new this morning, the governor gives the son of a former big name california politician a big break in prison. and in health news, what's your finger length. you may be able to figure out your risk of cancer by looking at your hand. you are looking at a live picture of a sort of wet monday. we will check in with weather in a second. today is january 3rd today in the east bay.

good morning, everyone. let us start with christina loren and the east bay forecast. good morning. >> good morning. things are looking good right now if you are headed out. we have good visibility and headed over to the north bay, it can be problematic with patchy fog. we are in the 40s and pretty mild with a good deck of clouds overhead. 1.5 miles of visibility. about a mile and a half if you are headed towards santa rosa. fog will be a factor this morning. take it easy out there. we will find out if it affects the roadways. >> we will find out right now. let's go to mike. >> she county jails you mr. out of byron and brentwood. down to 580 in livermore, there is a disabled vehicle block the southbound direction.

you should be able to get by and they are moving it to the shoulder. a heavy volume heading to 580 and highway 4 proper through aspect ok. spee you will see a steady flow of traffic through antioch and the carquinas and benicia bridges. both are clear. no fog or wind advisories, but as christina is talking about, patchy and dense fog. she is watching the weather system as well. >> mike, thank you. sacramento getting ready for a changing of the guard. jerry brown's swearing in is today held a few blocks from the state capital. this is the same place where arnold schwarzenegger became governor in 2006. brown's ceremony will be much lower key and oakland school children are going to take the stage to entertain the crowd. that starts at 11:00.

>> san francisco district attorney kamla harris will move into the state attorney general's office. harris will be sworn in at the california museum for history, women, and the arts at 1:00 this afternoon. you can watch highlights tonight on nbc bay area news at 5:00 and 6:00. with harris headed to sacramento, san francisco needs a new district attorney. san francisco mayor gavin newsom said he will appoint someone this week. he plans to consult with harris before making that appointment. newsom will be the one lawmaker not in the spotlight. he is taking over the office of lieutenant governor, but he is not ready yet. newsom wants to hold off on the inauguration until the new san francisco board of supervisors takes office. that board will be responsible for choosing his replacement as mayor. we don't know exactly when newsom will take the oath of office as lieutenant governor,

but we know the date for his party is january 10th at the state capital. his office said it will be on or before that date. two high profile east bay lawmakers will take new posts. outgoing tom tor lickson will be the new school chief and jean quan will be the first woman and the first asian-american to be mayor of oakland. christie smith live in oakland with what's ahead. >> this is a big day here in the east bay. first as you said jean quan will be sworn in as oakland's first woman and first asian-american mayor. she will start with a walk that ends here at the fox theater in downtown oakland with an inauguration ceremony later this morning. she is going to walk through oakland and retrace her own history and oakland's history starting at 8:30 at the pacific

renaissance plaza where she gets started with the asian-american community. she will pass by an elementary school, cultural center and art gallery all the way to where she will be sworn in at about 11:00 this morning. tom tor lickson will be sworn in at mt. diablo high school where he once taught at 9:00 this morning. he will have his hands full. he is threatening deep cuts to education. we should mention that tickets are still available for jean quan's inauguration and it's first come, first serve here in downtown oakland. the address on your screen, doors open at 10:00 this morning. the innaugzration starts at 11:00. >> i know you have a garbage

truck behind you, but ron has been infamous for not showing up. i don't know if that's traditional. >> it's hard to say. i can tell you a number of other politicians will be here. libby shaft will be taking her seat and she will be here. others will be sworn in. it's unclear whether he will show up or not. we will have to wait and see. >> that are is at least consistent. governor arnold schwarzenegger commuted the sentence of a son of a fellow politician. he commuted the sentence of the son of fabian nunez, reducing his sentence for the 2000 killing of a concord man. he made the move hours before he left office. esteban nunez pleaded guilt to voluntary manslaughter in the deadly stabbing of a cluj student in a fight in san diego. the change reduces the sentence from 16 years on 7 years.

the family of the victim said they weren't told the governor was planning to commute his sentence. >> we know the name of a man killed in an accident on interstate 580 on sunday morning. he is from san lo renza driving a toyota corolla east on 580 after 6:00 sunday morning. he lost control of his car that hit the center divider near 10 sixth. then a toyota hit his car and singh was thrown from the car. he was lying on the roadway and another car hit and killed him. the fashion police may catch a robber before local police do. they are looking for a woman who walked into a bank on main street friday afternoon wearing sunglass sunglasses, a hooded sweatshirt, pajama pants and high heeled shoes. she walked away with an undisclosed amount of money. she was gone even though police arrived in minutes. they are looking at tape, but if

you have information about the robbery, you can call the oakland police department. there is a change on your power bill. pg&e's rates began january 1st with a 3% increase for customer who is use little power and a 2.6% decrease for those who use a lot of power. the changes are the result of a 2009 law that lets the state utilities increase rates for low usage customer whose rate had not increased since 2000 and 2001. the off season for the raters. rumors that coach tom skabl on his way out. al davis has until later this month to exercise his one-year option on cable's contract. are hearing that won't happen. the raiders need to deal with a

few free agents. richard seymore topped that list. the raiders ended the season on a high note. a 31-10 win over the chiefs. the raiders did something no team in modern history has done. they swept the sgigz still didn't make the playoffs. contra costa county said express bus fares are going to jump a quarter. bus rider who is use the east bay value pass, the punch pass and the 20-right commuter cardville to add 25 cents to the fare box when they board the bus. the change will affect people in central contra costa county and san ramon. like many agencies, the transit is trying to balance budget through fare hikes. let's check in with mike and see how the buses are running. >> happy new year, the buses are running smoothly for folks in the county connection.

that's for wheels and the tridelta transit system that comes through this area. good news for a well-known intersection. down towards livermore and 580, the roadway is cleared. 580 will see more slowing and congestion because of folks returning to work. as we take you back to the studio, if you are expecting folks from l.a. who can't make it through the grapevine. they have to take the long way around on the 101. >> let's see what's going on in local weather. >> good morning, scott. you came back in time for the rain showers to subside. we will see a fair stretch of weather this week. we are warming up this morning due to a low deck of clouds that is keeping things mild. 47 degrees in san jose. 46 in san francisco. we won't have the same cloud cover tomorrow morning. it will be cooler.

enjoy the temperatures while they last. 44 degrees. from the east bay over to the north bay could be problematic. we have fog in the area. about a mile and a half visibility in santa rosa. changes as we head throughout the week. good-looking jet stream will take all of the areas of low pressure off to the east and out of our area. it will stay nice and mild. a few isolated showers at the coast today. overall looking good. take a look at the extended outlook warming up into the 60s. oakland 60 on thursday. sun and clouds for friday and the showers return on sunday. more about that coming up. >> online social networking women have seen dramatic growth, but you may be surprised who is jumping on facebook. if you have a lot of digital assets, the best way to back up your pictures on your home computer. you are looking at a live picture of the bay bridge.

we will be back in a second.

>> welcome back. it will be a little bit foggy this morning. we will go to mike. i was looking ahead with my notes here. there is going to be a lot of

snow in the pass on interstate 15. >> the cajon pass. >> the cajun pass? >> a lot of folks know that the connector between l.a. and northern california area is i-5 coming over the grapevine. that will be an issue with folks getting back into the area. that may keep commuters back, but most of the bay area will see the commute return. you can take 101 up the coast. it's four hours just to get to santa barbara last night. that's a big delay. the easy approach for eastbound 80 around university. i will check on that, but no incidents reported past that slowing, we see the 71. looking good. 680 through diablo. the bay bridge toll plaza with a live easy look. sometimes we see fog there and we will see fog later on. mostly in the north bay.

off to you. >> let's go to christina. fog a serious threat. >> most seriously. good morning to you. a lot of people hadded back to work and little ones back to school after a long holiday weekend. we are starting out okay in terms of visibility. nine miles in concord, but you are down to a mile and a half in santa rosa. fog reported near santa rosa. take it easy out there. if you are headed from the east to the north bay, there is that weather maker in southern california. all these are along the jet stream, but it dips further south than what we usually see. all the showers that come onshore today will be to the south of us and we are in store for a nice day with temperatures warmer than they have been. 54 degrees and warming up each day through thursday. 60 degrees in oakland on thursday. break out the muscle is shirts.

it's going to warm up. >> apple will not make an appearance at the consumer electronics show in las vegas, but with every other company, the cupertino tech giant will be -- don't know. scott will be there. we will look at his report on what's new starting thursday. trading will start in less than two hours. who knows. courtney? >> good morning to you. wall street could start 2011 on a her note. futures are higher and 2010 was a good year for the markets. the dow closed just off the high. the best year since 1999. the s&p is the best year since 1991. asia higher and europe too. we will get reports of manufacturing and construction spending. later this week retail and auto sales and ben bernanke goes

before congress. the dow rose and that's where trading begins in 2011. the nasdaq slipped to 2652. your neighbor in palo alto is getting big or paper. goldman sachs invested $500 million in facebook that values the company at $50 billion. facebook is bigger than ebay, yahoo or time-warner if it were a publicly traded company. right now it is private. financial times said facebook try and failed to buy twitter in 2008. they wanted to be a viable business on their own instead of being taken over. back to you. >> iphone users in the u.s. should wake up on time if they're using the alarm clock feature. the fix is in the works for iphone. many overslept the first day of the year because of a problem in the phone's alarm feature.

apple is reassuring customers it should start working properly today, but some in asia and europe did complain the alarms still weren't working right. for anyone who stores video or photos or do you means on their home computer, a major concern is making sure they stay there or at least have a way of backing up. we have ideas for backing up your digital life. >> to back up your digital assets, decide how much storage space you need. that means checking your largest computer files. the ones holding videos. >> do a right click and look at the storage there. you add it up and double it. >> suzanne kantor said about 7500 10 megapixel photos will takive 25 gigabytes of space. the next is whether you want them with you on disk or

external hard drive or a remote location online. >> i think there more benefits to online than the hard drive. some people are not comfortable with things living outside of their own home. >> an external hard drive is an option. going the online route means pay a monthly fee of around $5 or an annual fee of $45 to $55 for a back up. they can safety most recent version or archive it that means digging deeper. >> you can have three, four, five copies to the file as you make changes. if you wanted to go back to an earlier version, you can do so. >> numerous companies like this offer back up. keep vault is one. >> i like it for families because you can back up more than one person's files with one

account. >> she favors two other services. one is sugar sink and the other is drop box. they offer sinking and archiving. >> they give you synchronization and versioning. you can go back and get the earlier versions of your file any time. it's the best of both worlds. >> extra security never hurt when is it comes to saving digital files. nbc news. in health news, experts say you may be able to lock at a man's hands to look at the risk for prostate cancer. men with index fingers longer than ring fingers are less likely to get the disease. they compared the medical records of prostate cancer patients to those without the disease. they say this is a theory and not a reason to worry though i know you looked at your hands. everyone is on facebook or another social networking site. even grandma.

a new study finds that older people are in fact the group with the fastest wait on social networking. >> at st. andrew's towers in coral springs -- >> a picture of the snow up north. >> 72-year-old elsie uses the computer room to log into facebook. >> gi to check on my grandkids and a friend that moveed from here to tennessee. now she is in pennsylvania. i go in and we send messages back and forth. >> facebook started for college kids, there is dramatic growth in the use by older generations. according to an internet report, boomers 56 to 64 jumped from 9% to 43% less than two years lealder. somebody said go on facebook. i said what is facebook.

i got no idea. >> 75 yore old tony is having trouble logging in. he just joined facebook last month and now checks it daily. >> ty look through to see if anything is different and sometimes talk to them down in the little box in the right hand corner. >> the fastest rate of growth is in tony's age group, 74 and older. it quadrupleed from 4% in december of 2008 to 16% in may of 2010. >> i didn't go to my 50th reunion this year and i feel sad about it, but so many people that i hadn't heard from since 1960. >> facebook helped bob sampson make the reconnections. while he doesn't check it often, he has a direct link on his phone. >> congress gets back to work with a brand-new majority in

charge of the house. republicans say the first thing on their agenda is getting rid of president obama's brand-new health care plan. then they will tackle debt and tracie potts has a preview. houses will vote on whether to get rid of health care reform. >> that are will happen before the state of the union address. >> repeal health care reform. >> it's the deficit they will fight over next. we are close it a $14.3 trillion debt ceiling set by law. the government could borrow no more. the congress can raise that, but will they? >> i won't vote for debt unless we go back to 2008 spending levels. >> the new government reform thinks there is plenty to cut. >> 500 million here and there is a billion. 125 billion in medicare. >> we will have to make in the medium run a series of tough

choices. the president is not afraid to do that. >> the fear is if we hit the debt ceiling, the u.s. could default on the obligation, triggering a shut down. >> we are not looking to shut the government down. >> tracie potts, today in the east bay. >> let's look ahead at what's coming up today later. we say good morning to laura. >> good morning, my friend. good morning, everyone. happy new year to you. the lights will be dimmer today. bob redell will look at the thing that will leave california in the dark. in sports and out of shape. the new study that shows your kids may not be as healthy as you think. the miami herald will take a shot at a bay area institution. scott? >> is there life after being california's governor. what's in store for arnold now

that jerry brown is filling his old post. a bay area town is in the running for coolest. we will tell you where this town has travelers flocking to. brent and laura are coming up.

new this morning, no one is safe. jerry brown getting ready to take office. soon after he is going to

release his budget plan and it doesn't look good. we will have a preview. >> which bay area city is up for a travel magazine's title of the coolest small town in america. good morning and thanks for joining us. first monday of the new year. i'm laura garcia cannon. >> i'm brent cannon and we start with christina loren with a look at the hour by hour forecast. >> good morning to you. we will start you out this morning with mild temperatures. a little on the cool side, closer to cool than chilly. patchy dense fog as well, particularly around the north bay. 35 degrees and about a mile and a half of visibility. as we head out, we will warm up into the upper 50s. a couple of low 60s. we will talk about the forecast and a fairet