i'm elyce kirchner live in hayward. how you can help find michelle le. >> and the new orders from a judge this morning in the case against suspected serial killer joseph nasa. >> the bay area takes part in all of the space shuttle excitement. good morning. i'm marla tellez live at mokt field. coming up my live report. >> let's take a live look right now shuttle watch is officially on as the astronauts prepare to board. this friday, july 8, this is "today in the bay." very exciting. can you imagine going up in that. good morning. thanks for joining us on this friday morning. i'm laura garcia-cannon. want to check win meteorologist rob mayeda in the house this morning. good morning, rob. anthe weather's going to look pretty nice. look out for patchy thick fog along the coast, hour by hour,

50s and 60s for breakfast time. lunch time inland, fairfield and livermore, you're turning toasty as early as lunch time. then high temperatures close to 90 in fairfield, cooling today around san francisco, we'll talk about the cooler changes in the weekend forecast in a few minutes. your morning commute, we're looking at 880 live in oakland, northbound, southbound, still fine. wide angle view of the bay area traffic maps will show you things looking pretty good in the east bay, highway 24 on time. 680 good, also across the richmond/san rafael bridges and benicia bridges, everything friday light. back to you. >> sounds good. thank you. all-day fund-raiser to help out the family of missing nursing student michelle le gets under way in a few hours. elyse is live in hayward to tell us more about the fund-raiser. good morning, elyse. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, this fundraising event here at the sizzler starts at 11:00 a.m. they turned the lights on here and workers showed up bright and

early in preparation. i want to bring in the manager and tell me how this sizzler got involved in this fundraising event for the search for michelle le. >> well, i was contacted by natasha, one of her sorority sisters who was in search of one of the community restaurants to help her out and we were more than thrilled to help her out. we put everything together, we're going to have the fund-raiser today, running all day long, anybody who comes in with the flyers that were handed out or verbally says they are here for the fund-raiser we're going to make sure that's part of the fund-raiser. they are going to do a car wash on friday t 29th also here at sizzler. >> and again, michelle le went missing the end of may and has not been seen since. family members are holding out hope. tell me how the proceeds will go to the search for her. >> they are going to raise the funds, going to use those in the efforts to go out and try to

find michelle, using them with the police and the any information that anybody can give, any help they can give to help find michelle and bring her home. >> reporter: thank you. i want to mention that the sizzler is actually a special place for them because this is the last time the entire family had a meal together was actually at the sizzler restaurant and michelle enjoyed this restaurant tremendously. again, the event starts at 11:00 a.m. and goes to 10:00 p.m. all you have to do is show up and tell your server you are here because of michelle's case. live in hayward. elyce kirchner. >> very nice. thank you. the faa is looking into what caused a small plane to crash into a building in watsonville. investigators are on the scene still at watsonville community hospital. it's just across the street from the airport runway. witnesses say the plane had just taken off from watsonville municipal airport when it suddenly nose-dived. one witness says the plane crashed in the parking lot,

skidding into the building and then burst into flames. two people on board that plane died. no one on the ground was injured. >> a marin county judge wants to know if suspected serial killer has enough to pay for his co-defense attorney. prosecutors say he is worth $1 million but he says he is too poor to pay for a lawyer. he has decided to represent himself but asked a judge yesterday to provide him with an advisory attorney. the judge agreed and assigned auditors to the case to determine if he has the money to pay for the attorney. if not, marin county will provide him with one. nasois charged with killing four prostitutes. >> the man accused of shooting a community activist will not stand trial. a judge says gregory is incompetent to stand trial. he is accused of shooting david lewis 13 months ago. two court appointed doctors say

elarms is mentally unfit. >> california is gearing up for what could be the largest peace officer layoff in history. the state department of justice currently has 484 sworn officers. but the new state budget eliminates at least 200 officers from d.o.j. community members are upset while agents say the move sends a dangerous message to drug cartels. >> perplexed on why the state would want to do that when they know there's a big issue with drug trafficking from mexico. >> they will have to be on the lookout no. one's coming. we won't be there and local law enforcement is stretched thin. >> for now each agency is trying to scrape together funding from other sources just to keep operating. >> in a few hours space shuttle "atlantis" is expected to lift off from kennedy space center ending an era for nasa.

if the weather holds today's launch will be the final space shuttle mission. marla tellez is monitoring the situation but is joining us from mountain view with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. certainly while all eyes are on florida this morning, here in the bay area we're so lucky to have the nasa ames research center. behind me this is the space exploration center, the big old white dome. later this morning this is where 600 people are expected to show up to watch the final launch of the space shuttle. right now it is still a go as laura mentioned, even though the forecast calls for only 30% favorable conditions, nasa officials say they launched under worse circumstances, believe it or not. yesterday lightning struck 500 feet from the launch pad. nothing was damaged. "atlantis" is scheduled to make

its final ascent to the space station a 12-day mission with a four-person crew at 8:26 pacific time. one of the crew members is a uc-berkeley grad and san carlos native. he is a mission specialist. he is calling today's big event very bittersweet. the center here at moffett field will open, they are going to watch the launch courtesy of nasa's live feed. the launch is expected at 8:26, so about three hours from now. if you are at home and you would like to see it for yourself, nasa will stream it live online. log on to nasa.gov/ntv. for the latest conditions in florida, we have nbc's jay gray, he is standing by live for us right now at cape canaveral.

how's it looking? >> good morning, marla. it's looking cloudy right now, unfortunately, as the sun came up we saw the clouds building. the launch still going through their final preparations here and the crew of "atlantis" actually making its way through the white room and beginning to board "atlantis" at this point so. they are trying to get ready, hoping for a break in the clouds. you talked about people gathering to watch it there. we have close to a million along the space coast. they have gathered all along this peninsula and hoping that they get to see "atlantis" go. if it doesn't go, because of those clouds, if they scrub it late, it will likely mean a 48-hour hold. the reason being the teams can't get through all of the congestion, the crowds and get the rest they need to get back for a saturday window. what they would likely do, what the plan seems to be is come back on sunday morning. at that point the weather looks to be about 50/50.

and then they are also pushing to try and perhaps get a window open on monday that they could go ahead and try and launch then. the forecast gets better as we go into the week next week. that's the latest here at kennedy space center and marla, i can tell you i hope the 600 gathering there may be have secondary viewing choices in case we don't get a launch. >> i'm sure they will find something to do. thank you very much, jay. exciting morning. >> governor jerry brown is expected to meet the royal couple at the airport when they land in los angeles today. the duke and duchess are due to be whisked away to the hilton hotel where they will attend a business event. later the couple expected to meet up with the governor and california's first lady at a welcome reception at the british consulate's residence. tomorrow polo and a party.

have fun for a saturday. on sunday, the couple expected to tour inner city arts and stop by a job fair before leaving. interesting to see the guest list. i think a lot of hollywood stars attempting to come out for those. >> it's 5:10. let's check in with our own star, rob mayeda making an appearance. good to see you. >> it's nice to be here g. to see you again. we're also watching the weather here but what you just heard in florida right now the weather around cape canaveral again lots of clouds but the heavier shower this is morning staying off to the tampa side. moisture up out of the south that will be a game time decision i think here to see if the shuttle makes its launch just after 8:00 our time. you can see the coverage here on nbc bay area. right now other than the low clouds no storm clouds for us. we've got this trough that's moving into the west coast. it's going to crank up the ocean air conditioning. you'll notice for san francisco and the coast, and eventually as the marine layer thickens up it's going to lead to cooler temperatures inland through the

weekend. today's temperatures around the bay area like our summer micro climates, 80s around san jose. still toasty as you get inland. morgan hill to pleasanton. and still 90s inland around vallejo, vacaville, sacramento. your seven-day forecast shows cooling trend that will kick in early next week. you can see the temperatures starting to drop off as we head to the beginning of next week. as we continue to watch things around the bay area we will look at your morning commute, at the the bay bridge toll plaza, wow, it is quiet. friday light this morning. back to you. >> maybe they are sleeping in. or waking up with us, we hope. thank you, rob. it's 5:11. cool video of a bridge demolition. and free school supplies. a group giving out hundreds of supplies and what you have to do to qualify. plus t man suspected of stealing a valuable work's of arbyt picasso is behind bars.

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galle gallery. there was surveillance. that helped nab him. police say that is lugo with the work under his arm. he got in a cab. the cabbie led officers to lugo's hotel and further investigation led them to a napa apartment where he was eventually arrested. he apparently had the sketch in his possession. i understand it was taken out of the frame but it was not damaged. >> just 3 1/2 weeks left until the deadline to increase the national debt limit. republicans and democrats still far from a deal. democrats are opposing the cuts while republicans say they will not raise the debt ceiling without them. congressional leaders will return to the white house on sunday to resume those talks. for the rest of our news before the bell talking money we turn to nicole lapin. good morning. >> hey, very good morning to you. futures are slightly higher but flat as invest terse await the big report of the day t june jobs numbers coming out in about

15 minutes after getting knocked down in may the job market likely picked itself up as companies increased hiring. forecasts looking for 125,000 new jobs last month, unemployment is seen holding steady at 9.1%. wall street closed higher yesterday following a stronger than expected report on private sector hiring. to recap some of that market action the dow 12,719 is where we closed. the nasdaq added 38 to 2872. your kids may have just gotten out of school but a lot of retailers are thinking about the bell ringing in september because some are jumping the gun to get attention, extra early. last year customers spent on back to school items. a promotion on back packs and lunch boxes last week they started this one. staples kicked off its sales on wednesday, and office depot and target going to follow on

sunday. despite the rising popularity of tablets like the ipad lap tops are king of the campus. 90% of college students use lap tops and more than half of purchases happen over summer. pc makers are catering with the number of deals, apple is going to give you $100 app gift card when you buy a mack or mack book. hp and dell giving away an x box when you purchase. happy friday to you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. the kids know what a word processor is? probably not. >> i hope yours don't. too early. >> thank you very much. 5:17. we're talking about school supplies and not everyone can afford them but the registration line for free supplies is expected to stretch around the block this year at san jose's sacred heart community service. they are helping out a lot of kids. every fall sacred heart provides school supplies to hundreds,

sometimes thousands of low income kids. registration to get supplies starts at 9:00 this morning. it runs until 3:00 this afternoon. look at all of the smiles. it's great getting new crayons. and they had to turn away a lot last year but the organization increasing their goal, they hope to give 2,000 children back packs and other supplies. all that of course depends on donations. they are asking for your help that donations be sent before august 5. it will go hand in hand. if you see the supplies at the stores early, maybe you can throw in a couple for kids. 5:18 now. i want to check the forecast with rob. he brought with him cooler temperatures. >> yeah, free ocean air conditioning i think it's going to kick in. even for morgan hill. maybe not today but by the time we get into the weekend we'll see the cooler changes inland. pretty thick fog along the coast. you'll run into that around the golden gate bridge. the sea breeze not too strong but the evening commute, i think that's when you see the sea

breeze pick up. it's finally meaning that we're seeing better air quality as well. still the tri-valley, inland, east bay valleys we still have moderate air quality. but as the sea breeze picks up we'll see air quality looking pretty good into the weekend. if you are lucky enough to catch the giants game we've got the mets in town. it will be jacket weather as the sea breeze turns stronger through the game. we'll see cool conditions around san francisco, straight on through the weekend ahead. the satellite view, we'll show you we've got this trough that has set up. it's leadsing to cooling. but if you make travel plans into western mexico or cabo san lucas, calvin is strengthening but moving away so good news other than big surf heading to mexico, not much expected of tropical storm calvin. for the bay area, these are typical summer micro climates. 90s for livermore and pleasanton, san jose probably 90s around morgan hill. notice the cooling around san francisco and the coast, looking

at low to mid-60s. 80s and 90s inland for the north bay valleys t the weekend will continue the cooldown. today likely the warmest day for some time. the temperatures drop off early next week. >> we notice the cooling. thank you very much. 5:20 now. a bridge that spanned pennsylvania river for more than 100 years was demolished today. crews used less than 200 pounds of explosives, look at that, to drop it into the river. amazing there. hundreds of people came out to watch the action. they got quite a show. look at that even from a distance as the bridge fell. crews are going to salvage steel from the old bridge. the new bridge opened in march and cost $23 million to construct. >> it's 5:20 right now. great news for bay area. the wine economy is rebounding. we'll have details coming up next. >> plus,illionsf o of apple ap downloaded. we'll look at some of them

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>> all strapped in getting ready to go as the countdown we think will be on for "atlantis." it depends on the weather. they have an 8:00 launch time. keeping tabs on what is going on. 5:23. also keeping tabs on the weather. the rain may have put a damper on the wine industry this spring, but a new economic report shows sunny skies ahead. according to wine quarterly report, global wine prices including bay area markets, are continuing to gain footing as the economy slowly recovers. part of the reason why things are looking up is consumers are drinking about as much wine as they are making. that stabilizes the prices after falling two years in a row. they are starting to increase.

the strongest part of the industry is bulk wine which has been seeing increases in sales recently. >> i want to check the morning commute. rob mayeda pulling double duty. >> good morning, in for mike who promises typically on a friday morning you expect friday light. we're still seeing that right now for your bay area commute. there is a look at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. everything on time right now. many of the bay area commutes okay. that's an interesting one there, the golden gate bridge, we have got thick fog, so on the maps is a little slowing, moving southbound from marin county across the bridge, a little slowing there. east bay travel times, 24 and 880 through oakland pretty good. 680 as well. the san rafael/richmond bridge, travel times good at speed this morning. highway 4 through pittsburg and antioch, westbound slowing but still mainly in the green there along highway 4 and across the

altamont pass, westbound as you pass livermore, you'll find a little bit of slowing as you approach the 580/680 interchange across the tri-valley commute. >> thank you, rob. new things this morning, your ipad and iphone may be vulnerable to hackers. scott mcgrew joins us. hackers usually target -- don't usually target ipads. >> the ipad, laura, it's all growed up. bad guys considering the ipad and the iphone worthy of targeting. it's unlikely you'll run into problems yourself. apple is working on a fix. they should roll it out any time. ipad user were the victim of a hack attack early on. in the first days of the ipad being on the market, but that was really an attack against at&t and its system, not apple. we're going to score this as being the first hack. apple says fans have downloaded 15 billion apps. let me say that. 15 billion, like birds. if this alone does not give

other tablet makers pause i don't know what could. apple says there are now 200 million devices out there running ios. "the wall street journal" published a shocking series showing how advertisers follow you from website to website. for instance, you google the word dandruff and two weeks later -- >> never. >> there is an ad for shampoo in your browser. coming up on press here as you probably saw on the ad we're going to talk about who is following you, why and what you can do about it. there are simple settings. but it's kind of spooky. >> i bet and retailers using it to their advantage. same with those cards you get for your discounts. >> they follow you there, too. >> what they can market to you, i suppose. thank you. 5:25. happy homecoming. the men aboard the fishing boat that capsized, they are sharing their story of survival. >> and this is bob redell.

boy, does this bring back memories. it's 1982 again, at least for this weekend in the south bay, we're taking to show you extreme classic arcade video games.

>> new this morning, a warning for parents after a child is molested close to a well known theme park. and the search continues for a group of people missing off the coast of baja california. we'll have the latest coming up. >> reporter: the countdown is on to the final launch of the space shuttle. good morning. i'm marla tellez live at nasa ames in mountain view, how people in the bay area are taking part in this historic day coming up. >> and of course we're keeping tabs on the astronauts getting ready to go. will they take off?

we'll find out this friday, july 8th, this is "today in the bay." >> good friday morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. it's 5:30 now. i want to get a look at the forecast, if you like cooling temperatures well, we've got the perfect mix for you. rob mayeda is filling in for christina. >> good friday morning to you. pretty nice start except if you're on the coast and you want the sunshine, you're not going to like the forecast. inland will appreciate the cooler weather coming our way. pretty thick fog on the coast, lunch time temperatures if you are out toward the east bay valleys it will be toasty, upper 80s by noon. notice the high, 90s inland around fairfield, livermore and pleasanton. upper 60s, san francisco. we'll talk more about a cooldown in the forecast coming up in the seven-day forecast in a few minutes. a check of your friday light. hopefully still friday light morning commute. 880 looking fine as we go

quickly to the traffic maps. you'll see a little slowing southbound across the golden gate bridge, nothing showing up on the chp reports, that could be slowing due to the patchy thick fog moving through the bay. >> thank you, rob. the weather certainly playing a big role in florida where the shuttle "atlantis" is due to lift off in about with three hours, if the weather is cooperating. this is actually the last launch nasa's entire 30-year shuttle program. today in the bay's marla tellez is live at nasa ames research center in mountain view with an update. folks want to get a good view of this one. good morning. >> reporter: it looks like we're lucky enough to be here to get front row seating. we're inside now, the space exploration center at moffett field. you have seen the big old white dome, that's where we are. this is where about 600 people are expected to be a little later on to watch the live feed that nasa is going to provide in

their feeder here. joining me this morning is nasa ames chief historian, mr. jack boyd. thank you for your time this morning. everybody is talking about the weather. you're in touch with nasa and folks in florida. what's the latest? >> good morning. welcome to ames. it looks like the weather is improving slightly, so we won't know for a while yet but we've got our fingers crossed. >> still about 30%? >> 30%, 35%. >> hey, our fingers are crossed. again, the weather is a big topic. i think people are overlooking what's the purpose of the 12-day mission. what's going to happen? >> this 12-day mission with four astronauts is primarily to bring equipment and food up to supply the space station for the next several months, and also they are going to test a robotic refueling situation to see if we can refuel any spacecraft robotically. >> it's really the end ever an era. >> we've ended several other eras and gone on to great are

things. apollo ended an era as well. i was here when that happened and we had the space station and the space shutdle. we do now i think still have designated missions, robotic missions to mars, two asteroids we are responsible for. i think looking at high technology that will permit us to go beyond orbit. >> jack, thank you for your time. the doors here, the space center open at 7:00. about 600 people are expected, the space shuttle "atlantis" to launch at 8:26 a.m. if you are at home and you would like to see it, nasa will stream it live online at nasa.gov/ntv. nasa is keeping the media informed even telling us what the astronauts have eaten for breakfast. what does an astronaut have to eat for breakfast? they have had fruit, the pilot has had steak and eggs. and then the local boy, rex

walhe walheim, he has had fruit and he asked for a turkey sandwich with provalone cheese on sour dough, please. >> well, i guess they get what they want. interesting. >> i would hope so. yes. >> sounds good. thank you very much, marla. >> new this morning, police are searching for a man who molested a 13-year-old boy near the santa cruz beach boardwalk last night. it happened outside a public restroom after 8:00 p.m. the boy was not injured. the suspect is pretty generic described as a white man between 25 and 45 years old. 5'9" to 6 fot tall with short brown hair. wearing a white tank top. it sounds like -- let's see, a black tee swhirt a swirl pattern on. >> u.s. coast guard plane will resume its search for people

missing from a sunken fishing boat. the plane will search an area off the coast of mexico. seven people are still missing after the tourist boat sank early sunday. the coast guard hopes that some people may have survived in the warm water and calm sea. relatives of the missing hope they will put together a dive team to look for the boat. they are disappointed it hasn't happened yet. >> we want to believe that no one wasn't able to get out but in the event that someone wasn't able to get out for some of them, which ever families, that would affect, it would bring closure to a lot of us. >> the coast guard says it searched 1400 square miles of ocean and land since the mexican navy asked for help. some of the fishermen who survived the sinking are telling horrifying stories. four fishermen arrived last night to open arms of their family. they are relieved to be safe but heartbroken that not everyone is accounted for.

each man says it was chaos in the water and their will to survive is really what got them through it. >> i was in the water 20 hours. and we had numerous fishing boats pass usment >> another man didn't have a life jacket. i don't remember his last name. his first name is bob. and he grabbed onto the ice chest. we had two. i happened to notice that it was my ice chest and inside my ice chest was another personal flotation device. >> you may have noticed there the man horribly sun burned. they are also mentally exhausted. they are very angry at the captain of the erik who they believe is at fault. they say when the boat was sinking all crew members had life jackets while the fibber men scrambled. put down that nintendo, leave the x box and don't be distracted by that wii. bob has taken a time machine

back to the 80s for a look at the forefathers of modern video games. he joins us live from the convention center to get your flock of sea gulls hair going too? >> good morning, laura. boy, does this bring back memories. the last time i played this game in an arcade i was probably 11 or 12, it was the early 80s. i'm talking about spy hunter. this is one of a couple hundred video games that you can come and play this weekend at the california extreme arcade show here at the santa clara convention center. it's the 15th annual show. they have spy hunter, a classic, i'm going to end there. robo tron, i remember that. asteroids deluxe, jungle king, we've got mark. i'm curious, you think about all of the gaming systems out there, is it hard to draw the young kids in or you find young kids who maybe they grow up on this, still come out here. >> i think the parents bring them more than anything. when they come they enjoy it a

lot. the console games and everything, you know, it's easy to sit at the the computer and do your thing. >> the parents and people ever our generation, what is the biggest reaction you see from them? you get from them? >> they are glad they can bring their kids. that's what they want to show them what they used to do all the time. >> i'm looking at black widow. tron. one of my favorites. is there a game you see people gravitating to more to relive their childhood? >> there are some. any of the vector games, tron, the driving games, the grid over there. >> also 150 pin ball machines as well. laura, if you're interested in coming here, boy, you can see my skills have not changed one bit in the past 30 years. if you want to come it's a flat fee, $40 on saturday, $30 on sunday. 60 for the weekend. if you bring kids they get a discount. go to caa extreme.org for more.

i'm going to send it back to you here in santa clara. bob redell, today in the bay. >> pretty fun. i'm sure we had favorites. pac-man, mrs. pac-man. all right. let's check win rob. were you a big video gamer? >> yes, i was. bob found the one, tron or trog frogger. >> i tried to explain frogger to my nephew. i saw a guy trying to cross the freeway. >> the most violent as the games used to get. >> pong. >> pong as well. if you're going to be out and about around the bay area indoors would be the place in summer because it can get hot. we're going to get ocean air conditioning later today. that's going to bring in some of the fog we're seeing around the peninsula and coast and drop our temperatures down. an eye on florida, cape canaveral still so far so dry relatively speaking. a lot of showers to the west but the launch count continues in florida. we'll continue to keep you updated. back to the bay area, a stronger sea breeze, it's going to lead

to mainly a weekend cooldown, today inland running warm as you see here today. toward livermore and pleasanton low 90s inland. mid 80s san jose. 67 san francisco. that's where the cooldown is. eventually the cooler air is going to punch inland into the weekend. the seven-day forecast shows a cooling trend with morning clouds and don't be surprised to find misty skies in spots even as we start next week. bay bridge toll plaza, you can see the approach still looks wide open. you can see some of the fog. a check of the traffic maps. looking pretty green. a little slowing as you approach sfo airport moving northbound on 101. traffic times still in the green, friday light. back to you. >> let's hope it stays that way. 5:40 now. a small plane crashes just after taking off in watsonville. we'll have a live report coming up next. and the royals on their way to r

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>> 5:42. british royalty on the way to california. will and kate expected to arrive this morning. today in the bay's tracie potts will be there when they do. she's live in los angeles this morning. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: good morning. putting california on the map especially los angeles. they arrive at l.a.x. later this afternoon, then they come straight here to the beverly hilton in beverly hills for a reception, another later tonight, then up the coast, not as far as you guys but near santa barbara for a polo hatch, back to l.a., boy, are they going to be busy like they were in canada. remember the pictures of them yesterday in the white cowboy hats in calgary kicking off the

stampede there this morning before heading to the united states. they were in canada for nine day, turned out to be a successful trip. they seem to be well loved everywhere they went. one of the things that they are focusing on during this trip, not only meeting dignitaries and shaking hands but also charities, prince william supports a number of charities, they are visiting some of those in canada, they are visiting some here in los angeles in fact, tomorrow laura, they are going to a job fair for a military veterans and they are also going to visit an inner city arts program for children. that should make for really fun pictures to see them there. >> i hope they got unlimited miles on their hertz rent a car because they are busy. >> reporter: very much so. >> or their carriage, programs. thank you. it's exciting they are coming. 5:44. someone is stealing copper wire from power poles in antioch. it happened yesterday morning, even before the sun came up.

antioch police say copper wire thieves clipped high tension power lines on shadow lane near highway 4. someone called police. they found cut power lines and others on the ground. the lines were under extreme tension when they were cut. they fell with enough force to damage some parked cars. a book written by jaycee dugard is expected to be released next week. memoirs of her abduction held in captivity and her being discovered after 18 years will all be in the book. she was just 11 years old when phillip and nancy garrido kidnapped her and held her captive in the back yard of their home in antioch. the book, "a stolen life" will be available tuesday and audio book read by jaycee dugard will also be available on tuesday. >> faa south of san jose this morning looking into a deadly small plane crash. phil gomez is live at the site

in watsonville with more on what happened. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning. the plane was coming out of watsonville airport, it was taking off when, for whatever reason, it veered right toward the watsonville hospital. it didn't crash into the hospital but into an office near the hospital. there were two people who were killed in the plane crash. it's a four-person single engine plane. behind me you can see the tape surrounding the hospital, the hospital is all blocked off by the yellow tape because there is debris from the plane that's in the parking lot because before the plane crashed it clipped a tree, hit the pavement 50 feet in front of the office building, then bounced into the coastal women's health center. fortunately, there was no one inside that building or it could have been a lot worse. the ntsb and faa have been on scene. the number of the plane is registered to a david houghton.

it's unclear if he was on board. i want to emphasize the plane did not hit the hospital. the hospital is open but you can't go in this way because of all of the yellow tape. you have to use the emergency entrance which is the rear of the hospital in order -- if you have an appointment here. back to you. >> thank you very much for the update there, phil. it's 5:47 now. thousands of people across the bay area and the nation are gearing up for this weekend's avon walk for breast cancer. over two days participants walk more than 39 miles in san francisco and marin. last year the event raised more than $5.5 million. that goes to cancer organizations that help people who cannot afford treatment, to get the help they need. and of course to research. this is the walk's ninth year. let's see if they are going to need to bring a jacket in before they head out on that walk. checking with rob. he has a look at the forecast. >> a jacket for the morning probably a good idea as we'll

see a stronger sea breeze and cooler temperatures to take us into the weekend. right now 40s and 50s across the north bay. near 60 in san jose. kind ever a weak sea breeze but enough to scoop in low clouds. we'll see a stronger sea breeze especially later on this evening. good news for air quality, moderate, this should turn green as that sea breeze picks up. if you are lucky enough to head to the giants game. the mets in town. it's back to jacket weather at the ballpark. bundle up. we'll turn cool and breezy through the game. the weather across california, we've been watching the moisture, we've seen thundershowers the last few days. most of that moisture i think is going to head east of lake tahoe as this trough settles into the pacific northwest. this is the reason why the see breeze is going to turn stronger and eventually the cooling is going to push inland come saturday and sunday. today still toasty inland but we'll see cooler temperatures

this weekend. travel plans including western mexico or baja as we head through the weekend we're watching tropical storm calvin, this is strengthening but will weaken and pull away from mexico. we're not expecting impacts here, maybe high clouds later on. typical summer climates in full swing. 80 san jose. 60 in san francisco. all types of weather. for the weekend, we're going to see temperatures narrowing down. 60s to 80s across the bay. cooler temperatures, big time for july standards. look at the highs, >> such interesting weather all year. thank you very much. 5:49. the giants starting a new series with the mets. ryan vogelsong will be on the mound for san francisco. >> the a's back at it in texas

tonight. hoping to get runs on the board. they were shut out last night 6-0. rich hardine with the loss there. a's and rangers play again at 5:05. >> fans mourning the loss of dick williams. the hall of fame manager won two world series with the a's back in the 1970s and led the team to 101 wins and division title in 1971 before they were swept in the al championship series by baltimore. williams died from an aneurysm at a hospital in henderson, nevada. he was 82 years old. it's 5:50 now. >> we'll take a look at our gadget friday coming up in tech today. >> also remember to follow us on facebook. search nbc bay area morning news,lickli like. we'd love to hear from you. natus with natural menthol.

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>> we are following developments in florida where nasa is scheduled to launch the final shuttle flight of "atlantis" this morning. we'll see if weather will cooperate. keeping tabs on everything going on there. it's 5:53. also keeping tabs on your morning commute. so far it's friday light. maybe that's because lucky charm, rob mayeda is in the house. >> mike promised me it was going to be friday light. he is so far right. let's show you what's going on around the sunol grade. 680 volume is picking up but at speed. we'll show you some of your east bay travel times. highway 4, it's friday morning but we're starting to see the westbound slowing passing antioch approaching pittsburg.

not too bad. altamont pass fine. even the 580/680 interchange, that can see slowing but right now looking good. east sho freeway in the green, travel times, the east shore, macarthur and nimitz in the green this morning. >> nimitz not so naughty this morning. 5:54. fans of harry potter say good-bye. some lucky moviegoer in london got to see the flick last night and they loved it. >> it was so good. >> it was amazing. >> it was amazing. so good. it was worth the wait. >> absolutely stunning. the special effects were out of this world. >> i think she said the special effects were great. did you see that girl cry? wow. a lot of people sad it's over. here in the u.s. the movie is going to premier on july 15.

see if it evokes tears for you. >> soap fans don't have to say good-bye to one life to live, scott mcgrew says it's going online. >> good morning. i hate to stereotype but i think it's safe to say the average soap fan is not as technically savvy. i'm thinking of my grand mother. it's a sign of the times that canceled soaps like one life to live are going to live on line. everyone. er erica cain. try to win an emmy. that's that lady. >> she did. >> she did. very good. it means everyone even soap fans have access to high speed internet these days. it's part of their lives. a company called prospect park has signed a deal with abc to air new episodes on line. we're not talking repeats. we're talking brand new. from soap to water. so hot i thought our gadget should have something to do with the pool. this yellow device, it's the

underwater lap track clock. it count your lap. $58. you can see that we had a little trouble getting it to stick to the pool. >> is that a suction cup? >> to be fair there are a number of ways of getting that on the pool. there are a number of ways to get to the attach. we had frustration. >> does it only count your laps. >> it will time as well. there's even a game where you try to beat your own lap. lots of pools for not professional but high school timers will have very expensive timers, but you go to your own pool and how do you do it. for $58 you can do it. get it stuck to the wall. >> bring out the michael phelps in you. >> last week we had the underwater camera. we sent it back before we shot this. shouldn't have done that. >> i wasn't here. >> sorry.

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>> new this morning we are a long way away from florida but that's not meaning we can't take part in the excitement. i'm live at nasa ames in ta