it is exceedingly rare in the united states to hear about these kinds of stories. >> right now at 4:30, a story you will only see on nbc bay area. a bizarre ritual leads to the death of an 11-year-old. her mother is behind bars and the troubling video posted days before her arrest. plus a bitter battle over roe v. wade, symbolic vote democrats are planning on capitol hill today as more states take heated issue into their own hands. this is "today in the bay." happy wednesday morning. i'm kris sanchez. good to be with you.

>> and i'm marcus washington. a reminder if you're headed out, catch us live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online. >> put us in your pocket. let's start off with a look at the forecast, still kind of wild, kari. >> yeah, we had some crazy weather yesterday, but now things are going to start to quiet down. it is very chilly as you're heading out the door and we have a cool start to our day. a live look outside in san francisco with a clear start and then we'll see those temperatures starting to warm up in the forecast. but at least we don't have any rain chances for today as our high temperatures head for 66 in dublin, also 66 in oakland, santa rosa we're going to see a high of 71 but starting out near freezing this morning, and we're going to see some more changes ahead, so we're going to talk more about that in a few minutes. mike is keeping an eye on the south bay. >> is that right. milpitas, we'll show you on the map the connector, those

familiar know south 880 to westbound 237 sort of an elevated fly-over basically i call it, somewhere along that route, happened 45 minutes ago. finally have crews arriving there. no major injuries and no major slowing but we'll track that as the volume starts to build through the east bay. crash 280 at 11th street maybe only affecting the off-ramp if anything at all. a build out of the altamont pass area and pittsburg a disabled vehicle getting details on highway 4, come up, back to you. now to a live look at capitol hill this morning, this is where today there will be a showdown in the senate over abortion. democrats trying to pass a federal law guaranteeing the right to an abortion. the bill does not have enough votes to pass into law yet but it is a response to the leaked supreme court opinion which appears to show that the court is about to strike down roe versus wade which has kept abortion legal for nearly 50 years.

"today in the bay's" chris poll underis in washington. >> reporter: congressional democrats with a warning. >> we are going to remember everyone who votes against the right to an abortion and this november, we'll use our voices and our votes. we're not going to let anyone forget. >> reporter: the bill would prohibit states from placing restrictions on access to abortion, a response to that leaked supreme court opinion indicating the high court is likely to strike down roe versus wade, but today's vote will be largely symbolic. democrats don't have the 60 votes needed to break a republican filibuster. >> if the maga republicans get their way, young girls will grow up in a world where if they become pregnant because of rape, they will have no choice but to carry their rapist's child. can you imagine? >> i think the widespread sentiment of my conference is this issue will be dealt with at the state level.

>> reporter: in some places, it already is. >> we're doing everything we can to stand up on behalf the reproductive rights of all of our citizens. >> reporter: connecticut the latest state to pass an abortion-related law protecting providers from being sued or criminally charged by another state. legislatures in half the country passed laws to restrict access to abortion or expand it with an eye on the supreme court in its final ruling likely to come late next month. chris pollone, nbc news, washington. 4:34. this is a story you're only going to see on nbc bay area. this morning we have exclusive details of the death of a 3-year-old girl, police say she was the victim of child abuse but specifically she was the victim of an exorcism-like ritual. >> church members which included the little girl's own mother tried to ward off "evil spirits." chilling video posted online appears to show the mother talking about the child days after her death. "today in the bay's" ian cull has the story. >> reporter: multiple sources

confirm the woman speaking in this video posted to youtube is the mother of a 3-year-old girl who died inside of a back room san jose church. investigators say it happened from an exorcism-like ritual done by the girl's family back in september. the video is weeks later. >> i could be negative about the things i saw, i wish her back and this and that but there is no point of me doing that because i cannot change what is, you know? it is what it is. >> reporter: the victim's mother, claudia hernandez, was arrested in january on felony child abuse charges just a few days after the video was posted. according to court documents we obtained, hernandez fwraut her to the church last september believing she was possessed by a demon because she'd sometimes wake up at night screaming or crying. according to the family statement to police, three family members held the girl down for seven hours. investigators say no one called 911 until at least two hours after the child died. the medical examiner's office

concluded the cause of death was asphyxia due to suffocation. the little girl's death just recently ruled a homicide. >> when she passed away, with me. of course i'm the mom. why wouldn't she be with me? a lot of people turned on me after my daughter passed away, a lot of people thought a lot of things because after my daughter passed away, because of how the situation looked but like i said, if you weren't there, you don't know what happened. >> reporter: the church where she died is the same one that was searched two weeks ago after 3-month-old baby brandon was kidnapped from home. the suspect in that case is a church member. >> it is exceedingly rare in the united states to hear about these kinds of stories. >> reporter: christopher mormon is the chair of philosophy and religious studies at cal state east bay. he says stories like the

exorcism rituals go wrong from time to time typically in fringe churches. >> all of the religions practice exorcisms and the more established a tradition is the more likelier this to have training that teaches the priest to recognize symptoms of psychological and emotional distress that would avoid this exact kind of situation that happened. >> reporter: the girl's mother, claudia hernandez, is being held in jail without bail. she denied our request for an interview. so far no one else in the church has been arrested. ian cull, "today in the bay." >> 4:37 now. santa clara county is warning covid cases are higher than even last year's delta surge. data from the county website shows the positivity rate has more than doubled over the last month, going from 2.4% in april to 5.2% yesterday. public health officer dr. sara cody says even with the hospitalization study the cofuss should be on preventing new

infections. >> if you're sick, you're going to miss work, you're going to miss school. you might expose somebody else who is not going to do well with covid and if you get sick with covid you're at risk of long covid which you really don't want to get. >> dr. cody said even without mandates, people should lower their risk doing things like wearing masks when in odd situations, gathering outdoors, also getting vaccinated and getting boosted when you can. 4:38 this morning. a legendary gadget is about to be gone forever. next here on "today in the bay," the apple product being discontinued. >> oh my goodness. i don't know where mine is. plus giving the gift of a subscription. the new way youtube is allowing some creators to cash in. stay with us. you're watching "today in the bay."

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happy wednesday to you. it is 4:41 as you're heading out in antioch this morning. kind of chilly with temperatures in the mid-40s, and we are going to stay clear with sunshine throughout today, and we're keeping those below normal temperatures for a while. we are going to heat up heading into the weekend. we'll look at our seven-day forecast, that's coming up in a few minutes. and we're looking on the peninsula, i had some flashing lights clearing a few minutes ago from the northbound direction, that's the tail lights going up past university. no problems. there's more flashing lights there clearing from the overnight roadwork. may find some more through san mateo county doing some work up there. also working hard, let's check in with silvana.

>> thank you, mike. good morning. i'm silvana henao from cnbc. wall street is set to open higher ahead of a key report on inflation. the dow falling for a fourth straight session yesterday after giving up a gain of more than 500 points. meanwhile the s&p 500 and nasdaq closing higher with mega cap tech names like apple and microsoft leading the gains. in focus today the april consumer price index, after a year of soaring prices for gas, food and other necessities, inflation may have eased slightly last month from a 40-year high. it would be the first slowdown after seven straight months of price increases and could signal consumer inflation may finally be peaking. the ipod helped revolutionize the music industry but it will soon be a thing of the past. apple is discontinuing the last model, the ipod touch. it will only be available while supplies last. the ipod was consumer's first

introduction to apple but it fell out of favor as the iphone and other devices allowed people to listen to music on their phones. the original ipod came out in 2001, followed by the mini in 2004, nanoin 2006 and touch in 20 2007. youtube is giving fans and creators the ability to give subscriptions for paid channels starting today. gift memberships have been a popular feature on rival twitch for a while. fans normally pay $4.99 a month for memberships, which let them access user badges and other exclusive content from their favorite creators. guys, back to you. >> we're going to bury our ipods in the backyard with the hamster and goldfish. >> i still have my original one. >> do you listen to it, use it? >> i have it in my kitchen, i

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blanket, and yes, here's one of those things that pops up, with temperatures this cold, my low pressure tire light was on so yeah, you have to check out that as we deal with temperatures in some spots in the mid-30s. maybe allow some extra time to get to work this morning. take a look at our afternoon and how it's going to warm up quite a bit in some spots with fairfield reaching 73 degrees. martinez at a comfortable 68 degrees and also 68 in napa and novato and mountain view headed for 66 degrees, and then tomorrow, we continue to see these temperatures just coming up a degree or two in some spots, still nice and sunny, and then on friday, that's when those temperatures start to crank up and we'll see los gatos 78 degrees. 81 in concord and we could be as warm as 82 in san martin. here's what's going on. we do still have a cold front that's going to be very close to us, going into the day tomorrow

and then for the weekend, the rain stays well farther to the north as we go toward the next week or so, so that allows for that large area of high pressure over the desert southwest to start to edge in some heat our way at least temporarily going toward friday into sunday and this is morgan hill seven-day forecast so there will be a big spike in temperatures after having a couple of days of some 60s, we go up to 80 on friday. 86 degrees on saturday, and sunday reaching 81 degrees. your seven-day forecast has lots of changes ahead. it's been nice not to have to run the air conditioning for the inland areas. you can still keep the windows open today and tomorrow and then on friday it's going to really start to warm up with our temperatures peaking on saturday but that spike in temperatures doesn't last long because we're still going to have some 70s in the forecast for the beginning of next week. so we'll continue to watch. than

>> we're watching the san mateo bridge. yesterday the sign was dark on the right but we have it back lit up again talking about high winds, breezes maybe potential for some larger, stronger breezes. look how light the traffic is, my goodness. see that box truck that just drove by if that's empty and if there is a higher wind mileage cranking up in the area that could push it from side to side. not a major problem. toward oakland a smooth drive but well populated here as well, picking up the volume a tad bit the usually suspects through contra costa and alameda county. they're all at the limit, starting to see some blips kicking in. the been been toll plaza, a steady flow of traffic across the span in toward san francisco. no problems here or north. the north bay moves smoothly but we'll watch as highway 37 starts to see more traffic out of vallejo headed to novato. over to you. banning misinformation about climate change.

pinterest will take down any content that denies climate change and its impacts. so how is the san francisco company going to do that? our business and tech reporter scott budman gives us an inside look. >> reporter: with social media synonymous with misinformation these days, one bay area social network is attacking it, specifically climate change misinformation, locating it, removing it, and then replacing it with facts. that social network is pinterest. the san francisco company better known for sharing ideas about clothing, food and furniture is also getting into sustainability. >> we've seen that people are coming to pinterest, pinners are coming to pinterest to search for ideas and incorporate sustainability into their lifestyle. >> reporter: launching a preemptive strike against climate change misinformation becoming the first social network to prohibit users from sharing inaccurate data about the climate. >> we engage with scientists,

members of academia and coalitions and heard repeatedly that climate misinformation is harmful, it's causing harm and impeding efforts to build a healthy planet. >> reporter: sarah brahma is the head of policy at the company. she knows principle test is not as likely a target for scammers as facebook but they've already fought back against vaccine and election misinformation and other conspiracy theories. >> we didn't want to wait until harmful content reached some threshold before we took action. >> reporter: now the site will, using a combination of automation and human review find misinformation, remove it, and replace it with accurate articles about climate change. yes, there will be some controversy, but pinterest says it's worth it to get things right. >> we know pinners are coming to pinterest to find these ideas, we want to make sure it's trusted. >> reporter: scott budman, "today in the bay." new developments this morning in the fight against alzheimer's. imagine a nasal spray possibly

being the answer to stopping the disease. a treatment is now in the clinical trials in boston, it's been in the works now for almost two decades to try to simplify it, it's essentially a drug made up of proteins derived from bacteria, ultimately would activate white blood cells from building plaque on the brain. the gold is to have fda approval in approximately five years. >> wow, that would be remarkable for so many families. next on "today in the bay," the countdown of a first of its kind vacation at a hotel outside the earth's atmosphere. and happening now, uc campus police are warning people about phone scams, with scammers posing as immigration or police officers. they're reportedly threatening deportation or arrest unless a large sum of money is paid. the bottom line uc berkeley police say authorities would never call with those threats

and never give out your credit card, bank account or social security information over the phone. 4:52. we'll be right back. travel

with americans hitting the roads and skies once again but some trips could soon be headed straight up no passport needed, just a spaceship. >> cnbc's morgan brennan shows us the company behind pioneer station, a first of its kind operation geared towards vacationing near stars. >> reporter: the jetsons, a futuristic cartoon first captured the imaginations of americans more than 60 years ago, about life in space. now that fant say may be closer

to reality than you think. startup assembly pioneer station is expected to begin circling earth as soon as 2025, with its large e sister station voyager poised to open a few years later. unlike the international space station, these will be commercial habitats, what the company calls business parks star centered around offices and space tourism. >> we are looking at a number of different industries, large-scale manufacturing, tourism, of course, and also just b2b services such as data processing and communications. >> reporter: giant spinning wheels in the sky for people to work and play in space w gravity, sitting in a restaurant, enjoying the view, even playing basketball. >> we're building artificial gravity space stations which we believe are imperative to having people live for long periods of time in a healthy way on orbit. >> reporter: small by earthly real estate standards, pioneer will hold 28 people at a time,

and have 14,000 cubic feet of space, but as orbitable assembly gets ready to enlist more investors and signing up tenants it's betting this is just the beginning. >> in the next few years, space and people living and working in space is going to become just as commonplace as someone going down and working in the starbucks. >> that's a heck of a carpool. >> i was thinking it seems cool in theory, but then when you think about it, hmm. >> you don't know who your neighbors are going to be when you're up there. >> what if there's an outbreak? >> i'm going to stay here. canceled layoffs, coming up on "today in the bay," good news for hundreds of teachers, their district no longer pletletting go. and why some teachers may still be sweating this one out.

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and it is wednesday morning, we want to say good morning to you. thanks for allowing us to be a part of your morning. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm kris sanchez. a reminder you can watch us on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online, too. wild weather across the bay area. in the north bay thunderstorms brought rain, hail, lightning strikes and one sparked this fire here. this video is fromunty. you can see right there the fire, the flames going up that tree, even on the ground there was some hail there just under the flames. so fortunately that fire did not spread, good news, too. >> that is the good news but we are tracking more similar weather today, kari? >> all of that has moved out and two days we had hailstorms around santa rosa. now things are nice and quiet, and it's just really chilly as you're starting out and our temperatures