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eric thomas. and i'm kristen sze. high temperatures, antioch and live more where we could reach 100 again ukiah and 90s around cloverdale, clear lake, fairfield all east bay valleys 80s fremont palo alto into south bay 70s oakland and san mateo and 60s around san francisco and out towards half moon bay. temperatures are going to run one to six degrees cooler than yesterday. east bay will have the poorest air quality. everybody else should be okay. but everybody is under the spare the air umbrella again today. novato crash eastbound 37 at marsh, big rig drove off the freeway there's guardrail damage in the westbound direction, westbound 37 to 101 connection ramp closed due to roadwork. detours in place. we will check out the ride for you on 680 walnut creek.

traffic light in contra costa county, no problems southbound still fog across the golden gate bridge and there was a fog advisory issued for highway 1 and 35 pacifica daly city that has been cancelled. breaking news in oakland. a body has been found at a motel police are working to determine whether the victim was murdered. amy hollyfield is live at the starlight motel with more. >> reporter: police have called homicide investigators to the scene. you can see where they are focusing on this corner unit. they are securing the scene and waiting for the investigators to get here. these officers say there was a lot of blood in the room, evident right away they were likely dealing with a homicide. they were called here around 3:00 this morning macarthur and 100th avenue in oakland. police don't know the woman's age. it does appear she is an oakland resident. they don't have witnesses.

they say someone was with her when they arrived. >> there was one individual trying to render aid to her. >> reporter: he says the person with her knew her but didn't elaborate on their relationship. no arrests have been made. they think this will be a tough case because they don't have witnesses. homicide investigators are on their way to start working on this case. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. the justice department is targeting an oakland pot club described as the largest in the world. federal prosecutors served papers on the harborside health center calling it a marijuana super store. the justice department is moving to seize the club's property on the embarcadero where it has been operating since 2006. prosecutors also targeting a sister location in san jose. medical marijuana is legal in

california but illegal under federal law. 40 people are spending the night in emergency shelters after a wildfire forced them out of their homes of the sierra foothills. the fire broke out yesterday afternoon 50 miles northeast of sack machine tomorrow the fire has burned 200 -- sacramento. the fire has burned 200 acres. >> the temperatures we've had in the 100s that humidity is down and burning conditions are prime to be extreme, to say the least. >> calfire plans to attack the fire after sunrise. 250 firefighters are battling this fire. investigators have not pinpointed what started it. one person reported seeing men shooting off fireworks. san jose firefighters looking into the cause of overnight grass fire next to a mobile home park and construction site last night off monterey highway the small

fire damaged a power line officials say it didn't damage any other structures no one was hurt. firefighters left the scene two hours later. rare sight has attracted many to a creek near san francisco international airport. a dolphin swam into colma creek yesterday afternoon. >> we saw it on the internet there's a dolphin we said okay boss is gone let's come here. >> i took video i'm hoping the video came out better. >> marine mammal experts tell us they are not concerned because it doesn't seem to be in distress. dolphins sometimes swim into shallow waters to catch fish. katie marzullo is on dolphin-watch and will join us at 5 for a live report. >> father of the man accused of murdering a morgan hill teen appeared in court to answer charges he sexually abused a relative this is a story only on abc7 news.

a judge found there was enough evidence yesterday to try genaro garcia fernandez on charges of sexual abuse. his son antolin garcia-torres is charged with murdering sierra lamar. fernandez is charged with raping a family member when the victim was between the ages of 5 and 14. detectives sagar see ya fernandez confessed and wrote an apology letter. >> we have his own words and we have his own words coming out of his mouth and they are coming out through his hands-on to a piece of paper. >> all together garcia fernandez faces 25 counts of child molestation. today third straight spare the air day after searing heat made life uncomfortable for a lot of folks in walnut creek 100° yesterday people tried to cool off at the swim center in livermore 104, 102 in

cloverdale. surging demand for power forced pg&e to declare an energy alert from mid-afternoon to evening there was natural air conditioning at half moon bay which hit a cool 59° along the coast natural air conditioning the kind that you don't get a bill for later. >> around the bay yesterday it never got that bad. it was rather comfortable. one of those microclimates at work situations. >> let's find out what we have in store. right now dry weather. the morning commute is going to be quiet other than a little fog especially along the coast and some of our higher elevations are dealing with also cloudiness this morning. check out this area of low pressure to our north, squeezing the high starting to push it off towards the east that's why temperatures are going to drop about one to six degrees today holding on east bay valleys, antioch and live more should reach 100, 80s and

90s -- inland, 60s around half moon bay and into san francisco. temperatures definitely on the way down. we'll drop another four to eight degrees tomorrow we head towards saturday more cloud cover. along the coast today fog pockets of sun developing. you want that free air conditioning, half moon bay 60. they cleared the crash eastbound 37 at marsh. there's roadwork now south bay mountain view area eastbound 237, 285, connector ramp blocked until 6:00 this morning. detours in place. also roadwork on 85 in both directions you can see with 72 miles an hour, not slowing anyone down. 71 miles an hour on north 101. we have a camera at 280 and 17 interchange shows how light traffic s headlights northbound 280, 17 coming out

of the santa cruz mountains. foggy across the golden gate bridge, driving yesterday in san francisco i think the temperature changed 20° as i headed towards the coast. live shot i-80 berkeley westbound great heading to the bay bridge toll. no other major accidents at this point. 4:39. next mitt romney announces plans to come back to the bay area. hear how he defends the remarks he made that had the crowd booing at the naacp meeting. attorneys for ross mirkarimi claims they can prove mayor ed lee lied under oath. what they want the ethics commission to do.

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4:41. a look from our hd roof camera at san francisco another spare the air day. mike is going to tell you what that means. in washington the republican-led house voted yesterday to repeal the federal health care overhaul the lateness many votes against the measure, the first since the supreme court upheld the law and defined one of its key provisions as a tax. republican presidential candidate mitt romney plans to attend three fundraisers in the bay area next weekend a day before president obama arrives. romney's schedule includes a luncheon in woodside, private dinner and an event at the fairmont hotel. in montana last night he told supporters he thought he did a good job at the naacp convention in houston he said he proved he doesn't change

his message depending on the audience. during the speech to the civil rights' group he was booed for 15 seconds when he told the audience what he knew it didn't want to hear. >> i'm going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find, that includes obamacare and i'm going to work to reform and save -- [ booing ] >> if you want a president who will make things better in the african-american community you are looking at him. [ applause ] >> romney face as uphill battle getting votes in the black community. according to a poll that community supports president obama over romney 96-3%. the president will be in the east bay july 23rd with fundraising he -- events in oakland and a home in piedmont. lawyers for ross mirkarimi have formally requested the city's ethics commission

subpoena four people who say they can prove mayor lee lied under oath last month. the targets of the subpoena -- building commissioner former supervisor and businessman and city hall insider. mirkarimi's lawyer says the mayor contradicted himself when he testified that he had not discussed the case with those individuals. >> if those city officials are correct and the mayor did not tell the truth, then in effect, the mayor may have committed abz told the)wm&y)uth and he's blasd what he calls outrageous allegations of perjury. the commission will vote on whether to issue subpoenas on july 18th. next, retirees in stockton file lawsuit. what they want the city officials to not be able to do. dozens of evacuated residents in colorado return to their homes and the

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welcome back. clouds, pockets of sun 50s and 60s mid 70s richmond oakland san mateo low to mid 80s south bay upper 80s north bay and 90s to 100° in the east bay valleys as far as the rest of the country heat starting to move more towards the east 104 salt lake, 108 phoenix mid 90s ! upper 80s to near 90's coast. flight departure delays out of newark flight arrival delays houston.

4:47. in an hour and a half we expect to learn more in the penn state sex abuse scandal. results of an investigation headed by former fbi chief are expected to be released in philadelphia. >> our mandate is clear, we've been tasked to investigate the matter fully, fairly and completely. >> reporter: penn state university tress tees hired former fbi chief louie freeh to find out who knew what and when in the scandal that includes penn state's former president spanier, schultz, curly and paterno. >> joe paterno is no longer the coach. >> reporter: the late head coach admitted to learning about an incident in 2001 involving sandusky and a buy in a shower. instead of calling -- and a boy in a shower.

instead of calling police he told campus officials. reportedly there's an e-mail trail. >> whether you are a football coach or university president, or the guy sweeping the building you have a moral responsibility. >> reporter: last month a jury found sandusky guilty of 45 counts ofnflq abusing children. while he will spend the rest of his life behind bars paterno hoped the university would not suffer the consequences in an op-ed released by his family, he wrote, this is not a football scandal and should not be treated as one and does notlu tarnish the academic reputation of penn state. his family members have spoken out against the investigation. they believe they should have been invited to discuss the findings with investigators before this report is released. abc news, philadelphia. 4:49 in colorado burglars hit 37 homes that had been evacuated during the most

destructive fire in that state's history. authorities are offering up to $50,000 for information leading to arrests. police say along with the burglarized hopes suspects broke into 28 vehicles after residents fled the fire. the blazer resulted june 23rd and spread over 29 miles is contained and residents are going back home. smoke may still be visible as some areas continue to smolder. a group of stockton retirees has filed a lawsuit in u.s. bankruptcy court to stop city officials from cutting their health benefits. stockton filed for chapter 9 after failing to reach a deal with creditors. the city informed retirees they must pay their health care premiums by the end of this month or medical coverage will be cancelled. promises of full health care to retired union workers are partly to blame for stockton's financial collapse. now many must pay more than

$1100 a month for their health coverage. proposal to allow low income young people in san francisco to ride free on muni may get rerouted. a committee of the metropolitan commission decided yesterday not to endorse the plan. it sent various proposals to the full board one option to extend the program to other cities. supporters worry that would further delay the san francisco plan which already has the financial backing of muni. >> to come up with a third blanket proposal for the region means you are killing the momentum of san francisco and the ac transit and the vta. supporters want the mtc to authorize five million dollars for the san francisco plan and establish pilot programs in alameda and santa clara counties. the mtc will consider the proposals later this month. here's something that is free and fun. the abc7 news alarm clock app. >> coffee, coffee, coffee!

>> that owes our mike nicco give you his now famous wake-up call. he's one of the alarms you can set in our new alarm clock app. you can get all the news, weather and traffic in one spot set it for 4:30 and you will be up in time for the abc7 morning news. the free alarm clock app is available on the apple app store. if you had it on this morning you would see we had triple digits yesterday and could hit them again this morning, not this morning, this afternoon. spare the air again today all that stuff would have been waiting for you when you rolled out of bed. that app is the only place you will hear mike do the coffee, coffee, coffee because he refuses to dough it for us. >> bitter. >> -- he's not bitter he's trying to get people to download the app.

clouds san francisco a signal that the sea breeze is back a little stronger than it was yesterday more cooling at the coast and around the bay compared to yesterday. doppler will show that the clouds while thicker they are not dropping moisture nice clean start to your morning. let's talk about temperatures that was yesterday, you can see how quickly we warmed into the 80s now in the 50s and 60s we have a long way to go. not as hot today, another spare the air. more clouds and cooler night looks like cooler conditions and seasonal temperatures this weekend instead of temperatures that well above average even though we are cooler today. you can see not significant cooling trend but the beginning of one. high pressure will hold inland one more day this area of low pressure will kick to the east

bring sea breeze back more clouds at night and make things more9÷çjs"ñ cooler or comfortable during the afternoon. today we could hit 100 again in antioch, brentwood and live more. -- and livermore. 80s hercules, castro valley and fremont. south bay mid to upper 80s today with san jose 86, 73 millbrae, 78 san mateo. low 80s the rest of the peninsula. mid 60s downtown south san francisco 74 sausalito, 80s through the north bay valleys, 100 ukiah, bodega bay 41° cooler at 59. 65 monterey, 77 santa cruz. tonight the clouds penetrate deep neither bay and inland that brings a -- deeper into the bay and inland that brings a cooling.

drop about four to eight degrees tomorrow, another two to eight saturday temperatures close to average through the weekend into early next week morning clouds giving way to afternoon sun. good morning. roadwork in antioch eastbound 4 at loveridge the usual taking off at the off-ramp, right back on no real trouble westbound traffic just slowed to 60 miles an hour. for spare the air day you might want to take mass transit, no major delays. good way to go. at the bay bridge toll looks like one car sometimes i see cars waiting for the carpool lanes to open before 5 shoulder huggers, not allowed at this time you could get a ticket if they see you. there's a stall upper deck bay bridge blocking right lane it will be cleared and won't cause trouble. san mateo bridge is fine this is westbound traffic for taillights looks great as you

head towards foster city. i wanted to show you this live shot of the foggy ride you can expect across the golden gate bridge. even though the chp has cancelled the fog advisory for highway 1 and 35 in the pacifica daly city area, one of our traffic producers said he could fairly see 20 feet in front of him as he headed through. look out for that as well. two of the south bay's largest non-profit social service agencies for the homeless have merged. santa clara-based envision and san mateo county's shelter network say combined they can provide more services for their 20,000 clients, including childcare and job training than as separate agencies. the new network will hire 20 new caseworkers and add additional 1,000 or so clients. >> these are people that had jobs. people that went to school that have educations and one bump, one accident, one

circumstance and you find yourself here. >> the envision shelter network has 18 that sillties in san mateo and santa clara counties operating budget is 16 million dollars a year. next, a city councilman attacked. what he says happened during a welcome visit to a tenant at his welcome property. dolphin takes a wrong turn and ends up lost. what ma screen -- what marine experts are doing to help him find his way home.