hell on $1.5 million bail. he is 28-year-old brian butts teaching by nano and guitar from april to this month when the owner was out of the country. when the owner came back a 13-year-old girl told him he touch her chest and a 15-year-old made the same accusation. the owner called police and anotherç 13-year-old girl came forward. he faces ten counts of child molestation related to the three teens. >> it is every parent's nightmare and greatest fear. we feel what the parents feel. that is why we prosecute these cases aggressively. >> uncalifornia law because there are multiple victims butts faces life if risen if convicted. he is not a registered sex offender and has no arrest record in san mateo county. no one from the music school would talk with us yesterday. authorities worried there could

be more victims so if you concern about your child calm the daly city police department. on capitol hill, republicans will meet behind closed doors to elect a new majority leader and a california congressman is likely to in the post. majority whip mccarthy is expected to get the second most powerful job in the house of representatives african tore's startling loss in the primary. mccar thursday is from solidly democratic state and faces a challenge from a congressman from ohio who says he is not conservative enough. in iraq, a witness says sunni militants are flying their flags over the largest old refinery in iraq but a top official says the government controls the refinery and is flying helicopters to stop an

attack. >> in iraq the militants have the most up. city afterty is falling. now according to the associated press, they have struck at the heart of the country's economy capturing iraq's biggest oil refinery. a top iraqi official says the government holds the facility. al-qaeda inspired extremists raising flags triggers in me bitter disappointment. >> president obama is weighing options and considering ordering special forces to advise iraqi forces. he is not ruled out small limited airstrikes. leaders of the house of representatives and senate meeting with the president at white house say they do not think the options require congressional authorization. some may disagree and push for it. president obama has ruled out sending in united states combat troops. >> we have have done everything

they can to help but it is up to iraqis. >> some republicans are blasting president obama's foreign policy in a blistering "wall street journal" op-ed former vice presidential dick cheney said rarely has a united states president been so wrong about so were at the expense of so many. >> does the white house have a response? >> agencies are trying to identify possible targets for limited airstrikes in iraq and if that is the route the president decides to go. new plan proposed by two senators on capitol hill raising gas taxes by 12 cents the next two years. the current tax is between 18 and 24 cents a gallon which is the first increase in decades paying for highway and transit programs. matt keller will have a live

report at the top of the hour. >> you can pay mar for gas and electricity at the judge agreed to a rate height. the public utilities commission needs to improve the increase, peg increased 17.5 percent hike but they will likely approve a number lower than that. they plan to use the extra revenue to pay for maintenance to the gas distribution system. they are expected to take up the issue in the next few months. investigators whatten to find the cause of a fire inside a city park in oakland that charred brush and the sides trees at brookdale park. it broke out about 11:20. the flames burped an area measuring 20' by 20' and never threatened homes and crews put the flames out in a few minutes. >> a fence is up around two homes that burned yesterday in sunnyvale, the fire broke out around 9:30 away on lantana

drives. tree trimmers noticed the flames and ran to warn the homeowners. a man grabbed a garden hose to try to protect his home from the flames and that is something that nearly got him arrested. >> i wasn't thinking straight but i had to protect my property. i was scared. it was a noble effort to protect your stuff. not advisable. we don't want anyone getting hurt. >> in people were harmed but aing do hasn'ten with found. it was likely killed in the fire^. >> self brushfires broke out in the bay area yesterday including this one if vallejo. firefighters dealt with the steep terrain along 780 and scorched backyards of homes and affected traffic on 780. we were over a second brushfire that affected traffic the far white lane of westbound 80 in fairly was shut down near the west texas on-ramp for the commute and the highway patrol says this is one of four

brushfires in fairly and no word how it got started. will it cooler, mike? >> that is a key ingredient. year was hot and dry but not windy. >> today it will be breezy but not so hot or dry. >> here is a look at woodside at 46 and everyone else on the peninsula in the low-to-mid 50's this morning and same across the bay on the east bay shore, and 57 in mountain view and san jose and concord and fairfield and the warm spots until you get do live more at 59 and antioch is 60 and santa rosa at 48, and 53 in san francisco and 55 in oak hand and 18 miles per hour wind in fairfield pointing to the northeast so the winds shooting through the golden gate bridge and san pablo to cartinez straight and into the central valley and look at the winds picking up headed into the afternoon hours so temperatures are going to be cooler today.

starting off with cloud cover along the coast in the bay and it will become mainly sunny but the coast, with the coast in the low 60's and mid-60's aned bay by noon and low 70's at 4:00 and low 60's at 7:00 and mid-70's inland to low 80's away the bay and mid-70's in the evening hours. >> we have ace train one a few miles per hours early and bart train 24 roll on the tracks. as we take you to the east bay we have a big project, it will be shut down until 5:00 this morning and headed in the westbound direction along 580 to eastbound 80 that gets you to the maze and you will be detoured. it will lift at 5:00 and the traffic will funnel in fine. 580 westbound from tracy to dublin is 26 minutes. a breeze on 4, 15 minutes from antioch to concord. southbound 101 to san rafael.

hazy along the san mateo bridge with the drive great hayward to foster city, look at that, it will be a slighting for as you make it over to the peninsula but traffic is moving along just fine. next a new king of spain is proclaimed and what he is promising. >> firefighters are on alert with the fourth of july around the corner. are fireworks worth the risk? leader is the tech byte stories. >> amazon smartphone is here, the fire has four extra cameras, reading where your face is to give you 3-d affect. another feature is the ability to recognize everything by looking at it with the camera or hearing it. it puts the items directly in your amazon shopping cart. apple has unveiled a new entry level i-mac with a 21.5" screen start at $1,100.

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covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. good morning, a thursday at 4:41 and a look at the embarcadero and ferry building. the fog is coming back bringing cooler temperatures. we will talk with meteorologist mike nicco about what to expect. >> spain has a new king with huge crowds gathering at royal palace this morning to welcome the new king.

the 46 year royal was formally sworn in as the new monarch in parliament. this was considered a low-key celebration but it drew thousands. his father juan carlos abdicated saying it was time for the next generation to take over. he thanked his father and vowed to be willing to listen and advise. world cup organizers condemn the fan would invaded a stadium yesterday in brazil. a crowd broke into the stadium in rio de janeiro and trashed temporary walls and lockers before the chile and spain match which was won by chile. it was mostly fans from chiles for their way into the media center only protected by one guard. more guards showed up and escorted the fans out. it was a stunner, with spain losing 2-0 to chile knocking them out of tournament. yesterday afternoon, on mission

street, you could see patrons pack the bar to -- the match and year's other games with the north laps topping australia and croatia shutting out cameroon. this is cleo rooting for brazil and this three-year-old is supporting italy and is her first world cup. >> you can e-mail your fan photos to ureport@kgo-tv.com. our sister network, espn, is carrying the world cup matches live columbia pays ivory coast at 9:00 a.m. and uruguay and england at noon and japan take on greece at 3:00. san francisco state university will grant a degree to a man shot to death a few

units shy of graduation. police say he was shot by a neighbor at their building on mission street last month and the 26-year-old got off the elevator on the wrong floor and entered the wrong apartment. a man inside shot him. the prosecution have so far declined to charge the man in the death. >> advocates are raising the red flag as california is ready to give driver's license to the new immigrants who need two types of identification including a passport to get a license. the idea i would need to present, for example, it would be the decision define going and getting a passport and pay for a passport or paying for shoes for my kids. >> the federal government wants the cards slightly different from standard issue cards creating in anxiety. a public hearing is held next week on the issue.

a project to handle massive crowds at muir roads is not getting a lot of support from residents over a reservation system for parking at muir woods which attracted a million visitors last year. the surge of tourists overwhelm the streets through the valley. the cost would run between $7 and $15 a car. if approved the system could be up and running in 2016. injured mountain bicyclist was injured by helicopter yesterday. the 42-year-old crash while bicycling on a remote trail. this is individual we of the rescue. the man had a cell phone and was able to call for help. the officers hoisted him up and influence him directly to a roseville hospital. >> fourth of july is more than two weeks away but officials are reminding folks, now, about fire work safety especially givenned

california drought. we palestinian the warping. they are landing a much larger fourth of july display at the county fair this year a record drought season and there is a hey field between the fair grounds and the home. >> we seldom see anything in this field so i will fought lose sleet over it. >> if there is high wind it is up to the fire marshal, the show can go on or we should hold off. >> cities like dublin and newark and union city will still be selling fireworks and residents are reminded to use extreme caution. >> need to have the bucket of water to put the fireworks in, they need a garden hose ready. though knew to do it open and away from vegetation. >> police have put out a warning in oakland which has been ground

zero for illegal commercial grade fireworks on the fourth of july, with the celebration may not containing but the conditions will be a lot worse. >> and the weather conditions? >> dry. definitely dry. even with the breeze. the vegetation will not recover whatever. good morning, everyone. live doppler 7 hd is tracking clouds along the coast that are moving toward the east. you can see them take over down and moving to the east bay shoreline this morning. the cooling breeze runs today and drops our temperature from 7 to 14 degrees. coastal drizzle is possible with clouds. summer starts and it will be the cool of the day on saturday. look how the clouds develop along the coast as we head throughout the morning hours.

as they retreat back to the coast from the bay. as we head into the afternoon hours, you can see the sea breeze knock our temperatures and no more 90's and 50's are back, and 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's so it will be quite a spread but not so hot. >> upper 70's around milpitas and 72 in santa cruz and home 80's for the rest of south by. up the peninsula we will start at 79 as los altos and 77 in menlo park and 70 in millbrae and low-to-mid 60's along the coast into downtown south san francisco and sausalito. 78 yesterday in san francisco. 65, today, quite a difference with upper 70's to mid-80's throughout the north bay valley and the beaches, low 60's, and 68 at berkeley and alameda and low-to-mid 70's for the rest of the east bay shore where fremont the warm spot at 75 and moving inland we have mid-to-upper 80's from 83 at san ramon to 89 in

the boston red sox are in town dropping to 59 and the extensive cloud cover tonight and temperatures in the 50's again and maybe 48 in santa rosa. the seven-day forecast show tomorrow a couple of degrees cooler with the extensive cloud cover in the morning and a dry cold front introducing the cooler air mass on saturday and temperatures moderate sunday through wednesday with middle-to-upper 80's inland and mid-70's to 80's around the bay and low 60's at the coast. have a go one. we have construction that is in progress right now through the presidio and this other big project, we have so many of them across the bay area, and if you are traveling along northbound highway one through the presidio we have northbound lanes shut down and that is why it is indicated in purple and southbound traffic is open starting at lake street to the toll so be airwith. you will have to go around.

that is until 5:00 so if you hold back and maybe have an extra cup of coffee it will be open when you leave the house. san jose commute along 280 away from highway 17 is clear and southbound traffic moving along at top speed. eric and kristen? special olympics athletes will partner with local law enforcement this morning. yesterday, they jogged from gilroy to morgan hill even with a police escort and this run celebrate start of the special olympics through athletes and law enforcement from across northern california. today the torch will move law cupertino and los gatos and san jose. >> lawmakers in sacramento reject add bill limiting the mass ofviction of tenants in rent controlled homes but is being used by investors who flip rots no a profit. it is offered by the state senator saying speculators are abusing the law and driving up

rents. restaurants to marin will start to post plaques from the health department next year, you have probably seep the red, yellow and green signs at other bay area locations green means pass, and yellow conditional and red means "closed" for food safety violations. the signs will go up in school markets and school cafeterias. >> lunch time, the chose encounter a camp full of kids had with a family of bears. >> birds of a feather walk together with ducks that shut down

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a look at the new span of bay bridge with traffic zipping right along and well have more on remark and a look at the weather forecast today in a couple of minutes. >> a family of black bears if alaska decided to treat

themselves to something special by stealing the lunches from a camp of kids. according to a camp leader a black bear and two cubs did not care there were dozens of children coming from the woods with the cubs and was take, lunch boxes and then took them to the woods and started eating them. when you leave food and trash up secured you never know what kind bear or dangerrer it could attract. >> look at this sight, ducks, 100,000 of them, taking over a road in thailand. the duck migration brought traffic to a halt. ruffling the feathers of some, and when you think it is overs here is the second wave. we are happy to report the flock successfully made it to their destination without injuries. why did the duck cross the road? >> to get to india?

>> peta wants to put a warning message in a mall after a dog walker last eighting dos if a van and is asking to have a message on concrete reminding pet owners of the farm of leashing dogs in cars after eight dogs were left inside a van. newspaper were injured but peta has not heard back from the mall^. >> it will not be so hot today, that is for sure. we will look at what is going on if you are headed out to a couple of fairs including alameda where eddi. money is playing and 75 at 11 o'clock and it will be 79 when the carnival opens at noon and 3:00 it will be 61 by the end of the night. at sonoma fair, 1:00 o'clock it will be 74 and 76 at 4:00 and accident with clouds at 7:00 and upper 50's when the game ends.

heat is building through the central valley and 78 in lake tahoe and 91 in yosemite and san diego is 74. >> 32 bart trains on the tracks. ready to pick you up. in the east bay, the traffic along the altamont pass is loading up at 35 miles per hour from tracy administration -- as highway 4 is 68 miles per hour through antioch and you be, really, on the way continuing into concord. this is our drive through walnut creek as you head in the southbound direction from pleasant hill toward highway 24, no problems out this. eric and kristen? >> a new attraction opening up on san francisco's wharf is promising to take visitors on a trip into the past.

♪ so you have been shanghaied don't you worry and don't cry, don't cry ♪ >> this is a series of 3630-degree sets re-creating the san francisco life in the late 1800s with history, and intrigue and humor. >> the stories are true so it is scary at times because this is a time history was dark and twisted and telling the great stories and it is a unique experience. >> the san francisco dungeon will open on thursday. >> next at 5:00, a bay area music teacher is accused of molesting students and what police say he did and are there additional possible victims? >> a test of amateurism in college athletics a witness

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this is abc 7 news were. >> look who is back? >> who? >> you! >> what should we do? >> it has been a week but we usually do weather and check with mike, first. >> forgot about me already? >> good morning, everyone, hope you has a restful time off, eric. wind is 18 miles per hour with sea breezes coming back if fairfield and c