matter. muni riders for months have been dealing with frustrating delays and today is no different. sharon chen joins us from san francisco to tell us what commuters were facing. sharon? >> reporter: the problem this morning was here in the tunnel at church and depose. it is the latest in a series of problems that muni has had in recent months. just after 7:00 this morning, muni reports problems with a switch. that piece of track that directs trains where to go. the switch going inbound to the subway was not running automatically and it is the busiest switch in the system and it affected inbound and outbound metro service for an hour and a half as the metro lines stacked up one behind the other and the passengers had to pile on to shuttles on market street. muni says there is a temporary fix in place but some regular muni riders say they have gotten used to muni delays a few times a week at this same location. >> it is like trying to go to work, it sucks. when i get off of work, i don't care, because you don't have to be really anywhere but it is the same old story going to work all the time. >> you're dealing with muni. if you don't leave two extra whole hours sometimes, because the bus might get, you know, disconnected, or it tells you it is coming in 12 minutes and it is coming in 56. there is always something. >> reporter: muni passengers have been dealing with hundreds of delays in recent months. one persistent problem has been defective stops where they fail to let trains switch from manual to automatic at the tunnel entrance. and the agency's chief blames mechanical problems and equipment failure for other delays. muni says they are being repaired and says that service should improve this month and next. the passengers say they hope that is true. otherwise, the first gentleman that we talked to said he is going to start riding his bike to work. allen? >> that is an option. sharon, thank you. police are investigating the six shootings in three days in oakland. it was about 2:00 in the morning, a motorist driving on high street was shot in the head. his car rolled into a house, hit the gas meter and that triggered a gas leak. seven people had to evacuate their homes. the man who was shot is in critical condition this afternoon. on saturday, a teenaged boy and a young man were shot to death as they sat in a car on eighth street. so far police say no arrests in either case. and investigators are trying to figure out what started a small fire at a school in oakland overnight. this is at claremont middle school. the firefighters say it appears that the fire started in the roof of the school gym. they are not considering this suspicious. six days after the election, this afternoon, we could finally find out who is going to be the next mayor of oakland. mark sayer has the latest vote count for us this afternoon. mark? >> reporter: there is still at least one more round of rank choice vote to be released here in oakland later this afternoon. let's bring you the latest information we have right now. oakland city council member gene quan has taken the lead for mayor of oakland by a margin of 51-point% to 48.9%. that is what is happening in oakland here today. election workers are busy counting thousands of mail-in and provisional ballots from all over almeda county. the votes from the city of oakland have been separated. and election workers expect to at least have yet another round of rank choice voting results around 4:00 this afternoon. and the way the rank choice voting process works, this race could still get tighter. >> in the oakland mayor's race of course, with rank choice voting, it is a little bit of a different wrinkle than we've seen in oakland before. we had 10 candidates for mayor. and what we do is we count all of the first choice vote, so voters rank their choices one two and three. and in the first round, all we do is count first choice votes. if one candidate gets 50%, the majority of votes, that candidate is the winner and we don't look at second and third choices. if no candidate gets the majority of the first choice vote, the candidate who is last is eliminated and we count that candidate second choice vote. >> now, as many as 90,000 mail- in ballots were dropped off at polling places on election day in almeda county. that has created quite a huge backlog as you can see. for her part, council member quan says she will hold a news conference at city hall this afternoon at 4:30 after the latest results come out no matter what they say, allen. and just to be clear, this result at 4:00 may not necessarily be the final, final, final result. the county has 28 days to get it certified under state law. there are still a lot of ballots left uncounted and they are hoping for solid results and maybe we will know who is probably the mayor of oakland at 4:00 this afternoon. >> mark, thank you. the today, the too close to call race in the 11th congressional district landed in a courtroom. as the ballot counting continues, gerri mcnerny has a small amount of a lead over the republican. and they have concerns about signature verifications on some of the mail-in ballots. other news around the bay area today, charges are expected to be filed this afternoon, against the man police say posed as a utility worker and then robbed and killed a san francisco woman. police say that 46-year-old business woman kathleen moran was found dead in her russian hill apartment. they arrested gary holland over the weekend in sutrow heights park and they say he is suspected of killing moran when he went door to door last week in a russian hill apartment building pretending to check for a gas leak. it cost $1 million to fix a 10-inch crack under the san mateo bridge, discovered in a support beam during a routine inspection last month. crews from caltrans and the contractor sandwiched the crack between two new plates of steel in order to fix it. and a shortage of health inspectors means san francisco restaurants are only getting one of the two annual inspections that they should get. the city is supposed to have 23 seniors for its 5600 restaurants. the department is down to 19, because of retirements and discipline ry issues and says it will take months to fill the vacancies. coming up, more bad eggs. what is behind another massive recall and the states that are affected. and a royal debut on facebook. sort of. how the queen is still keeping her social discourse. and tons of sunshine outside this monday. you know what? after that soaker we picked up yesterday, i can use a little sunshine. but don't put away that umbrella just yet, more rainfall in the forecast tomorrow. yes, i will spell it out, all coming up. ,,,,,,,,,, dentures are softer than teeth. and a lot of people, when they get a denture, they think the best way to clean it is by brushing it with toothpaste. toothpaste contains abrasives that scratch dentures, leaving microscopic crevices where bacteria can grow, and bacteria can cause bad breath. the best way to go is to soak them in polident. only polident is proven to clean without scratching and kills 99.9% of odor-causing bacteria. i recommend using polident and soak every day. it's the right way to go. bad eggs are back in the news with another recall. and salmonella again the likely suspect. dr. kim mulvilhill joins us to explain what is going on this time. >> reporter: this is a bad strain of salmonella. the voluntary recall involves more than a quarter of a million eggs. distributed to eight states, including california. cal main headquartered in mississippi is the nation's largest egg seller and distributor. the company announced today's recall, after a routine test came back positive for salmonella. cal main says it bought the eggs from an ohio farm. the strain of salmonella is the same as the culprit implicated in the massive recall of eggs earlier this year. for a complete list of recalled egg goes to cbs 5 and click on news and click on health. ucf medical center is one of 15 sites across the nation that will soon test a special enzyme on autistic children who are more likely to have gastrointestinal problem and some are deficient in this enzyme and researchers want to see if they give the kids replacement enzymes if it helps to better digest protein and improve brain function an ease symptoms. and while san francisco is getting rid of the toys in certain happy meals, a new report says there is a much bigger problem. that fast food restaurants are dishing up enormous servings of ads that are specifically targeting young kids. and yale researchers say last year the fast food industry spent more than $4 billion in ads and marketing to get their message out. and they used television and the internet, social media sites as well as mobile applications. today, preschoolers are seeing 21% more fast food ads than they did in 2003. and fast foods are often high in salt, sugar, and fat. >> and presuming there aren't too many preschoolers on facebook or tweeting at that age, taoá not too many. >> older kids are seeing even more. >> most of that has to be on television, i would assume for preschoolers. >> the bulk is on television. and it is starting early so it is a problem. they like the ads and they like the food. >> and the content has not changed in the fast food, salt, sugar, fat. >> right. we got to work on that. we should improve the food itself. >> kim, thanks. coming up, are you trying to sell some of your spare gold? who has spare gold? the key word to use to get the best deal, if you have it. wow, wouldn't it be nice to have some spare gold lying around? here is a look out toward the bay today. plenty of clouds. just a few. fair weather clouds. and plenty of blue skies. the forecast for today, sunshine, but the rainfall as early as tomorrow. your forecast and today's chilly temperatures coming up. ,,,,,, the black widow spider's severe bite can cause coma and even death. the african black mamba can kill a man with one bite. but there's an even deadlier predator cigarettes, produced by big tobacco, which take a life every six point five seconds. don't be big tobacco's next victim. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i can join the fun and games with my grandchildren. great news! for people with copd, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both, advair helps significantly improve lung function. while nothing can reverse copd, advair is different from most other copd medications because it contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, working together to help you breathe better. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking advair. i had fun today, grandpa. you and me both. if copd is still making it hard to breathe, ask your doctor if including advair will help improve your lung function for better breathing. get your first full prescription free and save on refills. welry you don' with gold at record prices, each though the dow is down, it is a perfect time to get rid of the jewelry that due wear anymore but before you do that, be careful. julie watts takes us undercover to see how to get the best price when you sell. >> reporter: if you have it, they want it. with the price of gold at an all-time high, it seems everyone is offering to buy. >> here is money. >> we are melting gold, baby. >> reporter: through the mail, at the mall, it is gold-buying events but who is actually paying the most? we went undercover to find out. our jewelry, a 24-carat chain, an 18 karat gold band and a 14 karat owe play ga necklace. to determine how much it is all worth we took it to a store, a commercial gold refinery. they can't buy gold directly from you so they opted not to be on camera but this is where the licensed retailers who do buy your gold get paid. >> we're curious to find out from the experts what the belt would actually be. >> well, the melt is the term to account for how much gold the pieces produce once they're melted down. >> have you an ounce of pure here. >> our gold is worth $1,320. but experts say we should only expect to get between 40 and 80% of that. first up, van ramosian, a licensed jeweler in san francisco, his total? >> 852. >> that is about 65% of the value of the pure gold or the melt and a pretty good offer according to our experts. next we hit the southland mall in hayward. and the buyer at the jewel time kiosk assured us he would give us a good deal. >> nobody gives us better prices than me. >> and what is the price he says no one can beat? >> it came down to $735. >> it is about 58% of the melt. and our experts say is still not a bad deal. but what about the gold rush kiosk just a few feet away? their offer $549 or 41% of the melt. but the clerk did offer to give us something extra. >> there is a bonus. >> but he wouldn't agree to what the bonus was unless we sold. >> and there is secured gold buyers was holding a gold buying event. after weighing and examining our piece, the appraiser said our gold chain wasn't real gold. ironically it was the only 24 karat piece we had but she did offer $221 for the other two piece, plus an extra 10% because we had a newspaper coupon. and the total? $241. 41% of the melt. our lowest offer came from this pawnshop in oakland where the appraiser said there was not much market for our pieces. >> this kind of stuff is not really selling right now. >> his offer? $265 for all three. just 20% of the gold's value. and overall, the offers ranged from around 200 to 800 bucks, or 20 to 6 a% of the melt. the -- 65% of the melt. the best deal? a licensed dealer. the worst? our pawnshop. so let's learn from our little experiment. to get the best price, you have to know what you have so start with a trusted jeweler and then you want to shop around. you don't want to take that first offer. and it can't hurt to know thelingo, so ask them what percentage of the melt they're willing to give. and remember, if you have a consumer question or complaint, give them a call, our consumer watch volunteers are standing by right now. allen and tracy? >> julie, thanks. >> and in this case, it is seller beware. >> that was an interesting piece. >> what are you selling? >> are you selling sunshinerequest? >> i'm selling a good forecast. >> it is not really warm but it is really nice. >> what are you trying to say, allen? >> what are you selling? >> i'm selling snow. how about snowfall. >> now you're selling snow? to skiers? >> they have quite a bit of snowfall, a cold front that came through yesterday, so snowfall in the sierra. and again, down closer to the bay area, we do have plenty of sunshine. so here is what we're looking at. you can see closer to the bay area, a live shot here, there we go, san jose, plenty of sunshine. if i can get my buttons right over here. here we go. this afternoon, sunny and cool. the temperatures in the lower 60s inland. as well as for the bay. and the lower 60s along the coastline. and those are today's highs and keep in mind it is going to be cool and breezy. for tonight, clear and cold with some frost expected inland and clear and chilly around the bay and clear and chilly for the coastline and we do have a frost advisory in effect for the north bay mountains and it kicks in at 3:00 tomorrow morning, and to 8:00 a.m. tuesday, and the mountains and valleys, the temperatures are expected to be in the lower to mid-30s so we're asking you to protect your sensitive plants and don't forget your pets. here is a look at what is happening. a cold front came through. and behind that, the rainfall. and a chance of showers coming in for tuesday. and it looks like the best chance is going to be for tuesday afternoon. and today's high, lower 60s, from fairfield to concord to livermore and oakland at 62, and 61 in fremont. and 62 in san jose. and 60 degrees in san francisco. and the lower 60s from santa rosa, as well as in napa. and overnight lows, yes, it is going to be chilly. mid to upper 30s in santa rosa, as well as in napa. and 38 degrees in fairfield. and 45 in oakland. and 41 in fremont. and 43 in san jose. and the upper 40s in san francisco. also in pacifica. 37 degrees out in livermore. the five-day forecast, showers moving in tomorrow. after that, sunshine, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, and sunday. plenty of sunshine. high temperatures in the mid- 70s by the weekend. yes, i will take it. my pix photo, mount diablo sunrise sent in by don meeker and he calls it a butter milk sky with marine layer. thank you, don. and one more. frost covering the terra linda valley. elliot starnel of san rafael. if you have a nice photo with our weather around the bay area, feel free to e-mail it to us at cbs5.com. that's a look at the weather. back to you. you want to see what your friends or kids are up to online? there is a new tool that is a web site that makes it easier than ever. they call it rock melt. it is a new internet browser that incorporates social networking services like twitter, facebook, and along with your favorite web site. rock melt is the brain child of a silicon valley venture capitalist. the same guy who came up with net scape way back when. there is a new face on facebook here. pretty famous. she comes from great britain. you might recognize her. charlie d'agata slows us the 84- year-old royal already has 100,000 fans. >> reporter: the face that has launched her share of ships. >> i name this ship queen elizabeth. >> reporter: she has just launched her own facebook page. >> really? okay. cool. that's pretty strange, actually. >> reporter: maybe a bit of both. but the 84-year-old monarch sees it as a perfectly modern way to tap into the web site's 500 million users. you will find daily updates on the royal family and po toes and uncoming -- photos and upcoming engagements. it is already popular. 60,000 people clicked to signal they liked it, meaning that they will get every update that is posted. >> i don't think you will be able to interact personally with her majesty but there is information and technology. >> and she has always fashioned herself the queen of new technology. here she is in 1957 in a live tv broadcast on christmas day. >> my family gathered around to watch television. >> she has her own royal youtube channel since 2007. >> the queen headed into the heart of the area. >> and the palace says facebook is just one more way for loyal followers to keeb tabs on britain's most royal -- to keep tabs on britain's most royal subjects. charlie d'agata, cbs news, londen. >> in case you were wondering, the queen's page does not display personal data such as her relationship status or interests or political views either. coming up, one lone ranger fan has to pay up. what he had to do in front of hundreds of giants fans today. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, deals some coming up tonight at 5:00, from freebies to the discounts, you can get the dish on deals the retailers would rather you not know. that story and more coming up at 5:00 tonight here on cbs 5. how about a little more torture for texas? a rangers fan makes good on his bet. >> my love is in san francisco. above the blue and windy sea. >> we kind of rather he didn't do that. >> that is gary thomas, the top transit executive in dallas. he made a wager with the bart executives on who would win the world series. >> he lost. >> and since the rangers lost, this morning, what he was trying to do was sing, "i left my heart in san francisco." >> he gets an "a" for effort. >> and maybe the cookies were better than his singing because he passed out cookies to bart riders. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,