democratic house of representatives and senate in the mid-term elections. >> are you with me? are you fired up? ready to go? god bless you. god bless america. >> attendees attend between $1,000 and b, -- $32,000 to hear the speech which was briefly interrupted by a ledge -- heckler. many protests wanted the keystone xl pipeline project stopped from canada to the gulf coast. he has delayed the decision. >> before leaving the bay area he will stop at the wal-mart in mountain view to talk about energy efficiency but not everyone is pleased with the president for choosing wal-mart the ama daetz explains. >> we are ready. the employees have been busy preparing for a visit from the

president. there is an american flag made from flowers. the natural tribute is fitting because this store has completed an energy efficient retrofit. they are so proud to host the president and hear his vision for a clean energy future. not everyone is enthusiastic. >> i am upset that president obama doesn't take the time to talk to us and find out what is going on in the store and how we are treated and what we go through each day. >> pamela has been a protest for three years and wants to call for more respect and better wages. a good paycheck for her is $400 every two weeks. >> i lost where i was living. now i am living out of my car. i see -- i use a mattress on the floor of my friend's apartment. >> i love it here.

i would never want to move somewhere else. my management is awesome. >> she says it it is a risk she is willing to take. >> here is the schedule: speaking at wal-mart in mountain view around 10:00 and will least moffett field at 10:45 and we will have full coverage for you on the midday news at 11:00. >> a fremont teacher has headed back to the class expecting to face parent protesters after a family's angry accusations she slapped a nine-year-old student. nick is at patterson elementary school. >> good morning, that father is the parent of a student here at patterson elementary school and the protest is because he says a teacher slapped his son. this is the teacher, cleared to return to the classroom this morning. this is how it went down. the nine-year-old student says

the teacher slapped him twice because he didn't know the answer to a math problem and the teacher claims he patted the boy but did not slap him. >> my son showed me he was slapped in the face and i asked a kid the same day in his class, what happened in class today and he went, he planned joey in the face like that. it is not a pat. my son is not going to cry for nothing. >> the school is moving his son to another classroom and we reached out to fremont police and they say this is still an active investigation. in fremont for abc7 news. police in oakley detain a man in connection with a homicide investigation, after being called to a home yesterday afternoon before 4:00, and they got there the officers found the victim on the ground. officers and paramedics tried to revive the man but he died at the scene.

a man is detabled in connection with the case but he is not named. >> petaluma police are looking for a man who stole a flatbed trailer in petaluma. this picture is the suspect captured from surveillance video. he got a flatbed trailer from a rental and never returned it. they believe he pulled the same stunt in oakland and in southern california. >> he could be driving this truck with a camper shell on it. if you recognize the suspect or the truck, call petaluma police. sonoma county supervisor efren carrillo will not face a formal censure from the colleagues afterening acquitted for being a peeping tom. this is after calls for him to resign from both his fellow supervisors and constituents during tuesday's board meeting in santa rosa. the press dome reports that the board chairman now has no plans to censure efren carrillo or force him to resign. efren carrillo vowed he will

stay in office but voters have the option of recalling him. >> a major move for gay and lesbian temperatures in california, with birth certificates changed to reflect the status of same sex status, currently they have to incorrectly identify themselves as gay and lesbian couples and now there is a category for "parent," can was signed by governor brown. it could take effect by 2016. >> california could get help from the water short average problems next year because of mother nature. forecasters with noaa now say that there is a 78 percent chance of el nino by the end of the year when the pacific waters warm up which means wetter than average winter in california. in november they thought there was only 36 percent chance of this being el nino year but the

odds are growing. >> and now, driving to pick up the kids, bam, the windshields were wet. >> it rained a little yesterday. and during the overnight. good morning, everyone. el nino bringing significant rain it must be strong so we have to watch. if it is moderate to low or weak, it will have no bearing on our weather. we have to want strength. here is live doppler 7 hd, hard to pick up direction chill is close to the ground but it is out there. watch out through the morning rush hour for wet spots and even if it is not drizzling there could be slick spots. mid-to-upper 50's loan the peninsula and a lot of us in the mid-to-upper 50's, and mountain view is 61, and 51 in larkspur and santa rosa. drizzle is possible in the morning and the day planner

shows brighter by noon with temperatures in the 50's at the coast and low-to-upper 60's and cloudy and breezy in the afternoon and 72 inland and 68 around the bay and 60 at the coast and head out this morning it will be breezy and clear and dry and mid-50 to low 60's. >> we have a bit of construction in the bay area. first i will show you the pictures starting with the bay bridge toll plaza. as you make the drive away from emeryville to san francisco it is quiet and not too many cars but at the western span you will notice the fog. i heard the fog horns blowing as i was trying to sleep and it was waking us up to a misty morning. the golden gate bridge shows it is moist. be careful. slow down the speed. getting to the san mateo bridge away from hayward to foster city, it is damp in the westbound direction but traffic is managing and so far, friday

light. next, a local homeowner confront as woman who was impersonating an agent to rip-off renters all caught on camera a story you will see only on abc7 news. >> a tree trimmer comes forward about a controversy at a bay area post office and what he is saying about risking the lives of baby birds. >> first, though, the tech bytes. >> california senate approved a so-called kill switch bill required on all new smartphones so they can be disabled. google gets new feature so you can know which lane to be in so you do not miss the next term. frequently used routes are not easy to save for off line viewing. >> and parents can monitor activities online and internet access can be shut down after a set period working in conjunction with the website.

you can now create your own cosmetics with a 3-d printer turning it into eye shadow or blush. have a great friday and a

>> covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all bay area this is abc7 news. >> good morning, everyone, 4:41. it is friday. looking to the embarcadero, the ferry building and bay bridge, some drizzle out there. maybe a little fog to greet you on this friday morning. meteorologist mike nicco has more on that just ahead. >> the national transportation safety board has set a date to determine the cause of last year's asiana airline flight

june 24, a year after the july 6 crash that left three passengers dead and 180 injures. the ntsb hearing focused on mistakes made by the pilot and crew of the south korean airliner. it was the first flight at controls of a boeing 777 for the pilot. >> in south korea, relatives of the victims of a sunken ferry staged a sit in near the presidential palace to government the government's handling of the tragedy sitting with portraits of family members lost in the sinking, many high school students. families are asking for a meeting with the president to discuss the rescue operations. it has been three weeks sin the accident and 273 bodies have been involved and 31 are still missing. >> renters, watch out. a growing problem in the bay area of people impersonating landlords and disappearing with the tenant's money. we show you what happened when a real landlord confront add woman who was trying to rip-off renters, a story you will see

only on abc7 news. >> when he found out an imposter was showing the rent am home in oakland she decided to show up rather than the potential victim. the woman who arrived at house said she was the agent. >> that is interesting i have an agent with that name. the real nicole said someone changes the looks and was showing it to unsuspecting tenants. >> while we waited inside the house the woman posing as the agent tried to get in with her key but couldn't because the looks were changed. >> it is a coincidence before the open house you are here with no key. >> do you have an i.d.? >> no, i don't. >> you don't, well that too bad. [ inaudible ] >> we have your license plate. >> okay. later we showed the intended

victim a photo. >> tell necessity that is the woman that showed you the house. >> yes. >> she said she was asked to bring a money order to the meeting. >> what was the name? >> leave it blank she said. >> how much? >> how much? >> she didn't care. >> a thousand. $2,000. >> oakland police department said it could not investigate unless she caught the imposter in the act and took it to heart and now she hopes she has a case for the st. louis -- the police to look into. >> red flags to watch for when renting a home. many ask for the depositor first month's rent in the form of a money order or check and could ask you to write it to someone else or ask you to mail it to an address you are not familiar with and the rent is below the market average, too good to be true. >> nearly two dozen animals have

been rescued from a hoarders' house in monterey county, 18 dogs and cats were found in small filthy rooms. it was such a strong smell it was difficult to breathes for humane workers. they all had a various ride of diseases. charges will be filed. >> a tree trimmer accused of killing baby birds said he screwed up. the man from bay respondent is apologizing for what happened. he says when he realized birds were remain whatted he phoned the international bird rescue and offered to pay for the care of the surviving birds. several birds including a protected heron were injured after they chopped off branches holding nests and threw the branches into a wood chipper. the post office ordered the trimming because birds were making a mess on the postal

trucks and some of the birds are protected. >> pg&e agreed not to cut down any trees or contact homeowner about removing trees for six months and the city will not sue the utility. which calls for pg&e and the city to find a solution to cut down 735 trees to allow better access to the natural gas pipelines. the utility still has to deal with trees from bakersfield that drop 7,000 miles gasolines. other cities are opposing tree-cutting proposals in the statewide pipeline pathways program. the president's speech on energy at mountain view's wal-mart this morning will go hand in hand with the announcement that the white house is now solar-powered. the installation of american machine made panels is part of a retrofit to improve the overall energy efficiency of the building. other improvements including installation of updated building

controls and variable speed fans. white house officials say the project should pay for itself in energy savings over the next eight years. eight years would be good, right? >> carter originally put solar panels on. >> have to research that. >> that makes sense because he was a nuclear engineer he was an expert on power sources. >> yesterday, we did not maximize the solar energy. >> today is better and through the week. it will be interesting to see if anyone asked the president about putting solar panels on government buildings if he is interested in that. >> all our reporting stations are showing unlimited visibility but if you step outside you know it is foggy in some areas so watch out. or drizzle. winds are around 12 miles per hour and slow but they are all blocking from the coast to

inland neighborhoods. we just could see lights from the sutro tower but now you can't. that shows you the situation with the cloud cover. today, by the afternoon, tomorrow will be brighter and breezy. mother's day is calm and warmer. we will have near record warmth next week. now the temperatures, in the south bay we are in the upper 60's toward santa cruz and low-to-mid 70's with san jose and santa clara at 70 degrees and same in los altos and most of the peninsula hangs out in the mid-to-upper 60's with a breeze it will feel cooler than that and upper 50's to 60's along the coast into downtown and south extra we could crack 63. sausalito is 62 and upper 50's along the coast and low 70's through the beaches. we will -- rather, valleys. no, that was correct, beaches. upper 60's along the east bay shore. we will have low-to-mid 70's as far as our inland valleys.

i lost my train of thought thinking about taking my wife to the beach. it will be warm. warmer than that. >> mid-40's in napa and santa rosa and fremont and palo alto, much cooler tonight is the idea. the clouds dissipating by noon and it will be sunny in the afternoon but the breeze will make it fool cooler than the actual temperature. the seven-day forecast shows a string of 90's inland monday through thursday and 80's to nearly 90 at the bay and 70's to nearly 88 -- 80 at the coast. >> the construction project will last until 6:00 on the eastern span of the bay bridge so if you are traveling away from san francisco to the east bay you will find it starting at the tower to the parking lot a couple of lanes are taken away and cones are picked up at 6:00. if you are coming through the tunnel, there is a lot of fog at the contra costa and slowing in both directions but from orinda

to oakland, be careful because you cannot see much. be careful. we also have a big accident so if you are making travels away from the bay area this week, i will have more on the problem which could hamper your commute. it is going to be the drive through walnut creek southbound 680 up to highway 24 and traffic is nice and clear and so far it is friday lite. >> coming up, the raiders and 49ers fill a big need on defense in the nfl draft. >> the end to the country's oldest black bookstore and today could end hopes for saving the bay area's own marcus books. >> a season ending for marvel's agent of shield is on tuesday but you can get a look right now using watch abc on your commuter or mobile device.

4:53. a look at the golden gate bridge and hard to tell if it is dirty or there is fog. i saw some fog around the two nfl teams after making their first picks in the draft. the raiders selected max from buffalo. he is 6' 2" and 250 pounds. he can provide oakland with a menacing presence for opposing quaterbacks.

some experts question the level of competition he faced in college and will he likely be a starter for oakland. >> the 49ers pick add defensive player taking jimmy ward from northern illinois. he can play quarterback or state. san francisco needs to fill the holes because three veterans are leashing. >> are you a guy would stays up to hear the draft and watch it? >> there was a time but that time is passed. >> it is 4:54. we will check with mike and the forecast. our i stayed up 20 minutes late to see if the cowboys would take johnny manziel. >> he waited. >> cleveland finally got him. >> cleveland. >> it will be interesting to see if the kid from buffalo can play. >> washington nationals are take on the a's and it will be breezy

and it will drop down to 54. we have scattered showers in the high country and that is where it will be for most of the morning and early afternoon. 79 in sack -- sacramento. lake tahoe there is a slight chance of a shower and 61 on mother's day with sun. >> safe travels. out of the bay area, maybe to lake tahoe or up to sacramento by i-5 this is where we have a fatal accident involving a big rig. southbound i-5, that is where we have all lanes shut down and there is going to be a detour in place, 99 is the best alternate. northbound traffic has one lane taken away and that is the fast lane but the rest of the lanes moving northbound are open but no word when this is going to re-open after the fatal crash. now the maze, at home, you can see the traffic along 80 pushing along 80 to 580 to the toll plaza the remark is running

smoothly. >> may is asian pacific american heritage month and we are highlighting the contributions and issues in the bay area's asian-american community. on a special roundtable public affairs program "beyond the headlines" we meet three trailblazer whose have made a difference including make sure babies have diapers and fighting domestic violence and human trafficking and the stories of little known chinese american heroes. hope you will join us for "beyond the headlines," on sunday at 10:00 a.m. >> today could be the end for san francisco's marcus books, the oldest black-owned bookstore. the owners will meet with movers to pack up and move out of their location. the couple have owned the building since 1981. last year, the bank foreclosed and sold it at auction. in february the building was granted landmark status because

that wasn't enough. the johnsons miss add couple of rent payments and the new owners changed the looks. >> today is the last chance to check out the new bart cars available for walk through, a model, at concord station from 2:00 to 9:00, featuring 20" cushion seats 2 itch more narrow but the aisles are 3" wider. the cars are running in 2017. >> next, at 5:00 a.m., why some of president obama's biggest supporters are not happy about his last stop on the bay area visit. >> what donald sterling's wife wants to do so she can keep ownership of the l.a. clippers basketball

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. it is friday morning at 5:00. thanks for joining us. >> happy friday to you. we will find out what the weather will be like on the week. >> good question. it will be changeable. good morning, everyone, waking up to cloud cover, drizzle hanging in the air this morning. no heavy showers. you can see there is cloud cover starting to see clearing around cloverdale and when we get beyond the morning commute the drizzle is over and we will see a rapid change to sun and breezy conditions and more sun this afternoon. around the bay 66 to 71, and inland, 68 to 74, and the coast and san francisco are 58 to 63. close to average today. wait until you see mother's day. that is