>> the club has a smoky atmosphere. the fire started in a storage area in the back of the building. workers noticed it as they closed at 1:45. they tried to put it out with extinguishers. they called firefighters and the firefighters called a first alarm. the fire -- they had to make sure it did not spread. >> fires grow double their size every five hints and we need to get enough resources in place from the beginning. >> the damage from the inside shows fire efforts to put it out made a mess if the back of the building and firefighter could not determine the cause. arson coming out to try to figure out what started the fire. it could be a few days before the owners can on the club.

this morning a driver was driven into the berkeley marina overnight. katie marzullo, crews brought out high-tech gear to get the van out? >> no ordinary tow truck. something bigger and stronger was needed to get the partly submerged van out of water and it mate for a close call for the man behind the wheel. he is 75 years old. he was trying to maneuver the van from the parking lot and maybe the gas pedal was stuck. he went over the embankment into the bay, a very dangerous situation but it could have been worse. >> he is very lucky. very lucky. >> he get out on his own and not hurt. the next issue is getting the van out of the water.

they brought in a $1 million-to-truck. -- million tow truck and didn't want to risk pulling the van over the rocks but brought if a massive tow truck to lift it out the water. they brought in a rescue swimmer but that person was not needed. two women are accused of unthinkable, abusing and starving three children and chaining one to the floor so she could not reach her food. they were found on friday when sheriff deputies were called to a home. officers say the victims were severally malnourished, beaten and emotionally abused. deputies arrested 31-year-old and 43-year-old. one child was taken to the hospital and the other two are

in the care of child protective services. police looking for the person who shot can killed a young woman in richmond. the victim is a woman in her 30's and shot at south 4th street and florida at 10:00 last night with no word on a suspect or motive. san francisco police are investigating a shooting near city college that left one wounded. officers heard gunshots while on patrol around 8:30 last might and officers evacuated the whole foods on ocean avenue after chasing the suspects toward the store. they certained parking lots but could not no one the suspects. the victim was shot in the ankle and is expected to survive. >> the troubled san jose police department has more trouble short staffed, they could see the ranks thin more in the come ing weeks and months. >> san jose residents are worried about safety. more so now that police predict

a sharp decrease in officers on the streets. >> we go from 904 today to 809 by june of 2016 an alarming reality for a neighbor. >> in three month period of time our small treat had 50 percent of our houses burglarized. >> the mayor isn't buying the numbers. his goal is to have more officers on the streets by 2016. he says the city is aggressively recruiting officers. >> we give them 10 percent pay increase, 4 percent this year and another raise next year. april 8 we will improve the benefits for officers who are hurt on the the job. we are staking temperatures to improve the reten. >> had are challenges. that includes skyrocketing retirement costs.

oakland is using solve media as a recruiting tool, a 60' banner on the side of downtown headquarters points recruits to twitter, web, facebook and would be officers with starting salary at $70,000 but with overtime it could cost $100,000. before the layoffs they had more than 800 sworn officers which now is 615 officers. oakland is planning two academies a year with 60 recruits each year. >> crews have cleared the scene of a fire in pittsburg after watching it into the evening that broke out at 3:15 yesterday that burned close to high tension power lines fueled by dry conditions. >> a three three-alarm fire in

march? we are concerned about the fires this summer. >> fire was contained at 7:00 last night. the first search plane sent to lock for debris from the missing malaysia airlines jet returned empty handed. weather conditions are better today 1,500 miles off the coast of australia where teams are looking for possible debris spotted by satellite. five aircraft combed the area deep in the southern indian ocean looking for the plane that disappeared two weeks ago. it is night there now. they will return tomorrow. officials say the search is taking place in the most inaccessible spots on earth. negotiators will return to the bargaining table to prevent a strike on monday at uc hospitals.

13,000 patient-care technical workers threat an walk out ought all five hospitals. the union says they are fighting to preserve pension and staff. a spokesman says that the real sticking point is over their wages. a ground breaking ceremony is held in san jose if the new bus rapid transit project. the santa clara alum rock line will connect east san jose to downtown with 11 stops and light rain stations along the capitol expressway and alum rock avenue and santa clara with buses every ten minutes in dedicated lanes that will cut down on travel time. the $114 million project is scheduled for completion next year. the ceremony is at 2:00 at arts and culture at the mexican heritage plaza at alum rock avenue and king road. >> we will check things out with

mike nicco to see if we can shed the clouds. >> well shed the temperatures with cloud cover. quarter-mile visibility in santa rosa. marine layer clouds bring five mile visibility to half moon bay. everyone else is doing okay. the clouds are filling in the bay. temperature-wise, the day planner the next trillion hours is friday and we made it to the end of the traditional work week, 46, 48 and 50. at 7:00, we will have mostly clouds and by noon partly clouds with the clouds back at the coast. inland is warmer east bay because you will see more sunshine and as we get to 4:00, mid-50's and mid-60's around the bay and 70 inland and back in the mid-50's to low 60's headed through 7:00. you will need a heavier coat

than last night. saturday we have morning low clouds and a few afternoon high clouds and temperatures at one to two degrees warmer. monday is one to two degrees warmer. monday is the warmest day in the forecast. we have construction in the east bay which is going to be along highway 4 in the eastbound direction where the traffic is impacted. traffic is bottlenecked as you can see the yellow approaching the scene. westbound traffic is not too bad. in the north bay there is fog through santa rosa to rohnert park. it will thin out at petaluma and highway 116. southbound direction the top speed up to novato and mill valley. further into san francisco it will continue to clear up and we

will look at walnut creek southbound 680 wide open spaces and no accidents or construction. it will only be nine minutes to get from highway 4 to the 24 junction. heads up for par. s who are recalling a colorful baby product being recalled by ikea. >> hundreds of safety devices will disappear on the highways. >> sfo installs new safety devices and how they intended to give pilots more options

covering santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and all the pay area, this is abc7 news. >> happy friday. it is 4:42. from emeryville camera we look cross the bay and see the lights. we will check the forecast with

mike for the first weekend of spring. leyla gulen is following traffic. ikea is recalling three million bed canopies because they could be strangled in the netting. they taking action after consumer complaints of kids getting caught in the nets. there are four brands but ikea is not aware of permanent injury but you can return for a full refund. for a list of the canopies goes to abc7news.com. friends and family will plant a tree in hayward city hall in memory of an army sergeant killed in action in afghanistan a year ago today. sergeant first-class james grissom grew up locally. the green beret was killed days before he was scheduled to return home. the 31-year-old was awarded a

bronze star for horrorrism in combat and the family members are expected to attend the tree-planting ceremony that begins at 10:00. >> fewer roadside emergency call boxes with so many drivers with cell phones, transportation authorities are removing 500 of the yellow call boxes long the local freeways. they will be replaced with signs telling drivers to call 9-1-1 or 5-1-1. they have been going away. there were 3,500 10 years ago. today this are only 2,200. the hatest removal project takes three months to complete. >> expect delays traveling from san francisco international airport and not because of the weather. two of the four runways will chess for four months construction. the crews will install buffers at the end of the two runways.

they like run away truck zone if a train overshoots, the wheels sing to stop the plane from going and the bay. >> in good weather we do not expect delays but we will see an in departures. >> the delays are expected to be 15 minutes or less. airlines are adjusting the flight schedule to minimize delays and the closing will last until september. >> >> hope there is not too much fog at that time. >> there always is in the summer. is that why we saw a plane collapse on take off and they were in the sand? >> yes. >> something like that, yes, to abort a take off. you do not have the opposite of running into the dirt. you run into the bay. >> not a good option. >> fog is coming back. june gloom.

good morning, everyone. i remember the landing gear collapsed on take off and they ended in the sand. a lot of cloud cover and low clouds along the bay and coast and fog to the north. here is our temperatures, most of us in the upper 40's to 50's and across the bridge it is 50 and 55 in the ferry building, and headed downtown, san francisco, mission district, glen park, all about 50 along with sunset and beam and half moon bay are at 50 along with richmond and san leandro is warmer at 51 and 52 in pittsburg and 43 in santa clara and palo alto at 42 and walnut creek at 45 and a cool one out there this morning. here is a look at the cloud cover at 7:00 this morning. all the way down to san jose and cannot climb completely over the hills so most of the east bay

valleys will be clear so you will be in the warm are areas. the high clouds are coming at noon and the low clouds pull out of the bay along the coast as the sea breeze brings us much cooler weather at two to seven degrees cooler than yesterday. upper 50's to low 60's if san francisco and that below average. everyone else is mid-to-upper 60's around the the bay and inland is chose to average. we have clouds along the coast and fog to the north. the cloud cover will spill into the bay. we will have mid-to-upper 40's around the bay shore and low-to-upper 40's inland. a light chance of rain on tuesday when the pattern changes tuesday into wednesday and another chance with another system coming in wednesday into thursday so we hope we can get significant rain out of system.

it is late in the year for that but we could get an inch up north and maybe quarter to half an inch. until then, we are one to two degrees cooler saturday, sunday, monday, and 5- to 10-degrees cooler on tuesday with chance of rain late into wednesday. >> we have an accident to start off in san jose southbound 101 at blossom hill blocking two lanes and we are seeing slowing as you approach scene of the accident. if you head in the northbound direction traffic is not affected. first, though, drive time traffic 680 southbound from walnut creek to dublin is 15 minutes and 101 southbound from senator that rose to san francisco is 50 minutes but watch out for the fog. through the santa cruz mountains into los gatos is 25 minutes. at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is moving there and this were a few extra cars on the

road and it looks like that is the case. we hope it stays friday light for the duration of our morning commute. >> oscar pistorius is selling the house where he killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, to pay the legal bills and cannot contemplate living this again. the murder trillion -- trial is in recess. the estate is located in one of the most exclusive communities. he is a double amputee run are claims he shot his girlfriend by mistake thinking she was an intruder. first lady is visiting a high school in beijing today at start of a week long visit to choy aimed at encouraging person-to-person exchanges. she arrived at beijing along with her two daughters and her mother and will visit three cities and speak to students of cultural exchanges and the benefits of studying abroad and was joined by the chinese first lady on the tour of the

forbidden city and the great wall. >> twitter celebrates a birthday and they offering a tool to let users relive their first time. >> a tree

4:52 on the morning news. a purple sky greets us on this friday morning as we look from our exploritorium camera to the transamerica pyramid. what is the weather like? mike has that ahead. >> san francisco-based twitter is offering turkish citizens a work around after turkey blocked access of the programmers lit up twitter giving instructions on how to tweet using text messaging. turkey banned twitter at midnight last night. turks are able to use the work around to check tweets and they have used the sites to voice

opposition to the government and organized demonstrations ahead of elections this month. the turkish prime minister threatened to ban youtube and facebook. >> twitter is turning eight today and to celebrate they are launching a new site to show you the first tweet. you can see anyone else's first tweet by typing in a user name. if you would like to see your first tweet we posted the link on our website. twitter is promoting the anniversary with #first tweets ago. >> wow. >> now mike nicco do you remember your first tweet?

>> no. i am sure it was weather related. >> hi, i'm here. follow me, please. >> happy you're here. >> good morning, everyone. across the state, everyone is getting inundated with clouds. there could be a stray shower with a look at what is going on as far as our temperatures, 75 in chico and 78 in sacramento and 81 in fresno. we going to have 84 in palm springs. >> we will talk traffic. on the roads, we are starting off with a problem if san jose and an issue in the north bay, but, first, headed into north san jose where we have the accident the car is facing side s ways in the lane and it is mocking one lane so southbound 101 we had early slowing and maybe it is on the shoulder. it appears the traffic has

dissipated and northbound traffic is not too bad. headed into the north bay we have a car on highway 12 that hit a dump truck. everyone is okay but we have westbound lanes currently shut down and over 101 santa rosa limited visibility at quarter-mile visibility through santa rosa and into rohnert park and a look outside at our drive across the san mateo bridge we have cars making it cross the water and it will take you nine minutes in foster city. happening today, student discipline at public schools is the topic of conversation in washington, dc. attorney general holder will join the secretary of education and other top officials to talk tough suspension and arrest policies. unfair school discipline practices have distributed to school to prison pipeline that snags minority students. a suspect who climbed to the top of trees trying to get away

from police learned the hard way not to listen to sound advice. >> poor decision with a painful result. he slammed into the roof of a mark and officers were waiting to take him interest custody. the suspect ran from a hotel where police were investigating reports of drug activity. >> remember the cat accuses of holding his family hostage in oregon in the 22-pound cat is back home this morning after animal control took him away. lux was released. the owners called 9-1-1 because he was so crazed they had to hide in the bedroom and wait for help from police. the cat was on a rampage after the owner said he kicked lux for scratching the baby. the cat shows nod -- no evidence

of abuse. >> we have breaking news in san jose where a bar fire is stopped's it gets out-of-control. we look at the damage. >> homeless encampments are a problem in the bay area and see how it could hit a major city in the wall lot. >> a crew that san francisco police hope can lead to the hit-and-run driver in the latest pedestrian death.

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. hello, hello, hello, friday at 5:00. thanks for ending the week with us. first full weekend of spring and we will find out what the weather will look like. >> it will be warmer after today. >> you can see the main layer showing up on live doppler 7 hd with thick fog around santa rosa. we will watch that throughout the morning commute. we will replace the low clouds with high clouds and the coast will will be stuck with he clouds at 56 to 61. 63 to 68 around the bay, seasonal around the bay. >> a brand new hit-and-run accident not far from the other accident but it is in the northbound detection if you are