diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/example/android/sunshine/app/MainActivity.java b/app/src/main/java/com/example/android/sunshine/app/MainActivity.java
index 80b7e8967..0e4db7b33 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/example/android/sunshine/app/MainActivity.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/example/android/sunshine/app/MainActivity.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
 import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
+import android.util.Log;
 import android.view.LayoutInflater;
 import android.view.Menu;
 import android.view.MenuItem;
@@ -25,6 +26,12 @@
 import android.view.ViewGroup;
 import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
 import android.widget.ListView;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -107,6 +114,65 @@ public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
             ListView listView = (ListView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.listview_forecast);
             listView.setAdapter(mForecastAdapter);
 
+            // These two need to be declared outside the try/catch
+            // so that they can be closed in the finally block.
+            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
+            BufferedReader reader = null;
+
+            // Will contain the raw JSON response as a string.
+            String forecastJsonStr = null;
+
+            try {
+                // Construct the URL for the OpenWeatherMap query
+                // Possible parameters are avaiable at OWM's forecast API page, at
+                // http://openweathermap.org/API#forecast
+                URL url = new URL("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?q=94043&mode=json&units=metric&cnt=7");
+
+                // Create the request to OpenWeatherMap, and open the connection
+                urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+                urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
+                urlConnection.connect();
+
+                // Read the input stream into a String
+                InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
+                StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
+                if (inputStream == null) {
+                    // Nothing to do.
+                    return null;
+                }
+                reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
+
+                String line;
+                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                    // Since it's JSON, adding a newline isn't necessary (it won't affect parsing)
+                    // But it does make debugging a *lot* easier if you print out the completed
+                    // buffer for debugging.
+                    buffer.append(line + "\n");
+                }
+
+                if (buffer.length() == 0) {
+                    // Stream was empty.  No point in parsing.
+                    return null;
+                }
+                forecastJsonStr = buffer.toString();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                Log.e("PlaceholderFragment", "Error ", e);
+                // If the code didn't successfully get the weather data, there's no point in attemping
+                // to parse it.
+                return null;
+            } finally{
+                if (urlConnection != null) {
+                    urlConnection.disconnect();
+                }
+                if (reader != null) {
+                    try {
+                        reader.close();
+                    } catch (final IOException e) {
+                        Log.e("PlaceholderFragment", "Error closing stream", e);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
             return rootView;
         }
     }