kate kelly, cbs 5. >>> and you can learn more about companions in waiting on cbssf.com. click on the cbs 5 at the top of the page and down jefferson awards. >>> well, is it the shock secret behind the mysterious smile? >> one art expert thinks mona lisa was really a boy. the head of an italian research team believes leonardo da vinci used a young male apprentice as the model for the famous painting and said they later became loves. others say it was a self portrait. >>> coming up, the super price you will have to pay if you want tickets to this year's super bowl. >> that's one packers fan with a special love of the game. coming up tonight at five: ,,,, dentures are softer than teeth and a lot of people when they get a denture they think the best way to clean it is by brushing it with toothpaste. toothpaste contains abrasives that scratch dentures leaving microscopic crevices where bacteria can grow and bacteria can cause bad breath. only polident is proven to clean without scratching and kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria. i recommend using polident and soak every day.

here's kate kelly with this week's jefferson award. >> reporter: phyllis mervine spends a lot of time in the outdoors. she and her family moved to this 80-acre ranch in rural mendocino county in the 1970s. it wasn't long after that she started feeling sick. >> i just started feeling really run down and -- and extremely tired and achy. >> reporter: for 10 years, phyllis lived with debilitating symptoms. a neighbor at her weekly pottery class suggested she get tested for a newly discovered bacterial infection carried by ticks called lyme disease. >> she saw me dragging in week after week, said, phyllis, you ought to get testinged. >> reporter: phyllis did test positive and she quickly realized she wasn't alone. >> i called all the neighbors and i said, you know, i have just been diagnosed with lyme disease. do you know anything about it? have you got lyme disease? or, you know, do you have any of these symptoms? quite a few people had lyme up here. >> reporter: that was the start of a 20-year journey that has made phyllis mervine one of the pioneers in fighting lyme disease in californi

kate kelly, cbs 5. >>> 9:25 now, and a bay area event on a scale with the best.ebration of fish. as we,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> bay area fishermen may have a new spot. the catch is so plentiful, it's being dubbed a trout apalooza. 18,000 pounds of trout were introduced to the body of water, eight times the normal population. the reservoir was retrofitted for earthquakes in 2005 and is only now back to capacity, creating ideal conditions for fishing bonanza, which are few are taking advantage of, even given the rain out there. >> just this week alone, we've put in 18,000 pounds, so it's a big difference. >> we got probably about, we're looking at probably 8 to 10 fish, 11 fish. >> how long did it take you to catch those fish? >> probably about 4 hours. >> those hearty souls were among those braving the soggy conditions yesterday. it happened to be the opening day of the fishing season in the bay area. >>> good luck braving the soggy conditions out there! good day, and enjoy the ,,,,,,,, > i'm michael alden. folks if your one of the millions of americans suffering with ar

. >>> i'm kate kelly coming up on game day, nascar with its youngest 500 champion.nd we are are in arizona the giants getting ready to defend their crown >>> and kobe bryant nearly breaks a record. that is all coming up on game day right after the newscast. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, nationwide. according to the lundberg survey: the av >>> gas prices have jumped a knell in the last two weeks nationwide. and the average price of a gallon of regular is $3.18. among all the surveyed cities, drivers in san francisco pay if most at $3.54 >>> a smash and grab at a massachusetts liquor store doesn't go as planned for an allegedly drunk doctor. the white suv crashing into the front of the store. the driver gets out of the car and tries to grab a beer. the beer that was just out of his reach. he gets back in his car and backs up and takes off. the store's owner was left speechless. >> i couldn't react in three ways, i could have been angry, cried or laughed. all i could do was laugh. >> the doctor was arrested and charged with drunk driving. >>> we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,, ♪ [ m

kate kelly has this week's jefferson award winner.hen joe hamilton visits the city of palo alto's animal services shelter, she knows what she looks for. >> i am looking for an animal that connects. it is the adult animals that i just adore. >> since there are so many animals that need a connection, it makes the job difficult. >> if are you not adopted before then, will you come with me next time? >> jo co-founded companions in waiting, fostering dogs and cats with weekly pet fairs to get them in the public. the animal control officer janet washington says that added exposure makes all of the difference. >> she has taken many animals from us and has found homes for them. she is an asset. it is just another means to get our animals into homes. >> today's lucky pup is arnie. a 12-month-old beagle chihuahua mix abandoned on the streets of east palo alto. jo is taking them to the pet place in menlo park where store owners have allowed her to set up a table to introduce her animals to potential families. the scene is repeated monthly throug

kate kelly cbs5. >>> cbs5 weather center in san francisco. picking up plenty of precipitation. around highway 680 just out of the fremont area now. meanwhile upstream in the northern portion of our bay area. you see a lot of rainfall just crossing over. it looks like we still need our umbrellas tonight. if you are going to be out and about. numbers going down very rapidly into the 40s. it is a cold evening and the winds are still blowing out of the southwest up to a good 25 miles per hour. we will begin to dialpac ever so gently 10 to 15 miles per hour. 33 degrees overnight in santa rosa with scattered showers. could see some black ice developing on the roadway for tomorrow morning's commute. then we have on deck cold air associated with what is moving in. we still have tonight's lingering showers with that possibility of snow in the local mountains and also an isolated thunderstorm and then look at this, there you have that thunderstorm offshore by tomorrow morning 5:00 a.m. do you see the snowflakes around hamilton and diablo. that right th

kate kelly, cbs5. >> you got your dogs in town? >> i did. have had my dog now 13 years. >> happy girl. >> it is a very happy dog. that dog can still run. this dog loves running right now because it feels like the dog days of summer. we had temperatures today that average anywhere from 62 degrees in kentville to 69 degrees in santa rosa. this is our cbs5 live weather camera. we are looking out toward the bay bridge where the waters are flat and the wind is nonexistent. currently air temperature right now in and around the bay area, 55 in petamula. along the peninsula 52. pleasanton to the east 53 degrees. today's high temperatures. 63 in san jose. napa in the mid-60s. that warm spot was at santa rosa at 69 degrees but everybody is cooling off very quickly. out and about we do have clear skies and some chilly conditions dropping down to that freezing point tonight in the santa rosa area including other areas, otherwise near freezing in the tri-valley and 34 around vallejo back in through american canyon. this is an area of low pressure. really

a job talk by kate brown in university of maryland baltimore kelly offers a chilling modern example of her talk in the soviet and american nuclear states and their common reactions to the problem of plutonium support. ben ali's regime about foreign terrorists and criminals being behind demonstrations when i was in demonstrations in the 60s and 70s. we were outside agitators. caned abdallah said as much about those in egypt. such accusations so conclusively that these tyrants do not understand the new world of communication with accusations of foreign terrorists can be discredited by those attending demonstrations. hosting movies on facebook or whatever. everyone can see the demonstrators across the street are foreign terrorists. modern dictatorial regimes have no quicker means of discrediting themselves than the old lies which are hard wired into their dna. as for evil deeds what could be worse than deliberate use of armed criminals and the police to loot and pillage and solve these demonstrators? prime minister david cameron said government sponsorship of such activities is, quote, de

kelly, on the international space station. >>> prince william has chosen his brother, harry, for his best man. william's bride to be, katemiddleton, has chosen her younger sister, pippa, as her maid of honor. here's a look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. the use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas for pain during child birth fell out of favor decades ago, but now in interest of returning it to the delivery room is growing. it's still commonly used in canada, england, andç other countries, and it should be an option for women, particularly in small or rural hospitals that lack around the clock anesthesiaologists needed to administer epidurals. you can check out the health page on msnbc.com for more information. >>> and now here's an early look at how wail street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12273 after adding 43 points on friday. the s&p inched up 7. the nasdaq road 18. taking a look at overseas trading, the nikkei gained 119 points while in hong song the hang seng climbed 292. >>> an end to weeks of unrest in egypt eased investors fears friday. this week we'll find out if stocks continue to cl

interview with her husband, the astronaut mark kelly, the extraordinary things he told us about how far she's now come. >>> and the wedding party revealed. william and kate go public with who they want by their side on their big day. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it's tempting to say that after what just happened in egypt, iran is next. while it's hardly that simple. there were fresh protests there today, and there's been another violent government crackdown. video posted today on the internet via social media shows the various confrontations. the map of countries where there's been unrest going on in the region certainly seems to show something of a wave. and after the last citizens' uprising in iran was put down months ago, this time authorities aren't having any of it, at least early on. even after protests broke out in several different cities across iran. demonstrators shouted "death to the dictator" and were met with tear gas and worse. internet use and media coverage from iran have been severely restricted. tonight, however, we have a report from tehran from our nbc news bureau chief the

kelly tonight on nbc "nightly news." here's meredith. >> matt, thank you very much. now to news on the royal wedding of prince william and kate middleton. the office of prince charles revealed new details about the wedding party. peter alexander is in london with the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: meredith, good morning to you. this news is being released within the last 30 minutes or so. prince william and kate middleton now making it official who will be standing by their sides at the royal wedding two and a half months away, april 29. not surprisingly, william has asked his brother prince harry to be his best man. kate announcing her maid of honor will be her younger sister pippa. she's 26. she will be one of the oldest royal bridesmaids in recent times. her primary responsibility is a doozy. to make sure the dress is displayed perfectly. if you think that's not a big deal, remember the fact that diana's train was 25 feet long. that's no easy task. her other responsibility is to make sure the younger bridesmaid and page boys behave themselves. think of it as babysitting with several billion people watching. the

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