of . a bay area university taking action, what it's trying to do to protect the victims of sexual assault. >> plus the owner of a party bus company now faces jail time three years after a young woman's death on a south bay highway. and police say these men are linked to three burglaries in the south bay. they're using a well-known company as cover. and a live look outside at the bay bridge this morning, it is thursday, april 9th. this is "today in the bay." >> well, good morning, everyone. happy thursday, 4:30 in the morning. i'm scott mcgrew.

>> i'm kris scan chez. sam brock and laura garcia-cannon are off. let's start with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning to you, kris and scott. we have a really nice looking day shaping up. temperatures right now mostly in the 40s. couple 50s out there. by this afternoon, the 70s, much warmer weather and then a little bit of rain returns to the forecast. we got a lot to go over. we will take you through the changes coming up i want to check your drive, it's thursday, we're close to the weekend. >> a couple more days, that's right. traffic is light this morning coming across the bay bridge no big concerns. we take you to the maps, lots of green. no accidents at this hour so that's the good news if you are about to step out the door. the altamont pass is wide open, lots of green coming through sunol as well and in the south bay no big problems, just the overnight construction wrapping up and all our highways are looking good. >> we like the green, thank you, anthony. stanford university is overhauling its response to its campus sex assaults. last june students posted signs

and messages in a demonstration on behalf of a student rape victim. she complained publicly about her alleged attacker who was also a student being allowed on campus. now the university task force on sexual assault is recommending expulsion for any student found guilty of sexual assault by a campus tribunal. students who complained about inconsistencies in the school's policies and approaches will also soon have a streamlined response. stanford is also forming a support team of counselors to respond immediately in assault cases. >> certainly i think there's precedent for this and over the next two, three years there's going to be big, big changes happening across the country. >> and some of those changes will go into effect as early as this fall. a party bus owner is going to prison three years after a young woman fell out of the door of a bus and died. yesterday a jury found john reno saichbt james guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 25-year-old natasha nolan. the santa cruz woman fell out of

a faulty party bus door on highway 17 in los gatos back in 2012. jurors found the owner guilty for knowing about the door but ignoring it. nolan's death led to a new law requiring i.d.s to be checked if alcohol is going to be consumed on buses. this morning, pg&e will learn its punishment for the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. california's public utilities commission will vote on the fines for the utility somewhere in the vicinity of $1.5 billion. the 2010 explosion killed eight people and leveled dozens of homes in san bruno. san bruno mayor will speak before the start of the meeting. be sure to watch nbc bay area at 11:00 this morning for an update on today's vote. we may get another view of that disturbing police shooting in south carolina. dash cam video. tracie potts is following this story, she has that plus nbc's exclusive interview with the man who recorded the shooting on his

cell phone. >> i thought about his position. >> reporter: here's what fayden santana says he saw before he started recording. >> he had control of scott and scott was trying just to get away from the taser, which the taser, you know, you can hear the sound of the taser. >> reporter: he had been tased at that point? >> yes. >> reporter: his video led to a murder charge against officer michael phleger. police can't explain what he picked up and dropped near the body or why the police officers performed first aid and cpr when the video doesn't show that. >> there are questions that i had in my mind that i can't answer right now. >> dying on our street or -- >> reporter: 100 people protested last night. >> this is not an isolated incident. >> young black men, unarmed are being hunted down like deer. >> reporter: that's exactly how walter scott's mother felt when

she saw this. >> he's my child. i saw him running like you would kill an animal. i couldn't watch it anymore. >> but there will be more video. the dash cam which should come out as soon as today but north charleston says they're buying body cameras for all their officers. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. civil rights activists are responding to the scandal surrounding racist and homophobic tests sent by san francisco police officers. the chief heard from critics at the police commission meeting. he presented an update on the fallout from the text which included slurs against gay people and people of color. fbi agents discovered the texts on a personal phone of a sergeant already convicted of fraud but then two other officers have since resigned. suhr is calling on six more to be fired. female targeted in the text messages says change from the

department comes from within. >> healing must begin internally within the police department before we can then try and rebuild the trust that is so needed within our communities that we serve. >> no decision has been made yet on the fate of those six remaining officers, but the chief is already calling on san francisco police officers to undergo sensitivity training. people in oakland are taking a stand against violence after the shooting death of a young musician outside a popular bar. emile navarez was shot saturday night minutes after performing at the golden bowl bar in oakland. last night friends and community members gathered for a public safety meeting. they often say when clubs close the streets of oakland become very dangerous. >> you could be in the most exclusive part of town or, you know, on the other side of town, and it could happen to you. >> police say he was shot after an argument broke out in the club, that he had nothing to do

with. the musician and another man were simply caught in the cross-fire. the other man was hurt but he'll survive. police are hoping a $20,000 reward will lead them to the gunman. this afternoon the chp will reveal new details about a deadly hit-and-run crash on the peninsula in hopes that perhaps you can help officers track down the driver. motorcyclist was on highway 101 near 92 and san mateo last thursday when he hit a concrete barrier and flew off the on-ramp. witnesses say they saw an suv or jeep stop, then head east on 92. officers say that vehicle may have been involved in the crash, and it may have damage to his right side. san jose police warning people about a band of home burglars posing as utility workers. we have some sketches of two of the thieves. police say the four men are knocking on doors identifying themselves as either water district employees or pg&e workers. they get the victims to go into the backyard with one of the suspects to turn on the water

hose while the other suspects burglarize the home. now the key here is to make sure that ask for i.d.s, if a utility worker shows up to your house you can also call the utility for verification as well. the san jose police department plans to use a drone, getting closer to takeoff. "mercury news" reports the city's neighborhoods commission this week issued a report endorsing use of a drone as part of a one-year pilot program. the department acquired the drone last year through a homeland security grant. another committee must still sign off on the plan and then it has to go before the full city council. sfo stepping up security following a string of breaches at bay area airports. last month a homeless woman managed to walk onto a runway at sfo with plans to stowaway on a plane headed to central america. this morning, airport managers are holding a news conference. they're going to talk about improvements to security around runways. they'll also give an overview of already completed security enhancements. it is 4:38 right now.

meteorologist christina loren has a look at our forecast that's inching toward the weekend. >> i can almost taste the weekend now. i don't know about you two. but yes, it's going to be a nice one as well. 45 degrees to kick off the new day in oakland. 45 in concord. cool to start, mild by lunch time today in the low 60s by noon, and we'll round out the day comfortably at 68 degrees on the peninsula. 67 for the east shower and right around 70 for the north bay, same for us in the south bay, getting into that all important weekend if you want to hit tahoe that snow is going to stick around friday, saturday, sunday, temps into the mid-50s to low 60s, getting into the russian river valley, one of my favorite vacation spots, temperatures in the 70s and looking good the beach getting to be that time of year, 69 degrees on saturday. 67 on sunday. if you're staying local we'll talk about what's happening here in the bay area coming up in my next report. right now we bring in anthony and your morning drive.

>> thank you, christine. we don't have any accidents if you're about to step out things looking good. to dublin on 580 you can see no big problems here, things wide open and again slipping over to the maps, lots of green continues across 580, 680 and towards 84 slowing towards sunol. south bay overnight construction wrapping up. all highways reporting no accidents so that's great news in the south bay. near the peninsula we have a small accident on the dumbarton br o and approaching the maze, lots otherwise no big problems there of green, wide open roads. back to you guys. >> thank you. 4:40, move over facebook, another social media site to turn to. plus the vice president and his wife coming to town, we'll show you which school is getting a visit from dr. jill biden today. and secret service, why a high-ranking supervisor is on leave this morning.

vice president joe biden will be in the bay area tonight before arriving, the vice president will deliver remarks at national defense university in washington, about the u.s. policy in iraq. he'll also talk about iraq's political military progress as well as its ongoing fight against isis. the vice president is expected to arrive in the bay area this afternoon. tonight he'll attend a private event for democratic congressional campaign committee. while joe biden is at the event his wife dr. jill biden will make an appearance at deanza college in cupertino. she'll underline the obama administration's commitment to community colleges. dr. jill biden is a professor at a community college in northern virginia. meanwhile the president is on the road as well. he plans to check out some key sites in jamaica before sitting down with the country's prime minister. this is video of him arriving last night visiting the bob marley museum. later today he'll hold a town

hall meeting at a local university. tonight he'll leave for panama and a summit with caribbean and latin america leaders including cuban president raul castro. there's a big tech gadget on sale some row, samsung. orders for the galaxy 6. landon dowdy is live at cnbc world headquarters with that and a look at the markets. good morning, landon. >> hey there, scott, good morning to you. futures are pointing to a higher open this morning. stocks lost most of their early gains on tuesday but still managed to close higher and reacting to last month's fed meeting which showed officials were divided over whether to start raising interest rates in june. oil prices are rebounding today after posting the biggest drop in two months following reports showing a huge increase in u.s. food supplies. the dow rising 27 points to 17902 the nasdaq up 40 to 4950. samsung expects to ship record numbers of its new smartphone the galaxy s6 which goes on sale tomorrow the same

day apple takes orders for its new smartwatch. the company will have trouble meeting demand for the curved device. the s6 is expected to sell well following a positive review. people are using facebook and google plus. facebook is the most popular site, followed by instagram, snapshot, twitter and google plus. one reason teens use google plus they may already have a g-mail account set up for school. scott back to you. >> landon, thank you very much. the midwest is bracing for thunderstorms and schools, this is what it looked like as the same storm passed over missouri. the town of farmington was hit with baseball sized hail. dozens of car windows shattered, one car with about a dozen holes in the back window also was destroyed, hails punched holes in the roof of a restaurant

causing the roof to collapse. >> in the video on the right-hand side, holy cow, nothing like that around here. let's check in with christina. >> good morning to you. we get worked up about pea sized hail earlier this week. boy, that is severe weather. we're getting into that time of year the peak of tornado season. 45 degrees in oakland. for us, calm conditions, beautiful california weather, gorgeous day out there, cool start, nice pleasant afternoon coming your way, with temperatures at lunch time heading outdoors into the low to mid-60s and then we'll get into this afternoon and the 70s are back. beautiful weather for today on the peninsula. you'll be in the upper 60s, meanwhile we will hit the low 70s here in the south bay, same for the north bay and a little bit of a warming trend coming your way as we head deeper into the week. by friday into saturday, 72 degrees, beautiful conditions for us here in the south bay, and you'll get a nice stretch of weather in san francisco as well, temperatures into the mid

to upper 60s there and speaking of which, it's the cherry blossom festival, kicks off this weekend. thousands of people headed to san francisco for this event and weather looks pretty good. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. japan town, peace plaza, beautiful conditions out there, temps in the low to mid-60s for saturday and sunday and then we have a chance for some shower activity by tuesday. we're going to talk all about that as we head throughout the 5:00 hour together. right now back to you, scott and kris. >> christina, thank you. the penalty phase in the boston marathon bombing trial expected to begin within a week. jurors could start hearing evidence as soon as monday. they found bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty of 30 counts yesterday, all of them, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. 17 of the counts are punishable by death. a top ranking member of the secret service is under fire accused of assaulting a female

employee. javier morales is accused of making unwanted advances on a co-worker, including trying to kiss her and grab her at headquarters. he turned in his badge and his gun and now is on administrative leave. a follow-up and another delay in the case against a man accused of murdering morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. trial date was supposed to set for garcia-torres yesterday but it was delayed until may 13th. lamar disappeared more than three years ago. her body has never been found. a bill requiring nearly all kids in california to get vaccinated before attending school cleared its first hurdle. yesterday the state senate health committee voted to approve the bill which would remove california's personal belief interpretation. the bill has to clear several other committees before it can be voted on by the entire state senate. today people living in another bay area county can voice their concern about that

possible new ban on wood burning fireplaces. the bay area air quality district wants to ban all wood burning fire places in new homes and any homeowner looking to sell or rent would have to convert pre-existing wood burning fire places to gas before they could do that. the district is holding today's meeting in almeida county at the livermore city council chambers coming up at 6:00 tonight. the ban could take effect as early as november. state lawmakers getting closer to prevending the student fee hikes looming over the entire uc system. uc president janet napolitano and governor brown currently negotiating an increase approved by uc regents. it would raise tuition 5% a year over the next five years. yesterday a state senate committee unanimously approved a bill to give $150 million to uc and cal state schools to limit that hike. 4:50. teeing off for a chance at

history. golfer rory mcilroy trying to do something tiger woods has not done before. both hands on the wheel this morning, don't try to do anything you have never done on the roads this morning. we're talking about light traffic, still early. we'll get you out to the morning commute coming up after this. i am an electric crew foreman out of the cupertino service center. i was born and raised in the cupertino area. it's a fantastic area to work. the new technology that we are installing out in the field is important for the customers because system reliability i believe is number one. pg&e is always trying to plan for the future and we are always trying to build something

stronger and bigger and more reliable. i love living here and i love the community i serve. nobody wants to be without power. i don't want my family to be without power. it's much more personal to me for that reason. i don't think there's any place i really would rather be.

tiger woods is ready to get back in action as we take a live look at the bay bridge and the

city. let's talk about tiger. tiger tees off at the masters in augusta later this morning. his first tournament seince a series of back problems, woods took part in a par 3 contest yesterday to have a little fun. these are photographs. there's lindsey vonn along with his two kids. >> woods is trying to get back in the swing of things, rory mcilroy is going for history. >> he's trying to complete the grand slam within 12 months. all that's left for him is the masters. woods did win all four consecutively over two calendar years. mcilroy is the number one golfer in the world. >> wow. he took a picture with arnold palmer and it was sweet. 4:54 right now. let's look at how your traffic situation is shaping up with

anthony slaughter. >> i got nothing. >> no golf? >> back to you. >> mean while in other news -- glsh that >> that's good. >> show us how nice it is. >> i play golf and that's about as good as i am. we don't have any accidents to report. in the south bay same deal, just some overnight construction wrapping up and as we take you through the peninsula, through palo alto, redwood city, san mateo, things look good and in the bay towards oakland near the bay bridge the toll plaza looking real good. we take you outside and you can see for yourself things moving nice and smooth. guys, back to you. >> all right. it seems fast food is going to the dogs. >> a new survey finds one out of every six american house holds orders fast food for their dogs during at least some of their drive-through visit and about four out of five pet owners admit they order something special for their four-legged friends. according to one survey people visit mcdonald's most often with

their dogs followed by burger king and wendy's. i suppose if the dog is in the car it distracts them. >> i suppose. we had a friend dog sitting and she was sad she was gone so our friends took her to taco bell and got her a taco. it's like no. 4:56 right now. major recall involving a popular brand of hummus, what you need to know before you pack your lunch. and new plans to expand santana row. and speaking of san jose a live look downtown this morning, traffic there in the distance nice and light. forecast looking very nice. we'll be back in just a few.

changing its policy, what one bay area university is doing to try to protect victims of sexual assault. plus a south bay police officer on leave this morning after killing a robbery suspect. we'll tell you what police say led up to the shooting. and you've made it to thursday. we have some beautiful weather coming your way, good air quality, thanks to the rain earlier this week, but a little chance for rain in the near future. we'll talk about that in just moments. i'm anthony slaughter in for mike inouye this morning tracking your morning commute. things are fairly light if you're about to leave right now. we'll get you out the door and know what's happening on bay area roads. >> there's one of the roads live on the bay bridge this morning on what will be probably an easier commute day because you don't have to contend with the rain or wind of earlier this week. more on the forecast and driving conditions on this thursday, april 9th. this is "today in the bay."

good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. laura and sam are having a well deserved day off. happening today, pg&e is going to learn the punishment for its deadly 2010 san bruno gas explosion. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang is in san francisco. stephanie, state commissioners debating over two different proposed fines. >> reporter: that's right, good morning to you, scott and kris. that debate happening in the courtroom behind me this morning. the two fines one determined by administrative law judges a few months ago, the other proposed by the commission president himself last month that increases the fine by $200 million. both penalties would be record-setting in the state against pg&e for the 2010 deadly san bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38