. >> reporter: the latest warren hellman started the festival.daughters who performed today say this is event is simply about the music. >> there is no agenda. there is nothing that we're trying to prove, but we're just trying to give a lot of people the experience are the for 11 years this music festival has been free and hellman family plans to keep that way as long as possible. hellman set up a fund that funds the festival for at least the next decade. the festival typically draws a quarter of a million of people, meaning congested streets and no place to park nearby, but justin torres who lives a block way says those are the only problems he says. >> it's a more mature crowd and polite and quiet when they are going home. >> reporter: singer steve earle plays here every year. >> i tell people to put it on their list and get here before it runs out because it will end sometime. >> reporter: for hardly strictly fans this festival is a gift they hope will keep on giving. [ applause ] alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> go to kutv.com for more

. >> reporter: the late warren hellman started the festival. granddaughters, who performed today, say it's about the music. >> there's no agenda with it. nothing we're trying to prove. we're trying to give people an experience. >> reporter: for 13 years this festival has been free, and the hellman family plans to keep it that way. they have footed the bill for at least the next decade. it typically draws about three- quarters of a million people, meaning no place to park and congested streets. but justin tores who lives a block away, says they're the only problems he sees. >> more mature crowd. quiet and nice. ♪ >> reporter: singer steve earle plays here every year. >> i tell people all the tile, you know -- time, you know, to get here. put it on their list and get here before it runs out. it will end some time. >> reporter: for hardly strictly fans, this festival is a gift they hope will keep on giving. ♪ >> reporter: alex savage. >> if you want to find out more, go to ktvu.com for information on the festival, including more of steve earle's p

the festival takes place in an area of golden gate park renamed hellman hall.t attracted a kwaut of a million people last year, and it continues tomorrow. the question is what kind of weather are they going to have? >> who should we ask? >> i think we'll ask the guy who had the perfect weather for his birthday today. >> happy birth day. >> thank you. thank you. yeah, it was beautiful outside. you know being temperatures are going to be very similar tomorrow. if you are making plans to get outside and get down to that bluegrass festival, you'll be looking at temperatures near 80 in san francisco. they got up to 83 downtown. 84 in redwood city. 85 in san jose. same in livermore. gilroy topped out at 93 degrees. now we are expecting, again, similar conditions for tomorrow. in fact, bodega bay, usually they don't get this warm. the average high 74. temperatures even at the coast going to continue to run about five, even 15 degrees above average for tomorrow and, again, bodega bay, 82 degrees. average high only in the 70s this time of year. quite unusual for that la

now, listen, i'm going to leave everything for you in my desk at the hellman building.'s five blocks away from the bus station. yes, but brian, they're watching you. they're gonna follow you there. they won't. i'll make sure of it. (beeper buzzing) i gotta get to surgery. the cash, the passports, they'll be in my desk. okay, i gotta go. good to see you out of that gown. i can open my own bottles, duncan. it's such a beautiful day. we should move this outside and have a picnic. it's not a good idea. your immune system's weak. you need to be patient. patient. i've been nothing but patient for the last six months. so, i got a call from miss jones. apparently, sawyer got into a fight with danica barry at school yesterday. that little snot probably deserved it. she stole sawyer's thermos. did you arrest her? you know, i thought about it, but i had a hard time getting a warrant. (laughing) oh, she wanted me to show you this picture. she was very proud of herself... i'm gonna stop the chemo. what? i talked about it with dr. suresh, um... the leukemia is still not in remission.

it's free, held in golden gate park hellman hollow named after a man whose gift makes this gather -- gathering possible. wayne, how is the music? >> music is... awesome. especially about now. i don't know if you can listen but 200 yards away, bonnie raitt is singing and has been for about a half hour. one of 90 acts theer weekend. all by the end of the weekend, 100,000 people will have attended this festival. it's time to exercise patience. if you're missing employees we know where some of them may have been. >> did you play hooky? >> no. i just pray all day. >> chances are he got plenty of exercise with the music being played in golden gate park. that dancing. he passed away two years ago but bequeathed enough money for the concert to go another decade. >> he said this is the selfish thing he can do. because he loved being here this, is his idea of being in heaven, i'm sure he's in heaven listening to everyone of the acts. >> beginning with mc hammer opening the show once again, bringing san francisco middle schoolers into his act. >> i think all of the words because of the parents.

it's free, held in golden gate park hellman hollow named after a man whose gift makes this gather -- gathering possible. wayne, how is the music? >> music is... awesome. especially about now. i don't know if you can listen but 200 yards away, bonnie raitt is singing and has been for about a half hour. one of 90 acts theer weekend. all by the end of the weekend, 100,000 people will have attended this festival. it's time to exercise patience. if you're missing employees we know where some of them may have been. >> did you play hooky? >> no. i just pray all day. >> chances are he got plenty of exercise with the music being played in golden gate park. that dancing. he passed away two years ago but bequeathed enough money for the concert to go another decade. >> he said this is the selfish thing he can do. because he loved being here this, is his idea of being in heaven, i'm sure he's in heaven listening to everyone of the acts. >> beginning with mc hammer opening the show once again, bringing san francisco middle schoolers into his act. >> i think all of the words because of the parents.

. >> reporter: it was the second year the festival was without its patron, warren hellman who died in11. while the outside world was dealing with closed federal parks and government shutdowns, here they were dealing with banjos and gi tars. >> this is a chance to come out and listen to music and not worry about anything else. >> reporter: the music festival was not the only escape. this weekend the bay area will play host to 49ers raiders football games, the a's, the chinatown festival. >> we have bart potentially striking, all the negatives we don't need to have. >> reporter: despite that the mayor was especially happy to check out the blue grass scene, especially since it wasn't costing the city a dime. >> do we have a weekend of respite, yes, we do. these moments are enjoyable. >> mc hammer still has it. >> he still looks great. >> he's still doing hammer time. >> jeff, this is one of the most active weekends really of the entire year in the bay area. >> the good part is the fire danger is going to clear out. we'll have warmer weather in the coast. saturday and sunday the best weat

hellman's mayonnaise, potato chips but to put stuff with black labels will vote not work. and then buy products that say protein if you sold granolas bars if you put the word protein you will get more mail purchasers just like the women by calcium but just by taking it is a slim jim is a mistake. melissa: is protean really males all or that we're trade that cards our bad to you think that is the carb but instead of trying to find protein okay that has protein. >> it is a combination. there are ways to market they are problem solvers maybe why they like to go shopping or make a list but is not the color of the packaging. >> they are hunter-gatherer's so that makes sense to us. melissa: does that mean you randomly go down the center to shove down the stuff to get out as quickly as possible? you read the labels? or are you just conditioned to buy a the brain and they have seen at home? are the conditions and to get what they have seen at home or is there the opportunity to retract new business? >> you do have the efficiency buyers the same things off the shelf to get in and g

fellow writers in britain and america including william story and norman mail, lillian hellman protestednd the charges dismissed. 1967 soyinka was arrested again, this time accused of treason at the start of the nigerian civil war. ironically, just before his arrest he had met secretly with the secessionist leader to plead against secession from nigeria. for 27 months, ladies and gentlemen, wole soyinka was in prison including 22 months in solitary confinement. living under horrific conditions and constant threats to his life, deprived almost entirely of books, pens, paper he nonetheless wrote in secret whenever and on whatever he could. on scraps of paper secreted away, in margins of the scant books he was allowed, on toilet paper. he nearly died more than once. but he survived. out of that experience came the book "the man died," what many have called an africa ya cause. the at of his -- account of his imprisonment contains what might be the most famous line he has written, and i quote: the man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. soyinka emerged from prison even more fi

the music is free thaingz to the late warren hellman who began the festival.ktvu.com and click on hot topics. >>> it is 8:56. we are on the scene of a bus fire in the live more area. take a look at this scorched land. this started about an hour ago in the live more area. the fire is now about 50 acres. looks luke it's contained at this point but with high winds and low humidity, this is exactly what firefighters are bracing for today. you can be sure they'll stay in this area to make sure that the fire does not spread beyond this point. once again, breaking news. 50-acre grass fire in livermore. you are looking at life here on news chopper 2. more on our website . >> i'm is now 8:57. let's go to sal. >> the toll plaza is doing well. last half hour -- last hour has been really good. this is a look at the bridge span, westbound. east span, you can see how well traffic is moving along. taking a look at the livermore valley, looking pretty good. we are noticing a lot of slow traffic in san jose and along 101. on 101, the palo alto area, that traffic is very slow.