lloyd lacuesta is live there with our report. >> reporter: frank, just in time for the peak summer tourist season people coming to the beach tonight were great greeted but these signs. >> after i am palingsing over a wave i see the tip of a fin break the surface and i see that triangular zigzag just a motion you see it on discovery channel. and like i knew, i looked over and i just saw like a torpedo, like a grey torpedo sill wet in the water. >> reporter: johnson says it happened shortly after 10:00 this morning it00 yards -- 200 yards offshore near a killbed. >> it came right next to me and i knew what it was. >> reporter: how close to you? 2-3 feet. >> reporter: the same area where a fisherman report seeing two great white sharks yesterday. >> i think it was a great white because of what i have been hearing lately about them being out here.

it was big but not huge, you know. big enough to scare me, that's for sure. >> reporter: despite the signs, people were still going in the water. >> were you thinking about it when you were out there? >> a little bit. i was looking around quite a bit, yeah. >> if you go out or not, this is where they live. they are out there. >> but one woman who was sitting on the shore watching her children in the surf says she never saw the shark warning signs. >> wow. >> well, i guess i will keep my children a little closer to the shore then. that's whale do. thank you very much for telling me. >> reporter: they took this picture off the coast of big sur and experts say it was a basicking shark. but great white sharks are known to cruise over the coast. >> i liken it to mountain lions and mountain bikers. they are out there, people see them. occasionally negative interactions but typically they give each other a lot of room. >> reporter: surfer paul johnson has been riding the waves for 15 years and this was

the first. close encounter? >> a little too close for me. >> in recent history while there have been sightings no one has actually been attacked by sharks in this area. lloyd lacuesta, live in ktvu, channel 2 news. >> researchers say marin county has seen more shark attacks than any other bay area beach with 11 over the last years. there have been 9 in san mateo also. sonoma county have seen eight shark attacks. six in santa cruz including one fatal. and four shark attacks at san francisco's ocean beach also with one fatality. >> the sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man today during a raid on what authorities describe as a pot farm. it happened at 10:30 this morning at a remote area off mines road near the santa clara alameda county line. authorities are not providing many details tonight. but we can tell you the raid

included santa clara and alameda personnel. when the deputies approached the pot farm they encountered as someone they believed was armed and then fired at him. the santa clara district attorney is investigating. >> police in the city of santa clair are are warning residents to lock their windows and doors after a series of early morning burglaries. six burglaries in the past eight days in the southern part of the city. in each case they enter a home thru an unlocked window or door. the burglars then stoled electronics, including laptop computers and gaming systems. houses and apartments have both been targeted with the burglars taking easy to carry items. in oakland police released surveillance video today of two people wanted in connection with with the shooting death of a 45-year-old visitor from virginia. kang was killed during an apparent robbery sunday night on webster street near lake merit. the surveillance footage was recorded as minutes before that

shooting by cameras at a nearby office building. police say the two people in the video are a man and a woman, both african american in their late teens or early 20s. he was in town for a job interview at google. >> ac transit passengers say enough is enough. they are caught in the middle of a labor dispute between the union bus drivers and management. for the third consecutive day more than 1800 transit bus drivers called in sick that left them in the cold. ken wayne is live with our report. >> reporter: frank, after three days of reduced bus service at ac transit there is a lot of finger pointing going on. caught in the middle of it all are the more than 230,000 bus riders. here in berkeley passengers complained of buses running lay or not showing up at all. they are late getting to work or one cool. and at least one case it caused a rider to miss a meal at a senior's center. >> the bus that was showed to show up at 11:45 because they

serve lunch at noon, it never showed. >> reporter: so you missed your meal? >> oh, yeah, i went hungry today. >> reporter: on busy avenue frustrated drivers said buses were running anywhere from a few minutes to more than an hour late if they showed up. >> i waited at least 45 minutes for a bus. so then i just started walking because i had to be at school at a certain time. >> reporter: there are 1700ac transit union employees. 209 transit workers called in sick monday. 230 tuesday. and about 250 again today. most of them are bus drivers. union workers are angry over a new contract imposed by a judge last friday which led to work rule changes. union leaders say the changes jeopardize public safety. >> i have a bus operator with diabetes. who can't see at night. but he is now forced to work nights. >> reporter: one driver says she is trying to learn her new route on the fly. >> going down the street reading a route, even though it is for the sake of our

passengers, that's a safety issue. and i choose not to do that when i'm driving. >> reporter: ac transit says union members aren't calling in sick bus of safety concerns but the contract. >> this is a ruling sick-out because different people are phoning in sick on different days. yet the number remains around 200 or above. they are not being honest with the public. >> reporter: either way, it's the passengers left stranded on bus stops across alameda county who are paying the price. >> oh, i'm thinking the drivers are not using logic. why punish us? >> reporter: no new negotiations are scheduled. the union asked an alameda county judge for a restraining order to block the new contract but no decision is expected until july 30th. live in berkeley, ken wayne, ktvu, channel 2 news. one day after breaking a republican filly buster, the u.s. senate today passed a bill extending unemployment benefits to an estimated $-- 2.5 million

out of work americans. they will extend benefits to those unemployed for more than six months whose benefits have expired. it is expected to affect 400,000 unemployed californians. the measure now heads to the house which is expected to approve it tomorrow. >> governor schwarzenegger named his nominee today for california supreme court chief justice. and it is an historic choice. the governor nominated a philippine owe 50-year-old state appellate judge tani cantill-sakauye. she would succeed chief justice ronald george stepping down in january. her colleagues reacted with excitement to the news. >> and it was inspiring, frankly. because she is such a remarkable injureist, such a remarkable person. and she has been such a joy to work with. cantil must be confirmed by the state commission on judicial appointments and then

her nomination go before voters on the november ballot. a prominent california church group have proposed holding individual interviews about faith with the two state's candidates for governor. an opportunity for jerry brown and meg whitman to tell their personal stories. so why did it take whitman months to say no? our political editor randy shandobil has a report you will see only on 2. >> reporter: it is called the faith forum here at the christian center. >> we are going to build the stage right here. >> reporter: lawrence simon with the monastery non-profit group first invited democrat jerry brown and republican meg whitman to participate in the july 31st event more than two months ago. >> and ms. whitman the california foundation would like to invite you. >> reporter: not a debate, the candidates would never be 0 on the stage at the same time but back-to-back half an hour appearances answering questions about faith in front of latino and african american church

groups from the baptist convention. >> like describe a situation in your life where your faith helps to you overcome a challenge. >> we are in agreement that this is a great opportunity for faith communities to come together. >> reporter: uni vision plans to broadcast the event. and brown campaign immediately accepted. >> it is a great to present their cases to a large voting audience. >> reporter: meg whitman could not attend, a scheduling conflicts. we have looked at a back and forth between the whitman campaign and faith forum organizers and it appears if there is truly a scheduling conflict, well, it came up very recently. >> reporter: back in may the whitman campaign said we are not scheduling yet for the month of july. we will be back in touch with you. no answer until just over a week ago when whitman said no.

>> no, there wasn't always a scheduling conflict. >> so the issue was something else, you believe? >> i just think maybe it is just not a priority or there was no appetite to come and have a conversation with this community. >> reporter: ironically whitman is reaching out to latino by lots of ad time on spanish language stations. but political science professor henry brady says ads are scripted, answering questions even from church groups is not. >> let's face it, campaigns use scheduling conflict as a way to excuse something that they don't want to do. >> reporter: today and yesterday we asked whitman's spokeswoman to explain what the scheduling conflict is. despite repeated phone conversations and e-mails, we never got an answer. political editor randy shandobil, ktvu, channel 2 news. the faith forum's organizers say the forum will go on even though whitman won't be there. candidate for lieutenant

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music. fog and low clouds not as far in land as they were last night. tomorrow will be a warmer day. take a look at daytime highs today. i will have you know that san francisco that is the coldest day-time high ever recorded in the city of san francisco. records go back to 1875. just 56 degrees. tomorrow temperatures come up. things are changing around. we've had high pressure typically in the summer months. but not this last month. we have had low pressure that has kept temperatures on the cool side. very cool in the bay area. lots of fog. you've seen it around your neighborhoods. you have seen it in the early morning hours. this low moves off. the fog is there in the morning, but it burns off more rapidly. the extended forecast calls for fog at the coast but warmer daytime highs in land. that's what we are looking for tomorrow. with the fog in the forecast for most bay area counties, the

burn-off is quicker. day-time highs tomorrow into the upper 70s and upper 80s in land. i will be back in a few minutes and have the five day forecast and the forecast for the area where you live. see you back here in a little bit. san francisco's transbay terminal has a date with a wrecking ball early next month. the aging transit center is being demolish today make way for a modern facility. but that will take years. so what can thousands of commuters expect in the meantime. mike mibach is live in san francisco with the story. >> reporter: well, heather, here it is, the temporary transbay terminal. how temporary? how about seven years. the biggest issue for commuters most likely will come during winter. the transbay terminal and san francisco, it sounds old, looks old and is old. >> well, i mean it's getting dirt yes and grungy. so i won't miss that but it is

historical. >> reporter: for 71 years it has called this home and in 16 days this building will go silent for good. >> i am handing out the demolition activities information. >> reporter: tonight an ambassador program was launched with folks in orange t-shirts handing out informational pamphlets to thousands of commuters. the goal here to alert folks about the part-time transit terminal located a block and a half away at main and howard. >> we hope that people will enjoy using the temporary terminal for seven years. >> reporter: courtney and others with the transbay project hosted a meeting tonight for residents. while there are some canopies overhead for the thousands that will use that temporary terminal the biggest adjustment will be not having a roof overhead. >> it is different than the current facility. it is an open air facility. some of the buses will be operating inside the facility and others on the perimeter. >> it's frustrating because the winter it is raining. >> well, i have a sciatic nerve

problem. >> reporter: that has cooks thinking about skipping the walk to the temporary terminal and heading towards the bart station situated closer to her work. >> taking ac transit gets me closer to my home, whereas it takes a little more time if i took bart. but at this time the way i'm feeling, i may have to take bart. >> reporter: the current terminal is due to close its doors friday night, august 6th with demolition beginning august 11th. that will last eight months. now, the new $4 billion five storey transit center is slated to be home to buses, high-speed rail, cal train, response and restaurants. it is scheduled to open in the year 2017. reporting live here in san francisco, mike mibach, ktvu, channel 2 news. bart's board of directors is set to take a final vote tomorrow on a plan to use part of a budget surplus to temporarily rollback fares. the plan passed an initial vote last month but many riders questioned since then and

surveys and public meetings have soundly rejected the idea. instead, many riders say they would like to put the $4.5 million surplus into a rainy day fund or use it to better clean trains or extend service. >> santa clara based supply materials announced today it will cut as many as 500 jobs as part of a plan to restructure its solar panel business. the company said the cuts are part of a $425 million plan to make its energy and environmental division profitable by next year. a spokesman said the cuts are expected in november and would come from the company's global workforce. it's not clear how many bay area employees will lose their jobs. applied materials has about 13,000 employees worldwide. federal reserve chairman ben bernanki described the economy as unusually uncertain. wall street didn't like it. the dow lost 109 points. the sell-off that followed that. the nasdaq dropped 35. congress voted to close the alameda naval air station back

in 1993. and the navy shipped out in '97. now more than a decade layer, there is still no plan to develop the choice piece of real estate. after the latest proposal was rejected earlier today. ktvu's janna katsuyama is live now in alameda with the story. >> reporter: heather, you might say for all of these old buildings, it's just back to square one. the city council meeting lasted until 2:00 this morning. and in the end, the council voted by a vote of 4-0 against moving ahead with the sun cal developer. for 13 years the alameda naval air base has remained largely undeveloped with many buildings vacant and decaying. and it appears that will remain the case for a while longer. last night the city council voted against a pre pose al by sunday cal of irvine, california, to develop the 800- acre parcel. the plan included more than 3,000 housing units, public parks, commercial retail space and two schools.

>> the project was actually quite large. and i think larger than the island could bear. >> reporter: city council member frank said there were also concerns about the company's financial stability. >> sun cal and de shaw, who were in negotiations with us have a project in albuquerque that went bankrupt. and i didn't see any assurance that we wouldn't suffer the same thing here. >> reporter: a company spokesman told us that sun cal had already invested nearly $15 million in the alameda point project. >> we are naturally disappointed as a result of last night's city council meeting. but we remain very much interested in the future of alameda point. >> reporter: the developers aren't the only ones disappointed. a handful of businesses leased some of the old airplane hangars. lady and sports fitness club has been a tenant for eight years. and brad shook says the city is taking too long to move ahead. >> we have seen now two developers and still there is

nothing happening. so it is a little frustrating. >> reporter: still some 85 percent of alameda residents voted against the development in a february election. and they are glad sun val's plan was turned down. >> i think it is a go ahead decision. too many people into the area and traffic would be a hassle. >> reporter: it does lie on prime property and the bay is a super-fun site. >> it is going to be cleaned up. radium and hydro carbons. the navy has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade pumping contaminants out of the ground here. they are about three quarters of the way done. >> reporter: sun cal has said that it is considering a lawsuit against the city of alameda. and for now it appears that the city council is unsure about what the next step is for alameda point. reporting live in alameda, janna katsuyama, ktvu, channel 2 news. [ music ] somewhere out there in the point rays national sea shore

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him to ensure that he didn't hit the sidewalk? police say they began investigating the case before the video appeared. they say the officer has been assigned to desk duty now pending the outcome of the investigation. we have posted that video at ktvu.com so you can get another look at it. just go to the ktvu right now section. the city of oakland has agreed to a $6.5 million total settlement for more than 100 people who claim police searched their homes illegally. >> many of these people were ordinary every day people who happened to live in neighborhoods where drug activity was taking place, but they themselves were not involved in drug activities. >> the city council voted last night to approve the settlement, but it is still subject to court approval. lawyers filed a class action lawsuit back in 2008 alleging that police are obtained search warrants through false information. the bulk of the pay off will be covered by the city's insurance

policy. there are reports tonight that firefighters have filed a federal lawsuit over travel and overtime payments. according to pal at online, a firefighters union spokesperson said firefighters should be paid for time spent travelling to and from their home stations to pick up gear. a spokesman for the fire district said the lawsuit came as a surprise because it came in the midst of discussions over that issue. the berkeley city council has voted to extend the hours of a local pool. the move is to compensate for the loss of two other pools. the west campus pool on university avenue will now be open friday evenings for lap swimming and weekends for general swimming. the pool previously closed at 2 p.m. on fridays and was open on weekends but only for rentals. at the council meeting last night, berkeley's city manager pledged to get the $13,000 needed to extend the pool's hours by dipping into the city's capitol project funds. there is word tonight that the sonoma marin area transit

board or smart has looked at the proposed rail line. smart wants to build and operate a 70-mile long commuter trail from cloverdale to larkspur with a bike and pedestrian path. they say they should delay building the paths because of budget issues. but the board disagreed. the board, though, did agree to take a look at its retirement package which the grand jury said might be too generous. a birth control battle that has been waged for years. coming up why a controversy over non-native deer is heating up

[ music ] >> the fog is going to make a push for some in land

neighborhoods tonight. it will get out there but not as extensive as last night. tomorrow is going to be a warmer day. temperatures in the morning in the 50s. the fog and low clouds they burn off rapidly for your thursday. the complete bay area forecast for the area where you live and we will look at the five day forecast. see you back here. >> an old conflict may be re- emerging in the serene hills of point rays. years ago they battled over what to do about the exploding population of non-native deer. well, money solved that problem. but now that money has run out. ktvu's john sasaki has tonight's special report. >> reporter: one of the reasons people visit point ray's national sea shore is close encounters with wildlife. these native black tailed deer seem un disturbed by our camera. >> the public has even come in to our facility saying we are seeing black tailed deer and haven't seen them in a few years. this is a good thing. >> reporter: the evidence is

anecdotal but the black tail deer may be coming back after a major effort to control the population of competing non- native deer species. >> the impacts were too much to the native ecosystem. so what we would like to do is try to bring that back into balance. >> reporter: a park service campaign is shooting some of the non-native fallow and using animal birth control to stop the reproduction had sparked controversy but also yielded results. the non-native deer went from a population of about 1100 four years ago to about 100 today. >> it was just horrific with the animals being shot from planes and helicopters. it was a slaughter. >> reporter: dr. elliot cats head of indefensive animals said it was necessary to killarney animals. >> i know there is no evidence that there is too many animals there. the deer are healthy. the elk are healthy. there is enough food for everybody. >> reporter: but the park service has always argued that this is about much more than

the black tailed dear and the elk because of how the non- native deer travel in huge herds. >> streamside erosion when you have 200 deer running through a creek as opposed to five or six. and those have impacts on other federally threatened species like the coho salmon or the california red legged frog. >> reporter: in defense of animals supported the use of birth control. they implanted them with a drug with positive results. >> the last two seasons we've not seen any off and ons from the non-native species. >> reporter: but now the park service which stopped shooting deer two years ago has no more money for birth control and it has likely ran out. >> i raised them from orphans from a bottle. >> reporter: rancher ann any just sold a dozen head of cattle to fellow rancher ralph. each of them has spent decades tending the land inside the park and each of them appreciates the non-native

deer. >> i think they are great looking animals. and they are different. and i've never seen a problem with them. >> reporter: but some of their opinions are rather unwelcome in liberal marin county. they believe ranchers should be allowed to thin the deer herds themselves. >> i think they should have let the people shoot what they think should clean it out a little bit instead of hiring somebody to come and pay big money to hire somebody to come in and shoot them. >> reporter: the idea of shooting the deer are why the deer are in the park in the first place. in the 1940s they bought the deer from the san francisco zoo and let them go in marin to be hunted. when the population exploded even environmentalists supported removing the animals. in a statement the sierra club said allowing the invasive deer to expand does not account for the native species which would be killed. this whole proposal was about saving a native species.

>> there is absolutely no reason to, except for this mind set that says non-native species shouldn't be here, whatever the reason. >> reporter: would the non- native deer once again overrun this area? would the native deer return to their place of prominence in the ecosystem? since no one is managing this park officials says something is bound to happen. i'm john sasaki, ktvu, channel 2 news. in the gulf of mexico bp said today that stormy weather has forced it to suspend work on a relief well designed to permanently seal that leaking oil well. the company says a cluster of thunderstorms just east of the bahamas has a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression. should that system develop, it could cause high winds and waves over the oil spill site. the first of two relief wells was expected to be completed by this weekend enabling engineers to pump concrete and mud into the blown well to permanently seal it. it is not clear how long this delay will last. the obama administration

apologized today to a department of aquaculture employee who was forced this week to resign. shirley sharon quit this monday after a conservative blogger distributed a selectively edited video of a speech she made that made it appear that she was a racist. well, after seeing the edited video, agriculture secretary tom vilsac demanded her resignation. but the un-edited said that she was speaking about her struggle 24 years ago to overcome her own prejudices. she watched as the white house apologized on live television and criticized the press for airing the biased video. >> how did we not ask the right questions? how did you not ask the right questions? >> i didn't take the time. i should have. and as a result a good woman has gone through a very difficult period. >> the agriculture department has offered her a new job but she says she will wait a few

days before deciding whether to accept it. >> thousands of mourners held a musical funeral service for a hometown gospel legend. [ music ] >> the life of grammy winning singer and walter lee hawkins was celebrated in a four-hour service filled with music and memories. the 61-year-old hawkins died on july 11th after a long battle with cancer. an oakland native hawkin's first hit was "oh, happy day." following the funeral service he was taken for a private burial. we have posted more video clips from today's service on our website ktvu, channel 2 news. just look for the walter hawkins tab. it was an 8,000-mile voyage. and coming up, where the plasticky is now. >> more than 700 inmates sit on california's death row. exclusive new information tonight on where californians stand on the death penalty. >> but 3q

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cops write tickets to save lives. ( seat belt clicks ) click it or ticket. . the port of san francisco announced today it is canceling the lease of a waterfront nightclub after a deadly shooting earlier this month. yellies is located on pier 50 in the mission bay district in at&t park. 10 days ago lee farl. y was shot in the parking lot outside the club. the second fatal shooting at that club in two years. police have made no arrests in the shooting. the port said it has terminated the club's lease as of august 18th, citing concerns about public safety. an exclusive new ktvu field poll suggests the majority of california voters favor capital punishment. 70% of voters responding to the poll said they favor the death

penalty as a punishment for severe violent crimes. when given a choice of punishments for first degree murder convictions, 42% favor life in prison without parole. 41% favoured the death penalty. 14% said it would depend on the circumstances. executions in california have been on hold since 2006 because of legal challenges to the lethal injection procedure. in news of the world tonight, south korea secretary of state hillary clinton and defense secretary robert gates toured the de militarized zone. clinton called for new sanctions against north korea in the ongoing effort to convince the communist country to give up its nuclear weapons program. gates called the visit a sign of the u.s. commitment to south korea's security. in china officials say more than 1,000 people are dead or missing following severe flooding triggered by weeks of record rain. the floodwaters have destroyed

645,000 homes. and forecasters say the worst may still be ahead during this typhoon season. in being fact another tropical storm is expected to hit southern china this weekend. and on australia's gold coast the crew of the plasticky relaxed today after a four month 8,000-mile voyage from the bay area. it is made in part from 12,000 plastic bottles. it is part of a project to draw attention to the amount of plastic waist in oceans around the world. the crew plans to push on to sydney this weekend. two sailors have survived a close encounter with a whale that leaped out of the ocean and crashed into their boat. well, the sailors say that the 40-ton whale kept surfacing, take a look at this, and suddenly crashed into their yacht just outside of capetown bay, south africa. the whale landed on the boat's desk breaking its mast. the two sailors were not hurt and the whale appeared to swim away. >> that was incredible. >> it is.

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. president obama today signed the most sweeping financial industry reform since the great depression. the legislation bars lending banks from speculative trading, sets up procedures to shut down financial firms that are considered too big to fail. and creates a consumer protection bureau to oversee credit cards, mortgages and other consumer loans. that new financial reform law could have a significant impact on how you use your credit cards. as ktvu's alli rasmuss reports merchants now have more options, including charging you more for what you are buying. >> reporter: it cost amanda

west more than $200 a month to let customers at her berkeley restaurant use debit and credit cards. >> if someone pays for a 75- cent cookie with their debit card we might be charged up to 14 or 20 cents for that transaction which means we are not making money. we are losing money on that transaction. >> supporters say the financial overhaul bill the president signed into law today will help retailers deal with those fees. it will allow retailers to set minimum purchase requirements for customers using credit cards. and allows retailers to offer discounted prices for customers who use cash. and gives the federal reserve oversight swipe fees allowing the feds to restrict or regulate those fees. >> it is a go ahead movement forward and that there was awareness about the pain that credit card transaction fees have on small businesses like ours. >> reporter: scott hagy is the president of a non-profit group representing 4,000 businesses state wide. he says because of the new law

we could start seeing more businesses give customers an incentive to pay with cash. he says the bottom line retailers now have more flexibility. >> the decision is left up to the business and not the dictated on what it has to be. >> reporter: but the electronic payment coalition in washington, d.c. says that flexibility comes with a price, a price that will be passed on to consumers. the coalition represents banks and credit card companies. >> consumers are going to see more fees on the chequing accounts, on rewards cards, on their regular credit cards all so that the merchants don't have to pay their fair share. >> reporter: the new law won't have an impact on everyone's debit cards. debit cards issued by small community banks and credit unions are exempt. ktvu, channel 2 news. a piece of san francisco history was returned to its rightful place today three years after it was stolen. the left arm of a mannequin of baseball legend leftie o'dool

was taken by customers of the restaurant that bears its name. it appears that the kidnappers took the arm on a joyride, if you will, through the midwest. >> he has some new family back there. he wenton sleigh rides and went to the state capitol. got his picture with a lot of women. >> quite a trip. >> yes, quite a trip. >> quite a trip indeed. the owners say the owner was reattached and the mannequin is back greeting customers. to show there are no hard feelings the owners plan to send some mix to the return address on the box. that left arm has more exciting life than i do. it's the middle of july and the bay area is experiencing one of its coldest summers in years. today has been another foggy and chilly day. temperatures have remained unseasonably low along the west coast. some bay area cities are seeing the lowest summer temperatures in 40 years. so far this month san francisco has been four degrees cooler

than normal. today tourists told us they have been taken by surprise. >> freezing. i have on three layers. and i just came from texas and it's 105. [ laughter ] >> ktvu chief meteorologist bill martin says the daytime high in downtown san francisco was 56 degrees. that is the lowest temperature ever recorded for this date. [ music ] and we've got some cool temperatures in land right now. let's take a look at the live storm tracker 2. something i haven't seen really boy all summer. right now? sacramento it's 60 degrees. this cool marine air has really infiltrated the valley a few days ago sacramento this time of night was doing 70s and 80s. in land temperatures in the valley have cooled off quite a bit adds well. the forecast goes, the fog fills in again tonight. breezy on the coast tomorrow. just some more warming as we move into the next couple of days. it is not going to get hot but warmer than it was today by a good 5-10 degrees as we move

through tomorrow. microclimates start at the coast in the upper 50s. into san francisco and over to the east bay 74 degrees out there towards albany. over the next barrier, the east bay hills, 82 degrees out towards walnut creek, concord, and you keep going east in these microclaim ates it warms further. 86 towards clayton. and out towards antioch and observingly upper 80s. those temperatures when they verify time will be a good 10 degrees, easy 10 degrees warmer than they were today. maybe 10-12 degrees. san jose tomorrow 81 for downtown san jose. maybe a little patchy fog in the tomorrow. but tomorrow is marked with more rapid clearing than we saw today. because today or yesterday and today the fog hung out. tomorrow it will burn off more quickly. high pressure is beginning to strengthen. that low pressure is going this way. so temperatures are coming up. mid-80s for most of us in the in land valleys. mid-70s for the rest of us.

your thursday will be the warmest day of the week. not the warmest day of the week but a lot warmer than the last couple of days. warmer. friday a little warmer still. but just not going to get hot. temperatures in the upper 80s or low 90s. three oranges and brighter colors, the hotter and higher temperatures are coming our way. that's how it goes. but not going to get hot. no high fire danger. just a nice mild pattern. but warmer than it was yesterday and today. 87 in livermore. 86 in pleasantton. cities where you live or near where you live will feel quite nice. along the coast quite will cool. the fog is a constant player there. the five day forecast can't say it enough. but we have gone many nights without leading with a fire. and that is unusual for this time of year. that lends itself to what you were saying heather the coolest july in many cities. >> thanks, bill. >> in sacramento today governor schwarzenegger joked about the controversy surrounding mel gibson. >> it was bad news. but the good news is that bp has contained the oil leak.

that is good news finally. [ applause ] >> finally. >> the bad news is that no one has figured out how to contain mel gibson. [ laughter ] >> the terminator versus road warrior moment came as the government talked with utility executives in sacramento. mel gibson has been under fire since recordings came out reportedly of him using racist and sexist language in an angry outburst at

. facebook executives announced today their website has hit a significant milestone. a half a billion members. facility al based social networking site started six years ago in a harvard university dorm. some of00 million members apparently have issues with the

site. a recent satisfaction survey of web users put facebook in the bottom 5% when it comes to customer satisfaction, possibly because of concerns over privacy. mark ibanez joins us now. and no series sweep of the gain. >> no. 2-3 ain't bad as meat loaf once said. just like last night without the action and general theater innings. giants excitement missing, too dull in comparison. larry king was there perhaps prowling the stands for wife number eight. barry zito pitched very well but had trouble with this guy casey blake giving it a ride down the left field ride. solo homerun 1-0. and that is the score. it remained until the 8th inning. zit lifted after getting two guys on against him. sergio romo can't help the situation as blake can't the two out hit single makes it 2- 0. jerry in the dugout not a

bit hall. chad billingsly meanwhile the giants with a complete game. they threatened a couple of time but couldn't come through. the giants do take 2-3 as it is on to arizona for them. whatever is going on with the as, what's not to like? winners of five of their last six since the all star break. despite a number of injuries, the boston red sox are more than a bunch of stiffs. oakland beat them this afternoon thanks in part to matt watson. 32-year-old his first big league homerun bounced around the miners, played over in asia. coming through like a champion today. jack cust knows a little bit about minor league buses. jack his fifth and into the 5 davis into short center-field base hit. he will play the pair. and the as take it 6-4. gonzalez with the 9th win for oakland. and we have the big-time local kid making go ahead story going on with the warriors as

they sign palo alto high star jeremy lynn who went undrafted, was extremely impressive in summer league ball. four years at harvard. the six foot three inch guard became a bit of a cult figure after scoring 30 points against yukon. the 13th ranked team in the country. for lynn a dream come true. walking into that warriors locker room is something more as an invited visitor. >> i walked into that locker room about an hour ago and i saw my name tag up there. that was pretty crazy. >> well, my dream was to play in the nba and now i get to do it for the warriors, the team that i grew up watching. like you said, it's more than a dream come true. it's as possible. i am also extremely excited to play here. i am very thankful for the opportunity. >> that will be a great story if he makes the team. just finally the stage was empty at the tour de france. a rough day with resumption tomorrow. alberto contadoor is spill

sporting that yellow jersey as the leader. >> that warrior story is great. >> good stuff. >> i'm heather holmes. >> and i'm frank somerville. our coverage