the traffic is moving well along the mcarthur maze. if you live in alameda, they have reopened the tubes so you can get over to oakland without having to go down to richmond. the traffic is moving along very well getting up to 217. here's steve: >> all right, sal, thank you, and here we go again, another area of fog continuing to roll in. now, the wind is not as strong as it was a couple of days ago. fair field is at 20. two days ago, it was at 40. calm in santa rosa, everything is calm there, but even vac cayville, it will be a little bit warmer inland, not a lot, just a couple of degrees. the thomas kind of -- the thunderstorms kind of decreasing a little bit. i went upper 70 to 80s. everyone else is cooling off. 60s, 70s, to near up to 80 degrees. 51, a little bit of chill in the morning air. oakland, berkeley, palo alto and even san jose at 80 degrees. 51 cool degrees in eukia. southern california is dealing with a lot of fog as well. a little bit of a spin until the atmosphere. they are dealing with a lot of overcast. that's going

i want to mention, both ned and jamie are winners of the mcarthur genius awards, so we have two mcarthur genius fellows on our artist team. ned, will you join me? ned has lived in san francisco for 20 years and worked at the exploratorium during that time, and as his studio needs grew and his family grew, he moved to the north to pedaluma. so he's no longer a san francisco resident, but really sort of grew up here and he's worked on a number of public art projects for san francisco, transit-related. if you've ever taken bart to the airplane, when you arrive at the airplane station, there's a circular area surrounding the escalators covered with shimmering metal discs that reflect the wind and the movement of the trains and that was done by ned, as well as a variety of other pieces, ned is now known for his work with the elements with wind, with water, with light, and works on projects throughout the world with some of the most highly-recognized architects of the world. this design that he'll be presenting today was submitted as part of the design competition. it was done by ned in collab

traffic on 80 moves well, heading up to the mcarthur. eastbound 580 road construction going on until 6:00 for another hour or so. also, this morning, we are looking at 580 north and south bound in front of the coliseum, that traffic does move well. now, let's go back to the desk. >>> oakland could soon become the first city in the nation to authorize wholesale pot cultivation. we have claw dean at city hall with the details. >> reporter: yes t. vote is in and one supporter says he hopes the vote means oakland is one step closer to becoming the silicon valley of cannabis. this vote was 5-2. it came after a lengthy debate from people on both sides. said ground breaking vote and a hot issue. people passionate about the plan. the plan was licensing four production plants where marijuana will be grown, and processes. we are talking about pot cultivation t. proposal doesn't put side limits on the plans. there have been proposals for farms as far as two football fields. supporters say this could be an economic boom, critiques say it will destro

it happened in the backyard of 82nd avenue and mcarthur. the owner asked if the girl wanted to pet the dog and almost immediately the pitbull attacked the girl. she underwent surgery and is said to have non-life-threatening injuries. this happened two days after a 2-year-old boy was mauled to death by two pitbulls in concorde. >> people need to understand what the requirements are for being a responsible pet owner. >> reporter: allison said people need to be cautious around animals and owners need to socialize, train and know their dogs. >> people need to do their homework and if they do have a dog in their home exhibiting questionable behavior regardless of the breed, they should address that right away and mitigate that behavior before it escalates into something dangerous. >> reporter: the espca already has more than a dozen pitbulls in its care including these seven puppies and concerned these recent maulings would keep people from adopting them. >> a lot of good homes are families with dog experience and a lot don't want to deal with t

witnesses say she was in a backyard near the intersection of mcarthur and 82nd avenue when the owner of the pit bull actually asked if she wanted to pet the dog. they say that's when he lunged and bit her face. >> people really need to do their homework and if they have a dog in their home exhibiting questionable behavior, regardless of the breed, they really should address that straightaway and talk to someone who can help. >> the attack came two days after a 2-year-old was mauled to death by three pit bulls in concord. it is unclear whether the oakland pit bull owner will face any charges. the dog was taken by animal control, but we don't know if he was put down. >>> investigators were trying to find out what started a fire that killed an 8-year-old girl in san jose. the fire started around 1:45 sunday morning at an apartment complex near the hamilton and meridian. the girl is from north carolina and was in san jose visiting relatives. the fire hurt ten other people. >>> fire crews will be out again this morning trying to get the massive wildfire under control. the fire has burned

it happened in the backyard of a home near mcarthur. witnesses toll police the owner asked the girl wanted to pet the dog and almost immediately the pit bull attacked the girl. she underwent surgery and is said to have nonlife threatening injuries. this attack comes just two days after a 2-year-old boy was mauled to death by three pit bulls in concord. >> people need to understand what they're getting into and what the requirements are for being a responsible pet owner. >> reporter: the executive director of east bay spca allison lindh quist says people need to be cautious around animals and owners need to socialize, train and know their dogs. >> i think that people really need to do their homework and if they do have a dog in their home exhibiting questionable behavior, regardless of the breed, they really should address that straightaway and talk to someone who can help with an evaluation and possibly mitigate that behavior before it escalates to something danger s dangerous. >> reporter: there are pit bulls in their care, including t

westbound 80 traffic is moving well heading out to the mcarthur maze and by the way, the bart delays should be gone pretty soon. this no major day -- no major delays at the toll plaza. at 5:05, here's steve. >>> sal, thank you, sir, good morning and we have, boy, i tell you, every sign looks to me that the fog is more of an inland push than we saw yesterday. the wind has picked up a little bit. instead of west, northwest it's a little bit more southernly. yesterday, the fog burned off sooner. it was mostly gone except on the coast. low overcast, a little bit breezy. 70s, upper 60s around the bay and upper 70s and low 80s inland. still, below average on the temperatures. the city is 52, that's running cooler than yesterday. 58 san jose. 52 in san rafael and napa. a pretty good little system spinning right here turning in and that's going to play into our weather and what looks to be a slightly warmer forecast. just a hint of some mist, not much. sunny, breezy, mild to warm if you are well away from any of the influence. 82 today in fairfield because of a little bit more of a sea breez

and look at i-80 westbound to mcarthur mays, no problems in the toll plaza there. the weather is a different matter. hello, mark. >>> that was a nice observation about the cloud deck. a deeper marine layer with the dense fog has kind of elevated a couple hundred feet. we don't have the complete overcast right in the surface. upbound a can positive of clouds and drizzle up there. most of the regions in the 50s. san francisco on the cool side, 53. winds still come now the west, southwest. as a result you move in and cool off quite a bit by the overall wind direction. by 3:00 this afternoon, a bit of a breeze from 15 to 25 miles per hour. this area of low pressure up to the north has been moving up into the state, having an impact into the temperatures over the past few days. that coupled with the fog has really cooled us off. whether he stick with it for today. the clouds and drizzle this morning. high this is afternoon, no 50s. barely making it up into the lower -- no 90s. barely making it up into the 80s today. temperatures this morning 53 to 58 degrees. patchy fog

witnesses say she was in a backyard near the intersection of mcarthur and 82nd avenue when the ownerthe pit bull asked if she wanted to pet the dog. they say the dog lunged at her and bit her face. unclear whether the oakland pit bull owner will face charges in the attack. the dog was taken away by animal control, but it is not yet known whether it was put down. >>> investigators are still trying to find out how a fire that killed an 8-year-old girl started in san jose. now it happened about 1:45 yesterday morning at an apartment complex near the hamilton and meridian area. the girl is from north carolina. she was in san jose visiting relatives. neighbors say the flames were intense. >> bad. i mean, i've never seen anything like that in my life. bad. >> get out, get out, there is a fire. it was just chaos everywhere. >> ten other people were also hurt. and as many as 20 people are now looking for a place to stay. now there were two more fires in san jose. one started just before 3:00 in the morning on sunday at a duplex on witten avenue near highway 101. no injuries reported there. t

i mean we've seen the most abrupt and humiliating depar ture of an american general at war since mcarthur. and it would be strange indeed if officers in every rank, indeed enlisted men did not look at that and take the obvious conclusion from it. so i think it's going to have a dire effect and there is, as you have already mentioned, an energetic debate amongst journalists about the rolling stone article and about how all of this came about. and i think that we need to, as lara logan suggested in that clip, we need to also look, take a look at the vote or maybe i should say the beam in our own eye and look at the question of trust pretty carefully. and there can be no absolutes here. we can't decide these issues on the basis simply of was it on the record or was it off the record. because soferp of what occurs in the field between reporters and military people, reporters and commanding generals and reporters and enlisted men occurs in a situation of informality where it is ambiguous. and it's there that trust is absolutely essential. >> and are you suggesting that you think hastings viola

there were specifics in the mcarthur proposal that i will touch on. they put forward to illustrative pass it would achieve the goal of debt sustainability. they have a low spending-- i think it is a couple of slides i will summarize but they have a low spending and revenue plan which would maintain revenues at the traditional level and produce they met with various policy mixes focusing on investments prada they are showing their different ways and ideas that can be used to achieve this goal. it is still a work in progress. i think they commission will recommend a specific set of returns to help convince the solvents, rein in health-care costs, rain in -- reign in programs, and look at possible freezes in spending, and dramatically simplify the tax code. ornamental tax reform will be desirable, more so if tax revenues go up. they also analysis that we have to deal with the black holes of the budget, the policies that are different in the budget than reality. they will plan on dealing with tax offenders. it'll hold itself to that standard indenture glu

general douglas mcarthur talked about such men and he summed up their service in three words when he said, duty, honor, country. those three hallowed words rev vaptly dictate what these people -- reverendly dictate what these people can be and what they'll always be. staff sergeant eduardo laredo lived those words. he honored his country and his family with his courage and his dedication and he gave his life for the things he believed in. it was once said that what we do for ourselves dies with us but what we do for others, the world remains and is immortal. eduardo's sacrifice will not be forgotten by our nation. staff sergeant eduardo laredo's name is now written on the sacred rolls of american patriots who paid in blood for this nation's freedom and for the freedom of other nations. today i offer a grateful nation's thanks and prayers, we are grateful that a man like eduardo laredo lived and loved america. my heartfelt condolences to eduardo's wife and children, his friends and family and to the 82nd airborne family. today we honor this great american warrior's life and are humble

witnesses say she was in the backyard of her house near the intersection of mcarthur and 82nd avenuece. it is unclear whether the pitbull owner will face charges in the attack. the dog was taken by animal control, but it is not known yet if it was put down. >>> another local news update in a half hour. the "today" show returns in less than a minute. enjoy your monday morning. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow ♪ i love ya tomorrow ♪ you're always a day away >>> back now at 8:30 on a monday morning, 26th day of july, 2010. that takes you back, doesn't it? over 30 years ago andrea mccardell singing the signature song from "annie." and now she's back as part of the show. not only will we hear about that. we'll find out how al got in on the act. >> i just couldn't help myself. >> oh, you couldn't. >> i could have. i broke away from two stage hands to get up there. >> they were holding you back. >> hey, you brought down the house. >> we'll check in with andrea mccardell coming up. >> also coming up, i don't know about you, but i have always wanted to make a great tomato sauce. we get the ones from the

westbound traffic is moving along well heading out to the mcarthur maze. no problems on the bridge. and if you are driving on westbound 237, that traffic looks okay. 6:04. let's go back to steve. >> all right, sal, thank you, sir and lots of gray out there. fog, low clouds. a little bit of mist, drizzle, not much, but a little bit more than yesterday. it's cold, upper 40s to low 50s. by noon, the fog will be peeling back, sun, inland mild depending on if you get the sun, then it won't be bad. breezy, sunny, mild to warm. thunderstorm activity seems to be winding down, a couple of active days, but it's now off to the side. the fog is there, it's a little bit shallower, though. overcast, breezy. warmer air has moved in the higher elevations, but at the surface, it's rather cool. san rafael and napa, napa airport, 52. the city, 52. that's a big difference. oakland, berkeley, upper 50s. palo alto, san jose. there are some mild areas. tahoe, 58. 89 las vegas. 51 eukia. a little bit of a sea breeze from the del that it was up to 31 miles per hour gusts. things have calmed down a little bi