closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc grief counselors are helping students after a popular football star was stabbed to death at a weekend party. amy hollyfield is live with the story. >> reporter: the senior class just arrived on campus. the seniors had the morning off because lower grades had testing. many of them used the time to gather and comfort each other. these seniors should be celebrating. graduation is five weeks away instead, they are grieving. their friend and classmate,

18-year-old osana futi was murdered over the the weekend. >> he was planning on walk with us, five weeks. i don't even want to go any more. >> he was supposed to be by my side. >> reporter: the friends met this morning at the memorial site for his best friend they believe this is where futi would want them. they say it feels like what happened to their friend all over again. >> this needs to stop now we don't want anyone else hurt. two deaths enough. one death was enough. this was retaliation or something. it shouldn't have happened. >> reporter: futi was stabbed to death at a party saturday night. police say he was involved in a fistfight when he was killed. officers arrested one 18-year-old on suspicion of murder and three jif miles, a girl and three boy -- three

juveniles, a girl and three boys. >> our faculty meeting this morning i told teachers their main job was to spot suffering and get them to the grieving center. >> reporter: the principal plans to ben the rules regarding shirts like this a tribute to futi known as a talented football player and little friend. >> we tell kids you can't wear t-shirts that are memorial t-shirts that honors the lifestyle. but i knew coming in today there would be lots of those shirts and so we're going to suspend that rule. >> reporter: there's a candlelight vigil scheduled for tonight also plans for a bake sale to raise money to cover the cost of the funeral. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. right now oakland police are trying to determine what led to the murder of a 37-year-old hayward resident. family and friends held a vigil last night in downtown oakland. officers found the victim shot

near 13th and franklin before 6:00 yesterday morning. investigators state victim had been in some sort of verbal altercation before the shooting. people say the victim was a trance are named brandy. police are still -- transgender woman named bran right now oikos nursing students have resumed classes at unitech in fremont. nursing students say it was too painful to return to the school. six of the seven killed were nursing students. the 7th was a receptionist. the man accused in the oikos shootings scheduled to enter a plea a few hours from now. he has been on a hunger strike since his arrest. police say he went to the school looking for revenge because he was angst at school officials for refusing to re-- he was angry at school officials for refusing to

refund his tuition. doyle drive -- this is the highway patrol leading the first cars through. no problems this morning, kind of slow and go 4:45 this morning the speed limit is 35 miles an hour. here's a look at the golden gate bridge clear, no back-up from doyle drive even though it has been slow all morning. katie marzullo is out there with an update on the doyle drive bypass. >> reporter: demolition did finish on time, a little early. traffic was very light this morning as you would expect in the earliest hours. then it did get pretty heavy, for a while in the normal commuting hours. now it is light again as all those drivers cruised past piles of debris that used to be doyle drive. 8 p.m. friday, crews feeded almost every minute of their 57 hour window to tear down

doyle drive. >> weekend was amazing. >> reporter: they did it. the first cars breezed through at 4:45, 15 minutes ahead of schedule. the pace slowed to a crawl as the morning went on. >> this commute has always backed up. the peak period always bogs down. you are coming into city streets with the traffic lights, that is just the way the commute goes. tends to back-up to just behind me. we expect with the new configuration it will take a little while for the first couple of weeks. >> reporter: chp will have extra patrols as drivers get used to the tunnel, new curve in the road and new 35 mile an hour limit. one driver already got a ticket this morning. pedestrians are taking it slow and enjoying the view. one man didn't feel like waiting for his usual shuttle. >> obviously with construction

you're pretty much waiting longer. nice morning walk, you see the bridge. >> i come down underneath the new passageway. it looks awesome. >> reporter: the appearance of the 1.1 billion dollar project is secondary. the true purpose is safety. >> the biggest milestone is we have seismic safety and we have traffic safety. >> reporter: part of that new traffic safety is the movable median that lines most of the route that will keep cars interest moving into oncoming traffic and they can adjust it so there are the most number of lanes going in the right direction during peak hours. the total project should be done late 2015 including three more tunnels, a more direct interchange to the presidio. katie marzullo, abc7 news. two hours from now, family, friends and the giants will hold a public memorial for one of the sailors killed in a

racing accident near the farallon islands. alexis bush was the first bat girl ever in major league baseball. she met barry bonds at home plate and gave him that high-five after he hit number 500 in 2001. bush was one of five killed when their yacht was hit by a giant wave during a race april 14th. today's memorial begins 1 p.m.. anyone who wants to attend is asked to enter through the whaley mays gate. doors open at 12:30. -- this morning the coast guard suspended its search for a missing boater off the california/mexico border. crews recovered the bodies of three others and debris from the kwhrot it was taking part in a race saturday. it collided with a larger ship. officials say it is possible that larger ship never saw the yacht. searchers say no distress signals were . president obama has a new campaign slogan:

forward. >> announcer: for the fifth month the u.s. economy lost jobs. >> the president's reelection team unveiled the new motto this morning. the video begins guy recalling the grim state of the nation's economy when president obama took office then goes through what the campaign calls accomplishments. the president spoke this morning in washington d.c.. mitt romney held a campaign event this morning in new hampshire. he will meet with newt gingriched is behind closed doors to discuss a possible future role in romney's campaign. gingrich may tend future campaign events. -- u.s. diplomats hope to iron out a deal with the chinese government to ensure safety of a blind human rights activist who slipped away from custody. he escaped from his family's farm last week after being

held there under house arrest for the last 20 months. go into trouble for exposing forced abortions and sterilizations in his town. he's under the protection of american diplomats now at the u.s. embassy in beijing. >> for the chinese government it is their rule that is at stake. any international consideration will always be trump domestic considerations. >> this comes as harry reid -- as hillary clinton heads to china. still ahead, rising from the ashes, major milestone about to be reached by the new world trade center in new york city. we'll take you inside the building, next. the formerly conjoined twins are thriving, their amaz

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. u.s. officials say the public will soon be able to read bin laden's last written or typed records. those documents gathered when they raided the compound. the paper include correspondence between bin laden and his affiliates and a diary written by his own hand. the documents will be made available by the army's

combating terrorism center at west point this week. happening now, construction milestone is being reached showing america is standing tall, literally nearly 11 years after 9/11. the freedom tower built to replace the twin towers has just become the tallest structure in new york city. you can see in this picture crews are right now installing that beam that puts the structure just above the height of the empire state building. t.j. winick reports. >> reporter: a trade center in lower manhattan is rising up once again to grab the tile of new york's tallest building -- the title of new york's tallest building. after six years the skyscraper will today reach 1250 into the air approximately 2 p.m. eastern this afternoon a 100 foot beam will make the unfinished skeleton tall enough to peek over the roof of the observation deck on the empire state building.

>> people should be proud we are at this height, built with so much pride, america should be proud. >> reporter: three crane operators were working across the river in brooklyn on that day almost 11 years ago when they watched the towers fall. >> it is a lifetime opportunity to do this. especially all the people that died here, sacrificed, people sacrificed their lives here. >> reporter: the project consists of 37,000 tons of steel and a 186 foot concrete fortified base. to reach the current top floor, you need to take an outside elevator to the nine flier and four ladders to the 100th floor. -- for ivan working on this site is his gift to the united states. >> so emotional. you can't even imagine how i feel.

i really feel proud. >> reporter: workers are still adding floors to the so-called freedom tower. it isn't expected to reach its full height for at least another year. t.j. winick, new york. we told but the conjoined twins from the philippines who underwent 10 hours of surgery laugh november. now they are well on the road to recovery. -- their mom says the girls love to run around and play angel is the talkative one she is kissing her sister on the cheek. their moms say they are looking forward to celebrating their third birthday in august as separate little girls. >> that's terrific. we check in with mike and talk about the cooler weather. sea breeze is back, clouds this morning there's some of the waves it is creating cooler week which will culminate in the chance of showers thursday i'll show you the most likely area to receive measurable rain.

mcdreamy to the rescue. patrick dempsey, how he saved a teenager's life in real life. a group of bay area middle school students shines in a national science competition today in washington, d.c..

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here's some incredible video. an octopus in a popular dining spot in the philippines. that's a tin can a non-profit director shot this video of this octopus lugging that tin can along the sea floor. it tried to move away from the close-up shots and finally as you can see it is just stuffing its entire body into the tin can and it is going to cover itself with a shell. >> resourceful. >> where is the window, skylights, come on! >> still that is good, new respect for the octopus. >> incredible. if you've got a window view, greater skies sun and clouds start to come people >> they went away temporarily they are going to come back

this afternoon that's when the cooler weather starts to move in first we'll start in vollmer peak looking down you can see clouds off the coast as we look to the west past alcatraz, angel island towards the marin headlands. this is down around santa cruz one of the few areas probably along the coast that won't see any sunshine today as it hasn't left yet it probably is not going to. let's look at temperatures, running warmest inland, mid to upper 70s in east bay valleys. san jose and los gatos with santa rosa empty low to mid 70s. oakland 62, -- highway highway bay 59. mid to upper 50s santa cruz and salinas. 71 gilroy all about the wind, winding blowing out of the northwest and cloud cover down there you can see the microclimates developing. cooler begins today, especially along the coast

where clouds come back, clouds will come in a little tonight partly cloudy, still clinging to the coast maybe patchy fog. coolest weather thursday we keep stair-stepping down until that chance of showers thursday that will be the coolest day in the forecast. today we drop two degrees degrees in san francisco, 66. oakland will drop to 69, six degree drop. san jose 83 yesterday to 76, sunsets 8:00 today before it does mid to upper 60s around san francisco, richmond and oakland clouds come back and small craft advisory breezy all over the ocean bay waters up to 20, 30 mile per hour winds and choppy waters during the afternoon. east bay valleys upper 70s to near 80 more of the cooling tomorrow. mid to upper 60s monterey, santa cruz, 70 watsonville clouds and breezy mid to upper

70s inland. low to mid 80s from chico to sacramento, fresno 88, palm springs 90, 64 tahoe, 78 yosemite. san diego 65, 71 in l.a.. partly cloud did tonight best chance of clouds along -- an khrpbg the coast, rest of us in the mid 40s to around 50. nice cold front developing to our north this is a change in the patternuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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