> thank you for joining us i'm kristen sze. >> i'm eric thomas. breaking news, two people dead following early morning apartment fire in martinez. fires are on the scene now. firefighters responded after 3:30 this morning. we are just getting word two people killed in an apartment fire in martinez this morning. stay with the abc7 morning news, amy hollyfield is head together scene and will bring a live update later. developing news in oakland. a nearly 12 hour police standoff is over. s.w.a.t. teams surrounded a house on the 2300 block of east 24th street 3:00 yesterday afternoon when investigators tracked the pair of suspects who they say shot at a highway patrol officer

last weekend. officers were on the scene until the standoff ended totalling 12 hours in the end one person was taken into custody. oakland police also closed off streets around west grand and telegraph last night while she searched for a robbery suspect. the robbery was reported 8:30 in the 500 block of west grand. police told residents to stay in and others to avoid the area. protesters were walking through the neighborhood marching to and from the fox theater where president obama was giving a speech. police say the robbery is not believe to be related. this morning police in rich mop investigating the death of a father killed during a struggle over a gun with his son. the shooting happened 7:00 last night in a house on sun court. police say 41-year-old james morris was shot and killed during an argument. they are not releasing the name and age of his son.

this morning federal officials are looking for the person who has been sending suspicious envelopes to bay area police departments. yesterday a package arrived at fremont police headquarters. police had been on alert since friday when employees opened similar packages at berkeley, san francisco, san leandro, oakland and union city police departments. haz-mat teams determined none of the packages the one yesterday and those sent the past few days pose any danger. fbi is work with police to find the person behind the hoax. richmond residents will get the chance tonight to learn how to benefit from a new national lab that will be built in their city. richmond was selected from eight cities that submitted 21 proposals. the facility will house 800 scientists researching

bioscience, cancer, bioenergy and other cutting-edge work due to open 2016. workshop starts tonight at 7:00. president obama is in san francisco now. he will fly out of bay party in a few hours to portland after a busy night of fundraising. yesterday he held two east bay fundraisers taking in estimated three to four million dollars. this event was held at the fox theater in oakland where people could see the president for donations as little as $100. another event was held at' a piedmont hope. supporters say they took advantage of the rare presidential visit to the east bay >> i was thinking about giving to the obama campaign any way, when i saw the e-mail, it was a no-brainer. >> he's done nothing for the black communicative. >> a block away protesters took over -- took over the intersection of 19th and

broadway and criticized the president over the iraq war and his administration seizing property of medical marijuana clinics. mitt romney is in reno today to speak before the same convention that president obama spoke to yesterday. romney spent yesterday in southern california meeting with small business owners. both are courting the military vote in 2008 polls showed 54% of those who said they served in the military voted for john mccain. 4:35. police say they found dozens of deadly booby traps inside the apartment belonging to the man accused of the movie theater massacre. we had our first glimpse of the man and his behavior in court. katie marzullo with the story. >> reporter: all eyes were on the courtroom yesterday as we got that first glimpse of james holmes. authorities are wide-eyed at what they found in his apartment.

this morning we are getting the item lighted list. -- itemized list. there were 30 ied's attached to trip wires 10 gallons of gas to enhance the thermal effect after explosion. the detonated devices are being taken to virginia for fbi analysis. the man accused of bidding that death trap and shooting and killing 12 people seemed out of it in court yesterday. >> he looked like someone who didn't know what was going on. and that leads to all sorts of important and fascinating legal questions about his mental state. >> reporter: families of some of the victims were in court. a father who lost his son calls holmes a coward. the district attorney says she will be consulting with those families before deciding if she will pursue the death

penalty. holmes has another court appearance next monday this morning the attorney representing the san diego family of james holmes says his parents are standing by him, because he's their son. the attorney read a family statement detailing the call when his mother learned about the shooting from an a reporter. she said the family is doing well considering the circumstances and wants to reiterate their sadness for the victims. the attorney says they are worried about the possibility of the death penalty. she also said aurora police had not yet attempted to contact the family. stay with abc news and abc7news.com for all the latest developments on the colorado theater massacre. we created a slide show remembering the 12 victims on our web. time for a check on the weather. >> clouds out there this morning. let's turn things over to mike. good morning.

a few clouds a little sea breeze doppler quiet hopefully clouds won't get too thick so we don't have flight arrival delays into sfo normally we don't have any into oakland and san jose in this set-up. away from santa rosa, san francisco, san carlos and half moon bay one to two degrees warmer everybody else is cooler, significantly around concord and antioch. eight degrees -- you can see clouds make a late push into the bay by 7:00 everybody in the 50s. by noon clouds back to the coast, 60s and 70s away from the coast, mid to upper 50s from the coast to san francisco during lunchtime. afternoon clouds along the coast start to dissipate. upper 60s oakland, santa cruz everybody else around the bay 70s, 80s inland by 4:00.

7:00 a few more clouds along the coast, 50s there into oakland. low to mid 70s for the rest of us mild evening. tomorrow temperatures drop another two to four degrees, two to four more thursday low 80s inland low 70s around the bay upper 50s at the coast. good morning. looking good we have a construction area blocking a connection ramp in the south bay northbound 280 in the cupertino area to southbound 85 detours in place until 6:00 this morning. traffic still flowing well around the south bay moving close to 60 even 70 miles an hour as you head from the peninsula down towards san jose. here's a live shot, basically with the construction it is looking light right now for headlights moving northbound 280, as you head towards highway 85 this is highway 17

out of the santa cruz mountains. another live shot, no problems now contra costa county, traffic flowing well southbound through walnut creek towards highway 24. also the easy ride across the san mateo bridge now. 4:40. motivational stunt involving fire-walking goes bad. what tony robbins is saying after people were injured. third night of protest in southern california after the police shooting of an unarmed anaheim man. new twist to a fast food controversy. why the maker of the muppets no longer doing business with a popular restaurant chain. our cool new alarm clock app you can download it for free and receive news the moment you wake up. we'll be r

good morning this is a gorgeous shot we have n francisco. we are going to have a cooler day. meteorologist mike nicco will tell us how cool in your neighborhood, coming up. southern california protest planned in anaheim today after deadly police shooting of an unarmed man. last night several dozen marched throughout neighborhood where the 25-year-old man was killed saturday followed a chaotic protest saturday night. the victim was one of three who ran from police in an alleyway saturday it was the second deadly shooting by anaheim police over the weekend. >> the organization behind motivational speaker tony robbins is responding to complaints that 21 firewalk attendees in san jose who suffered second and third degree burns to their feet

walking across hot coals of the 6,000 only a small number experienced pain or minor injuries. it has been providing the experience more than three decades and always with emergency personnel standing tony robbins is the popular motivational speaker who encourages fire walking to show people can overcome their fears. maker of muppets taking puppets out of chick-fil-a over disagreement over gay marriage they will send money to glaad instead. last week chick-fil-a's ceo says he supports the biblical definition ever of a family unit and opposes gay marriage. remember the nation's first female astronaut. sally ride's lasting impact on the space program. freeway becomes a runway for one pilot video from an

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high temperatures across the bay area. mainly 70s around the bay and 70s and 80s inland all of us should have sun by noon with increasing sun along the coast during the afternoon. rest of the country still obnoxiously hot around st. louis, 105, mid 90s from new york, washington, atlanta, new orleans near 100 dallas. huge area of possible severe weather today, yellow from montana to maine, coastal carolinas. flight arrival delays into o'hare and midway make sure you call ahead all airports

here on time. go to abc7news.com and check out our flight tracker. 4:47. a woman recovering from a bizarre car accident that left first responders wondering how she survived. this video from washington, 36-year-old woman was outrunning errands she pulled up behind a vehicle towing 27 long poles she didn't see it stop and plowed into it. the poles went in through her front windshield through the back the impact crushed her skull inward but didn't puncture her brain. >> first memory i have is i feel like i woke up and i was chewing glass. >> doctors patched up her skull with part of her hip bone they removed 200 splinters from her head. she says she doesn't remember the crash and who would want to. a plane carrying four was forced to make an emergency

landing on a southern california freeway. the 1968 piper ran out of gas, according to the pilot, he had to land in the southbound lanes of the in escondido near san diego last night 11:30. traffic was light, no cars were hit. the pilot has 20 years flying experience. not known why he ran out of gas. america lost a space pioneer yesterday, sally ride the first female u.s. astronaut died at her home near san diego she made history in june of 1983 when she flew into space aboard the challenger. 4 american women have followed -- 42 american women have followed ride into space. the head of nasa says ride broke barriers with class and enthusiasm. she died of pancreatic cancer, she was 61. traffic deaths up,

national highway traffic administration says estimated 7, 30 people died in vehicle crashes in the first three months of this year ans the country. -- an increase of 13 1/2%. officials aren't sure what is behind the increase but one possibility was the warmer than normal winter which encouraged more people to dive. >> obama administration handing out millions for public transit and the bay area getting its fair share, 45 million dollars out of a 126 million dollar pie handed out to california. an official made announcement yesterday in san francisco. muni is getting over 21 million dollars to replace aging diesel buses with new hybrid vehicles. transit officials hope upgrades will increase ridership. >> they will reduce highway congestion, improve air quality and help this region continue to offer

balanced transportation options that increase the liveability of this beautiful area. ac trance setting getting overseven million dollars. bart will -- will use three million to install real-time information. as the international aids conference continues this week in washington, d.c. the nation's capital is blanketed in a powerful memorial. part of the aids quilt has been laid out on the national mall and in dozens of venues throughout the city. the project began 25 years ago. the quilt has 94,000 panels. if they were laid side by side they would stretch more than 50 miles. yesterday you were gone, welcome back mike. we will start to take a dip down in our weather with kind of a big dip in some areas, it will rebound as we

head into the weekend. you can see some of the clouds not very thick and not low to the ground. right now most of us are doing pretty well as far as clear conditions, no drizzle to worry b no mist live doppler is quiet this -- let's hope we can keep it that way so we can get our flights on time into sfo we are watching late surge of cloud cover during the morning hours. 60 redwood city, mid to upper 50s for the rest of us. monterey bay mid to upper 50s. 24 hour temperature change small steps one degree cooler in oakland and concord, three degrees cooler in san francisco and fremont. san jose from 88 to 83° today. area of low pressure to our north pulling away bringing in the sea breeze behind with it that counterclockwise flow will move far enough east i

think the sierra will be out of the thunderstorm chances that we saw yesterday, nice to watch them off in the distance you can see the top of the thunderstorms from anywhere in the bay area yesterday. 77 milpitas, cool spot in the south bay, low to mid 80s for everybody else. up the peninsula 80 palo alto, 74 san mateo, 70 millbrae. low to mid 60s with afternoon sun along the coast. best chance of clouds in the north bay beaches, sunshine and low to mid 60s. mid to upper 70s inland, 80s and 90s cloverdale, clear lake and ukiah. berkeley 68. east bay valleys won't need the air conditioner today, mid to upper 80s for you, around the monterey bay lingering clouds mid to upper 60s monterey, carmel, watsonville, salinas. upper 70s to mid 80s for morgan hill, gilroy and hollister.

tahoe partly cloudy. near 100 fresno, 107 palm springs mid to upper 70s around l.a. and san diego. tonight more cloud cover, cooler low to mid 50s. two to four degrees cool we are morning clouds giving way to afternoon sun tomorrow and thursday to a lesser extent friday. summer temperatures for saturday, sunday and monday way from the coast. still problem-free, bay area freeways looking nice here's a live shot of the oakland maze westbound 80 traffic towards the bay bridge no delays now on the east shore freeway from the car seenness bridge to the toll plaza -- carquinez bridge to the toll plaza which is nice and light. golden gate bridge traffic light, crews heading northbound getting ready maybe to chain the lane configuration, no trouble right now -- you can see

across the span. a little farther north this is 101 in san rafael, as you head southbound here past marin civic ceer good to go to the golden gate bridge in novato some lanes ever blocked from atherton to novato boulevard until 6:00 this morning. not causing any slowing for anybody at this point. you gotta listen to this all the ladies out there botox can cost hundreds. a mother developed a cheaper alternative that some are calling spanx for the face. the creator created the 25 dollar facelift bungie after she couldn't afford plastic surgery for her son's wedding. inside the jar are two combs and bungie cord, they attached the cord around the head pulling the skin tighter. it takes less than a minute and takes 10 years off their

face. possible downside a ponytail headache. number of california homes going into foreclosure at lowest level in five years in the bay area the drop is dramatic compared to 12 months ago. the bay area saw a 13% decline in foreclosures from 2011. san francisco county 27% fewer homes and condos were issued notices of default than last year. alameda county had smallest decline, almost 12% drop right now 55,000 homes are in foreclosure in california. students gear up to start college this fall the department of education released new tool they say provides clear information on financial aid options. it is called the shopping sheet, details what they can expect to pay for a year of study. similar to sheets displayed at auto dealership, the plan to

distribute it in the financial aid packages. a report says incoming freshmen face the sobering prospect fees could climb by more than 50% by the time they graduate. england's queen will welcome many visitors with the olympics fast approaching and there's one faux pas those folks need avoid, never, ever, ever, do what this man did and kiss the queen. royal protocol forbids it. a man and woman kissed the queen and her husband on the cheeks during a reception at buckingham palace and they probably won't ever be invited back. >> queen maintaining her composure. >> she is very cool about that. next, the president is wrapping up busy bay area fundraising trip. >> governor's plans for major state infrastructure project. what he has in store to quench the state's thirst for water.

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>> announcer: right now abc7 news begins with breaking news. >> >> reporter: good morning i'm amy hollyfield live in martinez, two people have died in an apartment fire and fires are trying to figure out what started the fire. >> reporter: i'm terry mcsweeney in san francisco, president obama has come to town to improve the economy, not this town and not your economy. the story coming up. also, an arrest in oakland after an