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the fog was spilling back in, you don't have to pay guitar but for now we are mostly clear. that's why the temperatures are to appreciate one. chilly in the inland valleys tom and jack of by far showcase near the mid-40s. are here to tell us about the we have a hint of a sea breeze jewel yet rock memorial. out there, but it is actually we'll start with you, don. clear in san francisco. we have hazy skies with high you have a personal reason for pressure keeping the storm track the memorial. off the north. >> i yes, i lost my son six not a particularly strong ridge years ago. of high pressure. i decided to do something in so we are not talking the 90s in the forecast, but we'll see the memorial of him. st. jude is a great organization 70s to lower 80s inland. so we decided to do memorial for around the bay, mostly mid-70s. him. >> this is a way to move forward closer to san francisco, near with your personal story and 70. take it to the next generation on the coast, patch schi low of kids who hopefully will leave clouds. coming up, we'll let you know if the hospital. >> it is a great organization to the low clouds will start to benefit the children and their impact our sunday evening families. viewing plans for the solar it was a way to kind of carry on eclipse and a little bit of a his name. cool down coming up. >> jack, you offer up your store thank you very much, rob. to host this, why? also new this morning, firefighters are battling a >> well, guitar showcase is a massive blaze in oakland as we long history of being involved speak. with the community. the fire started around 4:00 and this is just one of the many this morning inside a warehouse things we do, like today, we are on broadway near 30th street. raising food for second harvest huge flames are ripping through every month. we do a clinic where people can a two-story warehouse. bring cans of food and we put fire crews are still on the scene working to put that blaze strings on the by fares for
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out. free. it is part of giving back to the fortunately, we do know no one community to help us survive and was inside when the fire started. again, crews are still working grow. we've had so many great to contain it and put it out. musicians come to our store. we'll follow this one for you >> talk about some of the and bring you details as we get guitars because they are signed. them. wildfires are the problem in much of the west where more than 1,000 firefighters are now manning the front lines. >> this is a good friend of one fire is in northern don's that's been donating. colorado. another, north of phoenix, the guitar i'm holding, we are arizona. the colorado fire is about 20 doing a show with the dooby miles northwest of fort collins and is 50% contained. brothers who said they would the arizona fire forced the evacuation of the historic sign a guitar for us. mining town of crown king. both are good customers of our that fire now is only 10% store. they have their own benefit that is they do as well. contained. also new this morning, >> all right. failure to launch. all of this is -- proceeds go to privately-owned space x didn't launch as planned overnight. st. you'd jude's hospital. the flight was aborted at the such wonderful work. when you talk about kid issues, very last second. everybody gets involved no matter how famous they are. >> and liftoff. thank you so much. this is the information for the we have had a cutoff. >> we are not used to hearing julian rock memorial tomorrow. hope you can make it. we'll see you back here tomorrow. >> thank you. that. falcon 9 was scheduled to launch
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before 2:00 at cape canaveral in florida. one of the onboard computers detected the engine pressure was a little too high in engine number five and the flight was aborted. space x will now have to wait until tuesday for another try at launching. the rocket will carry cargo to the international space station. some people say eventually humans as well. also new this morning, a blind chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic squabble is now on his way here to the u.s. this morning chen guangcheng left the hospital where he had been staying. he and his wife and two children flew out of the beijing airport overnight. he escaped from house arrest and sought refuge at the u.s. embassy last month which strained diplomatic ties between the u.s. and china. the state department prepared visas for chen and his family and will now begin a new life in new york where he's been invited to study law at new york university. well, from harvard to medlow
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park to wall street, the demand is massive, but the final price of facebook shares is kind of flat. shares of facebook with the ipo price of $38 made the nasdaq debut at $42 but it closed just 23 cents above $38. here's scott budman with what the numbers mean if the social networking giant. >> this is an awesome moment. remember, stay focused and keep shipping. >> reporter: big enough to bring the nasdaq to silicon valley letting ceo mark zuckerberg and company open trading before basking in all that new wealth. in fact, the earlier you invested in facebook the wealthier you are today. >> when we invested in early '06 it was about 7 million users. today it is over 900 million.
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>> reporter: david zee invested very early in facebook. early enough to have been ridiculed when he did it. early enough to see his investment now worth more than a billion dollars. that will get you a place near the ceo. >> in mark you saw someone at a young age who was in the single most driven person i have ever met, completely focused, unafraid, trying to build something for the long run. >> reporter: the tech industry is built on early investors willing to take a risk. that risk paid off for this company here and these stockholders. >> it just makes me feel great for all the people who have reached this milestone that have worked so hard there and continue to work so hard. it's a great celebration. >> reporter: celebrating a risk that paid off big time. scott budman, "today in the bay." >> so it wasn't quite the start some investors hoped for, but facebook made a big move after the closing bell which could show wall street that it is serious about making money.
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coming up at 7:30, what the move was and what today means for the average investor. will, the family of a san francisco woman found dead in a suitcase floating in the bay will hold a memorial service today. 52-year-old prolo louise went missing back in 2010. rescue crews found her body near the embarcadero and fulsom. a few weeks later her boyfriend was arrested, 49-year-old lee bell. bell was accused of abusing louis before. her family will hold a memorial service in san francisco tonight near the shore where her body was found. the founder of the so-called walmart of weed is feeling heat from the city of oakland. darr wyn is the founder of the wegrow marijuana super store and is accused of mokting $44 million for upgrades to his
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oakland properties. the city auditor courtney rubio says he submitted phony checks for reimbursement, but then he re-deposited the money into his own account. >> if you are knowingly performing fraud, you are defrauding this city. you are performing a criminal act and that's exactly why it was referred to the district attorney. >> dahr mann sent us a text writing, every development project was completed and every contractor was paid. on every project much more money was spent than what was required. the city is claiming $44,000 in loss whereas the total dollar figure involved is more like $4,000. we still have more ahead for you on "today in the bay." coming up, her health was in trouble, her life in danger of being cut short. the transformation for a teenager is coming up next. plus, sweating for a good cause. the fund-raising run for a 5-year-old girl with a rare
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genetic coion. we'll show you how you can get involved today.
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good morning. ing looking live agency noelle, it will be perfect later on. it is hard enough to be a teenager, so imagine what it is like if you are morbidly obese. teenagers struggles to lose weight now have a new surgical option that was not available for. marianne favro is here to show us how a high school senior in san jose has lost 143 pounds. >> reporter: megan akasha is embracing biking. just a year ago she could barely make it a mile. that's because megan used to weigh 333 pounds. she struggled with her weight since she was 5. >> since kindergarten i had been teased about my wait.
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>> reporter: despite trying dozens of dieting and exercising she couldn't shed the pounds. instead she was gaping lots of health problems, including diabetes, sleep and neah and joint pain. >> i was taking seven medicines a day. >> reporter: how did she shrink from a size 26 to a size 4? she underwent a sleeve gastrectomy to shrink her stomach to a smaller size. this was the fist on the west coast to offer this to morbidly obese teens. >> the surgery will restrict the amount of food that you can eat. and that will give you, hopefully, that push in order to change your behavior. >> reporter: but results are not guaranteed. megan must stick to a low-calorie diet. if she eats too much, her stomach could expand and she could gain back the weight. to gal fi for the surgery, she went through a six-month screening problem with a doctor, child psychologist and dietitian. she had to meet physical
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requirements, too. >> body mass index should be more than 35. that's the number we use and have other diseases, like hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, really bad headaches. >> reporter: megan has lost 153 pounds and will graduate from westmont high next month, half the size when she started. no longer battling diabetes or joint pain, she's off all her medications and the teasing has stopped. >> i now have more energy and i feel awesome. >> reporter: for the first time, megan says, she's looking forward to long bike rides and a long life. in san jose, marianne favro, "nbc bay area news." coming up on "today in the bay," the 5 yield girl who wants to give you a good reason to sweat this weekend. what she wants you to do to help her out. and here's a view of the golden gate bridge this morning. we are fog-free. kind of chilly outside this morning, but we have a fantastic weekend forecast for you. we'll talk about that and our vi
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well, if you are looking forward to getting out to get exercise for a good cause, you are looking live at san jose. this morning at discovery meadow, the steps walk gets started at 9:00. then we have the autism speaks walk at history park san jose at kelly park. and all of the weather forecasts seem to be perfect for that, especially the south bay where it will be nice and mild, right, rob? >> pretty comfortable temperatures, not too hod, but right now could be a little cold for you waking up this morning. we have the mid-40s outside. clear skies with our temperatures dropping off in santa rosa and gilroy down to 45 degrees. 52 in san jose. 50 in san francisco. 52 degrees in oakland. a little bit of a sea breeze out there reaching fairfield this morning. you see the winds, west/southwest at 15. cooler air getting into solano
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county. the air is pretty shallow. most of the cool air is near the coast and the peninsula. going throughout the afternoon, later on we'll see the 70s to low 80s inland. then a cooling trend to wrap up the weekend to really hope the low clouds mold off through sunday evening. we'll talk about the solar eclipse coming up in a moment. the giants game coming up, it's the strikeout for cancer day at the ballpark. 68 degrees for the ball game. 1:05. you can catch the game over on comcast sports net bay area coming up around 1:00 this afternoon. should be some nice weather. a little breezy at times later on in the game. around the bay area in northern california, high pressure, not particularly strong, but we don't have 90s in the forecast. but we should see mostly clear skies today. and then a few high clouds, maybe dropping by the north bay, but no low clouds here for the most part. patchy low clouds on the coast. 60s. but with the wind off the ocean,
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our temperatures will be mainly in the 60s on the coast and some 70s to low 80s inland. around san jose, close to 80 degrees. 70s closer to palo alto and sunny veil. 74 in santa cruz. heading up the coast, we should see numbers in the mid-60s. the tri-valley locations, the numbers will be in the lower 80s. back over to san francisco, a combination of 60s to lower 70s. closer to 80 in santa rosa. come tomorrow, the sea breeze will pick up. so the bay and the coast will start to cool down a little bit there for your sunday. meantime, inland out by livermore, the lower 80s for your sunday. things are looking good for the solar e clip, eclipse. temperatures for everyone start to cool down as we watch the sea breeze pick up. and the week ahead, unlike this last week, we are kind of on a roller-coaster ride. it is nice and mild now, but it is actually looking fairly cool as we go throughout the week. we'll see temperatures mostly in the 70s inland. turning even cooler heading
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toward next weekend. so as that sea breeze picks up tomorrow evening, right after 6:00, we'll get a partial view of this annular solar eclipse. don't look at it directly. maybe take two index cards. put a pinhole of that and look through it or take a mirror and look through the reflection cast across the sun that way. tomorrow morning we'll be talking more about this with the science center. so we'll get the full astronomical perspective on this event coming up tomorrow evening. >> i have to contain the desire to or the urge to correct because it is annular, i kept thinking annual. it is annular, it is different. >> i have not seen one on the west coast since 1994. the nest one, i believe, won't be for a couple decades. one across north america, but not here in the bay area. >> thank you for getting us ready for it.
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thank you, rob. today is a big day for a 5-year-old girl in san jose's whose friends and family are hosting a big fundraiser in her honor. she has a rare genetic condition, but she is surprising doctors with her progress and she's winning hearts along the way. >> reporter: shammy and cally green play together like most sisters, but sammy has some needs. this bundle of energy has a small head and simplified brain patterns. that's not her only challenge. >> she has cerebral palsy which makes her muscles tight and hard for her to balance and walk. and she is also diagnosed with epilepsy. >> reporter: she was not given much hope for her future, but she's proving them wrong. >> i know how special samantha is. and our family has felt her big
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spirit. >> reporter: sammy is walking on her own. even forming words. parents, marcus and jenny, say special physical therapy in utah is making a big difference. >> so it pulls her body into the proper alignment. and for four hours five days a week she does this therapy. >> reporter: it costs $2,000 a week and is not covered by insurance. getting sammy the help she needs is expensive but greens have help. friends and strangers are signing up for a 5k called sweating for sammy. the second annual is may 19th in san jose. last year's event raised enough money to pay for several weeks of therapy. family friend diane black organizes the event. >> it is her eyes. you look at her little eyes and there is just a sparkle in there. >> reporter: a light that gets brighter with special help. >> the way she stands up a lot straighter when she walks. she's much more in control of her body. yeah, you can definitely see that. >> reporter: the greens are looking forward to raising money
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for their daughter and meeting all of the people who care. >> the money was fantastic because it got what she needed. but the feeling and that day was magical. >> reporter: jean elle, "today in the bay." >> sweatin' for sammy steps off at 9:00 in san jose. there's still time to find out more about the run. just head to our website, nbcbayarea.com. just search sweatin for sammy. you don't have to run, you can walk, too. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, a topic many people are still afraid to talk about. we'll show you a website now stlping to stop the spread of nost ausdsmony.ly ♪ ♪ ♪ [ transforming sounds ]
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there are conversations that no one wants to have. and one of them is telling a former sexual partner there's a problem. what if there was an easy way to do the right thing anonymously? that's the idea behind don't
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spread it, a website created by two brothers tackling old transmitted sexually diseases in a high-tech way. cheryl hurd has more. >> reporter: fear is what keeps people quiet. >> you can prevent one person from -- >> reporter: for two bore brothers, the feeling motivated them to launch don'tspreadit.com. >> my friend spreads the human papilloma virus. it is a shocking thing for a young girl to go through. >> reporter: when he learned there was no hpv test for men, he had to help people tell the truth. not always is it an easy conversation. with the help of his brother, the pair developed this anonymous website using it so that someone can notify their current partner via e-mail or text that they have been exposed to an std. >> click on the std you have been exposed to. >> reporter: you get a breakdown of the symptoms. you either enter the e-mail
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address or the mobile phone number and hit send. within minutes, you get the news. >> the stigma surrounding stds is so negative. people are so afraid to talk about it. but it's taking over. >> reporter: the cdc reports 19 million new std cases are diagnosed in the u.s. each year. more alarming, the government estimates 1/5 of the 1.2 million hiv carriers in the u.s. don't know they are infected. >> you might have been exposed. you should go get tested. >> reporter: daryl is a nurse for quest laboratories. >> i have a lot of patients who don't know they have things that they are carrying. the more we get tested the more we know and the more we can squash stis. >> that was cheryl hurd reporting. a public health official is encouraging baby boomers to get tested for the hepatitis contraction virus. the centers for disease control are proposing all adults born
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between 1945 and 1965 get a one-time test for the virus. the cdc says that one in 30 baby boomers are infected with hepatitis c and most of them don't even know it. you can still get free hepatitis c testing at two locations in the bay area today. the berkeley free clinic and the asian heritage street celebration will both offer testing. if caught early, experts say newly-available treatments can treat up to 3/4 the infections. it's a finding with major implications for pharmaceutical companies and the fight against heart disease. the new study in the journal suggests the good cholesterol known as hdl may not be as good for us as doctors thought. the study found people with genes that promote the high levels of hdl don't have a lower risk of having a heart attack. this means big changes for pharmaceutical companies trying to develop drug that is will prevent heart attacks by raising
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hdl levels. a recent study reveals younger siblings of autistic children may face their own set of challenges. researchers at the university of miami found that while the majority of these children develop normally, one in three have some autism-related behaviors or developmental delays. they notice younger siblings of autistic children has problems with verbal and non-per value communications. siblings had issues with back and fort play and pointing to express interest. however the symptoms were not as seer as seen in the children with autism. if you want to do your part for autism today, go to the autism speaks walk that is kicking off at kelly park at 9:00 this morning. still ahead on "today in the bay," -- >> and liftoff. we've had a cutoff. >> history almost in the making. a privately-built rocket aborts its launch at the very last second. and the after life of a
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hidden south bay cemetery is beginning to unravel. we'll explain.
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good morning. looking live at san rafael, wave cool start but a mild finish later on. thank you for joining us. i'm kris sanchez with rob mayeda. we have a lot of things going on plus the annular solar eclipse. >> the ring around the sun. things look prettity good today. here's a look at temperatures around the eye. the 60s in and around oakland. maybe close to 60 in san francisco. we need the sea breeze to turn on, so things around the inner bay will cool off. san jose in the mid-70s. still 70s to lower 80s inland today. starting tomorrow we'll see a stronger sea breeze, which means this time tomorrow morning we
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may start to see a few more low clouds on the coast, which may have an impact for coastal viewing of the solar eclipse. we'll talk more about this cooling trend arriving for the second half of the weekend. again, we'll look at the viewing tips for the solar eclipse in the full forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you very much, rob. new this morning, firefighters are sit battling the massive blaze in oakland we told you about earlier. the fire started at 4:00 inside a warehouse on broadway near 30th street. huge flames ripped through a two-story warehouse. fire crews are still on the scene working to put that blaze out. formally, nobody was inside that warehouse when the fire started. oakland fire officials tell us they found marijuana growing inside. they are not sure whether it is a licensed grow operation or an illegal one. new this morning, history not made in commercial space flight as anticipated. the private space company spacex was supposed to launch a robotic
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capsule to the international space station, but it was aborted at the very last second. >> and liftoff. we've had a cutoff. >> yeah. those guys aren't very used to saying that. falcon 9 was supposed to launch before 2:00 this morning at cape canaveral in florida, but one of the computers onboard detected the engine pressure was a little too high in engine five and grounded the flight. spacex has to wait until tuesday for another try at launching. the rocket will eventually carry cargo to the international space station. some say eventually people as well. this morning the initial public offering is oaf, but facebook's debut is still buzzing. the mega social networking site made their nasdaq debut a shade above $42 but since struggled to stay above the $38 offering price. facebook closed its fist first
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day of trading 23 cents up from the offering price. we asked people what they thought about all the facebook hype. >> i think it is a little overinflated. i mean, it's kind of crazy. >> it's one of those things you go, darn it, i wish i would have done it. >> despite the roller coaster day on wall street, the social networking giant is not slowing down. on the fist day of trading, facebook required another company, purchasing karma, a gift-giving app. and for the lawsuit, it is not love for the winkleboss twins. facebook is now being called out in a class-action lawsuit. the suit demands $15 billion from facebook for violated federal wiretap laws. the complaint was filed thursday in federal court in san jose before the company even went public. the plaintiffs say facebook improperly tracked users even after they logged out. the suit combined 21 separate
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cases across the country in 2011 and early 2012. a spokesman for facebook says the company will contest the claim. keeping a promise made decades ago to loved ones buried in a pauper's grave. a san jose woman is vowing to give her grandmother a proper burial she believes she deserves. "today in the bay's" george kiriyama has this story. >> this is my grandmother. >> reporter: gloria jaboe was convinced her grandmother was buried under valley medical center. >> i turned the television up and said, i knew it. i just new it! mom was right, i knew it! >> reporter: she grew up hearing stories about her grandmother's death in 1915 buried then at county hospital. her mother vowed to bury her in a catholic cemetery when she got enough money. years later in 1970 gloria and her mother went to county
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hospital to keep their promise. >> we went to a clerk who took us to an administrator and then to another one, and it was all the same answer. we don't know what you're talking about. there's no cemetery here. there's never been a cemetery here. >> reporter: we obtained this county map published in 1932 that shows a cemetery on county hospital's property. for some unknown reason on a map published 26 years later in 1958 that cemetery is no longer documented. earlier this year construction crews uncovered 15 pine coffins. the discovery confirmed her gut instinct. >> to know those people were under there all this time sends chills up my spine. >> reporter: there could be up to 1500 underneath the hospital's parking lot and buildings. a judge gave crews the green light to unearth 100 of them to make room for a loading dock for the hospital. >> is this what we do? are we that inhumane we think,
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oh well, there they are. cover them up like they never existed. >> reporter: jaboe hopes to keep her mother's promise. >> the one last thing, if i could rebury my grandmother, it is kind of the one last thing i can do for my mother that she wanted so badly to have done. >> reporter: george kiriyama, "today in the bay." >> if the county cannot identify the bodies, they will be cremated. 1400 will remain under the building and parking lot. a high-powered san francisco attorney will have to figure out his own defense. spencer smith is facing hit-and-run charges in connection with the death of a dublin bicyclist. the 32-year-old is accused of allegedly striking the cyclist with his new mercedes benz late tuesday night. smith allegedly then fled the scene leaving that man dead. dublin police found the 57-year-old man lying at daugherty road and fall creek road. smith has two prior convictions
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for speeding within the past year. searchers will be out looking for clues into the disappearance of sierra lamar. the 15 yield vanished march 16th on her way to school in morgan hill. her story aired on "america's most wanted" last week. since then tips poured in, including the sighting of a volkswagen associated with lamar's disappearance. if you are interested in helping look for clues, the check-in time is between 8:00 this morning and 1:00 this afternoon at the search center at burnett elementary school in morgan hill. you might want to bag the bagged salad. that's the warning from state health leaders who say some bagged salads could make you sick. river ranch fresh foods based in so leesolinas recalled river ranch, farm stand, hy-see and market side and surefresh salads after routine sampling. they found a bacteria that can cause a serious infection in two packages of shredded iceberg
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lettuce that were sold in california and in colorado. so far no illnesses have been reported. we still have much more ahead for you on "today in the bay." including one of the most popular runs in the bay area. that's kicking off tomorrow. we have a runner joining us with more than just fun on her mind for the bay to breakers race. we'll talk about a mission t +$ %
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among the thousands of people this time tomorrow who will run the bay to breakers race will be a santa clara university student who will lace up her sneakers for a different cause than just the fun and the wild party along the route. so the mission to help dozens of girls in kenya. and sarah montgomery is joining us this morning to talk about that. thank you so much for joining us. so most of the people who run bay to breakers do it for the fun. how are you raising money and what are you raising money for?
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>> so my academy is the first all girls school in kenya. it is a program for girls who have exceptional test scores. and they have immense leadership capabilities, but by other means they cannot afford to go to secondary schools. so this gives them the opportunity for their education. and with bay to breakers, we have 130 runners, and each runner is partnered with the 104 girls in kenya. so it was a fund-raising effort, so all the runners here fund-raise for the girl they are running with in kenya to sponsor her education. >> the cool thing is that the girls will run their own race in kenya. >> yep. at the same time they are running at 5:00 p.m. their time. >> oh, okay. the girls are committed to this? you have met some of them? >> i have been to kenya three times and my fourth time will be this summer. they are over the moon. >> what is it like to go back and forth and see their growth.
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the first time they have to think, this is too good to be true. now four or five years later they are getting ready to graduate. >> i have been so privileged so see them since the first class arrived. it has been so great to see how much they have grown. and the unique thing about this is it doesn't feel like it gives them an education, it gives them the opportunity and they have blossomed with the opportunity. most of them have got back to their community at home and started different projects with their community and have just educated the rest of the community, which is something you can't take away. >> for now as they move on and graduate, other girls come in their place, what do you hope will happen with the academy? >> the goal is for the girls to graduate to eitherer go to a university or be the future leader in their community and to start their own businesses and be powerful women who can live on their own. we are hope iing -- we see it gg
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into the future to be able to help more kenyan girls. we really hope the girls help the hunger and poor, but also go home to teach their siblings and fellow classmates and the rest of their family to continue to grow. maybe down the line there could be more. there's so many girls and so much potential we don't see. >> do you think that's one of the misconceptions about kenya? what we see on tv, when we see images out of africa, we see a lot of violence and communities that don't look like ours in of progress. is that the misconception, they choose to live that way? >> i think what we don't see of them is individual people. these girls, they are teenager girls just like anyone else. they love movies and music, but i think what we don't see is their intelligence and their desire to do things. and -- sometimes i don't have the opportunity. if they had the opportunity,
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they would do much more than a lot of people in the world, they just haven't had that chance. >> well, thank you, sarah, very much for joining us this morning. sarah will be running along with the other runners at the bay to breake breakers. your mother will be proud. thank you very much, sarah, good luck tomorrow. still ahead on "today in the bay." they have their diplomas and now what. we talk to recent graduates about their job search in a tight job market. and we'll show you the strategies they have come up with. and we are waking up to sunshine in the south bay. there's a live view of san jose. a nice forecast for your saturday. a look atur solar eclipse forecast when we come right back. roar! alright, what do lions eat? ♪
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later in the weekend we'll see low clouds spilling in back near the coast. we have clear skies out there helping the inland temperatures to drop into the mid-40s in a few spots. gilroy rebounding to 50, but still 45 in santa rosa. 47 in napa. novato cool at 46 degrees. the wind is coming onshore, so the winds are coming around fairfield at 10 to 15. the sea breeze will pick up later in the weekend. the pollen count numbers have come back a little bit. no longer at the complete right side of the screen, but still tough out there with the breezes picking up into the afternoon. we are looking at grass, mull berry, cedar and cypress in the high get categories. after a cool start to the morning, tomorrow for the coast, stay tuned. we'll see low clouds with sunny conditions further inland. going out to the ball game, we
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have the giants and the a's. the giants won 8-6 last night. an early start today, mostly sunny and nice for the start right after 1:00 in the afternoon. high pressure keeping the storm track off to the north. as we watch the high clouds passing by later today, we'll see here the futurecast with the high clouds that i showed you drifting by that one afternoon, but this is the late sea breeze we'll get on sunday. one of the things we'll start watching this time tomorrow will be low clouds approaching the inland looking at myselfly cla t clearer. palo alto, the mid-70s. out to the tri-valley east of 680, turms the numbers are in the lower 80s.
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mid-70s near astro or castro valley. near 70 near richmond and 70s across the north bay, except maybe close to 80 in santa rosa come tomorrow. the cooling trend we'll see tomorrow, especially the inner bay. the big cool down arrives monday into tuesday. it will turn windy. remember what happened on wednesday when the winds picked up. similar setup for tuesday. so it will be mild but windy at times. and then turning cooler towards next weekend and stay tuned, we'll see some showers by next saturday. the only thing that can ruin this would be the low clouds coming from the coast. it is redding that will get the best view of this. this is near 6:32, that's the maximum viewing near the bay area. not something you can look at, but put a pinhole in one and
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project the image on the other. inland we'll be fine. the coast could see low clouds come in. >> you have been paying attention, haven't you? i like how you put the warning in yellow. you really aren't supposed to look at it. can you snap a picture of it. >> in our own picture of that disk over the moon, they took a picture of that. thank you, rob. much more coming up on "today in the bay." famous guitars and their famous rockers are here in the studio. they could be in your hand by the end of the day. we'll tell you what the good cause is coming up. i'm mike inouye and there's lots to do "today in the bay." i'll be at kelly park hosting the tenth annual walk now for autism speaks. this annual event raises funds but more importantly it raises awareness for the
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ever-increasing number of children diagnosed with autism. more than 40 service providers will be there with resources for the parents. much more information at walknowforautismspeaks.org. that web adread address may be longer than the walk itself. here's another one for the kids in fremont. the kids n kites festival will be held near to lake elizabeth. this includes free kites to the first 3,000 kids. you can showcase them in the my kid has show talent contest as well. and if you vent to a talent, you can shake it up at the park. when this means is it only happens once every three years.
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garageuation is supposed to be a time of hope, but new unemployment numbers paint a positive picture, but is it enough? here's a look at how graduates plan to move forward. >> reporter: hundreds of san francisco graduates cheer their accomplishment. >> it happened so quick. i don't remember being up there. >> reporter: with a masters in asian pacific studies, this woman is fulfilling a family dream. >> we came here from lao. however, in my country, only the son, only the men can go to school. >> reporter: it's a proud moment. you can see the hope on the face of the students and parents. >> douglas dwart. >> reporter: but with diplomas in hand, graduates are walking
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into a hard future. jobs are hard to come by. the state development says unemployment in california dropped to 10.9% in april. in the bay area, the numbers are better. 8.9% in alameda county. 8.2% in santa clara and 7.4% in san francisco. but it's hardly a hiring boom. tao is considering a ph.d. >> it is either go back to school or try to find a job. >> reporter: on a picture-perfect day, graduates are feeling squeezed. >> the push of what's next and finding a full-time job and being able to take that on and go to the next step. >> looking for work in sports management, mad is hoping the investment in his education pays off in the form of a paycheck. >> it is not easy, but i have some interviews coming up. we'll see what happens. >> and wll be right back with some very impressive guitarists. [ male announcer ] olympic tennis players bob and mike bryan
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