i'm richard lui along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early >>> breaking news out of the south bay. a young woman reportedly attacked overnight just a block away from a local university. what we're learning about the incident and the search for the suspect now under way. >>> we also have new details this morning about a potential bedbug outbreak at a good will warehouse on the peninsula. >>> plus, it's not a strike but it could threaten this evening's commute. what b.a.r.t. workers are doing this afternoon that could affect thousands in the bay area trying to get home in time for dinner. >>> we want to start with good news, before the sunshine comes up. look at the traffic. don't have worry about anything on this thursday, august 1st. this is "today in the bay."

i'm richard lui along with bill karins. you're watching "early today." have a good one. >>> it is 4:30. good morning everybody. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> right now we have breaking news to tell you about in san francisco where firefighters are working right now on a grass fire threatening the san francisco national cemetery inside the presidio. that fire started near the intersection of park and lincoln boulevard. that happened about 2:00 this morning. this is the very first video of that fire into our newsroom. you can see there, this one creeping up on some of the head stones inside of that cemetery. our bob redell right now on his way to that scene. as soon as he arrives, we'll bring you an update in our 5:00 newscast. >>> in the meantime a man is dead a driver under arrest after an overnight crash in san jose. according to

. >>> here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. how many vacation days for you? >> 43 if i'm lucky. >>> let's talk about what's going on out there with the weather. over the weekend, got drenched in the southeast. the big story, all of the pictures of that devastating fire in idaho, that's where it's located there, just north of the fairfield area. idaho has definitely been one of the bull's eye points. yesterday, it was 97 in boise. 90 in billings. 98 in denver. lot of the heat that's in the west is now going to head east, after another cool weekend. it looks like temperatures are going to soar this weekend. back where they should be. the exception this week will be the southeast, still kind of rainy, and it's been rainy for a while. as far as the forecast, we're going to call for two to three inches of rain there. erin dissipated over the weekend. your forecast for monday, carry your umbrellas from d.c. all of the way down to the southeast. new york city, a chance of hitting 09 degrees this week. first time in a month that we have hit the 90s. sort of an unusua

meteorologist bill karins as we look at winds and temperatures, how's it look for the day? >> every day we're getting a new fire in the west. yesterday was utah. nothing is changing, dangerous, breezy afternoon winds and high temperatures and no really rain in sight with 95 in salt lake city yesterday. today will be just as warm. let's talk about what is changing a little bit. this last storm out in the pacific just under the weather channel logo there dipped down, tried to clip the northwest. this storm is heading more northeasterly direction, dragging some showers into the northwest, but not a lot of rain. here's our expected rainfall totals. >> a lot of eggs, man, a lot of eggs. >> a lot of eggs, in other words, there will be some clouds, little cooler, may be a sprinkle or two, but not a lot of wet weather. wednesday forecast calls for 82 in seattle, 85 in portland. where we showed you the pictures, another very hot day today, about 97 in salt lake city. that's your awhile. spokane, washington, 94. >>> we continue in this pattern. it's in the 40s this morning in norther

bill karins, thank you so much. >>> the situation is syria is causi causing israelis to stock up on gas masks. >>> plus, one major sign that general motors has its mojo back. "early today" is back in two minutes. >>> some stories making headlines -- a 16-year-old boy will face a judge in court today charged as an adult in the murder of an 88-year-old world war ii veteran. police say dimitrius glenn robbed, beat and killed dell bert shorty belton. >>> the search surnd way for a second suspect, keenan adams kinard. >>> ruth bader ginsburg tells the "new york times" she vows to stay on the supreme court as long as her health and intellect stay strong. the 80-year-old called the court one of the most activist courts in history. >>> israelis are stocking up on gas masks amid fears a western attack on syria's chemical weapons could provoke a response from damascus. the demand has tripled. >>> colin powell says martin luther king jr.'s dream is not fully achieved yet. powell also had this to say on the trayvon martin case as washington marked the 50th anniversary of the "i have a dream" speech

nbc meteorologist bill karins will be here to keep us posted on that story. >>> a wildfire in southern california grew larger and now it's on the move. the silver fire has grown to 22 square miles and is burning an estimated 1,000 acres an hour. the latest update puts the blaze at just 20% contained. local officials have ordered nearly 2,000 people out of the area, 26 homes have already been destroyed, at least one man has suffered serious burns and five firefighters have also been injured with heat exhaustion. they'll be off the job for at least 24 hours. >>> the multistate man hunt for james lee dimaggio has taken another dramatic turn. the man suspected of kidnapping 15-year-old hanna anderson and her 8-year-old brother ethan may be armed with explosives. police found the second body in the charred house that is yet to be identified but they believe it may be ethan's. in a statement thursday, officials -- dimaggio may have shaved his goatee. >>> the state department thursday warned americans not to travel to pakistani and evacuated all but emergency staff. this threat is not related

bill karins, our nbc meteorologist, you look at these pictures. they are called a haboob, right? >> if you get a big enough one. if it moves fast enough. some are small. some are big. we get these storms daily. it continues this morning. there's even more storms after that race through arizona overnight. i'm sure they did produce some gusty winds that kicked up the dust, too. let's show you what's going on with the fires. 33 uncontrolled blazes continue to burn. california now has the most. you've passed idaho. you have eight fires burning uncontained at this time. of course, the biggest one of them being the rim fire. that was 20% containment. still burning in very rugged terrain. dry conditions. that's not going to stop any time soon. additional storms last night. there was a little lightning with these storms. they did miss las vegas through cedar city and southern portions of utah right now. we'll see additional hit and miss storms in the desert areas from vegas northwards from flagstaff up to salt lake city. even boise has a chance of a storm or two. with these thunderstorms

i'm richard lui, along with bill karins. have a good one. >>> breaking news, a triple shooting at a restaurant in san jose turns deadly overnight. we just talked to san jose police. what they're telling us next. >>> plus a local child hides under the coffers as robbers break into his home and attack his mother. we'll let you know what we're learning from overnight. >>> an oakland man making new claims saying city workers assaulted him right outside city hall. what the city is saying this morning. >>> right now a live look outside at a foggy golden gate bridge. we can tell you the bay area right now under a red flag warning this morning after thousands of lightning strikes all over the bay. christina has a look at your weather.

i'm joined by richard lui and bill karins.overnight, we had quite a sight. >> the blue moon. >> are you going to sing for us? >> it's setting in some areas, too. >> you went out there yourself. and the blue moon as you both know is really not blue. >> i know nothing about a blue moon. >> the deal is the reason why they call it a blue moon is because it is the second full moon of the month, but that's the new definition. the original definite thiion be the '40s was if it were to be the third of four full moons in a season. >> it's pretty. >> i won't go any further. just it's a beautiful moon. >>> a new sleep study is out. it found that for people who suffer from insomnia, sleep may have more of an impact on exercise than exerce has on sleep. conventional wisdom is that if you exercise, you sleep better. but they found it took four months who people who started an exercise routine to seat benefits in their sleep. but if you don't sleep well, the effect on your exercise rue team is immediate. you won't gets a good of a workout, i

nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us right now. you don't want to be in that situation. tough to breathe as well. >> i would like to -- i've never seen a volcano explode. i'd love to see one, be near it but not in it. >> not be in it or have to breathe it. we'll not have that in the states though. not soon. >> don't want to predict that. no more mt. st. helens. >> as far as the weather, hot and windy in much of the west. you saw what happened in idaho. the beaver creek fire. we told you some of the stats. over 1,000 firefighters on the ground. 10,000 helicopters over like 100 engines on the ground. it continues to be boiling. 95 today for the forecast for the fire lines today. and the 8% containment help hopefully get the number up a little bit. the weather will not cooperate. hot in boise yesterday, 97. relatively cool in l.a. 72. san francisco, 78. getting warmer than you've been. not bad also in many areas of the pacific northwest. this is the upcoming weather pattern for much of this week. dominant hot weather continues from arizona northwards into nevada. all interi

somebody right about 100% of the time is bill karins. >> 80% of the time is right? it's kind of like the national inquirer, every now and then they'll get a big story right. we'll find out super bowl sunday. a lot of weather headlines over the weekend. one of the big ones is obviously this rim fire in california. here is a picture from nasa, a picture taken from one of the satellites above the fire. that's the state of california. you can see the green there in the middle of the picture is the central valley. the fire is huge up in the mountains in the sierra there. the smoke was blowing the the north all weekend long, a very rural area. the other story over the weekend. tropical storm fernand made land faufl in the southern gulf of mexico. this one thankfully was near land so couldn't become a hurricane, just a big rain event. it was hot over the weekend, very hot in the central plains, 96 minneapolis with a record high. we are right in the mid summer-like pattern for the end of summer. this is going to be an end of summer heat wave, here to stay for at least the n

." >>> and our first look at the weather, i'm joined by bill karins. >> morning. rainy tuesday. i know. nap day. >> well, maybe. >> if we should be so lucky. >> it's not happening for me either. this morning we're going to deal with some travel issues out there for a lot of us. bring the umbrella if it's not raining already. flash flooding problems. flash flood watched for about 10 million or maybe even 20 million now that we've added new york city. oklahoma city to little rock, west virginia into d.c. and new york. a huge area of rain developed overnight covering all of the southern half of pennsylvania right now. it's especially heavy going from areas of allentown to harrisburg and it's about to start pouring in philadelphia. and that will move right over the much to new york city during the heart of the morning rush hour. expect some major travel delays and airport delays also. as far as the severe weather goes, if we get anything, damaging winds most likely. richmond, virginia beach, raleigh, goldsboro, out to the outer banks could deal with some small hail. the forecast for

[applause] >> karin, the democrats love this war on women thema. while mitt romney -- as you know, there was a struggle with single women. at the same time you have democrats like eliot spitzer, anthony weiner, bob filner -- >> quite the group.all over the news. >> quite the group. >> what are some of the things that you think we can do better to reach young women? obviously, there are many opportunities, but what would your advice be in getting better at that, maybe reaching more people, young women, for example, across the board? >> i was excited to see in that report, a big section on reaching women. women are not some unified voting bloc that will vote liberal everytime, because it is more complicated than that. as to reaching young women, in the last election, the democrats were really successful in putting out a number of images and celebrity ads to target young women. i think one of the things that we need to be doing is recognizing the difference segments of women and targeting them. i have to admit, as a young woman, i found some of the th

i'm richard lui along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today." have a very good wednesday. >>> a normally quiet neighborhood in the south bay startled by the sound of gunfire. bob redell is talking to police. he'll have a live update, next. >>> fire crews from the bay area called in to help as a while fire continues to rage near yosemite. thousands told to pack up and leave, including some bay area students. >>> plus, new video just in. dozen of protesters pulled from san francisco's city hall early this morning. >>> speaking of san francisco, here's one of its famous bridges. a live look outside at the bay bridge on this wednesday, august 21st. this is "today in the bay."

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. >>> for the weather i'm joined by bill karins. >>> this morning, hope windows are open in many areas of the country. the 24-hour temperature change has made its way to the east coast. columbus is 16 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. d.c. is about 13 degrees cooler. it's 51 degrees right now in detroit, i mean, that's cool, that's jacket weather. same for buffalo and columbus, that cool air is making its way to the east coast. now, one little thing of interest we have to watch over the next couple of days, 30% chance of development of this system in the western portions of the caribbean it's over very warm water. it's going to be very weak, i'm thinking, the possibilities of maybe 3 to 6 inches of rain and we could have some flooding concerns heading toward the weekend. overall, pretty quiet day. look at the beautiful forecast f from minneapolis to new york city. it feels like fall. >>> all right, thanks so much bill, a major announcement is expected from the pentagon today. all of the details coming up next. >>> plus, could this be the $60 million man? [ school bell rings ] ♪

. >>> bill karins joins us. taking a look at the weather in the west and across the country. >> los angeles has gone 16 days in a row without hitting 80 degrees. in the middle of the summer. one of the longest streaks they've ahad in july and august. on the flip side of that, it's been warmer over this period in seattle than it has been in l.a. now yesterday l.a. did -- this is the downtown read, did edge out seattle by one degree. you can see the heat is there. it's in phoenix and vegas. but it just hasn't been moving into l.a. the winds have been pushing it the wrong direction. more of an onshore flow. temperatures this morning, still pretty nice and mild in many of the spots hot yesterday. salt lake city at 70. boise at 71. not a lot of highlights throughout. most of the pop-up afternoon showers and storms yesterday were in the mountains of idaho, utah and colorado. high pressure dominates the west along with some hot air. it looks like the northwest is going to cool down a little bit as we go throughout the

bill karins, though, we talked about this earlier. georgia normally a place where you have some nice weather. a lot of sun. not a lot of water. >> usually they complain it's too hot and not enough water. they'll need it in many areas. we talked about fairbanks yesterday. 84 degrees. >> they did it? >> yes, they did. broke the record. 85 there actually. so very impressive. also 67 in anchorage. so it wasn't everywhere. interior alaska has been very high. juneau around 75. fairbanks yesterday, 31 80-plus degree days this summer. breaks the record. also 13th day 85 or above in fairbanks. that also breaks your record. >> what about today? >> 62 right now. interior alaska going up to 84 once again in fairbanks. so they'll add to the record-breaking summer. also as far as the rest of the west goes, yesterday was very warm in the desert. texas was hot. salt lake was hot. we just got hdone with one of or hottest. a little rain left over in northern portions of idaho. that's about it. a few sprinkles today in seattle. that's a lookbe cooler be

now for a look at the weather, here is bill karins. >> nothing will phase you. it's 88 and sunny and you're in your glory. >> there you go. >> fire still the big story. it was 95 degrees, windy. almost 2,000 firefighters, like a little mini army trying to fight the fire in rural sections of idaho. so we wish those men and women the best out there. again over 100,000 acres, only 9% contained. a lot of work ahead of them. thankfully the forecast will help. 83 today. yesterday it was 95. it will be partly cloudy, of course there's a lot of smoke and hayes in tze in the air. not a lot of rain in the forecast, but it will help a little bit. and as we've been talking, all the warm hot air in the west yesterday is slowly sliding east. yesterday it warmed up st. louis, kansas city, chicago, the great lakes, ohio valley. and then finally today, northeast and mid-atlantic will warm up. there will still be clouds and showers and storms in the southeast, but it won't rain more day. more typical garden variety afternoon storms. it's been so cool for so long that 88 will feel

nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us. good morning, my friend. >> remember those sprinkles we talked about? a little bit of rain went through, but much of the west continues to bake in the heat. yesterday we showed you the fires in utah. 99 in salt lake city. 100 in boise. very hot in the intermountain west. continues to be one of the hottest summers in some of these locations. the eastern half of the country, the middle of the country is fall-like. no moisture in the air. the dew points are very low. these numbers show you how much moisture is in the air. the higher the number in general means more moisture. the lower the number means there's little. hardly any moisture at all in the intermountain west. fire danger. 71 in salt lake city. 67 in portland. so pretty mild air just about everywhere. the storm that kicked through yesterday is now spinning along the british columbia coastline. the cold front will try to move into the northwest. could be a few more showers out the there. maybe a little more drizzle and clouds in

we turn, of course, to meteorologist bill karins. you got to follow that act. >> i need a story in between. >> to buffer it. >> yes, that was pretty funny. >> don't text me, all right? >> a beautiful weekend for so many people. millions of people in the great lakes, ohio valley, northeast, humidity will be low, cool, crisp nights but yesterday wasn't the case, interesting weather taking place. especially the colorado area was very interesting. this is hail, not snow, they literally had to have a snowplow to clear the ice out of the road so the guide could get his car. >> that is so wild. >> once the hail got collected in the rain it all collected and got that deep, this was a guy's backyard. >> looks like snow. >> looks like a snow picture. pretty impressive with the hail. not a lot of bad weather. the worst in west virginia with heavy rain coming through. as far as the forecast, a few showers and storms around d.c., especially the carolinas and southeast but i mentioned over the weekend great weather from the great lakes to the ohio

i'm joined by richard lui and bill karins. bill, i have no idea what your story is.people are calling this photo the turducken of the sea. this photo here the researchers and the university of delaware were trying to recapture a tagged sand shark, the female there you see the big one. they had about a foot long bait out, a three-foot shark ate that bait and immediately after the sand shark ate the three-foot long shark and they captured this photo. they're calling it the turducken of the sea. fish eating the fish eating the fish. >> a brutal place. >> it's a cool photo, it's like shark beak or it was. >> fits in. >> much healthier than a turducken. >> people don't know what turducken is, turkey and duck stuffed in chicken? >> deboned chicken and duck and stuff it inside the turkey and cook it up. >> you learn something every day here. >> it's great stuff. >> richard, bowling? >> well kind of. we got the center from mississippi state, they all went out the entire line to have some fun so what do they do? the center dylan dader says hey, give me that bowling ball. watc

karin calf fa reports the white house is not happy. >> reporter: asylum is approved. this is his attorney showing his document. the move ends more than a month of limbo in moscow's airport. snowden has legal status in russia for a year. the white house needless to say was not happy. >> we have extremely disappointed into the russian government would take this step despite our lawful request to have mr. snowden expelled to the united states. >> reporter: president obama is supposed to attend a summit in russia next month. >> i don't have a scheduling announcement for you today. but obviously, this is not a positive development. >> reporter: the program purportedly revealed by snowden deals with nsa monitoring of internet and phone traffic. wednesday the guardian newspaper published more classified information on another initiative called xkeyscore which the report said gives the government a vast ability to see a person's internet history. so what do americans think about snowden's actions? according to a poll conducted by abc news and the "washington post," 53% of tho

i am joined by richard lui and bill karins. we're talking about first buzz.t of the gate, let's go with this one. facebook, could your friends actually help your credit score? i sure the heck hope so. that would be great, wouldn't it? according to some financial lending companies, social connections can be a good indication of a person's credit worthiness. if you keep up with facebook and twitter, you'll be on top of your life. >> better friends, the more stuff you do on facebook and twitter, the more credit you have. >> i need more friends so tweet me. what have you got today? >> this is an interesting development from noaa. we talk about lightening strikes every year. unfortunate statistic. what we've learned from noaa, they've had the 17th death from lightening strikes. florida and arizona are the big states. looking at 2012 and '11, we're behind those averages. >> that's a good thing. >> i was wondering -- >> that's one of the biggest killers. being careful. a lot of the soccer fields and baseball fields have systems on them when alarms go off. >> get out

reporter karin caifa has our consumer watch.ng for labor day will be at its highest level since the recession. that's according to a forecast from triple-a. the majority of the 34- taking a trip at least 50 miles from home will be on the road - 29-point-two million americans traveling by car -- with gas prices for the period running lower than last year. will fly. the busiest travel day of according to bookings on travel website orbitz, the top u-s destinations for the long weekend are las vegas, new york, and chicago. internationally, cancun. unofficial end of summer, but it won't be the end of the weekend getaway. a survey by tripadvisor finds forward to fall -- citing fewer crowds and the cooler popular fall travel survey - trips to view fall foliage, and visits to vineyards. karin caifa kron 4 news many of you are taking to the roads for the long labor day weekend here in the bay gallon of regular gas is up two cents. gallon. and eighty-cents francisco its three- dollars and 91-cents with the bay bridge closed back after the

karin woods, isabelle wade, [speaker not understood], and redmond.hey have passed on but they left us something really beautiful and we're pleased about that. i just want to say a special word of thanks to all of the community that live here. thank you so much for your dedication to this project, for your patience, for your tolerance as we close bike lanes, we close passage through lanes, we close the sidewalks, we drove piles, we poured cement, we laid grass. it was all worth it, and we really appreciate how tolerant and patient and the cheer leaders that you've been in doing that. so, thank you so much. and a special thank you to the district 6 supervisor who has remained equally vigilant, but also very tolerant and patient, our very own jane kim. please help me in welcoming supervisor kim. (applause) >> first of all, what a treat to have otis redding iii here with us this morning. i am a huge fan. and as an elected official, as a politician, many of my role models are musicians and otis redding is one of them. and he sang my favorite version of th

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i'm karin caifa for kron 4 news. >> it was cooler and gray.atures around 70 at lake merritt. and right now as we take a look at and oakland's. notice, those low clouds are come with tomorrow. basically a repeat for to more of what we had today. with the fog burned off. and those clouds will be clearing off by 8:00 a.m.-noon. for those locations, it is going to take until at least. and i think cloudy for most of the day. with some breaks of sunshine with continued mild temperatures. here is the fog tracker. fall for the north-belly. inland as we get towards tomorrow. 7:00 a.m., the east bay valleys, and patches of fog along the bayshore. by 10:00 a.m., it should be clear. with just partial clearing along the beaches. temperatures will remain below-norma'70s. mostly . south-bay, 80s but downtown san jose the same formal pitas and redwood city. and fremont. the warmest will be in the east bay valleys with 80s in antioch, pittsburgh. ahoy however, cooler with 60s for richmond and f union city. pretty cloudy and cool with 60s for the north-gray. an

. >>> now for a look at the weather, i'm joined by bill karins. amazing video and the kid was okay, possibly even sleeping. >> and hopefully going to a safe home. >> yesterday was salt lake city it was nearly 100 degrees. the record was 101. boise was 99. and that is because of the front that's along the coast. a middle morning, not much significant to talk about there. this map in the best is about as blank as you get for this or any time of year. richard thinks he could do this job. so as far as the high pressure goes, it sits off of the rockies. it will keep you cloudy and cooler than we have been in the west. the temperatures will hold. if we start complaining about upper 70s and cloudy in the northwest you know you had a good summer. look at this, 100s continuing. so many fires in a lot wine. >> monterey, california 68. san diego 74. >> here i am just sitting back enjoying that. >> absolutely clear, no one can ever replace your three decades of experience. >> a great grandmother is the latest to accuse the mayor of sexual harassment. >>> welc

now for a look at our national forecast, i'm joined by nbc's bill karins. >> two mornings in a row we had horrible flooding today. so far, so good, but it's not going to stay that way today. they're going to get more rain and the flooding is going to get worse. it's been a rough night in northern oklahoma and kansas. not so much severe weather, but the radar just heavy torrential rains. i-35 is the worst drive around from oklahoma city and soon up to wichita who has avoided the rain at this point. as we shift over a little bit, this area of springfield just to the east of there, that's where we've been dealing with the heavy rain over the last couple of mornings. as of now you're okay. the other story was the heat yesterday in the deep south. 105 in dallas. 104 in san antonio. it's going to be another scorching day in areas of the deep south. heat advisories are up for many spots. once again, 100 to 105. that hot forecast, as far as the airports go today, there will be a lot of clouds, showers and thunderstorms around new york city, philly, baltimore and d.c. a lot of big airports are

karin caifa reports."whitey" bulger guilty on 31 of 32 counts in the federal racketeering trial of the former south boston crime boss, who is now 83 years old. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. far away from the beaches of santa monica, and far from the streets of south boston. the verdict ends a seven- week trial that detailed the decades of violence when bulger ran boston's irish mob until he fled the city in 1995 after a crooked f-b-i agent tipped him off to a looming federal indictment. he became one of the nation's most wanted men. and after 16 years, the f- b-i- finally tracked him down in santa monica, california, in 20-11, and brought him back home. on monday, the jury found bulger played a role in the murders of 11 people. for others, there was not enough evidence to link bulger -- including debra davis, the girlfriend of a close associate. >> i do know, that he was guilty of conspiring or taking part of the whole thing. according to those in the courtroom, bulger showed no emotion as