the early morning incident that's raised questions about a possible serial arsonist. the task of pulling pieces of that collapsed bridge out of the water in baltimore is now underway. the latest on the recovery and some adjusted egg hunts. the impact bay area weather is having on some easter weekend events. abc seven news starts right now, always live abc seven news starts right now.

two fires in two days on one city block. san francisco fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of the latest overnight emergency and whether they have a serial arsonist on their hands. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm diane lim, the latest fire, a three alarm blaze that started overnight at the building on weiss and 15th street. that's about a block away from the saint john the evangelist episcopal church, which was damaged by fire just one night earlier. the latest fire started early this morning at about 2:00, where two people suffered injuries and several others were displaced. crews say when they arrived, they initially thought the flames had spread from vehicles to the building. it took more than 100 firefighters to put out the flames, so initial reports told us that uh- vehicles on fire had spread to the buildings. >> the flames had spread up the back of the buildings. these are what we consider ordinary construction or wood frame buildings. these are older buildings. they catch on fire and spread very quickly. this fire uh- rapidly expanded from a

first alarm to a third alarm. >> the cause of the blaze is still under investigation. however, investigators have already determined the fire friday morning at the church on that same street was intentionally set. the search continues for the person responsible. meanwhile, the church is refusing to let yesterday's fire interfere with easter weekend events. it's hosting its annual easter vigil tonight, where church officials say the building is structurally sound and the interior is mostly undamaged. saint john's episcopal church put out a statement today saying it's, quote, standing strong in our beloved mission community. tonight's vigil starts at 8:00. now moving to our other big story, that storm making a somewhat damp easter weekend in some parts of the bay area as we take a live look outside, spencer is standing by in the storm center with more on that. the good news seems to see some sun out there. >> that is true, diana. i'm glad you said stormy weather in some parts of the bay area because as

you look at live doppler seven, you can see that for much of the bay area right now, the weather conditions are pretty quiet. however, down in the south bay, south of san jose, down in the area of coyote, morgan hill, it has been storming lately. i'm talking thunderstorm with reports of hail, small hail there and heavy downpours. and they're still heavy downpours throughout that region all the way down past morgan hill and into gilroy right now. and parts of the santa cruz mountains. so that's what we have at the moment. some stormy weather in the south bay, with quieter weather over most of the remainder of the area. this is still a level one storm in the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale, so for tonight, we expect a few scattered showers. brief isolated downpours are likely like the ones we're looking at in the south bay right now, and still a chance of some isolated thunderstorms. forecast animation taking us into the late afternoon early evening hours shows the intensity of this system diminishing as we get into the evening hours, and by midnight, we might not have anything going on in terms of a storm at all. i'll give you a look beyond tonight at easter,

whether tomorrow in just a few minutes. dion. all right. >> sounds good. spencer. thank you. well today's storms brought hail to some locations. here's what it looked like at one home in the santa cruz mountains. the viewer who took these photos says there was lightning there as well. now, parents across the bay area are watching the weather this weekend, hoping annual easter egg hunts would not be affected by the rain today. in many spots, storm clouds cleared, giving way to that sun. and abc seven news reporter cornell bernard has more on what many hope will be an excellent holiday weekend in 3 to 2 one go. >> so look out hundreds of four year olds coming in hot on a mission for easter eggs. >> fill up those baskets. >> this is the city of berkeley's annual spring egg hunt extravaganza, and cesar chavez park organizer steph chu feared the big family event might be a washout. >> we were running rain or shine, but we got really lucky with this weather. it the sun

came out for us, brigitte mendez brought her two kids, julian and olivia. >> i love the weather. >> was, cleared up and hopefully it stays like this for the rest of the weekend because we would like to do more fun events. >> elena ball's daughter and friends are all in. there's even a game plan. >> the strategy is to go deep and then work your way back. >> kids in pleasant hill making a mad dash for colorful eggs saturday at pleasant hill park. the grass was pretty wet. clearly nobody seemed to mind. now, across the bay, organizers were not risking the weather. they decided to move festivities indoors. >> we're using the church as the easter egg grounds, and we got eggs and candy secretly hidden everywhere. and the kids are having a ball they're just running through. >> and glide church in san francisco helped out at the last minute and opened its doors to families living in the tenderloin. >> usually happen at bodecker park, but because of the rain today, we did not want to disappoint the kids. so glide stepped in as it usually does,

and saved the day. >> cornell bernard abc seven news. >> and don't forget, you can track the rain throughout the weekend with our abc seven bay area apps. you can get the latest forecast and look at the very same live doppler seven radar. san diego, spencer and the entire weather team use. just search abc seven bay area in your device's app store now to download it for free. in maryland, massive cranes are working to pull out wreckage from the bridge collapse from earlier this week, the state's governor gave an update today, saying this task will take time. >> here's crews now working around the clock to clear the mangled debris of the collapsed francis scott key bridge in baltimore harbor. >> we have assets on the water enforcing safety zones 24 hours a day. we have assessments on the dolly being conducted 24 hours a day. this is an around the clock operation, and we're going to ramp up our 24 over seven posture in the coming days. >> the us navy sending four

massive cranes, including this one the largest available on the east coast, capable of lifting 1000 tons. crews will work to cut the debris into pieces, which will then be lifted out of the water one by one. >> the north sections of the key bridge are going to be cut up and removed. this will eventually allow us to open up a temporary restricted channel that will help us to get more vessels in the water around the site of the collapse. >> abc's elizabeth schulze with the coast guard getting an up close look at the complicated process, we can really see how challenging these conditions are. >> there is metal everywhere. jagged pieces of steel jutting out from underneath the water. >> the army corps of engineers has deployed sonar technology to better locate the debris and search for submerged vehicles. maryland's governor says the search for four construction workers who are still missing and presumed dead, is a top priority. >> we've continued to meet with families of all the victims, and they are in our hearts, and we are thinking about them now and

always. >> an inspection by the ntsb determining that 56 of the ships containers were carrying hazardous material. investigators say they've spotted a sheen on the water. but maryland's governor and coast guard officials say there's no immediate health or environmental threat. mary alice parks, abc news, washington. >> coming up, more than $900 million in powerball cash could be yours tonight. we'll take a look ahead to one of the largest lottery jackpot draws in history. coming up. also, a very sharp close call for a convenience store customer. what came rolling his way that sent him running and s

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$935 million is up for grabs tonight. no one has won powerball's top prize since new year's day. and that means it is 37 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. if there is no winner tonight, that could push the next drawing on wednesday over to $1 billion. health leaders in the bay area are warning about the rising risk of measles. the cdc counts nearly 100 cases across the country so far this year, nearly double the total for all of last year. california has reported five cases so far. the cdc says most of the people who've gotten sick were not fully vaccinated, and about half are children younger than five who are at higher risk of hospitalization. health leaders for all nine bay area counties say this is a good time to make sure your entire family is up to date on their measles

vaccinations. >> this was really an opportunity for us to be more proactive, do what we really want to do and prevent cases, prevent larger situations from developing. >> the cdc says the mmr vaccine is 97% effective against the virus. meantime, allergy season has arrived and this year the pollen is packing a punch. allergists say they are seeing more adults coming in with seasonal allergies than they have ever had before. doctor jonathan wittkowski of ucsf tells us our wet winter is part of it. so is climate change putting more carbon dioxide into the air that fuels trees and plants to produce more pollen? what was once a seasonal sniffle is turning into a year round problem. pollen data shows the spring allergy season started about 20 days earlier than normal. watanuki says that we're seeing pollen levels rise early and stay elevated for longer. >> they're really extending further into the year. it's not uncommon to see grass pollens lingering well into the fall,

even as late as october. so what used to be more of a seasonal inconvenience is proving now to be almost a year round challenge for many allergy sufferers. >> cdc data shows about 1 in 4 adults have seasonal allergies. that stat is slightly lower for children, but butowsky says he is seeing that number go up. coming up, a frightening close call involving a saw blade. the incident caught on camera that nearly cut short one man's trip to the convenience store. >> i'm spencer christian. we still have some active weather on this eve of easter, but it's beginning to ease a bit. i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a a victory that is there for the taking. grab it. now that was a great halftime speech. let's go win. [jim valvano] don't give up. don't ever give up®

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so what could have been a gruesome incident and it is all caught on camera. abc's morgan norwood has this story. >> chilling video of an oregon man narrowly dodging a runaway four foot saw blade just moments after he went into a convenience store. >> i mean, obviously it wasn't my time, but it was probably the closest i've ever experienced to . >> surveillance video shared with our affiliate showing the saw blade barreling with high speed towards this oregon store, then striking just inches away from the door that shane remke opened just seconds earlier. the saw blade nearly slicing through the wall, these photos showing the damage. >> i was walking into the store here. i put my handle on the door and i heard a loud banging yelling over here at the corner. just as a cloud of smoke pops up and i see a guy fall into the ditch and a four foot blade hurtling at me. >> the impact to the front of the store so strong, the owner says the entire building shook.

>> all they heard was like a metal rolling down from the street, and i looked at the camera. it was just wind and all the sudden we heard a loud bang like it shook the literally the whole store. >> a contractor on the scene who witnessed the incident telling our affiliate that the blade may have gotten loose from a lost bolt in addition to potential operator error, but remke says he's grateful to be alive following the close call and thankful to be here. >> really? absolutely. i mean, i was thinking maybe it was my time, but i don't think i would have survived getting touched by that thing. >> oh boy. >> hard to believe. >> what our director said, i think is true. there's a horror movie called saw. i think this is scarier. it is scarier. >> this is real life. >> well, i hope the weather isn't too scary. >> not so scary now. it's getting less scary as we get later into the day. dion right now looking at live doppler seven, you can see that there is some pretty scary weather down in the south bay. while much of the remainder of the bay area is experiencing fairly calm conditions, but we just had a

pretty powerful thunderstorm down in the area of morgan hill and up north up towards, san jose. so this entire region right now from gilroy, morgan hill, westward over into the santa cruz mountains has sort of a line of heavy downpours at the moment. and there has been some thunder and lightning mixed in there. but right now things are beginning to calm down just a bit. this is a level one storm still on the exclusive abc seven storm impact scale for tonight. we expect the intensity of the storm to continue diminishing, but there will be some scattered showers, maybe some brief isolated downpours and still a chance of an isolated thunderstorm or two. forecast animation starting at 6 p.m. shows that the most active weather will remain in the south bay. while there's a chance of a light shower somewhere else. but most of the remainder of the bay area will see calm weather tonight. however, overnight in the middle of the night, we'll see a little line of showers reaching down from the sacramento area southwestward through the central part of the bay area, but it won't amount to much and it should be all over by about 6:00 tomorrow morning, leading us into calm and at

least partly clear conditions for the start of easter sunday. right now we're looking at breezy conditions. the only gusty spot over in livermore, where gusts are up to 25mph. the big story right now is the temperature 24 hour temperature change. it is 8 to 12 degrees warmer across the region than at this time yesterday. so let's take a closer look. beautiful view from mount tam 61 degrees right now. san francisco, oakland and san jose also low 60s at hayward and san mateo and 59 degrees at half moon bay. looking westward toward the golden gate from emeryville. other temperature readings right now 64 degrees at santa rosa, a petaluma 59 and low 60s at napa, fairfield, concord and livermore. and these are our forecast headlines tonight. scattered showers still possibly an isolated thunderstorm or two. then tomorrow, easter, a very slight chance of showers. it looks like it's going to be a mainly dry day with a mix of clouds and sun. and then early next week, sunny and warmer overnight lows mainly in the mid to upper 40s and then highs tomorrow in the low to mid 60s.

and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. so nice calm day for easter sunday although again slight chance of a shower. sunny and warmer on monday. and that's not an april fools joke. that's for sure. but as we get later into this sunny and dry week, we'll see a drop in temperatures and maybe, maybe an isolated shower or two at the end of the week. >> okay, but maybe, maybe is a very scientific time. it is. yeah. okay. >> into your meteorological vocabulary. >> that's right. that's also too complicated for me to say. meteorological vocabulary. got it. tough. a lot of syllables. yeah. yours are much easier. yes. sports >> nine games left in the regular season for warriors hometown reunion last night for stephen curry last night in charlotte with a dub star set about translating success from the road to home sports is next

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comes to an end in san antonio tomorrow. after last night's win in charlotte. the dubs have won three in a row, entered tomorrow night's contest with a one game lead over houston for the 10th and final playoff spot in the west. the rockets are coming. they've won an nba best 11 straight games. the warriors got me on top of their game. family reunion last night stephen curry well he greeted his dad dell who's a broadcaster for the hornets pregame. and then he put on a show in front of everyone scoring a game high 23 in the 18 point win. afterwards, on the tv broadcast, steph had an idea of how to translate that great road play back to wins on their home floor. we might need to, like, stay in a hotel in san francisco and act like it's a road game, like they do in football.

>> stay in the hotel the night before. i don't know what it is about, you know the road warriors, we've kept our season alive, you know, with our road performance. so it means. it means a lot. and we're going to have, what it's looking like we're going to have to do that to get into the playoffs. >> we've been better on the road than at home. it's bizarre, a year ago, it was the complete opposite. you know, we were 33 and eight at home. and, oh, and 41 on the road or so, so who knows? i mean, it's hard to, to explain these things, but, we the main thing is we're playing well right now. >> the stanford women's basketball team, their run came to an end last night in a sweet 16 loss to nc state. the cardinal led by ten at the break, but it was all wolfpack after halftime. nc state outscored stanford, 2810, in the third quarter, taking control. stanford seasons ends in a 7767 loss. >> i don't think that anyone on our our staff or our team has to hang their head, we've had a great year and i'm really proud

of everyone, obviously sad, but, you know, i'm just happy to have had such an amazing career here, to be coached by to tara play with these amazing girls. so i'm sad. but you know, it's bittersweet for sure. >> women's suite 16 today. number five colorado trying to take down number one iowa and caitlin clark. but too much clark in this one. the presumed number one overall pick in the upcoming wnba draft put up a double double 29 points, 15 assists. hawkeyes win 8968. they're going to the elite eight. just over 5400 fans hoping to catch the a's first win of the young season. seventh pitch of the game center fielder jj bleday going to make one of the catches of the season so far. oh, what a catch robin jose ramirez a potential home run. so nice. we show it twice. yeah that was going to go over jp sears. when you're a pitcher. yeah you love that defensive effort. top four cleveland up a run runner on for los gatos native stephen kwan rbi single capped a three run frame five three. guardians and kwan wasn't

done. caps his three hit day with a solo blast to right in the seventh inning, his first of the year. a's lose 12 three. they are zero and three to start the season. giants and padres are down in san diego right now. we'll have those highlights a little later tonight. don, good to have you back. it's good to see you. thank you. i've missed you. >> i've missed the team. granted, being in hawaii for five weeks while on child bonding, leave, that's a good thing. i missed that as well. chris. thank you. yeah, well, still ahead, the easter weekend event that had visitors

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a ways to spend a spring weekend . how fun is that? only in the bay area. children's fairyland at lake merritt in oakland celebrate a day with, of course, tap dancing bunnies and an easter egg hunt. young visitors who found three wooden eggs got to exchange them for a special prize. the tap dancing bunnies, by the way, get the holiday off. but the rest of the easter festivities those continue tomorrow. and like you were saying, you know the weather. >> it's going to be nice tomorrow. a calm, a mix of sun and clouds, maybe an isolated shower, but generally we're talking dry weather. >> yeah, i'm sure you can just run through the raindrops and the kids don't mind anyway. exactly. >> any bunny who can tap dance deserves to have the day off. >> well, did anybody catch that? any bunny? any bunny? >> bunny. >> that was an excellent

forecast. oh, no. we used excellent already. >> should use it again. >> it worked. chris, give me something. >> let's hop into the commercial break and get ready. >> oh my gosh. >> all right, we are on a roll, everybody. that is all the time we have for this edition of abc seven news at five. oh, i can't come up with anything else, i can hardly. no no. what's a hair? oh, oh, we're gonna make the hair today. >> gone tomorrow. >> oh, my gosh, i'm losing at this game. >> we'll see you back >> mary: tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the terrifying moments on board a united jet hitting severe turbulence as it tried to land. the incident coming as millions pack airports for the holiday rush. efforts now under way to clear wreckage from the bridge collapse in baltimore. cutting into the tons of mangled steel and authorities in several states intensify efforts to crack down on home squatters. first, millions hit the skies and the roads, the tsa