>> abc7 news starts right now with breaking news. >> 5:00 a.m., thanks for joining us. >> that breaking news is in san jose at 5:00, where right now police are investigating another homicide. abc7 news reporter is on the scene with new details.

matt? >> the investigation is continuing on checkers drive. the crime scene van is still here and as my photographer pushes in you can see below the van are some evidence markers on the street this. we also have seen a police photographer taking pictures across the street from where the victim was found, about 50 yards from where we are standing. the officers arrived on the scene at 12:45 to find a man with multiple stab wounds. the man is 40, he was taken to the hospital and died after 1:30 this morning. two men who lived here on checkers driver were surprised to come home to the crime scene. >> we went to jack-in-the-box. came back. >> what were your thoughts when you see police tape? >> whoa, what is happening? whoa. >> the police said the drive would be blocked off for four or five hours, the 24 the homicide

of the year and police are not identifying the victim until the family is notified and they are not saying whether this is gang-related homicide. >> breaking news in san francisco where police are investigating a shooting that killed two men. it happens shortly before 1:00 o'clock this morning in visitation valley neighborhood. the victims were found near santos street near the park. three suspects drove away in a white truck. in word on a motive in shooting. >> more breaking news in san francisco right now where police are moving to evict a group of activists occupying the former hayes valley farm site. this is fell and the scene is active. there is a cherry picker. the head lamps can be seen. three people have been taken

into custody. at issue is a piece of land that protesters say has been sold to a developer would plans to build apartments there. amy hollyfield is on the scene with an update in half an hour. >> right now we will look at the weather forecast to get you out the door. very dry. >> very dry that is why it is so much cooler. good morning, here is live doppler 7 hd and you can notice no radar return. there are a few clouds along the coast this morning, and paragraph paragraph and keep an eye on that, it looks like a thick marine layer of fog, just a little bit of clouds here and there and dill probably stay at the coast. in fact, we will see sunshine totally across the bay all the way to our inland neighborhoods and to the coast. low-to-mid 80's inland today, and upper 60's to upper 70's around the bay and low 60's at the coast. we will be warmer and breezy this afternoon. now the morning commute. leyla gulen?

>> it is slowing down but before we get there we want to check out our milpitas drive where we have plenty construction on 880 and 680 and the project on 680, southbound, from the south bay freeway, 237, a couple of lanes are blocked until 6:00 a.m. and on 880, twine brokaw and great mall parkway there will be construction crews and transition from eastbound 237 to northbound 880. lots of stuff and very busy. on the altamont pass, out of tracy, you are look at 31 miles per hour and it continues to ranch up so it will improve but as we hook at san jose 280 away from 17 we have only one lonely car making the drive away from 17. kristen and eric? >> it is 5:30 4. happening today in san francisco the d.a. is 3,000 miles from home looking for ways to stop smartphone theft as summit in new york bringing together law

enforcement and executives from the cell phone industry. katie marzullo has more from the newsroom. >> you have one of these, and your eye phone or, yes, a samsung phone and that makes you a prime target for thieves. what of all robberies in san francisco involve a cell phone according to the district attorney. today he is in new york to do something about it holding with the new york attorney general meeting with representatives from apple, samsung, google and microsoft to have a way to make them less appealing to thieves. the d.a. is recommending all come with a "kill" switch. some of the thefts have been caught on tape and they grab them, they erase memory and re-sell them. in san francisco, that man has led to victims getting hurt, beaten and cut.

in addition to the summit, in a few hours they will announce a nation-wide initiative and coalition of police, prosecution and others, in an attempt to stop the surge in smartphone theft. apple announced the new smartphone software which comes out in the fall will have activation lock technology. he says he appreciates the gesture but will reserve judgment until he can see how it works. >> there was an overnight accident that injured six people shortly after 9:00 p.m. which involved three vehicles, and the six people injured included one person who was trapped in a car. >> the driver that ran away from a crash that killed three in colma will be in court. the 25-year-old paul diaz will

be arraigned. he was intoxicated intoxicated g weapon the mustang rear ended a honda before hitting a retaining wall. all three passengers were killed. investigators say he walk away but turned himself in hours later and is smelled in san mateo county jail on $1 million jail. >> berkeley police are looking for the man who sexually assault add ten-year-old boy inside a park restroom. the attack took place at the berkeley marina on tuesday afternoon and triggered a large surge. officers made themselves visible at the marina after the attack, and parents are teaching an extra close eye on children playing in the park, and the boy describes the attacker as african-american male, blond hair, with green streets. berkeley police want to hear from you if you have seen someone matching that description. >> the family of a missing man. after the bay to breakers race

is planning a memorial race after he went for a swim after the race on may 19 but was never seen again. his phone, credit card, and passport were discovered near the restaurant and the family is holding a memorial on june 29 in portland, oregon. >> 140 technicians what put on last month's napa bottle walk festival are getting stiffed from the wages, just one difficulty facing the organizers. they are in a dispute with the catering company promising to donate $1 million to charities is not fulfilled. the stage hands are owed more than $600,000 in wages and benefits. organizers say they will make sure everyone is paid. >> we will check with our meteorologist, mike nicco, and it will warm soon. >> soon is the key, and now it is chilly. we have to wait until the afternoon hours to get the full

onslaught of sunshine. most of us are in the low 50's until you get to the ferry building at 54. and elsewhere, if you are headed out to richmond dress for 53 and same thing in belmont and 54 in union city, and walnut creek is at 52 and 49 at pleasanton and palo alto and petaluma and saratoga, all at 48 degrees but in the central valley, tracy is 63. the day planner the next 12 hours, we are starting off with sunshine everywhere with a few more clouds at the coast. temperatures are in the upper 40's to low 50's and by noon in the mid 70's and 67 around the bay and hang out in the low 70's at 4:00 and mid-70's and the bay. leyla gulen? >> at 5:09 we have this happening in lafayette and it is a big-rig fire that is a car carrying and right new cars on

the carrier are catching fire. it is westbound 24 in central laugh yet, and right new we do not see delays in the westbound direction but this is starting to spark a grass fire. this is a sig-alert and no word when it will cancel. i would avoid 24 if you head out of walnut creek and coming great danville to 24, this will potentially cause a tremendous amount of traffic. now, in other parts of the bay area, this is the drive headed into walnut creek, so far, so good, we do see a few extra taillights in the distance approaching highway 24, but, again, avoid westbound highway 24 at central lafayette. details coming up in a little bit. >> we will be staying on top of that. >> starbucks is expanding to a new business, bloomberg business report is next. >> also, parents of the connecticut school massacre returned to capitol hill this morning with a demand they will make lawmakers. >> more passengers, less leg room. get ready for a tighter squeeze

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day. >> the family of shooting victims are in washington, dc, to make another pitch for gun control and will hold a day long public event at the capitol to remind lawmakers and the nation of the tragic december 14 shootings. tomorrow marks six months since 20 children and six adults were killed by a gunman, and new town families were scheduled to meet with democratic and republican leaders to push for universal background checks for gun purchases. >> you may soon have less leg room on machine airlines. the airline we veals in a new regulation filing they will add more seats to some of the claims that boeing 787 dreamliner. they have not decided how many seats will be added meaning the carrier can sell more tickets and make more money but you get less leg real. which is not as big of a problem for me as for you. >> the good news, they are

phasing out these planes so other planes will keep fewer seats. >> too much time sitting in your office chair could soon be against doctor's orders. >> here is the bloomberg business report from jane king. >> sitting all day at work could be against the doctor's advise. the medical american consideration is considering recognize the dangers of sitting on day at work in the car and at home after studies show sitting for ours at a time can be fatal, even among those who are thin and exercise. the world bank cutting the forecast for global economic growths and it boosts the outlook for the united states slightly to an annual rate of 2 percent and investors looking at a report on may retail sales. starbucks expanding in the vending machine business, and the "wall street journal" says the chain is rolling out a corner cafe concept putting vending machines if large european offices. more details coming out on planned makeovers at dunkin' donuts.

>> we have a technical problem and we moving on at 5:16. >> lenders foreclosed on more homes in may and starting the countdown clock on many others. according to to a real estate form they increased 11 percent foe foreclosures and the number that started the process went up 4 percent, however, foreclosure activity is down 29 percent from a year ago showing the long-term downward trend. analysts say more bank-owned homes could hit the market and it could slow the gains we have seen recently. >> we have a new smartphone app to keep you on the latest news, weather and traffic with sessions for all the stories you can share on facebook and twitter which is easy to download and free at abc7news.com/app for the details. if you have owe current app you need to download the new app because the old app will go

away. again, the website is abc7news.com/app. >> major traffic problem in the east bay to complicate the commute. >> what we have a big rig, a car carrier, on fire right new. the cars are also catching fire sparking a brushfire. this is where we have our wazers tracking this commute which is at a standstill. we have other folks saying the major accident with the fire and i can tell you the backups are extended from walnut creek. you want to avoid 24, and this is the sig-alert that will be around until further notice, and sky 7 was on the way and we have pictures in a bit. now, around the bay area, we can see what happening in other areas, continues are looking decent headed along the golden

gate bridge and coming out of sausalito to san francisco, we will have those shots for you and the sun is coming up but this lafayette accident is tremendous and it could hamper the commute, cripple the commute, coming from crack correct. mike nicco? >> thank you, everyone. live doppler 7 hd shows we are off to a dry start again with a few clouds look the coast and otherwise it is clear and colorful with beautiful oranges i captured on our tower camera. i will show you in a second. i just posted them at twitter. winds will kick up and if you want to kayak now is a good time when the west wins kick up later today at 2:00 they will make it choppy on the bay until at least 9:00 this evening. at the coast we have northwest wind at 20 to 30 miles per hour from now through 5:00 tomorrow. here is the beautiful picture from our sutro camera with the oranges and yellows, and even

the leftover darker colors as we transition from night to day. we will do it with sunshine and slightly warmer weather, the warm of the day is going to be tomorrow and it will be cooler for father's day week, so whatever you doing for dad -- i have not thought of that; have you, eric or joey -- of course, joey has, but it will be cooler. joey is the stage manager. 81 in morgan hill and los gatos. mid-to-upper 70's in the south bay for today. low-to-mid 70's across the peninsula, 76 at redwood city today and down to mountain view and 63 at half moon bay and 61 in pacifica and daly city. near 70 downtown south san francisco and sausalito. 78 in san francisco and let to mid-80's through the north bay valley and 84 in santa rosa, and bodega bay 61. east bay shore is mid-70's from

73 at perk become and hayward to 76 in castro valley and fremont and to the north hurricane close at 78 and mid-to-upper 80's around our east bay shores or valleys. headed to the game, take a broom next week the yankees at the coffee and take sunscreen, 70 warming to 74 from 12:35 to 3:30 tonight we will be in the low-to-mid 50's in many areas. with the seven-day forecast, a few degrees warmer tomorrow, and most of us in the 80's away from the coast and a cold front comes in, and it drops our temperatures at six to ten degrees on saturday and we will hold steady father's day and another cool push for monday and tuesday. is a great day. >> hope you get lots and lots of ties. >> seven things to know as you start your day. >> also, the duchess chrisens a

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seven things to know of the breaking news, police are investigating a fatal overnight stabbing in san jose. the hand was found in front of a home after 112:30 this morning. we will have a report from matt keller at top the hour. >> san francisco police are investigating a double homicide in the visitation valley neighborhood. two men were found shot to death on santos street around 1:00 o'clock a.m. and police are looking if three suspects would took off in a white truck. >> right now, san francisco police are moving to evict all the activists occupying the former hayes familiar farm site. police is got were one guy out of the trees and they were on the cherry picker and protesters are saying three people have been taken into custody. >> number four, san francisco district attorney is in new york to talk about the grow problem

of smartphone thefts at a summit and talk about a "kill" switch to make it worthless. >> firefighters facing an uphill battle in colorado. the biggest fire burning near colorado springs has destroyed 92 homes now and chased 7,000 from their home. >> six, look at that, we starting off sunny and our two warm efforts days are ahead of us with a cooling trend coming for father's day week. >> major sig-alert, causing a major backup coming from walnut creek and it is a big-rig fire that is blobbing all but one lane. that is coming up. >> a young lady is dreaming about going on the ride of her life just a few months after fighting for her life. >> five-year-old lulu held only

joining the dolphin for a swim at six flags, and is having a good time at the discovery kingdom in vallejo, she had life-saving surgery at children's hospital when doctors closed 13 holes in her heart in january. she joined bugs bunny and other cart teen figures and she now is as healthy as other kids her able. >> something about kids and dolphins. >> kate will become a mother, and the duchess this morning is making her final public appearance before the royal baby arrives. this morning she is naming a cruise ship in style nailed -- named royal princess including a blessing and smashing of a bottle. the duchess is expected it give birth to the first child if mid-july. "good morning america" will have much more on her last public event coming up on "good morning

america" at 7:00. >> right now, the abc7 news continues at 5:30 with the top stories. >> including the return to work for hundreds of construction workers following the death of one of their own. >> safety questions continue to surround the new bay bridge and who now is coming farrd to say the span should open on time

>> abc7 news starts with breaking news. >> the breaking news is on highway 24 are a big-rig fire carrying cars is causing a big problem on the east bay. >> that is why the fire is getting bigger. leyla gulen has the latest. >> i tell you how big we are talking about. this big rig which is already large in size is carrying nine

cars and they are now fully engulfed. as we go to the waze app, you can see our wayser took the picture of the plume of black smoke rising in the sky were afternoon and we had a grass fire that has been sparked. if we can go back to the map, i will slow you the slow downs. it is a sig-alert and we funneled down to one lane and this is causing major backups, with the top speed at eight miles per hour causing tremendous pressure from walnut creek and 680. westbound direction, of course, the commute direction, if you are headed to, would, avoid 24, and mount diabolo boulevard is an alternate and you can take highway 4 or highway 80 which will add more time to the commute. the boulevard is the best way to get around this, and, again, this is going to be blocking lanes until further notice and we will show you pictures from the seen in a moment.

>> thank you, leyla gulen. we are look at live doppler 7 hd which is mainly showing dry conditions and a few clouds along the coast but we are off to a clear and cooler start in most neighborhoods. we will jump into the afternoon forecast and you can see a beautiful sunrise about to take place and we will be brisk at the coast, with the afternoon sunshine, and morning clouds are fading away, and we will be in the low-to-mid 60's and breezy in the afternoon. upper 60's around san francisco to mid-70's around oakland and upper 70's in san jose and inthat, 80 in the north bay to 86 in the east bay valley. now, the news with eric and kristen. >> we have breaking news in san jose where police are investigating a fatal stabbing. officers found a man believed to be 40 years old suffering from multiple stab wounds in front of a home on checkers drive in east san jose after 12:30 this morning and transported to the hospital where he died an hour

later. police do not have any suspects. it is the 24 the homicide of the year. our reporter is on the scene gathering new information with a report in 30 minutes from the scene. >> from san francisco, police are on the scene of a shooting that killed two men. it happened in the visitation valley neighborhood before 1:00 o'clock a.m. when police founded victims near a park. three suspects drove away in a white truck. there is no word on a motive. >> breaking news a tense showdown in san francisco between police in riot gear and occupy protests. the protesters had refused to leave trees but now arrests have been made and abc7 news reporter is on the scene. amy? >> there have been big developments. look at this video, police are pulling a man out of a tree. it was quite dramatic.

they used a cherry picker to lift the officers up to him and he still refused to come out so the officers pulled him out with crash pads below in case he fell. he did make it out okay and the physical let protesters were yelling from across the street at him in support, yelling they loved him and supported him. police pulled a total of three protesters out of trees. two of them suffered minor injuries according to the police. one of the protests fell out of a tree. right now, police say they have made a total of seven arrests at fell and that gun -- laguna. his got here at 1:30 this morning and when they got here, 30 people left on their own. five decided to stay and be arrested. two of those were arrested on

the ground. three of them were arrested from the trees. this land be developed into apartments and the occupy protests do not want to see that happen. that is why they decided to start occupying it a couple of weeks agos and police have given them several notices to leave. it wasn't happening. they decided to move in this morning because they are not leaving. >> thank you, amy. construction is set to resume at the new 49er stadium in santa clara for the first time since an elevator mechanic was killed in an accident. contractor devcon will hold a morning meeting with all the remain employees and the 63-year-old donald white died when he was struck in the head by a counterweight. the contractor has put everything on hold. the investigation continues. >> san francisco police will

look at surveillance video to identify two teen girl whose assaulted and problem add woman on a streetcar. it happened on tuesday at third street in the bayview. investigators say a 67-year-old woman was punched in the face by the two girls who she believes are around 13 or 14. awe-struck her in the face with a clenched fist. she let them have her purses and did not resist the. >> the victim had a produced cheek without her purses which contained cash and a cell phone. >> san francisco police will look at video from surveillance video to figure the cause of the massive muni crash. 15 people went to the hospital after a historic streetcar rear ended a bus on market street. the injured including summer camp kids on a field trip to the cable car now seem.

no injuries were serious. both drivers had drug tests. >> members of a street gang will be arraigned. 48 members of nuestra familia were indicted after several agencies investigated. the indictments were announced on tuesday. some suspects already in prison if other christmases. others were arrested in a police sweep and nine suspects are at large. the district attorney filed 77 charges raging from drugs, weapons and murder. they also robbed six san jose banks, threatened tellers and fake bombs. >> caltrain could on the new east were span of the bay bridge on time after all. two of the three internationally known bridge experts say nothing should stop the bridge from opening to traffic on september 3 as scheduled. we do not know what the third

expert thinks. that schedule was put in jeopardy when engineers discovered three dozen anchor rods designed to steady the bridge in an earthquake snapped. caltran is working on a fix but the safety experts say the problems with the new span are minuscule compared to the overall safety. >> now breaking news westbound 24, leyla gulen, only one lane open? >> one lane open. this is a major sig-alert involving a big rig carrying cars, at least nine, all of which are fully engulfed in flames. westbound 24 at central lafayette, here is the waze app, the picture shows a black plume of smoke and you can only imagine a big rig and nine vehicles con completely engulfed. this sparked a gas fire and causing major slowing as they have all but one lane closed. no word as to when this will get cleaned up. you can imagine it will be a very major clean up process so

now as we take our drive from walnut creek, look at that down to seven miles per hour from 680 is crawling as you head to work this morning. you request not always use mount diabolo road, and if you are coming from concord, you can see four is clear at 65 miles per hour and concord is looking clear. if you are headed out of pleasanton or coming down through san ramon rather than taking 24, take 580, this is moving along at top speed and we do not see problems. the sig-alert will be around if quite some time and clean up hasn't begun yet but all but one lane is blocked. more updates in a little bit but the forecast shows more please an news with mike nicco. >> duratio is moving from washington, dc, philadelphia, new york, flight delays because

of the storm system. the storm system has dropped at at least 18 possible tornadoes and 150 reports of wind damage. if you are going that way, use our flight tracker at abc7news.com. now temperatures in the south bay, we will start with saratoga at 47 degrees and only cooler in los altos and the hills at 45 and remain whattest in san jose at 53, and los gatos and campbell, at 52, and newark and alameda, 54 and fairfield and 50 degrees in lafayette. 47 in san ramon, a cool spot, with novato at 49. and 48 at bodega bay. beautiful picture from sutro tower. in the upper 40's through 50's at 7:00 and a few clouds at the coast. the breeze is back, and upper 50's to mid-70's headed through 4:00, we will have upper 50's to know 80's. it will be warmer tomorrow and father's day will be significantly cooler.

>> thanks, a bay area police department is stretched thin during a violent 24 hours. next, the police chief's urgent message to citizens and the unusual way it was delivered. >> another bay area city decides to turn off the red light cameras for good. the latest on

>> covering san ramon, san mateo and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> back now to the breaking news story of the morning we have pictures of this fire in the east bay. this is highway 24, you can see the car carrier, a big-rig truck caught fire and the cars on board caught fire and there is a grass fire on the side of the road with only a couple of lanes getting through on 24 in the eastbound direction, correct, leyla gulen? no, westbound direction. that is the commute direction. you can see the backup.

my goodness, stretching all the way back probably lafayette and maybe to walnut creek, but leyla gulen is were watching this very carefully with the latest information on this coming up. >> due to only one lane being open we will get back to that. we have developing news from colorado. >> a wildfire burning out of control destroyed 92 homes. officials in el paso county people that number to grow. and other homes were seen burning as they released the count. the fire has charred 8,500 acres and forced 7,000 people to evacuate since breaking out two days ago. >> antioch is facing a critical shortage of police officers. it is looking at the police chief's plan to have workers on the street help keep a watchful eye until more officers can be hired. the police department is thinking out of the box training

city sanitation crews to be the eyes and ears and to dozen workers are using cell phone cams and calling dispatch if they see anything suspicious or anyone in distress. they are taught not to intervene. >> there are other things we are looking at, code enforcement, abandoned vehicles -- you name it. we are another set of eyes. >> we cannot do it alone. in this case, we are reaching out to all the resources available. >> workers are assisting police the chief has posted on facebook that he is trying to hire 25 officers to meet the authorized force of 102. >> on the peninsula, a three year public safety experiment has ended in the city of belmont, with the city council voting to turn red light cameras off growing a number of cities on the peninsula that have done the same. belmont has two red light camera

s on ralston averaging 1 expect ticket as month, mely for rolling stops. but police did not see a big change in the number of accident an an off the cameras were help stalled. >> back to leyla gulen, now, and the sig-alert westbounded 24 at lafayette. how bad is it? >> horrible. we have fire crews pouring water on to this big rig, a car carrier, and it appears nine vehicles were fully engulfed and i am sure all of totaled. that spark add brushfire. look at this backup. tremendous bumper-to-bumper traffic and we are looking at the waze app and that indicated folks are at a standstill. as you can see cars are not moving fast at all if you are coming from walnut creek you are going to see the backups directly from 680 and we have an update we have at least two

lanes open. we had one lane open for a time but two are now open so that is slowly starting to relieve traffic. it is quite a sight to see so there will be spectator slowing the it does not appear to be affecting anything eastbound but avoid 24 headed to work, you can take bart, we have mount diabolo road if you need to drive. highway 4 is wide open and top speeds on 580 that is also looking clear and accident-frees but, again, westbound 24 at central lafayette, this is at a standstill. we will keep our eye on this as further details become available but avoid it coming from walnut creek, looking at a heavy backup and a lot of time on your hands. >> now a look at the weather. mike nicco?

>> thank you very much. live doppler 7 hd shows pretty quiet. a few clouds along the coast. it will remain quiet today as we look from the bay bridge. i hoped the sun would be above the east bay hills. it will show you how nice it will be throughout the morning and in the afternoon as we have almost total sunshine today with a few clouds lingering along the coast with a lot of sunshine. warmer today and tomorrow and cooler for father's day but no wild swings in the temperature and in rain. today we are in the mid-to-upper 70's for the south bay and 80's around los gatos and morgan hill low-to-mid 70's on the peninsula and headed in south bay, 76 around mountain view, and in the low-to-mid 60's at the coast and the breeze will kick up this afternoon. brisk at times. we will flirt with 70 in

downtown san francisco and stop just shy of 69. 68 in south san francisco and probable hitting 70 in sausalito and 70 in san rafael and let to mid-80's through the north by valley and 82 in sonoma and the peeps are 20 degrees cooler with the sunshine. today's temperatures are warmest in hercules at 78 and followed by castro valley and oakland at 74. the east bay valleys are in the mid-80's and around 84 to 86 degrees. today we are going for a sweep of the yankees at 12:35 first pitch, at 73. tonight, temperatures are not so cool as this morning, with the lack of clouds in our bay neighborhoods we are in the low-to-mid 50's with a few clouds along the coast. the low pressure is slowly pulling away and we are modifying this air mass with the sunshine so it is warmer today

and tomorrow. the low pressure jut off to the left of the screen, that is the one coming in starting saturday and bringing us a 5 to 10 degree drop this temperatures saturday into sunday and another one on the heels dropping our temperatures below that, which is below average, monday, tuesday, and wednesday of next week. have a great day. >> developing news a 10-year old girl at the center of an organ donation controversy is recovering this morning, following a double lung transplant. sarah murnaghan suffers from cystic fibrosis with a new pair of lungs yesterday from an adult donor in a six-hour operation in pennsylvania. a federal judge ordered sarah murnaghan be put on the adult recipient list rather than the list for children. her parents say adult lungs were her only chance. critics are concerned other parents may sue to be on the list and judges are making medical decisions rather than doctors. >> what is old is new again, the car theft device that an east

bay police department is giving away for free. >> a 13-year-old threw out the first pitch at the oakland game yesterday from kansas city! >> coming up at 6:00, wal-mart is hiring. there is a catch in how they are saving money with the new employees. >> breaking news in the east bay where a fire on a big rig with cars it was carrying on highway 24 westbound is causing a big traffic mess. you can see the fire is out and the damage is done to the only commute. look at that backup that extends to 680. leyla gulen will have the latest.

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big-rig fire, and the big rig was carrying nine to 12 cars. outside right now we can show you the pictures, the fire crews are getting this fire under control. as you can imagine, it was a major fire that was causing great big black plumes of smoke to rise into the air and it also sparked grass fires. you can see the uncontrollable flames pouring out of the big rig. emergency crews put the fire out and it looks like traffic now is starting to move a little bit better than it was. we opened up an extra lane so two lanes are open but the backups remain and we are looking at heavy delays away from walnut creek and this is in central lafayette on westbound 24. on the maps i can show you our speeds moving at aid miles per hour, so that is the top speed, but how will this affect the drive into walnut creek?

680 as it makes its way it is slowing down but as you continue toward highway 24 it is backing up significantly so you want to avoid this. mount diabolo road is an alternate or highway 4 or highway 80. mike? >> from our roof camera as we look at the sunshine, washing our downtown san francisco, temperatures are the same in oak and santa rosa and the rest of us are two to five degrees warmer. around the state, all is quiet. 73 in los angeles and 67 in san diego. up to 90's in the central valley. the fire danger is lessening at state of the union he -- at tahoe around 68 today. a thin-year-old boy can boast about throwing out a first pitch that virtually stretched from kansas city to oakland.

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>> abc7 news has breaking news. >> a sig-alert on highway 24 in lafayette because of a fire on a big rig hauling cars. this is from sky 7. >> the fire is out. a couple of lanes of traffic are moving but slowly with a huge backup as we mop up. we have video of the fire when it was raging, not too long ago in the past hour when firefighters were trying to put out the flames that engulfed the big rig and the nine cars it was carrying. this caused huge problems and going on for the past hour. >> the latest now on the commute from the east bay. >> if you have been tracking the fire since it happened, so as we go to sky 7 i will show you live pictures and this is what we