here's nbc bay area's garvin thomas with our bay area proud segment. >> no, it's my turn. >> who is winning? >> for luke, a third grader, being the playground center of attention has proven a mixed bless over the years. >> are you from the news? >> reporter: it was fun that day last week when a news camera came to shoot video of him. >> which channel. >> narrator: >> nbc. >> reporter: and then there was that day in first grade. >> i didn't really like it. some people were making fun of me. >> he loves crowds. >> reporter: to understand what happened back then, you have to learn a little bit about luke's sist sister, born with down's syndrome she was diagnosed at age 6 with a brain tumor. wanting to give a little support to his big sis louka and his dad vol tiered for a st. baldices event where people shaved their head to raise money for pediatric cancer research. lucas says it was a great experience. well, until school the next day. >> some people were like calling me baldy. >> and that's when he came home that day. they were making fun of me and came home crying. >> reporter: lucas swore h

here's garvin thomas with tonight's "bay area proud." >> reporter: if there's one thing dave has learneduring his time with the san jose police department, it's that there is no such thing as small talk when you're chaplain to a big city force. dave believes all those little conversations he's had over the past three decades in the hallways, squad cars and crime scenes, have paved the way to his office when it's time for a big one. >> these walls can tell a lot of stories. >> reporter: the chaplain's walls most recently can be found in a donated office atop the san jose funeral home. the icebox, as officers call it, is something of an unofficial cop clubhouse. at times, packed for an informal lunch, other times it's a single officer, and a serious talk. >> i have learned to love a cop, and to see them in the good times and the bad times. >> reporter: and for 28 years, chaplain dave has made it his mission to be there for both. on the good days, he's blessing weddings and baptizing babies. on the bad days, burying officers. the absolute worst, one day in january, 25 years ago. >> it was m

. >>> here's nbc bay area's garvin thomas. >> thank you so much for joining us. for the next 30 minutes, we'd hike to treat you to a different type of newscast. one that focuses solely on the good things happening in the bay area, and the good people who make them happen. what better way to start than a person with an amazing gift. for more than two decades, he ran a very successful cho choreal program. how many measures does it take to take the measure of a man's life? those rehearsing for a special concert inside antioch high school's auditorium are soon to find out. >> crescendo. >> reporter: the life in question, not one of theirs, but the one thing they all have in common. learning music and life from ron "mo" molina. >> i've always said that if i could be anyone, that i'd want to be just like him. >> reporter: for 27 years, music has been cool at antioch, because music was mo. he would relatively field a concert choir of more than 200 singers. the elite among them toured the world winning competition after competition, performing hundreds of times each year

garvin thomas. we just heard from him. phillip suke. and the last three, without them this show doesn't happen, they were up at 8:00 running, and they're here tonight making sure this happens. >> and they did a pretty good job tonight given the fact they've been up since 8:00 this morning. >> it's almost tomorrow. >> thanks for watching bay area news. goodnight. >>> now his former students return the favor. >> it's unbelievable to look up and see them all. >>> she lost so much in the vietnam war. >> it seems like -- >> but after years of searching, she found the man responsible for giving her a new life in the u.s. >> my dream came true after all these years. >

"today in the bay's" garvin thomas has her story. >> reporter: patty gay has been an artist for most of her life and a mother for half of it. still, it wasn't until later in her life that patty discovered a way to bring both those worlds together in the most beautiful of ways. >> there's a beauty in what he does and who he is and i want that to be seen. yeah, rock 'n' roll's in the backseat sometimes. >> reporter: he is noah patty's 22-year-old autistic son. noah is what autism experts call nonverbal. it means he can't tell you that he loves to help his mother in the grocery store. or loves to go for walks in the woods. >> yeah, it's so niles oce out . >> reporter: still noah manages to get the message across. it's how patty has known since he was a little boy that noah loved it when painting time rolled around. >> look at that. >> reporter: still does as a matter of fact. he seems to enjoy the colors and textures and the sensation that come with painting with fingers, rollers and sponges. >> look at that. >> reporter: patty has always loved what noah created but only a couple years

here's garvin thomas with this morning's "bay area proud." >> hey, rick, how ya doing?bridgeon has learned during his time with the san jose police department -- >> how's the little ones? >> reporter: it's that there's no such thing as small talk. >> good to see you again. >> reporter: when you're chaplain to a big city force. >> take care. thank you. >> reporter: dave, you see, believes all those little conversations he's had over the past three decades in hallways, squad cars and crime scenes have paved the way to his office when it's time for a big one. >> this wall -- these walls can tell a lot of stories. >> reporter: the chaplain's walls can be found in a donated office atop a san jose funeral home. the ice box, as officers call it, is something of an unofficial cop clubhouse, at times packed for an informal lunch. other times it's a single officer and a serious talk. >> i have learned to love a cop and to see them in the good times and the bad times. >> reporter: and for 28 years, chaplain dave has made it his mission to be there for both. on the good days, he's

garvin thomas has his story in this morning's "bay area proud." >> reporter: 9-year-old memphis schroedernever happier than with a soccer ball at his feet and friends at his side. if he could, memphis would likely spend all his waking hours on the hunt for gold. except that is for all the time this year that memphis chose to put in on a much different type of goal. >> i'm memphis. >> reporter: an ambitious one he remarkably has set for himself. >> i love it. >> yeah, it's pretty cool. >> reporter: julie and chuck say it began a few years ago when they gave memphis a choice. for his birthday he could presents or ask for donations for a worthy cause. every year he had the choice, and every year memphis has chosen to give rather than receive. >> because i want to take my time to help the people. >> reporter: when he was just 4 years old memphis helped raise $900 to help save a kids' kay parade. when he was 5 he turned his attention to the redwood empire food bank. and every year since he's raised his goals how many meal he wants to donate and every year memphis has surpassed it. >> i've brok

garvin thomas shows us this future giant who is out to help others instead of cashing in. >> reporter: the roots of success can often be discovered in odd places. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: shabom's just happened to be hiding under his bed. it's where you see he stores his old lego kits, the ones he's been playing with since about the age of 2. >> you can be creative. you can do anything. >> reporter: but as shabom has grown, he's now a seventh grader, so have his legos, his ambition and clearly his heart. >> i think i'm actually doing something that can actually help people. >> reporter: which brings us to this $350 lego mine storm's kit and what he spent an entire month creating out of it at the kitchen table. >> i thought i could do it. i mean i didn't know if it was possible, but i really wanted to do it. >> reporter: it started with a flier on their doorstep, one asking for donations for the mind. shabom had never before thought about how blind people read, so he asked his dad. >> he said google it. so i googled it and i found out all this stuff about braille printers and braille.

garvin thomas, "today in the bay." >>> still ahead on "today in the bay," more on the man hunt that ledfficers on a high speed chase through several bay area counties before ending in the south bay. >>> and cleaning up the clutter in the south bay. how the san jose sharks helped out. [ male announcer ] pillsbury crescents -- awesome. but now you can use them to make pizza night awesome, too. unroll, separate, add sauce, pepperoni, cheese, and fold. behold: weeknight crescent pizza pockets party. pillsbury crescents. make dinner pop. worst morning ever. [ angelic music plays ] ♪ toaster strudel! best morning ever! [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. toaster strudel! ♪ [ male announcer ] spring is calling. save 25% when you buy two scotts fertilizers -- one to use now and one for later. >>> good morning, dublin. this is what your skies look like as you look out your window this morning. and in oakland, similar cloud cover. and the kind that drops rain drops as well. the question is always, when? thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez along with meteorologist rob mayeda. when, when, when, rob? >

here's "today in the bay's" garvin thomas with our "bay area proud." >> who is winning?e playground center of attention has proven a mixed blessing over the years. >> are you from the news? >> reporter: it was fun that day last week when a news camera came to shoot video of him. >> what channel? >> nbc. >> reporter: but then there was that day in first grade. >> i didn't really like it. people were making fun of me. >> reporter: to understand what happened back then, you have to learn a little bit about lucas' sister allesandra, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and wanted to give support luka and his dad volunteered for a st. badrik event where people shaved their heads to raise money for pediatric cancer research. he said it was a great experience. well, until school the next day. >> well, some people were calling me, like, baldy. >> and then that's when he came home that day and people were making fun of me, you know, and came home crying. >> reporter: luka swore he would never do it again and who would blame him. but then luka learned about the deaths of a couple o

as garvin thomas shows us, it starts at a kitchen table, and this young innovator is out to help othersuccess can often be discovered in odd places. shubham banerjee's just happening to be hiding under his bed. it's where shubham stores his old lego kits, the ones he's been playing with since about the age of 2. >> you can be creative. you can do anything. >> reporter: but as shubham has grown -- he's now a seven seventh-grader at san jose's champion school -- so have his legos, his ambition, and clearly his heart. >> i think i'm actually doing something that can actually help people. >> reporter: which brings us to this. $350 lego mindstorms kit and what shubham spent an entire month creating out of it at the kitchen table. >> i thought i could do it. i bcrlñmean, you didn't know if was possible but i really wanted to do it. >> reporter: it started with a flyer on the banerjees' doorstep, one asking for donations for the blind. shubham had never before thought about how blind people read. so he asked his dead. >> he said google it. so i googled it, and i found out all this stuff about

garvin thomas is here to tell us more. >> he has an impressive list of high end bay area restaurants on his resume. his latest stop is place many of us hope to never have to eat it. why he made that change and what it means for others is tonight's bay area proud. >> reporter: at oakland society of st. vincent, the dining hall doors open at 10:45. before the lumpl rush is over some 800 is needed will fo longer be among its most hungry. running the largest cafe on google's mountain view campus. he sees them as much more alike than different. >> no money exchanged for the people i cook for. it's always the same people you see mostly on day-to-day. they take a train. >> reporter: it's not the only surprise peter has up his chef's coat. that's because he'll tell you giving man or woman a free hot meal is not the most satisfying part of his job. >> i want to go through the process of making a pizza with you. >> reporter: teaching someone how to cook that meal, that is. >> i get more satisfaction when i can train someone to be back into and have a career in culinary. >> reporter: peter runs

i love it. >> reporter: garvin thomas, "today in the bay." >>> still ahead on "today in the bay," the latest on the malaysia airlines flight that disappeared on its way to beijing and what the vietnam air force spotted overnight. >>> it was definitely a dinner to remember. the drug-tainted meat that sent a pregnant mother and her chern children to the hospital. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack ♪ ♪ and fiber so my wife won't give me any more flack ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ >>> good morning to you. look at this pretty picture of foster city. we see blue sky. we see a little bit of cloud cover which is going to burn off and we're going to have a fantastic day before we get a little bit more rain. thanks so much for joining us this morning. i'm kris sanchez along with anthony slaughter and we do like the rain but it is nice to get a little b

garvin thomas has more. >> reporter: patty gay says one of the things she's always loved about art is challenging herself. perhaps it's surprising it took her so long to come up with her latest one. she'll tell you it's her best by far and it's tonight's "bay area proud." patty gay has been an artist for most of her life. and a mother for half of it. still, it wasn't until later in her life that patty discovered a way to bring both those worlds together in the most beautiful of ways. >> there's a beauty in what he does, and who he is, and i want that to be seen. >> reporter: he is noah. patty's 22-year-old autistic son. noah is what autism experts call nonverbal. it means he can't tell you that he loves to help his mother in the grocery store or loves to go for walks in the woods. >> so nice out today. >> reporter: still, noah manages to get the message across. >> there he goes. >> reporter: it's how patty has known since he was a little boy that noah loved it when painting time rolled around. >> look at that. >> reporter: still does, as a matter of fact. noah seems to enjoy the colla

>> we apologize for the difficulties in the last story that garvin thomas package. >>> we'll see you back here tonight at 6:00. . >>> on this saturday night, one week later. inside the search for dozens of people still missing after that deadly mud slide in washington state. turning point. ships finally retrieve some of those floating objects in the indian ocean. are we closer to an answer in the mystery of flight 370. outof nowhere southern california is shaken by an earthquake da that damaged homes and businesses. knocked out power and rattled a lot of nerves. game changer? after a ruling that college athletes are employees, what does that mean for big-time college sports? and the long road home far dog named sassy thanks to a big assist from a little piece of technology. >>> good evening. more unsettling rumble this is afternoon, shattering nerves in southern california less than a day after a 5.1 earthquake shattered windows, emptied store shelves and caused some power outages. scientists in southern california say more than 100 aftershocks, including a magnitude 4.1 quake this a

garvin thomas joins us with tonight's bay area proud. >> reporter: adds a chaplain you expect him to be familiar with all types of leaps of faith. but in the 1980s when he was asked to be police chaplain, he was told they weren't sure he'd be paid every week. it was a leap of faith he took and in turn, he has paid them back in good times and in bad. >> hey, rick, how ya doing? >> reporter: if there's one thing dave has learned during his time with the san jose police department -- >> how's your little ones? >> reporter: it's that there's no such thing as small talk. >> good to see you again. >> reporter: when you're chaplain to a big city force. >> take care. >> reporter: dave, you see, believes all those little conversations he's had over the past three decades in hallways, squad cars and crime scenes have paved the way to his office when it's time for a big one. >> this wall -- these walls can tell a lot of stories. >> reporter: the chaplain's walls most recently can be found in a donated office atop a san jose funeral home. the ice box, as officers call it, is something of an unof

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >>> right now we're going to check in on weather and a big storm coming our way. anthony slaughter with your micro climate forecast. >> we saw some decent rainfall this weekend. we got 2 inches of rain in some places and the south bay about half an inch. right now you can see on the live radar scan we don't have anything to talk about. things are dre. but we do have a steady stream of cloud cover moving in. and by lurks time i do think everywhere across the board we're going to be looking at showers. we could hear a few rumbles of thunder, see a few flashes of lightning through the day for tomorrow. that's going to continue in tuesday as well. but for your forecast tomorrow, again, you're going to find showers and thunderstorms anywhere across the bay area tomorrow. 63 in san jose. palo alto at 59. hayes valley only at 57 degrees. embarcadero at 58. this is where we're going to see the most rainfall with upwards of 1 to 3 inches of rain. fremont, 59. let's get you to the surface map. this is the storm system we were talking about earlier in the first hit.

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >>> meteorologist rob mayeda with your micro climate forecast.t's loaded with stuff. >> we'll see mostly cloudy skies, change over to a chance of seeing showers just before daybreak tomorrow morning and then a big warmup. right now mainly dry across the bay area. head up toward mendocino county and that's pretty much where it's been all day, 2 to 3 inches of rain. it will star t to slide to the south. it's not going to have the same punch. it may still impact your monday morning commute at times. right around 5:30 to 6:00 in the morning, and then the last of the showers hung up here in areas south of san jose. the thing to watch by this time tomorrow night will be gusty offshore winds. no more chances of rain we're seeing in the forecast, probably at least until the 22nd of the month. dry pattern sets up, and he would will see gusty winds and warmer temperatures to round out the week. maybe a lingering shower in the south bay. san francisco seeing highs in the mid-60s the very likely the coolest day we'll see. as you can see by next weekend, we'r