nbc bay area's garvin thomas has tonight's "bay area proud." >> when your business runs on a steady diet of ham and eggs, regular customers, are your bread and butter and at bobby's coffee shop in cupertino, there is been no more regular, regular than janet dancer. >> just about every day. >> just about every day for 25 years. janet and her husband bill slid into their favorite corner booth at bobbies. every day until bill passed away five years ago. >> reporter: janet didn't stop coming though. the place had become too big a part of her life to stay away. >> it was tough the first couple of times i came by myself. but everybody made me welcome. i used to see him come in with his old cars. >> reporter: janet even started helping out around the place, filling coffee cups, cleaning up, but that came to an end when bobby's was shut down last summer. not just janet but a lot of regulars had lost their favorite place to eat and a place of cupertino history was about to disappear unless a new owner stepped in. and one did. >> i want to welcome you. >> reporter: janet. >> and i hope everything

nbc's bay area garvin thomas has the story. >> reporter: it's amazing just what the internet age allows us to do. how else could claire briton warren from her home in the santa cruz mountains with a cat on her lap and a bird over her shoulder have spent the past three years conducting research into an event 160 years old. >> it is really fragile. >> reporter: the jenny lind disaster. on april 11th, 1853, the boiler aboard the jenny lind blew up. scalding water drenched the women, children and first class passengers just sitting down for lunch. 50 people died. >> some of them lingered for days. other one for hours. >> reporter: the fact that one of the dead, john bradbury was her ancestor sparked her interest to learn more of the history. history she later discovered that wasn't always correct. >> it was raining on that particular day. >> reporter: rushed and incomplete reporting at the time of the disaster led to misconceptions about such things as where the accident happened. claire and fellow researchers determined it to be just north of where the did you mean barton bridge stands tod

garvin thomas is here with that story. >> reporter: it was early in the morning of october 31st. crew change aboard the tugboat guard had just taken place. the captain said he spotted a dark shape in the water about 150 yards away. he almost didn't investigate it. good thing he did, though, because what happened next is tonight's "bay area proud." even on a morning when the weather is calm and the water is flat, there is no such thing as an ordinary day on san francisco bay. at least not when that day is spent aboard a tugboat. like the guard. captain perry overton has spent enough years at the wheel to know that. >> some jobs can be a real challenge, but that's -- that's what keeps you awake, you know. it's pretty cool. >> reporter: still, one day last fall, cool quickly gave way to something else entirely. the tug's job that morning was tos court a container ship into san francisco bay. with overton at the helm and chief engineer keith manning on deck, the guard had just passed under the golden gate bridge. the boat was a mile and a half out to sea when overton spotted somethin

that may have changed bay area history. >> this is a story that belongs to everybody. >> reporter: garvinrea news. >> okay. the capital could have been right here. >> san jose. >> right here. >> very interesting. did not know that. rob, i bet you know a little bit about the weather? >> speaking of san jose, let's show you the conditions outside right now. minus the possible capitol rotunda we might have had on the south bay. that's one of the stories tomorrow morning. no worries about rain in the morning commute. fog is thick. we'll show you where it's at its thickness. right now at 46 degrees in san jose. san francisco, 48. chilly temperatures in the north bay. 49 degrees. napa, now as we show you the winds, we have onshore winds pushing in low clouds from the coast around the peninsula for the morning. the fog down to about a quarter mile already in santa rosa. 3/4 mile visibility in napa. for your north bay commute, concord for the morning. look out for some of that thick fog that can slow you down. high clouds at times for tomorrow. for the next two days, mainly dry until thursday. we

this morning's "bay area proud" garvin thomas introduces us to seniors fighting back. >> reporter: it is a contradiction anyone who has trained in a martial art has come to know. the better you are at self-defense, the less likely you are to need it. there is a confidence that comes with mastery, one that projects the message, don't mess with me. >> let's try it from the hollister position. >> reporter: which is terrific advice if you ever come across one of these folks. >> yah! >> reporter: senior citizens skilled in the art of cane do. this gathering this past saturday in danville included a number of cane do instructors from the east bay. >> i tell them to stop where you. >> like bob worthington. >> if they come on to me -- >> reporter: bob's been involved in martial arts in one way or another for 50 of his 78 years. he learned cane do from a master a few years ago and wants to spend whatever years he has left teaching as many other seniors as he can. >> it's how you carry yourself and the cane. hey! >> reporter: the concept is simple. teaching seniors how to turn a ane, often a si

garvin thomas has the story that will make you bay area proud. >> reporter: marsie shoff is on her wayep a streak alive. on her way to san francisco animal care and control to rescue a rabbit. >> we are going to look at a bunny who has bitten somebody there. okay, sweetie. how bad are you? >> reporter: and a rabbit no longer considered fit for adoption is one not long for the world. except this is where marsie comes in. >> you're a good boy. yes you are. >> reporter: thanks to her save-a-bunny organization, she says the san francisco shelter hen hasn't had to euthanize a rabbit in close to ten years. >> there you go. >> reporter: and they won't be starting today. >> hi, kathy it's marsie from save-a-bunny. >> reporter: marsie wasn't always a bunny's best friend. she was an advertising and marketing executive for years. it wasn't until she burned out though on the corporate track that she landed on the bunny trail. >> i've always loved animals, but i didn't really picture this being a career. it's okay. >> reporter: it started by falling in love with a species after fostering just one.

it's satisfying. >> that was garvin thomas reporting. coming up on "today in the bay," first, the lead investigator, now his own brother, the latest strange twist in the murder case surrounding oscar pistorius. why his brother is also headed to trial for the death of a woman. we'll explain. >>> good morning to you. looking live at the clock tower on the ferry building. you can see it's just about 7:30 if your eyes are really good. thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez, along with meteorologist rob mayeda. >> depending where you are, if you have the wind, not too cold, but other places we're waking up to the 30s. concord and fairfield, kind of interesting play on the weather this morning. you've got the chilly conditions in concord, 47 in fairfield and napa 47 degrees, where you have north winds mixing down, warmer air from higher up. making its way down to ground level. that is keeping temperatures up in a few spots. where the winds are light you still need a jacket this morning. we still have 30s out there. mostly sunny skies today. h

that was garvin thomas reporting. >>> still ahead on "today in the bay," how you can be a part of theum in santa clara. [ female announcer ] the best thing about this bar it's not a candy bar. 130 calories 7 grams of protein the new fiber one caramel nut protein bar. of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant >>> we are two hours and eight minutes until at&t park opens its gates. giving a live look outside the park as giants fans line up for giants fanfest that gets under way at 10:00 this morning. >>> from the field to the course, the warriors taking on the grizzlies in memphis. this didn't end well even with curry dropping 32 points. golden state loses that one, their third straight game and ninth overall to memphis by a final of 99-93. the warriors will try to right the ship in dallas today. >>> new this morning, now is your chance to be part of the 49ers new stadium in santa clara and it's cheaper than buying some of those tickets. the 49ers will starts selling commemorative bricks installed throughout the sta

i'm garvin sanchez. kris sanchez has the morning off.und the bay bridge. one of the reasons why it's chilly, in fact 29 degrees chilly right now in santa rosa, 34 in san jose, chilly in the silicon valley this morning, as you can see in the satellite view, a bi

garvin thomas bay area. they have a list of names and who, of course, william shatner tweets mark and has another couple suggestions. one was vulkan. >> william shatner, come on. he has his fingers in everything. >> at at&t park for hearts after dark. a great event, tell us about it, jeff, it looks beautiful out there. >> i know. it is hard to even tell we are at at&t park. don't you agree? back here behind me. >> yes. >> i know, they totally transformed it. we are standing right now on center field and you know maybe you've given your loved one here on valentine's day some sort of token of love. san francisco giants spread their love, lending the entire outfield to this event. hearts after dark. there is a flurry of activity banning here behind me as they continue to get set up. it starts at 7:30 tonight and it is all for an incredible cause. if fact, joining us right now we do have stephanie with san francisco general hospital foundation and stephanie, i have never seen an event on a baseball field tonight

garvin: but the rates that are being charged for water are insufficient to replace existing systems and to expand existing systems. narrator: because original infrastructure investments were frequently subsidized by the federal government, water pricing was often calculated without accounting for the initial cost to build the systems. we made major investments in assets in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. and for the first 40 years of that pipe, there really may not have been many maintenance requirements. we're past that period now. narrator: water pricing based only on day-to-day operation, and not on planning for maintenance and eventual upgrades has resulted in a considerable repair and replacement backlog. allbee: on a national scale, if you looked at what we're spending now, and you looked at the additional investment requirements over the next 20 years, there's a $540 billion difference. man: so one of the greatest challenges is to reflect true value pricing. so that the citizens and businesses that rely on water and wastewater infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. narrator

garvin made me feel a little better, thank you. a big welcome home for thousands of people stranded on board a carnival cruise ship for days. the ship docked at a port in mobile, alabama last night after passengers endured nearly a week of what they say was horrendous conditions. no power, no running water and flooded cabins. fox5's sherri ly is live in the newsroom with this story. what a mess. >> it was, allison. and passengers, their waiting families, they cheered as this cruise ship docked. it took four hours to get everyone off. this morning many of them are now in hotels or on the way home, thankful to finally be back home. the carnival cruise ship triumph arrived in mobile late last night. more than 4,000 people on the ship endured five days with no power after an engine room fire. passengers complained of overflowing toilets, unsanitary conditions. things got so bad, people slept on the open deck. buses took passengers to hotels in new orleans. some headed back to texas where the ship was based. many of those passengers wer

. >> doctor james garvin is the chief scientist.ucket. >> it's small. >> the last time a similar size object hit was in 1908. it exploded on the way down with a force of a couple of bombs levelling 800 square miles of forest. >> that's a fairly small event relative to the history of what's happened to this planet. >> it's orbit was calculated and double checked. >> it's orbit is very well known. it cannot hit the earth. >> come ing ing as close as it does gives scientists a rare chance to study an asteroid. >> the possibility of understanding it as it comes close with the kind of telescopes here on earth is great. >> one that won't come with a bang. >> scientists say the asteroid which weighs about 130,000 tons has a slim chance of hitting satellite communications. >>> next this morning right here on wjz. >> a $1 million reward is now being offered for the arrest and capture of an ex-lapd officers. >> is the time for slots at bwi? i'm mike schuh with a live report next. >> gas prices on the rise earlier this year. the dire predictio

. >> reporter: garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> you loved the story the second time you saw it tonight corner booth that gets me every time. >> let's go to rob miata. >> that food looked pretty good. coaching midnight. getting hungry here. clear says. a little bit of wind in the hills. that should keep temperatures up in the higher 70s. not much wind right now. not much in the way of rain. that's the big story this week. high pressure which is just the big wall here. and the pacific just off to our west as you can see as we switch over to this view. showing you the mid level moisture. this thing is like a big leaf blower in the sky here. it would make way up to the north. north of washington right now. and more kind of diving by to the south south of southern california. as long as it's high, holds its position. we are not going to see rain certainly through at least friday. as we head towards next weekend, the high is going to weeken enough to allow one system to come on by. just like we are just to cool us down. dry weather can't here in the forecast. hour by hour if your forecast to

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> a look at the forecast. >>> forecast right now we're just patchinging by this time around night. outside right now, mostly 40s. wints on cher with the cooling overnight. we'll set us up for pochy low wouds and sobl. two wise neys in the weekend. allowing this cold system to drop the rain, wind, and, yes, snow levels as low as the bay area higher peaks by tuesday afternoon. the snow levels will dip down to 3,000 feet. possibly as low as 2,000 feet by the time we get into tuesday night and isolated thunder a possibility. if the cold air coming in on top of the relatively wampler waters here. just offshore. that's going to set the stage for a chance of some small hail and thunder. that's a possibility for tuesday afternoon. rain at times. all of this, this wintry blast coming in for tuesday, and even though the showers are going to shut gown for the most part temperatures are going to stay cool. mainly in the 50s. monday through tuesday. for monday, you can see we will have a few sprinkles out there. one of the reasons why tomorrow's temperatures will b

i'm garvin thomas. mayeda is the meteorologist to my right and he's got at information about where the temperatures go from here. >> now that the sun is up, we'll go up in terms of the numbers. right now, it's cold. 34 san jose. sunnyvale, 33. san francisco the lone spot in the 40s right now. we've got clear skies. we'll see high clouds at times, dropping in from the north during the afternoon. and without any clouds, at least by day, that's going to allow the day tome temperatures to warm up. the lack of clouds overnight allow our temperatures to bottom out over the morning. the warm-up approaching around 1:00. already low 60s in the north bay as the north winds start to develop. that's going to make the air dry out and warm up as it heads into the north bay valleys this afternoon. towards the evening, dropping back into the 50s. the seven-day forecast continues to look unusually dry and quite warm. second half of the week could get close to 70. the complete forecast in just a few minutes. >> we've got

. >> i feel that there were some calls yesterday on dennis garvin saying 100% cash. that kind of call i think will be tested. i think there's a mix the pictu picture. what's developing, good news, bad news. the 100% cash call, which i think shocked the market, may not hold off on the daily today. >> it seems to overreact to anything fed. the minutes happened a month ago, january 3rd, we all got spooked, it sold off. that was a negative feeling in the market. a couple days ago, minutes come out, market gets spooked and here we are higher today. >> the german confidence numbers, for many -- for 30 years i didn't care whether the germans were confident or underconfident. >> who cared if they felt good or bad. now it's the end all, be all for how the european stocks do. and therefore, how we here in the united states do. >> exactly. and i think that what happened is in the last couple days, we started getting gripped again by china. maybe china's not strong enough. very worried about europe. then you add those on to the fed minutes and think, wait a second, doesn't the f