mark barger, nbc news. >>> northern california fared well in the emmies.county native and 15-time world arm wrestling champion, dot marine jones. and a shot putter on the 1988 team. and another ""glee" star, earlier he won a golden globe for his portrayal after a gay student on "glee." >>> i know who jessica is voting for for the emmies. >>> jeff ranieri joins us now. our chief meteorologist with the look -- can we talk about the weekend? >> yes, we can. it's thursday so you usually like to talk about saturday. we have warming numbers for saturday but it will be emmy-award winning weather. next week, hot weather coming back in the seven-day forecast and look at this. this is actually right now, out in the san bruno mountains but the fog is not as strong but with all the cool air in place it was well below average. 15 to 20 degrees below average with 67 your average. san jose only 70 and you should be at about 83 for this time of year. and from oakland, looking downtown in oakland, also some excellent visibility here and temperature of 61. winds westerly at

mark barger, nbc news. >> you can see the show at 9:00 tonight here on nbc bay area.you miss it or you want to watch it again we'll re-air it at 10:00 and we'll have news at 11:00. and today in the bay will be back in two minutes. >> a b.a.r.t. officer-involved shooting leaves one man

mark barger, nbc news. >> love those fireworks. all right. >>> time now for entertainment news.expected this weekend the new "tra "transformers" film. 2011's best opening. "dark of the moon" also broke the three-day fourth of july weekend record previously held by 2004's "spider-man 2." it also set a record for imax. by the end of fourth of july weekend after six days "dark of the moon" will have zoomed past total domestic earnings. >>> "pirates of the caribbean" this weekend became just the eighth movie ever to top $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. >>> former members of the doors marked the 40th anniversary of the death of jim morrison lighting candles at his grave. favorite doors song, bill? "light my fire"? >> yeah. that's just really typical. doesn't really mean i'm a fan. you? >> "love street." i'm corny that way. >> i don't know that one. i'll have to google that. >> i was going to ask you to do your best jim morrison impersonation. come on! a little "light my fire" this morning on fourth of july. >> that's later tonight. that's what we'll be doing later with the spark

mark barger, nbc news. >> love those fireworks. all right. >>> time now for entertainment news.d this weekend the new "transformers" film transformed the record books. "dark of the moon" took in over $97 million beating the 90-plus million debut of pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides." "dark of the moon" also broke the three-day fourth of july weekend record previously held by 2004's "spider-man 2." it also set a record for imax. delivering imax's first ever 20 million-plus worldwide opening. by the end of fourth of july weekend after six days "dark of the moon" will have zoomed past total domestic earnings of 180 million. it added a whopping $210 million overseas. >>> "pirates of the caribbean" this weekend became just the eighth movie ever to top $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. >>> finally to paris now, sunday, former members of the doors marked the 40th anniversary of the death of lead singer jim morrison lighting candles at his grave. favorite doors song, bill? "light my fire"? >> yeah. that's just very typical, though. doesn't really mean i'm a fan. you know.

mark barger, nbc news. >>> skype has been offering free video calls since 2003. and that's news4 at 4:00. news4 at 5:00 starts right now. >>> tonight on news4 at 5:00, casey anthony may be spending her last night in jail. but where is she going to go, and what's going to be done to keep her safe? >>> drama on the bw parkway as the search ramps up for a gunman. >>> new audiotapes reveal a pilot's split second decision after a roof rips open in mid air. >>> and thousands migrate to the nation's capital to see the dalai lama. >> good evening, everybody, welcome to "newslinnews4 at 5:0. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. a mother's tragedy gets even worse. a northern virginia mother free on bond facing charges in the death of her son. police say she left her little boy in the family minivan for seven hours, and it wasn't the first time. jane watrel live outside the courthouse in manassas with today's developments. jane? >> reporter: wendy, this morning, karen murphy turned herself in at this courthouse after being indicted on murder and child neglect charges. with

mark barger, nbc news. >>> the show airs tonight at 9:00 on nbc.in, at 10:00. >>> and coming up this afternoon at 4:00, 8% of country's population teams up for singing tradition. >>> plus, a first in power for filed. thailand. >>> just ahead, a roundup of how the whole area is celebratiing 4th of july. cookouts, parades, and live on the national mall where some are showing up early for the best seats in the house to see tonight's fireworks. meet the select few who made a special trip to thomas jefferson's home in virginia today to celebrate their first 4th as american citizens. >>> then tonight at 6:00 -- >> i'm inside the once-secret bunker here at the greenbrier resort that was designed to protect congress in case of a nuclear ♪ >>> more than 20,000 citizens of estonia joined to celebrate one of their country's longest traditions. the song festival dates back to the 1800s. more than 1 100,000 traveled to hear the singers perform. that's 8% of the tiny country's entire population. the event is held once every five years. pretty impressive. >>> the

mark barger has our report. >> reporter: facebook has already got 750 million users worldwide, communicatingch other. now the company's founder announced a new way for those users to connect. video chatting through skype. >> we just have this belief at facebook partially validated by the success that we've had with platforms so far that independent entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs who focus on one specific type of thing will always do better than a company that's trying to do a million things. >> reporter: the concept of video chatting is not new, but simplifying it and introducing it into the social networking realm could give it and skype a major boost. >> they really see that facebook has something they can't get. the engagement the level of those 750 million users compared to the say 125 million who are really engaged on skype. >> reporter: the facebook/skype pairing comes about a week after the world's leading search engine, google, introduced its own social networking site called google-plus. among its features is video chatting for multiple users. facebook's initial video chat offering

mark barger, nbc news. >> for a look at what's coming up in sports, let's go to henry wofford from comcast sports center. hello, henry. >> hem low diane. it was a milestone day for derek jeter. how about 3,000 hits, the only yankee to ever do it. more on that coming up. >>> the a's and rangers in action. we'll have the latest from arlington as the athletics make up ground. marshawn lynch has some free time due to the lockout. why not give back to the community. >>> welcome back to nbc bay area, the world series champs are sitting in first place, a game ahead of the diamondbacks, there's always room for improvement. during the all-star break, the giants interview a former manager. washington nationals manager jim riggleman may not be out of a job for long. next week he's scheduled to interview with the champs next month. he left the nationals over a contract dispute. a's looking to snap the rangers five-game win streak. third of a four-game set in texas. brandon mccarthy taking on his former team. he gets elvis anders looking. josh willingham facing colby lewis. solo shot to left. willingha

mark barger, nbc news. >> i might see that one. much more ahead on "today in the bay." ,till to me ofone tari m b'sinonosol. one of britain's most successful newspapers printst its last edition. . >> i don't know how they don't do toe tapping. the wake-up song for the space shuttle "atlantis" this morning was dedicated to commander chris ferguson. today "atlantis" will dock with the international space station and the crew will begin delivering supplies. the shuttle is set to land july 20th at kennedy space center. nasa says they may add one more day to the mission. >>> today's edition of england's controversial and hugely popular newspaper "news of the world" will be the last. a hacking scandal plagued the tabloid so much so that they decided to shut it down. >> reporter: after the final edition of the "news of the world" rolled off the presses, the paper's editor and its staff showed off the front page. the headline, thank you and good-bye. the 168-year-old tabloid that thrived on scandal, shamed celebrities and brought down poli