also there will be a change from 242 over to 880 on highway 4 in toward pinole. there is going to be striping work so starting at 9:00 you might see slowing between about 680 and martinez over to basically the pinole area. i'll let you know if i find any slowing but so far not a big deal. the rest of the east bay looking good. the striping is not going on now. the construction was at oakland. we saw the slowdown earlier as they moved the the crews. the northbound side with the taillights just cleared. it's got the southbound side over on the left. one light. there was earlier a couple of vehicles there. i don't see what's going on now with the light but it's out of the lanes. i'll let folks know if there are additional distractions. >> one of the most notorious gangsters has been arrested in california. plus t secret internationally recognized journalist was living with in the bay area for years and the newest of foods that make you fat. faster than anything else. use it and it could save your life. looking at a live picture of the bay bridge. [ male announcer ]

in pinole that was set to close last week. school board just voted to keep shannon elementary school open for another year. the decision to close the school was made two years ago but then the board decided to reverse it. the "contra costa times" says there were concerns about the costs of moving students to other campuses and adding portable classrooms to those schools. >>> so how do you spell pressure? a south bay spelling star gets a chance at a national title. we'll tell you how she did. >>> the surprising item from the unabomber getting the most bids. coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, we spend a lot of time together. well mainly in traffic. i'm serious. we've been together, what, a super long time. true. and at first it was all business, you know, i'd take him here, i'd take him there. everywhere. and over the years, we've really bonded. sure. why else would you always buy me chevron with techron? 'cause we need gas. i think it's more than that. i think that you care about me. you're a good friend. best friends? um, uh, yes, best

. >>> a doomed elementary school in pinole will stay open for at least another year.he west contra costa school board just voted to keep shannon elementary school open. the decision to close the school was made two years ago and it was set to shut down after next week. but the board decided to reverse that decision. the "contra costa times" says there were concerns about the cost of moving students to other campuses and adding portable classrooms to other schools. >>> californians want to vote and they would likely vote no. that's what a new survey has found about governor jerry brown's proposal to extend temporary tax increases. the public policy institute of california survey found 62% of state voters approve of the governor's revised budget proposal that calls for a special election but only 46% support the tax plan he wants on the ballot and 48% are opposed. >>> wall street has another employment report to look at today. the weekly update on new jobless claims coming out in about 45 minutes. the market took dive yesterday after adp reported a sharp drop in job gro

. >>> a pinole elementary school set to close next week will stay open for at least another year. >> congratulations. good work. >> it was a packed house last night as the west contra costa school board voted unanimously to keep shannon elementary school open. the vote reverses a 2009 decision to close the school, but it is only temporary. the state trustee overseeing finances says she will not prevent the school to stay open past next june. >>> the pastor of a menlo park church is on leave this morning in the pay area's latest church sex scandal. thearm die cease released the father after learning he struggles with a sexual addiction. some 200 angry parishoner gathered last night to demand answers about their pastor. they were particularly upset over the revelation that fathermiers recently followed a teenage boy into a department store dressing room. >> you have little kids here. kindergarten through eighth grade. can't have somebody struggling with their sexual identity. what's that mean? >> bishop william justice told the crowd there is no evidence the priest did anything inappro

so there's hercules and pinole and oakland and pittsburg and a lot of cities around the bay don't have fireworks shows. but they are really trying to do it in vallejo. this is a hard knock town. they really think it would boost morale and if you can help at all, just go to gracie's barbecue in downtown vallejo. now where it is. it's got some of the best ribs i have had. give them the money if you can. fantastic. anyway, if you are a business owner there, you want to see vallejo get a leg up, do what you can. >> it isn't just vallejo. all these other cities have dropped their fireworks. a lot of people come from all around to see those. means a lot. >> reporter: yeah. >> can't have 4th of july without fireworks. >> reporter: 4th of july without fireworks? >> thanks, mike. we'll be right back. ,,,,,, i want to crush more cars. i want to sell more tea cups. ♪ i need help selling bread. ♪ i want to sell more crabs. [ male announcer ] you know where you want to take your business. i want to design more buildings. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you the

in 2009, parents protested the plan to close shannon elementary school in pinole.he board said saving the school -- close the board would save about $320,000 a year. but since then the board discovered it could cost about $1.2 million to set up portals at other schools to accommodate the other students. the board will look at other ways to reduce costs tonight. >>> one baseball fan will do about anything to catch a foul ball. take a look. this is last saturday's game in los angeles. you can see the man holding up his daughter to catch the ball. he dropped his daughter to catch the ball. he missed the ball. he quickly picked up his little girl. luckily, she was not hurt. >>> let's check in with sal. sal, you ever caught a foul ball? >> i haven't. but i don't think i would drop my daughter one. i don't know. different priorities. >>> good morning. let's take a look at the commute now. traffic is moving along on 280, it's a little slow. all of a sudden, the slowdown appeared getting up to highway 17. you know, more and more people are going to work. we don't have any

everywhere you look as we look at the east shore freeway it is a nice drive coming in from vallejo and pinole when you get toes toll plaza it is light. there is always a chance something could happen. that is why we are looking at it here. there are no problems on 280 northbound. it's a 5:08 let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sir. we do have fog closer to the coast. yesterday we were fog free. it was just sitting out there. it's there now. it's very shallow. it went make it close to -- still doesn't take another day. although the city came in at 79. that was officially. i did see some 80s south of market u north mission, financial district they were warmer than the official high of 79. cooling trend starts today. actually it started yesterday for some by the coast. and then after that everyone else was hot. 60s for many right now. 52 santa rosa. 52 that is a little cool. upper 50s for some. i think yesterday we had one but now there is a bunch. however west, southwest at fairfield. vacaville east will be hot and cooler toward firefield. our observer knows a little bit about win as well. that i

. >>> a last minute reprieve for a pinole elementary school said set to closed. they voted last night to keep shannon elementary open this fall. district officials have said even though they discovered it would cost more to close the school and reassign students, they couldn't reverse the decision made two years ago because the district is under state control. state could reverse the decision again. the board expects the discussions to continue. >> public safety may be taking an even bigger hit than expected in san jose. there is word that budget talks have completely broken down between the san jose city council and the police officer's union and forcing the prospect of more layoffs anticipated at a time whether homicides are on the rise. amy hollyfield joins us live from city hall. >> this could mean 278 police officers will be laid off. it is a tough time to be doing this in san jose. city has had 22 murders so far this year compare that to 20 in all of last year. but the city has a budget deficit to address. city was hoping to reach a deal with the police uni

i think if you live in pinole you're in a pretty good mood. let's go to steve. >>> thank you.do have mostly cloudy skies. one system moves out. another one dropping down. it's not nearly as strong. what could be compared to what we had on saturday. this system keeps us from warming up and keeps a lot of cloud cover in the forecast. we will continue to have a cool pattern here over the next couple of days. forecast does call for mostly cloudy skies. kind of muggy. there is a lot of moisture in the air. if you can get any sun to get through the clouds it feels muggy. a few light showers. some rain is possible. partly to mostly cloudy. a dry pattern as we go to the extended but only somewhat warmer. not a lot warmer. one system right there beginning to move out. but there is another one dropping down. look at all the low cloud cover just hugging the coast. we have a lot to deal with. one system has moved up in the sierra. it's producing a mix of rain and snow. and then another system dropping down right there. this one should stay to the north. but i will show it to you on live s

and from the pride festival to pride in your car, classic cars in old town pinole. the 20th cruising in the sun classic car show is from 8:00 through 5:00 today. if you're looking for anemic imports, sorry folks, entrants are only all american made and from 1975 or older. that's real steel. look at these beauties from past shows and get there early. you can catch breakfast at the senior center, there's a play ground for the kids and live music for auchlt the show is free and hosted by the northern california cruiser classic club. of course the alit rags association i'm sure meets close thereafter. >>> and from showing off your ride to riding while you show it off, the palo alto concourse has opened up. beautiful sand hills on the peninsula. this hallmark charity event features signature vintage and collectible cars like you're seeing here. collectible, really? oh, my goodness, a collection means you have more than one probably, so that's great. i can't even afford one. for 25 bucks i can just pretend. just to paraphrase that license plate holder, my other car is a m

no major problems if you are driving vallejo, pinole, richmond that traffic looks okay so far. off to a nice start. this morning's drive live pictures i want to show you the bay bridge toll plaza metering lights switched on a few moments ago and traffic is getting a little bit slow waiting at the toll plaza. also 237 off to a nice start crossing the valley. here's a man who's never obnoxious. it's steve paulson. >>> thank you, sal. >> you're welcome. >> mostly cloudy skies. up near mendocino and sonoma border. still some sun breaks today. a lot of cloud cover though. good build ups today. the low is right over us. the front up in the sierra nevada producing rain there. you can see that wrap around still producing rain at fort brag couple of our observers up there say what the heck is going on. american canyon last 24 hours 1.2. that's a lot of rain for any time of the year especially the end of june. petaluma almost an inch. castro valley in there. livermore .78. palo alto kentfield half inch. right there little system coming into northern part of sonoma county 53 to 56 on the

we are getting some reports of a traffic hazard blocking one of the onramps of interstate 80 near pinoleat straight ahead. ints? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. gives you more ways to earn points. >>> well, good morning to you. welcome back. this is the ktvu channel 2 morning news monday june 13th. i'm dave clark. >>> good morning. i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. it's now 5:30. let's check in with steve paulson for a look at the weather. >>> hello, pam and dave. we have some low clouds not making a strong surge like it did over the weekend. temperatures warm up away from the coast. low to mid-80s for some. antioch 86. 84 fairfield. 80s for even santa rosa, napa, concord, livermore, 60s and 70s some of that fog not going anywhere. it will still hang out by the coast. >>> this just came in about ten minutes ago. eastbound 80 chp reporting a dee

vallejo, pinole, richmond. let's go to steve. >>> we have our system moving in.t's produced higher clouds, fog, especially north bay. this will be a cloudy to mostly cloudy day. rain could start later on and by tonight san mateo, santa cruz coastline, this looks like a saturday morning rainer for the coast and the bay. if you don't want any rain, keep going east because there will be lesser amounts east. looks like saturday morning things start this get really dicey, maybe moderate rain. as the system progresses towards the east, not much will happen east of sacramento. in fact, maybe not much at all until sunday night when the low moves in. not only the front, it will move away from the energy front. then the low doesn't start moving until this gets bumped along, sunday afternoon, into monday. a lot of cloud cover for this time of the year. there's a lot of moisture embedded in that. some of the rain should start on the north coast. very thin stretched out areas but i doubt that will reach the ground. it will take until later on today before that juices up a lit

and it is pretty much jammed from at least pinole valley road and growing.ulance on scene. westbound 80 now a half hour drive from the carquinez bridge to the maze. once you reach the toll plaza, even though the metering lights are on, not much of a backup at all heading into san francisco. that is your traffic. for your weather forecast, here's lawrence. >> elizabeth, lots of sunshine coming our way today. got to wait for it a little bi breaking in in san jose and dublin. clouds in the skies and looks like that will turn to mostly sunny skies as we head toward the afternoon. temperatures warming up nicely, 70s inland, 70s inside the bay. 60s inland. next couple of days even warmer. ,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back to "the early show." half past the hour. on average americans eat nearly 16 pounds of fish a year, getting the message that fish is good for us, eating more of it. here is the problem, do you know what you're eating? fish fraud. it's out there. >> you might be a victim and don't know it. a new report says many switch out expensive fillets with cheaper fi

down the east shore, jammed through berkeley, all the way out of pinole and coming off the carquinezdent has cleared, though. >> thank you. for the latest check out nbc morning news on facebook. >>> 8:00 now >>> 8:00 now on thursday morning, june 16, 2011. we have a happy crowd outside, packed into rockefeller plaza. and as they come back tomorrow morning, they will be treated to a live summer concert from one of the biggest stars in country music. we are talking about kenny chesney. >>> with a great hat. i'm ann curry along with matt lauer. al is in birmingham, alabama, on day four of his lend a hand "today." we'll get the big reveal. you have been doing a great job, al. we're really, really proud of you. >> this morning he's giving out a trillion dollars. a trillion dollars in goods to a great charity. we'll check in with al. we have another huge star in the studio right now. take a look in there. we have jim carrey taking photos, having fun. he's also starring in a brand new movie called "mr. popper's penguins." you're going to talk to him in a couple minutes. >> i might need you