captioned by closed captioning services, inc. good thursday morning. thanks for joining us, i'm kristen sze. i'm eric thomas. first the weather. live doppler take a look out there, clouds are not as numerous as questioned but they will be moving in fog forming in the north bay valleys. as far as temperatures, running cool, 40s north bay. 50s just about everywhere else. in the afternoon brisk along the coast temperatures in the 50s to near 60 around the bay with low 60s to low 70s, below average inland with low 70s to low 80s. here's sue. good morning. live shot of 80 through

berkeley eastbound near ashby at 13 accident blocking a couple of lanes i don't see it there is roadwork eastbound. we'll follow that. so far traffic flowing smoothly westbound on your commute direction towards the act arthur maze, no problem. stalled northbound 80 at bernal. eastbound highway 4 at loveridge closed detour in place. breaking news from oakland. police are investigating two shootings overnight. one wounded a child who is in the hospital in serious condition. it happened around 1:00 while the child was inside a home on macon road near i-880. the other shooting 11:30 sent three adults to the hospital on seminary avenue near oakdale. more information, terry mcsweeney is at the scene right now. he will have a live report at

the top of the hour. this morning martinez police still trying to figure out why a driver backed into a service station gas pump igniting a huge fireball. amy hollyfield is live at the gas station. >> reporter: you have to look at this picture first look what is left. can you believe that is a gas pump? can you imagine standing here pumping your gas when this happened? we have surveillance video you have to see this. it shows the moment when it happened. there were people here pumping gas. they say it was terrifying. a car hit the gas pump, igniting a fire. a man working here said he heard a loud kaboom. people living a few blocks away said they heard it. >> then started hearing explosions, we heard seven or eight.

>> i started yelling at everybody to get the hell out of here, big hazard. >> reporter: this is the driver of the car who backed into the pump. police say he told them he stepped on the accelerator accidentally, instead of the brake. this happen at 5:30 yesterday afternoon at the oil and gas station in martinez. the good and quite amazing news is that no one was hurt. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. this morning a veteran san jose firefighter is home from the hospital after suffering a heart attack while fighting a fire last month. 41-year-old frank ryan was released yesterday where he had been recovering. he collapsed as crews were tackling a tough three alarm fire at st. patrick church. ryan was in critical condition and did not regain consciousness for five days.

he received around the clock support from fellow firefighters who went to the hospital and raised money for family members. palo alto police alerting people to be on the lookout for a suspected groper getting more aggressive. latest inch tkfrpbt -- latest incident happened yesterday morning. a woman was jogging, the man grabbed her from behind, bear hugged her and tried to pull her down. investigators believe it is the same person who committed two similar crimes in the past month. police in moraga warning parents and students about what may have been a second attempted abduction. a stranger drove up to a student yesterday and offered him a ride. the boy said no and the man drove off. police say the same man was seen two weeks ago asking another student if he wanted a driver. driver white man, clean shaven looked to be college age,

driving brown pick-up truck with camper shell. vallejo mayor davis wants the city council to ask attorney general harris to investigate the death of a parolee shot by police. september 2nd, identifies fires -- officers fired the shots police say he reached for a weapon. it is the 7th shooting since may. defense davis says hope as independent probe will restore confidence in the vallejo police department. california's ban on foie gras will remain for now. a group wanted a judge to lift the ban until the courts rule. the judge refused. critics of the ban say it is too vague and intergears with interstate commerce. supporters argue the force-feeding of ducks and

geese to enlarge their lives is animal cruelty. series of i-team investigations led to the ban which went into effect last july. representatives from almost every agency investigating last month's chevron fire will attend a public hearing next monday. they will update the latest information on what went wrong, how about the pollution was, what is being done to prevent another fire and response plans in the event of another blaze it that meeting will be held monday night from 6 to 8:30 richmond memorial auditorium. 403 civic center plaza. more than half of likely voters support governor brown's tax initiative on the november ballot. the latest poll shows 52% of those surveyed support prop 30. 40% oppose. 8% undecided. the measure would raise taxes on incomes exceeding $250,000 and increase sales tax by one

quarter of 1%. high speed rail cleared another hurdle. federal railroad administration cleared wait for construction on the 68 billion dollar project to begin. regulators say the project meets guidelines. high speed rail authority says it hopes to break ground between merced and fresno next year. the project still faces legal challenges from central valley farmers. mountain view police advising residents and commuters tomorrow morning's bay area fly by of endeavour might cause a huge traffic jam. it is set to depart in 20 minutes from houston, texas where the shuttle spent the night. it will spend tonight at edwards air force base before flying over parts of the bay

area tomorrow. that fly over will take it through hayward, up the east bay through sausalito back around the golden gate then down to the nasa ames. >> going to be a great view, hope i get to see it. hope you do too. let's find out what the weather is going to be like for viewing? >> it is looking better. sacramento 6:00 in the morning the shuttle will be flying through piggybacking on that -- look at that, then a few clouds hanging around. just a few clouds tomorrow morning. hopefully, we'll get to see. north bay it will stay way from the fog. let's look at satellite, just a few clouds upper parts of the atmosphere besides the

ones starting to develop in the lower part may get a beautiful sunrise this morning. if we find pretty pictures will post those on facebook. foggy north most of us in the 50s through 7:00. clouds back to the coast by noon, breezy temperatures will run by 4:00, 60 coast, 70 bay, 80 inland. tomorrow warmest day cooler sunday, two to eight degrees cooler. time for traffic. good morning. overnight roadwork is what is going on now. on the northside of the golden gate bridge coming off the waldo down to one lane construction ongoing until 5:00 this morning. a few more minutes, you can see very light fog-free at the golden gate bridge this morning. as i mentioned off the waldo, very, very slow because of this massive construction

repaving project mostly northbound, very bright lights if you are traveling in the southbound direction those lights are blinding, take extra care this morning again that roadwork picked up by 6:00 this morning. elsewhere, nice flow of traffic out of the central valley from 205 and tracy to the altamont pass, no juror delays towards the dublin pleasanton interchange. giants -- game 12:45 expect traffic along the embarcadero around at&t park, 280 extension to be crowded before game time. what are you looking at there? live pictures of the space shuttle piggybacked on that 747 getting ready to takeoff from texas bound for west coast will come to edwards air force base the place where the right stuff exists all the test pilots train there and then we will get to see it in the bay area over the east bay,

hayward, oakland, up into the marin county area back down over nasa ames. then final resting place in los angeles. >> today there will be a fly over, over tucson as well that special request by astronaut mark kelly the last commander of the endeavour. this is cool. we'll tell you more before it awries in california tomorrow. >> just waiting to takeoff. big changes to talk about for bart. the plans for expansion in the east bay. why the new plan is a little different than what commuters thought they were getting. dangling hundreds of feet in the air. the ride that turned into a frightening ordeal. first, here's john muller with this morning's technology news. >> reporter: google maps lost on apple's ios 6, replacing the google app with a new one

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endeavour. getting ready to takeoff for a journey across western states, before coming to southern california for the night then the big fly over the bay area tomorrow on its way to southern california where it will be permanently displayed. now that the shuttle program is over. by the way, folks in texas not happy feeling like they should have gotten to keep the endeavour there. >> johnson space center did a lot of the control work while in space. they feel a little slighted. you don't know what goes into the picking of these things. you can see endeavour there. >> we'll continue to cover the endeavour, especially when it flies over the bay area tomorrow morning. a group of amusement park riders are fine this morning after a heart-stopping ordeal. they were stranded for almost four hours, 300 feet in the air, on a ride at knott's

berry farm in southern california on a ride called the windseeker the ride came to a stud stop, engineers manage today to lower the ride and get the 20 people off safely in is the second time in 12 days the ride has malfunctioned. knott's berry farm trying to determine what went wrong. bart moving forward with expansion proposal that many hope will ease congestion on i last night a public meeting was held to discuss the report. the station would run five miles east of the current end of the line station in dublin. officials estimate the extension could get 20,000 commuters off the roads on to bart. but estimated the project would cost 1.2 billion dollars. in november, voters will have a chance to boost odds of the plans staying even track. >> expensive project if measure b-1 is approved by

alameda county voters this november, that would program 400 million dollars to the project. >> public comments will continue for several more weeks. if the livermore extension is built it won't open until 2020. 4:47. u.s. supreme court justice predicts when the court will take up a controversial ban on same-sex marriages. that story is next. mitt romney tries to put the 47% conspiracy -- controversy behind him. san francisco police issue new warning about a lottery scam. the group police say are being targeted. what 49ers' qu

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near six day long the coast, 60s bay, 70s inland cloverdale, clear lake east bay valleys some areas could get around the low 80s. across the country mild east of the rockies, 60s and 70s dallas 92, phoenix 104 mid 70s seattle and portland. we hardly have any wet weather to speak of. swirl of air around the great lakes is going to make for a bumpy ride traveling across the country but everybody on trim. -- on time. republican presidential candidate mitt romney returns to the bay area for a fundraising visit tomorrow. private $50,000 per person event set to take place at strawberry hill estate in hillsborough. romney was in the bayary july attending fundraisers. -- in the bay area in july attending fundraisers.

tahman bradley has more. >> romney trying to pivot back to economic issues after the firestorm surrounding his private comments to wealthy donors that 47% of americans see themselves as victims. he addressed the comments last night in florida. then quickly moved on to the economy. >> my campaign is about the 100% of america i'm concerned about them, i'm concerned about the fact over the past four years, life has become harder for americans. >> reporter: president obama's message, if voters want the economy to bounce back they need to give him a second term. a message obama surrogate bill clinton has taken on the road. >> we can grow and we have grown and we will grow again. but you need to reelect president obama to do it. >> reporter: with polls showing president obama leading in crucial states the romney campaign will pick up

speed. romney and ryan head to ohio monday for a three-day bus tour. tahman bradley, abc news, washington. federal law that defines marriage as union between man and woman is likely to come before the supreme court before the end of this term that's the opinion of justice ruth bader ginsburg. in a session with students a question came up about the federal defense of marriage act. she smiled and said she couldn't answer because the measure is likely to come before the court this term. federal judge in new york has already declared that law unconstitutional. nfl fined alex smith $15,000 then retracted it, his offense, wearing a san francisco giants cap in a post-game news conference last season. here he is with the cap. the league says players aren't allowed to wear any team logo not affiliated with the nfl in the first 90 minutes after a

game. the league rescinded the fine and gave the quarterback a warning. smith says he was just trying to show support for the giants. as we all are. >> usually don't weigh in on those things that was kind of weak of the league the team is here, people root for teams they should support each other. mr. goodell, you heard from san francisco, keep that in mind. >> how does the weather look for the game? cooler than what the temperatures suggest, you need sunscreen and sunglasses as we go for the -- what do we go for? the sweep of the rockies. five is the magic number four if we whip today. looking down -- if we win today. looking down, late push to right side left of morning clouds like yesterday having a hard time getting in.

doppler dry now looks like it will be a dry commute through 9:00. mid 40s north bay, santa rosa, napa, a little fog not as thick as it was yesterday yet. the rest of us 50s monterey bay 49 watsonville. today the big story how much temperatures are below average few degrees in livermore asterisk next to oakland, 75 is as warm as your average high gets all year this is supposed to be your summer 67, eight degrees cooler than average san francisco 60 three also eight napa 73 nine, redwood city and san jose, 10 and 11° cooler than average. san jose 71 with cupertino. mid 60s to near 70 most of the peninsula, 62 millbrae. low to mid 60s downtown and

south san francisco near 60 with sunshine at beaches many mainly 60s along the east bay shore with 70s and possibly 80s in the east bay valleys around monterey bay 61, 72 at santa cruz. around the state warm in the central valley 80s and 90s, 78 tahoe upper 70s to mid 80s los angeles and san diego. first pitch 62, dropping to 65. tomorrow and state warmest days, sunday the coolest, slight moderation monday through wednesday. good morning. live look at golden gate bridge where they are getting ready to configure southbound commute, crews taking off, northbound roadwork is in the process of being picked up, should be a nice drive down the waldo smooth sailing east

shore freeway into the macarthur maze, no delays bay bridge toll maving -- moving smoothly into san francisco, first reports of accident 24 east right before 68, howard street closed for the convention between third and fourth with the giants game today expect a lot of traffic anywhere around at&t park, mosconey center. it is 4:56. you are looking live houston, texas where -- [ unintelligible ] that's the chase plane that follows the endeavour as it goes around. we don't see that aircraft maybe it has taken off already. do we know if it has taken off? the chase plane will takeoff first. then the 747 bearing endeavour

will takeoff. we'll see it here in the bay area. what is the route going to be here? >> in the bay area going to circle the bay giving everybody a chance to see it, hayward through oakland, sausalito, turn around golden gate bridge come back down the peninsula the highlight is obviously nasa ames and mountain view. there it is. endeavour on its way to its final home in california. >> when it takes off we'll show it. skwraoebl right back it is now 4 -- >> we'll be right back it is now 4:57.