tv Today in the Bay NBC May 12, 2011 4:30am-5:00am PDT
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new this morning, today we're expected to learn the identities of the three people involved in that horrible shooting at san jose state university. i'm christie smith. we'll have that story coming up in a live report. an east bay family takes on former governor arnold schwarzenegger in a quest for justice for their son, and as you drive to work today, watch out. more bikes. during your morning commute, it's bike to work day. a live look outside at the bay bridge. thursday. i believe it's it's 12th. this is "today in the east bay."
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good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. it's 4:30. i am without a calendar. start your day with christina loren. what day is today? >> are we talking about the mayan calendar mr. mcgrew? if so, our day, numbered. yeah, it is the 12th. coastal fog. watch out for that bikes on the roadway, a dangerous situation. it is bike to work day. count on a lot more activities on the two wheels. how it looks on the roadways. 4:31, i bet something is going on out there, mike. >> yeah. folks working hard on the roadways, like high 4. until the 20th, going on the last week and a half eastbound. and in summerville and later at 7:00, more construction at
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bailey. i'll tell you about that agency the morning progresses. looking at siycamore and as you mentioned, scott, it's bike-to-work day. more information later in the show. >> we do. meantime, we should get answers about that terrible shooting in san jose state. at the very least who was shot, if not why. university officials expected to release the names of the victims later this morning. "today in the bay's" christie smith is live with what's ahead. good morning, kristy. >> good morning to you. in a couple of hours we learn a lot more about this tragic shooting that happened in the garage here behind me as officials here at san jose state plan to answer some of the questions that everyone has been asking since this shooting happened, but at this point, they're still withholding the names of the three people involved in that shooting until everyone, family member, are notified. we do know the identities,
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though, of some of the victims, but we're going to withhold them as well until all the family member, notified. a university spokesperson says that two of the three people shot were male. one was female, but they are not saying yet if the people shot in the parking garage tuesday at san jose state were students, but they definitely see some of them had a university affiliation. it was about 8:40 p.m. when students heard popping sounds. they sounded like fireworks. turned out it was a horrible shooting. those three people dead, later investigated at a murder/suicide, which shocked the campus here and since then students have debated whether they were notified effectively and fast enough. the university, though, they are expected to make that announcement here at 10:00, and, of course, we'll be there for that and bringing it to you as soon as we get t. christie, very
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sad. thank you much. the district attorney wants to reinstate a prison sentence the former government cut short. fabian nunez pled guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of luis sanchez. >> reporter: arriving here from the airport from san diego. the district attorney making an unprecedented move to help family has feel that justice was taken away from them. kathy and fred santos are on a quest to reclaim justice for their son luis. they filed a civil lawsuit over the govern former governor's decision to take back the prison sentence of the young man that killed their son. >> overturn this and return it to the 16-year plea barge than
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we agreed to in the first place. >> reporter: santos son luis was stabbed to death and three of his friends injured near san diego state university in 2008. stephon nunez, the son of former speaker fabian nunez pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. hours before arnold schwarzenegger left office, the former governor made a shocking move reducing nunez' sentence to just seven years. some believe a political move for his assembly speaker friend, a move san diego county's district attorney is trying to reverse. >> the last-minute commutation made without all the facts or input from the parties only fueled the public's mistrust of government and greatly diminished justice. >> two politicians made a little deal of their own, and they got the justice they wanted, but it really wasn't justice. it was an injustice.
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>> reporter: estefan nunez's attorney released this statement saying in part, while appreciating the political pressure the district attorney is under, we do not believe she has any grounds or even procedure to do this. >> it's easy to just decide to forget everything and walk away from all this, but, again, if we did that, who's going to seek justice for our son? >> reporter: the santos family has another lawsuit on the books. it relates to marcy's law, when families believe they have the right to be informed when changes in the law affect them. in oakland, cheryl hurd, "today in the bay." someone trying to stop the construction of a memorial to the victims of the 1978 massacre at jonestown. a senior pastor at the family christian cathedral in inglewood has filed a lawsuit in alameda county court to stop the construction of a memorial at evergreen cemetery. that's the final resting place for 409 of the victims.
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the memorial includes four granite plaques with all 918 names of the dead. all of them including the reverend jim jones, the man behind the suicides, and that angers the southern california pastor. he had 27 relative whose lost their lives in the tragedy in south america. get ready to pay a little extra if you plan on riding ace transit. agency board members agreed yesterday to raise bus fares in alameda and contra costa counties starting may 1st. bake bus fare, $2.10. seniors and disabled will pay $105 and youth passes have gone up to $20 a month. the transit agency is planning service cuts to reduce its $21 million deficit as well. today is bike-to-work day. hundreds expected to put down car keys, pick up helmets and take part.
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bike-to-work began in 1974. inspires thousands to ride their bike instead of driving their car. several hundred bicyclists stopped by during their bike to work. energy stations. it's for inspiring safe and family friendly cities. and now over to the weather. >> it's not going to be nice. i only speak the truth. fog to start you out of, kind of cool. heading throughout the morning, some of that fog creeps inland. watch out for that. overall if you're commuting to work, especially over any of the bridges where you tend top lose that visibility, take it easy out there this morning. fog will be a factor until about noon. then we'll see cloud cover lift and break apart. the only changes, cooler.
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cooler conditions for today. we'll drop off by three or four degrees and continue to cool into the weekend. the full forecast coming up in a moment. right n.o.ow, bike-to-work, dri to work, we know hoop getting there on time. hi, mike. >> except at my house. the kids do the put on their shoes. very slow. travel time heading into the maze looking good. all green. in fact, the map of the maze itself shows you the nice flow of traffic, 24 out of the caldecott tunnel. typically over 70 miles per hour. seeing that through oakland, into berkeley. watch that, folks. it is bike-to-work day, we've been telling you. scott explained about the energizing stations and if you bike to b.a.r.t. check the schedules. find out which station ace lolle bikes on the trains. looking for no delays on that system. on the other side of the water,
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and down the peninsula, caltrain reporting no delay. another option, the vta. no problems for the light rail system. look how expensive the light rail system and course, the rest of the buses, santa clara valley and the transportation system all working together with bike to work. you might want to try that out. maybe a little jacket for the rain. back to you. >> fair enough. the bin laden journals. his estimates of how many americans he need to kill to change u.s. policy. that's coming up. smartphones going paper thin. what the phones of the future could look like. and bedbugs annoying enough. now they're becoming dangerous. a microscopic difference that's turning some bedbugs into killers. you're looking at a live picture ever the bay bridge. 4:40. we'll be back in jauchlt minute.
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were back. you are looking at a dark but live picture of the sunol grade. no much grade. we'll check with traffic with mike in a minute. osama bin laden's handwritten journal discovered curing the raid in his compound in pakistan. among early revelation, a mathematical calculation of how many people al qaeda would have to doyal get the u.s. out of the middle east. concluding it would take another attack similar to september 11th. bin laden also called on operatives to strike smaller
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american cities as well as target planes and trains. the u.s. says the writings prove bin laden was still very much in control of al qaeda operations. well, there are tens of thousands of billboards in california. none quite like these. billboards showing the police sketches of bryan stow's attacker. stow is the giants' fan attacked at dodger stadium on march 31st. he remains in a coma. a company called lamar advertising, i think you can see the bill board -- there they are. the billboards, most near dodger stadium. others are alongside the l.a. freeway. besides the sketching, each sign will list the $100,000 reward and a phone tip line. stow's family hopes the billboards will lead to the capture of the attackers. how thin can a computer go? a new paper thin computer being unveiled in van koofber. it's showing off the future of smartphones as flexible. we have the story. >> reporter: they're
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psychologists, artists and computer scientistses meeting all week to discuss and display ways humans interact with computers. one canadian invention is getting a lot of buzz. it's being dubbed the paper phone, because it's super thin and flexible. >> we can curve it. and so it takes the shape 6 our body, which means i can take my phone and put it on my wrist as a bracelet, and i can't really do that with my current phone. it would be very clunky. >> reporter: it plays song, holds books and movies. it does everything your smartphone can do, just different. >> this is a digitizer allowing us to do pen and in the back, i can show you, those are six pressure sensors. >> reporter: computer geeks here love the idea, but what about the average people outside? >> i'm not into that stuff, so -- >> i don't know if i like it. i feel like i'd rip it or something. >> that's pretty impressive. i wouldn't mind getting it.
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paper costs less if it breaks, right? shatterproof? >> reporter: the display is only in black and white. it has challenges. something its makers hope to fix by the time it reaches market. that's in five to ten years if they get investor interest. it's expected to cost the same as an average smartphone. so the paper phone, small enough to slip into your back pocket. don't worry, you're not going to lose it every time you sit down. it's going to have a key lock on it. encouraging business news for people looking for jobs, and google's big announcement about when its chrome bookless go on sale. for those stories and news before the bell, it's chartea brantley live at cnbc headquarters. good morning. >> good morning, scott. futures point to the stock market opening following yesterday's sell-off triggered by a rout in commodity prices especially for oil and gas after the government reported u.s. inventories rose more than
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expected last week amid sliding energy demand. crude prices dropped more than $5, and it's lower again today, near $97 a barrel. gas had its biggest one-day decline since 200, but it will be a while before drivers see lower prices at the bump. asia prices lower and europe is lower. data today on unemployment, retail sales, and business invei inventorie inventories. dow, 12,630s nasdaq losing. and positive news on jobs. the labor department says the number of job openings rose to 3.1 million in march, highest level since the financial crisis in the fall of 2008. that still lower, though, than the 4.4 million openings in december 2007, when the recession began. there are four people on average competing for every available job. so who's hiring? openings are up in manufacturing, retail, education and health care, but down for
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restaurants, hotels and professional services, like accounting firms and law firms. and google is taking on microsoft and apple. the search giant is launching computers powered by its chrome operating system in june. you can buy them at amazon and best bestby.com. they steer people to use applications like e-mail and spread sheets directly on the web instead of downloading programs to your hard drive. back to you, scott. >> all right. thank you much meanwhile, christina has a look at the forecast. >> good morning, scott. pretty good looking day for the second half of date, just like yesterday. of course, if you live in the bay area for any duration of time, you're used to the fog at this point. and coastal fog, picking it up orch the satellite imagery. that's how deep it is and it will make the inland push just as it did yesterday. this is what's happening. we're seeing a really significant change in our overall pattern. the jet stream is taking a dip. as we head through this weekend and the first part of next week we're dealing with a pretty rainy weather pattern.
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this is what's happening. looks like it's slowing down a little bit. we were expecting a first round of rain on saturday. you'll get by with a nice saturday. the rain arrives on sunday. rain in the forecast for monday, tuesday, wednesday as well. so, yeah, looks like we're not quite out of that spring wet pattern just yet, but, hey, raging waters opens up in san jose this weekend. we are getting closer to summertime. you might want to enjoy this last taste of spring. 53 degrees in oakland. and 51 in livermore. and 68 degrees your forecast and high in concorde. making your way to the city, not quite at warm there today, but make your way back home, temperatures close to 70 degrees in the east bay. not too bad. overall, looking pretty good. your seven day coming up in moments. back to you, scott. 4:49. as in texas trying to wrap up the three-game set with the rangers and got showered with luck. bottom of the third, gonzalez gives up a grand slam to mitch moreland.
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bye-bye. the as now down by seven. but there is a silver lining in the dark clouds. there was a rain delay in the fourth, and two hours later -- they called the game. yeah. the reason this is good news, there wasn't enough game to be official. the stats don't count. so the game won't be made up until the as travel back to texas later this season. so when you're down by seven and it rain, that's outstanding. something the as wished never happened is the shoulder tear suffered by dallas braden. now he's likely done for the season. on monday, braden will undergo shoulder surgery. a tear in his left shoulder. the doctors have perform add similar surge vi on the mets johan santana will be doing braden's surge vi as well. 4:50. coming up, alarming combo, by bedbugs could be deadly. the latest research. and this combo. 580 and traffic causing slowing later. now, moving smoothly heading up
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face of a $500 million funding cut by the state. the uc workers are against state cuts but offering up suggestions to help including $260 million in savings by bringing worker to management ratio from 7-1 to 8-1. $20 million by eliminating extra perks for 1,000 of the uc's highest paid workers and $12 million in eliminating athletic subsidies. oakland teachers will rally today to demand money for public schools and services. in front of wells fargo at broadway and 12th from 4:30 to 6:00 this afternoon saying banks got a bailout, schools got sold-out. the teachers must now deal with layoffs. coming up in the bay, marla is in the newsroom. >> good morning, scott. a huge show planned this morning. today our "may in the bay" tour takes us to san francisco where laura is now for a look at two
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events. bay to breakers this weekend. you do not want to miss bob r redell and his piece on that. and we have brand new pictures of test runs done in new zealand just a few days ago. all this and more coming up in a few minutes. see you then. >> thank you vuch. over to mike and bike to work day. >> an issue for folks driving on surface streets. watch, two-wheeled bikes, tougher to see than cars. take extra patience through the roadways today. we'll watch as far as visibility goes. fog for the drivers as well as riders, coming across the bay from the north bay into the east bay. the carquinez bridge moving smoothly. 55 on the carquinez bridge. moving nigsly through that area. crossing the water, the j-mac ferry is out of service. an issue driving through the antioch bridge, smooth.
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over sow summersville goes to 5:30. more construction at bailey. tell you about that later. and a live look at the san mateo bridge crossing the water there, moving smoothly for 92 and eastbound not an issue. bikers, not taking the bridges. back to you. >> thank you much. this might make your skin crawl. new research suggests bedbugs could contrary drufg-resistant bacteria. the so-called superbugs resistant to several antibiotics did be deadly if they get into the skin. bedbug infestation could hit a high in the next couple of months. to protect yourself, clutter the bags off the floor, watch your clothes and put them in a very, very hot dryer. the drug lattese approved by the fda in december to make eyelashes grow thicker and longer. a hair restoration specialist in florida decided to test lattese on some patients to regrow their
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thinning scalp hair. >> that the hairs over time reversed. meaning they get thicker, darker, stronger, and week by week, it goes up to a point and basically plateaus. >> now, on a small group, this patient is treating, he claims he sees zero side effects. the big concern is cost. right now it's about $150 a bottle. you can see that bottle isn't very big. allergen, the manufacturer of the drug, is conducting clinical trials of its own for hair growth and seeking fda approval. coming up, why people in one small east bay city may smell natural gas in the air today.
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good morning to you. we are waking up this morning in san francisco as our tour around the bay continues this morning. we've got a lot ahead for you and it's a beautiful morning in the city beby the bay, talking bay to breakers. bike-to-work day. a lot going on. first the forecast with christina loren. >> bike-to-rk
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