i m laura garcia-cannon. marla tellez is off this morning. occupied streets and banks. this morning, they re occupying homes. christie smith is live in oakland where protesters are shifting their focus to the foreclosure crisis. good morning, christie. reporter: a small, but forceful group, marching here in downtown oakland. a minute ago, they took their case into the front door of a chase bank on behalf of several homeowners here in oakland, who already have foreclosure auction dates on their homes. this group had a demand letter that they tell me that they handed over to workers inside. they want modifications for six families who think they can afford a principal reduction and forgiveness of predatory fees is what they re asking for. this is just the beginning of a day of action for occupy our homes, trying to end foreclosures, an off-shoot of occupy wall street. one woman in danger of losing her home in alamo tells us she did everything right and just how scary this
90 minutes. stephanie chuang is in fremont at the defunct solar company solyndra at the bottom of all of this. good morning. reporter: good morning. you know, gop leaders connected to this investigation have called this solyndra loan a half a billion-dollar bust and for them this all raises questions into the government s push for more jobs in the renewable energy sector. specifically, lawmakers this morning have called witnesses from the department of energy and from the office of management and budget to testify at this morning s hearings. the question, how were they involved in the $535 million loan guarantee to solyndra back in 2009? and how they were connected to the restructuring of the deal this past february. attention will also be focused on solyndra s recent bankruptcy filing, its troubled financial history and how it represented its finances to the government. republicans fred upton of michigan and cliff stearns of florida issued this joint statement yesterday:
message against the protestors. good morning, it s wednesday, 4:30. [ laughter ] yes, it is. yeah. when you say it s 4:30 it sounds painful. good morning, i m grace lee. i frank mallicoat. doesn t it sound painful? i m east coast time, sunshine out already there! keep going. let s just go to london! [ laughter ] good afternoon, everyone! [ laughter ] how about the caribbean? and then it s tropical and later and just fabulous. here is more fall like. dropping down 5 degrees in places yesterday. antioch at 90 yesterday, only 84 today. santa rosa 78. the city at 63 today. i ll tell you how much we are going to cool off in the middle of the week later in the show but elizabeth, anything going on on the roads this early? we have a little roadwork. that s what s going on this morning, but no accidents or stalls. there is some roadwork on the upper deck heading into san francisco. we ll have more later. thank you. it is an east bay bankruptcy that sent
the worst oil spill to hit the uk in a decade tops the stories around the world. royal dutch shell estimating 150 million barrels of oil spilled off of the coast of scotland. they have been able to reduce the leaking oil to around five barrels a day, and they say that the waves will disperse the sheen which covers an area of 19 miles. three fugitive siblings captured after a cross country crime spree will make another appearance in a colorado courtroom today. lee doughtery and her two brothers will be held on assault and also wanted in florida for bank robbery, and in georgia for assault. and a woman accused of breaking into alex trebeck s hotel room says that the punishment is too harsh. lucinda moyers is accused of
people dead after saturday s tragic concert stage collapse at the indiana state fair. officials plan to reopen the fair today with a public memorial service. nbc is at the fairgrounds in indianapolis for us. good morning, wendy. reporter: good morning to you. it s a somber day here at the indiana state fair grounds. the pile of wreckage behind me is a sobering reminder of what happened here. as you mentioned a short service is scheduled here to remember those five people who lost their lives so unexpectedly. concert goers worst nightmare turned to reality in just seconds. just minutes after the announcer warned that severe weather was p possible, a gust of wind, between 60 and 70 miles per hour sent the massive scaffolding crashing into the crowd. it just came down. i saw people running. the next thing you know, you look back and there s people underneath the stage trying to get up. oh, my gosh. i was scared. reporter: chris lost sight of his son and wife in the kayo