joe rosato jr. shows us how it's finishing. >> reporter: one of the great mysteries of life. some call it it was in the town of kibera africa's largest urban slum where she began life. its challenges included hills of garbage, ramshackle homes, sewage running in the streets and as she knew all too well few opportunities for education. >> makes it difficult for you to aspire to do good stuff. >> reporter: even in his small world he carried big dreams of becoming an actor. maybe even one day going to a university. >> my dreams were always based in hollywood. >> reporter: then one day hollywood came to him. he got a bit part in a film called "lost in africa," partially shot in his slum. on the film set he struck up a friendship with the film's star. >> obviously immediately likeable. when i asked him what his plans were for the future he just had that one dream of going to college. and i said i would see what i could do. >> reporter: she was moved by the intense poverty she witnessed, the slivers of human spirit shining behind the film so she founded the human needs project. the

joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >>> still to come down but not out.rts to build a new campus in mountain view even after the city put a stop to previous plans. >>> also the reason these young rockers came together today. >>> no doubt it was a big earthquake. you can tell by the way eastern japan shook today. an 8.5 earthquake struck this morning, shaking buildings and a lot of nerves. the epicenter near a group of islands south of tokyo. the quake did not trigger a tsunami warning. no reports so far of any problems at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant either. damage from today's quake is minimal because of how deep the earthquake struck. the epicenter measured in about 370 miles deep. even so much of the country felt at least some shaking. >>> here in the bay area all eyes are on the sky, like the beautiful sky you see behind me here. some rain is in the forecast. for more, let's check in with meteorologist anthony slaughter. >> yeah you know we have temperatures all over the place today. we had san francisco one of our coolest today at 60 degrees.

. >> joe rosato jr. tracked down one of last living crewmen of the attendance to hear the -- of the "uss independence" to hear the stories. >> reporter: in this quiet east bay neighborhood of dublin 88-year-old phillip wire -- >> saw action -- >> reporter: wades into a book of old old photos. in an instant, he's transported back seven decades -- >> it seemed like a lifetime. >> reporter: thousands of miles away to the south pacific. >> it was like a dream. >> reporter: his mind drifts to 1945, the year he went off to fight in world war ii. >> 17 1/2. >> reporter: the scientific unit of the aircraft carrier "uss independence." for the next year and a half of his life, his home was this 623-foot boating war machine. >> our duty was to travel fast and get our plangs as close to the en-- planes as close to the enemy as we could. >> reporter: the fast-moving ship was outfitted as the first carrier to launch planes at night. >> every ship is firing their weapons. the whole area smells like suggest fur. >> repo

new at 6:00 joe rosato jr. shows us an unusual group giving orphaned birds a little wing up. >> reporter: there is nothing in life that says home like someplace cozy and warm. nothing that says love like something woven and shaped by hand. >> it's a way of keeping my little hands busy. >> reporter: she took up the knitting needles long ago. >> when i was a child, i started knitting. and these are crocheted ones. >> reporter: for the record her family is not constantly getting gifts of scarves and sweaters. >> i don't do sweaters. i just do nests. >> reporter: the recipients of becky's hand-knitted kindness are baby birds. >> can you imagine one little ity bitty bird in this thing. >> reporter: becky started knitting bird nests a year ago after san rafael's wild care animal hospital put out a call for nests to help with all the orphaned baby birds coming in. >> about a year ago there was a front page article in the local newspaper calling knitters to knit for birds. >> reporter: it didn't take any other nudging

their final cut, priceless pieces of san francisco, the kind that won't fit in a trunk of a car, joe rosato jr. nbc bay area. >> i love that story. thank you, joe. where is jeff ranieri? he's at an important fund-raiser called silicon valley gives. >> hey, raj. >> reporter: hi raj and jessica. we're raising a lot of money and having a good time at the same time. the totals are over $5 million. let's bring it down a little bit. i've got to be able to talk. and we have a lot of organizations being held by svgives.org don't through midnight. one of them is the silicon valley pet project. we have murray down here. so cute. and then we also have willow over here and cheerio right back there. all three of these guys and many more at the silicon valley pet project wouldn't be able to get help if it wasn't for this fund-raiser today, is that right? >> that's correct. it takes local animals from the local shelter and puts them in foster care and then gets them their forever home. and cheerio just got sprung about an hour and a half ago. >> reporter: that's awesome. maybe from watching it on tv. go t

. >> joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >>> that is impressive. >> what a nice story. >> so inspirationallet's bring in jeff ranieri. we talked about this memorial holiday that's so emotional. >> on the doppler radar, we're tracking areas of fog. if you're visiting folks in the south bay or east bay where we had sunshine and low 70s and heading back towards san francisco, you want to know we have areas of drizzle, pretty numerous throughout the golden gate bridge and the bay bridge. need the wipers for a little bit tonight. take you outside the sky camera network now, we currently have temperatures in the 50s and 60s. you can see how thick that cloud cover is again from the castro in san francisco looking right back towards downtown. so we're not going to see it budge for tomorrow. let's go ahead and take you into the morning forecast. a lot of us get back to work and also school and you'll find numbers will be starting on the cooler side with temperatures in the 50s. right around 50 in the north bay, east bay 53 and the south bay 52. the drizzle in the peninsula and also san francisco wi