i want to personally thank brian lawrence and bruce am as -- armstrong for their incredible assistance to getting us to this point and lastly my partner and brother-in-law lee for his tireless work for nearly 4 years in bringing all of the pieces of this amazing puzzle together. thank you everyone and everyone i did not mention. before i bring up the mayor, i would like to discuss something. we also install a time capsule. we want to make the time capsule more meaningful. in addition to burying it on the sight, -- site, we plan to have a display of it. most likely and most obviously it will be how dumb our smartphones are for that time. i guess i should show you what it looks like. we are actually not going to bury it today. we are going to take some suggestions. anybody ha has any interesting ideas, please be sure to let one of us know. so far our partners at kennedy are contributing aerial photos of the before version of this area surrounding the transbay center and to make this local and timely we also couldn't resist including a picture of the bat kid who put so many smiles on san

brian ray tweeted thanking lawrence for the perfect gift idea for my boss, paul mccartney, three desks. fund in their name. i have to tell you that i had the great pleasure at the "saturday night live" party last season of meeting paul mccartney. i didn't try to get in his way but he sought me out to talk about watching this program and actually how much he enjoyed it during the presidential election year. you can imagine what a thrill that was for me to meet one of my childhood heroes like that. but nothing has thrilled me more than brian ray giving paul mccartnen these desks for christmas. you can specify that the gift notice be sent to whomever you choose as a christmas or holiday or birthday gift. you can do it any time of year. that is is a fabulous thing that think that these desks are being sent as a gift to paul mccartney. we will have more updates on this later in the week. we will be back with more news on it. thank you all very much for your constant support for this program of the kind fund is what i mean, not this television program. that's not as important as you supporti

lawrence karnow at whole foods with more special guests. >> yes. this is my favorite part of the show. this is where we see the big checks coming in. i'm joined here by brian alexander. he is the chief administrative officer of novato community hospital. thank you for coming down to join us today. >> absolutely. thanks, lawrence, appreciate you having us. thanks to whole foods for hosting. we are thrilled to be here representing various groups. our mission to enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve, across northern california sutter health has committed $255,000 for the cause. for donations to food banks through our local affiliates allowing us to provide for our communities in need. so rick and i are here to present this check and on behalf of sutter health and novato community hospital and california pacific medical center, to support the marin food banks and the families in need in our communities. >> this has to make you feel good to walk in with such a big check getting ready to help people. >> it does. absolutely. so we know this check for $32,500 will feed 100,000. >> how much? >> $32,500. >> wow! that is fantastic! $32,500! th

brian hackney. frank is off this morning. >>> all right. let's get a check on the weather with lawrence. how's it looking? >> it's looking very good, michelle. we're going to see some sunshine and a mix of clouds outside today. out the door, a little cool to begin with early on this morning. but i think as we look toward the afternoon, we're talking about some sun and a mix of clouds. 60s and 70s still possible i think as you head toward the santa cruz area. still, you see a lot of clouds working their way across our skies this morning. overall still see the offshore wind. 68 san jose, 65 sa

brian hackney. frank is off this morning. >> let's get a look at traffic and weather now. here's meteorologist lawrence karnow. >> a cold start to the day. you have all that very dry air outside and the temperatures really dropping off this morning. if you are headed out, grab a jacket. it's a chilly beginning. numbers down to 30 degrees in some spots, 32 in concord. 36 degrees in san jose. by the afternoon, though, here's the good news, we'll start to warm things up as high pressure builds in over head of the 50s and 60s going to begin to pop up. looking

brian hackney. here we go again. frank is off this morning. it is 4:30. and here is meteorologist lawrence.utes ago. >> it does! >> welcome to our world! [ laughter ] >> you notice some winds blowing cars around today coming in today. we have some strong winds expected around the bay area especially over the east and north bay hills. wind advisories up, some gusts maybe up to 60 miles per hour. more on your weather coming up. >> there are some wind advisories on some bridges, including the san mateo bridge and bay bridge so we'll tell you about that coming up. >>> some breaking news now. a car ignited this fireball when it crash into a gas pump in east oakland this morning around 2:30 at a 76th station on the 98th and edith. it's under control. the gas pump was crushed and knocked down. the front of the car was wrecked. the driver was carried off on a stretcher. no word on the extent of his injuries. >>> breaking news overnight. the retailer target confirmed about 40

brian hackney. frank is off this morning. it's time to get a look at traffic and weather. we'll begin with all important forecast for the weekend. here's lawrence>> we have some changes coming our way and, of course, some windy conditions out the door this morning. if you are driving out there, be careful both hands on the wheel. the winds are whipping outside especially over the mountaintops this afternoon. could see some of those gusts to 60 miles per hour. we have already seen gusts down below in some of the valleys over 30 miles per hour and it will continue throughout the day today. in fact, checking out some of the winds now you have some gusty winds in toward half moon bay at 22. now at 16 in san francisco. 12 miles per hour into berkeley as you move further north some stronger winds you can see the reds and oranges over the mountaintops. those are some very strong winds developing

brian hackney. frank is off this morning. >>> all right. let's get a check on the weather with lawrence. how's it looking? >> it's looking very good, michelle. we're going to see some sunshine and a mix of clouds outside today. out the door, a little cool to begin with early on this morning. but i think as we look toward the afternoon, we're talking about some sun and a mix of clouds. 60s and 70s still possible i think as you head toward the santa cruz area. still, you see a lot of clouds working their way across our skies this morning. overall still see the offshore wind. 68 san jose, 65 san francisco. let's check your "kcbs traffic" with elizabeth. >> thanks, lawrence. we'll get a check of the east bay. mostly green on our sensors. i think we can show you a live look at westbound 24 traffic. if you are heading out of the caldecott tunnel and towards the macarthur maze, westbound traffic looks good. it's actually the eastbound lanes. they have some roadwork past highway 13 towards the caldecott tunnel until about 6:00 this morning. and here's a live look at our westbound 580 sensors coming through the al

lawrence. cool tech gifts can get a little pricey. >> they can. but cnet editor at large brian cooley is here and you have some best boys for the holidays under $50. >> i'm going to show you a list you can buy the entire list for under $100. this is really great. first of all, google chrome cast is one of my favorites, i've been using this at home. paid my own money for it so i know it works right. and what it does, it's basically one of the streaming tv boxes like a roku or apple tv but it will take anything you're watching on netflix or on youtube or on the google play store their video store and lets you take frit the phone and -- it from the phone and watch it on the tv now. just like a little repeater from here to the big screen. you're not sitting here in the house watching video on this. this becomes the remote control and it's where you search and buy the media. oh, yeah put this on the tv and it just sticks it there. >> it's a little box or something? >> the size of your thumb and sticks into the hdmi port on the back of the television. really simple to install. that's

brian hackney. frank is off this morning. >> let's get a look at traffic and weather now. here's meteorologist lawrence karnow. >> a cold start to the day. you have all that very dry air outside and the temperatures really dropping off this morning. if you are headed out, grab a jacket. it's a chilly beginning. numbers down to 30 degrees in some spots, 32 in concord. 36 degrees in san jose. by the afternoon, though, here's the good news, we'll start to warm things up as high pressure builds in over head of the 50s and 60s going to begin to pop up. looking good to the coast. clear skies there. 57 in pacifica. and about 61 degrees in oakland. all right. let's check your "kcbs traffic" with elizabeth. >>> and it's quiet out there still which is great news. traveling toward the dublin interchange we had various lanes blocked overnight but now that it's 5:00 caltrans is scheduled to wrap it up. it should be smooth from hacienda towards 680 and so far no delay yet so "friday light" traffic over through the altamont pass and all the way towards the livermore valley. here's a live look outside now. san mateo b

brian shatz. isaac has pulled ahead 1,000 point. mckay at 200. samly at negative 600. she is down in lawrence o'donnell territory there.he ph.d. level. lots can change. with the 300 point questions the game will be decided here. we put 1 h. second on the clock. 300 point round begins now...saddled which the worst credit in the country country, this blue state will cut benefits for state workers an save an estimate of $160 billion over the next 30 years. >> state? >> state. >> time, illinois is the answer 300 point question. what emwith theled red state democratic senator launched a television ad this weaken voking religion and calling the bible his quote north star? >> the music in my ear is really nice. >> arkansas's mark prior. 300 point question after months of speculation, reports surfaced on friday that this long serving mississippi republican snosh -- isake. >> thad cochran. >> will seek apth term. 300 more points. this former new hampshire republican senator announced last sunday that he will seek to challenge democratic incumbent gene shaheen. >> thad cochran. >> encorrect. i notice a pattern here. the former r