She commutes to her job in the east bay. She just spends countless hours. Studies show the bay area is second only to la when it comes to terrible traffic. Good evening. Lets take a live look at the traffic map behind us. Now that commute is back in full swing. You see a little less red on the map. Things are starting to pick up again. Bay area. Thank heavens we are not in la. Los angeles drivers wasted 119 hours. We are secondworst with 103. Followed by washington dc 102. New york 92. And finally chicago drivers losing 58 hours sitting in traffic. The city claims in the bay area alone 3. 3 billion gallons of gasoline is burned sitting in gridlock. His wife is living the nightmare. My wife commutes to her job in the east bay. She just spends countless hours on the bridge. We have traffic on the weekend. Even at night. It is traffic everywhere. We take bart every day. We cannot drive in the city. It is a nightmare. Reporter buses ferries and trains all help. The majority of folks still drive. Still freeway expansions are happening. Southbound 680 in Contra Costa County. Northbound 680 in alameda county. And in both directions with 101 along the peninsula. Those of the biggest projects underway right now. The Silver Lining for drivers gas is getting cheaper. As summer comes to an end. The average price of gas nationwide is 2. 60. 3. 58 for california. It is down . 13 in the last month. Aaa said he could drop even more is fall and winter approach. You can think Falling Crude prices for the cheaper gas so far. A less expensive once a blend is starting in september. He was a look at our top stories. We are monitoring a couple of developing stories. Crew struggling to contain a 600 acre wildfire north of reading. Residence evacuated. Officials say the erratic winds are making the fast and unpredictable fire difficult to fight. Traffic still a mess at the bay bridge toll plaza. The bridge just reopened fully 14 minutes ago. Police close all the westbound lanes just west of treasure island. Officers were investigating a person walking on the bridge. A sad update to the story of a missing woman and discovery bay. She has been found dead by a team of divers. Her body found submerged in the water behind a home on beaver lane last night. Same block on which she lived. Police say 53yearold disappeared tuesday after going outside to water her plants. Her husband reported her missing that evening. It is not clear if the home she was found behind belong to her. The cause of her death is under investigation. Crime is going hightech in the bay area. Vallejo police are warning the public about a new way that thieves can break into your car a signal jammer was confiscated by a burglar caught in the act. The device can block your key fob from locking your car. The signal jammers will block any noise generated from a key fob. If you lock your car and hear nothing you need to lock your dart car again. San francisco getting so shops are shelling out money to hire offduty police officers. From the Salesforce Tower this stores in union square off dutys office is working overtime is private security guards. Part of a special arrangement with the city. It cost up to 1000 a day. Businesses are saying it helps to have an armed guard with a police radio to keep thieves and other trouble at bay. In the east bay there is an end in sight to the pothole problem problem in oakland. The department of transportation launched a three year paving plan the great pay. The 100 million plan will focus on neighborhood streets. 100 miles of city streets. Smooth new pavement. After spending years and portable classrooms and students and teachers in Contra Costa County are in a new school. Originally designed as a kindergarten through eighth grade school in the 50s but Stone Valley Middle School over the decades. The alamo school with a major renovation to give it a more modern look. The district said it was all possible after measure d past. 268 million facilities bond. The community recognizes that students need to have places where they feel welcome. Great environments to feel engaged. The reality is the changing dynamics of 21st century learning the spaces are more flexible. There is more natural light. They are much more modern. Some some of the amenities include a quad area and a multipurpose area. Smaller Construction Projects are still in the works. We will be wrapping up our backtoschool coverage tomorrow with a look at the future of education. Join us alongside the students as the Oldest School in oakland redesigns its curriculum to focus on them. How it is inspiring a new generation of leaders. Each and every day more women are coming into the field and making so many great discoveries. I feel like this is the future engineers. Right here in our high school. Jackie and mary will be there live all morning live tomorrow morning starting at 4 30 pm. Tiny pieces of plastic now found in drinking water. The Health Concerns experts have. Sarah sanders out of the white house. It is not the last time you will see her on tv. Bart writers how many times you get hit up for spare change during your commute . The agencys push to ban panhandlers. Why the proposal might hit a roadblock. Its time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. You can adjust your comfort on both sides your sleep number setting. Can it help keep us asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. And snoring . No problem. And done. So you can really promise better sleep. Not promise. Prove. And now, all beds are on sale save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus 0 interest for 24 months and free home delivery. Ends saturday. The World Health Organization raising a red flag on plastics in drinking water. What it would do if you ingest too much of it. Reporter they are too small to see. Experts say tiny pieces of microplastics are being found in tap water. A new un report says even more of the minuscule particles are showing up in bottled water. Possibly from the bottling process or packaging such as plastic caps. The World Health Organization found current levels of micro plastics pose a low health risk. We also believe a lot more Research Needs to be done to be able to be more conclusive about certain areas. Microplastics are created when manmade plastics rate down into pieces smaller than 1 5 of an inch. The main message is that the vast majority of micro plastics would pass through the body. Reporter experts say up to 90 of microplastics are usually eliminated through Water Filtration treatments. Microplastics dont appear to be a health worry for now. Environmental leaders are calling for an urgent reduction in plastic pollution to reduce peoples exposure to potentially harmful substances. The World Health Organization will continue to monitor levels of micro plastics and water. The higher priority is fighting bacteria that causes. A former press secretary is now talking head on fox news. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was hired by the rightwing Cable Network to provide commentary and analysis. It is believed she might be giving up to run for elected office in our home state of arkansas. Former white house official is known for her antagonistic relationship with the press. Sanders will make her debut on fox in september. Google shut down hundreds of Youtube Channels for spreading misinformation about the protest in hong kong. Google which owns youtube said it is part of a campaign to crackdown on coordinated influence operations. It comes days after facebook and twitter suspended 1000 accounts. The company say the Information Campaign were coming from inside china. Misinformation. But stop short of blaming the Chinese Government for those actions. The future of shopping is the brickandmortar store. Why online retailers are going old school. A live look at the Salesforce Tower. Today sort salesforce reported earnings that exceeded wall streets expectations. The company had a Second Quarter profit of 91 million. On revenue of 4 billion per that translates to an increase of . 66 per share. Investors in the Customer Management Software developer. Another San Francisco based company gap ink beating productions today. Its stock closed up . 78. More than 4 . The closing change net income was 168 million in the Second Quarter. One about 4 billion in revenue. During that period earnings were . 63 per share. Gap is now expecting its full year earnings for 2019 to top two dollars a share. The stock market finished the date with mixed results. The dow jones gaining 50 points. The nasdaq lost 28. S p declined slightly one and a half. Apple new credit card comes with a caveat. The slick titanium finish must be handled with care. Just like your iphone it sounds like this card might need a protective case. Apple said the leather and denim can discolor the card. Keep it away from other cards. Keys loose change. It can scratch it. We getting an inside look at what some are calling the future of retail. Sprinkle throughout this contemporary space more than 30 trinity brands from purses and pet products. The sunglasses and shoes. The store in texas stocks products you can only find on the internet. Why buy here when you can do so by a click of the button . Creating a sense of magnetism to the space. Has little to do with the transaction and more to do with the experience. Are hidden cameras l the space sellers a look at who was buying and how they interact with the product. Some of the cameras count customers. There is tally information like gender and what a customer looks at and then picks up. You could say it is a big brother experience while shopping. Some say it is no big deal. Neighborhood goods next move into new york city. Testing the limits of how long a human can safely fly. The Australian Airline will be experimenting with a 19 hour nonstop flight. The longest of any airline. Three test runs will happen this fall mostly employees. They will be monitored by scientists and medical experts for any adverse effects. If all goes well the airline will start looking in 2023. N se and fremonthe 80s. Cianoakl 70s. The coast 60s. Something for everyone. Microclimate spread 30 degrees today. Still sticky outside. It will be a warm night. Vallejo 60. Fremont 62. San jose 62. Not as humid and warm as last night. You still likely will notice it. Chinatown street fest this weekend and oakland sunny and warm 80. San jose sunny and hot likely pushing 90. Especially sunday for the Silicon Valley couple days. Th ridge of High Pressure send it to our west and one building to the north over the weekend we are not going to get much of a push from a chilly ocean for the next several days. At the coast your temperatures will stay pretty normal. If you go inland very little marine air to cool you down. Late august sunshine will warm you up. A lot of sunshine tomorrow morning and evening as well. Minimum flow cover. Clouds along the coastline San Pablo Bay saturday morning. Lots of sunshine out the afternoon. Both weekend days. This is the 8 to 14 day outlook from the climate prediction center. They update every 24 hours. A very strong above average a warmer than average signal. From San Francisco north to vancouver british columbia. Which would keep us warmer than average. All the way through labor day. This is a warm pattern that wont go away for a while. No recordsetting temperatures. We will be warmer than average a long time. Mild night seasonably warm on friday. It will be hotter by the second half of the weekend. Temperatures jumping another 5 degrees but san jose 5 degrees above average tomorrow. Your high 87. Ill also 86. Fremont 84. Pacifica 66. That is normal for you. San ramon 86 tomorrow. Concorde 90. Phoenicia 82. Pleasant hill 90. Sausalito 72. A nice afternoon and oakland 76. The shores of lake merritt. Napa plan on the 80s. Luma 83. Windsor 87. Lakeport 97 degrees but not changing much but a couple degrees up or down here are they are depending on the day. Cloutier next tuesday and wednesday. We are staying in the 60s and 70s and low 80s net the water. Highs will be in the low to middle 90s inland for the next seven days. Perhaps all the way to september. Bart is considering a ban on panhandlers. And performance on his trains. It could lead to lawsuits. Historic fires in the amazon. Why environmentalists say there is no overstating the crisis in brazil. 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You see from the photos here not short on luxury. Right on the water. This next video has gone viral. A rabbit is it a bird. Newly resurfaced video from 2017. The hand petting whatever you think it is. The answer is yes. That is a bird. That is it for the news at 5 pm. News at 6 pm begins right now. Panik in paradise. A flight from the bay area forced to make an Emergency Landing in hawaii. What officials are saying about the smoke filled the cabin. Hundreds of acres burning with no end in sight. The dangerous conditions that are forcing evacuations in shasta county. Getting rid of panhandlers and bart stations. One group said not so fast. A freedom of speech violation. Tense moments for passengers flying from the bay area to hawaii. Good evening. Passengers use emergency exit slides when the plane touched down in honolulu. Live at the Oakland Airport with the flight took off earlier today. Reporter that flight was Hawaiian Airlines flight 47 for honolulu at the Oakland International airport. 20 minutes left on the flight the cabin filled with smoke forcing people to duck in their seats to get clean air to bre. The flight while it landed at the appointed time had to make an Emergency Landing in honolulu to get people off quickly. The emergency slides had to be deployed to get those people off. Once they were off officials quickly looked for the source of the smoke. Once the passengers were deployed hawaiian personnel with the fire people standing by cargo hold. There was no smoke found. No fire found. Reporter seven people had to be taken to hospitals in honolulu due to smoke inhalation. The cause of the smoke is still a mystery. At this hour. We dont want to pump oxygen in case a fire in the aircraft. There has been no visible evidence of fire. So no visible planes on arrival. After the evacuation different source of smoke. Reporter Hawaiian Airlines released a statement on their facebook page. We apologize the passengers for this incident. We are working with officials and First Responders to support our passengers. Very scary moments indeed. That is a long flight over the pacific ocean. You are not over ground until you are overground they are. We couldve been talking about a different story. Now to a breaking story in northern california. The winds are fueling an unpredictable fire that is burning north of reading right now. This evening thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. The mountain fire is now at least 820 acres. Threatening more than 1000 structures. There is 0 containment at this time. Heavy smoke making