night. >> good morning, kristen. after the historic ruling, it was time to party. castro street has re-opened to traffic with a lot of street cleaning after a huge celebration like no other. spontaneous dancing broke out on castro street wednesday night as thousands save ored the ruling knocking doubt proposition 8. castro was jammed from market to 19th. not everyone is planning a wedding but many couples say they are very excited about the future. >> if i want to get married some day, i will be able to. it is a great feeling. i am happy for my friends who are same-sex couples and who will get married. we have a lot of weddings this morning so it means more to them given the ruling.

>> it could take weeks before same-sex marriage can resume in california. the supreme court ruling will be finalized in 25 days and the 9th circuit court will lift the stay on the district court judge's ruling which is expected to bring a lot more people to the pride festival, anywhere from 900,000 to a million usually show up and this year they expect possible 1.5 million folks in san francisco. >> across the bay area supporters of gay rights celebrateed growing to more than 250 people in front of san jose's city hall organized by the bay area municipality elections committee and a party took place in oakland where people danced in the streets. this gathering planned regardless of the court

decision. organizers called this "decision day for better other worse." the rainbow flags are flying on the peninsula outside the san mateo county clerk drawing gay and straight couples saying the issue is about love and equality. >> gay marriage has strengthened our straight marriage. let liberty be the true defense of marriage. >> activists, clergy and local officials took part. >> senator feinstein has reintroduce add measure to repeal the defense of marriage act although the supreme court struck down a key part of the act as unconstitutional. the high court ruled legally married gay couples must receive the same federal tax, social security, and health and other benefits as heterosexual couples. she says more than a thousand federal laws affected by the defense of marriage act need to be fixed and repealing it makes

sure there are no inequities. spouses of gay and lesbian marries will receive benefits including burying at arlington national cemetery. we reported the rulings when they came down. you can stay on top of breaking news by downloading abc7 news smartphone app which is free. >> switching gears, bart workers will hand out fliers as a potential strike looms over the issue of safety and compensation. union contracts with bart expire on sunday might and workers have authorized a strike if an agreement is not reaped. employees are willing to cause commute chaos to make their case for a 33 percent pay raise.

abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield will have more next half hour. your options are listed if there is a bart strike on twitter@abcnewsbayarea. >> developing news the family of former south africa president mandela has been summoned to the hospital as he is in critical condition with signs the end may be near. katie marzullo is in the newsroom with the latest. >> we hear from his granddaughter, speaking with reporters outside of the hospital. relatives have been arriving this morning where south africans have been gathering, praying, singing, bringing gifts and his grandchild came outside at one point to collect some of the flowers and messages people have left as a tribute. his granddaughter gave this description of her grandfather's condition.

>> ray with us. pray with us. >> she says "critical but stable," meaning his condition has not changed since the government said on sunday his health deteriorated to critical state. there are reports he is on life support but the president will not confirm that. a spokesman for the president says he visited mandela yesterday and after the visit the president canceled his scheduled trip for a summit. >> president obama is in senegal the first leg of the three-country visit to africa including a visit to south africa on sunday and tans -- tanzania after that. the tour of africa is expected to focus on the deepening

economic cooperation. president obama plans to tour a former slave trading hub off the capital but this is all subject to change over the health of former south africa president mandela. >> this morning, the man accusedded of murdering missing morgan hill teen is due in court with a plea hearing scheduled in superior court at 9:00 a.m. garcia was arrested in may on murder charges although the body was not been found. she vanished on the way to school two months earlier. garcia is charged with attempted kidnapping and carjacking in attacks on three other women in 2009. >> charges have been dropped against the second defendant in the murder of a well-known millionaire. yesterday, the prosecution removed an accessory to murder

and in exchange she will enter a guilty plea to prostitution with gang enhancement and released july 18 and will not have to testify in the case of the entrepreneur brother was found dead after being bound and gagged during a late night home invasion robbery. charges against another former defendant were dropped after his attorney convinced the prosecution he was severely intoxicated and in a hospital hours before the murder. >> governor brown will sign a new california budget at a ceremony at state capital this morning with the legislature approving the $96.3 billion spending plan on time nearly two weeks ago. with tax revenues up, education get as boost from the budget with enough to put $1 billion if a rainy day fund because of a growing state economy and proposition 30 tax increase initiated by the governor.

>> oakland hopes of keeping the a's in the city could get a boost. the city's port commission will review a settlement that would end a legal dispute with the maritime tenant that could free up 51 acres of waterfront land. civic groups have favored this location north of the square. but the a's owner thinks the howard terminal site is too expensive for building a new ballpark. >> we will check on the weather forecast. it is getting warm at the a's game yesterday and we will have hot again today. >> that is why we are starting with this, how humid it is in the morning. it is usually humid around here with a marine layer and the moisture. this is a different type of humidity. we do not have the marine layer this morning but this is left over from the air mass and the moisture evaporating, at 88

percent in mountain view and saturated in santa rosa. that is where i would watch for fog. we are in the 60's and mild, but 57 at half moon bay and novato and santa rosa. the golden gate bridge shows it is hard to see but notice the ground is dry. for most of us it is not so cloudy this afternoon so the day planner the next 12 hours is 58 to 62 and faster as the warm blow is building at 64 at the coast and 82 inland and by 4:00, we are 68 at the coast and 90 degrees inland and if you used the air conditioning yesterday you have to use it today and 62 at the coast and 84 inland. our spread will be better in the seven-day forecast and i will show you that in a minute. leyla gulen? >> good morning, america, at 4:39, we are tracking fog in the roadway and you can see where the area shaded in orange that

is where the fog could affect the commute with dry conditions on the road opposed to yesterday morning with the mist. we have construction that will be northbound and southbound nimitz between highway 238 to davis street a project is going on. that will wrap up at 6:00 a.m. it will close at 6:00, again. in san jose, 280 away from 17, a few cars are making the drive in the northbound direction and all is clear and quiet. >> the supreme court ruling on proposition 8 has a financial side. the businesses that are hearing the sound of cash registers.

>> covering cupertino and wine country and all the bay area this is use. >> city crews will be out repairing a fire hydrant that created a wet mess in oakland. thousands of gallons of water flooded an oakland street after an out-of-control car hit the hydrant shearing the hydrant completely off. water gushed before the fire department was able to cap it. the driver was not hurt. >> when the same sex wedding bells ring, so will the cash registers. overturning prop 8 is good for business. abc7 news reporter explains this. >> it puts me in the mood for a wedding. >> a wedding designer has been engaged to his partner for five years and the decision will

change things. >> i have never been the bride and now i get to be the bride. >> study projects 37,000 same-sex marriages will occur the next three years which will generate $40 million for the state budget and $492 million for wedding-related businesses including floorists, musicians, bakeries and stationery stores getting a slice of the wedding cake. >> i was at the thrower market when the decision came down. there was a big cheer. the florist hopes to see a boom. >> i will see big parties and they do spend more on legal wedding than on a smaller celebration or commitment century. >> this catering company is saying, bring on the same-sex marriages. >> we are all so excited and ready for more weddings.

>> steady stream of people have been coming by city hall to take pictures to capture what they say is a historic civil rights moment. >> tonight, nasa is scheduled to launch a satellite from vandenberg air force base that could change our understanding of the sun. the mission is called iris. scientists will study why the sun's invisible atmosphere is ten million degrees while the surface is a cooler 10,000 degrees. it will examine the sun close up 1 percent at a time breaking the light into fragments to find patterns. the satellite will be dropped from the converted airliner and position itself in a polar or exit above earth where the sun never rises or sets. >> the sun will radiate with all its glory today.

>> the real push of hot weather is tomorrow through the weekend. thankfully it will be a dry heat, too, and we will be rid of the humidity so yesterday was feeling as warm as the thermometer and warmer just a chance to turn on air conditioning to get out the humidity. the air was clear yesterday and santa rosa and novato at up to half mile visibility on live doppler 7 hd. you can see most of the top of the bay bridge with the clouds moving in from the coast. the trees are not moving much on the embarcadero so not a stiff breeze. sunny and warmer and humid today, the last humid day, the hottest weather coming in tomorrow inland friday and saturday and sunday and tuesday and a couple of the days we will push triple digits but it will

be mild as the least will not make it to the coast. this is a hot air mass coming at us from the desert. inland like morgan hill, low-to-mid 80's, and santa rosa is 86. the warmth will creep up the peninsula and mill ray is 76. half moon bay is the warm spot at 70 and daly city is 66 or 67. more warmth on bay side south south africa and downtown in the mid-70's and sausalito. mid-to-upper 80's through the north bay valley and mid-to-upper 60's at the bench. 70 at berkeley and everyone else in the low-to-mid 80's. castro valley is warm at 84 and low-to-mid 90's in the east bay valley this weekend. tonight in the upper 50's to

mid-60's. the clouds will be confined to the coast. you can see the warm air mass from the south right up the desert and high pressure over the four corners region we get the clockwise flow. watch the heats expand. thursday, we are as far north as fresno and friday we are looking at 120 degrees in palm springs with temperatures at 110 saturday and sunday. our forecast for the weekend could hit 100 inland sunday and monday with near 90 around the bay and low 70's at the coast. by tuesday the cooling hits the coast and by wednesday the rest of us are seeing a drop in temperatures. >> we have plenty of construction to get around as we head back to san jose where we have another project at southbound 680 to love insteader we have a couple of lanes blocked and to the south in san

jose along southbound 880 to 280 we have a couple of lanes shut down and cones are picked up at 6:00 a.m. the mass transit, caltrain and bart running on time. the golden gate bridge shows a plan chest fog and we have construction crews picking up cones in the northbound direction with the construction project wrapping up as we speak. be careful and use your low beams and not your high beams. >> richmond police have towed up a shipwrecked boat belonging to a convicted sex offender. police say the sex offender was living on the boat and he was arrested for failing to register where he lived but now he is out of jail. he got until june 24 to remove or repair the boat. he did not is they will destroy the boat. >> venezuela is offering edward

snowden another possible safe haven, the president says venezuela would likely grant edward snowden political asylum if he made the request. the president is coming to snowed were's defense saying secrets show that the u.s. government is spying on everyone. right now the former n.s.a. contractor remains grounded at now airport with annulled u.s. passport. snowden is charged with violating american espionage laws. >> hazardous crossing and engineers are making the bart extension to san jose safe from earthquakes. >> if you could be addicted to card

>> big progress for bart's latest extension to the warm springs area of fremont. crews have turned the city into a huge construction zone to

complete phase one to extend bart south to san jose. the new track will cross over the hayward fault where engineers are laying shredded car tire on the bed to absorb the shock of an earthquake. >> this is among the first of the applications for this use and we take measurements before and after to improve the understanding of the effect. >> a series of movable joints built in the concrete has been incorporated into the construction that can bend in a tremor, with the extension opening in two years to remain what springs. >> safe way has won the top award given by the defense department earning the 2013 secretary of defense freedom award given to businesses that hire, train, and support large numbers of returning veterans and members of the national guard and reserves. safe way promoted many veterans

to management jobs after they completed a 41-week training program. they will hire 3,000 veterans between this year and next year. >> and now the weather forecast. >> check out the picture at the lack of clouds over san francisco and all the way over to the east bay and east bay hills. there are a few clouds and patchy fog to the north but not so many as yesterday. 24-hour temperature change shows we are climbing. most of us are in the 80's but san francisco is the exception at two degrees warmer at 75 and concord will touch 91 degrees today. so 2 two 9 degrees warmther. the heat will come from the desert today at 111 in palm springs and 104 in fresno, and mid-80's around tahoe. safe travels.

>> we are looking at 580, tracy to dublin, 28 minutes gets you through. and outside to the san mateo bridge you can check out what is happening, it is wide open with no accidents and nothing to get in the way away from hayward to foster city with clear conditions and our weather department is not looking at fog that can be impeding the visibility. >> texas governor rick perry is calling a special session of the legislature to pass new restrictions own abortion. the first effort died yesterday morning following a 13-hour filibuster and protest in the state senate. the measure would ban abortions after 20 weeks and tighten standards at clinics that will force most of the clinics to close. the special session is set to begin on monday.

he will address the national right-to-life convention in dallas. >> new report shows that more pregnant women are having c-sections closer to their due date. according to the centers for disease control the high level of c-sections has stopped rising and leveled off. experts are calling the change "great" saying people are getting the message of the risk of the operation and the importance of waiting to deliver until the baby is full inform with the c-section rate holding steady at 31 percent after rising for a dozen straight years. >> addiction to food could be a real condition specifically involving foods heavy in carbohydrates. people that took part had than brains examined after drinking milkshakes, getting a sudden crash four hours after the

shake, stimulating the brain region considered ground zero for addictions. limiting certain foods in the treatment of obese people could prevent cravings. >> only on 7, the san francisco-based federal judge who overturned proposition 8 reacts to the supreme court ruling. judge walker describes the attack his personal liven doored after the ruling. >> more fall out from the deadly pg&e and the shuffle after regulators are accused of being too cozy with the company. >> bart is preparing for a strike. are the rider

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> it is 5:00 a.m. on thursday morning. >> you will feel the heat today and then we will ref