amy? >> the tracks are still damaged. they are repaired. trains will be running. you should not feel a thing. look at pictures of what happened. this was friday. four cars derailed on friday night around 6:30. the train was empty. there were no passengers. it happened between pleasant hill and concord. crews moved the train off the tracks on saturday and sunday. they are lying to figure out why this happened. >> there is nothing we have seen so far that would lead us to believe acralment would occur. it will take investigation. we will investigate two, three, possibly four weeks for an answer. >> trains ran yesterday at 8:00 in the morning. one rider said her train slowed

down through the newly repaired section and the operator wanted people. the commute is expected to be smooth this morning with no problems reported yesterday. >> from fremont, amtrak will roll this morning after an accident closed tracks all night around 10:00 last night a short distance from the fremont station. we got off the phone with fremont police and they said that the driver of a toyota car went an the downed arm at the crossing and was hit by the train. two men in the car was taken to the hospital. one is serious and one has minor injuries. 14 people on the train but no one was hurt. >> lights are back on for homes and businesses that lost power in san francisco's richmond district. pg&e says 6,600 customs lost

electricity last night because of a downed power lynn. crews worked to restore power and and the utility says 500 people are still in the dark but they should have the power back by 8:00 this morning. the outage caused problems at the intersection of fulton street and 6th with some cars not stopping at all as they should and police say when st. lights are out they should be treated as a four way stop. police arrested a driver on suspicion of d.u.i. >> concord police are trying to track down three men who forced their way into a woman's home and robbed her and her grandson at gunpoint after knocking on the front door and forced their way in the house in the afternoon. two others ransacked the place. the woman's grandson managed to get free and ran for help. the next door neighbor a state senator, dialed 9-1-1.

>> they had guns. they tied her up. they left. when the police came they had their weapons drawn and they made sure no one was there and that was that. >> the woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital. attorney general holder is calling on congress to pass a law requiring companies to quickly notify companies about data breaches and hacking. he wants better consumer protection after up to 110 million target customerred had personal or credit card information stolen over the holiday season. holder said he would sport a law requiring companies to quickly alert companies when there is a breach and hold compromised companies accountable for not keeping sensitive information safe. a memorial takes place for two highway patrol officers killed in the lip -- line of duty for officers law and gonzalez. law enforcement officers from cross the country are expected

at the center at the arena on fresno state. their patrol car crashed and overturned south of fresno last monday heading to the scene of a traffic accident. the officer's vehicle swerved to avoid hitting a person involved in the accident they were responding government. >> golden gate bridge officials will recommend their toll hikes from four different options to deal with the $142 million deficit. officials are planningibility in incremental toll increases through the next few years including one dollar increase in april and more hikes until fast track tolls hit $7 and non-fast tram hit $8 in 2018. right new fast track drivers pay $5 to cross the span. so far, dalai lama has drawn

supporters and protesters across the bay area. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has the details. >> i did not think i will get so emotional. >> ashley from walnut creek was moved to tease when dalai lama took the stage at berkeley. >> peace of mind. >> a talk of how to live a happy life which begins with love and compassion for others and society. >> work together. have a sense of oneness of humanity. that is very important. >> the spiritual leader took questions from the audience including one asked how do i get my kids to do their homework? >> the talk left manien lightened and energized. >> i came to be in the presence of a man who is very awakened to

the nation of love and compassion. >> not far away a small group of buddhists gathered to breast saying the dalai lama has excommunicateed thousands of buddhists and that hams the -- harms the followers. >> this is not religion. this is worship of spirit. >> we are honored for this. >> the dalai lama honored local heroes of compassion in a ceremony at the ritz. facing a growing homeless population san jose is considering a new strategy. >> according to the mercury news the city is considering paying to put homeless residents in local hotels possibly for years. this provides rooms for up to five years while a nonprofit provided services such as job

hunting and permanent home placement. officials say only a fraction of the homeless would be helped. >> california's drought is getting the attention of state lawmakers. the assembly and state senate will take up several bills dealing with the worst drought in state history. the biggest bill includes spending $687 million for water recycling and conservation projects along with providing housing and food assistance. lawmakers say they need to revamp an $11 billion water bond on the november ballot. >> state legislatures are expected to take up bills dealing with the drought. the biggest deal provides spending $687 million for water recycling and conservation projects. lawmakers say that they need to revanche $11.1 billion water bond on the november ball l. >> an approaching storm could bring significant amount of rain to the bay area and we could use the rain since july 1, less than 6" of rain have fallen in san

francisco and that is 35 percent of normal if this time of year. the rain is expected to arrive on wednesday which is two days from now. you can track it on the smartphone with the abc7 news weather apped. >> mike, how does it look? >> sunny and warmer-than-average the opposite of what we have on wednesday. we need 8" in san jose to 17" in santa rosa just to get back to average for today. there is nowhere near that much rain. what we get, obviously, is helpful but it will not be rid of the drought, three quarter mile visibility so we will track that through the morning. the moisture is being trapped in the low level. high pressure is bringing us calm conditions. flags are not moving at all on

pier 15. we are off to a cooler start. we have sunshine. sun at lunch. low-to-mid 60's and by 4:00 we above average from 62 at the coast to mid-to-upper 60's an the bay and low 70's inland and delightful evening with temperatures in the mid-50's to around 60. you will not need so heavy a coat. increasing sunshine and temperatures are two to four degrees cooler and wet and breezy on wednesday with showers on thursday and the heavier rain coming in on friday with that in the seven-day forecast. good morning, everyone, hope you had a great welcome. we have light traffic and the concord station is open after the derailment on friday so all trains are running on time with no delays and ace rain is on time with no delays for muni. i was telling you of accident on 101 southbound, south of highway 92, close to holly street, it has cheered and no lanes are blocked in san carlos. we do have the brand new crash

westbound 580 at grant line road over the altamont pass so you may start to see a slow down coming from tracy and over the pass into livermore with light traffic. on the san mateo bridge away from hayward to foster city, this is nine minutes and the golden gate bridge away from sausalito into san francisco it is wide open and we have construction with the flashing lights in the northbound direction and all lanes will be reopened shortly. >> a family is asking questions of a deadly confrontation between sheriff deputies and a man in the east bay. neck, his loved ones claim that the officers want too far. >> the history a stanford graduate made on the court last night for the nba. >> a world war one replica plane ended up on

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>> covering san rafael, pleasanton, and south bay this is abc7 news. the f.a.a. is investigating a mishap in the east bay involving a world war one republicbly car plane. the biplane flipped over a field in concord. it happened as the pilot was doing a speed test along a taxi s way yesterday afternoon. the pilot escaped. mechanics pushedded damage plane off the airfield after uprighting it. the f.a.a. says the aircraft was not intended for flight. another memorial service will be held on the uc berkeley campus for a cal football player who died during a work out at 6:30 this evening. hundreds turned out for a vigil for the 2011-year-old -- for the 21-year-old. he was a widely respected junior

defensive lineman. he collapsed during a routine run with his teammates. the family of a man shot to death by the sheriff deputies has come forward to tell their side of the story. the 61-year-old was killed during a confrontation inside add home. family gathered at the law offices of a well-known attorney a week after the beof -- beloved patriarch was shot to death, the husband, father and grandfather. >> i cannot call him again or ask for help. my grandkids cannot see him. i want justice served. >> sheriffs say they shot and skilled him after he came at them with a baseball bat. deputies arrived after getting reports that he assault add paramedic trying to take him away from an ambulance. but john burris, retained by the

family, says deputies had no right to enter the home in the first place. >> anyone he had mental and emotional and physical limitations, there was no need to enter that house in the manner in which they did, creating a confrontation. >> the sergeant from alameda said it was a damned if you do and damned if you don't. if we did not enter and something bad happened, we would have been vilified. >> family members have not filed anything but they plan to sue the alameda sheriff when the attorney completes the investigation. >> former stanford graduate jason collins made history as the first openly gay player to play in the nba. the nets signed him to a ten day contract yesterday in time for take on the lakers last night. he came into the game in the second quarter welcomed by a standing ovation from the crowd. before the game he said he was

too busy trying to learn plays to worry about history. he did not score, the nets beat lakers 108-102. >> trash talk will have less trash in it for nfl players on the field. a committee is expecting to institute a new rule penalizing players for using the "n" word, 15 yards for the first offense and the player is ejected if a second offense. the nfl is looking at banning other slurs including homophobic comments. the owners are expected to consider the rule next month. people on both sides of venezuela's political divide are stepping up the protests with the pro government demonstrators voicing support for the socialist government during the demonstrations this weekend. the rally came after police clashed with anti-government protesters. in the bay area, people formed a human chain on the golden gate bridge yesterday to show their solidarity with loved ones in

venezuela. >> the only team we have is we have ideas. the government is responding with bullets. >> we have ten students killed, the majority of women. >> locals from venezuela say relatives lack food and basic supplies because of corruption in the government. >> ukraine acting government issued an arrest warrant for president yanukovich accusing him of mass crimes again protests who stood up for months against his rule. parliament has installed the speaker of the assembly as interim 39. ukraine is deeply divided against those pro russian and those western areas. the work week forecast is starting out sunny? >> the rain we have been talking about is still ready to move in

on wednesday with showers on thursday and another healthy rain on friday so, you have today and tomorrow to get ready if you didn't get everything finished over the welcome. here is how the winds look tracking them with live doppler 7 hd. they light and variable. there is not much in the way of a wind chill. the temperatures you see is what it feels like. 40 in palo alto and wood side and menlo park is 41 and foster city is 43. redwood city is 43 and san bruno is the warm spot, warmer than san francisco at 48. mid-50's up to oakland and low-to-mid 40's in the east bay valley and low 40's in the north bay and along the coast. temperatures today are running in the mid-60's to upper 60's loan the cost throughout the bay and we will have temperatures that will touch 70 again inland valleys and around san jose. we will see more wide-spread low clouds across the coast and spilling into the bay law the delta to the north bay and

temperatures are the same as this morning, low-to-upper 40's and possibly a 50 around san francisco. the area of high pressure dominating our weather right now with an offshore breeze today that will help the sunshine and the warm weather. as we town toward the west, there is the system for wednesday and friday looking pretty healthy and they do have good amounts of wet weather but they not going to be slow movers like the last system so we will not is so much wet weather. headed into the evening, you can see the clouds increasing and tomorrow is not is bride as today. we will have scattered shows overnight and drizzle and light rain in the north bay during the morning hours and after the lunch hour law the evening hours, that is when we will see the light-to-moderate rain moving through. hopefully we will get half an inch to an inch or two from the first system. we will have showers hanging around on thursday and not is

much heavy rain and the next system with heavy rain and possibly faster wind is when we could see the trees fall and the power outages possible on friday into saturday and just a chance of showers rounding out the weekend on sunday. today is the warmest and calm of the day moving forward. >> how is the morning commute? >> it is calm. you have to be careful with slick conditions after the oil builds up on the roads. we do not have that problem but we have clear conditions but we have antioch bridge shows construction crews wrapping up the project that should be open 59 5:00 but the antioch bridge is closed right now because of road work. the altamont pass westbound 580 we have an accident. it is on the shoulder. in address we are look at bumper to bumper traffic and southbound

from walnut creek to dublin is 15 minutes. from santa rosa to san francisco is 51 minutes. a look outside this is walnut creek southbound 680. it is quiet. it is moving smooth to highway 24. matt and kristen? >> first the whining and dining. now the serious work. what the governors have on their acitizen da when they meet with president obama. >> attention ice cream lovers, america's big of the ice cream maker is coming out with some

president obama the hole the governors at white house to work on a variety of economic challenges hosting a dinner with the governors at the white house. president obama also has a separate meeting on monday with

california governor jerry brown and the governors to several other western states. the major topic is a new plan to pay for fighting wildfires. >> ben and jerry's is introducing newfullies today and -- new flavors today. ought last flavor was in october, the scotchy scotch scotch which is from "anchorman." >> we know that movie quite well here in the newsroom. >> now it is time to check with mike nicco. what is our flavor of ice cream if you described this week's weather, mike? >> roller roller coaster, something with two or three flavors and you open it, it blows you away. because it will be windy, also. >> we buy it. >> that is the most exciting ice

cream i have ever heard. >> good morning, everyone, we will look at the entire state as we look at the storm track to the north with a few high clouds are possible around eureka and mostly, though, spring like with a record high yesterday in lake tahoe of 58 and will be close today at 57 and the record at 61 and mid-to-upper 70's through the central valley to los angeles and the manner layer will keep san diego at 66 and palm springs at 83 degrees. safe travels. leyla gulen? >> i was talking to jerry, our director, and we he said rocky road and his favorite. normally it would be, but not now, it is smooth. now, the mass transit, bart and all trains on time after the derailment in concord, so trains are going to be slower through that area but the good news is everything is running this morning, ace train one is on time, and muni all running on

time there, as well. from emeryville camera to the bay bridge in treasure island and san francisco, extra cars and construction could slow you down until 5:00. a survey finds the cost of regular unleaded gas has gone up 12 cents the past two weeks according to the survey released yesterday, the average cost of a gallon of regular gas is $3.41. the spike is related to violence in the petroleum-producing nations. the current rice $38 -- price is still lower than last year. >> packaged local meat is pulled, with a recall for nearly nine,000 pounds of meat soldier under "mastro." not fully inspected. there is the remote possibility of adverse consequences including several kinds of ham.

you can return them for a refund. we have full details of the recall on our website at abc7news.com. a study suggests the spread of pneumonia at hospitals could be reduced by making sure that the patients carefully brush their teeth. it allows the bacteria to link we, grow, and spread when they breath. the germs develop and are passed on in hours. to stop the spread, the researchers implemented an oral care program at a pair of hospitals and it reduced the express of pneumonia by a third. >> bart service is back on track this morning after a frightening accident. the concerns some commuters have following a rush hour derailment. >> a mangled mess after two cars collided in the north bay and what bliss are saying led to the deadly accident. >> a vote today that could leave thousands of festival goers in san francisco more

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