. >> reporter: alan hughes' family has owned the found dri since 1904. >> i've been surrounded by bellsget too excited about it. >> reporter: but that's just his family. how far back does the white chapel bell foundry go? >> we have always claimed 1570. research indicates we were more likely established somewhere around 1420. >> reporter: which would mean the foundry was in business more than a century before shakespeare was born. at half a millennium, this is the oldest tenuous continuously operating business in the uk. but after centuries and centuries, the company that produced the bells for westminster abbey as well as big ben. >> big ben isn't the clock. >> reporter: it's the bell. >> reporter: the white chapel bell foundry has cast its last. >> we don't need bells. they were needed in the sense that they were the way of communicating basic information to what was then a largely illiterate population. they warned you of invading armies. they actually served a practical purpose. so bells are used today because we like them, not because we need them. >> reporter: even if demand was h

welcoming alan hughes, a brand- new weather watcher from lower lake, 46 degrees, clear skies. thanks for checking in, alan. i need a photo of you so i could be looking at you and talking with you. we have our satellite radar suggesting a weak trough is boiling through the bay area. as it does so, it's been pulling down a lot of cooler air mass from the gulf of alaska. you see the jet stream veering far to the south. stuck in the cool air mass today and then again on tuesday, the coolest day of our workweek. here's your futurecast, a little bit of an isolated scattered shower far reaches of the north bay, minimal precipitation otherwise. we've got ourself a warming trend kick starting on wednesday as high pressure begins to establish a position over the state of california. 5:59 official sunrise. it will set at 8:12. today's temperatures anywhere between two and 7 degrees off its average mark for this 15th day of the month of may. 50s at the beaches today. 60s common around the bay, up to 68 degrees in mountain view, perhaps 70 towards los gatos and saratoga. high 60s in san jos