>> china wants to keep relations with north korea. it is important considering china is chair of six-party talks where the member countries discuss north korea's nuclear program. in the meeting with hu jintao, kim insisted the six-rty talks would resume immediately. usually both china and north korea don't announce kim's visit before he returns to his country, but this time win jiabao told bak about the visit while kim was staying in china. >> what makes china so eager to deal with china? what are china's intentions when it comes to north korea? >> i think the chinese government wants to show the international community that it is trying its best with north korea to give up its nuclear development. china is also trying to -- open up its economy and begin reform before kim jong-il loses power. >> nhk world with us tonight. thanks. appreciate it. >>> japan's leading opposition parties are trying to bring down prime minister naoto kan's government. members of liberal democratic parties are planning to submit a no confidence motion by the

the north -- the north beach neighborhood is a neighborhood with a serious high need for open space. both north beach and chinatown will probably continue to be high need neighborhoods even after this project. we focused on the current users and the desires expressed by the park users for new facilities. the people that were gathered behind as earlier in the meeting were talking about the poorly sited playground and a desire to keep the hard scape, because that is where children learn to use their bikes and where they play tennis. we came up with a plan that expands and optimizes the playground, the tennis, and the visual connection between the facilities. since may of 2008, the library and recreation and parks department have had out representations' and discussions with community groups and other stakeholders throughout the neighborhood, including chinatown community development corporation, telegraph hill neighborhood center, and many others. the open space in this plan is increased by 20% and allowed to accommodate an expanded children's play area, to meet new ada and safety feat

one is still out there on the north bay. north 101 making your way past the novato dump. it's still blocking the left lane. it happened at 1:00. i'm expecting it should clear shortly. traffic is still getting by okay. we'll also check out the bay bridge toll plaza for you. delay-free this morning. but remember, as you head back home to the east bay, you might find or notice the new eastbound lane configuration changes they did over the weekend. eric and mike went across it and said it was no big deal, so shouldn't cause trouble. live shot of the golden gate bridge, we have terry mcsweeney keeping track of the foot and bike traffic. on the roads, it's also still flowing very well. no trouble across the span either direction. eric, kristen? >> nobody out riding or running so far this morning? >> 4:39? >> get up, people. 4:39. >> what are you doing at home now? >> i know! >> anyway, still ahead -- south bay police look for a driver who knocked down not one but nine utility poles over the weekend. >> after 25 misses and 123 million space miles, "endeavor" prepares for one mor

in the afternoon, north bay.ght shower for the morning commute. bulk of the wet weather will fall again in the north bay tomorrow. few stray showers in east bay. the accuweather seven-day forecast -- it's going to be cool tomorrow with the thunderstorms. possibility of small hail. not much of a warming trend thursday and friday. though it's dry. the coolest weather with the record-setting rain saturday. and those will spill in to sunday. then it will finally be dry on monday. but, since we have the rain, why not have a rainbow? why not have a double rainbow? this is what it looked like in mountain view saturday. i'm sure we will get more pictures like this today. if you have the weather video or photos you'd like to share, we'd love to see them. upload them to ureport@abc7news.com. here is frances. >> we have a handful of accidents this morning. couple reported on the peninsula. drivers said they hit a mountain lion on southbound 280 in hillsborough. black mountain. look out for that. it might be blocking the roa

cloudy, rain to the north and clearing, breezy thursday, clouds maybe some rain north friday. it does not look very warm for the weekend cooler and windy on sunday. >> oh, boy, all right, thank you steve. >>> pedestrian hit and killed in san francisco, why police say the driver will not be charged. >>> another round of deadly storms, where the tornadoes touched down and how many people are still missing. >>> ear night -- over night fire at oakland, two pets are killed. we'll tell you -- why one of them is calling police officer a hero. >>> early morning accident leads to pedestrian on li

new crash reported in san jose on north 101. on the connection ramp to north 680.t for that. on the shoulder. but they are calling for an ambulance. sometimes when the ambulance and emergency crews get there, it slows things down. there is an area where you are under the speed limit. not showing yet. but no major problems continuing northbound here past 880. looking good up the peninsula. we will check out the 280 and 17 interchange. that is northbound 280 and 167 from the santa cruz mountain. quick shot of the san mateo bridge. shows everything is flowing well. no major problems elsewhere. as it changes we post it on the website abc7news.com. you will find it under the bay area traffic link. >> all right. thanks a lot. researchers say vacation time is more than just time off work. it can also lower your blood pressure. boost your immune system. and help you live longer. not shocking news, right? it's nice to know for a scientific fact that fun and relaxation are good for you. researchers at cornell medical college found it can take people as long as a month for st

was called the north atlantic treaty organization north atlantic that means western europe and for real terms where is the north atlantic treaty organization active today well of course it's active in the middle east it's active in central asia it's active in north africa and so. nato itself is a military and economic engine that does not want to. just because of the end of the soviet empire or its promise to exist it wants to feed itself as a military operation and as a as a bloodsucker of tax money it pays quite well to its upper staff and to its contractors and suppliers all right it's an industry that the want to. so like governments it needs a foreign enemy has led to play along with we are north atlantic but let's go to the middle east let's go to central asia let's go to north africa and not even have the sense to change the name. you know it effect they might as well call it the middle east treaty interventionist organisation or the north african european our military intervention machine where the north atlantic treaty organization the arrogance the sheer arrogance that it's ju

the lot is zoned rh 2 and it sloped down from the north to the sourt. the existing structure showed on the screen, whenever it comes up, is a -- provides two -- two bedroom units on two stories with a -- with approximately 2,425 square feet of living space. as proposed the new building will provide two dwelling units. so this is the proposal of the demolition of a two-dwelling unit. and the construction of a new two-dwelling unit. there will be one three bedroom unit with a total of 3,045 of living space. the new structure will provide two off-street parking spaces from the single garage. there is a mandatory discretionary review. an addition three requests of d.r.'s were filed. one of those requests were withdrawn after revisions to the proposals were made. there remains two publicly filed d.r.'s. one by the northern to the south and one by 20th street which their rear yard abuts the rear yard of this prompt. the to pop gi is such that the d.er is to the south than that of the subject building. and the subject building is higher than on the slope than

in fact, it's at the north bay now. i tell you when it reaches the heart of the bay in a minute with live doppler7 radar. >> you have a couple of nice shots there. no delay at the bay bridge toll plaza. once again, no service for the alameda harbor bay ferry. we have an update on an accident in santa rosa. >> this morning, the man arrested in the beating of giants' fan bryan stow says he wasn't especially at the game. la police is expected to have a line-up today. >>> i'm amy hollyfield live in san francisco where a massive search for a missing danville teenager has been launched. social media is playing a huge role in the volunteer effort. that is coming up. >> good morning. >> wednesday. we are halfway there. >> i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. 50/50 morning. okay, most of us will enjoy the dry commute and others may see rain. >> don't count the odds. they keep changing. >> mark has the forecast. 50/50, 80/20? what do you got? >> i have live doppler7 h.d. showing rain. northwest corner of sonoma county. let's zoom

even in north bay, some pretty intense showers north of napa and sonoma. seen some showers. it is beginning to break out as it slowly moves to the east bay. san francisco down to the san mateo bridge, sporadic shower activity. nothing major, but as you saw in some of those traffic shots, it is enough to turn on the wipers. we will hold on to the scattered showers forecast for the better part of the morning. here is 9:00 a.m., we will advance the clock towards noon. you can see all the light- moderate rain and then watch, as we pushed towards the afternoon, the showers seem to disappear. by 4:00 p.m. it is all gone. the ride home at 5:00 p.m. should be dry, especially if you are approaching the bay bridge or the peninsula. to averages right now, you can see where they are. mid-50s across the bay area. we are in a pretty tight range of current starters. mid- upper 50s. we will get to the low-mid-60's this afternoon. the cloud cover will block the sun and keep the schoolus cool. hera broader look. this is the storm system bringing us today's showers. we'll ha

starting to see storms up the north. fairly stormy for the sea of japan side of the country and the showers will make their way over towards the pacific side, as well, but it should be fairly light. in behind that, high pressure is going to be taking control of parts of the northern china, as well as mongolia. the korean peninsula, too. we should see rising temperatures into next week. we see a lot of moisture coming down here into southern portions of china. it is good news. we've had very dry and very hot conditions here over the last several days. we're going to start to see very high temperatures coming back down again, which is good news. but some of these downpours are going to be on the heavy side. anywhere you're seeing in the yellow could be 100 millimeters of rain and, in fact, the parts of northern myanmar and northeastern india and bangladesh, you could see 150 millimeters. there's definitely going to be a high risk of things like flooding and landslides, too. temperatures, 27 degrees, not cool at all in toky

breezy, rain to the north, especially north bay, 50 or upper 40s here for lows by noon that system will be moving south and weakening so cloudy, breezy for many, especially south bay, rain mainly north there could be some light amounts as you move south towards oakland. not very warm on these temperatures, we will keep temperatures in the 50s and 60s. inland areas will be in the mid- 60s. the front should scoot through pretty fast, we'll be on the cool breezy side. highway 116. you can see some of that starting to darken up, looks like from about north so far is where the heavier amounts are, even though it's not that heavy, it is there. that system continues to give us a cool pattern. 's or upper 40s. it's not going to be very warm today. that system is moving fast. most of it will be in northern california, the mere fact that another cold low is spinning in, very active pattern in place and i really don't see much change to it as we go into holiday weekend. light rain, most of it will be in the north bay, but some lighter amounts could make it to the south. the wind, though, will be f

that allows a north wind by sunday.ybe some drizzle, light rain in the north bay along the coast, maybe. i haven't seen any yet. if you're getting, tweet me, spweather. rain to the north, northern mendocino, humboldt county, redding, shasta you might encounter that. northeastern california, susanville, gerlack, a shout out there them, there are people who know what i'm talking about. maybe shower activity there. and the sierra also on saturday, very windy up in the mountains saturday. sunday will be better though. 50s, low 50s, mid 50s, heyward is just out of the gate and a front runner like crazy. 57 degrees. livermore 53, out of the northwest. another system is digging down influencing our weather today and tomorrow. a lot of low clouds, some sun, breezy at times, windy later on, light showers, possible to the north especially mendocino, lake county not a bigotry, but staying cool. 60s, or very low 70s again, temperatures i almost carried everything thursday into friday. there is not much after change in our pattern.

farther north more rain, farther south less. already giving the storm tracker coffee because it's early. saying it's into may i shouldn't be looking at rain but it is. picking up a bit stretching southwest heading northeast over parts of marin county into napa county. santa rosa a tenth of an inch of rain. this system that's coming in for this time of year an incredible amount of cold air associated with it. some areas pick up over a half inch. the wind so far not too bad but higher elevations over 30 and maybe along the coast. big news continues to be the afternoon highs are just 15 degrees below average. cazadero almost a half inch. m. st. helena .17. santa rosa .11. lake county .03. if you have weather information you can always tweet me sp weather. 50s on your temps. the cloud cover stuck. breaks in the clouds towards san jose and a mostly cloudy day, continued cool breezy and then occasionally some rain. this time of year any breaks in the cloud and you get this dynamic of a system we'll cloud right up. the low did you want

this is a street view looking down from the south to the north. you see the subject property on the end there. and the lot slopes to the rear of the properties and this property is the last east-west lot on the block and it has this unique opportunity where it has this north naysing wall that faces the gardens on 20th street and it presents light and views from that property. you can see stepping down of the buildings on the mid-block and also the characteristic roof forms, gable roofs, and lower slide to the left, it is a view across the subject property towards the 20th street properties and see the same characteristics sloping down from west to east. on the right, my property is in the middle. you can see the characteristics. this is the view from the deck of the house south of mine. in 2005, my wife and i undertook a renovation of my property, which is just over the guardrail. and we could have gone up a story. we had plenty of envelope there. and we decided to not build that addition in deference to jaime -- james' needs for lights. we are as

so we're going up and then right back downment north wind little north-northeast. widespread 80s, few upper 80s to near 90. the coast will be fabulous. windy in the hills and also out to the valley. sunshine and warmer weather. st. helena, clear lake, sonoma 86. kentfield 85. 80 berkeley and alameda. 84 downtown oakland. go with 90 there in gill roy. you good folks in gill roy. if you're heading to the outlet malls to do some shopping it will be warm. fremont at 84. 84 san mateo. now it's always a little tricky on the coast but we'll go a lot of 70s there with 75 san bruno and 88 woodside. more sunshine, warm weather thursday. cooler by the coast friday and then much cooler for everybody saturday and big cool down by sunday. >>> all right. thank you, steve. 5:11 is the time right now. another roadblock in the fight over executions in california. the change at san quentin that will cause further delays. >>> and cutting the budget by cutting the school year. controversial idea the govern is considering. >>> good morning. northbound 101 san francisco traffic looks goo

rain, north to south. mainly staying in the north bay. it lights it up there.omorrow, though, possibility of thundershowers and -- and as that cold air moves in. also up towards tahoe truckee. shasta and lassen as well. if you are traveling be advised these are very cold systems. rain, cool, heaviest to the north. 50s and 60s. inland areas are the ones that are really gonna be 10, 15 degrees below ark. that won't change. tomorrow, very chiy on the first day of -- himy on the first day of chun. -- on the first day of june. >>> afghan's president is making an auggie demand following a deadly incident over the weekend. we'll let you know how nato is responding this morning. >>> just hours ago, another tour bus tragedy and a major u.s. highway remains shut down. tori, hamid karzai delivered a fiery speech overnight just hours after those nato air strikes killed several children. he says he has told nato commanders hundreds of times to stop striking homes. >> the afghan people can no longer tolerate these homes on their homes -- these attacks on their homes and one

the leaders talked about north korea. by traveling to china, kim was aiming to show he is still in power in the region. also, he wants to show his country and the world he is still healthy. if he look at the video being released, the north korean's leader's complexion appears good. his movements are natural, which makes it seem like he recovered from a stroke he had in 2008. if he needed to get special medical treatment such as kidney dialysis, it would be difficult to travel by train for an entire week. >> it was recently reported his son would visit china alone but that didn't happen. he didn't go with his father. why wasn't he there? >> the transfer of power will take time. kim jong unis in his late 20s. in their meeting with chinese president jintao, he said the relationship will not change if the leadership changes. this shows his support of transfer of power to his son. >> how does kim's visit help china? what's in it for china? >> china wants to keep favorable relationship with china. the member countries discussed

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will continue to rain in the north bay.the bay area at that time will have a chance to dry out. then by 3:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., futurecast shows you completely dry conditions over the bay. we are looking good. 53 degrees now in livermore. 55 in hayward. cold enough for a jacket if you are going to be taking a walk this morning. take that umbrella just in case. 65 in san jose and 64 in fremont. another round of rain on the way for tonight into tomorrow. we will talk about that and potential for thunderstorms. also on the way. 6:11. let's check your drive with mike. >> talked about rain and snow in tahoe. no closures or chains required. we had that over the weekend. that's not out of the question. meanwhile, approaching the bay bridge, live look at the toll plaza shows thank you volume of traffic out there. pretty light volume. maze, no major slowing. we are seeing more folks here than we have in the last couple of days because they are back from vacation. there is the maze and approach for most of the east bay. lot of folks on

and that's going to keep north bay mostly cloudy. would not be surprise first- degree a passing shower came by. for everyone else it will be partly sunny, a tiny bit warmer. highs today 50s, 60s and a few low 70s. these are again well below average on these temps. it will be breezy. mostly sunny for some. but mostly cloudy farther to the north. partly cloudy, mostly cloudy friday. friday have to keep an eye on another system clipping the north bay. saturday looks all right but sunday windy and cool. maybe a little rebound on monday, pam. >>> thank you, steve. want to talk more about the tornadoes, the weather you were talking about. minor damage is being reported in the rural area outside of key koa this morning after at least three tornadoes touched down. this is one of the funnel clouds spotted in butte county yesterday afternoon. it pulled debris off the ground but no one was hurt. this twister touched down near durham. take a look hat that one. a tiny farming community about five miles south of chico. a tornado warning was in pla

i believe the north beach library should be redesigned. the wholesale removal destruction of it -- i see the libraries in the presidio branch and the richmond district that have not been knocked down. these are beautiful buildings that have been augmented and redesigned. also, i see tax dollars wasted. i have seen lots of different types of proposals that actually improve the original design of the building and augmented. those seem to be disregarded. what about the views of alcatraz? that would be blocked. i also work in the hotel business. granted, people are here for only five days or a week, but that iconic view will be lost forever. it looked like tennis courts for going to cover part of the baseball diamond named after the great joe dimaggio. my concern is that this project seems to be more steamrolled and thought through, as far as i have been able to observe. i encourage this project to be put on hold, at least so it can be reviewed more thoroughly, to the point where the a original building can be kept instead of being knocked dow

to the north, it's built close relations with turkey. both states keen to contain kurdish nationalism. but it's been accused by its eastern neighbor iraq, a facilitating terror attack there, and crucially, it's allied with iran. the partnership is regarded with horror by america and arab gulf states. as the regime attempts to crush the protesters, it claims they would plunge the country into chaos, including religious conflict between so many muslims and the minority of the president and some of his senior officials. conflicts that might spread beyond syria's borders. a claim the opposition will dispute. >> this is across the board grass roots revolution and against the corruption of the assad family. it's not a sectarian revolution. it's not anti-christian. no one wants to establish an islamic state. it's all about establishing a civic society, a political, democratic, accountable system of government that can represent everybody in syria. >> meanwhile, some think the argument that the assad regime has been a force for stability is absu

satellite showing well to our north as the push higher we're expecting rain in the north bay by 9:00 p.m.. it is calling to get organized. look at this. the entire bay area is dealing with a light rain. watch as she pushed o'clock to 3:00 p.m.. a big pop of moderate rain activity. lookup big bed grows too. widespread moderate to potential heavy rain. if it affects your commute to it would be a wicked one. -- but one. 9:00 p.m., still dealing with it and i've been night some relief but not all lot. more rain coming tuesday morning. here is your current conditions. we are once again dealing with upper 40's, low 50s. fairfield is 40 degrees right now. 51 degrees in san francisco. 53 degrees in san clara county. all lot different expected for the latter half of the day. tuesday, first of the day we're getting a lot more rain. tuesday we are trying and out and thursday and friday looking really good. this weekend coming up this one to be a great one. 6:48 a.m. good morning george. >>george: good morning, no hot spots. we will start with a bridge check. bay bridge toll plaza is still a goo

we'll be in the mid to upper 50s along the north bay beaches into sausalito with low to mid-50s in north bay valleys. this is one of the areas we'll see the stronger showers. low to mid-50s along the east bay shore with mid to 50s around the east bay valleys and monterey valley, mid-50s. for the state tonight, we'll see most of the rain will fall north of i-80. if you want heated, to go palm springs where it will be 93. for the game, mostly cloudy and 7:05 first pitch dropping down to 53. it will be cooler than this morning. we'll have mid to upper 40s in north bay valleys with low 50s around the rest of our neighborhoods. here is a look at the cold front moving into the north bay, we're seeing the clearing behind the system and batch the showers taper in the overnight hours. we have one more chance of those showers tomorrow. thursday and friday, even with the drying trend it's not going warm up much. if the model holds true we could set record rainfall on saturday. >>> two bay area girls are competing in the scripps national spelling bee. it took off this morning outside washington, d.c

perhaps a bit letter to the north into the south.e satellite and radar is showing that this storm is intensifying towards the coast. another one on the heels of that one. rain on/off for the next couple of days. intensified rainfall towards the coast. 6:00 p.m., with moderate brain cells to the north bay and also to the east bay. this will continue until 8:00 p.m. a special to the north bay. scattered activity to the south. by 10:00 p.m., it will taper off the bed. and still, scattered activity overnight. tapering off-oil throughout the night-- keeping your umbrella candy. candy--with scattered activity keeping your umbrella cand candhandy. reportn the north bay, perhaps a bit less into the cell paper. with three-quarters of rainfall in the north bay. your kron 4 7 day around the bay rainfall turning to showers and unpacking to rain tomorrow. when the conditions as that storm pushes through. better conditions showers dissipating. programming change. dr. tell is moving to 4:00 p.m.. dr. feldman monday, may 30th we will be back. ♪ you'

it's way up to our north during the noon hour.pper 50s around the bay and even low to mid-60s inland. as we head towards 4:00, some of the showers will be moving southeast could move into the north bay and could have a stray shower move into the east bay valleys from that shower that developed in the north bay. otherwise it's going to be quiet and temperatures warmer this afternoon by about 5-10 degrees. mid to upper 50s around the bay and low to mid-60s inland. accu-weather seven-day forecast, slightly cooler tonight because we won't have the cloud cover the last couple of nights. more sunshine and warmer weather for thursday and friday. breezy and cooler with a estuary shower on sunday. >>> good morning. still can't find no problems this morning. you can take it easy out there but still a wind advisory for the bay bridge and also for the benicia bridge. traffic is flowing well westbound as we take a look at the live shot through berkeley. delay free as well and another camera shot, this time in the north bay. southbound traffic

as you can see this from an article, this is the view they have over our building to the north. his claim that the building has historical significance has been shown to be inaccurate. his concerns about the historical significance as his proposal alternative plan would destroy the building. his claim that the building that our project will impact air and light lacks merit. you see the location of our project. we didn't feel these were exceptional or extraordinary, we reduced the square footage of our upper unit to lessen the impact. we appreciate the time and effort taken by the city planning staff to review the d.r. requester's documents which led to their conclusion that the issues present -- the issues don't present exceptional and extraordinary circumstances. we ask you to approve our project. >> i'll go through the merits of the reduction and what has happened from the project. i just wanted to show you this diagram here that showed the proposed plan as it has been modified from the planning and through the neighborhood process. this is actually what would be allowed per t

temperatures in the upper 40s in north bay valley. all the way down the peninsula from san francisco to redwood city. over toward fremont and los gatos. everybody else in the low to mid-50s. as we break down the morning, we may have a little drizzle along the coast due to the increase in the marine layer clouds. upper 40s to 50 degrees. you can see by noon how quickly we get sunshine, mid-to-upper 50s throughout the bay. low 60s inland about noon. 4:00 this afternoon. upper 50s along the coast to san francisco and low to mid-60s for the rest of us. the accuweather seven-day forecast -- we have showers. possible tomorrow. again, mainly north on wednesday. once they pass we have warming for june. still not summer like in this forecast. good morning, frances. >> i can't believe we're still seeing the showers. and you might find some of the isolated gusty wind mike talked about across the san mateo bridge where there is a wind advisory in effect. you want to be careful across the span. also for the memorial holiday, there is no service on

delegation is visiting north korea to determine whether the u.s.overnment should resume food aid to the country. the delegation is led by special enjoy for north korean human rights robert king and includes experts from the u.s. agency for international development. they arrived in pyongyang from beijing on tuesday afternoon. king is the first senior u.s. official to visit north korea in about a year and a half. the u.s. began offering food aid to north korea in 2008, but the aid was suspended in 2009 due to confrontation over the transparency of distribution, including monitoring methods. during their five-day stay the delegation is to study the food situation in the north and discuss with officials whether they would allow the distribution to be monitored. observers say that by suggesting a resumption of food aid, the u.s. hopes to persuade north korea to soften its stance on resuming the six-party talks on its nuclear program. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has indicated a possible handover of some jewish settlements in the occupi

scattered showers to the north. light showers will to the north.t is where most of the showers will take place through the day to day. moderate rain north of napa, otherwise the rest of the area is in for a cloudy, gray, cold day. the shares will break up by your drive at 5:00 p.m.. here is where temperatures are right now. low-mid-50s for most of the bay area. 54 and san francisco, 55 in oakland. 52 in san jose. this afternoon we will warm into the 60s. hollow-mid-60's for most of the bay. the rains today are only in advance of a larger system that will come through tomorrow. there, you can see it spin it off of the oregon coast. and the next 24-48 hours will have a chance of thunderstorms for tomorrow. we're looking for possible hail, lightning, gusty winds, the whole mixture for wednesday. that will last throughout the day on wednesday. we get a brief break on thursday, but another system on friday with more intense rain. maybe an inch of total accumulation on that. 6:51 a.m., let's check traffic. >> is pretty smooth commute. we have not have to

rain in the north bay about down to sfo maybe. sfo, oakland, vallejo, benicia north. that's the way it's looking right now. might make it a little further south but the further south the less rain influence, that will be tomorrow. sunny breezy today. patchy fog. slight warm up. not much. when fairfield's only 73 what's that tell you? 72 santa rosa. 64 berkeley. 68 san rafael hayward 67. 70s low 70s pleasanton, livermore, morgan hill. redwood city at 67. it's not very warm for many. cloudy skies move in. rain, clearing but very cool and breezy thursday. slight warm up friday but then another very cool system digs in for another cool down on the weekend. >>> all right, steve. time now 5:10. a new development in that explosive sex scandal that involves a powerful man, a hotel maid and some just released test results. >>> here at home plans to cut hundreds of bay area jobs. why the news could have been a lot worse. >>> good morning. westbound interstate 80 traffic looks pretty good heading out to the macarthur maze, oakland and san francisco. we'll tell you more straight

low clouds will conquer towards the north bay.very low 70s. >>> good news this morning for anyone heading to the sierra for the holiday weekend. several inches of snow fell during yesterday's spring storm. it doesn't look like heading into memorial day weekend, but we did check with cal trans this morning there are no road closures or problems to report. so you can get up there. snow in may isn't the only wild weather being seen across the country though. in about ten minutes we're going to go live to missouri for an update on the tornadoes that have been touching down all week in the midwest. >>> arnold schwarzenegger's double life could have some legal consequences. radar online reports that the california attorney general will conduct an investigation into accusations that the former governor used taxpayer funds to cover up alleged sexual liaisons. the claim is that schwarzenegger used state cars and chp officers to drive women to and from a sacramento hotel where he often stayed. the attorney general's office is not commenting

north and east of the bay area.sibility of showers, it'll be windy for everybody, especially on saturday. right now we're dealing with mostly cloudy skies. a lot of low clouds coming in, rain to the north. also up to northwestern california. northern sacramento valley. the mountains will get very windy, maybe isolated snow showers. yes, on saturday. for us, we're, we're getting low clouds. so 50s for temperatures, low to mid- santa rosa 57. hayward, that's the warmest. 53, 54. covering, everything just driving in. you can see it from the northwest. areas of low pressure, you can start to see it, it bends the cloud deck right there. that has to move over. out here, out yonder, that's the pressure that should build in sunday. it'll give us sunshine and wind. clouds, sun, breezy today. light showers, drizzle to the north. staying cool. okay to stay cool though, nothing wrong with that. 60s, upper 60s and low 70s. well below average for inland areas. mountain view, 67. fremont, 66. livermore, 67. low 70s, morgan hill an

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where did you go besides north carolina? >> i would to north africa, to various places in the middle east. then i talked with a number of european intelligence services, especially about his time in bosnia, with french intelligence and british intelligence and the german equivalent of the fbi. >> what do you think is new in this book? we already established that the north carolina thing was so much -- >> your had criminal record in the united states. his experience in college. that is new. he played an active role and worked for iran in bosnia carrying out attacks is new. >> how was he on that? -- how old would he have been then? >> that was in 1983 and 1984. that is new. his time at guantanamo, i think that has gotten a lot of attention. >> how did you get that? >> talking with a number of current and former navy and cia personnel who had direct access. >> how classified is his time there? >> fairly classified. one of the great frustrations -- it is like writing the biography of a dead person in that i could not talk to him

north 101 and todd road. the left lane is blocked from a major injury accident that happened over an hour ago. an hour-and-a-half now. check out the drive times, both northbound and southbound. they're close. i tells you that maybe a minute delay in northbound direction because of the injury accident. but southbound still looks good out of santa rosa. highway 37. novato. 27 minutes. a heads up, no service once again on the alameda harbor bay ferry. due to the damaged dock. again, they had hoped to reopen everything today but that's not the case. keep you posted on that. we'll take you outside quickly and show you a live shot of golden gate bridge. the traffic is light here. there hay be lane closure on lombard at pierce coming off the bridge due to earlier fatal pedestrian accident. get the latest traffic information anytime. go to abc7news.com. eric? >> frances, thanks a lot. >>> 4:54. there are reports this morning that a source close to home linked the information that led to stories about arnold schwarzen

but this system could drop into the north bay this evening. we cannot rule out the possibility of showers continuing in the north bay and later into the hours. current conditions, a lot cooler out there as expected with the storm pushing through, the '50s and the low 60s, it is 67 in los gatos. 67 and 63 in napa. we still see the wind speeds into the teens livermore has 21 hours per hour winds. as we head into the evening, a slight chance of north bay showers clearing skies. a few clouds will remain, but temperature is will be five to 10 degrees warmer. we have cooler weather on tap, and a possibility of rain as it headed to the weekend. details coming up and a little bit. >> the report card about california beaches came today. it gives a letter grade to more than 444 of the beaches across the state. the majority of them get a grade eight or eight great be, there were some exceptions,--grade a ore grade b but there were some exceptions, this one was ranked the eighth dirty is to shore and the entire state, the most polluted beach was calo and

says a quarter of north korea's 25 million people face daily starvation.e country's orphans are said to be the most at risk. but one north korean man living in los angeles has made it his life's mission to help those victims. jim axelrod has more. >> but there will be other medications given in addition to these. >> reporter: 66 years old, battling bone marrow cancer for the last eight years. sang man han lives with a certain urgency. >> i am fighting with my terminal cancer. my days are short. >> reporter: sangs was a north korean orphan when a professor from minnesota adopted him in 1950. he would thrive here. building a multimillion dollar chemical company. >> what is your hope? what is your goal? >> well, my goal is to save and care of the world's most suffering and vulnerable children. >> reporter: so two years ago sang sold his business, his home, nearly everything he owned and spent some of the money starting a nonprofit foundation which gets food, medicine and clothes to north korean orphannages. he runs the organization out of a bedroom in his dau

no problems in the north bay.hen you want by going to our website at abc7news.com. >> kristen: california may be getting hundreds of millions of dollars in high speed rail fund that go florida's governor has rejected. they report the u.s. department of transportation have privately notified california officials they will get at least $213 million of the $2.4 billion that had been earmarked for florida high speed rail. an official announcement is expected this week how the money will be divided. california still needs $15 billion to build a line between san francisco and los angeles. >>> two citizen groups plan to file an appeal over an expansion of the oakland zoo. city approved a master plan covering the zoo's next 20 years but the zoo amended plan. last week oakland's plan of making 54 acres of park land. expansion opponents say it would destroy the popular park. >>> recapping top stories, an american airlines passenger is sitting in the san mateo county jail accused of pounding on the cockpit door of a plane as

upper 60s to low 70s through the north bay valleys. we should see sunshine, windy conditions at your beaches and upper 50s. we'll hit the mid-to-upper 60s along the east bay shore with the breezy conditions. it will also have breezes through east bay valley. dublin and pleasanton in the upper 60s. everybody else in low 70s. clouds around monterey and carmel. upper 60s for santa cruz, watsonville. mid-60 for salinas. inland, upper 60 to near 70 degrees. temperatures tonight should hover in mid-to-upper 40s in north bay valley. cooler this morning because the winds will be less. winds keep the atmosphere overturned. don't let the warm air rise at night. cold air coming in below to replace it. we'll be around the upper 40s to low 50s for bay. which is cooler than this morning. a look at the area of low pressure. high pressure out to the west. the pressure gradient between the two. the difference, that is what is creating the winds right now. that moves off to the east tonight. and the sun sets. everything should calm for tuesday. then we'

temperatures with a north wind i was looking mt. diablo strongest gusts out of the north at 58 miles per hour. up around 3,000 feet a little breezy in some of the hills, probably east bay, east bay hills taking it. and also out towards fairfield and vacaville look at that. 49 napa. 49 san raphael. santa rosa 45. but with a north wind fairfield is a balmy 68 degrees. 56 san jose and mountain view. then low 50s to mid-50s. so temperatures warming up there as the northwest ten that's at fairfield northwest 12 out towards vacaville and a north wind in the valley. but so far only a little puff in the northwest at santa rosa and then it's calm. san francisco and san jose. high pressure moving in rapidly behind that low which came in yesterday. you can see the ridge right there. that's right. get on my toes. that's going to give us a high pressure system not only aloft but also on the surface. it looks like by tomorrow this moves through. and then by friday we start to see a cooler pattern. then a much cooler pattern by the weekend. temper

where to go besides north carolina? nor >> carolina is very interesting but i went to north africa and places in the middle east. i talked to a number of european intelligence services especially for the chapter in bosnia. with british and french intelligence and the german equivalent of the fbi. >> what do you think is new in this book? >> the idea that he had a criminal record in the united states and experiences in college is new. the fact that he played an active role and worked essentially for iran in bosnia to carry out attacks is new. >> held would have been than? >> that was 1993-1994. that is new. this time at guantanamo has got a lot of attention. >> how did you get that? >> i was talking to a number of current and former navy and cia personnel who had direct access. >> how classified is his time there? >> fairly classified, one of the great frustrations. this is like writing a biography of a dead person. i could not talk to him. the u.s. government did not allow any interviews. with him or other relatives. in