Update: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office in Rochester and John Edwards' offices have also been evacuated. Our sister site, Bostonist is live-blogging the situation right now. Apparently, a man wants to "speak to Hillary Clinton. He has two hostages (maybe more) and [allegedly has] a bomb strapped to his chest ... police have asked the media not to take live shots of the building." Yikes.

A little bit of breaking news well outside of the Bay Area jurisdiction: as of this morning, several people are still being held hostage at Hillary Clinton's campaign office in New Hampshire. According to CNN:

The affiliates said the incident began about 1 p.m. at the headquarters in Rochester. WMUR in New Hampshire said the hostage-taker was an armed man ... a witness, Lettie Tzizik, told the station she spoke to a woman shortly after she was released from the office by the hostage-taker, saying "[a] young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,'" the Web site reported."

Clinton was in the Washington area at the time of the incident.

More on this later. Now back to NorCal-y tidbits. (And perhaps this will stave off a day of Robert Morrow's ever-amusing "Hillary Is A Bull-Dyke" emails? We hope so.)

Also, although we doubt it will have the same OJ Simpson-Al Cowlings-White Bronco appeal, you can read more about it and watch it live here.

Das klagende Lied is a three movement cantata, in which two brothers set out to find a flower that we'll allow one of them to marry a princess. The kind brother finds it, upon which the evil one goes all OJ on him to steal the flower and the promised bride. Part II sees a minstrel finding one of the slain brother's bones, and making a flute of it, which sings the tale of part I. Oh sorrow, woe! Oh, sorrow! indeed. The musician rushes to the princess' castle in part III, whereupon the remaining brother plays with the fateful flute, and brings upon more sorrow and more woe.

More after the jump

Lots of sports today

Warriors 120 Blazers 98- Okay, let's put this in perspective, the last time the Warriors made the playoffs was thirteen years ago. This is what the world was like back then:

Shannon Doherty was about to be kicked off "Beverly Hills 90210"
"Real World San Francisco" aired
Pulp Fiction was released
Biggie and Tupac were still alive and Kurt Cobain was alive for everything but the tail end of the season
People were into Ace of Base
Netscape Navigator was introduced
OJ got into his buddies' Bronco and all hell broke lose.

Man, those were good times.

Sharks 3 Predators 2- The Sharks took a 3-1 lead in the first round of the playoffs with one of those games were everything was in sync. They attacked on offense, banged some heads, and had great goaltending to win their second game in a row. In the game, Milan Michalek scored two goals and Nabokov made twenty-three saves to get the win.

Baseball after the jump

An Alaska airlines plane has been evacuated at the Oakland Airport for suspicion of an explosive device on board. It's probably nothing as it's usually nothing but it's still kind of exciting.

As we write this, the plane is being towed around the tarmac and just now pulled up to the gate. How do we know this? NBC 11 is showing a live feed of all of this on their web site.

Don't you love the internets?

Right now, the action is about as exciting as the OJ police chase, except without the cops and wife-killing murderer being escorted by one of his football buddies, but things could get more exciting. Call it Airport '07.

We'll update you throughout the day.

Those of you who read this site regularly probably think you have a good sense of what this particular correspondent is interested in -- traffic, Chris Daly, heartwarming tales about animals, general schadenfreunde. But we have a shameful confession to make. No, it's not that we secretly love/hate Gavin Newsom. No, it's not that we secretly love/hate Matt Gonzalez. We are the Susan Polk trial.

It's embarrassing! We never got into the OJ Simpson case, and we only followed the bare outline of the Scott Peterson trial. (Perhaps as a previous indication of things, though, we did obsessively follow the dog mauling trial. Who'd've thought out of everyone in that case, Kimberly Guilfoyle would be the one we hear the most about today? It's like how we never would have guessed that Posh Spice would have had the longest career.) But we're totally reading every single day the latest shenanigans in poor Judge Laurel Brady's courtroom over Susan Polk, defending herself against charges that she murdered her husband.

We've already thrilled to the constant requests for a mistrial, the fights about the sleeping juror, the expert who fled the courtroom, the son on Mom's side who's had the restraining order entered against him, the other two sons who think their mother did it, the increasingly-snippy remarks of the prosecutor. Today, Susan Polk is going to take the stand in her own defense. Should be some good afternoon procrastination material, right there!

That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words:

Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig. Jobs, especially acting jobs, are few and far between, And what better way to both make a few needed bucks in this Republican-no-new-jobs economy, and infiltrate the heart of asinine celebrity reality television, than by fully immersing myself in the inner-circle of the most notorious celebrity in history. I’m going to be Kato Kaitlin to OJ’s OJ. Yes, I'm going to be OJ's funny 2nd banana.

Harmon and OJ fake a disagreement in front of unsuspecting music video auditioners, fake an altercation on the golf course, and fake an argument at a bingo game, among other uncomfortably awkward sounding scenarios. Are you sensing a theme here? Harmon and OJ, fake fighting (we hope for Harmon's sake that OJ isn't a Method actor) all over LA? This could be awful, or brilliant, or, we hope, both.

You can see the first episode of "Juiced" tonight at 10.

How to get money, how to get money...hey, we'll solve some crimes! Arnold has offered rewards for information leading to the arrests and convictions in three Bay Area lukewarm cases. Apparently, if the governor receives a written request from a jurisdiction's police chief certifying that investigators believe the money could bring new leads and that victims' families support offering a reward, announcements like these are made. Jokes aside, if you have any information in any of these cases, please contact police in the city or county where the crime was committed.

If those crimes aren't high profile enough for you, how about the murder of Modesto resident Laci Peterson? And, yes, we know that her husband has been convicted of this crime, but that hasn't stopped his supporters, The Peterson Family Fund from offering a $250,000 reward for information that could exonerate Peterson or that could lead to the arrest and conviction of a different person in the crime. (Insert obligatory OJ joke here.)

Or, we just might buy a lottery ticket.

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