>> 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 were dealing with and it caused

a major shut down. we are going to sky 7. we still have crews on the scene pouring fire on to this big rig carrying nine cars right next to the brush and that sparked a brushfire. we are at least two miles of backup coming away from 680. week 24, two lanes are getting by and the boulevard is moving fine. using that as an alternate is not a bad idea bart is running on time. if you have not left home, you could consider an alternate. it is such a mess we will watch it as more details are

available. good morning, everyone, on this thursday with just a few clouds. the rest of us have a lot of sunshine and no rain. the next 12 hours around the bay the day planner is 51 this or. 67 and becoming breezy at noon. and sunny 73 at 4:00. we will hang out in the upper 60's through the evening. next 12 hours we have temperatures cooler, 40's to low 50's and sunny at noon and 75 and it will be the warm of the place and warmer than yesterday with low 80's as we head throughout the afternoon hours and fall back to quiet low-to-mid 70's in the evening. a last stop the day planner the next 12 hours temperatures in the upper 40's to low 50's and hang out in the upper 50's with increasing sunshine by noon and brick this afternoon with temperatures hang out in the upper 50's to low 60's. that is the forecast for now and a cooling trend in the seven-day forecast. >> several breaking news stories going on this morning. this is in san francisco where police have made seven arrests

during an early morning raid to remove a group of activists occupying the hayes family farm site. a man was pulled from a tree a short time ago using a cherry picker to lift officers to the protest and take him out of the tree. police pulled a total of three people from trees. at issue is the land slated for development. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has an update in half an hour. >> reacting news in san joses police are investigating the 24th homicide of the year. matt keller joins us to tell us what happens. matt? >> the sun is coming up you can get a better view of the crime scene. the van is here and below it are markers, some evidence markers on the street where the officers are gathered. police got the 9-1-1 call at

12:30 arriving to find a man with multiple stab wounds taken to the hospital and died an hour later. police are not releasing his identity but officers believe he is 40. a neighbor said he has seen an increase in car thefts and graffiti but nothing like this. >> anything like this concerns me, you bet. we live in a gated community but it is accessible and it concerns me there is crime like that in this neighborhood especially with a death involved. scary. >> police told residents checkers could be block off for a few more hours, this is the 24th homicide of year. i asked two detectives if they had any suspects and they said "no." >> matt, thank you, this morning, police in fairfield are investigating a deadly shooting that happened at 10:00 on

peachtree drive. several people were fighting and someone pulled a gun. officers found a 36-year-old man who was shot and he died in the hospital. anyone with information is asked to call fairfield police. >> from forward, officials confirm they found a bird infected with west nile virus. the bird was an american crow but there are no human cases of west nile virus yet but there is one in sacramento county. >> from contra costa, walnut creek police are searching for the man who tried to problem a cigarette store. our media partner, the "contra costa times" reported it happened before 6:00 p.m. at the a mall. miss say an employee ran from the store account armed men left without take anything. the suspect is described as white in his mid-20's from 5' 9" to 6' and monday air and medium

monday and some facial air. call the walnut creek police department if you have information. >> the san francisco district attorney today is 3,000 miles from home, looking for ways to stop a sky rocketing wave of smartphone thefts. abc7 news reporter katie marzullo explains. >> it is called apple picking, but it is not just iphones, thieves grab smart phones out of your hand, a huge problem, and right now san francisco district attorney is if new york to try and help find a solution to this. he and new york's attorney general are holding what they call a smart phone summit and meeting with representatives from apple, samsung and microsoft to come up with a way to make smartphones less appealing to thieves. in san francisco, more than half of all robberies now involve a cell phone and some have led to victims getting hurt or beaten or cut. he is recommending all phones

come with a "kill" switch. >> if the phone can be rendered inratable when it is reported stolen the market value of the phone is no longer there. >> apple announced the new smart wear in the fall has activation lock technology. he will reserve judgment until he sees how it works. they will announce the formation of a nation-wide initiative and coalition of police, prosecution, can other officials in an attempt to stop this surge in smartphone theft. >> thank you. the driver accused of running away from a crash that killed three people is expected back in court today. the 25-year-old paul diaz will be arraigned on hit-and-run and

vehicular manslaughter. he was intoxicated and speeding on memorial day when the mustang rear ended a honda before slamming into a retaining wall. all three passengers were killed. diaz left but turned himself in. he is held in the san mateo county jail on $1 million bail. >> we have a brand new update from leyla gulen on the sig-alert on westbound 24. what is happening? >> now we have word that three lanes have opened on westbound 24, where we have an active sig-alert involving a big rig that caught fire and the big rig was carrying nine vehicles that all caught fire, a major black plume of smoke and huge names that sparked a brushfire. now it appears that things have moved further to the right-hand shoulder and we have crews on the scene, a big rig tow behind

it and crews seem to have just stopped pouring water on to the big rig. it looks like the entire thing is charred, and maybe one car in the back could have survived, no doubt that could totaled. certainly what is totaled is the commute with two miles backup on 24 coming away from 680 but 680 is seeing a tremendous backup, and very slow conditions from pleasanton hill to walnut creek. right now, sky seven is following that heavy bumper to bumper gridlock and we will keep our eye on this as the morning continues. mount diabolo is clear so that could be an alternate. here is mike with the forecast. >> thank you, leyla gulen, appreciate the information, our highs compared to averages today, about six degrees warmer with 86 in livermore and napa topping out at 83, and oakland

is two degrees warmer-than-average. in the south bay temperatures are short of average at 78 in san jose, and 76 in redwood city, and two to four degrees cooler than we should be. from sutro tower looking back to the headlands you can see the haze, a cloudy spot here are there as we head through the morning hours, our warmest day today and especially tomorrow, topping out in the 80's and 64 at the coast and as we head through father's day weekend, he could be out grilling but it will be cool 70's on saturday and possibly 70's and 80's away from the coast on sunday. >> new this morning, a very pregnant kate middleton shows off the baby bump in what is believed to be the last public appearance before birth. >> wal-mart has a new hiring on policy and what to expect if you are trying to get a job with the big box retailer. >> jason kidd made his name here

and a new career move for the retired point guard. >> another look from sky seven of westbound 24 central lafayette with a charred big rig and the tow ready to take it away with now three lanes are open.

>> covering fremont, palo alto, north bay, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> the time is 6:14. we have sky 7 over westbound 24 at central lafayette where we have a big-rig fire carrying at least nine vehicles all canning fire and some of the brush. you can see the backup this has caused. we are look at two miles of backup on westbound 24 causing tremendous delays on southbound 80 from main street with the alternate routes if a little bit. eric and kristen? >> wal-mart appears to have a new hiring strategy. reuters say they have been only hiring temporary workers at u.s. stores. usually wal-mart only hires temps during the holiday, and this is to make sure they

staffed appropriately. they add this is not a a cost-cutting move but they are probably trying to cut down on labor costs because of pressure from 99 cent stores. >> the navy is getting ready to handle long-standing tradition according to the "wall street journal" that memorials -- messages in the navy no longer have to insent out in all caps when machines had no lower case letters. the navy is making the change to make them more readable and potentially less rude. officers say many of the younger sailors grew up texting and tweeting and equal all caps to being shouted at. >> kate will become a mother in a few weeks, making her final public appearance before the royal baby arrives. there was a blessing and a

additional smashing of of a bottle across the hull of a cruise ship. this will be more on her last public appearance at "good morning america" at 7:00. >> jason kidd has a new job daze after ending the nab -- nba playing career. and espn reported he is fired by the nets as head coach. he will be formally inrow duesed as a news conference later on today despite having no prior coaching expense spending the last 19 years as a player in the nba point guard including two nba final appearances with the nets. game four of the nba finals right here on abc7 news tonight with coverage at 5:30 and tip-off at 6:00, and that is during the miami heat and spurs with spurs up 2-1 and stay tuned after the game with a special guest, an nba legend, jerry

west. >> with the lakers' management? >>guest: and three played a little basketball. >> a little bit. >> and the logo with the guy dribbling, that is jerry west. >> very cool. not so cool is the situation on 24. >> leyla gulen, that is happening? >> a big-rig fire carrying at least nine vehicles all which caught fire and it was near the shoulder discovered in brush. that caused a grass fire, as well, and the latest updates is three lanes open but we are seeing heavy backup away from 680 bumper-to-bumper traffic causing major delays along 680 in the south direction. right now we will go to sky 7 and the solid traffic trying to make its way in the westbound direction mount diabolo road looks to be a good alternate and bart is a good way getting

around and we will give you more details but for now we will head to mike nicco. >> leyla gulen, graduation has a couple more including half moon bay high school along the coast. it will be sunny but brick. temperatures are 63 drop down to 59. headed over to skyline high school, in oakland, you have a if you class of seniors take off into the world at 6:00. we will go from 5:30 at 69 degrees with sun cooling down to 64. congratulations, seniors. live doppler 7 hd show it is dry this morning but winds are a possible along the bay shore. san francisco bay and delta communities and west wind at 15 to 25 knots from 2:00 this afternoon.

a look from mount tamalpais and sausalito and san francisco, everyone is sunny today and warmer, and that extends into tomorrow, our warm of the day but cooler as we head through the father's day weekend. temperatures will run mostly in the 80's in the east bay valley and the north bay valley in the mid-to-upper 70's around the bay shore and mid-60's to upper 60's along the coast into san francisco. we are going for a sweep at the coffee and yankees and a's again, at 12:35 at 70 and warming to 74. the seven-day forecast shows it is warmer tomorrow at 5- to 10-degrees cooler and cooler, yet, on monday and tuesday. have a great day. >> thank you, mike. young teen girls accused of a makous crime in san francisco coming up at 6:30 and what police say the two girls did to an elderly woman on a muni light rail guard. >> first get your caffeine to

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>> welcome back at 6:23. sky 7 shows a big-rig fire that carried nine vehicles caught fire this morning and you just

saw a huge plume of smokes with flames that has done damage to the commute westbound on 24. is where the incident happened, heavy backup away from 680 and it is at a crawl from main street. for now we will go to news with eric and kristen. >> we have the same story you just talked about right now, our new abc7 news smartphone app that keeps you on top of the latest breaking news with a sig-alert and weather, of course, weather, news, and traffic, and a section for all the interesting stories you will want to share on facebook and twitter, with the graphic and the app is easy to download and free at abc7 news for you will the days. if you is a current app you will need to download the new one. the old one will go away soon, the west side is abc7 news come/app.

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weather the next couple of days for father's day. >> in the abc7 news traffic center over westbound 24, right if lafayette and this is solid backup away from 680 because of early big-rig fire. i will tell you how it affects the commute and how to

>> abc7 news starts now with breaking news. >> the breaking news at 6:30 continues to be in lafayette on westbound 24, this is a picture of the scene from sky 7. you can see what is going on, on the shoulders, where a car-carrying big rig caught fire with the load, sparked grass fire, and pull out now, but you can see the damage is done to the traffic. look at the horrible backup that extends because at one point only one lane is open and now it is three lanes open but to lanes remain closed. just a horrible drive. >> at the height of this, when the big rig car carrier was blazing away causing the grass fire, firefighters came along and put out both fires but the

freeway is still partly shut down with only one lane getting through. it is a mess. >> you have seen now the 24 traffic is horrible and what should you do, what are the at understand and the latest with leyla gulen. >> i have extra updates on the incident with sky 7 over that and i will show you what things are looking like right now. we can see major backup away from 680 causing huge pressure along 680 headed out of pleasanton hill and almost backed up out of conquer. if you are living in concord and you need to make the drive in the westbound direction take highway 4 and avoid 680. and updates show eastbound 24 we have a transition shut down to northbound 680 and we will follow-up on that and i am not clear on this. you can see the traffic is at a standstill along westbound 24,

which occurs at central lafayette, a big rig carrying several vehicles that caught fire and that sparked a brushfire. three lanes are open, two remain blocked, no e.t.a. when the alert will be canceled but we will get more updates in a little bit. here is live doppler 7 hd, most of us hazy sunshine, as it is showing the dry weather. our day planner the next 12 hours around the bay hanging in the upper 40's to low 50's with less cloud cover than yesterday. breezy at noon but in the upper 60's and has been out in the low 70's with sunshine in the afternoon, and it is cool in the 7:00 hours because mid-to-upper 60's. next 12 hours, inland valleys up to 40's and low 50's and mid-70's at noon, and nice and quiet this afternoon and comfortable at 74 degrees. at the coast we have a few clouds and temperatures in the

upper 40's to 50's and freeze kicks in and hang out in the upper 50's to 60's for the better part of the afternoon hours. >> we have breaking news from mountain view, with more than 5,800 cuss -- customers without power. it affects and streets and intersections including castro and calderon. treat intersections as four-way stops. >> tense showdown in san francisco between police in riot gear and occupy protester would have been refusing to leave trees but arrests have been made. amy hollyfield has the latest at fell and laguna. >> we have video of one of the protesters falling from a tree. look at this. this was taken by one of the

protesters suffering minor injuries. protests say the police pushed this person. and police say it was an accident. we have video of another man being pulled out of the tree. police were lifted up by a cherry picker and the man refused to go and they pulled him out but there were crash pads. police made a total of seven arrests on tell street if san francisco at laguna about to be developed to apartments and though believe it should remain as green space. they have decided to occupy it. they moved in a couple of weeks ago. police moved in at 1:30 saying 30 protesters left on their own, five stayed behind to be arrested and three of those were in the tree. look at this picture of city crews cleaning up with what the

protesters left behind. some constructed tree houses hod they had plants vegetables and city crews are working to get it clients up. police are calling the raid "peaceful" and "a success." >> more breaking news from san francisco where police are investigating a shooting that killed two shortly before 1:00 o'clock this morning in the visitation veil neighborhood. police found the victims not far from a park, and investigators say three suspects drove away if -- in a white truck. we are following breaking news in san jose where police are vetting 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 driver in east san jose after 12:30 this morning transported to the hospital where he died an hour later. so far police do not have any

suspects. this is san jose's 24th homicide of year. can you follow breaking news as it happened on twitter.com . >> police hope to identify two teen girl would problem add woman on a streetcar on tuesday night on board the muni line in the bayview district. a 67-year-old woman was attack by the two girls only around 13 or 14. the victim suffered a bruised cheek. anyone with information is asked to contact the police department. >> san francisco police will look at surveillance video to figure the cause of this crash. 15 people went to the hospital after a historic streetcar rear helped a bus along mark it street. the injureed included kids in summer camp on a field trip to

the cable car museum. both drivers had routine drug tests. >> this morning, construction is set to resume at the new 49ers stadium in santa clara for the first time since elevator mechanic was killed in an accident. contractor devcon will hold a meeting at 7:00 a.m. with the employees in half an hour. 63-year-old donald white died after being struck not head. the contractor put things on hold after the investigators left it up to the contractor when to resume work. the investigation continues. >> safety questions continue to surround the new bay bridge. who coming forward to say the span should open on time even if it repairs are not complete. >> we continue to fall breaking news from lafayette, a big-rig fire create as huge mess for the morning commute. you can see from sky 7, the

damage is done and the backup is extending all the bay back to 680 and leyla gulen is following this with the latest for you as

>> good morning! 6:41 on this thursday. check out this beautiful picture from the roof camera over san francisco.

compared to average, our temperatures will be warmer than average in san francisco and oakland. napa will be 83 and headed in the south bay, san jose and redwood city about two to four degrees shy of average at mid-to-upper 70's. now, pollen, not were. tree and grass is moderate and low ragweed and mold but the u.v. index is high headed to the game at the cove. around the stadium, we are in the upper 80's to near 90 in the central valley and red flag warning with high fire danger in tahoe and 68 and june gloom in the south and 105 in the desert. >> sig-alert if lafayette has traffic at a standstill as we take you into lafayette coming away from walnut creek from 680 you will see major backups because of an early big-rig fire

carrying at least nine vehicles and everything caught fire and it is charred and that sparked a brushfire. our top speed is seven miles per hour causing hugeom de pleasanton hill. along 580, this is the alternate, to 580, that is the best way but this is the walnut creek drive so it is at least 46 minutes out of concord to 24 and you want to stick to highway 4, that will take you to 80 and you will be on your way but right now it is absolutely nightmarish >> caltran could be able to on the new eastern span of the bay bridge on schedule after all. two of the three internationally known bridge experts hired to review the construction say nothing should stop the bridge from opening to traffic on september 3 as originally planned. we we don't what the third expert things.

engineers discovered three dozen anchor roteds designed to steady the bridge if an earthquake snapped and caltran is working on a "fix" but the safety speakers say the problems minuscule compared to the overall safety. >> very exciting, do not head out the door just yet. >> the first big winner of our $ 700 gas card give away. >> we will check with the new york stock exchange and jane king. >> police call it apple picking, the theft of iphones and other mobile devices and what is ha

>> covering los altos, antioch, petaluma, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> fresh look at our breaking news story, look at traffic backup on westbound 4, this is all because of a big-rig fire if laugh yet off to the side will the big rig was carrying cars. its burst into flames. now you have trouble. if you live further east you may want to consider staying home if you telecommute, use mass transit. there is an alternate but it is not the best. leyla gulen will tell you about that. at the height it, from earlier you can see the car carrier is in flames causing a grass fire.

you can see the result. >> leyla gulen, how long is the backup? are there any good options? >> there are a few good options. this transition from southbound 680 to westbound 24 is a save -- a sea of cars. we saw some cars moving along okay on mount diabolo but you will run into streetlights. if you live in the concord area and you travel along highway four do not get on 680. it is backed up from 680 on highway 4. that is 46-minute drive if you dare take it, six miles south to highway 24 so take 4 to 80 or 580. that will help you tremendously. >> 6:47. san francisco district attorney is attending a smartphone summit in new york to discuss the soaring rise in cell phone theft

and how to prevent it. he will join new york state attorney general and representatives from the cell phone industry. he was pushing cell phone makers to create new technology so a stolen phone can be quickly disabled by a "kill" switch. police chiefs have sent a letter to the federal communications commission supporting this idea. >> yahoo is planning to take away some people's e-mail addresses. >> google is expanding dominance on the dim tall advertising market. jane king has more from the new york stock exchange. >> google will control 33 percent of world-wide sales in digital ad market by end of the year. facebook share will increase to 5 percent and yahoo share forecasts shrinking to 3 percent. if you have a yahoo e-mail address but never used it, you have until july 15 to log in

again or you will lose the e-mail address and the account for others who want it. we have a flat open on wall street which is a minor victory and we are looking bad in the wii areas of the morning and now just modestly lower and the world bank cut the global growth forecast but raising you up. slightly for the economic outlook. may retail sells in the united states were stronger than expected because auto sales, and the dow and nasdaq are lower and the s veil index is higher. and an increasing role that men handling around the house especially those in their 20's and 30's are helping out doing more chores, taking care of the kids, and the number of stay at home dads is what it was a few years ago. >> and a private carrier airlines traveling between california cities just started each day with first-class

flights between the bay area and los angeles and you pay a flat fee of around $1,600 a month. >> in mountain view there was an out take, 5,000 people were out of fire but peg -- pg&e says they have been restored to power. >> in dublin, there will an graduate at 6:00 at 78 and breezy and dropping to chilly 71 bit end of it. headed over to san rafael, where we have the trojans at 5:00, 76 and cooler at 68 by the time the ceremony is over. and derecho has shown 18 reported tornadoes and 188

reports of wind damage and numerous flight delays from washington to new york so philadelphia, baltimore, all those airports are delayed. use our flight tracker. from mount tamalpais we can see sausalito and san francisco this morning and hazy out had and we will have sunshine today and warmer weather. the warm ofest day is tomorrow d today we will touch 80's in the east bay and north bay, and mid-to-upper 70's into the south bay and mid-to-upper 60's in the coast and san francisco and a day game so you will need the sunscreen. gorgeous at 70 at 12:35 and warming to 74 by the end of the game. tone the temperatures are not so school but very mild in the low-to-mid 50's. here is the seven-day forecast you can see temperatures one to two degrees warmer today and five- to ten-degrees cooler saturday into sunday.

leyla gulen has an update. >> we have a sig-alert update on westbound 24 at central lafayette with sky 7 over the massive traffic backup and we will look at this huge backup as we make our drive along westbound 24, and looks like the highway is a parking lot taking an hour to ahead away from concord to westbound 24. avoid it and take highway 4. mount diabolo road checking in all right and 580 is another alternate continuing in the southbound direction but avoid westbound 24 because of a gig rig carrying several vehicles that caught fire. terrible conditions so give yourself extra time. >> now the first winner of the abc7 news we big shell gas card give away.

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>> as we hand things off to american america seven things to know. breaking news, san jose police investigate an overnight stabbing. officers found a victim in front of a home in east san jose around 12:30 this morning. the street could be blocked off for several hours. >> san francisco police are investigating a double homicide in the visitation valley neighborhood. two men were found shot to death on santos at 1:00 o'clock a.m. and police are looking if three suspects who took off in a white truck. >> three, more break news, a tense showdown in san francisco between police in riot gear and occupy protesters who refused to get out of trees of the former hayes family farm site. police arrested seven. >> four, firefighters fating -- facing an uphill battle destroying homes and forests with the big of the fire in colorado springs.

>> five, game five of the nba finals is this evening with tip-off at 6:00, and the spurs lead the heat 2-1. we will see how it works out tonight. >> six, we will look at what will happen today, the day planner the next 12 hours. 7:00 a.m., 48 to 52. a few clouds along the coast. breezy by noon and 58 at coast and 75 inland. enjoy the sunshine this afternoon and 59 at the coast to 82 inland. >> a lost unhappy drivers westbound 24 in central lafayette where we had an early big-rig fire with a sig-alert and terrible backups. >> the morning news continues in 25 minutes during "good morning america" in 25 minutes.

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