Of the bay bridge. This crash originally reported and sounded like a fender bender but its taking a while to clear. As we look at most of the bay and slowing because of the crash at capital expressway. Another crash in the trivalley that we told you about a few minutes ago. Well review that later on. Coming up over here. Westbound 80. Bay bridge approach really jammed up because this crash at the embarcadero over crossing. Off the bay bridge from oakland. We do have that crash blocking one lane. This has traffic backed up already on the approach toward Treasure Island. Likely to slow the metering lights down just to keep traffic easier on the bridge itself. Until they can get a crew out there, we will have that. Track that of course. Thats a bigger deal coming over from the east bay. A developing story this morning and a disturbing discovery. One of the bay areas busiest shopping malls. Right now police are sifting through clues to find out how a body ended up inside a stairwell at San Franciscos Westfield Shopping Center. Bob redell is looi at bloomingdales to reveal what police are sree rereveal. Reporter sfpd will only tell us they believe this is a homicide. They wont declare how they this person died. Theyre telling us hes a man in his 30s, a white man who was found yesterday morning around 10 00 behind those doors right there. Those nondiscrypt doors, the doors that can only open from the inside. Somebody found the body yesterday morning. It was behind those doors ina stairwell. This is a stairwell that anyone can access from inside the mall and the doors which can only be opened from the inside, are back exit lead to this alleyway that were standing in called jessie east. They have sent an email end canting the murder victim is not a bloomingdales employee and advise the gloiemployees no talk about what happened. People who work in the mall are avoiding stairwells and are pairing up when they have to come outside. The mall is still open for business. Makes you feel unsafe to come shopping. Its terrible that you cant go anywhere safe. Ec even around a lot of people. Reporter Westfield Management is also not talking about what happened but they did release this statement that reads in part, the center is open and operating normally, and we are cooperating fully with the investigation. Sfpd tells us they are reviewing footage from several security cameras you can see back out here live. They do have them installed throughout the property, especially in the back alley way which is this back entrance to bloomingdales. Again, where a body of a man in his 30s found a little under 24 hours ago. Reporting live in sf, bob redell, today in the bay. South bay mans faulty wiring is now whats being pinpointed as the root cause of last years massive valley wildfire that burned through lake county and parts of the north bay. Four people died in that fire. More than 1200 homes were destroyed. Turns out the man was nowhere near where the fire was when it started. Investigators say homeowner john pinch had improperly wired a hot tub in a home he owned in cobb a year earlier. He was in santa clara at the time of the fire. Lake county residents say the findings are very difficult to swallow. Its really upsetting to find out hundreds of people lost their houses for a hot tub. But i dont know. I guess accidents happen. Nobodys perfect. Investigators say pinch admitted to the faulty wiring and its still possible some criminal charges could be filed. Investigators also point out that that fire did little damage to the property where it began. It is 6 04. San Francisco Police are investigating a brutal attack. They say three men put a bag over a womans head and viscously beat her. It happened about 6 30 tuesday as the woman walked near larkin street and golden gate avenue. The chronicle reports the victim was suddenly hit in the head, had a bag thrown over her head and punched repeatedly before the suspects ran away. She had bruises an cuts to her sfas aface and hands. The attack appears to be random. Theyre looking through Surveillance Video to try and identify her attackers. A community is trying to come to grips with. Mourners will be holding a vigil tonight. Family members say 20yearold Calvin Reilly was just playing pokemon go with friends when a gunman opened fire seemingly at random. So far no arrests have been made. Reil reilly graduated two years ago where he played baseball. Mourners are going to gather tonight at a church in san mateo for the viewing and vigil. His funeral is scheduled for tomorrow. To a story we first broke last night on nbc bay area at 5 00. Two men arrested for stealing jose consecos bats. These are exclusive video showing one of the men caught in the act. It happened in the parking lot of the pittsburg half top inn. Thats where the former as superstar was staying. The two men didnt get too far. A manager spotted them while Monitoring Surveillance cameras and called police. As for the 52yearold conseco, he was sympathetic. I saw the pictures of the guys afterwards. I said, poor guys. They just look hungry. Let them go. Conseco got the bats back in time to use them in his game. He plays for the pittsburg diamonds. They lost, by the way, to the vallejo admirals. All new, new findings just released on how dangerous road debris can be for other drivers. Researchers at aaa looked at four years of data and heres what they found. An average of 50,000 crashes per year across the u. S. That are linked to debris on the roadways. That includes more than 500 fatalities over that time frame. Almost 40,000 injuries. Researchers say twothirds of debris related crash rest from poor car maintenance or drivers improperly securing their loads. One thing drivers should really look at, you know, would i feel safe with one of my family members driving behind me on the road . Thats really how secure you should make sure the road is before you get on the road. Researchers also found nearly four in ten deaths in road debris crashes were the result of someone swerving to avoid hit an object in the road approximately overreacting at the last minute to avoid debris can make a bad situation even worse. Turning now to olympic coverage from rio as we look at the medal count this morning. So far the u. S. Is dominating with 32 medals overall, including 11 golds. Theyre hoping to add to that total today. Chinas in second. Almost ten medals back. Today in the bays Jessica Aguirre has been tracking the action since the very beginning. J jess, its another big day for team usa. Set the stage for us. Boy, it is a big day. You know what, it is game on here in olympic park because all of those events that were canceled yesterday due to bad weather, well trk sun is out so those are back on. Rowing back on today and tennis back on today as well. But all attention, most of it is going to be at the rio olympics arena tonight where the ladies of gymnastics, the final five will be back on the mat and going for the individual all around. Of course, simone biles who has not lost the last three competitions in the individual all around will be going for gold. And her closest competitor, aly raisman. She will also g b. Going for gold. And they will going up against 21 other women as well. Lets go to the pool where there will be lots of action. Its going to be another friendly faceoff. This time between Michael Phelps and his roommate ryan lochte. They will be racing each other in the mens 200 individual medley. Now, lochte holds the worlds record in that but phelps has three straight golds. So its anyones guess who will take it. Also in the pool tonight, two local cal olympians ryan murphy, 100 meter backstroke, and jacob pebley, who both they marry debut in rio and advanced to the 200 meter backstroke semifinal last night. Now, pebley says he really wants to do well because its a promise he made to his mom that passed away ten years ago and his goal was to make it in her honor to these Olympic Games and he has. And no doubt he made his mama very, very proud. Most definitely. Thanks so much, jess. A live look right now at the olympic flame burning brightly while much more coverage from rio coming up. Jessica will join us again at 6 35 with a look at the bay area olympians who medaled. Dont miss a moment of the rio olympics with nbc bay areas five to watch. Go to nbcbayarea. Com olympics to see the five key things to know every day. We still have another week and a half of competition. Its great. Its fun. Our weather has been fantastic. Starting to heat up a little bit. Kari hall has a look. Good morning. Even though we do see the low clouds and fog in San Francisco, we will see that clearing out very quickly. You cant even see the top span of the bridge of the golden gate bridge. This morning we will once again bet the clouds near the coast but the inland areas are nice and sunny. Looking at the high ps the, reach up to 93 degrees in fairfield. 92 in livermore. While san jose is up to 88. Some 70s for oakland as well as halfmoon bay and San Francisco, 68. Santa rosa, 84. Well talk about a heatup over the next few days heading into the weekend. Thats coming up. Heading over to mike now. Hes got an update for the crash on the bay bridge. Thats right. I was just about to tell folks looks like a bad situation, but we got the all clear. Improving situation now coming across from oakland in towards San Francisco. The rest of your bay improving as well. A crash at capital expressway, for example, in san jose. Looks like its cleared. Still activity in livermore causing westbound 580 to slow. Already seeing the speeds improve. The crash was just over the embarcadero as you made landfall across that westbound commute direction at the bay bridge. Now the crash has cleared from all lanes we should see recovery. Backup continues back to the toll plaza where we will give you a live look. Approach just fine. At the toll plaza the backup here, more severe because they slowed down metering lights as they tend to do in a crash on that western span. But again, all lanes cleared in San Francisco and b. A. R. T. Is an excellent option as well. Back to you. Thanks a lot. Up next on nbc bay area, following developing news out of maryland where a desperate rescue effort is under way right now to find several people who are still missing after an apartment complex exploded just a few hours ago. Macys says it will close more stores and a Silicon Valley mystery company. Well take a look coming up. Were following developments in Silver Spring maryland where a lateni the other side of the coast, we are following developments out of Silver Spring, maryland, where a late night explosion leveled an apartment complex. New information is coming up very often, heres what we know right now. Three firefighters have been injured, along with at least 30 residents. Emergency crews said the explosion happened before midnight at an apartment complex just outside of washington, d. C. Silver spring is a suburb of d. C. The explosion could be felt for more than a mile away. There are also reports that some of the trapped residents had to toss their children to the ground below. While no deaths have been reported, up to even is people are not accounted for yet. Just tragic. 6 15. New warnings for pokemon go players may be easy crime tar gets. Berkeley police are reminding pokemon go players really everywhere to remain aware of their surroundings. But in berkeley, two recent robberies and another attempted robbery happened there. In each case the victims were playing pokemon go before they were attacked. In the last case on monday the target managed to fight off his attacker in civic center park. You got to look up every once in a while. One of Silicon Valleys Fastest Growing companies is also one of the mysterious. Growing very quickly, getting a reputation for paying a lot of money as well. The company cut the ribbon recently at Silicon Valley headquarters. Calling le eco the netflix of china. The Company Announced it will open a 2 billion electric car factory in china and if youre saying to yourself, hold on a minute, why wouldia netflix like Company Build cars, thats a good question. Le eco is a company we will be watching but keep in mind starting a car company is extremely difficult and expensive. Case in point, the fisker car, great car, but just could not make it. Remember, even tesla loses money. Add to that gas prices are low. So thats a problem for electric car companies. Natural gas near record lows. Thats problem for donald trump. I love them, too. But were going to have signs look how beautiful on both sides. Cover both. You like yellow, you like black. Yellow, black. Beautiful. Donald trump phraraising sig of color in virginia. The problem is not just that coal is dirty, its expensive. Natural gas and soil prices are so low that coal is not worth digging. New this morning, macys will close another 100 stores. And if that doesnt sound new to you its because macys often says its going to close. This morning its 100 more stores we dont know where yet. Ive always been struck by the different kinds of macys. You go to new york city or union square for that matter, its one kind of macys. A regional mall stores, sort of a different kind of macys. I suspect they will start shutting those down. They buy for their audience, too. Its not a single brand, it doesnt seem to be. I expect the Smaller Stores will close. Really hurting. A lot of competition. And amazon. Thank you very much. Maybe we will wish that they stay open on a wishing shooting star. It is back. The Perseid Meteor Shower is bigger than last years variety. In fact, astronomers are calling this an outburst shower. All because the gravity from jupiter is pulling multiple meteor streams together. Sky gazers will be able to see more than 160 meteors an hour. 160 wish snes. I could use them. Happening well, share the love here. Around 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow and on saturday. I am fascinated the first thing that comes to your mind when you make a wish on a star. Do you want to know whats coming to my mind . I dont know. Do we . Im not going to tell you. Cricket . You want to sing for us when you wish upon a star . No, ill just tell the weather. You will be sing that lullaby soon. I guess so, but not on tv. Were going to have clouds near the coast and also mostly clear skies inland. It looks like you will be able to see the Perseid Meteor Shower later on tonight, especially if you are away from the water. As we get a live look outside now in sunol, the clouds are settling below this camera. Looks like a clear start but we will see some clouds novembmovi here and there. Temperatures at 56 degrees. All feeling 60s now. Rather some upper 50s but it will quickly climb into the 60s. Within the next hour or so. And by noontime were up to 74 degrees in san jose. Up to 87 degrees. It will get hot very quickly. And then into the mid 70s by 8 00 this evening. Winds coming in from the northwest that will continue to pick up as we go through the day. It wont be until this evening where we will watch a little bit of a break and some relief from those hot temperatures. Especially once again for the trivalley over towards the north bay as well as the south bay. All those valleys heating up with the winds coming in from the west. It will be very light. And allowing our highs to reach up to 90 degrees today in los gatos. In san mateo, 80 degrees. 66 on the embarcadero. 84 in santa rosa. Wide range in temperatures is what you can expect as we go into the next civil days. High pressure continues to build. For us that means more heat. Not enough of a marine layer to cool us off. We wont get our natural air conditioning from a westerly wind. The heat builds into this weekend and also continues into next week. Temperaturewise in San Francisco, you wont see much of a difference. You may begin to see a lack of those morning clouds and a lot of sunshine. As far as what we will see inland anywhere from 88 degrees today and then up to 94 for the weekend. 96 degrees on wednesday. So that heat is not going anywhere. Heading over to mike, hes also tracking talking about the trivalley this morning. Some folks feel like theyre not going anywhere but they will have improved speeds. Looking at your bay and overall we have a smooth flow of traffic. Over in the trivalley weve had a couple of crashes. One leaving some debris in the roadway you guys just talked about. Debris on the roadway, no surprises but that is cleared. The other crash causing a jam out of the altamont. Provides a break for folks in the interchange. Two sides for each crash. The one approaching and the one just past it. The approach towards the bay bridge moves well. Bay bridge toll plaza, improved for the speeds on the San Francisco side. As we look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Ive been tracking a crash just above the embarcadero, it has cleared over the last 15 minutes. We have a good recovery but the backup at the toll plaza, slower metering lights. Might not be so obvious. Golden gate bridge, low clouds around the golden gate and fog on the north and note for drivers there. And also across that bay bridge at times i see the low clouds coming through. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 6 21. Coming up next, update on that strike causing a backlog at south bay courthouses. Also, consumer investigator chris chmura is here next. In this case, Utility Company tears up his lawn, sidewalk, and more. Who helps him clean up . Nbc bay area. We respond. Next. Nbc bay area responds to a san jose man who has been battling pg e for seven months. Consumer investigator chris chmura is here with this story. This all started when pg e had to dig along manor lane for Maintenance Work on multiple gas lines. Take a look. Charles snapped photos of what he called an up rooted front lawn and poorly patched sidewalk. After several months of complaining charles got pg e to fix the grass but not the sidewalk. So he reached out to us. After our call pg e promptly remarried charles sidewalk but theres a hiccup and video that he shot right there on the right side of the screen. While fixing the sidewalk he says workers damaged his sprinkler system.