why disney is shutting down lucasarts, which is based in the presidio. noelle? >> reporter: frank, lucasarts says some of its employees here at the gaming division will transfer to disney, but others will lose their jobs. the company isn't saying how many layoffs. it's the house that yodi built. for decades, the force seemed to be with anything that had the lucas name attached to it. but today, disney announced shutting down its offices and cancelling its video game projects. the company released a statement, saying, quote, after evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift lucasarts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality star wars games. lucasarts had two star wars games in development, after 30 years of video game development, the division appeared to be swallowed up by the disney death star. disney acquired lucasfilm last year. they knew something big happened. >> it was gridlocked for an hour and a half. endless cars coming out of there. >> what di

why disney is shutting down lucasarts, which is based in the presidio. noelle? >> reporter: frank, lucasarts says some of its employees here at the gaming division will transfer to disney, but others will lose their jobs. the company isn't saying how many layoffs. it's the house that yodi built. for decades, the force seemed to be with anything that had the lucas name attached to it. but today, disney announced shutting down its offices and cancelling its video game projects. the company released a statement, saying, quote, after evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift lucasarts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality star wars games. lucasarts had two star wars games in development, after 30 years of video game development, the division appeared to be swallowed up by the disney death star. disney acquired lucasfilm last year. they knew something big happened. >> it was gridlocked for an hour and a half. endless cars coming out of there. >> what di

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about 150 people are being let go at lucasarts, the division of lucas films. they made video games to coincide with star wars. lucas has their own game division, so they're letting go of the bay area employees. they will revive the franchise, they say. >>> and jeff looking at major changes. >>> that is right, temperatures in the mid-80s, a few in the upper 80s, sunnyvale, and santa rosa at 74, temperatures back into winter here as we head through the next 24 hours, let's look at the spring storm for thursday, you have the cold front offshore, sub tropical moisture feeding into it, as well. a nice plume of moisture here in the next 18 hours, on the doppler radar, most of the rain near yreka, stepping south and impacting the north bay first as we head into thursday. let's look at the highlights here throughout the night, mainly cloud cover increasing throughout thursday, that is the rain day forecast. the temperatures drop 10 to 20 degrees. some of the highlights will be the windy weather at the coastline. right now if you want to ski up at the sierra, well, too

disney is laying off 150 employees at the lucasarts, the company behind the "star wars" video games. which explains that new line in the game, "luke, move back in with your father." [ laughter ] we have a great show tonight, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] give it up for the roots right there! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we have a hot show tonight. oh, my goodness. hey, are you guys familiar with instagram, right? [ cheers and applause ] it's a fun app. it's an app for your phone that lets you take a picture and post it so all your friends and followers can see it. it's super fun. i'm always posting photos of my dog, gary, doing weird stuff. earlier today, i posted a photo of my dog with the hashtag "my pet is weird." it says, "gary likes to eat her bed." and gary, if you're watching, and i know you are, don't eat your bed. it's not a chew toy. [ laughter ] mommy and daddy ordered that from -- very expensive. you lie on it and go to sleep. i know it looks like your other chewy toys, but you don't do that. anyway, we're not talking right now, me and g