major league eating president, who knew there was one, george shea, told aol news the record is a farceaying quote the champion of the world is crowned in coney island, always has been, always will be. kobayashi put a tin crown on himself and called himself king. those are fighting words. kobayashi has been banned from the contest because he would not sign a contract with major league eating. the the contest governing body. go figure. big figure, i'd say. 4:52 now. nasa's latest project that's giving them a look at creation. for all of your news and weather and traffic check us out on facebook, search nbc bay area morning news. >> thousands of people stayed out late just to see the fireworks. number of shows around the bay area and the weather certainly helped out. in san francisco, the fog stayed away, giving people a perfect view of the show. always great to try to sleep through that too. let's take a look at the morning commute this morning. christina's pulling double duty. >> indeed. were they going off in your neighborhood? >> oh, yeah. >> really ridiculous. i thought it's going to

. >>> also, we'll be talking to competitive eating top dog george shea. in addition to unwith of the female competitors today at 9:45. >>> nothing says fourth of july like fire works, right? many cities will be celebrating without them due to unusually dry conditions, which would make it just too dangerous. reynolds wolf is explaining that to us. explain the science here. >> the key thing is this, a great part of the country, especially parts of the desert southwest and texas where we have very low humidity and very dry conditions. that's a perfect recipe for bad things to happen when it comes to fireworks. especially across texas and especially along parts of the gulf coast and desert southwest where this year, no fireworks, simply due to the possibility of fire itself. very hot conditions as you might imagine. the humidity will be higher. a chance of thunderstorms into the afternoon. possibly severe storms in the northern plains and in through the great lakes. should be just picture perfect. same story for you up in parts of the pacific northwest. nice,