showers are falling across the bay area. a spring soaking with more rain to come. i'm carolyn johnson. >> and i'm dan ashley. we will start with the rain as you can see from these pictures it came down in vallejo where the chp warned drivers to slow down and be careful. >> the same story in san francisco tonight. the lights of the city traffic bounced off the streets. sand yaw patel is -- sandhya patel is tracking it for us. >> want to show you live doppler 7hd, and you will see where the wet weather is located. let's start in the south bay. they took a pretty big hit. i want to show you that it has lightened up quite a bit.

snell avenue, blossom road, morgan hill and san mar teen and the gilroy area is getting light showers as well. in the east bay, concord, walnut creek, we will take you down to street level here, and you will seat treat boulevard is pretty wet here. very, very light returns right now. in the north bay, it is not much. you will see on the rainfall totals, .01 of an inch and oakland and half moon bay, and get out toward livermore, .15 of an inch. look at the peninsula, and it got soaked. .42 in redwood city. san jose, .21 of an inch. there is the next system. we'll talk about how that system will be much different than today's. >> see you shortly. a dog dragged for miles on an east bay freeway survived thanks to some good samaritans. the family spotted the dog being dragged behind the pick up until the rope snapped and

that's when they rescued it is an will ma. leslie brinkley is live where the animal was treated. leslie? >> what a recovery for this dog. yesterday he had surgery to have his leg amputated and hobbling around after surviving this horrible ordeal. >> he was gasping like he wasn't going to make it. i am in awe. >> reporter: angie and her son were reunited with the dog they saved along interstate 780. the puppy now named freeway is remarkably anymore bell on three legs. they saw the dog dangling from the side of a pick up truck, a rope around its neck. >> i noticed something flapping in the wind behind this black truck. got a little closer and noticed it was the dog. panic mode. we started screaming. i was laying on my horn and trying to catch up to the person. he was going pretty fast. >> how do you not feel a dog flapping on the side of your car when you get over? it is horrible.

>> they followed the truck as it exited the freeway. >> the rope broke and he fell to the ground and flipped i don't know how many times on the side of the freeway wall. the guy didn't stop, put on his brake or nothing. he just kept going. >> it was really, really sad and scary. i was praying he was still alive. >> the german shepherd was alive and in shock. this veterinarian treated him. >> we did have to amputate the one leg because it was so badly fractured in the knee we had no fashion to preserve it. >> how will he do? >> he should do great now. >> they are footing all of the medical bills. >> when we hear a story of a dog being dragged along the freeway and hitting the side of a truck we do everything we can to save his life. but we have to raise the money to cover his expenses, his recovery. >> the recovery should take four weeks and then freeway will be up for adoption. the driver was never caught.

>> anyone has information about that black older model chevy pick up truck and this german shepherd, certainly animal services would like to hear from them. but the good news here tonight is that this dog, freeway, is going to make it and is going to recover. reporting live in vallejo, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> thank you, leslie. as leslie just mentioned the humane society is paying for freeway's surgery, but there are many expenses. if you would like to help defer some of the cost taboos to our website and see a link on see it on tv. tonight police in san francisco are looking for three men who attacked two people, assaults apparently motivated by hate. ama dates is live in the castro district where one of the attacks happened. ama? >> dan, one of the attacks happened at 2:30 in the morning. about a week later the second one came right about this time of night. now, as you said, police have three suspects they believe are responsible for both

attacks, and tonight we have sketches of what they look like. san francisco police want to track down these three men. they believe they are responsible for two hate crime assaults. the first attack happened march 29th in the 400 block of castro. the second came on april 7th there the intersection of market . >> and in both incidents, the suspects attacked the victims and yelled homophobic remarks. the investigators believe they are the same suspects in both these incidents. >> joshua shaw lives and works. >> my wife walks out on the street here and out to the grocery store late at night, and we feel no particular fear or worry. >> shaw is not surprised these hate crimes happened. that said -- >> i am a little surprised that it happened. but obviously that's a terrible thing. >> we caught up with josh blackburn. he lives in the diamond heights area and hadn't heard about the assault. >> it is surprising. i usually feel pretty safe in

the castro. >> and in fact, he hasn't had any problems in the castro. >> a few times a few friends of mine have gotten into some skirmishes, but nothing so far as down here in the castro district. >> police want to get the suspects off the streets so take a good look. all three men are described as either hispanic or white or hispanic, and they spoke with an east coast or foreign accent. police are hoping someone will recognize these men and call them, or they want to make sure there aren't any other victims out there of similar incidents. if you know who these men are call 415-575-4444. in san francisco, ama dates, abc7 news. >> thanks. the san francisco district attorney george gascone says charges will be filed against a bike rider who killed an elderly pedestrian, but he has not decided whether it will be a misdemeanor charge or a felony man manslaughter. a 71-year-old died last month

after being hit on market and castro streets. he was in a crosswalk and had a green light. he denies reports he was speeding and he says he tried to stop the crash by laying down his bike. but there are contradictory statements. we are learning more about the case of mad cow disease in central california. the cow is five years old and came from a a dairy farm. the farm has not been identified. investigators are now trying to track down where the cow came from before it arrived at the dairy. health and food officials say the animal was not headed for human consumption and the food supply is safe. police in the east bay could catch a scam artist who has been dealing in gold, fool's gold. alan wang is in the newsroom with a clue that could lead them straight to the scammer. alan? >> carolyn, investigators say the scam is taking place all over the bay area, but what makes this recent one

significant is police now have a picture of the suspect. they want you to look at it closely. this is the man who alameda county sheriff deputies say scammed an elderly castro valley woman out of $7,000 by selling her a fake gold bar. >> on this particular case, the person was wearing scrubs like he works in a hospital. so they get some sort of trust going. >> the fake gold bar looked similar to this one bought by a woman who was duped in the sacramento area back in 2010. police say the scam usually goes down in the parking lot of a shopping center, and the victims are elderly. >> they tell us a tale of whoa and how their family member needs medical care and they need money quickly and they are willing to sell a gold bar or gold bars to the person so they can raise money. >> the scam artist offers the fake gold bar at a discounted price. they accompany the victim to the bank, take out cash, make the exchange and the victim doesn't find out until they go to the jewelry store and get

the bad news. >> but we also know that this person has worked all over the bay area and the other parts of the state as well. >> in the past two years, six victims have reported being duped out of thousands of dollars from bakersfield to chico. one woman lost $9,000. now investigators hope this photo will help them catch up with the suspect who was selling fool's gold all over the state. police say the suspect may speak spanish and may have an accomplice who buys the gold bar in front of them for credibility. they say there are too many more victims who are too embarrassed to come forward. if you have been a victim or know this person call the sheriff's department. in the newsroom,al ben wong -- alan wang, abc news. >> thank you. a mendocino county prosecutor is under investigation after a marijuana growing operation was found at his home. 150 plants were found, authorities say, growing inside the home of deputy district attorney sergio

fuentes. it is the one he shares with his mother. the case is investigation and no arrests have been made at this point. he is on paid administrative leave. up next, the weekend doyle drive closure. we'll look at alternatives for anyone who needs to make their way over the golden gate bridge. >> and a kidney recycled. how doctors transplanted a single organ twice. >> and a crumpled car where the family inside dangles off the side of this california freeway. and then late other "nightline". >> i'm cynthia mcfaden, carolyn and dan, coming up on "nightline" when debt collectors asked her for money she fought back and won big. tonight she turns the tables to collect. plus is hidden in -- plus, hidden in america. they call themselves the forgotten ones. >> thank you, cynthia. abc news at 11:00 continues

brace yourself for gridlock if you plan to cross the golden gate bridge. doyle drive is closing for construction on friday night. drivers are being warned to steer clear of the area all

weekend long. the closure begins at 8:00 at night. it will allow crews to demolish the existing doyle drive which is seismically unsafe. the 76-year-old structure was so bad that a retrofit was rejected because of a frightening low safety rating. >> it was pretty low. out of the inventory of all of the bridges in the highway network in california, it is probably the lowest. >> this is animation of what the roadway will look like common day. traffic will be transferred to a testimony pour ray bypass that connects to a new southbound tunnel. it will accommodate traffic in both directions until the tunnels are completed in 2015. the primary alternate route to the willed goen gate bridge is -- to the golden gate bridge is 19th avenue. it can cut through the presidio. the richmond-san rafael bridge is another option. to find your way around during the closure be sure to download our ways app to your smart phone and become an exclusive abc7 news traffic spotter. it is available through i

tunes or the an droid market. now to a one of a kind surgery, remarkable really. a 27-year-old man suffering from a rare disease that destroyed his kidneys was given a new kidney by his sister. now, when the disease began attacking that kidney doctors removed it after only two weeks. the kidney healed itself and was successfully retransplanted into a 67-year-old man. doctors say it is the first documented case of this kind in the united states. other retransplants only occur when the first patient has died. the patient who initially received the kid intoe is back on dye -- received the kidney is back on dialysis. and a mangled mess that you are looking at is what is left after a rav4 was sideswiped and lost control rolling over several times. cal trans workers positioned a fork-lift under the car to secure it as it dangled over the side of the 805 freeway. remarkable. a 66-year-old grandmother

sadly died in the accident, but the four others in the car including an eight-year-old boy are all expected to survive. the senate today delayed deciding how much to gut the nearly bankrupt u.s. postal service. instead law i can makers voted to -- lawmakers voted to grant it a bailout. the money is supposed to be used to pay down the $12 billion debt and buy out 100,000 employees. the senate measure puts a one year moratorium on closing rural post offices and leaves it up to the house to continue the debate on shutting down the large processing plants including those in petaluma and burlingame. nasa is asking for help finding praying nents of the -- fragments of the asteroid. meteor buses across the country are scouring el dorado county for space fragments. they may contain] rare amino acids and molecules and there could be plenty of them. the asteroid detonated with the full force of a quarter of the energy released by the

adam bomb. >> all right. let's get a check on our rather wet forecast right now. >> it is a little rainy out there. this is, what, the first of two systems? >> that's right. we have another system coming in, and it is due in early tomorrow morning. you will need the umbrellas. they are still showing in showers right now in the north bay. we are getting a few spotty, light showers toward the east bay vawrks lay hoe, concord, san ramon and the livermore valley area. i want to take you across 580. we are seeing light to moderate rainfall. so just keep in mind that the showers are beginning to wind down. san jose down toward salinas and also some showers. look what is happening in the central valley. we have strong thunderstorms that have been developing from bakersfield heading up to the vie sale yaw area. the same system responsible for the rain we saw are responsible for those thunderstorms. rain sent via twitter by

elise -- oh she said it was coming down, and i believe her. we did have some good amount of rain coming down with this system. here is the view. it was just a couple hours ago. you can see the puddle there with the rain coming down at times. it was pretty steadily and heavily in spots. the temperatures right now in the 50s and the 60s. here are the highlights, another system arrives by morning. spotty, light showers are expected for your thursday. and it is going to be sunny and warmer as we head into the weekend. here is the satellite and the radar. hereth is a system heading into southern california, but it pushed some rain our way. 245* moisture that came in obviously produced the rain for the bay area tonights. we have a cold front coming in. this will bring us some rain as we head into your thursday morning. showers are winding down. this is what we are going to see. a few early morning showers, very spotty at 5:00 tomorrow morning. you will have the slick roadways from tonight's rain. you will need a little extra

time, and by early afternoon it doesn't hold together very well. the light showers are winding down. rainfall totals are anywhere from 0 to about a 10th of an inch through thursday evening. and here is what it looks like first thing in the morning. a few showers as i mentioned and a very mild start. low to upper 50s. tomorrow afternoon we are looking at a cooler day. the cold front comes through and the air mass is cooler. we are looking at numbers ranging from the upper 50s places like half moon bay and clear lake to about the mid60s in san jose, antioch, fairfield. you will see partly cloudy conditions in the afternoon. for the monterey bay, 65 in santa cruz and 64 in gilroy with the showers winding down. here is the accu-weather seven-day forecast. spotty, light showers for your thursday. it is a cooler day, and then we will notice a warming trend. it is not real noticible at the coast. low 60s friday through sunday. around the bay inland we will thts it more with temperatures rising into the upper 70s to the low 80s for the

weekend. so really nice and mild to slightly warm weather depending on your definition. and we will keep it going up and it will cool off. tomorrow a shower chance really looks like a minimal event carolyn and dan. coming up next, the lottery shutdown. >> why you won't be able to buy tickets at certain times over the weekend.c

all of the performers at the community partnership had at least two things in common, talent and homelessness. before getting a hand from tonight's crowd, these performers got a helping hand from the community housing partnership. it is san francisco's only nonprofit dedicated to finding permanent and supportive housing for the homeless. our own carolyn tyler was a top judge. certainly must have been hard to choose a winner from all of that talent. >> they are all winners. that's great. better get your lotto tickets now. the lottery is conducting maintenance and will shutdown all terminals for 12 hours. starting at 10:00 on saturday

night customers will not be able to purchase any lottery tickets. they expect all 21,000 retailers to be back up by 11:00 sunday morning. larry beil is here now. >> i am shocked we didn't win the 600 million. i thought that was stunning. it has been a few weeks, but clearly the most exciting player in baseball. he delivered in a big way for the a's who battled for 14 innings with the white sox. sports is next.

we look at athletes as muscular machines. they have problems like the rest of us. aubrey huff has been placed on the disabed list and being treated for an anxiety attack. huff left the team during the road trip back east. barry zito revival continues. old timers call the curve ball

uncle charlie. no score in the third, but here it comes and there it goes. pagan going deep on arroyo his second of the year. barry zito took a 2-0 lead to the 7th and then a mistake. roland obliterates a fast ball. he leaves allowing the one run, but there was no relief in sight. the wild pitch here and it was a 2-2 game. the reds rally late to win it 4-2. the a's and white sox and parker making his first start for oaknd la. the kid was good. 6 and a third and struck out five. a's up 2-1, but his first pitch drilled. his 400th career homer and 2-2 on to extras and plenty of them. two of the 14. 4-2 sox and he is yohanas. his fifth of the year and we are tied at four and they are working on the super secret

handshake. three bat -- three batters later. and a bloop to left and that is fair. seth smith scores and this game is over. or as we say on the islands, the work is over. the a's win it 5-4. >> we don't give up. we never give up. we have a real big hit. whoever it was rolled after that. it was awesome. the boston bruins are done. knocked off in round one in the playoffs. it was the tiest playoff series ever -- in the tightest playoff series ever. every series was decided by one goal. look at the deflection here on the redirect and 1-0 caps. the bruins answer and peppering him. it is a loose puck and dives in. less than three minutes into over time.

the game and series over. caps moving on with a 2-1 over time victory. metta world peace commented on exactly what was going through his mind when he elbowed james harden in the head, if anything was going through it. world peace, aka ron artest suspended for seven games. he was pleased that harden was cleared to play and is fine now. >> it seemed like anger but there was passion involved. but it was erratic. it was erratic fire and erratic passion. it was way too much. i'm happy that james is okay. >> at least he acknowledges that he knows -- i mean it was just way, way out of line. >> really sickening to watch. thanks, larry. "fight line" is up next. >> you can keep track of the latest breaking news on twitter and abc7 news bay area. >> you will be back in the evening for larry beil and sandhya patel and all of us

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