owners vote on this before he celebrates. the new stadium is still under construction but the odds of santa clara hosting a super bowl got a lot better today after its only competitor claimed to take a step today. at the end of the session, the florida state legislature did not vote on $350 million in renovations to miami's football stadium which is what the nfl wanted. that pretty much put santa clara in the driver's seat to host the championship in 2016. i spoke to santa clara mayor. he was overflowing with confidence. >> everything about this effort has been cooperation between cities. it's something everyone hopes for. if we can pull this off for a super bowl, imagine what we can do in the future. >> an olympic bid is a

confident mayor right there. but he says there is still an outside chance miami could get private funding. the nfl could give them funding or state legislature to call a special session and vote on this before the deadline there. the bay area super bowl committee submits a bid in five days, and then, nfl owners vote on this on may 21 to make it official. so we'll know officially then. >> fire danger remains high in the bay area. temperatures have cooled a bit. take a look at 300 acres of dry grass that burned this afternoon. sky 7 hd shows just how close the homes came to a line of homes, looks like conditions are about to change. >> interestingly enough all though today's high

temperatures are high we had many record highs today. look at what's happening over in the central sierra. thunderstorms, so pattern is changing so a warm summer like pattern there. our pattern about to change but first laif view from our camera looking westward over the bay. take a look at today's record high temperatures we have napa, 92. those readings tied records for today's date. oakland and mountain view set new record highs for this date. we have heat with us and there is still concerns about fire danger from midnight tonight to 4:00 in the afternoon. winds gusty and fire right after this sk high. >> also keeping tabs on a fire in camma rio.

there is one in glendale that is how well under control. here is a look at the camma rio fire. it's 18,000 acres, firefighters did make progress. half of the homes have been lost. and take a look at this video from around noon today. you can see the huge wall of fire burning in the trees behind a home. firefighters did manage to divert flames saving the house and one next door as well. tonight new evacuations have been ordered in a thousand oaks neighborhood. flames racing near a canyon toward that area. >> ask breaking news out of hillsborough tonight. a major fire damaged two homes, one of them seriously. flames

ripped through the house on black mountain road about an hour ago. the fire reached attic and torched nearby trees, firefighters put down a lot of water to you try to beat back flames. >> i hopped over fences. and i saw my back units burning up. i grabbed a garden hose to try to put out the fire. >> fire spread and damaged another house. investigators have not figured out why it started. >> oak plnd police and fbi agents staged a series of raids today with big results. now, a lot on the streets. abc 7 news is live with more for us. nick? >> good evening, we're given a look at evidence recovered in an early morning raichld

police say that multiple warrants issued in direct response to a spike in violent crime. >> this is raw teerl in a series of early morning raids producing arrests members of the police department special operations team confiscated weapons and drugs. >> street value from about 20 to $50,000 of heroin. that is a significant recover. >> the lieutenant special task force would not be possible without the measure y giving him man power to target crime in problem areas. >> they can expect more response from the oakland police department. >> in addition to the drugs packaged the raid netted heroin, 1600s -- 1600s ndz cash and bullets. >> the 223 and 762 will cut

through with these our body armor can't stop that firepower. >> he believes he knows why this crime doesn't get cleaned up. >> will we have more offices available? where they are working in the community? then you can see the crime go down. >> police chief is pushing hard for policing. he says this morning's raids are only a prelude of what is still to come. >> we know the community has been plagued by violence. we want to send an impact we do care about them. >> i can see they're moving in the right direction but have you to understand you are just putting a band aid over a serious wound. >> in 2004 voters decided to

tax themselves. the violence prevention and safety act uses public funds to fund groups to help reduce the violence in troubled areas. >> breaking news where a cal train just struck a vehicle on the tracks between mountain view and palo alto trains backed up there. no word yet on why the vehicle was on the trucks or whether anyone was hurt. >> police arrested four boys, one just 12 years old. a 20-year-old man robbed at gun point two, blocks from a bart station. eight juveniles have been arrested. >> health officials issuing a warning about the risk of typhoid fever result of food served in a cafe in a upscale store.

we're live with the story. mark? >> they're outside here and an employee was diagnosed with typhoid fever. the health department found out about it on wednesday now looking for anyone who has maybe been exposed. >> nordstrom cafe is a popular place to eat. tonight nordstrom reaching out to customers to let them know one of the cafe employees contacted typhoid fever. the trouble began when the employee came back to work here. >> we're letting the public know if they ate at stone's town on the dates of april 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th or 27th and develop symptoms of illness they should speak with

a health care provide year dr. phillip is a specialist with the san francisco health department. she says it takes a week or two and maybe three to show up most have a mild to moderate symptom but could include high fever, people can have weakness. >> doctor phillip adds in cases people can get very sick of f.not treats. typhoid people kills a couple hundred thousand people per year in developing countries. shoppers are surprised to hear the news. >> so what are they doing about it?. >> nordstrom says it's going through receipts to find customer who's ate at the cafe during that time frame f customers are feeling ill, nordstrom contracted to provide free testing. >> do you eat there often?

>> i do. yes. >> how are you feel something. >> great. >> this student ate at the cafe during that time frame. >> loss of appetite, stomach pains? >> i haven't had those. no. i'm feeling fine. >> and again, health department found no one who has become sick from eating in the cafe. from addresses to get a free test we'll get new touch with them. reporting from the stone's town galleria, abc 7 news. >> still to come tonight here on abc 7 news at 6:00 more trouble at new bay bridge. >> caltrans investigates bad bolts so will it open on time? >> the brown administration submits a plan that falls short. will judges orderser early releases of inmates?

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>> problems caltrans is having with the new bay bridge getting worse tonight. the failure of 32 rods led to an investigation of 2000 of them. so how will that affect the countdown to the bridge's scheduled opening? that is unclear at this point. we're live on treasure island

tonight with the latest on this. heather? >> caltrans is trying to decide on the best repair plan for the 32 broken rods. now, the investigation has expanded so they have a bigger problem on their hands. >> the rods are he produced in a way making them susceptible to breaking in a marine environment. of the 2300 installed on the self anchored bridge only 32 have broken. caltrans is now revuling tests and doing additional testing. in 2004, caltrans up decided it's specifications, banning use of this type of bolt. yet they were installed four years later. still, caltrans says using them was acceptable. >> manuals for building anything but particularly bridges get updated annually. and if we stopped and changed

material every time there is an update we'd still be designing this brichblgt not building it. >> review of the rods is the latest in a series of construction fumbles that would seem to threaten the opening. but that decision hasn't been made yet. >> yes and we had determined it's 100%. >> bart may says it's not just a contractor monitoring the work. there are third parties as well, caltrans should able to explain to taxpayers what happened. >> there have been thorough inspections on this. i think what agencies have to answer is, why was the bolts chosen? >> dan mcnicole is a kind of third party not an inl spector but a writer wrote a book about boston's big dig, he has a construction map of the $23 billion transportation project in his condo. and this is a mock up of the bay bridge book he researched

and hopes to write. he says what's happening on the bridge now is typical of the megaprojects. the opening day for every one of them was delayed. >> california in longer a pioneer inland. and this bridge pushing edge of engineering on a magnificent scale. >> we might get an answer to that burning question of whether or not the bridge will open as scheduled labor day weekend but this coming wednesday may 8th there is a meeting and a status report including agencies at the embassy in oakland. and at that meeting we might get answers. >> thank you very much. >> and a 12-year-old boy seriously injured was a guest of honor in oakland.

today parents, and take a look at this photo. right at the finish line, you can see just how close he was to 8-year-old martin richard who was killed as well as suspect jahar tsarnaev. >> we can't waste too much energy on what ifs. >> catherine says they can't look back. their young son aaron was severely injured. >> he was lucid and knew what is going on. he wasn't hysterical. he saw people around him. >> this photo shows aaron had been stand together left of 8-year-old martin richard killed in the second blast.

several others lost one or both legs. catherine was just finishing her race. >> i couldn't get to them. the scene was chaos. i was on the -- kind of afraid to see what i was to find. >> before the bombing aaron was an active, athletic boirk had he not been injured woe have been finishing up little league preparing for the swim season. now he's got weeks of therapy ahead and damage to his ear drum will prevent him from getting in the pool for another month. >> it's going to be tough for him. >> there have been happy moments in weeks since boston. they know there will be tough times ahead for their boy.

>> these are visions that will never be able to erase for him. >> in martinez abc 7 news. >> if you'd like to see the news conference you'll find it on abc 7 news.com. just click under see it on tv. >> they had a lot to say that people want to hear. turning our attention to weather forecast. still watching fire conditions. >> yes. things are changing. >> we have heat locked into our inland areas. we get cooler weather over the skbeekd maybe showers. another warm day. on to the city and bay from mount tam, 69 this, weather is making -- take mig breath away. san jess yeah, 84.

another live sfru south beach camera. looking sort of south ward over the bay. clear skies and readings 81 degrees at this hour. so you can see lots of warmth covering the bay area, forecast features coastal fog returns overnight. cooling around the bay as well, fire concerns over the north bay hills. and showers possible. notice fog returns to the coast late tonight and overnight. it does bring cooling to the coast. low temperatures tonight on coast will be down into mid to upper 40s, lows into mid-50s then, tomorrow, resuming animation at 5:00 in the morning. do you remember that low yesterday? goitsing to continue sliding

west tomorrow. and park off shore going to provide unsettled weather producing a good chance of showers by sunday. and you can see there is cooler weather along with a chance of showers sunday into monday, possibly into tuesday. so major changes. tomorrow, another mild to warm day. highs into low 80s. peninsula, mainly low 80s in redwood city. mid-60s on the coast. downtown high of 70 tomorrow. and there is a high of 84. 78 at york. mid to upper 80s 82346

concord. here is the accu-weather forecast. sharp cooling on suntd. inland highs into low to mid-70s. quite a change from what we've had. 60s around the bay. 50s on the coast. once again this is a chance not of significant rainfall but showers sunday, monday, and tuesday. >> thank you. >> absolutely. >> just ahead here a solar powered plane making history tonight. just ahead. >> and we're marking a milestone tonight. thank you to 100,000 peo

six flags discovery kingdom opened this weekend but locked out some workers, locking out 24 ride mechanics because of a labor dispute. the workers were picketing and plan to be there all weekend long. six flags took this action

after mechanics voted down a final contract offer. >> we got through most of the noneconomic. the company just came in to say this is our final. they moved it up but it was not enough. >> they were already put into action after the wooden roller coaster stalled this morning. a spokesperson told abc 7 news the rides are being inspected by highly trained individuals. a state of the art airplane took off for a journey this morning and well underway. solar impulse lifted off today. the plane runs on electricity generated by solar cells, batteries enable it to fly at night. wingspan compares to that of a

747 jumbo jet. it will cruise at 22 miles per hour. we can show you a look now at progress by a live web video feed approaching mojave desert, we think, right now. it's due to land in phoenix. >> we're following breaking news now. you can see smoke here. this is from our fixed camera looking south towards this fire. sky 7 is on wait to the scene so will be updating you shortly. >> as we continue a lot more still to come here at 6:00. governor brown's new plan for easing kriz priz onovercrowding in california. being met with outrage tonight. >> made in america campaign come together bay area.

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let's go back to breaking news this, is east san jose. you can see there is smoke coming from a fire. >> this is burning near hill view airport. we understand it's not affecting flights into, or out of, that small airport at this time. >> you can see that could change because this is and seems to be spreading. winds are gusting to roughly 16 miles per hour so not too bad. >> this is our sky 7 shot as the helicopter gets closer to the scene. >> this is a grass fire, winds not too bad but will be fanning flames somewhat.

this does appear to be spreading. >> we've had problem was fires around the state. so this is an early fire season for us. >> all over the state. >> because of the heat it's been so hot here. but the good news is that it will be cooling off zs you look live keep in mind a grass fire is. >> r spreading. >> it appears we just saw a helicopter going through there. that is certainly an effort

when you have grass fire like this is that if you can get choppers putting pulled here. >> you can see a line of fire on the screen. >> we can see just how close this is burning to homes in this area. >> that is right. you'll see firefighters making a defense line to try to keep it from homes. >> yes. so smoke being againer yaited. the airport is not being affected. >> you can telt it's still spreading. firefighters are starting to get a handle on what they're dealing with and responding to this. >> with wind and heat and homes just feet away there

will be concern this could spread. >> yes. you can see the burn autos this is just one had a number of fires. terrible fires in southern california causing damage. this one will not spread too rapidly. looks like firefighters are pouncing on it. there, you can see fires ringed by houses. this is spencer christian. >> it's warm up there. so it's been warm and dry across the bay area, humidity low. we have not had an issue with

winds down there so far today. now smoke seems to be drifting rather forcely about 16 miles per hour winds but that is nothing like gusts so it's hot, dry, and those factors contribute to fire danger. >> one of the neighborhoods is hidden glenn. it's one of the neighborhoods in this area. holy oak is another one. good news is that there is a water dropping helicopter in action right now. >> yes. this does seem they're making good headway.

you know earlier today we saw 300 acres burn. that did indeed. >> this area into central valley has been warm. a couple days ago, it was windier. winds normalized a bit as you know, still this risk going to remain us with us. perhaps cooling by tomorrow, enough of inincrease to help firefighting efforts. >> yes. there the won't be heavy or wide spread but going to be about 20 degrees cooler. that is significant.

skpf course with a chance of showers that will reduce rather dramatically the risk of fires. >> that is a perfect storm for nonfire conditions. we saw pictures of firefighters moving it away from the houses. and the winds aren't too bad. it doesn't look as though this is going cause too much problems. >> we have a neighbor on the phone now. how close are you to the fire? >> yes. about 500 feet away from the fire. >> what are you seeing now? from your perspective? >> now, helicopter and firefighters i think they can stop the fire. yes. a lot better than the road. >> which neighborhood are you

in? >> i'm on quimby road. >> yes. >> we can see it's, i'm sure you're noticing smoke is diminishing. we understand 40 acres have burned. >> it's a very good sign at this point. you can see llt of charred ground. seems fairly clear. with luck this will not be a threat for longer but these houses are awfully close. >> yes. they are. sam mentioned he's just 500 yards from this. that is burning close. you've probably been able to see smoke from your shop sam smoo yes. i'm here. >> can you smell the smoke? >> about five minutes ago a

lot of smoke coming close to open parking lot. and of a lot of people moving their car autos yes. please stay safe. we appreciate your coming on the phone with us. it doesn't look like it is getting worse. >> a lot of ground crews. you can see water dropping helicopters. >> so we'll move on from this. we're going to stay with us until it's out. they're getting close to it not being too much of a danger. there are still flames burning. you can see firefighters there with hoses spraying water pushing flames way from attacking flames first. >> sky 7 pulls out we can get

the vantage point of neighbors who are close to this fire line. i'm not sure if you can see them going to wet their roofs down with garden dresses. when you're watching flames burning so close. >> homeowners, there, you can see residents clearly walking along the perimeter. you can see volunteers and neighbors walking and trying to help. >> interesting--considering how dry it is. it's clear there is not much vegetation in the area. you can see smoke rising in

almost a vertical pattern indicates winds are not. strong but still, very dry, quite warm. >> seems like we're talking about this early for the year. we have an important resource for you on our web site abc 7 news.com all details of what you need to do. how far out that defensible space should go. >> it's a terrific thing to check out. normally we're not talking about fire danger around california last couple days for another month or two this, is early in the season. but it's been so dry, as you know. and last couple days perfect conditions for fire, windy, hot. humidity has been low. >> yes. >> we've been talking about

over past months how little rainfall we've had. so grass here is just tinder dry. you can see more flames here. probably embers blowing but there are a number of fire crews out there. >> yes about 40 acres burned so far. there is no evacuation, sky 7 stay on this picture. >> this season produced very dry vegetation, dry ground. it's not just low relative humidity right now. it's been dry so long and across the area so long. now we've got heat and winds.

but good news is that sharp change in weather pattern will be cooler tomorrow. temperatures about 20 degrees lower in this area. humidity will be up and there is a chance of showers. weather conditions are going to be more favorable. >> we can see traffic here, you can see traffic is creeping along here. this is capitol expressway. we're seeing a dark smoke coming on to this area here. you can see cars that are coming backed up and stopping. this is capitol expressway. >> yes. >> and the amount of smoke

seems to be diminishing somewhat. but it is in a busy area and there will be people slowing down. and of course the neighborhood streets as well. there is a good drop of water from a helicopter. >> on that area just sort of erupted again. and we did see neighbors out in that defensible space area checking out this situation. it's heading up this hillside a bit. >> you can imagine with every passing minute they get more organized and get strategize

on how they're going to get this under control. we've seen hot spots ask all it takes is another ember. and you can see how close this is burning as well. this is a busy shopping area, too. >> keep pulling back if you can. it gives us a broader view of where we are now and looks encouraging. you can see one right there. it's surrounded by burned out

grass they still have work, to do. all of the grass could catch fire. >> eastridge mall officials say it's burn together south and that it does not pose risks to that mall. so people paying attention to this. we've been told about 30 acres perhaps more now. in this area, it's all every this one as well. >> wind can kick up a little bit. this is still the time of the day it would be windy out. >> so it could generate a breeze that may become

stronger in that area. and yes. you know sl tl is just a fire yesterday at a recycling center. this is something everybody has been dealing with. >> and good news is that this does not look like it's going to pose a danger this evening. >> we watch cal fire crews drop a lot of water. >> going back to get back here and pick up more water dump it on the fire. around the state again we've had fires in wine country and terrible fires burning in southern california. cuts caused real damage down there.

so these live pictures we normally won't see this time of the year. we're off to an early start for fire soone one challenge is that when these flames spread like this, so much fuel here, you can see flames just jumping in the air, you can see crews there in just behind this line of trees knocking this view. >> this tree may not be longed for this world. this is the kind of fuel these fires just devour, dry grass just racing into tree autos yes. >> sometimes it can be oily. or have burns easily. >> yes. typically this is the time of the year they're coming out of the rainy season. so we would have had rain to produce the moisture we're expecting at the time of the year, everybody is at record

dry levels. veg station right for fires to provide fuel. >> as you see from that live picture look how many houses this is hidden glenn neighborhoods in and around the fire. you can see the densely populated area there. there is so much concern. all of these hoses in this heat can burn quickly. >> sky 7 pulls out for us we can see just how much progress has been made here. it seems as though. >> yes. >> and hot spots here and there. >> and nothing of significant r cans looks like. >> and we talked about defensible space eshllyer and making sure you have proper

zones 30 feet from your house and keeping that line from your home this takes you to 100 feet so what do you do? cut down vegetation and remove things from underneath your deck where there is grass growing. that is 30 feet. make sure shrubs and reez aren't too close together. >> we're hearing from fire officials they're not too concerned about this fire because there is a small cluster of trees here. and and 40 acres. >> great news here.

>> and in and around this area great news is that we did not see sparks moving into neighborhoodses and landing and causing problems in individual yards which is where it can get tricky. >> from several years back there was a fire at santana row. >> right. >> many homes burned because of that. >> hi. >> spencer again you're telling us winds are not a factor here. >> just checked latest information here. this is considered calm so they're not a factor so far. let's hope they'll the don't pick up any time soon. you can see that is an

indication for the winds. it's dwg to be cool. they found water and they'll have to drain swimming pools if they have. just pulling up enough water who knows maybe thousands of gallons. it's an enormous amount of water. >> that is where lake cunningham is. that is where helicopters are going and filling up. helping to put out the fire. >> they're daring. safety is first and foremost but they have to carry large amounts of water and supply low in populated areas and have to deal with the smoke

and heat and nermals coming off of the fire. it's challenging and impressive. >> and i think we're getting rdz to watch another drop in this area. >> what you do not want is an amount of water. it's serious. it could hurt if you they drop it on you. so they have to be careful. they're on the phone and radio communicating trying to figure out what the best spot is. what they see ground crew telling where they might want water zpropd trying to make sure folks are out of the way and make sure they use this efficiency. -- efficiently as possible. >> there we go. >> so after debate to make ts

decision down it goes z then we'll head back to lake cunningham park. >> just to clarify here to the right is what the fire looks like. you can see, we have notice fire crews getting in, knocking this down. >> so on the left, what it was like it was much bigger fire at that time. they did do a good job of getting control of this pushing it away from the houses. it and looked like from where smoke was blowing it looked like the wind was really pushing away from.

>> on the phone with us is a young woman named chanel ramirez. are you there? >> yes. >> thanks for joining us. tell whaus you saw? >> i am home but i was driving home and there is a big field there. we started to drive by i was at the corner. there is one firefighting there. flames were to the sidewalk and my window was up and i can feel the heat. >> that is incredible. >> you can hear me yelling at my husband, go, go, i can feel it. >> there is one fire fighter that looked puzzled.

he looked nervous, too. this is coming full force, just so long. >> that must have been scarey. were you on capitol expressway? >> yes. we're seeing cars going slow right now. there is a lot of smoke in the area. >> it was scary, fully going quickly. we can feel the heat. >> chanel you're so noise t to -- nice to come on. thank you very much. now, crystal martinez is on the phone with us. you work in a restaurant don't you?. >> yes. doi. >> tell us what you're seeing. >> they vit somewhat controlled. it we're pretty big.

it was smoky, pretty bad. our lot is filled with a lot of people with cameras and people just watching to make sure everything is okay. >> but businesses are open in this area? >> yes. we're still open and running. >> what are the specials snoont. >> two for 20s godsing on. -- for $20 going on. >> businesses up in the area. there are no evacuations. clearly it's well in hand but that is good news with all of these houses and such a busy area of east san jose. in one had to be put out of homes tonight. we did see a lot of neighbors walking the perimeter of the field looking for sparks and just protecting homes. >> yes from. this vantage point you can see some of the defensible space dan has been talking about. so important to have that.

>> yes. we remind ourselves, this is the time for all of us, myself included, all of us want to could it as well make sure our homes are protected. we do what we can to protect our neighborhoods. it's not that hard to do. it's easy to ignore, i know, it's a great reminder. it's an early fire season to do that. >> yes. this is early. >> not a good sign. looking at warmer months ahaechld such a dry rainy condition. and that doesn't help things. we've had an early heat wave.

very very low relative humidity if this pattern continues we'll look at fire danger for a long time. >> we want to share with you pictures received via twitter. sorry. but remember you can follow us on twitter. we'll share picture there's for you. >> thanks for joining us here on abc 7 news at 6:00 we follow this breaking news. grass fire looks well in hand in east san jose. in east san jose. thanks for watching. [ appl and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" --

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