francis high school in cupertino. [applause] next is sharon shapiro. she is one of the finest performers in the history of women's collegiate gymnastics. as a freshman at ucla she won major titles in all four major events as well as the all round. the feat has never been duplicated. she finished with two n.c.a.a. all-around titles and was inducted into the ucla hall of fame in 1999. sharon shapiro. [applause] jake t. snow earned 2 golden gloves. he spent nine of those years with the giants when he became the top defensive player in the major leagues. prime -- prior to being drafted by the yankees, he played at the university of arizona. j.t. snow. [applause] j.j. stokes established himself as one of the most dynamic wide receivers in the history of football during his career at ucla. after earning honors as a sophomore, he exploded for 17 touchdowns as a junior and earned first-team all-american honors. his 17 touchdowns and 28 first career are ucla records. he played nine years at the nfl including eight with the 49ers. j.j. stokes. [applause] last bu

cupertino 68. and a bunch of 68's on the peninsula. san bruno 65. and half moon bay 64. sunny tomorrow, cooler on saturday but still okay. clouds roll in sunday, monday. possibility of rain to the north. >> thank you, steve. >>> overnight a moderate earthquake hit haiti, how people there reacted in a country still trying to recover from the 7.0 quake two years ago. also rebuilding quake damaged japan, how silicon valley is responding to a call to help one of japan's most important industries bounce back from the quake and tsunami. and hacking hits the vatican. what the group anonymous claims its done to the catholic church's official website. [ beep ] [ man ] you have one new message. [ mom ] hi scooter. this ichicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announ

pretty good towards cupertino. we just checked in with bart and everything is on time including all those trains heading into downtown san francisco. that's traffic. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> it is now 6:04. and stormy weather and tornadoes are now linked to at least a dozen deaths in the midwest. people in parts of illinois, kansas, kentucky, missouri and tennessee are dealing with extensive damage. the storm prediction center says at least 16 tornadoes have been reported since tuesday night. hardest hit was harrisburg, an illinois town of about 9,000 people. six were killed there when blocks of homes were flat end. >>> a redwood city teacher scheduled to be arraigned this morning for allegedly abusing children. 43-year-old alexia bogdis is accused of physically abusing two young children with special needs. she is currently on administrative leave from the school district. the abuse allegedly happened at the roosevelt elementary school. the bay area news group reports the redwood city school district pl

the cupertino union school district will put a bond measure on the june ballot for school expansion and maintenance. they expect a surge of enrollment and says the district can't are lie on the state to repair and upgrade schools. >>> apple stock is rebounding thanks to had ipad. the stock dropped monday and tuesday. on monday an investor sold 17,000 shares. today it closed up to $542 a share. the value of the company above $500 billion mark. >>> our chief meteorologist bill martin joins us from the weather center. tracking great weather. >> need weather next few days. next week going back to winter. nice bay area friday coming up, temperatures into the 70s. in san francisco, richmond, beautiful, clear, temperatures in the low 60s. no fog along the coast right now. avenues here, golden gate park, ocean beach, towards the twin peaks area, panhandle, plenty of sunshine. really nice day shaping up for tomorrow. these are the highs today. highs tomorrow come up from these. tomorrow will be nicer. we have had a heck of a run. but next week, looks wet. return to winter but not before we get t

tomorrow apple so was house on the cupertino based tech giant to announce tomorrow how it plans to spend its cash reserves. i've had, iphones ipods and computers are called free in record profits apple executives from morning it 6. >>> is this a few days old. but already has the story of a lifetime it bay area newports to come into this world's it was proud parents. >>> visit and talk he was somebody else. but it was 32 year-old emily campbell did. mother instinct takes over. 1225 morning as she and her husband wayne had is a hospital i got outside the car and started screaming and i said it's coming out. his head is down and he said noses get in the car were not quite have the baby is a lot of pressure to get in the car. >>> which soon became a majority on wheels. the first child to 23 hours to come out. by the time we got to the freeway his head was out. wednesday to the exit of the highway outside of the shopping center where they heard the baby's first cry. >>> they got some of the muslim greeting with chile free to me account. he was crying. >>> within about a minute they arrived at

according to bloomberg the government plans to sue the cupertino-based tech giant and five of the biggest.s. publishers for fixing prices on electronic books. eight s apple and the publishers of working to the change the model under which e books were priced when the first ipad was released. some of the companies in talks to reach a settlement no comment from apple. >>> hundreds of thousands trying to preorder the new ipad are running into problems. appear -- apple told customers they could begin ordering immediately. within minutes the site crashed because of the number of customers going online. the problem continued all day leading to thousands of complaints on facebook and twitter. the site appears to be back up now. the new ipad hits stores next friday starting price $499. >>> airfares are likely to stay high throughout this decade. travelers are not going to get much relief unless airlines start getting more competition. faa says u.s. travel is expected to nearly double over the next 20 years. airline capacity is going to shrink. it predicts more mergers will decrease the number of

it's training from south and north so the rain in campbell pushing up towards cupertino and sunnyvale. how long will it be with us? the forecast is in a bit. >> alan: san leandro man faces charges in the stabbing death of a woman. the police arrested gar vazquez, accused of killing a woman whose body was found yesterday inside her car. investigators say the two had previously dated freafnltdz of the victim's witnessed the attack and led police to the suspect. after tracking vazquez to this home, s.w.a.t. members waited him out for several hours and entered the home and found him hiding in this bedroom. he is in the opt hospital recovering from dog bytes. >> a deadly shooting that has caused a nationwide debate over race and justice. >>> today, florida lawmaker comes out against a man claiming self-defense in this deadly shooting on an african-american teenager. >> voters in louisiana make their pit and the g.o.p. front runner is not expected to >> alan: protesters nationwide are calling for justice in the trayvon martin case. the teenager in florida who was shot to death by a neighbor

according to bloomberg the government plans to sue the cupertino-based tech giant and five of the biggest u.s. publishers for fixing prices on electronic books. eight s apple and the publishers of working to the change the model under which e books were priced when the first ipad was released. some of the companies in talks to reach a settlement no comment from apple. >>> hundreds of thousands trying to preorder the new ipad are running into problems. appear -- apple told customers they could begin ordering immediately. within minutes the site crashed because of the number of customers going online. the problem continued all day leading to thousands of complaints on facebook and twitter. the site appears to be back up now. the new ipad hits stores next friday starting price $499. >>> airfares are likely to stay high throughout this decade. travelers are not going to get much relief unless airlines start getting more competition. faa says u.s. travel is expected to nearly double over the next 20 years. airline capacity is going to shrink. it predicts more mergers will decrease the number o

than usual for the commute not yet underway for the drive on to 80 headed out of san jose towards cupertino. you're right to the north bay continues to be an easy one with no real delays for 101 southbound. >>justine: chrysler is recalling nearly two other 10,000 jeep liberty sport- utility vehicles. the problem could lead to a loss of control by the driver. chrysler is not aware of any accidents or injuries but if you have a question you should contact your dealer. >>darya: the oakland city council approved a multimillion-dollar contract for the redevelopment of the coliseum area. >> the oakland a's have threatened to leave. rumors have been swirling about the warriors and the raiders desire to move out of oakland. city council is doing what it can to make sure that all three teams stay here. the idea is for a new baseball stadium, shopping, hotels and other commercial development to go and along the hamburger corridor. copper her >> they will have a great fan base. they have great weather and transportation. they will be able to show that the eight and six or three teams. >> the redevelop

and in cupertino the mayor will present the girl scouts with a proclamation from the city. celebrate, a shout out will go out to all of the girl scouts past and present. >> it is as much a tradition attached to daylight savings time as maybe oversleeping. you might call this cyber loafing monday, many workers will be logging on and checking out, a study looked at six years of google dates. it found the hours of lost sleep sends workers to the web where they spend more than the usual amount of time browsing, particularly on the entertainment sites. the experts say when we're tired we exhibit less self control, or maybe we're just snoozing and falling asleep while surfing. >> 5:55. here is a strange one. the guy who pays kids not to go to college is teaching college. scott mcgrew, peter teal not practicing what he preaches. >> he is not. peter teal made billions establishing paypal and then invested money in facebook and other start-ups. most didn't know who he was until he started offering college kids money to drop out of college and pursue internet start-ups. he once said

in cupertino the mayor will present the girl scouts with a proclamation from that city. to celebrate the program's legacy a shout out will goo out to all girl scouts past and present. >> i love it every time i see those stands where i can find them. >> you buy them. >> i load up. they are happy to see me. we're always happy to see mike inouye probably go, hmm. >> thin mints. tagalongs. a shout out to service unit 630 covering a lot of the areas that i just had events for so thank you for giving us that as well. looking to the peninsula, highway 1, sharp park is where we had the report of the earlier van fire. well, chp says it's not an issue as far as they are concerned. so traffic is okay through the area. you may find a fire crew on scene while they take care of the fire. no reports of injuries. someone called it in and presumably it's a driver or someone who saw it. may be an abandoned van. we see that this time of morning. north for highway 101 and san rafael. traveling south around the curve we have a smooth drive. may be rain later on. so far it's okay. >> thanks.

cupertino and sara saratoga. mill pea disis getting you up to 70 degrees. same thing on the peninsula. 60 -- 68 in san mateo. look for blue skies and near 70-degree weather. here in downtown san francisco, 67 degrees. 63 in daly city of the look at the north bay and temperatures should be in the low 60s around this time of year. tomorrow it is close to 10 degrees above where you should be. 72 in the afternoon. novato, napa, east bay communities, this is why you need to get outside. inland areas in the 70s. 72 pleasanton, livermore 71 and for the money away bay, 68 money money tau -- monterey. it is a mild to warm weekend. temperatures are going up and then it cools off. a few more clouds and breezy as a trough comes through, and then more mild weather wednesday through friday. carolyn and ama, i can't find any rain in the forecast. latest models are trending tryer and dryer. >> thanks. >>> it is the event where people dressed way down to get dressed up. >> why they stripped down in their underwear and waited in this line. mom, i'm getting married. who's the

delays in damages done nearly four hours raindrops on the rooftops in drought campbell and also cupertino east bay looks like we are also seeing a little bit of a break at 586 city corridor is still very messier on the sonoma grade we have had a lot of rain today is of the river and navarro has defied warning affects until tomorrow what some point we are anticipating minor flooding around tie 128 just outside of highway 124 hour rainfall totals 6 in. in the now well 11 mi. just west of belzberg otherwise about two tenths of an inch of rain in san jose we still have some lingering showers in the backside is this fun to cause a departs the bay area for your morning commute partly to mostly cloudy skies for your wednesday and thursday fills in very rapidly with crack cloud cover and a chance assembly and in the far it reaches of the north bay thursday night, friday night but we will certainly have been on saturday. tonight with a lingering showers ford is in '50s that i notice the winds are beginning to dial backup tomorrow southwest to 15 mid- 60s and extended forecasts checkup at 70 degree

. >>> cupertino's apple helped give stocks a big boost yesterday.or how things are trading this morning, we turn to cnbc world headquarters. >> reporter: good morning. the futures are slightly higher this morning after yesterday's rally. that was touched off first by rate on hold as on. mamake s sure are you ready for that. grab your umbrella and get that snowboard or skis ready to go. look at how much snow we are expecting throughout the week. up in tahoe, north star, elevation,eand four to six feet above 7,000 feet. talking about really choice ski conditions. heading through this weekend, bring those chains as showers just don't let up until late monday, into tuesday. tuesday will be beautiful. take a look at your temperatures. this weekend, st. patrick's day, we're talking about 40s and 50s across the bay area. it will be a cold one. we'll have all the green on the radar and maybe a rainbow, but make those plans indoors if you can. heading throughout tuesday, finally getting a break but we are talking about inches of rain. we'll go into more deta

a team with other girls ranging in age from 11-13 through the west valley youth soccer league in cupertinos is the organization's web site. of his face the page friday afternoon, there were close attacking his character. >> he does have a prior domestic violence charge of his record. after meeting for the team, the two of them developed a friendship that progressed with abusive sexual relationship in october of 2011 and was on going for the last several months. excellent work by the detectives. they were able to get some even occasions and other digital evidence to help explain the relationship and help uncover the abuse. we do not have any specific information about other victims although he did have ongoing access to 12 year- old and 11 year-old girls. >> investigators believe he may be a flight risk. his bail was set at 1.5 million. >>vicki: the unified school district of vallejo has voted to cut millions from the budget. officials said the cuts are necessary to deal with a shortfall from the state. in total the district eliminated 5.6 million. the cuts will force an increase in class s

traffic moving well on northbound 280 heading towards cupertino and this is highway 17 coming out ofsanta cruz mountains. we'll go to our abc7 waze traffic app to check out the commute in the north bay. i found a traffic spotter getting ready to get on to 101 in petaluma, eyes on the road and hopefully he or she will be doing that right now it is looking good and quiet around the rest of the bay area. when things slow down you can always download this free traffic app by going to abc7news.com/waze. so you will know where the slow downs are for your route. >>> parents pay attention to this story. the state department of public health warning about potentially dangerous candy. three candies sold in california are being recalled because they contain amounts of lead considered dangerous. the candy is distributed by a southern california company imported from pakistan lead levels 12 parts per million 20% above the legal limit. other is 3 50 to 400% above the legal limit if you have any of these you are urged throw the candies away immediately. >>> there's a moratorium on experiments with

the cupertino based company will start to get back to investors stockholders will get a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share beginning july 1st. apple has not paid a dividend in 16 years because the jobs was against the practice. before today apple was using its cash reserve to reinvest in its own business including buying a huge lead to the air for aids when shipping i've had as well as updating its retail stores said today's move kind of take that money and reinvest it back in the company in a completely different way. >>> now that apple is going to be a dividend payment company a wider range of funds will be able to invest in the stock that means 401k is that wouldn't invest in the past can now begin buying and also plans to spend $10 billion to buy back some of its own stock investors. nearly sweat sweat out the sierra states night after a dramatic rescue. two boys were of the boarding of wright's beach and the county today when one of them dichotomy recurrence. he made it back to shore but the other boy in his dad and a good samaritan who swam out to help did not. the lifeguard used to

the cupertino based company asked for the audits after customers expressed concerns over working conditions in the chinese plant. >>> san francisco high schooler is one of the 13 finalists on american idol. >> you can let your hair down one more time deandre. >> local friends cheering the moment 17-year-old deandre was pick as the judges wild card. he is a senior at oak grove high school. >> all the sudden he is doing this and it's like wow. thankfully people get to see what real people can do. >> this is actually a second time trying to be the next american idol. last year he failed to qualify for the top 24. oak grove high school has planned to rally for him later this morning. >>> 4:52 is the time. let's check in with tara. if you're headed up to tahoe how about change? >> luckily no change needed on 80 or 50. all the roadways are clear. of course it's a good idea to carry them just in case we do get more snow. let's talk about an accident we have in oakland. this is 580 westbound just west of keller avenue. two-car crash it looks like a noninjury accident. that is the good news. let's l

cupertino and sara saratoga. mill pea disis getting you up to 70 degrees. thing on the peninsula. 60 -- 68 in san mateo. look for blue skies and near 70-degree weather. here in downtown san francisco, 67 degrees. 63 in daly city of the look at the north bay and temperatures should be in the low 60s around this time of year. tomorrow it is close to 10 degrees above where you should be. 72 in the afternoon. novato, napa, east bay communities, this is why you need to get outside. inland areas in the 70s. 72 pleasanton, livermore 71 and for the money away bay, 68 money money tau -- monterey. it is a mild to warm weekend. temperatures are going up and then it cools off. a few more clouds and breezy as a trough comes through, and then more mild weather wednesday through friday. carolyn and ama, i can't find any rain in the forecast. latest models are trending tryer and dryer. >> thanks. >>> it is the event where people dressed way down to get dressed up. >> why they stripped down in >> why they stripped down in -h( music playing ) waited in - we know technology c

with other young girls ranging in age from 11-13 through the west valley youth soccer league in cupertino the organization's web site. of his face the page friday afternoon, there were coast attacking his character. some said many of us knew you were a bad man and by the people trusted because of his term. you have ruined our lives. santa clara county deputy d.a. says he does have a prior domestic violence charge on his record. >> after meeting, the two of them developed a friendship that he eventually progressed to end abusive sexual a laser chip. in as an on going over the last several months. excellent work by detectives. they were able to get some e-mail communications it in digital evidence to help explain the relationship scanned and cover the abuse. we do not have any specific information about other victims although he did have ongoing access to a lebed and 12 year old girls. >> investigators believe that he may be a flight risk. his bill as been set at 1.5 million. >>catherine: in san jose, a doctor's assistant is behind bars. that is his total. police say he sexually assaulted a

right here this is officially cupertino city limits. near the edge of saratoga. this is stevens canyon road where it turns into eden road. that's -- not major commute spot but it is an issue with a downed tree. bolders in the road with some as large as bowling balls. that could be factor here as well as other spots around the bay. you can see it is not a major issue, highway 5. 280 moving slowly. woe will follow this as we have that type of incident we expect to hear. more reports of that as folks hit the roadways. south bay freeway, clear right now. >>> thank you very much. all of this rain continues. so does the ricks of mudslides and falling trees. >> just as mike mentioned this is a home in fairfax. huge trees fell and crushed the house late yesterday. luckily no one was hurt. it gave the neighbors a shock. >> i heard a sound that was like a -- jet plane. i said what the bleep was that? maybe a jet plane going by. then i saw it was an earthquake. looked around, came out. neighbors on the street. saw the tree on the ground. >> we appreciate yourself bleeping.

stop in the south bay and show you how light the commute is now san jose northbound 280 up towards cupertino and highway 17 coming out of the santa cruz mountains. >>> it is 4:four >> investigators pinpoint the cause of a devastating 2009 fire in the santa cruz mountains why it could have been . >>> you wonder how long it has been in there. >> the two supermarket operators who are saying no to pink slime in your ground beef. >>> chopper crashes in afghanistan but it want enemy fire or mechanical trouble that brought it down.3q at lysol, we discovered a problem. the more products we touch around the sink, the more dirt can spread around the kitchen, and the more germs we can spread on our hands. that's why we created the lysol no-touch kitchen system. one no-touch solution for sparkling dishes, plus clean surfaces, plus healthy hands. because our mission is a healthy home made simple. lysol. mission for health. my little helpers... and 100% natural french's yellow mustard. it has zero calories for me, and a taste my family loves. you have hard water stains and that cleaner's not gonna cut it.

and heading out of down towards cupertino, you can see a few headlights there on 280. so along the planes we're seeing green and top speeds. this is is a live look at the san mateo bridge. the taillights is the commute direction. westbound 92. everything good to go on the dumbarton bridge. southbound 101 from marin across the golden gate bridge. everything is nice and light. i'm not seeing much of that northbound 101 roadwork, as well. ace train number one no delay. muni, caltrain, ferries, bart, ace, muni, caltrain and your ferries all no problems. that's traffic. back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> some bay area transit commuters have more incentive to get the clipper card. fares for using caltrain are going up july 1 but passengers who use the clipper card pond have to pay the higher price. the one-way fare will increase by 25 cents. one day tickets bought with cash will go up 50 cents. >>> if you plan a trip to the los angeles area anytime soon here's a traffic warning for you. part of the 405 freeway will be closed overnight for the next six nights. they are rebui

>> when i first started working here, there was 12 of us in a little 2100 square foot office in cupertino. to go from that to this is amazing, just amazing to see it happen. >> reporter: and vocera, which makes wireless communication devices for hospitals, wasn't the only bay area company to hit the market. ann annie's, inc., trading under bnny is an organic food manufacturer and gained more than 70% in early trading. still to come this week the ipo of cafe press a company that's been around since 1999 and will finally start offering shares to the public. >> that was our business and tech reporter scott mcgrew reporting. >>> it sounds like a sweet gig. maybe too sweet. >> never too sweet. >> krispy kreme is opening its stores again in concord and you know what? they're looking to hire 85 people. the donut maker is holding the job fair right now at its new store at the willow shopping center on diamond boulevard in concord. krispy kreme closed its doors in 2007 there but it is going to reopen april 24th. today's job fair runs until 4:00. we have five hours. >> yeah. starting to feel like h

this is and stevens creek in cupertino.tures from a little earlier today. the wholesale cost of gasoline is getting higher, that translates into higher retail prices. let me show you some prices. on average, $4.39 a gallon in stanford's is the. $4.32 in oakland and in san jose. it is continuing to increase. unfortunately, that is the price you are expecting to see. >>darya: >>mark: in the sierra, one this year is dead. authorities say that three skiers have caused the avalanche while they were skiing in an area called ward valley. cotton >>darya: here is a look at weather. we are looking at pretty nice temperatures by the time the day is dead. >>james: it will be nice and warm compared to yesterday. what are still as we have to the weekend. san francisco had been in the 30's, now showing 42. we are at 41 in san jose. slowly but shortly temperatures are beginning to climb. eventually we will see temperatures like this come this afternoon. widespread 60s and again, mid-60's is where the betting money is the santa rosa seeing

>>craig: i'm in cupertino at stevens creek, this is one of the most expensive prices in the south bay. $4.45 is the highest i could find. let's show you some of the averages in the bay area. $4.39 is the average in san francisco. here are pictures some earlier, this is gasted being pumped into the tanks, the wholesale costs have gone up, that means you will pay more retail. as they're putting this into the ground you realize as it is coming from the refineries is going up in price because of a lack of refineries base, the tension and ron or other reasons, you will pay more on the receiving end. that is why it is going up. there is no end in sight for that. perhaps by memorial day you'll be seeing things much higher than even what you're seeing right now. the pain at the pump is certainly a reality. this >>darya: is almost like you're saying get it, while the getting is good. >>mark: we will be right back on the kron4 morning news. will have the latest on the weather forecast coming up. here is a live look in lake tahoe. many resorts for supporting over 3 ft.. in an seventh this henson

from is what you're doing and finally two very big meetings overture of the cupertino so finally he assembled you could see you could say that you took this trip back to him so i see him go this way you made a very good campaign because he was a pretty you wrote them many articles seven i guess for very interesting and very a sober house showing that so you. more or less understood what was going on in the country. a lot of the vote a lot of people have voted for putin snowden could be seen just as protest votes. do you think what you think is going to happen if putin does get in if he is declared president at the end of almost those protests most are gone and i think that's we will have in the next month is the go to more demonstrations in the streets. maybe tomorrow will be the bigger one and then what i think it will finally disappeared because the people are going to demonstrate to many monsters but the majority. of the people in russia of more morally support but you know maybe not for the revolution so i see if it can lead anywhere but still clearly has lost a certain amount of populari

> a surge in demand for apple's new ipad pushed back the delivery datetor on-line orders now the cupertino-basedcomputer maker says they will not be shipped until april 19th. they will be available in stores on march 16th, which is next friday. >>> well, the doctor is in. put your hands in the sky, deep breath. tv's dr. oz pays a visit to the bay area. >> ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo is up next with when the storm door will really open. en't they, kids? it's nice having u-verse, isn't it? see back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled wireless receivers. fangled? no, we watched march madness in the living room... that's where the tv outlet was. what is he talking about? and if mom was hosting her book club that day, guess what...you missed it! we couldn't just move the tv all willy-nilly all over the house. ohh! ohh! kids today have it so good. ok. [ male announcer ] the new wireless receiver only from at&t. get u-verse tv for $25 a month with free hd for six months. at&t. researchers have showed wreckage from the titanic. information from the map came from more than 100,000 photos taken

to 80 is fairly slow from downtown of towards cupertino. iran, a drive time of 34-to the six minutes from highway 37 to the golden gate. drop on wall street. there are concerns about what is happening in greece as to whether or not it will meet their deadline in the two weeks to do a debt swap deal with debt holders. the dow was off 145, down over 1 percent. bigger crops on the s and p and nasdaq. as a down 17 yen to the s&p down 13. >>darya: a tiny drop for the price of gas, but not here in the bay area. it is still remaining high above the national average. take a look at gas prices around the bay. >>darya: before you head out for gas, save a few dollars by visiting our web site, www.kron4.com. >>mark: and oakland, a 15 year-old charged as an adult for murder has pleaded not guilty for allegedly strangled in his adoptive parents. police say that he invested to investigators that he killed his parents after officers discovered the bodies under blankets in the back of their family's car. investigators believe the teenager tried unsuccessful

the red box coffee shop in mountain view and you know the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in cupertino. >> i own their products so every day it reminds me, it's a good company. >> reporter: kevin mg is a mac from his phone to his tablet to his portfolio. today apple announced it will pay it's customers dividends. >> i am excited because i've owned apple for a couple of years. >> reporter: it's the first time apple will pay dividends. so what's better for apple. >> the rail question is what's better for the investors that will continue to hold apple without them paying a dividend. >> reporter: there was pressure for apple to share the wealth. the company is sitting on $100 billion in cash. to get some sense of apple's power look at the s & p500 which is up 12 to 13% per year. but if you take out apple's contribution it's up just five to 6%. >> it's very difficult to buck the trend, at the same time trees don't grow up to the ski either. >> reporter: meaning it isn't likely the company will continue to get buy backs forever. >> i think that's troubling long term. >> reporter: today apple

the red box coffee shop in mountain view and you know the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in cupertino. >> i own their products so every day it reminds me, it's a good company. >> reporter: kevin mg is a mac from his phone to his tablet to his portfolio. today apple announced it will pay it's customers dividends. >> i am excited because i've owned apple for a couple of years. >> reporter: it's the first time apple will pay dividends. so what's better for apple. >> the rail question is what's better for the investors that will continue to hold apple without them paying a dividend. >> reporter: there was pressure for apple to share the wealth. the company is sitting on $100 billion in cash. to get some sense of apple's power look at the s & p500 which is up 12 to 13% per year. but if you take out apple's contribution it's up just five to 6%. >> it's very difficult to buck the trend, at the same time trees don't grow up to the ski either. >> reporter: meaning it isn't likely the coto get buy backs forever. >> i think that's troubling long term. >> reporter: today apple's chief financial o

we're going to be watching that move nchlgt south bay, temperatures low to mid-60s. 64 cupertino. rain arriving first into north bai. 56 open the coast. you'll need your umbrellas in downtown san francisco. 59 degrees. 57 into sunset district. north bay you're going to see down pours at times into afternoon. upper 50s into east bay. 61 in oakland and hayward. there is temperatures ranging from low to mid-60s. 62 walnut creek, monterey bay, 62 in santa cruz, showers lingering into wednesday morning then, we can get a short break before more rain returns for weekend plans, again. >> thank you. >> and pope benedict begins a visit to latin america's least-devout country. >>> this is a live feed from santiago, cuba. tens of thousands of people gathered for the service. the pope arrived for a 48 hour visit intended to renew faith in what is considered latin america's least-devout country. >> i have to tell you for a country that was officially atheist into 1990s this is a historic turn out for the pope's visit. there were people lining streets in santiago, waiting to catch a glimpse of

but the drive time is not too bad towards cupertino.ve a few brake lights now for silicon valley commuters. westbound 237. here's lawrence. >> elizabeth, what a day coming our way lots of sunshine, some very nice weather ahead as we sail into the weekend. outside the sun coming up on a gorgeous day ahead. and some beautiful weather as we look toward the weekend. temperatures going to be heating up. 30s and 40s now so chilly outside but this afternoon up to 70 in santa rosa. great weekend, 70s in the warmest spots. cooling off monday. ,,,,,,,, >>> and we are leading again by the power of our moral example. that's what changes. >> no war. >> none of them -- nobody announced a war, young lady. but we will take your comments. >>> president obama heckled in new york city at a big fundraiser last night. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >>> a 24-year-old man is facing criminal charges and psychiatric testing after a bizarre incident at philadelphia international airport. he broke through a fence and drove onto the runway yesterday. they rep

tree down, branches down big pwoulders in the cupertino area on stevens canyon at mount eden that sectionht be blocked for a bit. also, we've been talking about flooding in sonoma 121 closed until 8:00 between highway 116 and highway 12 due to flooding if you are head together sierra you will need chains on i-tate between cisco and truckee and highway 50 from twin bridges to meyer. i-80 looking good now as you head through berkeley westbound to the bay bridge toll delay-free. no major problems on 280 in san jose, highway 17 out of santa cruz mountains. >>> 5:11. >>> smoothing out the bum many s in the road san jose takes action to repair hundreds of miles of road. there's just one hitch. >>> private groups step in to do what sacramento can't. how state parks will benefit. >>> the tide may be slowly turning in the battle against a wildfire in colorado. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> ben bernanke tells abc news the economy is doing better but he's still worried bun employment and housing market and says the recovery needs a few more years. congress approves s

and cupertino and all the locations showing dry right now. not seeing a whole lot until you get up to north of san francisco. just passed maybe the camel -- candlestick park through the heart of the city. and maybe it will be clear. ocean beach, pacifica, daly city. could be seeing light rain at any moment. look up at the left. more wet weather inbound. all of this stuff traveling from east to west. sliding to the north. san rafael sandwiched between a couple of pockets. we took a sample of this not too long ago. it is falling 100th of an inch and we see all the way up to santa rosa light rain up to 101. and napa valley is seeing light rain and none of the stuff is sub standing. the heavier rainfall is north of santa rosa. we expect it to make its way down noontime and over the north bay and the rest of the bay here during the course of the day. here is what future cast has. from 6:00 a.m. all the way to 6:00 p.m. you will see what we are expecting over the course of the day. 3/10th of an inch to two and a half around santa rosa. now i will k

hit and that is leading to some big frustration for hundreds of thousands of would be customers cupertino-basediled aid third generation ipad in san francisco yesterday and told customers they could begin preordering immediately. within minutes apple's order site crashed. the problem continued on and off almost all day leading to thousands of complaints on facebook and twitter. the site seems to be back up now. the aptly named new ipad will include a screen with better resolution, faster processing chip. it s at $499. the first -- models hit stores next friday. >>> china's building boom moving at breakneck speed a 30 story hotel workers completed in 15 days. a time lapsed video racked up more than five million views. the chinese company says it did not cut conferencers and took 200 employees to put up the hotel. >>> still ahead, a whale of a sight followed by a whale of a warning. bay area visitor that has crowds smiling and betters being told to watch out. >>> is there -- and boaters being told to watch out. >>> new letters from one of the so-called speed freak killers that warns of a trained

in the south bay, northbound 280 traffic just picking up nor volume, still looking good towards cupertino delays through the'úç altamont pass westbound 4 out of antioch at this point. >>> the problem that we all wish we had. still aide h apple outlines its plans for the company's ever growing -- growing stash of cash. >>> latest investor reaction live from the new york stock exchange. here's the big board, dow now down 19 points. >>> landslide win leads to new momentum for one gop hopeful what experts say led to the lopsided victory. >>> pretty in white. the brides were everywhere. the tradition that had dozens of women and men donning wedding whitúúúúúúúúúúú@@úúúúúúú >>> welcome back. live doppler, fairly quiet, a few scattered showers nothing like over the weekend. quick look at snow pack, 36% of normal with the north receiving the bulk of the snow tapered considerably central and south over the last week or so. our forecast for today in the low to mid 50s around eureka, chico, sacramento, big sur upper 50s fresno and san diego, low to mid 60s l.a. and palm springs coal in the sierra, t

the smaller profits shouldn't matter much toÑi cupertino-based apple. >>> coming up, ski resorts are just in time for spring skiing. and gearing up for the summer olympics. it is down with the gold medal hopeful. >> and it is almost spring. will we have spring showers this week? i think so. the forecast and you are traveling to southern california, look for fair weather as well coming up. >>> five-time olympian was the all-around champion at the 2008 games in beijing. she talked with lizzie better -- bermudez about having her father as a coach in london. >> i am excitedç to be doing something i have a passion for. i can't believe it has been four years since the last olympic games. time has flown by. this is a new journey for me. taking time off and getting back in the gym, i am excited about the challenge and whatever happens, happens. >> so in beijing how old were you? >> i was 18. >> so is it different -- you fast-forward four years. a little age on your side, does that help or hurt you in training for the olympic team? >> well, i will be 23 this year. i am over the hill in gymna

check out a live shot of the -- san jose traffic flows well, out of the downtown area up towards cupertino mountains, connecting on to northbound 880. traffic slow westbound 580 through livermore in pockets pretty heavy drive time from the altamont pass to 680 30 minutes there was an earlier accident, it did add to the slow down. for the vallejo baylink ferry having trouble with one of their vessels they will replace the 7:00 departure out of vallejo with bus. and the 830 departure from san francisco with buses as well -- and 8:30 departure from san francisco with buses as well. >>> we have a live report if the new york stock exchange straight ahead. here's ray -- dow down 57 points. >>> new video shows the neighbor an hood watch volunteer george zimmermann on the night he says he killed trayvon martin in florida. >>> caltrain official as prove a plan that could make úúúúúúúúúúú@@úúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúú . >>> good thursday morning. plenty of cloud cover. a few delays at sfo up to 46 minutes. a warm-up today when clouds lift, partly cloudy conditions and mild temperatures mid 60s should be comm

the cupertino tech giant sold 300,000 devices on the day the original ipad was introduced in 2010. >>cosmetics giant loreal giving 1.2 million dollars to the federal government to help end animal testing in the beauty industry. it was announced in san francisco yesterday. the money will go to the epa's program which compares imagine-free testing methods against data collected from 30 years of animal tests. >>> high sierra is bracing for more snow this week when the storm system moves toward the tahoe basin. in oregon heavy snow has been falling since yesterday the level is expected to drop to the 1,000 foot level today the snow is sticking to the ground and creating slick driving conditions including oregon's coast range. >> tahoe will see that shortly. it is great, the beginning of ski season wasn't so great perhaps the end may be. >> hopefully, maybe they can extent the season. definitely -- they can extend the season. rain and snow for us this weekend good morning. coming up on 5:17. breezes blowing some of the drizzle and light rain falling from emeryville across the bay bridge to

the cupertino company is going to give some of that money back to investors of dividends and stock buyback program beginning july 1st stockholders will get a quarterly dividend of $2.65 for every share they own. c-net says that apple decided to do this to add more incentive for people to buy their stock. >>> before today apple was using its cash reserve to reinvestments owned business said today's move takes that money and reinvest back in the company in a completely different way. >>> standby for the stock price of apple says will also spend about $10 billion to buy back shares from investors. so sales these will be available to the public. apple's stock closed at another record high today $601 a share. >>> in iraq war veteran seriously hurt during a confrontation with police says his injury was no accident. >>> scott olson was bleeding and suffered a head injury when occupy oakland demonstrators clashed with police in october and is now he claims that there is proof that police intentionally meant to harm him. their forties taking legal action now. >>> thats right data. he files here in