I am laura shepard, director of events and im pleased to welcome you to our author event for comers new book grothman. In conversation with San Francisco columnist, we are pleased to have them here for the first time. I would like to find out how many of you have been to the Mechanics Institute before and how many are new . Please come back and we will give you a free tour of the library and show you the Incredible Library on the second and third floors. The International Chess club is down the hallway and we will tell you about our history. We were founded in 1854 and at the Mechanics Institute we have ongoing author events like this one, the International Chess club with their ongoing lectures and tournaments and book clubs and writers groups and on friday nights, we hope you will join us for all our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest Roland De Wolk, an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism and a historian university adjunct and author. Du
Entire span is bumper to bumper over to east palo alto. You may want to consider the san mateo bridge as we saw it was definitely busier. Westbound 580 near north greenville. Motorcycle down. Theyre trying to clear that. The rider was trying to move to the Center Divide making it slow. An already slow commute across the altamont pass. An hour and almost five minutes from tracy to dublin. This morning as the eagles celebrate their first ever super bowl championship. Philly upset the new England Patriots 4133. Oh, yeah. One of the players became an instant legend last night. Zach ertz. He has deep ties in the bay area. Amy hollyfield is live in danville with more. Hey, amy. Reporter hi natasha. Its going to be a fun day of pride at the high school here and in all of danville really. Look at the support for zach ertz even in the downtown candy store. The owners remember him from Elementary School even. His favorite candy is sour patch watermelon. He played for stanford and the high school
Exiting eastern long island pushing offshore. Another one to the north and west that will weaken on its approach and will swing through during the course of the morning commute. Wet and damp roads. Take along the umbrella. Youll need it up until 7 00 in u some locations and it will clear out. As the front drops through, it will bring in cooler air. Dont expect record setting temperatures today. 60 at noon is still nice. High this afternoon of 63 degrees withfo mix of clouds and nshine. Some damp roads. Lets see if there are early problems for the commute. We have track maintenance for half an hour longer. No service at the 6th avenue stations in manhattan. Im sure you know that by now. Theres free shuttle buses for you to get around. Overnight track work on 1, 3, 6, a, g and l lines. Lauren, thank you. New this morning, the search for a killer in brooklyn. It happened on Lincoln Place just hours after and blocks away from another shooting where someone opened fir a d hit two teenagers.
A lot of folks dont think apples growth is over. Reporter neither do investors, bidding up apple stocks. Which leaves one question. What is apples next . What are they doing to grow their user base. Bigger phones grow the user base more competitive pricing among macs. Those are kind of the next step. What are they going to do to address more potential users. Reporter one thing to watch for, the apple watch, which ceo tim cook now says will be out in april. Apple shares up 5. 5 after hours. Today yahoo has up strongly. The Sunnyvale Company says it will spin off its 40 billion stake in alibaba into a separate company. Thats catnip to investors who sent yahoo shares 7. 5 higher in extended action. Back to you. Thank you, scott. More on apples quarter now. The company says it pulls in an 18 billion profit over the last three months. Scott mentioned those iphone sales. Apple also says it sold 21. 4 million ipads that is down from last year. It sold 5. 5 million macs which is up from last y