breaking news out of richmond this morning where police are looking for a 50-year-old security guard who opened fire on a coworker, wounding at least one person. we'll have details in a live report. plus pg&e under new scrutiny. why some say another pipeline disaster could be lurking beneath bay area streets. and cell phone controversy. carriers headed to school to fight a new law going into effect in san francisco. a live look at oakland, thursday, october 20th. this is "today in the bay." >> well, good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. 4:30. let's check your forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> take a look at this temperature map. it is 46 in novato versus 63 degrees in oakland.

a 20 degree difference. wherever you're waking up this morning, you'll need the heavy coat this morning. but the good news is the warm-up starts today. the beach weather looks fabulous this weekend. mike has an area that could slow you down on your way to work. >> i want to show this because it could potentially last until this afternoon. a jackknife truck. carrying live chickens. this accident happened overnight. it was completely blocking i-80 in the westbound direction. we have one lane that's reopened. there's a lot of work going on there. this could take potentially until the afternoon. >> in richmond a security guard dead.

live in richmond with more on what happened. dead or wounded, christi? >> reporter: wounded. i'm told he's in surgery but in critical condition. he tells me he hasn't seen anything like it. they're telling me this securit guard left his home in concord and fired shots into a neighbor's home about 9:00 last night before heading here to richmond to his job. where he fired into this building, where his supervisor was sitting. he apparently hit him in the arm and the chest. that supervisor was able to fire back even though he was wounded. apparently they provide security here. two other security guards who were on duty heathe commotion a ran over here. they fired at the shooter who

may have been wounded in this. police tell me this shooter had several high powered weapons with him when he came. he's 50-year-old duran long. we're trying to get a picture of him up this morning. he basically drove out of here and that license plate is 5x0323. trying to confirm those numbers are right. that's the information they're giving us this morning and they have an all point bulletin out to all law enforcement agencies in the area. of course, this person is clearly armed and dangerous. reporting live in richmond, christie smith, back to you. just a few minutes ago reuters reporting that muammoam gadhafi was captured. 20 years ago a small brush

fire blew up and the oakland berkeley hills turned into the nation's worst ever urban wildfire killing 25 people, destroying 3,500 homes. to mark the day, oakland will rededicate the fire storm memorial at 10:30 this morning. vandals defaced the sculpture last year. today's rededication, one of several events between now and saturday to mark two decades since the oakland hills fire. a bay area lawmakers today will demand the california public utilities commission enforce federal standards to protect homeowners from dangerous plastic pipes. a ruptured plastic pipe led to a fire and explosion at a cupertino apartment complex in august. the feds said plastic pipes should be phased out. pg&e says it will replace 1,200

miles of the pipeline. the company is reacting to accusations it used junk money. after going through utility records, it found new evidence pg&e installed, salvaged or junk transmission pipe on the gas system between 1948 and 1956. state regulators say it raises serious safety concerns. obviously flood pipes underground could lead to more deadly explosions. the agencies to release the documents to the public. pg&e says it's confidential and too sensitive for you to see. >> if there's anything in the documents that presents a safety concern, we'll take immediate action to make the situation safe. >> they want to hold a hearing in early november to push for the documents to be made public. 8 million californians expected

to take part in the largest earthquake drill ever. >> we are experiencing a large earthquake. >> everybody get under the desk and hold on. >> now the businesses all practicing this morning. barth and other transit agencies will participate. for guidelines on what to do before, during and after a quake. medical help on the way for the occupy protesters in san francisco. members of national nurses united will lend their support by putting in a first aid station. it will be manned by registered nurses that will perform basic first aid. san francisco will be the third city to get medical aid support from the group. first aid station already on the site on occupy wall street and occupy l.a. camps. cell phone companies will ask a federal judge to block a

new san francisco judge today. it will require retailers to display a poster like this one and hand out fact sheets about cell phone radiation. the group spoke today. that's the wireless association. upset about the law. this has been classified by as a possible carcinogen. ctia says the law violates the first amendment right to free speech because it forces them to disseminate the city's opinion. a new recall to tell you about this morning. a company voluntarily recalling bagged salads because of a possible salmonella contaminati contamination. it's sold under fresh selections, heb, marketside, taylor farms. the bags were sold in grocery stores in 14 states, including

california. from ordinary mom to hero, a woman saw yesterday's fiery crash, jumped out of her car to hel help. >> armed. i dragged them all the way to my car. >> williams then dragged down firefighters on the other way. they say ris cue crews may have never seen the driver, until it was too late. which makes williams 5-year-old daughter told everyone at school, no exaggeration. >> she told everybody that she saw, my mom saved a man's life today. everybody was headaching me feel all good. >> the druk driver is out of the hospital this morning, but not before thanking them for saving his life. let's check in with christina. good morning. >> good morning to you. it's really chilly in the north

bay. otherwise holding onto 63 in oakland. and we have 50s in the south bay. 55 in san jose. a little bit of a change. you'll see more fog compressed to the surface. reduced visibilities already at 4:39 in the north bay. so take it easy up there. we're expecting a lot of fog to drift south along the golden gate bridge. before we hit 7:00 a.m. today. so we'll keep watching that for you. your day works like this. a little bit warmer. really comfortable. don't need the ac or the heater. 74 in san jose at 5:00 p.m. making your way home from work. 66 in san francisco. if you want to hit the beach one more time, at least one more time, we have a really warm weekend ahead. some cities, touching on the 90s. we still have a serious crash out there. >> we do. we'll track that. but it affects you this

afternoon. northbound 280 on the peninsula, we have oon accident here at woodside road. chp says the northbound side, no lanes are blocked. but just stay over to the right if you can. allow at least one lane so emergency crews can do their work. we'll get a live look at 880. there we see the construction crews with typical flashing lights heading north. we'll see traffic breaks to warn you about if i can. >> coming up, occupy oakland protesters breaking the law. city leaders not doing much about it. ar plpalmer cso palmer taking s aphee tdeai r. hey, your high speed internet here, at home...

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act now, act now! like he said... ♪ welcome back to you. it's 4:43. we are following reuters reports that moammar gadhafi has been captured. the minute we know more, we'll let you know more. it's been more than a week and occupy protesters are still camped outside city hall. some are wondering why police and politicians are not doing more. the city leaders don't want to talk about the takeover of the plaza. some same it's political

suicide. that's because a decision 20 years ago could be the reason behind the silence. that's when the mayor allowed homeless people to camp outside in front of city hall nine months while a shelter was being built. the encampment was one reason he lost his bid for second term as mayor. the man who beat him as words of advice for the current oakland mayor. >> if you have access to the buildings and they're not allowing you to go in, or if there's obstruction and demonstration. she has to do something about it. she'll be held responsible and accountable. >> jean kwan and others warning them to clean up their act or shut down. a growing rat problem and threats of violence. the bay area's ebay is putting up good numbers for the third quarter. profit did not impress investors. for the rest of the news,

chartea brant lee from cnbc headquarters. >> good morning, scott. futures show a positive stock market open. stocks dropped yesterday on continued concerns over the european crisis and the the expected size of the bailout fund. the nasdaq lost 53 points to 2604. we get quite a few earnings reports today. we'll hear from them before the opening bell. mike soft reports after the bell. we also get unemployment claims this morning. expected to be around 400,000. on the housing front, existing home sales are expected to drop to 4.9 million. last week's blackberry outages are still haunting research in motion. reports show they are considering consumer lawsuits.

it resulted in periods of lost services for many customers worldwide. back to you, scott. >> thank you very much. christina loren with a weekend forecast. good morning. >> it's not too early to think about the weekend. the weather will warm up. it won't be too cold in the city of san francisco. today it will be the case until 1:00 p.m. but your temperatures are really mild in oakland. 63 degrees. 59 in hayward. mostly cloudy conditions here. but take a look at the difference in the north bay. you're going to need to grab the jacket and the fog is already starting to settle in in some north bay cities. high pressure is the reason why. it's starting to build in. this compresses all the moisture. forces it to the surface. swishes that marine layer down. that's what we'll see for today. the fog should clear by 1:00

p.m. of course, the deepest fog pockets now in santa rosa. stop the future cast at noon and 1:00 p.m. san francisco is still pretty cloudy at that point. the drizzle. the cool air will maintain until 2:00, 3:00 p.m. then the sun will come out for at least four hours. then changes arrive closer to the weekend. 79 in san jose. 69 in san francisco. we'll warm up to the mid-80s in san jose on sunday. you're going to get two pretty great beach days. saturday and sunday. 77 degrees. in san francisco. that means 81 in santa cruz. really, really comfortable weekend ahead if you want to be outdoors. then next week we shift our attention to the potential for fire weather. back to you, scott. >> thank you much. all the escaped wild animals in ohio are dead this morning. 50 exotic animals kills.

18 tigers, 17 lions. >> there's a lion on mount perry. >> we don't know what that was. well, i guess it was a 911 call that described animal sightings on tuesday night after the owner terry thompson freed the animals before committing suicide. grizzly bears, african lions, monkeys, endangered tigers were on the loose. deputies had no choice but to kill them all. >> we had 18 bengal tigers, you folks wouldn't have wanted to seen what would have happen. 50 of the 56 animals still at the farm shot and killed. the six surviving take on the the columbus zoo. nba players and owners head back to the bargaining table for another round of talks. they've had 24 hours of negotiations in the past two days. there have been no results.

but the federal mediator involved said things are going well. if a deal is done soon. the nba season could start on november 15th. game two of the world series tonight at 5:05. it was all tied up at 2 until the sixth inning. raiders are not saying it outloud. but it's possible that the new quarterback carson palmer will start sunday against the chiefs. he's not played or practiced since last season. coach hugh jackson will decide tomorrow if palmer will play on sunday. coming up, a candidate for president stops by the bay area. we'll tell you where michele bachmann will be and an update on the kids from stanford who completed their solar car race in australia. mike? >> scott, we have slowing. it's not because there's no sun for the solar cars. it's because of a sig alert in

the north bay. i've had changes to the big accident situation. i'll brick it to you coming up.

welcome tobacco to you. you are looking at live pictures in libya. there you go. go ahead. celebrating the capture we hear of moammar gadhafi.

initial reports that moammar gadhafi has been captured, we presume by libyan rebels. republican presidential candidate michele bachmann will be in the area today. she'll be here this morning to talk about the revive of american competitivend. she'll present her views on how to revive american competitive business edge in the global economy. she'll be in napa tonight to attend a fund raising dinner for her campaign. well, let's check in with marla in the news room with a look a what we're looking on this morning. >> good morning, scott. we are following the investigation into the a shooting in richmond. christie smith will bring us live updates all morning. also the latest on reports that

you just saw the live pictures in libya. libyan leader muammoammar gadha has been captured by rebel forces. a group of people with a unique hobby. we'll hear from him coming up at 5:30. >> thank you much, marla. anchts strong man in syria pitted his strength against a train and won. he's not climbing a ladder, he's laying down on a track there. 33-year-old athlete tugged the 150-ton train a number of feet before stopping. he pulled a plane last year and 40-ton trucks in the years past. >> let's go to the roadways.

this is westbound 80, the commute direction. the reason i was concerned is we had early word that this could potentially last until 3:00 p.m. ch the latest is that two lanes are open. we see this spreading towards fairfield. more traffic is getting through. still no word on when they kbpt to open the westbound lanes. i will track this and update it throughout the morning. also a look at oakland, 880 where the live shot now shows the remainder of what was a couple of seconds ago. a traffic break past the coliseum. they're removing roadway crews north of here. we have construction in both directions. about this time we see the traffic floating around. expect minor delays. >> is solar car rates stand for did not win.

they have not tweeted but we believe they finished the race an hour ago. the car finishing the 3,000 kilometer race somewhere between 7th and 10th place. not bad considering 37 cars were competing. the winner came out of japan. jon and marla coming up on "today in the bay." search nbc bay area morning news. we leave you with live pictures from libya. moammar gadhafi may have been captured. may have been wounded. we'll have live updates throughout the morning. es cells throughout your body. the latestesearch shows cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals that spread through your blood vessels...

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breaking news out of richmond this morning where there was a shootout at a public housing complex between security guards. one man wounded. another on the loose. i just spoke with police. i'll tell you where police think the suspect is this morning.

that story is coming up. plus, the justice department's evaluation of how well the oakland police department investigated the death of journalist chauncey bailey. and yahoo! trying to get buyer interest, but only some buyers. the new restrictions the company is putting on who can and cannot buy them. >> and word that moammar gadhafi may have been captured. and this is a live look over there with that happening. the word that moammar gadhafi may have been captured. it is thursday, october 20th. this is "today in the bay." >> good morning, everybody. just a few seconds shy of 5:00 on this thursday. i'm marla tellez in for laura garcia-cann garcia-cannon. >> good morning, everybody. i'm jon kelley. we're having the storm before