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Francisco. For most of us upper 50s. But well see the temperature s spreading out from low 60s along the coastline to 81 in the trivalley. It stays nice and cool as we head into the weekend. Ill detail that coming up. Mike is still eyeing a crash in sausalito. We dont have any problems toward the Golden Gate Bridge but right now thats what were watching. The rest of the bay has slowing but this one blocks half your freeway southbound 101 at spencer avenue. Car went off the shoulder there. Reported as an overturned vehicle. I think it just went down the little embankment there. Still, lanes closed until 6 30. No update from chp. No slowing over the last few minutes. Right at the scene though you should see that. The bay bridge also has the backup. Metering lights are on there as well. Talk about oakland coming up. Back to you. After years of preparation and anticipation, the wait is almost over. A beautiful live look at rio de janiero this morning where in just a matter of hours thousands will pack the famed maracana stadium to witness the celebration of a lifetime, the Opening Ceremony. Jessica aguirre is live with us from rio with a sneak peek of its ceremony. The promises to be a party and, make no mistake about it, theres going to be some dancing. Oh, of course theres going to be some dancing. Were talking about brazil here, the country that made the sambo famous. Im olympic park, the largest, sam and laura, of the four main clus eclusters. Behind me what you will see is fencing, judo, and mens basketball will be played. If youre wondering why its so quiet here behind me is because this venue is not officially open. None of them are. And they wont be until after the Opening Ceremony tonight. Now, lets talk about that. As you mentioned, its going to happen in maracana stadium. What happens inside though very top secret. Theyve been five years in the making of this and planning but this is what we do know. 300 dancers doing the samba and whats supposed to be the sexiest costumes weve probably ever seen in an olympic venue or an olympic Opening Ceremony. We also know that Gisele Bundchen, probably the most famous female brazilian of all time is going to be playing a role as the girl from epanema, feature bra skils most famous musicians and also going to look at the culture and the history of brazil. Now brazil is known obviously for carnival but its also known for so much more. Its beautiful landscapes, the amazon, christ the redeemer, probably is the most famous landmark here in rio de janiero. It sits atop the mountain, 124 feet tall. Arms open welcoming all the visitors that come here to brazil. It really is the spiritual icon of this kcountry. Then you go to a city to a neighborhood in lapa, called the steps of selaron. Made by a chilean artist who lived in the neighborhood and got tired of the dilapidated steps and made a mosaic tiles from all around the world. Even a San Francisco tile, there ill tell you. And now tourists from around the worldcom to take pictures there and smile and just really enjoy this colorful mosaic. Go a little bit farther, probably the most famous of all of rios looandmarks are its beaches. 23 peaches, 45 miles of standed. And the most famous, the one we know about the copacabana. That is where everyone gathers. You have the care oak as, the local folks and tourists, all who come to have some fun under the brazilian sun. I love the view. You can see all the beach and its beautiful. Its really beautiful. And, of course, the brazilian people is amazing. So you can see people doing sports on all the beaches. So its beautiful. Now, thats what they were famous for before but now theyre famous nor something garnering lots of attention for holding rio 2016, the Olympic Games. Its going to take place in four separate clusters. Theres copacabana beach, maracana stadium where the Opening Ceremony will take place, and deodoro and the barra. Half a Million People are around the world are expected to visit here over the next 17 days to watch the competition. That presents a lot of challenges for brazil. When they got awarded the games they were booming with money but now theyre in a deep recession. Crime is here and the threat of potential terrorism. Brazil real rihad to dig deep and figure out how it was going to make the games safe. Coming up in a little bit im going to show you how the brazilian government created the multiprong plan to make these olympics safe. Im going to tell you how they went to the bay area during the super bowl to train on how to handle a mega event like the olympics. Thats coming up in a little bit. Sam and laura . Well look forward to that. Thanks so much. As well as all of jessicas reports, shes going to be joining us on today in the bay throughout the morning. Were going to check back with her coming up at 6 30. As we go from rio now back to the bay area, there are new details regarding the zika virus in california. Nbc bay area has confirmed a baby was born in berkeley with zikarelated birth defects. Sources tell us that baby was born at the at a bates Medical Center within the last six months. No other details provided. The baby is one of two children born this california with zikarelated birth defects. State Health Leaders say mothers contracted the virus while traveling abroad. No reports of that virus being locally transmitted. Bob redell will have a live report on this story in the next half hour. Disturbing find at a b. A. R. T. Station, sam. Employee find a rifle on a platform at the macarthur station. 22 caliber winchester turned up in a case under the bench at 9 00 yesterday morning. The big concern for investigators is that someone planned to use it. Investigators arent saying whether the rifle was loaded. The owner has not been identified. Police hope someone comes forward to explain why it was there. 6 07 on your friday morning. Authorities have made an arrest in connection to a hit an run that killed a los gatos couple earlier this year. That crash happened in south san jose back on february 20th. Now follow up investigation at the time led police to identify 33yearold craig allen as a suspect. Officers arrested him on wednesday night and hes now being charged with two counts of murder. Someone is vandalizing bricks honoring Service Members in livermore. Defacing property from world war ii vets to a navy seal. Police say what makes this even weirder is that the suspects stacked the bricks on the ground below the memorial. The small brick which cost about 40 bucks each are to honor active and fallen Service Members with their names and years in the military. Now families and memorial organizers at the vfw are stunned and upset with this mystery. Seems like a needless thing to do. Why . We dont know. Thats been our question from day one, why did you do this . The livermore vet me theyrial is going to replace those bricks. Its 6 08. Construction is getting under way this morning in a long awaited project to improve protection for People Living along the flood prone San Francisquito creek on the peninsula. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live in East Palo Alto this morning. Kris, every time theres a big storm this is the creek we watch very closely. Reporter definitely. We have been out here covering the flood waters as they flow from the San Francisquito creek under the freeway and over the freeway into the condos across the bay shore freeway. In fact, we have video of flooding from the past el nino rains of this last winter. Sandbagging happened then as well. You dont have to live around here to know how bad it can get because if you commute on highway 101, then chances are youve seen some of the freeway flooding here as well. But the winter rains are only one reason for this project. This area also needs protection from rising sea levels because of climate change. In fact, the San Francisquito creek could not withstand 100year flood at this point. Todays Ground Breaking is for a 41 million project to protect areas that have ended up under water before. That includes some 5700 homes and businesses in East Palo Alto but also in palo alto and menlo park. Theyre going to be new levees and floodwalls. The project wont be complete until 2018. The Ground Breaking is at 10 00 this morning. Our colleague Michelle Roberts will be there this morning. But as you can see there is construction going on right now because the Ground Breaking is just the formality where the dignitaries get their pictures but this work has been in the works for about three years getting permitting processes, working with pg e to move power and other utility lines. So definitely the folks who are out here working, this is old news to them. But the Ground Breaking, again, is for today for the 1 million project for the San Francisquito creek. In East Palo Alto, kris sanchez, today in the bay. The Ground Breaking with the gold shovels and then the Big Equipment out. Long time in the making. No flooding, no ponding, a little drizzle out there today. Kari hall is joining us with your weather. Swrou can see as we get a live look out San Francisco and the temperature now is at 58 degrees. We will see the clouds hanging out there throughout most of the day. So expect the windshield wipers to turn on for a little while. Now, as we get a look at todays high temperatures, 61 degrees in San Francisco. That will be it. 73 degrees in santa rosa as well as palo alto. And fairfield today topping out at 79 degrees with livermore today at 80 degrees. We will talk about a little bit of a warmup really next week. Heading over to mike tracking two reports for the nimitz. Thats right. The first one im talking about just came in seconds ago. Trying to get more detail but were seeing some slowing on our sensors already as we look at the bay. Zoom in over here toward union city. Down in toward fremont. Slows approaching alvarado and niles. Second lane but they were trying to get the vehicles to the right shoulder. You see slowing there. Well get an update once chp arrives. Meanwhile over here, northbound 880, reports of a bumper in lanes and possible crash there as well but sounds like all lanes are clear. Bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights are on. Backup there. Following this crash in sausalito. I do want to show you that. Metering lights are on. Fastrak lanes are visibly moefing. Thats friday. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Up next on today in the bay, sentenced to life from prison. The courtroom out bursts as a gangster Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow learns his fate. Phenomenal jobs number and a mayo mystery for you this morning. Lets take you back out to rio this morning. Were just hours away from the Opening Ceremony happening tonight. And heres some things you might not know about this years games. Its the first time in olympic history a south American Country is hosting the games. The games are also the first to feature olympians born in the year 2000. And this is also the first games to have an entire olympic team made up of athletes forced to flee from war torn countries. Quarter after 6 00. Raymond shrimp boy chow is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars. The federal judge gave the harshest possible sentence. Chow didnt go down without a fi fight though. Lashing out the court saying he was wrongly convicted. Chows crimes ranged from murder and conspiracy to racketeering and money laundering. Chows Attorney Says that he is going to fight for an appeal. A lot of questions this morning for a San Francisco company. Did it engage in sneaky sales practice . Scott mcgrew is calling this a condiment caper. The company in question, sam, is San Francisco based hampton creek. They make an eggless mayonnaise called just mayo. They sent employees and contractors out to Grocery Stores to buy up the jars of just mayo by the hundreds. Hampton creek says they were checking for quality. Was their product still good after it was transported to the stores. But there is a suspicion what the company was doing was fooling stores into thinking the product was more popular than it really was. Dont misunderstand that wouldnt be illegal. You could make a product and send it to a store and buy it back. Its your money. But it may be misleading to investors and certainly to stores. Well, backing up the very big job number we got in june, we got another one for july. Unemployment rate 4. 9 . This certainly has a political component. Look at that number. 255,000 jobs added. You cant look at the last 60 days with a half million jobs added and say that the economy is in trouble. Though of course thats exactly what donald trump is saying. The last time he faced an unexpectedly good jobs number last month, a quarter million, the Trump Campaign said, quote, these numbers are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good, when in fact its a total disaster. When the numbers were not so good back in may trump seemed to accept them. He said the economy is going the wrong way, folks. Theyve been kidding themselves. Theyre playing games. Its going the wrong way. One group of people not feeling enthusiastic about the jobs this morning workers at milpitas based fireeye, a Security Company. The Company Going to layoff 400 workers. Total surprise. Fireye was a super hot Security Company, ipoed in 2013. Brand new ceo is making cuts. 400 is a lot considering this company isnt very big to begin with. Prepare for a sale . Parks making it look better . I think theyre just trying to cut costs. Interesting, okay. Scott, thank you very much. For team usa swimming the competition starts soon in rio but before they get down to business they got down with a bill carpool karaoke. Take a listen. Thats Gold Medalist Nathan Adrian behind the well. Missy franklin, Michael Phelps, the list goes on and on. They had fun. The u. S. Mens and womens team posted an eightminute lost skit to youtube featuring the team singing along to a variety of songs and a variety of costumes as well. Yeah, those are not the sleek swimsuits they will be using. It is really great to just see them having so much fun. And then you know the rest of the time is going to be super serious. And focused. A lot of intensity on display there. Did youadrians face, into it. Closed his eyes while hes driving. Cooler weather, too. Lit be nice this weekend. Even though some spots it will be very cloudy, misty, and we have the drizzle. So you can get a live look outside now at tiburon. You see the low hanging clouds and also you may have turned on the windshield wipers as you get this day started. 57 degrees there now. We have mostly some 50s and 60s as you get this friday started. 77 degrees will be the high today. San mateo, 70 degrees. The Mission District only up to 60 today. While we will have upper 70s, fairfield, 79. Walnut creek, 77. Oakland, 67 with low 80s in the trivalley. A lot going on this weekend including outside lands in San Francisco at Golden Gate Park. Lit only be in the 50s for most of the day. And briefly hitting 60 for a couple hours. So if youre going out there make sure you have on long sleeves, nice warm clothes. In fremont tomorrow, it will be beautiful with those temperatures in the low to mid 70s with a breezy wind. And High Pressure breaking down. Thats whats kept it very warm here. And now we are getting in with some low pressure thats well to the north of us. Also pushing down some cooler air, a stronger ocean breeze. It will be mainly foggy at the coastline for most of the weekend. But the inland areas will be breezy with some clearing. Looking here at home in San Francisco, it will be in the low 60s and up to 65 degrees on sunday. Next week well have a little bit of some warping with some upper 60s. A little bit more noticeable for the inland areas. Up to 90 degrees to start out next week. But over the next couple of days, it will be nice. Reaching into the lower 80s and 85 degrees on sunday. And checking out that forecast for rio as well. It will be in the upper 80s this weekend. Opening ceremony this evening looking nice. Most likely right there in the low 70s. Heading over to mike now, more slowing for the crash in union city. Thats right. 880 at alvarado, niles. With rest of the bay shows you pretty much green sensors all over. Its a lighter friday commute. Notes for Union City Area as well as salsa alito. Sand by 101. 880, slowing. Whipple where you, look, alternate es turns into union cy boulevard. You know thats an alternate to 880. But stick it out because i just got word that all lanes of the nimitz from reopened southbound out of hayward. Now, over here we still have a closure for two lanes southbound 101 at spencer in sausalito. Backup going towards the bridgeway offramp. Stick it out there as well because we hope to have some relief over the next ten minutes. Two lanes are still open but that does slow you down, does delay you out of the san rafael and down toward the Golden Gate Bridge and of course the bay bridge metering lights are on. Low clouds hovering around the bridge as well. A sheen on the road. I havent heard of a problem because of slick roadways. Coming up next, another big week of putting money back into your pocket. Breaking through another benchmark. Im consumer ga it chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds, next. Hi, everybody. Good morning from rio. Coming up on a friday morning here on today a sneak peek at what you will see during tonights Opening Ceremony, 2016 Olympic Games. Hoda catches up with the new fierce five. The u. S. Womens gymnastics team, she has a dance party with them. And then how can Donald Trumps campaign right the ship after a rocky week . His running mate indiana governor mike pence joins us along with his wife with an exclusive live interview. We have all that and the live concert on the plaza from mr. Blake shelton. When we see you from new york and rio on a friday morning right here on today. This morning nbc bay area responds and it reaches another milestone that our viewers can truly take to the bank. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here with some promising new numbers. Good morning. Exactly one week ago we celebrated two months since nbc bay area responds began. Well, now our team can report that we have surpassed the 100,000 mark. As of last check the total amount weve returned to nbc bay area viewers is 112,489. 09. Theres more to come because about 25 of the calls that have come into our new Consumer Investigative Center are still unresolved which means were still working on getting your mob any back. The cases are piling up fast, too. By the numbers, were opening an average of 83 new cases a week. Which is about 12 new complaints per day. But theres room for more. Well gladly open a case and add your refund to our tote board. Just call us, 888996tips of visit nbcbayarea. Com responds. Have a great weekend. You, too. It is 6 26. Coming up next on tonigtoday i bay, all eyes on rio as the Opening Ceremony is now just hours away. John ker Jessica Aguirre joins us with another live report next. A zikarelated birth defect has struck a baby born here in the bay area. Ill bob redell. That story coming up. And donald trump sliding in the polls. Weve got some new ones for you. Im trace is poie potts. Bump shot laura 4shot good morning and thanks for joining us on this friday. Happy Opening Ceremony day. A very good friday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garciacannon. Its also Opening Ceremony day. Im sam brock. Lauras clearly excited. Going to rio in moments but first, were taking you to a local forecast. Yes, its misting, drizzling in parts of San Francisco and along the coastline today as you head out. We will be cooler day after the clouds clear out. We will get some sunshine. Right now some mid to upper 50s. Highs today reaching 61 degrees in San Francisco. 81 for the trivalley. And everyone else in between will have some more comfortable weather. Take a look ahead to the weekend coming up. Mike has better news heading towards San Francisco. Its friday so a lighter commute day for the volume of traffic and improvement for the speeds still southbound. Slowalvarado. I told you that is cleared. Southbound 101 at spencer. Theres the thumbs up, fist bump better improved traffic flow. Continuing to improve toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Live look shows you the mist, what we talked about, you will have to use your windshield wipers. Prepare for a slick erode way. Havent seen that for a why. Back to you. Mike, thank you very much. The wait is almost over as we take you out live to brazil this morning. A gorgeous view. Just a matter of hours the road to rio culminates with an explosive celebration. Inside the famous maracana stadium, years of anticipation and preparation all coming down to the next 17 days. Not only for thousands of athletes but for this city as well. Our own Jessica Aguirre is live in rio. Jess, the big question is, is rio ready . While that is the big question, is rio ready . Tonight the big event kicks off with that Opening Ceremony. 3 billion people around the world expected to watch that ceremony. And then they go after they light the olympic flame it goes from preparation all those years to competition. And the competition will happen across four venues, main venues here in rio. Half Million People are expected to flood this city. Right now it is quiet but when they do, the top concern will be security. How do you keep all those people safe when theyre spread out all across the city . The brazilian government tackled that question if the midst of a terrible recession. They have made it clear that they want to make these Olympic Games safe. And theyve done it through a multi. Prong approach. Theyre using hightech security scanner, cameras. But on the streets, the most visible way of showing security is the force of national and the 85,000 soldiers and Police Officers that are manning the streets at all the olympic venues including at maracana stadium where the athletes will be there tonight and 70,000 people. Now, it is top secret whats going to happen in there. But we also understand from the creative director of this show that it is going to be the sexiest thing weve ever seen. As crews rush to finish lastminute touch ups and clean ups around the venues and inside olympic stadium, overnight rehearsals provide a flash of what to expect from tonights Opening Ceremony. Like every host country brazil is keeping the specifics of the celebration a secret. But officials do say it wont reach the scale of beijing or other ceremonies. Instead, were told its going to be more personal, sharing the story of brazil, a big part of that story is, no doubt, the music, the moves, and the flare of the first south American Country to host the games. And its top secret. I think its going to be great. And its going to be a big sur price. Reporter another first here, Michael Phelps will join in the Opening Ceremony carrying the flag for team usa. This has to be i mean, one of the coolest thing ive ever done. Reporter and phelps, the worlds most decorated olympian has done some pretty cool things at the Olympic Games. Phelps is hoping to do more cool things here in baja, the largest of the olympic clusters. Theres plenty of representation from the bay area, from cal and from stanford. In fact, 71 athletes with bay area ties will be here. 30 of them alone are from stanford. All of them will take part in the parade of athletes with 10,000 other athletes this evening at maracana stadium. Couple of other quick little tidbits. Its expected that Gisele Bundchen, the supermodel married to tom brady and pele, the International Brazilian soccer star will be lighting the olympic name. If you dont have a ticket to get inside the 70,000, brazilians will be outside with huge jumbo trons. Theres going to be samba in the streets. That, my friends, laura and sam, is where i will be heading tonight. Thats the theme there, samba in the streets. Jessica aguirre watching history reporting for us all week. Thank you so much, jess. Get out the fancy outfits for the samba dance. Not only will tonight be a special moment for thousands of olympians in rio, also memorable for olympians who represented america in past games. We spoke with ann cribbs of palo alto. She won a gold medal in swimming at the 1960 games in rome. She says athletes never forget marching in the Opening Ceremony like she did in italy. Burst out into the crowd of the stadium, 110,000 people and they saw the United States delegation and there was a big cheer that went up. And it was so mag any tent. I can still i can still hear that. Cribbs also ads tonight is a chance for people in rio and here at home to join in the olympic spirit. And to focus on things that bring the world together rather than tear it apart. We will have much more olympic coverage throughout the morning. Well check back in with jessica in 20 minutes. Local news now. And two babies have been bornt in california with zikarelated birth defects according to the States Health department. Nbc bay area has confirmed one of the births took place locally. Bob redell is live from berkeley. We do understand that the babies were born from mothers who contracted the virus outside the country. Reporter that is correct, sam. Sources confirm to nbc bay area that one of those babies was born right here behind me at alta bates Medical Center here in berkeley. This birth taking place within the last six months. The California Department of health saying that there were two babies including this one born statewide with zikarelated microcephaly. Thats a birth defect that results in babies with underdeveloped brains and smaller heads than normal. A Department Says in both cases the mothers contracted the virus while traveling abroad either through a mosquito bite or sexual contact with someone carrying the zika virus. The department calls these two births in the state, quote, a sobering reminder for californians that zika can cause serious harm to a developing fetus, unquote. The department points out theres no evidence that someone has contracted the zika virus from a mosquito bite in california even though those kinds of mosquitos capable of carrying the virus have been found in 12 counties statewide including here in alameda and across the bay in san mateo. Within the past 24 hours president barack obama has criticized congress for heading off on a sevenweek vacation without first funding efforts to fight the zika virus. And meanwhile congress is on a summer recess. A lot of folks talk about protecting americans from threat, well, zika is a serious threat to americans. Especially babies. Right now, so once again i want to urge the American People to call their members of congress and tell them to do their job. Reporter president obama has requested 1. 9 billion to fight the zika virus. Congressional republicans agreed to 1. 1 billion. But democrats blocked that bill because republicans added other provisions related unrelated to the zika virus. Reporting live in berkeley, bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thank you very much. Another issue affecting our country ending the backlog of Sexual Assault kits sitting on shelves across this nation. Weve reported on this problem before and the number of kits untested is still far too high. District attorney Nancy Omalley and congressman mike honda held a News Conference yesterday working to get approval for 45 million federal grant for kit testing. There are some 500,000 kits sitting on shelves collecting dust right now in the u. S. 6 37. Moving on to division 2016 this morning. Were looking at several new polls out in the last 24 hours. And they all point to trouble for donald trump. Today in the bays tracie potts is tracking the numbers for us live from washington. She has the latest. Its been a me couple of weeks here. No kidding. Now the six new polls came out after the convention. All pointing in the same direction. National polls, battleground state polls, none wf of them looking good for trump do we want a president who stands for youre fired or one who stands for youre hired . Reporter as Hillary Clinton hammers away at how donald trump does business he has cheated contractors. I take that personally. Reporter several new polls put her in the lead. Up nine points in our nbc wall street journal poll. Plus, significantly to michigan and florida. Trumps down double digits in New Hampshire and pennsylvania. Tonight, hes in wisconsin. Trump is in trouble in wisconsin. I dont think he helped himself in his own party where his supporter has been soft by picking a fight with the most popular republican politician. Right now theres a lack of enthusiasm for him. Reporter trumps not backing House Speaker paul ryan but his running mate is. I say, mike, you like him . Yes. Go ahead and do it. 100 . Reporter now another republican lawmaker, this one from battleground pennsylvania, has announced he wont vote for trump. It just seems that hes at times hellbent on losing a very winnable election. Reporter more trouble for trump. Today hes back where it all started, iowa. The polls not looking great for donald trump but weve got time before november. Hess complaining the system is rigged against him. Asked about that, president obama called it ridiculous. Laura and sam . Tracie potts reporting for us live from d. C. Thank you very much. 6 39. Live from the nbc bay area studio, kari hall with a look at the forecast. We are going to start out this morning with some clouds, some mist and drizzle. Were seeing that now as we get a live view from mt. Tam. Right now, 57 degrees. Highs will be reaching into the 70s for the south bay. Even up to 82 degrees for morgan hill. 73. And some low 60s for San Francisco. Upper 70s for fairfield and oakland, 67. Low 80s for parts of the trivalley. Mike has some breaking news now for the south bay. Thats right. Very unplea tant news. The worst news is a deadly crash and thats what we have in the south bay right now. Overall the commute shows easy drive. That is friday niglight for you freeways. A lot of folks will refer to this 237. Technically its caliveras boulevard. There is a deadly crash right there at the intersection and thats tying up traffic. From im understanding that milpitas you cannot drive on the boulevard which continue to 237 starts at 880. Thats a problem so folks, if you take off jacqueline off 680 and over toward able, that will take you down over into the area and that will continue on toward 237. Thats an alternate. Were checking on the scene as well. You see the big backup. Its going from 680 over to 880, thats a critical connector. Currently blocked by a crash activity may be one lane gets by you thats going to tie up the entire area. Meanwhile the rest of the bay recovering from an earlier crash in union city. You see how easy the trivalley is flowing. Same thing for the bay bridge, only the metering lights at the bay bridge and full recovery for the north bay. Back to you. Thank you, mike. It is 6 41. Coming up, disturbing details surrounding that missing Malaysia Airlines jet. The new information that suggests the pilot planned a route right to the southern indian ocean. Plus, George Zimmermans back in headlines. What witnesses say he said to instigate a fight in enthusiastic about a strong jobs report. Well look at the numbers on the big board. Dow industrials up 136 points. Coming up, ill have a preview of the outside lands festival that kicks off today in San Francisco. This morning, were learning one of the pilots of Malaysia Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home fl this morning were learning one of the pilots of Malaysia Flight 370 plotted a course on his home Flight Simulator to the indian ocean where the missing jet is believed to have crashed. Its first time malaysia has acknowledged the route was on the captains same later. Malaysian officials who made the announcement cautioned there were thousand of destination on the simulator and no evidence to indicate the captain flew the plane in that area. George zimmerman, the man acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin says he was assaulted at a florida restaurant. Witnesses suggest a very different story. Zimmerman told sheriffs deputies he was picking up an order at a restaurant when two men approached him an asked to see his id. Zimmerman claims the men told him to leave before one of them punched zimmerman in the face. But heres the thing. Wps essay something very different, that zimmerman instigated the entire situation by going up to the men and bragging, quote, my name is george zimmerman. You know, that guy who killed Trayvon Martin, end quote. It is 6 45 right now. The mayor of stockton is behind bars this morning accused of misconduct at the youth camp he runs. Mayor Anthony Silva was arrested at camp in almador county facing several charges including minors at the camps, playing strip poker with one. The investigation started almost a year ago when agents confiscated silvas cellphone, found an audio recording from that alleged strip poker game. Silva is also acruised of giving alcohol to minors. Attorneys say he will plead not guilty. Shifting gears to business and tech news. Numbers are striking in the last six months the u. S. Economy has added half million jobs. Lets check in with scott mcgrew. Very enthusiastic response, laura, from wall street this morning on the later job numbers. Up 255,000. The dow industrials gaining 130 points. The nasdaq up 35. Brazilian steakhouse, why not with the olympics. Here are the numbers. 255,000 jobs added. 4. 9 unemployment. Reporter dan diamond at politico totalled it up. 10. 7 million jobs added in the last eight years. One company not celebrating this morning milpitas based fireye seen here on its first day of trading in 2013. The company is going to layoff 400 employees. Total surprise. Fireye was a super hot Security Company but its got a brand new ceo and they are making cuts. Fireye tumbled this morning down 15 . Amazon showing off its first amazon branded airplane. You cant fly on it but your packages certainly can. It will be flying this weekend in the boeing air show in seattle. This is one of several cargo planes with amazon delivery. Truthfully flown by contract. You see the amazon plane fly overhead. Excellent theme music going on in the background, too. While we talk about good music, music lovers dream right now in just a few hours, thousands upon thousands of people are descending on San Franciscos Golden Gate Park for the start of the outside lands music festival. Today in the bays pete surraatos is live where the cre are getting the finishing touches up. Pete, always keeping everyone safe is a top priority. For sure, especially when you think about a big event like this in San Francisco. Not seeing too much security at this hour because the outside lands festival starts at 11 00 a. M. Were seeing some crews kind of drive in here and to this entrance as they set up for this annual festival. But we do have video from yaes. We got a sneak peek of that main stage yesterday afternoon. Now the events is sold out but to get into the event the tickets run for roughly 140 bucks per day for those folks that are going over the next three days. Now, artists performing this weekend include radiohead, duran duran, third eye blind, jay cole and lionel richie, just to name a few. Theres also big local artists performing such as rap legend e40. And its a diversity of music that well see over the next three days that celebrates outside lands from other festivals around the country. We have a very eclectic lineup. Were concerned abiliout lettin people have different john rays of music. Music that appeals from 18 to 65. Reporter the festival opens at 11 00 a. M. Today and also includes performances by comedians as well as a wide selection of food from different vendors. Organizers say last years festival brought out roughly or close to 200,000 people over the span of three days. And theyre expecting even more this year. Were live from San Francisco, pete suratos for today in the bay. Always a really big event. Those tickets sell out pretty quickly. They dont come cheap, either. I saw that it was kind of wet and damp behind pete there. Umbrellas tonight or clear by then . We will get some clearing for a little while but that mist and driz ll not be enough to keep you from going out there and enjoying yourself in San Francisco or anywhere along the coastline this weekend. Were seeing that now from mt. Tam as you get view there. Low clouds staying with us. Also keeps us cool. That blanket will help cool down the inland areas as well. Its 57 degrees there and its 60 degrees in concord and oakland. And in palo alto, 58 degrees and napa, 57 degrees. A look at all the highs today. 73 degrees in santa rosa as well as palo alto. Santa cruz at 72. Upper 70s for the south bay as well as concord and fairfield. Warmer spots will be in the trivalley as well as the south county. If you are planning to go out to outside lands today, once again it will be cool. Well have some sunshine throughout the afternoon. And then the clouds start to move back in later on this evening. With those lows dropping back into the 50s. This weekend for the fremont festival of the arts, it will be bright and sunny. Beautiful weather tomorrow for that. A very nice die. Were going to see some changes into the next couple of days as High Pressure continues to move away. Some cooler temperatures and a breezy onshore flow. Also a lot of clouds. But once again, it does give us a little bit of a break for some afternoon sun. And it also brings in some breezy inland temperatures and much cooler air. Looking at San Francisco, expect the high of 61 degrees today. Up into the mid 60s by the end of the weekend. Mix of sun and clouds. And then well start to see it getting warmer than average. That will be the same trend. Well see for the inlefthand areas. Some low 80s for today and tomorrow. Mid 80s for sunday. Overall, not a bad forecast. That warm air doesnt look like its sticks around for all that long. Now as we head back over to mike, continuing with that deadly crash in milpitas. Thats right. Want to assure folks most of your bay area is what you would expect this friday. Light flow of traffic. Warning as you cross the bridges though. Over here the big issue is in the south bay. Milpitas, we called this out. 680 driver it is youre heading over toward 237 or 880, this is a huge issue for you because 680 i would not plan on using califeras. Folks not familiar with the area might not know that 237 is the boulevard. This is where the crash happened. Major intersection. Now, if youre calm coming from the north, take jacqueline road and move to able. Coming from the south exit atlantis and cut over toward 880. Those are your options. Were following the investigation of the deadly crash and intersection until that clears. The rest of the south bay shows a very light friday drive. Bay bridge toll plaza was have the metering lights on. And backup fills in this camera shot but you can see the fastrak lanes are moving. Golden gate bridge shows the you the sheen as kari was talking about. I have seen folks using their windshield wipers so you may have to use that for a spell as well. Back to you. Coming up next on today in the bay, a rifle found at a b. A. R. T. Station. Firepower literally tucked away under a bench at the largest b. A. R. T. Station in the system. And is rio ready . A live report from rio de janiero with our very own Jessica Aguirre right after the break. But first, a Financial Program aims to help single mothers in the bay area. Teaches single moms the best way to budget and become more financially fit. You can watch that story for yourself on your facebook page. And summer games may be playing out in rio but the interest is global on nbcbayarea. Com. Check out a Photo Gallery of monuments from around the world lit up for the games. Were back in two minutes. Before you head out the door here are the top stories on nbc bay area. Sam m. Welcome back. Before you head out the door here are p top stories on nbc bay area. A disturbing find at a b. A. R. T. Station. Employee found a rifle on a platform at the macarthur station. 22 caliber showed up at 9 00 yesterday morning. Investigators are not saying whether that rifle was loaded. We now know a baby was born in berkeley with zikarelated birth defects. It happened at alta bates Medical Center within the last six months. No other details provided at this time. And it is finally time, after years of anticipation and preparation for thousands of athletes, we see a live picture of rio right now. It all comes down to the next 17 days as we are only hours away from the 2016 Opening Ceremony in rio de janiero. Lets bring in our own Jessica Aguirre live from rio. One more time this morning. Jess, ready or not, the whole world has its eyes on brazil. Boy, does it. Now, im here at olympic park where soon theyre going to be going from preparation to competition. But, yes, laura, you are right. This evening it is all about the Opening Ceremony. Taking place at maracana stadium. Now, 70,000 people will be inside, but 3 billion people around the globe will be focused on what is supposed to be the sexiest Opening Ceremony in history. This is what we know. Its going to focus more on the style of brazilian life. They are affectionate. They are gregarious and super sensual. Its also going to focus on the amazon and climate change. Thats all going to happen tonight culminating with the parade of athletes and hopefully pele, the brazilian superstar lighting the olympic torch. We hear that Gisele Bundchen is going to be playing the character from the girl from the song made famous from frank sinatra. Were going to meet the real girl who is actually not a girl anymore. And of course were going to be at maracana stadium. Ill going to see if i can work my way in because id like to be part of that opening show. I think i can do the samba. Oi, i know you can. Are you kidding me . Shes got the dance skills and also your hair is blowing in the breeze. You will be perfect for it, jess. Well look forward to it. Nbc bay area is your home for live coverage throughout the Olympic Games. Tonight at 6 30, join us for bay area revelations, olympic champion. It tells the stories of local olympians and their inspirations, struggle, and triumph. Check it out. Then at 7 30 were going to air the Opening Ceremony in its entirety followed by a special edition of nbc bay area news right after. It is going to be an actionpacked couple of weeks of competition. We cannot wait. We also cant wait for our weekend which is right around the corner. Got to be honest. We are pretty much there. And it will be much cooler as we start out with some low clouds, some mist and drizzle across the bay area. It is 56 degrees now in the trivalley. Its cloudy there but heading up to 81 with some sunshine. And the north bay today, 73 degrees. Some low 80s for the trivalley and south bay. All right. Sadly mike is tracking a deadly crash in milpitas. Just got this confirmed. Information confirmed from milpitas pd. Take you to the maps. Overall the friday commute shows a very light as you would expect drive right now. But in milpitas the Bliss Department confirmed that this deadly crash involved just a single motorcycle. Involved there crashed into something on the side of the road there. Its got it blocked off. Caliveras turns into 237 at milpitas boulevard. Avoid the area. Avoid that connector. You typically drive from 680 to 880, you probably use mission boulevard, which is clear. The bay bridge looks light. Metering lights are on at the bay bridge but no big problems. We have seen some slicker roads. Be careful on the Golden Gate Bridge. See the fog behind us, too. Thats whats happening today in the bay. Were back at 7 25 with a live local news update. That is not local. We go back to rio one last time for psome dancing and celebratin tonight. Good morning. Let the games begin. All eyes on rio with the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games now just hours away. The American Flag raised over the athletes village as crews put the final touches on iconic americana stadium. 11,000 athletes, all getting ready and over 1 billion people set to watch around the globe. We have your exclusive sneak peek today, friday, august 5, 2016. Team usa has won backtoback gold medals