>> abc7 news starts right now with breaking news. >> work at the new 49ers stadium in santa clara comes to a stop after a worker is killed in a tragic construction accident. thanks for joining us. >> this is the first serious accident at the 49ers new $1 billion stadium project. abc7 news matt keller is there. how did this happen, matt? >> they don't know. we were told the coroner is wrapping up the investigation. more than a thousand workers would be here but the death led to them being sent home for the

day. the 9-1-1 call came at 6:50. supervisors say a worker for the elevator was in a permanent elevator shaft on the ground floor when he was killed. >> we have released all of our workers do be with their families. we will have an investigation which frees site up and people can handle the grief open their own. >> no one is saying what exactly killed the worker but police, fire, and osha are all here. the supervisors say this is the first serious accident at the 49ers stadium construction site. in fact, safety awards were handed out last week to the companies with zero accidents. supervisors say in timeline has been given to when construction will begin again. when it does, they will convene everyone in the bowl of the stadium before they start work to go over safety procedures.

>> this is a tragedy. we will address the schedule and the implications of that in the next hours or days. right now, we are more focused on people. >> the 49ers released a statement saying our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and coworkers aknow bid this. we have lost a teammate today. counselors are brought in to talk to workers about death. >> levi stadium will open next year at an estimated cost of $1.2 billion with a total 1.85 million square feet and 68,000 seats. the facility will have 17 elevators and will host super bowl 50. construction is being financed primary through a loan taken out by the santa clara stadium authority and being paid back through naming rights, and other stadium revenue. stay with us for continuing

coverage of the deadly construction accident at the new 49ers stadium. you can also get updates on twitter@abcnews. >> haz-mat is investigating a suspicious package delivered to a medical malpractice insurance company. everyone in the company in napa have been evacuateed. authorities say the call came in shortly before 8:00 a.m. it is still unclear what was in the pack only if it is contaminated. right new, officials taking extra precaution until they necessity for sure. >> vallejo police are looking for a suspect in the shooting that sent a 38-year-old man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. officers responding to 9-1-1 calls found the victim lying in the intersection of grand and magazine streets around 7:30 with multiple gun shot wounds. this video provided by the vallejo police department. at the same time, police say officers spotted a small black nissan speeding away.

they chased it and reaped speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour through city streets before the driver got away. >> happening now in the south bay the santa clara county district attorney is discussing a huge gang safety with a 21-year-old and 440-year-old man, a 20-year old man, and 22-year-old charged with murdering a man last august while members of the gang that include 77 indictments against 38 men and ten women defendants for various crimes including murder, attempted murder, and at least five bank robberies. we will bring you new detail on the news conference coming up later news. >> san francisco firefighter was hurt in a house fire in the bayview district this morning. the tire was report the at 2:30, so sleeping families had to make

a run for safety on hudson avenue about a block from third street. abc7 news reporter amyield joint story. it was tough to fight, right, amy? >> look at this scene. look at the damage that was left behind. firefighters are estimating the damage at 500,000, a vacant home was burned, a carport, and a family home. investigators are still trying to figure out why it started the fire was huge. so big that firefighters couldn't ever it will what was burning. >> we had so much flame we did not know there was car part. it actually took re-creating this using satellite imagery to find out what was on the vacant lot. >> it started in the garage of the home on hudson avenue in san francisco's bayview district. it spread to her house. she says her home also caught fire eight years ago. this morning, when her relatives were yelling at her to get out

she could not movie it was happening to her again. >> i didn't know what to do. i just wasn't moving. i was numb. i can't do this again. >> there were six people asleep in the home when it caught fire, including a five-year-old boy. his mother woke up, realized what was happening and got everyone out. >> he was crying. he was worried about his grandmother. >> the family got out okay. they spent the morning just looking in disbelief at burned home that has been in the family if -- for 50 years. >> we all grew up in the house. >> they cannot believe this is now happened twice. >> i lost a lot at first. to go through something like this again...devastating. >> the red cross has found a place for the family to stay for

now. the family says they will rebuild. a firefighter hurt his ankle and was treated at the hospital and has been released. >> police in san jose state university are telling students to watch out for a man russia slashed a female student on campus last night. the man asked the student on a date and then, supposed himself to her. she threatened to call application and he took off. he is hispanic, 5' 7", between 20 and 25 years old, with a sharks hat and blue jeans. >> police have released sketches of a man who robbed a market in scotts valley at a store on victor square on thursday. he is described as his pang man in his early 30's with a band-aid on the left cheek and a tattoo on his neck and last seen wearing a dark sweatshirt, baseball hat, and jeans. >> still ahead, he could be the

most wanted man in the world, the search going on right now no a whistleblower who admitted leaking information about a top-secret spying program. >> first, dramatic new video from turkey, the violent clash today between police

>> firefighters rushed to a fire in the hat of downtown berkeley at a 40 unit n ash hotel. people were hanging on the

window calling for help at 7:40 and many were rescued from fire escapes in the frontñç and the back. the hotel hasships on the ground floor. firefighters were able to put out the place quickly. no word of injuries. some lanes are still closed on university avenue as the crews are mopping up. >> happening now in new jersey, princeton university is under evacuation after someone called in a bomb net to several buildings. right now the university is telling all students and most employees to leave and not return to the campus until further notice. princeton says local state and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating the unspecified threat and they are going to each and every building. some summer sessions are in progress. >> international hunt is on to find the man would admits to leaking top secret documents about the u.s. government phone and internet surveillance programs. there is a growing number of people who say snowden should be

praised, not jailed. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has more. >> is he a patriot or a traitor? many have opinions about snowden but the u.s. government called him a threat and is preparing to file criminal charges against the whistleblower but they have to find him first. >> high is one of the most wanted men in the world and has haired more government secrets. >> we will have a lot more significant revelations that have not yet been heard. >> today, his employer defense contract booz allen says that he has been fired. his whereabouts are not known after he checked out of this luxury hong kong hotel on monday. according to the reporters talking to him, he is still there. the f.b.i. is trying to find him. agents showed up at the home his father in pennsylvania. his father had no idea what his son was son up. also left in the dark, according to snowden, was his girlfriend,

a pole dearns. he has been praised as hero by some and thousands are demanding that president obama pardon him, and praised from the man would leaked the pentagon papers in 1971 who now lives in the bay area. >> i think he gives me hope that we may actually regain our bill of rights. >> the officials say the secrets he has revealed have caused grave damage to natural security. house speaker boehner in an interview with abc7 news george stephanopolis, called snowden "a traitor." he is a traitor, the disclosure of this information puts americans at risk. >> the contracting firm booz allen says snowden was officially terminated yesterday for violating the code of ethics. the 29-year-old had an annual salary of $122,000. >> thank you, court -- cornell.

>> now what going on outside? we look from the golden gate bridge you can seat clouds are breaking. we still have flight arrival delays an hour and telephone minutes and we will update you on when that will clear up and, also, when the sun comes up. >> how a change in diet could help men -- oops, that not the right video -- could help men with

>> covering benicia, san ramon, san mateo, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> new video this morning shows turkish riot police in a violent clash with anti-government protesters. police used water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the square. some left but others stayed and fought back. the unrest began 12 days ago on a crackdown over the park's re-development. three people have died. the prime minister says he will meet with the protesters

tomorrow. >> president obama says the moment is now to act to overhaul the broken immigration laws. the president made a case for the legislation at the white house this morning. he was flanked by members of both parties, clergy, law enforcement and oakland police consultant william bratton. the push comes hours before the full senate holds the first vote on the landmark bill. he says the legislation isn't perfect but needs to become law. >> this is a bill that's largely consistent with the principles that i and the people on this stage have laid out for common sense reform. >> that legislation would create a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million people in this country who are here illegally, the supporters say it would be a massive investment in border security and give employers a way to check if they are here legally. >> new study find as heart

healthy diet and help men battling prostate cancer with the patients who ate a diet rich with heart healthy foods reduced their chances of dying early by 29 percent. 4,500 parents were studied. it did not take much of a change to see the results with a big change in men who replaced 10 percent of the calories where healthy fat. >> that is good to know. easy and affordable. >> tastes good, too. ahmed -- a mediterranean diet. >> no thunder this morning, so not as interesting weather news. maybe we can have a repeat performance another day but not today. we will show you what is going on outside, we will start with graduations, we have a couple today. well start and zoom down to

fremont high school in oakland, one of the oldest in the bay area, at 3:00, it will be 70 and drop down to 66. headed out college park high school, you know where this is? in pleasanton hill at 7:00, the falcons will graduate their senior class but they have it at the pavilion and concord and we have one more as we zoom to the east bay at -- no, hayward high school is the olders. 63 degrees at 5:30 and dropping to 60 at end of commencement. live doppler 7 hd shows the guys are testing the radar. right now, we have clouds. notice how quickly they will dissipate from north to south, it only take as little bit of time and it is actually pulling from east to west, also, so just

a matter of another hour and everyone will have total sunshine. we will have high clouds from time to time, and still in the 50's around novato and san francisco and half moon bay, and everyone else in the 60's, and 71 in fairfield and antioch. mere is a look at broken cloud cover from emeryville to the north, we will talk about our forecast highlights, partly cloudy this afternoon. slow warming the next couple of days and cooling tend this weekend. we are not going to see the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows we dealt with over the last couple of weeks. from the east bay hills back to mount diabolo across the east bay valley, santa rosa will jump because you were rain cooled and you will be up to 75. 79 in concord. temperatures are pretty close to average if not just a few degrees below, and we should be 79 in san jose, and we will be about 75 and los gatos will be 79 and morgan hill, the warm spots. we will have low-to-mid 70's on the planes and cooler around

millbrae at 66 and 62 degrees along the coast and the bay side, downtown, south san francisco, mid-60's, and same thing as you cross golden gate bridge, to sausalito, and near 60 in the north bay, and berkeley and oakland and hayward in the upper 60's and low-to-mid 70's and the east bay valley, the warmest weather, up more 70's to low 80's. premium game against the yankees, a's tonight, at 6:05, and dropping down to 57. tonight county we are going to be cooler use look at the seven-day outlook, we will have upper 40's inland and along the coast, and low-to-mid 50's for the rest of us and not so cloudy tomorrow morning, we will keep our fingers crossed we don't have flight arrival delays in sfo. you can seat jump in temperatures on thursday and friday and we pull back on saturday and try another warming trend sunday and monday and nothing gets out of hand. >> a typical summer. >> you know where you can get the same great information, with our new abc7 news smartphone app

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special guest warriors guard. >> and two bay area swimers are celebrating a world record swimming from alcatraz to san francisco for the 1,000th time. >> the two swimmers arrived this morning only 40 minutes after leaving alcatraz. both have made that swim 1,000 times. >> a record for both men who members of the rowing club. today, the swim was a fundraiser for hospice and other nonprofits. >> they say they feel great, a little cold, the water temperatures are at 54 degrees. mike can verify that. >> the air temperature was not too much warmer. >> not when they were there. have a great

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