the news starts now. good afternoon, i )m terry mcsweeny. and i )m vicky nguyen. the news starts right now. good afternoon everyone i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm vicky nguyen. we begin with missing loved ones here in the bay area. >> nbc bay area's ross is in matteo with the story. >> totally disappeared off the face of the earth. >> reporter: monica has been searching for her brother since january of 1983. that's when then 19-year-old san francisco college student went home heading the to a doctor's appointment and vanished. >> if i hired a private detective about 13 years ago and he couldn't come up with anything. >> reporter: when she heard about san matteo county missing

person's day she jumped the chance to try again. the county core ner says bliss is not alone. there are hundreds of cases that need closure. >> there are hundreds cases on file. in my office we have john does, some have dna, some don't. monica sbaubing her cheek for her dna analysis that will will be run through data. using dna they were able to identify christine who is remains were found in pacifica in 2006. monica bliss is hoping it's her turn to get ans. >> i need closure, all this hurt that i carry around and sadness.

a developing story we're following in sonoma county, police are searching for a teenager suspect linked to a dead deadly stabbing. this is a photo of anthony ar buck. he is a -- just after noon today. suspect and the victim reportedly got into some kind of fight at a nearby house party. they said the suspect fled in a marine bmw after that stabbing and still on the loose. reported to be armed and deadly. the first celebration with legal pot is in the books. thing were peaceful yesterday. but offers arrested three people for driving under the influence of manner. marijuana. we check with highway patrol they say the arrest numbers won't be available until monday. many people offered to take public transportation, but it was more than 225,000 people, a

high number of riders for friday. six people shot and one of them killed in san francisco after 11:00 last night on third street near the bay view hunt ymca. a 20-year-old man died tez. all of the victims are men ranging from ages of 18 to 35. police with no suspect zrpgss. today those closest to barbara bush gathered from around the world to say good-bye to the former first lady. the funeral sfls was held in her hometown of houston. nbc's gray was there. >> reporter: it was a service just like the woman, rooted in faith and family. >> barbara pierce bush was real that's why people admired her and loved her so. >> reporter: son jeb delivered

the eulogy. >> for what can be seen is temporary, what cannot be seen as eternal. >> reporter: 1500 gusts filled the church. dignitaries from around the world including president and secretary clinton. former president obama -- friends remembered her for her giving spirit, her strength and loyalty. >> she was smart, strong, fun and feisty. >> she called her style a dictatorship but honestly it wasn't always beenvelope lent. >> reporter: and laughter. her quick wit remembered as one of her most enduring qualities. barbara was washing off her own shoes and a fellow came up to her and said, hey, you look a lot like barbara bush. without missing a beat, barbara just said, yes, i hear that a

lot. >> reporter: mrs. bush let her family one last time, leaving church. the final journey winding through memorial park, one of her favorite places, ending in college station at the george h.w. bush presidential library, her final resting place. jay gray, nbc news, houston. a member of the san francisco giants sending his condolences to the bush family. pence spoke about mrs. bush while playing for the astros. former president george bush and his wife would sit behind first plate. he remembered the first lady commenting she liked his socks. as the bush asked pence and other players to have lunch with them. on our home page you can find images from the funeral as well as a copy of the invitation and other details. we turn to our weather

coverage. here's a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza. people obviously trying to get out and take advantage of this weather. meteorologist is tracking this. rob a big change this week. >> yeah, i think the 70s drawing everybody into san francisco right now. temperatures in the santa clara valley in the 80s this afternoon. 81 degree. here's a look at san francisco with 71 degrees. late day sea breeze picking up as it start to kick in for the evening. oakland, 73 degrees. baseball going, temperatures nice and comfortable. 60s out there tonight with mostly clear skies. we have this warmer than average start to the weekend. average high should be 63 to 70 instead. 80s is a reach for the rest of the weekend. a warm start to the week ahead. we're also tracking the return of much cooler temperatures and

a chance to seeing showers. the time loan on that and 7-day forecast coming up in 10 minutes. >> great weather indeed and a good day to get outdoors. >> today was our comcast volunteer day. across the nation and 20 countries, around 11 -- 100,000 volunteers and us are volunteering in the comcast day in bay area. >> reporter: very uplifting event here at the lewis education center. they put a fresh face on the school with fresh paint and new landscaping here. part of a 17-year commitment from comcast from comcast cares where thousands of projects have been done. more than 7700 projects by millions of volunteers. the company has donated more

than $20 million in grants. they did it with shovels, paint brushes and a little elbow greece. >> it's about regrowth and the strength of the people who live there. i think that's a touch l way to be able to express that. >> reporter: nbc bay area staff, management and onair personalities were among the 300 volunteers who gave up their saturday to pitch in. >> today we're bringing back hope to all of these families that had tough years. >> we hope today's an example for others to come out and help these communities. >> i think it's important for everyone to give back to this community that's been so effected by the fires. >> in santa rosa, volunteers put a fresh coat of paint and did landscaping. they prepared for the graduation ceremony at the football

stadium. volunteers, some from as far as away as sacramento planted hundreds of new trees. >> it's exciting, healing more than anything else and i'm grateful. >> reporter: comcast also donated $300,000 towards the completion of a new wellness center needed for communities still healing. >> from the bottom of our hearts and santa rosa city schools we thank every single one of you. >> reporter: survival, recovery, restoration and new friendships. >> i'm jackie by the way, nice to meet you. >> reporter: making santa rosa stronger. >> it's good to do this with your company and the community. >> reporter: that healing process is something we heard a lot about from people in fountain grove as they planted trees out there. for now we're live in santa reside, some jensen, nbc bay area news.

>> dozens of volunteers, helping to brighten up the campus. the school came up with a list of contacts for volunteers to do. they also helped paint the softball field and put new arrows in the parking lot to visitors can find the new office. >> we're butte fieing the school, punt it, plant it make it look a lot better. i think it's a great idea and a great way to hang out. all a fun day, get to see people from comcast you haven't seen all year long. get to work together. it's a great day outside. we're macing the school look better. >> it's fun to bring your family out there, family members, friend, making this an entire community effort. our nbc by the way area making this a -- that's today in the bay's meteorologist kerry hawk pulling weeds and planting. our chief meteorologist brought in extra help.

that's his pup lucy. and telemundo was a part of this. they were bringing care to the community. >> if you were out there with us send us photos to icndeficiency bay area.com. still up cyber invaders and including a special group to help. the big efforts in the south bay to help immigrants from all parts of the world.

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privacy.... a unique step by the company. facebook launched its first-ever cyber security university, specifically for veterans. the controversy surrounding facebook privacy. facebook launched its first every cyber security university, specifically for veterans. 33 veterans graduated from the program after including a 12 week course. they learned about cyber security. the students received a lot of hands-on training. >> it's to -- of cyber security and because of the the shortage of professionals. >> all veterans enrolled had to have some kind of commuter science and it background. helping immigrants become u.s. citizens. this was set up at san jose city

college today, that had thousands of people ply for u.s. citizenship. 14 different languages were represented and all services were free of charge. >> it's important to do this pause we need to invite the community to be able to fully participate in our society and the only way to fully participate in a society is having the right to vote. >> this is the event 28th year. last year volunteers had more than 260 people apply to become citizens. still ahead. >> looking at football. the san francisco 49ers put smiles of bay area teams in need of some cheer. >> and summer-like weather here as we kick off the weekend. tomorrow about the aim temperatures, near 80 in san jose. we'll talk about how hot the temperatures will be tomorrow and the next chance of rain in your 7-day forecast when we come right back. remember... not on t

but on the dance floor. last night nine players from the 49ers attended the eighth annual pr the 49ers suited up for a night to remember, not on the field but on the dance floor. nine 49ers attended the prom in san francisco. their friends enjoyed music and dancing. special evening is part of a milestone that they might miss because of their health. >> i found out from my high school teacher, she invited me to go to a prom. i was very excited. >> very cool. this is the fourth year the

niners have participated in prom night at that hospital. >> so fun. and a great day to be outside if you want to spend time as you did with your family right? >> yeah. >> you brought the twins? >> yes. >> and they helped? >> for about 30 minutes. they're 2 1/2 years old. >> there you go. the we're was great. >> in san francisco we got sunshine and gorgeous evening, 71 degrees. still breezy though. sea breeze trying to come back late this evening. in centutri-valley, 82 degrees. most of march didn't have any days like this. we do have temperatures from the tri-valley into san jose, 81 degrees. tom complaint can be the pollen shower. degrees is up with oak and pine pollen. grass moderate. thank to the fact we got extra

rain falls from march and april, some of those grass pollens might be running higher than they ought to be this year. sea breeze picked up this evening. it will cool off quickly around san francisco and oakland. temperatures tomorrow morning in the 40s to low 50s. high temperatures in line of what we had today, could see mid-80s, south of san jose tomorrow. generally what we had to day, i not warmer. from oakland and hayward, the numbers on the peninsula, 70s around palo alto and close to 70 in san francisco. the cherry bloz some festival at 1:00 and the temperatures will look very nice. tomorrow still near 80 degrees in san toes are, 70s around napa. no rain producing clouds, it will likely stay that way to

wednesday. then this low air pressure will start to approach. it's typical this year. we start to lift inland and that will probably be our best chance for maybe seeing some showers. we'll see cooler temperatures late next week. but when we say a little chance, that's what a little chance looks like, maybe enough to wet the ground, nothing like we saw earlier this month or during march. seven-day forecast finishes the weekend, start the weekend with 70-like temperatures ongoing. 80s and 70 towards next friday. >> that's a beautiful forecast. thanks rob. a lot family play a role in a medical breakthrough. the story we've been following and an update. signature craftede by mcdonald's: garlic white cheddar. layered with a slice of white cheddar cheese... a medley of crispy garlic chips... ...and a dramatic drizzle of creamy garlic aioli. (breath) luckily, you can take your time to savor every bite.

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always deadly form of childhood cancer. a possible break through in the fight against the rare, always deadly form of childhood cancer. that's the headline from stanford university. >> we'd like to show you the behind that news. here's robin tomas with the story that'll make you proud. >> reporter: like many people of think of medical research in the lab as an anonymous process. a specimen researchers work on numbers or codes. but they are people, and important ones at that. like one little 6-year-old girl. we first met 6-year-old jennifer lin in 2014 on what would be the final days of her life.

digp, an untreatable and uncurable brain tumor was about to take her from her mother and father. thanks to difficult decisions they made in those days, we can report while jennifer lost her battle she is still not done fighting. >> so proud, because i know this is what he'd want. i know she'd want to help other kids. >> that first decision was to arrange donation of jennifer's tumor to dr. michelle mangy. a pediatric knew roe oncologist and researcher. it is why after hours of jennifer's death we were in dr. mangi's lab witnessing the first step in an attempt to create stem cell lines from jennifer's tumor, adding aingli-mile-an-hour of hope in a disease that haven't seen a

meaningful advance in 60 years. >> jennifer's donation gave us a tool that we didn't have. >> but to use that tool takes money. and this is where libby and tony comes back into the picture. after jennifer's death they started a foundation, unravelled, funding pediatric cancer research, but not in a traditional way. when christopher mount, a graduating student in dr. mangi's lab. an experiment using cells derived from jennifer's very own tumor, her mom and dad was once again involved. >> we had this great idea for expensive experiments to test this. libby showed up and says, here's a check why don't you do something good with it. >> so they did. the results were striking. looking for a signal that cancer

cells remained after treatment, chris couldn't find one. >> that was the moment, it was a moment that you don't believe in. >> the tumors eradicated, and i haven't seen anything work that wale for this tumor. >> for libby, the news is understandably bittersweet. it comes four years too late for her jennifer, but one day soon, might come just in time for someone else's child. while the tumors were largely eradicated, some cancer cells did remain, so, they hope that maybe some traditional treatment could help completely remove the cancer. they believe they will move into a human trial in 2019. nbc bay area news. >> what's an amazing contribution by that family. >> what a great story. and we'll be right back.

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weekend...the city is hosting the international chocolate festival. this two day event features if you have a sweet tooth, san matteo's the place to be this weekend. the city's hosting the international chocolate festival. it's a two-day event including high-end chocolates from around the world. some chocolate chefs performing don strags. we've been trying to figure out what chocolate yoga is. i'm going to go all in on it. >> i don't know, it's a combination of ceremony -- >> if you're eating chocolate while doing yoga, i'm -- >> it's probably a breathing thing while you're enjoying the chocolate. you inhale slowly, chew, i don't really know. >> its the chocolate going to b melting tomorrow? >> yeah.

all those temperatures great for chocolate yoga weather. >> stanley club play off hockey coming up next. >> see you after the game. . >> welcome to the stanley cup playoff. >> they win game 7. >> the pittsburgh penguins again stanley cup champions. >> mike e.: a successful stanley cup run requires resilience on the road following a loss and without their best all around player the bruins defined the word. the black and gold made a statement early. and sealed it late. >> pastrnak moving in with marchand and scores! >> mike e.: now the leafs must show their