i'll show you what's going on coming up. >> big questions from house panel hearings about fremont's solyndra. >> it's thursday, november 3. taking a live look outside from the south bay. change in the weather department today in the bay. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. 6:00 right now. i'm laura garcia cannon. >> i'm john kelly. let's check in with credit lauren. you say we have to put away the sun block this week? >> never put away the sun block, especially the ladies. the number one cause of premature aging is sun exposure. keep that in mind. always have your sun block handy, especially on little ones. right now we have a very potent cold front because it's packing cold air. now dropping in northern california. the leading edge in ukiah.

hey, you don't want to be the guy caught off guard by the showers. bring the umbrella with you on your way to work. we could face a rough commute home. let's check the commute with mike. >> rougher for the north bay already. we have a road hazard, a big pothole in two lanes. the two fast lanes at southbound 101 approaching highway 37. folks are advised to use lake view highway to 37 because of the blocking of two lanes. they will likely have to do roadway repair. i will update you as i get updates. >> this is no surprise. protesters back at the port of oakland this morning. if they get their way, they will shut it down all over again. today in the bay's bob redell live with all the relentless per assistant protesters. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, john. thousands of protesters shut down the port overnight but as the new shift is trying to come

in they will try to keep the shutdown in effect. we are at 7th near the 880 southbound ramp. you have a handful of occupy oakland demonstrators here. you have eight of them and they are blocking both lanes of traffic. on your right here is the correct direction of traffic for drivers to be headed. what they are now doing is trying to go the opposite way over there. the demonstrators are standing in front of cars, trying to negotiate with drivers to take a stand to protest against what they believe is corporate greed since corporations used the port to ship their goods in and out. that's making it dangerous. you have a lot of drivers frustrated who are gunning their vehicles in the opposite direction. you have a trucker now going the opposite direction and off screen you can't see but there is a pickup truck headed this way. it is somewhat dangerous what's going on out here. let me walk over and talk to this guy, if i can.

hey, guys, good morning. we're live with nbc bay area. i just -- >> i'm sorry. we're having a circle right now. >> i think they are trying to recalibrate, reconsider what they are doing because it isn't safe out here. like i said, they have been trying to talk people into not going into the port. you have had people like you saw the driver earlier said, no, i'm going in. you have had other confrontations like this. take a look. >> we're trying to keep the port shut for 24 hours. >> i'm coming through. >> you can't do that. >> i'm trying to earn a day's living. >> i understand, sir. we're trying -- [ inaudible ] >> you don't speak for me. >> reporter: there have been honks coming from the truck drivers in what we assume is a sign of solidarity. it looks like the protesters have given up on the quest to

shut down this road because i think they realize just how dangerous it is. now they have just re-opened 7th headed into the port. they still have 3rd and adeline shut down with chain link fence and tipped over dumpsters. they said they were going to try to shut down grand at maritime. these are major arteries into the port. but right now they don't have the number of people necessary to pull it off. john, laura? >> bob, the attitude you got there trying to interview somebody seems pervasive. are you getting the vibe these small numbers but are violent with their attitude? >> reporter: i think in that situation right there and they have been very -- i think right there they were just tense because they were getting honked at and you had cars gunning past them. we were getting worried because it's so dangerous. you don't know who's going to react in what way.

clearly it's not safe to stand in front of a major artery like this one that's going on now. >> no question. interesting to see how it pans out as more protesters show up. thank you very much. >> 6:04 now. protesters in frank ogawa plaza squared off with police. it started peaceful but turned violent. some protesters are already up trying to help clean up the mess this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, they are. i have to say it's quite startling when you pull into downtown oakland this morning. there is quite a bit of graffiti. you can follow my hand here. we are at 14th and broadway. we were here yesterday. there was no graffiti over there on that building. it goes all the way around the corner. i wanted to pan over and show you the building with the rite-aid sign there. there is graffiti there, down this street. if steve can follow me over there there is a coffee shop

here at frank ogala plaza. i want to show you one of the plate glass windows here overnight. looks like someone threw something through the window. what we are seeing is that some of the occupy oakland protesters are putting up signs. this says, actions not done by the people. they are trying to distinguish themselves saying this doesn't represent them. we have seen them out here with their own cleaning supplies, with brooms, cleaning up glass. overnight police say a group broke off and it wasn't representative of what was going on all day with the strike and the occupy oakland movement. someone set fires. one oakland police officer i spoke with said the group threw rocks and bottles, roman candles and a lit flare at police officers who had to call for help from other agencies. this group even took over a vacant building near frank ogala plaza where the encampment is.

police officers are saying this was carried out by peaceful protesters who remained at the plaza. demonstrators say this is not in line with their message so they are cleaning it up. here's what one man had to say. >> you know, there is a lot of ideals, aggression. i think we need everyone to see we are normal people like everyone else. not just a rag tag bunch of crazies or something which is what they want it to seem like. >> reporter: just a couple of minutes ago we shot new video of the police recruiting center in the internal affairs office near the plaza. the windows are broken. the front door broken. there is spray paint on it. there is a security office there. same thing. when we were there, police were outside taking pictures of it.

they are telling us up to 60 people were arrested overnight. maybe more. but back here live i wanted to give you a sense of what's going on. these windows here, when we first arrived at the coffee shop were covered in graffiti. the crew has been making quick work of it using wd-40 and scrub pads to try to get everything off of it. they say they really want to make sure the message is a positive message and this isn't something they endorse at all. that's the latest from oakland. back to you. thank you very much. in the meantime, two protesters were injured after a car hit them on broadway. we have had cell phone video of the incident. it happened around 7:30 last night. witnesses told police the driver had accelerated into the crowd out of frustration. other protesters pounded on cars. a man and woman were injured but the injuries weren't life

threatening. >> the rules committee in san francisco is set to meet again today. the protest is at the top of the agenda. the meeting starts at 5:30 this evening in oakland city hall. it wants to hear from people affected by the demonstrations and develop a strategy for developing peaceful demonstrations going forward. we'll continue to update the occupy movement and protests throughout the newscast and all day long on nbc bay area.com. >> 6:09 now. want to check the forecast. things are changing. >> they are. the winds of change are blowing. we have the northeasterly down sloping, warming winds from yesterday. as a result the temperatures stayed mild from the north bay through the east bay. let's talk about what's happening now. 34 degrees this morning. grab your jacket in santa rosa. 38 in napa and 41 in fairfield. let me show you what the winds did to temperatures yesterday. 18 degrees cooler from 24 hours

ago. just 12 degrees cooler than this time in napa. that's significant. you will need the jacket. grab the umbrella. look what's headed our way. we have a potent cold front packing cold air. we're really tracking this area. the leading edge moving into the north bay as we speak. showers don't move until later today. mostly between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. south bay takes the longest to reach you. i'm forecasting your showers by 4:00 to 6:00 just in time for the evening commute. could be rough. may want to leave early if you have a nice boss like us. we have a tightly wound area of low pressure packing cold air as well. this will slide south throughout the day today and bring our snow levels way douchblt light

accumulations at 3,500 feet. we could see flurries down to 3,000 feet which is cool for this time of the season. we'll talk about your ski report. we are also going to talk about the weekend forecast. one day certainly better than the other. >> saturday and sunday are good no matter what the weather. we'll take it. i'll take the weekend. we have a disabled vehicle blocking the fast lane. it could be an issue over the bridge. they may turn on the lights early at the toll plaza but not yet. all of the activity that bob's been showing you at the port of oakland, chp net issued a note saying northbound 880 at the 7th street off ramp, a large group hanging out there. again, that's what bob showed us. sounded like they were moving but it could be a problem off 880. coming up, an update on the issue for the north bay as well

for 101. back to you. >> thank you, mike. >> the time is 6:11. coming up, police release video of the minutes before a shooting spree that killed four people. >> and the solyndra bankruptcy scandal continues to unfold. i'm going to tell you why the obama administration could take another hit when it comes to its relationship with that failed fremont company coming up. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. state farm.

welcome back, everyone. investigators in carson city are taking a new look at video and pictures from a shooting spree that killed four people. the video showed the gunman shooting a motorcycle, walking a few steps and opening fire toward an ihop. he injured seven people and killed himself. his family said he was hearing voices in the month before he

opened fire. doctors put him on medication for paranoid schizophrenia. >> i don't know what else could have been done. from what i understand he took medication that day. it's just one of those things. there is no way in the world anybody could have predicted this incident happening. >> the entire ordeal was over in 85 seconds. tragic. >> we can check back in for another update on what's happening for the weekend. i want to focus on the weekend. >> this guy loves his job. we know he does and we love him. you know, you are going to get a better weekend day saturday than sunday. i will put it out before we get to the seven-day forecast. make your plans saturday but stay nice and bundled up. that will be the coldest morning that we have had in months. taking a nice look at the bay bridge. nice and clear here. cold settling in the north bay. your temperatures are running very chilly. yeah, 34 degrees in santa rosa.

37 in novato. we have 52 degrees in oakland. as we head throughout the season as you know it gets colder and colder. we are talking the upper 20s as we wake up saturday morning. here is the weathermaker. cold front pushing just to the north of ukiah throughout the day. we'll see showers slide south. you can already see the leading edge starting to push into the north bay. we'll get action as we head through the next few hours. rain arrives in the north baby 9:00 a.m. tracking showers at 11:00 a.m. you can see by 1:00 p.m. getting a lot of rainfall over the greater bay area. the system continues to slide south throughout the day. between 1:00 and 4:00 you can expect the first showers in the south bay. could make for a rough commute. showers will come to a close by 5:00 a.m. then the cold blast settles in. we'll have instability as the jet stream sits over us. we could see thunderstorms. we expect the snow levels to fall down to 3,500 feet.

keep it in mind. we could get up to two feet of snow in the sierra nevada. 62 in santa rosa. 67 degrees in concord today. temperatures on the cool side through the next few days. saturday morning, the coldest morning in months. it will be chilly. very clear conditions will lead to frost. widespread frost even from san jose up to the east bay valley. going to be cold. of course the coldest air usually settles in the north bay. this weekend we get an extra hour of sleep. we can really appreciate that. the early morning risers, you know it. don't forget to set your clocks back an hour at 2:00 a.m. sunday. let's check the drive. >> some folks in the north bay need that extra hour. look at this. i told you about a big pothole blocking two lanes of southbound 101 near highway 37. look at the slowing and the sig alert called for the area.

ka cal trans thinks it will take an hour after the repairs for things to clear. lakeville highway is the alterna alternate. continuing south towards san rafel, clear after that. east bay and a smooth flow here. the disabled vehicle cleerg. at the toll plaza the cash lanes are backed up to mid parking lot and the fast track lanes just starting now. they must have turned the lights on. we'll take you back to the roadways in a few minutes. looking smooth. no problems through fremont. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. 6:18 now. the white house may not have a choice. it could be forced to hand over documents related to the solyndra bankruptcy case. today we have what's happening now. good morning, marla. >> good morning. a house panel is deciding

whether to subpoena white house documents related to solyndra. republicans in the house energy and commerce subcommittee say they have waited long enough. they say it is absolutely necessary because the white house has denied or delayed requests for thousands of document. a subcommittee says we have exercised extraordinary restraint and patience these last eight months in the face of an administration that has fought our efforts to protect taxpayers every step of the way. the energy department says it is cooperating with the investigation. in fact, just yesterday it provided 1200 pages of documents to investigators. those documents include an interesting revelation that just two weeks before solyndra shut its doors in august, federal officials were warned by an investment banking firm the solar company had problems and was certain to fail but the officials went ahead with giving out the half billion dollar loan and sending president obama to fremont to tour the company and praise it publically. here we are more than two months

later. solyndra headquarters has turned into an auction house. yesterday everything solyndra went up for sale from laptops to monitors to heat guns. politico reports the hottest selling item is the $18 solyndra t-shirt. the auction closes at 5:00 tonight. in the meantime we are going to watch the house panel and its decision on whether or not to subpoena the white house documents. laura? >> thanks for the latest. >> time is 6:20. coming up, the governor telling us how he plans to change state employee pensions. we'll look at that next. >> greece stunned the world when it said it may not take europe's money. they are reconsi iridet.ngeyl 'l awekek.ta loo these sweet honey clustery things have fiber?

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welcome back, everyone. the state's moratorium on the death penalty will continue for at least another year. governor brown and lawyers for condemned inmates filed papers to finish preliminary legal battles on lethal injection until next september. death row inmates say it poses an undue risk of cruel and unusual punishment. since the initial filing in 2006 the state has since constructed a new death chamber at san clinton state prison. those reforms are being challenged in court. more than 700 inmates are currently in california's death row. several state pension proposals have been made public

including one which could make the november ballot -- it could hit state workers in the pocketbook. one plan mirrors closely with governor brown's version but places more sacrifices on state workers. both plans include provisions against pension spiking which is artificially inflating a worker's compensation at the end of their career to increase pensions. both offer a 401(k)-type plan. governors hope the legislation will adopt the measure. critics say it won't hold up in court. we'll see. president obama is in france for the g20 summit. french president nicolas sarkozy greeted the president in cannes a few hours ago. europe's debt crisis tops the agenda this week. the summit follows the announcement that it's putting an international debt bailout to a popular vote. white house says u.s. can help guide europe through the

financial crisis but it is ultimately europe's problem to solve. john? >> scott mcgrew joins us now. greece now reconsidering that. >> absolutely. stunning the world when they first said they would consider voting on it. this is like giving your no good brother-in-law enough money to pay off his credit cards and him telling you he's going to take time to figure out whether he'll take your money. france and germany said they would be okay with greece leaving the euro. that's against the entire principle of the euro. it is not something you should be able to choose to leave. the real scenario is what if france or germany left the euro. that would leave europe in chaos. back at home, hand it to the fed. they are consistent. once again the open markets committee made predictions about the future. once again they are grim. normal levels of employment not coming until 2014 at the earlie earliest.

see this google map? somebody changed the name of frank ogala plaza to oscar grant plaza. this is the latest trick among people espousing a certain viewpoint. google allows users to suggest changes using a tool called google map maker. it's a little like wikipedia. there are supposed to be safe guards but changes sneak through. this happens fairly off un. google tries to look for it. here's contested kashmir. one side renames it indian kashmir and the other side names it sppakistani kashmir and so o. it shows how politically important a name or line on a map can be. if you can bump the border over a little bit without google noticing you have somehow won and the other side bumps it back and so on. >> you make point but it gets pushed back to you.

>> maps are important. >> i will rename this laura's place. >> it already is. >> 6:26 now. still to come, protest rs outside the port of oakland. see if they are having success at shutting it down. also see what's happening in downtown oakland after things got ugly overnight. >> if you don't already know, it's going to rain today. i will tell you when showers arrive at your house and the cold blast moves in. temperatures tumbling into the 20s. we'll tick you through the full forecast coming up. >> as we track issues for oakland we're looking at a sig alert for the north way causing a probr ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios.

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i'm kristy smith. i'll show you the damage and what demonstrators are trying to do to fix it. that story coming up. >> bryan stowe's family reports a major milestone in his recovery. >> a live look outside now. what is today? >> friday eve. >> it's thursday, november 3 "today in the bay." good morning to you. thanks for joining us. it's 6:30 now. i'm laura garcia cannon. >> i'm john kelly. we check in on what's happening this week and beyond in the forecast. >> it's going to be cold. >> brace yourself. >> you see little kids bundled up with the hat, scarf mittens. break it out. we're going to get chilly through the coming days. rain on the way. not expecting it until the second half of the day.

we'll show you exactly when we track that future cast coming up. right now, dprab a jacket on the way out the door. 34 in santa rosa. mike ready yours truly sig alert. >> in the area where it's close to freezing in the north bay you get a chance for the heater to warm up the car. heading down to novato, jammed. southbound at highway 37. the pavement falling apart. a huge pothole and at least 45 minute ifs not an hour and a half until it clears as far as the roadway goes. we continue to track it and i will correct my spelling. >> thank you very much. we'll check. 6:31 now. mayhem in the streets of oakland last night after the occupy general strike protest got out of hand. police arrested dozens of protesters. what's it like now? >> reporter: i can tell you that it's quiet.

when we first got here there were quite a few police officers in downtown oakland. they have left now. the damage is quite startling. there is a lot of spray paint on the buildings. a number of broken windows. this is a coffee shop. what's happening is the occupy oakland demonstrators are cleaning up, putting up pallets and signs saying things like actions not done by the people. this doesn't represent their message at all. people who work and live downtown are getting mad as they get up this morning and see in their words that their downtown is trashed. overnight, police say that a group broke off and set fires downtown, even took over a vacant building for a time. the general strike through the day was mostly peaceful, but then this other group overnight.

vandals threw rocks, bottles, and even lit flares at officers who called for help. they tried to get the crowd dispersed but they could not. one officer said they fired teargas at the crowd. at least 60 people arrested, maybe more. [ audio breaking up ] >> having trouble with the signal. it's breaking up there. the pictures are great. it shows us really what was going on out there, the mayhem that ensued. in the meantime she's been in downtown oakland but the port of oakland was another place where occupiers stood their ground. want to check in with bob redell there live. >> reporter: good morning. thousands of occupiers shut down the port of oakland last night. they are still trying to keep the same situation. you can see they have somehow found this chain link fence and used it to shut down this

intersection. if you look over there to the right you have a line of maybe around eight trucks trying to get in the port for the work this morning. they can't because the intersection is shut down. some demonstrators were out an hour, hour and a half ago along 7th street trying to shut down intersections there. again, other arteries leading into the port, but they didn't have the manpower or barricades to make it last. >> we're trying to keep the port shut for 24 hours. >> i'm coming through. i'm part of the 99% and i'm trying to earn a day's living. you don't speak for me. >> that was one truck driver who clearly doesn't agree with the oakland occupy demonstrators. there are others honking their horns.

specify now congregated to 3rd and adeline. the port of oakland is the 5th largest or busiest port. the reason why they are targeting it is a lot of corporations use it to ship goods and this movement is about going against corporate greed. that's why they are targeting the operations here. they are also trying to show solidarity for union workers who drive trucks and operate cranes here as well. laura? >> thank you very much. we will continue to cover the occupy movement and protests all day long. find us on nbcbayarea.com. >> the two little sisters separated at lucille packer children's hospital are doing well this morning on their second night in separate beds.

the girls underwent a delicate ten-hour surgery yesterday and last night. the lead surgeon was in the studio updating us on their condition. >> still in intensive care. they are on ventilators breathing spontaneously making good progress. we had excellent imaging from the radiology colleagues. we knew about the girls but there are always unknowns. we had a spectacular anesthesia team. they had to put to sleep two 2-year-old girls that are physically joined and everything is close together. >> amazing and talented doctors. this is the sixth time dr. hartman separated conjoined twins. he said each time is different and the key to success is good planning. >> amazing. more progress for injured giants fan bryan stowe. his family said he's able now to write his own name. he was moved to a rehab facility

last month. he's slowly been recovering in his movement and stamina. he was attacked on march 31st in the dodgers stadium. >> it's been a long journey. nice to see a little progress. >> hey, celebrate the milesto s milestones. >> let's check on the forecast. >> good morning. we're about one hour away from the officially sun rise. when the sun comes up it will be chilly. already the case in santa rosa. 54 degrees in san francisco. sunrise is typically the coolest time of the day. of course it's been the longest duration since the sun warmed us up. as we head throughout the coming days, things change here. this is the front getting closer to us by the minute. we are seeing the leading edge already pushing into the north bay this morning and a little bit of isolated activity developing over san francisco. that will intensify throughout the day. the main cold front arrives over the greater bay area at 1:00

p.m. could be a rough commute. keep it in mind in the south bay. everywhere will pick up a little bit of moisture but nothing upwards of a quarter inch. not expecting much rainfallful the winds and cold will be stronger components of the storm. by 5:00 a.m. friday a nice dry break but left with instability, moisture, right at the surface. tomorrow tracking isolated thunderstorms. let's check your drive with mike. >> back to the north bay where the sig alert continues possibly until 7:30 when it re-opens to three lanes at highway 37. it's jammed out of petaluma. lakeville highway is the alternate. it's a 30 to 40-minute delay highway 12 down to new york city vato. the benefit is reaped by folks

toward the golden gate bridge. easier there. slowing on the freeway expected to the toll plaza where there is a back up. >> thanks, mike. >> still to come on "today in the bay" hearings in the solyndra case and how it got federal funds. we have a live report coming up. >> another woman accuses herman cain of sexual harassment. who cain's camp is now accusing of leaking the story. ♪arefreghway, let lip aw♪

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welcome back, everyone. a third woman coming forward with accusations against presidential candidate herman cain. tracy potts is live in washington with the details. good morning. she said she thought about it but never filed a complaint after herman cain called her attractive in the '90s. she's now the third woman to accuse him of harassment. a pollster who we should note works for perry says he saw cain come on to a woman at a restaurant. cain is now blaming it all on rick perry and his campaign saying they are to blame for leaking what he calls this false information. a consultant used to work for cain. cain said he was aware of the allegations. they said they never had the conversation. he can't leak something he doesn't know about.

governor perry has been drawn into this. he's denied that anyone associated with the campaign was involved in leaking or sharing information with the media. it looks like the poll numbers at least so far aren't suffering. in one poll since the controversy brokes looks like cain is holding his own there. >> 6:43 now. coming up, solyndra is the focus of the house panel investigation again today. we'll have a live report. ♪

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good morning, everyone. welcome back. 6:45 now. want to check the forecast with christina. >> we have a lot to go over and a little bit of time. temperatures are running cold. let's get right to it. 34 degrees in santa rosa. 41 in fairfield. 37 in gilroy. throughout the day, showers arrive. you can see the leading edge pushing to the north bay and temperatures are going to get even colder as the system drops in over the course of the next 12 to 24 hours. you can see from the spotty clouds here this is a very cold system. cold core low and the jet stream will set up on top of tomorrow. we are watching for thunderstorms tomorrow. today it works like this. snow levels fall. as we head through the weekend things start to change. you start to get cold. frost in the forecast. temperatures in the 60s. 62 in santa rosa. through saturday morning the

frost develops. cold start. temperatures in the low 20s possibly. we are still dry. won't take much of the cold air to drop temps. 30s and 40s, some of the isolated spots hit the upper 20s. in the 60s throughout the extended period. set your clocks back on sunday at 2:00 a.m. mike? >> we take you to the south bay with a typical pattern slowing from capital up to the airport for 101. bottom of the screen, 85 slows approaching highway 17 and 87. just starts the slowing headed up to capital and kerner, the usual suspects. to the north bay we have the sig alert that continues. southbound 101 just before highway 37. three lanes are blocked. caltrans says 11:30 before they clear the roadway. now, livermore, really bogging down about now. made worse by an accident for

the westbound direction. you have 30 minutes and building your drive out of the altamont pass toward the interchange. a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the backup is filling in. the petering lights are on. 25 minute bridge off the bridge to the east shore freeway to this point. >> thanks, mike. 6:48 h and we have a name to go with the new professional baseball team in san rafael. the team will be the pacifics. they were influence fwid pacific ocean. they wanted a name to reflect the local ecology and cultural values. other names which didn't make the cut for the cruisers, redwoods and spacemen. hm. first pitch will be may of 2012. >> parents are invited to a campus safety meeting following threats targeting local schools. school officials will be joined by local police at the community

forum to be held at the alhambra library from 6:30 to 8:00 tonight. investigators say the man responsible for the threats is 36-year-old larry bantola. he was arraigned yesterday on 14 felony charges. prosecutors say he sent e-mails, letters and faxes to several schools. they say he used a former friend's name in the threats to tarnish his friend's reputation. >> 6:49 now. this morning a congressional committee investigating the bankruptcy of solyndra could vote to subpoena white house documents. marla has an update now. good morning. >> good morning. as we speak a house panel is deciding whether to subpoena white house documents related to solyndra. i have been watching it live and essentially what's going on, republicans in the house energy and commerce subcommittee say they have no choice. they say it is necessary because the white house denied or delayed requests for thousands of documents.

a subcommittee chairman said a representative met with white house officials yesterday and they got nothing. >> the white house was unable or unwilling to answer even the most basic questions. do you have any responsive documents? are you going to be asserting executive privilege? without the answers to these basic simple questions it is nearly impossible to narrow or limit the scope of our requests. >> but the energy department says it is cooperating with this investigation. a spokesman said it has provided 80,000 documents. yesterday they turned over more documents. those documents include an interesting revelation that just two weeks before solyndra shut its doors in august, federal officials were warned by an investment banking firm the solar company had problems and was certain to fail. but they still went ahead with giving it the half billion dollar loan and sending the

president to froe mont to tour the company and praise it publically. two months later and their headquarters has turned into an auction house. just yesterday everything went up for sale from laptops to monitors to heat guns. politico reports the hottest selling item is the solyndra t-shirt going for $18. there is still time left. if auction closes tonight at 5:00. we'll watch the house panel meeting under way now. we'll bring you the decision on whether or not to subpoena the white house documents. coming up on nbc bay area news at 11:00. >> thank you very much. >> the time is 6:51. bay area men now the newest americans to hold the nation's highest civilian order. the congressional gold medal. japanese-american military units were honored yesterday, nearly 70 years after serving the u.s. in world war ii. lawmakers presented the awards to members of three special

units. dan inoway a veteran of the 442nd regiment accepted the honor on behalf of 19,000 japanese-americans who served during world war ii. senator bosh are a boxer addressed the personal conflict each man faced. >> you fought world war ii on two fronts. as president harry truman said, and i quote, you fought not only the enemy, you fought prejudice and you won. >> while the soldiers were risking their lives over seas their own families were confined in internment camps here in the u.s. the 7th annual rip curl contest title went to a familiar name. surfing legend kelly slater clinched the 11th world championship during yesterday's competition at ocean beach. the male surfer with the second most world titles has only five. slater holds the record for being the youngest person to win the title when he was 20.

now he's doubled his age and became the oldest to win at 40 years old. nice work. >> not bad. 6:52 now and cleanup is on the way in oakland after a clash overnight between protesters and police following a day-long general strike that shut down several businesses and the port of oakland. the strike was peaceful for most of the day. some protesters got confrontational. kristy smith is live in oakland where many protesters are up trying to clean up the mess. good morning. >> they are trying to clean it up. when everyone walks down this morning the look on their face is shock because all of the graffiti wasn't here when we were here yesterday from the corner across the street there the far corner to over here, the rite-aid building. it goes down the street to the other side. i want to show you a coffee shop on the corner here. the plate glass window here is

broken out. but the protesters with occupy oakland have put up pallets and signs like this one. actions not done by the people. they are saying this doesn't represent their mess sabage at . now people who live and work downtown are getting up and they are mad. they say their city is trashed. overnight police say a group broke off from the main group of demonstrators, set fires and took over a vacant building. police say that the strike itself was peaceful. but police try to get them to leave but they didn't. police said they did fire teargas. at least 60 people arrested and all the damage is upsetting to people who call oakland home. >> started off as a peaceful event. we thought it was going to remain peaceful. when you've got people burning up trash cans, breaking into businesses it's never going to be peaceful. you want the riot group to come

in. they're getting paid to do their job. you can't be mad at the police shooting teargas if you're up here tearing up everything. >> reporter: we have video of downtown. broken windows and a number of signs by demonstrators saying this doesn't represent them or their message about economic fairness. we have seen them here with cleaning supplies, brooms, that sort of thing saying they will continue throughout the morning. that's what we have. reporting live in oakland, back to you in san jose. >> thank you very much for the update there. 6:55 now. one of the south bay's largest holiday traditions will continue. people in san jose rallied to raise more than $40,000 to be sure christmas in the park lives on another holiday season. the free holiday event has entertained families more than 30 years. it was in jeopardy of shutting down this year because of san jose's budget troubles. local sponsors stepped in and stepped up to rally, raise the

money to keep it going. while christmas in the park was saved the san jose holiday parade won't be back. it was a big hit with the big balloons. one of the largest parades in the nation. >> 6:56 now. a popular east bay dog park is closed because of a health scare. danville has ordered the shut down of canine corral at hap mcgee ranch park. a dog infected with parvo virus played this week. it is spread through dog waste. maintenance workers sterilizing the park. it should be re-opened up on saturday. a great white shark released by the monterrey bay aquarium has died. since 2004, the aquarium caught and released a total of six young great white sharks, putting them on display for weeks or months and then releasing them back into the ocean. the sharks and eng dangered species are a popular attraction.

but the aquarium said the last shark released died four days after release. experts recovered the shark's tracking device and will analyze data now. the shark was on display at the aquarium for 55 days. this morning several starving penguins rescued in south america will call san francisco home. the six penguins were originally among a group of 373 which were saved from the shores of brazil back in 2008. they were deemed nonreleasable back into the wild and donated to the san francisco zoo. with the new additions the zoo will have 51 birds, the largest colony in captivity on the planet. the scientists believe commercial fishing and climate change forced the penguins to travel beyond their normal habitats. >> so cute. it is 6:57 now. want to check wall street now. >> boy, it's been up and down. we are back to up as we check the nasdaq this morning in the opening buzzer there. the dow industrials up about 170

points. the nasdaq up as well three big points. do watch research in motion. the company stock is now falling so low really it's worth less in its stock price than if you just broke the company up. the other thing to watch a is the g20 summit. we may see the greek prime minister step down in the next hour or so. greece, we have talked about just an absolute disaster. you see president obama and french president nicolas sarkozy. nicolas sarkozy invited greece, laura, to leave the euro, something we would never have imagined. he said earlier that greece never should have been allowed to be part of it in the first place. >> it's interesting and affects us here. >> no question. >> thank you very much for following it. want to follow the forecast. >> we have showers this morning. you may be using windshield wipers. isolated activity now. san jose could be facing a rough commute home.

all the action really starts to subside by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we'll talk about after math. let's check the drive again. mike? >> southbound 101, all lanes are now clearing. they will keep a crew on scene to watch the patchwork done there at 37. three lanes re-opened. actually all lanes re-opened. look at the slow drive toward highway 37 in novato. it adds half an hour down to 37. lakeville highway a great alternate for you. all lanes re-opened so things should be moving better, but that will send more folks through san rafael adding to the traffic near the bridge and lincoln avenue over the next half hour. back to you. >> that could be a bad backup. we'll have a local news update in about half an hour. at 7:25 we'll update the morning commute if you're not ready to head out the door. >> "today" will have more on the oakland situation. >> thanks for joining us this morning. have a g