly around the north bay in through parts of the peninsula. Expect to see some cloud cover as well. By saturday afternoon, well keep some of the cloud cover and then things clear out and as far as rain totals go, it wont be a lot. Trace amounts, were wering anywhere from about tenth of an inch to just under a quarter of an inch for most spots throughout the bay area. And that is going to bring windy conditions as well especially around the coastline in through the interior valleys. Expect to see some changes in that forecast heading into next week as well. Believe it or not, we do have the possibility of seeing more rain heading into next week and also another warmup as well. And ill take you through more on that timing coming up in a few minutes. But first a check of traffic with mike. Still have a slower drive on the dublin camera. I believe it is starting to move a little better. There is a disabled box truck. But that is not the source of the backup. I think westbound a little slow approaching the dublin interchange. Looking for some improvement. And over here, a crash on the shoulder just before the junction. West bound 880 moving smoothly once again. And this Years College applications in general still have some time there. 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A lot of time families look at the stirk price of a school and that turns them off from applying. So they might look at some of the institutions that are upwards of 60,000 a year and say there is no possible way that i could afford that. But the Sticker Price is not the price that the vast majority of students pay. So it is ironic that some of the most expensive schools that are the highest ranked, they actually cost the least. So the bottom line here, do your research. Also keep in mind applying for early decision means students are committing to one specific