Hes on. The temps are upper low which kicked his with us for the weekend is kicking out and left behind is a pretty big fog bank so low clouds but there it goes after lots of activity in the mountains, Northern California. So temperatures kind of settling into where close to where they should be, 6070s and 80s. Back to james, i believe. Yeah. Lets talk a little traffic, steve. See if we cant get you out the door this morning and thats probably not going to be too much of an issue for you today. We see a little crash entering the bay bridge there, but certainly thats not going to cause any delays as of now as we are still very early in the morning, although triple a does say expect to see a good bit of traffic later this afternoon. And of course, we still have that closure here along westbound 80. Well give you more details about that coming up a little later this morning. Time now, 401. A nevada Sheriffs Office continues to investigate the death that occurred at the burning man festival near reno. The Pershing County sheriff says the person died during the storm but not because of it. Festival organizers say emergency workers were called, but they could not resuscitate the person. Ktvu Bailey Ocarroll reports. Bad weather at the Festival Grounds has left as many as 60,000 people stranded, with no idea yet when they can leave. If an unusual late summer storm turned what was supposed to be a week away at burning man into this. This is eileen lelchuk snyders first time at burning man and now shes stuck in the nevada desert. The rain itself isnt. John gaines traveled from new york to attend the festival. Hes gone to burning man for the last 21 years. But he says hes never seen anything like this. Ive been through a couple of strong rains, but those were one time rains, created a problem and then it dried up and problem went away. The issue this year was multiple rains. And i dont know that the event has ever experienced that. Gaines made it out an hour and a half before the gates were closed. The rest of his group is still stuck. The only person in my group who got out, we have about 60 people out there. Theyre veterans. They know what theyre doing. They got food and water. Theyre not panicking more than a half inch of rain fell at the festival site on friday. More came down this weekend. Both john and eileen said people are making the most out of the situation action. Most people are still just chilling, as you can see around me, theres some empty campsites, but people seem to have been embraced it and are not. We worried about getting out of here . We know that its going to dry up in both echoed the same message that people are coming together. Therell be a lot of sharing. People proactively going out and saying, hey, ive got a couple of watermelons and some cans of tuna and some water. Do you need anything . They say helping others is no surprise. And a quick Online Search and youll see it everywhere. Dj and music producer diplo took to twitter to share his experience, saying he and Comedian Chris Rock walked five miles out of the festival before they were picked up by a passing fan. When i asked john how he thought festival organizers were handling the situation, he said well, and i asked him if he would return next year, which would mark his 22nd year. He said yes in part because his son, ethan may make it out for the very first time in the newsroom. Im Bailey Ocarroll, ktvu fox two news. Officials and festival organizers will decide later today when it is safe enough for people to leave. But organizers say they will hold the big finale of the festival tonight. The former front man for the bay area band smash mouth is in hospice due to liver failure. The bands manager says 56 year old singer Steve Harwell has, quote, only a week or so to live. Smash mouth was formed in 1994 in san jose. Harwell retired back in 2021 due to those health problems, including Heart Failure. Complicated by years of substance abuse. Chp investigating a shooting on interstate 580 that left two people hurt in oakland. That happened around 430 saturday afternoon in the westbound direction near seminary avenue. Youre looking at citizen video from the scene. Chp says two people were in a car when they were shot. They drove themselves to the hospital where they are expected to recover. Officers say bullets hit another car, but no one was inside or rather, no one inside was hit. Police have not yet arrested anyone for that shooting. Time now, 404. Governor gavin newsom signing a bill recently that some lawmakers say will speed up the process of building new Affordable Housing. Ktvu is Lamonica Peters is in san jose with more from the senator who sponsored the legislation. California senator dave cortez says lawmakers across the state know there isnt enough Affordable Housing and state senate bill 406 is just one of the many steps theyre taking to do something about it. The bill addresses the environmental studies that are currently required by sequa or the california enviro mental quality act. Theres just nothing worse than having a project all ready to go, ready to build, you know, ready to house people already cleared environment and then just to find out that the little bit of government Financial Assistance that youre getting is going to cause you to have to go through those hoops all over again. Requires state and local agencies to evaluate and disclose the potential impact of new projects on the environment. Senate bill 406 will eliminate repetitive Environmental Reviews once a project has been cleared. Ultimately allowing projects to move forward in a timely fashion. This second sequa clearance will no longer be a requirement after january 1st. Cortez says there are projects throughout the bay area, including in his own district, that have been slowed down by having multiple environmental evaluations. He says california lawmakers realize they need to do all they can to build Affordable Housing faster. You know, fast has not been fast enough for the people who are seeing their kids. You know, move out of state. You know, families kind of broken up. Senator cortez says that because of senate bill 406, he believes that the state will now offer more financial incentives to builders to build housing faster. Lamonica peters, ktvu, fox two news. There are changes coming next year for students who apply for federal student grants. The new changes are designed to make applying easier for families to understand. Students can soon apply for 20 colleges to their fafsa. The application will also have fewer questions. More students can have their Financial Information directly transferred from the irs, which they say could cut out a major delay in getting student aid. The new changes will roll out in december is a busy area for rock climbing in Yosemite National park has been closed because of the threat of a rock slide. The National Park says climbers reported a new crack in the cliff near royal arches thats not far from the ahwahnee hotel. After inspecting the cliff, the park closed much of the area, saying there could be a threat of a large pillar of rock falling down. Theres no word when that area will reopen in fall seven, your time this morning. As we know, many people hitting the highway on this labor day, which marks the unofficial end of summer. Heres a live look over at interstate 80 and emeryville just a few minutes past 4 00 this morning. Certainly no delays or anything to worry about if youre headed out the door in the next couple of minutes. Triple a this morning saying today will be one of the busiest days of the year on the nations highways as people return home this afternoon from their vacations. Caltrans closure of interstate 80 continues today. It has shut down the westbound lanes of 80 between interstate 780 and vallejo through crockett and onto highway four in hercules. Caltrans crews say they are completing the final phase of a major repaving project. The eastbound lanes still open this morning. The closure includes the westbound lane of the carquinas bridge. Its the first time caltrans has shut down the bridge for repaving since it first opened 20 years ago. All westbound lanes of i80 are scheduled to reopen no later than tomorrow morning. All right. 408 this morning. Steve paulson is in the Weather Center. Steve, we had a much cooler weekend than we wanted to. Whats today looking like back to normal . Hows that low . The upper low that we had which gave all sorts of thunderstorm activity up in the mountains, is now kicking out. You can see the boy was lit up for northeast california around in and around lake tahoe. Also northern Sacramento Valley. We were kind of on the cusp of it. We got some of the clouds and you can see that activity from redding and then northern Sacramento Valley. Reno had rain. South lake tahoe, truckee. Now that activity has pushed out 50 60s on the temps berkeley lab, 58. Ben lomond mountain, 55. Mt. Veeder 6256. If concord 32. We have breaking news, so ill have to fix that. But so if you dont like cold weather, stay out of concord this morning. It should be 62, 30 up in the mountains, though that low settled in, brought in some cooler air aloft, thats for sure. 36 truckee and South Lake Tahoe. Mammoth is at 38 degrees as well. The lowest kicked out the high will build in. Theres a little spin in the air right there. Right there. Thatll keep us from warming up too much. Once that goes through, after about wednesday, we should start to see gradual warming, but low overcast, cool to mild lows, fog, then sunshine. Nice to warm with a light breeze and temperatures with after the fog. Itll be sunny and 6070s and 80s. There james. All right Steve Paulson, thank you. Well, the return to the campaign trail for president ial hopefuls. How gop candidates are reacting to Donald Trumps continued to lead in the pool. Plus california still uses watchtowers to try to help prevent the spread of wildfires. Well hear from those who volunteer their time to keep those blazes from getting out of control. And theres a new hour of news coming to ktvu this month. First at 7 p. M, were debuting the west coast rap, a fresh regional take on the west coast. Biggest and most relevant stories of the day. Then at 730, its ktvu fox two news at 730 a local newscast newscast featuring the bay areas top stories newsmaker interviews and your local forecast as well as sports. It all starts one week from today here on ktvu Caleb Williams has transferred to wendys for the new loaded nacho cheeseburger. This burgers my inspiration. And i just hope to inspire you. Oh you have inspired us. Thought we were doing names on the headband. Get it together. Choose wisely. Choose wendys new loaded nacho cheeseburger. So many hotels. [yells] [yells] [yells] trouble booking the family vacay . Come on. Comfort has free hot breakfast for the whole fam they have waffles and splendid pools cannonball on north bay council, labor Day Breakfast up in santa rosa. The Napa Solano Central Labor Council will hold its holiDay Breakfast later this morning in benicia and congresswoman barbara lee will be among those taking part in a labor day march and rally thats happening in oakland. Its being organized by unions representing hospital workers. Theyll gather at Mosswood Park and walk to the Kaiser PermanenteOakland Medical Center to protest contract negotiations against the hospital. That labor to expire at the end of this month. Taking a look at the business that will be closed for labor day today, banks post offices, the stock market and most government offices will be closed today. Ups and fedex stores will not be open, but they will pick up deliveries. Costco stores and its gas stations also closed today. And most transit agencies will run on a holiday or sunday schedule. Be sure to check those out before youre out the door today. Labor day is a time to honor and reflect upon the importance and history of workers in americas economy, society and achievements. This ktvu tom vacar spoke to one of the nations leading work experts about two issues that continue to shake americas workforce. We have the shortages. We asked employment lawyer and former edd director Michael Bernick to compare labor day 2023 to 2022. Its really the Seismic Shift of the pandemic. Hes talking about remote work, which he says is not dying off, as many believed it would or should. Remote work is here to stay. Its only it hasnt really decreased significantly, at least in most parts of the bay area. The other soon to come Seismic Shift is the impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs. Artificial intelligence wasnt even an issue. It is exploded. The main impacts over the next year will be how ai impacts and frankly impacts positively in most cases, existing jobs. Californias employment is now at 4. 6 higher than the national average, but still relatively low since last labor day. On average, wages have grown over 4. At the same time, though, now its below the wage growth we had in 2022. At labor day, which was 5. 2. And even more importantly, its been undercut by the continued inflation. Though californias job gains have slowed considerably, the golden state is still gaining jobs in 2022. We had over 50,000 jobs gained per month. Thats gone down the last month gain was about 28,000. And i think were going to continue to see continued slowdown due to the higher Interest Rates beginning to have their fuller impact as well as the depleted consumer savings tech layoffs continue from last labor day, but at a much slower pace. This one issue unchanged from last year, was and remains the lack of workers needed to fill lower paying direct service and nonunion blue collar jobs. Tom vacar ktvu fox two news. And new figures from the bureau of labor statistics show manufacturing tops the list of sectors seeing significant worker shortages with 550,000 jobs opening in july. Construction is next with about 336,000 jobs available. And the numbers show there are shortages of commercial airline pilots, High School Teachers and school bus drivers. Time now, 416 this morning. There are growing concerns about the threat of a major wildfire in california with the state now moving into the peak of fire season. And reporter erin heft tells us the recent decline in the number of fire lookout sites across the state is adding to those concerns. Up among the buzzards is sitting still inside the forest in Amador County stands the mount zion lookout. We currently have a 360 degree view. On a clear day, we can see up to 100 miles as a first line of defense when combating wildfires. The lake comanche Jackson Valley area staffed right now largely because of the work of rich martin. I believe that the human eye is the best tool up in the Lookout Tower northwest, we can see the pilot peak range, which is where another cal fire lookout is located, showing us the ins and outs of their day to day operations as the mount zion tower is one of two fire lookouts in both amador and el dorado county, staffed by 18 volunteers, some of whom have been the first eyes on some of our regions most devastating recent wildfires. You have called in fires from this tower before . Yes. What is that like . Its like you see the smoke and. Oh, my. Deborah abrams says its from here that she was the first to call in both the oak fire, which was at the time, 60 miles away. And also the alpine lumber mill fire through this little tiny line. And lining up the crosshairs that are right here. Also from here, she says shes helped track both the electra and caldor fires three and the miles. And then we look at the smoke that were going to call in standing at over 3000ft in elevation, giving a unique and extremely helpful perspective. This tradition of fire watch dating back to 1928 being carried out every day to help ensure the safety of the many communities. Northern californians call home. A driver of a pickup truck was rescued from the bottom of a ravine after driving over the edge of cliff five days earlier. Crews near bakersfield and kern county found the driver saturday after receiving a report of a badly damaged truck that plunged over cliff. Authorities say crews placed the driver in a stretcher and then used a rope lift to rather use a rope to lift the driver to safety. The person was airlifted to the hospital. Still no word this morning on the drivers condition. On 418. Your morning your time this morning. Steve paulson in the Weather Center today is going to be a lot warmer today, huh . I wouldnt say a lot warmer. Itll be more sunshine. Hows that . Thats a lot more sunshine. Itll be back into the temperatures will start to rebound a little bit back into some low 80s here. It was all about really the mountains, Northern California and the activities finally ending. But there were some pretty hefty totals. Blue canyon, some of the other areas had over two thirds of an inch to about an inch of rain. South lake tahoe, up to truckee and reno had some rain in and around the area, but the heaviest was just to the west as as the forecast projections predicted. Also up into susanville, quincy, chester and northern Sacramento Valley, its all gone, though. Its pushed out 50s and 60s on the temps here, 70 down in las vegas, which had heavy rain and flooding over the weekend. 30s in the mountains, truckee, south , lake tahoe, both at 36 and one,