brought here to san francisco general, eric, with back pain. those who witnessed the crash couldn't believe he was the only person who was hurt. a muni spokesman says the driver of a car made an illegal u-turn right in front of the 43 masonic bus. witnesses say the bus kept going and that's kind of the mystery in all of this. police say a passenger on the bus actually to run to the front, help the driver stop the bus. it's just not clear why the passenger had to help. >> halfway through the grarks i was thinking, oh, my god, it's not going to stop. we quickly ran away. it was a narrow miss at that point. >> i felt bad for some of the billion cyclist also their bikes pinned between the cars and the bus on there they got them back and didn't seem that much worse for wear. room were the only injury was a bus driver, the driver of the car refused medical treatment this happened before 6:30 on masonic at oak streak at the

peninsula -- panhandle at golden gate park's entrance. now, investigators will spend the day trying to piece all this together and figure outthis happened, what happened, why there was a crash. live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you, amy. 4:31. new details this morning, the unions representing b.a.r.t. train operators and station agents are planning too hold strike authorization votes on tuesday. they are their current contracts expire in nine days. b.a.r.t. employees handed out leaflet necessary front of several busy stations wednesday, hoping to win the support of rioters, health and pension costs, on-the-job safety and raises remain the top i shall ties bargaining table. abc7 news reporter matt keller will have more in a live report in the next half hour. oakland police blocked off the streets last night in the san pablo gateway district for a couple hours, its search for a robbery suspect. an abc 7 news photographer shot this video of officers detaining a man at martin luther king junior way and 19th street

around 7:00 last night. police have not said if he was the suspect they were looking for. san francisco police are investigating a shooting in the south of market area. police found a man shot several times on sixth street between howard and nat toma before 10 last night. police evidence markers on the sidewalk show that numerous rounds were fired during that shooting. a 4-year-old girl is recovering after falling from a second story window of a home in oakland. it happened on 23rd avenue near international boulevard yesterday afternoon. the girl was knocked unconscious. a good samaritan jumped a fence and held her until paramedics arrived. she is expected to be okay. police are still investigating hugh the girl fell. a union city family struggling to come to terms with the loss of a 6-year-old child. he died monday when the family dog attacked him. the family wanted to tell abc7 news reporter vic lee about what happened to 6-year-old neifi sell lieu. he just graduated from kindergarten last week. monday, as he was playing in the backyard with his cousins, they

say neifi had been riding the dog like a horse when it sudden lynn threw him down and bit him on the head. relatives stay is especially hard to understand since the boy and the pitbull were best of friends. the boy's uncle, a san mateo police officer, says he bought the dog two years ago. >> brought the dog into our home as a pet to help protect life and to help watch over. by no means did we know it was going to take life. >> vic says the family wants to send a message that their child was precioused into matter how much a pet becomes a member of the family, they are still animals and they can be unpredictable. this morning, monterey county spca is expected to ask the district attorney to file charges in a case of animal neglect. the agency rescued 17 animals covered in scabies and fleas and suffering from mall nourishment. they were taken from a woman who claimed to run a rescue group. she was selling her animals at

pet smart and petco in mon ter ray. two people who bought dogs from her contracted scabies. this might be connected to 61 other dogs rescued from a center in squaw valley. the spca is concerned about other animals the woman sold and that woman is nowhere to be found. a 36-year-old convicted sex offender is scheduled to be rained on charges of raping a 60-year-old woman in the laundry room of a mill valley apartment complex on sunday. our media partner, the marin independent journal reports leroy anthony clark could face 50 years to life in prison if convicted a judge raised his bail yesterday to $1 million. clark was arrested tuesday after the victim identified him by looking through a series of photos. after more than a year the search head quarters to missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar has been relocated. the volunteer search center is set up at central high school in morgan hill two miles from its original location at burnett

elementary. volunteers have searched more than 1500 square miles since the 15-year-old disappeared in march of last year. 22-year-old an tall lean garcia torres is in custody on murder charges but has not entered a plea. he is due back in court next thursday. governor brown would fight an order that would put more california inmates on the streets. a three-judge panel reaffirmed yesterday the state has to release nearly 10,000 prison inmates by the end of the year to reduce overcrowding you. the state has already freed 40,000 inmates to comply with the previous court order. the governor says release anything more inmates will decrease public safety. the judges say they will cite governor brown if he doesn't follow through immediately. modest growth in may with the unemployment rates remaining at 9%. experts forecast the state will have added between 17,000 and 20,000 jobs last month. economists say the bay area job

market is still growing but that growth is slowing down. residents served district between san ramon and martinez will see an 18% increase in their sewer rates the next two years. the contra costa times reports single family homeowners pay about $371 a year that will go up by $34 each of the next two years until it reaches $409 a year. -- $439 a year rather. the district stays approved the increase last night to meet rising employee pension costs. san francisco's midmarket neighborhood is getting its first full-service grocery store. 292,000-square-foot market will be in the twitter building on market street. the store will be operated by san francisco-based small foods which already owns a market and a cafe on second street. it will feature foods from local producers. an opening date has not yet been announced. 4:36, friday. is it summer already, leyla? >> it is. happy first day of summer,

everyone. we made it. a very good morning to you. looking at our live doppler 7 hd radar. clear conditions right now. we do have a little bit of patchy coastal fog. other than that we are going to be in pretty good shape. for today and as we head into the evening hours, this is what our fog will be doing it will burn off, bring in 60 degrees along the coast, 70s farther inland, our inland valleys, upper 80s our high for today. we will be seeing a warming. all due to the trough of low pressure being carried by the jetstream to the east, being replaced by the high ridge that's coming in and bringing those warmer conditions but right behind it is another couple of lows that's going to bring in some cooler conditions and some possible rain for the latter part of the weekend and early part of next week. the weekend, get your plans together, you will be looking at great forecast, 88 degrees inland, 78 around the bay, 62 along the coast. with that chance of some drizzle on sunday into monday, rain

chances monday into tuesday. more on that coming up. we do have some construction in san francisco and this is going to be bridge work that is being done, northbound 1 at lake street to the golden gate bridge. this project is going to last until 7 a.m. this morning, you might see a little bit of falling, possible detours as well, we head into pittsburgh, west bound side of 4 between railroad and bail labor day ongoing project out there, that is going to be continuing through its morning hours, till about 6 a.m. right now, we are starting to see a little slow and go traffic there as you come antioch and into pittsburg that morning commute starting to load up a little bit. go outside right now, take a peek what the we are looking at, a gorgeous shot of the golden gate bridge and looks like those attenuators making their way northbound moving out of lanes. katie, eric? >> 4:38 now. imagine being on a non-stop flight from san francisco to london only to learn the airlines forgot to pack one very important item in the lavatory. how passengers managed to

improvise. daddy loves you. >> and the unforgettable moment when a boy who was born deaf hears for its first time. but first, here is this morning's america's money report. >> good morning, topping america's money, most stocks still sliding, many overseas markets overseas, with fed chairman's ben bernanke's comments. growing immigration scandal forcing 711 to deploy a team of immigration inspectors to check out franchises nationwide. federal prosecutors say workers at senators new york and virginia were gimp stolen identities and forced to work up to 100 hours week. australia just announced six lucky winners of its best job in the world competition. among them, an american who will get to serve as chief funster, planning events and attending vip parties, each job like taste mast

the movie "fruitville station," oscar grant's last day opens in a few weeks. last night, a special screening was held in oakland. the movie focuses on grant's life leading up to the shooting. the 22-year-old was killed by a b.a.r.t. police officer on new year's day four years ago. 27-year-old richard cooler wrote and directed the movie. he stays is based on public records and interviews with grant's family and friends. input from the officers was never considered. >> a platform and the officers

are a very small part of the project. you know, the majority of the film is about this man's life. >> cooler insists the movie does not glorify oscar grant, just tries to humanize them. "fruitville station" opens in new york july 12th and nationwide two weeks later. united airlines is apoll zwligz morning for an embarrassing logistical foul-up on a transatlantic flight. in the middle of this ten-hour trip from san francisco to london, the plane ran out of bathroom tissue. >> that's disgusting. so terrible. >> reporter: on board gretchen who will land's flight she will be thinking about what united airlines offers fellow passengers on a ten-hour-long flight from sfo to london after some of the on-board bathrooms ran out of toilet paper. the crew improvised, with cocktail napkins. they labeled the dissteppers so passengers would know what to use them for. >> if i'm paying for a ticket,

that's probably includes the price of toilet paper i would think. >> reporter: united issued a statement saying -- >> is it a big deal? no. >> reporter: i spoke with an expert via skype. >> which is more important, making your connecting flight or, you know, having to wipe with paper towels? >> reporter: for this passenger, the choice was simple. >> you want to get to where you're going and people have connecting flights and alternative plans and, you know, they provided a solution. >> reporter: toilet paper debacle comes as united recently ranked last in an airline quality survey. the company claims this merger with part of continental airlines was a part of the

factor. a 3-year-old boy can hear thanks to an auditory brain stem implant. take a minute and watch his astonish reed action when he first heard his dad's voice. >> hi, grayson. >> daddy loves you. daddy loves you. daddy -- >> he heard. >> can you hear daddy? >> chokes me up. grayson was born without the auditory nerves that can carry sound from the inner ear to the brain. doctors gave him the implant which is usually only used in adults whose nerves have been damaged. doctors are confident grayson will hear and speak like any other child. >> he is like any other child. i can tell you, a few seconds later, those cards he was holding, went right back to them. >> moving on. >> yeah. 4:45 now, check in with leyla, a check of the forecast, this first day of summer. >> first day of summer, warmer today o i suggest you bottle it. it is all going away on sunday

>> sorry to be the bearer of bad news, everyone. good morning, look at our live doppler 7 hd radar satellite, we have patchy fog along the coast, but going to warm up beautifully for this afternoon. we are going to be experiencing our first full day of summer. that means the sun will stay in one spot but starting tomorrow, it will start getting a little bit shorter, our daylight hours. warmer and breezy. also a small craft advisory for the day as well. we are going to be experiencing gusty winds we are seeing yesterday, about 30-mile-an-hour winds if you are going to be on the waters. you might want to just observe a little caution. patchy clouds will return overnight but then they will burn off tomorrow as well. so, wind speeds at the moment, pretty calm across the bay area, a couple areas gusting up to 10 miles per hour in fairfield. what is going to be happening with our weather the next few days, starting tonight, we can see where those clouds and fog not going to be touching the coast and then come sunday, the clouds and fog roll in once again and then we start getting

the showers, mainly in the north bay. and that will continue through sunday and into monday as well. breezy conditions will follow along the coast. our highs for today, going to be seeing beautiful, 83 degrees in santa cruz, 78 in san jose, move along the peninsula, 68 in san francisco, high of 83 in napa. we move into the inland valleys, 86 degrees in antioch. now, we do have a game, going to be the miami marlins, giants taking them on tonight, 7:15 at at&t park starting at 64 degrees. it will cool down to just under 60 degrees, about 59. overnight lows, the most part, mid to upper 50s, with little patchy fog coming right back. here is my accuweather fifd. we will warm up once again tomorrow and then cools off for sunday, monday and tuesday starts to warm up much wednesday and thursday pretty darn nice. take a look at our traffic and fee that looks pretty darn nice. we have a couple of crashes and some construction.

this crash is in the clearing stages, northbound 101 at frontage road. not blocking any lanes but now that we do have a tow truck on scene that can cause a little bit of spectator slowing. east and westbound 80, anchorage, two metering lights, construction blocking lanes, eastbound traffic, very slow out there, a little bit of a bolt neck slowing traffic down. we head into san jose, this project is a carpool lane, north and southbound 880 between south bay freeway and 101, going to open tomorrow but it won't be enforced until monday. go outside real quick and take a look at this. this is going to be your main. the autopsy for "sopranos" star james gandolfini took place overnight. official cause of his death could take a month. those results are expected to confirm the 51-year-old actor died of a heart attack what doctors are saying. he passed away wednesday while on vacation with his family in italy. doctors worked on gandolfini for

40 minutes, including heart massage, but could not revive him. gandolfini was supposed to receive an award this weekend at a film festival in sicily. there is no word yet on when funeral services will be held. happening together, president obama will formally announce something that washington has suspected for weeks. the white house says the president will nominate former attorney general jim comb know head the fbi. he was the number two official at the justice department under president george w. bush. he will replace robert muller, the former u.s. attorney here in san francisco who is retiring in september. opening statements are set for monday in the florida murder trial of george zimmerman, in a case that captured the country's attention last year. the jury is made up of all women. they will decide whether zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer is guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. today, attorneys have to address unresolved issues such as whether an audio expert can testify for the prosecution that screams on a 911 call belong to

martin. the six women on the jury will be sequestered for the entire trial. just about 4:50. coming up, a decision on the morning after pill ends a big battle in washington. and the force comes to the north bay, a

welcome back, every en. good morning. it is friday. it summer. 4:526789 you are looking live from our sutro tower cam looking east toward mount diablo. going to be a beautiful day out there this morning, according to one ms. leyla gulen, but change comes after that. she will let you in on the full forecast in a bit. historic movie theater will reopen today with a new digital projector paid for by crowd sourcing. the rio theater needed $60,000 to install the new projection system by may or they would no longer receive movies from the

big hollywood studios. so, a kick starter campaign raised the money with a timely contribution from actor zack brave, star of the tv series "scrubs." filmmaker george lucas brought a bit of hollywood to downtown san enselmo. a park features statues of yoda and indiana jones. the iconic characters from george lucas movies were unveiled at a special ceremony yesterday at imagination park. lucas lives in san ensell moment he donated the land and paid for the park plans. >> lived here for 40 years and aid building here and it was very hard to lease it and so we just said why don't we do something for the town and give it a center so there's a place for kids to come and be and people to sit around on sunday afternoons? >> lucas says yoda and indiana jones have special significance because the movies and characters were created in san enselmo. >> stories like imagination park

you can get as well as -- i'm sorry, as well as breaking news, weather and traffic with the new abc7 news smartphone app. it's really easy to navigate and even easier to download. just go to abc7 news.com/apps for all the details and remember, if you have our current app, you will need to download the new one because the old one will be going away soon. i couldn't help, yoda syntax snuck into my sentence there >> happens to the best of us. >> best of us it happens to. >> a nice homage. impressive when you can do it off the cuff like that >> put that into the -- anyway, here is leyla with a look at the forecast. >> will not be speaking in that language, i will stick to english. good morning, everyone. our mount tam cam toward the city and bait bridge, what a gorgeous sight indeed, sparkling, clear sky, a couple of patchy clouds and fog along the coast. that is farther down. in san mateo county, for today, a little bit warmer than we were

yesterday. two degrees difference. concord is going to be four degrees difference, the high of 85 degrees, 72 expected in hayward. 84, santa rosa, just an uptick of one degree and sun adviser going to be at 5:48. going to be the longest day of the year then it starts to get shorter once again tomorrow. our highs for today across the state, we have some earlier thunderstorms this week, northern part of california. those have moved out. have mostly sunshine, mostly sunshine, 80 degrees in los angeles, 105 in palm springs. let's see if traffic is heating up at all. what we do have is a couple crashes work he do have some construction. into the east bay, we do have an accident, 880 at 66th avenue, blocking a lane. you can see is already causing slowing north and southbound that northbound spectator slowing affecting. greenville road to slim road a project that will last until about 6 a.m. this morning and we are slow right now over the

altamonte pass. proceed going to be topping out about 35 miles per hour. let's go outside right now and see what's happening on the roads. here's the bay bridge toll plaza, a little bit of light starting to come up over the east bay hills but traffic moving well as you make it into san francisco. we do have a couple of projects both east and west on the bay bridge that will last until 6. katie, eric? >> leyla, thank you. it is 4:56 now. the morning after pill will now be available over the counter. the food and drug administration has approved unrestricted sales of plan b one step. until now, women had to prove to a pharmacist they were 17 years old or older to get the emergency contraceptive. the obama administration was against lifting an able restrictions but gave in after several losses in court. google is admitting that those off-the-wall brain materialize it is used to quiz potential hires were useless. the company says questions such as how many golf balls will fit into a school bus served primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.

google says it will standardize the interview so job candidates can be assessed. it takes half a million golf balls to fill the average school bus. >> so glad you answered that for us. 4:57 now, the 14th annual take your dog to work day in the bay area. if you work for a dog-friendly company, you are encouraged to bring your four-legged friend with you today. pet sitters international came up with the idea way back in 1999 to promote pet adoption. since then, dogs have become a common pens are sense in many workplaces. nearly one in five companies in the u.s. now allow pets and studies show dogs are a great way to increase creativity, team work and help reduce stress at the office. that one for sure. >> 4:57 now. b.a.r.t. workers say they are ready to on strike in a contract dispute. next at 5 a.m., we are live with the safety concerns they say the b.a.r.t. managers ignoring. also, an outrageous crime at a gas station what some thieves after that they were willing to

destroy the front of the business. the pg&e facing a whopping $2 billion fine for the san bruno disaster. now, a top exec i

good morning, everyone, it is 5 a.m. >> does it feel like summer to you yet? >> sure does. going to get better, we hear. >> first day of summer today, leyla gulen? >> it will get better, get better tomorrow. on sunday, the rain comes back, good morning. take a look at our live doppler 7 hd, clear conditions, a little bit of patchy clouds and fog to the south