the san jose native and joey chesnutt is aiming for his fifth world championship.ntest is a lot more than fun by the beach. >> you are watching all american marketing magic. nathan's hot dog eating contest is a bonanza for the fast-food company as the years have expanded their gastric capabilities the popular as --the popularity has soared and so has sales of the nathan's hot dogs topping 53 million last year. >> this is one of the greatest marketing stunt ever put forth in the united states. >> it is a natural for nations that first opened at the fun filled amusement parks and 96 years ago. in the late 1970's at the contest was this and other coney island sideshow fought off by the pr stunt man max, his protege george and his brother rick where the marketing men that have brought competitive eating into the modern era. they have created a phenomenon by introducing the coveted mustard yellow championship belt. having espn cover the event and promoting the eaters as professional athletes. >> it is absolutely a sport and it has all the tendencies of sports and these

joel chesnutt, your reigning champion, one question, where does he put it? 62 hot dogs in 12 minutes. they have done it mayonnaise eating contest in the past. stay with us. we will track the forecast right after this. so our dentist recommended act. [ male announcer ] act mouthwash restores enamel and makes teeth up to 2 times stronger. act. stronger teeth and fresher breath in every bottle. >> to say that there is no evidence to connect casey deathny to caylee's ignores all this evidence. >> prosecutors get the last word. tonight at 11:00, the evidence now in the hands of jurors. doctors at hopkins find that it may be linked to increased risk of heart attack. that, when you >> everybody is keeping their fingers crossed that the weather will cooperate. >> most of them will pass out of oz. check wbaltv.com before you head out this evening. >> be optimistic. 77 for the fireworks this evening. 89 tomorrow, a little less humid. on wednesday, most of the day is fine. by the end of the day, may be an isolated thunderstorm. a higher chance of rain thursday and frid

so, we will be watching to see how many hot dogs and joy chesnutt east. you have any guesses? >> i think he will break it, it was 67 i vicki will go 70. >> up a record he has a 68. so i will go one up and say 61--71. >> of all right thank you. now we will go outside and give you a quick look from the roof camera this morning we have it for shot over sentences, a lot of sunshine, plenty of blue sky. all in all ia perfect for the july forecast in the ma yÑsÑkékékióç]s]s >> and to alarm fire in santa commission district, we want to return to our reporter jackie that is live in santa with the latest. it looks like a lot of fire equipment on scene? them a lot of fire equipment and a lot of smoke at the corner of mission. let me show some video that judge shot, you can see the flames coming out of this multiple unit complex it looks to be a three story building firefighters are aggressively attacking. there are a lot of people standing on the road. heavy dark smoke blowing across the neighborhood. you can see there are huge flames coming out of there, as after the firefighters broke

it was bounded by chesnutt, her, and buchanan. it is one block west of steiner. in order to accomplish that area, we have to have a located search rain. it brings us to the subject and bloc of lombard street. if we were to place it all the way over, we would not be able to cover the area that the engineers have defined. does that answer question? commissioner miguel: there was a question asked about high. this is allowed by code to go 25 feet above the height and let. it is 40 feet. this would be a at 65, and this is at 60. other than that, looking at the materials of the neighborhood association, from the petition which was referred to the school, i appreciated the fact that the project sponsor did actual testing for academicians at the school. the only thing i can say is what i just said on the last item. you're talking to the wrong department and the wrong commission. it gets a health department review before it comes to us. and we accept their recommendation for their non- objection, and with that, i would move to approve with conditions. commissioner antonin

san jose native joy chesnutt is a need for its fifth consecutive world championship.this crazy contest is about a lot more than fun by the beach. >> you are watching all american marketing magic. nathan's hot dog eating contest is a bonanza for the fast-food company. as those eating a have expanded their gastric capabilities, the popularity has soared, and so has sales of nathan's hot dogs. piling up seven years and roll to 453 million last year. >> this is one of the greatest marketing stunts ever put forth in the united states. >> it is a natural for nathan's that first opened at the fun filled amusement park 96 years ago. in the late 1970's, the contest was just another coney island sideshow. thought of by the pr stunt man max. his protege is george and his brother rich are the marketing men that have brought competitive eating into the modern era. they have created a phenomenon by introducing the coveted mustard yellow championship belt. having espn cover the event and promoting the eaters as professional athletes. >> it is absolutely a sport, and these guys are a

very different kind, if you think you down a lot of barbecue this be, you have not heard about joey chesnutt. he took his talents from coney island to a bethesda today. >> already. >> the jury chestnut found out today that acting does not go down as easily as hot dogs. >> i love to eat. >> he was in bethesda shooting a commercial for a local it company. he is the world's top dog when it comes to eating bread monday, he won nathan's famous fourth of july contest. >> by wednesday, i was feeling pretty good. the day after the contest, it is rough. i am drunk on hot dogs. >> 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes. >> my record in competition is 68. >> crude does that? >> i do not know. the next day, you are probably feeling portable. >> hot dogs may be his bread- and-butter but nothing beats his mother's cooking. >> he has won a reported $200,000 in prize money. he keeps his day job as a construction manager. >> my little brother was a fan of it and he made me do my first contest. now i get to travel all around the world. >> there was a hot dog eating contest in georgetown. [ female announcer ] keurig brews

joey chesnutt from san jose will be defending his title as world champion. who will be following it bringing you some of that face stuffing highlights coming up in a little bit. we will be right back. >> good morning, happy july 4th. our developing stories, it was a violent night in richmond at least six people were shot at four different locations. will tell you why the police believe they may be connected. >> the berkeley shot a man last night, will tell you where the investigation is right now. >> this fourth of july is about the parties, the parade and fireworks. will tell you with the best displays can be seen tonight right now on kron4 news. [music] >> a good morning, it is 8:00 a.m. on this fourth of july. >> everything seems to be cooperating on july 4th, you have the day off this should be very nice day. >> cooling-off just slightly. in the inland locations and gives it a little bit of a release. staying in the '70's in san francisco but coming up just a little bit, we will talk about the 9:00 p.m. hour when the fireworks are expected to go off. we

but july fourth is joey chesnutt's day on coney island.ood eats, just ahead. >>> and welcome back. we're going to turn it over to jeff ranieri in just a minute to give us a fourth of july forecast. jeff, your color palette on the maps, i'm loving reds and fuchsias. >> blue coming in. you're right. it is a lot of orange. a lot of reds coming our way. the thing we're monitoring right now is the fog. we always seem to have it rolling this time of the year right during the fireworks. what you'll notice is this marine layer is pretty compressed as we look right out toward the golden gate bridge. that should help bring us some of the best visibility we've had in a couple of years at this point. 62 in san francisco. winds out of the northwest at 22 miles per hour. should help to scour out any kind of fog that tries to develop throughout our bay side community. looks great for the peninsula. 90 in livermore. dropping off to 79 in san jose. remember to drink a lot of water if you're still planning on heading out. it's going to be a mild night for u