be heading and the unusual way they could be getting there. >> the presidential race now is on now that conventions are over, find out where president obama and mitt romney will be campaigning today. >> and the susan g. komen race for the cure returns to the bay area for the first time since the funding controversy surrounding it. >> and the most comfortable conditions of the week will occur today. we're talking about 80s inland, 70s bay side, 60s at the coast, changes for your weekend. those numbers on the way. >> it's been too crowded here on the peninsula. it was a traffic break on 101, i'll explain the details coming up. >> and there seems to be much smoother in san jose as we get a look at the city hall down there. justice will be served, a beautiful weekend coming up. it's friday, september 7th, this is "today in the bay." >> good friday morning to you.

thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm jon kelley. good morning. happening now, the hunt is on for a bay area man police say abducted his two children, then stole a boat and they all sailed away. christie smith is live in alameda where police think that they may be headed and what they are doing to try to track them down. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. they may in fact be heading for international waters. what i can tell you that investigators are asking for the public's help. of course they are looking for the stolen boat trk father and children. they say that on tuesday christopher maffei came here to where we are, harbor in alameda and took off in a sail boat. that is a white hunter 41, blue canvas called "the unleashed" hull hun41366 c 707. police believe the father took his children from their mother's home, then drove to alameda in a

rental car a white ford fusion, ditched it and got on the boat at the club nautique harbor. it's believed that they could be heading to mexico or possibly even thailand we're told the coast guard, san francisco police and alameda police all involved. so again, they are 43-year-old christopher maffei, 3-year-old brooklynn maffei wearing a white dress with blue and green design on it. and then 2-year-old devin, he was in a short sleeved sponge bob square pants shirt and diaper. if you have information you are asked to call south san francisco police. christie smith, "today in the bay." >> 6:02. a new search is under way for a missing man from lafayette. brett olson disappeared over the weekend, the labor day weekend that is, during an inner tube trip down the sacramento river. his friends have launched a facebook page called let's bring brett home. this page has close to 66,000

followers in 48 hours. twitter has been abuzz with people tweeting and retweeting. the #find brett olson. behind the tweets from howie mandel to miley cyrus. family friends say they are very grateful for all of the publicity, olson is getting on line and they hope that the efforts will pay off big time. >> new this morning, two people are dead in vallejo and police looking for the suspects who shot them. police found the victims in a home on atherton street mere magazine street and i-80. police say the 31-year-old man and 28-year-old woman had been shot. neighbors say they saw two men wearing hoodies running away from the scene moments after hearing the gun shots. no word on a motive. >> one of the men accused of gang raping a 16-year-old richmond girl is now admitting that he did have a role in that crime. emmanuel ortega pleaded guilty to being part of the 2009 attack. this one happened outside a

dance at richmond high school. one of six men charged in this rape case. police say the young girl was punched, kicked, and then she was repeatedly sexually assaulted. ortega is expected to be sentenced on october 19th. >> the teenager charged with vehicular manslaughter for the death of a father and daughter in concord will be in court today. prosecutors deciding to charge 17-year-old david rosen as a minor. rosen is accused of hitting and killing nuri and his daughter as they were riding their bikes. family hoped he would be charged as an adult. >> decision 2012 now. president obama and mitt romney both hit the campaign trail now that both conventions are over. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> last night was a pivotal speech for president obama as he made his case to the american people for a second term.

he certainly thrilled supporters but his goal was far beyond the convention hall. >> if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules then i need you to vote this november. >> looking forward the president favors keeping education and green energy programs, keeping medicare like it is, and he had more to say. >> i have and i will. but when governor romney and his friends in congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficits by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy, well, what did bill clinton call it, you do the arithmetic. >> the pace will pick up with four debates ahead and election day 59 days away. mitt romney will be in new hampshire today as well, he will attend a rally tonight in

nashua. his campaign will release more than a dozen new television commercials in that state. president obama will give a speech in portsmouth before speaking at the university of iowa. both states are on the short list of key battlegrounds where the candidates hope to sway undecided voters. >> it is 6:06 now. the susan g. komen race for the cure returning to san francisco this weekend but it appears that controversy sparked when the organization refused to fund planned parenthood is having an effect. bob is in the newsroom now with more on this growing story. >> reporter: john, donations for the local chapter of the susan g. komen for the cure action those are down by 65%, registration for this sunday's race for the cure, the largest fund-raiser of this organization local chapter for the year, down 50%. right now we're going out live where you can see another event with this is about to start. that's the susan g. komen three-day a 60-mile walk done by

the national branch. it was a decision by the national branch nine months ago that is hurting the local affiliate. the headquarters announced it would stop funding planned parenthood for breast screening. there was an uproar, hq reversed the decision but the damage was done. we spoke with a national spokeswoman, asked her what do you tell people who are so angry about the decision. >> i tell those individuals that funds from the susan g. komen three-day are so important, our funds go toward national research, large public health outreach programs and locally we also fund and support local community-based and afell yat outreach programs. every 19 seconds someone is still diagnosed with breast cancer and we are here and in it to win this fight. >> the local affiliate is upset because it never supported that decision. it actually spoke out against

the national stance on planned parenthood before they reversed themselves. they are still bearing the brunt. this time last year the bay area branch raised around $212,000 in its fight against breast cancer. right now donations are at around $122,000. by the way, you can still register for sunday's race negotiation to komen.org. >> thank you. >> let's see how the weather is at least for the walk and run. checking in with christina. >> it's hard when you're planning a big event like that because you never know months out how the weather's going to be. does it get better than this? this is san francisco this morning. where's the fog? it's getting pushed offshore by offshore flow. san jose, a spectacular start. completely clear conditions, the sun will rise at 6:45 and we're going to get phenomenal live pictures so stick around. temperatures in the 50s to start, 54 degrees, crisp in the

city. throughout the day today we're not expecting the fog to return until late tonight. we stop the clock at 9:00 a.m. and you can see all the way from santa rosa down the entire peninsula. nice and clear and those clouds stay offshore just about all day long. 7:00 to 9:00 tonight we'll see the low clouds return to san francisco. you're going to see clear conditions, we have good air quality and look at your temperatures. 74 degrees in oakland, 67 in san francisco, and even in the hottest cities across the bay area, only the upper 80s. the giants and dodgers back at it. we'll take to you the forecast. right now we want to look at the drive. >> i want to take folks out to the peninsula for a live look. we have slowing on the maps, we did see a traffic break. for about 90 seconds traffic was held up as they moved the stall we showed you from the center divide at university away to the shoulder, then off of the

freeway, a smooth drive right now. you see slowing south of that shot as a result of that traffic having backed up for a few seconds. in mountain view the construction is cleared from 85 and an easy drive through the area. north 101 slows and north of 680 because of the volume of traffic. the accident on 87 is off to the shoulder heading up to 880 from downtown and a live look shows you the backup at the toll plaza, the cash lanes to the left, the cash lanes to the right as well as the fast track lane okay, we'll watch as this sorts out. >> thanks so much. >> 6:10 now. coming up, one of the a's pitchers goes under emergency surgery and turns out this just in time. >> sunday marks two years since the san bruno explosion. what survivors are saying about a new movie about the deadly day. >> we'll look at the latest jobs numbers, a mixed bag, and what president obama forgot to say last night ahead in business. here you go little man.

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welcome back everyone. live look outside. beautiful skies. what a way to start a friday morning. live look at the bay bridge which we always love. look at the colors in the sky this morning. sun coming up over the bay area, should be a nice one. >> friday, extra special shot. >> exactly. if you are waking up with us this morning here is a check of the top stories. >> police are on the hunt now for a bay area man they believe kidnapped his two children, stole a boat and set sail. police believe christopher maffei abducted the two from their mother's home before heading to a yacht harbor and stealing one of the crafts. investigators also say he previously had talked about sailing to mexico. >> president obama and mitt romney begin their most convention campaigns today. last night the president

accepted his party's nomination in charlotte, north carolina. he will campaign in new hampshire today. >> the susan g. komen 5k race getting under way in corte madera. it appears the controversy sparked nine months ago when the organization refused to fund planned parenthood having an effect. participation is down from last year. >>nearly two years after the deadly pg&e gas pipe line explosion in san bruno survivors say their struggles are far from over. last night they gathered for an emotional screening of a documentary about that deadly day. many survivors sat tensely, sometimes wiping away tears as they watched "trial by fire." bob hensel believes watching the film helped he and others release some of the emotions they have inside. >> probably brought a lot of people back and opened up memories and stuff that people are trying to suppress.

and i just kind of the i can face it head on. >> many victims of the blast say they are still dealing with insurance reimbursements and a lawsuit against pg&e. >> east palo alto police that the hour searching for two men who robbed a couple in a bold home invasion. this happened wednesday afternoon near highway 101. police say two masked men followed the couple into the home and forced them to lay on the ground. the suspects spent a half hour ransacking the house before making off with cash, jewelry and a computer. the good news is nobody was hurt. >> the attorney in the discrimination lawsuit filed against in-n-out burgers hope more will come forward in support. the class action suit filed this week on behalf of two african-american men over 40 who were denied employment by in-n-out. their attorney says both his clients qualified for the jobs and he believes he has a solid

case against the popular burger chain. >> we believe their story isn't necessarily an outliar, a much more larger systematic practice that the company is engaging in. >> in response, arnie winesinger, the vice president, and general counsel, is quoted saying, we hire from our local communities and our restaurants reflect the demographics of that community. the company will aggressively defend itself against these baseless and irresponsible allegations, unquote. in-n-out is seen as attractive work option because they pay entry level employees more than minimum wage. >> turns outpractical joke is the reason a u.s. airways flight was grounded. it was on the way from philadelphia to dallas/ft. worth, it was forced to turn around and land in philadelphia because police got a call someone was trying to smuggle something to texas. the caller could face serious federal charges but there's more to this.

check it out. that man eventually got to dallas but then police arrested him on warrants not connected to that hoax. they didn't know he was coming but the press from the incident and the other incidents tipped them off. >> brandon mccarthy is recovering after emergency surgery. he was rushed to the hospital after he was hit in the head by a line drive during wednesday's game. a ct scan showed he had an epidural hemorrhage and skull fracture. he had surgery wednesday night to relieve some of the pressure in his skull. the a's say mccarthy is still in the hospital. >> wish him well. that is a tough one. to football now, the 49ers set to set off their nfl season taking on the green bay packers sunday facing aaron rodgers and the packers at lambeau field. how about the raider, known for the face paint and all that. they like to do it rough. how about this guy.

gene simmons, he should feel at home, going to be singing that national anthem. yeah. got the flames, got the platform shoes. for the raiders monday night opener. taking on the chargers. christina loren is amped up. >> there you go, all set. certainly a different look here. tom brokaw is said to be okay, as we told you yesterday the 72-year-old was taken to the hospital after reportedly feeling light headed. turns out the former nightly news anchor had mixed up his medication. it's dangerous too. lucky that he's okay. he said all's well, early a.m. i mistakenly took a half dose of ambien, that's a sleep aid, and made less sense than usual. >> at least he can joke about it. >> no kidding. >> 6:18 now. the raider cheerleader christina loren is here to tell us about the weather and who is going to win the game. >> well, we all know the answer

to that, the raiders of course. good morning to you. yeah, they are taking on san diego "monday night football." temperatures are going to be comfortable. i love when you have baseball and football at the same time and on top of that a cherry for you, look at this. i know, just amazing. grab your stunner shades. as we head through the day, sunshine all day long. 6:19 now. a beautiful live picture here. we have another one to show you. let's show you san jose. clear, except for these low clouds starting to burn off. we want to show you the difference. we're getting the low clouds in the south bay than where we usually see them. on the peninsula. 54 in san francisco, 55 in san jose, crisp throughout so if you want to go for a run, go for a walk under that beautiful sunrise it will be perfect. throughout the day not getting all that hot. an interesting setup. high pressure is moving up from the south although this is going

to bring about a nice dry heat. we're not going to deal with the humidity, the thunderstorms over the past couple days. we have a lot of improvement in that department. if you look for cooler weather we've got that in store as of tomorrow even cooler as we take you through sunday. 79 in san jose, 73 fremont and 71 degrees in santa cruz. i want to spend extra time on the 7-day getting to the weekend. look at the difference between today and sunday. we'll get cooler but temperatures are going to rise back up as you head through next week. we're talking about a hot finish to next week. enjoy that tranquil sea breeze. let's check the drive. >> what a beautiful sun rise to drive to work. >> and a nice drive as well. we're holding steady, fridays we see a later build. it's going to hit hard. the school schedule for traffic. 101 holding 680 up to 880, that's the only spot slowing. we do have the accident north

87, holding around the taylor street exit. you see slowing approaching. mail may be sticking south stay to your right as you pass taylor street. we're going to go to the peninsula where we're looking at the southbound side having cleared of the disabled vehicle at university. no problems here. across the dumbarton bridge reports of a storage bin on the roadway, fell off of a truck. it's like a storage bin i think from one of your storage companies. we'll get a look at the city side with an easy flow here and we're going to end with the bay bridge. i want to show you the backup, it happens so quickly. what a nice sun rise. back to you. >> thank you. >> new this morning the labor department says the jobs numbers lower than expect. >> scott tells us months after month who ignored the

unemployment rate. >> people will be. i feel you to concentrate on the jobs, gains instead. that's what tells us what's going on. i'm going to suspend that. because politicians on both sides will be concentrating on the unemployment rate. it falls .2%. it's an easier number, analysts point out no president has been re-elected when the unemployment rate is over 8%. this will be problematic for president obama as he deals with these numbers this morning. still over 8%. on a side note, last night's speech several tweeting they liked the president's address but disappointed he didn't unveil new tablets or phones. we have known for some time that the bay area employment picture is far different thanks in part to technology and the technology industry, robert thomas, his

company reported profits last night. you're hiring, so too are many of your competitors. it's a tough market to get engineers. >> yes. absolutely. in the last year we had over 100 people, a lot of those engineers in the next 12 months again add another hundred or so. so in silicon valley i think the job market is really heating up. good talent is getting hard to find. >> we've seen the issues there all of a sudden infrastructure, sexy again, something that you deal with. you've got lots of candidates. >> networks are getting more complicated. everybody has an ipad, iphone, everyone's connected, and as that happens networks get much more complicated, difficult to manage so there is a huge demand for automation tools like ours to make networks simple and easy to operate. >> robert thomas looking for

jobs as are looking to hire. we appreciate you being with us. silicon valley is a different picture than this 8.1% nationally. >> what else is sexy, it's friday. >> gadget friday. >> 6:24. coming up olympic star missy franklin will choose where she's going to college.

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>> 6:27. good friday morning to you. olympic star missy franklin could be zeroing in on cal as her college of choice. franklin made her first recruiting trip to berkeley last weekend. she has trips planned to three more schools next month. franklin told a colorado newspaper it would be to her benefit to work with cal and u.s. swimming coach terry mcgeever. you can see franklin this sunday flip the coin before the broncos she steeler game. here's another, ryan lockty, he is going to make an appearance on "30 rock." right after the show he tweeted a picture on the set together on thursday morning. "30 rock" isn't his only upcoming appearance. oh, no. he's also appearing as himself on 90210 in which he admitted he

struggled with telling memorizing lines, trying to like say them and still like do movement and all that. that was hard. made swimming look easy. >> the ladies. >> true. >> 6:28. still ahead the search is under way for a couple of children taken from their san francisco home. we'll let you know where police say they may be headed.

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>> good morning everybody. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. we begin with decision 2012. conventions are in the books and the candidates hit the campaign trail again today. >> all of the talk of course is about the august jobs numbers. they came out about an hour ago. tracie potts is live with a look at how this report could actually help or hurt the president moving forward. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, the good news is that the jobs report showed the jobless rate dropped a bit from 8.3 to 8.1%. the bad news 96,000 jobs were created, far less than we need to keep this recovery going and that is something the president is going to have to answer for on the campaign trail. he talked about that yesterday, he talked about that when he was here on stage last night. he talked about jobs, well aware what if the numbers would be

coming up and he talked about how he helped save the auto industry. >> today they can't build them fast enough because we re-invented a dying auto industry back on the top of the world. >> he's back out on the campaign trail in iowa and new hampshire and so is mitt romney. unveiling a brand new set of ads, 15 ads in eight states, many of them battleground states. >> thanks so much. 6:32. the search is on for a bay area man after police say he took his two children and sailed away on a stolen boat. christie smith joins us live with what police are doing to try to track them down. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. they are asking for the public's help with this but it's believed that the father and his two children could be heading to mexico or even thailand on a boat. i spoke with a worker who showed up a couple minutes ago. he said that the sbot actuboat g

from this row. police wanting the public's help. they are 43-year-old christopher maffei and his daughter 3-year-old brooklynn and 2-year-old son devin. brooklynn had a white dress, devin had on a spoung bob square pants shirt and diaper. police believe that maffei and the children were abducted from the mother's home and drove in a rental car, ditching it here in alameda at club nautique harbor. there was a search, it was believed the boat was spotted but they didn't turn up. the boat is called the unleashed, a white hunter 41 with blue canvas with a hull number hun 41366 c 707. the kids are considered abducted and arrest warrant has been issued for christopher maffei. the worker i spoke with said that they actually rent boats

out of here, so they do have owners but they are rented out of here and again, it turned up missing on tuesday. reporting live, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> two people are dead in vallejo as police search for the suspects who killed him. police found the victims near i-80. the man was 31, the woman was 28 and they both had been show. neighbors say they did see two men wearing hoodies running away from the scene moments after hearing gun shots. no word on a motive. >> it was a gruesome crime that shook bay area. one of the men accused of gang raping a 16-year-old has admitted to the crime. manuel ortega pleaded guilty being part of the 2009 attack outside a dance at a richmond high school. he is one of six men charged in that rape. the young girl was punched, kicked and repeatedly sexually

assaulted. ortega is expected to be sentenced on october 19. >> the man accused of gunning down a well known community activist is expected in court. that is 60-year-old gregory elan expected to enter a plea. he was declared competent to stand trial. police say he killed david lewis outside hillsdale mall. lewis was a community activist who went from being a convicted criminal to running a program designed to help people in the same situation get back up on their feet. the two were childhood friends. police still do not have a motive. >> the teenager charged with vehicular manslaughter for the death after father and daughter in concord will be in court. prosecutors have decided to charge 17-year-old david rosen as a minor in the case. rosen is accused of hitting and killing the man and his daughter as they were riding their bikes.

nuri's family hoped that rosen would be charged as an adult. >> it's reported a third person has died from the hantavirus after visiting yosemite national park this summer, that prompted officials to raise another warning about this potentially deadly disease. the recent death was a west virginia resident who stayed in a tent cabin at the lodge and then camped in the high country. seven more cases are linked to the tent cabins. authorities say as many as 22,000 people may have been exposed to the hantavirus that is double the original estimate. the virus is often transmitted by deer mice and their droppings. the initial signs of the virus, they often mimic the flu. >> time to get a look at the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. looking forward to the weekend. >> yeah, a great looking weekend shaping up. good morning. start with a live beautiful picture that actually tells the weather story of the day. you can see it's completely

clear. you can see the mountains in the distance from the san francisco camera, a rare owe concerns at this time of the morning. other than that you notice the ripples. it's the wind mixing up the atmosphere keeping the fog from settling to the surface. it's an off shore breeze pushing the low clouds back out to sea. look at all of that science in one picture. san jose, the clouds are starting to thin out. we had cloud cover but you can see what's happening, the sun is rising, burning off, those clouds from the top down they are clearing out. throughout the day your temperatures will jump from the 50s into the upper 80s inland. look at the story of the day. no cloud cover at the coast, just about all day long with offshore flow pushing the marine layer back out into the pacific. we're talking spectacular sunshine in pacifica, half moon bay, santa cruz t places that get socked in with low clouds. 80 at noon, your seven-day

forecast in my next report. we'll go through that coming up. first, see if there are problems on the road. >> other than a lot of cars there are a couple of problems. so we'll look to the bay bridge where the cars are. the backup at the toll plaza and slow westbound 80. the east shore freeway, also jamming up out of hercules and in toward sunol, an accident on the eastbound side. a person stuck in their car not because they are wedged in but because traffic is flying by so quickly they are scared to get out. chp is going to help. we'll move to the slowing for the tri-valley through livermore, in the 40s and 50s. we'll end with a live look to show you the peninsula. no major dip for 101. >> thank you. 6:38. still ahead, no secret prince harry who has been in the t tablo tabloids, we'll have details out of london. >> and a health alert for women

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>> welcome back. happy friday. workers across the country are now suing four major brand restaurants saying they were severely and illegally underpaid. the lawsuit accusing darden restaurants known for olive garden, red lobster among many, failing to pay minimum wage and

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the prince served in the hellman province in 2007. -is tour was cut short when news of his deployment was leaked to media. >> we're friday and it means the weekend is here. you say it means nice weather. >> it was an abbreviated work week for many with labor day. two weekends of summer left before we kick off fall. i can tell you it's going to be nice this weekend. even inland. it's a time of year you get nice weather inland at the coast and over the bay. the microclimates not really distinguishing themselves yet. that will be the case through the next couple of months. we'll be getting into our rainy season, 6:46 now. you can see beautiful live picture, a gorgeous sunrise, this is high atop san bruno mountain looking at to candle stick point. gorgeous this morning. yes, you drive to work for one day before celebrating the weekend. 46 to start novato. 54 san francisco, at 59 in

sunnyvale. so as you head throughout the day high pressure resumes, this is going to build in from the south. we're going to deal with a dry heat. we're done with the humidity and thunderstorms. so it's going to feel more comfortable. also this evening a nice sea breeze will pick up so a gorgeous evening for any sort of outdoor barbecue plans. throughout tomorrow, just a touch cooler. we drop off as we head through sunday. and 70s today in san jose, it's hard to beat a day like today. 79, good air quality and sunshine. a nice sea breeze later on. 73 in fremont, 66 in san francisco, and about 82 degrees today up in san rafael. 83 for saturday, sunday we'll hit 80, temperatures dropping off but then we're going to climb back up. by the middle and end of next week getting downright hot. so we'll get one more blast of summer before we kick off fall on september 21. let's check on your drive. here is mike inouye. >> this picture tells some of the case here in the south bay.

this is 280 northbound approaching the 880/17 interchange. it's slow as you approach that at the interchange the maps will show you it's a short section twof 80. that's where the slowdown is. 101, slows from capital jamming down at tully through alum rock past the airport. 101, the volume has spread approaching santa clara into mountain view causing more speeds in the 50s than the 60s here. we'll look over toward foster city. we'll get a look at things moving around getting off the bridge for the san mateo side. 92 moves, it picks up a tad. no problems to the peninsula. a nice view from the peninsula side. look at that. as you approach 101 no slowing. we'll show you what things are like for the bay bridge. the toll plaza here, the backup forming. you can see the lanes moving. you'll find significant slowing after the berkeley curve. and west grand avenue, no accidents for the east shore freeway as we see berkeley and

emeryvil emeryville. >> thank you. 6:48. the search is on this morning for a bay area man after police say he took his two children and sailed away in a stolen boat. christie smith joins us live with more on where police think they are headed and what's being done to find them. >> reporter: i spoke with a worker here who told me that the stolen boat is missing from the second row here. south san francisco police are asking for the public's help finding the missing father and two children. they believe the father, 43-year-old christopher maffei, stole a 40-foot sail boat, the "unleashed." it's a white hunter 41 with blue canvas, investigators believe he took the children from their mother's home in south san francisco on tuesday and drove here to alameda in a rental car and then ditched the car and left in the sail boat. it's believed that he may be heading to mexico or even to

thailand. the coast guard has been notified, south san francisco police and alameda police also involved at this point. christopher is 43 years old, one of the children brooklynn is three, wearing a white dress with blue and green designs on it. devin is 2, had a sponge bob square pants shirt on and a diaper, an arrest warrant has been issued for christopher maffei. the children are considered abducted. >> we have a search to tell you about, this one a missing man from lafayette. brett olson disappeared over the labor day weekend during an inner tube trip down the sacramento river. his friends have launched a facebook page, let's bring brett home. a lot of action, 66,000 followers, twitter has been abuzz with people tweeting and repeating the #find brett olson. star power behind the tweet from

howie mandel and miley cyrus. family and friends say they are very grateful for all of the publicity that olson is getting on line and they do hope that these efforts will pay off. >> two people are dead in vallejo and police are looking for the suspect who shot them. police found the victims in a home on agetherton street. the man and woman had gunshot wounds. neighbors saw two men wearing hoodies running away from the scene moments after hearing the pop. police say the man and woman lived at the home. it's too early to tell whether the couple was targeted. >> this is a disturbing story, one of the men accused of gang raping a 16-year-old girl has admitted to the crime. manuel ortega pledded guilty to being part of the 2009 attack outside a dance at richmond high school. he is one of six being charged in this rape. police say the young girl was punched, kicked and she was repeatedly sexually assaulted.

ortega is expected to be sentenced on october 19. >> a teen charged with vehicular manslaughter for the death of a father and daughter in concord will be in court today. prosecutors deciding to charge saved rosen as a minor in this case. rosen is accused of killing sullivan nuri and his daughter as they rode their bikes. nuri's nam family, they were hoping rosen would be charged as an adult. >> president obama and mitt romney hit the campaign trail now that both conventions are over. we have a look outside air force one waiting to take president obama to new hampshire this morning. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> last night really a pivotal speech for the president as he made his case to the people for a second term. he thrilled his supporters but his goal was far beyond the

convention hall. looking forward the president favors keeping education and green energy programs, keeping medicare like it is and he wants the rich to pay more for that. now the pace kicks up with four debates ahead and election day 59 days away. >> mitt romney will also be in new hampshire attending a rally in nashua. his campaign will release more than a dozen new television commercials i'm sure slammingment obama all over the state. president obama will give a speech in portsmouth before heading to iowa city to speak at the university of iowa. both states on the short list where candidates hope to sway undecided voters. >> this weekend the susan g. komen race for the cure returns for the first time since the funding scandal. bob redell is live to explain how the annual event here in the bay is really feeling the effects. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. donations to the local chapter

of the susan g. komen for the cure are down by 65%. registration for the race for the cure, the largest fundaiser, that is down by 50%. another event is about to start. that's the susan g. komen three-day, a 60-mile walk. it was a decision by the national branch nine months ago that is hurting the local captors. in january the headquarters announced it would stop funding planned parenthood because it was under investigation for using government money for abortion. there was an uproar. hq reversed its decision but the damage was done. about an hour and a half ago we spoke with a national spokeswoman for the three-day. we asked what do you tell people who are still angry about that decision. >> i tell those individuals that funds from the susan g. komen three-day are so important. our funds go toward national research, large public health outreach programs and locally we

also fund and support local community based and affiliate outreach programs. every 19 seconds someone is still diagnosed with breast cancer and we are here and in it to win this fight. >> the local affiliate has been upset because it never supported the planned parenthood decision, it spoke out against that stance before the national branch reversed themselves. regardless they are preparing the brunt. to raise around $212,000. right now that number, donations is at around $122,000. you can still register for this sunday's race for the cure, coman sf.org. >> it's 6:55. support for alma mater helped countless students at san jose state. that university will honor phyllis simpkins, she died at 87, being memorialized at 3:00 p.m. at morris daily auditorium. she and her husband pledged

nearly $20 million to san jose, and those gifts supported a range of programs out there all the way from the marine laboratories down to the marching band. >> they say everything is bigger in texas. that's about to include the speed limit. get this, 85 mile per hour zone. it's going to open next month. it's a stretch of toll road between austin and san antonio. it will be the highest speed limit in the country. texas and utah the only states that allow speed limits of 80 miles per hour or higher. >> step on it. >> it is. think about the autobahn in europe. 6:56. america's unemployment rate falling to 8.1 percent. >> scott says that seems like good news for the obama administration but is it good for our economy. >> it really isn't because it's the other number that counts, the total jobs gain.

96,000 jobs added in august, far fewer than expected making it worse, economists looked at older data, revised those numbers lower. it depends on which side of the aisle you stand on. democrats pointing to the unemployment rate, republicans to the net jobs number. if you're not interested in hearing about it you can wear these, these are voom phones. these are head phones, and i'm going to hit play. we've got some phil collins playing. if i hold them up you'll hear phil collins. if i press the button on the side, they become speakers. now they are head phones again. now speakers. about $150. they are very heavy because they have four different speaker but it's an interesting mix of the two. and phil collins requested by christina. >> who is coming up next.

>> come back to me for a second so i can make the joke. back to you in the studios. >> very nice. thank you. >> that was good. >> let's check in with christina loren probably rocking out. >> i really was. and i tip my hat to scott for that. temperatures are looking good as you make your way out the front door you want to get your jams going. your shades as well. abundant sun at the coast. beautiful beach conditions. 76 bay side, 68 at coast. down to 80 degrees. mike, there are some beautiful sun rises out there but any problems on the roads is the question. >> one of them is the beautiful sunrise. i want to stick to the maps because of the problems on the incline. we look like we have a stall here causing slowing.

hopefully that will clear soon. westbound 80 slow because of a distraction at eastbound 80 up into hercules. there is a stall, an accident causing a bit of an issue. south 880 as well as 580, the castro valley y, your typical commute kicking in for that portion of east bay. your north bound, 101, 280 and 85 starting to slow down as the valleytics in. back to you. >> thanks for the update. we'll give you traffic and weather updates in our local updates starting at 7:25. >> a beautiful weekend up there. go out and enjoy. >> by the end of next week, a taste of fall, everything this week. we thank you for tasting it with us.