a well-funded corporate plan to build a city in the marin headlands for 30,000 people was on the drawing citizen opposition began to build. with sheer determination and a little luck, the headlands development plan was defeated. amy: that's where the park began. i mean, the people got very excited about the idea of preserving the golden gate. doug: the idea of creating a national park in and around san francisco began to take hold. dr. edgar wayburn, a physician and president of the sierra club, had a vision of creating a tapestry of parklands that would extend from san francisco to the door of point reyes. amy: i've never known a place that people want to defend as hard as they seem to want to defend this one. doug: with the help of a san francisco artist, amy meyer, and a small group of citizens who shared the vision, the movement grew. nancy pelosi: they saw beyond the years. they saw the threat of development to this area and they knew that action had to be taken. doug: citizen activists were pushing the movement forward, but they needed political help to make the park a reality. wel

. >> we are starting off with a fall flavor and look how beautiful in the marin headlands and goldenge, west wind only at six miles per hour but you can see the sailboats are already out open bay. the winds are going to pickup and they are going to bring up a fall flavor to today's forecast. did not for get the such glasses and sun scene. we will see stars tonight and it is cooler than this morning with more of us in the 40s. we sleep with the weapons open like last night and the hot weather develops tomorrow and it peaks on sunday and monday. livermore is 12 miles per hour wind, 21 in fairfield and only three right now in san jose. look, the entire coast and bay shoreline has small craft advisory meaning the small crafts are going to have issues with the winds and waves in 2:00 to 11 o'clock this evening, and we will tack about temperatures off the cool bay water. 72 in sunny veil and 73 in san jose and, also, in santa cruz. 68 in millbrae and low-to-mid 70s for the peninsula and 73 in palo alto and 64 at half moon bay and daly city, colma, pacifica at 63. upper 60s in south downtow

what a picture-esque chamber of commerce day, going to the marin headlands or walking across the golden gate bridge with the negligible breeze makes for wonderful sightseeing today. the high clouds continue and afternoon will continue to get warmer like it did yesterday. it feels pore like fall next week but that transition is going to be dry with no sign of rain in the next seven days. we are anywhere from three degrees below yesterday and that is antioch and everyone else is three to telephone degrees warmer. if you step out right now, shorts everywhere and you are close to 66 and vallejo is 69, and everyone else is in the 70s and 80s already. one of the reasons why this is no marine layer and the pole of cold air is behind the cold front at bay, so having heat like this is not out of the norm and here is increasing sunshine with more clouds rolling in as the cold front draws near. today, the sun and lack of wind, mid-to-upper 80s through the south bay and morgan hill and gilroy, low-to-mid 90s and in the 80s on the peninsula today, from 88 at millbrae to redwood city at 88 and low-to

we have fair skies toward santa rosa, some patchy fog near the marin headlands, point reyes as well.peratures right now, showing you 80s for antioch and livermore. san jose checking in at 74. san francisco, in the 60s. here's our live camera looking toward the bay. fair skies here, probably an hour and a half ago we had mostly cloudy skies, at least the thin layer of high clouds up above this region. for tonight, we'll go with partly cloudy skies for your monday. morning fog. minor cooling out there. then we'll go the other direction on the long range weather maps, especially by the weekend. overnight lows first thing tomorrow morning will be in the 50s across most of the region. a few low 60s. partly cloudy skies, fog coastside and also a few patches around the bay itself. so the high clouds have been streaming into the bay area, especially for the southern half of the state. cooler weather pattern sets up shop out here. this area of low pressure sticks around for monday, tuesday and wednesday. temperatures will be in the 60s, 70s and 80s. later in the week, especially by friday, we

can get out there and take pictures and enjoy a walk and the golden gate will be busy with the marin headlandsrds may fall and autumn cooling arrives next week. today, temperature-wise we will start down to santa cruz with sunshine and 80 degrees on the boardwalk and hold up for santa clara and sunnyvale and 80 and milpitas 79 and mid-80s for los gatos and morning hill and 88 in gilroy. peninsula, low 80s, from redwood city south and we will have mid-to-upper 70s from millbrae to san mateo and may have to raise the millbrae temperature to 74. that would be more if line. temperatures are 6959 half moon bay and pacifica and daly city and colma 67 and low-to-mid 70s south san francisco and downtown to sausalito. mid-to-upper 60s along the north bay coast and inland, petaluma is 79, vallejo is 78 and everyone else in the low-to-mid 80s and the winds are still going to be blowing a little bit out of the north so it could be smoky from time to time. berkeley is 74, and oakland, san leandro, 77, castro valley and fremont, 81, inland, mid-80s to nearly 90 as you head to brentwood. baseball tonight, at

. >>> rodeo beach in the marin headlands, one of the places where dozens of birds have been dead or veryescuers say this is driving their prey further away from them making it hard for the birds to find the food. the birds have been found on beaches from monterey to point reyes. >>> california's historic drought is making a big impact on this year's apple harvest. we went up to walker's apples in sonoma county, home to 27 different varieties of apples. after four years of drought there are fewer and smaller apples there. >> we'll have about 30%. >> less? >> yeah. look at these. this is what's on there there's hardly anything on the trees. >> the apples rely on the rainfall for water. that's typically about 44 inches a year of rain. this year, only 33 inches of rain fell. most of that was during a wet december. >> all right. >>> 7:56. coming up at 8:00, we'll take a look at wall street's latest moves including two new reports out this morning. we'll check to see how they are affecting trade-in. >>> an all you can eat -- go ahead, alex. >> okay. an all you can eat crab festival sounds good