>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> this is friday. good morning to you. >> a big accomplishment. >> that was a half wave. mike has the forecast. >> monday and friday, they are perky but tuesday, wednesday, and thursday...nice to have you all week, by the way. live doppler 7 hd shows it is quiet. we have the marine layer clouds covering our neighborhoods almost nothing falling. it is pretty dry. for the first forecast, look at the sunshine inland, 81 to 89, quite a spread from the north bay to the east bay valley and around the pay we go from 70 in

san francisco to 72 in oakland to 80 if san jose and along the coast we go from 63 to 68 in san francisco. that is probably south san francisco. >> thank you, mine, it is friday! we have an accident in oakland northbound 880. c.h.p. is on the scene trying to clean up debris. there is road work northbound so be prepared for delays. from antioch it is looking good for friday. not bad. the drive up and over the altamont pass westbound 580 moving at the limit with a little bit slowing to the pass but good through livermore. bart is getting 35 trains off to a from start and no delays for mass transit and the golden gate bridge shows traffic slowing nicely and they reconfigured the commute to four lanes. it is clear with no fog and no

delays. >> this morning police are warning women to be extra cautious around santa clara university a. was sexually assaulted near the intersection of franklin and sherman streets and the search is on for the attacker. abc7 news reporter is on the scene. matt? >> the sexual assault occurred here steps away from santa clara university. here is a sketch of the suspect from santa clara police. he is describeds as a white male with a white tan, 6' to 6' 2" weighing 200 pounds with dirty blond hair. the victim was walking alone and he grabbed her from behind and attacked her. the woman was able to fight him off and escape. 15 minutes later the university sent out an alert to students by e-mail and voice mail. >> an attempted sexual assault occurred. >> i got a call from my mom, we

live three blocks from here. >> the attack happened a politic away from the hut and a bar popular with the students. workers put up the sketch. summer school is in session here and santa clara police are not confirming if the victim was connect the to the university. a raging wildfire burning near yosemite national park has destroyed more than 63,000 acres twice the size of san francisco. the rim fire is only 1 percent contained in the national forest and has been burning out of control since saturday. the governor has declared a state of emergency to free up fire-fighting money. katie marzullo says fire officials have ordered campers and residents to leave. she will have an update in the next half hour. >> the fire has caused san francisco to declare a "state of

emergency" because it gets water and power from the reservoir there. water officials say the infrastructure is damaged. water quality and supply are not affected. >> the five day closeure is next week ready to make way for more fast track access and the right side of the toll plaza is closed so workers can have a new fast track only lane closing at 9:00 tonight and re-opening at 5:00 monday morning. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has more on this story coming up in a report at 5:30. >> the new bridge will open to the public in 11 days from now on tuesday, september 3 our countdown is going on and you can visit abc7news.com for a detailed look at commuter resources on bart, a.c. transit and san francisco bay ferry. you can explore abc7 news' real time traffic maps to see where the worst gridlock is during the closure and check out caltran's

live construction cameras to see how close the bridge is to opening. when it ons we will notify you on twitter. >> former residents are filing lawsuits against an apartment complex after a deadly fire. the fire in july killed one person and left 100 others homeless. the 72-unit were apartments have been declareed uninhabitable and 22 former lawsuits have filed lawsuits and more are expected. tones claim the building should have had fire sprinklers. the fire was likely an accident started in a kitchen. the management company has not commented. >> family and friends of a 20-year old alameda county man say he left home wednesday and has not been seen. the man left at 2:00 p.m. for an unknown location and withdraw money from the bang and gave it to his mother. he did not take cell phone, wallet, i.d. or car keys and

wearing a plaid hooded jacket, blue jeans, and hike, boots and a backpack. >> a 44-year-old san jose man with diminished mental capacity has been found a week later. he was found in berkeley late yesterday afternoon. he disappeared at valley fair maul in san jose the previous thursday. the mercury news say authorities are trying to determine how he got to berkeley and where he was standing. they say he has the mental capacity of a two-year old. >> a san francisco martial arts studio what no defense for out-of-control car that crashed into the dojo yesterday evening at 6:30 in richmond district. you can see in the video the car blued into the corner of the building, smashing through a studio wall. the driver was shaken but no one was injured and investigators have not said what caused the crash. >> on friday morning, mike is

here with the weather and our increased temperatures. >> shoutly. trying to get back to average and have them resemble summer. now, the air quality, it is bad in the sierra and tahoe but at home we have low amounts tree and rag wood and mold and the u.v. index is high. high burn factor more than yesterday. we will break down the next 12 hours we are going gray on the entire sky, turning gray this morning, from 54 to 60 and at the beaches, clouds at noon, and a lot of us are seeing sunshine and the beaches are 64, 62 to 84 and it will be comfortable everywhere. 60's at our beaches and to 78 in land under sun. tomorrow is a lot like today, and not so many clouds, though, in the morning and we will have more sunshine during the afternoon hours, and a cooling breeze and extra clouds for sunday and monday and we will

drop our temperatures below average and the warmest day to be outside this weekend is tomorrow. injury. sue? >> we have an update for you with an accident in oakland, northbound 880 at 5th, and it was construction zone and they were late getting that picked up and now an accident blocking traffic nearly at a standstill as you make your way northbound to the downtown oakland area. prepare for delays and hopefully that is clearing out rapidly. to martinez northbound 680 we have reports of a stall in the fast lane there, and we look at the drive times looking good over the a mass, friday lit so far and highway 4, westbound, out of antioch, there is the drive from san rafael to san francisco and walnut creek southbound making the cub, north main to the 24 junction, everything is moving at the limit. >> new steps are taken to prevent another trading stoppage on the nasdaq exchange. bloomberg business report is next. >> nasa reveal as land to send

astronauts to deep space and where they are planning to go. >> it is not just america's cup but boat racing history is in the bay area right now. >> apple has acquired transit for a move that will bolster public transit direction in the maps app. the school season is right around the corner and if you are stumped for what tech gear to bring, the tech editor has a few suggestions. >> if the laptop the top is mac which is more pricey than the windows 8, but at $1,000 you get a good bang for the buck. this year i likes nexus7 which is thinner than the ipad mini. >> there is a gender gap with teens for apps that track hoax. according to a study, 59 percent of teen girls turned off location tracking features compared to only 37 percent of boys.

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>> covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> good friday morning, a look at the san francisco skyline and the temperatures are warming up today and traffic so far, well, not is bad. sue is following that. mike has the forecast. stick around. >> checking our news, two

concord men are under arrest after they were linked to four armed robberies in concord the past week. police arrested a 57-year-old at his home this morning. inside police found the gun used in all four robberies. these are pictures of french being arrested. they also found evidence linking another concord man, 50-year-old to the same four robberies after robbing the four places in the last week. witnesses described then as homeless and armed with a gun. >> new this morning the president of the san francisco board of supervisors said he is ready to introduce a bill to limit bottled water sales. the "san francisco examiner" reports he is expected to introduce a finalized version of the legislation when the board returns from the summer recess in early september. he says it is part of an effort to reduce waste. right now the proposal would began vendors on city rot and in government building from selling

plastic water bottles. san francisco international airport and sporting events would be exempt. anasa has a plan to send astronauts to an asteroid and released this animation detailing the mission that would have astronauts landing on an steroid taking samples and returning to earth. the proposal is part of the budget for president obama but would not take place until 2020 at the emilyest. nasa says that the mission would probably take about nine days and would use the new space capsule. >> nasa is planning to launch a mission to study the moon's atmosphere in two weeks with a low cost spacecraft that will lit off from an island in virginia in september. this is a picture of the explorer developed and built and tested at nasa at moffett field. the spacecraft is the size of a small car and will orbit the moon in an unmanned robotic mission, the $280 million

project gathers information about the environment and what makes up the moon dust. >> new measures are put in place after the three-hour trading halt on the nasdaq. >> here is more from the bloomberg business report. >> good morning. we are out of the recession but some americans are still relying and cutting back on extra expenses and using hand-me-downs but americans are replacing home appliance and cars. the official kickoff for football season is in two weeks with super bowl 204 -- 2014 with super bowl ads 85 percent sold out. top media buyers say some of the 30-second slots are going close to $4 million compared to $3.8 million for last year. after a three-hour halt on the nasdaq exchange the sec is vowing to make trading more

reliable by putting safeguards in place. a technical glitch brought half of the storm to -- of the stock market to a standstill but there is improvement in global manufacturing. this could be music to your ears, pandora says starting september 1 it will remove the 40-hour per month condition for those who stream sons for free head of the lout of the itune radio service and increasing the number of ads you hear to up to five an hour up from about three to now ads an hour. >> an important part of boat rating history has arrived in san francisco. we are talking about this 83-year-old sailboat now docked at the yacht club. it is here fresh off the win in this year's trans pathway going from california to hawaii. it is quite the accomplishment since it also won the race 77

years 1936. the catamarans race this year owe a lot to this. >> when she was designed in 1929 she was considered high-tech boat revolutionizing yachting designs for the 20th century. >> it was the first vessel to use external balance to keep it athreat in the high winds and was owned by james flood, a millionaire from the san francisco gold rush time. >> the finals resume in the bay with italy trying to gain traction. team new zealand was dominant against italy when they last raced on wednesday winning four of the best of 13 finals by 2-18 and new zealand won 5 by 1:30. we do not even see the tannian -- italians.

they could wrap it up this weekend. the first to win seven races faces team oracle in the cup. >> mike nicco? >>guest: we have winds over the bay in the afternoon. i will show you what i am talking about with a small craft advisory for winds from the west and southwest at 15- to 25-knots and it could choppy for the america's cup this afternoon. that will extend into the delta and, also, toward our beaches and it will be breezy with the northwest winds. you can see how easy the visible satellite picks up the smoke from the fire in yosemite, you can see the smoke double pumping out smoke. i tweeted a picture from lake tahoe of how hazy it is. it will be that way all week. poor air quality in tahoe. we have low clouds looking at the embarcadero center and i believe we will see sunshine an hour quicker leading to warmer

highs and fewer clouds in the afternoon as the marine layer stays not so stout and we will have warm temperatures tomorrow but the sea breeze is back on sunday and monday and our cool of the highs will coincide with that. today, mid-80's around los gatos and morgan hill and gilroy and headed to santa cruz there will be sunshine and most of the santa clara valley is from 77 in milpitas to cupertino and san jose at 80 and plenty of sunshine on the peninsula, and millbrae is the cool spot at 71 and much else in the mid-to-upper 70's with redwood city at 78 until you get to los altos at 79 and in the mid-60's along the coast to upper 60's around downtown san francisco and headed to south san francisco at 70 degrees and same in sausalito and through the north bay valley, low-to-mid 88 and if you find shade you will be country, mid-60's at the beaches and the east bay shore, you will stay in the low 70's and everyone else is comfortable in the mid-to-upper 70's and in

the eat bay valley, probably not air conditioning weather, but, mid-to-upper 80's headed for livermore, delightful 87 degrees. now, what will happen tonight at at&t park weather-wise. you cannot control the field. 61 at 7:15. cooling to 58. it will be breezy during the game. tonight, with the lack of cloud cover we will be one or two degrees cooler than this morning. most of the clouds along the coast and some of them will spill in the bay. the low pulled away from us and caught up in the flow and we have a small bubble of high pressure holding on right now but the next area of low pressure is what drops down sunday and monday and reinforcing the sea breeze and drops our temperatures two to five degrees, so the warmest and brightest day is saturday and temperatures are below average sunday and monday and summer returns tuesday, wednesday, and especially thursday. >> good morning, everyone, good news in the oakland area we had an early accident and

construction north 880 causing just a jam up headed into downtown oakland and that is all improving. construction picked up and accident is cleared north 880. highway 4, 80 and 87 in the south bay is a good drive toward the airport and we want to take a look from this morning southbound 101 at lucas valley road there was a van on the side of road and it plowed into a it is not causing much of a delay southbound on the parkway. >> 5:21. seven things to know as you start your day.m john muller.

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>> good morning, outside from our camera the ferry building is in the distance ahead of the bay bridge and it will warm up. mike nicco has the details coming up. >> whether you are just joining or headed outdoor here are seven things to know, developing news, the out-of-control wildfire has destroyed 63,000 acres near yosemite twice the size of san francisco. the rim fire is only 1 percent contained in the national forest we will have an update on a new evacuation order coming up in a few minutes. >> two, santa clara police are looking for a sexual assault suspect resembling this sketch a block away from the hut bar next to santa clara university.

the victim was walking alone on wednesday morning just after midnight and a man grabbed her from behind and push her in the bushes and attacked. >> abc7 news has learned a san francisco police officer has been arrested in the east bay on child molestation charges. the officer has not been identifyied. san francisco police department is not releasing information right now on the officer. >> the san diego city council is set to vote at 1:00 o'clock today on a deal aimed at resolving the sexual harassment scandal plaguing the mayor filner. no details are released of the deal. a lawyer if one of women says she has not signed off on any deal. >> five, ahead of the five day close use of the bay bridge, several lanes of the toll plaza will be closed this weekend starting tonight. three lanes on the right side of the plaza will be closed so workers can add a new fast track only lane. the closure lasts until action monday morning. >> six, it is not foggy yet but there are clouds for the commute and we will watch sfo.

i see sunshine and warmer weather for the first half of the weekend. >> seven, we are following your friday morning commute light at the toll plaza and an accident if san rafael with a car out of the lanes with more on that ahead. >> thank you, sue, the warriors want to turn their fans into stars. >> warrior fans, looking for some of our biggest fans to star in the warrior commercials. we want everyone, moms, dads, kids and grandparents. >> fans get 30 seconds to she how were they love their warriors. how they do it is up to them. casting call is today. go to abc7news.com for more information. >> fans of the raiders can see the final home game the pre-season at coliseum, the raiders host the chicago bears after losing to the saints in new orleans last week. the raiders have one win and one

loss pre-season and are on the road in seattle next week before going the regular season in indianapolis on september 8. the 49ers play their final home game of the pre-season facing the minnesota viking starting at 5:00 p.m. >> abc7 news continuing at 5:30 with the top stories including the legal trouble facing the father who lost his two daughters in a deadly black friday crash on the peninsula. >> the new medical care a young boy will have to receive following a pit bull attack inside an east

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning, welcome to friday. good morning back at you. i am eric thomas. mike nicco is here with a look at the weekend forecast. >> live doppler 7 hd shows

visibility out there is fairly unlimited in the horizontal but we have cloud deck on top of us that is not going to hang around so expect more sunshine and warmer weather today. this is how it looks from the exploritorium camera you can see the clouds out there. inland, it will be 81 in the north bay to 89 in the east bay valley and around the bay, close to normal at 70 to 80 and the coast to san francisco mid-to-upper 60's. now, the traffic. sue? >> starting to bunch up out of the travel valley and out of the antioch which is typical. highway four shows under 30 minutes between antioch and concord and up and over the altamont pass you are looking at 32 minutes between 205 and the livermore area so that is a bit of a slow grind toward the dublin/pleasanton and bart, muni, ace, all mass transit is on time. the san rafael shot shows the blinking lights is pg&e crew this morning, a van plowed through a tree and a power pole

and they are trying to get the pole repaired. traffic is light in the area and moving at the limit. we will watch it. >> in develop news, all lanes of highway 101 in san mateo are back open following a fatal crash that happened after 11:30 last night on northbound 101. the authorities say one person was killed. a sig-alert was in place if two hours while crews worked to clear the seen. in word on identity of the person who was killed and the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> developing news from the huge wildfire burning near yosemite national park tourists are leave chased away by the blaze that more than tripled and quadrupled in side in 24 hours. katie data has more. firefighters must be frustrated. >> the fire is hard to get to and it is out of control. so frustration and, finally, evacuation order. the sheriff says some people must leave the area now because

there is an immediate threat to hive or property. the fire has burned more than 6 63,000 acres which is 99 square miles. now the containment is only 1 percent. the governor brown has declared a state of emergency and that will free up fire-fighting money. most of the fight is happening from the air. firefighters on the ground are working on structure protection. one crew is at this man's house. >> very freaky to see it this close. the first time i have been this close...it is scary. >> 1,800 firefighters are working the rim fire and two homes and seven outbuildings were destroyed early but no reported structures have banned since. there are, now, more than 50 wildfires burning in western states and the rim fire is the 4th largest and the fastest

growing. >> yosemite is still open but it will take you longer to get there from the bay area, the best way is to take highway 99 and go on highway 140 or highway 41. >> if the drive takes you across the bay bridge three of the toll lanes will close tonight so another fast track lane can be added. amy hollyfield joins us from the toll plaza with more. amy? >> a rough weekend on the bridge. a few lanes will be shutting down starting tonight. the these lanes to the right of the toll plaza will be closing and that starts at 9:00 tonight and they will be doing that to create a new fast-track lane for the new bridge. they will allow cars in the two bus only lanes and they will make an exception to help keep traffic moving this weekend. there will be some inconvenience ahead and our reward is a brand new bridge that will come to us with a bicycle and a pedestrian

path, something new and different. and construction crews working on the bridge say it will be a really cool method of crossing the bay. >> the views off the bridge are incredible. even to oakland and also toward san francisco. >> here is a rendering of the finished product of the bicycle and pedestrian path on the southern eastbound lane 15.5' wide holding bicyclists and pedestrians so you have to be courteous so you can co-exist especially on opening day when the bicycle and pedestrian path will be very crowded. >> the closure will start late in the evening on wednesday august 28 and it will last for up to five full daze over the long labor day holiday and re-open tuesday september 3 the day after labor day.

we will have a detailed look at commuter resources on bart, a.c. transit and san francisco bay ferry and you can explore the real time traffic map to see where the worst gridlock is and check out the live construction camera to see how close the bridge is to opening and we will notify our twitter followers at abc7 news bay area. police in santa clara are wanting women of a sexual assault that happened steps away from santa clara university. a man resembleing that sketch, and the attack happened early wednesday morning less than a block from the hut bar when a man grabbed a woman and pushed her into the publics and attacked. the woman got away and called for help. the university sent out an alert and abc7 news reporter will have more in a report at the top of the hour. >> developing news this morning, abc7 news has learned a san francisco police officer has

been arrested on child molestation charges. the officer who has not been identified was arrested in concord. we are told the san francisco police department is aware of the investigation but is not releasing information on the officer right now. the officer was arrested and released. >> marin county sheriff deputies are looking for the person who opened fire on an occupied car hitting one person. the shooting happened on drake avenue around 7:30 last night in marin city. our media partner, the marin independent journal report as 21-year-old vallejo man was shot several times in the chest. he was taken to marin general. his condition isn't known but police say he was able to speak to investigators briefly before going into surgery. authorities say that the shooter is described as black man, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and ski mask. authorities search for an 18-year-old suspected of stabbing his pregnant teenage girl and a family dog. johnny madden ran from the home on wednesday morning after stabbing his 16-year-old girlfriend in the leg and

abdomen. she is pregnant with tins. the condition con times reports that the girl and her unbeen children were not seriously injured. the dog, six months old, need surgery and had part of the liver removed. >> a 10-year old boy injured in a pitted ball attack has a long road to recovery. hunter kilbourn visit add doctor who said he needs more surgery. he suffered nerve damage and doctors are still waiting to see if a skin graft will take. a hearing will be held to determine the fate of the dogs involved. the owner has equaled the hearing to avoid euthanize the animals. a man who lost two daughters in a crash on black friday is facing criminal charges. the prosecution have filed manslaughter charges against the 48-year-old man who was driving on highway 101 in palo alto in november when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed the s.u.v. the two daughters were ejected and died.

he hit a c.h.p. officer who suffered serious injuried. he drove despite only having three hours of sleep. >> mosquito fogging is underway tonight in san jose after mosquitoes tested positive for the west nile virus. that crews will start at 11:00 p.m. and it will take several hours to complete. >> at 5:38, mike nicco has a check on the weather. mike? >>guest: here is what to expect in the south bay, some of our warmest temperatures, a lot of low 60's around here but los gatos at 53 and alum rock at 55. san jose at 51. sunnyvale at 62 is the warm spot. everyone else is around 60. you can see mid-to-upper 50's

for the rest of us and redwood city and san carlos to half moon bay at 59 and lafayette and san ramon, and san francisco 57 and fairfield and novato and calistoga at 53. all of us are gray this morning and our temperatures will remain the same. over the next 12 hours change is taking place rapidly, an hour faster for the sunshine today. clouds are back to the cost by noon and 66 at the bay and 74 inland topping out at 84 inland and 62 at the coast and temperatures are close to average. mid-to-upper 70's inland and low-to-mid 60's around the bay and coast. the next throw -- three days are going to be different. sunday and monday are the cool of the days in the forecast. the sea breeze comes roaring back sunday into monday. >> we have an issue toward the macarthur maze and it is 580 westbound and it is right near the 980 junction so we are

getting word of a milk down and possible overturn and i am not seeing too much slowing. our camera on 580, maybe we can see if the accident is visible on the live shot...it look like it is flowing nicely but first report is c.h.p. is giving us a vague location westbound 580 with a motorcycle down and possible overturn. this is the approach to the macarthur maze from the oakland side. >> new developments coming up next in the san diego mayor sex scandal and a deal for his rosing nation may have hit a snag. >> the fight to save san francisco city college will be waged in the courts

>> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> 5:43. high definition look at the bay bridge shows the entire western span with traffic moving along just fine and this is the span that will stay put and the new eastern span is attached. well have more on all of that including traffic. no one on the embarcadero right now. >> the streets of cairo are calm following the transfer of former

president mubarak from prison to a military hospital. the court ordered the release but mubarak could go back to prison if he is convicted in the death of protesters during the 2011 uprising against him. high is under house arrest after spending two years in jail facing corruption charges. >> a deal aimed at resolving the harassment involving san diego mayor filner could have hit a snag. the city council will vote at 1:00 o'clock but the attorney representing one of the 17 women suing the mayor says that she can did not sign 506 on the deal. no detail on the deal have been released and the lawyer is unaware of the terms and says she hopes the agreement calls for filner's resignation but says it should not include the promise to pay the legal bills. >> this morning, two people are under arrest in nevada accuses of lotting to capture and kill a

las vegas police officer. the 67-year-old man and the 42-year-old are facing a long list of conspiracy charges, the couple belong to a sovereign citizen movement and expressed a deep hatred for police during an undercoverration. according to investigators, the two planned to kidnap a random officer and put him or her on trial before executing the officer in a vacant house. >> the san francisco fire department is reviewing the policy that bans firefighters from using helmet cameras. the chief spoke of the ban yesterday at the san francisco fire commission meeting and the policy has been in affect since 2009 but was reemphasized just days after the "san francisco chronicle" ran images from a video that show as fire truck running over a victim of the july 6 asiana flight 214. >> we are evaluating at this time and we have had 12 policies from other fire departments

mostly with the same rule. >> the issue is about the privacy of victims and firefighters. >> a boost for san francisco city college to keep acredit dangerous and the city attorney filed a lawsuit against the commission for community and scran your colleges to rescind sanctions. the commission said last month that city college failed to meet quality assurance standards. he is asking a judge to block the commission from taking action. >> to enjoy private acredit doors from closing a her ribbed public institution a cornerstone of economic opportunity for generations. >> the chancellor says that by their own admission city college did not meet the standards that all 112 community colleges agreed to. >> california will be the first state in a nation to limit a chemical in our drinking water

that could cause cancer. we have reported on the problem with federal standards limiting chromium at a much higher amount than california. we took samples from to drinking fountains that were below the proposed state standard. >> a judge says water can be released from a reservoir to prevent a salmon kill in a lower river. the ruling comes after the farmers sued the federal government over the release of water arguing that it would decrease the little water available to them for irrigation and the judge ruled it can be released but at a reduced amount. farmers and environmentalists are pleased with the decision. >> if you have week plans we will check out the weather for the weekend.

mike nicco? >> good morning to you. we are waking up to cloud cover outside. it is very dark. in fact, we have cloud cover just about everywhere this morning and we will keep an eye on sfo to see if flight arrival delays will develop as we head through the morning. as far as what is going on weather-wise the clouds will dissipate an hour quicker and we will have more sunshine at the coast. today and tomorrow are the better days for the coast with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60's as more cloud cover rolls in on sunday and it will be brisk and cool at the coast. temperatures today run from 70 to 80 around the bay and about 80 to 90 from the north by to the east bay valley. i have a couple of things going on today we have at&t park it will be busy with the pirates and the giants partly cloudy and 61 at first push at 7:15.

the bears will take on the raiders at 7:00 kickoff. temperature is around 65. it will cool down to 59 by end of the game. it will be a long game like 4 1/2 hours because it is pre-season with all the second and third string players. with the seven-day outlook, tomorrow is going to be about the same as today. sunday we are looking at temperatures at two to five degrees cooler lasting into monday. warmer weather is on the way for tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. have a great weekend. >> here is an update c.h.p. is telling us the oakland accident westbound 580 near 980 five vehicles were involved and a motorcycle shows the red line of traffic with the motorcycle down in the middle lanes.

this is approaching the macarthur maze. in fremont, a high-speed chase and there could be slowing there. we will look at the macarthur maze and see if there is any way we can see if there is slowing on 580 approaching the macarthur maze. i do not see it on this shot but the oakland side of 580 westbound, a major accident slowing the friday morning drive unfortunately. >> the beard is back. in blue. and brian wilson is being offered to shave it off. >> katie couric could extend her

>> good morning, everyone, 5:53 on this friday morning and our camera toward the east, the layer of whipped cream with the sunrise in the east, we have a look at the forecast. >> my favorite shot of the morning. >> there are reports that former san francisco giants closer brian wilson could make $1 million if he agrees to shake his famous beard for a razor company. he is with the dodgers now and made the debut yesterday. he gave up a double and struck out two batters in the 9th for

the win of the dodgers again the marlins. he sighed a $1 million contract after rehab from el besurgery. in word if he will shave the beard for another $1 million. >> now the weather forecast. mike? >> it is still a dark start as we wait for the marine layer of clouds to rollback to the coast. that will happen an hour faster today than yesterday. we do have one hour and 14 minute flight arriveal delays. bayshore with a small craft advisory at 2:00 through 9:00 this morning through the evening and gusts around 15- to 25-knots from the southwest. at tahoe check out my twitter page with a picture from

yesterday how smoky it is. it will be that way all throughout the weekend. sue? >> we have an update on the accident in oakland westbound 5 80, five vehicles are involved including a motorcycle and the motorcycle is destroyed. no idea about the driver of the motorcycle but you can see very slow traffic approaching the macarthur maze westbound 580 because of the major accident. c.h.p. is on the scene. another accident if lane three southbound 680 at mission involving a high-speed chase and resulted in a crash and center divide has debris. in san rafael we have a situation where a van off the road and it ran into a tree and a power pole and pg&e crews are on the scene and traffic is bunching up to the san rafael area off the right-hand shoulder and pg&e crews are blocking the

right-hand lane. >> 5:56. there will be a new face behind the cape crusader of "batman." ben affleck will play bruce from batman. superman will run, and this will be the first time for ben affleck playing a super hero since the 2003 stint. >> a painting worth $5 million is hanging before a san francisco bar that was hung yesterday morning at the palace hotel where it has been since 1909. the art work was taken down months ago to undergo a much needed restoring. look how it looks now. brilliant colors. the palace hotel wanted to sell

the painting but decided to restore it after wide-spread criticism. >> 5:57. at 6:00, the proposed new rule in sacramento could that affect governor brown's dog. we will explain. >> first, water dropping helicopters are some of the tools firefighters are using to battle ought of control wildfire in yosemite. >> can you really get frozen pizza that tastes as good as carry out? consumer report says "yes." we have

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> raging flames continue to burn out of control near yosemite national park and the impact on tourists and the new action from the governor. >> this morning, police are

searching for the man who assault add woman near a south bay university. the school is responding to the attack. >> preparations to on the new bay bridge are continuing. ahead, the change happening today at the toll plaza and the impact on drivers. >> it is 6:00 a.m. and we thank you for the company. we know you want to know what it is like and mike nicco has the weather. >> good morning, everyone, off to a great start. you can see from mount tamalpais we do have a lot of cloud cover out there this morning and temperatures are running in the mid-50's to around 60 and now this afternoon we will get sunshine an hour quicker than yesterday and that will lead to warmer temperatures from two to seven degrees warmer than yesterday. today and tomorrow are the warmest days of the weekend and our brightest. now the traffic with