Left the couroom this morning, but ey didnt want toalk with the media as theyollowed them down the hallway. They did speak last week, though, when the said tha he was sorryor what he did,ut th said he is not homophobic. The 16yearolds being held without bail. He is charged as an adult with two hate cme enhancements accused of setting sacha fleschmans skirt on fire while the tn slept on an ac transit bus. Sacha identifie as agender, neither male nor female. Thomas is arrested in oaand heights. After the incident, aer surveiance footage helped police identif him, in a statemt police said that thomas said he did it becse he was homophobic. We spoke with the defense attorn outside the Court Moments ago. We have not t seen the discovery, and soe dont know what the defense will be, a i wont be commenting on the defense at this time. What i can s is at he is a 16yeard, and he is entitled a defee, and whatever defense is appropriate, we will be actively pursuing. Reporte now, we did not see any mbers of sachas family in the court tt we recognized, but at sachahigh school in wore skirts inupport ofhe tes teager. So did many teachers as well as the director of the school. Saa suffed second and trd degree burns in the attack. Actually not the one you heard from there. It will be william dubois. In oakland on friday. Urt here reportinlive in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay your news. E appreciate the report. Thank you ry much. Also expected in court this ternoon current 4rs star aldon smith. Our investitor unit told us you he i expected to be arraigned on three firearms arges. Three semiautomatic rles were he was throwing. Ring a party smith is also facing a i chge for a september crash, and he will now fac another judge someti next week. The linebaer did retur to the team and tthe game this week after h rehab last week. The9ers lost to carolina on sunday. Former 49er and former ider quam harris is sentenced on domesc violence and battery charges. Harris is also a stanford alum. He is now facing up to a year in prison, but the court say he will lely only get ten days in coun jail wh probatio these charges stemming from a fight in the parking lot of a menlo park restaurant that happed against his exboyfriend last wk and that fight was said to be over table manners. 27 people are looking for a newlace to live after a twoalarm apartment fireutted several unitsn hayward. This o happened early this morning on whitman street near this cell phone video sho the intensity of the flames, andt was shoty one of the people who had to evacuate two units were gutted. Four mor were damagedy sme, flames, and water. No one w seriously hurt. This is including one man who the second story. A wdow from when i was on the iling, i saw tha the fire, like it turned from smoke to fire, and itas about to catch fire to the upper unit, so there was not much time for us to jump. Very lucky. Ye. Minor injuries, and ke injury. Ats. Reporter the red cro has found oelg hotels for 17 of the pele who have been the rest are stayi with friends and family. Fire may have started in the kitchein the dowtairs unit. A followup to the fire at a redwood City Recycling yard. Quality for years to come. Ater the fire at simsetal recycling plant began and burned for 72 hour sending smoke into the air in alameda, san mateo, and santa clara counties. The mpany still not exactly sure what caught fi, but says it may have been paint and astics along with c parts and appliances. Jail accused of going on le in Violent Crime spree. A shady run spanning several eks in san jose. Officers saysaul garcia, antonio moya a jovana shington are accusedf kidnappingnd robbery. Th tri ran a prostitution operation out of the San Jose Motel last month. Thats where they allegly robbed a customer atgunpoint. Police say the trio then held up a pizza deliver yea man and kidnappehim, and finally released him after terrorizing him with a gun. Them also robd a bank in san f joaquin county. Working to find a truck, it says, was slen from north berkeley. The truck looks like this one. Its a lted blue 2005 s250 th urban Creeks Council painted in white on both sides. An oncologist whoorks for urban cres council said she parked t ford at the intersectionf rose and arch streets over the weekend,nd by the morng it was gone. And had just bought the truck ms last month to haul plants. The license plate number is 7u05789. Happing right now, i guess canall this one dday, as inemolition y. Its officially underway on the ly span of the bay bridg that sits right bese the brand new span. Theriginal span has bee in place since the bridge first opened back in 1936. We give you a live loo outside right now. Soon it will be gone f good. Nbc bayareas bob riddell joi us liverom the demolition zone. And jon. Morning to you, marla this brings back mories m summer when we were aually able to be on t upper deck of the old bay brid. If y look to the west you can see the canalever section where you can see what theyre doing. The demo of the bridge that will takeoughly three years to complete. I ha andrew lloydon here with cal tran. What wl happen overheext workers are gng to be bacally ripping out1,400 feet of the upp deck of the calever. Its about 2,400 fee long people who are familiar with the idge, the twom peaks of nalever, thats about 1,400 et between those two peaks xshgs theyre goin to be removing the upper roadway. So its t road the steel and concrete in theoad and exactly. Itsll theconcrete, the rebar in the concrete,nd the steel floor beams tt were holng up the upp deck. How do you keep that from not falling into t bay below . I know you are restricting sp traffic undernooet, b how do you keep thosmaterials from not falling in . Crewsave been doingaw cutting. Theyve be busy cutting lines in the upper deck, basically cutting slabs, so when they start doing wh they do today, itomes out in neater, you know, sections. Youve got the bottom deck to that debris contament system, its basally theatch basin so if theres a concrete, any bits of steel do fall to t bottom deck, theyre caught and easilyoved on to a tru and hauledff site. He idea is you cut the canalever intwo. That happens next year. You can finish the bike path on new bay bridge, and work your y east. Is it harder to put up bridge or take down a bridge . Ll, you know, its differentinds of hard. Itsifferent kinds of complex. Obviously, you know, we just built e of the worlds most stateoftheart seismically advanced bridges i the world. 77yearold bridge, so,ou kn, when you start cutng into it, you start rippingt apart, you really nd tolan anprepare careful because escially when you start cuttg into the steel nex here and taking down the sel members, the weights shift. The loads shift. You need tbe prepared for that. And as wee standing here, i can feel the vibration othe per deck. The excavators are doing digging intohe roadway down there. Sohen will this be a leer view where you a on the old the new bay bridge, and youre abl to look soh and see as far as can you . I would say, you know, by early latewinter, early spring youl see the bridge cut in half. In terms of this being gone, y know, the western hal and the curve are supposed to be gone byarly 20, so by as early as i would say march next year people will see a noticeable difference. The works thats happeni now probably going to be heard more than see. Will be able to hear it, but until early next yearfference thank you very much. Like you said this is the first section will baround six weeks. You wont see it as your drivg across the new bay bridge, but it is definitely a key comconen to getting to that point where they can actually cut the calever in half and take down the 77yrold gray beast out of its way. Reporting live here on theld upper deck o the bay bridge, bob riddell,bc bay area news all so fascinating. Bob i feel extra tall talking to bob. Exactly. Bob moonlighng with construction wo. From the bridgeemolition to settling the score to the tallt building in the u. S. This morningn Expert Committee of architects declared new yos new world trade cenr tower as the tallest building surpassing chicagos willis tower. Good mpetition, though yeah. The tow built on the site of the 9 11 attack stands at a symbolically important 1,776 feet tall. The structure itself is 1,368 feet tall. And it has a 408 foot needle at the building, giving it the ed. Willistower, by the way, is 1,451 feet tall. Now, i have been to tt new World Trade Center tower a couple of times recely. s glorious. Yeah, and inhicago ty call ithe big willie tower. Formerly the sears tower. Yes, indeed,t is. Still to come, hel is on the way inhe wake of destructive typhooearly on. At this point itakes quite a while to get all the splies they nee well have more on that coming up next. And the fs give a cautious go ahead to the Worlds Largest airlinemerger. Well take a lk coming up in business and tech. And then making this little boys wish come true. How thsands of people are turn San Francisco into gotham city. This is awesome. Great story there. Go Tuesday Morning to you. Im meteologist christina loren. Quite a bit of rainfall came through the bay area eaier. Well tell y how muc we picked up, and moreimrtantly, have a windstorm headed r wa well detail that in your full forecast. To those whove wait. Worried. Poked and prodded. Taken risks. And lived in a state of what if . Weome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to cered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And body can be denied because of a enroll n at coveredca. Com or call 18007526631. Preexistingondition. Raiall has hampere relief efforts in the phippines and worsened conditis for suivors of last weeks pouflt typhoon. The story fromhe hardhit ring city. Reporter theres been heavy thats made life even mor difficult r those who are ying to rebuild their lis. The survivors o super typhoon an. People behind me picking their way rough some of the debris, which is blockin alley ways and back streets. Still no organed aid distribution to be seen, and stl no government suprt for these people. No teams o soldiers,s we saw after the tsunami in japan to help clear ros, and that would help get aid through to the people whoeed it most. We have seen u. S. Military erll aircraft fly overhead in the last couple of hours or so, but, still, every where we go, everyone is saying to us, pleasewe need food, and we need water. Back to yo thank you very much, angu meantime, suppt for the victims of hyan continueso grow here inhe bay area. Five groups in san jose state hong their classmates will pitch in, jump intoaction, an drop off canned goods befe they head off to class toy. Th Groups Holding a relief drive for survivors of the super typhoohaiyan, complete devaation over there. They will have tables and boxes out in front of the event center where the public h the option of droppin off items le cann foods and goods, ba food, and mecine. T will definity help them because they dont have food, water, shelter, anything so hopefully everything we can give them can help them out. Well, the relief drive did star at 11 00, and will continue through thursy if you want to get involved. Od and supplies, they will be then sent ove to the philippines via red cross. In miami dozens of cruise passengers are missingheir keys after angry valorkers rew them in the trash. Employees of the premier parking lot in downtown miami dumped the ys during a did hes put with t owners about notetting paid. Well, when disembarkinghip paengers arrived at the lot, in a garbage siz container and they needed to goind them. People w were luck where i enough to find their keys encountereyet another roadblock when ty discovered their cars parked bk to back, so they weretuck either y. Outside guess, nobody got any tip on that one. Well, a nelaw in concorde may end u helping you avoid being bothed by atms by blocking panndlers from being out there begging for money. Ey will consider pass aing law banning people obegging within 50 feet of a bank or atm. Concorde police say they were called hundreds of times over aggressivepanhandling. F the concoe patch reporng the ordinance will also pertain to socled captive audience being at bus stops and cafes where people do not have the option to walk ay. In theouth bay people will d up being o a jury that has to make a blion dollar jury selection underway in apple versus samng, round four. Yeah, that sounds abo righ the first rnd was samsung losing its patent caseo apple. The jury says samsung copied apple, a samsung would hav to pay 1 billion for it. Round tw and three reduced those paymen, and now we have roundfour. The judge has decided get herself new jury a start the nalty phase all over again. Here youee lawyers and urnalists lining upo get into the courtroom this morning. Thother big news inusiness th morning. The fedas approd the merge between americ and u. S. Airwaywith conditions, including that the Airlines Give up some of the landing rights at airlines, which are now one rline, dont mopolize cities like new york and chicago, so this merger will make the new american, the largesairline in amera. Back to you. Vy good. Thank you, scot probably charge you me for luggag probably 1000 people are eected to be on hand this friday to witness San Franciscos turn into gotm city. Its all toake a yng cancer favorite story of the week. 5yearold miles, there he is, unfortunately, has leukia, but he told make a wis he wanted nothing more than to be a osecute hero. The nonprofit said they sent out an email to a lot of volunteers looking to help. Well, that email endedp on facebook, and the information out the event just wt craz went viral. Thousands people now sned on to help out our man here a dayull of surprise forces young miles, a batkid. Any people wanto hipp help this kid. Thats sounding great t me. People are flyg in. Some tchers are bringing their classrooms. Im ovwhelmed. For the record, on friday our capedcruser, batkid, he wl be called on to rcue a damsel in distress, and he will foil a nk robbery and help stop a kidnapping a well. Just anoth day at the office for thyoung superhero. Ter saving the city his last stop will be at cy hall where the mayo will be there t give himhe key to t city for being such a supersr and a fine superho. I cannot wait to cover that. Thais awesome. Request g get tm, young n. All right. Shes not necessarily a damsel in distress no, shes more of a wonder woman. Meteologist christina lore we have some rainshowers earlier this morning. We certainly d. Much needed rain. Good morning to you, jon and marla. Good morning to you at home we wt to show you how much rain came through overhe past six urs. As w head throughout the rest of the afternoon, as canou see, we stop the clock onour radar, and not a whole lot lingerg. We do have stty cells out there. Windshield wipers for aut 30 seconds. Overall wereooking good roughout the remainder of the y with temperatures right now in the 60s. Wer about 63 degrees in the north bay. Safrancisco, 64 degrees. 65 degrees down inan jose. As we headhroughout the afternoon, we will hit the 70s. About 72 degrees in the south bay for today. Ong the peninsula, degrees. It is going tbe a s chilly evening tonight. Drping to about 55 degrees by 9 p. M. Overall, though, looking good. As we head throughou the next three days, this ishat we are working with for your wednesday. As we get into your thursd, its goi to be prett nice. Fog will really return. Really thicken in the morning d making your way to bright m. Sunshine. Through friday our focus completely ifts, and that is to some windy conditions. Just want to remind you, you can catc your sevenday forecas bottom of your screen through all of my weather reports. Lets ta more about this wind were expecting on friday. You can see re, we taket right to your futurecast. Stop the cck as w head through about friday moing, andan you see where the reds d oranges a coming in. Thats where with we expect the feest wind. Yes, woibd, and then were looking towards a nice weend. Jon and marla. Thank you. Still to come, today say luy day to get mared. Break. Explain why after the knock down a Sports Complex to make way for more parking at the futureome of the9ers. The counci is expecd to approv a Feasibility Study tonight. They want to reme the complex on t stocked natural area. The city receny found o the new9ers stadium is short several thousand parking spaces. It plans to bullde the complex to make room for tho parking spot as one goes do, another one goes up. Constructi officially getting underway this morning on San Franciscos west highrise, and its expecd to forer change the citys iconic skine outhere. A groundbreaking ceremony to be held this morning for 181 fremont. The steel and gss office and respectal tower is goi up next to the transbay transitenter in between mison and howard stres at a cool 802 feet tall. The highrise will become the tallest mixed use office in housing building out he on the west coast. For the cord, 11 fremont is schedud to open up officiay in 2016. We can tell you that tuesday isot only the most popul day of the wk to getmarrd, but today a major exception. It turns out a lot o peoe want to get married today because of the date. It i november 12th, 13, or 1213. If youre looking to get hitched in san francisc youre going to have to try somewhere else becau city hall is a booked up, and sta cruz, though, its aifferent sty. The county clerk is offering wedding ceremonies every 30 minutes there. The nextate wh consecutive numbers is next decemr 13th or 12314. You sticking yourand out like that, was that an invitaon, young squires, itors out there . Oh, i dont know. Never hts to try. Still to come, they are the best of the best we want to show you one trick shot tt turned into a cra somewhat embarrassing a very painful moment from one harlem globetrotter. Timber. Ch. We will show y the story behind that slam dunk fail. Finally, sweet georgia brown, the Harlem Globetrotters for you. He goes u for a dk in the middle of a routine. This happened recently in honduras, and the whole back board shatters on t of him. He cut his eye, i thinkouged there. He walks off, t, you know what, in true lk at this. He comes back in true globetrotter shion. He lets everyone know he is ok, and he cheers on his team. These guys areo huge. Map. Way to get them back on the [gasps] yofailed us, liz. You let the sh get cancelled, and we all die no, i didnt. It wasnt my fault. When we talked about this dre, we said we were gonna be cowbo. All your fault. Your fault. Your fault. Your fault. Your fault. Your. Aah wake up. Liz, wake aaaah the twins are coming. What . Yeah, i just got an eml from bev at thadoption agency. Its fro hotjuggsbev2doption. Gov. Guess theres other fullfigur bev at the office there. Oh, my god, flight 124 on january 29th. Thats in five days. Its happeni so fast. We dont even kn where theyre coming from. Airbike flight 124 out of Houstons George Bush airport. Its not my airport let it go, liz