Martinez with concord reaching 95 degrees. You can see thend mild near the coastline and in San Francisco. Well see this pattern continue and well talk about a slight cooldown for the weekend. Mike, youre tracking that serious crash in oakland. Thats right, kari. Overall, the east bay maps look like theyre in the green zone for the speeds. We are, however, looking down toward highway 13, theres a deadly crash, a car went off the roadway and crew are addressing that crash. The crew is whats blocking a slow lane and two lanes southbound for the warren freeway at redwoods road. We dont know how long the crew will be there. I know they called a second tow truck. The first one couldnt get there. The second how far off the freeway is this car. Theyre having an issue getting that car out of the area. Meanwhile the rest of the bay shows a smooth flow of traffic, niles canyon reopen for highway 84 for overnight roadwork and tracking this crash 87 at taylor in san jose. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Moving you forward this morning, in the fight against monkeypox an allstar Covid Treatment team are launching a new trial. Some believe it will be a game changer when it comes to the monkeypox treatment. It comes as the bay area tries to meet that vaccine demand. Today in the bays Ginger Conejero saab is live in San Francisco digging deep near what it could all mean. Good morning, ginger. Reporter good morning, laura. Good morning, marcus. Now the trial has been dubbed platinum and the drug at the center of all this is called t pox for short. Its used to street smallpox in the u. S. And other parts of the world. A local doctor says its been used to treat the sickest of the sick. A Research Team in the uk is looking to test its effectiveness on people infected with monkeypox and people who arent that sick. So lets look at what the vaccine is versus tpoxx. The Monkeypox Vaccine reduces your risk of infection. Tpoxx treats your disease once you have been infected. The main focus for tpoxx is shortening the course of the disease. Currently most people report to have mild symptoms that run the course of two to four weeks, but some have lesions for a longer period of time, which is why this trial is garnering a lot of attention. Dr. Peter chinhong says it could be a game changer. We know that earlier treatment probably matters, so thats why this uk trial is really, really significant. Its looking at people who are not so sick to see if it prevents them from getting sick, to see if it prevents them from getting a long course of the disease, so shortening the disease is really what its all about. So it works on the envelope of the virus, and it disrupts its envelope of mpoxx so the virus cant infect another cell. Reporter the oxford team behind this trial is also the team behind the key covid trial and hope to have results by the end of the year. According to the cdc, there are at this point more than 44,500 cases in the world, nearly 16,000 of which are here in the u. S. California still one of the states most affected by it with over 3,000 cases and locally here in San Francisco, were seeing over 670 cases. San franciscos department of Public Health says the city will receive 1,600 vials of monkeypox and they will begin to administer the vaccines intradermally, split, allowing for around 8,000 doses of the vaccine. The clinic has been open this week and is expected to stay open until supplies last. Marcus . All right, certainly i know a lot of people are hoping that this trial turns out to be something that we can start using. Ginger, thank you. 5 04 right now. A call to action from San FranciscoSchool Leaders and teachers who say available funding is already in place to offset what they call an ongoing shortage in the classroom. Last night, teachers rallyed ahead of a school board meeting. When the fall session started last week, the district had not yet filled all the positions. Union leaders say with the state increasing its budgeting for education, the district can already tap into more money to attract and retain teachers. Its awful when you know that you have to move classrooms, some classrooms are being combined, educators are scrambling to cover classrooms, some on a daily basis. During last nights meeting the School District is prioritizing its investment in compensation to better recruit and retain teachers. Happening today, relief may be coming for millions of americans, still trying to pay back their Student Loans. President biden is expected to announce plans for federal loan relief. Today in the bays brie jackson is live in washington this morning, and brie, if we look back here, this was one of the president s key Campaign Promises. Good morning, marcus, laura. Thats right. President biden has faced increasing pressure to act on Student Loan Debt, and today, President Biden is expected to follow through on his Campaign Promise to address thor u, but its likely to fall short of what some democrats have pushed for. President biden expected to slash up to 10,000 in federal Student Loan Debt for borrowers making less than 125,000 a year. I mean, thats way too little. Thats chump change. Over the course of my law school career, im expected to accrue around 70,000 over the course of three years. Reporter its estimated over 40 million americans are in debt for their education, totalling more than 1. 7 trillion. The Biden Administration is looking to relieve some of that financial stress. We want to make sure Higher Education is accessible, and we know education is a great equalizer. Reporter critics warn canceling student debt could make inflation even worse. You cannot add that to the debt at a time where the debt is at nearrecord levels and inflation is a huge problem. Reporter republican senator tom cotton tweeting joe biden has had a lot of bad ideas. This might be his worst idea yet. With midterms nearing, President Biden faces pressure to do something on this issue. I think the longer that this plays out, the more that the political opponents on the right are going to critique that and say this is not the way to go. Reporter democrats have called on the president to forgive 50,000 for federal Student Loan Debt holders. Last year biden said hes not willing to go that far. Im prepared to write off the 10,000 debt, but not 50,000. Reporter the president is also likely to extend the pause on loan payments that were scheduled to end next month. In the phone call mr. Biden tuesday night, senator majority leader Chuck Schumer made a final push for the president to relieve as much Student Loan Debt as possible. Interesting times. Thanks so much, brie. 5 07 for you this morning. Developing out of the deep south, parts of the deep south there, they are going to experience sop flooding. They have a flood watch right now after storms dumping the rain in the southwest are now moving towards the east. The advisory will affect some 4 Million People and texas meanwhile the governor is in the making of a disaster declaration after historic flooding in dallasft. Worth. More than one foot of rain fell in the area of east dallas. People there are calling it a one in a thousandyear flood. Look at that. Inundated there. Meteorologist kari hall joins us now. Is that storm system theyre seeing easing up at all . Its starting to move to the east as you mentioned. Theres a different area in the target of some of that extreme flooding that weve seen, but its been crazy that weve had so many one in a thousandyear floods over the course of a month and were seeing all of this moisture and the warm air helping to feed into the slowmoving cold front and theres still a lot of rain being dumped down on the houston area, extending over toward louisiana, where we have the flood watches, and now over toward mississippi and alabama. Well be watching the south today for the potential of more historic flooding. Here at home were seeing some heat. The temperatures ramping up for the inland areas, headed for 95 degrees in concord. Napa will see a high of 90 and in the mid 80s for palo alto. 88 degrees in san jose. Were basically back to the weather that we saw yesterday, and will be happening again this afternoon. Well talk more about the changes ahead for the weekend. Mike has a look at where we can find some lower gas prices around the bay area. Were looking around the bay area, for some of the prices and in oakland, at royal along international boulevard, gas there is 4. 77 a gallon. Mill valley in the north bay, hq fuels on shoreline highway gas for 4. 69, and in san jose, the costco, the one on center road has gas 4. 78 a gallon. So some great options for you, almost a quarter below five bucks for all of them. Look at the roadways here and show you how things are shaping up. Green for the most part. We are watching the crash in oakland on highway 13 but here in san jose, this is north 87 at taylor, the offramp from north 87 has a lot of activity, and earlier crash involved a light pole that was taken down. So got to be careful there, how they handle that and they need a tow truck to pull that car from the area. There may be a roadside fire just off the freeway as well, but no major problems for silicon valley. Back to you. Looks good, thanks, mike. Call it a car collapse. Say that. Three times fast. Call it a car collab like no other. A concept car featuring of one of your favorite pokemon characters. Will it get the go . Yelp weighed into the battle over abortion rights in San Francisco. Well bring you the latest. Coming up short . Pay what you can. The new eatery paying it forward making sure that everyone can get a warm meal. Stick around. Weve got much more ahead for you on today in the bay. Here at city of refuge, we house up to 26 families. We reduce homelessness, address mental health, provide spaces for addiction to be broken, create spaces of healing and restoration. For the first time ever, prop 27 will provide permanent funding for organizations like ours. Saying yes to prop 27 means more people get the assistance that they nee they get someone to partner in such a way to see transformation come to them. Yes on prop 27, because theres no place like home. With xfinity internet, you get advanced security to see transformation come to them. 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Well check out where things might be a little slower as they develop as we approach 5 20, we should see some sensors change. Well show you that coming up. Good morning, happy wednesday. Well get some Economic Data here in about a half an hour, including durable goods numbers. Intel has made a deal with the Company Called brookfield to fund multibilliondollar chip factories in arizona, chipmaker nvidia in santa clara reports profits today. Insiders say several Government Agencies and congressional committees are interested in investigating twitter after twitters former head of security filed a whistleblowers report saying twitter does not take security seriously enough. The report says, among other things, the company was reckless as it allowed too many employees to access sensitive data. Senate judiciary chairman dick durbin warned if these claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for twitter users around the world. Twitter says the report is filled with inaccuracies and points out it fired its head of security, the man who made the report. If you couldnt sleep last night, and tried to go on facebook, you probably discovered you couldnt. Facebook was down for a while. A security leader there blamed what she called a configuration change. Yelp says it will add labels to socalled Pregnancy Crisis Centers on its app and website to avoid confusion. The centers that dont provide abortions but may provide counseling. Some women report theyve been searching out Abortion Services to realize theyre at the wrong place. The labels simply say the facility does not have medical staff on sight. Brie jackson talking about the president s plan to announce limited forgiveness of Student Loans today. Well talk more about that as we talk politics in a half an hour. Theres debate over whether forgiving the loops would reignite the economy and spark more inflation. People who dont have to pay 300 to 600 a month can spend it on other things. They suspended loans the last two years. For some economists in a Perfect World charging some fee from every american getting money away from you would be the perfect way to fight inflation and heres a little secret. Thats what Interest Rates are, taking your money. Taking a little bit more. As they rise, people are tightening the belt. The whole idea. Economists do, belts down to their narrowest point and make it hurt and thats what will fight inflation. Its hurting a lot of people to make it in the bay. Thank you, scott. True. 5 16 for you this morning. We want to talk about this for you, an unlikely car collab but were kind of here for this one, at least some people are. I dont know about me but anyway. The mini is teaming one pokemon on a pikachuthemed electric concept car unveiled at a gaming conference in germany and the car more than just arrived for you. You can actually hook up your game console and project your game play onto any surface. And pokemon mode pikachu takes over the cars main display as digital lightning bolts shoot across the dashboard. Thats not distracting at all when youre driving. Hopefully when the car is just in park. So far this is just a concept, and theres no guarantee that mini will actually mass produce this car, but as some people would say, game on. I guess you can park and play would be a little safer. Yes. Tiktok emphasizing local content. The idea is to not only help users find more relevant videos and discover nearby places and events. Snap chat already offers a similar feature providing a map of nearby shared content. Instagram launched a tool allowing users to find new places based on other peoples content. A new cafe in virginia making waves for not the items on the menu but how they are priced. If you dont have the money, in this case its going to be okay for you. Welcome to ursulas cafe in roanoke, and the eatery doesnt operate like most cafes because its got a donate what you can policy extending to clothing, books and records also offered there. A husband and wife founded this place and they actually said the idea came during the height of the pandemic and volunteers helping get those people and things they really need. Were so fortunate, my husband and i, and the people that we work with that we have extra, theres just no reason we shouldnt be able to share that with all the members of our community. That creates equal dignity for everybody who comes to our space. The cafe only opened within the past two weeks. The staff says its already getting an overwhelming, positive response from the community. I can imagine, a lot of people want to help if they can. Exactly. If you have people able to give more, maybe that fills the gaps for those who give less. Giving us a little bit more nice weather . Yeah, but it just kari, give us what you can. Ill give you a little bit. A little bit here, a little bit there. Were starting out with fog once again. We have our weather pattern on repeat where fog is developing near the coast and some of those clouds stretch inland and we see it clearing out, but one thing that has changed a little bit, we are seeing a bit more of a hazy sky during the middle of the afternoon. As we look at our near surface smoke and some of the hazy skies well see later today as we take a live look in oakland, right now starting out at 60 degrees, and well see a mix of sun and clouds throughout the morning, even into the afternoon, as we head for some low 70s there. In the south bay, its going to heat right back up to where we were yesterday, 88 degrees in san jose. 91 in morgan hill and 92 in gilroy. For the east bay, its reaching 93 in walnut creek, while hayward stays in the upper 70s today, and also upper 70s for san mateo, daly city reaching 66. In San Francisco, were in the mid60s for the outer sunset, the low 70s for downtown, and north bay highs reach 92 in sonoma and 100 in clearlake today. Were not seeing a change in our weather pattern, which is great news. This is about whats normal for this time in august, where we see fog developing near the coast, but there may be less of that fog going into the middle to end of next week, which will lead us on to a warming trend. So lets get a look at our san jose tenday forecast. We do have a really nice weekend ahead. Those temperatures come down and for much of the bay area, well see highs in the upper 70s and low 80s, but this is heating up next week when we start to see temperatures creeping back up just a little bit more by the middle of next week. So once again, we are enjoying a nice steady weather pattern here, really no major changes as we check out San Francisco, upper 60s and low