inland and 74 to 81. clouds will linger from 66 to 74 and the most clouds will hang around the coast into san francisco at 57 to 64. leyla gulen has the update. >> we do not see too many problems in terms of how the wet roads affect traffic. so far, it is decent but we have a crash in san jose on the connection between northbound 87 and 280. we do have the car on the shoulder that is not blocking any lanes and we are looking at clear conditions. as we look at our drive time traffic, tracy to dublin is half an hour in the westbound direction. 101 southbound from san rafael to san francisco is 15 minute commute. to the bay bridge tolls, it is decent and we are looking at cars making their way up to cash-paying lanes. other than that, it is free-flowing. >> good commute news, a.c.

transit is running after the transit service and the drivers union reached a last minute contract deal to avoid a strike. abc7 news reporter matt keller is at the terminal in san francisco. matt? >> i don't want you to be discoupled, empty. but the buses will run this morning, a welcome reprieve from transportation concerns for people in the bay area. the deal was made an hour before midnight when a strike could have started. union officials say the agreement gives 1,800 bus drivers and mechanics and dispatchers and workers 9.5 percent race over three years but they will ticket to medical benefits. >> longer process, longer than we wanted, but because the issues were difficult, that is why. in the end, both sides are happy. >> those moments come when you know you have done your best,

you have stayed there and you have negotiated the best contract you can negotiate with whomever you negotiate with. >> unions have to approve the deal and will vote later this month but this morning is business as usual for the 180,000 people who use a.c. transit in the bay area. >> thank you very much. the two sides in the bart dispute are preparing to make the case before a governor's board of inquiry in oakland this morning. the governor appointed the three-member panel to examine where contract talks stand and how it impacts the bay area. he wants the report by friday and decide if he will ask a judge to declare a 60-day cooling off period preventing a strike or lockout. bart folks and union leaders have not held bargaining talks sin the governor stepped in on sunday night hours before the contract expired. >> if you would like to go to the meeting it is open to the public and will be held at the state building in oakland at

1515 clay street. it starts at 10:30. in the event of a strike, abc7 news has a full range of resources to turn to with the latest on contract talks, real time traffic conditions and our exclusive abc7 news waze traffic app with updates on twitter. >> new this morning in the east bay investigators are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that sent one to the hospital last night. contra costa firefighters arrived the garage was fully engulfed. a man was, working on his car and take were to the hospital with leg buns. three kids and a woman were asleep but they get out safe. firefighters knocked down the flames in ten minutes. >> the search continues for two san diego children the focus of a state-wide amber alert. a 16-year-old hannah anderson

and her brother, 8-year-old ethan could be with james dimaggio accused of their abduction, a family friend. a vigil was held in san diego. the body of the children's mother was found sunday in a burned out home owned by dimaggio. a child's body was also found and he could be ethan but police treating the case as a double abduction. investigators may be with dimaggio in the blue nissan california license plate 6wcu986. officials think he could be headed to texas or canada. >> new details of an oakland woman missing since sunday night. the car of the 50-year-old woman was found in an oakland parking lot near her home yesterday. two her cell phones have been located. one phone was found near mcdonald's street exit in richmond. she is a death penalty expert who works for the physical public defender's office. police are not sure if the

disappearance is related to her job or a meeting with someone who had information about her dog stolen during a burglary in may. >> she told her daughter she would be home in half an hour and was not seen after. >> she is 5' 6" and 150 pounds and last seen wearing a black and white shirt and dark jeans. >> school districts in oakland and san francisco are among eight in the state that received waivers to parts of the federal no child left behind law giving funds to schools based on student test scores. the oakland tribune reports that the district will continue to receive about $3 million in funds with the program with more discretion on how to spend it but rather than requiring tests showing all students performing at the grade level in math and reading, oakland will be able to use new standards and including accountability factors such as attendance and graduation rates and critical thing and civic involvement. >> with each hour the powerball

jackpot is getting bigger. $425 million is up for grabs last check, the third largest jackpot in the history of the multistate lottery game, $244 million in cab if the win chooses the lump sum but it will not be easy to win with the odds 1 in 175 million. if no one wins tonight, lottery officials say the pot for sat's drawing will roll into record territory which is new $590 million. imagine topping that! >> hungy we found someone to ago our office pool. >> i have not paid into it. >> the e-mail coming. you will retire to the islands with all of us. >> good luck, everyone, those are steep odds, but someone has to win. most of us are one to four degrees warmer this omnibus -- this morning because of the moist air. we are 61 in san jose livermore

and mountain view and 55 at half moon bay and novato and santa an napa at 57 degrees., oakland, san carlos at 59. and hayward at 55. start out this morning it will go through the next 12 hours: damp. drizzle. slickness on the streets. clouds going to hang on most neighborhoods by noon. the south and east bay will start to see sunshine. we are in the 50's and 60's at noon and in the 50's at the coast and 60's around the bay and mid-70's at 4:00 with our brightest part of the day being 4:00 and the clouds come back in as will the cooler weather and 50's and 60's so jacket weather in the evening. tomorrow, a lot like today, friday morning a lot like today, but friday afternoon the dry push comes in and we william a little bit with the warming trend spreading into saturday. now the next week and the weekend is ahead.

>> we have one accident in san jose on the shoulder. we have this construction project causing quite a bit of slowing from pleasanton to dublin westbound 580 all the way over to san ramon we have three lanes blocked and that is causing the bottleneck so it is bumper-to-bumper traffic this early. when the cones are picked up at 5:00 it will thin out. 580 from tracy to castro valley is 32 minutes. 101 northbound from 85 through the san jose airport is 16 minutes and nine minutes from northbound highway 1 to san francisco is under ten minutes. this is 101 coming into central san rafael it is empty and wide open as we speak. >> neighbors take a stand against crime on national night out and why police in san jose need the boost from residents more than ever. >> also, a bay area bank bandit or several bandits striking over

and over again and the growing violence that has the f.b.i. on high alert. disaster at the airport, the impact of a massive fire is having on travel in one country this morning. first, america's money report. >> good morning. tomming america's money, shaping up to be a nervous day on wall street with stocks falling for the second straight day because the fell reserve could pull back on the infusion of cash. the feds are going after bank of america, the justice department is suing them for lying to investors about the risks of the loans that led to the housing clap. a spokesman said investors had ample access to the data. and taco bell waffle taco is selling like hot cakes so it will be sold at 100 more taco bells in fresno, omaha, and

a happening today a contractor is tear down the house where three women were imprisoned and rapes for a decade. here is a look at the home that belongs to 53-year-old ariel castro. work is be done right now to tear it down. one of the victims, michelle knight, released balloons to signal the start of the demolition. he was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to hundreds of kidnapping and rape charges. all of the building material will be shredded so it is not for sale online and will be completed today. the contractor is doing this work for free. >> the f.b.i. is asking for help catching robbers who targeted five banks in san francisco and one on the peninsula in just four months. the f.b.i. called them the "high jumper bandits," after they were showed jumping over the top of counters with thick jackets, gloves and scarves to hide their

faces and investigators say the robbers have become increasingly violent and pointed guns at tellers and one time they pistol-whip add teller. >> a year since the massive chevron refinery fire was marked with the ringing of a gong commemorting 15,000 people that went to the hospital after the explosion and fire. on monday, chevron agreed to pay $2 million to settle fines stemming from the disaster. >> the san jose police department is struggling with low staffing and lower morale. the bay area largest city joined cities across america to take a stand against crime. abc7 news reporter has details on national night out. >> the reality is, san jose is not going to be a safe place. >> detective james gonzalez insists that the police department is in a state crisis especially after san jose's

30th homicide on saturday night that took the life of a 19-year-old san jose state nursing student. the unintended victim was caught in the cross fire while riding in a car downtown. >> we cannot patrol the city with the number of officers we have and innocent people are dying. >> the detective goes goes says saturday night was also the first time no officers volunteered to work overtime downtown because they were all too tired and burned out. the department still required a few to stay light. >> are you comfortable with the numbers? >> no, we need to grow. >> the police chief tried to be optimistic while attending national night out events and knows that petty crime and property crime and homicide are all on the rise. he is relying on the department's 40 newest academy recruits to fill in the agains. >> we need the extra overtime but we are trying not to exhaust the officers so the recruits are important to reduce the number of overtime. >> the recruits are not self-sufficient for several more

weeks which means the officer overtime will continue. >> i understand them being tired but somewhere something has to get give because the community safety is important. >> so this national night out could be more important than ever. >> apple started a worldwide trading program for faulty chargesers made by other companies after a chinese woman was electrocuted by a non-apple iphone. they hope to take the counterfeit adapters east market. if you bring your charger to apple store they will replace for it $10 starting august 16 and run through october 18. >> sweden's artemis racing team faces italy in the second race of the america's cup challenge series semi finals. italy beast beat artemis in the

first race in the best of seven series the first time that artemis raced since a sailor died three months ago when their catamaran capsized in the bay. artemis sailors have spent two weeks practicing after the new boat was brought in. the race is at 1:15. you can watch at the piers 27 and 29. >> smooth or choppy? >> a little choppy. no small craft advisory like last week. a nice breeze. it will be interesting to watch the sailing. it will be cool. fur around the bay water or the ocean, temperatures inland will be six to ten degrees cooler-than-average and inland they are in the 70's and around bay they are only in the 50's and 60's. we are looking for fog or drizzle and novato is at four miles visibility and drizzle is thicker and half moon bay is six miles and nine at oakland and because of the low clouds we will have flight arrival delays into sfo so make sure you

utilize our flight tracker at abc7news.com. the golden gate bridge shows a dry spot here. i came in on 580 and 24 and they were all wet because of the drizzle. the highs are short of our average. brighter and more comfortable weather this weekend. comfortable meaning not freezing if you are outside or have to wear a coat. everyone is in cloud cover this morning, and it will take the better part of about to noon just for the inland east bay and the south bay. most of the bay is still cloudy at lunch and most of the north bay at least from 101 over to the coast is still cloudy by noon. those same areas will still have a hard time getting rid of the clouds by 3:00. we will purge holes in it and bring you the sunshine but it will not be clear day like we are used to.

most summers when the clouds rollback to the coast. that will not happen today. low-to-mid 70's in the south bay. 79 in los gatos and morgan hill for the warm spot. upper 60's to low 70's for the pent that, and upper 50's to low 60's loan the coast and mid-to-upper 60's downtown and sausalito and upper 60's to low 70's through the north bay valley and east bay valley mid-70's to near 80. bundle up again if you are headed to at&t park at 59 degrees at 7:15 and dropping to 55 with drizzle possible. the seven-day forecast, tomorrow is the same as today. friday morning we will start off the same. friday afternoon we will be dry and summer returning to the forecast over the weekend and next week. leyla? >> good morning, everyone. quiet conditions mostly with one accident in san jose at the 87,

280 connection pushed to the shoulder and we have this report of a stalled vehicle in the northbound lane along highway one at devil slide. so far, so good and we do not have delays. you may see mist or drizzle and we have had construction project in the east bay, southbound 880 from davis to a street we will have four lanes blocked, and cones are picked up at 5:00, and to the not we have this construction project between embarcadero to high street and that is certainly causing delays in the northbound and southbound direction with construction crews wrapping this project up at 5:00 and it is bumper-to-bumper traffic and the rest of the drive is moving well to make it up to the maze. the san mateo bridge is clear from the westbound direction from hayward to foster city. it is looking good. >> happening now, a massive fire in kenya has shut down the main international airport in nairobi. dark black smoke is shooting into the sky at international terminal and the interior

ministry says the airport will be closed indefinitely. that could have serious impact on the flow of tourists into the country and the export offing aal products. no one was hurt. officials say no immediate signs of terrorism and the airport will be closed indefinitely. >> police in a bay area city respond to blight literally dumps on the streets and they are helping clean up a growing problem. >> dustin hoffman has surgery and how he is doing this only. >> the new health study ma may have some of us ditching the morning shot of coffee for a tasty cup of

>> welcome back, fed up neighbors in oakland are helping police get big time liter buts. each day, folks are taking pictures showing illegal dumping

and the city attorney provided us with the images. a new city effort is using photos and video to track down illegal dumpers and make them pay. city officials say photos showing the license plates of offenders are helpful because they can track them down through the vehicle registration. >> facebook users post interesting content to your news feed, or else. the menlo park social site is changing the system to push more exciting content to the top of the news feed and the boring content is at bottom, which could be a business killer for advertisers they will have to create super interesting facebook pages in hopes to go viral, or pay to run ads. >> big time pressure. good thing mike is keeping the weather presentation interesting. >> the weather has been interesting as is the lack of summer and the last several weeks that continues today. i will show you the clouds and

the clouds that will keep our temperatures from four degrees cooler-than-average in san francisco with a high of 64 and 11 degrees cooler-than-average with 77, and live more, you can see the storms off to the north moving away from us with more possible in the sierra and more possible around us tomorrow. in fact, high fire danger in the sierra tomorrow and in the mountains north of us. today, 77 at tahoe and 81 in sacramento and headed to the south we have afternoon sunshine and 70 in san diego and 76 in los angeles. safe travels. >> construction crews are late picking up cones and oakland southbound 880 which is why we have so much red with lot of traffic approaching alameda. we also have this project that is actually a crash, rather, on the shoulder. it is on northbound 87 to 280 and so far, so good, the rest of san jose is locking nice -- looking nice and clear. albany to the maze on westbound 80 is four minutes and 880

southbound from fremont to san jose is 15 minutes and 280101 in the northbound direction is 12 minutes. the live picture is walnut creek coming away from highway 4 to the 4 junction and not too many cars and, of course, there could be a couple of slick areas. >> new information this morning on the southwest airlines plane that crash landed at la guardia. the flight from nashville, tennessee, no new york, landed hard on a collapsed nose gear on july 22nd, and 16 people were injured. the national transportation safety board says the captain took control from the first officer 400' from the ground, very late and very unusual. that is the first trip together for that captain and the first officer. investigators say the nose gear failed, because of stress overload. >> actor dustin hoffman is recovering from cancer surgery, a spokesman will not say what type of cancer the 75-year-o

actor has but it was treated. the spokesman says it was detected early and he is feeling great and in good health. he has four film roles wrapping up or currently in production. >> former president george w. bush expects to leave hospital after a stent was inserted to clear a clogged artery. territories revealed the blockage during his annual checkup. the 43rd president plans do resume the normal schedule tomorrow. >> small victory reversing decades of increases in the number of obese american children. the centers for disease control found from 2008 to 2011, obesity among low on-- low-income preschoolers dropped. in california it dropped by half a percent from 17.3 percent to 16.8 percent. the centers for disease control credits the drop to better education of fitness and nutrition.

>> hot chocolate could be more than just a sweet way to. what up a cool evening, it could help some us stay sharp. researchers had a group of 70-year-olds drink two cups a day for 30 days and by the end of the period a third of the study did better on memory tests. scientists say chocolate is rich in antioxidants and caffeine and it can improve blood flow to the brain and limit mental decline. >> we following breaking news in oakland where gunfire leaves two people dead including a one-year-old child. next at 5:00, what police revealing about the crime. >> from a strike threat to hugs, a deal that means a.c. transit buses are rolling this morning.

>> abc7 news starts right now with breaking news. >> thanks for joining us. >> that breaking news is in oakland where a baby follows victim to violence. right now, police are outside the home of a double fatal shooting. kira klapper is on the scene. kira? >> kristen and eric, good morning. it is tough morning out here. people arrived in the last 30 minutes and they are family members. they remain weeping uncontrollably, understandably, pop arriving here and learning that their one-year-old boy and 20-year-old man were shot in the neighborhood. dozens are police are here still investigating, homicide detects actually just arrived in the