why does tré cool choose sjc? slipknot used to play pearl. now slipknot's playing sjc.i've gone on tour with bands, whether it's imagine dragons or slipknot or green day. whoever it is, we could parlay that, have the band come in for kids to meet the band. richard: so you could get green day to play in our store? mike: him and i are great friends. i've been to his wedding. he came to my wedding. richard: wow. that is very cool. well, you know what? it's very exciting because all these companies that are represented here are huge, multinational, corporate juggernauts, so it would be a pleasure for us to help somebody like yourself spread the word. -we'd love to do it. -mike: thank you so much. richard: not easy, but exciting. -you did good, kid. -mike: thanks. richard: you sold us some drums. mike: [ laughs ] lemonis: things at sjc seem to be better than they've been in a long time. the process is working, and the business has ramped up really nicely. on an annualized basis, we could do as much as $1.8 million, almost doubling the business. i'm now in the process of fina

your take something like sjc drums.hey make a drum, beautifully hand-crafted, great staff, but the place was in total chaos. so you're inefficient and you're priced below market. right. which means you have high cost and no margin. death spiral. the owner mike is second-to-none when it comes to marketing and hustling. but he doesn't know how to make drums and he's not the greatest with numbers, either. when i met him, he had essentially frozen out the two people who could help him most in those areas. there was his best friend chris, a guy as sharp as they come, but mike was ignoring his advice. our gross margins last year were about 20%. what should the margins be? chris? in my mind, they need to be like, 40%. in the pricing model that you put together, if mike would've stayed away from it, would it have been 40%? yes. lemonis: even worse, there was his brother scott. the real drum expert in the family, mike had essentially forced him out of the business shortly before i arrived. you were the artist. let's just call it

north 87 the sky port off ramp by sjc you see the runways on our map, there is an issue, a crash at the end of the ramp that may be an issue getting on to city streets, getting right by the airports. we will track that because we have a lot of vacation travelers this time of year. i will let you know if anything is blocked coming up. >>> happening today the man accused of plotting a christmas day terror attack at san francisco's pier 39 is due in court. it comes as we're heading into the new year's eve holiday weekend and police are beefing up security. >> "today in the bay's" pete suratos is live at pier 39 this morning and, pete, police are beefing up, they are taking preventions there to prevent an attack there and we are also expecting something is going on in court today. >> reporter: yes, that suspect in that terror plot will be in federal court later this morning in fresno, butgzi'4x

. >>> just in, passengers on one flight at sjc were delayed after a bomb threat. our nbc bay area skyranger flew over the airport. this involved an alaska flight heading to hawaii. officials say apparently there was a wi-fi message indicating some sort of bomb threat against the plane. passengers were evacuated and bomb sniffing dogs were brought in. it was determined that it is a noncredible threat. passengers were back on that plane after being rescreened. >> for a second straight day, the city of oakland is still at a standstill. city workers are striking over salaries. nbc bay area's pete suratos live outside of oakland city hall. pete, we understand there is a new city council meeting just a few hours from now. any word on any kind of negotiation or possible solution? >> reporter: good morning for you, laura. it looks like we're still at the same spot when it comes to the contract negotiations or lack of contract negotiations between the city and the city workers. i want to show you guys, this is the crowd that we're seeing. we've got a combination of workers

later than expected yesterday from san jose but soon had a mechanical issue and had to land back at sjc about 5:00 p.m. once that happened, the crew had a mandatory rest period for eight hours. we're told most of the passengers received taxi and hotel vouchers. >>> there are new developments this morning in that deadly train derailment in washington state. federal investigators say they are looking into whether the engineer was distracted at the time of the crash while the train was going nearly 50 miles an hour above the posted speed limit. nbc's gadi schwartz is in dupont, washington, with the latest. >> reporter: twisted metal and crumpled cars, grim evidence of the forces that tore apart this commuter train and the lives of the 85 people on board. as accident investigators comb through the wreckage, new questions from survivors and families of the victims about what could have caused the derailment on the line's first official run. >> everybody's going left and right, up and down to wake up to looking at the seat on the opposite row in the air. i see people's legs underneath the car