Highfire risk areas. Were live this morning breaking down the impact. Also, new video after flames ripped through an east bay commercial building. New details from First Responders about the overnight fire. Oaklands proposal will cause immense confusion and chaos for travelers, especially visitors who do not speak or read english. Two cities battle over a proposed airport name change. New comments from San FranciscoCity Attorney threatening legal action if oakland tries to incorporate the same sf used in sfo. This is today in the bay. This is also Tuesday Morning, 5 00 right now. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Lets get you caught up with the forecast this morning. Meteorologist kari hall has a look. Its tongue twister tuesday. Well have a lot of sunshine, warmer temperatures for the afternoon. Were in the upper 40s and low 50s as you get ready to step out the door, and it is all clear. We also have a calm wind as our temperatures are headed for the mid70s for much of the east bay, even upper 70s for the south bay, with san jose looking at a high this afternoon of 78 degrees, and 77 in martinez. Well be in the mid70s for much of the north bay. Look at tomorrow, even warmer. Well start to see 80s for parts of the trivalley, the east bay, down to the south county, and in San Francisco, also, in the 70s, as well see for much of the peninsula. On thursday, some of those numbers near the coastline start to come back down. We are still warm for parts of the south bay, with morgan hill up to 83 degrees and 81 in concord. So ill continue to follow this trend. A major cooldown for the weekend. More on that is coming up in a few minutes. A new look this morning at which california neighborhoods are getting hit the hardest as the states largest insurer announces plans not to renew some Home Insurance policies. Today in the bays bob redell is live for us in contra costa county. Bob, orinda is one of those cities bearing the brunt of this move. Reporter unfortunately, you are correct. Good morning to you. According to information obtained by the San Francisco chronicle, state farm, the states largest home insurer, will not be renewing 1,703 policies here in the town of o orinda. The 1,700 number is the highest number of non renewals by state farm. The highest other number is down south in los angeles. There are almost 1,000 policies that will not be renewed in nearby lafayette and over 1,400 in santa rosa. Last month state farm issued a written statement explaining its decision to no longer write new policies for california homes and to end coverage for about 50,000 existing customers. The statement reads, quote, this decision was not made lightly, and only after careful analysis of state farm generals financial health, which continues to be impacted by inflation, catastrophe exposure, reinsurance costs and the limitations of working within decadesold insurance regulations. Homeowners who live in areas that are at high risk of kind ofs like wildfires will have to buy into the california plan that is subsidized by the state and it is expensive and only coverage fire coverage. We talked to a Research Group about the problem of nonrenewals in densely populated zones and the group says insurers have been losing money due to california premium limits and for every dollar Insurance Companies receive, 1. 08 is spent out on paying claims, primarily due to wildfires. The Insurance Information institute says the California Department of insurance is updating regulations that could bring more policy options at competitive prices back to the state. That would mean being able to charge what is commonly known as actuarial sound rates, something thats not occurring today. Reporter but the institute says it could take a few years for the California HomeownersInsurance Industry to stabilize, even after the new laws they were talking about are put in effect. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thank you. Were learning some new details on an intense fire in hayward. Citizen app video shows flames shooting into the air last night. Firefighters say it started about 9 30 at an insulation business in the intersection of hall. Its around the corner from the costco on hesperian boulevard. Flames threatened to spread to the Cabinet Store next door. Firefighters closed off the area until early this morning. Flames were shooting through the roof about 30, 40 feet up in the air. Crews made entry and the fire load was pretty severe. There was a lot of stuff that was on fire. Backed out and we immediately went to defensive mode, called for a second alarm. No one was hurt. Firefighters are still looking into the cause of the fire. This morning, the posey tube is back open. This is after a fire trapped those cars inside last night. The traffic stopped around 7 30, firefighters battled a pickup truck fire inside the tube. Eventually First Responders evacuated the drivers, crews used large fans to clear out the smoke. Again, posey tube is now reopened. San francisco leaders are vowing not to give up the fight of the at least without a fight when it comes to the renaming of the oakland airport. The Port Commission on thursday will debate changing open airports name to San Francisco bay Oakland International airport. An airport spokesperson argues it would clarify more than confuse. San francisco leaders disagree, and last night threatened legal action if oakland goes ahead with the plan. The current proposal infringes on sfos trademarks. Sfo began operating almost a century ago, has used San FranciscoInternational Airport or San Francisco airport through most of the history, and weve had these trademarks for so long, that they are incontestable under federal law. Airport leaders argue the change is needed because people dont realize its close proximity to San Francisco and business is being lost in the process. They also say a new survey finds about half of east bay residents are at least somewhat comfortable with the name change. A member of the San FranciscoSheriffs Department is facing Domestic Violence charged, sheriff Jonathan Espiritu was arraigned yesterday. His exgirlfriend reported him earlier this month after finding a tracking device in her car and claims he strangled her and later attacked her. The charges include Domestic Violence, battery and assault. Today Congress Returns from its twoweek recess with a busy agenda, including decisions on ukraine aid, israel funding, funding for the baltimore bridge collapse recovery and reauthorizing the federal aviation administration. Speaker johnson is facing criticism and could be ousted from his role as speaker. Totally captivating. Thats what some people are saying after seeing yesterdays Solar Eclipse. Here is how it looked in maine in one of the locations where the skies were clearest. I want to give you a time lapse video of that experience. This is in northern texas. Day, briefly turning into night as the moon passed between the earth and sun. If you missed this one, the next one doesnt happen here in the u. S. , anyway, for 20 years. And no totality here in the bay area, but the partial eclipse was a hot topic for people of all ages, and that includes students at san jose state, where some astronomy professors held class outside. Students could observe with special telescopes equipped with solar lenses. They got a look at a sun spot larger than earth in the middle of the sun. Im a scifi nerd, so seeing this is pretty cool. You see it in tv shows and movies. But to see it in real life is awesome and the teacher made it super exciting. San franciscos exploratorium passed out 1,000 free eclipse viewing glasses and sold more than 200. Visitors also had a live feed they could watch from mexico and texas in that zone of totality. It was a cool experience. It really was. We shared it. I like that we shared it. We ran out to the parking lot. And perfect weather for that, too. At least here in the bay area. Its clear, so it would have been nice to have that totality moment. But, you know what, maybe some other time. Maybe in the next 20 years. All right, so lets get a look at our temperatures, where were starting at right now. Were in the low 40s in parts of the north bay. It is 50 now in san mateo and 50 in san jose. After this cool start, take a look at where were headed. Were usually in the upper 60s on this date. In santa rosa, well see a high of 75 today. Its going to start to heat up this afternoon. It will be about 7 degrees above normal in concord, San Francisco a few degrees above normal, and in oakland well see a high today of 73, which is our typical High Temperature in oakland is 65. Were going well above that not only today but the next several days. Ill have more on that and when we see rain coming back to the bay area. Thats in the forecast in a few minutes. Thanks, kari. Move over, amazon. Coming up next on today in the bay, target launches its new membership program. The way it aims to rival other Online Retail giants and how much it will cost. Plus, trouble for spirit airlines, and asking the right questions of google. Keep it here. With our new Grocery Outlet app, you can see the stores inventory. So you guys really have mangoes in stock . Yup. What about frozen pizza . Here they are. Fresh salmon. Too easy. Coffee . Yup. Good Tuesday Morning to you. The time is now 5 14. Were taking a look at what to expect today in San Francisco. Its 50 degrees right now with a light wind, and we have more beautiful sunshine and clear skies headed our way for today. It will be slightly warmer this afternoon, and that will be the trend through at least midweek. Well talk about changes in our weekend forecast in a few minutes. And out there on the roads, as you are driving around the bay area, not seeing any major issues. So ill check back in. Were seeing the slowdowns in the usual spots coming through the trivalley, as well as coming through dublin and pleasanton. Ill have more on that in a few minutes as well. Good morning. Very happy tuesday to you. The markets may take a day of rest today. We get both inflation data and the latest fed minutes tomorrow. So making a move today might be premature. Shares in truth social, which trades as djt, down another 11 monday. Its now erased all the gains since it started trading, down from a high of 66. Traders are scrambling to find shares to short. Now, save on our board is spirit airlines. Its having a lot of trouble. The government barred its merger with jetblue and its having problems getting its hands on enough airplanes. This is not a boeing problem. Spirit uses airbus and airbus has had some inspection and safety slowdowns as well. Spirit says it will have to furlough some pilots, this at a time when the rest of the industry is thriving. A civil trial against tesla for the death of an apple engineer back in 101 in 2018 was supposed to begin yesterday, but tesla settled the case. The ntsb says the driver was on autopilot playing a game on his phone when his tesla hit a barrier in Mountain View. We expected the familys lawyers would point to teslas marketing of its full selfdriving, which, by the way, it isnt, as the reason their loved one trusted the car enough to take his hands off the wheel. Tesla has fought similar cases and won. Target launched its new membership program, circle 360. You get free sameday delivery on orders over 35 from target, but also places like petco and sephora. The wall street journal and moodys says Salt Lake City has the hottest job market in the nation. Theyre top, followed by three cities in florida. Austin not in the top five, though it is seven. Google has a high ranking search term as well. Perhaps you can guess what it is. Why did my eyes hurt . A look at a spike in queries, arkansas, iowa, South Carolina, the top states. Now, arkansas was the only state in the path of totality, but i will remind you, momma always said not to look in the eyes of the sun. Completely, and how many warnings do we give people . Apparently it didnt get out to the folks in arkansas, and what was it, South Carolina . Retina damage there. 5 17 right now, with next weeks tax deadline quickly approaching, new data shows a majority of taxpayers have already spent some or all of their tax refund money. Thats according to the personal finance Company Credit karma. The poll finds more than 64 of some who received a refund have spent some or all of it. The other half are disappointed with the amount they received. About one in four fear they wont be able to afford their tax payments this year. 26 of those getting refunds splurging on things like clothing and electronics. Our advice to anyone who is considering just splurging with their refund, while that can be really fun, its a great idea to put away a small part of that, maybe 10 , to use for fun, to treat yourself, to have something exciting. But to put the majority of that refund towards either your debt or savings or investments. That can go a long way to getting 2024 off to a great start for you financially. Tax day, of course, is april 15th. You can also file for an extension. The deadline to do that is midnight on tax day. Trending this morning, a scaly surprise. A florida woman is opening up about finding an alligator inside of her home. Were talking about nearly eight feet long. Look at this. It happened in venice last month. This was near the states west coast. The homeowner says that she noticed a strange noise through her screen door. I thought somebody who didnt live here was trying to come in, thinking they were probably in the wrong house because that happens frequently. By the time i got up and went near the front door, the gator was already inside. Yikes. Definitely the wrong house. She called 911. Florida fish and Wildlife Conservation commissioners, as well as local deputies were able to wrangle the gator out of the home. Wow. I have so many questions. She said, people normally just come into the wrong house . How did that one get in . I think it was a screen door. Thats a big animal there. Okay. Can you imagine walking in on that . Yikes. Have whatever you want. Im out. All right, lets get started this morning, as we are seeing a clear sky. We had beautiful weather yesterday. Well, that continues today. Were going to bump up those temperatures a few more degrees. And well head for the upper 70s for today, but then by tomorrow into thursday we could see some 80s in the inland valleys, and then cooling down on friday, with rain chances for the weekend. We are all clear for now. Once again, taking a look at the big picture and the storm system that we had over the weekend, now causing problems over the texas panhandle and pushing off toward the east. Theyre dealing with some large hail and the potential of tornadoes today. Were seeing High Pressure warming up our temperatures and things will change for the weekend with our saturday only in the 50s. Were going to see some rain coming in, so we will have another taste of winter coming in. I know, just like last weekend, we had the warm weather throughout the week, and then a cool weekend with a chance of rain. So it looks like thats on repeat for now. As far as how much rain we could see, some of our rainfall totals in these areas in red near the coastline is about an inch of rainfall, while some of our interior valleys could see about a quarter to half inch of rain in the delta, and then for the trivalley to the south bay, its about a half inch of rainfall total throughout the weekend. And look at how our temperatures dip. In walnut creek, were going from 80 and 81 degrees for the end of the week to only highs in the upper 50s for saturday, so were having to get out the heavier sweaters, the jackets and the umbrellas as were seeing that rain coming in. Temperatures only up to 57. 62 on sunday. Then early next week, it will be clearing out while San Francisco will have some mild weather for the middle of the week, and then cooling down, only 56 on saturday. As youre heading out on the road, lets get a look at some of our cameras. Things are looking good for 101 in palo alto. Both north and southbound there is a smooth flow of traffic and it looks like for the bay bridge its a little early to see the metering lights. Well see if they turn them on within the next ten minutes. It does look good there, as well as 101 in san jose. So far, i havent seen any major issues and ill continue to track that with another update in a few minutes. Thanks, kari. 5 22 right now. Next on today in the bay, nbc bay area responds. Some online job ads are simply too good to be true. Job scams are exploding. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Well show you how to spot them next. And are you registered to vote . Our sister station telemundo has teamed up to answer your questions about registering to vote for the president ial elections. Blp will here is the scam in ten seconds. A crook creates a counterfeit website that copies a real company, post job openings, people apply and hand over personal information, which the crooks then use to steal peoples identities. Tons of people are taking the bait, costing them millions. Lets look for five telltale signs a job posting is actually a trap. We always show the scammers wearing hoodies and sunglasses but thats not how you spot them. Your first clue is in your browsers address bar, when scammers sfoof companies the address is off by one company. They mi