bay." good wednesday morning,000. halfway through the week. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. we want to get a look at our weather and our traffic this morning, pulling double duty. christina loren. good morning. >> good morning to you, laura. good news in the weather department. we downgraded hot icon to warm. not quite as hot, no triple digits in the forecast. as warm as i'm going is about 98 up in clear lake. for us in the bay area, north bay, east bay cities will be in the low 90s today. so some much needed cooling on the way. we've got a bigger cool down as we head through this weekend. we'll talk about that coming up. right now get you to work on time, a couple of things to tell you about. new accident, northbound 280, alpine road. watch out for police on the scene there. you're going to find one lane blocked. that could be in place for another 15 minutes. traffic, though, very, very light this early. you don't have to worry about adding extra time to your travels. we also have a live shot of 880 in oakland.

you're going to find construction slow for the cone zone this morning. northbound 880 from broadway to avaline. we'll let you know if it wraps in time. back to you, laura. thank you very much. 5:00. police chief says budget cuts have taken a toll on his department and something has to change. he's planning to reshuffle his staff so it can operate more efficiently. marla tellez joins us live this morning with a preview. good morning, marla. >> reporter: good morning, laura. later this morning chief anthony bass is going to give details to the plan to reshuffle his department and those changes are going to be implemented very soon, this weekend, in fact. in the wake of budget cuts the police chief says the department needs to be reshuffled because it currently has 638 officers. that's almost 200 less than its peak strength of 832 officers.

that was back in 2008. a year ago budget cuts forced 80 officers to be laid off. what's worse, attrition has his department losing six officers a month for the next two years. the chief says the major feature of his reorganization plan is to divide the current bureau field operations into two bureaus, each to be led by a deputy police chief. now, how this is actually going to affect public safety and what this means, we're going to have to wait to hear what he has to say today. in a letter to oakland, residents chief batts writes -- the president of the police union that represents the opd says the plan means less priority will be given to property crimes such as burglaries and thefts and in

many cases wouldn't be investigated at all. chief batts is going to explain his plan at oakland police headquarters at 11:00 this morning. and saturday july 9th. thank you very much, marla. the man accused of breaking into a woman's home in oakland and raping and robbing her is expected in court. deion mcdaniel is the man in this cell phone video. after the attack the woman had the wherewithal to pick up the cell phone and take this video. mcdaniel is expected to enter a plea of charges to rape and burglary today. gang retaliation is blamed for a recent shooting spree in richmond. police say rival gang members were looking to avenge an earlier shooting at night. one of those killed was bailey, who was working two jobs during the day while also attending college. the 19-year-old wanted to become a counselor or social worker.

killing come after shootings in the night, in all four wounded. there have been eight homicides since june in richmond raising the total to 15. you may have been awakened by a little shaking. the quake street south of holster. no reports of damage or injuries. a school teacher will pay a fine for destruction of artifacts. a civil jury ordered margaret and her relatives to pay a san jose man $750,000. papers written by physicist albert einstein were destroyed during the wildfire back in 2007. she was found responsible for starting that fire when she was illegally burning material. more than 47,000 acres burned, four homes destroyed. attorneys say the fine is excessive and is seek agnew

trial. we've heard about how much california has had to cut back on expenses in order to rein in a multi-million dollar deficit. while the state was slashing budgets, some employees were still receiving sky high paychecks. "today in the bay's" bob redell outside the state building in san francisco. some employees made over half a million dollars last year. >> reporter: laura, the top five employees who work for the state of california earned over $560,000 last year. the top paid person was a prison doctor who took home a little more than $777,000. this was in 2010. a dentist also with the department of corrections was just shy of $600,000. there are more than 1400 people who earned more than $200,000 last year. many of them medical personnel with departments of corrections and mental health. now, these numbers represent a combination of salary, overtime,

bonuses and payouts of unused vacation and sick time, which is supposed to be capped at 80 days, but for whatever reason many state agencies ignored that limit. now, state controller john chiang posted online the earnings of the quarter million people who worked for the state. he just released these numbers within the past 24 hours. he did this in the interest of full disclosure after the city of bell, california, had that scandal which employees there were paid absorb tant amounts of money. they have been voted out of their jobs or fired for that case. spokesperson for federal receivership in charge of the prison health care system defends the high pay of prison medical personnel, pointing out those people could be earning more in the private sector and that a lot of those employees couldn't use their vacation time because they were so short staffed at the time. but many of those positions the spokesperson points out have since been filled, meaning they

shouldn't be seeing such large payouts again in the future. by the way, if you're wondering where does the governor rank in all this, he's certainly not at the top of the list. governor jerry brown's salary, the governor makes just shy of $174,000. reporting live here in san francisco, bob redell, "today in the bay.." >> very interesting. thank you very much, bob. it's 5:07. attending state college could get more expensive this coming fall semester. california state university chancellor charles reed will ask trustees to raise tuition by 12%. if approved undergrads would have to pay more than $6400 per semester which includes mandatory campus fees. university officials say increases needed to offset funding cuts from recently approved state budget, $650 million was slashed with a possibility of more cuts by winter. alameda county will have to do a better job helping voters who don't speak very much english. the department of justice sued

the county for violating the federal voting rights act by failing to distribute ballots and other election materials in chinese and spanish. under a settlement the county agreed to provide election related materials in chinese and spanish and staff polling sites with bilingual workers for voters. more than 22% are latino, nearly 10% are chinese. this morning b.a.r.t. and muni extended a joint pilot program that allows seniors and disabled unlimited access to ride the systems. yesterday the agencies announced they would add six more months to the project which gives discounted tickets to seniors and disabled passengers. officials say the $26 monthly pass provides for muni and b.a.r.t. service. it will be extended january 2012. passes awarded on a first come, first serve basis to the first 1,000 senior and disabled passengers. all right. let's see how the forecast is going to look for today.

cooling trend starting, christina? >> yes, are we happy about it. good morning, give your ac a break by this weekend. probably need it in the warmest spots across the bay, he's bay and south bay, still a little on the warm side but not as warm as it has been. we're going to subtract 5 to 7 degrees on average from where we ended up yesterday. can you see where the storm track has taken all the way up into canada high pressure this area of clearing from the california coastline to the eastern pacific, that's high pressure. it's going to keep us warm today, but it is breaking down as we head through tomorrow. we're going to notice some differences today, especially in the south bay and in the areas if you live near the mountains you will notice a difference, especially east bay hills. more cloud cover, monsoonal moisture will come up and maybe thunderstorms. 92 in san jose, down from 95 yesterday. 79 degrees in richmond, 92 in benicia and moraga and 85 in redwood city. another beautiful day in san

francisco. temperatures only maxes out in the 70s. up in the north bay 89 in santa rosa. >> temperatures continue to fall, we like that trend, 84 by sunday. if you want to make outdoor plans because you couldn't last weekend because it was too darn hot, you'll get a chance this weekend. 15 degrees cooler than last saturday and sunday. that's good news. let's get right to traffic this morning. it's a back to work wednesday. overall still really light across the board. a lot of people have the summer off. of course not a lot of people up at 5:00 in the morning. we have an accident northbound 280, alpine road, chp on the scene there. don't want to go racing by those guys. take it easy through there. one lane blocked 10 to 15 minutes. live look at the bay bridge shows you traffic moving really nicely this morning. take a look at that beautiful shot. we're so lucky to live here, laura. >> isn't it gorgeous. >> yeah, it is. >> very picturesque.

>> thank you very much. 5:10 right now. central california man has tweeted his way to an up close and personal look at friday's final shuttle launch. anthony wright of davis one of 150 people from nasa to win the twitter contest by tweeting about the upcoming launch. as a result he will get the closest seat to the launch pad available. "atlantis" is scheduled to lift off friday morning provided weather is good. when it returns, it will be retired marking an end of an era in u.s. space exploration program. it's 5:11. amazing video of a dust storm in arizona. we're going to show it to you coming up. a lot of people remembering a san francisco woman who paved the way for gay rights. plus no more unlimited data on ?veri what? the cell phone carries new it means for at

you coming up in a live report.

. wow, i just love this shot this morning. beautiful, beautiful of the bay bridge this morning. thanks to photographer aaron murphy up early out there. got a great eye for photography this morning. some great picturesque places we have in the bay area. it's 5:14 right now. she wowed audiences for years. this morning people in san francisco are remembering the oldest and continuously performing drag queens. she died from an undisclosed illness. she performed in san francisco for more than 50 years at aunt charlie's lounge in the tenderloin. in addition to making a name on stage she was one of the first in the nation to undergo gender assignment surgery.

some of her fans say she paved the way for gay rights. she was 76-year-old. presidents and lawmakers continued to fight it out. they are scheduled for a big meeting. check in with nichol lapin live at the world headquarters there. good morning. >> hey, very good morning to you. futures are flat ahead of the market open. this is after the dow snapped a five-day rally yesterday. investigators largely shutting off moody's portugal rating to junk status and await jobs later this week. wets a report on nation's services. dow the do you looking 12,569 is where we closed.

the nasdaq lost nine points at 2825. president obama has called congressional leaders to white house for a summit on the budget deficit. the president says he and lawmakers made progress over the weekend but still have differences to hash out. he set a two-week deal to reach the debt limit or borrowing limit so they can pass the bill before august 2nd when the u.s. will run out of money to pay bills. republicans oppose any tax hikes and any deal. more details on the plan for data used every month on the smartphone. the cap supplied new customers upgrading to smart phones. you'll be able to choose $30 for two gigs, $50 for five, $80 for ten. 95% of customers actually use less than two gigs a month.

sprint is the only u.s. carrier to offer unlimited data. >> let me get it straight. you're grandfathered in if you already have a smartphone? >> right. if you're a new subscriber or upgrading to a smartphone. >> so if you're an old subscriber, not so bad to be old. >> exactly. i think i got that. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. we've got pretty amazing video of a massive dust storm as it sweat through central arizona. national weather service said dust pushed by 50 and 60-mile-an-hour winds overnight. we used to call them monsoons when i lived there. knocked out several power lines and caused one fire. look at that spinning around. it forced officials to close phoenix sky harbor airport and severely reduced visibility in a lot of roadways. so far no one was reported

injured or killed. but it's amazing to see those things coming. just a wall that comes rolling in. >> looks like armageddon. >> another thing i don't miss about arizona. that and the heat. i had a friend that e-mailed me and said it was 119. >> ouch, ouch, ouch. you know what, we're going to see some of that monsoonal moisture in the bay area today believe it or not. could produce a couple of thunderstorms. >> not to that extent. >> of course not. of course not. that's actually what we call a gust front. in order to get a gust front like that, you need a really strong line of thunderstorms. what happens is it forces all that air in at once. bad air quality in arizona today, as you can imagine. for our area, we're just going to see a little bit of spinoff from that monsoonal flow in the form of instability. enough instability and moisture sent in our direction for some pretty isolated thunderstorms. some of these storms could be strong. we're watching for that, the best possibility to see storms will be, of course, in the south

bay and wherever we get that orograph orographic. especially the mountains in the south. this is what we're looking at. high pressure firmly in control of our weather pattern. another warm day across the bay, just not quite as warm as it has been. we're talking about monsoonal moisture. it will produce a muggy-like atmosphere especially in the south bay. you'll probably notice the big difference if you're waking up in the south bay. this is where we're headed throughout the remainder of the week, prefiated workweek. hopefully you had the fourth of july we didn't. 89 on thursday, 88 friday. chief meteorologist you notice tuesday he put wash car on there. i don't know if he's talking to you, talking to me. i think he may be clarifies the fact we're not going to get any showers. hey, i take that personal this morning. >> exactly. put it on the rear window there. >> wash me. >> exactly. nbc bay area teaming up with local food banks and businesses to help feed the hungry. we worked with subway to raise

$30,000 for bay area food banks. representatives presented that check yesterday. fund-raiser officially kicks off today. between now and july 24th, you can drop off food at your local safe way store or even just by especially produced grocery bag. they have them there for $10. summer is an important time for families because a lot of kids out of school. families are struggling to come up with three meals a day. no one should go to bed hungry. 5:20. big weekend for bay area law enforcement. drunk driving arrests are up this fourth of july. now that the barry bonds case is over, the government moving forward with its case against another baseball superstar. >>e acebook set annnc something. we'll go over all the possibilities and go over the

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welcome back, everyone. and a good wednesday morning to you. look at that on the screen. some spring cleaning this summer. 5:22 right now. police had their hands full during this fourth of july weekend. drunken driving arrests increased 32% here in the bay area. 251 drivers were arrested compared to 190 last year. statewide more than 1500 drivers were busted for duis compared to last year's total of 438. 34 people died on the roads this weekend, 10 more than last year. 5:23. i want to check the morning commute with christina loren. she's helping us out. mike has the week off. >> lucky duck. we miss mike. he'll be back soon. still working that accident this morning on northbound 280 at alpine. that's an injury crash. going to find one lane blocked

in that area. we have a tow truck on the scene in addition to emergency crews and local heroes, california highway control. take it easy this morning. no delays, all green around that accident. take a live shot of san mateo bridge here. nice smooth ride from hayward to foster city. just about a 13-minute drive across the span. really still looking kind of holiday light out there, lawyer ark, back to you. >> a lot of people have the day off. 5:24. did you hear this? not guilty. after months of cable coverage and courtroom fascination, the florida mother accused of killing her own daughter is cleared. 25-year-old casey anthony faces four years in prison, found guilty of lying to police but not of killing her toddler. two-year-old caylee anthony was found dead in 2008. nationwide outrage quickly followed the verdict along with accusations the prosecution botched the case. anthony is expected in court later this week for sentencing.

she has already served some time. first barry bonds, now roger clemens. jury selection begins in the trial against seven time cy young award winner roger clemens. record setting pitcher is the latest former major league star to be on trial for allegedly lying about steroids. prosecutors say he lied to congress in 2008 when he denied ever using performance enhancing drugs during his 23-year career. the trial is expected to last four to six weeks. scott mcgrew will head up to facebook later this morning to hear about what do you think? >> that's the big question, isn't it, laura. the ceo promises something awesome. mark zuckerberg said it last week as he invited reporters to the discussion. we'll assume it's slightly less amazing than the last time facebook had a big gathering. that was to welcome the president of the united states. what could it be? expecting integration between facebook and skype, all the devices between cameras built

in, it would be cool to click on a name and get them instantly in video chat. an ipad app will be welcome, better photo sharing for ipad users. it could be all three. you never know. meanwhile president obama will not be a twitter either but on twitter. the president will conduct a twitter town hall meeting at 11:00 our time. you can ask your own question, use the hash tag obama. the pound symbol, then ask obama is what it is. you can send in your questions now, in fact. the twitter account to follow is town hall. so @town hall, one word. i sent in my question. why does president obama disagree with senator obama. many of the things he said as a senator from illinois, he has not followed up on as president. so we'll see. >> i wonder if he'll read where they are coming from. >> yes, twitter is picking out

the different questions p they will take a look at the trends, too. a lot of people asking about one specific thing. >> very interesting, using new technology reaching out to a lot. it's 5:26 right now. a fan injured during last night's giant game taken to the hospital. we'll have details coming up. as sacramento struggles to state employees were raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. i'm bob redell, we'll have that

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for seven people missing in the waters off baja. now hearing from the daughter of one of the people killed. a live look outside. look at the sunrise over the bay bridge. it is wednesday july 6th this is "today in the bay." good wednesday morning. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. it's 5:30. christina says a cooling trend is starting. >> it has begun even today. as we continue towards that weekend, temperatures will coistently drop gradually. we're going to lose 3 to 5 degrees each and every day through sunday. we're going to have to deal with a little muggy weather as monsoonal moisture creeps up from the south. we'll talk about that and what you can expect for the weekend. after all very, very close coming up in your forecast. right now let's get you to work on time, taking a live look, taking a wide look at approaches to the bay bridge. right now you have no problems

here, up to speed across the board. we told you earlier about a crash working northbound 820 at alpine road. final clearing stages, 15 minutes forget about it. just take it easy as you're leaving the front door. back to you laura. >> following spending. while california leaders were slashing budget spending to reduce a multi-billion dollar deficit, hundreds of state employees were making six-figure salaries. "today in the bay's" bob redell with a live look at who were the top earners. good morning, bob. >> good morning. to give you perspective, the person who arguably had the most responsibility in the state, the governor, only makes around $175,000. i say only because he's not even close to the hundreds of other employees who make much more of the top five employees in the state of california working for the state made more than $560,000 last year. at the top of the list was a

prison doctor who took home a little more $777,000 in 2010, a dentist who also works for the department of corrections was just shy of $600,000 coming into second place there. there are more than 1400 people who earned more than $200,000 last year. many of them medical personnel with departments of corrections and mental health. these numbers represent a combination of salary, ot, bonuses, and payouts of unused vacation and sick time, which is supposed to be capped at 80 days, but for whatever reason many state agencies ignored that limit. now, state controller john chiang posted only the salaries of a quarter million people. he did this over the past 24 hours in the interest of full slo disclosure. this in the wake of the city of bell scandal in which employees there were paid exorbitant

amounts of money. a spokesperson for the receivership put in charge of prison health care defends the high pay of prison medical personnel, pointing out those people could be earning more if they were to work in the private sector and also that a lot of those employees couldn't use their vacation time because they were so short staffed at the time. since then many of those positions have been filled and this spokesperson says there should not be such large payouts in the future. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." thank you very much, bob. gang detectives throughout the bay area cracking down on two gangs they believe are responsible for the murder of a three-month-old baby. isaac garcia was killed when a gunman opened fire on the family's car last month. police say it was a case of mistaken identity and that the shooter was trying to avenge his beating at the hands of gang members. two teenagers have been charged in that case. boy, a mighty swing by the

kung fu panda proves too dangerous for fans. giants slugger pablo sandoval took a swing and lost control of his bat. it bounced off the dugout roof, sailed into the stands. one woman was sent to the hospital after being struck in the head. two others fans treated at the park for minor injuries. oakland police department making big changes to its force. the police heave chief is reshuffling due to budget cuts. marla tellez joins us live in oakland with more on when this plan will take effect. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. we all know change can be good, but in this case it may not be for the oakland police department. the police chief says the department needs to be reshuffled because it's losing officers and currently has about 200 less than it did almost

three years ago. right now, 638 officers are on staff compared to 832 back in november of '08. now, keep in mind, last july budget cuts forced 80 officers to be laid off. now to make matters worse, attrition has his department losing six officers a month for the next two years. in a letter to oakland residents, chief batts writes -- the department's reorganization is designed to address police staffing short falls and deliver police services under a strengthened model of field supervision. now, what this means and how this is going to really affect public safety, we're going to have to wait to hear what he has to say today. just last november, chief batts addressed his department's shrinking staff and how it relates to the homicide rate. he had this to say. >> try to reduce the murder rate, homicide rate in the city to a number of 60 from a number of 109 last year. i thought we were pretty much on

target until we had to do the layoffs. >> there turned out to be about 90 homicides in oakland last year. now, to be clear, chief batts wants to stress to the community that he knows it's going to be a tough road ahead. but again, he stresses that public safety will always be a top priority. now, he's going to be holding an 11:00 news conference here at police headquarters in oakland. we'll be here to cover that, to bring you the latest, of course. changes to take effect in his department this weekend saturday the 9th. laura. >> thank you very much for the update there. 5:36, search under way for an east bay cyclist who disappeared over the weekend. no one close to 29-year-old mike martin has seen or heard from him since saturday night. that's when the uc berkeley grad student went for a bike ride and never came back. the only sign of him was a cell phone recovered by another cyclist on tunnel road in berkeley. martin's girlfriend said he had

been fasting for three days before he disappeared. he was riding a fluorescent green bicycle. search continues this morning for seven people still missing after their boat capsized on sunday off the baja coast. these are four of the men the coast guard is looking for. this man retired after 37 years on the job with the "san francisco chronicle." >> i actually spoke with him. he was very excited. he's an extreme workaholic, really dedicated to his family and never put time aside for himself. a buddy fishing trip proved to be deadly. the latest on the search for survivors. >> good morning, laura, the last three days have been devastating for the surviving passengers and families and the san diego-based company that owns the fishing

boat as the search for seven missing americans continues. just released last night, these are four of the men they are looking for, the mexican coast guard and u.s. coast guard are still scouring the baja coast after the sportfishing boat capsized sunday morning. the fishing boat "erik" left san felipe harbor before dawn. it sank 60 miles south of the port, two miles offshore. one fisherman drowned, 35 others survived. the crew said before leaving the captain was told not to leave the harbor because the weather because too dangerous. gary wong was separated from his brother brian as the ship sank. the husband and father of two is missing. >> whoever made that decision, i don't know who went out there to make the decision to stay out there, that was a bad decision. i'm not leaving until i find my brother. i'm not leaving.

i'm staying here. >> the boat company baja sportfishing once worked out of san diego but their license expired last year. the company's website said they could not respond to messages and that all trips have been cans he had. reporting from san diego, i'm monica dean. now back to you. >> thank you very much. it's 5:38 right now. i want to check the forecast. the sun is coming up but cooling things off. >> cooling things off the way we like it. i'm sick of the heat. i don't know about you. but where we live in the south bay, it gets a little bit toasty where we work here in san jose. temps are going to gradually drop as we head throughout the week. each and every day we're going to subtract a few degrees. that's going to make for a comfortable weekend. we have abnormal weather headed our way. take a look at high pressure. it's providing that monsoonal flow. that flow reached so far to the north it's impacting sierra nevada. take a look, a mix of rain and snow as a result of that monsoonal moisture creeping north. as it makes its way bo our

neighborhood, this moisture air mass, warm moisture air will collide with drier air. we have potential for thunderstorms especially throughout the east bay hills and south bay today. i think towards the coast you're nice and safe from thunderstorms. but we're going to keep watching that for you, 10 to 20% shot of thunderstorms in the bay area today. go figure. 68 in livermore, 58 in gilroy, 63 in san jose. if you're headed to work in the city today, another gorgeous day. a little bit cooler. we are going to see a little bit of that fog creep in as we head through the next couple of hours. right now nice and clear through the local bridges, 70 degrees, mild at noon. by noon, 75 degrees, abundant sunshine. of course we've got a giants game in town. we'll get to that forecast in just a minute. temps today really coming down. 99 the forecast, high in concord yesterday, 92 today, 75 in san francisco. oakland you'll get a break as well, back to the 70s for you, 79 degrees. all right. here it is, your giants

forecast. headed to at&t park, another game in the series against the padres, game three. 7:15, catch that on media partners comcast.net. temps on the warm said, 63 by 7:00 p.m., 62 by 8:00 p.m., a sea breeze could come into play by 9:00. see if that impacts game tonight. >> lost power so i couldn't watch the game. >> you did? what did you do with those triplets? >> a lot of singing and dancing and creative dinner as well. thanks so much. >> you're welcome. 5:41 right now. you can now watch san francisco's african penguins any time you like from your cell phone. the academy of sciences has released a pocket penguins app. it offers a live view of the penguins 24 hours a day. the app let's users toggle

between three cameras in the exhibit including an underwater one. biologists plan to set up a nest cam. the app is free. key time to tune isis feeding times, 10:30 and 3:00. on july 7th coming up, a special feeding for the penguins birthday. let's see what they give him. 5:42. we now have more on president obama's twitter town hall. we were telling you about it briefly early. "today in the bay" tracie potts live with all the buzz from washington, d.c. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: hey, and all the buzz from california, too. i bet a lot of people from california may log in to participate in this. california has more tweeters than thy other state and eighth largest proportion of tweeters in the country. this is the first time any president has hosted a town hall via twitter. they did it on facebook a few months ago out there. and now they are doing it here at the white house today via twitter. here is how it works. if you have a question, logon to

your twitter account, use the hash tag ask obama. they will pull some of the questions for him to answer live in this event that will stream live online. also, you can check the twitter account for replies. if it has a bo at the end, that means the president answered it personally. he's been pretty active on twitter and so has the white house. they have over 2 million users. president obama on his barack obama twitter account has four times that many. and in fact, we're told no one else other than lady gaga and justin bieber are more popular on twitter. the vice president just jumped on board and got a twitter account. >> which is interesting. is he really doing all the tweets? >> you mean is president obama doing them? >> right, and biden or do they have people that do it for them? >> yeah, i'm sure they have people who do it for them. i understand he does do some of his own. some of them will be identified specifically as coming from him

if they have that bo at the end. yeah, obviously there's so many coming in, they have already got thousands of questions lined up for today. >> i bet. so many followers as well. >> they need some help. >> thank you very much. tracie potts live from washington right now. 5:43 right now. an amazing art heist in san francisco. how the thief walked away in broad daylight walking out with a priceless work of art. making history, literally, ange ahow school textbks could change as thes governor signs a

new bill headed to his desk. good morning to you. live look outside this morning. beautiful bay bridge. sun coming up. cooler temperatures. you're probably going to feel it inland this morning. 5:46. this morning homicide detectives in concord following up on the death of a man found inside an abandoned gas station.

investigators say they received a call shortly after midnight yesterday. someone reporting a possible dead body. when they arrived at the scene, they found a dead man. so far police have not identified him and they have no motive or cause of death. that death marks the city's fourth homicide of the year. police are asking anyone with information about that death to call concord police. paying too much for health insurance? today state lawmakers will vote on a bill that will let them crack down on health insurers who charge too much for coverage. they will let the commissioner or department of health care to veto hefty rate hikes. critics say the proposal is wide ranging and beaurocracy that adds cost, does nothing to deal with rising medical costs, certainly driving up some insurance rates. it's 5:47 right now. the history of lesbian, gay, by sexual and transgender americans could soon become a required part of the school curriculum

under a new bill. the bill would require lgtb americans to be included in school textbooks. the bill was approved yesterday in sacramento, split nearly among party lines. supporters tell the "san francisco chronicle" the bill would make california the only state to require inclusion of lgtb americans in textbooks. opponents say they shouldn't micromanage curriculum. the bill awaiting the governor's signature. did you hear about this one? an art heist in san francisco. sounds like a hollywood movie transcript but a real thing." an empty hook marks the spot where a picasso drawing used to hang before noon yesterday at weinstein gallery. police say a man wearing loafers lifted the drawing off the wall and walked out and got away in the cab. that's the drawing of the small

pencil drawing is worth more than $100,000. the gallery president said the theft is stunning. >> i feel sorry because it really is truly my goal and always has been my goal to be able to bring exactly what you see in this gallery, original works by picasso onto the street level. i wanted them to be available to the public. we just need to be a better job in the future to make sure our security is in place. san francisco police have taken a checkered cabin as evidence. an alert about the stolen work is circulating through the art world now. the concern is the thief won't be able to sell the picasso and it's so recognizable and would be destroyed, which would be tragic. >> i want to check the forecast, certainly not tragic, cooling. >> we have a much better picture today than yesterday. it's really nice especially toward the coast. look at the fog creeping in, you can see that. take a look at the cloud deck that rolled in over the past 15 minutes. we're expecting that to hang on

probably until 11:00 a.m. in the city. all that means for you is a cool afternoon. mostly cloudy start will make way to mostly sunny skies later today. all right. let's take it to the maps and show you what we're expecting for today. 92, continue to drop off to 79 by saturday. i like to start with good news. take another look at the seven-day in a minute. also following a serious crash for you. two big-rigs, yeah, two big-rigs involved in an accident on northbound 880. we're going to show you what that's doing to your morning commute. remember, big rig drivers stay out of the hammer lane. back to you, laura. >> hopefully no one injured. thank you very much. 5:50. giants trying to take away one win. they play tonight at 7:15. san diego beat up another member of the giants pitching staff getting five runs off matt cain. the padres won that 5-3. we'll come back tonight. the a's meantime playing

another day game and some really quick turnaround from last night's tough lost. 4-2 in the tenth inning. part of it thanks to a throwing error. we'll come back from that one today, too. 5:50. some amazing golf shots to show you, including one from a mosquito. >> netflix expands and a tacky tacky tweet. we'll take a look coming up in tech today. plus how one group is

francisco parking enforcement.

an advocacy group in san francisco is using social media to fight parking tickets. people are being urged to send their stories or being slapped with a ticket.

about being slapped with a ticket. the group will select four winners and pay off their fines for them, also tackling the issue of a city law which prohibits city businesses posting ads outside their stores. the group found a loophole in that law but the work aron is fought in federal court. city official says all the talk about parking tickets is just a front for complaining about the sign ordinance. all right. i want to check in with christina loren, she's actually filling in for mike on traffic. you had just told us about big-rigs, 2011 them colliding. >> two big-rigs involved in an accident. you know what that means. it's going to take a lengthy cleanup process before we see lanes open up. clear this morning, good news two lanes blocked here, 880 at 23rd avenue, an injury crash. we don't know the extent of the injuries. we know two lanes are blocked, two big-rigs involved of it's going to take heavy equipment if either of those rigs need to be hauled out. keep that in mind. that can slow you down. as of the current time no delays

around that crash. we'll let you know the minute it changes. a live shot at 880 in oakland, traffic past the coliseum slowing down here as a result. you want to tack on a little extra time for your trip. even with the lighter volume we still have delays here. i'd say an extra 15 ought to do it. back to you, laura. >> thank you very much. i don't know if you're a golfer. you have to see this video to believe it. check it out, pro golfer having some fun. in this chip shot you see here, he actually hits a sprinkler, and, bam, hits the lady. she was sunbathing nearby. that kind of looked like it was set up. in this one he actually puts the ball from a helicopter. yeah, way up in the sky. he hits the green and it rolls into the cup. golfer martin kaymer, former pga number one player in the world

and 201 pga champ. check this out. he hits a ball from the ground all the way -- you can hear it, the bell tower. ding. do you think he really hit it? do you think somebody was in there? you heard that clang. let's see it again. he apparently said he did it all. cling. there it is. for the fun of it. >> for whom the bell tolls. definitely him. soon scott mcgrew says you'll be able to watch on demand netflix movies all over the americas from arctic to equator. >> shares in netflix jumped big tuesday trading after the los gatos-based company announced it was expanding watch it now service into mexico and much of the rest of latin and south africa. you can already get the streaming version in canada. now, no dvds. why? because netflix doesn't want to bother with expanding old technology into new markets.

and dvds are definitely old technology. we mentioned earlier facebook will announce something awesome today. who says awesome? those are the words straight from mark zuckerberg's mouth. skype integration may be an ipad app. we shall see later this morning. laura, take a look at this tweet, from the cookie and doughnut company entemann's. who is not guilty about eating all the tasty treats they want? >> i see what happened. >> yes, either they did or did not realize that not guilty was going to be a trending topic on twitter and took advantage of it, didn't take advantage of it. the company says it was just a coincidence not retweeting or referring to the trial. >> a lot of times you'll tweet something and a company will automatically -- like if i write something about -- >> it could have been automated. they say it was pure coincidence. i find it hard to believe that

was pure coincidence. i think it was a young person who was not thinking. >> made a bad call thank you

very much.