why the governor said this could be california's worst fire season ever. you couple that with a chance for a thunderstorm in the bay area for the next couple days and it could get pretty dangerous. we'll start that up today. mild, overall, with sun and clouds and widespread thunderstorms possible as we head through tomorrow and then we're going to warm you up into memorial day weekend. your full forecast in just moments. over at the oakland coliseum means recovery now for 880 as the commute is building and also the san mateo bridge we'll help you read that sign as i read your signs for your monday commute. live look outside. bay bridge this morning. look at the sun coming up over star command, i'm detecting increof happiness. the bay area. ...and the speed readings starting our workweek is may are off the chart! 19th. this is "today in the bay." paradise found! luscious locks! great glittering galaxies! the happiest place on earth keeps getting happier! and a very good monday this summer with a disneyland resort room and ticket package morning to you, thank you so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. you get the time you need to enjoy it all. there's no end in sight! >> a santa rosa mom facing child i'm going to need more time. abuse charges this morning.

she attacked a student who was bullying her daughter. the incident happened back on friday at olivet elementary school. christie smith joins us live in santa rosa. christie, deputies say this happened on campus. >> good morning, they do. they say it happened at the noontime hour on friday. bullying is something that has been in the news and something schools have been trying to deal with, but rarely does it take this type of twist. a mom is accused of coming here to this charter school in santa rosa and confronting the student that she believed was her daughter's bully and then grabbing that student by the throat. now, sonoma county sheriff deputies say they took this report friday afternoon at olivet elementary school where staff told them that a student was assaulted by a parent. investigators say around lunchtime that 30-year-old came to the school without checking in at the office, which is something oftentimes parent are asked to do first. she say then she went it her son

to point out this student, and she then confronted this student, an 11-year-old about bullying her 10-year-old daughter and then allegedly grabbed this 11-year-old boy by the throat. apparently a number of students reported that they saw it but adults didn't. photos were taken, investigators say, of marks on the child's neck. now, the mom was arrested on saturday for felony injury for a child but released on $30,000 bail. now, we're told that her court appearance is coming up on thursday, but today a letter will be going home to families to let them know what happened new this morning at least here on campus. four people are dead after an explosion rocked a christian reporting live in santa rosa, neighborhood in nigeria. christie smith, "today in the the car bomb exploded overnight bay." >> thank you. at 6:02. in kano, one of nigeria's we're waiting to learn the identity of a hiker who was biggest cities. found dead after falling from a the neighborhood very busy full large rock in the berkeley of restaurants and bars and hills. the apparent accident happened investigators say that bomb went on uc berkeley property off off before hitting one of the busiest streets. it's unclear who set off the grizzly peak boulevard. explosion. previous explosions have been a hiker found the body in a blamed on the islamic extremist

steep, rocky area. it appears the victim had group boko haram, the group, of climbed a large rock and fell about 100 feet to his death. course, holding more than 200 rear we're still waiting to hear school girls hostage. in about 20 minutes, attorney general eric holder and if the victim is a cal student. but the body is a latino man in other federal officials will announce several arrests in an his early 20s. international cyberspying case. november 2012 another young man died from falling from that very those facing indictment include several chinese military same rock. with this fire season off to an early and devastating start, officials. accused of hacking into private governor brown says the state sector companies to get trade needs to brace for the worst secrets. u.s. officials say this prosecution will be the first of although the state has thousands its kind. of firefighters ready to battle the charges will include and millions of dollars to economic espionage and trade spend, it may not be enough this secret theft. a break in the rain after nearly 3,000 landslides in the year. "today in the bay" bob redell live outside the cal fire balkans. flood waters getting lower one day after thousands of people station in morgan hill. were forced fraom their homes. what can we do to help? >> cal fire here at morgan hill and firefighters throughout the state will tell you to make sure video taken here and helicopters that you have enough defensible and boats had to pluck many space around your home there, families from rooftops before scott. especially now and especially water swallowed their homes. this week with the possibility of thunderstorms on the way and bosnia refugee minister said the with that comes lightning flooding is absolutely strikes and with that the fire danger. the operative word for this catastrophic. a chinese navy surface ship year's fire season, according to

will start mapping out in the cal fire is early. everything about it is early. latest search for the airliner. cal fire here in morgan hill is authorities met over the weekend to discuss the search and agreed already at peak staffing. the ship would survey the floor they started that a couple weeks of the indian ocean. ago. that's a couple weeks earlier an automatic submarine has than normal. we are seeing conditions that already searched 144 square are so dry that these are miles of the ocean floor and so far has found nothing. conditions that you wouldn't see until mid to late summer and the time now 6:41. then we're also seeing a number coming up, extreme retaliation of fires, 1,500 roughly so far. landing a bay area mom behind bars. coming up, we'll tell you why we usually don't see that until she allegedly grabbed an much later. again, much earlier than normal, elementary school bully by the typically around this time of throat. plus, rising temperatures year have 700 to 800 fires and fueling roaring flames statewide. why the governor says this could be california's worst wildfire season ever. right now. yesterday morning one of the news programs governor jerry brown said that the state has 5,000 firefighters and roughly $600 million in funds to fight fires this season and even though that sounds like a lot, he says it might not be. >> we have to gear up and we are going to deal with nature as best we can but humanity is on a

collision course with nature and we will just have to adept to it in the best way that we can. >> with regards to that defensive space, if you live in a wildland area, fire departments and cal fire would love for you to clear at least 30 to 100 feet of dry brush. clear that away from your house, so it makes it easier for them to fight a fire, if one happens to be in your area. reporting live here in morgan hill, bob redell. >> bob, thank you much. time to check the forecast. looking live outside this morning. overlooking san jose. christina has a look at our changing forecast for today. a threat of some lightning strikes, what, later tonight, christina? >> yeah, possibly. mostly in the higher elevations of the north bay, but a better chance as we get into tomorrow. we always want to keep you two steps aahead of the bay area weather. take a look at this gorgeous, gorgeous sun rise coming in from san francisco this morning. sun is now officially up. your temperatures are pretty

mild to kick off the day, not bad. 57 degrees in the east bay and 56 for the peninsula and right now at 53 in the south bay and 52 degrees, not too cold out there in the north bay this morning. and you can tell that there is a weather system coming in. the clouds are increasing and our winds are certainly picking up, as well. sustained at 21 miles per hour this morning in san francisco, that is straight out of the west and you want to take it easy if you cross the golden gate bridge. that bridge north to south and that wind is coming at you right from the west. this is what we're looking at as we head throughout the day. cool ocean breeze and comfortable temperatures and the clouds will increase and bubble up over our local mountains and those, my friends, are the nimbus towers that we're watching for for thunderstorms. 70 along the peninsula and 62 degrees in san francisco right around 74 degrees mix of sun and clouds in the north bay and comfortable conditions in the tri-valley for today. low 70s. let me show you the latest

dry weather fueling futurecast run and we stop the destructive wildfires burning clock at lunchtime tomorrow and through thousands of acres of you see spotty cells those are land. now, governor jerry brown telling people statewide to thunderstorms that our models are picking up and a better brace for the worst fire season ever. chance tuesday through 3:00 p.m. rising temperatures just the and could see scattered activity start as we get ready for a tomorrow and we're going to be watching that for you very really, long hot summer. this morning team coverage closely. as you know, we are going it see and christina loren is taking a potentially very dangerous fire look at the forecast in just season. we don't want any unnecessary moments, but let's start with accidents. if you see a fire break out on "today's in the bay" bob redell. the side of the road please report it as soon as possible. bob, how are fire crews getting coming up, changes to tell you ready and this is an especially dry summer, right? about. today is mild, coolest day of the week and few thunderstorms >> yeah. tomorrow and then we are getting unfortunately we're see already seeing the effects of that. oh, so close to a holiday the fires burning in southern weekend. a warm up on the way just in california. good morning to you, scott and time. we'll show you these changes in laura. cal fire here in morgan hill my next report. right now, it's a monday. just another example. let's check your drive and what we're doing is staffing up here's mike inouye. early. they have been at peak staffing >> i'll take you over to the san here for a couple weeks and normally they wouldn't do that until a little bit later from mateo bridge and facing your now. westbound commute. again, they're doing things you see the volume picking up early and, unfortunately, off to pretty predictable pattern not only an early but very there. the sign does say high winds on dangerous start of this fire bridge. now, chp drove across overnight season. we've already seen 1,500 fires

as we look at the map and it got statewide including the ones caught by a gust or two and raging around san diego. we're watching that and we will only 700 to 800 fires this time pass it along to the riders and of the year. the rest of the state, including not a wind advisory. the bay area is right for looking at a smooth drive across burning. here we are still in spring and we're already seeing the kind of 92 and the 84 at the bottom of dry conditions that we usually your screen showing a slow down in your commute direction. don't see until mid to late that's a typical pattern through summer. especially in the south bay. the area and a little slowing as >> not really as green as you we recover past the coliseum and think it is. the earlier stall has been i was out in the hills and the removed from lanes at 98 and we grass is dry. and the fuel moisture there is are seeing slowing typical ready to burn. pattern there south of 238 down around 9%. so, the grass is right now, even fremont and hayward. with the higher humidity are west 580 just a little build ready to burn as far as what through oakland, as well. we're seeing. east shore freeway approaching so, pretty much right now we're the maze. the maze itself moves very in the thick of it and this is nicely and a nice flow of only the middle part of may. traffic towards the bay bridge toll plaza. >> governor jerry brown pointed no major issue north 101 predictable there and a live out the state does have 5,000 look just north of the 680, 280 firefighters, and $600 million in money to fight fires but, interchange. unfortunately, not going to be enough. at least that is what his gut is telling him, given the fact that this is already such an early and a live look at the toll fire season and these conditions

plaza. and you see the fastrak lanes are so dry. firefighters, especially those are moving more quickly than the here at cal fire morgan hill others. asking you if you have a lot of they're moving. we'll send it back to you guys with that pattern coming off the dry brush, please, cut at least maze. >> fair enough. the former south bay ymca 30 to 100 feet of defensible child care worker accused of space around your home it makes sexually abusing several children will be back in court it easier for them to protect your home if there is a fire. today. nicholas is charged with reporting live, bob redell, sexually abusing five children, one as young as 3 years old. "today in the bay." helicopters dumping huge the children went to the ymca buckets of water on a wildfire day care on the campus of burning in the woods north of paradise valley elementary lake tahoe. the fire started saturday in the mt. rose wilderness area in school in morgan hill. he was last in court last week nevada, close to the california for the start of his preliminary border. so far it's burned 150 acres and hearing. the person who shot a bicyclist in san jose. an area without rows. the crews are relying on drive-by shooting happened yesterday afternoon on south helicopters and hand crews to capital avenue, not far from keep that fire from spreading. lake cunningham. about 70 firefighters on foot to the victim was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. put out the flames where they witnesses say the gunman fired can. it is only 5% contained. out of a late 1990s maroon honda the worst is over in with front-end damage. southern california after only a week of destructive wildfires in 6:09 on your monday morning. san diego county. still ahead "today in the bay"

hundreds of people returned to their homes over the weekend as stethoscopes and google glass and how the high-tech giant is the last fire evacuation orders were lifted. changing the standard for all but three fires are california doctors. is an encore in store for completely contained this morning. a dozen fires tore through the area over the past six days dome theaters? the latest quest to save them destroying at least 47 homes. from the wrecking ball is next. despite cooler temperatures and could a breathing strip calmer winds, a small brush fire did pop up this weekend outside of san diego. deprive california chrome from a certainly proof that california shot at the triple crown. a live look at the golden is still right for more action. gate bridge and traffic appears >> the danger could increase, as to be pretty light out there. well, because christina was mike is keeping tabs on that monday morning commute and telling us about possible christine has a look at the lightning strikes late tonight. >> not something you would forecast for us. stick around, 6:10. normally think about. a storm system coming in and how does that mean we have fire danger? we could get dry lightning strikes and the best chance for that over the higher terrain where we can clear that. even if you live at the base of the foothills, a good idea. 53 degrees this morning to kick off the day. good morning, san jose. temperatures are comfortable out there right now. not too cold. even in the north bay and in san

martin where we are seeing our chilliest spots. 48 degrees is not too bad out there. as we head throughout the day today because we're starting out mild and easily climb into the 70s. you can see what's happening here at the coastline. breezy to windy conditions and that fog, those low clouds are rolling in as the area of low pressure gets closer and closer to our coastline. show you the difference here. in san jose chance for thunder over our local mountainside and more sunshine to kick off the day here. all see a mix of sun and clouds for today. so, wind is still pretty strong this morning. fierce wind at the coast. 21 miles per hour sustained and 15 miles sustained in oakland. trarv travel cautiously. you always want to take it easy over the open water bridges. we lack the friction and you get the strong gusts. 71 degrees in the south bay and right around 74 degrees in the north bay. let's talk thunderstorms. your futurecast now picking up some of the isolated cells that we're counting on as we head throughout tomorrow. so, tonight, a very slight chance and best chance in the

north bay over the higher elevations. tomorrow, see a 20% to 30% chance for the entire bay area and futurecast models picking it up. between noon and 3:00 p.m. on tuesday. be back here tomorrow morning and we'll have the latest model runs and give you the latest, most recent information. here's what comes when we get to the end of the week. comfortable and not too hot and just in time for memorial day weekend. the unofficial kickoff of summertime. we'll show you those numbers coming up in case you missed that forecast before. overall, if you want to hit the water, even at the beach we're counting on the 70s. heats let's check your drive and here's mike inouye. >> we'll take the camera straight to you. from powell located jammed up all the way to the berkeley curve and making your way up under the sign to the east shore toll plaza. the map will show you the same stretch down from san pablo and stretches in richmond and

kicking in around university avenue and solid all the way down to the berkeley curve. welcome back. and west 580 kick in out of the happy monday to you. maze. mild mix of sun and clouds for this looks like we might have today. the big story in the weather slower metering light pattern going on. department. the chance for thunderstorms. i haven't seen a reason for we'll tell you where and when in that. a smooth flow approaching that your full forecast. maze and the east shore freeway a little extra tough this and a live look past the morning. the rest of your bay moves nicer peninsula here. university avenue from 101. than typical for your monday. i expected a more lively look san mateo bridge across the bay for this live camera. i'll show you where all the and once you're on the span, no problem. same thing for the dumbarton activity is. bridge just to the south. 580 we have some stir up there. 880 through hayward and slowing coming up. today's top stories. a bay area mother facing child down fremont and you do have abuse charges this morning through san jose and same thing for the south valley. attacking a boy she says had 680 continues with that volume. been bullying her daughter. a quick shot of san jose and slowing on the sensors and not a big deal. north 101 at 680 and 880 and see this continue to build over the next 20 minutes or so. but 87 is showing a little delia garsia-bratcher walked in and grabbed the boy's throat. slowing now that we have a new crash around capital expressway. sensors pointed to high jill abramson giving the levels of toxic gas inside a commencement speech at wake

forest. you're looking at live pictures. coal mine days before turkey's worst mining disaster. abr abramson fired by "new york company officials took no times" last week where she had action. today prosecutors formally been the executive editor. arrested two more people over let's listen in for a moment. the fire in the mine that killed >> katharine graham the 301 people. health officials say the publisher of "washington post" deadly mers virus could be which broke the watergate story. easier to transmit than they they both face discrimination in earlier thought. a much tougher, more dominated a recent case was transmitted by a brief hand shake. newspaper industry and they went the virus spread 15 countries, on to win pulitzer prizes. sickening about 600 people in all and a third of them have died. same-sex marriages in oregon could begin as soon as this my colleague who is standing up afternoon. against an unfair washington it all comes down to one judge. leak investigation is another u.s. district judge michael mcshane says she will issue a hero. i co-authored a book about anita ruling today on a constitutional challenge to the state's gay hill, who testified about sexual marriage ban. the county which contains portland says it will begin harassment before an all-white, issuing marriage licenses all-male senate judiciary immediately if that ruling allows. there's a last-minute push committee in the 1990s. the senators portrayed her as to get voters registered across being one of the distracters so the state. the last day californians can register to vote for the june delicately put it, a little bit upcoming election. you can do it online and in nutty and a little bit.

person. if you're already registered you don't need to do it again. she turned that potential workers with the registrar were humiliation into a great career out at a cultural festival yesterday signing up last-minute teaching at -- >> you are listening to the workers and also looking to hire graduation speech at wake forest more poll workers. no deadline to sign up to help out at the polls. university in winston-salem. meanwhile a san jose jill abramson discusses, we neighborhood is in the cross hairs of a modern day didn't hear a lot of context development and the people that there, but we can conclude that live there do not want to give she is discussing her opinion up their homes. >> they live right down the that she was fired in part street from santana row and because of the sexism. peggy bunker following their >> very interesting one to story. >> tonight a meeting to discuss follow. 6:53. closer to home here in the bay the winchester ranch mobile home area. a bay area mother will appear to park and the century dome 21 face charges of child abuse. theaters will get heated as half the sheriff department says she of that meeting will be open up allegedly confronted and grabbed for questions and commentary. a bully by the throat who was will it be enough to say this targeting her daughter. the incident happened back on loved neighborhood is the question. a mobile home park but not your friday at olivet elementary typical double wide kind of school. neighborhood. it makes it a very, very pretty christie smith joins us live in the school in the morning and place to win. residents will fight to the end the attack actually happened on to stay here and it is located campus. >> good morning to you.

that's exactly what they're right down the street from saying. their mom came here on friday santana row. around noontime and then residents say being forced to allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old move will devastate them and they want to buy it. student by the neck after she >> they have absolutely the right to sell. apparently confronted him in what we would love if they would front of other students about sell it to us. bullying her 10-year-old >> now, also in the mix in this daughter. that mom was arrested on suspicion of felony charge neighborhood, the century 21 abuse. dome whose fate has not been delia garcia-bratcher the decided. several local groups trying to 30-year-old mom who told hang on to the dome and the deputies she was at the school to initially enroll a third child of hers in classes and nosta nosta nostallja that comes with it. then spotted her 11-year-old son who is also a student here and also in the cross hairs of the mayor's race and putting heat on asked him to point out this city council members in which allege bully. way they think the development and then grabbed the 11-year-old should go. one of them will be at tonight's by the throat. no, no adults witnessed this, meetings. let's give you the details on that, it takes place at 6:30 at but photos were taken at the the cypress senior center in san school of marks on the boy and jose. deputies and the school are now, the company that now owns looking into the bullying the property under the claims, but even so, deputies winchester ranch development has not commented but the developer say garcia bratcher had no right pulte homes says they'll work taking matters into her own closely with the individuals and hands against the student. businesses that will be impacted she is out on bail right now.

by any kind of development. $30,000 bail, but we are told laura and scott, back to you. she will be in court thursday medstudents at uc urvine and today a letter will be going home to families here letting will make a spectacle of themselves with google glass. them know what has happened. >> this month the school plans reporting live in santa rosa, to hand out a pair of google christie smith, "today in the glass to every medical student. bay." 6:54, we are waiting to the first medical school to do learn the identity of a hiker so. several medical institutions are who was found dead after falling testing the wearable computers from a large rock in the and a surgeon for ucsf started berkeley hills. it happened off grizzly peak using google glass during his procedures last year. he used a pair to x-ray boulevard near south park drive. a female hiker found the body in a steep, rocky area. patients. california chrome could investigators say it appears the abandon his bid for the triple victim had climbed a large rock crown and comes down just by a and fell 100 feet to his death. nose. these nasal strips. >> nothing appeared suspicious >> literally by a nose. at this point. the central valley sports who but because unattended death we have to shoot it like a crime runs the prethe belmont stakes scene. we had crime scene investigators come up and process the scene. >> we're still waiting to hear if the victim is a crime banned horses from wearing nasal student. this is not the first time someone has died on that rock in strips two years ago. november 2012, another young man yesterday california chrome's slipped and fell on the very trainer said the horse might sit out the june 7th race if new same spot. 6:55. one of the 18 san jose state york officials don't let him wear that strip.

the last horse to win the triple resident advisors fired last month say he and his co-workers crown was back in 1978. were victims of a witch-hunt. i was following this horse for a very long time. he told "mercury news" the >> you like this horse, you back university was embarrassed over this horse. the alleged hate crime incident he's got a lot of negotiating power there because everybody and eager to show the new task wants him to win the triple crown. >> hasn't lost a race so far force he was not afraid to this year. doing quite well. punish advisors. >> we'll see. targeted after the reported hate let's check in with crime and when school officials christina this morning where we got an anonymous tip about are talking about all kind of lightning coming later. underage drinking they were let's give you a live look in quick to fire 18 ras. the meantime at san francisco the firings were unrelated to and san jose as the sun comes the allege hate crime. in that case three white up, good morning. >> good morning to you. students accused of bullying it will be a nice day. that chance for thunderstorms their roommate were expelled by but not just yet. we'll really bring that in as we the university. muni starting out a few get into the evening hours here and really for tomorrow, but pilot program to ease what's happening out there as overcrowding. different seating arrangements on the train cars. this weather system gets closer fewer seats, more standing room and closer to the bay area meaning ten more passengers will fit per car. starting next month, the same kicking up gusty winds. our wind speeds have increased design will get a trial on over the past half hour and at this point 21 miles per hour another line. the century 21 domes and san sustained in san francisco where your temperature is 57 degrees this morning. jose mobile home park are in the that's not too bad and 53 in san

cross hairs this morning of jose and meanwhile single digits modern day development. >> the people who live in the neighborhood don't want to give when it comes to the wind speeds up either one of them. for now. the wind will stick with us for "today in the bay" peggy bunker is here with their story. today as we have that weather good morning. system coming in and hold off on >> good morning to most of you. that chance for thunderstorms most home owner association until we get the daytime heating that we need to fuel those meetings are pretty hum drum events and tonight's meeting thunderstorms. temperatures today will be warm about the mobile home park and enough. even warmer tomorrow and, yeah, the century 21 dome theaters little bit more unstable out there. that's why we have that better chance for tomorrow. will get heated as they're being 71 degrees in the south bay and open for comments and 70 degrees for the peninsula today. nice-looking day shaping up for commentary. winchester ranch is a mobile the bay area temperature wise. home park, but pot your typical here's our weathermaker and double wide kind of neighborhood. arrives throughout tonight and the pride in this mobile home tomorrow and a slow moving park makes it a very pretty system and bring moisture our way as we do have enough warmth place to live. residents say they will fight to out there for kind of some the bitter end to stay there, however the 16 acres that house instability and thunderstorms might fire off as we get the two 150 people is located right down the street from sanaa row, that competing air masses. warm, dry colliding with that is very hot property and very moist air. here's what we're working with hot real estate. high conditions and high residents say, though, being forced to move would simply pressure returns as we move devastate them. >> it's been terrifying. towards the end of the week. we have a lot of people who are but we're not talking about triple digits and not even the in their 80s and 90s who are, i 90s. even as we get into your holiday

would say, poverty level. weekend. 72 degrees in san francisco and if this closes, they've got no comfortable conditions and i know it's early, but, hey, this where to go. >> also the issue squarely in might help you get through the the cross hairs of the mayor's workweek. we have a holiday weekend race putting heat on city shaping up and a warm up just in council members. time for the unofficial kickoff all but one of them will be at of summer. tonight's meeting to hear what their constituents have to say. 72 degrees on saturday. these are your san francisco also in the mix, those domes. temperatures, my friend. the century 21 domes whose fate 73 on sunday and 75 degrees, a has not been decided looking beautiful day in the city by the they could get historical bay for memorial day. status. save the dome facebook page now we'll keep tabs on that for you has 1,500 members and many and tell you what's happening across the bay area. people posting about their right now find out what happened on the roads. here's mike inouye. nostalgustaull ju >> temperatures fantastic in the roadways. the roadways, i wouldn't say spectacular through dublin and a live look shows you just past el nustallia. many people would like to see it open up again for movies or charr appuiohave a lot of other uses. were you at the lego movie? company and we show you the map. we have the slowing around the >> i thought it was a great movie. >> you looked familiar. dublin interchange and not so >> he had that big tub. severe as we sometimes see on a monday. after a tough start i was worried about it. >> always do. south 680 shows some slowing want to check in with christina right now. she has a look at our forecast. dipping below speeds as you head >> hey, good morning to you. towards sunol.

get you off to a great start your commute eastbound for 580 this monday morning. the weather is on our side, so and we have a stall reported in far so good. lanes and it was a little 53 degrees right now in the south bay and 57 in san distraction and now things back francisco and on our way to the out to the typical pattern and mid-60s to low 70s. reports of metal in their lanes 71 degrees in the east bay and south bay is at 71 degrees and and sheet metal. watch for crews to clear that. south of there, though, we're want to real quickly thank looking at 680 northbound and everybody who came out to pleasant hill yesterday for the 101 between 680 and 880. wine, women and shoe events. traffic flows very smoothly. these are the guys that fanned a live look showed us a smooth the women. we raised thousands of dollars drive there through san jose and and a big thank you. through foster city no problems they love this morning show and, off that san mateo bridge. hold on to this for a couple coincidentally and mike inouye what are you watching for us? >> i was watching that picture seconds. from time to time we saw this and i saw one woman. traffic shaking. keep that in mind here as and no christina, thanks for helping big issues for your commute, out. guys. back to you. >> thank you, mike. emeryville west 880. a show stopping performance the overcrossing and look at the from beyond the grave. map that stretched between >> michael jackson really wowed richmond all the way down to the the crowd with the new song of berkeley curve is jammed and the billboard music awards. starting to move a little better ♪ now but they may have sped up the metering lights and recovering from earlier jam there. the south bay, want to call it a lot of people talking about north 87 is really slowing down

it. michael jackson appeared as the and an earlier crash at capital hologram singing and doing his famous moonwalk in front of a expressway caused this jamming. watch that. back to you. star-studded crowd in las vegas. that's what's happening "today in the bay" back at 725 the performance almost didn't with a live local news update. happen. last week two companies filed a join us for bay area news at joint lawsuit saying they own 11:00, as well. have a great monday. the patent hologram technology. but the lawsuit was dismissed on friday allowing the show to go on. >> we just truly live in the futu future. that is amazing. time now 6:22 in the future. still ahead "today in the bay" quite a stink in california. we'll tell you why 7,000 dead fish are surfacing in the good morning. harbor. meantime closer to home, growing alarm. government scientists step up let's take a look outside. painted sky up near san rafael their investigation of the mers as we give you looks across the virus after it spread from bay area help you start your person to person here in the day. it's 6:22. u.s. for the very first time. a lot more news ahead, stick around. her turn. ousted "new york times" editor jill abramson makes her first public comments today after her abrupt firing, while her former boss takes a new shot at her,

denying that move was motivated by sexism. boneheaded decision. what the man who spurred nationwide outrage for kicking his own son down a skateboard ramp is now saying in an exclusive interview. >> it was an effort to help him, but it didn't come across that way.

russian president vulat mere putin is ordering trips in regions near ukraine to return to their home bases. russian officials insisted no build up towards the border saying the troops in the region were involved in regular training. this move appears to indicate putin's intention to de-escalate the crisis in ukraine. he also says he will support round table talks in the country. south korea's president wants to disband the country's coast guard after it failed in

its rescue efforts during last month's ferry disaster. lawmakers should transfer the coast guard's responsibilities to the national police agency and a new government body she plans to form. the ferry capsized about a month ago. more than 300 people are presumed dead. 286 bodies have been recovered, but 18 others are still missing. officials say the thousands of fish who washed up dead on a southern california shore probably died from lack of oxygen. the l.a. county sheriff's department found the fish on saturday in marina del ray after getting numerous calls from concerned residence. the dead fish include anchovies and rays and whiildlife experts say the fish may have suffocated because there are so many fish in the water. >> everything is dying and it's happening right in front of our eyes. >> now, officials are worried about the stench left behind. something similar did happen in

r r rodondo beach in 2011. 6:26 right now. still ahead, fired from "new york times" coming up jill abramson's message to hundreds of college graduates as they enter the workforce. we'll tell you how it could ease overcrowding on the muni line.

fired from the "new york times" days ago and now jill abramson giving college students a speech about their feature. what will she tell them and will she shed new light on the controversy? brand-new week and brand-new forecast to take you through. mild with a mix of sun and clouds and bring in thunderstorms for tomorrow and then crank up that heat as we get into your memorial day weekend. we'll show you your microclimate forecast in moments. as we get into your monday morning commute, we do see some slowing and a different pattern and unusual for the tri-valley.

we'll sort that out coming up. a live look at the opening bell this morning. there we go on wall street and over non the nasdaq, as well. the countdown always a couple beats behind. waves and countdown and we'll check out your business headlines today's monday, may 19th and this is "today in the bay." and a very good monday morning to you. thanks for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm scott mcgrew. top business and tech headlines at&t plans to pay $48 billion to buy directv. boost customer base and official announcement expected today. now, this does need to be approved by federal regulators. drugmaker upped its offer to buy astrozen cu. this time $119 billion.

astrazeneca is rejecting the offer saying it is confident it can succeed on its own. facebook developing a video chat app to rival snap chat according to "financial times" the app is known internally as sling shot. tried to buy snap chat for $3 billion cash but the offer was turned down. google giving gamer site twitch for $1 billion. twitch is a privately held video streaming company that lets you watch people as they play video games. twitch based in san francisco and an official announcement is expected soon on that big purchase. today the first public appearance from jill abramson after being ousted as executive editor of "new york times." melissa is live on capitol hill this morning. melissa, "new york times" fighting back against the claims that getting rid of abramson is a sexist move. >> they say that's absolutely not at all what happened but really interesting to see if she does talk about this today. we have a live picture we can

show you of the ceremony under way right now. she has not take on the podium, but very interesting to see if she sells anything or if somebody perhaps yells or asks or something. 12,000 people, including 1,200 graduates there. she was fired as executive director of "times" last wednesday and her pay was less than her male predecessor. they say it had nothing to do with pay or gender but she mismanaged the paper. the publisher saying, "i heard repeatedly about a series of issues including arbitrary decisionmaking. a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues." overall saying she mismanaged that newsroom. >> abramson has not spoken publicly about the statement so far but her daughter has. her mother won't say anything negative about "the times" in today's speech. >> it will be interesting to see

whether or not she does. she did, cornelia did tweet saying a big thank you to all the #bossy, her daughter is speaking out in defense of her mother we have not heard anything more from gelat this point. >> it will be interesting to see if there is something sprinkled in there. well, speaking of commencement ceremonies, turns out this year more companies are hiring new mba graduates. "usa today" reports 86% of companies will plan to hire nba grablgwits this year that's up 81% from last year, includes an uptick fromfrom, mba tech and mn salary $95,000. the graduates and their parents, no doubt, paying very

close attention to the forecast in the bay area as we have a lot of ceremonies coming up this next weekend throughout the bay area. taking a live look outside from san francisco, little cloudy start to our day, christina is going to look at that forecast for us. >> good morning, san jose state graduating this weekend. congrats to all the grads out there. taking a live look. here's san francisco, mostly cloudy conditions to kick off the day. temperatures are mild, though, as a result of that blanket of clouds overhead. mostly in the 50s. good morning san francisco, you're at 57 degrees and here's a live look at san jose. same cloudy sky. now, we started out clear and you're going to notice those clouds increasing throughout the day today. intervals of clouds and sun as the storm system moved through. that would bring about the windy conditions, as well, at the immediate coastline. that means the cool, ocean air will be transported inland as a result. now, we do have an unstable environment out there. air mass overhead pretty unstable as a result we could

get some thunderstorms as of this evening and better chance for tomorrow. for today, we're calling it a mix of sun and clouds in the south bay and 71 degrees there and 62 in san francisco and comfortable conditions in oakland today. 66 for you and, hey, hard to beat 74 degrees in the north bay. as you know, we're getting ready to kick off the unofficial start of summertime on monday, memorial day and temperatures will warm up as we get closer and closer to that date. you'll already notice here pretty strong wind out there this morning. this could impact your drive. speaking of which, let's check on that right now. here's our own mike inouye. >> wind advisories hold on because you might get a gust or two. over here 580 westbound you see the camera shaking a bit. farther east and the altamont pass, we have a smooth drive but building up here just before the off ramp and we look at the map and unusual slowing, but not for west 580, that's a pretty typical drive and 20 minutes

south from it dublin interchange and all the way down towards highway 84 in sunol and speeds come back up out of the orange zone and back up in towards 50 miles per hour for that entire stretch. that's an extra slow coming out of the tri-valley and coming into the south bay. a light volume right now from 680 on northbound 101 all the way up towards 880 as christina and laura were talking about, we'll start to see a little bit of an ease or change-up in the patterns as we approach the summer vacations for a lot of the areas here. we're looking over towards the east shore freeway and laura gets a little chuckle. westbound 80 and down towards the berkeley curve and a smooth drive and give you a look at the bay bridge toll plaza and a lot slower right now coming off that berkeley curve and i don't find a reason for that on our reports, i'll track it and back to you. >> the parent are saying, go get

a job. >> not a break. 6:36. still ahead, a deadly explosion roughs nigeria. new concerns it could be linked to the kidnapping of hundreds of girls. plus, the first of its kind case where tcharged with cyberspying. downtown san jose this morning. yeah, we will ease into this monday morning together with you. it's 6:37. a lot more news, weather, traffic ahead. stick around.