where and when, we will tell 15 coming up on "today in the east bay," crews are still on the scene after deadly overnight accident in marin county. : ch. : ch. the city its first homicide of the year. investigators on the scene at disappearance of aerhear neighbors who describe a fa and a scene of total chaos. >> reporter: and i'm bob redell here in hayward with the mysterious disappearance of a nursing student that has her family and police concerned. that story coming up in a live report. alcatraz island, smooth waters on the bay so us. will they get choppy as the weather changes? tuesday, may 31, "today in the

good tuesday morning. thanks for joining us. it is 6:00 right now. 8non. onsh no wad look at ing it:4w4ging.zr6at is dow as speak. butod we are7 y5korningré onshore now. you still have time to roll up your windows if you left them down overnight. but we are going to see this action ramp up a little bit as we head through the next couple of hours. things changing as we head through the next couple of days. two more systems to get through. another round of rain tomorrow. thursday, a break. then a stronger round arrives for the weekend. we will break it all down for you coming up. it is 6:00 a.m. this is when the roads start to get busy. how does it look? >> looks exactly like you are forecasting for the weather and traffic. to,;d's starting to ge the south bay. 101 where com in pas on the right side of your screen, off ramp. things starting to jam up there. specifically and also looking at the northbound 87 coming in past downtown. slowing as well.

debris the in vol roadway. busy down to the south bay and east bay and north bay. antioch and livermore both showing slow drives here. the volume starting to cause a slowing towards the heart of livermore and 18-minute drive. i will show you more slow spots and rest of the commute building coming back. >> thank you very much. we go rodeo where police are investigating the city's first homicide of the year. today christie smith is live in rodeo and has more on the story for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. investigators are still he piece together exactly what happened. they tell me a key to this is being able to go through the van that the victim was sitting in when he was shot. he was shot right up the hill there at the top. investigators still working on this morning. i have been speaking with them and neighbors who are just now waking up and they tell me that thei out gunfire around 10:40 jjed run yelling in the meantime, neighbors while waiting for police to show up tell me that some of them got

their own weapons out for self-protection basic me that there was running and yelling, chaos. would ever the'a !ax no db. then there was another barrage of bullets and footsteps. everybody scattering like cockroaches. >> reporter: the victim has foo >> reporter: the victim has foo morning. totally á 4.( only know that hey neighborhood. and the shooter was likely on foot. they say that gunfire is not totally uncommon in the neighborhood homicides certainly are. this investigators telling me that they are still trying to get witnesses to come forward. reporting live in rodeo, christie smith, "today in the east bay." >> thank you very much. bay closed part of an expressway for a time.

chp says a driver hit and killed someone as they walked across the expressway near bud avenue in campbell. police victim around 11:00 last night. they closed all southbound lanes so emergency crew could do their job. those lanes have&+

one of them is just a few weeks old.gyq mill 2 in his memory. police are looking at surveillance video taken from a nearby market to try to find rodriguez's killer. milpitas had two homicides in 2009 and none last year. san jose police are releasing information this morning about two homicides over the identity inveu]audb2jpvf who was shot and killed in her car. 18-yea35-year-old melissa is g -tronj4u ee. gradua h case of mistaken identity. investigators think that the deadly stabbing of an 18-year-old man is gang related. that victim's name is tron lee. he graduated from pegasus high school last week. police do not think that the two shootings ring related. there have been 24 homicides in san jose so far this year. up from 20 in all of last year. this morning, more questions are being raised on the disappearance of a hayward nursing student. in the men time her family is reward will help bring the young woman home safely.

her redell is live with an update. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. michelle le is bra to be a nurse through samuel merit college out night. here in hayward taking part in a medical rotation as part of her course work at the hayward branch of kaiser. it was around 7:00 friday night. she took a break from her rotation. and surveillance tape showing her leaving the parking garage on site.xkv$ lbe with valuables left inside. but she does apparently still has her cell phone which she has not answered and that's one reason why the family thinks it is suspicious. why they are putting up fliers and offering a $20,000 reward, because they say ch michelle. her brother tells us she's very responsible and calls him on a regular basis. >> she has always been a better -- a better child --

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the biggest components will be the wind and cold that sets in. not the rain amounts. we are not going to see a lot of rain. less than a tenth of an inch in the north bay raining steadily overnight and still getting some of that action. future cast shows you at 11:00 a.m. will continue to rain in the north bay. rest of the bay area at that time will have a chance to dry out. then by 3:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., futurecast shows you completely dry conditions over the bay. we are looking good. 53 degrees now in livermore. 55 in hayward. cold enough for a jacket if you are going to be taking a walk this morning. take that umbrella just in case. 65 in san jose and 64 in fremont. another round of rain on the way for tonight into tomorrow. we will talk about that and potential for thunderstorms. also on the way. 6:11. let's check your drive with mike. >> talked about rain and snow in tahoe. no closures or chains required. we had that over the weekend. that's not out of the question. meanwhile, approaching the bay bridge, live look at the toll plaza shows thank you volume of traffic out there. pretty light volume.

maze, no major slowing. we are seeing more folks here than we have in the last couple of days because they are back from vacation. there is the maze and approach for most of the east bay. lot of folks on the highway. traditional slowing kicked off right at 5:30. that's typical coming through antioch and bay point. another live look. golden gate bridge coming in out of the north bay where there has been rain and low clouds and wet roads leftover from the sprinkles and mist earlier in morning. a note further note, an accident, deadly accident in petaluma. all lanes cleared. northbound and southbound 101 and san antonio road. another live look out there at the san mateo bridge. this time smooth drive across this span as well. no wind advisories but have haze in the air. we will let you know if visibility is a problem. may be fog creeping along the peninsula side. very smooth. >> thank you very much. it is 6:12 now. still to come on "today in the east bay," you only have one option to walk across the golden gate bridge starting today. find out why one sidewalk is going to be closed.

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welcome back, everyone. a good tuesday morning to you. taking a beautiful live look outside city by the bay. overcast skies to start our day across the bay area. rain in the works as well. we have details on that coming up. 6:15 now. in washington today, there's a vote on whether to raise the debt ceiling. allowing america to borrow more money. america hit its credit limit two

weeks ago and without more credit, the government says we won't be able to pay our bills come august. tracie potts is live on capitol hill where the sticking point in the negotiations is medicare. good morning. >> reporter: that's right. good morning, everyone. in fact, that is expected to fail tonight because republicans control the house and republicans have said we are not extending any more credit. we are not approving an extension of the debt limit until we slice trillions of dollars out of this budget. democrats and republicans separately are negotiating that. we are told that they have come up with about $1 trillion in cuts. but the real sticking point here is medicare. republicans want to turn it into a voucher system. democrats want to change the way that doctors are paid and they don't agree on what to do with medicare. it is a huge part of the federal budget. they have got to slim down the cost of it but that's not politically popular, of course, as a result of -- no

negotiation, success with those negotiations. negotiations stalled and as a result of that, the vote tonight is probably going to fail. >> we hit our credit limit a couple of weeks ago. what happen it is this just keeps getting pushed off? >> reporter: well, what happens next is -- obama administration has said that we have until august 2. we can pay our bills until august 2 by essentially dipping into other funds. after had a we will start defaulting on some of our obligations. republicans are skeptical of that date. you don't see as much urgency there as do you on the democratic side. they think that we can probably push past that date. just a bit. >> yeah. happening to the government and lot of people as well. thank you very much. it is 6:17 right now. a stanford professor could get the nod to become the next u.s. ambassador to russia. president obama is expected to nominate michael mcfall important the top post. he's a political science professor and leading expert in

u.s./russian relations. the 47-year-old is the president's top adviser on the national security council. he's also a key figure in president obama's reset policy which aims to promote shared economic and mutual understanding between both nations. he serve order president's transition team after the 2008 elections. there was only one sidewalk open for a walk or bike across the golden gate bridge starting today. a live look at the bridge this morning. the west sidewalk of the golden gate will be closed for seismic retrofit work. east sidewalk is your only option until about september. bike riders will have 24-hour access while bridge walkers can cross from sunrise to sunset. it is the last phase of the project to retrofit the bridge. we all need goat along. bikers to the right and walkers to the left. i don't know. there has to be a system for it. >> yeah. hey, girls on one side and boys on the other. that's how they did it in grade

school. we are looking okay. 5:45 a.m., sun does not go down until 8:30 at night. we are getting a lot of daylight and showers to get through this morning. streaming onshore. very light in nature. and they are actually very quick movers as well. mostly south of san francisco, nice dry break at this time. lot of this action continues to stream into the north bay. so -- watch out important showers up there. probably until about 11:00 a.m. most of the bay area will see a nice dry break by about 10:00 a.m., cold air sets in. and that will keep our temperatures from the mid 50s, more like gradually climb up about one degree between noon and now in the city. that's how cold this system is. showers on the way throughout the day today. but then by 4:00 p.m., clearing. that sun will shine through. and moisture leftover for couple of pop-up thunderstorms. if anything severe does develop, it will break into coverage and let you know immediately. 60 degrees in oakland. just a very slight chance for that today. but it is that time of year when

the weather is warm enough to fuel those thunderstorms. 65 degrees in san jose. 66 in gilroy. here it is. your wet, windy, cool extended outlook. not looking all that great until we hit saturday. 70 degrees. we will see the showers really early saturday. the second half of the day sun will come out and be able to warm us up to the 70-degree mark. this weekend not great for outdoor plans. that will be your best bet. also another chance on sunday slightly warmer, 75 degrees. and look at me, laura. already thinking about street weekend. we just started the workweek. >> you concerned me. severe conditions come, we will break into tornado. >> tornadic rotation, there is potential. very slight but look at this year where we saw happening last week. not going to let our guard down. >> don't want that in our neck of the woods. good. we have been have to be warned. 6:20. a visit with the bay area native that's fighting in a remote part of afghanistan. and in tech today, twitter and linkeden looking to expand

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welcome back and a good tuesday morning to you. as you are making your way back to work. no doubt after an extended weekend, beautiful live look outside. near the marining a district this morning. fine arts in the distance. it is 6:24 now. i want to get a check of the morning commute with mike. see how things are looking out there. lot of folks heading back to work. >> looking like the commute is back. we will show you 580 through livermore. westbound 20-minute drive now. we haven't seen that for a couple of days. folks took friday and monday off. lot of cases. and this is the commute that's back on a tuesday with the heavier volume as well. now it is -- letting up by the time you get past the avenue. you still have the speeds in the 40s as you are coming lou the area. not showing a heavy volume yet. all those folks will take a while as they get towards fremont. smooth drive to the south bay. 101 starting to sort itself out around tully road. still watch important the slowing at the off ramp and jump on the 101 here.

north of highway 87 coming past the airport. heading up the peninsula, no major delays for 101 or 280. we are looking just north of will where we have slowing. here the speed sensors coming down. southbound direction, disabled vehicle. that's your brisbane exit. live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the lights were turned on at 6:15. >> thank you very much, mike. 6:25 now. "nbc nightly news" took time to show a day in the life of a bay area native. 32-year-old army staff sergeant nick lewis is stationed in a remote part of afghanistan. he lost his parents and grand parents by the time he was 18. and he says that he, quote, became just a bay area stoner until he joined the army. now he spends most of his days trying to stay warm and dry around his wood stove and keeping his men live as they fight taliban forces. >> trying to act like that

father figure to them and look after them. you know. because they are my boys. >> lewis is married with two daughters and live in colorado springs now. the time now is to turn to the tech world, lots going on this morning in social media. >> lot to talk about when it comes to tech. good morning. it looks as though twitter could be get into the photo sharing business. big time. reports suggest twitter is planning to launch its own photo upload and sharing service. possibly this week. bit of a risk, though, because it could upset third party developers such as twit pick. social met working site linkedin is expanding in asia. opening a new headquarters in singapore today. hoping to tap into that region's huge pull of professionals. linkedin is still on high after doubling stock prices during its initial public offering earlier this month. meantime, the anticipation of game makers zynga offer sing growing and expected to top

linkedin's ipo. even before that, zynga plans to lawn a much new game. some suggest it could be its biggest launch to date. our scott budman will have more on that later today. for many people, today is it is a monday, feels like that after the long holiday weekend. we wanted to give you a hug. this may be the ultimate kitten hug. you have to check this out. so far 15 million already watched this on youtube. it is worth it. watch as the mama stretches out and pulls over. >> that's love. >> p that doesn't make you feel nice and warm and fuzzy on this tuesday morning, it is chilly outside, i don't know what will. makes up want to stay in bed. >> yeah, no kidding. cuddly. >> adorable. >> very nice. hugs are nice. 6:27 right now. coming up see how one grocery chain is letting you know p the meat you buy is organic. we will update you on the search for missing nursing student nexs

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coming up on "today in the east bay," one person is killed while crossing a south bay expressway. >> i'm bob redell live in hayward where police are probing the mysterious disappearance of a young nursing student. the latest that coming up. >> reporter: good morning. i'm christie smith. live in rodeo where investigators are dealing with the city's first homicide of the year. coming up, you will hear from neighbors who said they had to take cover from all the bullets that were flying. a live look outside. this time from the south bay hp pavilion. britney spears making an appearance in south bay this weekend. it is tuesday, may 31. . thanks so much for joining us. it is 6:30 now.

i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's get a look of the forecast. hold off on the memorial day white. winter is still hanging on. >> or else you will be seeing oops, i did it again. >> there you go. >> we have showers in the forecast this morning. and right now, they are mostly confined to the north bay. we will show you where they are and headed and what's to come. another round of rain on the way as early as tonight. we will break it down for you. let's get to you work with mike. >> some of the weather affecting folks getting to you. we are look at the maps and slower drive. cloudy skies on my map reflective of what's going on. still just 20 minutes as you get down towards the toll plaza off the bridge. live look out there shows you metering lights have been on since 6:15. backup already forming past the 880 overcross. there are low clouds. we will see how the commute shaping up. busy today. >> what a difference. thank you very much. 6:31. update this morning on the missing hayward nursing student. more questions are being raised about her disappearance. today bob redell is live in

hayward this morning and joins with us the latest. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning. michelle le's family says it would be very unlike her, out of character, for her to just up and leave without telling anyone. the 26-year-old nursing student was taking part in her medical rotations as part of her studies. here in hayward she left around 7:00 provide night during a break. surveillance footage does show her leaving in her car. and that's the last time she is seen. once police became involved officers found that car and her car and parked in a neighborhood and not far from the hospital. >> i think it is suspicious. i think any -- normal individual who think it is a suspicious as well. simply that her car was taken from the parking lot and parked a short distance away, secured. just left there. >> she didn't deserve to have this happen to her. just -- i just want her home. >> reporter: michelle le's

brother tells us his older sister is responsible, calls him on a regular basis, and they believe she does have her cell phone because it wasn't found in the car but every time they tried to call there is no answer. the family has posted fliers and is offering a reward of $20,000 to anyone that can help them find her. reporting live in hayward, bob redell. >> it seems like the familiar sly doing so much to find her. are police releasing very much information about, you know, whether her atm has been used, that type of thing? >> reporter: they have not released any of that sort of information. as i mentioned we do know there's surveillance tape that shows her leaving kaiser- kaiser-permanente. the only information they are release sing her name and description. we have her photo as well. >> thank you very much for the update. overnight an accident that killed a pedestrian in the south bay closed part of an expressway for a short time. chp says the person was struck and killed in campbell on the expressway just north of bud

avenue. officers say they found the victim around 11:00 last night. all southbound lanes were closed to traffic as emergency crews responded. those lanes have since reopened. the chp has not released any more information about that accident. this morning, a horrific accident in the north way. highway patrol is investigating a deadly crash on northbound highway 101 in marin county. it happened just after 1:00 near san antonio road. the chp says the car reportedly crashed into the center divide and then a van slammed into that car. this morning, police in the small city of rodeo are investigating the city's first homicide of the year. christie smith is live with more on the story. >> reporter: good morning. i want to show you what's going on here. now that the sun is coming up. that is that deputies seem to be focusing on the lot will going through it looking for evidence. this is next to where a man in his 20s was shot late last night. sitting in a van. neighbors say that it seemed

like the gunfire just would not stop. this is last tonight around 10:40. deputies believe the shooter was on foot. this is a very tight street. and there are would dead ends here that essentially met up. neighbors say because of the density, there are many apartments here and -- neighbors actually got their own weapons out for protection. they say there was running and yelling and people trying to take cover from what was going on. one neighbor says that -- where he is staying, they tried to shield a 2-month-old baby hoping a bullet would not pierce the wall. >> mom dived on top of the baby in the bathtub and is only 17 years old. this place, that has -- lady there in the corner, hiding in the bushes with her cell phone. she didn't have a chance to -- get out to get to her. we only got one wall roup the victim has not been identified yet this morning but deputies believe he probably lived in the area. no arrests so far. as you said the first homicide

of the year for rodeo. deputies telling me they still need witnesses to come forward. right now it is hard to see but there is a -- tow truck at the top of the hill and that's going to pull the van out and victim sit and the deputies say that's key to gather evidence and piece together exactly what happened here. reporting life in rodeo, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> interesting to see if they have witnesses come forward. it sounds like there were a lot of people around by the description by some of the people at the scene. >> reporter: there were witnesses that -- who described sort of a scene of chaos. now exactly, you know, did they see a shooter and who they saw with weapons, we were asking that and they couldn't really say. they were just kind of description a scene of chaos of people running and yelling. that sort of thing. again, those are probably people that the department piece would like to hear from. >> no doubt. you thank you very much. oakland police are still looking for the people responsible for sunday night double homicide. 28-year-old la toya kennedy of union city and 29-year-old bush were shot on international

boulevard near 88th avenue. the shooting happened after a memorial day party hosted by the east bay dragons motorcycle club. in front of the club, tire marks from from a side show that started after the party. >> like young kids having fun. everything. and then next thing you know, pop, pop, pop. here comes shots. so sad, would of them got killed and one wounded. she is still in the hospital fighting for her life. >> a member of the motorcycle club tells the bay area news group the club's barbecue had ended long before the side shows began. it is 6:37. want to get a check of the forecast with christina loren. change in the works. >> change in the work, laura. we want summertime around here. at least i do. i want the dry weather but we have to get through another week's worth of wet weather across the bay area. hey, summertime just a couple of weeks away. yesterday was the unofficial start of summer and before you know it, we will be in the 90s inland. might want to enjoy this. this could be the last round of

rain. although we are seeing a pretty significant dip in the jet stream. does not look like it is going anywhere the next five days. this is what we are looking at. low pressure just offshore here. you can see it is producing quite bait of shower activity for the pacific northwest for us just spotty activity. mostly confined to the north bay at this time. but you do want to keep your umbrella handy as we head through the next 24-48 hours. as we are going to see several other pulses behind that system of low pressure push onshore. breezy conditions and with systems continuing to climb right over the bay area. it is going to be breezy today, windy this afternoon. windy this evening. tomorrow we will see another round of rain just in time for the morning commute. this is what we are looking at. a.m. showers for today. breezy to windy conditions later on. few pop-up thunderstorms definitely possible. warm enough for that. right now we are tracking these showers as they are happening now. real-time radar shows you. novato getting hit hard. same with petaluma. really south of san francisco, nice dry break. south bay, you haven't seen any action all morning long.

future cast shows you when we stop the clock at 9:00, the track will be taken further to the north. that's where we see most of the shower activity in the north bay. that continues through the 11:00 hour. then we are going to see a dry break between about 2:00 p.m. and tonight. 9:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m. tonight, our next system moves onshore. 55 degrees now in concord. 55 in hayward. cool out there and cool enough for a jacket plus we have rain-cooled air in some cities. it is even colder with a breeze out there making it feel cooler. grab a jacket and keep that umbrella handy. 60 in oakland. just 59 degrees with limited sunshine today in the city of san francisco. 7-day outlook shows we have more rain on the way. we will tell you how much we are expecting before all is said and done. we wake up on sunday, i have your accumulation, your forecast coming up for that. right now let's get to you work. 6:39. >> good morning. note for the drivers, slick roads still out there. yeah, i know. we had memorial day. still rain in the highway. all these folks are back and there is a slowing even the 51 shows slowing in towards bay

point. watch for that passing leverage road still speeds down into the 50s. nice smooth drive through the walnut creek interchange. 580, 680, accident. cleared at greenville and heading westbound slower drive. 23 minutes now. continuing to build but clearing by the time we get to portollo avenue. smooth drive through castro valley. 580. 238. westbound 580. slowing. heading towards san mateo bridge. typical build out of san leandro. live look out there and show you what things like like. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. it is 6:40 now. still to come on "today in the bay," how organic is the meat you are buying. one store chain has a new system to let you know. best airlines to hit the skies for less this summer.we will ha

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welcome back, everyone. 6:43 right now with the unofficial summer travel season in full swing, americans are now booking vacations and travel getaways. while some are paying top dollar for their trip, others still searching for bargains and trying to use those frequent flier miles. tracie potts is live on capitol hill and joins with us a run-down of the best u.s. airlines for redeeming some of those frequent flier points. that's the hard thing. you try to go check them in and they are always, you know, some little asterisks there, details.

>> absolutely. it is frustrating, laura, when you have accumulated all those miles and you see the high ticket prices. and you are thinking i could get that ticket for free. sometimes you can. actually we got this info from a consulting group idea works. they tried 6,700 times to exchange miles for tickets. guess what. they were successful about two-thirds of the time. little bit better than last year. here is their advice. if you are going to try to exchange miles this year, especially this year, because things are already tight with the airlines, they are heavily booked, try the low-cost airlines, southwest, jet blue, at the top of that list, 99% of the time, they were successful with southwest. 79% of the time with jet blue. but when you get to the larger airlines like delta and u.s. airways, they were at the bottom of the list. only one in four tries were they actually able to get a ticket. if you are flying out of sfo, oakland, if you are trying to get out of town, go with those low-cost airlines and you are much more likely to actual lup find a ticket.

>> okay. good to know. sometimes i want to get across town. thanks so much. >> true. crew of the endeavour space shuttle spending their final few hours in space. shuttle scheduled to land 11:30 last night -- sorry, tonight. this is the final voyage for endeavour. spending 300 days in space over its lifetime. atlantis will be the final shuttle launched on july 8. crews will be move it on to the launch pad tonight. this is interesting. whole foods grocery stores say their rating system is a new one for meat. it is helping out animals and customers. they are calling it the five-step animal welfare ratings system. goal to let customers know if they are buying truly organic meats. they range from a one which means no crates, no cages, or crowding to a 5 which means the animals spent their entire lives on one farm. >> rating system is good because

it tells you actually how natural that system is. or that -- that ranch raises their animals to be either completely unaltered, you know, very -- virtually no human contact down to just access to pasture. >> don't want to know what a ten is. whole foods is using that new rating system for pork, beef, and chicken. advocates hope other grocery chains will start using the system as well. 6:46 now. san francisco mayor ed lee wants a 1% sales tax replaced if the state can't extend it. lee is expected to propose putting it on the november ballot. a city sales measure when he presents his proposal to the board of supervisors this week. he says if governor jerry brown is unable to extend a 1% sales tax, he would like san francisco to consider doing one of its own. to try to make up the difference. he said a half dent sales tax could help pay for a lot of things. including health services. giants are trying to get back on the winning track. they are off to a good start

this week. jumped all over the cardinals and st. louis yesterday. did you see it? andres torres hit a grand slam in the fourth inning. giants went on to take it 7-3. the as will host the yankees at the coliseum again tonight. oakland is hoping the bats will come alive against the yanks. last night they were shut out by new york. as lose 5-0, sending a four-game-winning streak for them. east bay native jason kidd getting ready to go for something that has certainly eluded him his entire career. that championship ring. tonight it is the mavericks taking on the miami heat for game one of the nba finals. kidd is, of course, former cal bear at the ripe old age of 38, it could be the oakland native's last shot at a title. kidd says he knows the mavs has experience on their side but it will take much more than that. >> patience is one thing. and -- also just understanding the game of basketball can be very nice and also cruel at the

same time. you just have to, again, we are enjoying this moment put bewould have to try to find a way to win four games. >> isn't that crazy? ripe old age. come on. they can do it. 6:47. boy, if we could turn the temperatures around. that would be great. because we are approaching summer. >> hey, he still has a take on it. i'm a heat fan. did i mention that? go heat. i came from miami. has nothing to do with the weather. good morning to you. we are looking okay. that's going to be a great series. low pressure pushing into the bay area creating a good amount of shower activity up in the north bay. elsewhere mostly dry this morning. it is mostly cloudy out there. that will be the case throughout the day kind of dreary overcast gray day. take a look at what's happening from our radar. you can see here lake tahoe getting a little bit of snow on the very last day of may. very unusual weather. it will continue throughout the week as we pinpoint the showers for you right now. you can see san francisco getting a bit of a break. showers from for the most part coming down to the north of san bruno. this is what we are expecting in

terms of your hour by hour foreca forecast. lingering activity on the peninsula and take this into 11:00 a.m., showers at the north bay. by 2:00 p.m., mostly dry and clear bay area. i'm going to give myself a little buffer because know the future cast. we will say 3:00 p.m., clear bay area. 55 degrees by noon in the city. mostly cloudy at that time with a few showers coming down. then we will take you into 4:00 p.m. when people get off work. breezy conditions. now it will be mostly cloudy at that time. we are still going to be concerned with the potential for some pop-up thunderstorms because of the instability because it is so warm out there. watch out for that. we will keep you updated and jeff and myself, always on duty. as you can see here this is what we are talking in terms of accumulations. by 3:00 p.m. today maybe a tenth of an inch in the north bay. not a lot. as we continue to take this into your wednesday, possibly maybe an inch in the north bay. not expecting a lot of rain until this weekend. when we could pick up to a half of an inch, stronger system on

the way. we can get you the 7-day. 60 for today in oakland. 65 degrees in san jose. substantially cooler than it was yesterday. you will need the jacket all day long. 60, that's it for tomorrow. 63 degrees on thursday. nice dry break. friday we will get a few early showers. then the main event arrives friday into saturday. we could pick up to, like i said, half of an inch in the north bay. very substantial considering tomorrow we start june, laura. back to you. >> no kidding. don't head to the beach just yet. in fact, trip to the beach can end in pain. hundreds of people stung by jellyfish. this memorial day weekend we will show you where. america's got talent is back. we will have a sneak peek coming up next. taking a live look outside. city by the bay. that's what she said. 55 degrees. cool morning. cool day. and rain.g everything off.

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welcome back, everyone. here is a beautiful live look outside at the golden gate bridge. you know, starting today, if you are heading across the bridge, the west sidewalk is actually going to be closed for seismic retrofit work. that means that bicyclists and pedestrians have to share the east sidewalk for about four months until september. bike riders will 24-hour access while bridge walkers can actually cross from sunrise to sunset. it is the last phase of the project to retrofit the bridge. something to just keep in mind if you are headed off through the span. very nice there. mike also has some word on some changes to the cable car system in the city. >> that's right. folks come to the city and try the take a picture at the golden gate bridge. cable car lines also on a nice tourist attraction. lines will be active.

buss will replace the cable cars starting tomorrow lou the end of the week. keep that in mind. you won't be able to ride the rest of the week. a moat for you. let's get back to the morning commute. maps to the south bay where he see a nice slowdown, northbound 101. typical spot. 87 coming up into downtown. our downtown camera gives you a live look at the top of the screen you are going to see backup coming out of the hills and heading up towards -- heading through this area. camera shaking a bit, too. looks like the winds kicked up just a bit. breezy conditions down here. another live look out there shows you 880 coming past the coliseum. volume holding steady. more than we saw yesterday. not so bad for a tuesday. actually pretty good. we are looking for about 8:00 for things to really bog down and also after work because the as are playing at 7:05. we will end with the backup. metering lights turned on at 6:15. backup going back on to the east bay, east shore freeway and sloeg slowing back to the maze. that's the focus of your commute. no major issues on freeways approaching the area other than

the volume increasing. back to you. >> what a difference a holiday can make. waters in the sunshine state gave some beach goers quite a stinging surprise. more than 400 people suffered stings along the weekend. central florida. got to be careful where you step. officials say powerful winds off the atlantic caused a huge number of jellyfish to wash ashore. most people suffered stings to their legs, arms, their bodies. beachgoers were warned to stay out of the water. be careful in the sand, too. luckily no other health problems were reported. just a little stinging surprise. nbc's hit show "america has talent" returns tonight for a new season. >> michael grimm! >> he looks surprised. announcement last year of the winner, michael grimm. not only did he take home a million dollars and his own show in las vegas but he also released his first album earlier this month. this season is expected to pull

a few more surprises. judges say he will -- they will see a lot more unique and crazy performances like that one which sets the show apart from the rest. >> i say this without a doubt, you can expect the unexpected. >> all ages, all sizes, whatever it is, any talent we want to see. >> season 6 kicks off with a special would-hour episode starting tonight at 8:00 right here on nbc bay area. the tech world also full of surprises like when sony went offline. you have a tosony update for us >> we have it all. apple announcing the ceo will deliver the keynote speech in san francisco. steve jobs has been on medical leave since january. but this is not going to stop him from attending the company's annual worldwide developers conference. now his key moat is expected to feature apple's new mac software known as lion. the next version of apple's

iphone and ipad soft where and its new icloud service. like so many tech companies intel is under big-time pressure from april tool compete with its iphones and ipads. intel is giving the laptop a makeover. the company has unveiled a new line of netbooks calling them ultra books. the company officials say they will include the best features of tablets. they will be on sale by christmas and cost under $1,000. yes, the sony saga continues this morning. sony now saying that its online playstation network will be completely restored by this weekend. there is an exception, though, it is not to be restored in asia. just yet. the japanese consumer electronics giant is still dealing, of course, with the effects of hacker attacks and impacted more than 100 million users. april 20, i believe, it actually went offline. nearly two months ago. >> affected a lot of people.

taking time to get that. >> i'm not one of them, though. >> thanks so much for joining us this 340r7k morning. the "today" show is coming up

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