[laughter] >> the man accused of listing his apartment on air bnb for triple the amount he paid in rent is fighting back. take a look at this luxury hi rise in hells kitchen. henry casey listed his apartment for $649 a night. that's a pretty big price tag for a $6670 monthly pace in rent. he benefits from a rent stabilization until last week when a judge ordered him to move out. it's been described as the first court case to effect a rent stabilized tenant. >> the decision is a bad decision because essentially the landlord could not prove there was any profiteering. they had three witnesses and they couldn't show how much my client was profiting how often he had guess how long his days were. >> if he loses the appeal he will be forced to move out by the end of the month and experts say more air bnb users could be next. stay with chasing for the latest. >> princeton university has a confirmed case of the measles. a student is recovering and no longer infectious but confirmed by school officials with lab results from the cdc. i'm on campus talking about students about how that has affecte

it's called the air b were awere athe air bnb law. homeowners have to register with the city when they offer homes for rent and be allowed to rent their homes up to 90 day ace year but only up to 30 days at a time. permits are valid for two years. >>> plenty of people going to be out and about in san francisco trying to get themselves registered today. this as we take a live look at the golden gate bridge. we are in a crucial period of our year as far as rainfall is concerned. kind of like now or never. you've been looking at a couple different models, christina, both look promising. >> it's funny when i look at the models they get better and better every time when it comes to our chances for rain. today, tomorrow, the next day wash your car if it's that bad. i'm talking to myself particularly. there is going to be a reinforcing shot of rain and that means a free car wash for you coming your way as we head throughout the end of the week into the weekend. we're not going to see a lot down here in the south bay from the first round but

ask air bnb and any company that's running into a regulated environment. this will come to haunt them as well. they are very popular and distance works to their advantage but that bill some portion of that dollar that we get goes from 50 megabits to 100 megabits which makes google a lot of money. so they need each other. >> host: michael powell last question. assess the strengths and weaknesses of the cable industry and what is its future? >> guest: let me start with a weakness and i think brian hit on it. customer service right now is completely unacceptable. i think the industry needs do not double to triple make a tenure commitment to the recovery of that relationship. i think don't think it's because the people. the consequence of their growth, a consequence of networks that have essentially been built for another era better than innovative. there are a lot of glitches getting it to hd getting into broadband and fast broadband. there have been a lot of growing pains and i think their customer service has suffered. it could be more investment in the inn

the first one is that companies like uber and air bnb have fundamentally reset citizen expectations inf what they want their government to look like as far as interactions are concerned. second, there's this third wave of computing with mobile social, cloud, and now analytics that's disrupting every business model including the government. and third, and the most profound, is the fact that political leaders are recognizing that they need to create a more open transparent and participatory government. what they've been able to do with salesforce is engage citizens, shift power to be able to create communities, so the community cloud, where citizens are self-organizing, and addressing some of the toughest problems the city has around crime and health care and education. >> what's the pushback like from the cities that are not jumping to do this? i also look at a company based out here in the bay area that is similarly trying to go around these issues of permitting county level, city level. it's a ground war to fight to get these deals done. but the results from their success stories are

early winners so far air bnb coveted award forand people like the new league 0. security company cloud fair was named best in start up. unlike the oscars they are decided by ordinary users 12 million of them throughout the tech crunch web site. protestors showed up to tonight ceremony too. this group rally against car service company uber and lift. taking issue with the business practice and the effect they have on the city taxi industry. >> talk about the big storm finally making its way to the bay area. drew is tracking it very closely tonight. >> we show you rain is get to go move in especially to the north bay. as we press in a little bit closer and late rain at this hour and that rain down to clover dale and over the next couple of hours overnight that rain will spread south across much of the bay area. nationwide weather rather quite it forecast among the lower 48 lots of sunshine on the way. stick with me the only place wet weather along the west coast of the cold front mavs through. seattle portland topping out in the with rain. sunshine in so-cal. brunt

. >>> san francisco officials say air bnb has settled when the city claims it owned in back taxes. to pay the 14% hotel tax was a bone of contention with some city leaders. supervisor david campo says the short term rental service has now paid its bill, and that it amounted to 10's of millioners of dollars. airbnb declined to say how much. but some estimates show it could be as high as $25 million. >>> one of san francisco's oldest cab companies is rebranding with the help of new technology. desoto cab, with its color scheme dates all the way back to 1933. now all the cabs are being repainted red, and being renamed after the taxi hailing app fly wheel. it's a red bird city company. it's part of an effort by traditional cabs to compete against companies like uber and lyft. they expect a big increase in app downloads as it repaints 250 desoto cabs. >>> checking back in on weather. the highs from today, warmer than yesterday. we got a little more sunshine out there. therefore, you got numbers back into the mid- to upper 60s. a nicer day. started off slow with a lot of fog and clouds l

you look at uber, air bnb. this is taking capital that was being underutilized and deploying it in a more useful, more productive way. so i think anywhere we have capital that's being underutilized or anywhere we have large labor pool that isn't using a lot of capital are areas that will be disrupted in the next ten years. or if you have -- >> well, i like the second question. and i don't have any, any science or any sort of empirical evidence for this. but i've always been very optimistic about the likely impact of future technologies. and the way i try to think about it is there's sort of two possible outcomes. and if you put this in star trek terms, you have either you know, the united federation of planets where everybody cooperates and everybody has the ability to achieve their own personal enlightenment and their own sort of personal best or you have the board where everybody is nobody. that it's just one giant collective. and some ways, these are two very different futures that come from the same set of

it's a way to put controls on home rentals through air bnb and the similar services.roved applicants can rent out homes for up to 30 days at a time and no more than 90 days in a calendar year. >>> developing news, hundreds of workers are staging a strike against oil refineries in the western u.s.. one of those about to be affected is the tesoro plant in martinez. where more than 400 people normally work. kpix 5's ryan takeo is live in martinez to explain how this might affect gas prices, rye ran? >> reporter: experts warn we could see a jump in gas prices. here at the tesoro plant in martinez, it's in the process of shutting down. all because of a contract showdown. >> what do we want? >> fair contracts. >> reporter: the united steel workers' union is on strike at nine oil refineries. mostly in california and texas. here's a look at what it looked like yesterday in southern california. the strike is in response to a breakdown in contract talks between the union and shell oil, which is serving as the lead company in national negotiations. the tesoro plant in martinez i

. >>> plus san francisco's new restrictions on air bnb go into effect.homeowners can and cannot do, coming up. >>> good monday morning to you. i'm meteorologist christina loren. we've got more beautiful weather in store for you today and then things start to change. lot of rainfall on the way to the bay area. very good looking storm system, i'll give you my analysis for this in just moments. >>> and a beautiful clear view of this slow drive for 580. we have the incident right at the dub lir interchange. i'll give you the latest update, see what chp says about 580 at 680 coming up. >>> a live look outside this morning overlooking the s.a.p. center in san jose. thanks for starting your monday with us. it's february 2nd. this is "today in the bay." >>> a very good morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. the stanford swimmer accused of raping a woman on campus is set to face a judge in court today. "today in the bay's" nannette miranda joins us live from palo alto. what is expected to happen here? obviously he is

ideas that piggyback on companies such as buber and air bnb. pinterest may be worth $11 billion.hinese smart phone maker 26 billion. the taxi service valued around 41 billion. snap chat around 19 billion. lauren simonetti here with me now. we will focus on this pinterest and a possible valuation of $11 billion. a year ago, it was half that. >> they

. >> that is why air bnb and uber have been so successful with another service will go and buy anythingthis is more of a person to person courier service and it is a smart idea, look forward to seeing how they scale and it makes a lot of sense there are tons of waffle houses all over the atlanta area. it is scary to have a stranger come to your house. stuart: i have a package to deliver that i want delivered you are the driver and takes a piece of the feet, got that. what does waffle house get? >> not really clear. it is investing a little bit. >> have some aches and bacon and the waffle and on your merry way. especially if they're on long road trips why not stop at waffle house. stuart: thanks for joining us good stuff. later today on risk and reward dierdre bolton has an exclusive interview with the vice president of waffle house and the ceo of routine. the sharing economy. brought to you on the fox business network at 1:00 eastern. two stories that some up the obama presidency. panel of academics appointed by the government says stop eating meat because it is bad for the environment.