maryann favreau, nbc bay area news. >> no back flips for sure. thank you, maryann. >>> still ahead tonight at 5:00, sometimes the lines and crowds at festivals are enough to make you sick, but this time it actually may have been the food. an investigation over a popular bay area tradition. >>> plus, do you encourage your daughter to play in the dirt? we're going to take a look at why it may be good for more than just her physical health. >>> and the latest on the weiner online affair scandal. some of the women open up about their very private facebook chats. >>> and good afternoon, i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri live in the south bay where one of the world's largest technology companies is putting an extra wow into the education of bay area middle schoolers. details on how you can get involv cupedg upg j t miusw s.fe jtenu te >>> crustacean frustration for many who attended the oyster fest last month. many festive goers say they got sick after attending the event. the department of public health is declaring a bacteria is to blame. when con

maryann favreau, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, maryann. >>> two separate carjackings to tell you abouttwo different parts of the city, with one common thread. in each case the carjacker took off with a young child in the backseat. last night, vallejo police say a toddler was inside her father's car when they were car jacked by an armed suspect just before 10:00. an officer says somehow the little girl let herself out of the car overnight and wandered into a nearby apartment complex knocking on doors for help. >> she was picking at the door like this. i said, who are you? where do you live? she say -- you know, she didn't say nothing. i said, i don't know you. i said where's mommy and where's daddy? she say -- i don't know. you know? >> another one to tell you about, a month-old girl safe tonight after a carjacker took off from a parking lot with the baby still inside the car. the girl's mom says she left the baby in the car with the keys in the ignition, a major mistake, while she went in for five minutes into a food bank. luckily, the baby was found safe inside the car, but miles away

reporting live in los gatos, maryann favreau, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, maryann.opping our health watch tonight, keeping kids in clothes that fit or taking advantage of a growing problem? some major retailers are under fire for marketing clothes to obese children and their parents. stores like jc penny have a plus and husky skieize, a whole sect for kids. it's considered one of the most promising markets in the fashion world. according to forbes and market research.com, sales of wells and girls' plus size apparel has become a $47 billion industry. >> you're trying to figure out something to fit this kid, so she can be in style, be and won't be picked on at school. so that's pretty much i think the reason why they're brought in the plus size. >> other retailers offering larger sizes for children include sears, target, nordstrom, and land's end. the centers for disease control and prevention says childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. >>> your salad is coming under scrutiny tonight, contaminated vegetables are being linked to a deadly e. coli

maryann? >> jessica, the drug found that adding this drug to standard therapy cut treatment time in half. that's a major benefit to patients. but it's the cure rates that are really giving patients hope. new research showed patients using this new drug had a cure rate of nearly 80%. almost double what the standard treatment used to offer. renee web was diagnosed with hepatitis-c. she believes she was infected years ago when she was stuck with a needing as a young nurse. as a mom of two your honor children she worried she wouldn't be around to celebrate the big moments in their lives. >> you think, what if i don't see her get married. >> reporter: she struggled to take a year off for traditional treatment ant she enrolled for a clinical trial of a new drug. this drug shows that combined with two standard drugs works not only in patients just starting treatment, but in those that failed earlier treatment. researchers found not only did the drug increase the cure rate, but it also cut the treatme

nbc bay area's maryann favreau is altogether the hard rock cafe with more details. >> reporter: earlier this afternoon there was a line wrapped around the hard rock cafe here at pier 39. many of the people arrived here early this morning. they told me they considered it the deal of the decade. a pair of shoes for a pair of u2 tickets. melissa ryan wore these shoes as mate tron of honor in a wedding but will gradually trade them for u2 tickets. >> i came here at 7:00 a.m. so i could get a free ticket. >> reporter: more than 100 other people sat for hours in the wind and rain in front of the hard rock cafe at pier 39 in san francisco. stubhub gave two free u2 concert tickets to the first 116 people who donated shoes to the soles for souls charity. >> i guess it's fate, perhaps. i got here at about 1:00 and i stood in line and i was the last person. >> reporter: and what a concert he'll enjoy tomorrow night. we got a behind the scenes tour of the massive setup at the newly renamed stadium in oakland. >> as of 12 shows ago it became the largest tour of all time. >> from the claw that can ho

reporting live from san jose, maryann favreau, nbc bay area news. >> putting a lot of crimps in plans. now, how much rain can we expect and which neighborhoods will be hit the hardest? rob, not often that we see showers like this in june. >> absolutely, we're talking about seeing generally less than a quarter inch of rain for the month of june. we could see that much falling in just a couple hours later on tonight and a very wet weekend ahead. we see 50s outside, clouds spilling into san francisco. a little bit of light rain around the golden gate bridge heading off to the north bay hilltops. right now, not too bad, 62 degrees. should see mainly lighter rain tonight, good news for the sub zero event with the tarps up. i think things will be okay. the heavier rain will come in as you roll into saturday morning. right now on the radar, already filling in the light green across the north bay corresponding to to some lighter periods of rain. not so much around san francisco and oakland, mainly lighter rain crossing over the bay of the south bay and the santa clara valley still dry for the

it was a day for hundreds of busy moms like maryann to focus on their health and interact in workshopss expert joy hoffman and psychologist sharon rose powell. >> this is about bringing hundreds of women of different ages together to have a conversation about the challenges we all face around our physical and emotional health. >> reporter: the workshops offered strategies and advice for dealing with common health struggles. >> what is the most common form of female sexual dysfunction? >> reporter: from keeping your sex drive alive. >> my daughter is 7 1/2. >> reporter: to raising kids with less stress. >> don't deprive yourself. >> reporter: to secrets to staying fit. for a large group discussion meredith vieira hosted the conversation. >> trying to raise three kids, working and trying to balance it and thinking that it's not okay to drop a ball. i'm here to tell you that you will drop the ball a million times but it's not going to break. >> reporter: she led a panel of speakers including me and my husband andrew who shared our coping strategies to agisting to a newly blended family. >