an overnight fire the alamo leaves eight people out in the cold. the tool residents say saved their lives. >>> pg&e sends out a big warning to investors. the huge fine they're expected for their involvement in the san bruno pipeline disaster. >>> well, good morning. we're ready. it's friday, february 17th. i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm pam cook. thanks for joining us on this friday morning. he's check in on the forecast. >>> yesterday was sunshine and temperatures warmed up. high bands going by and overall it will be partly sunny to mostly sunny. the clouds will clear out fast. they're racing along. there's a system at the top of your screen that's going to push in. 50s and low to mid-60s. here's sal. >>> highway 4, getting slow traffic coming up to the willow pass. no major problems coming up to concord. you will see slow traffic on 680. this morning's commute is going to be slow in some areas. along northbound 280 at 17, it does look good. in case you have not heard, the bay bridge westbound will be closed starting tonight. why is it happe

. >>> a single mom and two children escape a fire in alamo early this morning. we'll tell you about that. >>> a countdown to bay bridge toll plaza closure. the impact that can half in the bay area starting tonight. >> pg&e prepares to get hit with a multimillion dollars fine. the amount customers will have to pay. it's all here on channel 2 morning news. >>> well, good morning to you. welcome to brand new day. it's pam cook's favorite day, friday. it's february 17th. i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. we get to sleep in tomorrow. that's why i like it so much. let's check in with steve. how is tomorrow morning going to be? >> sleeping in? >> maybe 5:15. we have a nice day. cooler. yesterday was the day hopefully you got out. the warmest temperatures looks like they occurred yesterday. that's giving us not only some low clouds and these clouds will clear out but it will be a partly cloudy, partly sunny day. temperatures 50s on the coast and 40th inland. if you're off to an early start, it should be a nice drive from nevada to

i'd like to have former los alamos fire chief doug tucker and police chief wayne torpy to please stand. >> we became pretty close friends throughout the las conchos fire. it the community trusted you. they relied on your briefings and on the men and women you trained to handle a crisis of that magnitude. gentlemen, you made new mexico proud. thank you. today i believe that in front of us is an opportunity to make tomorrow better than today.

could you describe what changes in operations and staffing you anticipate at los alamos now that the cmrr has been delayed? >> well, much of the staffing i don't think it's directly -- so what we plan to do is go ahead and complete substantially the design of that building. so what we have been putting in previously was mostly engineering design. we're going to get to perhaps 90% of the engineering design part of it. that's very prudent for a number of reasons, because before you start construction, it's best that you have most of it designed. but you're correct. we are now putting that on hold while -- because of the budget constraints of the nsa. we have to look at all the other projects, and we could not simply -- we felt we could not simply start cmrr and upf, the uranium processing facility, at oak ridge, and we felt there was more compelling reasons to begin that. we're looking at ultimately the plans. we can consolidate. the footprint is there. there can be other parts of this. we are looking at, as we look towards a new start and beyond new start, and working with the defense

but there will be some cmr at los alamos, we feel. but, again, we don't know whether there are other options. >> let me ask senator hoeven. are you ready for your questions before i ask others if they have a second round of questions? >> i am, mr. chairman. thank you very much. >> why don't you go ahead. >> appreciate it. mr. secretary, good to see you again. thank you for being here. i'd like to ask you a little bit about gasoline prices. i'm sure you're well aware that the average price for gasoline in the country right now is over $3.50, according to aaa and the lundberg survey. that's up 90% since the current administration took office. and so my question relates to why aren't we advancing projects like the keystone xl pipeline to provide more supply and help bring gasoline prices down? you were asked to review that project, or the department of energy was asked to review that project, by the state department. and your expert, dr. carmine -- i'm going to probably miss on the last name. you might have to help me. difiglio. does tha

and knew his works well, and was able to quote them famously to those who were defending the alamo. who would be a tracist knave? who would fill a cowered grave? it's all about your people not sending it. from then on, our people stood together in many places all over the world. that, again, i think gives me a connection of respect. so thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak to you and i look forward to your questions. as alan indicated, i've got responsibilities for a few bits of the world beyond texas. 27 countries from banff to bangladesh, and the way i characterize them, it's south africa, middle east, afghanistan, iraq. 27 countries and 13 have some form of major interruption going on. that leaves three. and you can never quite trust the canadians. and, again, those of you who have done your math will mean that leaves texas. so the point of civility in my life. so thank you for all that. i'm told this city is to energy as london is to finance, and i'm very pleased to be here at the heart of the global energy industry. my thanks to the first council for pullin

wonder if they had a conversation, as someone who had seen his father alive before he died tat the alamo. there's a column up here that says, immigrant or native? and if you go down and look at the names, every anglo name is immigrant. every hispanicnive. we were the immigrants. people who look like me. we were the immigrants. we were the newcomers. as a matter of fact, i love going to various places and talking to -- particularly at republican events. we're going to build a fence on the border here and we're going to do this and do that. and somebody will say, i'm a fifth generation texan. and i'll say, did your ancestor come here legally or illegally? what do you mean? of course they came -- well, you're not so sure about that. if they didn't come in here sponsored by a presadio grant -- i forget the time immigration was suspended by mexico, they were illegal immigrants. we have a long tradition of illegal immigration but it started out with anglos and people who talked the language that i talk and maybe who had blue eyes and red hair or blond hair, whatever. we have to keep that in co

especially efforts to preserve the greatest texas history shrine of all, the alamo. i can't think of a more appropriate person or organization to take on this charge. please join me in welcoming and thanking a great friend of texas history, land commissioner jerry patterson. [ applause ] >> welcome to our symposium. i tell people at every opportunity when they say, what do you do or what's a land commissioner do or i can't vote for you because i'm not in your precinct and by the way would you fix that road up there, and i say, you know, if you live in texas you're in my precinct. i say i have the greatest gig in texas government, and i really do. it's an opportunity to look good through no effort of your own. i mean, how can you do any better than that? i have people that work for me in archives and records, and you know mark and others that are here who make even me look good. but it's a great opportunity. i mean, i'm a big history buff, and i'm not a historian. i'm a history buff. i have a history degree. that doesn't mean i have anything other than an interest in

decision is made to begin aggressive new nuclear warhead design and pit production mission at los alamos or for example build new nukes that's something that supposedly we're supposed to be moving away from. fulfills our common objective to negotiate a new strategic arms reduction treaty that includes significant reductions in the nuclear weapons that we will deploy it cuts or delivery vehicles by roughly half that includes a comprehensive verification regime which allows us to further build trust. that would be president obama speaking in prague when he signed a historic new start treaty pledging to reduce our nuclear arsenal to five thousand warheads far more than we would need to blow the world into smithereens five times over so if we're trying to reduce our nuclear arsenal but we possibly want this facility for all those who supported continual bleeding of the american taxpayer say that it needs to be built to quote support current nuclear weapons stockpiles through surveillance and life extension programs. small little tidbit though the project on government oversight guess is that

kentwood 35, alamo 37, mill valley still holding steady at 39 and palo alto 37 degrees. 30s and 40s,a rosa, sonoma airport, they lost the breeze. i saw livermore 37, san jose 31, redwood city 41 as well. high pressure is building in a big way. low pressure to the south and we get a northerly breeze, overall it is a dry pattern and warmer pattern some 60s and mostly sunny and a few upper 60s with a northerly breeze. extended forecast does show a quiet pattern, warm mild conditions, rain looks like it is on tap for tuesday. pam? >>> ben bernanke will testify to the house budget committee and he is expected to talk about the slow moving economy may need more help from the feds. he also says it could send the economy in reverse. feds signal a full recovery could take at least three more years. >>> citibank customers could receive a jolt as they list it as tackable income -- taxable income. they opened a checking or savings account with citibank next year and usually the rewards are not taxable because they are considered a rebate on something purchased. we have not heard from the interna

. >> en una semana se vio forzada a abandonar monterrey y viajo al alamo . >> viví en un hotel dos mesese paralizaba la mitad de su rostro . >> yo no le entiendo nada . >> me ponen cosas y no entiendo decía . >> y el chiquito lloraba a diario . >> y el otro comenzó a llorar . >> después de ir a u escuela dónde sus hijos no avanzaban . >> los matriculó en la primaria monrroe . >> la única con un programa bilingüe, ahí comenzó el cambio . >> antes todos hablaban inglés . >> y después en otros idiomas . >> cuando vienes asustado que no quieres entrar a la escuela . >> que duro no . >> nos informo mónica . >> arreglo judicial con los bancos para frenar los abusos por los créditos hipotecarios . >> hasta ahora 40 estados respaldan la medida . >> y en california ha expresado su preocupación por las demandas de los bancos que se enrriquecieron otorgando préstamos . >> la mayoría de los beneficiarios están ahí . >> la regla de alimentos alameda pint el centro comercial y parques de negocio maría pilash . >> deberán sacar permiso y cumplir con reglas sanitarias . >> reemplazo de una carretera al

the bay looks quiet until you get to san ramon, alamo. north bay quiet also. we have an area of low pressure spinning northeast another batch of showers could develop for the morning. we'll keep an eye on that after that 70s. here's katie with more news and eric. >>> 4:31. right now in the news, oakland police have cordoned off the area around the 2100 block of 62nd after an officer shot and wounded a suspect. amy hollyfield is live at the oakland police department. >> reporter: police are trying to sort through why this happened. they haven't said why the officer shot at the man. they did say the man was armed with a gun. this happened about 11:30 last night in the 2100 block of 62nd avenue. police say someone was robbed. police did make a vehicle stop. the passenger in that car ran away. they say that passenger had a gun and that is the man who police shot. that man is expected to survive. in the hospital in stable condition. no police officers were hurt. that is what police have told us so far. we have a few more questions. we know they are working through

. >>> several people are displaced after a fire at an alamo triplex. it breck out at -- broke out at 1:00 on danville boulevard. investigators say it started in the kitchen and was spread. the fire was possibly sparked by a wall heater but the cause has not been determined. the firefighters were able to put the fire out in about 40 minutes. most of the residents were home when the fire started and got out safely. >> they came in spraying full blast 57 drenched the place and got it out. it was pretty bad. luckily, everyone got out and was safe. >> damage to the building and property is estimated at about $75,000. the red cross was called in to help the residents. >> we are now less than eight hours away from the scheduled westbound closure of the bay bridge. the at 8 clbltion tonight, traffic will no longer be allowed to cross from the east bay into san francisco and it will stay that way until approximately 5:00 tuesday morning. kod joining us live with preparations now underway. good afternoon, claudine. >> this becomes a very different place. you are

i'd like to have former los alamos fire chief doug tucker and police chief wayne torpy to please stand. >> we became pretty close friends throughout the las conchos fire. it the community trusted you. they relied on your briefings and on the men and women you trained to handle a crisis of that magnitude. gentlemen, you made new mexico proud. thank you. today i believe that in front of us is an opportunity to make tomorrow better than today. to create a new mexico that reflects our values. a place where those who play by the rules succeed and those who don't are brought to justice. a place where those who have risked their lives to protect our freedom return home to find a state that has protected their jobs. a place where small businesses grow, and where other companies choose to locate. a place where every new mexico child is taught to chase his or her dreams that when they struggle, they're helped. where they learn to overcome challenges, but never, ever accept failure. it is up to us to seize this moment, to face our challenges and rise once again to the occasion. new mexico's best

doing battle for it in san antonio all four participants have plenty to gain and a lot to lose at the alamo dome this is our shot as a junior not only putting the title on the line but also his undefeated record of forty four wins and one draw the mexican's veteran compact rubio meanwhile has fifty three wins five losses one draw and thirty one year old cousin lost in almost three years since going down to kelly pavlik in two thousand and nine while the w.b. some white belt has some aggressive suitors in don't have one of those men who get just their second professional loss and one well in the title. boxing club are hard no matter who you are you could be border rican mexican filipino but one thing is when there's challenges we take it with all that respect that's what it's all about boxing that's the beauty of boxing and we want everyone to come and see because this is going to be an incredible fight this is going to be an amazing fight and i know that both sides have respect for each other but both sides will do everything and they think they can bring their heart to bring their pride an

temperatures east of the bridge, 78 degrees in brentwood and also pleasanton, danville and alamo. 78degrees and just couple degrees difference between yesterday and today. again, we do have the cooler temperatures on friday and after our little bit of morning start as it will call it partly cloudy and there we do introduce the chance to the forecast on tuesday and wednesday. some of the long-range models -- we could have the very rainy mid-march. >>> at that meeting will be missing from sunday night's academy awards. the kodak theatre has been the home of the oscars is assigned to $74 million down when naming rights and 2000. today kodak got court approval to end the deal and it goes through bankruptcy. during the oscars telecast, but then you will be called the hollywood center. >> the diet drug cocktail about doctors and patients say that delivers results. ,,,, today recommended approval f the diet pill q-nexa . doctor jon lapook it has risks but apparently they do not outweigh the benefits. an fda panel today recommended approval of diet pill qnexa. >> muriel rosenwasser was like many of

and they fought at the alamo and everything. we don't get credit for it. >> you're right. >> only thing they think of is slaves. >> well, and to me the wonderful story about the war of 1812 is how african-americans used that as a way to secure their freedom. now, one of the great stories -- >> they didn't come here as slaves. some of them came and helped discover america. >> you're right. some of them did. exactly. and yet what we see is that we tend to create in the narrative of american history we tend to put people in certain groups or categories. and we generalize those categories. we can say that within any group of people there are exceptions >> yes. >> and in the process of trying to make it a narrative flow that goes from point a to the end, we talk generalizations rather than the exceptions. >> yeah. give credit where credit due. >> i agree. i agree. pl >> other questions >> hi there question about thom jefferson. >> okay. maybe i have an answer. >> okay. the phrase "separation of church and wer going to ask that. >> ye

they are holding a fund-raiser at the creek side community church in alamo. >> the l.a. dodgers want to distance themselves from brian stow. they want to disallow claims filed by brian stow who was attacked outside the stadium last spring. his family sued the dodgers and filed a claim in july as well. this happened weeks after the dodgers owner put the team in bankruptcy. they filed a motion saying stow cannot prove any link between the addition security-related steps that contends the debtors should have taken with his injuries. >>> the real giants are here in the bay area. they have a big day tomorrow. the fans are lining up at at&t park not tomorrow, but tonight. jean elle joins us from china basin. beautiful weather and the star players and free. that's a good combo. >> that's right. it's irresistible is everybody's guest. the doors open in about 10 hours and 45 minutes, but the line is already forming. these are die-hard san francisco giants fans. willing to spend the night outside for a chance to meet their favorite players. >> good to be back and get the feeling o

like when the japanese attacked the alamo. of course, we historians are often accused of loving the past so much that we in effect live in it. when you consider the sh n -- [ laughter ] -- tmz, and any of the kardashians, i'm not sure the past is so undesirable a place to live. truth be told, we study the past at least in part to avoid repeating its mistakes. historians are in the prospective business. a commodity we could use more of right about now. in the words of lou's hero abraham lincoln, the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. that is certainly true when it comes to the state of the assro the halls of congress as well. to visit mount vernon is to be reassured that there are in fact still places where american history is being presented in ways both rigorous and accessible. for me personally it almost feels like a homecoming to be in this magical spot. for that and much more i thank the truly visionary leader, blessed with a staff that shares his dedication and innovative outlook. t

i remember when my mother used to read me stories about the fall of the alamo and other historical tales and i guess i get my love of history from my late mother. now, i basically tried to do the same thing with my kids. i have twin daughters, and rather than reading them bedtime stories, i read to them about the battle of gettysburg. and, i drug them to every national battlefield there is in the united states. as they got older, i'd say by the time they were 7 or 8 years old, they could give a pretty good discourse on the military strategies of robert e. lee versus ulysses s. grant. i knew i had probably gone too far. they were about 5 or 6 years old, i got a note from their sunday school teacher. and the note said, mr. perry, we have problems with your twin daughters in the sunday school class. my first thought was, can you flunk sunday school? so, i finally met with the sunday school teacher. and she said, well, mr. perry, the problem is this -- you see, i asked the sunday school class who walked on water. and your daughter, mandy answered, robert e. lee. and then, after i corrected y

it happened at 1:00 this morning in alamo. now, the san rafael firefighters responded to put out the flames. no one was hurt. investigators say a smoke detector alerted a woman and the two kids to a fire. it's believed the fire started in a kitchen, possibly from a heater. the red cross is now helping the affected families. >>> this morning, president obama is waking up in san francisco after his appearances in three fundraisers in the city yesterday. channel reporter is in staff to tell us how the president's visit went and where he's headed next. >> reporter: well, at this point it looks like he can chalk up this visit as a success. you can see security is tight. the president, well, he's way down the street there. the intercontinental hotel is down there. as you can see the streets streets are blocked off in and around this area. for a couple of blocks the barricades are up. you're looking at a command vehicle. his visit is essentially over, but he got a warm reception in the city by the bay. >>> statue of liberty right the

now, firefighters arrived at this converted alamo home just before 1:00 a.m.two trucks. a simle mother -- single mother and her two children lived there. in all, all eight got out safely. one tenant admit esjust took the batteries out of his smoke detector but luckily, his neighbor did not. >> i didn't hear anything, and she woke me up banging on the window. i came out and the kids were returning around. she was screaming fire. i didn't know where it was. i grabbed the fire extinguisher and charged up to her place. >> reporter: now, here is a picture lawson took right after the fire just after the firefighters put out the flames. you can see the charred mess left behind but take a look at -- take a look back live. this is a look inside the apartment where the fire got started. we're not sure of the amount of damages at this point. but you can see it's quite burnt inside where the kitchen is. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. and there were no injuries. reporting live in alamo, lorraine plaun co, ktvu channel 2 news -- lorraine blanco, ktvu ch

remember the alamo and harbor inflames people where such things as hurricane karla cannot. stray bullets kill brave men and miss cowards, they tear open great doctors to be and merely nick soldier have a criminal past. that has a tendency to rob us of the talented, inflate the mediocre. always making young men who survived not forget what they've been through. i can't this evening about hai discuss in the book. i deliberately selected those that we know less about annt to or the battle marathon or gettysburg, i looked atnwa. and in shilo that i would like to speak about. okinawa, we don't think much about it. if you look at the latest enpsychly peeda, oki -- encyclopedia, doesn't serve an entry. okinawa actually 100,000 japanese soldiers died. 100,000 okinawa civilians were wounded or killed. 50,000 american casualties, 12,000 dead. all of this three months before the end of world war ii. why don't we think about it? there were a series of ripples that occurred that clouded our memory. franklin d. roosevelt died in the middle of the campaign. the war in europe ended in may

you had a choice with respect to the facility in lose alamos. can you talk about the reasoning behind that decision? >> tom d'ingis our director. >> this is a matter of what does the country need in order to do its job. we take a look at our capabilities both on the plutonium side and uranium side. and it's very clear when you do that, there is a clear and urgent need to move the functions that we have in uranium work, to move it out of there. because that's a high-risk activity. the defense boards told us that, we understood that. we had to get moving with that. on respect to plutonium, which is what the facility was going to do, we decided to defer that decision. it's not canceled, it's deferred. what that means is we know we have existing capabilities in our infrastructure, we have a radiological build right next door that we just built. we're going to maximize the use of that to get what the country needs in material characterization and analytical chemistry. we'll take advantage of the capability we have at lawrence ve our super block facil

east bay hills, anywhere from about 20 to 30 miles per hour and around mid-70s throughout pleasanton, alamo. close to 70 here in and throughout the bay and back to the peninsula, 70 in san mateo and 74 expected in santa rosa. three-day forecast, we keep it dry through friday. numbers start to gradually go down by friday, but you'll still need the spf if you're headed outside. saturday and sunday, the cloud cover starts to increase. of course, by the weekend we start to get these numbers cooling, then by monday and tuesday, the clouds also still stream in, numbers start to drop. by monday, big-time changes, upper 50s inland, but even here's the big problem, clouds coming in, temperatures cooling, no big rain drops. this is unbelievable. not what we should be having as many of you know. >> thank you, jeff. >>> when we come back, the white house sings the including s, including a surprise performance from the president. ♪ let me get that door for you... [ man ] i loved my first car... sometimes the door gets stuck... oh sure. ooh! [ man ] ...and then, i didn't. um... [ sighs ] [ man ] so, i go

that's why friends are holding a fundraiser concert at the creek side community church in alamo. are $35. >> should it be a nice turnout. >>> it's baseball weather, isn't it? why don't we just start the season today. that's not happening. instead two, weeks from now spring training begins in arizona for the giants and a's. but the giants are in town right now. tomorrow you might know as the annual fan fest. they're expecting about 40,000 people at at&t park. today 200 fans were chosen in a contest to participate in one of the new giants tv commercials. pretty cool. as for tomorrow's fan fest, all the big stars will be there for autographs and photos. it's free. a tour of the clubhouse is also one of the main attractions. we chatted with many of the players today, including you might recognize this guy, buster posey. >> i'm looking forward to being healthy and playing. it's pretty much that simple. it's being able to compete. just being in the thick of things. it's no fun sitting on the sidelines. >> no fun at all. this is a video from last year's event. buster posey has been reha

farai if they just sports news is coming your way in under twenty minutes but before the alamo scout team delves into the winter fun on the ground the russian countess so. well some people embrace the winter and all the frost filled days for teas that come with it others like to hide and was staying in from the dark nights and zero temperatures.

management we are part of a couple of weeks to go to a new funding for the continuous building at los alamos where nobody can figure out exactly why less and less would be needed and less they really want to start building new nukes there now i believe it's been taken out of this budget but it's not the only facility i'm sure you know there's certainly there is where we can we can get some cost cutting and also to tailor our nuclear arsenal to the threats that we're actually facing these days we don't face the same threats that we did during the cold war so we don't need to maintain thousands of nuclear weapons and you know the levels that we have on high alert status we're looking out decades into the future to build new systems including new submarines and new bombers in order deliver them but we're looking at a very different world decades in the future and i think that the role of nuclear weapons is actually going to be declining they're not where they are during the day they are where they are were during the cold war now and as we look at threats out in the future they're not we're not

grand plan of mexico it backfired because the texans wanted independence after a little bald at the alamo they got it. so in the fact this is not the only reason taxes happened but in part misguided to stop the comanche. that is a good way to tell history to somebody who does not know the history of texas. so many other things, the rangers are a product and finally with the 40 year war just true of line from san antonio through fort worth that is where the frontiers at 40 years. nothing even remotely similar happened with any other tribe. i call them the most powerful tribe in american history and people ask me if comanche is meant the western sioux in who would win? there is actually a show with a computer bits a mongolia and against the historical union but even though they are fabulous warriors but they mean the power to influence the course of history. and absolutely no tribe has such a determinants effect on what happened in north america. the plains tribes were mounted. you could find them. they were agrarian. nomadic course found comanche's or shai man o' war arapahoe or the sioux

approaches to the bay bridge toll, san mateo bridge, dumbarton, 880 san leandro, 680 in dublin and near alamoirfield. >>> 6:14. mild temperatures are waiting for you with when you step out. no fog. >> almost in the same area up near novato, san rafael near 37 as you cop out of sonoma into marin the -- as you come out of sonoma into marin that's the biggest patch i can find. we are looking down from mound tamalpais look how clear it is over tiburon, sauce lee to san francisco, a -- sausalito, san francisco, let's talk about temperatures. san francisco 51 as we look at the monterey bay 46 santa cruz near 50 watsonville salinas 51 monterey gilroy 38 let's talk about what is going to happen in this cycle, warmest afternoon from here on it gets colder clouds return tonight even drizzle and fog overnight better chance for showers friday into saturday morning sunday night into monday well above today -- five degrees in san francisco 65 napa and redwood city -- 70 today in san jose, seven degrees warmer and average. livermore 68 does, 11° warmer than -- [ inaudible ] no huge crashing dangerous surf a

westbound 80 alamo, a car was diving the wrong way on the freeway now they are off to the right.ing much slowing, 65 miles an hour, new crash on westbound 4 adding to the slow ride in antioch towards pittsburg things heavy westbound 4 right at willow pass four vehicles blocked a lane still a crash north 880 on the 66th avenue off-ramp. waze traffic map a little slowing through the altamont pass earlier car fire you can get more abc7news.com/waze. >>> :39. >> trading is underway on wall street. we'll have a live report if the new york stock exchange straight ahead. now there's a -- a live look at the big board dow is up 27 points. >>> free condoms, by mail. california's controversial new program offering protection to teens as young as 12. >>> forget hot off the grill this burger is from the test tube. the breakthrough that some say could be the next big thing. >>> how demi moore's recent troubles could lead to a change in state law regarding 911 calls. ♪ ♪ ♪ don't stop doing what you do ♪ have i paid my dues just to be with you... ♪ >>> welcome back. very quiet across the entire

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union city through castro valley dublin grade into the tri-valley area heading north watch out in alamo, danville, concord and lafayette. small area of low pressure here going to take the bulk of the heavier rain into southern california as we need the afternoon hours that's why we'll be dealing with scattered showers still cooler temperatures won't move much from where they are now mid 50s to around 60. fog the next couple of mornings sun and warmer in the afternoon no rain friday through monday. >>> good morning. no major trouble on the road still wind advisory for the dumbarton bridge this is san mateo bridge westbound out of hayward camera snaking a little gives you an idea what to expect and the rows are slick no trouble now. -- earlier stall westbound eastbound good for headlights moving out of foster city. i-80 berkeley traffic light drive times 18 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the bay bridge toll where there's still no delays. contra costa county 680 fine through walnut creek north main street exit highway 24 near the top of your screen. i want to take out to waze traffic

and of course the central connection through the alamo sam houston was a student of robie brooks and knew his work well and was able to quote them famously. scotts way to those who were defending. who would be the treatise naim, who would fill the grave based to be a sleeve and it's all about people not turning free and people stuck together in many places all over the world. thank you very much for giving the opportunity to speak to you and i look forward to your questions. i have the responsibilities for a few bits of the world beyond texas in the country to bangladesh, and the way i characterize them you know it is not africa or south asia or afghanistan, iran, iraq, 27 countries 11 have some form of a minor trouble and i am being generous with one or two, one is thinking and you can never quite trust the canadians. [laughter] and again the point is stability in my life so thank you for all that. i'm told the cities to energy as london is to finance, and i am very pleased to be here at the behalf of the global energy industry. my thanks to the world affairs council for their effor

heavier rain san mateo across the bridge to fremont and over towards dublin, pleasanton, danville and alamoown from san mateo to foster, redwood, palo alto temperatures 40s to 50s mild as we expected with the clouds keeping temperatures up low to mid 50s around the monterey bay. showers and breezy today and tomorrow. steady rain this morning, then scattered showers for the next 24 to 48 hours storm track moves north friday spring warmth back for the weekend. let's look what the is happening this afternoon. showers coming down may see he peeks of sun the more sun the more agitated the atmosphere the more unstable and more likelihood we'll see showers low to mid 50s mid to upper 40s clear lake. snow level now 4,000 feet mount diablo 33°, mount hamilton 32° at 4200. i think it will stay at 4,000 feet through most of the afternoon. if you get a stronger cell it may drop to 3500. tonight the snow level will drop to around 2500 feet. any shower there could leave a dusting of snow that low. 30s clear lake, cover detail and santa rosa everybody else in the 40s. -- cloverdale and santa rosa everybod

. >> texas is not your alamo? [ laughter ] >> that's a great line, no.exas is not. >> gingrich also sought to deflate the santorum balloon a bit, casting the former pennsylvania senator as an opponent of the tea party who lacks big and bold ideas. quote, rick is a good friend of mine. despite his running ads against me i have basically avoided running ads against him gingrich told us. the fact he went on that santorum was a big labor republic who vote with the unions. the senator was and i'm quoting now again a tea party candidate when there was no tea party. shep? >> shepard: james rosen live on capitol hill. james, thanks. for the first time in more than three decades. federal regulators have given the okay to start construction on a nuclear power plant here in the u.s. it will include two new reactors. and atlanta based power company made the request to build them at an existing site about 40 minutes south of augusta, georgia. the vote was four to one in favor. the one regulator who opposed said these reactors may not meet certain safety requirements

so his friends are holding a fund-raising concert tonight at the creekside community church in alamo.> los angeles dodgers want to legally distance themselves from bryan stow. stow was a giants fan attacked outside dodgers stadium last spring. stow and his family sued the dodgers in california state court and filed the court with the federal court in july, weeks after dgers owner frank mccourt put the team in bankruptcy. the dodgers filed a motion saying, quote, stow cannot prove any link between the additional security related steps that stow contends the debtors should have taken and his injury. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay." >>> still to come -- >> see all the players and get their autographs. >> for the giants faithful, the san francisco giants, of course, it is a must-do. the one thing that's causing even more buzz for today's fanfest at at&t park. >> that was an awesome costume. oakland right now, you can see clear skies, chilly start but a pretty picture perfect weekend ahead. you can say it's a super-lookint we come right back. thawh ent >>> this is "today in the b

. >> and your tricks were like breaking into computers at the department of defense and los alamos nationalatory, nasa and nortel, some canadian banks. >> yeah. all that happened. >> at age 20, assange was arrested by the australian federal police and eventually pled guilty to multiple counts of computer hacking. he managed to get off with no jail time because the judge concluded that he hadn't stolen any information or done any damage. is that still one of your primary skills? >> not really. unfortunately, i've been sort of, you know, promoted up into management. so i don't get to do that so much. but i know the terrain, which means i know what is possible. for example, bill gates could program but he certainly doesn't program anymore. but he knows what is possible for other people to do. >> except that assange is not bill gates, and wikileaks is not microsoft. the shoestring operation that created all the havoc has no permanent offices and is headquartered wherever assange happens to be. wikileaks is a small nonprofit organization with a handful of employees, a secret cadre of internation