new questions this morning after an east bay nurse vanishes in the middle of her rounds. who was using her phone the day after she disappeared? and do police have the wrong man behind bars in the bryan stow beating case? a live look outside this morning, thursday, june 2nd. this is today in the east bay. well, good morning, everyone, i'm scott mcgrew, 4:30 this week. we have seen it all when it comes to the weather, rain across the bay area, snow in the

sierra, hail along i-80. check this out, even a tornado touching down in yuba city. for more on your forecast, let's check in with christina loren. good morning, christina. >> good morning to you, scott. yeah, it has been a wild ride. we have got more rain on the way, a stronger round, if you can believe it, moves into friday night into saturday. this is what we are working with in the east bay this morning. we don't have a lot of activity. see showers fall apart over the the east bay. not going to see a lot of moisture pass through today, today looks good, tomorrow better for outdoor plans, then the super soaker arrives in time for the weekend. we will break down the timing and how much we are expecting in your city coming up. right now, let's checking your drive, thursday but getting busy to out there, mike. >> not as bad as yesterday, considering the fact we had the full closure for 880 coming through oakland. this morning it is open, look at the maze, approach, smooth drive in dry roads yesterday, sounds like a break, christina, until tomorrow. watch for that a live look, show you there is still issues on the road, flashing lights past the

coliseum, northbound side on the right, construction north of high street toward downtown oakland. only restricted by one lane, the it full closure we had yesterday. much better for the start. back to you. >> 4:31 now. investigators looking into the cause of an overnight fire at the a pleasant hill apartment complex. fire crews responded to the one-alarm fire at douglas lane near oak park boulevard just after 10:30 last night. reports say there was live ammunition inside one apartment, which was involved in the fire. the whole thing was brought under control a short time later. there were no reports of any injuries. now this morning, east bay police trying to track down the person who used a nursing student ease phone hours after she went missing. 26-year-old michelle lane never came back after taking a break while on rounds at kaiser hospital in hayward friday night but police say cell phone records show someone used her phone several times on saturday.

almost two dozen relatives and akwane tenses have been interviewed by police. her family is offering as 20,000 reward for information leading to her safe return. the antioch couple accused of holding jaycee dugard captive for 18 years will likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars. philip garrido and his wife nancy will be sentenced for kidnapping and raping dugard. phillip could receive 431 years while his life is looking at 31 years before she is eligible for parole. both pleaded guilty in april. no word whether dugard will appear at that sentencing. also this morning, a grandmother accused of snatching her granddaughter to pass her off as her own child is facing kidnapping and burglary charges in contra costa county. 58-year-old erica galego shook her head no but did not enter a plea during her court appearance yesterday in martinez.

she was arrested in los angeles county 15 hours after her son and daughter-in-law woke to find their daughter missing from her crib in their home the grandmother told them she was pregnant last fall and then tried to passed off the child as her own. the map accused of murder earring vallejo musician on highway 80 will face a judge today. a santa rosa man accused of shooting dewey tucker on the highway near hercules in january of last year. all four men are suspected gang members. they shot tucker, police say, because they mistook him for being part of a rival gang. he was an accomplished bass player who toured with artists like lauryn hill much the men arrested in january will attend a preliminary hearing this morning. the man accused of brutally beating giants' fan bryan stow says he had nothing to do with the gruesome crime and taken a lie detector test in an attempt to prove it. the prime suspect in the

notorious dodger stadium beating, last night he let prosecutors give him a polygraph test which his lawyers watched through a closed-circuit television. it is the second time this week that ramirez has gone through a lie detector test. earlier in the week, ramirez's defense lawyers gave him their own polygraph which they are hinting he passed. >> i thought it was a professional examination, she did a type job and i was very complimentary of it. that having been said, i don't know what the results of that exam are, but i know what my exam was yesterday. >> ramirez's mother and sister insist he was with family, not at dodger stadium the night of the beating. the "l.a. times" is told that police in nevada think ramirez could be responsible for a gang-related shooting in a city earlier this year in henderson, right next to las vegas. 4:35 right now. an east oakland neighborhood

asking something be done about recent shootings in the area. 200 faith leaders and activists will be meet with city council and other officials to try to find answers. they are pushing for increased use of the city's call-in strategy. that is a national program which moved people involved in street violence away from crime. other cities across the country which have used the strategy have seen fewer shootings. tonight's meeting start at 6 at die world ministries located on international boulevard. this morning, a san leandro man facing serious charges for setting off a chain of crashes on highway 880 in oakland. you remember this schett shutting down all northbound lanes during yesterday's commute. 24-year-old ma tran was driving under the influence when he drifted toward the right side of the road just before sunrise yesterday. investigators say tran spun out of control, crashing into a big rig and another car. four people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

crews spent hours cleaning up 200 gallons of diesel fuel spilled by the truck and turned wednesday's commute into a nightmare for drivers. a team of pro-baseball players home safe this morning, maybe a little shake.after their plane made an emergency landing overnight. the delta airlines flight carrying ball players from the l.a. answer joyce of anaheim landed without incident at l.a.x. last night after the crew reported hydraulic problems. the plane was supposed to land in orange county after leaving kansas city where the angels played a game against the royals. let's check in with christina this morning. good morning, christina. >> good morning to you, scott. boy, yesterday, kind of an active day around here. we didn't see any severe thunderstorm warnings go up. of course, we pointed out at the top of the show, we saw that rotation, tornado touched down in yuba city, not very far off. the difference between the inland area and where we are is it gets a lot warmer there the cold air moves in and collides

with the warm, moist air, yeah, fireworks. today, not under the gun for any sort of dramatic thunderstorm activity, could see light pop-up cells throughout date today. i think you will enjoy today, especially because it is going to be mostly dry. the showers we have are coming through now and anything else we have throughout the day today very isolated, the east bay area. what we picked up yesterday. wall nut creek, almost .4 of an inch, pretty good. castro valley, a little bit over a quarter of an inch, livermore, you picked up .2, same for atlantaer ton what we are looking for today, the showers will push onshore. as you can see, they are falling apart, our atmosphere is dry now, high pressure moving back in the next couple of days, if you want it to make outdoor plans, itching to get outside and the rains kept you in tomorrow the best day for that. this weekend, a really interesting setup, big system of low fresh this sure is going to kind of slide down, as it does so sit offshore and it would

spin, stay stationary the next 24 hours, moves inland enough the bands of rain keep pumping over the bay area, talking about rain measurements in inches even in the south bay. quo see a super soaker over the weekend with, rainfall totals and timing coming up, right now, 4:38. mike, any aftermath from the rain showers is it still slick? >> why are you using the rain gauges in june? stop it. stop t looking over here. i don't need -- this is highway 4 before your main commute westbound the 64, that is typically one with of the first spots we will see slowing, a full closure there, green econom chicklets. keep that in mind, picked up the next 45 minutes, watch thattize understand, the reroute is off and on possibly at that same off-ramp. we will watch for major issues, no delays reported this morning. the carquinez bridge a smooth

drive, may get hit with the showers later on today but not for the morning commute likely, that area, here the eastshore freeway, 18-minute drive off the carquinez bridge from richmond to san raffaele and the bay bridge toll plaza. get a look at bay bridge. wide shot from the san francisco side, no shake to the camera. the bottom, flashing lights, typically construction, from the san francisco side, a couple of lanes blocked, typically block those overnight blocking. a union city man says he is flat-out broke after falling for a lot toe scam in a local dmv. gian sing says he withthrough $9,000 from his checking account that gave the cash to two men who promised to share their lottery winnings, when they got the cash, con artists took off. scammers approached sing near the fremont dmv, claimed they were illegal immigrants could not cash their winnings for fear

of being deported. sing bought their story, now only has $49 in his account. >> i feel bad. so bad. >> investigators warn if the crooks got away with it once, they will likely strike another victim soon. an update to a story we first brought you yesterday morning, you heard about the oakland man who installed security software to take pictures of the person using his stolen computer, now you can meet him, guy who got laptop justice. joshua kaufman, whose laptop was stolen in march. that afternoon, he turned on hidden security software he had installed. sure enough, a matter of days, it started taking pictures of the computer user, logging the man's computer use, where he was using the laptop. kaufman started a blog called, hey this guy has my macbook, attracting ate tens of thousands of people, including the oakland police.

>> i tweeted on my blog and immediately had thousands of tweets and likes and spread through the internet like wildfire and oakland police called me and said they were going to do something about it. >> kaufman had had learned the suspect, and remember at this point, only a suspect, worked as a driver so police called for a ride and arrested the man on the spot. now, kaufman has his computer back. coming up, candidates are lining up for the 2012 presidential race. we will tell you who just ahead. plus -- >> people talk about water but we are stuck in the ice ag he p don put the skis away yet. plenty of fresh powder still falling in the sierra.

4:44. deja vu all over again when it comes to the 2012 presidential race. this morning, a familiar face starting up his catch pain for the white house, former massachusetts governor mitt romney. nbc's tracie potts has a look at the candidates and how the gop race is shaping up. >> reporter: mitt romney's need clear, he is the anti-obama. >> he has been one of the most ineffective presidents at the job at hand that i have ever seen. >> reporter: today on a farm in the first primary state, new hampshire, he will make it official. with that announcement comes more scrutiny, like how president obama's health plan was based on romney's. >> my bill was 70 pages. his bill is 2,700 pages.

in those extra 2,630 pages, he is doing a lot of stuff that is just devastating to the health care system in this country. >> reporter: but romney's first challenge may be sarah palin. >> that might unthe best thing that could happen torn mitt romney is for sarah palin to announce because then he would be a more reasonable alternative to her. >> reporter: her bus tour is generating a lot of publicity but is it leading to a presidential announcement? >> i don't know. i honestly don't know. there are many more out there who have much more to add. a lot of shuffling around. >> reporter: her answers, unclear. for now, so is the field of republican candidates. whoever runs, they will need a lot of money. president obama's campaign is trying to raise $60 million this month. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. 4:46. sony says its play station network will be fully restored in u.s. today after a security breach affected more than 100 million online accounts. for more news before the bell, let's turn into nicole lapman,

cnbc headquarters. good morning, nicole. >> hey, good morning to you, scott. the dow slumped -- it was nasty, brace yourself, 279 points yesterday, 12,290 is where we closed. that was the worst day for the dow since last august. the nasdaq composite tanked 66 points, 2,769 where we close there had. futuresthe pretat flat. i just checked it out. touch higher but investors holding their breath after yesterday's big selloff. investors spooked by more weak economic data a huge drop in manufacturing conditions last month, fewer private sector jobs created. so that went over to asian market wednesday they woke up and that trickled over to europe. they are also significantly in the red now and presumably, depending on how the economic data goes this morning that could trickle over to us. we are looking ahead to more numbers on unemployment, productivity and factory orders up today. also, retailers are reporting their may sales today as well, a lot to look ahead to those

receipt necessary may are supposed to reflect how much gas prices are actually crimping the u.s. consumer around the demand for summer clothes already and other discretionary items. total sales are forecast to rise 5.4% but you know that's -- you know, just the headline number, you have to look below that, down nearly 9% from april, boosted by a late easter. stores also blaming the weather. you guys don't know, just close your ears on this one, as cool conditions for the rest of the country, wet conditions in april spilled over into early may, right ahead of mother's day. also this is a crazy story, thought you might be interested in this google says chinese hear, targeted g mail accounts of hundreds of prominent people, the second major attack in as many years. google says senior government officials, military officials, chinese activists, journalists, maybe you and i were tricked into sharing passwords. the attacks seemed to originate from 250 miles southwest of beijing, also home to one of the

chinese army's technical reconnaissance bureaus, the equivalent of the national security agency. >> tough stuff. >> google knows all. >> yep. >> nicole lappin. thank you very much. nicole says we don't get bad weather but you know we don't normally get rain this time of the year in the bay area, more unusual, snow in the sierra, getting a bunch of it this week, more on the way. richard sharp reports from kingville where local say they have had had enough. >> people talk about water, but we are stuck in the ice age. >> incredibly frustrating, ready for some sun. i heard there is something called dirt out there, i don't believe there that there's grass. >> reporter: the at tink iter station, the lows are practically slap happy from all the snow. >> welcome to open mike wednesday on donner summit. >> reporter: the snow provided a few inches of snow on the ground, but here at kingville are, they are dealing with snowbanks ten feet tall. the people here keep a running total of the snow season that

won't end. >> 67 feet. >> 67 feet here? >> yeah. >> reporter: so much snow, this man has had enough. you are thinking about move? >> i am moving. i already bought another house. >> reporter: the snow shutdown construction on i-80, even experienced truck drivers can't believe it. 20 years of trucking, ever seen snow this late? >> no i haven't. >> that was richard sharp reporting. now, we have some live pictures of eastbound 80 in kingville, where the snow is still lining the roadway in the sierra. christina, we are told the sierra has as much snow now as it normally does in april. >> what the heck? >> i know, thunderstorms coming. >> tornadic rotation. we had three tornadoes. we actually went over what happened in chico last week and we had seven tornadoes, it turns out there were three tornadoes total, one, an ef-2. definitely wild weather.

we are in for more of the same. summertime is out there. just wait a little bit later to get to it. showers coming through the east bay, just falling apart. we have got dry air over the east bay and south bay, step out of the way, those cloud, the golden gate bridge, the dividing line for showers today, be the case through this afternoon, tomorrow, the showers approach everybody tomorrow night. this is what we are looking at. i put together a he very, very complicated forecast. picked up quite a bit of rain yesterday. nothing like we are expecting, friday night, saturday, even into sunday. .4 in walnut creek, pretty impressive, showers falling apart, you don't have to worry about heavy rain for your morning commute. the jetstream has taken a significant dip. you probably hear us talk about the pineapple express that is the jetstream, typically what we see in january. it just brings all the storm systems into the bay area. we head through the next couple

of days, this is what it looks like, low pressure offshore, turn stationary, sit here and spin, a couple different things when it comes to the forecast, moves inland enough, sits and spins, dump rain over the the bay area, we could pick up to three inches of rain in the heaviest spots. it sits offshore far enough, not going to see those bands moving inland, it will pick up an inch of rain. what the forecast is picking up now, the cell comes in, pretty strong front, 4 p.m. friday, continues to sit offshore and spin, the coast the most rain and finally, a little bit of a break 4 p.m. saturday and then moves inland for sunday, look at your accumulations, we will go more into detail for this a big rap, but this is what you will see. rain on saturday, rain on sunday, few showers monday. there is your clearing, scott, tee time, 7 2 degrees wednesday. the couple accused of more earycug dn d i than a decade, we will continue

our coverage of the garridos

with a live report just ahead.

welcome back. we will continue to follow nancy and phil car made dough all day. they pled guilty to kidnapping and holding a northern california girl for 18 years. today in the east bay's christie smith live in antioch where jaycee dugard was held against her will. good morning, christie.

>> reporter: this home looks exactly like it did when the story broke except for the windows are now boarded up and the front fence is starting to fall down. now, of course this is the home where young jaycee dugard was held for many years, captive in a backyard shack and there are questions this morning as the garridos are sentenced as to whether she might appear in court and give a victim impact statement but she doesn't have to phillip and nancy garrido have become a negative curiousity to media worldwide, scheduled to be sentenced today in el dorado superior court, nearly 20 years after they kidnapped 11-year-old dugard near south lake tahoe and held her as a sex slave. philip garrido is now 60 years old, expected to be sentenced to 431 years to life. his wife, nancy, 36 years to life. the couple pledded guilty in april. it's unclear at this point whether the garridos will make a statement as well but we are told that media worldwide is expected to be there. reporting live in antioch,

christie smith, today in the east bay. >> christie, thank you. coming up, pink slips for men and women in blue. south bay crime fighters battle the budget crunch. and another northern california

twister, some new video just ahead.

new this morning, the san jose police department is another step closer to making painful cuts. good morning, i'm marla day yez. i'm going to have the latest on the negotiation talks to save some officers coming up in my live report. the crazy weather just keeps coming. another tornado spotted in northern california. we will tell you where. in the meantime, live look outside, clear right now at the bay bridge. is it going to be a rainy day?