faithful today in the bay area. why california may be big deal when it comes to the nomination for president. . the republican faithful in the bay area, why california may be a big deal when it comes to the nomination for president. shop around. gas prices continue to climb. the factors pushing prices up around the country. and the bruise a san francisco sheriff didn't want a jury to see. the argument from his defense to toss them out of his trial. it is 7:00 saturday morning, february 25th. thank you for joining us today. i'm anne makovec. jim bernard will be along with the weather forecast, coming up. but first, california republicans will rally behind presidential hopeful newt gingrich today, as part of the

state gop spring convention in burlingame. it's running all weekend long. as california looms larger in this year's election, what republicans hope to accomplish. >> reporter: the focus of this spring gop convention, expand party support statewide. california will be a big player this election. >> if the presidential candidates haven't decided yet on super tuesday and there's a split decision, then it looks like there's going to be, then california's right there staring in front of them. >> reporter: he says republicans are focusing on young voters, asian americans, and latinos, especially this weekend. >> we're training, recruiting and funding latino candidates to run for office. >> reporter: 34% of californians are registered republicans and few have the financial clout to run statewide. the party's last two big name candidates, former governor arnold schwarzenegger, was not invited. and gubernatorial candidate meg whitman won't be attending.

so is the party united or divided? >> there's always going to be contention, always a difference of an opinion. when we finally get to the nominee who is working towards getting barack obama out of the white house, i'm sure we'll be four square behind whatever our standard will be. >> reporter: california's 172 delegates are 15% of the delegates needed to claim the republican nomination. >> for me, the debates have been bickering back and forth, and to me, it's just a time-wasting. so i really want to know exactly what they are going to do. i want a candidate that's going to stand up, not back down, and fight for the party. >> reporter: juliet goodrich, cbs 5. expect t . organizers say many of the events will focus on the state of the economy. they expect to stay away from what they call devicive issues, like abortion and gay marriage. the convention wraps up tomorrow. filling up is becoming painful in the bay area and around the country. downtown l.a. drivers, check this out, shelling out more than $5 a

gallon. here in san francisco, the average price for a gallon of regular is now $4.30. in oakland, it's $4.24. in san jose, $4.25. to a certain extent, investors and speculators are driving the price increases, but tensions with iran are an underlying factor. >> if we do have an escalation in the tensions between the west and iran, then it's quite possibly we could get to $5 and that will certainly jeopardize the current economic recovery. >> now, if gas rises another dollar from today's price, it would cost the average household more than $900 a year. that would effectively wipe out the savings from the payroll tax cut that president obama just signed into law. fire crews in napa expect to have full containment of the soda fire within the hour. that wildfire has burned nearly 200 acres since being reported thursday afternoon. fire investigators are blaming this wildfire on someone living in the area who was apparently

burning piles of landscape debris and then lost control of the fire when the winds picked up. the parents of a 21-year-old man on life support are suing uc berkeley. john gibson moved into a university co-op in 2009 and his family says he likely suffered a heart attack while partying with his roommates in 2010, using a nearly lethal combo of marijuana, alcohol, and cocaine. the family's attorney says the berkeley student co-op has known about drug use for years and instituted a so-called pirate code. >> it's the house residents versus the outside world, us against first responders and police, and paramedics. that's why we think there was such a long delay in calling for 911 and calling for help. >> gibson's family is suing for the costs of his medical care and they want changes to co-op policies. it's a story told far too often. nearly an entire bay area family wiped out by a driver that the

chp says was not only drunk, but also trying to use her cell phone. it happened wednesday night, highway 101 in monterrey county. the family of six was traveling in the same vehicle coming back from a funeral in napa. the chp says the suspected drunk driver, vivian ramirez, crossed the median and hit their car head-o everyone died in the car, but one woman, who is now in the hospital. >> it's so hard right now, what we're going through. but just because lupe made it through, that's the only thing we're clinging on right now, you know. >> that crash caused a chain reaction accident involving eight cars. six others were injured. the suspected drunk driver herself went to the hospital with some major injuries. the public is getting its first glimpse of physical evidence in the ross mirkarimi domestic abuse trial. images showing bruises on his wife, eliana lopez' arm, were released as part of court filing yesterday. the photos come from a video

taken by their neighbor. the transcript of that video was also released, and in it, lopez says she wants to work on her marriage, but that she wanted to document these bruises to ensure she received custody of their son if a custody case ever erupted. >> they are there for a reason. there is proof. otherwise, it's a he said/she said. this is undisputable evidence. >> the defense, though, wants to exclude that video from mirkarimi's trial, arguing that lopez had motivation to lie, because she was preparing for that possible custody fight with her husband. in new jersey, prosecutors began to lay out their case against a former rutgers university student accused of spying on his roommate with a webcam. that roommate, tyler clementi, killed himself. darren rafi faces 15 criminal charges, including a gay-related hate crime charge. prosecutors say it was rafi spying on his roommate having sex with another man and then broadcasting it that caused

tyler to kill himself. if convicted, ravi faces a decade in prison. former south african president nelson mandela was hospitalized today, after complaining of abdominal pain. the antiapartheid icon reportedly has been suffering from a stomach ailment for sometime. he's 93 years old and his public appearances have become increasingly rare. this morning, a satellite blasted off from china into space, part of a chinese project to create a new navigation and positioning network. china hopes to break its dependence on the american global positioning system by 2020. apparently it's typical february weather around here, but we kind of forgot what that was like. >> much cooler than we were all week long here, as we see the dry pattern continuing into this weekend. temperatures, down quite a bit from where they have been the last few days. we'll continue this cool and breezy pattern into the work week. i'll have your forecast details, coming up in just a few minutes.

also, hungry for lin-sanity? cashing in on the hype over the new york knicks point guard. and taxpayers are paying a prison doctor $239,000 a year to do next to nothing. coming up next, why he can't be fired. ,,

money on prisons than on higher education. even as the . welcome back. 10 minutes after 7:00. california spends more money on prisons than on higher education, even as the state budget slings, we're spending more and more money to lock up prisoners, but where does all that cash go exactly? as allen martin shows us, some of it goes to a well-paid doctor who has not seen a patient in years. >> reporter: it's the biggest, most expensive prison system in the country, gobbling up cash faster than ever. $10billion a year and growing.

it costs about $45,000 a year to keep an inmate at a state prison, like the one here in jamestown. about a third of that cost is healthcare, and that's a cost that's only going to rise, along with the age of the inmates. but contributing to that cost is one doctor here at jamestown who makes $239,000 a year and he doesn't treat one patient. william savage, a prison doctor, still has an office here, but his name plate has been taken off the door, and he hasn't treated inmates for four years. >> dr. savage is not allowed to treat inmates or provide patient care. >> reporter: why? we don't really know. because of privacy statutes, all the prison system will tell us is that savage is being evaluated by a peer review committee to see if he's competent to practice. however, dr. savage is still collecting a paycheck, and he's got a tasty reputation. >> he was best known, quite frankly, for passing out doughnuts and candy bars. >> reporter: darryl wine used to work at the jamestown prison. he says savage, better known as the doughnut doctor, was very

popular with the staff. >> candy bars sometimes, ice cream. there was one time he even brought hamburgers. >> reporter: wine was hired as a physician's assistant under contract. he says at more than $180,000 a year, in part, to backfill the duties that dr. savage could not perform. >> interestingly, if he needed to order something that a physician would normally order, he would write the order, but he would have to have myself or one of the other physicians or pa's sign the order. >> reporter: so why is the doctor still getting paid, amid a four-year investigation into his competence as a doctor? >> civil service rules require that you have to go through certain steps in order to terminate an employee. so he cannot terminate this doctor, and at the same time, he cannot allow him to see patients. >> reporter: so dr. savage remains in legal limbo until a committee decides his fate. in the meantime, he'll continue to make close to a quarter of a million dollars a year, and come to work at a place where he's best known for handing out

doughnuts. in jamestown, allen martin, cbs 5. and of course we tried to contact dr. savage and he didn't respond to our multiple requests to be interviewed for this story. let's interview jim bernard about our weather forecast today, because change is in the air. >> i have doughnuts! >> really? that's a bonus! >> there you go! the placebo works well here, as we see much cooler temperatures across the bay today. we've got a slight chance of some showers in the picture, as we have had for several weeks. but the nice warmup we saw at the end of the week is gone for now. we're looking at mostly clear skies out there this morning, very cool temperatures, back to near normal as we see mid to upper 40s around the bay right now. we'll end up in the upper 50s to low 60s today, which is pretty close to seasonal highs for this time of year. once again, we see breezy and cool conditions out there this morning, partly cloudy through the day to mostly clear,

continued cool conditions and slight chance of showers late sunday into early monday, with another chance arriving on the horizon for wednesday. we see the storm track continues to go by to our north, a few light showers showing up on the north coast. we'll catch the tail end of this energy. could bring drizzle and showers into the area here again late tomorrow, into early monday and again, late tuesday into wednesday. they will not amount to much as we look for more clouds and rain along the coast. breezy and cool today. strong northerly winds, gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour, and through the week, we'll see that continuation of weak weather systems marching by to our north, as the tail end clips the bay area, looking for partly cloudy and continued cool conditions. a slight warmup for the end of next week, but it won't be as dramatic as what we saw this week. so we'll look for the rainfall numbers to continue to suffer. here's how far behind we are so far this year for various

locations. again, santa rosa, about 14 inches down. san francisco, 10 inches. looks at this point we won't make up the difference between now and the end of june, so undoubtedly, it will end the season as a dry year here. could be one for the record books, as we'll be near record lows for precipitation this time of year. again, throughout the state, a few showers up north. mid to upper 50s along the coast. mid to low 60s out across the interior, and that will be the forecast throughout the bay today. we see the warmer locations peaking out in the mid-60s range, cooling as you head back to the beach and across the peninsula. over in the east bay, again, mid to low 60s for today. quite a bit cooler for tomorrow as we'll see mid-50s prevailing here after things peak out today in the low 60s range. again, we will cool down through the week with that slight chance of showers, as mentioned early monday and again better chance of some measurable rain showing up by wednesday morning. across the bay, i doubt if we'll

catch up to where we ought to be for this time of the year, but some catchup is likely, nonetheless, as we dry it out again by the end of the week into next weekend. >> okay. fair enough. >> there you go. >> pull out those jackets again. >> looks like it. >> thanks, jim. a sobering statistics on any given day. as many as 60,000 veterans find themselves homeless. over the past two years, a massive effort by the obama administration has shown dramatic progress in reducing homelessness among veterans, but as grace lee shows us, the solutions might not work where they are needed most. >> my name is stephen hancock. >> i was in vietnam from '69 to '71. i was drafted. >> i had a lot of anger. i had a lot of fear. and that stayed with me. >> reporter: in stephen's case, it wasn't drugs or alcohol. it was ptsd. it's why ties to his church, his family, and his own small

business, anger and fear when battle after battle, the result was homelessness. >> it's been over 20 years, over 20 years. >> reporter: now, after years of therapy, he finally has a ticket out. >> i have one of those vouchers now. >> reporter: the marriage of section 8 housing and veterans affairs, in just two years-- >> astronomical. i think we're making history right now. >> reporter: -- and changing lives. >> when i lost my job, i completely lost, like, everything. it was, like, where do i go now? and plus, i have my kids. >> reporter: hud allows six-year army veteran elias villain to rent this home in stockton. >> it really works, that system. >> reporter: his daughter has her own room. >> like a little king in a big castle. >> reporter: and dad has job prospects. another success story, the kimble family of san joaquin family. after eight years in the navy supporting the iraq war, greg came home to a recession and

homelessness. >> it's been hard to get back into civilian life. i feel like a fish out of water. >> reporter: with local shelters full, they were placed in a migrant labor camp. now, with a voucher, they are on their way to a home and reuniting with their children. in two years, hud has help cut homelessness by 20% nationwide, 27% across much of northern california, and that's not all. >> we've seen a decrease of 70% in san joaquin county. >> reporter: another change in strategy, the va is now getting vets off the street before getting them help. >> if you can house a veteran first, they are more apt to engage in treatment, medical, mental health treatment, and will be having more successful outcomes. >> reporter: so how is this program, wildly successful across most of the country, working in san francisco, a city desperate for homelessness solutions? >> we were pretty much stagnant from where we were two years ago. >> reporter: the problem? vouchers are toished specific

counties and expire after 90 days. that leaves vets like stevens racing to find housing. >> when we mention the voucher, no, they don't want to have nothing to do with it. >> landlords may be reluctant to take section 8 housing. >> reporter: we took that question to hud. >> there are places challenged because of costs and housing. >> reporter: 75 veterans will be housed in the juvenile detention center, now under renovation. and groups are giving dozens of vets temporary housing on treasure island. but the goal is to escape temporary shelters and the streets, so stephen continues his apartment search as his 90-day voucher window quickly closes. >> i'm trying to get myself a chance. that's all. and, you know, i'm not asking for a handout. i'm just asking for a hand up. >> reporter: in san francisco,

grace lee, cbs 5. >> and we have very good news to pass along. since our interview, mr. hancock, the man we just heard from, has found an apartment. it's not in san francisco. he was granted a voucher transfer, so he's moving to san mateo county. it's estimated that 23% of america's homeless are veterans. baseball players are getting into the swing of things and manny ramirez reports to spring training for the a's. plus, a special dunk contest at the all-star weekend in orlando, coming up next in sports. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

joining in on the hype . today's tip of the day is about white grapefruit. you bought the red grapefruit, pink grapefruit, but wouldn't buy the white, because it's usually associated with bitter grapefruit. but certain varieties are loaded with sugar and flavor. besides, great nutritional value. but you got to select them right. when you buy them, nice and yellow like this all the way around. skin, nice and shiny, free from any shriveling, and heavy for the size. the more juice, the less pulp, and small skin, a small peel. when you bring them home, store them on the counter and take a look at this. look at the juice just coming out. look at that, this is what i call a great grapefruit. it's so important to store these

on the counter. if you store any citrus in the refrigerator, all the juice turns to pulp and you don't want that. i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. eat fresh and stay healthy, and it's so easy to do when you pick out the right products! ciao! ben and jerry's the ice cream maker is joining in on the hype surrounding basketball sensation and harvard grad jeremy lin. taste the lin-sanity is frozen yogurt with swirls of honey and a cone for dunking, but you won't see this in the grocery store. it's only available at the ben & jerry's shop in harvard square. going to have to add a plane ticket on the price of that ice cream apparently. in sports, the nba's all-star weekend is under way and manny ramirez talks to reporters as he arrives at camp for the beginning of spring training. kim coyle, with more in sports. good morning, everyone. phoenix turned into manny wood yesterday, as the newest member

of the a's reported for spring training. >> i would change the way that i used to think and the way that i think now, so now i have peace. now i got my family. like i said before, i wasn't a good father, you know, but now, i'm back. round 3 at the match play championship, lee westwood nearly chips it in on 15. he beats nick watney 3-2 to advance to the quarterfinals. rory mcilroy also moved on to the fourth round. danica patrick is your pole setter for today's nationwide race at daytona, becoming the first woman to earn the top qualifying spot for a nascar race since 1994. all-star weekend is under way in orlando. jeremy lin throws the lob to blake griffin, but lin only played 9 minutes. number one pick kyrie irving played john wall for the jam. irving was named mvp of the rising stars game. as for the celebrity game, kevin heart held his own dunk

contest, and was also named the mvp for the celebrities. that's a look at sports. we'll see you tonight at 5:30. well, tomorrow on weekend early edition, san francisco plays politics and money, with the upcoming america's cup. >> everybody's trying to get exactly to the breaking point. everyone is trying to negotiate just as far as we possibly can. but i think ultimately, even the board of supervisors, no one there wants to be the guy who stopped the america's cup from coming to san francisco. >> our political insider sounding off on the rising cost for the high profile race. that is on weekend early edition tomorrow, starting at 7:30 a.m. well, have you ever found yourself maybe wanting to pawn something, but not wanting to go to a pawn shop? coming up in the next half hour, the online startup that wants to cash in on new trends. and $5 a gallon gas is already a reality in socal.

what american consumers may lose if gas prices keep climbing. plus, dine-in only. the bay area city that wants to put the brakes on fast food drive-through. lots coming up in the next half hour. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

hopeful newt gingrich is stumping in the bay area today.

why the golden state may be key in the party's no . presidential hopeful newt gingrich is stumping in the bay area today. why the golden state may be the key player in the party's race for the nomination. and more violent protests in afghanistan, after the burning of religious texts on a u.s. base. napa county fire crews, close to containment on one of the first big wildfires of the season. the controlled burn that started it all. welcome back to weekend early edition. it is 7:30, february 25th. thank you for joining us. i'm anne makovec. >> and i'm jim bernard, in to look at your spring weather pattern. given the try trend this season, wildfires are a sign of things to come, as we will see an active fire season, which has already begun for the bay area and the rest of california. again, we're looking at mostly clear skies, much cooler temperatures here, increase in relative humidities will help the firefighters, although very strong northerly winds will not help the fire hazards.

we see gusty northerly winds running 20 to 30 miles per hour across the bay here today, as temperatures return to near normal for this time of year. that's upper 50s to low 60s out of the 70s where we were the end of the week. we'll continue this cool pattern into your work week and i'll have the details in your forecast, coming up in just a few minutes. >> thanks, jim. newt gingrich comes to the bay area today, looking for support and cash to boost his presidential campaign. gingrich is the keynote speaker at this weekend's state gop convention in burlingame. the republican chairman says california should be a big player this election. >> if the presidential candidates haven't decided it on super tuesday and there's a split decision, then it looks like there's going to be, then california's right there staring in front of them. >> california's 172 delegates are 15% of the delegates needed to claim the republican nomination. well, if you drive in northern california, you know

the gas prices are climbing. right now, the average price in san francisco is $4.30 per gallon. 4 h. $24 in oakland, and 4.25 in san jose. anthony mason explains the reason for the spikes around the country. >> reporter: in the oil trading pits today, crude came close to $110 a barrel. that will soon hit the street, where every $10 a barrel adds another 25 cents at the pump. >> i think the gas prices are outrageous! >> reporter: the rattling iran has provoked the price spike. iran is the world's fourth largest oil producer. >> there's going to be an intervention in iran soon and when that happens, it's all shut off. >> reporter: but investors and speculators are also driving the market. nearly two-thirds of all oil traded is now being bought and sold, not by oil companies, but by investors, banks, and hedge funds. >> and right now, that's the cheapest thing on the board for speculators and investors.

they are saying it's going to get more expensive, i'm going to get in now. >> reporter: if this continues and gas rises another dollar from today's prices, that would cause the average household more than $900 a year and effectively wipe out the savings from the payroll tax cut the president just signed into law. >> is this the biggest threat to the economy right now? >> i think i would say yes. >> reporter: this economist of td securities says $4 a gallon gas won't put the brakes on the economy, but if the price keeps rising? >> if we do have an escalation in the tensions between the west and iran, then it's quite possibly we could get to $5 and that will certainly jeopardize the current economic recovery. >> reporter: he estimates that investors and speculators have added a $20 premium to the price of oil, or about 50 cents to every gallon of gas. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. in afghanistan today, two american advisors were shot to death inside the interior

ministry. afghan officials say another westerner shot the americans, but nato is denying that. the shooting comes on the fifth day of protests across afghanistan sparked by the burning of qurans at a u.s. military base. also today, six afghan soldiers were killed when they tried to diffuse a bomb. blood shed in syria is getting worse by the day. yesterday, barack obama again condemned the violence, saying we cannot sit by while the syrian government slaughters its own people, but he never gave specifics about what the u.s. could or would do to help. fire crews in napa expect to have full containment of the soda fire within the next half hour. the wildfire has burned nearly 200 acres so far since being reported on thursday afternoon. fire investigators are blaming this wildfire on someone living in the area who was burning piles of landscape debris and then lost control of the fire when the winds picked up. the city of mountain view is

trying to put the brakes on a uniquely american tradition, the fast-food drive through. the city council is taking up a proposal to ban any new drive-through businesses from setting up shop, although existing ones would be allowed to stay open. they say it has nothing to do with nutrition, but rather the environment. >> you're basically sitting in line, getting zero miles per gallon, while you're waiting to pick up your burger or order, whatever you're ordering there. so it is not very green or very friendly that way. >> the proposal would also extend to drive-through banks and pharmacies. a final decision from the city council is still several weeks away. the san jose giants are holding a job fair this morning. it runs from 9:00 a.m. to noon at municipal stadium. the san francisco giants class a farm club is hiring between 60 and 80 people part-time. employees will work home games and other events between march and september. good customer service skills are

required. it is 7:36 now. you've been talking about temperatures returning to february normal, but we don't know what that is anymore! we've been so spoiled! >> let's call it cooler here than we were at the end of the week, when we saw record high temperatures around the bay. that's gone for now. we're back to upper 50s to low 60s under mostly clear skies. breezy conditions to continue through the weekend. i'll have the details, coming up next. and the hottest indy bands taking over san francisco bars this weekend. still to come, where you can catch all the live acts or noise pop. but first, cashing in on a valuable keepsakes from the comfort of your own home. a new company taking up online pawn shops. the founder joins us, coming up next.

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food, and cancer patients getting a healthy meal. kate . 20 minutes shy of 8:00. it's a perfect recipe. students preparing organic food and cancer patients getting a healthy meal. kate kelly with this week's

jefferson award winners. >> i thought we would start off a little bit with something special today. >> reporter: and every menu is special when students are learning how to prepare nutritious food for patients battling cancer. >> these are great for purifying the blood. >> reporter: chef trudy schaffer's menu looks more like a five-star restaurant in a community nonprofit, and that's expa julie and ann had in mind when they started the series community project of marijn. >> it's based on the idea of bringing youth into a professional kitchen, connecting them with real, whole some, organic food. >> reporter: julie's long been interested in the connection between nutrition and health. she collaborated with author rebecca cats and her book, cancer fighting kitchen. and she liked the idea of kids filling a critical need. >> what i see is the joy of youth in the kitchen, the

relationships built with one another. >> reporter: ann helps coordinate the student part of the program, training kitchen and delivery volunteers. julie handles the donations, from securing fresh food from local growers, to the in's and out's of bringing over 3500 meals a year to families who truly need it. >> 80% of cancer patients going through treatment are mal nourished. cancer makes it very difficult for people to eat when they are going through treatment. >> reporter: when dawn's husband got cancer, the quality of the meals made a difference. >> it mattered to have the nutrition and mattered for it to be nutritious. if you have pancreatic cancer, you don't want to eat a lot, and boy, my husband would eat that. >> reporter: dawn's husband lost his battle with cancer, but today she had a message for the young volunteers who served up so much more than just food. >> you want people to enjoy this delicious food, but understand that you are feeding people's soul with the love that you put

into it. okay, so i just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. >> reporter: for guiding young people to feed and truly nourish those battling illnesses, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to julie and ann. kate kelly, cbs 5. 7:42 now. a new study out shows which professions produce the least and most rested workers. at the top of least rested list, home healthcare workers with an average of 6:57 hours of sleep. lawyers get just 3 minutes on average more. police officers came in third. topping the most rested list, forest logging workers, with 7:20 hours of sleep, then hairstylists and sales reps. i would venture to say that morning news and weather anchors would not farewell on that. what do you think, jim? >> not so g the day starts way too early. probably the people not at work

getting the the most sleep. taking a look outside, we see clear skies, cool conditions this morning, breezy northerly winds. we'll continue this trend of breezy and cool, a far cry from where we were at the end of the week. slight chance of showers is back in the picture. it's not going to amount to much, but there could be a few sprinkles in our future. looking outside right now, we find mid to low 40s around most of the bay. a little warmer when you get back to the water. we're going to cool down dramatically tonight. we'll look for our lows again hitting the mid to low 30s out across the interior, into the mid to upper 30s elsewhere around the bay, right at the water probably low 40s. we will continue with the clear and cool evening ahead, as we see skies on the clear skied this morning here. once again, we'll be much cooler than we were at the end of the week, with temperatures back to near normal, if you remember what that is. that would be the upper 50s to low 60s for most of the region. partly cloudy and continued cool through the weekend. slight chance of showers showing

up just in time to go back to work early monday morning, as we'll see another weak disturbance cross to our north. we'll catch the tail end of it. could bring a few showers to the area, more like sprinkles, drizzle showers than anything else. more clouds than rain for us, but we'll continue with the cool trend here through the weekend and, again, this series of weak disturbances will continue to go by to our north here. another one tuesday night, into wednesday, with once again a chance of some sprinkles. otherwise, partly cloudy and continued cool through midweek. then we warm it up a bit by the end of the week. not as dramatic as we did this week, but we'll see a slight warmup into next weekend. today, we'll look for mid to low 60s for the warmer locations. cooling into the upper 50s to low 60s at the beach and across the peninsula. more mid to low 60s out across the east bay, and the north bay, more of the same as we see temperatures near normal for this time of year. rainfall, not so near normal, as we continue our very dry year

here, already talking wildland fires out there, which is a very early start to the fire season. we see, again, those mid to low 60s prevailing through midweek. better chance of rain arrives late tuesday, into wednesday. could actually be some measurable precipitation in there, more than a few sprinkles hopefully. as we dry it out through the end of the week, into next weekend. now, i'm not sure, ann, but i would like to pawn that forecast off for whatever it's worth. well, now you have a new option for that. probably not when it comes to weather forecast. you can trade in your sparkling jewels for quick cash. folks are now going online to pawn these things off. todd hill, the founder of pawngo joins us now. you have a long history of doing brick and mortar pawn shops. >> yeah, exactly. there's a theory generally that a lot of people don't want to go in there. it can be kind of sketchy. >> exactly. that's why we brought the

concept online. it's a much more comfortable user experience. if you can complete the transaction from your privacy of your own home in front of a computer monitor. tell us the process. >> go online to pawngo.com. give us brief information about the item you need to get money for. we'll respond to your offer, and if you accept that ever on, you overnight fedex it to us and we'll receive it the next day and put the money in your bank account. that simple. do you have to send pictures of the item? >> you can send pictures, but most people have a very good description of these types of assets because of their homeowners insurance, have appraisals, certifications, so typically someone will give us just a description based off of the appraisal or based off the certification, and we can base our loan offer from there. so the joy i guess of pawn shops, if you're into that, is to get the cash immediately. in this case, you don't get it immediately. >> no, you can get the cash within 24 hours. we find i think we've written around 5000 loans right now. the average time from a customer

deciding to come to the site and deciding to actually take the loan and move forward is about eight days. we're not dealing with customers that need immediate cash. >> which is what i would think would be your typical pawn customer. >> exactly. typical pawn customers typically need a couple hundred dollars to solve an immediate problem. this is a much different customer that has a problem, has come up, unexpected life event, and they are considering this solution. >> and you give them a quote and then when you receive the item, then you write the check and that check could be very different than the quote they received? >> well, actually, it's not. actually, most of the time we do in about 10 to 15% higher than the actual quote. you got to remember, when we're looking at an asset on a piece of paper on the computer screen, we can't really tell. but once we get the asset, our certified appraisers look at the asset, then the final offer goes back out to the customer. now, we're in the heart of silicon valley. lot of people dealing with

online businesses. for you to go from the brick and mortar to the online thing, what has that been like? what are the challenges you've found? >> well, obviously, taking any offline business online is a challenge, just simply because of the things you just mentioned. how do we know that you are who you are behind the scene? how do i know i'll get paid? so we've worked real hard, you know, trying to gain that credibility and we work at educating our customers that this is a good solution for them if they need it. quick tips, and this would go to normal pawn shop stores that you would go to, and this online thing if you decide to do that. what should people be aware of? >> the first thing you need to know, you need to have a good idea of what the value of your asset is. obviously, it's always good to know if it's real or not. we see a lot of bag requests, watch requests. know the value, the authenticity of it and from there, know who

you are dealing with. >> right. look out for scammers. i would think that would be very easy to do. maybe you send in something real and they say that wasn't real and they give you 10%. >> you need to be very careful on that, as well as all the fees that could be involved with this type of transaction. >> very good. todd hill with pawngo.com, thanks for that. >> thanks very much. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,

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around the world underway now. we're talking about the 20-th . 9 minutes before 8:00. there's an epic race around the world under way right now. the 20th season of the amazing race, a menlo park soccer player has teamed up with his twin brother for that $1 million prize. there's andrew weber with his twin elliott. they took off from santa barbara and flew all the way to argentina. the twins are in 6th place right now. and the host says every race is unique. >> i think it's a magic formula when you are able to change the

people, but maybe more importantly, you know, all shows can change the people, but not all shows can change, i guess, the place that they do the show from. meaning if you've got great dancers, great singers, people with talent, you put them on a stage. they are pretty much on the same stage season after season after season. we're not really on the same stage twice. you know, it's paraguay, some new country that you've never seen before. >> now, the teams race through biewn nas aries tomorrow not. the amazing rates starts tomorrow night on cbs 5. hipsters young and old will catch the hottest indy acts around san francisco. liam mayclem shows us more. saturday . >> reporter: good day pleasure seekers. let's begin with theater and the music of swedish pop sensation

abba in san francisco today. it's the tale of a daughter with three dads and a trip down the aisle like none other. so do yourself a favor. drag your inner dancing queen to this show-stopping tony award winning musical in a limited run now in san francisco. more music, indy pop music showcase, the 20th anniversary of the festival now under way. many great bands to look out for. in fact, the creme de la creme of independent music playing stages like cafe denorth, the fillmore and more. rock out through sunday. flowers, yeah, the orchid festival continues at fort mason in san francisco throughout the weekend. we're talking some 150,000 orchid flowers from all over the world. sensational. admission to this, just $13. finally, enjoy a taste of the big easy at the residence in

san francisco. devour down-home favorites, like gumbo and gum bay leia, easy creole, terribly tasty wednesday night at the residence, 14th street in san francisco. mmm, yes, please. finally, a recap, there are your events on liam's list. and finally, you can find out more about you follow me on twitter. send me your ideas of things you would like to see me mention. enjoy your weekend. cheers! coming up, one more look at today's top stories, including today's california republican convention here in the bay area. what the gop organizers hope to do this weekend, coming up next.

the california republican party's . here's a look at this morning's top stories. the california republican party spring convention continues this morning in burlingame. members are hoping to expand their party's appeal and newt gingrich is going to speak to

the convention today. the public is getting its first glimpse of physical evidence in the ross mirkarimi domestic abuse trial. images showing bruises on his wife, eliana lopez's arm show in a video released by the district attorney. tensions with iran and more trading by speculators are the key factors blamed for gas prices rising. looking at the weather for today, looks like jackets are in order. >> back to near-normal. do you recall what that was? >> no! >> we've been spoiled this winter, with very warm temperatures. we'll see a big cooldown across the bay today. breezy conditions with temperatures dropping back to the upper 50s to low 60s. that is jacket weather. and we do have a slight chance of showers showing up tomorrow night into the work week. but it won't amount to much. we see temperatures around the bay right now in the mid to

upper 40s. we'll be much cooler overnight, as skies remain clear. we'll look for temperatures out across the interior to drop into the mid to low 30s under clear skies, as we're enjoying right now for most of the bay area, and continued cool conditions into early next week. >> 3 minutes before 8:00, and we're going to leave you with this video. i don't know if you saw this yesterday. it's just amazing. it's a whale watching tour boat in orange county getting more than a bargain. check it out, thousands of dolphins caught up with the boat and charged forward at high speeds. they are calling this a dolphin stampede. the captain of the boat, dana pride, says it is a mega pod of dolphins. the water starts foaming when there are that many mammals in the water. he estimates the dolphins were moving about 20 to 25 miles per hour, and there are several theories for why the dolphins were stampeding. some experts say they were just playing. some say they might have been being chased by a predator. >> or feeding. thank you for joining us this morning.

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