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KNTV Today July 3, 2024

Closely watched mayors race. The new twist causing the incumbent to suddenly pull out and all the buzz. San franciscos new wnba team stirring up some excitement this morning. Were going to break down just what valkyries means as well. This is today on the bay. I think we got a few right here on this desk for you this morning. Want to say good morning to you . Im Marcus Washington. We had to tuck our wings. Good morning, im laura garcia. Were going to check the morning commute with mike. Theres some activity out there youre going to need to know about. But first, a look at the forecast with meteorologist kari hall. Well, its pretty quiet over here. We havent had a whole lot going on except for morning clouds and afternoon sunshine. As we get a look at what were seeing right now in san jose, it is mostly clear with that thin veil of the clouds that have been that have been drifting by, and were going to see some of the warmest days for today and tomorrow. So bring those temperatures up a couple of degrees. Its still going to be cool near the coast with low clouds and drizzle there. And for the weekend it will be slightly cooler as that wind kicks up just a little bit. But were not seeing a significant shift in our temperatures. Were still only up to about 80 in livermore, 85, though in fairfield, while in the north bay will be in the upper 70s, and Mountain View will see a high of 78 degrees there and upper 60s for san mateo. Well talk about the weekend coming up. Mike. Now you have some slowing on highway 24. Its actually im sorry, carrie, i changed it up last minute because we just saw the status had not changed over here at the bay bridge. So there is slowing on 24. Theres also this incident on grand avenue, the off ramp, i believe getting off of 80. So if you use the grand avenue sort of serpentine right here, that is the problem with an overturned rig. And it may be hours till they clear that im trying to locate exactly where youre going to get diverted off from the area, because it does sound like that particular ramp is the issue. But getting to the bay bridge is okay. You can see it in the distance. You see those lights right there. Its only affecting that one section of roadway. But the approach coming off the nimitz and out of the maze is just fine. At the bay bridge toll plaza. So well continue to follow this, and ill let you know as that does potentially impact some folks coming out of the maze. Again, no slowing shows up here. Theres what kerry was talking about. I did warn her i was going to talk about slowing on highway 24 overnight road work. It looked like they were starting to let some lanes loose because the backup was lessening. But this is not scheduled to completely clear for the next hour, so well continue to follow slower drive into orinda, but not the caldecott tunnel. All right. Back to you. Good to know. Thanks, mike. Two decision 2024. And the date is set in the fight to recall Alameda Countys embattled District Attorney. As many expected, it will be part of the general election ballot this november. Today, in the bays Ginger Conejero saab is live for us this morning. And, ginger, what are the key factors here with that decision . Well, marcus, laura, good morning. There were a number of key points that were made to make this decision by the board of supervisors in Alameda County that recall election, as youve mentioned, is now set for november 5th, which is also in line with the president ial election. Pamela price will speak to this later this morning. Well be. Were going to be watching out for that. Thats happening at ten later. But some wanted this recall earlier than that november 5th date saying that Public Safety is on the line. But in a final vote, the board of supervisors voted yesterday three to nothing, with two supervisors excused from the proceedings to consolidate the recall election. Supporters say it makes sense because voter turnout is much higher for president ial elections compared to turnout for special elections. Consolidating the election also means consolidating the cost. But others who spoke last night say the sooner a recall takes place, the better, because they feel the das soft on crime policies are costing lives. Theres another group called the campaign to protect the win of pamela price, and they say they are going to court to get what they want, which is to stop this recall altogether. They violated a key provision of the charter that gave them ten days to verify those signatures. They took over a month to verify the signatures. Well, price says that this recall was funded by billionaires and by people who are uncomfortable with the idea that there is a black District Attorney in Alameda County. And again, as mentioned, she will be addressing this specific decision later this morning. Well be there. Well be watching out for those updates and give them to you on air and online at nbcbayarea. Com. Marcus. Laura, certainly well be following ginger. Thank you. Developing this morning in florida, the driver of a pickup truck now facing criminal charges in the crash that killed eight farmworkers on a bus. Dozens of others are injured. The bus was carrying more than 50 people when the crash happened early yesterday morning, about 50 miles north of tampa. The bus crashed through a fence, struck a tree and then overturned. The pickup truck driver is facing multiple charges, including driving under the influence. Well, the Justice Department is now saying boeing violated its deal. It was a deal meant to shield the company from criminal prosecution over those two fatal accidents involving the 737 max planes. Well, now that opens up the plane maker to potential criminal prosecution over these accidents. Both of those took place over the six months, six years ago. I should say. The doj says that in may, the discovery, while investigating that recent door blowout of the Alaska Airlines flight earlier this year. Happening today on capitol hill, the house is holding a hearing on the response to the quay bridge collapse in baltimore. The ntsb chairperson, jennifer holliday, will testify. It comes after the ntsb released its initial report from its investigation. The report says a cargo ship lost power, regained power and then lost it again before crashing into the bridge. It also revealed that just ten hours before the incident, the ship had a similar power failure. At least two. Bay area campus protests suddenly appear to be winding down, but at uc merced today, activists are organizing a protest tied to uc regents meeting. There that meeting is scheduled to begin later this morning. Now here in the bay area. Later today, propalestinian activists at San Francisco state will address an agreement reached with the school to dismantle the tent encampment that started there more than two weeks ago. A group first made that announcement yesterday and posted it on social media. Organizers also vowing to continue their efforts to force a cease fire in gaza. Uc berkeley propalestinian protesters are also dismantling their encampments, vowing to keep the pressure on the on the school to end the middle east conflict. Now, many took their tents down yesterday. This is after more than three weeks outside of sproul plaza. The peace was reached. This is after the agreement with administrators and a Public Statement from the chancellor supporting a cease fire. Some of the protesters are vowing to continue their effort at other campuses, including uc merced. We realize that what we get a free palestine to all the amazing kind of, get from the university in terms of our demands being met, have kind of been met to some extent. The fact that i get to say theres more to win. There is still another fight. There is still another campaign thats within reach. Now protesters are still demanding the uc system divest all assets in israel. A statement from cals chancellor states that the uc system does not support war and, quote, we should examine whether uc berkeleys Investments Continue to align with our values or should be modified in order to do so. End quote. Well the situation at san jose state, meanwhile, continues to simmer. Propalestinian supporters launched a their encampment on monday. Many are camped out there surrounding the schools iconic victory statue, but the school is already telling protesters that they need to move and that the encampment violates university policy. The university released a statement saying in part, violence, vandalism and unprotected speech that promotes a hostile or harassing environment is prohibited by the law and csu policy. Those in violation of the policy and or breaking the law will face consequences. San franciscos five top candidates for mayor will debate the citys issues on monday, but on two separate stages yesterday, mayor london breed pulled out of the debate planned by the Political Advocacy Group together sf action. She cited concerns that the deep pocketed group is too closely connected to her opponent, mark farrell. Breed claims his campaign has unduly influenced the debate and described it as tainted beyond repair. Mayor breed will now be holding a separate, moderated conversation on the same day and time with another mayoral opponent, longtime supervisor aaron peskin. The original debate will still include three of breeds reelection challengers mark farrell and daniel lurie, who are both polling close behind breed supervisor aisha safai is also set to participate in that debate. Well, violet is taking over the golden state, as we first told you here on today in the bay. The bay areas new wnba team is the valkyries. Yes so google searches for valkyries spiked. This is after that announcement yesterday. This is all according to team that comes from norse mythology. Valkyries are a host of warrior women who are fearless and unwavering, flying through air and sea alike. Now, that team added, the brand is golden states modern interpretation of valkyries strong, bold and fierce. The new team is already a huge hit with fans. Oh, its so exciting. It reminds me of when the wnba came out in like 97. I think i was in seventh grade and there was so much excitement. Now there are multiple symbols in the logo here, starting with the v for valkyries, the bay area is depicted to show the teams span across the bay area because they will practice over in oakland and play in San Francisco. The bridge tower doubles as a sword. Weapons of mythology. Valkyries would carry, and the 13 lines coming from the top of that sword represent the franchise, becoming the 13th active team in the wnba and of course, its all in the teams color violet, i like it. Nice addition that it is. A lot of people are talking about it. Yeah, yeah, we were talking about it yesterday too. And, you know, just my husband pulled up a movie where there were some valkyries. Oh, really . Yeah. I cant even remember what it was, but its one of those superhero movies. And he was like, this is what a valkyrie is. So they were flying in on horses with wings. And a lot of people think of flight of the valkyries. Yeah, yeah. All right, so lets get started this morning. Were going to start in San Francisco, where were seeing those low clouds and a few hues of purple there. Were going to also see some mist and drizzle throughout the next couple of hours. But then well become mostly sunny going into late morning into the afternoon. Youll notice its going to be a cool day there. Temperatures only in the 60s, and were starting out across the bay area with some low to mid 50s. As we approach the noon hour, we go from 50s to 60s and 70s. Its going to warm up quickly here today with some of our inland east bay spots at noon in the mid 70s and headed for the upper 70s and low 80s. So its going to be a little bit warmer than it has been, and will be as hot as 91 in ukiah and 90 in clear lake, but mostly 70s elsewhere. Well talk about whats ahead for the rest of the week. Coming up, mikes trying to find us some lower gas prices. Yeah, around the bay. Were going to move along to our gas prices where things have been coming down a bit. I know ive seen three price drops at a local gas station, but still not making the best board. We do have Contra Costa County though. Their best is for 75 at arco in Pleasant Hill on Pleasant Hill road. We have the same best price in cupertino. So the south bay here cupertinos car wash on its called cupertino, car wash on north de anza boulevard and in the north bay. Lets check vallejo for 83 is the lowest there at central gas on springs road. So now these prices we know theyre affected by a number of factors. But what if california got rid of the gas tax to lower prices . Well thats a new proposal thats being currently being tested out. Make sure to stick around 530 at kris. Sanchez is going to be breaking down. What would replace it and how you can get some cash to help test it out. Those are all tantalizing options here. Were looking, though, at the roadway. Well, not so bad. Lots of green, but thats great sensor reads. We do have one problem that continues here off of the bay bridge approach westbound 80. The grand avenue off ramp is impacted. The sensors dont show the slowing, but the live camera still shows the tow truck and the overturned rig there. That may be there for hours. It affects a very small portion of your commute, but it will be visible on the approach to the bay bridge. Well keep tracking those flashing lights, but the bay bridge toll plaza moves smoothly back to you. Thank you mike. Well, we all know college is expensive and student loan rates, well, theyre reaching the highest theyve been in. A slow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. Were up to 12 times faster than verizon, at t, and tmobile. And existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds. At no additional cost. Its ultimate speed for ultimate business. Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to comcast business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today what to expect throughout the morning. Were right now at 55 degrees and it is mostly clear with a light wind. We will quickly see that sunshine break out as we go through towards sunrise and throughout the rest of the morning, and our temperatures in the low 70s at lunchtime. Its going to be a Beautiful Day, a touch warmer in spots. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. And right now i want you to watch this is the bay bridge toll plaza, obviously, and see all the traffic coming through, including off the overcrossing. But note those red lights here. Theres some more flashing lights just off the screen. Oh, right at the edge. Thats activity. Because of the ongoing alert thats going on for westbound 80, the grand avenue off ramp, i overshot that with the arrow. I dont want you to miss it though. So well show you exactly where it is coming up. Well good morning. Very happy wednesday to you. Well get more inflation data here in about 12 minutes. And it may be good news. Economists thinking that price hikes excluding gas and food might be slowing. Now one key question are rent hikes slowing down. Rent is one third of the whole inflation calculation. Uber is buying a taiwanese Food Delivery Company for nearly 1 billion. Biomarin laying off 170 staffers up in san rafael and novato, a federal court says elon musk must answer questions from the securities and Exchange Commission as it investigates the purchase of twitter. Musk in the past has refused to testify. The sec is investigating whether musk violated laws with statements he made as he bought twitter stock. Originally, he said, without the intention of buying the company. The department of education has raised the Interest Rates for new federal Student Loans to the highest in more than a decade, 6. 53 graduate school loans now above 8 current loans. The loans that people are paying back right now are usually fixed, so this applies to new loans. So High School Seniors right now are going to pay that higher rate for college. Google held its google i o conference yesterday and it was quite psychic very northern californian. No new gadgets or big headlines. But the company did say starting monday it would expand. I answers on its google search. So for instance, if you google how to cook a hard boiled egg, it still gives you links to recipes, but its going to give you the answer to now theyre already doing this, but this is really going to get expanded. The Chinese Government meantime says google owned youtube must cut off access to one certain song in hong kong the anthem. Glory to hong kong. Of course we can play it all. We want free country. So heres glory to hong kong, played by a guy in a train station in london. Now i am mystified. I am mystified by the guy who then has a chinese flag right to oppose it. Does he carry flags in his pocket . Does he, you know, is he ready for anything now . This has never been the official anthem of hong kong, but it is something that was sung by protesters. And again, youtube ordered to take it off of the hong kong version of youtube. So at first i thought it was elton johns. I guess thats why they call it the blues. At the beginning i was like, how do you even know thats what that was . You know, it would be interesting is protesters have a are tricky like that. Theyll pick Something Else thats very common and then make that their song. Lets see if they do that. All right. Thank you scott. Well the wnba newest star starting her career in style, but she also has some work to do on the leagues opening night. Rookie and top pick Caitlin Clark made her debut for the indiana fever. She scored 20 points, but she also turned the ball over ten times. The fever lost to connecticut by 20. Well, theres many more games to come. All right, all right. Look at that forecast for us. Yeah, it looks great for today. Its going to be a little bit warmer in a few spots. But overall we are seeing much more of the same temperatures that weve seen throughout the week. Mostly 70s and 80s. Whats our saving grace right now is the cool coastline and the slow to clear

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