good morning to you. it's 6:00 right now, an end to the workweek is in sight for most people. thanks so much for waking up with us this friday morning. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm brent cannon. we want to get to your forecast, love it when it's friday and the weekend and it looks like a nice one on tap. >> good morning to you. 80s this afternoon and this morning 50s. cloud cover for the morning start. a little bit of a breeze. not quites strong as yesterday unless you're close to the delta. 70s and 80s by noon and that takes us through 5:00 and through the weekend and i'll have your seven-day forecast in a bit. for now back to you. >> thank you very much. a step grand father arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after his dog mauled a 2-year-old concord boy. he's in jail. christie smith is working to get an interview. if she's able to get it we'll have a live report of what he's saying about the deadly attack. police say 52-year-old steven hayashi was not home when his 2-year-old step grandson walked into the garage where the dogs were kept where they killed the little boy. they put down the three pit bulls as well as two others in the yard. >> we didn't know they had that many. i'm shocked to find it out. >> police arrested high yashlshy for child endangerment and owning an animal that causes great bodily harm. he's in the contra costa jail in martinez for a $125,000 fine. scott mcgrew joins us with details on dell. >> it's a big disappointment for fans of dell. michael dell, founder of dell computer and the company took payments from intel to use only intel chips in dell computers. that's not illegal in any way, shape or form. but the securities and exchange commission said the executives at the computer company then pretended as if those payments were actually sales and misrepresented the income to dell investors. in fact, the s.e.c. says a major part of definitely's profits each quarter weren't really from sales just intel payouts. the company based in texas is going to pay a staggering $100 million fine. michael dell himself will pay $4 million. now, neither mr. dell nor the company admit wrongdoing but they promise never to do it again. intel often pays companies not to do business with a competitor. micro devices the biggest competitor. it raises anti-trust issues and intel has been the focus of several government investigations both here and in europe. about the you cannot lie to investors. you are -- the mom and pop are taking their money, their dollars, investing in dell computer with the understanding that dell's selling "x" number of computers. if that's not true, that really hurts trust in capitalism and the stock market. >> scott, we shouldn't lie to anyone. >> or anyone else. that's right. just like your mom said. >> exactly. teaching lessons. a san mateo couple they admit they burg laized a sonoma home of a family that died in a car crash the day before. michael vincent gutierrez and amber cruz trial would have started this morning but instead they'll be sentenced in september. the couple pleaded guilty to ransacking the home of john and susan maloney in november and stealing their car. the maloneys were driving home from sfo with their 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter when uispeeding car ran through a red light striking and killing the family on impact. they deny that thouey knew that the couple died in a car crash. 32-year-old laetitia james of fairfield will ask a judge to reduce her bail, after her kids died in a house fire on april 28th. she was outside and left a candle inside and that sparked the fire. the children were between the ages of 1 and 4. the city council is getting an earful on measure "y." the $19 million fund passed six years ago. the city is facing a new dilemma to be able to use measure "y" funds police staffing has to be at a certain level, so when council members laid off 80 officers last week, it actually disqualified the city from using some of the money. at a public hearing some residents accused the city council of playing a shell game. one man whose home was recently burglarized said city leaders are squandering funds at the spens expense of public safety. >> i've been told by the oakland police that it's better to own a gun and use it than to rely on the police to respond to a crime. >> council members delayed the vote until monday night. in the meantime, the feds could be asked to help keep oakland streets safe. with 80 officers laid off because of budget problems oakland needs help fighting gaks and drugs and that's where the feds come in. a two-day summit is set for august where a slew of federal agencies will talk about how they can solve oakland's problems. time to check the oakland commute. light out there so far. see how it's moving. >> things are moving smoothly right now. but a look ahead at infinnion parkway in the north way. sonoma county, it will be congested. highway 37 coming out of vallejo specifically. because there's a division seven event going on this weekend. and the prerace activities and a lot of folks heading out there. probably midday all the way through sunday afternoon. keep it in mind. congested there later. you see the speed sensors showing you no delays coming there through the area and no delays coming through the maze approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. pretty light commute going on right now down the eastshore freeway and a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza we'll show you things starting to pick up as far as the volume goes for the toll plaza. a half dozen cars waiting in lines at the cash lanes but fastrak no delays. good advantage for you if you have the fastrak transponder. the san mateo bridge bears the transresponder benefit, but if you have a carpool lane at any of the bridges you have to have the transresponder to get through with the discounted rate. haze in the air but visibility on the bridge itself for drivers is looking all right. back to you guys. >> cool out there. >> it does look good. i think it's nice weather. not too hot or cold. i agree. you've got the sunshine in the afternoon. nice conditions and 80s for those of you that like the heat. no fires which is great and typically we can see it this time of year. 50s this morning. the haze that mike has been talking about. enough of a little breeze coming through giving us a little bit of the haze and cooler conditions. highs today, 64 in san francisco. sunset a little bit cooler. south beach locations warmer. oakland, 69. the north end of the bay, a little bit of a breeze coming through the gap and pushing up and closer to 80 degrees. santa clara valley that's where you have a couple of the mid and upper 80s especially for almaden valley over to livermore, same story. walnut creek and concord, upper 80s. seven-day forecast we'll stay with it through sunday. next week we cool a little bit more. the sea breeze gets stronger. a lot going on this weekend so just about right. 6:08. a storm is threatening the gulf oil cleanup. we'll show you where it is right now. and i'm bob redell. it's certainly not 1935 anymore, but it certainly looks like it. look at the end of the runway there. we'll tell you what this historic flight of the dc-3 has to do with the bay area and oshkosh, wisconsin. those people are happy 'cause they're gonna have a good time, and they've got extra money in their pocket. those are happy passengers. how much does it cost for those snacks again? nothing. at southwest airlines, when we have a sale, it's a sale. 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[ ding ] iconic planes are taking off and taking their place in history and bob redell is live at the hiller aviation museum in hayward. he has a look at the planes that have accomplished many milestones in aviation history. can you hear me? can you hear me now? >> reporter: i do hear you, brent. thank you, willie. i'm actually on the phone with a buddy of mine who is on the dc-3 the plane we've been keeping an eye on at the hayward executive airport. and what they'll be do is making -- i don't know if you call it a historic flight, but a historic reunion of dc-3s, not many left. this one will be flying to or cau oshkosh, wisconsin. we are waiting for the cessna to take off and the dc-3 will take off shortly thereafter, so another three or four minutes. why should people care about the dc-3? if you are old enough to remember back in 1935 when these planes first went into service, they were the workhorse of the passenger flight industry. and they also were used heavily in world war ii at one point i believe there were -- i think it was 14,000 that were built. more than 14,000. today, less than 100 remain air worthy and this, of course, being one of just two in the bay area. just a few in california. it's owned by stan hiller -- excuse me, steve hiller, the son of stan hiller, the son of stan hiller. and hopefully we can come back out and see this. it's a beautiful airplane take off shortly. much different than a 727s, the 747s, 767s of today. didn't hold as many passengers obviously. twin prop airplane. not something like the jet airliners we see today. just to give you some perspective to get from here to oshkosh, wisconsin, if you were to take, let's say, southwest airlines i imagine that would be a three, four, five-hour flight. they've got to fly to albuquerque, from albuquerque to wichita, from wichita to oshkosh. the range is only about seven hours. brent and laura? >> very interesting. kind of cool to see the old relics taking to the skies. thanks, bob. this morning crews are checking out the area around the deepwater horizon rig as tropical storm bonnie moves closer to the spill. got a live look at the storm as it churns over theivulf of mexico. forecasters say the storm will most likely not reach hurricane strength. workers inserted a temporary plug on the rig to try to prevent some storm damage, and on the florida coast, crews that have been laying out protective booms for months spent much of yesterday pulling them back in. after the storm hits, it could take 10 to 14 days to restart operations on killing the well. a new field poll shows the gulf oil disaster is causing a drop in support of offshore oil drilling in california. 61% of california voters now oppose drilling new oil and natural gas off our coast. 31% favor more drilling. and the rest have no opinion. now, the "chronicle" reports two years ago record-high gas prices had a lot of californians rethinking offshore drilling. two weeks after gas prices had peaked in 2008, 43% of californians supported offshore drilling. the trms thopical storm is serious concern for another disaster zone, haiti, the national hurricane center said the storm is gusting winds up to 40 miles an hour and many haitians have been forced to live in the makeshift camps after the january earthquake, they're not stable. and in most cases the camps do little to shelter people from the stormy weather conditions. the hurricane season june 1st through to november 30th could be the worst on record. unemployment benefit checks are on the way to millions of californians who are in desperate need of help. congress extended the benefit through november, but the president and democratic lawmakers may have used up so much political capital to get that passed that they may have to give up on a comprehensive energy bill which includes taxing big polluters. members of both sides of the aisle had some concerns about that bill. analysts say the unpopular carbon tax was a deal breaker because it threatened jobs. democrats may move forward now with a smaller version holding bp accountable for the oil spill and investing in natural gas instead. what would it be like to cash a check for $100 million? let me write you a little something. >> yeah. we could write them all we want. just don't cash them. >> take them to the tennis court and give them out. >> there's this guy in silicon valley, his name is mike cassidy, he does it over and over and over. he creates the companies and sells them. mike cassidy just cannot lose. in fact, his second startium sold for $500 million. does it over and over. one of silicon valley's winningest entrepreneurs. he'll be on my show "press here" on sunday. and i asked him, what is it like getting the check for hundreds of millions of dollars. >> have you cashed your bank statement where it sels, you know, off the charts? >> i get the social security statement every year and it looks like this year your total salary was $11,000, this year it was -- this year it was to$6,00. every start-up i make dirt in the beginning and i have the payout. and then i make dirt again. >> he'll be on "press here" after "meet the press." he drives a beat-up old saturn still. they don't really care. >> they're smart. >> they're supersmart. >> but they don't care. they have hundreds of millions and they have the beat-up old car. americans still have bill. at least they like him more than the current and the past president. a new gallup poll shows clinton has a 16-point edge over george w. bush. all men scored high with their own part, but only clinton scored high with independents, getting a 60% approval rating from that group. you were too slow to catch the fastest electric cars to hit the road of the bay area. it's already gone. the electric racer can reach 60 miles an hour in three seconds. it has top speeds of 150 miles an hour and it looks cool. sometimes they don't, but this one does. the car made stops in san francisco and silicon valley. it's on its way now, it's left and going to argentina. students from london's impeer y imperial college designed it. they are trying to have the first electric vehicle to cross the americas from alaska to argentina. it's a 16,000-mile trip and it's designed to raise awareness for green technology. perhaps you can smell it, the 32nd annual gilroy garlic festival kicks off today. all the food booths. it's really gilroy's sichingnat event. all the money goes to local charities. annual party really defines the people and the plan that put gilroy on the map. >> the whole community comes together. we all take stuff, like, i've got a barn, we store stuff in there. people have sheds, warehouses, garages, so it all comes toogt in this three-day party that we throw. pretty cool. >> should be nice weather. the festival will permeate the air starting today and it runs through sunday. want to take you back out to hayward, the hiller aviation museum. the dc-3 we've been talking about. it's taxiing and on its way -- not exactly a historic flight, but a cool one. bob redell has been following it. >> reporter: if you're heading to work and you're driving up and down 880 through hayward and you see a dc-3 that looks like that one, your eyes aren't tricking you, because that's an airplane that has been around that particular one has been around for 65 years, but the actual dc-3s first started flying 75 years ago. and this particular aircraft is on its way from hayward to oshkosh, wisconsin, where next week there's an event called air venture 2010. it's billed as the world's greatest aviation celebration, and they're there to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the dc-3 and they're hoping that this one and a whole bunch of others will be there for one of the largest reunions of its kind. look at that. now, you don't see that too often anymore. two twin props. nice steel construction. >> look at that. just the sound of it, bob, is cool. >> reporter: the man who is behind the controls right now is steve hiller of the hiller aviation museum. he owns the aircraft. and he was telling me, you know, they built it so durable and it was probably -- it's a lot heavier than you would -- the planes you would be building today, but in spite of that it can take off and land in such a short amount of distance and you saw right now, it didn't even use the entire runway at the hayward executive airport. and as you see, you they are banking toward the south. they have to this go to albuquerque, to wichita, to oshkosh. they're not going directly east to the right. so, it gives you an idea of the range of the airplanes. they say it's only seven hours, and they are not going at jet airliner speed, so it ha those do a few hops to get to its final destination. a piece of history, probably 100 if not less of air worthy dc-3s still in existence, only two in the bay area. there she goes. >> off into the distance. it's pretty cool, isn't it? >> you hear the sound. >> it purrs. >> it beckges ofons of a differ era. before bob's report, that was a cool shot of the dc-3, though. we were talking about gilroy. you were talking about garlic putting gilroy on the map. folks can smell where it is anyway, but we'll point it out because it will affect your weekend traffic. one 101 and 152 will will be congested. if you are congested, you'll smell the festival. 152 heads over to casa de fruita. if you are coming to or from l.a., it will affect your drive. the south bay, for most of the commuters, moving smoothly through this area, north of where we just showed you. things moving smooth ly on the northbound area. the sensors were showing slow speeds but it's cleared up as the equipment moved and the construction cleared. sunol and 680, we see the slowdown through the construction zone, but friday will be lighter. the evening commute will be a tough one coming up from fremont to sunol. starting about 3:00 there. and we'll show you livermore where some of the folks are coming this morning, through livermore and cutting down through 84 into pleasanton and then to sunol. this evening the opposite direction and eastbound will be the focus of your slowdowns about 3:00. welcome right now 15-minute drive. the bay bridge toll plaza no major delays right now. pretty easy drive there and across the upper deck you see a little haze. craig's got a look at the forecast coming up, but a niles drive as far as your commute goes. >> looks good. hazy. from saving babies to saving a baseball team, brad pitt takes on a role, and we'll show you about it coming up. i'm christie smith and we did a jailhouse interview whoses gs spteled his step grandson. we'll say who he blames coming up in a live report. hey, there, good morning to you. 6:24 friday morning. getting ready for the weekend. sunshine friday afternoon. waking up to the cloud cover and the haze mike was talking about over the bridges and the water and close to the coast as well. we've got a little bit of fog starting to blow in. has been there overnight. a little feature that was giving us the strong sea breeze has moved off to the west. a little bit of heat coming in later this afternoon, so we've got more 80s in the forecast as opposed to all the 70s we dealt with over the past several days. the lower temperatures come back next weekend again. we've been cooler than average for so long. 64 for a high. san francisco, into oakland again. bring your dogs to the a's game. and over to livermore, 89 degrees. something to watch for. as we go through the afternoon hours and through the weekend we'll manage some more of those 80s for most locations. it's tuesday, wednesday, and thursday of next week that we actually start to cool back down. just a bit. so, remember, you can always check your forecast anytime at weather.com. back to you. a teen visiting his grandparents has a summer vacation story that he'll never forget. lightning struck phil bates as he sat on the bed inside his grandparents' western illinois home on monday. we're showing you his ankles because the bolt struck the 15-year-old exiting and entering through his ankles. >> i felt this huge burning, strong feeling go through my ankle. and then through my body. >> bates can't feel his feet, and doctors aren't sure if or when the feeling will come back. he can walk, though. >> amazing stuff there. sports news now. the giants will try to make it two in arrow against the diamondbacks at 6:40. matt cain pitched a great gem in phoenix going eight innings and giving up four hits. tourp r torrez hit his ninth home run. the a's host the white sox, the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 and you can get there early for what they call a pup rally. you can bring your dog and benefit trivalley animal rescue that starts at 5:30 outside the coliseum. the step grand father whose dogs viciously mauled his 2-year-old grandson is now talking. we'll bring you the interview. new developments for lawmakers in a small southern california town stepped down because of their amazing salaries that they were raking in. we'll show you how much they made coming up. plus, more about the big legal test of the don't ask, don't tell ban on gays in the military. and john mayer is going to be out on the plaza and rocking it a little bit of music coming up on the "today" show. you can see and hear him coming up starting after 7:00 to this morning. ♪ [ man ] my perfect summer is grilling up a masterpiece. daily. 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[ female announcer ] safeway. ingredients for life. now introducing all new refreshe beverages. get four 6-packs for $3.49 with your club card. and any 2-liter 2 for $1. pour yourself happy with refreshe. exclusively at safeway. live from wall street, you hear the opening bell ringing this morning. a few surprises for microsoft and that could throw investors for a loop. we'll be watching that. we'll have the newest information to keep you ahead of the curve coming up. plus, a devastating ahead for one east bay family. a 2-year-old is dead. his grandfather is in jail facing charges in the tragedy. a live look as traffic starts to pick up past the oakland coliseum. the southbound headlights might find slowdowns. i'll explain a little bit more coming up. good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm brent cannon. it is 6:30, the weekend is upon us. we want to check in with craig with a look at your forecast. good morning to all of you. we'll start off with 50s this morning and some 80s, sunshine a little bit earlier today than we had it yesterday. it's going to burn off quicker. we'll get more of the fog later tonight and tomorrow morning. overall rather mild through the weekend and more cooling next week. send it back to you. >> all right, thanks a lot, craig. and we have breaking news out of contra costa county, nbc bay area has spoken with an east bay grandfather accused in the dog mauling death of a 2-year-old. christie smith is live in martinez, she's been following this story and just finished a jailhouse interview with the man. christie, what did he tell you? >> reporter: well, brent, i can tell you that steven hayashi was trembling during this interview. at times he broke down and started to cry. he says what happened is that -- it was yesterday morning. he went and took a relative to a sports practice. by the time he returned yesterday morning, police were all in front of his house. and he was hoping that nothing was wrong at his house. of course, we all know it was. he says as far as he knew these five pit mixes were really not vicious and had never come after anyone, but he says he kept them in the garage because he had toddlers at the home, and he was hoping to keep them in the garage to keep the kids safe from the dogs. but he said that the dogs were not, again, vicious as far as he knew. of course, we all know now that jacob bisbee, his stepson, was killed by one of these dogs according to concord police. here's what he told us -- >> but the dogs cost me way more than it's worth. it cost the life of a 2-year-old boy. >> reporter: now, he told us -- i asked him how long he had the dogs. he said he had them less than two years. i asked him how long he had the dogs, he said he had them less than two years. he also said that he didn't necessarily want to have that many dogs, but his son wanted them, so he agreed to keep them. at the end i also asked him who he blamed for this. did he blame himself, did he blame the dogs? and he took a very long pause and sighed and said he blames himself. reporting live in martinez, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> do you have any more information or sense about these dogs? people have pit bulls, they don't always attack people. some people were concerned about were they trained to be violent dogs and i guess obviously they had to be put down, so animal control to some extent must have thought they were dangerous -- several dangerous dogs there. >> reporter: well, absolutely. i mean, you had three that went after the 2-year-old and then they decided to put down all of them. he said -- i asked him about the dogs. he said, you know, after the attack, he certainly didn't want to fight for them. so, they were all put down. but, again, he's just -- he's very distraught. he said he spoke with his wife, who was home at the time, and she tried to administer cpr and did the best she could, but he said the family is just completely distraught and, again, he was just breaking down as he told his story. >> yeah, absolutely. can't imagine the pain the family is going through this morning. thank you for the late-breaking sorry, christie. >> a terrible tragedy. hate to think about the poor little boy at the end. the markets are open. we heard the bell this morning and we want to check in with scott with the numbers. >> good morning. mostly moving to the positive. a couple companies to watch, microsoft said it made more money than anyone expected. microsoft has been under a lot of pressure lately. ford had its best quarter in years and oracle in redwood city says it plans to spend $70 billion, with a "b," on acquisitions. walmart meanwhile saying it will start adding radio chips to jeans and underwear sold at the store. you may know them by their technical name. the chain said the little chips will make the product easier to track as they go from factory to shipping container to store shelves. "the wall street journal" points out walmart's handy chips on pallets measuring the trucks for years, but these are actually going to be, brent, in your pants. >> which a lot of people are worried, they'll know -- >> what does that mean? >> what am i doing? it's kind of crazy. thanks a lot. three top leaders in a small town are under fire and out of jobs this morning after their stunning salaries. three city employees resigned shortly after midnight last night after outrage because they made $1.6 million combined. it happened in bell, south of los angeles. the chief administrator earned more than $785,000 per year. which is almost twice what president obama makes. the police chief makes nearly half a million dollars a year and that's 50% more than l.a.'s chief makes. and the assistant city manager earns just under $400,000 per year. meanwhile, 17% of the 40,000 people who live in that city are in poverty. apologies are coming from everywhere for former usda ohm employee shirley sherrod, but the biggest i'm sorry of all comes from the president himself, president obama personally called sherrod yesterday and urged her to come back to work for the federal government. the president said sherrod's experience can be used as a teachable moment. sherrod was forced to resign from her post at the usda on monday because of racial comments taken out of context at an naacp meeting years ago. she hasn't decided whether she will accept the job offer, but she says she does accept the apologies. closing arguments are set to begin this morning in southern california in a lawsuit trying to halt the militaries don't ask, don't tell policy. lawyers for a group of gay men say that they will ask the judge to declare that policy unconstitutional. now, that comes on the heels of news that a gay california soldier has been honorably discharged from the army national guard under the same controversial policy. lieutenant dan choi calls the move infuriating and painful. the iraq war veteran from orange county learned of the military's decision yesterday. he announced that he was gay last year on the "rachel maddow show" on msnbc. don't ask don't tell prevents the military from asking about a soldier's sexual orientation, however it does allow the discharge of openly gay service members. army specialists chase stanley was one of four soldiers killed last week when a bomb blew up their humvee. friends told the "st. helena star" he made everyone laugh and enjoyed camping and hiking around lake bare yerryessa. this morning the search is on for a pint-sized burglar in palo alto. police say a boy about 10 years old has been involved in at least three robberies in the past week. police say the boy's been targeting homes with unlocked windows and doors near embarcadero and charleston roads. the child isn't operating alone. witnesses report seeing acc accomplices waiting outside. so far he's only made off with a skateboard. a beekeeper in san francisco said somebody killed about 200,000 ofhoneybees. somebody broke into the hayes valley farm and sprayed pesticide. the farm only had one complaint since it opened about six months ago. so far no suspects. so much for a cheaper ride on b.a.r.t. they're making changes there. we'll tell you about them coming up in a bit. but, first, want to check the morning commute. >> you mentioned b.a.r.t. people and ears pop up in the morning, a quick status, 55 trains operating right now. if you're heading to the a's game tonight, use b.a.r.t. as one of your options. that's one of the reasons i talked about potential slowing for southbound directions, both directions past the coliseum. 7:05 game. but the speed sensors showing no problems. the limit past the coliseum. another issue for the southbound side it's coming closer to the san mateo bridge, an earlier accident over on the shoulder may completely have cleared over the last couple of minutes and we don't see major slowing. but, again, we're watching that because any issue around the interchange with the san mateo bridge that could cause issues because of construction in the area. plenty of distractions with no incidents. san mateo bridge itself. no problems. over to the peninsula side the haze is there so we can't see the peninsula hills, but the westbound and eastbound drivers moving smoothly and the peninsula no delays. back to you. >> thank you very much. checking in with craig right now, talking about the milder temperatures. >> looking good, craig. >> good morning to you both. a couple of 80s. it's nice. we don't have the triple-degree readings, you have to go well into the central valley to get these. all the haze mike was talking about will be with us through 9:00 when we get more sunshine. a little bit of wind coming through, 5 to 10 miles per hour and on the satellite a little bit of heat is off to our east will start to come our direction and we'll see more of the 80s today and tomorrow. also with the fog in place we do have delays at sfo for some arriving flights, 48 minutes. 64, san francisco. 82, san jose. and some upper 70s, to near 80s along the north end of the bay. same through the weekend, brent and laura, enjoy it. back to you. >> you, too. 6:39. the storm throwing efforts to clean up the oil in the gulf off track. we've got team coverage of the tropical storm moving through. and, no, you weren't seeing things on your drive in to work this morning. that was a dc-3 flying high above your head. headed halfway across the country for a party. we'll tell you what they're celebrating coming up in a live report. plus, our gadget friday opens darr open s door to a world of possibilities. quote and compare in about 8 minutes. now, that's progressive. call or click today. 6:42 right now. work to choke off the oil well spewing into the gulf of mexico is at a standstill this morning. >> a lot of the ships that are around the site have had to evacuate because tropical storm bonnie is on the way. now, craig herrera has a look at where the storm is headed now, but first we start with nbc bay area kristen dahlgren who is watching things. she's in new orleans now and has the very latest. kristen? >> reporter: hey there, brent and laura. this was supposed to be the weekend that they were finishing work on the relief wells, doing that static kill in the hopes of getting a permanent fix to this leaking well, and instead now they are having to evacuate the well site, move all of the ships, all the personnel off the site. they'll leave the cap in place, saying that it has contained the oil for the past week or so, and they think that the well has enough integrity and the cap won't do any damage. but it will be unmonitored for a while. they're also having to remove the robotic subs and the cameras watching everything off of the site. those will be the last to go and the first to get back once the storm passes. they'll check things out, make sure there wasn't any damage while nobody was watching the well. but this is also now causing a delay, because by the time they get everything offsite and then back on site, make sure it's safe and that the wellbore is still intact for the relief well, it will be an extra week to two weeks. until they are able to get that relief well drilled and get the permanent fix to this leak. brent and laura, back to you. >> thanks a lot, kristen. in the meantime craig is tracking the tropical storm from our weather center. craig? >> goodoomorning,rent and laura. right now it's close to florida, inrighalong the southern tipri d the peninsula. it's moving at about west-northwest at 19 miles per hour. the winds are at 40 miles per hour. keep in mind a storm has to reach winds of 74 miles per hour to be considered a hurricane. as it moves over the peninsula of florida and heads towards louisiana, there's gulf waters out there that are warm, but it's not expected to become a hurricane and then it heads towards the louisiana coast by early sunday morning. expecting to get some seas at 7 to 9 feet. thoug not a lot of rain as it's moving rather fast, but the high seas will be a concern. back to you. >> thanks a lot, craig. an iconic plane just left the east bay this morning on a rare flight to the midwest. nbc bay area's bob redell has been live this morning for us at the hayward executive airport. we just saw the dc-3 take off this morning. what's going on this morning? where is it headed? >> reporter: good morning, brent. there are only less than roughly 100 dc-3s still in existence that are still airworthy. when you air that 30 to perhaps 50 are getting together for the airplane's 75th anniversary celebration, you don't want to miss out on the party, that's why steve hiller of the aviation museum who you see on the right in the cockpit is so anxious to get there. 30 minutes ago he and his friends boarded the dc-3 one of om a few still flying in california and he took off from the hayward executive airport where his aircraft is normally stored. they are heading to an air show in oshkosh, wisconsin, for the aviation celebration. can you describe your love of this aircraft? >> i've flown a lot of airplanes, and clearly it's one of the most fun airplanes to fly, you can imagine. it's very basic. there's no autopilots. it's just -- it's just you're free. you can fly at 150 feet or you can fly, you know, at 10,000 feet. it doesn't make any difference. when you're up flying in the airplane and all the engines are just purring, it's just -- it's hard to describe. it's really fun. >> reporter: in the late 1930s, you know, the dc-3 really revolutionized air passenger travel here in the united states. 90% of the airlines were using these aircraft. also used extensively through world war ii, more than 14,000 were built. of course, there's less than about as i mentioned 100 that are still airworthy. and the range is only seven hours and they're not going jet travel speed, so for them to get from here to oshkosh they got to go to albuquerque to wichita and on to oshkosh. it may be 15 hours' worth of travel time, whereas if we were to hop on southwest, a couple hours there. >> very cool, bob. appreciate it. >> one of my favorite cities, oshkosh, wichita, and albuquerque, and head in walla walla and you have the weird-named cities in the united states. it's interesting to see where we've come and now in this world of gadgets. >> the world of gadgets, we're talking about an invention this week for gadget friday. this is a prototype. it's called the illumiknob, it senses motion in your house and this is a light. i'll show you how it works. jacob helping us out this morning as he hangs it on a door. so, at nighttime it detects that it's dark and you can see the doorknob, it helps the elderly and children, et cetera. we figured out later, about 20 bucks, it's not on the market yet, but should be soon. we figured out you should hang it on the door this way because you can use it as a door handle because it grips it -- >> you can open it. >> we hung it this way. who knew. the same company that brought you the water saver, that measures the water coming out of your hose, they bring the inventions and market it. >> what if you're checking your children at night or whatnot. >> your children are fine. >> thanks, scott. it's kind of school. it's 6:48 right now. we'll bring you more of our exclusively jailhouse interview with a man police say is responsible for the mauling death of his 2-year-old grand child. the gilroy garlic festival is getting ready for the authentic bay area event. you noknow it smells great. >> grab the mints. ♪ a little john mayer kicking off your friday here on nbc bay area. here's performing on the "today" show coming up at 7:00. ♪ bs leaving. a budget disaster. california on the brink. jerry brown's plan? you run for office and the assumption is, oh, i know what to do. you don't. i didn't have a plan for california. 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[ female announcer ] jerry brown. no plan then. no plan now. meg whitman. a plan for jobs. log on. learn more. another update on breaking news out of the east bay this morning. nbc bay area just spoke with an east bay grandfather accused in the dog mauling death of a 2-year-old. nbc bay area's christie smith is live in martinez where she just wrapped up a jailhouse interview with the man. she joins us once again with more on what he had to say. >> reporter: we spoke with steven hayashi for ten minutes inside the jail. he expressed a lot of remorse. he broke down during the interview. we'll go ahead and roll the tape. here's what he had to say -- >> i came home and there's a lot of police cars around. i was hoping and praying it was not anything at our howuse. >> reporter: you knew you should keep the dogs at least away from the little ones. >> yeah, i knew that, that's why i kept them separate. my grandson never goes downstairs to the garage. >> reporter: had the dogs ever been aggressive to you or to anyone? >> only -- only those -- only my grandson is the only one of them i guess that really hasn't met them. because i try my best to keep them separate. >> reporter: now, he expressed a lot of remorse. we asked him who he thought was to blame for this. and he said he blames himself. but he also said that he didn't think he should be severely penalized because he doesn't have a history of trouble with the law. reporting live, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> certainly an emotional day for so many people and the family this morning. thank you very much, christie. >> very big loss. it's 6:53 right now. craig's joining us with a look at your weekend forecast. should be pretty nice if you like cooler temperatures. >> absolutely. good morning to you both. a nice cool start to the day. this is live right now gilroy. the -- getting ready for the big garlic festival, a gorgeous start. with all of the early morning clouds, it will be a nice afternoon. this morning we spoke with the president of the gilroy garlic festival and he said this year it's all about showcasing produce grown right here in california. >> what's new at the garlic festival? >> local and sustainable. we're featuring as many local and regional foods as possible. we've got pasta from san francisco and calamari from monterey bay, local caught american shrimp and local wines from the santa clara valley and, of course, garlic raised here in california from christopher ranch. >> sounds like an awesome time. and gilroy, 83 norfor a high. 60s and 70s for the rest of the bay area a gorgeous weekend everywhere. sunshine and a couple of 80s moving forward. there's the seven-day forecast. brent and laura, we've got some of those 80s through the weekend and a little bit cooler next week. >> we noticed it last night. thanks a lot. >> all right. >> it looks good. >> and who knows what it will be like. you head down to gilroy and watch out for the city streets, parking. >> parking. >> the folks the big roads, 101 and 152 but parking lots and local roadways miller avenue, very kroud crowded. smelling like garlic. a nice easy drive through the area right now. south bay showing slowdowns northbound 101 from tully. to the airport. highway 87 as well. typically we see light volume of traffic for the friday. this is unusual for the south bay at this time. but we look at the bay bridge toll plaza where we do see what is typical for the friday light traffic. a nice easy drive for the toll plaza. no backup at the toll plaza. easy drive coming out of the maze as well. back to you. >> thanks a lot. a major star will be in up to to film a new movie. brad pitt plays a's general manager billy beane. it's called "money ball." these are pictures from the filming going on in l.a. it's the story of how beane changed the way major league baseball looks at players. crews will move to the coliseum on monday. they're still looking for extras. if you're interested go to nbcbayarea.com, search "money ball" to find out how you can get in on it and maybe, you know, be part of a movie. >> become discovered. remember, we're helping you do that. we're having a little debate in the newsroom, which are the two video clips featuring cute kids is cuter. we want to bring it to our loyal viewers. you decide. yesterday we showed you this clip -- >> i like my room. i like my clothes. how cool? i like anything. i like my dad. i like my cousin. i like my opaunt. i like my mom, i like my sisters. >> she's so cute. that's one of the ones making the rownunds on facebook. little girl getting so excited like her haircut and loving her family and her aunt and her dog and her house. i love it. >> all right. so now we have another one. a baby from kurdistan. look at that. eating a watermelon. whoo! look at him go. >> it's pretty cute. >> that is pretty cute. >> he's hungry. >> all right. so, which one do you like better? do you like the little girl all psyched up and ready to roll or this guy chowing down on watermelon? >> they just stuck him in the watermelon, not cute. but the fact that he's eating it, i mean, that's -- >> tell us what you think. you can vote on our facebook page right now, search "nbc bay area mornings." we'll tell you which of the ones the viewers chose. which one you like best on monday morning. >> we've already got some votes going on. >> and you can become our friends. >> yeah. >> we're cutest. >> eating watermelon. >> we can get scott to eat a watermelon. >> don't forget john mayer coming up on the "today" show in a little bit. and we'll have a local news update in half an hour. >> have a great one.