Good monday morning. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. We have a little rain on this monday morning. Its lingering for some of us but tapering off to light activity. It looks a little lighter than yesterday, where we had some decent rainfall totals across the bay area. This morning you may have to turn on the windshield wipers, but theres not a lot popping up on the radar, as we are seeing it starting to taper off. The rest of the day is looking nice. Well head for more sunshine into late morning, into the afternoon. Pleasant hill going from upper 50s to low 70s at noon. Its going to be a Beautiful Day with breezy winds in parts of the south bay, reaching into the mid to upper 70s. San jose reaching 75 and 78 today in danville. Well talk about the rest of the week in a few minutes. How is that delay at the bay bridge . The backup at the bay bridge toll plaza is still there. The reason is because of this activity, a hazard, a disabled vehicle just before the Treasure Island tunnel. They keep the traffic held back at the toll plaza to keep it moving slowly across the span in case they need other vehicles. I believe they need a tow truck across the span. Typical bid for the richmond in west 80 and 37, highway 4 building into concord, but nothing dramatic. Theres maybe two crashes, one toward lafayette and one out of orinda. Were looking at a smooth drive through contra costa county, nonetheless. On the peninsula, after we have our second big backup, its southbound 101 at poplar. Activity from an earlier crash. No major injuries. We are looking at a slower drive down the peninsula. The southbound getting over the first burst of traffic, the first slowing through san jose. Well see more in about 40 minutes. This morning in the middle east, humanitarian aid is trickling into gaza as the war continues. Here is a live look this morning at the israelgaza border where air strikes are intensifying. Convoys are now entering through the boarding crossing in egypt. People on the ground say what is being brought in is not meeting the overwhelming need. The Israeli Military is notifying the families of 222 hostages taken by hamas, including foreign nationals. Infantry forces now continuing raids inside gaza in order to search for those who have been kidnapped. Today in the bays brie jackson is joining us live. Were learning more about the two american hostages released on friday. Reporter thats right. Good morning, marcus. President biden and israeli Prime Minister netanyahu spoke over the phone sunday and agreed that humanitarian assistance will continue to flow into gaza. Meanwhile, the u. S. Is increasing its military presence in the middle east. A sense of relief following the release of two americans held in gaza, Judith Raanan and her 17yearold daughter, natalie. President biden speaking with them from the white house. I want to thank you for your support of israel. Look, thats been longstanding. Im just grateful we were able to get you out. Were going to get them all out, good god willing. Reporter the Biden Administration is still working to secure the release of all of the other hostages taken by hamas terrorists. The u. S. Is also increasing its military presence in the region, which includes deploying advance Missile Defense systems. This is not by way of in terms of what were doing by provocation, its designed to deter, make clear that no one should use this moment in any way to escalate. Reporter as the fighting intensifies, senators visiting tel aviv denounced hamas attacks. I just want to say i agree we have all suffered losses, not just israelis but palestinians. They are victims of hamas as well. Reporter theres a bipartisan push to keep humanitarian aid and other help flowing. We know theres support in the house and we think we will get this done and get it done in a timely way. Its not only in the interest of the countries in the region, its in americas interest, its in the interest of our world. Reporter the u. S. Moving more military resources to the middle east, with the hopes of preventing this conflict from spreading. The u. S. And moving an Aircraft Carrier and attacks ships, as well as putting more u. S. Troops on standby who would deploy on short notice, marcus. Brie, as we deal with that conflict in the middle east, also a conflict of sorts here at home. House republicans continuing to search for a House Speaker. Where do we stand in those efforts . Reporter so right now theres no clear frontrunner. Nine House Republicans officially launched a bid for the speakership. Tonight they will make their case to their party in a closeddoor forum. Then on Tuesday Morning the republicans will hold another internal vote to choose their next gop nominee. Whoever that lawmaker turns out to be, they will then face the uphill battle to try to win 217 votes in the full house. So keep an eye out for that, marcus. We will be watching. Brie jackson in washington, thank you. As the war rages on, we will continue to bring you updates in all of our newscasts. Visit nbcbayarea. Com for breaking news developments. You can also get those alerts sent straight to your phone. Download our free nbc bay area app. Governor newsom is in hong kong this morning attending his first event in asia. He took part in a fireside chat at Hong Kong University. The event was focused on climate change. He told School Leaders the planets future depends on california and china, and says both hold keys to solving our climate in crisis. We all have remarkable capacity and success, and success leaves clues. And im here to steal good ideas and enlighten competition to save this damn planet. Most of the governors weeklong trip will be focused on green energy and new environmental partnerships. Police in the town of oakley are still on the hunt for the person behind a deadly latenight shooting at a packed weekend house party. This happened saturday night at a home on shannon road. A total of four people were shot, a 16yearold, sadly, died at the scene. The other three victims are expected to survive. Police say about 30 minutes before that gunfire, officers were called to the same house and asked an 18yearold resident to shut things down, which officers say she agreed to do. One neighbor who works as a Security Guard says that after the gunfire, he actually ran over barefoot to help. I said, ive got to save them, i grabbed the tourniquet off my vest and ran outside and was yelling, whos shot, whos shot. Police spoke with one witness who said the shooting may have followed some type of commotion involving a group of partygoers stuck outside, who then went around the side of the home to enter. At this point, investigators believe theyre only looking for one person. But so far theyre not saying much about any possible suspects. New video shows illegal sideshows in the north bay. This one took place last night near the intersection of b. W. Williams. Were told it lasted more about 45 minutes before the group left. A similar sideshow happened in the same spot last weekend. We reached out to Vallejo Police for details but have not heard back. An east bay mayor taking his push for commute safety to washington, d. C. Today, and it could pay off in the millions. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us from our newsroom with more on what the emeryville mayor wants. Reporter the u. S. Department of transportation has almost 200 million set aside for some very specific projects, and emeryville mayor john bauters wants as much of that as he can get. Voters want a reconnecting communities grant to transform the 40th street shellmound corridor to make it safer for people biking or walking, on buses or trains or in cars. Were envisioning a really big project here. Were looking to do all of 40th street from our border with oakland through the primary commercial and hotel corridor, where all of our jobs are centrally located, and then up shellmound street through the public market. The mayor says the city of emeryville already has about half of the 30 million it needs for this project through local and state funds. And while the d. O. T. Is Still Deciding who is going to get those reconnecting community grants, the mayor is hoping a little inperson face time in d. C. Might showcase the fact that emeryville is ready to put that money to good use. The bay area has already benefitted from these reconnecting communities grants, as san jose and oakland got money for projects just last year. Thanks so much, kris. This morning, south bay highway 87 is back open. This is following a weekend long closure. Caltrans reopened lanes nine hours ahead of schedule. The southbound side of the highway was closed all weekend for repaving. This is the second time in two months caltrans has shut down this stretch of road. 6 10 right now. Things are open out there and the skies is open for rain as well. Taking a live look outside overlooking downtown san jose, right as we washed the car over the weekend. Nature washed the car for you. Well be able to head to the car wash today after getting this. This is a look at all of the rainfall totals we had across many of our microclimates, with san jose getting a tenth of an inch of rain. In the Santa Cruz Mountains it was 1 inch of rain. It was high in some of the hills, with mount tam the highest at 2. 22 inches of rain over the weekend. Napa was very close to a half inch of rain. We did have some pretty high rainfall totals in parts of the bay area. Now were headed for a clear sky and its going to be a Beautiful Day. Comfortable temperatures, reaching 73 in hayward and mountain view, as well as san mateo. And 78 degrees in novato. We are going to be warming up slightly. Well talk more about that and whats ahead for the rest of the week. Hopefully, mike, youre seeing numbers going down. Maybe not at your specific gas station, but look around. In the south bay, san jose is looking at 4. 59 for quick serve on alum rock avenue. North bay, we have arco in mill valley, were looking at marin countys lowest of 4. 83. Thats great stuff. Concords best is 4. 87 on concord super stop on willow pass road in the east bay. Good stuff as well. Were looking at gasbuddy. Com. On the roadway, were looking at a smooth flow of traffic in most spots. A trouble spot continues and now chp has issued an alert, three lanes blocked, two left lanes open south 101 approaching poplar. Weve seen the slowing hold to about a mile. 280 is a great option and you can cross back over if youre heading out of San Francisco down the peninsula. The bay bridge, the disabled vehicle looks like its been cleared, so things are moving more slowly on the incline. They should speed up the metering lights just a tad bit. Such a pretty look out there. Thanks, mike. Its 6 12 right now. Investors this morning waking up to a mega merger in the oil industry involving the bay area chevron. How the deal will expand chevrons presence in north and south america, and how investors are reacting. Well set the scene in hollywood where actors remain on strike. The new hope for a deal as the curtain rises on a new round of talks. Not what you would expect on your trip to the Grocery Store. How officers wrangled a busy bear combing the aisle good monday morning to you. As you head out the door, it may still be drizzling, but its going to be clearing out. Fremont, were at 60 degrees and cloudy to start. As we go throughout the morning, the sun will break out and well have a Beautiful Day, as our temperatures reach into the upper 60s by noon. Well see more weather like this. Well talk about it in a few minutes. And a report of a disabled rig on the san mateo bridge is still on the grid, but we can watch the traffic lanes flowing westbound up the incline and around without disturbance. Well track that and let you know if theres anything they need to do in order to clear this coming up. Thanks so much. 16 after the hour. Wall street is set to open lower ahead of a big week of earnings. The markets are coming off a tough week, as concerns about higher Interest Rates sent the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 into the red. In focus this week, data on housing, gdp, homeless claims, durable goods and inflation. It is the busiest week for earnings with 40 of the dow reporting results, including four of the mega cap tech giants, microsoft, alphabet, meta and amazon. Well keep track of it all. San ro moan based chevron is shaking up the industry with a mega merger. The company is buying the Hess Corporation in a deal valued at 53 billion. The deal put chevron and exxonmobil head to head in shale. Hess owns shale fields in north dakota and has a big offshore oil presence. Hollywood is hopefully the next round of talks with striking actors goes better than the last round. When last they spoke 12 days ago, talks abruptly ended over major differences that could not be bridged. Since that time, some of hollywoods biggest stars tried to make concessions with the hopes of bridging the gap. The broader union shot down that offer. At the same time, the longer the strike continues, the more economically challenging it is for the rank and file. The latest round of talks is scheduled to get under way tomorrow. And trending this morning, a wild animal create ago bear of a situation for First Responders in alaska. Take a look. Weve got him. The little bear managed to make its way into a Grocery Store last tuesday. The wild animal was caught wandering the aisles. Body cam Video Shows Police eventually getting the cub under control. He looked just as scared, too, though. Cute, too. From a distance. Thats why they like selfcheckout at that store. Wherever theres a little bear, theres usually mama bear. Mama bear weather keeping us on track. How do we dress our cubs today . Its going to be a day where you start out with a jacket, later on today its going to be so nice and beautiful. So we have some rain over the weekend, and we take a look at what were seeing as youre stepping out, driving to work or school, its a little damp out there. We take a look at our live view at the Golden Gate Bridge. Things are starting to clear up, so eventually we wont need the windshield wipers. Some of us will need it on the drive to work this morning. After all of that rain, maybe the cars in front of you are kicking up water thats left in the puddles on the roadways. Theres not a lot of rain thats falling for now, but it may still be misting and drizzling. And then in morgan hill our temperature trend goes from upper 50s at 8 00 to some low 60s. Well see some 70s in the forecast for the middle of the day. Its going to be so nice this afternoon. Hopefully you can start to make plans to enjoy more Time Outdoors for this afternoon. Now, well head for 78 degrees in novato, San Francisco reaching 71 degrees, and then for tomorrow it will be slightly cooler there, while some of the valleys will get a boost in the temperatures. San martin will get a high of 80 degrees, with some upper 70s in livermore and in concord. Now, notice that on wednesday it will be cooler, with mostly upper 60s, and it will be windy. That will be as a cold front moves across the bay area, with some rain very close by. As of now, it looks like it stays over the sierra and well be seeing if we can squeeze at least a few raindrops out of that system. Other than that, its dry throughout the rest of the week into next week as well. Take a look at the change in our temperatures. In livermore were in the upper 70s today and tomorrow, but then as that system drops in on wednesday, its only going to be in the upper 60s. Look at saturdays forecast. 63 degrees. What are you doing this weekend . Make sure that youre dressed for some chillier weather, especially in the mornings. Look at those morning lows for the inland areas. Are you ready for upper 40s . Were going to start to see that starting thursday morning and highs in the 60s, while San Francisco will see temperatures also cooling off quite a bit as well. Mike, youre tracking a crash. Whats going on . Good news, kari. In the last few minutes we overheard chp, the alert was quickly cleared. Southbound 101, all leans lanes cleared at poplar. There is some slowing on the incline. Part of that is volume, but theres a disabled truck. There may be a traffic break as crews are hooking things up. Theyre not giving that update on the chp report. Ill keep checking. Meanwhile, the peninsula itself overall and the south bay move nicely, a couple of crashes to the shoulders. 880, you see more slowing heading south toward union city and theres slowing we pointed out on 92. The trivalley looks great. Contra costa county, no surprises. Holding steady for highway 4 for the last 20 minutes, despite a series of crashes that showed up for highway 24 westbound, does remain, overall, at speed out of walnut creek and all the way toward the maze, where theres a typical build there. The toll plaza holding steady, actually moving a lot better than it did about 20 minutes ago. The disabled vehicle or the crash at Treasure Island has been cleared. Theres activity all the way on the right shoulder, but its not affecting the lanes of the toll plaza itself. Back to you. Busy out there. Thanks. We know the sun is very beneficial. How about for your car . You may never have to plug in the newest electric car. The newest electric car. Alex mateo, hey hows business . Great. You know that loan has really worked wonders. Thats what u. S. Bank is for. And youre growing in california . Yup, socal, norcal. Monterey . All day. A branch in ventura . Thats for sureah. Atms in fresno . Fresyes. Encinitas . 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