>> reporter: the cat walks are up on the new bay bridge. a major step forward for all of the cable that needs to be installed. we'll have the story coming up in a live report. >> he's still out there somewhere that i might even run into him and not know that he's murdered my husband. no reason. >> a good samaritan, his wife, his baby daughter all shot while feeding the homeless. a mother's outrage ahead. a cry for help and a call to action. how a south bay teacher helped save the lives of a 6-year-old girl and her father. it's friday, july 29th, as we

look at san jose, this is "today in the bay." >> good morning everyone. happy friday. it's 4:30. let's check the forecast and meteorologist rob mayeda. >> happy friday to you. we look at our temperatures hour by hour, breakfast time, 50s with patchy low clouds like yesterday morning. and much like yesterday, inland temperatures will make a run into the 90s as we approach 4:00. the warmest places, livermore, 87 in san jose, 68 around san francisco. for the weekend we'll see the temperatures holding steady. one item, a chance of mountain thunder south of santa cruz for the weekend. a look at a tough commute earlier on 580. >> earlier than this, there is an earlier than 4:30. i sent out a tweet at the dublin interchange. it has reopened. the connector, the commute direction on 680 reopened.

and smooth drive through livermore. a new accident report in this area, actually toward the bay bridge. updates on those in the next report. >> thank you much. remembering his life but struggling with his death, an oakland woman mourning her husband shot and killed while feeding the homeless. 29-year-old was delivering food to the homeless on 47th avenue wednesday morning when someone in a turquoise van started shooting. he was hit in the head, his wife grazed by a bullet. their 3-year-old baby girl shot but will be okay. she and her husband routinely fed the homeless. it was their mission. >> a great person. he's still out there somewhere that i might even run into him and not know that he murdered my husband for no reason. whoever he is. it's not fair. i almost lost my daughter.

>> powell is convinced it was a case of mistaken identity. the family is planning a candlelight vigil at the shooting scene. >> a student is dead killed not by the disease but by a bullet allegedly fired by his father. sources tell the "mercury news" 50-year-old amad shot his 22-year-old son andrew before turning the gun on himself in their home. andrew was a senior at the university of san diego, taking a leave of absence after undergoing a blood and marrow transplant. before college he was a stand-out basketball player at valley christian high school in san jose. >> this morning friends and family will remember the life of a fallen officer killed not in the line of duty but while helping a friend. a people willial service for marin county deputy sheriff jim mathiason, the 49-year-old shot and killed last tuesday by the ex-boyfriend of a family friend

at a home near petaluma. 1200 people are expected at the auditorium at 9:30 this morning. >> 4:33. also this morning, san francisco police have the gun that fired a deadly shot that -- during a controversial police shoot-out two weeks ago but they don't have the person who took the gun from the crime scene. according to ballistic test this is is the gun that 19-year-old kenneth harding used to shoot himself after running away from police in the bay view. it disappeared shortly after the shoot-out. officers say a person who lives in that neighborhood led them to the semi-automatic pistol. harding and officers got in a shoot-out july 16 after police tried to stop him from skipping out on a muni fare. harding a parolee was also a person of interest in the murder of a pregnant woman. >> alameda firefighters infamous for standing on the shore while watching a drowning man on memorial day weekend now say

they warned the city years ago of the danger of shelving their water rescue unit. the oakland tribune reports that the council was told that a water rescue unit was necessary more than two years before the drowning. the firefighters union says it sent a letter to the city in february 2009. firefighters say they weren't allowed to save the drowning man on memorial day weekend because they weren't trained to go in the water though they did participate in a similar rescue a few weeks later. we're hearing from the teacher who jumped a fence to save a girl and her daughter from drawning. jeff was home near valco mall when he heard a cry for help. the teacher says he ran out, saw a man trying to pull the girl and her father from the bottom of a pool. he used his cpr training to help the girl start breathing, then helped revive the father. he doesn't see himself as a hero but someone who simply did the

right thing. >> it's what you're supposed to do. it's how you react and what you're supposed to do. i feel confident if i was in that situation other people would have stepped up. >> the girl and her father may have been at the bottom of the pool for a couple of minutes before they were discovered. both are now back at home and they are recovering. >> 4:36. he chase add robbery suspect out of his hotel, now alex trebek will be off of his feet for six weeks. he will have surgery today to repair his ruptured achilles tendon, he injured himself chasing a woman who broke into his hotel room wednesday morning. the 56-year-old is still in jail accused of making off with his wallet and other itemperatures.: that accusation could be her third strike under california law. he burglarized two homes 20 years ago. she's back in court on monday. >> let's check again with rob and check out the weekend

forecast. good morning. >> good morning. pretty nice forecast. this morning things are off to a nice start around san jose, no fog, 59 degrees, san francisco has been seeing less in terms of thick fog. mike will keep you updated throughout the morning. 56 now. and 54 the cool spot between the three locations. if you are heading out to the gilroy garlic festival we'll have a preview. typical weather for gilroy. not too hot, these temperatures pretty good heading off to gilroy this weekend. around the bay area today, 87 in san jose, mid 90s livermore, 95 today, 68 with patchy clouds around san francisco, 74 in oakland, hot temperatures again around sacramento, high of 100. 86 truckee. heading to the sierra, for the chance for seeing scattered thundershowers as early this afternoon and likely into sunday as well. mike. >> we'll take you back out to the starting point where we left

off last we talked. looking at the altamont pass, a smooth drive to the dublin interchange. that sigalert we told you about, that cleared after 40 minutes. watch it on the roads. there is other stuff like this couch getting cleared. right around the canyon, crews should have that cleared shortly. use caution as you see those lights. castro valley moves, and the approach to the maze we don'ts see problems. of course it's 4:38 so we don't expect a lot of traffic but we have an accident away from the bay bridge eastbound 80 toward the golden gate field area at buchanan street and on the side of the road, a tow truck arrived. move over to the left if you can to allow extra space. back to the bay bridge, a live look, it's darker than we typically see. some low clouds but you can see the bridge moving smoothly.

i'm going to sends it out to christie smith. i hear you're hitting the catwalk. are you doing modeling? >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear you. we are talking about the catwalk. if you're talking about my modeling career that's on hold right now. but basically, we drove by these catwalks for workers with nerves of steal. they are hanging at a 35-degree angle off of the tower on the west side. if you had driven it you may have noticed two of them off, there is another one hanging off of the east side. the oakland side. this is a big part of the construction because essentially the workers walk up these very steep ramps, they are about 12 feet wide and what they are doing is they are using a mile of suspension cable, that's the ultimate plan, that will wrap around the tower 500 feet above sea level and workers are tethered to these as they work

for obvious reasons. this is 137 bundles of cables each held in by smaller cables. once this is installed crews will remove these catwalks. this is how they get it done. the eastern span expected to open in late 2013. that's the latest from here. reporting live near the new bay bridge, christie smith. now back to you. >> thank you. the date is set for a defining moment in california same-sex marriage fight. september 6 is when the state supreme court will decide whether people who object to gay marriage have a right to support prop 8 in court. a federal court found the law violated civil rights of gay californians, those who want to ban gay marriage objected and wanted the state to take the issue to a higher court, but arnold schwarzenegger, who was governor at the time and then attorney general jerry brown, refused to appeal the court's

decision. voters approved prop 8 in 2008 that would have banned gay marriage but it's mired in legal challenges ever since. >> coming up, the uc system has explaining to do. state auditors and the billion-dollar head scratcher in the uc budget. why a business opened more than 30 years shutting down for good. >> you're looking at a live picture ever 880. we'll check back in with mike and for all of your news and weather and traffic updates, search for nbc bay area morning news on e facebook.and you'll g hit likete d you'll get updated. u

>> it's just before 8:00 in the morning in washington, d.c., lawmakers have gotten their starbuck, headed back to work to talk about the budget. they have got four days until the country's checks start bouncing and still no end in sight to the debt limit debate. a vote that was supposed to happen last night did not because republican speaker john boehner couldn't rally enough votes in his own party. he will meet with republicans again this morning to try to sway tea party conservatives, while lawmakers battle over cutting the deficit the treasury department says it could come up with an emergency plan that focuses only on extending the country's borrowing limit. >> a clean debt ceiling vote and then continuing on with this conversation, or failing that,

14th amendment option is what is in front of us. >> as you try to remember, the 14th amendment that allows the president to protect. the white house seems reluctant to use that. a slam dunk for starbucks. news before the bell nicole lapin. i'm sure the debt issue is a major problem. >> major as well and we'll get to those in a second. futures are lower following the news out of washington that the house debt ceiling vote has been postponed again. stocks were mixed yesterday as the stalemate worries investors. markets were boosted with bosstive economic data. that pushed asian markets lower and europe is lower this morning. we do get some of our own data but not expected to be as good as yesterday. looking at a first look at second quarter gdp that's expected to be below 2%.

we're supposed to be around 3% around this time of the recovery and the risk there is to the down side so watch for that. the dow dropping yesterday, 12,240, the nasdaq gained a bit, 1.5 points, 2766. moody's investors service placed 177 municipal bonds on downgrade review as it re-evaluates its rating. included in the announcement, 162 local governments, 14 housing finance programs, and the university of washington. moody's says the possible downgrade from the dependence on the federal government and potential funding issues following a u.s. debt default. duncan brand is getting off to a pretty strong start on wall street. some say wall street is run on dunkin. it started trading 47% of a jump is what we saw in the stock so far, by the close parent company

of dunkin' donuts coffee shops having 6800 locations, this is not a big west coast thing, this is an east coast thing, so bear with me but it plans to double its presence over 20 years. the ceo said he's not setting his sights on california so you guys have to deal with bragging rights for a while. >> just because it's not a west coast chain doesn't mean we don't invest. so there you go. >> that's true. there's a lot of options. and baskin-robbins is more of a west coast thing. >> that's the same parent company. fair enough. you had me at ice cream. have a great weekend. tate auditors say thecc1: university of california needs to be more specific about how it's spending billions of dollars. auditors say the uc system spends more than a billion on quote miscellaneous services. auditors also want the uc system

to come clean about why it spent thousands of dollars more per student at four of its ten campuses. ucsf, berkeley, ucla, and davis. the 15-month awe did analyzed spending from 2005 to last year. rob has a look at the weekend forecast. good morning. >> good morning, scott. this morning like yesterday morning at the same time we have low clouds and fog on the coast. 50s and low 60s in a few spots, sunnyvale 62. we have a strong sea breeze reaching fairfield. things will be warming up, not too hot. low 90s inland. air quality across the east bay south into contra costa and alameda counties, seeing moderate air quality levels. the change we're going to see later on will be moisture spilling into southern california that eventually is going to move further up to the sierras toward the weekend. as early as this afternoon we'll see thunder flaring up in the southern sierra for the

afternoon. traveling in southern california you'll see those thundershowers as you cross over the grapevine into los angeles, 75 degrees there. 104 in las vegas and notice the thunder there around yosemite, near 93. hundreds up and down the central valley. 67 about 99 in sacramento and look at reno and south lake tahoe, toasty 80s and 90s in the forecast. hour by hour f your temperature around the bay area, 50 for the morning, lunch time 70s and 80s. staying cool again for san francisco, high of 68, 87 san jose. and 95 the hot spot today in livermore. for the weekend look out for the coastal range. may see thundershowers, especially south of santa cruz along the coastal mountains. temperatures not changing a lot. >> 4:49. in the south bay, no more disco music or roller skates for a rink that's been around decades. this sunday, skaters take one last spin around the floor after three decades in milpitas,

getting read the close its doors. the family-run business shutting down to make way for a town house. the people who have loyally come to skate there for years. >> we even have third generations skating. we had third generation working here so it really does make you feel like part of somebody's life and you know, that is probably the part that's making us closing the hardest because i know that i'm taking that out of their lives. >> the rink is celebrating with a final farewell skating party sunday from 6:00 to 10:00 at night. >> coming up, a pilot punched out on a plane. the new charges that could be on the way. and days away from justice, after years behind bars. the latest on a pair detained. >> highway 24 moves smoothly now heading toward that bay bridge. i do have an accident, though, we're following on the east shore freeway. i'll give you the latest on that

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>> good morning. it's 4:53. we look at the hp pavilion. the two men accused of attacking a pilot could face federal charges. the fbi investigating the wednesday night incident, authorities say assaulting an airline crew member is a federal offense. this is actually a picture of

two different men, jonathan bias and his brother were arraigned. they were pulled off of a flight at miami international airport after they allegedly became belligerent and attacked the pilot. >> the berkeley hikers jailed in iran for almost two years will finally have their day in court. 3 are they are expected at a hearing. it will be the final hearing in their case. fattal, bauer and sarah shord were arrested when they allegedly crossed into iran. shourd was released on bail, iranian officials ordered her back for trial. that after all is what bail is, but she says she will not go. let's look at what's happening later today in the bay. for that we say good morning to laura. >> good morning to you, scott. good morning everyone. we're following the overnight developments in the debate over the debt ceiling. house republicans will try to

pass a measure today that they failed to vote on last night. we'll continue to follow how the markets are reacting to all of it. what it means to your money. lieutenant governor gavin newsom says he knows why california's economy is struggling. and you can almost smell it from here. the annual gilroy garlic festival is opening today. i hope it's not my perfume. we're going to take you there live and tell you why you may want to avoid some things later, coming up. >> thank you very much, laura. i can smell that you're ready for traffic. >> that's a euphemism, isn't it. i showered recently. we're looking to the east shore freeway approaching the bay bridge. 18 minutes and a smooth flow past the racetrack on that side. but heading away we're looking at the clearing stages, the tow truck should be leaving the scene shortly. watch for that as they merge.

cleared from the roadway that couch we reported at eden canyon so westbound 580 the commute direction is moving smoothly. it's still early through that portion of castro valley. smooth off 880, the san mateo bridge as well no. slowing, no problems, no closures across in that west direction. the south bay a new accident at lafayette. some activity there and there may be, well, possible dui there, under the influence of garlic like laura said so expect 101 crowded today. >> hey, if you don't go to the garlic festival, have you seen movies this summer? i know you are the father of two small children. >> we saw "cars 2" because of that. >> not sure that counts. >> no real people in movies so far. >> we have block busters this weekend. take a look. what goes better together than you know, cowboys and aliens.

you've got that. that is one of your choices of the things that you can see. >> i'm looking forward to this very much. >> this one i think i'm willing to see. my 10-year-old is on the edge of whether he thinks things are scary. i think i can. i'm not going to go see the smurfs. would you go see the smurfs? >> couple years ago blue people very popular. maybe. animated blue people. avatar. >> not the same. >> different. >> you know, the pop culture critic at the chronicle liked the smurfs. >> i heard mixed reviews. >> the last one looks good. good ratings. >> good. >> there you be. those are your weekend possibilities today in the bay starts in two minutes and for all of your news and weather and traffic updates check us out on facebook, search n area area morning news. "today in the bay" starts in two minutes.