before coming to liquid robotics, he was the head of google street products. his hobby, i kid you not, is working with other astronauts to develop new ways to save the earth. joined by frits nelson. i don't know where to start. let's start with the ocean. why explore the ocean? it's been unexplored. there's got to be other things that interest astronauts. >> the thing that interests me truthly, the first time i saw it, i thought that is cool. these robots are just neat. they swim by themselves. they navigate. they will go for months at a time. carry whatever instruments you want. i thought this looked like a fun thing to do. but it turns out as you just said, we don't know that much about the ocean. we know more about outer space than we do about the ocean, which is kind of crazy. the data is poor just because it's expensive to put sensors out there. we want to know about temperatures and all the thing for climate, fisheries management, all our ships crossing the ocean. but it's expensive to put weather stations or sensors out there. and the reason is because

liquid cool. not to mention i-robot. this one aimed at health care, will deliver prescription meds wherever you are. and a way to use your smart phone to control your remote camera, touch your phone once to start, and once to stop. i'm scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> cool stuff. thank you. a pretty good start to the week on wall street. right now let's get a check on the markets. bertha coombs joins us live. good morning. >> hey, good morning. the first five days of the year the theory goes if the first five days are up, then the rest of the year is morep more likely up about 85% of the time. we had the january effect looks pretty good and futures are following suit for the sixth trading day of the year. look likes we might get 100-point pop in the dow. alcoa is a stock to watch, the dow component reported earnings yesterday in the aluminum giant reported a loss but says that it is still expecting demand to grow this year so its outlook was bullish. asia was higher. europe is higher today. ahead of a meeting between

this is a company called digital storm liquid cooled computing. not to mention i-robot. this one aimed at health care will deliver prescription meds wherever you are. and finally, a way to use your smartphone to control your remote camera, touch your phone once to start, and once to stop. from las vegas in the consumer electronics show, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> jon and marla, wondering, guerrilla glass? the same stuff on an ipod or ipad or iphone that touch surface that is so cool to use. back to you. >> thank you, scott. both scotts, like kids in candy stores at ces. >> cool, just like disneyland. time to check back in with christina loren. odds are bet for precipitation. >> next week promising for rain. greater bay area will get rain between tuesday and thursday. it's just the timing, when will the showers arrive? i'm looking at wednesday. a washout for the bay area. we need that moisture. everything is looking promising for that wet pattern to develop. but this is all we've got for you now. showers right now pushing to the south of redding. not a lot of act

liquid computing. what's a show without a propo type robot.his one aimed at health care will deliver prescription meds. finally a way to use your smart phone to control your remote camera, touch your phone once to start, and once to stop. from las vegas, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> what they are not seeing much of are tablets. last year it was nothing but tablets. and then everyone realized they couldn't pick on apple. there is one tablet from a south bay company but they moved on. apple's going to win the tablet war. >> something new. always waiting. >> 5:55. still to come on "today in the bay," the search is on or a serial arsonist. the latest details coming up. >> months after deciding to start taxing medical marijuana clubs one talking about a major tax hike. >> and we're expecting light showers and drizzle in some bay area cities. we'll tell you where and when in my full forecast. >> tracking that accident in the san mateo hills with a new one cropping up. >> we give you a live look at sfo, you can see the traffic flowing down the

police say it comprised of two bottles filled with liquid with the lighter attached. a robot was brought in to secure the device that did not explode. >>> san francisco is planning to temporarily wide on a busy street for chinese new year. yesterday mayor ed lee announced plans to widen the sidewalk of stockton street through chinatown and every chinese new year thousands of shoppers and tourists descend on that area. the project will close the parking lanes on both sides of the street to make room for more people to walk. it's going to be in effect from saturday the 14th until sunday the 22nd. >>> good morning to you! starting with a live here san rafael. a few high clouds, few patches of fog as well and temperatures chilly, cold, just as cold as yesterday, maybe a few degrees below that in some cases. 33 degrees right now in santa rosa. 30 degrees in napa. so below freezing. 1. up! mid and upper 30s around concord, oakland airport reporting 38 degrees. low 40s in the city of oakland. mid-30s livermore. mountainview also reporting mid to upper 30s. low 40s. and calm in and a