we'll have a look at that in your forecast coming up. smooth run in on the freeway. looking at the truck scales in fremont. we'll get a better look at your other east bay, a slower drive, coming up. live look outside. that of course downtown san jose. barely a mouse is stirring. it is thursday, may 28th. you are watching "today in the bay." from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." a very good thursday morning. thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. 5:00 right now. champions of the west, the warriors waking up winners this morning. after defeating the houston rockets last night at the or rack ail rena. look at the headline out of the "san francisco chronicle," really says it all. this trip to the finals 40 years in the making. they last won it all in 1975. >> it's easy to lift that thing

when you've got so many hands on it. hoisting the western conference trophy above their heads after the big win. emotional night for many of them. the warriors are now just four wins away from the nba title. one week from today it all gets under way. game one of the warriors cavaliers nba championship. >> they're going to need that time to rest. series starting at oracle arena. stephanie chuang is live. steph, is the place still shaking from last night's celebration? >> reporter: sam and laura, in a way. clean-up crews are taking a break but they've been vacuuming and sweeping all night long. they expect to be here at 8:30. this was a major celebration rocked the oracle last night.

m getting the western conference as champion, first time heading to the nba finals since 1975. steph curry rebounding from the head injure in the game four loss, shoot 4:4% from the field but led with 26 points. in the end golden gate delivering what its dedicated fans have wanted, have waited a very long time. >> thompson got hit in the head. thompson is shaken up. >> reporter: so it's back at oracle for game one of the finafinal s against lebron james and cleveland cavaliers. tickets go on presail tomorrow morning at 9:00 for season ticket holders, then to insiders and finally at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon everyone else gets a shot. a lot to be excited about.

we'll hear from curry, the league mvp coming up in 30 minutes. live at oracle, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> it's quiet now. certainly all smiles and giggles from everyone's favorite warriors fans. 2-year-old daddy signature move, tapping her chest, pointing to the sky there. also got to try on that brand new finals hat. not bad at all. loves her dad. when it comes to press conferences riley knows how to make an entrance. look under the curtain. stealing the show. almost bringing the curtains down, in fact, as dad taechted to answer some questions from the media. she's 2. >> you know what she is? she's a splash sister. as for the other splash brother, warriors fans are concerned about clay thompson's health this morning. he will now have to pass a series of concussion tests before being cleared to play in the nba finals. they got some time. it's not until next thursday. in the fourth quarter though thompson taking a knee to the temple. he went to the locker room to get stitched. he ended up passing a concussion

test during the game but he later developed concussion like symptoms. thompson will have a week to recover before the finals. games one and two in oakland next thursday and sunday. hopefully that's enough time for them to come back to full. strength. games three and four are in cleveland. our warriors coverage continues online at nbcbayarea.com where you can find photo galleries and updates. you can download our free nba bay area app. more legal troubles for former 49er ray mcdonald, arrested for the second time this week. >> "today in the bay's" rob redell live at san jose's main jail. mcdonald's attorney says it's all a big misunderstanding. >> laura and sam, deputies arrested ray mcdonald yesterday for allegedly violating a restraining order. mcdonald's lawyer says his client was never served. this is what mcdonald had to say to us when he was released from the county jail last night. >> warriors win today?

>> why did you end up back here today? >> japanese arrested mcdonald on monday for assaulting a woman with a baby in her arms at an 579 he owns and yesterday for showing up at the apartment in violation of the restraining order a judge issued after monday's arrest. mcdonald's lawyer tells us the only reason he went back topt apartment was to let his investigator to look at a possible broken door that the investigator did confronted the woman was away in santa cruz at the time and mcdonald immediately left after police called him to let him know she had returned and seen his car at the apartment complex. mcdonald was arrested later in the day at a nearby togo sandwich shop. he posted bail last night and is out. the 49ers caught mcdonald for what they called, quote, a pattern of poor decision making. chicago bears cut him earlier this week after his arrest on monday. reporting live here in san jose,

bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, thank you very much. a suspect with a long rap sheet is behind bars after going on a wild crime spree taking hostages and eventually surrendering. today we could learn his identity. looking at police rushing in. here you go. guns drawn. as a man surrenders. all of it starting yesterday morning. hold on for the video. police say 35-year-old sus stole a car in walnut creek and carjacked a man in a business and led police on a long chase. officers eventually using spike strips to stop him in antioch and then he ran to a nearby gas station and took two hostages but not before he terrified a few witnesses along the way. after that ordeal played out hostage negotiators convinced the suspect to surrender. officers have yet to release his name because they say the investigation is on going. all right. after three years, a domestic violence case rocks san

francisco -- no. >> we are going to go to fifa. we're going to talk about fifa. new fallout of course this morning rocked by a massive bribery scandal. fifa's president canceled another appearance at the conference in switzerland. also fisa threatened to cut ties if steps are not made to eliminate corruption. 14 kek executives face charges in a u.s.-led corporation probe dating back decades. blader is not among those charges. he faces reelection tomorrow. a stunning admission by the u.s. military of a doiangerous mistake involving anthrax. >> the pentagon is saying instead of sending inactive samples somehow live anthrax went to nine states and overseas. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is joining was the very latest. how does this mistake happen? >> we can tell you this morning the commander of the military site that shipped out the live anthrax says there is no danger to the public but believing that requires trust which is in short

supply this morning. california is one of nine states that got some of that live anthrax virus which was supposed to be inactive. here's how it happened, sam. the lab that sent out the samples in utah developed the strain more than a year ago. then radiated it to make it inactive and safe for research. but then last week a commercial lab in maryland discovered it was still live. now the fear is that all of those samples sent out in the last year from that same batch may also be live because, again, they come from the same batch. and that means labs in states, military and commercial, plus south korea, may have live virus. lab workers who worked with live virus have to be completely enclosed in protective gear with the inactive virus they just have to wear a simple face mask like your doctor or dentist might wear. the concern of infection for them is very real as is concern of infection by someone in transport. those samples, because they were inactive, were supposed to be inactive, were shipped via fedex

as ordinary packages. but the commander in charge says still there is no need to worry about that at this point. >> there's almost no known risk to the general public and there's no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection at the potentially exposed lab workers in the states. >> so why, you ask, is the military shipping anthrax in the first place? it's where they develop ways to defend against biological and chemical weapons. in order to do that they have to have a strain of the virus. now, the centers for disease control and prevention are rounding up all of those samples. they are going to take them back to central location for further testing. but no one is sick at this point. and again, that commander says that there is little risk to the public. however, there was not supposed to be live anthrax in the mail, either. >> exactly. >> mistake they will probably not be repeating again. thank you, kris. let's look at what the weather has to hold for us in store today, rob.

cloudy start per usual. >> yes, accustomed to seeing the low clouds but with high pressure strength thenned, low clouds shoved closer to sea level this morning. as you travel over highway 17 or around san francisco you're going to see the low clouds. out at oracle arena, 53 with overcast skies. final stop, san jose. 55 degrees right now. and around 9:00 this morning what's left of the low clouds, break up inland. they will stay around the coast. except sunshine. down around santa cruz, highs climbing into the low 70 was partly cloudy skies around the bay area. 74 today in san jose. los galos getting closer to 80. upper 50s to low 60s around san francisco. 70s around the north bay. close to 73 in 'stros. santa ro. warmup today in the tri-valley. numbers in the low to mid 80s as we move into the weekend as the warmup continues around the tri-valley. mike? >> rob, looking over here toward the bay bridge. low clouds right above the deck. so that will be the only issue

here as well as the golden gate bridge. other than that i have no real warnings for you other than be prepared for a light drive around the bay. let's zoom out and show you the north bay over here. san rafael in toward the golden gate bridge and the east bay, no problems. a little slowing out of the altamont. typical for 580. that's it, guys. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. swipe left for stds. alarming new study shows a dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases and hook-up apps could be to blame. scott mcgrew, new records on the nasdaq. >> yeah, all-time highs, sam. plus, a new problem for hillary clinton and her e-mails. all ahead in business and technology.

have an apple phone? apple says it's working on a fix to a tech message that has the power to crash your iphone. the message is made up of two english words followed by arabic and japanese characters. if someone sends it to you through imessage it will shut down your device. right now the glitch seems to be more of a nuisance than anything else. if you get the infected message send a tech or photo to the person who sent it to you and then erase the conversation. >> maybe some of that got lost in translation. not here though. a silicon valley judge is xwif giving the go ahead for e-mail users to yahoo! >> that's right, yahoo! minds e-mail, looking to key words and serves the yahoo! users ads base odd the words.

for instance, if i sent you an e-mail saying, hey, we could go camping you might see ads on your yahoo! page for rei. federal judge who has been involved in all kinds of high tech cases has weighed in on this one, too. she's allowing a class action suit to go forward over claims users didn't know this was happening and did not agree. especially for e-mail users who are sending to e-mail yahoo! addresses and couldn't possibly have known. if you are saying to yourself right now, didn't g-mail do the same thing? it does do the same thing. and judge co thought about that one, too, but did not rule against google. why? i will be honest. i'm a little fuzzy on her reasoning. i'll try to figure it out. speaking of e-mails, a different judge has ruled another cache of hillary clinton's e-mails must be released by the end of the next month. and at the end of the month after that and the month after that and so on until all 30,000 are released. the timetable pretty much ensures clinton's e-mails are

going to stay in the news for a very, very long time. rand paul knows an opportunity when he sees one. his campaign is offering the hillary hard drive for $99. one hup% erased clean, it says. business news theyen understand noed they would pay $37 billion to bride broadcom. wall street loves, ma s m and a. let's check in with landon dowdy at cnbc world headquarters. good morning. >> good morning. there could be red arrows. the nasdaq hitting a new record close thanks to reports of a major merger deal brewing in the chip sector. look for unemployment and sending home sales. rising 121 points to 18163. the nasdaq up 74 to 5107. >> thanks. google starts yearly developers conference today in san francisco. they call it google io. io means input/output. kicks off with key note at 9:30.

expect improvements to google wallet because apple pay is eating google wallet for lunch. >> a lot of people using it. >> yes. >> you just said eating lunch, eggs, got anything, bacon? i'm hungry right now. i'm soerry. >> i'll go get you some. >> thank you very much. are you seeking more silence at super time? the government may soon be able to help out. they just announced a new effort to crack down on unwanted robo calls. automated calls from telemarketers and scammers that often ignore the do not call list even if you put yourself on the do not call lists. the ones that come during dinner time. next month the fcc will present a new proposal miking it easier or companies to block robo calls and spam text messages. dramatic increase in std rates could be in thanks to the rising popularity of hook-up apps. a study by the rhode island state department reveals cases of syphilis increased by 79% between 2013 and 2014.

gonorrhea was up 30%. hiv by almost 33%. the department believes the report is reflective of a national trend. they say casual encounters prompted by dating apps like tender and grinder could be partially to blame. all right. no mystery here a stretch of southern california beach remains closed after some oddballs of goo washing ashore. investigatoring looking at the blobs found dotting manhattan beach. they appear to be balls of tar or oil. but there's no word yet on whether the substance is connected to last week's massive oil spill near santa barbara which is roughly 100 miles away. authorities say it could be naturally occurring. serious injuries this morning after a large tornado hit the gas drilling rig in the texas panhandle. the tornado touched down last night in the town of canadian injuring three people. severe storms have battered texas all week killing at least 15 people including 6 in

houston. that number is expected to go up with a dozen people still missing and new rounds of thunderstorms on the way. folks really need a break. >> no doubt, emergency in that state not just with the tornadoes and storms, the flooding, too, rob. his tor flooding, too, rob. his toic levels. are there any sort of break? >> amazing. parts of texas, the drought used to be as severe as california. in the next no thonts the drought is over for parts of texas from all of that rain. it takes the epic flooding episodes. this time of year, severe weather and more chances of tornadoes and flooding rains again p areas in yellow, knot and west of dallas, line of pretty intense thunderstorms dropping in from north to south approaching the dallas/ft. worth metroplex. more intense weather there. here, the only thing intense is how thick the fog is in a few spots along the coast. overcast in san francisco, north bay, into the south bay, too. temperatures all within about 52 to 55 degrees for you this morning as we show you san francisco right now.

53 degrees. misty skies again this morning. oracle arena looking nice. 53 right now and mid 50 nasdaq san jose. overcast skies. breaking out to the sunshine. probably between about 9:00 and 10:00 this morning. that marine layer pattern continues but the marine layer has been compressed down for about 2500 feet yesterday to closer to about 1200 feet today. it's compressed almost by 50% this morning. the net result of that hilltop location today really experiencing the warm-up. not so much around the peninsula or coast, but as you get over to saratoga and los galos, the temperatures are climbing up. 77 today in morgan hill. san francisco, temperatures close to 60 today with the giants taking on the braves. coming up at 7:15 today. game on nbc bay area tomorrow. temperatures in the 50s thereafter 7:00. now for the north bay, highs in the low to mid 70s. 80s around livermore and pl pleasanton and oakland. yankees coming to town. temperatures similar to at&t park at the coliseum numbers in

the 50s there as the game goes on. the temperature trend as we head into the weekend. south bay and peninsula temperatures, upper 70s for saturday. increasing clouds on sunday. for the north bay, tri-valley, you will see the weekend starts off warm but those numbers in the 80s, cooling as we head towards sunday as there is that chance still a slight chance of seeing a few showers approaching the north coast as we head into the weekend. that's the reason why temperatures will cool down. if that extra cloud cover as we approach sunday. mike? >> looking over here to some of that where you're talking about the weather. low clouds hovering around. right at the top of the tower. this is the bay bridge, view from emeryville. see the lights below it. smooth drive westbound as we pick up volume out of oakland and in towards san francisco. be prepared for fog across the span from time to time. look at your map though. this is not presenting a problem as far as the speeds go. we will look at your maps and the speed sensors and see a nice easy drive. fender bender in the north bay. south of that 580 off-ramp from 101 southbound. no major problems.

i'll track that for you though. zoom out and show you the rest of the bay. very subtle. same thing for highway 4. slowing in antioch. the south bay on the maps, easy drive. zoom in toward the san mateo bridge. we had eastbound showing slowing. just a tiny bit. show you that live look from foster city camera. look out there and see the foster city camera shows you the road crews still going on just at the foster city side as they make their way over the high rise. start opening the lanes as you're traveling eastbound. westbound is your commute. there's going to be slowing in that direction as it builds. back to you. >> mike, you have a challenge every day of having to read traffic patterns. this is maybe even a more difficult spelling challenge. it comes down to this for some of america's top young spellers. the scripps national spelling bee begins with 285 boys and girls. 214 made it out of the preliminary rounds into today's semifinals. and tonight it is the championship rounds. unf unfortunately our two bay area students did not advance after

taking the written spelling vocabulary tests. one from cupertino and one from danville. still remarkable kids. >> sure, they made it far. will stroud of them. look at that. vermont woman had to spent the night in the hospital after she was bitten by the most venomous spider on the continent. she wasn't working in the yard. even cleaning out her garage. very unlikely place she encountered a deadly black widow. 

b live look outside. san rafael s curve and things are ticking right along to start off your thursday morning. you know what, let's spook you for a second. this woman reached into of bag of grapes and got attacked by one of the most venomous spiders on the continent. vermont woman spending the night in a hospital. it has to be monitored now for months after getting bitten by a

black widow. her family says as she reached into a bag of grapes expecting something sweet a spider crawled up her arm and bit her. it came from a local vermont grocery store. the store is investigatinvestig. the spider is reported to be 15 times stronger than rattlesnake's venom. crews will try to make it tougher for intruders to get into the white house. contractors will spend the day preparing to add sharp metal points to the black iron fence surrounding the white house. is we is correct service is rearranging booths and vehicle checkpoints adding steel plate barriers that can be raised and lowered. there have been numerous breaches over the past few years. here's your chance to get a unique view of the big apple. the observatory, the new world trade center officially opens tomorrow. but you can get a free preview today. the observation deck takes up the top three floors giving visitors a view of new york city

for more than 1200 feet up. tickets for adults start at $32. ticket to get there, a little bit more. new use for a periscope out there, laura. 5:26. two times in just three days. former 49er ray mcdonald arrested again. this time for violating a restraining order. but that is not what he wanted to talk to us about when he got released from jail.

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glorious in gold. the warriors taking the next step toward an nba championship with only one more team standing in their way. and back in handcuffs. former 49er ray mcdonald arrested for the second time in three days. and gray skies over san francisco right now with some misty skies. temperatures slowly climb. 70s today. 80s likely in spots tomorrow. look at that in the forecast coming up. and i'm assuming it's gray. it's a little low clouds here as well over the bay bridge. we're watching that in effect on your commute as well as the build of the commute itself.

a live look outside this morning. there are those clouds popping up again. covering up some of the buildings in downtown san francisco. it's thursday, may 28th. you're watching "today in the bay." >> from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> a good thursday morning. thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. here we go. champions of the west. warriors waking up winners this morning after defeating the houston rockets last night at the oracle arena. headline of the "san francisco chronicle" says it all. this trip to the finals is 40 years in the making. the last one in 1975. >> come on, fellas! come on, fellas! >> come on, fellas, they did it. last night the players hoisting the western conference trophy above their heads after the big win. just practicing hopefully for a larger trophy. it was an emotional night for them, too.

four wins away from the nba title. >> i love foirt fans, too. one week from today it all gets under way. game one of the warriors/cavaliers nba championship. >> showdown with the king, lebron james. that series starts at home at oracle arena. "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang is live from inside the arena this morning. steph, is that place still shaking from last night's celebration? >> reporter: you know, it's oddly so quiet here, obviously. clean-up crews are taking a break. they've been sweeping and vacuuming all night long. enough excitement especially from the fans of the rick berry era. that was the 1975 nba finals when the warriors last won. and now the team clinching of course the western conference just last night. the team holding up the trophy the first time for the warriors again in 40 years. the game one low scoring with a lot of fouls but steph curry

still rebounding from his head injury in game four shot 33% from the field. the league mvp says the team's very excited but there's still a lot more work to do against the cleveland cavaliers. >> kind of take it for what it is because you have four pore wins and you don't want to get too ahead of yourself. so we're going to appreciate what we've done because we've got to be proud of winning a western conference. that was tough all year long. and we're excited about the next step. >> so all the fans back at oracle next thursday night at 6:00 for game one of the finals against the cavs and four-time league mvp lebron james. tickets go on presail starting tomorrow morning at 9:00 for season ticket holder ', then to insiders and then emp else gets their shot at tickets at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. games one and two will be here at oracle arena. almost 20,000 fans will be back here to show the cavs why this place is called roar-acle. live at oracle arena, stephanie

chuang, "today in the bay." >> certainly all smis and giggles from everyone's favorite warriors fan, riley curry. 2-year-old, daddy signature move, tapping her chest, pointing to the sky. waving to the crowd as the dad was outfitted with that brand new finals hat. when it comes to the press conferences, she knows how to make an entrance. she's under the curtain stealing the show again. almost bringing the curtains down as dad attempted to answer some questions from the media. >> she's taking some of the heat away from dad but that was definitely in good spirits last night. clay thompson took a hit though. the other splash brother here concern from fans about clay thomps thompson's health. he will have to pass a series of concussion tests before being cleared to play in the nba finals. during the fourth quarter thompson took a knee to the temp. had to go to the locker room to get stitches. thompson did pass a concussion test during the game but he later developed concussion like

sympt symptoms. luckily he's going to have a full week to recover before the finals. games one and two will be hosted at home in oakland. next thursday and sunday. games three and four are in cleveland. >> our warriors coverage continues online at nbcbayarea.com where you can find photo galleries and around the clock updates from the nba finals. you can also download our free nbc bay area app. now more legal troubles for former 49er ray mcdonald. arrested for the second time this week for violating a restraining order. >> "today in the bay's" bob redell is live in san jose's main jail this morning. bob, his attorney says it's all just a big misunderstanding. >> ray mcdonald's attorney tells i his client wasn't even aware of this retraining order to stay away from a woman who lives in an't that dk monday nald owns bep asked him about this last night as he left the main county jail here in san jose. >> were you at the apartment today? >> man, why don't you y'all go

home or something? >> mcdonald clearly not interested in addressing the issue. this was his second time in jail this week. on monday deputies arrested him for allegedly assaulting a woman who had a baby in her arms at that time. that's when a judge issued a restraining order against mcdonald. mcdonald's attorney said his client did return to the apartment yesterday to let his investigator in to inspect a possible broken door. the investigator did reportedly make sure the woman was away at the time and mcdonald's lawyer says the client left after police alert i'd him she did return and saw his car out front. deputies arrested mcdonald later at a sandwich shop. >> he had came in looking a little bit distraught, a little bit angry, upset. >> reporter: san francisco 49ers cut mcdonald for what they called a, quote, pattern of poor decision making. the chicago bears cut him earlier this week after his arrest on monday. reporting live here at san jose,

bob redell, "today in the bay." >> all right. one more we'll continue to follow. 5:35. three years after domestic violence case rocked the city hall the scandal involving sheriff ross mirkarimi is resurfacing coming from his wife. lopez, a starring in a spanish language play she says tells her side of the story. called "what's the scandal." mirkarimi was accused of grabbing lopez hard enough to cause a bruise. he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment. lopez says, the couple stronger than ever. we're banking on the strength of more bay area weather here, especially as we get closer to the weekend. how are we feeling going into friday, saturday, sunday? >> valleys will start to see a warmup today. right now the bright screen b behind me, low clouds and fog around san francisco. 53 degrees. also 53 in oakland at oracle right now. you had misty skies nearby around the oakland airport and

san jose, 55 degrees all locationing at the low clouds except if you're atop mt. hamilton, down on the low clouds this morning. yesterday at this time, a lot of heels were covered in the clouds. marine layer is squished down closer to 1,000 feet thick this morning. as that compression continues these hilltop locations during the day today will have a chance of running into the upper 70s and low 80s. dry conditions and breezy at times for the afternoon. the other component for the warmup will be fire danger increasing. similar hilltops as we head into the weekend. meantime, low clouds and fog continue around san francisco and coast again today. we'll see cool temperatures closer to san francisco. highs near 60. low to mid 70s around san jose. but probably the biggest warmup we'll see today at the bottom of the screen. tri-valley climbing into the low 80s around pleasanton and sunol. north bay and the warming trend will continue and very likely peak on saturday. more clouds and cooling into sunday. san francisco staying in the mid

60s. north bay temperatures close to 80. slight chance of sunday showers and you can see there for the tri-valley temperatures in the 80s on saturday. cooling on sunday. the slight chance for north bay showers courtesy of a system that's going to tasz high clouds away to start the weekend. on sunday even mow most of the action is to the north there's that chance north of san francisco we will see a few showers and a drop in the temperatures, too. once again, warming up for the start of the weekend and cooling down approaching the start of next week. mike? >> looking over here toward the bay bridge, the tower. what we can see of the tower. low clouds rob has been talking about. lower than yesterday. but speeds are just fine across the bridge. the backup at the toll plaza itself cash lanes but fast track moves smoothly. we should see the metering lights coming on soon over here. as you see the approach on our map, smooth drive for the maze and east shore freeway. the north bay, northbound 101 that got the update. north 101 just around sir francis drake. crash counter commute. no real slowing there. southbound just fine in toward the city. watch for low clouds around the

golden gate bridge. we're going to show you the maze and approach off 24 at speed. south bay, easy drive for san jose, silicon valley across the dumbarton bridge and east bay, smooth flow. traffic coming in westbound starting to build a bit over at the dublin interchange. should see the slowing through hayward and down toward union city. should be a predictable pattern. we'll track it. so far no instances or issues for the peninsula. we'll send it right back to you. >> thanks so much, mike. anthrax mistakenly sent to numerous labs across the county. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is looking into how something like this could even happen. plus, with unh un,000 tax returns stolen and it may just be the beginning. >> worries we could see more of this sophisticated crime. when we return with 15 minutes of nonstop news, traffic, and weather after the break.

rchltsz we are 529 days away from voting for the next president. the bay area's carly fiorina is making a questionable move. >> tracie potts is live in washington with the latest on decision 2016. good morning, tracy. >> good morning, sam and laura. fiorina showed up out side a hillary clinton campaign event in a very important state as we start to track this race, still 529 days away but there's a lot of campaigning happening. >> if you're hillary clinton and you lost south carolina last time, here's the strategy. hit the local bakery and slam

republicans on the economy. >> are we going to hand over our country once again to the people and policies that crashed our economy before? >> if you're carly fiorina polling at 1%, a different strategy. show up out side clinton's speech and hit her weak points. foreign donations, e-mail, and benghazi. >> how can we trust mrs. clinton? fiorina's got company, rick santorum just announced he's joining the crowded field of republican candidates. he also targeted clinton. >> working families don't need another president tied to big government or big money. >> reporter: in chicago rand paul took a totally different approach going after republicans' weak spot, the black vote. >> when i hear people say black laws matter, i think of freddie gray. we've got some kind of thing going on in our country that we need to come to grips with.

>> vermont senator bernie sanders also jumped in the race this week. but it's interesting when you take a look at it because whether it's the democrats or the republicans, it looks like the strategy on both sides seem to be target hillary clinton. >> as the bull's-eye on her. thank you very much, tracie potts, live from washington, d.c. a stunning admission right now by the u.s. military. a very dangerous mistake here involving anthrax. >> that so many people should be concerned about. the pentagon says instead of sending inactive samples somehow live anthrax went into labs in as many as nine states and overseas. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez joins us with the very latest. >> it was shipped same way you and i might ship a present for our nephew or something. just this morning the commander of the military site that shipped that live anthrax says there's no danger to the public but believe that requires trust, which is clearly in short supply this morning. california's one of nine states that got some of that live

anthrax virus, the lab that sent the samples out developed a strain more than a year ago, then radiated it to make it inactive. then last week a commercial lab in maryland discovered it was still live. now the fear is that all of the samples sent out in last year may also be live because they all came from the same batch. that means labs in states, military and commercial, plus south korea, may all have live virus. lab workers who worked with live virus may have been completely -- must be completely enclosed in protective gear but with the inactive virus, just aware a face mask. so they could have been at risk. the concern for infection is real for them as is the concern for infection by anyone who was in transport. those samples were shipped via fedex as ordinary packages. the commander in charge says there is no need to worry about that at this point. >> there's also no known risk to the general public and there's

no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection at the potentially exposed lab workers in the states. >> so why is the u.s. military shipping anthrax in the first place, you might wonder? dougway proving ground is where the u.s. military develops ways to defend against go biological and chemical weapons in order to do that they have to have a strain of the virus to work with. now the centers for disease control and prevention are rounding up the samples involved in this incident. they will be transferred to cdc laboratories for further testing but the positive news is that no one appears to be showing symptoms neither here nor in south korea. >> no doubt have to keep an eye on that. it's 5:46. arrest in connection to a massive too irin downtown l.a. you may remember the flames from december. the fire destroyed a seven-story complex under construction yesterday. officials arrested a 56-year-old man for arson. he could face life in prison.

all right. pretty crazy flames there. 5:46. getting ready to start out your workday. you know what? >> what? >> work with me here. more clouds again. >> it's almost like a carbon copy of the start. >> it is. but if you look closely the clouds are lower than the nomrml low clouds. >> that's what rob does. >> very subtle changes in the forecast this morning. lowering of the low clouds means high pressure is starting to build into the bay area. hilltop locations starting to warm up later on this afternoon. at oakland, oracle arena, 53 degrees. overcast skies. san francisco can't see all that much beyond the top of the building where our city camera there is now 53 degrees in san francisco. san jose, overcast sky, mid 50s right now. looking down on the low clouds, marine layer which at one point was 3,000 feet thick. continues to get squished down to 1,000 feet. when that happens, even if the sea breeze, temperatures inland will climb about five to eight degrees warmer than yesterday. right now sunol there on the

border of where the low clouds set up this morning. right there on the outer fringe of where that marine layer is set up this morning. temperatures in the afternoon, highs today. 70 toss near 80 by the tri-valley. southerly winds moving into the north bay probably limiting the warming there for areas north of the golden gate. so for san jose we're looking at highs today in the low to mid 70s. san francisco, low 60s for the afternoon. notice napa over towards santa rosa, highs in the low 70s. here you go. for sunol, pleasanton, close to 80 degrees. you will see the temperatures here in the weekend, the warmest day will be on saturday for the south bay. san francisco. only mid 60s. not much of a warmup out towards the coast. the north bay climbing close to 80. tri-valley, 83 degrees. areas north of san francisco, there's still that slight chance of showers on sunday. a cooling trend to wrap up the weekend. mike? looking over to the san mateo bridge, foster city side. eastbound lanes. we still have road work going on. you see the flashing lights as

you leave the land. see more heading over the high rise. look at your map. the only issue going on there. no problems. 92. 84. dumbarton bridge bridge. staying on that same latitude. the build coming in on the altamont pass. no drama on the dublin interchange. down through sunol. looking a the approach to the bay bridge. metering lights are on but the maze east shore freeway close to the speed limit. great flow of traffic. low clouds of ver. south bay, northbound 101 shows an easy drive as well. look at san jose, having that first burst that kicks in. kick in once again at 6:30. back to you. >> thank you very much. maryland family filing a $10 million lawsuit after their 9-year-old daughter was beat on a school bus. there was video of this month's incident. the victim's parents say she's not returned to school since. her mother says the bullying was relebtless and the administration did nothing to stop it. >> it should have been taken care of the first time it happened so it wouldn't have gotten to this point. >> afraid that they're going to

bully and tease me again. >> the lawsuit was filed against the county, the school system, and the bus driver. that driver is now on leave. the head of the immigration court system calling on congress to fix a system he says is broken. for the first time the director of the nation's u.s. immigration court system sat down for an interview on television. he agreed to talk with our senior investigative reporter steven stock. he joins us with what the director says. >> director agrees that the current u.s. immigration court system is broken. but he says after years of budget neglect dating back for several administration, finally something is being down address these problems. now, director osu in,a sat down with me at his office in suburbs of washington, d.c. recently. he is head of the executive office for immigration review, a division of the u.s. justice department, a department that oversees and runs the nation's 58 u.s. immigration courts.

all over the country, including the one here in san francisco. right now though or just under half million undocumented immigrants backlogged in this system waiting on their day in court. some courts are now setting their calendars for the year 2019. the backlog is that great. director osuna says that's unacceptable and that it doesn't serve anyone justice with such a delay. he says his office has now hired 65 new judges and has budgeted to hire 55 more new judges, plus staff in the upcoming year. even so, director osuna says this broken immigration system won't truly be fixed until congress steps in and votes on immigration reform. he credits the current obama administration with pushing for that reform. now, if you want to see all of our stories on this interview or read more of our coverage on this immigration crisis in america, just go to our website, nbcbayarea.com. i back to you guys.

>> thank you, stephen. if you have a tip, give us a call, 888-996-tips. or send us an e-mail to theunit@nbcbayarea.com. something to investigate here as we reported identity thieves have stolen as many as 100,000 irs returns. not through hacking but simply by pretending they were legitimate taxpayers. >> scott mcgrew, the thiefs knew so much makes people worry they could track otherwise. >> appear, they got their hands on a lot of data about americans. as you correctly point out, identity theft. those data was probably obtained through earlier hacks. the got tbottom line is a group thieves knows a lot about a lot of people so it's reasonable to assume this is not going to stoopt istop at irs returns. we could see whole new problems, credit cards, buying cars pretending they're you. this is the first, not the last we've seen of it. it bears repeating, the irs really didn't do anything wrong. the thieves were able to find out enough information about

individual taxpayer, social numbers, birth dates, that kind of thing to convince the irs they were the taxpayer. it's like doing your child's taxes. you know all the details about him or her so you can fill out the form. the irs says, yeah, that looks right and they process the return. the nasdaq set a new record thursday. super creepy giant babies at the nyse close yesterday. avago will buy broad come in a $37 billion deal. weekly jobless claims are higher than we expected this morning. the drone maker dji team up with palo alto partners to create a drone fund. money set aside to invest in other drone makers, camera makers, drone technology, that kind of thing. dji was a company started in a come roorm. it's worth north of $8 billion. sam and laura, you're going to hear a lot about drksz ji in th future. it is when i started talking about google.

remember that company goggle, doingle, it will be the same with dji. household world. >> i remember the first time i searched something on google. >> what did you search for? >> i don't remember what it was. >> don't worry. they have records of it. we can look it up. >> it was innocent, i'm sure. here's a look right now at the top stories we're working on for 6:00. a major south bay company forced to pay up for something found in the north bay. pollution problem that inspectors say went on for years. 49ers think deeper into legal trouble. his response late last night to a second arrest in three days. and it's party time for the warriors. what warriors fans are saying about the next step in their championship run 40 years in the making. 5:54. happening today in san jose, major announcement from a major league soccer team in the earthquakes of avaya stadium. so far major league soccer won't say anything. speculation avaya stadium may get a future all-star game or

international friendly. san jose mayor will be there. the announcement will take place at 11:00 a.m. just a few hours this san jose sharks will reveal their next new head coach. the men in teal are going to hire peter deboer, led the new jersey devils to the stanley cub finals in 2012. he will replace todd mcclellan. they fired him after the team missed the playoffs for the first time since 2003. creeping closer to the weekend. it's already thursday morning. want to check the forecast, rob. >> the forecast shows low clouds. san francisco, start off the morning, 53. misty skies over downtown. overcast in san jose. we're beginning to see that warmup. showing up for maces like san jose. around the south bay today, downtown san jose. 74 degrees. 76 to almost 80 down towards saratoga. san francisco though largely immune from the warmup. 61 today. 73 in the north bay. by tomorrow in the weekend, mike, we could be talking about low 80s around the tri-valley.

>> at least the weekend and that's good enough. we'll watch that forecast. over here, the peninsula, we got reports of a stalled vehicle north 101 at university. i don't see the problem. i don't see any slowing. we'll continue to watch that. look on our maps. no slowing here either. dumbarton bridge getting over there is just fine. north 101 slows a bit through san jose. 87 on the sunday 101 right near the connector. signal reportedly having problems. just be careful out there. folks are flying through the area. chp will check that out. san jose pd. bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights on. standard build. no drama for the maze. back to you. it all comes down to this for come of america's top young spellers. the scripps national spelling bee began with 285 boys and girls. 214 made it to the fell any finals. tonight it's the championship round. two of our bay area students didn't advance after taking the written spelling vocabulary tests.

cupertino and danville are still considered very smart in our books. >> geniuses. some of us still get chills thinking about the 50th grade spelling bee. problems to them. the headline says it all. "40 years in the making." the warriors are heading to their first nba final since 1975 but it wasn't all smiles. one of the team's best players going down with a concussion and he could be forced to watch from the sidelines.

starting off with low clouds and misty clouds around san francisco. low clouds. climbing closer to 80 degrees. changes in your microclimate

forecast coming up. changes in your commute. fremont, gray skies. calm right now but we'll talk about that bay bridge toll what sa and the approach. right here and it not going to be easy. it's going to be a dogfight. i think we're excited about the change. >> bring on the king and the cavaliers. the warriors are four wins away from the first nba tight until decades. something some fans have been waiting for a lifetime the witness. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. headline, headlines read all about it. it says it all. this morning front page of the "san francisco chronicle," 40 years in the making as in it's been 40 years since the warriors' last trip to the finals if the only thing now standing in the dubs way is a little basketball player you might have heard of by the name of lebron james. he is tall and muscular and intimidating. >> i don't know. we're pretty mighty.