newsroom on the germanwings plane crash. investigators say the pilot rehearsed the crash on a previous flight. headline name in the race for the white house. stopping by the bay area. how the visit might affect your commute. plus, not an accident. how police say a pool full of rescued sea lions got burned. a live look outside this morning. the golden gate bridge. it is wednesday, may 6th. you are watching "today in the bay." >> from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> good wednesday morning. it's 4:30. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. lots to get to this morning.

we're halfway through our workweek, christina. >> halfway there. temperatures today, just about the same as yesterday. that means another spectacular difficult in the bay area. we're starting out at 50 degrees in san jose. the pollen levels, pretty high for today. good news is we're still counting on the showers which means those levels will drop. we'll get your full forecast and let you know if you will see any rain drops out your front door. right now though, check your drive. happy wednesday, mike. >> happy wednesday, christina. we're looking toward the high rise. getting over the high rise of the week, wednesday. and we're looking toward an easy drive toward the nimitz freeway. opened after overnight closures in the san leandro and smooth flow of traffic. everywhere we look we're looking for a slowdown. at the top of your screen, highway 4 eastbound. you typically see overnight road crew going on there. there's a little slowing showing up on the sensors. nothing big. little yellow blips around the bay, overnight construction, guys. back to you. >> thank you. new this morning, we're

learning chilling details about the pilot of the germanwings flight. investigators he practiced the crash into the french alps on a previous flight. >> "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is in studio. kris, we're expected to learn more from france's crash investigation agency later today. >> reporter: those investigators have already said that he researched ways to kill himself and how cockpit door security worked. but this morning that even bigger bombshell. we expect more details and lewis practicing that same deadly descent not on a simulator but on the same day and same plane as it was outbound from germany that day. as you know by now, he was suspected of looking the pilot of the out cockpit from spain to germany and crashing it into the alps and killing himself and 149 people onboard. earlier in the day as he flew in the opposite direction, that different set of passengers may have noticed a rather odd descent. investigators are calling it a

controlled minute-long descent for which there was no aeronautical reason. that data was recorded on the plane's black box recorder, according to a german newspaper, which cites a source close to the investigation. the deadly plane crash happened just hours later. french authorities are expected to reveal more details about this development this morning. we're tracking that for you but, boy, the folks on that outbound flight must be counting their blessings this morning. sam and laura? >> tragic. thank you, kris. happening today, here comes hillary. the democratic presidential candidate is back in the bay area. >> "today in the bay" stephanie chuang is live in san francisco. looking to raise campaign cash. >> yeah, that's right. good morning, laura and sam. hoping to tap into the silicon valley cash here. hillary clinton has two fund-raisers titled conversations with hillary today. the first one is here in the pacific heights neighborhood at a home behind me, at the home of

hedge fund billionaire and environmentalist tom stir. hillary clinton then heads tonight at 5:00 to the home of long time friend and supporter susie tompkins beall who cofounder north face and friday. each event is 2500 bucks per person. one major topic clinton is expected to talk about is making immigration a defining issue in this race for the white house. >> not a single republican candidate announced or potential is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. not one. >> reporter: that was at a round-table with undocumented workers in las vegas yesterday. clinton promised to pursue a path that goes further than president obama's controversial executive orders. meantime, here another issue will be front and center with some private activists coming to protest the keystone pipeline project this afternoon. that's what clinton will be met with when she comes to her first

fund-raiser. live in san francisco, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> a lot of checkbooks, too. >> i was going to say a lot of money raised. probably not the last time we'll hear from hillary. over the years cinco de mayo has proven troublesome in san jose. >> overnight hundreds of police officers patrolled the streets to keep the peace. >> cinco de mayo. >> cinco de mayo. >> celebrations. >> cinco de mayo. >> yeah, they were excited, but police say it looks like it worked calming people down. hundreds of people cruise the streets holding street shows across the city. revelers holding a game of cat and mouse with officers into the early morning hours. police don't have a problem with the demonstrations until a few doughnuts and other maneuvers start to make the parking lots unsafe. >> we're not anticipating anything but we also have an obligation to ensure that we have plenty of officers on hand. >> so far no reports of violence or vandalism during the festivities. >> it's 4:35 right now. new action this morning to stop the very threat of future b.a.r.t. strikes.

the last round in 2013 cost us both money and plenty of headaches. those b.a.r.t. strikes upended commutes for 400,000 daily riders. now catherine baker wants to prevent that situation from ever happening again. she's presenting a bill forcing b.a.r.t. workers to honor no strike clauses even after their contract expires. that bill will head to the assembly for a committee meeting earlier -- later today. it is 4:36. new this morning, police in southern california are investigating a heartless act. someone poisoned a pool full of rescued sea lions at the pacific marine mammal center in laguna beach. last week someone intentionally dumped large amounts of chlorine into the pool. it happened one day before the animals were set to be released back into the ocean. most of the 17 sea lions suffered chemical burn s but thy are expected to recover. scientists hope to get answers as soon as today about what caused the humpback whale to wash ashore on sharp park

state beach in pacifica. the young 32-foot female whale washed ashore monday afternoon half mile from where another sperm whale washed ashore last month. experts calling the two dead whales so close together just a coincidence. >> so interesting. so large to see it there on the beach as well. >> it is breathtaking. and saddening, this huge creature on the shoreline. cloud cover starting our day. maybe it will clear. let's check in with our specialist, meteorologist christina loren. >> thank you. we have mostly clear conditions this morning. we do have some of that cloud cover you're talking about though, laura, at the immediate coast. temperatures are going to be really lovely out there for today. so even though we're starting out with a relatively shallow marine layer we're going to see that ocean air move on through and the changes come through as we take you deeper into the week. we're in the 50s. we are on our way. look at these spectacular temperatures today. 77. no need for the ac. no need for the heater.

in the north bay, 66 in san francisco today. 70 on the peninsula. so really spring is that transitional period where we get beautiful conditions. our days get longer. we have milder mornings, milder afternoons. before we get hot this summer. you know summer is just around the corner at this point. let me tell you what to expect as we take you deeper into the day. a little bit of pollen going to be a factor depending on how much wind we get in your microclimate. that's going to dictate how much pollen gets swept up into the air. showers arrive for tomorrow. we're going to show you future cast in my next report. steady temperatures into the weekend. it's mother's day weekend. stick around. we'll tell you what to expect. looking like a lovely weekend. that might pull you through the workweek. mike is here to help you get to work on time. >> no problems getting through free nont. live look by the truck scales. southbound with the headlights. northbound with the taillights. no problem in either direction. look farther east where we typically see slowing on our maps.

there it is. way over on the right side. west 580 out of the altamont just below 60 miles per hour. no problem. not even much of a slowdown through that area. the tri-valley, east bay looks good. we zoom out your map. at the top of your screen, antioch, highway 4 at speed. typical slowing. starts up around a street. not there yet this morning. easy drive across the bay for the richmond bridge. green all over the map. let's show you live shots. here's the san mateo bridge. westbound away from us, crowded much later on in the morning. coming toward us, eastbound, crew clearing from that direction. looks like we still have one or two lanes blocked at a time you're coming over from foster city to hayward and south bay san jose clear as a bell. easy drive from 101. no problems for any of your northbound routes. back to you. plenty of enthusiasm last night. celebration for the warriors even before last night's big playoff game against the memphis grizzlies. steph curry hoisting the mvp award. he just got that hardware.

curry's comments were brief but did say the team had more work to do in the quest to win a championship. yeah, unfortunately they have more work than they anticipated because then the game started and the warriors are not going the win every single game. >> hope quickly faded for the fan who showed up to last night's game. grizzly's guard salt out game one but when he came back with a vengeance last night. notching 22 points. the warriors ended up losing it, 97-90. after that head coach steve kerr made no excuses. >> they deserve to win. they kicked our butts. they controlled the whole game. and we have to learn from this. >> the warriors will have to wait before they get next crack at the grizzlies. game three tips off saturday in memphis. >> just a bump in the road. 4:40. >> good attitude. i like it. >> coming up next, he lost the fight. now he's facing a lawsuit. why fans are suing manny pacquiao. >> and how one restaurant is eliminating 25% of its water use

by changing the way it does the dishes.

s welcome back. it's 4:43 on your wednesday morning. get that cup of coffee as you get ready to start out your workday. new this morning, the french

satirical magazine "charlie hebdo" won the freedom of expression award. they came under deadly attack after "charlie hebdo" published caricatures of mohammed. the position to give the magazine that award was a controversial one. many writers chose not to take part nechbt r. manny pacquiao's injured shoulder is inflaming some fans who now have filed a lawsuit. pacquiao never talked about the torn rotator cuff he suffered in early april. that is not until after saturday's huge fight against floyd mayweather. me will have surgery this week. fans yesterday sued in las vegas. the suit seeks damages for anyone who bought or bet on the fight. it accuses pacquiao for fraud for not disclosing that hurt shoulder. >> he's just more than just a sore loser. gold apple watch is going to set you back at least ten grand. enterprising jeweler is offering

you a cheaper alternative. watch plate offers to goldplate your apple watch for around 400 bucks. you send your smartwatch to the company and within three days you will get it back all blinged out. no word on whether it would void any warranty in the process but at least you would do it in style. amazon's new drone delivery business is getting a second chance to take flight. >> for more on that and the rest of your news before the bell let's check in and order with landon dodd difficult at cnbc news headquarters. >> good morning. stocks bounce back today after the markets closed at the lows of the session on tuesday. oil prices continue to edge higher trading above $61 a barrel. that's a new high for the year. on the weaker u.s. dollar and supply in libya. private sector hiring and worker productivity and labor costs. 142 points to 17928. nasdaq down 77 to 4939.

the faa is expected toen a nouns today an initiative that could expand the use of commercial drones under current rules being proposed drones can only operate within the sight of the pilot. the announcement comes as yamaha has received the green light for the drone. the first craft that carries a payload to be an provpproved an help farmers spray their crops. google hand ms more than 100 billion web search requests this month and most of those are being made on smartphones and tablets. searching on mobile devices has topped pcs for the first time. last month google overhauled the system to favor websites easier to load and read on smartphones. >> computers in your pocket make life so much easier. >> we are slightly spoiled. california figures out a deal with the historic drought everyone is looking to cut back on water use. that includes one california chef who has found a way to save hundreds of gallons of water a day. he does it using air and

electricity. big sur chef bought it off amazon. he got it for cleaning the kitchen. now his staff is using it to prewash plates before the plates even go into the dishwasher. it costs less than $1 a day in electricity. the new method is saving the restaurant 800 gallons of water a day or nearly 300,000 gallons a year. >> we just have no choice as an industry right now. we have to save water. this is a pretty easy way to do it, i think. >> if california's 60,000 restaurants all switched to compressed air to preclean plates they could safe more than 17 billion gallons of water per year. so at home, maybe scrape your plates. >> eureka light bulb going off there. the drought is not stopping tourists from visiting the golden state. 251 million tourists traveled to california last year. that's up 3% from 2013. all of this according to visit california, the non-profit agency keeping track of tourism.

those visitors spent more than $117 billion in california pumping our economy. also supporting more than a million jobs. >> one of the greatest things about california, the weather. >> the weather. >> the vistas. >> some of those things like the golden gate bridge never get old no matter how many times you see them provided you can actually see them. live look right there. there's the bay bridge. the golden gate bridge. i'll tell you what, as we talk about all the great landmarks in our area the question is will the visibility be okay today to take it all in? >> looks clear there. let's check in with christina. >> clear as a bell. good wednesday morning to you, sam and laura. it want to show you this live picture because it is looking spectacular out there. same clear sky over san jose at this hour. we are waiting on some light showers for tomorrow but today will be just spectacular. as we get into this afternoon, temperatures expected in the 70s just about everywhere. with some mid to upper 60s on the way to the coast. really not getting that extreme microclimate separation just

yet. that occurs in the summertime. to today looking fantastic. we're going to take a peak at your future cast. show you where the showers are expected where you live in just moments. >> thank you, kschristina. thank you for thing or nears of the sill reason valley gives fund-raiser. more than $7.7 million was raised in 24 hours. and they tell us donations are still coming in. workers are still counting this morning. they hope beat last year's total of $8 million. they're pretty close. money in the fund-raiser goes to a number of non-profits here in the bay area. >> it makes such a difference. 4:49. coming up next, underwater skeleton tea party. this is what our founding fathers envisioned? the scale fins are fake but the police investigation is real. we'll explain. >> i think we're wearing sunglass sunglasses. over here, no need for sunglasses across the golden gate bridge. we'll talk about why your view is different.

welcome back, everyone. very good wednesday morning to you. halfway through your workweek. taking a live look outside. this is from the south bay 101 in san jose. we'll check that morning commute with mike.

he's also keeping tabs on 880 over in fremont side this morning. look good to me. he's the pro. it is 4:52. a search for human remains in a colorado riverbed turned out to be much less sinister. police sent a diver down with a video camera to inspect the scene and he found two fake skeletons. one of them sporting aviator sunglasses and what might be a bibb. the other was holding a sign, not quite legible with the words bernie on it. and the phrase "dream in the river." somebody poking some fun there. >> at what point do you think they realized that was a prank? the sunglasses or the lawn chair in the middle of the river? we all need a piece of vacation sometimes, mike. i think that was a reference to "weekend at bernie's." >> maybe a new installment coming up. andrew mccarthy may be making another big screen picture. this screen over here, golden gate bridge. look at that. the difference is that today

it's a much clearer view not because of the skies but because someone cleaned a lens out there. that's great. they're ready to move that center divide. across the bay at the bay bridge. traffic flows nicely here. yesterday we had a backup on the right aappropriate. usually due to the fact that not all cash lanes are open but today everybody is okay on the approach. i want to show you the rest of your bay. speed sensors through the maze a smooth flow of traffic shows up on our maps. no problem as far as our speed sensors go down. top of your screen all of the way down into the maze on the left side of your screen and with the north bay toward the golden gate bridge which we showed you with a very clear lens. the south bay, no problems. overnight road crews and patches 280 and 85. connector should be reopening. that's about it, guys. just a slight build coming into livermore out of the altamont pass. >> maybe it was magic, maybe it was mother nature that made that shot so crystal clear this

morning. christina, though, if you're out. you want to do a little sightseeing. >> we get to sightsee every day just as we go to work. especially 280. what a beautiful drive. it's so nice to live here in the bay area. temperatures right now mostly in the 50s. we got a gorgeous day coming your way. 75 in the tri-valley. 66 degrees on the way to san francisco. some more beautiful weather for today. then take advantage of today's dry weather because tomorrow we're calling it a bhd, a bad hair day, as this monsoonal moisture creeps up from the south. and that is going to mean muggy conditions for us. but here's the deal. it's a really interesting weather system because we're still expecting snow in lake tahoe. i stopped that clock for you at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow evening actually tracking this late spring storm system. now, we've got another chance for showers as we head through next week as well. even though our rainy season climb logically is coming to a close, we're still going to see that unusual weather persist for

next week, another shot of showers on the way. as we head through the mid section of next week. but for this week what you need to know, 71 degrees for your wednesday. staying steady temperaturewise even with the showers rolling through tomorrow. could see thunderstorms as well. we're going to talk about that coming up. mother's day weekend looks perfect. room temperature readings in the south bay. back to you. >> that sounds great. >> get those cards and cookies ready for mom. >> shopping at the mall, but you better watch out. this one is an attacker on the loose at a new york mall. he's got a beak and wings. >> take a look at this video. you can see the pigeon attacking people inside of a building in westchester county. that's why i left. all those killer pigeons out there. that's in new york, suburb north of the city. in one instance the bit descends on a woman who swats it away with her purse. get that thing they way from me. the woman tries to walk away but once her back is turned the bird strikes again. no the word what got stuck up

his craw. >> maybe he's protecting a nest or something. >> could be. maybe they're having food in some part of their purse or their pockets and they're not aware of that. a worm, they've got worps in their pockets. coming up, back in the head lips. serial stowaway hartman busted again. 16,000 college students left in limbo may finally get some answers later today. keeping tabs on your morning commute this morning. this time taking you across the bay to the east bay this morning overlooking oakland.

just in to our newsroom. the pilot who crashed a plane into the french alps may have practiced bringing that plane down. and she's been busted at sjc and lax. where the woman know as the serial stowaway is now in trouble this morning. and get ready for more mild weather today. the big change is going to bring your pollen levels.

those are creeping up, peaking for todayed. and more of a change coming your way. unsettled weather including thunderstorms. details in moments. i'm looking at the nimitz freeway. i have woord of an issue for a flow of the nimitz and i'm worried it's going to get off the chain. >> we're taking live looks from across the bay area this morning. great vantage point from at&t park looking across the embarcadero. it's wednesday, may 6th. this is "today in the bay." a very good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon p. >> i'm sam brock. we're learning chilling details about the pilot of the germanwings flight. investigators he practiced the crash into the french alps on a previous flight. >> "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is in studio. kris, we're expected to learn more from france's crash investigation agency later y.