>> this is abc7 news. >> good morning, thursday at 5:00, thanks for starting your day with us, i am kristen sze. >> i am katie marzullo here for eric thomas. we send you over to our meteorologist for a look at the weather. >> come on over, thank you,

ladies. we have radar and satellite and mostly clear, a few patches of low clouds but nothing falling from them. there is a little more moisture in the air so we are hazy in some spots but no morning manner layer clouds. it will be breeze as around the bay but sunny and 60 around san francisco and 69 as you head down to san jose. it will be windy at the coast, again, with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50's. we talk about the morning commute with leyla gulen. >> we have one thing what going on right now in sunol if you are traveling southbound 680 at sunol boulevard we have debris in the lanes and it is causing flat tires so a few cars have gotten flat tires and are on the shoulder. if you are traveling southbound, we will take a look outside and here is the bay bridge toll plaza and you can see clear conditions right now as you come away from oakland and toward the toll plaza and we do have construction eastbound that will

be blocking intermit. ly three lanes until 6:30 a.m., so give yourself extra time. >> leyla gulen? >> crews will fix the problem of broken bolts on the eastern span of the bay bridge. we will get a closeup look. amy hollyfield is live at the bay bridge. >> good morning, we will watch this afternoon at the workers do their prep but we have reporters that are giving an update on the other bolts on the bridge. they tell us there are 2,000 caltran has a lot to prove, many are now doubting the agency. >> the whole train of events that led up to the fact that they are using the bolts and we

call into question their operation and the way they have analyzed this and looked at it. >> the transportation commission said she is looking forward, whatever mistakes were made, the ski to fix them and move on. caltran says it is still on track for a labor day weekend opening but will no doubt face a lot of mistakes. >> in oklahoma the region is getting hit with severe weather just as they prepare to start burying the first victims of monday's tornado. the bad weather is causing signal issues so we are jointed on the phone by abc7 news reporter from oklahoma. >> maybe you can hear the lightning on the phone, it is bad, what a terrible, terrible day for the recovery efforts.

it is setting things back for today. president obama arrives here on sunday so hopefully he will have better weather. he will see some signs of progress and there are telephone poles that are going back up and some of the debris is being cleared away and he will also hear about the incredible stories of survival like this one. >> in total darkness this video give as look at the moment that the tornado hit the briarwood elementary school. >> it is almost over. >> teachers and students emerged from the bath rome where they found massive destruction, but everyone at the school survived. a few miles arm at plaza towers elementary school, seven students were killed and neither school had a safe room and one is not required by oklahoma law, only alabama requires a safe room in all schools. in all, 24 people lost their

lives, and 14 adults and den children, including two infants. all of the missing have been accounted for and yesterday the only rescue still going on was for pets. >> one couple lost their home but were able to salvage a few pictures and momentoes of their own childhood. >> the doll my great great grandmother made me when i was a baby the. >> they say they will rebuild with one major addition, a safe room which is built either above or below ground that helped save to many lives. >> just sad. sad. we are happy, too, because we are all alive. >> now the focus for so many in moo is not on the devastating loss but on the precious things still being found like a daughter's baby pictures. >> priceless, you can really make sure that we have her memories, too. >> the bodies of the tornado victims were released back to their families just yesterday

and today is the memorials and funerals with the first one a nine-year-old girl who was killed in that elementary school collapse at 10:00 a.m. local team here. we are reporting from abc7 news and a stormy moore, oklahoma. back to you. >> thank you, at 5:06. a concord neighborhood is on edge after a bomb scare. we were over the scene after several homes remain evacuated on johnson drive at 3:00 a.m. yesterday afternoon, the f.b.i. and a.t.f. and police are investigating possible explosive devices and one was taken into today and boxes of evidence were removed from the home. the all clear was given two hours later. >> happening now in cupertino, the santa clara sheriff is investigating a bank robbery, it happened at the u.s. bank branch shortly after 2:30 yesterday. investigators say it is too usually to tell if this robbery

is related to others in the city. no arrests have been made. >> the san francisco planning commission is set to vote today on a proposal to allow sutter health to build a new hospital on van ness avenue and rebuild st. luke's in the mission district. after sutter health agreed to scale down the plan to build a new california specific medical center at the old cathedral hill hotel and at the same time it would expand the capacity of a rebuilt st. luke's in the mission district. >> our meteorologist, mike nicco, now with the accweather forecast. mike? >> i wanted it show you the radar out of norman, oklahoma, with moore to the north and they got a strong or severe thunderstorm rolling through the neighborhood right now so that black is usually an indication very high radar run that comes from hail so i feel back for those folks. it is quiet on our radar and as

we jump over here, it will move through in the next half hour to 45 minutes and they can get back to restoring their hive -- lives 4 in los gatos in the hills, and headed in lower elevations you can see saratoga and cupertino at 45 and sunnyvale at 47 and temperatures in the 40's until you get to alameda at 52 and redwood city at 50 along with san ramon and 41 in calistoga. day planner today the next 12 hours, temperatures are stuck in the 60's away from the coast from noon to 4:00 and into 7:00 we are stuck in the 50's at the coast and as we move through the weekend, temperatures will climb just a little bit with a few more clouds in the morning and a few high clouds in the afternoon. we will see if there is potential hotspots this morning. leyla gulen? >> there is, and it will be in san francisco as we take the drive along we i would as you connect 280 in the eastbound

direction, we have c.h.p. on the scene with this accident and it is blocking one lane, right new we volume in the northbound direction along 101 and the 280 extension southbound side we have a few folks headed out on the roadway and the great highway is shut down because of had high winds that blew sand on the roadway and no telling when that will reson. as we take a picture this is the drive into central san rafael southbound 101 the tail lights making their way down to 580 and it is looking clear and accident-free. >> thank you, at 5:09. a smart gun could trigger more debate about gun control. the bloomberg business report is next. >> the major announcement president obama is set to make today on guantanamo bay prison.

>> covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> we have a look for you this morning, the golden gate bridge there for a second but look at the difference, this is oklahoma city with a flash of lightning and it is raining. mike nicco says heavy rain there and the possibility of hail. it is so hard to see the communities in oklahoma get such bad weather as they are trying to recover from the deadly

tornado. in fact, the first of the funerals. more lightning in oklahoma city with the first funerals scheduled today. >> president obama will make a major speech to outline new national security measures. he is expected to renew the call to close the guantanamo bay g a recruitment toolpects for terrorists but republicans and some democrats in congress oppose shoulding guantanamo bay and the pentagon asks for half a billion for upgrading the prison. the president will talk about using drones to kill americans in afghanistan. the administration admitted a drone strike intentionally killed al-qaeda leader anwar al-awlaki, and attorney general holder confirms al-awlaki planned the so-called underwear bombing attempt in detroit in 2009 and played a key role in a plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010. drones have killed three other americans since 2009 but they were not targeted. >> the f.b.i. needs your help in

investigating a man who is in custody for impersonating a federal agent. his name is max but he has gone by other names and while on supervised probation if impersonating an agent he obligated a semi automatic riot-control gun and other equipment used by police. if you have had contact with this man call the f.b.i. tip line. can you do it anonymously. >> a bomb squad in san carlos took care of what could have been a pipe bomb yesterday, a waste truck driver noticed it and called police. from sky 7, you can see an officer removing the remnants and it wasn't a pipe bomb but a homemade still used for making alcohol. >> a stanford professor is accused of abducting her three

children. her family tone says this are two fathers involved and she took the children to hawaii because she was under a lot stress. she and her nanny were arrested and extradicted to california. she is due back in court may 30. she is being monitored by an ankle g.p.s. >> a bakery came up with a sweet way for people to donate to the victims of the oklahoma tornado, sprinkle cupcakes donated the entire proceeds of red vet vote cupcakes to the red cross and hopes to raise quite a sum. spring chemicals has done similar fundraisers for other disasters and that goes for the entire nation-wide chain but this has special meaning. >> it is now 5:15. sprinkles always has the trademark topping with the design but on those they had the red cross so that is very meaningful. >> we had bad news for the millions of people driving anywhere this weekend.

>> here is jane king. >> gas prices are higher closer to memorial day up 17 days in a row to an average of $3.66 for regular. aaa says we will get relief by july as production increases and fuel is shipped north to ease short averages. some of the utilities under constant cyber attack and a congressional survey of the power systems says several companies have not taken precautions and it is vulnerable to cyber attacks from iran and north korea. loan debt is at an all-time high with 11 percent 90 days late in the third quarter, almost 30 percent of 20-24-year-olds were not employed or in school. volatile day on wall street with japan plunging 7 percent with interest rates surging. in the united states, investors are looking at prices on home sales and weekly jobless claims.

>> the fed could scale back economic stimulus. if you think debate on gun control is complicated wait until you hear abo a new gun on the market, which is selling a rifle with hazer and computer technology and 3-d color graphics that allows november vince shooters to hit moving targets five football fields away and a 22,000 to $27,000 gun lets you 'hood have it i don't and post on youtube. >> got a bumpy ride at sfo, right. will that happen again today? >> some of our fastest winds are at sfo and once they, if the national weather service puts out that information i will let you know. that is what they are gusting up to, but, right now, it is kicking up a few clouds otherwise the radar is quiet and live doppler 7 hd showing how

dry the air is again. right now, we have dropped down to 25 miles per hour and that is sustained wind at sfo with gusts up to 35 and 15-mile-per-hour wind in oakland and half moon bay but san jose at six miles per hour for the wind and novato, too. so there are breezy spots. you can see the haze hanging in the area and our picture from mount tamalpais this morning is not so clear as it was yesterday, but mucky. you can see it bouncing there at 2,600'. our highlight this weekend is a slight warming trend and showers are possible monday is tuesday. area of low pressure is still sitting -- seattle and portland, raining and raining and raining and raining, and it will not stop. we are getting the cold air but we are not getting the rain from the low. how will it affect the

temperatures today? in the south bay, morgan hill and los gatos in the low 70's and everyone else in the south bay in the mid-to-upper 60's and a lot of mid-to-upper 60's on the peninsula and millbrae at 62 and headed into the south peace at 70, along the coast 52 at half moon bay and on the bay side we could get 61downtown and 60 in south san francisco and 62 in sausalito and upper 60's to low 70's through the north bay valley and breezy and mid-to-upper 50's at your bones and 65 in berkeley the cool spot on the east bay, 66 in oakland and everyone else around 67 to 68. headed inland we have upper 60's around san ramon and pleasanton and low 70's from walnut creek to antioch and brentwood. temperatures tenths like this morning, stuck in the 40's but for possibly richmond and oakland around 50. a little bit warmer on friday, saturday, and sunday, and the bottom falls out with the system that will bring us possibly some

rain on monday and another slow warming trend for tuesday and wednesday. have a great day. >> we have a brand new accident which is serious over the altamont pass if you are traveling in the eastbound direction, not the commute but the eastbound direction, this is overturned box truck 25,000 pounds with some folks trapped in that truck but it sounds like they have been taken out and no injuries are reported eastbound 580, with plenty of spectators slowing westbound. 38 miles per hour is the top speed and it will take you more than half an hour to travel out of tracy to dublin and only one lane remains open in the eastbound direction involving another car. as we take it to southbound 680, c.h.p. is unable to locate the debris that was causing the flat tires in the areas so perhaps it has been moved off of the roadway. in fran, this crash is still blocking a lane southbound 101 to eastbound 80 we have one hane blocked out there and we will

have more details coming up in a little bit but over to you for now. leyla gulen thank you, ahead, five things to know as you start your day. >> also, white house honor. >> the most influential singer songwriters mechanic has seen. >> we will hear one of the songs from a big event in the east room. >> later on, the major challenge governor brown will lay down i'm diana perez.

>> whether you are just joining us or head out the door here are five things to know. number one, breaking news, authorities in san jose are investigating a house fire that broke out this morning at a home just after 1:00 o'clock. several vehicles were burned. we will take you to the scene for a report coming up in a few minutes. >> two, developing in oklahoma right now, severe weather is now rolling through the area this morning as the first of several victims from monday's tornado will be laid to rest today. monday's twister killed 24 including ten children. we will have more on this coming up in a few minutes. >> three, santa cruz authorities will release their findings of the investigation into the murders of two police officers killed in the line of doubt, sergeant baker and detective butler were gunned down in february by 35-year-old who died in a shootout with police after. >> today, 1,400 scout leaders are meeting in texas to decide

if they can become scouts with an urge to lift the ban but no matter how the vote goes the ban on adult leaders that are gay will stay in place. >> we learn who bought a ticket for powerball jackpot worth more than $2 million. the identity will be made public today at a news conference matching file of the six numbers last saturday which was for the largest jackpot in the game's history. >> we know it wasn't mike or he would have bought all the fries for everyone at giants. >> wasn't that nice of leyla gulen to share? >> she was with us. >> all right, good morning, everyone, from the roof camera, the thunderstorm in and newcastle, severe thunderstorm with half dollar-sized-hail creating more damage. the air quality shows high

amount of tree pollen, grass is going to be moderate and the u.v. index is high. it is quiet across the state. but cooler-than-average and upper 70's in the central valley and 55 in tahoe and upper 60's to low 70's and san diego and los angeles. now the local traffic. leyla gulen? >> we have an overturned box trip in the eastbound direction long 580. we have two lanes open and two are shut down and c.h.p. is on the scene at 25 miles per hour, eastbound, and 31 miles per hour headed westbound so you are slower out there. no word when this will be cleared. as we take it to fremont construction until 6:00 a.m., northbound 680 between south mission to north mission boulevard and we will look at walnut creek and that is the 680 coming right down to 24. you are looking at a clear drive. christian and katie? >> president obama and first

lady had a salute to carol king at the white house. ♪ the jazz man >> the president presented the 71-year-old singer with the prize for popular song last night. king is the first woman to receive the award given by the library of congress each year. >> the abc7 news at 5:30 continues with the top stories including the search underway in san francisco after a driver crashes into a home. >> making the america's cup race safer for competitors, the new recommendations just released weeks after a

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news.

>> thursday, thank you for waking up early and starting your day with us. >> i am kristen sze, it could be win difficult this morning and we want to check the weather with mike nicco. >> good morning, here is a look at radar from oklahoma, and severe thunderstorm is moving through that area and we are seeing half dollar size hate push through and new castle. at home, everyone is quiet. our temperatures going to run below average again with 40's along our neighborhoods this morning to 50's at coast and 60's away the bay and 70's at we get into the afternoon hours in our inland neighborhood. here is a look at traffic on the local scale with leyla gulen. >> good morning, everyone, as we head over to the antioch drive along highway 4, all the red, we are seeing a buildup of traffic in the westbound direction to pittsburg and concord at 20 miles per hour and it picks up when you get closer to bay point but where the big story is, along 580 in the eastbound

direction at flynn road an overturned box truck with two lanes blocked and we have plenty of traffic in both directions. katy and kristen? >> we have break news in san jose a house that caught fire this morning. abc7 news reporter is onwhat is? >> well, mots of the firefighters left in the last 20 minutes but in the past few minutes, the few remaining firefighters have started going through the damage with the family here. the family told firefighters they woke up at 1:15 to crackling sounds in the garage and thought someone was breaking into the home. but it was a fire, the husband, buy, to sons and a dog were able to get out safely and called 9-1-1. they tried to extinguish the fire with the hose but that obviously was well involved fire before they could get it.

>> firefighters were able to save a couple of motorcycles parked in the garage but a classic car was damaged. a lot of the damage to the hope came from firefighters pulling down the ceiling and cutting in the attic to stop the flames from spreading with a lost water damage. they are investigating the cause but there is no obvious cause. >> developing news in the east bay, where a man barely escaped an early morning house fire with the fire department sent this photo at a home shortly after midnight. a 40-year-old man living in the house was asleep and three woke up to the smell of smoke in his bedroom. investigators believe a discarded cigarette may have started the house fire the. >> a lot happening in oklahoma so we will head back to that direction with severe storms moving in across the areas already ravaged by tornadoes. >> some of the destruction there, and look at those angry

looking skies, the storm moving now and our meteorologist has more from the weather center. mike? >> we will show you the radar coming out of that area and what you will see is more to the north, and the southeast and new castle to the southwest so the radar is situated in that triangle, and the strong of the part of the storm is headed down 35 is right now we do have brief heavy rain around new castle and lightning but the center of the hail will move to the south and it is half dollar sized hail which normally would create damage, but, with all that has happened there you cannot damage what has occurred so new damage is possible in other areas where cars could be expensing broken windows. this is moving to the east and hopefully it will be out of here soon and it will be the last bit of what we are dealing with as

far as the wet weather. you can see it rolling through right now and that will continue sliding off to the southeast. i don't see much developing behind this system so an area of low pressure is moving right along interstate 40 creating strong thunderstorms. give it an hour and it should be gone. >> meantime, a young oklahoma tornado victim will be laid to rest today, the first funeral since monday's storm. the child died at plaza towers elementary school. the powerful twister killed 24 including ten children. it destroyed up to 13,000 homes, two will schools and a hospital. president obama travels to moore on sunday and officials estimate the damage could top $2 billion. >> we do have new video showing the deadly twister's formation. this is how it looked at the tornado moved across the field on monday and appeared to be gaining in size and strength. coming up in the next half hour we will take you back to moore

where the recovery efforts continue this morning, three days later. >> this morning, san francisco police are searching for a driver would crashed into a home and took off. the impact left a big hole in the house on -- with the driver fleeing the scene and the vehicle was found abandoned in daly city. no sign of the driver. >> the boy scouts will vote on a policy to include bay members 1,200 scout leaders meeting in texas to decide if openly gay boys can be scouts. the ban on adult male leaders is in place. this is after a local scout gained nation-wide attention last year when denied the rank of eagle scout. yesterday, the president of the boy scouts called on voters to lit the ban. >> this morning, santa cruz authorities will release their final findings in the murders of two police officers killed in the line of cut.

sergeant butch baker and elizabeth butter were gunned down february 26 by a 35-year-old goulet when he ambushed and shot them. swat teams fond him and killed him. he was twice accuse rape serving in the army but never put on trial. >> america's cup officials are recommending more than three dozen changes to improve safety during the race. it comes two weeks after british sailor andrew bart simpson died when the catamaran capsized on san francisco bay. yesterday, the head of the artemis racing team said they will not race if organizers do not make changes to protect sailors. the recommendations include review of the structure of the boat and enhanced sailor safety gear and lowering the wind limit for sailing. the recommendations still need to be aradioed by the other racing teams. >> there is another nurse's strike in san jose. registered nurses at regional

medical center are set to strike for two days going at 7:00 a.m. the nurses and the hospitals are in contrast talks fighting over proposed elimination of the nurse's pension plan and hospital staffing levels. thousands of health care workers are set to end a strike at five medical centers in california walking east job on tuesday over stalled contract talks involving pension contributions postponing hundreds of elective surgeries and chemo therapy. >> officials overseeing construction of the new bay bridge will show us the prepare work to replace the broken bolts on the new span. we will get an update of ongoing debting of the other bolts on the bridge. this month the toll bridge program committee announced a plan to install large steel saddles over two safety devices to fix the problem of the broken bolts. 32 bolts that were tightened in

march broke and officials say similar bolts that were tightened since then have shown no signs of failure. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield will have more in a report in the next half hour. >> today we will learn which lucky person is $2 million richer, because of a powerball jackpot bought here in the bay area, lottery officials say someone has come forward to chairman a ticket worth $2.3 million. it was purchased at a 7/11 in san jose and were maaed five of six numbers last saturday's largest jackpot in the history. missing only the powerball number and a shot at record $590 million. >> i'll take $2 million. >> we cannot all win the lottery but we can hope to get lucky in morning commute. leyla gulen? >> not too lucky headed over the altamont pass eastbound or westbound with not too many accidents elsewhere in the bay

area. we had an early crash in san francisco and that cleared southbound 101 to eastbound 80 transition completely open but headed over to the east bay if you are traveling eastbound along 580, another lane has re-opened and we have only one lane blocked and eastbound 580 this is because of an overturned box truck with no injuries reported and that is good. we down to 23 miles per hour headed in the eastbound direction and that commute will take you half an hour to head out dublin to tracy but westbound, it is 45-minute drive and 18 miles per hour over the altamont pass. we will look outside at the maze 13 minutes to take you down from highway 4 through albany to berkeley a clear accident-free drive so take advantage of it. >> it is 5:39. >> next, plus-size profits a blogger lighting up the internet with her campaign against

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>> covering benicia, san ramon, san mateo and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> we are back at 5:42 and opened up the weather window

from sutro tower and you can see the wolf -- wonderful colors with a couple of chances in the seven-day forecast. i will be back in a few minutes with that. kristen in. >> we know by the end of day if bicycles are allowed on bart at all hours. the board of directors is meeting and scheduled to vote on lifting the ban on bicycles during the commute hours after testing a week-long pilot program allowing bicycles on the trains away the clock and most said there was no impact on a decision to ride bar. >> this morning, the san francisco police department is launching a new campaign to educate distracted walkers. the focus is pedestrians who text or talk on the phone rather than paying attention. officers and student volunteers are stopping and talking to people about pedestrian accidents and cell phone robberies. robberies are soaring with thieving snatching phones and ipad before you can look up. >> the highway patrol is asking

for anyone would witnessed a fatal accident on 580 between livermore and tracy to come forward claiming the life of a young father. the 33-year-old michael cox was impaled by a pole that smashed through his windshield. he was driving on 580. we were over the scene after the accident. the highway patrol identified the pole as a type of tie down rod used to ratchet down truckloads and probably came off a big rig. the family says cox was on the way to a work meeting in the bay area. he leaves behind a wife and three children. >> climate change is the focus when governor brown joins 500 researchers at the 4th annual water, energy and smart technology summit in silicon valley. he spoke of the need for the world to be concerned about climate change during the commencement address at british columbia -- at berkeley.

he said more threatening are the rising levels of greenhouse gases. the summit is held at the nasa research center. >> a blogger has taken the intent by storm challenging abercromie & fitch's refusal to make closes for large woman after postage set of photos to counter advertisements show indicating only fit and trim models calling "attractive and fat," it shows her posing with a guy who could be a real abercromie model and targeted the brand because of comments made by the c.e.o. jeffreys implying the company caters to the thin and beautiful. >> the media, if you looked, you would see mortality men with not fat women, for example, maybe a family guy, or other situation comedy, you see that more often than a fat woman with a conventional attractive man. she is getting 120,000 hit as

day and abercromie & fitch ads show her photos popping up. >> if you have driven over a pothole and thought, i immediate to tell the city about this, if vallejo there is an app for that and the city has joined a website and app that lets people report nonemergency problems that include potholes, graffiti, or damaged streetlights. the app lets you publicly pinpoint what is wrong on a map so the city can respond. >> our meteorologist, mike nicco, with the accweather forecast. what is going on? >> it is quiet. we have a breeze along the peninsula and, also, at coast but everyone else is running quiet and you can see on live doppler 7 hd exactly what i am talking about and the lack of radar runs and there is more moisture in the air this morning so it looks hazy from time to time but the best chance of rain is not today, it is probably

monday into tuesday. that the biggest change in the forecast. here we are looking from mount tamalpais back across san pablo bay and it is gorgeous at 2,600' and we get a few breezes and it will be sunny with temperatures below average and a slight warming trend, ever so slight warming and our temperatures will be knocked down from the slight warming trend. from the roof camera, treasure island, the bay bridge, exploritorium, temperatures are three to ten degrees cooler-than-average, so we will see what is going on. low pressure, still, with the nice counter clockwise pull, saying persist. through tomorrow with the breeze relaxing tomorrow and the cool air will modify saturday into sunday. how about numbers in the south bay into the southern section of the santa clara valley? 71 in gilroy, and 72 in los

gatos. everyone else in the mid-to-upper 60's and san jose at 69. and same for mountain view. at the coast, it will be a brisk day. we have breezy conditions along the east bay shoreline and 65 at berkeley at the cool spot and 69 in hercules, and headed to the east bay valley, pleasanton, stopping shy of 70's. and 68 to 69. in the low 70's at the highway 4 corridor to brentwood. tonight, in the 40's for most of us, and richmond and oak, 50, and partly cloudy again. the seven-day outlook shows we are dealing with our temperatures that are running about one to two degrees warmer tomorrow into saturday and a couple more degrees warmer on sunday and cooler weather with the chance of rain on monday.

have a great day. leyla gulen? >> a decent drive in the bay area but the altamont pass is are we are having a problem out there in the east direction over 580, and we do have an accident that is clearing at the moment, and as we take a look we are going to start in san jose so we will get to those details in a moment but clear conditions and 70's miles per hour along 101 and 75 on 280 is not seeing any difficulty over there with a high wind advisory on the dumbarton bridge. over the altamont pass, eastbound 580s one lane remains blocked and this is westbound commute that is slower at 16 miles per hour, the continue speed, headed out of tracy to dublin/pleasanton and here is a picture of our golden gate bridge with the construction we had northbound, that is all cleared, a clear drive coming from marin city through sausalito and into san francisco.

>> the british government emergency committee plans to meet today after a produce tall deadly attack on a london street when two men with butch are knives hacked another man to death before the two were shot and taken into today. the prime minister says there are strong indications it was an act of terror and officials say it could be muslim extremists. the victim is not identified but he was a soldier. las vegas police are investigating former a's outfielder canseco for sexual assault. he is named a suspect but they have not charged him with anything. canseco took to twitter last night saying police came to visit him and he tweeted about the investigation referring to a woman by name and giving her phone number. canseco told a tv station in texas he has never been proven wrong and he always tells the truth and now plays in the minor leagues. >> a big drop in teen birth

rates. >> the only place in the bay area that is declaring a soda-free zone this summer. >> ahead in 6:00 hour the man who sold his social net working website to yahoo if more than $1 billion has a connection to the

>> welcome back, could marin county become a soda free zone? that is the hope the supervisors declaring it a soda-free summer but that is not a ban on soda but healthy advise from the supervisors. in the resolution, the board cite add study that said adults who drink more than one soda a day or 27 percent more likely to be overweight. >> hot beverage sounds better today. >> sure does. mike? >> the exploritorium shows the sun will come up and the temperatures will rise into the 60's and 70's. it looks like it will be a great day to be outside as you tackle the breezes and the tree pollen. ragweed is low, grass moderate, mold is low, but u.v. index is high today. we are watching that low up to the north and you can see the radar runs around portland pushing clouds into northern california and maybe a stray shower and 57 and upper 70's through the central valley and

55 at tahoe, and a look at the weekend forecast, it look like we will have a lot of sunshine and temperatures whatting out in the mid-60's after being near freezing overnight. how about local traffic? leyla gulen? >> we do have the great highway that is still shut down in san francisco because of the high winds that blew a lot of sand on the road. no telling when it will re-open. 50-mile-per-hour winds and what i think mike said. that is going to be shut down so if you want to make it a beach day you have to hoof up. in the east bay, eastbound 580, this is where we had an early accident involving a box truck and it looks like all but one lane is blocked with more yellow traveling eastbound direction and that is a good sign. if you are headed westbound from tracy to dublin we are looking at 50 minutes to get you out there and 15 miles per hour is the top speed. san jose traveling along 87, northbound, on the julian off-ramp to h.p. pavilion, short six minutes ahead away from 85 to julian.

>> thanks so much. a kindergartener in phoenix, arizona, received a special show of support days after losing her father in the line of duty. hundreds of officers showed up for her graduation to stand in for her father. the officers lined up to greet her and clap for her and packed the auditorium. her father was one of two officers killed by a hit-and-run driver during a drunk driving stop last weekend. no arrests have been made. >> a new report out this morning is showing a big drop in teen birth rates, a 25 percent drop if most states and california saw a bigger drop at 29 percent and mountain states better than that with rates falling by 3 percent in arizona, colorado, idaho, nevada and utah. the centers for disease control based their report on birth rates between 2007 and 2011 focusing on teens ages 15 to 19. experts believe the weak economy contributed to the decline.

>> the secret to a long and healthy life in move to the top floor. a study from the university of went land found those below the eighth floor are 22 percent more likely to die early with a chance of dying of lung cancer are 40 percent greater for people living on the ground floor than those above the 8th floor. the study credits less exposure to pollution and the health benefits of walking upstairs. >> next at 6:00, we are live with the show and tell demonstration caltran is getting ready to give us on the new bay bridge with flames breaking out on the south bay and what is being revealed about the late night house fire. >> "consumer reports" reveal the

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> at 6:00, flames break out in the south bay overnight. the home was damaged and the foam was displaced. >> caltrain will give us a slow and tell on repair job for the broken bolts on the new bay bridge but now there is another safety issue. >> the oklahoma town devastated by the ef-5 tornado begins the heart process of say goodbye to the victims of the storm. >> good morning,en, at 6:00 a.m., here for eric thomas. >> look like a pretty morning although it is chilly and maybe a bad hair day. mike? >> breezy again and right now it is mostly on the case, san francisco shooting through the gap and headed down the peninsula. we are mostly clear on live doppler 7 hd and it is dry. there is more humidity, though, than yesterday, but it is not translating into anything that will cause you problems this morning. it is cooler, temperatures in the mid-to-upper 40's around the