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good morning. thanks for joining us, i'm kristen sze. i'm eric thomas. a train has derailed near baltimore killing two. the two people were on the tracks not railroad workers. their identities have not been released. one is a woman in her 20s. 21 cars of the 80 car train flipped around midnight. the accident spilled tons of coal crushing cars in a nearby parking lot. the stage is set in san francisco for warm-up races in the biggest sailing event in the world.

in a few hours we'll see the official kickoff of the america's cup world series. katie marzullo is live at pier 32 with a preview. >> reporter: good morning. you can barely make out the sails in the dark, but they are gorgeous and standing tall behind us the america's cup world series the action getting underway in a couple of hours. mayor lee will speak at the viewing area at 10:00. then practice rounds get underway. sky 7 hd captured earlier practice in the bay over the weekend. there are 11 teams from eight countries competing. official racing in the world series begins tomorrow. if the is any indication it is going to be a very popular event. >> world series already in season one, 1.3 million spectators on the shoreline. we are expecting good numbers here in san francisco. it is their chance to see the

best sailors in the world racing the fastest boats in the world. >> reporter: something you don't want to miss. tents and bleachers are being set up other than that it is being advised to go into it as if you were looking to see fireworks or fleet week, maybe a neighbor's roof or anywhere you can see the bay. racing continues until sunday. when the real america's cup gets underway next summer, there will be 55 straight days of racing. katie marzullo, abc7 news. we have a link to the world series schedule and the best places to catch all the action go to abc7news.com click on see it on tv. gang violence continues to take a big toll in san jose where police are investigating two more shootings, one fatal. police were called to this scene around 6:30 last night near story and south king

road. this took the life of a 24-year-old man who died at a local hospital. less than an hour later, police were called to the corner of north jackson about two miles away they found a 20-year-old man shot there to survive. police say the homicide appears to be gang-related and they are not sure whether there's a connection between the two incidents. six people murdered in san jose in the past seven days. federal investigators keeping an eye on chevron's refinery as hydrocarbons continue to leak following that fire. water still sprayed on the leaking pipe to keep from it catching fire again. the chemical safety board and cal-osha won't be able to examine the pipe and the insulation until it is capped. >> the priority now is isolate that leak cut off the flow of hydrocarbons and move forward

with the investigation. >> investigators revealed photos showing a white have a for cloud released before the fire ignited sending up a column of black smoke. they were taken by a photographer from across the bay in san francisco investigators trying to determine the chemical composition of that cloud which escaped as workers pulled the insulation away. 11,000 people went to hospitals and clinics to get treatment. fire crews are making progress with that massive wildfire threatening three towns. the ponderosa fire 30% contained and more than 16,000 acres more than 3,000 residents evacuated since lightning sparked that fire saturday. seven hopes destroyed. some property owners are just now learning what they've lost. we've lost about 700 acres of timber. >> six generations. to see it go like this it hurts. >> one of the air tankers at the ponderosa fire was sent

from the santa rosa calfire base. crews that battled last week's fires were sent to the ponderosa fire without a break. santa clara city council today expected to approve a seven million dollar a year concession agreement for the new 49er stadium. the contract is with the company that operates concession stands at candlestick and at&t park. they will be hiring 1600 people. the stadium is expected to open in 2014. >> the petaluma national little league team is still in the running. yesterday they pulled out a walk-off win in extra innings. espn highlights. in the bottom of the 8th danny was just looking to make contact and hits the game winning homer to beat new jersey 5-4. hometown tpwafpbsing went wild.

>> -- hometown fans went wild. >> who is going to hit for the win? i said before danny came up, look what happened. >> the celebration ends and the nail-biting continues today as petaluma faces fairfield, connecticut in another do-or-die game at 5 p.m. on espn 2. no matter the outcome, they will return to a heroes' welcome. >> fairfield, connecticut that's a rematch, they beat us last time. >> this time it is revenge time this time it is personal. a lot of folks heading back-to-school today. also the america's cup world series, a lot riding on the weather. let's talk about what is going on now. you may have noticed if you have been outside, the winds are faster this morning, coming off the ocean quicker and more moisture that's why more mist around your commute. check out winds in fairfield out of the southwest gusting to 35, shooting across the golden gate through the

san pablo bay through the delta communities that's that stronger sea breeze we talked about yesterday. here's the area of low pressure you can see it pulling into oregon, dragging that sea breeze in and the reason why it will be cooler than average everywhere today. mainly cloudy everywhere through 7:00, notice drizzle along the coast. as we head towards noon, most clouds are back to the coast, still a few hanging around the bay, 50s and 60s there, a few 60s, mainly 70s inland during the lunch hour. 4:00, 60s and 70s around the bay, a few 70s and 80s inland, still 50s along the coast. more 50s and 60s coast into the bay by 7:00. going to cool off quickly this evening. tomorrow should be the coolest day, slowly see an increase in temperatures a couple degrees everyday through friday. here's frances. back to novato, fatal accident on north 101 past

atherton avenue going to block a lane for sometime at least a half hour that's what a "sig alert" means, count on three hours. right now traffic is light, moving at 64 miles an hour no delays southbound. heading through the area you want to consider alternates especially later when things get crowded. you may want to consider highway 37 to lakeville highway and that will get you back on to 101 later on. with we'll be monitoring the drive times as well, right now no delays northbound on 101 from highway 37 to highway 12, 28 minutes, same for the southbound direction. but, a car did crash into a pole so it will be something drivers will look at even in the southbound direction that's why we are tracking delays there. elsewhere, quiet here's a live shot of the bay bridge toll things are light right now into san francisco

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clear today. what does that mean? we will have more on that coming up. new this morning, a bill requiring overtime pay for california farm workers is on its way to the governor's does he can. a bill requested by the farm workers union supported on the senate floor yesterday the bill would pay overtime to workers on-the-job more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. right now they are only required to be paid overtime after a 10 hour day or 60 hour week. republicans argue the measure would hurt farm workers by forcing growers to cut shifts to make ends meet. in a show of thanks the plaza at the renovated cal

memorial stadium will be named for lisa and douglas goldman of san francisco. they donated a million dollars to help save the university's baseball program last year. the stadium project includes new seating, concession stands and other amenities. bears reopen the stadium on september 1st. san francisco and bmw are trying to make parking in the city less challenging the two are pushing new app aimed at helping drivers find and reserve open parking spaces it is called park now. drivers can reserve a space online or mobile phone and present a code at the garage to claim their space. bmw also unveiling a new car sharing program. >> having less vehicles and car sharing is part of that and parking solutions all a neat package coming from 100% private industry. >> the drive now program will

include 70 electric vehicles the park now app will be available next month. bmw expects to have hundreds of lots in the system by the end of the year. the new car sharing program i can see people wanting that for a date or job interview when you want a bmw. missouri senate candidate todd akin's fellow republicans bringing heat after his controversial comments about rape. president obama mixes campaigning and fundraising, the message he's delivering today in reno. special honor for five california teenagers who have come up with creative ways to make their communities a better place. amazing look at one of nature's

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welcome back. stubborn clouds along the coast, 50s there. 70s and a few 80s into the east bay valleys near santa rosa. around the country a lot of 70s and 80s miami 93, salt lake 94. up to seattle and portland, low to mid 70s. good news, not expecting organized areas of wet weather as far as severe storms laguardia has flight departure delays. at home i'm expecting flight arrival delays into san francisco, oakland and san jose will run on time. use our flight tracker, abc7news.com. 4:48. republicans have until this afternoon to convince missouri congressman todd akin to end his senate bid and let somebody else run in his place. it is hard to find anyone supporting him after his comments about "legitimate rape." akin insists he's not going

anywhere. >> reporter: congressman akin vows to keep his campaign going even though this morning fellow republicans are pressuring him to drop out. he's under fire for an explanation he gave to why he opposes all abortions even in the case of rape. >> if it is a legitimate rape the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down. >> reporter: those comments set off a firestorm and left republicans scrambling to prevent widespread political damage. >> the president: the views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. >> reporter: mitt romney trailing president obama among women in polls condemned the remarks. >> his comments about rape were deeply offensive. and i can't defend what he said. i can't defend him. >> reporter: akin apologized. >> i made that statement in error. let me be clear, rap is never legitimate. what he i said was ill-conceived and wrong and for that i apologize. >> reporter: the congressman's

words may be too little, too late. he's facing one of the most vulnerable democrats up up for reelection senator mccaskill republicans want him out of race. the deadline to get another republican on the ballot is today at 5 p.m.. akin is showing no signs of dropping out he launched an online fundraising appeal last night. tahman bradley, abc7 news. president obama returns to the campaign trail today he will leave washington in a cull of hours and head for ohio to talk to voters about education and the university in columbus. he will then fly to nevada. breaking news from abc news, swimmer diana nyad has been pulled from the water before completing her swim. today is the fifth day of nyad's attempt to make the 103 mile crossing. the 62-year-old hoped to reach

key west, florida by wednesday. she was slowed by a storm yesterday less than 60 miles from her goal. she also suffered from jellyfish sticks. no word on why she was pulled out of the -- jellyfish stinks. no word on why she was pulled from the water. the drought stricken mississippi river may be wide but not deep enough for ships to use. 11 mile stretch near the state line is almost entirely closed. water levels as low as five feet. the lowest they've been since the drought in 1988. one hundred boats and barges are stranded. southbound river track by day, northbound by night. we have incredible pictures of snowflakes and ice crystals. a lab in mayor land used a microscope to photograph them. they were fused on to copper

plates, plunged in a reservoir of liquid nitrogen to produce these images. scientists are setting the pictures to better determine the snow pack. >> every year we keep our fingers crossed. nothing wet out there unless you are counting a little mist. >> possibly drizzle, also a little more damp than yesterday morning that's the sea breeze kicking in. good morning 4:52. you can see breezes faster trees moving some of the flags on the different pier buildings as we look southeast from downtown san francisco, live doppler 7 hd working over time trying to find pockets of heavier drizzle, gives you an idea how lóthey are. right now 62 antioch, 52 napa,

everybody else in the mid to upper 50s monterey bay and inland cloudy, mist hanging around your neighborhoods, low to mid 50s. today because of the sea breeze, look how deep the clouds penetrate during the morning hours you can see drizzle along the coast until 10:00, even by noon, a lot of fog around the bay especially around the golden gate and heading across san francisco towards berkeley and oakland and alameda. as we head into the afternoon, that will pull back, i still think we'll have a little fog across the golden gate, sea breeze kicks in 50s at the coast today, 60s, 70s, 80s the rest of us, 90s removed from the forecast for quite sometime. south bay mid to upper 70s. upper 60s to mid 70s peninsula. low to mid 60s san francisco up to sausalito, upper 70s to near 80 north bay valleys.

mid 60s to mid 70s east bay shore. mid to upper 80s east bay valleys. 62 monterey, 10 degrees warmer santa cruz low to mid 80s inland. for the america's cup watch today, 2:00 to 4:00, with gusty southwest winds kicking up 10 to 20 knots even gusts to 35 knots going to be very choppy on the bay today, around 56 to 60°. around the state today thunderstorms are back in the forecast down south l.a. could have some 85, san diego some at 76 palm springs 103. tahoe about 79° today with sun and a few high clouds. i believe we drop a couple more degrees tomorrow for the coolest day in the forecast then temperatures try to climb back to near average friday, saturday then steady through the weekend.

back to novato, north 101 at atherton avenue, fatal crash blocks right lane, just with got off the phone with a chp officer this closer to the -- right now traffic light through the area we could see delays later on because a car did crash into a power pole that might slow drivers as they look. 101 southbound northbound good in san jose, no problems 101 out of morgan hill, that's 880 across your screen. light traffic everywhere else, even contra costa county. southbound 680 traffic flowing well north main street exit moving nicely towards highway 24 through the san ramon valley. san mateo bridge no other hot spots, traffic flowing well westbound on the right for tailghts leaving hayward. a santa rosa teen is among five california kids getting

$36,000 each for doing good deeds. the 15s are being honored by the helen dillard family foundation it recognizes young people who volunteer -- or create service projects. 15-year-old daniel rosenthal coordinates magicians to perform for hospital patients. >> it can be isolating while they are in the hospital trying to go through therapeutic things. why not use magic. bullying or develop fun science activities. most of the winners say they will use part of the prize money to expand their projects. see, sometimes it does pay to be good. >> no slight of hand there. 4:56. the government shuts down a large central valley slaughter house. next, the shocking conditions animal rights activists say the cattle were being

subjected to. oakland police discover the source of serious radio problems that affected president obama's visit what it can mean for thousands of cell phone users in the east bay. who should pay for upgrading pg&e's natural gas pipeline system? sounds too good to be true. a company markets a device that promises free internet and phone service. michael finney puts it to the test.