we're fortunate enough to bring one of the authors to the school, kristi yamaguchi. i recognize her as a gold medalist. the student recognized her as a champion from dancing with the stars. education is the heart of targets of living. target is on track for 1 billion dollars in education giving. we are responsible for the asian heritage street fair. i am so proud to be part of a target and got out of our involvement with the asian community. and the target is pleased to be a sponsor. we also want to remain vibrant and visible throughout the month of may. my visit has little to do with my day job, but rather than experiencing how target can really make a difference, and i thought, i don't know i could give up a couple days. i got a lot more out of it that i've put into it. thank you for allowing me that opportunity. target looks forward to the continued partnership with the city of san francisco. >> we have an appreciation gift from her target, a very unique japanese origami in the shape of the target logo. i would like to invite susan poland representing them from th

cal for three weeks and will visit sacramento go to an a's game, meet olympic gold medalist kristi yamaguchi and stay with a bay area family for a weekend. this is part of that recovery of northeastern japan. >> we thought one way was to invest in younger generation and give them experiences that these kids goring to have. >> when i get back to japan, i want to make good relationships between america and japan. >> and there is one company paying for this, soft bank corporation a large telemumpxs company in japan. the ceo is a 1980 cal graduate. after following this reception that you saw today, guess what they're having following that? they will have an all-american barbecue. they're going to stay through august 10th. >> that is great. >> wonderful. >> and apple earnings out. what is good news for consumer zz not translate to the company's bottom line. that is coming up next. >> a move by bank of america that could cost you time and money. >> the train bringing what america's cup needs to set sail in the bay. >> cooler weather will have you wondering if it's summer. >>> searches continues fo

i'm talking about a popular ice skate rink where kristi yamaguchi perfected her style. nbc bay area's mary ann favro has more to tell us about the fight to save it. >> reporter: the owners of this mall want to tear this ice rink down and put in more stores. but thousands of skaters who use this rink says the community needs recreation much more than retail. >> ice chalet in san mateo is a rink on the brink of closing. the sbi holdings says it will not renew the ice center's lease when it expires in may. instead, it wants to tear down the rink and put up more lucrative retail stores. 8-year-old says that hurts more than falling on hard ice. >> i think it's very sad. >> reporter: why? >> because i love ice skating a lot. >> reporter: so do a lot of other people. the rink is open from dawn until 1:00 in the morning, offering everything from camps to adult ice hockey leagues. each year more than 150,000 people lays up to glide or at least try to on this ice. >> as a mom, i can tell you there are not a lot of things for kids of any age to do or things that i can do with my k

gold medal winners kristi yamaguchi and johnny moseley have joined the exploratory committee, recently the u.s. olympic committee decided not to bid on the 2022 winter games, something california and nevada have been pushing for. 2026 might still be in their sights. they hosted the 1960 winter games 52 years ago. up next, a deadly bomb overseas, the cover story for the man behind that attack. and a grandson of the country's economic health. a group of americans who may lose their homes. and still to come, where hundreds of people in the bay area are finding some hope, and help in landing a new job. >> we're seeing clearing skies over the bay area and we are in the middle of it a warming trend, we could see hot tempers as soon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> >> strong earnings reports a good day on wall street. as you can see the dow is up, a little over 30 points and the nasdaq and s&p are also trading upwards. a nice day. house sales numbers show the weak economy could make a modest housing recovery choppy at best, the sales of previously occupied homes fell by 5 percent last month, that is belo

>>> the lake taupo winter games exploratory games committee added some new winners including kristi yamaguchi parade the rate struggling retailer j.c. penney has an idea to boost business. get rid of checkout counters. it is the exploits thing its technology into its structure with a new system that does not require clerk sprayed and said it will install self check out counters as those you see in grocery stores. it hopes to phase manual rand checkout counters by 2014. cut the costs of the eat a soft store >>> people are stealing the cardboard cutouts of david also hot. >>> we probably get customers every night asking every night to buy the hasselhoff processor >>> now stores just keep asking for cutouts' every day to keep up with the stolen hasselhoff posters it is 522, is hollywood's biggest night, we're standing by for the,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning, by this afternoon it should be a pretty nice day around the bay area. we will see '60s around the coast of warming up to the low eighties in the inland areas. >>> so far so good on our bay area bridges. some better news to report in

kristi yamaguchi and another athlete are shown in commercials supporting mitt romney. it's part of a $7.2 million ad buy that's airing during coverage of the olympics. it is airing in several swing states. still ahead, there's a new tool to fight hunger [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the road lightning strikes ] where things aren't always what they seem. [ wolves howling ] because thrills hide in the shadows just waiting at every turn. [ coaster whoosh ] brave the black forest on verbolten. the all-new multi-launch coaster. only at busch gardens. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- craigslist a check on traffic and weather. adam caskey. >> we have areas of rain on the doppler. lightning and thunder. 81 lightning strikes within the past 10 minutes. most of them on the eastern shore and over the bay. that's where we have most of the rainfall. inland is where we need it, but we're not getting it. by the way, the rain is not moving. there's not much wind

supporter of mitt romney, launched this commercial with former olympic athlete figure skater kristi yamaguchi. >> mitt romney brought a huge sense of hope. >> while his remark about one in not being ready for the olympics is dominating the airwaves, like this moment on abc >> i do not think that a gaffe for you to the moment will really make or break this particular election. i think that it will be about the direction of the country. >> i would have given that answer if i had flown to london and embarrassed my candid it in front of the entire world. >> robert smith believes it will not last. >> i think that will be forgotten. >> what voters will remember, the professor says this remark by the president. >> if you have a business, you did not build that, someone else made that happen. >> mitt romney has used that line quite frequently in the past couple of months in advertisements to portray obama as a man that does not has a clue about how the market economy works. >> a defining moment for mitt romney, the statement at a rally in january. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> he is just

the winter games exploratory committee has added new members including gold medal winners kristi yamaguchind johnny moseley. recently the olympic committee decided not to bid on the 2010 winter games, something california and nevada had been pushing for. >> and now we go to the coliseum, yesterday afternoon we had the rangers and the oakland a's and a great catch. a great backhanded stab and grab. the oakland a's went on to get the major league-leading ninth walk off wind and it was done in dramatic fashion by a guy by the name of branded hicks. his first home run of the major leagues and it is a big one. they beat the rangers by score of 4/3 and the giants beat the braves, your play of the day right there. this is not a great catch but an unintentional target, the vendor at wrigley field hit by a home run ball. there he is, look closely. it was hit and the vendor got it, apparently he is ok. the cubs won the game. >> that would hurt, right? >> it was the opposing teams of had to throw the ball back. that is what to do at wrigley field. it is 6:25 a.m., why squatters are being evicted from

pro-romney super pac restore our future, set to run in 11 states and features olympic gold medalist kristi yamaguchi as an athlete, your training for that one moment at the olympics. across the americas winter olympics were mired in scandal and deficits. they turn to mitt romney. >> he faced a $400 million budget deficit and turned it around to $100 million surplus. >> there's another side to romney's olympic record. wayne barrett reveals in a new series of articles, romney was brought in to resolve the 2002 ethics crisis, but he may have violated the new ethics rules he put in place. today, mitt romney continues to accept campaign contributions from many key figures tied to the bribery scandal -- including utah businessman d. fraser bullock, who is featured in the pro-romney ad we just played. for more we go to wayne barrett. one of his latest pieces for the newsweek/daily beast is, "romney's shady connections from salt lake olympics still paying off." his new mother jones report is called, "i couldn't love him more: how romney steered a key olympic project to a friend." welcome back to "democracy

getting a big boost, an exploratory committee has recruited new members including gold medalist kristi yamaguchi the olympic committee recently decided not to bid for the 2022 winter games, now pushing the target back to 2026. how about a look at your forecast? elizabeth is here to tell us what is going on the >> still a great day going on, here's a look at not hill where you can see the low clouds. we're seeing peaks of clearing as we have blue skies over the bay. right now temperatures mainly in the '50s, 56 in oakland and 58 in fremont and by this afternoon we warm up to mid-60's around the bay and low '80s in some of the inland areas. 80 in concord. in the middle of a warming trend, warmer by tomorrow and then we will see areas of hot weather by the weekend. a check of time saver traffic coming up next. >> >> and starting off with a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza getting a little bit better out there with me during lights still on. an accident off the east shore freeway. possibly blocking two lanes and that may slow you down. elsewhere we are dealing with more delays. pittsburgh a po