garvin. >> some law enforcement officials believe that mike garvin may have had something to do withis previous wife's hanging death 16 years earlier. >> unfortunately for us, an autopsy was never performed and the body was cremated, so there was nothing we were able to do with that information. >> faced with the overwhelming amount of forensic evidence against him for shirley's murder, mike garvin decided he had no choice but to plead guilty. >> it made me sick to know that he finally personally had admitted it. it made me absolutely sick, but it confirmed every thought that i had. >> garvin was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> but there's still a mystery, and the mystery was we'll never really know what happened because he didn't go to trial. >> he never revealed what he did with the murder weapon, other than to say it was irretrievable. >> michael garvin's arrogance caused him to believe that even if he used his own duct tape to seal her body, that science couldn't trace it back to him, and in the end, it sealed his fate. >> the science in this case is better than an

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> great story. >> i'm motivated and inspired. >> yeah. >>> let's checkn with rob mayeda. you have pretty incredible weather to talk about. >> yes. the numbers on the board are what caught your attention. if you're in san francisco, you can have pants, a jacket, low 70s. by the time you stop at the dublin and pleasanton station, it's mostly clear skies and 103 degrees there. 104 not too far away on 580 east in livermore. in san francisco, this has been our air conditioning but it backed off this afternoon. you see a few wisps of clouds and it's 74 degrees right now and most locations running 10 to 20 degrees warmer at this hour compared to 24 hours ago and indeed you can see the upper 90s inland to above 100 in livermore. huge swing tomorrow, thank goodness, will not be adding those numbers to the forecast but inland valleys are holding hot until the cooling arrives. the hot air rises up and creates the vacuum effect into the marine air. with high pressure so warm and so strong aloft with north winds at times in the north bay, we're seeing a clash between

here's garvin thomas with more. >> reporter: dan bodner is a tinkerer at heart. he is also, as it turns out, a tinkerer with a heart. one who has made a hand. >> this is basically where we're at right now. you can see it moves very fisly. >> reporter: this all began about a year ago when dan, who runs an i.t. outsourced firm in san francisco, heard about people creating prosthetic hands with a 3-d printer. >> and i thought, i could do that. >> reporter: dan got the plans and the printer and set to work. >> this was the original design. >> reporter: the product dan thought was okay. >> it's just not very stiff. it's not very elegant. it's bulky. >> reporter: but good enough wasn't quite good enough for him and dan thought he could do better. what followed was 11 months of design and redesign, printing and reprinting, start and stop. >> there were many points where i thought, i don't know if it's worth it. and then i'd put it aside for a while. then i'd pick it up again and have a new idea that would bubble up and go at it again. >> reporter: and keep going dan did

i'm garvin thomas. a live look out downtown san jose saturday morning. the question on everybody's mind, though, is what is the weather like this weekend? we have a look at the forecast. >> good morning to you at home, we're starting out in the 60s so if you wanted an early morning bike ride or jog or walk the dog, just perfection out there right now, and you get the best air quality at this time of day. here's the weather story of your weekend. warm today, and then downright hot tomorrow. temperatures are going to climb from five to ten degrees between today and tomorrow. it will be very, very warm. there's a little onshore flow, but not enough to keep you cool. tomorrow, trading the low 80s for the 90s. the peninsula at 68 degrees, comfortable temperatures on the east shore, pleasant today, and the weather story of the weekend is temperatures will climb, but not as high as where we head monday. and throughout next week, nice and hot. we'll talk more about this and big events in the bay area as we go t

i'm garvin thomas. coming up on "today in the bay." the party just about to get started this morning in san francisco. you're looking at a live picture. what you need to know about today's pride parade, and we'll show you some of the other celebrations that took place in the city this weekend. >>> speaking of being outdoors, it is heating up in the bay area. we'll let you know how long you can expect it to last. plus, as soccer's popularity grows during the world cup, many bay area fans say it is here to stay, and they were out to prove it on the peninsula last night. this is "today in the bay." . good sunday morning to you. 7:00 sunday morning looking like out at twin peaks and the pink triangle. very big weekend in the city. thanks for joining us. i'm garvin thomas. of course, a lot of outdoor events. everybody will want to know what the weather is looking like. that's why we have rob mayeda here. >> and the forecast is looking nice. right now 50s to near 61 across the bay area. as we head into the afternoon, we'll see the temperatur

garvin thomas is here to introduce us to the unique source of inspiration. >> janelle, two years ago a couple teenagers from gilroy tackled an incredible journey, biking from new york to san francisco. it was at times a brutal, physically taxing journey. still, the moment they finished, all they wanted to do was tackle another quest. now, thanks to their father, this year they get to. >> reporter: if you happen to stop by the gilroy home of this family this spring, there is a sound we are sure you heard. the whir of their homemade kayak trainer. judging by the chart on the gradual, it's been getting a lot of use. >> gradually increased the pace. >> reporter: he and his son paddling up to four hours a day each. there's also a good chance on your way to the house you passed his other two sons on their bikes. they needed to get their time in the saddle, as well, for this family is embarking on one quite ambitious summer vacation. >> they will bicycle down. >> reporter: the family biking 3,600 miles from alaska to san francisco bay. he and his son kayaking the yukon river. why, you ask?

. >> here's garvin thomas with more. >> there are many ways we can help other people. sometimes it's simply our time or money, but when you get to tap into an area of expertise where you can do something that just anyone can't do, well, that's something special and what one oakland man learned in tonight's bay area proud. dan is a tinkerer at heart. he is also, as it turns out, a tinkerer with a heart, one who had made a hand. >> this is basically where we're at right now. you can see it moves very nicely. >> reporter: this began about a year ago, when dan, who runs an outsourced i.t. firm in san francisco, heard about those making prosthetic hands with a 3d printer. >> i thought that is so incredibly cool. i can do that. >> reporter: so dan got the plan and a printer and set to work. >> this was the original design. >> reporter: the product, dan thought, was okay. >> not very stiff. it's not very elegant. it's very bulky. >> reporter: but for this tinkerer, good enough wasn't quite good enough, and dan thought he could do better. what followed was 11 months of design

garvin? >> reporter: they say their friendship started the day they met in sixth grade and has been going strong all the way to their sophomore year at cupertino high. that's the year this thanks to eshawn's caring and generosity and leadership that their bond went to a whole new level. ♪ every other year at cupertino high school, they hold a hall of fame rally. where exceptional students from years gone by are honored. this year, though, they took time to honor an exceptional act of kindness from one of their current classes. >> it was no easy task. >> reporter: one big enough to bring sophomore michael munson to tears. >> this is his life. and thank you, guys. >> reporter: it was back in february that michael's dad martin, an active, outgoing 53-year-old fell while walking his dog along cupertino's saratoga creek. marty's back hit a rock on the way down. he says he knew he was paralyzed the moment it happened. michael tried to keep the bad news a secret at school. but his best friend, eshan

garvin thomas has the full stor story. >> dan is a tinkerer at heart.'s also a tinkerer with a heart. one who has made a hand. >> this is basically where we're at. you can see it moves very nicely sblchlt this all began about a year ago when dan who runs an outsourced it form from san francisco heard about people creating hands with a 3d printer. >> and i thought, that is so incredibly cool. i can do that. so dan got the plan and the printer and set to work. this was the original design. >> the product dan thought was okay. >> it's just not very stiff. it's not very elegant. it's very bulky. >> but for this tinkerer, it wasn't good enough, and dan thought he could do better. what followed was 11 months of design and redesign. printing and reprinting. i don't know if it's worth it. i put it aside for a while. then i pick it up again. have a new idea that would bubble up. go at it again. >> and keep going, dan did, until he had a hand ready for a child. all he need now was a child ready for a hand. dan found her living in mill valley. mary was born with j

the story is in coopertino, and today garvin thomas reports. >> reporter: every other year in coopertino high school, they hold a hall of fame rally where exceptional students from years gone by are honored. this year, though, they took time to honor an exceptional act of kindness from one of their current classes. >> it was no easy task. >> reporter: one big enough to bring sophomore michael munson to tears. >> he changed his life, and thank you guys. >> reporter: it was back in february that michael's dad, mark, active, outgoing 53-year-old fell while walking his dog along the creek. his back hit a rock on the way down. he says he knew he was paralyzed the moment it happened. michael tried to keep the bad news a secret at school, but his best friend saw right through that. >> i went to him, and i turned him around, and you see tears, and i saw the tears in his eyes and i knew something was wrong. >> reporter: he wanted to help michael at any cost and soon learned what that cost was. >> the next few days, michael came to me really sad, like, yeah, we got the medical bills, the wheelchai

it's going to be nice out there, garvin.good morning, nice to wake up with you on a saturday morning, and temperatures will be on the warm side out in the north bay, but really comfortable, meanwhile, along the peninsula and at the immediate coast, a taste of the 60s and 70s this week. mile out there, anything you do outdoors right now is comfortable and stays comfortable in the inland valleys through lunchtime, and then the heat will be a little bit strong, especially up in the north bay, at 87 degrees there, meanwhile, 6 0s and 70s on the coast. 77 for the peninsula, 80 degrees in the south bay, 88 in san francisco, and temperatures are going to be warm out there in the north bay, that's the hot spot at 87 degrees. meanwhile, 72, room temperature, pleasant conditions on the east shore, and 81 degrees in the trivalley. here's the deal, a big time heat wave is coming your bay way, and all week next week, temperatures above average. i'll show you what's coming and ideas on beating the heat. right now, back to you. >>> christi

tom garvin has it in this morning's bay area prep. >> reporter: like many other couples, whitney andsteven's relationship began when they met over a drink. for these two, getting married next spring, it was a cup of coffee. >> the cup. >> reporter: but whitney and steven's relationship is in one way not like any other. to understand why, well, you first have to meet the man who made them that coffee. >> it's amazing. >> jason ask ceo of san rafael's green bean coffee company. if you have never been to one of their stores, it's understandable. while green beans roast their coffee here, they have no retail outlets in the bay area. green beans locations, you see, tend to be a bit more exotic. jason and brother john started green beans 20 years ago with a single gourmet coffee shop in saudi arabia. soon the u.s. military was asking them to open cafes on bases all over the middle east including post-9/11 afghanistan and iraq. >> our staff would go to work wearing kevlar and flack jackets. >> not just good coffee, but 15 minutes of home. still they wanted to do even more. which is how cup

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> and you can find more stories from our bay area proud series on our website. head over to nbcbayarea.com. >>> we'll be right back. >>> there's a town in northern spain that hosted annual wine battle today. >> all right. sounds good so far. >> wine battle. >> take a look at this. they're not necessarily drinking the wine. some 10,000 locals -- >> they're wearing it. >> they're wearing the wine, which could happen. they gathered to celebrate the feast of st. peter by throwing wine on each other until they're soaked from head to toe. more than 3,000 gallons of wine was used as ammunition. the annual wine battle starts the night before with people partying in the town streets, bars and town squares. >> the next morning, people dressed in white shirts which don't stay white very long and head up the mountain with containers full of wine and douse each other during the battle. we could probably find out why this is part of the -- >> and they bypass the cup. they just go straight from the bottle there. no point in wasting time. >> what does that workweek

. >> that was garvin reporting and you can find more stories on ore website. go to nbcbayarea.com. >> we'll be right back. [ heart beating ] [ female announcer ] the internet gets more exciting the faster it goes. that's why, coming soon, xfinity will double the internet speed on two of our most popular plans. xfinity continues to innovate, bringing you the fastest, most reliable internet, period. [ heart beating ] xfinity internet from comcast. double the speed. [ heart beats ] . >>> a spanish town hosting the annual wine battle today. >> we missed it. some 10,000 locals and tou rests to celebrate the feast of st. peter by throwing wine on each other. sounds like a good time there. more than 3,000 gallons of wine were used. >> no one is running. it's cool. >> free wine. c'mon now. the battle starts the night before with people partying in the town's streets. the next morning people dress in white shirts and head up a mountain with containers of wine to douse each other during the battle. very well attended as you can see. >> and it's red. they're drinking red

garvin thomas is reporting there. one service member wrote he didn't get gifts on his birthday, just the one cup of coffee of which he is very thankful. >>> let's check the forecast. meteorologist rob mayeda with your microclimate forecast. a nice warm june day. >> we have the late breeze cooling things off. livermore 83 degrees. oakland high clouds moving by and game time forecast coming up after 7:05. about 67 degrees. and the winds are a little gusty right now. close to 30 miles per hour in san francisco and that is a n k sneak preview to tomorrow's forecast as the weather system bringing a band of high clouds and scooping up low clouds that will come spilling in as we move towards tomorrow morning especially along the coast. overnight tonight low clouds forming. areas of mist and drizzle. throughout the afternoon partly cloudy conditions and temperatures tomorrow with the all day sea breeze running cooler than today. near 80 degrees in san jose. san francisco seeing the highs only in the mid 60s. to the north bay

. >> you know someone who is making a difference, let garvin know about it. visit our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> good afternoon. you can see right here across the san francisco bay a lot of blue sky. there is fog. the thing you want to notice is that marine layer is compressed down to about 500 feet. that's the sign of fog beginning to weaken and much hotter temperatures on the way. as we also get a look at the sky camera network down here, some best weather as we told you yesterday is happening right now across the santa clara valley. sunny unlimited visibility. we'll have more of that coming our way. let's get you into the forecast. the thing we have been dealing with the past three days, at least copious amounts of has been the fog. what you'll find in the fog forecast is the fact that tomorrow morning we'll have fog but it's not as widespread. it's going to be right up against the immediate coastline. you can see for the interior valley of the north bay and south bay will be mostly clear. that will mean sunny skies back this the forecast as we head thro

i'm garvin thomas. coming up on "today in the bay."d this morning in san francisco. you're looking at a live picture. what you need to know about today's pride parade, and we'll show you some of the other celebrations that took place in the city this weekend. >>> speaking of being outdoors, it is heating up in the bay area. we'll let you know how long you can expect it to last. plus, as soccer's popularity grows during the world cup, many bay area fans say it is here to stay, and they were out to prove it on the peninsula last night. this is "today in the bay." . good sunday morning to you. 7:00 sunday morning looking like out at t

. >> garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> and still to come, you wouldn't expect this old fast food placeto be ground zero for international space mission. what they're doing inside to bring a spacecraft back to life. >>> call it a zombie reboot, it measures the gravitational pull of the sun. then it was put out of commission because of a lack of funding. now a team of engineers is working out of an unusual headquarters that nasa aims to bring a space probe back to life. business and tech reporter skotz bud man reports. >> born in the disco era, decommissioned during the dot come boom, this so called zombie space boom is getting a second chance, thanks to a group of techies gathered around computers at a former mcdonald's in the shadow of nasa's hanger one. >> well, it's a weird vibe. we never started out thinking about being in a mcdonald's. it was just an expediency, we were either going to move in here or in an old beauty shop. and someone hit the beauty shop with a car. >> now, sky corp. with engineers like jacob who weren't born when the space probe launched are trying to get it goin

. >> thank you, garvin. >>> let's get a check of our forecast now. a bit of a warmup now beginning. here's rob. >> we see the warmup as we get close to the weekend. tomorrow, a few more degrees. likely what we're seeing outside is the coolest day of the next seven. right now, mid 70s around san jose, also around towards the tri-valley, 75 degrees, closer to the water, temperatures there around emeryville at 68 degrees, 65 right now in san francisco, and you can see the low clouds streaming across the bay. those will fill in, heading towards the east bay overnight and we might see more mist tomorrow morning before we see bigger changes. the temperatures really climbing up for the weekend. right now, strong, wind speeds from san francisco to livermore, feels more like the embarcadero for you this evening, that strong west wind at times. rain totals did tick up a little bit before sunrise. one little wave of showers come through, dropping enough rain to register. oakland, san jose, livermore, san francisco, little to wet the pavement, but now things trending much drier through the next

. >> garvin thomas reporting. you can find more stories on our web site. l >> that is cool.ou see the dog's toes? they're if you werele. meteorologist is standing by. a bit of a change, it sounds like. >> we have the winds going pretty strong around the bay area. 57 degrees at about 25 miles per hour. mostly 50s outside right now. we should wake up to upper 40s. and the wind speeds still pretty strong. we'll still see some gusts maybe 30 mimes or so. we'll see areas pushing inland. drizzle popular along the ocean-facing side there. mostly sunny conditions heading to the article floon. maybe not so much on monday, but by tuesday. we'll see winds starting to pick up to the north as we tran silgs to a wrarning pattern ahead. it looks a little bit more like march. as long as that low is creptered justoff to the nort, that will keep our chemptures to the low 670s. >> this is going to allow for wednesday and thursday to be the warmest days of the week, as you see there. the middle part of the week will be the wamplest temperatures. maybe close to upper 80s. tomorrow, after some mo

garvin thomas has their touching and colorful story. >> reporter: as hard as the doctors and nurses try immunotherapy infusions are not all that pleasant. from the moment with the needle to the hours of nothing, there is not much to make her smile. which is why it is so great that should valerie need a smile, all she has to do is look at the purple polish at the tips of her toes and think of the story behind them. >> it's just something fun to get through this experience. >> reporter: valerie's experience began last august. it was just about a month before her wedding to long-time partner ralph when doctors told valerie the cough that had nagged her for more than throw years was something very serious, stage four lung cancer. >> it's just devastating to receive that diagnosis. >> reporter: the month that followed was a dark time, valerie admits. but that is when, with hopes of raising her spirits just a little, ralph took valerie to get a pedicure. she went with her favorite color, purple. then so did ralph. >> he said he'd do his toes purple as well to make me smile. >> hoped. it seeme

my great mentor john garvin advised i had a dream assignment -- >> woodruff:n 1970. late in 1973 he said, what do you think you'll write about? i said i thing we'll change vice presidents and presidents in a year. so this was a way out thought. hso i kept a journal. he said, 40 years now, people can say, so that's what it was like. so you can capture that extraordinary period. >> woodruff: every bit of it captures what happened in the last days when president nixon resigned. he lived another 20 years. you write about how he was determined the redeem himself. >> i don't that very many people would have survived the crushing blow that he suffered. he worked all those years to be president, finally got there and he ruined it. he kind of knew he would. he says in there you learn early how to be tough and fight back and he was always in combat. he always thought people were looking down on him and he had to show them and fight. well, he wasn't going to give in again. so he made a plan, a secret plan called "the wizard" and it was how he was going to get respectability bac

dennis garvin sees oil going higher but it's not iraq that is driving the price action. it's another risk factor so he'll name it. >> over to you, melissa. >> live from the nasdaq market square in new york city i'm melissa lee. who says there's no volatility in this market? the vix may be low, but there are lots of big movers in today's session. tes larks general motors, f-mcmoran, 3-d systems breaking out to the upside. tesla on a tear for the last five trading days. up 15%. let's bring in ben cowan who joins us on the fast line. ben, what's driving this? >> thanks for having me. much big news coming out. more importantly earlier in the week tesla issued an e-mail to model "x" reservation holders reaffirming the timeline around when deliveries will start early next year and then it said we'll see actual production models on vehicles on the road sometime this fall so i think that gives investors more confidence in the pipeline of new vehicles. we've also seen some positive movement in state legislatures on the direct sales front which is also a positive, and then i would

dennis garvin sees oil going higher but it's not iraq that is driving the price action. it. >> over to you, melissa. >> live from the nasdaq market square in new york city i'm melissa lee. who says there's no volatility in this market? the vix may be low, but there are lots of big movers in today's session. tes larks general motors, f-mcmoran, 3-d systems breaking out to the upside. tesla on a tear for the last five trading days. up 15%. let's bring in ben cowan who joins