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it is 4:31 on this friday morning thanks for joining us, i'm eric thomas. it is facebook friday. i'm kristen sze mark zuckerberg will rib the opening bell ushering in -- an anticipated 100 billion dollar value for the company. amy hollyfield is live at facebook headquarters. >> reporter: unreal. what are you doing today? you want to become a millionaire? that is going to happen to a lot of people here in menlo park. the average employee here is going to get shares worth 2.9 million dollars. there's a figure to think about while drinking your coffee. when trading starts this morning the ipo will put 18.4 billion dollars into the social network's pockets

creating many new millionaires here. we spoke with people in the valley last night some are feeling a little skittish about the company's future. but many are investing. i think it might have been high for a company that has long term potential for growth, that's what the market is betting, so our bets are down. >> i might jump in. i suspect it is going to be very topsy-turvey. i think i'll stay awayeso@#or y own mental well-being. >> reporter: here's pictures of what has happening overnight. they an all-night hack-a-thon. that's when employees get together they do coding or work on some other project other than what they do everyday. they had a deejay and red bull

to fuel the night. they say this is how they celebrate. today's ipo will make facebook worth more than mcdonald's, ford and disney. mark zuckerberg will be ringing that opening bell at 6:30 this morning and facebook will be going public. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. when they do go public the ipo stands to make instant billionaires out of some of the investors the co-founder is in for a four billion dollar payday he has renounced his american citizenship but says he will pay all taxes he might owe. parker previously founded the music by ster site nabster and bono will turn a 90 million dollar investment into 1.5 billion in today's ipo. rest of us will get a chance to buy stock later in the day

as buyers for a profit starting at 8:00 this morning. some think the $38 opening price could double, maybe triple within hours. our team conference continues all morning. katie marzullo is following the frenzy. in an hour we go live to the nasdaq in new york to hear concern some investors have. and we'll be live in menlo park as mark zuckerberg rings the opening bell at 6:30. new this morning, one person was killed and others seriously injured in berkeley when their car crashed into a tree after 1:00 this morning on california and alston way in central berkeley officers found one victim dead at the scene it is one of the passengers. the driver and child in the car were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. there was no other car involved.

detectives aren't saying why the vehicle crashed. hundreds in the north bay in the dark after fast winds brought down a powerline and sparked a fire in novato last night. terry mcsweeney is live on redwood boulevard. >> reporter: they are making progress, if you want to know what a headache is for pg&e crewmember all you have to do is look at this. look at this powerline leaning out over the street and the powerline is down looks like someone took a bowl of spa get if i and turned it upside down -- bowl of spaghetti and turned it upside. at the height of the outage several thousand customers were out because of the winds yesterday afternoon into the evening. video from last night before these 60,000 volt powerlines were deenergized. amazing pictures. the fear was that the pole leaning precariously over the street could come down at any

time. neighbors told abc7 it was frightening. >> pretty scarry. they -- scary. they say if you touch them it will kill you instantly. >> reporter: the line is deenergized now. the6k fires neighbors quickly put them out. big thank you to the folks who took a minute to send pictures. 500 to 600 pg&e customers still without power now will be back online between 8:30 and 9:30 this morning. i talked to some of the crews they say this is a mess they are going to tart working on it now they got -- to start working on it now. they got a new power pole on the way. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news.

4:36 now. the city of berkeley spending $20,000 to review its police department's media policies two months after chief meehan was widely criticized for sending one of his sergeants to a reporter's home in the middle of the night to ask for a change in the story. the chief light later apologized calling his decision an error in judgment. a company in irvine has been hired to compare the berkeley police department with others when it comes to media relations and how to improve them. san jose will resume clearing out a few homeless camps temporarily. city officials agreed yesterday to cleanup three homeless camps over the next five weeks after dozens of residents complained. crews will begin dismanling a homeless camp by the end of the month also next month

along coyote creek. the decision comes nearly three months after police stopped providing security for cleanup crews because of legal concerns on how to handle homeless people's belongings. san francisco transportation agency meets this morning to consider expanding the use of forward-looking cameras on city buses those cameras have been looking out for vehicles that people park illegally in bus-home lanes. the program has cameras on 30 buses through chinatown and the financial district. they have more than doubled the number of citations issued to violators and that translates to a revenue increase from $187,000 in 2009 to the $314,000 this year. muni hopes to have 1,000 buses equipped with cameras by the middle of next year. yesterday were were talking about the winds. i was at at&t park and the

flags were whipping. >> were they helping the balls fly out? >> we won. we start with winds, good morning they've calmed overnight fastest wind in concord out of the south up 68013 miles per hour everybody else below -- up 680, 13 miles per hour. small craft advisory until 3:00 for northwest wind 25 to 35 miles per hour choppy if those areas. 7:00 this morning partly cloudy upper 40s to near 50 maybe mid 40s santa rosa and napa noon look how sunshine everywhere mid to upper 50s along the coast. north bay and east bay lunchtime temperatures upper 60s to low 70s. breezy but not as brisk as it was yesterday low to mid 70s

inland mid to upper 60s bay shore into the south bay mid to upper 50s along the coast. this evening back into the 50s in most bay areas also the coast and south bay by 7:00 mid 60s as you head inland. winds going to whip around pollen high amounts of tree and mold. grass and ragwe'd moderate. warmer saturday, sunday, -- upper 70s to low 80s, low 70s around the bay. here's frances with a look at traffic. starting off with an injury crash in napa, might be two accidents reported northbound and southbound 29 at 221. since they are so close together it sometimes means it is just one crash. it looks like lanes may be blocked, they are saying cars are coming in quickly to the seen so keep that in mind. 80 good out of fairfield.

so far no trouble on jamison canyon from 80. another accident northbound 280 at hickey blocking left lane, traffic light enough that it is not causing delays. just a few accidents this morning. here's a look at westbound 80, there's roadwork going on powell out to the maze as you head towards the bay bridge, this should be cleared by 5:00 this morning. once that is gone shouldn't be any problem. here's the bay bridge toll nice and light this friday morning. 4:41. leave the bling home. shoppers aren't the only ones hunting for bargains in oakland. the police department's warning, next. the post office facilities in the bay area targeted foreclosure. lysol knows the soft places we love could be home to bacteria. so use lysol disinfectant spray

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. welcome back. we have a warning from oakland police. thieves want your gold. this is , officers are distributing flyers to shoppers in the fruitvale district alerting them to gold thefts we are seeing our victims are predominantly hispanic from females to males, some small children have been victims. this is an increase we are seeing and we want everyone to be safe. >> police say they are increasing patrols in the area but recommend you keep your jewelry home. in -- if you have to wear it they advise concealing it under your clothing. an effort to name a post office after a fallen soldier is set to move forward. he was killed in iraq in 2004. he was honored during a 4th of july ceremony that year.

his mother approached the city council last month to name the main post office after her son. the city council still expected to authorize a letter of support tuesday. mail processing centers in burlingame and petaluma are on a list of closures starting this summer that will save a billion dollars a year at 13,000 jobs. postal officials have found a way to keep 3700 rural post offices open the postal service says it stent have volume to justify the entire network. closures are expected to continue through 2014 no word on where the burlingame and petaluma facilities are on that timeline. -- next the job ahead for jurors in the john edwards corruption trial. never befojtjñ even evidence in the death of trayvon martin. the admission from police on the night george zimmerman

shot and kill the florida teenager. con-artists targeting the elderly. what you can expect from the ring of fire eclipse that will be visible this weekend.3q lysol knows the soft places we love could be home to bacteria. so use lysol disinfectant spray on soft surfaces everyday when you're cleaning up to kill 99.9% of bacteria. lysol. mission for health.

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. a lot of sunshine today upper 50s to low 60s along the coast into san francisco upper 60s to low 70s bay shore. 80 in antioch. breezy along our beaches and bay shoreline. 60s around seattle and portland, a lot of 80s through the heart of the country east coast 69 boston mid 70s new york, washington and d.c.. all airports on time, a little rain moving from charlotte no organized areas of severe weather expected. all three airports here in the bay area plus regional airports are running on time. abc7news.com where you can find our flight tracker.

4:48. jurors begin deliberating today in the campaign corruption trial of former vice presidential nominee john edwards. attorneys made closing arguments yesterday. he has pleaded not guilty to charges he covered up his affair with one million dollars from campaign donors. if convicted he faces up to 30 years. more details are coming out about the trayvon martin shooting. documents say the 17-year-old was shot through the heart at close range. we see this video of trayvon martin at a 7-eleven buying candy and ice tea not long before he was shot. these pictures show the man who shot him, george dimmer man at the police station with injuries. -- the documents say he had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts to the back of his head. he was charged with second degree murder he claims

self-defense and this evidence could support his claim he a struggle with martin. >> remember, trayvon martin was still shot and kill by george zimmer hand -- gennadi zyuganov, even if -- he was on his back, losing a fight he still has a lot of explaining to do and has to prove that tray john martin was the initial aggressor. the evidence still doesn't answer one question, whose voice is heard screaming on the 911 calls? >> we are getting a first look at the loot in a scheme targeting elderly chinese woman, the suspect stole more than $850,000 from victims in san francisco, boston and new york the six preyed upon their victims' superstitions getting them to hanover items willingly. investigators hope more will come forward. >> if the dealy÷ seems too good to be true or there's sure put upon you that something has to

happen right now that affects your finances, your property, there is something wrong with that you have to call the authorities. >> police arrested the suspects at san francisco international airport earlier this month. they are charged with multiple counts of theft, fraud and elder abuse. this weekend you can catch a glimpse of a eclipse the moon passing between the earth and sun leaving a ring of fire they call it. it will begin sunday night at 5:25 prime viewing after 6:30 in the bay area we'll see a partial eclipse more like a sea rather than halo with 84% of the sunblocked. scientist warns staring at the sun is dangerous. so it is recommended you have special equipped glasses. >> they are mylar coated with aluminum on both sides. designed to save your eyes.

>> you can buy them at a telescope shop the eclipse will be visible near the california/oregon border moving through eureka, parts of you that , arizona, new mexico and texas. >> will the skies be clear enough around here to see it? >> absolutely. eureka is where you will see it tahoe is a little better farther north and east the more likely you are to see the recent of fire. definitely a clear sky like this morning good morning you can see from sutro tower into san francisco all is clear. it is cooler as we expected upper 40s around napa, santa rosa, san francisco, redwood city, livermore, los gatos, half moon bay everybody else 50s antioch 61. inland mid to upper 40s gilroy and santa cruz low to mid 50s watsonville, salinas and monterey. sunny, warmer, breezy, fastest

breezes over the ocean and bay waters up to 25 to 35 miles an hour from the northwest, mild and calmer, dry the entire seven day forecast. everybody is going up from two degrees in santa rosa to four in concord to oakland and fremont up to 70. temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s from half moon bay up into san francisco, richmond mid to upper 60s bay shore, mid 70s in the south bay mid to upper 70s in the east bay valleys, 80 in antioch mid to upper 70s north bay. mid 80s through the central valley 69 with sun at big sur 60 tahoe mostly sunny palm springs 94 afternoon sunshine 67 in san diego, l.a. 72. if you are going to the bay bridge series a's taking on the giants 7:15 first pitch,

dropping to 55 lows tonight almost as cool as this morning, partly cloudy, upper 40s to lower 50s we are watching area of low pressure pull away that brought the winds yesterday highs moving in, both of those highs will takeover mild not as windy starting today through the weekend. low 80s this weekend inland low to 70s around the bay low 60s at the coast. here's frances. it turns out we've got a few accidents in the north bay. napa on highway 29 at 221, chp at the scene in both directions. apparently it might be related. the northbound right lane blocked now at 221, this on northbound 29, cars are coming in quickly, just look out if you are heading through. accident northbound 680 eastbound 80 not blocking lane the car just drove too fast

and is now in a ditch. live shot of westbound 80 coming from vallejo westbound traffic looking good earlier roadwork in the oakland maze has been cleared. no trouble there. looking good as well in san jose, roadwork in the santa cruz mountains northbound 17 summit out to bear creek scheduled until 6:00 also roadwork southbound here's the golden gate bridge looking good now. eric and kristen will have something special to tell us about in a little bit. san francisco police need your help to identify three bank robbers two were together the pair are described as white males late 40s average height and weight the one on the right is missing three fingers from his right hand and two from his left. the third is described as a black male in his 40s average height and weight last seen wearing a black curlly wig and eye glasses these three are --

believed responsible for several robberies jail >> muni adding special bus service this weekend for the breakers race. gridlock will come when thousands of runners and walkers flood san francisco, the prerace bus service from 5 to 6:30 a.m. sunday. you need to buy a special pass, the race starts at 7 a.m. and your pass is good after the race up until 5 p.m.. this morning you have an opportunity to celebrate the golden gate bridge's 75th anniversary by being the bridge. bridge officials are inviting the public to gather and stand in the shape of the bridge and the number 75 and be photographed together. the image will be made into a postcard and everyone there will be e-mailed a copy. if you want to be part of it show up starting at 9:00, the picture will be taken at 11 a.m. they want you to wear either orange or red and suggest you an

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