state senator leland yee back in federal court this morning. thanks for joining us. >> the bay area politician charged with weapons trafficking took action this morning to stay free on bond for now. abc 7 news reporter nick smith is live at the federal courthouse in san francisco. did yee enter a plea? >> reporter: he did not enter a plea today. in fact, we're waiting on the full federal grand jury indictment and that's when he's

expected to enter a plea. i want to show you some video that was shot a few minutes ago. we were not able to get the senator slipping into the court without being seen, but he speao reporters. he's charged with setting up a guns contribution scheme between ex convict turned community activist and an undercover agent. yee is currently free on $500,000 unsecured bond that prosecutors want secured with property owned by the senator to make sure he appears in court. yee's defense attorney raised questions of his own about the strength of the prosecution's case. >> what took three years that raises questions of allocation of scarce federal resources. that raises a question of

fairness to leylaland yee and fairness to the public. >> reporter: prosecutors are expected to turn over reports to the defense. because of the legal steps ahead, a trial date doesn't likely for at least five to six months. he was suspended one day after he announced he was dropping his campaign for secretary of state. he's due back in court one week from today and of course abc 7 news will be there. we'll have more at both 5:00, and 6:00. families and friends are gathering for a mass for a marine hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver. a memorial will take place later today for andrew silva who was killed last tuesday night while

riding his motorcycle. he had just returned from a tour in afghanistan. there will be a public service in the chapel of the chimes in hayward. police are investigating an accident that happened on interstate 580. a 17-year-old boy died and a second victim eventually drove himself to the hospital and told police he had been shot near 14th avenue. police believe both of these victims were shot around the same time. police are looking for the man who broke into a pleasant hill home, tied up two women and stole their car. the man knocked on the door of the home at 9:45 last night. when one of the women answered, he flashed a gun and forced his way in. police say he tied up the 53 and 84-year-old women, stole jewelry and electronics and took off in their car. it's a 2013 volkswagen pa sat.

if you know anything, please call pleasant hill police. the much needed rain is here again. we'll show you a live picture from our camera. windy and cloudy. meteorologist mike meko on the roof with a look at doppler 7 right now. >> we have a couple of thunderstorms up north. we have some light rain here. to show you how angry the bay looks, white caps out there and the winds will get faster as thunderstorms roll in. we're getting a little bit of shower, light sprinkles in san francisco. nothing like fort ross and jenner. you can see three lightning bolts there. we've got a thunderstorm that's heading to the northeast and will move towards clover dale. a few showers from the santa cruz mountains.

you can see more storms developing off shore. what to expect? scattered showers up north, heaviest and the breeziest from 11:00 to 4:00 today. tuesday and wednesday when the coldest of that storm comes in we'll see hail. i think we've got a very small window from about 5, 6:00 through about 9:30 or 10 to get this same in, the indians against the athletics. we'll having a watch party at at&t park. it's a 6:40 start in arizona. dress warmly for both of them. they'll be in the low to mid 50s. i'll have the other part coming up. arson investigators are looking into what sparked this fire that burnld two cars in the walmart parking lot in martinez. it broke out at the around drive store and crews put it out

before it spread to other cars. the stole was closed at the time and nobody was hurt. an emergency landing at san jose airport being blamed on engine problems. the pilot reported a mechanical emergency but managed to land safely. a few minutes later it touched down on the runway and headed to the hangars. the three people on board were fine. it's been 24 days since malaysia flight 370 disappeared. today the prime minister vowed to continue the hunt for the missing plane and ramp up efforts to recover the black box. an australian ship left this morning headed for the search zone, and it's carrying a device that detect pings from flight recorders. several objects were spotted yesterday but today they said it

was fishing gear. asiana airlines is acknowledging that its pilot may have been flying too low. the airline says boeing's auto throttle may have contributed to the crash. 6]j three passengers were killed when the flight crashed into a sea wall while landing at san francisco international airport. the new documents were submitted as part of the ntsb investigation. a new did the for the affordable care act. matt keller joins us from san jose with the last minute rush. >> reporter: family and children's service here in san jose says it has certified enrollment counselors but they can't do much because the website is overwhelmed. the pressure is on to sign up for health insurance through covered california. the deadline to apply is ;@jt @% midnight, but if you call for help you will most likely get this message -- >> thank you for calling covered

california. we are currently experiencing high call volumes. please visit our website at www.coverage ca.com where you can obtain information regarding in person or telephone assistance near you. good-bye. >> reporter: if you go to the covered california website, don't expect to speed through enrollment. your computer will likely take forever to load and then crash on you. ironically applying for cover will cause your blood pressure to rise. >> what i have gathered is that there have been a lot of issues with the website crashing and things of that sort which is obvious because we're in the last day and getting down to crunch time. >> reporter: this morning an educational outreach event was held in sunnyvale. a few people showed up looking to sign up but the only way to get an agent to walk you through the steps was to go through the website and click on, find local help. that will give you places to go or call to walk you through the process.

even if you make it all the way to the end, there's no guarantee you will end up covered. >> i was on for about an hour and a half. it kept crashing. i got to the end after an hour and a half, took 20, 30 minutes to process and told me it couldn't verify i'm a california resident. i didn't see any numbers or pick plans. >> reporter: you can extend the midnight deadline for another two weeks if you start the application process. if you don't get insurance, you risk being fined $95 or one percent of your income, whenever is more. reporting live in san jose, matt keller. the federal government site health care.gov is up and running after being down for overnight maintenance. it's used for states that unlike california, don't have their own insurance website. officials say the tech team found a bug and fixed it.

people who started the process but did not finish may still be able to enroll under the two-week grace period. still to come the company that's working on technology to make it safer for us to walk and text at the same time which we shouldn't do. new this morning the piece of safety equipment the government is demanding all new cars soon have. and message the giants have for baseball fans today on the third

be built with review cameras to prevent backing into children or other objects. starting in 2018 all new vehicles under 10,000 pounds and that includes boxes and trucks must come with technology that allows the driver to see what's behind the vehicle. texting while walking could become safer in the future. apple has filed a patent for transparent texting. apple hopes it will prevent texting accidents where people walk in front of cars, bump into lamp posts and miss their front door. the coach for the san francisco giants is reminding baseball fans of safety first on this third anniversary of the attack on giants fan bryan stow.

>> when we heard the story it was like i got kicked in the stomach. >> third base coach tim flannerry posted this video on youtube. he said he wants to remind fans to be safe as they cheer on?[>31 their favorite team. stow was critically beaten in the parking lot of the stadium on this day three years ago. two men pleaded guilty. the giants start their season today in phoenix. san francisco meets division rivals, the diamondbacks at 6:40 this evening. fans are invited to watch the action at at&t park. the first 5,000 fans will get a coupon good for a free hot dog. the giants home opener is next tuesday when they host arizona. let's look for more scenes like that. so they open the season, 2:14 today. >> right. >> the as host the cleveland

indians at 7:00 tonight. baseball hall of famer as legend and oakland native ricky henderson tosses out the first pitch. the team is encouraging fans to wear as gear or green and gold clothing all week long. major league baseball is encouraging people to post their opening day selfies using the hashtag opening day selfies. here's one. cheryl and i picked that. that was on the run down here to the studio. >> i was wondering who that bobble head is. also for the as as well, so both teams looking good in bring training and preseason action. good luck to both teams. >> we'll have to keep our fingers crossed for the weather tonight. >> they're going to play anyway, right? >> let's ask mike. he's on the roof. >> towards the end of the game all bets are off.

just to make clear there's no game at at&t park. it's a watch party. we have thunderstorms showing up on doppler 7. i'll show you them when we come back. plus where it was raining cats and dogs inside a mall. and musical

shoppers will see sales taxes go up in some cities starting tomorrow. san row sal easy going up to

9.25% most of those voter approved increases will help make up for budget short falls and pay for city and law enforcement services. new video from hong kong this morning shows the after math of heavy rain. this is atn2 shopping mall. giant hail stones broke windows on the mall's roof earlier today, sending water gushing into the mall. shoppers had to wade through ankle deep water and more heavy rain is expected. >> we're expecting more rain, too. let's get it done before the big game at the coliseum tonight. >> towards the end of the game there's a possibility of wet weather during the evening hours. as far as what's going on right now it's pretty quiet here in san francisco. it's breezy and every once in a while a sprinkle is falling on us. let's look at what happened over

the weekend. we still have a healthy deficit of 8 inches in the south bay, east behalf. nearly 11 in san francisco, 12 at sfo, ten and a half at oakland, 19 and a quarter in santa rosa. we have a healthy storm coming in right now. you can see highway one, a thunderstorm rolling through right now. let me widen out and you can see exactly, it has a sister down to the south. these are all heading to the northeast. so watch out. pet alum ma and that area, santa rosa, this is coming your way with brief heavy rain, possibly lightning and small hail out of this. nothing like that large hail they saw in hong kong. ours will be pea-sized at best. let's look at this very broad, impressive looking system. storm one is a cold front today, storm two is an area of low pressure tomorrow and storm three is the mother of all coming in on wednesday.

we're going to have rain heavy at times and breezy conditions today, showers, thunder, smal hail. i've got a spring-like weekend for you with warm sunshine. tahoe you see the snow starting to fall. here we are at noon and you can see the line of heavy rain along 101 all the way down to san francisco. notice by about 4:00, 5:00 it's gone. here's that window of possible drying for both venues tonight and by 9:00 the rain rolls in with another wave. tomorrow scattered showers and thunderstorms for the morning commute and small hail, another wave from noon to 5:00 and it keeps scattered showers rolling through wednesday morning. this entire time the snow level is dropping from 4,000 feet to about 3 thouks feet so we wake up wednesday morning and we could have snow an hamilton and possibly mount saint he will

enna. it will be locally higher if you get under one of these storms, possibly up to two inches in our north bay. we may have ponding on the roadways. tahoe, three to six inches at lake level, up to a foot to 7,000 feet and then on the worn slope higher amounts, up to a foot possible, 2:00 today, 11:00 tomorrow morning, two feet at the highest peaks. we'll have april showers through wednesday morning. wednesday afternoon a slight thunderstorm chance. if dry thursday, that system friday continues to fizzle and saturday and sunday 60s and 70s, closer to where we should be. be careful now all the way through wednesday morning, at any time a shower can roll through with brief heavy rain, small hail and thunder. spring is here in the bay area.

thank you. this morning a big congratulations to abcs amy roebuck. she's taking over for josh elliott. >> the es tro jenn is throwing. >> you all have made me feel like family from the first day i walked in here. >> was george able to get in a word edgewise? i don't think he minded. row back is replacing josh elliott who is going back to his roots to cover supports. amy filled in for robin roberts while she was recovering from a bone marrow plans plant and row bach yourself is undergoing chemotherapy but she's looking great and if you saw her sochi coverage she's doing a great job. coming up next from the anchor desk to "dancing with the

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