patterson brought up the past action it's mr. macy's only building in my brief only one complaint and with loud construction noise. this came to be and again, i find it hard to believe that mr. patterson was going to withdraw the appeal because of the olympic threat earlier this year by ms. ledbetter and suddenly we got the word that they received complaints and itself dbi received complaints and it's been closed as a car ambulance he has contracts with triple a and so forth. with that said i'm at a loss to understand what the neighborhood p are concerned about no complaints to the city or many macy's or made to the tenant that there was somehow hard effects from the spray booth additional now the spray booth is unknown operational and complaints when no activity going on only basically for parker that's for tow damaged cars arrest then the fire sprinkler permit is appealed. it's hard to imagine that if, in fact, the concern the repair the operation you'll royal one of the key permits to assure the safety the sprinkler had been o

and at the age of 36, lisa patterson was gone. how could any of the friends and family adjust to vibrant lisa with that beaming smile being just a memory now. >> she's always in good spirits. she was always smiling. >> she was just an amazing woman through and through. >> dillen had been up early that morning off to the job site where he was helping his step dad and his crew. it had been the quickest of good byes to his mom. >> my last words to her was i love you, and she said the same thing back. >> and now suddenly they were all gathering at the hospital. dillen got the news from his dad. >> i just lost it. the one person i depended on my whole life was gone. >> lisa's mom, lucy rich, was taken in to see her daughter's body. >> i just walked around her body and kept, i couldn't believe she was gone. >> lisa's best friend from the mall, leah frazier was likewise enormously saddened. >> i've lost probably my best friend, somebody who made me a better person. someone who was good. >> because lisa had been in her prime and in sound

is about to find out. >> anthony patterson has been placed in seg for rule violation number 38. go back there and have a talk with him and see what's going on and what happened and what led to this incident. >> patterson is asked to explain his behavior to the officers and our producer. the object of his alleged indiscretion. >> what happened? >> dude, somehow weed in my pocket, joint in my pocket. did you ever see me masturbate? >> i didn't see anything. >> it's not what she saw. >> so basically accused me of rule 38. that's indecent exposure. if that was indecent exposure, that means you saw me. >> no. that means he saw it. >> he didn't see it. he saw it. >> he locked me up. >> you had your penis out indecently exposed. come on, man, you've been in prison too long. now, take him on up there. all right. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay." >> all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. >> for inmate anthony patterson, the nightmare of ad seg is just beginning. >> they have me in this cell. it's so hot in here, right. i don't know how long i'm going to be in here. >>> plus -- >> my

patterson. clearly, fps does not have enough federal law enforcement not to to respond to all federal buildings in a timely manner. you have to rely on contract cards is your first line of defense yet united in your your testimony the authority of contract first use deadly force comes from state and local laws in most cases do not have the authority to first two subjects. in order to address the threat posed by active shooters, would it be helpful for fps to have the authority to delegate some federal law person authorities to contract cards into other agencies had disability? and how does the work of most cases? >> yes, sir. if you look at tsa, that is a federalized force. if you look at the u.s. marshals service, they have the authority to deputized which gives them extensive power to direct their workforce in just about any direction that they want. .. to see if they could help a response and what we found was we would have had to to go through the state of new york approval process which too

mr.q for your testimony, patterson. i will begin the first round of questions, limited to five minutes for each member. if there are additional questions after the first round, we will have additional rounds of questions as needed. the federal protection service is directly responsible for protecting federal buildings and the one point 4 million workers and visitors to those facilities. the public buildings act, prompted by this committee, gave fps law enforcement authorities for that very purpose. to protect buildings and the people in them. yet, after moving from gsa to 2003, there has been report after report detailing security insufficiencies at federal facilities. given the importance of this mission, one would expect the department of homeland security to make federal to link security a top priority. yet these problems continue. -- federal building security a top priority. yet these problems continue. we received a memo from the dhs chief security officer to the dhs under security for management that removes the f

patterson? you may proceed. >> thank you, chairman. ranking member, distinguished members of the committee, i am the director of the federal protective service within the national protection program service and homeland security. testifying before the committee today regarding the operations of the service, we are charged with protecting and delivering integrated law-enforcement security services to 9000 facilities owned or leased by the general services administration. employ over 1000 sworn officers to provide uniformed lease response at fps protected facilities and participate in tactical andcises with personnel conduct facility security assessment nationwide. utilizing the modified infrastructure surveys, inspectors document existing postures of the facility, compare how the facility is or is not meeting the a sign of protection for its silly the security level, providing recommendations for security appropriateith countermeasures to mitigate risks. this process was designed to meet the requ

patterson ask i consultation the second swearing in. >> you can do that. anyone else >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> so with the communicating in the room we'll begin with the appellant. you have 7 minutes >> thank you commissioner president lazarus and commissioners ryan patterson for the neighbors of the green street garage. this is one of most interesting appeals but i represent a group of 25 neighbors that live around the green street garbage that's an automobile body garage only for parking. it's for a new water system and heat detect our we suspect something is being done the plans for example, don't show the spray boothd that's been heat by neighborhood we actually decided to withdraw the appeal no since fighting over nothing about the appellant attorney said this permit is used to entitle the spraying. i was national fy naturally shocked the permit holder cancelled the meeting. on a

patterson >> i'll try to address the points briefly. think the most important issue is this present sprinkling monitoring system you can't install a system to monitor something that's not been installed the other two systems are prerequisite >> in terms of my conversation with the opposing counselor i didn't say we're going immediately where are you going the appeal she said this was being used to permit the spray booth that's shocking at that time, we ranged a meeting and they cancelled the meeting the day before. the litigation issues there's issues associated with this we don't meet to bring up but suffice is it important to the neighborhood our goal is simply sure those systems are up to code and permitted there is a fire issue so we want to make sure the systems are okay. >> commissioners quickly i have to agree with mr. duffey this is like a housekeeping issue there was a permit for the sprinkler system in the 4 and the appellant filed a request for the spray booth that was never implemented and the sprinkler system was not comple

. >> patterson was sentenced at the time when the penalties for possession of coke was harder than thatof powdered cocaine. prosecutor thomas backadal notes, federal prosecutors have discretion when it comes to implementing mandatory minimum sentences. >> we are not going to fill these prison beds, by people who are convicted of robbing and shooting, than the hypothetical soccer mom. we have the discretion to wave off minimum mandatories. >> most of the mandatory minimum sentences should be dispensed with says the prosecutor. >> because the prosecutor has discretion, black people are convicted far more than white people. >> no exception was made for inmates such as patterson. for 19 years he kept fighting to reduce his prison term. last december, president obama commuted his sentence. >> the emotions overtook me and the tears started coming and i thought wow all i can think about is my family. >> patterson went to prison a troubled young father, with no future. he has come out a middle aged grandfather with a hope of seizing a second chance in life. it's the chance thousands are still w

at patterson elementary school and the protest is because he says a teacher slapped his son. this is the teacher, cleared to return to the classroom this morning. this is how it went down. the nine-year-old student says the teacher slapped him twice because he didn't know the answer to a math problem and the teacher claims he patted the boy but did not slap him. >> my son showed me he was slapped in the face and i asked a kid the same day in his class, what happened in class today and he went, he planned joey in the face like that. it is not a pat. my son is not going to cry for nothing. >> the school is moving his son to another classroom and we reached out to fremont police and they say this is still an active investigation. in fremont for abc7 news. >>> police in oakley detain a man in connection with a homicide investigation, after being called to a home yesterday afternoon before 4:00, and they got there the officers found the victim on the ground. officers and paramedics tried to revive the man but he died at the scene. a man is detabled in connection with the case but

. >> reporter: allegations that sparked a protest outside patterson elementary school in fremont this morning. claims that on april 28th, a third grade teacher slapped 9-year-old julian rivera after the student asked a question about a math test. >> i think it was more slaps in the face, from what everybody else says in the class. but they're trying to make it go away and let this teacher come back and move my son out of a school that he's been a part of and that i went to and my mom went to. >> reporter: julian's father joe organized the protest outside patterson after hearing that the teacher would be coming back to school today. that didn't happen. the fremont unified school district said he is on extended administrative leave as police investigate the incident. the riveras now have an attorney. we went to the home of the teacher in question to see if we could get his side of the story. he did not answer his door or our phone calls. >>> a nbc bay area follow-up, the pilot of a vintage plane told investigators he was passing a cessna over the golden gate bridge when he realized he h

so patterson is a land driller. so the u.s.y renaissance, where there's a tremendous amount of gas and oil that is being drilled in the u.s. due to new technology is a secular trend that is going to change the energy dependence on the rest of the world. now, part of that is the ability to actually get at that energy that's in the ground. so right now, the united states has essentially two choices -- offshore and onshore. you have a high persistent oil price, so it makes sense to drill for more. and offshore has become prohibitively expensive. so there is a phenomenon going on where there's a tremendous need for onshore rigs, and onshore rigs of the newer technology are at virtually 100% utilization. and patterson is a leading player in this space. we think that they have a lot of room to run, and we expect 30%, 40% upside. >> thank you so much for spending time with us. great to see you on the "halftime" show. >> great, thank you. >> enjoy the conference. jacob gottlieb. be well. see you soon. >>> coming up, we'll check with la

. >> parents were out in front of patterson elementary school over the expected return of the teacher. nick smith has the story. >> family friends and parents of julian riviera swarmed patterson elementary school in response to the 9-year-old allegedly being slapped in the face, who he claims slapped him. >> he went like this. grabbed my face like this. and slapped me two times in the face >> we don't grab their face or hit him in the face. i'm not going to let some man do that to my son. >> an investigation was launched and he was placed on leave. officials told us berg admitted to touching the child but not slapping him. >> he described it as a tap to the face. >> berg had been cleared of charges and set to return today until school officials gt a call from investigators telling administrators to have the teacher stay home. >> police have contacted us and they are going to reopen the case. >> officials won't say what new information prompted police to reopen the case. those gathered here today asking the teacher not be readmitted to the school saw this as a victory. >> this is unacc

. >>> ricky patterson was 25 when sentenced to life in prison for a crime with no violence or victim. >> to know people did worser crimes than me, got lesser time than me was hurtful. >> his crime, possession of several ounces of crack found in a car during a traffic stop. that and two other convictions meant that he would spend the rest of his life behind bars. as the father of two faced the possibility of dying in prison, he did the only thing he could think of. he prayed. >> i'm tired of living like this. i know life has something better for me. i'm a better person than how i'm living. >> patterson was sentenced at a time when the sentence for crack was greater than for coke cape. last year they were in prisons serving mandatory minimum sentences. 543 served terms of 10 years. florida is among many states, and the federal system, giving prosecutors decorrects when it comes o -- discretion when it comes to implementing sentences. >> we will not fulfil the prisons filling them with a soccer mum with two or three pills over her prescription. we have the discretion to wave off minimum

but recognition of the latino neighborhood is important we've fought for the patterson's bookstore and cafe to remain in the business and are saddened by the workshop because of rising rents. the latino based organizations on 24th street to serve the needs of the neighborhood and promote culture those organizations include the mission education centers and mission culture center for the latino arts and the center and the culture association and theatre among others. viciously the latino district is zinc because of it's murals on the walls of the neighborhood it has the highest concentration of the murals it was started in 1972 by the changing a chiu can and this focuses on the conflicts in central america anger over human rights violations and being a native i understand the importance of that central america has played in this community. the latino multiply events in the neighborhood that have the community in mind throughout the calendar year within the latino district businesses and residents and arts organizations and long established nonprofit agrees collaborative to organize the

reporter: as parents protest, police are investigating, looking into charges that on april 28, a patterson elementary schoolteacher slapped 9-year-old julian rivera in class after the student got a math problem wrong. >> i haven't been to work in two weeks because he wants to make sure i'm home, because live right across the street, and he can call me if something happens. he's terrified if the teacher comes back. >> reporter: but the teacher in question isn't coming back yet. the district says he's on administrative leave as police investigate the claims. >> shocking for a teacher to put their hands on a student. you never would expect something like that. you know, you send your kids to school in hopes that they're in a safe environment. >> reporter: off camera, parents at patterson told us they're surprised by the charges. that the teacher is well liked. but julian and his father say they're still shaken by what they claim happened in the classroom. >> i think it was more slaps in the face from what everybody else says in the class. but they're just trying to make it go away and let thi

. >> reporter: patterson was sentenced at a time when the penalties for crack was far greater than those for powder cocaine. florida is among many states as well as the federal system that give prosecutors discretion when it comes to instituting the mandatory sentences. >> we're not going to fill these prisons with hypothetical soccer mom who had two or three pills over her precipitatio prescript. we have the discretion to wave off minimum mandatory. >> reporter: a former public defender said that most of the mandatory minimum sentences should be dispensed with. >> because the prosecutor has that much discretion it's not applied uniformly. another thing black people are affected far more than white people. >> reporter: congress eased the disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses in 2010 but no exception was made for inmates like patterson. for 19 the years he fought his sentence. last year president obama commuted his sentence. >> all i could think about was his family. >> reporter: he went to prison a troubled young father with no future. he has come out a middle aged grandfat

. >> fred burg of patterson elementary has been on leave since april 28th. the boy's father claims the teacher slapped the boy because he put a december city mill sign where it should not have been. >>> we are following a new development involving chris culliver. brian flores is covering the story for us in the newsroom. >> reporter: culliver a defensive player on the field is now on the legal defense off the field. not only facing those hit and run criminal charges but now more trouble faces the 49ers player and character. a family has filed a civil lawsuit claiming culliver threatened them after he followed them from the crash scene. mark santos says he took photos of the confrontation in san jose. santos says his white mustang sideswiped his family black suv after culliver hit the cyclist. he used his suv to block culliver's car in a dead end street. santos' attorney says they talk about high profile athletes should be in a higher standard. >> i think the nfl needs to take a hard look at the personalities of their players and the people that are associate

patterson. >> so as commissioner fung has stated i'm troubled with the fact you don't have a brief yetur professionals were able to do their homework. >> yes. we had decided to withdraw the appeal looking at this particular permit being a fire safety permit we don't have that problem but it was entitled for the spray booth. >> yet our professionals have oounl done the homework but you're not able to have a brief because it leafs one party at a huge disadvantage. >> we started to dig through the records how to intiefl a spray booth. >> so basically, they had time to go their briefing but you are company didn't have time. >> our briefing would have been duplicate if we went through with the appeal at this point we got the true process of the permit. >> that be it. thank you very much >> mr. sanchez and mr. duffey anything further. >> thank you scott sanchez i'll brief provide context bp about the photos of the booth at the end of the brief on the overhead we have a day have the overhead please. all right. so this is the entire of the booth it shows the sprinklers and the side windows not

they were outside patterson elementary school in fremont.who represents the family of julienne rivera says the teacher slapped the 9-year-old boy for incorrectly answering a math question last week. school officials say the teacher admits to tapping the boy's face but refutes the slap. the fremont unified school district says he will remain on administrative leave while police investigate. >>> a uc berkeley football player is suspended from the team and now accused of assault. police say damariay drew attacked a man during -- on the cal campus on tuesday. he allegedly got into an argument with the victim and then started punching the victim in the face, kicking his dog. his bail has been set at $100,000. he's due back in court on monday. >>> coming up this morning on "today in the bay," he admitted that he was gay and announced it to the world. some wonder if that honesty cost this college football player a chance to fulfill his nfl dreams. we have all the day's news coming up for you at 7:00. more local news in 30 minutes. it's saturday, ma

that is when julian a third grader at patterson elementary says he handed in a math test to his teacher. that teacher in return that teacher identified as fred burke told julian that one of his questions was wrong. a december mill point had been misplaced. julian said what happened next? had him in tears. >> he grabbed me like this and slapped me two times in my face. >> reporter: julian's father says that teacher denied slapping the student and described it as a pat on the face. the district says burke did apologize for his actions and despite objections from julian's father they say they have no reservations about this teacher returning to work. but julian's father is planning to protest that decision. he says his son will not be returning to school in the meantime. coming up the legal actions this boy's family may take in response to what happened. live in fremont alex savidge ktvu channel 2 news. >>> california law does not allow teachers to physically discipline students but laws in more than a dozen other states do allow corporal punishment. a bill to ban the punishment was introd

all i could think about was my family. >> patterson went to prison a troubled father with no future, coming out a middle aged grand father with the hope of seizes a second chance of life. one that many others are waiting for. >>> al jazeera america's new show "the system" explores these issues. >> it's crazy, no matter what's if you fire a gun, 20 years dash doesn't matter why. >> in 2009 this man was convicted of aggravated assault for a firearm in the state of victoria. >> i firmly believe had i not done what i did that day, my daughter would be dead. >> now, this week in the episode of "the system", you can watch the episode sunday at 9:00 pm eastern, 6 pacific. >> a surprising development in effort to get the l.a. clippers owner out of the n.b.a. donald sterling announced he is giving his wife permission to sell the team. the 82-year-old billionaire has the reputation for standing his ground. not this time. the league has to approve a deal. he has been banned for life after racist comments went viral. >>> next, a war of words. reaction from the white house as vladimir putin blast

being investigated for allegedly slapping another student and the parents are outraged and we are at patterson elementary school. nick? >> the father has a student here and he says he is staging the protest because a teacher slapped his son. this is the teacher, frederick byrd. he is cleared to return. he grabbed the student's cheeks and slapped him because he did not know the answer to a problem. the administration thought it was best that he be back with the students this morning. >> they said that he served his punishment and it is best for everyone to come become to school and be in class. that is crazy. >> he says that the school is moving his son to another classroom and fremont police say they are still actively investigating the situation. >>> the richmond teach are accused of sexually abusing students is due in court today for a preliminary hearing. he faces more than two dozen charges including kidnapping and 11 counts of lewd acts on a child under 14. the prosecution says that he took 11 and 12-year-old boys from making waves academy on field trips overnight and me lived them. six v

. >>> parents and students demonstrated outside patterson elementary calling for fred bird to be fired. he was suspended after a 9-year- old said he grabbed his face and slapped him. the police investigation is active so it decided to keep berg on leave. the boy said he made a mistake on a math problem. the teacher has refused to talk with them. >>> high end devised in a bold crime. the crash and grab that left a big clean up in berkeley. >>> a new teachers contract prompts protest. a nearly -- theory teachers may be unfairly fired. >>> will the winds stick around. the temperature change for mother's day and neighborhoods flirts with run 100-degrees. dog: oh, boy! mattress discounters oh, boy! mattress discounters memorial day sale. what's this? a queen size sealy gel memory foam mattress for just $497? mattress discounters has the largest selection of memory foam mattresses under one "roof." comforpedic, icomfort, optimum, and, wow, four years interest-free financing on the entire tempur-pedic cloud collection? don't miss the memorial day sale. ♪ mattress discounters . >>> we know mor

it happened last week at patterson elementary school.t officials with the fremont school district says, they did a thorough investigation in the incident. and decided not to file any criminal charges against the teacher. the fremont police department says, it has closed the case for now. however, the boy's father has hired an attorney and plans on pressing charges. fire officials are investigating. what they're calling an act of arson. after a play ground in castro valley is torched. these are pictures of the damaged play area at marshall elementary school. officials say, the fire grew to be very intense. and spread quickly. the alameda county sheriff's office is now reviewing surveillance video from the school. in another big story.the cell phone kill switch legislation has passed the state senate. the bill requires anti-theft technology on all cell phones sold in california after july 2015. it would allow owners to remotely render their device inoperable if lost or stolen. the bill's author state senator mark leno tweaked the legislati

. >> it's not until emile age uploads his video and it goes viral that the victim jerry patterson comes forward to police. patterson explains his side of the freeway fight on the local news. >> i cut three guys off accidentally. i tell them i'm sorry, my bad. they got in front of me and stopped the car. and it just escalated from there. >> jerry never thought the fight would escalate to the point that it did. for him, the next day is business as usual. >> the next morning i was really dizzy and coordination was off. but i took some aspirin. i had to go to work, you know? >> the california highway patrol asks the public for their help identifying jerry's attackers. >> the video did help in the sense it was a clear image of all parties' faces. we got a plethora of calls coming in. that totally helped the department in obtaining those individuals. >> in response to the video, both men turn themselves in. and are charged with two counts of assault. they plead not guilty. numerous people have questioned why emile didn't do more to help defend the man who was clearly out numbered. >> my mind-

scott patterson covers financial market regulation for the wall street journal.e's also written two books about advanced computerized trading, "dark pools" and "the quants. scott, good to see you. ists on a flight that didn't have wi-fi when it happened. i landed and saw all of these emails, and there was a sense that it all came back, and it was okay. but in reality, "real money" got lost. somebody lost shares, and locked in their loss, and this is not a non-event. >> no, that is definitely one of the odd things about the flash crash. if you weren't paying attention to just a few minutes of trading that day, you could have mixed the whole thing, and that illustrates really how scary it was, because it happened so quickly and so many things broke down that it really showed that there are huge flaws at the heart of the united states stock market. >> walk me through that day, what happened? >> so it was 2010, and the markets were still really jittery and we were still coming out of the financial crisis, and at the time, the financial rice in greece was really heati

tonight patterson is just one of patrons who showed up only to learn it was closed. >> they told me it was illegal. >> i'm very upset to hear it is closed down. i don't think it is right. they need to put this back up. >> and the state bureau issued an advisory last year saying these kinds of cavffcafes are il but many remained open. they plan to release more information in the morning. the own every of the cafe couldn't be reached for comment. >>> we have new video of president obama rubbing elbows with some of hollywood's elite, he received an am bass adder of. he will be here tomorrow, at a private home, wife of google cofounder. and then he will speak at the walmart store in mountain view. this will be the president's 17th visit to the bay area. we will have coverage on air and online and we will stream his arrival live on nbcbayarea.com. >>> tonight the way ward mountain lion is back in the wild. last night he was in the middle of a apartment complex. a five-hour stand off with police ended peacefully. today he was released to open space in san mateo county. they tracked the lion

and our director of the art program susan and kate patterson and all the members of the team at the arts commission our developer who worked with bank of america and a tricky the number of our staff thank you for your hard work everyday and two commissioners rebecca and our vice president thank you for your work everyday and i wanted to take a moment to thank another mural i thought i forgot sorry give me one second. i wanted to note somebody we've lost who couldn't be here unfortunately, we lost ruth's sister an author on the coit tower but in here how were you we celebrate the incredible restoration (clapping) so with that, thank you very much for coming and trying to keep cool and we landmark to welcoming you inside. thank you very much (clapping.) before i introduce the next speaker i want to remind you that the firmer are hosting us in in front of the building i want everybody to go around the corner after we cut the ribbon it's interesting the murals you'll see the washgs families of san francisco the men and women who built the fabulous city so it's fitting we saved our best for t

ricky burch and amanda patterson, thank you both for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> as ricky said, such a helpless feeling in the crowd, as they watched the balloon burn. >> and as david said, the ntsb will be investigating this crash. >>> and the tragedy in virginia is just a reminder of while a trip in a hot air balloon is exhilarating and romantic. but it can also be dangerous. and linzie janis continuing our coverage this morning with that angle of the story. >> reporter: it's been called man's first form of flight and one of the safest. the french invented them in the late 1700s. pilots say they can even be landed if they run out of the fuel that heats the air. but when one hits power lines, the result is almost always tragic. hot air balloon rides are thrilling and beautiful. but not without risk. >> oh, no. >> reporter: last year, a san diego couple lifted off for their wedding. only to come crashing down through a fence and into a nearby neighborhood. >> i got a little worried when we hit the fence. and i thought, if the fen

nick is at patterson elementary school. >> good morning, the demonstrators were passionate but peaceful. fremont police kept a watchful eye. the teacher that the demonstrators are speaking out against was a no-show. family friends and parents of the boy swarmed the elementary school with the planned protest in response to the nine-year-old being slapped in the face bit teacher, frederick berg, who slapped him for not knowing the answer to a problem. >> grabbed my face like this, at my deck, and slapped me two times in the face. >> i will not let some man beat up my son. >> an investigation was launched and frederick berg was placed on leave the officials say that he admitted to touching the child in the face but not slapping him. >> he described it as a tap to the face. >> he was cleared of the charge and was set to return to the classroom today. until school officials go the a call from investigators saying the teacher needed to stay home. >> the police have contacted us. they are going to re-open the case. >> officials would not say what new information prompted police to re-open thei

the guardian, i will go on to the guardian now, christina patterson sees this same kind of event in aightly different light. thehe sidelines of all celebration, victory over intolerance, she says to beware because a lot of people -- some people were tweeting that this is nonsense. that it is just a bloke and we should get over this. that wasone tweet deleted. basically a sign of the guardian sees as dissent on the sidelines that we are perhaps ignoring. also kind of confusion in the european union in general. eurovision according to the guardian as being seen kind of like europe is in a lot of money is wasted, distant from the people who do not understand what it is, and at the same time much of the confusion can translate into anger. the guardian says that in two weeks that kind of be will might leadonfusion to a protest vote in the upcoming election, namely for the far right parties. >> something to keep an eye on. thank you so much, that look at what is happening in the papers today. time now for sports, including a look at the massive cities big win in the english are merely. >> c

so repairman bill patterson donates his time fixing cars.e was raised by a single mom. >> i know firsthand the challenges that they have raising kids on their own. >> reporter: his next appointment is the mother of 4-year-old landon, elizabeth. >> it's not a mom car. >> reporter: if a car is a lifeline, her '91 celica is on life support. she came here to get a tuneup. >> he gave her something else. >> this is your new car. >> really? >> yes. >> the bright blue 2001 ford was donated by another single mom. >> we're going to give you a safe car for you and your kid. >> are you serious? wow. >> reporter: thanks to such incredible again rose again royce fit. who are single are anything but alone. >> wow, thank you so much. can i give you a hug. >> reporter: joe fryer, nbc news, santa rosa, california. >> the kindness of strangers. >>> that's our broadcast for this memorial day. i'm cynthia mcfadden who will be back here tomorrow. for all of us at nbc news, good night.  >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> his whole life, i'm so proud of him. >

we also have some bad news for commuters, there's a head-on collision and they have shut down pattersonad at crossroad, this is the latest tweet from kcbs so close to greenville and cross westbound and eastbound patterson pass remains shut down. in the meantime we have seen a series of different accidents through the altamont pass, so it's delayed from tracy this morning. a new one just came in. most of them are around that north flynn exit. that's why the sensors are showing red in the area. the other two earlier problems have been cleared. first reports of a new one coming in. we still have wind advisories in effect for just about every bridge most of them anyway including the benicia and the carquinez bridge and this one for the bay bridge as well. that's your latest "kcbs traffic." lawrence has his hi-def doppler out. you know what that means. >> hi-def doppler radar picking up on rain outside. let's take you in for a closer look. you can see some of that into the south bay over the santa cruz mountains. reports of some showers in toward fremont. so this is very light and very widel