there is a small number appeared intent on confron tigs. >> our goal is identify those folks and illegal behaveors make arrests. get them out of the crowd so that the vast majority there to protest in a peace way way could do so. >> this morning city crews and private companies cleaned up graffiti and debris two. banks were especially hard hit. >> there is to have better common sense than taking actions out on the city of oakland this is ridiculous. >> of those arrested yesterday, most of them were cited and released. i'm told by occupy oakland 16 remain in custody. including that female cyclist. they're expected to be arraigned sometime tomorrow. in oakland abc 7 news. >> thank you. san francisco police arrested more than two dozen people in a predawn raid on a building occupied by may day

protestors. one is a 34-year-old accused of throwing bricks and pipes from the building's roof top. police are looking for a bystander hit in the face with you one brick. around 5:00 police moved in to clear the building. and i feel for people that were violent. no ties to us. we're nonviolent protests. >> this building is owned by the catholic archdiocese. >> some stunning news from the sports sport involving a star junior seau found dead in his home of apparent suicide. the story from oceanside. >> dozens of fans showed their respect. the van carrying the body of junior seau pulled away from his beach front home. family and friends grief stricken by parent suicide of the 43-year-old former nfl star.

>> thank you. i appreciate that you he -- guys show your love to my son. i don't understand who do this to my son. i pray to god. please... take me! take me. leave my son! but it's too late. too late. >> police say the former nfl linebacker a 12 time pro bowler spent most of the career with san diego chargers died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. his body discovered by his girlfriend in his bedroom around 9:30 in the morning. a gun found nearby. >> the investigation is being investigated as a suicide. >> seau not without troubles in 2010 arrested on suspension of domestic violence. he then drove thinks vehicle off a cliff in carlsbad after being released from jail. he told emergency crews he had gotten sleepy when he went off the cliff. drafted in the first round in 1990 out of usc, seau left san

diego in 2003 to play for miami dolphins and later the new england patriots before retiring in 2009. >> we not only cheered him in qaul com stadium but things he did locally. >> seau well known in the community for kindness toward others. >> i'd see him running in the morning. there is a group of kids used to wait for him, he'd stop and give them tips and pointers. >> he gave back to all of us, boys and girls club, everything. so sad it happened like this. >> junior seau indikted into the hall of fame last year and considered to be a shoe in to the nfl hall of fame and leaves behind three children. >> cal osha trying to determine how a researcher at san francisco va contracted meningitis. the 25-year-old died from the rare disease striking only a thousand americans every year.

cdc investigating. it says it's more rare for someone working in a research lab with strict safety protocols to contract this deadly disease. >> a missouri mother will spend her life if prison for raping her baby daughter along with a cal state east bay professor. she received two jentss of 30 years to life in prison in january the 22-year-old horj pleaded guilty to statutory rape and insist for molesting her daughter only five months old at the time. an assistant pro growers at cal state east bay pleaded guilty in may, sentenced to 37 and a half years in prison. >> dedicated volunteers resumed the search for sierra lamar and vow to keep looking nool this case is resolved. divers from the sheriff's department were also at work. they're focusing on parkway lake looking for any link or clue about the missing

15-year-old. there is sky 7 hd using their sonar. 100 volunteers involved in the search. >> this is to support family. >> the family says volunteers working hard and tirelessly are a source of comfort. she was last seen leaving for school march 16th. investigators believe she was kidnapped. >> investigators looking into a new location today for more victims of the so called speed freak killers. fbi is now conducting a search. and authorities believe they killed a dozen people in and buried them across several states. in february, investigators

found bodies of two victims in a well on property owned by sherman tin's family. >> there are new details about a north bay teenager charged in both a drive by shooting and in the theft of a celebrity chef's lamborghini. authorities say the 17-year-old seen in this facebook picture kept an arsenal of weapons including assault rifles and a police uniform. showing items were stashed in richmond with a stolen yellow lamborghini owned by chef guy pei -- fieri. >> there is lawmakers working to prevent the cost of low interest student loans from jumping and they could double after the law that keeps them in check expires july 1. we're live tonight at foot hill college with the story. >> there are local kem

democrats running hard with this one. congress woman here today at foot hill college. barbara lee at cal. tomorrow, zoe loft gren at san jose state university. a lot of students could be affected by this. and there are 3030 -- 30% of the students have this type of loan. there are interest rates at 3.4%. when applying the rate would double to 6.8%. that worries ashley, transfering to a costly private university. >> this is stafford loan is the only option, it's something doable. and this would only make education harder. >> congress passed a law

lowering the interest rate on a stafford loan to help families earning less than $50,000 a year, democrats and republican as agree it would be a mistake to let the law expire. >> we won't want the difference between 3.4 and 6.8 to be a deal breaker. >> two parties at odds when it comes to finding a way to fund this subsidy. the president traveled to different states attacking that idea. >> this is beneath the dignity of the white house. >> there is a cost of the trip. >> the president sending democrats to push his plan. >> i have a suggestion. why not roll back the subsidies to big skpoil gas in this country and pay for this.

>> students are hoping an agreement is reached before the deadline. >> one concern is how am i going to pay this off once i enter the career world? >> according to congress woman's office, if the interest rate on the loans is doubled, it would mean an additional $1,000 of debt per year per student. >> and there is faculty campuses voted to strike. 95% of the campuses voted to approve a series of two day strikes. today's announcement after a 12 day vote. the union says it will strike if the chancellor opposes his concessions. and this would with the larnlest strike in the history of

american education. two sides plan to meet again this week to try to get back on track. >> coming up, uncovering a sticky health problem with brands of honey. up next findings from a local group. >> and a progress report on a major part of the new bay bridge. >> i'm sabd sandhya patel. get umbrellas ready. there is rain on the way. i'll have details coming up. >> tlc and training freeway, the dog dragged by a moving car is now getting in his foster home. stay with us. the news at 5:00 continues in one minute.

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> police released a sketch of a suspect wanted for robbery. saying he used a small silver

handgun in a robbery on dublin boulevard. described as white, five two, maybe five four, 150 pounds, clean shaven with a tattoo with the name megan on the right side of his neck. >> new bay bridge project closing in on a important milestone. work just about done on placing and compacting the single cable holding up the bridge. abc 7 news is joining us from treasure island. >> and it might be a little early to say the countdown is on to the opening of the bridge. there is a year and a few months away. there will be one continuous cable responsible for holding the whole thing up. they're about to finish putting that cable in place. iron workers pound on the cable and another measures

kirk come frens. with old fashioned man power that is needed to build a bridge. not different from one of america's oldest bridges, brooklyn bridge. >> there is operation would recognize it's something that is very typical. >> these images show the cable is made up of 137 strands of wires. 127 wires in teach strand this, video shows how those strands were looped one by one around the bridge. >> the cable has got big holes in it. what kpax-compacting it does is pressing them down tightly. that is what you're looking

for. >> the workers pound the cables then compactor puts together 5 houn pounds per square inch. precise measurements have to be met. the next big step coming in late sister when a support structure is removed from under negligent th the -- underneath the bridge road bed and transfered to the cable which weighs 10 plt 1 million pounds. >> you can see inside now. you can see the opening in labor day. >> and everything about this is super sized. each weighs 40,000 pounds. the compacting work should be wrapped up on monday. >> that is impressive stuff. >> yes. >> and there is bay area group

filed a lawsuit against two grocery store chains. >> the group claims it found lead in the store brand honey. and there is michael finney here with the story. >> the center for environmental health in oakland found dead in many toys turns it's attention to honey. the group files suit claiming the store brand honey at ravels contains unsafe levels of lead finding lead up to twice the legal limit in california. the outlet says it's removed the honey from store shelves and would not want to sell a product in violation of law. we have not heard back from ravels. how did -- ralphs. saying leeches from met cal containers used to store honey. too much exposure is linked to cancer and birt defects. state leaders decided california chefs will not be

able to serve duck liver pate. a group of 100 chefs asked lawmakers to keep it on menus. a ban takes affect this july. today, legislatures said they'll not reconsider the ban. they now want to focus on the state budget. the ban inspired by the i team report showing how ducks are force fed through tubes up to three times per day. a passenger is in trouble for capturing video of a bird strike on a delta airline flight. here, check this out. you can see birds fly by, then get sucked into the plane engines. it happened during takeoff at jfk. the passenger is now in trouble because passengers were supposed to have had electronic devices turned off at the time. he says he didn't think he did it thinking they were doomed.

didn't do it on a camera. i did it on an ipad. and propped it to text my wife i'm on 1063 out of jfk. this flight is in trouble. i thought it was going to crash. >> the flight made a safe emergency landing and grant received a stern warning from the faa. >> and now, faa has video evidence of what happened oo. yes. >> and thank you. >> and let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. >> this is so windy and cold. >> and i'm staying ahead of the storm. we're warning you, rain is coming home. make sure you have rain gear. you can see looking across the bay. they'll be seeing rain

developing in the north bay. we'll show you what it looks like. ocean beach there is mid-50s in areas today and brisk. it's been a chilly one near the coastline. taking a look at the satellite picture there are mid and high level clouds coming in in advance of the system that is going to bring us rain. breezy this afternoon. winds continue five to 10 degrees cooler than average this time of the year, we're going to bring in spring showers, here are the winds now gusting to 24 miles per hour at sfo. 35 out of the southwest at fairfield. and there are 23-year-ol 23-year-old -- miles per hour winds, we're going see winds for the next couple hours. winds mid 50 as long the coast. and then, getting well inland in places like antioch and ep

to -- up to 70 degrees. so temperatures lower than where you should be. increasing clouds overnight. rain tomorrow, showers in the south bay. and then we'll go into clear, breezy warmer weekend. here is a system going to bring us rain. there are rain lines to the north bay. showers for south and east. and there is a computer animation 5:00 in the morning warm front may bring showers to the north bay. more organized activity heading into latter part of the morning and early afternoon. lunchtime rain in the north bay could see showers beginning to develop else wr. by evening commute we're looking at showers across the bay area. the cold front continues to move through. wet weather is going linger into tomorrow night and into early morning hours friday. could see drops out there.

rainfall totals a tenth to a quarter inch. it's certainly making for umbrella weather for friday. and tomorrow morning take your umbrellas with you. temperatures mid 40s to low 50s, we'll keep it keeler than normal at this time of the year. most areas into 60s. half moon bay upper 50s. for the monterey bay temperatures in gilroy you'll be the last to get the wet weather. here is the accu-weather forecast. spring time rain giving way to showers, upper 50s to low 70s tomorrow and will go go with a drying trend. it's warmer as you'll notice there.

and low 80s by sunday. warm weather sunday. and just a little bit of a drop off in temperatures tuesday and wednesday. so you've been warned. there is wet weather coming here tomorrow. >> thank you. >> well, still ahead a california student forgoten several days in a prison cell. he explains measures he took to survive. >> final chapter in a three year i team investigation. the punishment during

we have breaking news happening in the east bay. all southbound lanes of 880 in oakland at 23rd avenue are shut down right now because of an accident there at the off ramp. we understand involving two cars. not sure the extent of the injuries but it's a pretty serious accident. we'll run down more information for you at 6:00. >> and drug enforcement agency apologized to a student who was mistakenly left in a holding cell four days without food, water or toilet. officials say the 23-year-old was picked up during a drug raid, his attorney says he was questioned and told he would be released. he was handcuffed and placed

in a cell where he remained for days apparently forgoten. he said he drank his own urine to survive. paramedics had to take him to the hospital where he was treated for kidney failure. >> he said they're going to let me go that door never opened. >>. ea says it's looking into what happened and ordered a review of the policies and procedures. >> we want to give you a progress report on a dog being rescued. we've learned the german sheperd living in a new foster home in benecia. yesterday he learned how to get around with three legs. and tomorrow he's going get stitches remifed. vet nair yinz say he's doing better. a family spotted him dangling from a rope.

last month. no arrests have been made. they were able to rescue the little dog. >> and he's in a nice home now. >> we'll be right back. what'll it be?

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and new at 6:00 a new development in the i team meat glue investigation. the action a state lawmaker is taking after seeing our report. and the fail order table arriving broken six times, michael finney explains why the company who ordered it

deserves to be commended. >> and the art of dance. local performance and what it's doing to get local children involved. it's coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> and state lawmakers help processing contests today. >> the winning jumped nearly 12.5 feet. >> thanks for joining us. >> we'll see you at 6:00.