around 6:30 a woman report add man tried to carjack her walking up to the window and pointed an ak-47-style weapon but got spooked. officers tracked the description and arrested the man a short time later. we will go to abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield for more on what officers found on the suspect and what we are learning about where he was headed. >> an attempted poisoning as a starbucks. san jose police will release more information on the arrest of a woman who tried to leave tainted drinks for customers to buy. abc7 news reporter katie marzullo is at the starbucks. >> customer-wise it is quiet. we have some employees inside getting the starbucks ready. in a couple of hours we will hear from the san jose police department, the major outstanding question this

morning. why? why would someone do this? police think they know who did it and were able to arrest a suspect yesterday after the incident. she is 50 years old. she is not suspected of working with anyone else or any group and they do not think she has done this anywhere else. it happened at starbucks in san jose. she walked in, sat two bottles of orange juice on the displace with the others and left the store. customers would saw her do it were obviously suspicious and they brought it to the attention of employees who smelled something training coming from the bottles and they called 9-1-1 and the fire department came out and investigated. they believe one of the bottles was a mix of orange juice and rubbing alcohol and the other orange juice and nail polish remover. one employee was able to get the woman's license plate as she ran away so police were able to track her down. after questioning her they

arrested her but the question is, why did she do this? we expect to hear that answer this morning. >> it is 4:32. a memorial fund has been set up for leila fowler found stabbed to death in her home on saturday dying from shock and blood loss from multiple stab wounds. a murder weapon has not been found and no suspect is released but investigators say they are pulling out all the stops to find the person responsible. >> the calvaries sheriff, california state patrol and the calvaries probation department have nearly completed and contacted and searched all known registered sex offenders in the area. >> her parents were at the press conference but were too desperate to speak and have been

identified with a vigil scheduled tonight at elementary school in valley springses where she went to school. >> the support pours in for an nba veteran and former cardinal who is the first active male player in a major sport to come out as gay. now, we are hearing exclusively from jason collins. we have more from washington on the interview with abc7 news. >> good morning, collins announcement is being considered a jackie robinson moment, making history for pro sport and captivating the country. jason collins is a power house on the court, a 7', 255 pound center who made it to the playoffs nine times and now shattered a final barriers in major league sports telling "sports illustrated" i am black and 34 and gay.

in an interview with "good morning america" he said it is mindboggling he is the first active player in pro team sports to come out as gay. >> you are waiting around for someone else to raise their hand and i'm ready to raise my hand but i still look around, like, okay, come on guys. >> reaction from around the nba has been supportive, with kobe bryant tweeted he is proud of collins, don't suffocate who you are because of the ignorance of others. >> he is always a great guy, a great teammate. >> he is a good guy and i am praying for him. >> not everyone in pro sports embraced the news. mike wallace of the dolphins tweeted he doesn't understand all these beautiful women in the world and guys want to mess with other guys. the post was removed. >> if he plays another year that will be the defining moment in the nba or in professional sports because now you have an openly gay man in a

male-dominated locker room. >> president obama personally called jason colins to express his support, a white house aide said he was impressed by his courage and the first laid tweeted "we got your back." >> thank you. you can see the exclusive interview with george stephanopolis this morning on "good morning america" at 7:00 a.m. right after the abc7 morning news. >> new this morning, the oakland a's and fans deserve to sleep in after an epic battle that lasted unbelievable 6 1/2 hours going 19 innings. boy, that game at coliseum began last night and ended only three hours ago this morning when a's first baseman moss hit the two-run homer to beat the angels 10-8 after the a's rallied from behind in a game that had a 7

and 14 inning stretch and lasted past the final bart train, the longest gamive in both teams' history. >> oakland police department is slowly making much needed reforms according to a report by court-appointed monitor overseeing the reforms related to police brutality. the monitor says the department is meeting many of the 51 new guidelines including speeding the time taken to investigate complaints of officers. in january, the department was criticized for the poor handling of officers involved in the occupy protest. >> abc7 news has learned that suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev was in electronic contact with a known russian canadian militant through a russian social media network and he met in person with a militant recruiter at a mosque overseas. both men have been killed by russian police. investigators are looking atrophy mail d.n.a. discovered on bomb fragments found at the

scene the boston marathon bombings. "new york times" says agents took d.n.a. samples from dzhokhar tsarnaev's widow during an interrogation yesterday in rhode island but legal experts say even if the d.n.a. matches it doesn't prove she took part or knew anything about the plot. >> this morning, hayward firefighters are investigating the cause of an apartment fire that took the life of a 76-year-old woman. her husband and a neighbor suffered smoke inhalation and forced out by the heat. the neighbor tried to get to the bed-ridden woman but the flames were too intense. >> my husband went to the back and tried to get her out. the whole thing at the bed caught, just went right straight up. >> firefighters got there in three minutes and put the fire out quickly but the apartment was taped off as a crime scene. >> a man has been arrested after the car he was riding in crashed into a home during a pursuit in hayward.

police tried to pull over a car that was stolen from san francisco. the car sped away and crashes a short time later into this home yesterday. no one was injured. police arrested the passenger. they say he tossed out a gun. the driver is still loose. >> sheriff deputies were involved in another chase in hayward with deputies chasing a driver near simon street and western boulevard around 5:00. the car plowed down a tree and hit a pole. the driver got away. no one was hurt. >> the warm and dry conditions are leading to higher fire danger. >> watch out for 6:00 tonight or tomorrow when the red flag warning is with the highest fire danger. we have a wind advisory precipitating this as far as this it will start at 5:00 this evening through 11:00 tomorrow morning and the north bay hills and mountains and east bay hills

and diabolo range, that area will be breezy with gusts from 50 to 60 miles per hour. at 6:00, you can see the fastest wind over the ocean but the winds will come from the central valley headed to santa rosa and napa and forward. they pick up in intensity up to 44 miles per hour in fairfield and 26 in napa and 29 in santa rosa. up to 50 by midnight in forward and oakland and san rafael starting to feel the winds and 26 to 30 miles per hour and we will hang around the 20 to 40 miles per hour wind through tomorrow morning. as far as today, almost like yesterday, maybe a couple of degrees cooler we are starting off with the 40's and 50's and ending at 80's inland. we could be away from the 90's for a day but it comes back in the three-day forecast with record highs possible thursday and friday. leyla?

the san mateo bridge headed out of hayward to foster city, it is moving clear. we do not have crashes. no construction at this hour. only at toll plaza. that is where you could see a few delays because of the installation of automatic toll plaza. at the map, in the city, in san francisco, if you are headed northbound along 101 between 80 and mission street we have a couple of lanes blocks until 5:00 a.m. in the east bay, if you are driving along highway four eastbound side we also have one lane blocked which means one lane stays open and that is until 6:00 a.m. >> we are in the middle of the first heat of the season and the warning firefighters want everyone to hear. >> how much water officials plan to raise your rates ahead. >> surveillance video that police want you to

covering fremont and north bay and palo alto, this is abc7 news. >> 4:43. developing news in pittsburg with a possible new lead in the search for a kidnapping suspect. surveillance video shows an s.u.v. in the area of the kidnapping minutes before it happened and they believe it could be connected or it could belong to a witness. on friday a man grab add 2-year-old girl from her yard at the corner of raindrop circle and made it 50' and the mother shipped at him and the kidnapper put the girl down and took off. she was not hurt. >> transportation officials in san francisco are taking part in another community meeting to talk about major changes on polk street to accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists.

the city transportation agency wants to eliminate many parking spots along the corridor to make room for bicycles and make the street safer and more inviting. others say parking is already hard enough to find and some merchants say it would be bad for business. the community meeting begins at 5:00 p.m. at the first congregational church. >> this is a push to shut down a medical marijuana agency on dwight way because it is in a commercial area. berkeley law requires the pot clubs be located in residential areas. neighbors is complained of liter and customers smoking marijuana on the sidewalks. the owner is promising to fight efforts to shut it down. >>the price of water for a lot of homes and businesses could go up in july. east bay mud is preparing 30 percent increase in the water rate this year and next. that means the average family

sees the bills rise by $10 by the end of next year and it needs the extra money to maintain and replace the aging system. the east bay board will hold a public hearing on the proposes increases june 11. >> the calendar says april but hot, dry, and soon wind in the east bay hills will call for red flag fire warnings. crews tell abc7 news reporter why there is no concern this early. >> this brushfire in contra costa county could be a sign of things to come. firefighters throughout the bay yeah are ready for what could be a very busy couple of days. a red flag warning takes effect on tuesday at 6:00 p.m. and the fire station is prepared with sex engines staffed rather than two and it is not even fire season. >> we are starting early and ahead of schedule, two or three weeks. >> the concern is primarily

areas of 1,000'. gusts are expected to reach 50 to 60 miles per hour and the vegetation is at record dry levels. firefighters worry that people may not realize the danger. >> the fact we are two or three weeks early and the fact that we will have the red nag warning with the northeast winds...it is a concern. >> the red flag warning continues until can p.m. on wednesday so be extremely cautious with any outdoor burn ing. >> yesterday it wasn't so windy. it looks like it could pick up. >> that is the key. you have the hot weather. you have the dry field. now the wind. those are the three, three strikes and we are out. hopefully you have cleaned out the yard or free space around

your yard so it does not get caught in the potentially dangerous situation. we will talk about what is waiting outside, a beautiful picture of...bay bridge this morning, and the flag and it is calm. 53 in san francisco, oakland and san jose at 54 and palo alto and walnut creek at 58, and mill valley at 50 degrees and this is how it looks from the east bay hills to san francisco and hazy there along the east bay shore in the foreground and santa rosa is 54 and fairfield is 57 and concord is 56 and los gatos is 53. here is the front we were following yesterday and we have tracked it down to our doorstep and it moved through and it chips away at the high temperatures from yesterday so we will pull back a little bit as we talked about but i believe this is going to kick up the winds needed and it will introduce more dry air so we have 9 red flag warnings.

east bay hills and diabolo, above 1,000 feet that is where we have the highest danger for fire breaking out and for spreading rapidly on the gusts. that is up to 50 to 60 miles per hour but sustained winds are around 25 to 35. today, it will be another warmer-than-average day with low-to-mid 80's through santa clara valley and los gatos and gilroy are warmer at 88 degrees. the peninsula is a story of two areas to the north 75 in millbrae and to the south the low-to-mid 80's and along the coast mid-to-upper 60's and maybe a cloud or two more than yesterday but a lot of sunshine. low-to-mid 70's around downtown and seas latte and mid-to-upper 80's through the north bay valley and we are 15 to 20 degrees cooler at the beaches. richmond, berkeley, 70's, and everyone else is 80 to 81 along the east bay shore.

officially we may not quite make it to 90 but it will be in the mid-to-upper 80's in the east bay valleys. tonight we are lower, mid-50's, and i would not be surprised at windy areas and we do not get out of the 60's tonight. tomorrow, it will be warmer than today and look at that, record high temperatures are possible as we head to the back half of the weekend with a cooling trend arriving sunday and monday. have a great day. >> good morning, everyone, as we have a live look at our walnut creek drive coming down 680 down to 24, and you can see we have a few cars but everything is running on time. we do have one accident and this is in pleasant hill in the contra costa county if you are headed along taylor boulevard there is an accident. no word as to the severity of the accident. four, 580 and 80, all running at top speeds antioch to concord is

16 minutes and 580 from tracy to dublin is 20 minutes and 80 through berkeley, a very short 13-minute delay. >> this morning, federal investigators are expected to examine the wreckage of two planes that crashed in midair in southern california. one of the planes slammed into a ridge in los angeles county and emergency crews found the pilot's body in the wreckage. the other plane landed on a golf course ten miles to the west and three people on board have minor injuries. the f.a.a. investigators say the two planes collided 3,500' in the air and no indication if either saw the other aircraft. >> it is illegal in arizona if cities and counties to destroy guns turned over to police at community buy backs. the bill requires donated weapons be resold backed by republicans and the national rifle association who say destroying the weapons is a waste of taxpayer resources.

opponents say it keeps the guns off the street. the boston marathon bombings are prompting a change in next month's bake breakers race and are batching bags more than 4.5 by 11", and runner whose have not registered to be in the race are banned, and those not with official bids are asked to leave. the san francisco mayor promises security will be increased along the route so bags can only be this big and 4" thick. >> that is what the san francisco police chief is saying >> new gum generating buzz. >> and a man's generosity saves the little league season. >> looking deep into young mind's when it comes to

>> the owner of a famous san francisco restaurant is helping a little league team starting a fundraiser campaign to improve the baseball facility at richmond's park. the restaurant and a local law firm are donated $5,000 to get it started. it began when he saw a story on abc7 news on the theft of equipment from the richmond little leagueers. the loss put the team season in jeopardy but then he stepped in and donated $1,500 to buy the new equipment so baseball goes on. >> well played, very good. play ball'. >> that is what they did at the a's coliseum last night. >> hopefully they have pitching left. here is a look at forecast, it

will be nice at 7:05 at 67 and dropping to 61, and thankfully it want tonight's game that went 19 inning because they play at 12:45 tomorrow. you can see the cold front, the thin line of clouds is the leading edge of the cold front and notice how dry it is. it is chipping away at the temperatures and 64 in tahoe, two days in a row record highs. not today. mid-80's to upper 80's around sacramento and 63 in san diego, 70 if los angeles and only 97 in palm springs! safe travel. >> as we look at the drive along highway one we have construction out there and this is one way traffic control if affect until 7:00 a.m. if you headed between gray whale and marine boulevard a one-traffic lane available so a little bit of a slow commute along highway one.

at american canyon to vallejo we have report of debris and it is causing slowing and you are headed along southbound 80 coming up on 37 so watch out for that, it could be dangerous. >> looks like the sack -- sacramento kings will stay put. investors wanted to move the team to seattle. all 32 owners vote on the bid in may. >> the food and drug administration is investigating food with added caffeine and the potential impact on children. the announcement is in response to a caffeine gum introduced by wrigley called alert energy gum and the f.d.a. says the proliferation of caffeine added to foods is beyond anything the

f.d.a. envisioned and looking now into the safety of energy drinks. >> m.r.i. scans can predict how well children respond to math tutoring after third graders underwent the tutoring, those with the best response had a larger part of the brain associated with learning and memory. the study can be found online in the journal of national academy of sciences. >> before you invest in expensive tutoring have your kid have a brain scan first? >> a kidnapping, carjacking and two terrorized drivers in a bizarre crime spree with new details we just learned from investigators. >> more officers means more money, and oakland city leaders will be asked today to help fight crime. >> health scare forcing thousands of inmates to be

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. it is action on tuesday morning. thanks for starting your day with us. >> we will start with the weather forecast because it is hot and dry and we have winds. >> it brings with it a fire advisory. >> cold front will kick up higher wins and a high fire danger from 6:00 tonight until 6:00 tomorrow evening. it is still comfortable with