Francisco Appeals Court overturned his conviction for obstruction of justice. The question now what does this mean bonds has been a somewhat regular fixture around the giants since his playing days ended in 20076789 last night he was at the game sitting with layer wree bare. As for today this decision overturns his conviction in 2011. The court decided his vague statements from a 2003 testimony were not a defining factor in the governments investigation into steroids use so they threw it out. The convert home run king released a statement saying in part, this has been a long and strenuous period into my life i very much look forward to moving beyond it. I do so without ill will toward anyone. I am excited about what the future holds for me as i embark on the next chapter. So what is his next chapter . Increasing his role with the Giants Organization and trying to get into that hall of fame. I spoke with bonds last year in an exclusive interview, very revealing what he said. You can watch that somethingment on our website nbc bay area. Com. A big vote this sacramento that could impact almost every student in california. The highly controversial mandatory vand nation bill. Nbc bay area Jodie Hernandez is in sacks recommend toe. Some changes to the bill. Where do we stand now . Reporter well it was do or die for that vaccine measure today, but after some minor tweaks lawmakers voted to keep it alive. While many parents are applauding, others pledge the fight is not over. Im really scared about this whole thing. Thats why allison las sob and her con have traveled to the capitol from windsor now, to fight for their right to keep him vaccination free and enrolled in public schools. I chose not to vaccinate him based on previous Family History with my daughters. But after a lot of debate and a week delay the Senate Education maine voted 72 to pass a measure that would force most parents to either vaccinate their children or homeschool them. The bills sponsors added clarifications that would allow unvaccinated kids to join a multifamily private home sool or enroll in independent study. We wanted to be sure that every child has access to an education. That is not something that we want to prevent. Im very excited that it passed. Its one more hurdle. Jennifer supports the vaccine proposal. Ten month old gavin is too young to get fully vaccinate snood we canceled a trip to disneyland because of the measles outbreak. We arent willing to take the risk. But they worry about jacobs future if the bill becomes law. The fifth grader is in a special needs program. They tear he wont get the services he needs at homeschool. If i dont vaccinate my son what am i going to do . What am i going to do next year . I want like to go to sool. I dont want to have to stay at home. Now the measure moves on to the Senate Judiciary next week. Parents are pledging to rent apartments in sacramento to fight this thing every step of the way. Supporters are hoping that it will be approved by the end of the summer so it can become law next january. Reporting live in sacramento im Jodie Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Facing a judge today after tasing off with the police chief. This is hector after i cant say who was formally charged with felony escape interest custody. The police chief chased down the murder suspect on monday after he is kapd from his holding cell. The foot chase zigzagged through traffic and landed blocks away when he track ld after i cant say. Denver police say a woman named lauren tall better left this thank you note on a police cruiser. Turns out tall better is from san jose but now lives in denver. Her note reads in part thank you for risking your life every day for my safety. You are important and i am super thank you for you. Denver police say they plan to thank her for that note. Bay area congressman mike honda is in the national spotlight. His transgender grand tower is being featured on nightly news tonight we hear from her and her mother. Had you ever met her you would know that the only thing that has changed had her pronoun in her name and maybe the length of her hair you know but thats it. Its a gripping interview. In february honda tweeted a photo of himself and his eightyearold granddaughter who now goes by melissa. It went viral with the caption that read, quote, as a proud grandpa of a transgender child i hope she can feel safe at School Without fear of being bullied. Those words made what had been a very private matter public. That story coming up on nightly news with lester holt at 5 30. We are going b. To have another woman running for president , the former ceo of hue let pack erred Carly Fiorina will enter the rate. She will make her formal announcement online. The stanford grad ran for California Senate seat back in 2010. She lost to incumbent barbara boxer. Lets take you outside some live pictures in San Francisco. You can see some clouds and fog moving in. It is earth day and the giants are playing their part by rolling out a new program. The goal well to save water touring our drought. Nbc bay area is live at at t park where the giants host the dodgers, but we begin with mark matthews. He is live at the park. Reporter the giants Senior Vice President in charge of operations tells me that they have been can you get back on wart use on the field for quite some time. Of course the other big water use here at the ballpark is power washing. Before every game the clean up screw is out there with High Pressure hoses washing down the seats and concrete beneath them. Edgar garz has been manning the nozzle for 11 years. I asked him whats the hardest thing to wash away. Chocolate. Reporter and for rick card dough. Peanuts. 4,000 pounds of peanut shells are picked up after every game a number so large even the boss knows it. 4,000 pounds. The giants ceo brought it up this morning talking with mayor ed lee about earth day. The giants have a recycling center underneath their stands and Major League Baseball has awarded the team a green glove every year for the past seven for being a recycling leader. For now the most pressing challenge is the drought and cutting down on water use. The team is going to appeal to its tans. They can help us by cleaning up after themselves snoot Senior Vice President of administration tells me the giants are working on how they will put it out over the next couple of weeks but it boils down to what this guy with the mop told us. If you are a little more careful with your drinks instead of just spilling it on the ground, just take it to the container. The front office will probably craft it a bit differently but thats the message. People are not accustomed to thinking about that when they come to ball games and weve got to start thinking that way. Reporter coming up at 6 00 what they have done to the field to retain more moisture and will use less water and also what the cleanup crew says should be outlawed from the ballpark. Thats coming up at 6 00. Reporting from at t park mark matthews, abc bay area news. Thats where jury regard is field level in front of that giants level. Tonights game and a couple things clean up your peanuts and we get to watch two superstars. Raj, im going to have the best seat in the house, we get the treat of watching the best pitching matchup of this young baseball season madison baum gardener facing off against Clayton Kershaw of the rifle dodgers. You may not recognize this, but besides the tact that theyre both lefthanded there are a lot of similarities between the two. Baum guard ner is the reigning world series mvp. He is blue coal particular doesnt say soochlt. Kershaw is from texas, doesnt fit the typical l. A. Stereotype and does big humanitarian work in the offseason but both these pitchers let their arms to the talking. You look at how good they are, you start with their talent, really how humble these two guys are and they are all business, you know theres not a lot of playing with them just go out there and compete their tails off and its a great match up. I enjoy watching great matchups and certainly this is one of them. Reporter now coming up at 6 00 were going to talk about the giants actually looking like the giants the defending world examples last night in their game one victory. Reporting live from at t park jerod, monterey abc bay area. Fun to see last nights game with the giants winging, lets see what happens tonight beginning at 7 00 p. M. Jon miller. A programming note the mysteries of laura will air at 8 00 on cozy tv followed by law and order svu. You can watch chicago pd after the game right here on nbc bay area and then our 11 00 newscast. Im meteorologist jeff ber neary, were tracking that game forecast for tonight. We can expect cold temperatures in the 50s and also cloud cover building throughout the game. Youre not going to want to miss this full forecast. We have details on the possibility of rainfall to impact your weekend, the exact timing on that in your micro climate forecast. Im Michelle Roberts in pacifica with an update on that dead whale that washed ashore last week. Coming up see the graffiti that someone left on the cashing cass and what group may be responsible swloo im scott budman with wert day technology. Coming up we will take you inside the bay area startup with the new kind of water bottle that will make water this brown drinkable. A 60 mile swim in shark infested bay area water. You think you see things in the water and maybe you do maybe you dont. The worthy cause motivating this incredible open water test of endurance. Let it be. Thats what many people are saying about that dead whale that washed up on a beach in pacifica last week but theres an update tonight. This is near sharp park state beach. Today many people were shocked to see graffiti on the whales body. Michelle sad to see this. Reporter yeah, it really is. I did get some good news a Police Officer said early in morning there was a group of volunteers out here that actually cleaned off the whale and cleaned up that graffiti. Still many people coming out here to enjoy the sight, it is a little bit smelly out here but they wanted to essentially pay their respects to this massive animal. It was historic its like seeing something pre historic. You dont see it every day. It is a sad thing. Reporter dozens of people said they need to see it in person. Curiosity to see the whale. Reporter last wednesday a 50 foot sperm whale washed up on the beach approximate this pa sirvg can a. Marine experts still dont know how it died. We may our homage and respect to the whale. Reporter someone with spray pant painted hand tagged the decomposeing body. I tried to tell my friends that the whale got graffiti and they couldnt believe it. Reporter it has been washed away but yesterday someone snapped these rick purs east Bay Motorcycle Club written on the water logged body. I dont know who would do that. Reporter the ocean has erased the graffiti and many are hoping the whale will head back to sea. Let it rest it peace. Reporter i reeshd out to the east bay rat Motorcycle Club and heard no response. As for the whale the test results are expected in a couple of weeks which may give experts more insight as to how it died. It it is expected to be washed out to sea, but if it doesnt there is some debate on who is responsible for the cleanup. Reporting live in pacifica Michelle Roberts, nbc bay area news. Now to this he was just doing this job and doing it well. A martinez Police Officer helped a woman out of this burning apartment complex. Flames broke out just before 6 00 a. M. You see how intense it is this was at the Mission Pines apartment complex off of highway 4. The woman was stuck in the unit just above the apartment that was actually on fire. The officer kicked in that womans door and rescued her. As they were coming out im sure they were exposed to flame which was probably pretty scary and most people would probably avoid making that trek without somebody encouraging them. Both were treated for smoke inhalation but are expected to be okay. Two apartments were destroyed and two others damaged. Today is earth day and this year many concerns about water and theres new technology aimed to cleaning our water supply. Our Business Tech reporter scott budman got a first look at a startup doing that and hes here to give us a tour. Call this the latest in clean tech, a Small Company working on a big idea. The idea that technology filters and the new bottle can clean our water. Drip by trip youre looking at the ant dote for expensive wasteful water bottles. Liquidity a startup obsessed with clean water is selling this bottle with this filter inside that can make dirty water clean and drinkable. So you can see how brown water is clean and drinkable. And it works. It works, yes. Liquidity constantly tests its filters which will turn risky germ infested water into your next drink. This enables people to have in in their home a water purifier in the event there is some kind of problem with the water supply system it will guarantee them that theyre going to have water that doesnt contain e. Coli. The goal fewer diseases and les wasted water. We americans buy some 30 billion of these bottled waters every year. Liquidity says 70 of those bottles will not be recycled if youre interested their bottle is being kick started launched today 14 bucks on sale. Thanks scott. Frightening moments in Southern California for anyone who saw this. This twister hit authority of the town of Desert Center in riverside county. Tornadoes are incredibly rare for that area. Meteorologists say a strong thunderstorm created this twister. The amount of damage if any has yet to the determined. We have a lot of changes across the state of california. Bring in our chief meteorologist. An active map behind you, jeff. Some good news on this earth day, that is the possibilities of increasing chances of showers as we head throughout this upcoming weekend. You are going to be able to get more on that on the scrolling seven day ticker at the bottom of our screen. Lets take you into the Doppler Radar and what youre going to be able to see is a krot the sierra were finding areas of showers and thunderstorms blowing up an active day along lake tahoe. We may get some of this moving into the north bay well bring you that. Otherwise right now outside the Sky Camera Network the increased sunshine and also some warmer temperatures. Its beginning to cool off in the south bay with 65 degrees Still Holding on to 70 in the east bay and blue sky. Check out San Francisco. This time yesterday you could not even barely see downtown but right now some blue sky from the castro looking right back towards downtown. As we take you into tomorrow mornings draft i still think we will have to deal with fog, nothing going to be as thick as it has been. Across the south bay and also for the east bay we will have areas of sun, temps near 50 but i do think across the peninsula and also for San Francisco thats where we still will start off with areas of fog eventually by the afternoon get that sunshine in here. Lets take you to the micro climate forecast. By the afternoon sunny skies expected in san jose and 73 degrees, loss gadd dose at 71. For the peninsula still stay cold at the coastline with 61 in Pacifica Palo alto 72 and San Francisco remaining in the 60s for the north bay, east bay, mid 70s in napa. A little wind coming off the bay 68 east bay 74 in lafayette to 66 in oakland. The trivalley mid 70s and sunny skies. Thats going to be the warmest widespread location for tomorrow. We want to get you to these larger changes. Today this morning is now the first indication weve had that by this weekend it looks like the possibility of some rainfall. So do expect changes in the timing and intensity of this as we head throughout the next 24 hours. This is the first run of everything picking up on that. 10 30 on friday we have rainfall developing to the north of santa rosa still dry for most of the bay area. As we head throughout saturdays forecast an early event of possibly widespread showers from santa rosa down to san jose. Initial totals 0. 05 to 0. 15. As we head through 9 00 in the morning it moves pretty quickly. Santa rosa should clear out, still some lingering showers from San Francisco down to san jose. We should clear out after the noon hour across the bay area. We can wrap things up for you again. You can see for thursday 74 degrees an mild by friday and saturday cools off, chance of showers on saturday and then the best day of the weekend would be on sunday with that dryer weather and then it heats back up again by mondays forecast with 77 degrees. We want to stress again with that chance of rain though being included in the forecast on saturday well watch it closely for any changes and bring you those updates as needed. We will be tuned in. Still ahead here at 5 00 just how much do people like facebook . Some new numbers today that provide some insight into facebooks popularity. Plus speeding things up the new feature that could make things easier for passengers arriving home from overseas. scal good day, mlady i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com its been a busy day for fire crews in the east bay. These flames broke out early at a house in walnut creek. Firefighters kept the flames from spreading to the dry brush. The family was not at home and no one was hurt. Caramel police say they have their man in the socalled mrs. Doubt fire robberies. On the left is the mugshot of brandon calentoc. They say they matched a description of a suspect in a series of vehicle burglaries and the car they say they found some stolen items including a purse and necklace. Now, police in santa cruz believe he is the same man behind a couple of bank robberies. He was nicknamed mrs. Doubt fire because he is dressed like a woman. His bail is set at 600,000. A lot of likes for facebook. First quarter Earnings Report shows a 42 increase in revenue for facebook. They made about 3. 5 billion last year. The company says there are now more than 900 Million People on facebook every day. Thats about three times the population of the united states. Coming up excuse me coming home from overseas is about to get a lot easier. This is big for travelers. Sfl unveiling an automated passport roll. These are kiosks they bay bud them today. You use a touch screen to enter your information, scan your passport and take a receipt to the customs officer. The new features in the u. S. Customs arrival facility are expected to cut down on wait time to reenter the country. Similar kiosks are already in use in airports in new york l. A. This fr and miami. Up next were going to check in with the south bays mvp most valuable peregrine. Were following some breaking news on the peninsula. A crime scene at a san carlos home. Investigators say a 66yearold shot a 33yearold family member. The suspect is in custody. The victim is at a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. Again, this is in san carlos at a home near crest view drive, thats up on the hill our nbc chopper is headed to the scene we will continue to follow this breaking news and bring you the latest on our 6 00 newscast. Finally at 5 00 tonight san joses city hall newly hatched pair grin falcon chicks are all chicks. Its confirmed by uc santa cruz biologist who repelled from the top of city hall to the ledge. By measuring their leg bones they determined all three falcons are girls. Their mother has been a big factor if helping bringing the species back from near extinction. Sthes sea produced 32 babies. We know where 12 of them are. At least months or years after theyre released and five of those are breeding elsewhere. So its a pretty good legacy. You can name the chicks the contest goes through this friday for students age 5 to 18 the rules are on our website nbc bay area. Com. Apparently pair grien falcons have been living there stiffness 2007 its a good home. It sure is. Thanks for joining us at 5 00. Lester holt is next with his profile of the mike honda family. On this wednesday night, violent threat. Millions bracing for a major outbreak of severe weather. Tornado watches up. Al roker is here. Should he go free . The man who shot president reagan, john hinckley, could be allowed out for good. Holocaust trial. The nazi guard called the accountant of auschwitz facing justice after 70 years. Were in the courtroom as an amican survivor of a death camp faces him down. Malisas story. Our look at what it means to be a transgendered child. After a huge response. Tonight a brave little girl and her grandfather whose public message touched so many people. Nightly news begins now