good morning. it is 4:30 and a lot of activity starts around the bay. let us start with rob. >> good news for the weather in

the east bay. 59 degrees in oakland and not much wind and no showers to talk about. the east bay weather headlines today, showers moved off to the east and trivalley locations like livermore may get close to 90. as you look as dublin, low to mid-70s as you take a look at oakland, highs closer to 70. no worries about showers, just a late day breeze. 75 for fairfield and pitsburg. temperatures climb into the area and temperatures as warm as near 90 around livermore by sunday. here's mike. >> the low winds and clearer conditions and good news for folks heading across the bay area bridges. we do have an issue westbound to southbound 880. there is construction blocking that ramp. southbound will get you over

there. that construction will be cleared up at southbound 880. a couple of lanes closed, but slowing south of 92. that's good news. no problems heading over. that's highway 84 to the south and the approach to the oakland area as soon as you drive off to the area as well. light volume today through the weekend. we will have more on that coming up. a warning to all atm customers. thieves are targeting atms, taking cash. two men are in custody, but there many more like them. cheryl herd has a look at how banks protect consumers. >> how many times have you dashed out of the car and left

your card behind. it happened 23 times and 23 people got ripped off. how many people pay attention to that deeping sound at the atm? it's a warning your card is waiting for you to take it. >> people tell you to be careful and go in groups, but things like going to the atm is such a daily thing. >> it's not unusual for some people to leave it behind. >> when i got my card a month ago, i forgot it. i walked away and i was like oh. i didn't get it out of the atm machine. >> these two men are under arrest for preying on people for gaining access to bank accounts because debit card users put cards in, take the cash and receipt and simply leave them behind. >> the suspects then go up to the machine and push the card back in and access whatever the limit is up to $400.

>> bank of america may be a target because the machines allow them to take cash and receipts before it gives their card back. two machines have been used for the crime. this in north berkeley and the other near the campus on telegraph and durant. >> they have taken the card that can be a debit or credit card and gone to another business, swiped the card and bought gas and food. >> bank of america officials trying to be proactive. they made the beeping sound louder so they remember to take their card and the company hired extra security. >> some may think it's a berkeley phenomenon, but it happened before. police are asking people to be careful. today in the east bay. >> one of the people linked in a bizarre web of murders will be

back in court. a 72-year-old is in jail on $2 million bail. police the bodies of his wife and her friend and dozens of jars of chemicals that could be turned into explosives. he is called a person of interest in the womens' death and trying to figure out if it's connected to the killing spree. the chp shot him when he threatened officers with a knife following a high speed chase. students, workers and steveners at uc berkeley will protest and picket in the wake of tuition hike, worker layoffs and furloughs. they will start at 6:00 at bancroft and telegraph followed by a walk out at 11:30 and a noon rally and a sit in at 5:00. in the race for mayor of oakland, one candidate owns a spending record.

don perada spent almost $600,000 to be oakland's next mayor. his opponents say he passed the spending limit. he spent nearly 200,000 and kaplan spent $125,000. both requested stricter regulations of candidate spending limits. you will get a chance to hear from the mayoral candidates. a forum at 6:00 at oakland city hall. remember for all the news on races that are important to your community, logon to nbcbayarea.com and search for prop zero. the wife of national hero and danville pilot sully sullen berg will be the host of the teacher of the year award ceremony. laurie is an ambassador for the council on physical fitness.

we remember her husband landed a crippled airliner on the hudson river in 2009. the red cross will honor local heroes. a hero's breakfast at the hilton hotel at 8:00 and health care advocate for oakland's asian population and union city police officers will be honored for saving a choking baby. 14 hours until the first pitch of the postseason at at&t park. for giants fans it ends a seven-year playoff drought. christie smith is live at the pine crest diner in san francisco where playoff fever is the only thing hotter than the coffee. >> reporter: we are waiting for the manager to get in who i'm told is a huge giants fan, but right about now, who isn't? there a couple of newsstands out front and these sum up how the city is feeling. really the bay area.

there is a couple of people who just arrive and they are eating inside. we will check in with them in a couple of minutes. we wanted to talk about the game and we wanted to talk about tickets and if there even any available. the game is sold out against atlanta. the giants knocking balls into mccovey cove during batting practice. fans snagging them from the water and the shore. some of them if you are lucky enough, the tickets are going for hundreds of dollars online. it's buyer beware. stub hub is the only site where they are guaranteed to be real. if you are one of these kinds of outdoorsy folks, you can float in a kayak and if you made a reservation for about $44 at city kayak. we will go on inside and check back with you in about 30 minutes and talk with giants fans. they will be easy to find. live in san francisco, christie

smith, today in the east bay. >> thank you much. let's go to rob. what kind of weather should we expect if we can afford the tickets? >> nice later on. temperatures in the mid 60s and right now 50s for most of the bay area. 55 right now in livermore. not much wind this morning and thank goodness we will not hear about rain delays later on. up and down the east bay, no showers and if you are heading to the high country, snow above 8,000 feet and thundershowers around the sierra. highs in the mid 70s. we should see highs near 70. 65 around san francisco. breezy by this evening and into solano county, we will see temperatures climbing into the 70s. into the weekend, we warm up. mid- to upper 80s around the trivalley to wrap up the weekend. back to you. >> i think you got the same notification from san francisco

airport that there will be a flight of fighter jets coming over about commute time this evening. >> we will see that overhead. keep that in mind. about the time the game will start. make sure you know that's what's going on and focus on the road. look at the roadways through the east bay. coming out of the trivalley, reports of debris on the road. that's in the middle lane. chp should get that taken care of. we see the slowing through sunol, but a check of the camera, there is hardly any cars to see. you see the travel lanes and we talked about the issues going on this weekend. we have one of the activities going o. >> the bay area's fleet week gets under way and it will be filled with free activities including blue angels. lots of fighter planes and

airshows and pier 39 concert and ships and ship tours. this includes the navy's green ship, the uss mac. it runs on batteries when slow and a gas turbine when moving quickly. they said they expect to save about a quarter million in the ship. it's in a live report coming up. california creeps closer to hammering down a budget after a long hold out. is the wait worth it? we will look at the proposals. waiting for the iphone to come to your cell phone? yo c carriri?am your dam may comtrue.. c

good morning. oakland is 70 and fremont 72. we will look at the weather in a moment. california could have a budget by the end of the day. the deal would come after a 99-day hold out, the longest in state history. a vote is set to close a projected $18 billion deficit. no new tax or fees, but it includes 7 $1$7 $1/2 billion to welfare and other social programs. it includes an assumed $5.3

billion in help from the federal government. some are surprised to see the document hasn't changed that much from one passed by a majority. >> if it was in that budget and you don't get told it was taken out, it's still there we have been getting a lot of calls with people thinking we are rewriting a new budget. >> it is unclear if there will be enough votes. taking you to the east shore freeway. not a major issue. an 18-minute drive. a vote for the next week or so if you are heading into the city, you may want to consider bart. i'm suggesting that. no major delays because it takes you under the roadway. for the giants day as well as

fleet week, you can take caltrain and if you can't get there, go over the bridge. things are looking nice on the bridge. a clear view as well. over to you. >> it looks good for baseball. >> and fleet week. temperatures into the 70s and 80s for the weekend. not too bad in oakland. 59 degrees. we are at 58 in san jose and over in san francisco. a little bit of a sea breeze. east bay weather headlines, showers moved off to the east and a mostly mild day today and for the weekend, trivalley locations as you go to pleasant and livermore may approach close to 90 as we head towards the weekend. we will call for 70s around livermore and pleasanton in oakland and the inner east bay. temperatures closer to 70 and concord and pleasant hill with highs in the 70s. the weekend will be warming up

and 80s starting on saturday. >> thanks. we are one day away from the critical jobs report due out friday. the stock market near five-month highs. for more on news before the bell we turn to courtney reagan. good morning. >> good morning to you, scott. we are a bit positive after a mixed session wednesday when stocks came off the lows following a report showing a decline in payroll last month. that raises concerns that the big jobs report won't show growth. we will have to wait and see until tomorrow. asian markets fell and europe is in the red. we will get another report on jobs that measures the unemployment filings due out in about 45 minutes from now. september sales throughout the day as well. sales are expected to rise 2.1%, the 13th month of positive growth.

sales were thought to have been boosted by back to school shopping heading into the mall to get in on the latest trends. reports marking the unofficial start of earnings season. the dow gained 22 points to 10,967 and the nasdaq lost 19 to 2380. the official network is making changes. facebook launched a tool to make it easier to divide your friends to narrow your audience for different things to post. it will let you receive everything you ever posted for your personal records. back to you. >> are apple plans to bite into another phone network. apple plans to make a verizon version of the phone that would be like the iphone 4 that would allow them to sell the iphone early next year.

the iphone 4 is only available from at&t in the u.s. today marks the beginning of the tenth year with the war in afghanistan, the longest war in american history. president obama wants to wind the war down by next year, but critics question whether we are fighting the right enemy. tracie potts reports live in washington on what today's anniversary means. >> total disregard for his own safety -- >> president obama marked the ninth year by honoring staff sergeant rob miller who died defending his comrades against insurgents. >> they heard his voice. he had been hit. still he kept calling out enemy positions. >> his parents said miller believed in the mission. >> he believed he was working for a good cause. >> but nine years and 1200 lives later, critics said it's time to refocus america's $100 billion a year investment back to al

qaeda. >> we can start not spending money. >> pakistan's military is backing off direct conflict with the taliban and al qaeda. now there is word that they are in talks with afghanistan's government, possibly to end this war. the u.s. pull out is supposed to begin next summer. analysts say the beginning of year 10 offers a new opportunity. >> now is the time to give the strategy a last chance fchl it doesn't work, it's time for a back up plan. >> what are is that plan? a letter from president obama said for now there is no reason to change the war strategy. in washington, tracie potts, today in the bay. >> a kern county man is the latest soldier to give his life in afghanistan. he was killed his as unit came under attack from small arms fire. he was 27. this was his second tour in

afghanistan. let's get a look at what's coming up late or the bay. brent cannon is looking to the show. good morning. >> good morning and thank you very much. take a look at this. a fifth grade art project is causing parents to call their kids out of school. look at the picture. the santa-free zone for a group that wants to ban the jolly old elf. plus we will take you aboard a massive war ship in the bay area for fleet week. those stories and more in a few minutes on today in the bay. >> thank you very much. this as good as it gets. helen hunt will take the statement at a fund-raiser in san mateo as the key note speaker for an event about working class homelessness in the bay area. the winner is teaming up with the shelter network to help families find a permanent residence. it kicks off at 7:30 at the

hyatt regency in burlingame. the bad guys are out there looking for ways to get your data and your money. they are called hackers, but did you know there is more than one kind of hacker. the bay area is full of the good times. you should be happy they are out there. >> a red hat. maybe what jason spence likes to wear, but a white hat is what he likes to call himself. >> i can call myself a white hat hacker. >> a white hat hacker being an expert that searches out weaknesses in websites, networks and software not with the intent to exploit them, but get them fixed. >> i do it because it makes the world a better place. >> spence is far from the only one of his kind in the bay area. >> wherever there engineers, you will find white hat hackers. >> the san francisco native is

perhaps one of the world's best known. >> you need hackers to fight hackers like soldiers to fight soldiers. >> he identified a flaw in the system that directions traffic around the internet. in the wrong hands it could have been used to compromise banking websites, e-mail and almost anything that happens online. good thing for us then that knowledge was in his hands. >> i and another engineer started calling very large companies and saying listen, we have to do something about this bug. we have to work together. we have to fix it together. we have to fix it in the same way. we have to fix it at the same time together. >> fix it they did, but wasn't he ever tempted to make a quick, if dishonest buck himself? >> it wasn't even a question. it wasn't even a thought that came up. >> what motivates a white hat

hacker if not money. >> a large number of doing it to get their names in the headlines. >> justin started a group called bay area security enthusiasts. white hat hacking is not all altruistic. many of them run security companies. >> by publishing their exploits, it lets you know how good they are at their job. >> jason spence said the satisfaction is simpler than that. it comes just after he lets someone know they have a problem. >> it's a good feeling to have them thank me and say we are glad thaw are out there looking out for us. >> something perhaps any computer user anywhere might be tempted to say. garvin thomas reporting. for all the white hat hackers is a drop in the bucket for what you can do to protect yourself. the biggest problems are often the fault of you, the computer user.

passwords that are too easy or nonexistent or people not careful enough about information that you share online. water buffalos and the beerful all terms of endearment for giants fans hoping to string together 11 more wins and capture the first world series title in more than 20 years. christie smith is at the pine crest diner where playoff fever is running high. >> reporter: we have a few giants fans just starting to drink coffee and come alive and they are crossing their fingers. they are telling us they really do think this is going to be a tough for the giants to pull off against atlanta this evening. you can bet they are certainly going to be watching t. they are excited that it's october and the giants are in it. ticket-wise, it would be like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. the home games in atlanta are sold out.

they are going for hundreds online, we spoke with one fan who said he missed his former slugger barry bonds and thinks he would have made the difference. he thinks the giants will have to battle is out. if you do go ahead and get the tickets, you want to go through a place like stub hub where they guarantee the tickets are real. coming up, you will hear from fans, but they are awfully excited about it. live in san francisco, today in the east bay. >> thank you. death row inmates are closer to a date with death. california's latest move to resume executions. budget battle no more. by the end of the day, we could have a new state budget. plus, the roar of jets sounding over the bay area. fleet week is here. what you can aect to in a live report. 3q

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