>> reporter: new this morning first lady michelle obama swings through the bay area. we'll tell you what she's doing here and why some local chefs are so excited. that story coming up. >> balancing the budget on the backs of some of the east bay's most vulnerable students. the special ed cuts just ahead. and back in the bay area, johannas mehserle's first full day of freedom. we'll tell you where he plans to live and what he wants to do now that he's out of jail. it's tuesday, june 14th. this is "today in the east bay."

good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. it's 4:30. i think summer has started. let's get an east bay forecast. >> not officially, that's the 21st. but you're right on the money. it's going to feel summerlike in the east bay. i'm going 90s. i'll let you know how warm it's expected to be and how long this warm-up will last. that's coming up. back to you. >> thanks a lot. good morning everyone. beautiful day "today in the east bay" and across the bay area. a look at the approaches to the bay bridge, top speeds, this dude going 80 miles per hour. we had an accident. northbound 680. that is clearing as we speak. so that's a first check of traffic on this morning. scott? >> all right. 4:31. new this morning, first lady michelle obama in the bay area,

chefs working to get ready to welcome her to an east bay breakfast. christie smith is live at the clairemont hotel in the berkeley hills. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. one indication that the first lady is coming is all of the no parking signs around the clairemont hotel in the east bay hills. she is making a couple of stops, the first one here at the clairemont where i can tell you they have been working very hard to spruce things up. a democratic national committee breakfast. congressman barbara lee issuing a statement saying i'm delighted the first lady accepted my invitation to the east bay. her second stop will be in san francisco, a lunch at the juliet morgan ballroom. guests paying $2500 each to attend. in the kitchen chefs excited about her push to get people thinking eating healthy and getting fit. at the clairemont hotel, the red carpet is ready to roll out and flowers are freshly planted in

her honor. >> looked on the internet and looked at the first lady's favorite colors, we planted them outside for her. her first impression hopefully is a great one. >> reporter: in the kitchen organic eggs, fresh mushrooms and shaved asparagus with alice waters preparing the meal. breakfast gets under way at about 8:45 this morning in san francisco they are having chicken and salad and potatoes, we're told that some of the chefs went out of their way to send the first lady some tamales. reporting live, christie smith, "today in the east bay." >> all right, thank you much. 4:33. preparing for the worst. today the mt. diablo school board is expected to vote on $4 million in cuts. this vote is a worst case backup plan in case governor brown's proposed tax extensions don't come through. money saving ideas include

cutting special education, trimming or ending bus service, and cutting medical benefits for school board members. the board is also considering money raising ideas, including a new parcel tax, selling advertising, and letting phone companies install cell phone towers on school property. >> the man identified by l.a. cops as the primary suspect in the attack on bryan stowe has yet to be charged even though he has been in custody for a month. detectives have been able to keep giovanni ramirez in custody on an alleged parole violation. the police chief says they are making use of the time to do additional investigating but time is running out. ramirez' hearing for his alleged parole violation is friday. his attorney doesn't think that police can get ramirez and tie him to the gun in an apartment found where he lived with his roommates. that is the parole violation.

bryan stowe still in a coma. >> former b.a.r.t. officer johannas mehserle waking up a free man. lawyers say mehserle -- the former officer they say, hopes to be able to live in the bay area now that his jail sentence is over. lawyers say mehserle has reun e reunited with his girlfriend and young son, hopes to get a better job. what that will be is up in the air. mehserle was convicted last year of killing unarmed b.a.r.t. passenger oscar grant on a platform at the fruitvale b.a.r.t. station new years day, 2009. >> fallout in oakland where protesters filed a suit against the oakland police department saying officers violated their civil rights when they gathered to protest, mehserle's sentence back in 2010. police arrested 150 people during that protest. none of them were charged but the lawyers filed a class action suit anyway, claiming the protesters were mistreated.

>> the police corralled them and refused to give them an opportunity to leave, and in mass arrested them. then treated them miserably as punishment for exercising their rights. >> the oakland city attorney's office will not comment on the suit, saying the city hasn't examined it yet. >> alameda has a new police chief, mike noonan. the announcement came in russo's first official day on the job. noonan has served as interim chief. he starts work as full chief immediately. >> down to the wire, state lawmakers have until tomorrow to agree on a budget or they won't get their paychecks. governor brown calling on the legislature to set aside differences to close the state's almost $10 billion deficit. brown wants a combination of cuts and that extension of a tax

increase we talked about earlier to close the gap. so far he has rallied support from business groups, educators and law enforcement. >> we've got to do the business of california. in order to do that, i believe the plan that i propose should be adopted or something very close to it. >> brown needs four more republican votes to get approval for a statewide ballot measure on the tax extension. >> state democrats pushing the governor to opt out of a federal program that flags illegal immigrants who are arrested even if they are not convicted of a crime. the electronic data base checks every person arrested and fingerprinted by police. since last year more than 3900 bay area immigrants have been deported through the system. >> this morning more fallout after a reported gun fight among teen students turns out to be a middle school anti-violence project. this morning two oakland school district employees are on leave

while police investigate. over the weekend police rushed to the scene of a reported gun fight at union point park, only to find teenage boys running around with rifles. they were making a video for an anti-violence campaign at their school. they were supervised by two adult staffers. one of the guns used by the teen was real but not loaded. police say they did not fire their guns but they could have. >> this morning a reminder if you live in the dublin area, alameda county firefighters will burn dry brush at the training center on matigan road. this helps get rid of excess vegetation. the clearing starts this morning at 8:00 until 3:00 in the afternoon. >> once in a while this goes wrong, especially due to high winds. let's check in with christina. >> boy, we don't want that. this morning we've got calm winds out there, so we're looking okay. because of the calm winds, however, i think we're going to see a little bit of fog as we

head throughout the morning hours, especially in the north bay and along the peninsula as well. high pressure is in control right now. as we head throughout the morning i think we're going to see fog. won't last long, probably by about 8:30 it will be out of here. hot conditions inland. and we're looking pretty good across the board. nice and warm, almost at 60 in concord. forget about the coat this morning. 55 in livermore and 55 in hayward. as we head throughout the afternoon, where we're headed, take a look at these 90s. this is going to be the warmest day all year so far. hope you're ready for. 90 in concord, 90 in napa, 90 in fairfield, livermore and gilroy. if you are headed to san francisco you're going to get a treat, 75 is the high today. when you get back to the east bay, temperatures are going to be toasty. i've got your seven-day outlook coming up. i'll let you know how long this is going to last. i've got the details coming up. let's get you to work with

monique. >> i almost wore my white pants but i thought no good. you know what is good, the commute for antioch moving at top speeds. we have a hiccup, eastbound 4, we have report of an accident. other than that, road work to tell you about. northbound, 680, the east bound 580, that ramp is closed till about 6:00 a.m. and i drove past that this morning so yes, it is closed. and in hayward, southbound 880, the ramp to the eastbound 92 is closed till about 5:00 a.m. this morning. let's head out and look at the san mateo bridge. traffic is flowing nicely. it's going to take about 13 minutes to get across from hayward to foster city. scott. >> thank you much. coming up life is a highway. "the social network"ing program that helps you connect behind the wheel. does it veer off course in creepy territory? we'll take a look. it's a marathon, not a race a.

wireless provider may finally get the iphone.

>> good morning everyone. it's 4:43 as we take a live

picture of 880 out past the coliseum. high def video calls and a wireless provider on the iphone bandwagon. it's nicole lapin. good morning. >> good morning. futures are higher after wall street struggled to stay near the flat line yesterday. a downgrade of credit rating offset the takeover deals. as investors continue to worry about global economic slowdowns. big economic reports today focusing on producer prices, business inventories and retail sales which are expected to drop due to weak car sales. best buy reports earnings before the open, but yesterday the dow rose 1 point, 11,952 is where we closed. the nasdaq fell to 2639. also this morning comcast is teaming up with skype to bring video calls to your television. consumers will be able to make

and receive calls using skype software, a video camera, a set top box and remote control. it doesn't matter if the person on the other end uses a phone, a pc or a television. that's our parent company. and at long last spript users may be able to get the iphone. reports say that apple is in advanced tests for an iphone that's compatible with sprint's wireless network. apple is set to order sprint cell towers last year. apple conducted tests, you remember, with the verizon towers months before announcing a verizon iphone. >> thank you much. have you ever wanted to scold another driver for speeding or cutting you off and maybe ask them out for a date as well. one company tried to be the face book for your car. it allows drivers to connect via license plates. vicki nguyen has more on this new player in the social media game.

some say it's cool. others call it creepy. >> reporter: it turns out there are at least two things that just about all of us have. a cell phone and a license plate. and mitch, the ceo of bump.com is betting you're going to like an idea he says is sort of facebook and force ware meets low jack. >> a communication platform around your vehicle which you're going to spend five years of your life in. >> bump.com has entered 250 million license plates, that's every registered vehicle in the u.s., into its data base. users can go to the company website and claim their plate that allows them to send messages to others who also signed up. >> comes in and says this is my license plate, you can send me messages if you see me. >> 20-year-old kourtney has signed up and thinks it's a great idea. >> i think it's practical. i mean, you know, especially living in the mission beach area, parking gets tricky and

sometimes you get boxed in. it would be great to send somebody. >> the company has partnered with businesses to offer discounts, deals and coupons users can receive over cell phones. >> we send out certificates and coupons to everybody that drives down prospect street so people can log in and receive a discount to the museum cafe. >> this is where some feel things get sticky. bump.com is using license plate reading technology via existing security cameras, whether it's in a public parking lot or fast food joint that bump partnered with. that technology allows the companies to track your consumer habits through your license plates. >> i think that's pretty creepy to drive into a parking lot and have a store owner there all of a sudden send me a message on my phone, even if it is a coupon. >> amanda is concerned bump.com isn't up front with how your information is being passed on to its business partners.

>> i think it's scary that they are investing in mobile capture technology where they are tracking license plates and they are infiltrating security cameras and i think that's creepy. >> in 2004, people were thinking that facebook was creepy because their personal information was up and available for people to see. >> thrower says users control who gets their information and they can block any one from sending them coupons. so what do you think? cell phones, security cameras, license plate reading technology. staying connected or big brother watching? >> not as much of a big brother, more of a little brother, because the consumer has control and power with bump over the information that they are broadcasting, and how they want to receive benefits as a result. >> vicki nguyen, "today in the east bay." >> 4:48. proving there are no new ideas, years ago some company would sell sweatshirts with numbers, you could enter that in the

internet and say hey, i saw you. do you want to go out or what not. repeating ideas in the internet. >> where do i get one of those sweaters. sign me up. good morning to you. just kidding. high pressure in control. i bet you can find anybody on facebook these days. high pressure is going to keep us warm in the east bay. i hope you're ready for this. if you work outside, make sure you bring the water bottle with you. you might throw it in the freezer now if you have time to let it freeze. it's going to be hot. 90s in the east bay. the hottest weather we've had all year so far. we're starting out mild, 59 in concord, 58 in fairfield and 56 degrees in napa. this is where our highs ended up a couple days, weeks ago. make sure, this 90-degree weather doesn't catch you offguard. you see the reds and oranges these are lunch time temperatures. 79 in concord. 72 in hayward as you break for

lunch rounding out the day in the 90s. this is not the warmest day of the week. we'll tack on a couple more degrees tomorrow. 90 in napa, 77 oakland and 88 in fremont. after tomorrow on shore flow starts so this is short-lived. we have to get through two toasty days before we see the marine air drop in dropping our temperatures to 85 for thursday, looking great for this weekend. if you want to make outdoor plans, tee times with dad, go ahead sunday, father's day, 75, a little on the breezy side. great for barbecuing. if i was scott mcgrew's son, which i'm not, i'd make sure i had a great gift for him. something technology. >> i've got everything technology. but i have two sons so twice the chance. coming up the high wire act for east bay thieves, the high cost of their quick money scheme. and the most expensive musical in broadway history premiers

again, the changes that bono made as super man hits the great white way. >> a look at the drive through oakland. we'll have a look coming up.

>> 4:53. police in antioch say thieves target pg&e to steal copper. thieves have tripped copper from 300 poles. during the same time last year fewer than 10 copper thefts were

reported. officers say they are seeing a surge in copper thefts especially north of highway 4, copper thieves make quick cash by selling the copper as scrap metal. >> the bay area's rapture evangelist is recovering from a stroke. we're told that harold camping is resting. he made international headlines after predicting the end of the world a few weeks ago on may 21. the 89-year-old then revised the date to october 21. staff members at his oakland ministry say they will be playing prerecorded programs by camping until he is well enough to get back on the air. >> unbelievable pictures of a sail boat crash in the bay. bob redell was racing with those guys. >> you have to see the pictures to believe it. the oracle team demonstrating some of the fastest sail boats in the bay area. as they try to generate excitement for the upcoming america's cup races.

take a look. yeah. the catamaran hits a wave and flips on the water. our own bob redell was on the water racing with the team moments before that boat flipped. was he involved? we'll find out. wait until you see the video at the end of his ride. live with team oracle all morning long. it's going to be fun. >> thank you much. let's check in with monique as far as traffic goes. >> good morning, scott. happy tuesday. let's look at the bridge check. carquinez bridge, venecia bridge, great. i checked with chp, no fog advisories and the bay area bridges that's good news. taking a look at the drive through the tri-valley, westbound 580 is smooth sailing, at top speeds there, a 15-minute ride. and the same news in hayward, looks good, wrapping up construction, southbound 880 to the east bound 92 ramp. and as we head out live, look at that shot of oakland. nimitz freeway looks beautiful.

a little bit of construction there. they should wrap that up any moment now. scott. >> thank you much. after months of bad injuries bad reviews and the firing of its creative director the curtain is going to rise again on the production of super man turn off the dark. the producers say the $75 million show has been completely owe over hauled. that doesn't mean jokes about the production are coming to an end. >> i am spider monster. watch me fly. through the sky. >> that's not flying. you just fell on me. >> you know it's going to be a bad day. the premier of spider man turn off the dark tonight at 7:30. what could possibly go wrong.

coming up police say they know who dumped a woman's body on a front lawn. why did it happen? we'll have the latest on that investigation. and vintage year or soggy harvest? we'll find out if you'll be stocking your wine cellar with 2011. a look at the bay bridge as we get ready for laura.

>> new this morning. amazing video of the team oracle boat capsizing in the san francisco bay. our own bob redell along with the team. >> reporter: and the future of prop 8 hangs in the balance. it won't be long before its fate is known. i'm going to have the latest on the same-sex marriage case involving the gay judge coming up. >> reporter: new this morning first lady michelle obama is here in the bay area this morning. we'll tell you what she's doing, e