captioned by closed captioning services, inc. breaking news from union city. four alarm fire heavily damaged a strip mall. >> amy hollyfield is live at the scene. >> reporter: this was a big one. the roof collapsed looks like the corner of the strip mall is gone. take a look at this video. take a look at what firefighters were up against when they got here many huge fire, they say it had a good head start on them they got the call after 1:00 this morning. they could see fire coming out the front door they realized it was big when they saw it was in the attic this is a strip mall full of small businesses, small business owners, a lot of them heartbroken. firefighters say it looks like 10 units were damaged. firefighters realized when it

was big they needed to make a move, they needed to pull back which was possibly a lifesaving move. >> started backing out, we had the collapse, it was obvious, good recognition by the initial crews that's what we train and it worked out. >> it could have been tragic. >> yeah. >> all the owners were here it is bad. >> reporter: there is an apartment building behind the mall. we are at alvarado and dyer in union city. fine, the building is fine. the people were very scared. they said everyone get out, let's be on the safe side. they've allowed them to go back in. i know it is dark, can you see all of that water? that is not something we usually see.

it you a sense of how aggressively they attacked this fire. how much water they put on it. it is now standing water out here almost looks like a lake. they did save a big chunk of the mall this corner looks like it might be destroyed beyond repair. that is something they are going to wait until day flight to determine. -- wait until daylight to determine. i did ask about lightning this morning. firefighters said, while that was impressive to see and surprised them, they don't think that played a role. again, they are going to wait until the sun comes up. a firefighter suffered a cut on his hand. he's going to be okay. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. lightning, not a factor in

that fire. certainly unusual and interesting for this time of year. >> something we both saw this morning. you see it there lighting the skies above the peninsula for almost an hour last night it continued across the bay overnight. we spotted at least six strikes at the abc7 south bay bureau. >> good morning mike. a line of thunderstorms rolled up the peninsula, up skyline boulevard that's where it was a few hours ago now it is over moss beach, half moon bay towards pescadero. the good news is this is starting to pull away. for your morning commute looking drier than it did earlier. along skyline boulevard the last three hours. this going to continue to rotate northwest. a few more showers may hang around for the morning commute, but they will be mainly in that area along the coast. for the rest of us, we could

have the possibility of a stray shower today, low 60s coast. partly sunny inland. >> good morning. live look at golden gate bridge, nobody is coming across now. roadwork northern end of the span down to one lane southbound, two lanes northbound. fog-free and clear there, very light at the bay bridge, no metering lights so far, no problems into san francisco, roadwork northbound 101 through cortamadera until 6:00 this morning. southbound 680 sycamore valley road until 6:00, three left lanes block the. eastbound 4 between bailey and railroad roadwork until 6:00. san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi goes back to work this morning knowing for the first time in months he's no longer in danger of losing his job over a domestic violence incident. katie marzullo is live in the newsroom with what is ahead for the sheriff and his wife.

>> reporter: the sheriff and his wife were sporting big smiles late last night after learning of their victory and supporters cheered. >> the charges of official misconduct against sheriff ross mirkarimi are not sustained. [ cheering [ >> reporter: the board of supervisors heard testimony and public comments for hours last night. they had to decide whether to upheld the ethics commission ruling that the sheriff committed official misconduct when he bruised his wife's arm in argument. nine votes were needed to oust him only sieve event voted that way. after the sheriff -- only seven voted that way. >> i look forward to demonstrating why the people elected me as sheriff and look forward for me and my family to move in a place where we hopefully, will keep normalcy again. >> as a family we need our normal life back. to put a family through this

is not the right way to deal with domestic violence. >> reporter: mirkarimi's attorney says the sheriff is automatically reinstated. he is entitled to back pay which equals six months of his salary mayor lee was the driving force behind reof moing the sheriff from office. the sheriff says he and the mayor have work to do -- and hopes they can rise above politics. mayor lee issued a statement about the board's decision. lee says: i strongly disagree with the action taken by supervisors. the board's decision returns a convicted domestic batterer to lead the sheriff's office. we have jut learned a stanford professor is the recipient of this year's nobel prize in chemistry. bryan kabilka is sharing the

prize with lefkowitz of duke university. the committee says the two have made groundbreaking discoveries about proteins that let body cells respond to signals from the outside. san francisco giants and the oakland a's came through in must-win games to survive in their series. a's taking on tigers smith, crushes solo homer in the fifth. balfour came in to close things out in the 9th. the a's survive two games to one they still have to win game four tonight in cincinnati win or go home for the giants eked out extra in s victory over the reds. -- posey scores from third that makes it 2-1 the

financial score. -- the final score. giants have to win again today game four 1:00 our time. who is on the mound? >> barry zito. funny you ask. >> fan reaction to the wins coming up in our next half hour. this morning south bay elementary school principal arrested for selling meth is due back in court. eric dean lewis is scheduled to enter a lee he's principal of montague elementary. police say he offered drugs to an undercover officer he met through an online dating site. at his home officers found meth, date rape drug ghb and a dozen hidden cameras. he faces five felony drug counts. it is the one year anniversary of the occupy oakland movement. the anniversary comes three

days after vandals roamed through the streets smashing storefronts and spray painting windows and damaged city hall offices and cars. organizers say they are holding a peaceful birthday party that will include dancing, food and games. may see a few sprinkles. >> we saw lightning overnight in fact coming into work this morning. >> you could see flashes from 30, 40 miles away depending on the elevation storms were rotating through the peninsula from southeast to northwest continuing to do that now. here's the big picture, over the past hour, seven strikes around the bay area one wave to the north not concerned with, this rotating northeast,

eventually northwest that is going to push showers and thunderstorms into the monterey bay possibly as far north as the south bay during the afternoon as low will slowly continue to the south. by the afternoon hours best chance of thunderstorms down around the santa cruz mountains and santa clara valley. 60s coast into the bay, 70s inland. down to the monterey bay you can see a better chance of thunderstorms around here, temperatures in the low to mid 60s bay upper 60s to 70 inland. dry, still cooler than average tomorrow, isolated shower possible friday less than a chance we've had the last couple of days. warming trend begins saturday. good morning. light situation san mateo bridge no problems in either direction. highrise towards foster city everything is at the limit at the san mateo bridge between the peninsula and east bay. macarthur maze light, everything flowing from 880,

580 into the bay bridge and 80 east shore freeway. little bit of bunching up out of antioch speeds at the limit towards pittsburg and concord under 20 minutes. out of the central valley, a little slow from 205 speeds pick up over the altamont pass into the dublin-pleasanton area, 15 minute drive there. a dog is stolen during a burglary. a 5-year-old's plea for its safe return. an 8-year-old decides to go for a late night joyride that didn't end well. missing yosemite park worker rescued. the question searchers have for her. first tech bites. from glitz to glitch. apple having trouble making iphone 5's fast enough one reason may be the fancy aluminum cases prone to scratches. apple told the factory to be more careful and that is

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welcome back. here's a look at the embarcadero center cloudy, storms around half moon bay and moss beach rotating over the ocean. more could develop as we head into the afternoon that in

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lysol. mission for health. . welcome back. south of half moon bay where our last radar return is showing up now as you head down south of 1 all rotating off the coast looks like it is going to be dry for most of us this morning. lightning is pretty cool. coolest around fargo, minneapolis and chicago, 60s and 70s everywhere else. phoenix 92. new orleans 84. flight arrival delays into newark and atlanta. back towards the bay area, everything is on time right now. use our flight tracker at the bottom of abc7news.com. authorities will be canvassing a west san jose neighborhood later this morning going door-to-door to tell residents about an

arsonist. lisa amin gulezian has more. >> reporter: >> it was dark you could see embers flying, -- >> reporter: this is cell phone video of the most recent fire in an alley. there have been at least seven other fires here since september 26th. >> it is very stressful in the last few weeks it is happening so often. >> reporter: too often for anyone's comfort who lives on street back of their homes on this alley this is where they park their cars and throw out their trash. this is exactly where an arsonist is striking over and over again. mostly in the early evening. sunday alone, three separate fires were set in three hours. >> such a small consolidated area, we do not want this person to continue in this behavior. >> reporter: the fear is the fire will spread to these homes. >> later this morning

investigators will be out here passing out flyers to those who live and work in this area they want everyone to know there's an arsonist out there investigators say they need the public's help to stop this person. lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. sea lion doing fine this morning after a dramatic rescue at pier 39 spotted on the docks yesterday with something tightly wrapped around its next. a team from the mammal center couldn't help until they shot with it a tranquilizer to slow it down. they sneaked up on it and nabbed it in a net the thing on its next was a plastic box strap. >> if those get into the ocean without being open still a ring, they are deadly. these guys are curious and they will look and nose it and get it on like a collar. >> they can choke to death on those straps.

the sea lion will be evaluated for a few days before it is released. driving in this morning we saw lightning. weather window first then doppler. dry on the embarcadero. where it did rain it was healthy this morning. you can see right here that's not one of those cases. as we head deep per into the forecast, the best chance of storms are going to continue to be out near the coast where we are seeing them now with live doppler. it is showing you those storms rotating as you would expect around an area of low pressure topside to the northwest they are pulling from half moon bay and moss beach now. don't expect much of a redevelopment if it does happen it will remain over the coast. by the afternoon better chance of redevelopment around the monterey bay and south bay and

points south of that. if you are stepping out now, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s, napa and santa rosa, everybody else in the 50s until you get to antioch 62. monterey bay and inland mid to upper 50s. scattered showers isolated thunder possible, into the weekend we'll have a warming trend take over. this area of low pressure slowly sinking south since it is over the ocean it is picking up moisture and instability that's why we have showers strongest over the ocean they could rotate back towards us. 7:00 maybe a shower around the monterey bay and points south. into the afternoon another band and with the heating of the day we could see thunder. into tomorrow everything is going to quiet down. as we go to the mountains, by tomorrow evening we could have snow to about 8,000 feet. today upper 60s to low 70s

south bay. mid to upper 60s peninsula, low 60s coast mid 60s downtown south san francisco into sausalito upper 60s to low 70s north bay valleys. low 60s beaches. partly sunny along the east bay shore mid to upper 60s partly sunny inland low to mid 70s monterey bay because of cloud cover and threat of stormses 62 monterey, 70 morgan hill. temperatures will hold steady the next couple of days within a couple degrees of today stray chance of shower friday warring trend, temperatures possibly above average monday, tuesday of next week. good morning. happy wednesday. dark and early out. live shot of san jose nobody coming through 280 northbound snaking from san jose towards cupertino overcrossing just a couple tail lights out of the santa cruz mountains 17 no

problems there, light at the bay bridge toll, no metering lights and no delays into san francisco roadwork westbound dumbarton bridge until 5:00, very slow across the span from newark to menlo park. roadwork through cortamadera to one lane northbound they should have that picked up by 6:00. 4:55. big jump in ridership for amtrak. rail line carried more than 31 million in the fiscal year that just ended the most in amtrak's 41 year history and 50% increase over the year 2000. ticket revenue jumped to two billion dollars, 7% increase. republicans in congress trying hard to end federal subsidies to amtrak calling the service slow and inefficient. they say private industry could do better. experimental drug paid by eli lilly is showing hope for

people with early stage alzheimer's. there is concern about the long term benefit of the drug. researchers say it may not be enough to win approval from the fda. they say it shows they are on the right track. the overall u.s. economy may be weak but where the beer index is concerned, we are the super power to beat. the beer index is the amount of time you have to spend on-the-job to afford to buy a beer. swiss bank surveyed hourly wages and average prices at liquor stores in 150 countries and found u.s. workers only need five minutes earnings to buy a beer. that equals 96 beers per eight hour workday or 480 beers on an average workweek. it takes the rest of the world 20 minutes to earn a beer. either we are very thirsty or we earn more than the rest of

the world. a lot of that hard work will be going down the drain with the a's game tonight, i'm sure -- >> i didn't know where you were going. >> yeah. next, we continue to follow breaking news in the east bay where fire crews are watching for flare-ups from a huge fire at a strip mall. amy hollyfield is live at the scene with the latest. search for a man with a warrant for his arrest and his role in a speeding car accident that injured three people outside an antioch school. ticket confusion at the coliseum. why people with tickets to last night's game were turned away at the gate, some of them.