. >> in richmond, marina bay, not far from the channel. he is not planning to eat what he catches. >> the concern here that there is still pesticide leaking into the water? >> yeah, i would love to fish here and not worry about zblig the epa has received funding from congress to do further studies to figure out where the ddt is coming from and they are posting no fishing signs inside the channel. as for concerns about the fish in the greater bay area, the epa says so far the studies indicate there are no higher levels of the fish out here. some people limit of fish caught out here because of concerns about mercury. in richmond, laura anthony, "abc 7 news." >>> america's cup wants to be part of the largest media campaign ever. it focuses on protecting the oceans. mark matthews shows us the environmental message of the world's biggest yacht race. >> the pictures are amazing. the message our oceans are in trouble. national geographic explorers and resident. >> the biggest problem that people don't know that the ocean is in trouble. so it's wh

i am discouraged to say that the marina bay trail will pay for car parking, but we will get past that. the important thing is, as we have all been discussing, to never have this happen again. easy to say. how will we do it? a complete streets. a beautiful vision, but what it comes down to is the ugly and boring business of getting agencies in a room together and talking. let's do that. let's make second street better for everyone. supervisor mar: -- supervisor kim: how were you informed? >> i learned about it on streetsblog yesterday. boats have been scrambling to put a project together. i am only here because i read about it yesterday on street smart. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker? >> mr. chair, you like to be very practical. in these dire economic times, the only word that comes to my mind is [unintelligible] so, let me offer you some practical suggestions. quarterly reports, and this of -- suggestion came from your vice chair, you have landmarks and then you have plan b period we could use this money on san bruno avenue. tomorrow. there are always some streets that lea

go up there to the 57th floor bar of the marina bay sans. there's a pool up there.nd more importantly, there's a beer up there. >> you think he looks big here, check out how big he looked over there. great stuff, brian. nice to see my old digs as well. and we are not done with brian and his global trotting yet. coming up in our next half hour, brian's exclusive interview with co-founder of facebook. if you saw the movie "social network" but he'll introduce us to the real deal. coming up on "street signs" at 2:40 p.m. eastern, teem e check it out. also check out the home builders. pulte, lennar, building momentum posting solid gains in what is a very lackluster market. yesterday on "fast money," the man at the helm of toll brothers gave us an indication of why these stocks are climbing. >> so far so good. we feel about the best we have in five years. not only are orders up 45% for our first quarter, which ended the end of january, but the first three weeks of february we're seeing orders up 43%. >> so if builders are getting more bullish, does that mean that we could

there is no public facility storage this side of the bay bridge. the marina that is proposed in the deal is purely optional. it is not required to go forward. the credits for spectator dredging -- big deal explicitly allows the event authority to cash those credits. they do not have to be credited against the marina. finally, the vision remains the same -- large boats and super yachts. there is a total elimination of smaller boat slips at the san francisco arena. we need a larger vision that includes facilities for small boats in this deal. i asked you to make that happen. thanks. >> my name is valerie. i am a taxpayer and a member of the golden gate yacht club. i with my husband run the youth sailing program. we are in favor of having america's cup development proceed. we ask for your support in working out the details of the agreements. we serve high school students here in san francisco, not necessarily members' children. we have three schools with currently represent. not all of our kids can afford to pay. a good number of them don't. we raise all of our

bay. >> is this the marina off of at&t part?>> no, the city area and they can -- contemplated a new arena. we are talking about moving back. >> [inaudible] >> so what would go there? >> it will remain a passive water base for everyone in joining the event. >> one other question about fund raising. [inaudible] i do not know if these millions of dollars had been raised, pledged. could somebody give us a fund- raising update? where are you with the amount of money that the committee has to raise to actually put this on? how are you going to get there? >> that obligation is on the america's cup organizing committee. and their initial target is $12 million by the completion of the process and board approval supervisors. we understand there are on track to do that. we look forward to hearing more the approval process. that will come forward as we put this package together so that people can say, we are bringing these events here in a way that brings the economic impact to san francisco, creates a great set of events. >> how much money

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they are probably proper on a lake or sheltered marina, but not durable enough for the unprotected port and bay environment. ed told me the original plans may have included a floating breakwater to attenuate the waves on the floats. one image we found shows a section of the. damaged. it was not damaged when we went out there. it is vulnerable to damage. there are areas where the connections have failed. it has electrical panels for the mored vessels. those are damaged with exposed power. there is a history of pier damage. we have recommendations about the marina as well. after we came up with the condition assessment and validated the problems, the main point of the study was the port wanted to tell them what they had to do to become compliant and reoccupy the buildings. michael took the lead in this effort. we looked at two auctions and the different phases of implementation. one option was to have office occupancy in the first and second floor. the second option was office occupancy and assembly occupancy on the second floor. we were looking at how much parking we could put in theire, in the

the fire was at the northern end of the island and the wind pushed much of it out over the bay, away from the marina and downtown. officials believe homeless people started the fire there. are no reports of injuries. >> update now on the breaking news we brought you earlier in the newscast. we are now learn that five people were hurt in a drive by shooting in oakland. it happened just before four this afternoon on the 3300 block of avalin. the victim had nonlife threatening injuries, no arrests have been made. >> this wednesday san francisco sheriff is scheduled to return to court to try to get a judge to let him resume contact with his son. the sheriff is bar from contacting his 2-year-old son since he was arrested january 13th on domestic violence charges involving his wife. on friday he became emotional as he told reporters he missed his son and his son missed him. he has pleaded not guilty to the domestic violence charges, his trial is set later this month. >> a second cruise ship with a nora virus outbreak docked in florida. it sailed in to port, this morning officials with the cruise line say

bay, and 60 at the coast. that means if you want to go out to the san francisco marina and get a great view of all those ships on the bay, you'll be able to. the best viewing time will be between noon and 4:00 p.m. 5:10, i've got that self-day just look. we'll tell you when rain comes back in the forecast. first let's check your drive with mike inouye. >> we have a couple incidents to follow. northbound 101 at tully has cleared from the off-ramp. here southbound 101, guadeloupe parkway, the approach was affected by an accident. now the car is off to the shoulder. a little distraction, but no slowing in either direction for 101 or any of the other south bay commute freeways heading northbound. further north, construction, just clearing now. 101 at the oregon expressway off-ramps. both directions north and south had crews overnight. they are clearing. should be completely cleared. if you're leaving the house now, you should be okay no matter where you're headed towards 101. san mateo, the bridge itself, over the water, flowing smoothly to 101. the fog advisory continues, though, you guys. back to you. >> thank y

bay area. we have the special report. >> reporter: at the very upscale marina meats, there seems to be no shortage of beef, pork or chicken and no shortage of people coming in to buy choice cuts. >> san francisco, portland, austin texas, new york, places like that, conscious meat eating coming back in a way that very is great. many are shy away from factory products but will pay big money for very high quality meats. there are big changes in the way americans are eating these days. beef sales are down, down, down. continuing a trend that has been growing since the 70s. in the last five years pork sales have also flattened coast to coast. >> i think people have chicken fatigue. there is only so much they can eat. >> reporter: steve is an international recognized authority in the meat industry. he says the beef industry is not overly concerned about the declining sales in the states because it's exporting record amounts of beef overseas at high prices. >> we have exported more than we used too. today the average mesh eats 54 pandas year. dan summoner says the data largely collected by the u.s.d.a. i

call it a monitor and hampon roads and chesapeake bay in the civil war and a lot of these had monitors to let in light and sky light and the old marina station and i can tell you about this building and the side of telegraph hill and built by mr. gonya and a friend of ours and great uncle and personal residence out of concrete and this is an opening dome in the living room and large room ceiling. >> transamerica building. >> definitely unusual. cost $19 million to build this and 853 feet tall. 48 stories. >> and it's on the bay mud and did something novel and cut out equal amount of dirt to equal the weight of the building and dug it out to equal the amount. >> so it won't settle. >> and no piles. >> this is a landmark, an icon of san francisco and replace the anothereplacedanother landmark e building and survived the earthquake and to be torn down in the 40's or 50's. >> this is a picture of the original mint in the western united states. when in 1852 san francisco was charted to have its own mint. the temporary quarters were in this building and cost $93,000. this building is a landmark -- california historic landmark and built the

bay waters but the coast guard is looking for another. stephanie chuang is live in alameda. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you both. we're at isle marina is what this is called. someone near her heard a crash. when police got here this is what they found, a 40-foot you power boat. on the boat was a woman. police said she was drunk. she had claimed that there was another woman on this boat with her but police actually ended up arresting this woman for being intoxicated and they are not sure about the story about a missing person because apparently she has changed her story several times. however, just to take all precaution police did have boats out here, alameda fire had a boat, the coast guard had a helicopter searching the morning hours, but the search was called off at about 4:00 this morning until it is light out again, because right now of course it's too dark. so, whenever the light comes back out they will resume this search. what they are working to do now is get a boom around this boat because at this point they do have environmental concerns, possible leakage of any fluid, fuel of course from this boat. again, the search has

marina, you're going to have to wait until 2:00 for the fog to clear. the sun will be out 60 degrees, comfortable conditions to enjoy our beautiful bay area.igh pressure. you see the ridge moving in. clouds arcing up and around that ridge will keep us clear. we'll see the building breeze. friday, same thing. clear conditions. we'll start out warmer and end up warmer. we keep climbing through this weekend. 67 degrees by friday. really comfortable conditions inland. not too shabby by the bay or coast. we'll hold on to the upper 50s at the coast by thursday. then we take you into this weekend. saturday is fanfest at at&t park. our own san francisco giants back at their home field. you want to put on that sunscreen because we will see a lot of sunshine and 68 inland. in front on saturday, 62 degrees. lots of sun. bring the visor with you. super bowl sunday, super for grilling. 70 degrees. inland up to 65 by the bay. 63 at the coast. then things start to change next week. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, we have about 30% to 40% rain chances every day as we head through the midsection next week. the sunshine we have will be a thing of the past as

marina, you can do so. it will be cool. grab a jacket. choppy on the bay with a little bit of a breeze that continues throughout the day. the higher elevations will see gusty winds, breezy right on the water, 57 degrees at noon. really comfortable and warm for this time of year. we do have rain back in the forecast after this brief warm-up concludes. we'll tell you when that comes into the mix. but first we want to check your drive with mike. how we looking out there? >>> we'll take a look at the south bay and focussing on a few issues down here happening in the last few minutes. we'll zoom in to northbound 101 right behind the 70 sensors and we see the yellow chicklets, that means speed are heading into the 50s, from alum rock up to 880. it's early for the slowing, about half an hour early. but we'll watch it sort itself out. southbound 880 around the alameda, we've got an accident reported in lanes moving to the shoulder. might be an injury involved there because an ambulance has been called. and the traffic rate might be going on over the next few minut

bay, a little choppy yesterday. that's great for coaters who want to hit the marina. 55 in san jose.ng to you. 46 in oakland and temperatures are going to be a little cooler today. i'd say by about 3:00 p.m. we'll have 5 to 8 degrees cooler than yesterday. a few showers in that seven-day forecast. i'll get to the next report but today works out like this. if you want to make outdoor lunch plans, pretty ideal across the bay area. you'll get sick 6 at noon by the way. and cooler at the coast, 64 degrees but hey, still temperatures about 5 to 10 degrees above our seasonal averages. we might touch on a couple of records. we cool off for the weekend. help you get outdoors to enjoy it. first i'm going to send it back to mike. >> look outside you guys and we'll get a live look at 880 past the coliseum. traffic flow is relatively light there. you see northbound with the taillights and southbound with the headlights. northbound folks are headed to the bay bridge. usually for a friday the bay bridge lights are turned on early and we see a steady backup in all of the cash lanes. but the fast tr

bay area. looki looking toward a nice second half of the day. you want the sun to hit the san francisco marina by noon. that's when you'll see the sun. the clouds, 55 degrees. 4:00, 56 but a gorgeous day to sit by the water and watch the sail boats go by. gorgeous and romantic. 57 for san jose. 60 degrees in morgan hill. meanwhile, we'll see the upper 50s, a couple of low 60s in the east bay. in san francisco, you'll stay mild at about 58 degrees. right on track with your seasonal average for this time of year. as we head throughout tomorrow a few showers early by thursday another round of light on and off precipitation. saturday into sunday, we get a pretty good storm moving through the bay area. that could postpone construction on the bay bridge. let's check the drive with mike. >> we'll take folks to the south bay where we still have this issue as far as the traffic. there is a little distraction off of the exit at lawrence expressway. northbound 101, lawrence expressway north, a car that went off the road about an hour ago, stuck in the ditch on the side. a couple of cruisers are there. no

marina, up to 65 degrees. clear conditions at noon today. 4:00 p.m. -- 72 degrees. great day to break for lunch outdoors, in the city by the bay. same goes for oakland or san jose. it is going to be comfortable but a little bit on the breezy side. that's the only caveat to this really good looking winter afternoon forecast. tell you when the rain returns coming up. first let's check your drive with mike inouye. >>> the shot from san francisco, you see the stream of headlights moving into the city. we did get reports from chp that's what they call the slow roller. a car that's having trouble lisping along that upper deck and it was getting off over toward the san francisco side. sounds like it may just be clearing from the bridge and i do see headlights continuing to move smoothly from treasure island into san francisco. that's the upper deck in your commute direction. but back at the toll plaza we have a back-up now forming because after that slow roller was reported, they turned on those metering lights just after 6:00 a.m. it is about 20 minutes early for this thursday. the back-up already going to the 880 overcrossing. then

bay, friday, saturday, sunday, sunshine and temperatures in the 60s. tonight maybe one of those nights that you could see moon, venus and jupiter. this is submitted by christopher looking from the berkeley marinaand those two planets dress warm you have video or photos you would like to share we would love to see them just upload or e-mail them. thank you in advance. here's frances, have a great day. >>> mike was talking some of that weather in sierra you need chains now on highway 50 not on i-80. north bay headlights southbound still looks good through san rafael the lucas valley exit fine not marin civic center and golden gate bridge. bay bridge toll now, things are backed up past the 880 overcrossing at this point. about a 15 minute wait. i-80 in berkeley crowded here the drive time from the carquinez bridge to the maze is 34 minutes because of that earlier stall, definitely seeing slowing here and also you are seeing slowing on westbound 80 out of fairfield. there was a stall, big rig reported on jamison canyon, partially in the right lane it has caused heavy traffic westbound only nine miles an hour, it does even look like it is impacting traffic on westbound 80 approaching jamison canyon

marina. 55 degrees. bring a jacket but great viewing of all those sailboats out on the water for today. it will be a little bit choppy on the bayme winds out there. that's the big factor when it comes to the weather department today. a little bit breezy to windy throughout the east bay hills, your higher elevations and over your local bridges. as we head throughout the east bay, temperatures climbing into the mid 60s in concord, 65. 62 in san rafael. 58 in san francisco. right on par with your seasonal average. as we head through friday we continue your warm-up. clouds increase saturday, we get a few showers sunday. i think we'll see more moisture come through the bay area on monday, presidents' day. but it looks like it will be early. so you'll be able to get outdoors for the second half of that holiday. looking good as we celebrate george washington's birthday. >>> let's celebrate the drive. >> no. you know what? we do in some spots. depends on how you look at it. this horrible back-up as you are coming out of the altamont pass. over an hour's drive registering on our travel time out of livermore into towards pleasanton. the

bay in the dark looking for any potential victims after a woman was found clinging to a capsized boat making statements that have officials worried and suspicious. katie marzullo is live at the marinater: it was a wild ride that started before 2:00 this morning and take a live look behind us at how it ended. a boat practically on its side on the rocks along -- here in al the fire department was called in after somebody called in and reported the crash when they got -- got on scene they did find a woman clinging to the boat civilian trying to help fire department facilitated with the rest of that rescue. they determined she had been drinking. she told them she had another woman on boat her and didn't know where that other woman was whether she left on foot or in the water. the coast guard was called in to begin a search which they've been doing ever since. police are searching on the surface streets coast guard says it will keep searching until light we saw one of the boats come up to the scene and head back out. there is also the issue of the wreckage and a potential fuel spill. >> at this boat the being onshore is almost upside down. motor fluids and fuel are most likely leaking.

bay a 45 ft. boat has crashed through the breakwater. we will see exactly where the boat crashed on to the shoreline. happened at the marina. they thought another person could be in the water but then that was thrown into question. first thoughts >>will: this story is very suspicious. right now the coast guard is still in the water. they'll make a decision in about 30 minutes whether or not to continue searching. here is that 45 ft. boat that you are talking about james. i just got new information from the coast guard. they believe this person in her mid-late 20's, she was arrested after being intoxicated, they say that she does not own this bill that perhaps she was out on a fully right. when she crashed onto the shore line investigators came out here and spoke with her. that is when she told them that another woman got on to another book that was attached to this boat and left the scene. the coast guard did not know if she flipped off of that vote for what happened. they have searched all night but still have not been able to locate the second boat. they believe it could have been an inflatable raft. if she's fell into th

marina, what martinez is doing is a last- ditch effort to create a boating destination. >>> and why republican officials are furious about obama administration's plans for guantanamo bay. >>> and why there's real concern israel could launch an attack on iran in the near future. , and the more germs we can spread on our hands. that's why we created the lysol no-touch kitchen system. one no-touch solution for sparkling dishes, plus clean surfaces, plus healthy hands. because our mission is a healthy home made simple. lysol. mission for health. . >>> well, a cold friday morning out there. a lot of 30s and 40s with patchy fog t will be mostly sunny. a -- fog. it will be mostly sunny. temperatures today, a lot of mid-60s. >>> thank you, steve. new this morning, iranian tv says iran successfully launched a satellite into orbit early this morning. the satellite is designed to collect data on weather conditions and monitor for natural disasters. iran's space program has raised concerns, though, because the same technology allowing missiles to launch satellites can also be used to fire warheads. and secretary of defense, leon panetta, says he's concerned that israel could launc

at noon 65 degrees at the san francisco marina, up to 72 as you round out the day in the city by the bayouth bay, up to 78 degrees in morgan hill and gilroy. could hit 74 degrees in placed like pittsburgh today. we take you across the water, staying nice and mild even right by the coast. 66 in half moon bay. we'll stay warm through your thursday as well, then we start to drop after friday, into saturday down to 61 degrees. the cooldown is on. a few more clouds come into the mix. then we get some showers late sunday, into monday so that rain that we definitely need is back in the forecast as of late weekend. let's check your drive with mike. >>> south bay drivers check this out. we have your build for 101, 87 and 85. but 280 might be a little extra problem coming up toward highway 85 because of an earlier accident involving three or four vehicles and a big rig. southbound 101 an accident in redwood city causing some slowing. all activity offense to the shoulder. another one at peninsula avenue may be a factor in this slowdown as well. across the bay, slow 880 south off the hayward and san

marina green and in ports every square. there's also entertainment in the square from chinese lion dancers. the big event in the baycisco's parade and it's just one week away. we of course will carry it live here on ktvu channel 2 next saturday at 6:00. >>> protests against facebook, how breast-feeding mothers say the social networking website is discriminating against them. and what they plan to do about it. >> fabulous weather in the forecast for your weekend. coming up just five minutes we'll look at what you can expect outside your door this morning and take you through saturday and sunday, coming up. >>> former san jose sharks captain owen nolan is expected to announces his retirement next week. he played for the sharks from 1995 until 2003, and was the captain of the team during ace final five seasons. nearly half of his 422 career goals came as a shark. he has not played in the nhl since the 2009 season with minnesota. >>> great player for the sharks! great day to be outside, especially if you're a giants fan. rosemary, it's fanfest out at at&t park. should be blue skies for them. >> oh, yeah! next hour our

bay bridge, slow for friday. 580 jammed. also up through downtown oakland an accident that cleared. another one marinaplaza a live look, we see traffic's starting to jam up as is typical 8:30, on a friday, past high street. >> thank you very much, mike. for the latest traffic and news updates check out nbc bay area on facebook. i'll have another local news update in a half hour. hope to see you then. >>> 8:30 now on this friday morning, the 10th day of february 2012. you know, it just doesn't look or feel like february around here. the temperatures are supposed to hit, according to mr. al roker, around 40 today which is pretty remarkable for this time of year. >> hang around. in 24 hours it will feel different. >> possibly snow around midnight tonight. >> and cold air. >> all right. let's enjoy today. beautiful sun for as long as it lasts. i'm ann curry along with lester holt in for matt this morning. >> thanks for filling in for me. >> it will be cold! >> i'm going home! >> i have it covered, dude. >> we have a serious story coming up. >> remember a couple years ago kennedy cousin michael skakel was

marina, slow from the coliseum to the point. there, that story tells it all. water on the lens, water on the roads through sunol. >> i'll be back with jon kelley in a half hour for nbc bayhris brown made quite the splash. two numbers. >> comeback for him after spending the night in jail three years ago after beating up rihanna. this is a big turn of events and won an award. >> people said his career was done, he could never be successful again. >> were you one of those people, bonnie? no. >> well, you know what, you can never say never. he has worked hard for this comeback and he apparently has earned rihanna's forgiveness and earned the industry's forgiveness so we'll see. >> that may have helped him because she's maintained a relationship of sorts with him. >> we all knew he was talented. >> it's a matter of people liking him. >> katy perry made a splash. she did well. >> she usually has a hard time performing in public. she always looks great, doesn't sound so great. >> really. >> however, last night was something else. she got up there and it was the biggest revenge song i've ever heard. it was called "part of me." she had her blue hair. she talked about how you che