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good morning. we start our week with us at 5:01 a.m. i'm eric thomas. and i'm kristen sze. wall street attention will be on facebook again on this first full day of trading. investors are watching direction of the shares. nasdaq officials are apologizing for friday's ipo glitch. amy hollyfield is live at facebook's menlo park headquarters. >> reporter: many are saying this will be a crucial week for facebook and its stock with many watching and getting a sense of how strong this stock is. investors expected to see a pop in the price friday that didn't happen. it just closed just about .6% off -- above the ipo price. nasdaq apologized embarrassed at the delay of the opening trade. but -- [ unintelligible ] there's also concern that when morgan stanley stops supporting the stock then it really could have some problems. other social media stocks will be pulling for facebook like linkedin, groupon and others fell 5% friday not only pays book will be hoping for a good day today. again, crucial week coming here for facebook. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. the coast guard this morning is trying to figure out who dumbed four tons of marijuana off the southern california coast. a tip yesterday led them to 160 bales of pot floating 13 miles off dana point. a coast guard says it is unusual for drug boats to dump bales of pot into the ocean when they are being chased. in this case there were no boats in the area. students returning to two elementary schools in pacifica this morning will find their facilities have been deep cleaned to prevent the spread of norovirus. friday students -- 105 students contracted neurovie in an outbreak that began may -- norovirus in an outbreak that began may 8th. the health department directed officials to thoroughly disinfect facilities. students experiencing symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea or stomach cramps should not return to school until they've been symptom-free from 48 to 72 hours. >> >> lawmaker from los angeles is scheduled to appear in court in walnut creek today for an alleged drunk driving incident. assemblyman roger hernandez is expected to enter a plea to two dui counts arrested 2 a.m. march 27th. he failed a sobriety test. it appears he was driving a state-owned vehicle out of his allowed area without permission. top executives of apple and samsung will meet in san francisco this morning in hopes of hammering out a dale before their lawsuit goes court. a judge ordered apple's tim cook and samsung to show up at the federal bidding in san francisco for talks aimed at reaching an out of court settlement. cupertino-based apple is suing samsung for violating iphone patents by creating similar features for android phones. if no deal is reached the trial will begin the end of july. this morning the jury deciding the fay of john edwards begins -- the fate of john edwards begins second day of deliberations. he is accused of masterminding a scheme to use nearly one million dollars in secret payments from two wealth any donors to help hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the white house in 2008. defense attorney argue that the cover-up was by the finance chairman. this morning a judge will sentence the 20-year-old former rutgers student convicted of a hate crime following his roommate's suicide. he faces up to 10 years in prison and could be deported to his native india. in 2010 his roommate tyler clemente committed suicide after a ly recorded video was posted -- surprisingly many gay rights advocates are arguing against a harsh sentence. they say his actions were wrong but shouldn't be used as the measuring tick for new jersey's new anti-bullying law. high school in joplin, missouri will cap a senior year marked by tragedy -- [ unintelligible ] the twister killed 161 people, injured hundreds and destroyedthons of buildings including joplin high. -- another violent attack in the parking lot of dodger stadium where giants' fan brian stow was severely beaten last year. now l.a. police are investigating the beating of a man involved in a minor fender-bender after last night's game. the victim was pulled out of his car and suffered head and facial injuries, not as severe as stow's. he's still recovering from brain injuries at a private care facility. engineers keeping an eye on the weather to determine when it will be safe to know a restored world war ii battleship from richmond to southern california. rough seas put a stop to plans to ferry the ship to its new home in san pedro. once there the ship will be a new floating museum. the group responsible for restoring the ship and moving it says it will be monitoring sea conditions to determine when they will begin the move. 5:07. time for a look at forecast. maybe those waves have died down. good morning. small craft advisory around the bay into the delta because of the winds coming out of the northwest around 15 to 30 miles per hour there you can see the winds coming in towards pacific northwest where i expect all the rain from about eureka north. if you traveling that way going to be wet and windy. here at home, side effects of that in the form of cloudy conditions and low to mid 50s. noon most of us seeing sunshine except for par along the coast mid 70s -- 50s, mid 70s inland for your lunchtime temperatures. 4:00 total sun, upper 50s at the coast low to mid 70s bay and inland 7:00, sun, breezes start to taper, a little mid 50s at the coast mid to upper 60s around the bay and inland obvious the weekend you clean your caricom back, lime green. amazing -- your car you come back, lime green amazing how much pollen was out there. temperatures two to four degrees everyday starting upper 50s to mid 50s at the coast. upper 70s inland only low 70s by thursday. check of traffic. good morning. traffic quiet i told my husband why bother washing the car. here's a live shot in san jose, the connection ramp to northbound 280 from highway 17 reopened as well as from 880 traffic light, out of the santa cruz mountains. you heard kristen telling you about the seismic retrofit work going on, dumbarton bridge closed friday 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. tuesday. good news on capital corridor new stop starting today at kristen sze -- at santa clara, university caltrain station other systems reporting no delays. it is a foggy ride across the golden gate bridge this morning, commuters won't have any other trouble heading into san francisco and here's a live shot as well as the oakland maze westbound traffic as you head from emeryville on the right hand corner towards the bay bridge toll which is delay-free. 5:09. his one time opponents are giving mitt romney their endorsements his rival's financial supporters are not so generous. the new sex charges being investigated against dominique strauss-khan. engineers are deep under the hood of the engines of a next generation spacecraft, the problem and the deadline. green hulk helps sink a battleship at the weekend box office. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make 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avengers continues to beat out every other film, the movie took in 55 million this weekend. that's america's money. i'm diana perez. 5:13. new this morning, a french prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a washington hotel by a former imf chief, dominique strauss-khan, the incident allegedly happened in december of 2010. pros -- prosecutors in northern france looking into allegations that he may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in the hotel while chief of the international monetary fund. prosecutors state investigation is part of a prostitution probe involving strauss-khan. last year he was cleared of rape claims made by a new york city hotel maid. backers of mitt romney slowly coming to his side he raised more than 40 million dollars last month as he solidified his chances of being the nominee. a new review finds only a handful of his recent contributions came from donors of former primary challengers. only 500 contributed to romney's white house run. this morning engineers working to repair engine problem that stopped lunch of first private rocket to be used to resupply the international space station. >> 3, 2, 1, 0, liftoff. we've had a cut off. >> no liftoff as you heard there one of the nine rocket engines showed too much fuel pressure so the launch sequence automatically shutdown half a second before blast off. the spacecraft was safely shutdown and spacex officials will try to launch tomorrow that could be put off if the engine problem proves more serious. the check executive is also the ceo of the electric car company tesla based in fremont. major tech news. yahoo selling half shares in chinese e-commerce giant alibaba will pay yahoo several thousands to allow the company to appease unhappy share holders by being difficult vends. -- dividends. chinese company plans to go public in a few years. another chinese business conglomerate is buying a theater chain beijing based wanda group will pay more than 2 enough billion dollars for amc's thee -- 2 1/2 billion dollars for amc's theaters. headquarters will stay in kansas and 18,000 employees will keep their jobs. sale must be approved by china and u.s.. amazon.com sells products in california without charges tax now stands to pocket millions in sales taxes paid by golden state customers. amazon setting up two centers in the cities of san bernardino and patterson. sales to amazon customers throughout the state will be credited to just those two cities they will receive all the sales taxes earmarked for local government. local officials want to give amazon the lion's share of their estimated eight million dollar take as a reward. 5:17. time for the weather forecast and more proof it is never too early for movie popcorn. i heard you overthere. >> -- over there. >> that looked good. smells better than it tastes sometimes but still. that's not what it smells like when you step out smells like change, drizzle, you can usually smell that in the air, a little change hopefully knocking down pollen in your neighborhood surging back during the afternoon. barely see the top of the bay bridge going to be flight arrival delays into sfo. flight tracker, abc7news.com at the bottom. 49 santa rosa, 64 antioch everybody else low to mid 50s low to mid 50s monterey bay cloudy afternoon sun cooler today cloudy tonight patchy drizzle possible for tomorrow's commute cooling trend continues through friday five days in a row of temperatures dropping, biggest drop inland even though we drop a lot inland still five degrees warmer in livermore today napa san jose 76 oakland one degree cooler redwood city and san francisco two degrees cooler than average. sunsets 8:16 we won't see it come up at 5:55. mainly low to mid 70s peninsula, north of san mateo into millbrae upper 60s lingering clouds along the coast, upper 50s, mid to upper 60s downtown and south san francisco, clouds north bay beaches upper 50s mid to upper 70s inland, sausalito 67. . upper 70s to low 80s east bay valleys concord and danville 79. low to mid 70s monterey carmel, low to mid 70s monterey bay and low to mid 80s inland. going to the a's game taking on the angels tonight 7:05 partly cloudy, 63 to 56° temperatures keep dropping into the low to mid 50s tonight 40s cloverdale, clear lake, santa cruz and cloverdale santa rosa excuse me cold front coming down going to bring increasing clouds cooler conditions today, tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, friday two to 15° cooler highs in the 60s inland in the 90s yesterday slight warming trend for the weekend. pretty nice now just starting to see slowing as you head out of tracy in contra costa county not bad through walnut creek this is southbound past north main looking good towards highway 24 through the san ramon valley and sunol grade overnight roadwork cleared by 5:00 this morning at the bay bridge toll delay-free no problems on other bridges, fog across the golden gate bridge. we go to tracy and check out waze traffic map, heavy traffic reported six minutes ago westbound 205 past tracy boulevard. clicking on a few traffic spotters, they are moving around 25 miles an hour. there you go real-time traffic just updated 27 miles an hour now slower. altamont pass moving around 43 miles an hour. you can download this free traffic app by going to abc7news.com/waze. don't forget to become a traffic spotter. we are coming up on 5:21. next, former stanford quarterback luc tries out new duds. an awards contest a justin bieber fan will never forget. ab i found a powerful new way to cut out arthritis pain. [ male announcer ] new icy hot arthritis lotion. powerful encapsulated menthol gets icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. power past pain. good morning. bay area baseball scores in the bay bridge series a's beat giants 6-1 tone the giants' 11 game win streak. -- the win prevented the giants from sweeping the series because -- the a's host angels at the coliseum at 7:10 tonight. giants milwaukee at 5:10. andrew luc tries on his new colts even form. looks like a pro already. luc and the rest of the rookie class were in los angeles yesterday for the rookie premiere photo shoot he showed off his new uniform signed autographs and tossed a few fast -- passes he has a trading card and says he's settling down in his new role. >> feels better wearing a colts uniform than being a number one pick i'm excited to be part of the franchise really special. >> he posed with allen and -- the colts drafted colby from stanford. wanted to mention the a's beat giants 6-2 that was the score. probably still celebrating in las vegas this morning following the billboard music wars. -- music an wards. ♪ ♪ >> the winner of six wards lmfao kicked off the night by performing their try effect taff hits. the awards hosted by -- modern family co-stars aired right here on abc7. adele stole the show taking home afterwards, coldplay and lil wayne had big nights both earning four. who is that girl with justin bieber at the billboard awards? he invited an 18-year-old of virginia to be his guest, she asked bieber to be her prom date he opted for a bigger event. her dream date came true last night in las vegas, this won't stay there. find out more coming up on "good morning america". next, the growing buzz about the -- that the golden state warriors are ready to cross the bay. will residents be reward for conserving with a massive rate increase? if you missed it last night, you don't want to miss this story. we'll show you the spectacular show that the sun and moon put on. sunshine today, a few clouds along the coast upper 50s there, 60s to 70s around the bay shore, 70s, even 80s inland. most of the country is going to be stuck in 60s around the northeast, chicago and northwest 108 phoenix good news all major airports except philadelphia running on time philly has flight arrive days rain heading towards dallas low clouds should cause delays at sfo, not oakland and san jose. good monday morning. 5:30 a.m. thank you for joining us i'm eric thomas. and i'm kristen sze. warriors' officials not denying reports that the team is ready to move across the bay to san francisco. katie marzullo joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: another piece of the puzzle but cryptic. we are going off espn quoting a source who says the warriors are close to a deal to move to san francisco that source also says the team wants to move and is committed to making it happen. that's all from a source who is talking to espn. as far as word from the team we have a statement from one of the owners sunday who said only we are not prepared to make any announcements, at this time. that's why some are reading into that as a nondenial, if you will, of the move. we were able to talk with fans this morning who say they would definitely be disappointed if the team moved. >> they've been an oakland team and we've been having them over 30 years and they bring inspiration to the bay area. stay home warriors. >> there are a lot of fans here from way back. for them to leave would be really sad. >> reporter: it was about a week ago that san francisco mayor ed lee drafted and sent a letter saying that san francisco wanted the team to move that they would work with the team to make that happen. the city supervisors all seemed to be onboard they signed that letter and are promising to build a giant arena on the waterfront as the new home for the warriors. on the other side of the bay, you have mayor quan of oakland saying she and her people are committed to keeping the warriors in oakland. still has yet to be played out we are not talking about this really becoming a reality until the 2017-18 season it would be decided well before that. katie marzullo, abc7 news. 5:32 now. this week oakland leader consider banning protesters from carrying tools of violence in marches and demonstrations. public safety committee takes up proposal by city attorney parker tomorrow during a special meeting without mentioning occupy oakland by name the proposal refers to tools of violence used by recent incidents. may 1st, protesters torched a police car, it would be a miss business with a $1,000 fine and six months in -- it would be a misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine and six months in jail, if caught with hammerses, metal she'ds and rocks. chicago preparing for -- for more protests as final day of the nato summit begins in a few hours. police clash with demonstrators during the opening day of the summit yesterday leading to several injuries and dozens of arrests. protesters say boeing headquarters will be one of destinations today. many businesses have told employees to stay home. >> president obama still in chicago for day two of the summit. over the weekend mr. obama and afghan president hamid karzai reaffirmed commitment to draw troops out of afghanistan in 2014 and bring the long unpopular war to answer. world leaders will be discussing european missile defense and other security issues. this morning top u.s. commander in afghanistan says american troops will still be involved in combat after the u.s. officially shifts to a support role next year. general allen says the role will include coming to the aid of other nato troops he says american troops won't see answer to fighting until the end of 2014, the date nato has set for ending the war. funeral services will be held this morning for a bay area soldier killed in afghanistan, 30-year-old staff sergeant thomas fogerty of alameda was killed in afghanistan may 6th. his wife and two sons were joined by a group of vets friday for the arrival of his casket. funeral services will be held at kaufman auditorium in alameda at 11 a.m.. the sergeant will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery at a future date. wife of suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi is sharing her story with the i-team she tells investigative reporter about the fig

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