until 6:00 a.m. the westbound commute is clear. it is an easy breezy drive to concord. this is the drive from...the golden gate bridge and traffic is pushed to the left-hand side and cones will be picked up at 5:00 a.m. >> police are looking for the man who tried to hold up a woman leaving nordstroms in walnut creek. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is at broadway plaza. >> very scary. can you imagine this open parking lot. we are standing on the sidewalk. you can see inside the parking lot from the street. it is lit. it is popular shopping center and always full of people. that may have been what helped her. she was attacked before 9:00 last night.

here the picture police have of the man who did this. get a good look, police are asking anyone who recognizes this man to give them a call in walnut creek. they believe he is 18 and 5' 4" tall, and is hispanic wearing black and white hooded sweatshirt. witnesses and victim say the man grabbed her purse as she walked to the car from the nordstroms and police say she struggled to keep her purse. another woman, another customer walking in the parking lot seemed to speak him. that is when he ran away. the victim did not lose her purse and she is okay. it was scary experience, though. anyone who knows anything of who could have done this, they want to get this man arrested so call

police. >> caltrain is investigating an accident after a man was hit by a train in san francisco's mission bay neighborhood before midnight. the man was taken to the hospital. his condition is not released. officials say he was struck by the last northbound train of the night which had 50 passengers. no one was hurt. the last southbound train was delayed 30 minutes. service is expected to run as urge. >> concerned residents in san jose are reacting to a spike in violent crime. a crime prevention meet was posted by council member at the library. it follows a violent weekend that left three people dead including to students from independence high school. the teens were shot on sunday behind the kohl's department department on rhinehart drive. residents say enough is enough. >> first time in 34 years i am not feeling safe. >> we have felt it for a long

time. the violence over the weekend exacerbates it. >> police officers association says the increase in crime comes as the number of officers on the street shrink. >> the san jose police department will remember the 11 officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. the mayor and other leaders will take part. the annual even is held in the rotunda at city hall but the memorial this year is held in front of the administration building. west mission will be closed to traffic between north san pedro. >> union leaders are pushing to arm officers with tasers and will forward the results of a survey supporting tasers to the city council. there is overwhelming 83 percent who support looking into equipping the officers with tasers. the mayor and police chief

declined to comment on the survey. several city council members say it is time to consider tasers with strict limitations. >> officials are investigating a police shooting in east oakland that left a suspect dead. yesterday afternoon, officers with the oakland police department special enforcement crime reduction unit tried to stop a car with three men inside. they jumped out and ran away at bancroft avenue. one of them was armed and the officer chasing him felt threatened and opened fire. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. two other men were arrested. a gun was recovered. >> a hair teen is recovering after getting hit by a car on a skate board when he ran through a stop sign and broadsided a car and was thrown 30'. he was air lifted to the hospital with serious but

non-life threatening injuries. he is expected to recover. >> the contra costa sheriff is looking if more victims of a former high school coach accused of molesting one child. police searched a pittsburg home connected to edwards. the 51-year-old is charged with rape and lewd acts on a child under 14. he is a former football coach at richmond's kennedy high school. athe state assembly approve add bill to make it legal for illegal immigrants to get a california's driver license even if they do not have the social security number. instead they who is to provide multiple documents to establish their identity including a birth certificate and proof of residency. under the legislation, two million people would become eligible for an i.d. card or driver's license. if approved it would take effect in january 2015.

>> a new poll show as majority of californians support modifying proposition 13. that is the 1978 measure limiting property taxes. a survey by the public policy institute of california found 58 percent of homeowners support keeping the landmark measures tax protections but changing it for commercial properties to be taxed at current market value. 33 percent of those polled oppose such changes. >> there is new evidence the housing market is recovering and the foreclosure crisis is easing data shows sales of bank-owned homes fell 16 percent from october to december of 2012 and 23 percent in the first three months of this year. seals of home in the foreclosure processed stopped after peeking at 45 percent of all home sales. >> two apartments in napa are red tagged because of the damage caused by a fallen tree. the tree came down on top of a

complex yesterday morning forcing two families to evacuate and knocked down power lines which started a brushfire. firefighters knocked down the fire as pg&e arrived to remove the power lines. no one was hurt. >> we have been waiting for the warmup and mike nicco is looking at that. >> it arrives this afternoon. it will build through the weekend and right now when you step outside check how much cooler it is from yesterday, one degree in oakland to 12 degrees in napa. we are in the cool of the air this go around with 46 in napa. 47 in los gatos. 48 in novato and santa rosa and everyone else in the low-to-mid 50's and antioch is at 57. a look at the day planner the next 12 hours from the exploritorium toward the bay bridge, 46 to 53, no worries of wet weather this morning. we will be 56 at the coast to 74 inland with total sunshine and

microclimates showing up at 4:00 mid-50's to near 70 degrees for the coast to inland around 7:00. from mount tamalpais, it will be slightly breezy this afternoon over the bay waters and the breezes will subside and a run of 90's inland, friday, saturday, sunday, and 80's around the bay and free air conditioning at coast and 60's for you there. leyla gulen? >> good morning, we still have accidents out there, nothing to speak of which is what we like to report and we have construction and as we start you in oakland we have it along northbound 880 at high street and it appears we have three lanes blocked and cones will be picked up at 5:00 a.m. and looking at traffic there making the squeeze as it passions beyond the construction area. remember, always slow if the cone zone. as we take it to dixon, westbound side 80 as dixon avenue, midway row we will have

lanes blocked off and that is due to paving work. this is san jose 280 away from 17, a clear drive headed away from 17 to cupertino. eric and kristen? >> next, the costly society -- set back for a local high schools' trip to europe. >> a brazen theft caught on video. >> new details of the amazing story from china, a baby rescued from a sewage pipe and he is back with his parents this morning. >> but first the money report. >> good morning, topping america's money, hoping for a better trading day today, as the dow suffered the worst one-day loss in weeks down 200 points but came back to close just 106 points down. nasdaq is paying $10 million stemming from the initial public offering of facebook shares

which is the largest ever penalty imposed against an exchange. attention burger lovers, the pretzel bacon cheeseburgers is coming to wendy's near you possibly by later this

>> coughing benicia, san ramon, and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> welcome back at 4:42. authority ms. china safer the mother of a newborn trapped in a sewage pipe will not face criminal charges. they say they are treating the incident as an accident. the baby boy who had only minor cuts and bruises during the ordeal has been released from hospital now into the care of his mother. the 22-year-old woman told police she got pregnant, hid it and secretly delivered the child saturday in a rental building and someone her the baby crying and called to help and firefighters took an hour to

dismantle the pipe in order to free the baby boy. >> santa clara police want you to look at video that show as male thief in action. a camera caught a man on a bicycle headed up to a home and get off the bicycle, walks to the front steps, and stuffs a package in a duffle bag and rides away. the theft happened this month and it is a growing problem. if you recognize that...gentleman, call police. >> group of graduates from san francisco's high school are leaving for graduation trip they nearly missed out on. the trip has been cut short and they out thousands of dollars. abc7 news reporter explains what happened. >> italian teacher had her students surprise for a 17 day journey across italy. >> we have been waiting since we were freshman and started italian. >> their boston-based tour operator called the european institute and stopped

communicating. >> they stopped answering my phone calls and e-mails and i was sending them each day. >> on may 27, they learned their tour company went bankrupt and they were out $120,000, $5,000 a student. they talked to the massachusetts attorney general, the california attorney general launched an investigation and they learned they were just out the money, and a contact with the san francisco mayor's office connected them with another tour company called world stride, and the c.e.o. decided to kick in $50,000 of his own money to rescue the would-be student travelers. >> it is sad when kids are losing out on a trip they have looked forward to for such a long-term. >> we are going to rome, parma and florence. >> much has been cut from the itinerary but at left they will get to italy. a student summed it up best.

(speaking italian n (. >> he is very happy. >> it is 4:45. a bay area girl is moving on to the semi finals in the national spelling bee in maryland. an 8th grade from san ramon correctly spelled two food words, another bay area competitor, a 13-year-old from cupertino did not have a high enough score to move on. the final cuts were based on points including a written test^, the competition this morning begins at 1 a.m. our time and you can catch the action on espn2. >> last night, my son wanted to were it because normally during the week we don't watch tv and he says "it is educational mommy ." this airs live and not at night so i tried to get him one...

>> if you on tv and you don't walk tv during the week, well have to discuss that contradiction. >> that is the rule for the kids . >> good morning, everyone, at 4:46. here is what is going on as far as live doppler 7 hd, the radar showing how dry it is this morning. sunscreen is the rule of today. holding on to the hats or the boats if you will if you are on the bay waters whether san francisco or the delta, the winds are from the west at 15 to 25 notes like yesterday, fastest near the golden gate bridge that starts at 2:00 p.m. and goes through 9:00 p.m. northern winds at the coast from now through tomorrow morning at 3:00. the embarcardero if san francisco, the trees are not moving too much and the breezes will pick up this afternoon. it will be a warmer breeze with

a knew clouds at the coast. the heat will peak this weekend and above-average temperatures next week but not as cool as most of ts week. temperatures in the mid-to-upper 70's as you head deeper in the santa clara valley, 80 and 82. san jose and cupertino, at 76. on the peninsula, low-to-mid 70's and millbrae makes it up to 70 and breezy from time to time. 61 at half moon bay, the warm spot along the coast and the sunset and mid-to-upper 60's in downtown and south san francisco and 70 in sauce least and to the north of san rafael to the north bay valley, mid to upper 70's and breezy at the beach but around 60 this afternoon. low to my 70's in the east bay. mainly low-to-mid 80's in the east bay valley. in game four at at&t park, sunscreen is needed.

65 with first pitch at 12:35 and it will be sunny the entire time. not going to be so cool this morning with low-to-mid 50's. the cold front from yesterday all the way through with the jet stream migrating to the north and when that happens it is a pattern coming this weekend and the seven-day outlook shows the weekend so we will talk about next week. we are still in the low-to-mid 80's monday, tuesday, and wednesday. and 50's at the coast by tuesday. at 4:48 we have a lot construction and stating off in novato with northbound 101 blocked at marin drive at the sonoma county with construction crews out there to get to san jose. this construction project is still sticking around and nearby 880 between highway 101 and the

237 highway is going to be shut down until 6:00 a.m. and not too much traffic building but we have a slow down and outside right now from highway 4, to highway 580 is 15 minute commute through berkeley. >> the army sergeant charged with murdering 16 afghan villagers will plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty. the client was crazed and broken when he slaughtered the villagers. a judge in a commanding general must approve the plea deal. sentencing trial will determine whether he is sentenced to life with owe without parole. >> the president is ready to nominate a former bush administration official to head the f.b.i., james comey was a former deputy attorney general

and could be known for two actions, one refusing to reauthorize president bush's warrantless wiretapping program that came to a face-to-face confrontation with white house officials and pursuing the conviction of martha stewart for obstruction of discuss dis. robert mueller is stepping down in september. >> good news for college students, with a huge online education deal with state university system. our media partner, san jose mercury news reports they will make the major announcement today and ten public university systems including the giant state systems of new york, tennessee, colorado, and the university of houston, have signed on to offer open online classes. they now offer online classes from leading universities like stanford and duke the. >> a new twist to the theft of boating equipment used for

disable equipment. police solved the crime before they knew it occurred. >> apple grows to a multimillion

>> san carlos residents face higher sewer service rates starting in july after they were approved by the city council. they will increase 67 percent the next three years. the current $637 annual flat rate will go up to $807 a year july 1 increasing to $958 next year. the annual rate will jump to more than $1,000 going in july of 2015. the increase is needed to operate the city's wastewater system and pay for the required cap 258 improvements. >> a group that helps people with disabilities sail will get stolen property back.

tuesday on abc7 news we told you that someone stole five outboard motors and damaged equipment belonging to the bay area association of disabled sailors and they found the motors in the back of the truck in the impaneled lot after stopping the driver if driving erratically. they impounded the vehicle and later learned the motors had been stolen. >> mike nicco is check out what we have out there. it feels colder. >> it is colder, up to double digits colder. a beautiful picture from sutro tower to the port of oakland and you can see mount diabolo in the distance beaming up there right new. it looks great. now, the 24-hour temperature change, from one degree warmer in santa rosa to eight degrees warmer today in fremont. today is the day we transition. you do not see the transition on the map because it is a quiet transition from cool, wet

weather, to warm weather, 103 in palm springs and near 80 if los angeles and 90 in fresno and 87 in sacramento and chico and 70 with sunshine in tahoe today. leyla gulen? >> we still have construction and we do have projects that are going to be wrapping up in the next five minutes and this is one of them if you are traveling through oak northbound at high street it looks like cones are picked up as we speak and some of the traffic we looked at is yellow as we make the approach. it looks like that is all gone now. as we take it over to antioch coming out of pittsburg and eastbound direction along highway four between summersville to a street one lane is blocked but we have more traffic in the westbound direction. we will take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza and look at that, traffic is funneling nicely into the tolls and use make the drive toward san francisco, you are still clear but we did have eastbound traffic. >> some apple users could he up

to $200 back because of a $53 million class-action settlement. if approved apple refunds $200 to each iphone and ipod user affected by former service policy. before 2009 apple warranty and service plan did not apply to devices that appeared to come in contact with liquids but lawyers are contacting the 150,000 people who would qualify. >> three silicon valley cities have the highest tuberculosis rates in the state: san jose, sunnyvale and santa clara are up there for the number of tv tuberculosis infections and 89 percent are foreign born from the philippine, vietnam, inask, china and mexico. anyone susceptible regardless of where they were born. >> we have a diverse population with international travelers and tech entrepreneurs that travel globally. >> a congressman is leading an

effort to make sure hospitals throughout california are stopped with tuberculosis vaccine to treat the disease. >> what do you think is the dirty place in the kitchen? get this, it is actually your refrigerator. according to the nonprofit international company, the worst areas are the vegetable and meat drawers. more bacteria is usually found there than anywhere else in the kitchen. the group suggested washing those areas once a month, and kitchen sponges should be replaced every three weeks or microwaved to kill the bacteria. >> next at 5:00 a.m., a crime wave busted, the arrest that has students at a bay area university breathing easier. >> caltran is under new pressure after fresh problems reveal new problems and a drop dead date on re-opening. >> details in the poison letter

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>> abc7 news starts with breaking news. >> the breaking news is in san mateo. we have been following it all morning, an early morning fire that ripped through a home under construction. abc7 news reporter reporter is on the scene. matt? >>guest: the fire started four hours ago. you can see the firefighters are still here making sure that nothing flares up. this home was under construction when it went up in flames. no one is living here. the call came in at 12:40 from a