host: tonight's entertainment, gwen stephani will be performing. how many songs will she saying, typically? guest: probably two or three, i would think. they had the state dinner for mexico, beyonce was there, which was great. host: how do they go about deciding who the entertainment is question mark is at the first ladies decision? and thehe first lady president have conversations about it and decide who they would like to come, who the honored guest is a fan of. it goes back to protocol. you know what flowers they like, what do they like, what kind of food they like. it's a research project. learned about the flowers and food that will be served tonight when we did a state dinner preview. take a look. >> good afternoon. i am the white house social secretary. it is my honor and privilege to welcome you here today for the press preview of the state dinner. tomorrow, president and mrs. the attackwell come -- welcome the italian prime minister for the 13th and final of thisnner administration. get into the delicious cuisine we plan on serving, i want

gwen stephani, if she were going to eat. yo -- you do a number of friend through his for that. -- you do a number of run throughs for that. somebody cancels last minute or has an rsvp at the last minute, there are last-minute glitches, but you need to start the seating chart probably three days ahead of time to get it going. there is no panic like not having the seating chart. host: some of the regular folks tonight include chance the rapper, who tweeted this out. also, frank ocean tweeting. showing off his footwear for the evening. fromt lots of questions reporters about why he decided vans this evening. it would be interesting to know .hat table they are sitting at in terms of choosing the plate where, the glassware, what are those conversations like? there are all different kinds of china you can use for state dinners. sometimes it depends on what you are serving. if you are having a red sauce, you might not want to put it on an orange bordered china. a matter of figuring out how many people are coming. my last state dinn

host: tonight's entertainment, gwen stephani will be performing. how many songs will she saying, typically? guest: probably two or three, i would think. they had the state dinner for mexico, beyonce was there, which was great. host: how do they go about deciding who the entertainment is question mark is at the first ladies decision? and thehe first lady president have conversations about it and decide who they would like to come, who the honored guest is a fan of. it goes back to protocol. you know what flowers they like, what do they like, what kind of food they like. it's a research project. learned about the flowers and food that will be served tonight when we did a state dinner preview. take a look. >> good afternoon. i am the white house social secretary. it is my honor and privilege to welcome you here today for the press preview of the state dinner. tomorrow, president and mrs. the attackwell come -- welcome the italian prime minister for the 13th and final of thisnner administration. get into the delicious cuisine we plan on serving, i want

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host: tonight's entertainment, gwen stephani will be performing. how many songs will she saying, typically? guest: probably two or three, i would think. they had the state dinner for mexico, beyonce was there, which was great. host: how do they go about deciding who the entertainment is question mark is at the first ladies decision? and thehe first lady president have conversations about it and decide who they would like to come, who the honored guest is a fan of. it goes back to protocol. you know what flowers they like, what do they like, what kind of food they like. it's a research project. learned about the flowers and food that will be served tonight when we did a state dinner preview. take a look. >> good afternoon. i am the white house social secretary. it is my honor and privilege to welcome you here today for the press preview of the state dinner. tomorrow, president and mrs. the attackwell come -- welcome the italian prime minister for the 13th and final of thisnner administration. get into the delicious cuisine we plan on serving, i want

the star studded guest list including gwen stephany jerry seinfeld and mario who helped prepare the dinner. >>> the clinton campaign bus caused a disturbance tuesday in georgia a hazmat crew was called in to clean up because of what the bus was leek behind. itssuesage into the storm drain --sewage into the storm drain. amounts of toilet paper was found on the road and a foul smell was left in the air. >>> and it was matter of time before this happened disney lucas films the one behind star wars is suing a company that is offering light safer lessons. it says it will teach you light saving jedi training lucas films sunday happy they are no word if lawyers will fight the case in court or if luke sky walker will be sent in to defend all things good. >>> i don't know if they teach this at the school but i was on a playground last week, i heard a couple kids talking the little boy tells the little girl john, i've been a jedi for many years that's why i don't tell anybody how old i am. use it on the ladies it works. >> but if you are jedi you could be 400. >> yeah he has been one for many years.

the guests included gwen stephani, georgia armani and mario vitali who helped prepare the dinner. as we told you yesterday morning on "today in the bay," that is the president sipping some 06 our fine bay area wine. >> our best vintages. 5:38. we're watching temperatures. anthony, a pleasant day ahead. >> looking at cool temperatures to start. we've got lots of sunshine. clear skies over the golden gate bridge. you can see traffic moving without a problem. we don't have that typical fog out there this morning. we're going to see clear skies throughout the entire bay. chilly out there, 48 in palo alto, 53 in san jose, 5 in oakland and 55 in san francisco. look ot our high temperatures this afternoon. room temperatures for most of us. 74 for redwood city, 67 for san francis francisco. a good array of mid to upper 70s even down to the south bay. temperatures warmer tomorrow and then we're tracking rain as we approach the weekend. we'll talk about that coming up. in the meantime, let's talk to mike. tracking a veseries of crashes. >> the metering lights on at the bay bridge. here you

host: tonight's entertainment, gwen stephani will be performing. how many songs will she saying, typically? guest: probably two or three, i would think. they had the state dinner for mexico, beyonce was there, which was great. host: how do they go about deciding who the entertainment is question mark is at the first ladies decision? and thehe first lady president have conversations about it and decide who they would like to come, who the honored guest is a fan of. it goes back to protocol. you know what flowers they like, what do they like, what kind of food they like. it's a research project. learned about the flowers and food that will be served tonight when we did a state dinner preview. take a look. >> good afternoon. i am the white house social secretary. it is my honor and privilege to welcome you here today for the press preview of the state dinner. tomorrow, president and mrs. the attackwell come -- welcome the italian prime minister for the 13th and final of thisnner administration. get into the delicious cuisine we plan on serving, i want

to make them feel right at home chef batali is going to lead the enough, gwen stephani will be entertainment. >> julie: on roads right now, accident route 9 eastbound, we have a rollover, right where route 9 intersects with to pike framingham. route 1 in saugus still heavy steady volume up there and 93 south is slowing down as you work your way there you medford and into somerville and look at thisis, approach leave ten minutes early 19 minutes from the weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel. 22 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the exit for the pike. gene and sara, back to you. >> gene: 7:17 on tuesday morning. rain, cloud, fog, it is a tuesday. >> look at bright side. it is going to be sunny later. like tuesday any more. >> gene: turning attitude completely around. >> shiri: not going to feel like fall. it will feel like summer. boston murk three, warm and humid conditions and i have to say i don't think it is going to be necessarily record breaking, fall flat of record highs and then we got winds gusting 25 to 30 miles per hour and also going to be breezy on top of al