were still on the scene until after 9:00 last night five hours after the fire started. the flames spread rapid through toward another home destroying it. the same family has owned that rot insurance the 1930's. >> my aunt will not have a house. it will be tough. >> i am sick. >> access was difficult. it is a two-lane road. we had to single track this to get up here and relay water. >> the family member told us the squatters were living on part of the property but investigators don't know if that sparked the fire. >> arson investigators spent several hours searching for evidence in the garage of a south of market high-rise are a car was set on fire. san francisco police have not said if the investigators found anything suspicious but before 6:00 smoke came pouring from the

garage and a bmw was on fire. no one was hurt. >> a man is on an emergency psychiatric hold after witnessing say he set his own truck on fire at 8:30 yesterday morning near the bay bridge toll plaza and you can see how intense the flames were in the photo. witnesses say the man identified now from sacramento has a firefighter. >> the governor will sign the new budget interest law in san diego today. the $108 billion budget includes a surplus because of increasing tax revenues and subjects in the stock market and more money for the rainy day fund and pays down debt and begins to tell with a short-fall if teacher pension contributions. for the fourth year in a row it

was passed on time and before that the budget was late 23 out of 24 years. it goes into affect on. >> there is a $129 million operate to trial courts across the state but they face a shortfall of $150 million and that could have a major impact on bay area courts including authority are hours and longer lines. the santa clara county superior court is facing a $6 million cut back with no layoffs expected but some of the options being considered include closing the small claims court in palo alto. a local congresswoman will join medical professionals today to promote a law aimed at stopping e-cigarettes from being marketed to children and teens. jackie speier is sponsoring the "stop selling and marketing to our kids," calling for extending the same federal laws that regulate tobacco products to electric cigarettes. backers of the law hold a press conference the san francisco

citizen hospital at 10:30 this morning. >> a man is looking ahead to the next adventure after making a difficult to have a leg amputated. wayne freedman shares the next chapter in a courageous young man's life. >> it is an oval track and the center of the universe for a few adapting to a new normal. >> when troubles come your way you have to consider it an opportunity for joy. >> no feeling for yourself when the paraolympian track and field stars meet. does this look familiar? we told you the story of this kid from richmond who decided, decided to have the right foot amputated after a rare disease caused chronic pain. >> felt like someone hitting me with a hammer. >> the foot how is gone and replaced by "opportunity" as he

and the family see it. >> he has plenty of courage. >> he chats with world-class athletes. >> jarod, nice to meet you. >> just because you have your leg amputated don't think of it as an ending, it is a new going. >> he aspires to lay wheelchair basketball. he got a closeup example of the work and dedication it takes to be a world class athlete at this level. >> go. >> the idea was to give him a people talk. you get the feeling, though, he doesn't need a people talk. >> what did you learn? >> it is the same as being with no disability, you have something special that make you different. >> would needs a foot when a kid has so much heart?

the crooked pardon of lombard street will close to cars this weekend as part after pilot program in affect from noon until 6:00 on saturdays and sundays and it will include fourth of july weekend. this is after compliments from the residents about inventoryists backing up traffic and causing citizens. pedestrians can still enjoy the most crooked street in the world on the week. >> happening today, nascar and thousands of racing fans are running to sonoma for the biggest event of the year, with drivers competing in the raceway on sunday afternoon with the local economy standing to be the big winner and many fans will film north bay hotels in marin, sonoma and napa counties and others will camp out. you can expect heavy traffic especially along highway 37 and 121. amy hollyfield will have more if a report coming up at 5:00. .

coming up to 4:36 and now mike has the forecast. >> it will be breezy but not is breezy headed to tomorrow and sunday for the race. temperatures hang out probably in the low-to-mid 80's for the better part of the weekend with temperatures falling back into the 50's at night so that will be nice. the winds are calm and 60 miles per hour wind in fairfield so a little bit of a breeze and most of clouds are stacked against the cost right new with temperatures in the mid-50 to low 60. at noon the dry cold front move through and the freezes develop and we start to mix out the cloud cover at the coast where you are in the home 60's this afternoon and 58 by 7:00. we will be in the upper 60's at noon to upper 70's by 4:00 so grab the coat. 82 already inland by noon and 90 by 4:00 and 80 by 7:00 with high clouds is all we have to dole with so a color will sunset and maybe take some pictures and send them to spencer and sandy.

sue has traffic. >> we have road work out there overnight and it will to be pick up as you make your way westbound 580 to san ramon, we have e-bay -- eastbound bay up by 5:00. westbound, only a few cars stacked up and otherwise, no metering hits yet or delays westbound into san francisco, so far, a good drive hoping for friday light. >> thank you, sue. >> next, a triple shooting following a rap concert in colorado forcing authorities to put a theater on lockdown. >> a special delivery and parents celebrated father's day on the side of the road. >> in the tech bytes, the

decision to add kill switch to iphone is paying off with cell phone thefts dropping dramatically the last year because of the switch partly and can render a stolen phone useless. >> production of apple's new smart watch starts next month and they expect to ship 50 million of the watches in the first year. >> t mobile is offering new customers the test dry to drive an iphone free of charge for seven days saying music streaming services will no longer count toward the month data allowance. >> intel has a new spin on mobile messaging which creates a character that copies the speech and movement of the user for apple and droid devices.

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petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. welcome back, everyone, 4:41 and a look at the bay bridge from the exploritorium. we want to bring your attention to a traffic headache with the backup, already, winner rib thomas was coming to work, they are repaving 880 south in oakland and toward the bay bridge so it will be slow going. sue will keep you posted on this. secretary of state john kerry will travel to iraq soon to urge the government leaders to share more power or risk descending the country into sectarian civil war. president obama announced he is dispatching 300 united states military advisors to iraq to help stop the rising insurgency. the president insist he is not sending military back to combat. we have more on the crisis in iraq in a report from washington, dc, at the top of

the hour. police near denver are vetting a triple shooting after a rap concert at red rocks. theater after a concert headlined by rappers at the venue west of denver and three were shot inside the white s.u.v. authorities locked down the theater and searched cars the victims were taken to the hospital. no arrests so far. >> another soccer powerhouse is about to be knocked out, british fans in san jose suffered through another poor performance by england's national team against uruguay. at san francisco's saloon they were split, some fans usually clear for uruguay's top scorer suarez who was not kind scoring two goals against the brits and left them near elimination. today, on espn italy plays coast iraqi at 9:00, switzerland takes

on france at noon and honduras plays ecuador at 3:00. how is this for excitement in this bay area man painted his truck in support of mexico! actually, that says brazil. we want to see your world cup pictures. mail them at ureport@kgo-tv.com or upload them through our news app or at abc7news.com. a baby girl will have a great story to tell when she is older, she was been on the side of interstate 80 on father's day we traveled to vacaville to get the story. >> a surprise father's day gift. a big surprise. >> a fund father's day. >> the couple knew she was on way but she gave birth to two sons and she knew there would be a lot of waiting in the hospital. >> i was trying to put it off as lob as possible and i am glad we

didn't. >> he got her in the car but while driving down interstate 80 to the hospital in fairfield her water broke and olivia was ready. >> i pulled over, written around the car, with hazards and the baby's head was coming out. >> next thing i knew she was on my chest and...we were look at each other like, my gosh, we had the baby in the car. >> they were almost there so he decided to play ambulance driver, too. they cut the cord at the hospital and just like that, they had a third child. what about another? >> a fourth would be scary because...like, oh, there's the baby. >> in vacaville for abc 7. today, what promises to be a

heated hearing on private shuttles using muni stops to pick up and drop off silicon valley workers in san francisco. we are at market at 8th at a shared stop. >> this is one of the popular stops where the corporate schultz buses use the muni stops to pick up workers. some stops may need to be extended and that takes away parking spaces. there is a hearing today to discuss the possible changes on the agenda for the shuttle program, include shop staring the number of spaces to be taken away and where using stops to shut the workers and residents are not happy, arguing that the companies, sun as google, exploit the city and their employees and drive up republicans. the trial is scheduled to start august 1st with stops like these are at issue. also, more popular areas are the

spots in the mission, up-and-down valencia. i will try to talk to some of the workers and say what they think their role is. muni said they opened this to the public to ask which spots were more acceptable, less desirable, more desirable, and these are some of those they said, you can get rid of them. we will have more later in the broadcast. mike's forecast is ahead but, first, the water reservoir water is so low the boat ranches have been closed in sierra foothills leaving then a third full with the lake level dropped below the bottom two of three boat ranches much the bureau will shut the gates entirely to boat access on that side of the lake moving leave june boat launch for at the largest late in california two weeks before the fourth of july holiday.

>> that is sad. very low. as let as i have seen the lake in a long time. a lot of trees are sticking out that were underwater. the marina manager says house boat rentals are going strong and despite the exposed shoreline there is plenty of water in the lake. the national weather service says drought conditions in california have worsen the past week. what is described as exceptional drought conditions has spread in central california and now include areas of northern california. almost 33 quick of the state new faces exceptional conditions. last week it was 25 percent and a year ago no part of the state was in category the entire state is in "severe" drought. >> we are hoping for a go year to back it up but it is getting dimmer and dimmer. >> we are under a watch but conditions are favorable one could work not that it "will"

develop." that is six months ago. we have to get through the most hot and dry parts of the year. summer starts tomorrow. i have clouds long coast and otherwise it is clear. that has been the problem. you can see the valley moving into the bay, as we go up into the northern part of the state, aroundure rack and over to mount shasta, those areas are exceptionally dry and that is worst category so it is the darkest red and sticks out and gets your attention. 33 percent of state is in the worst category of drought conditions. here is a look at live doppler 7 hd and you request see the low clouds along the coast and the high clouds right here that are going to be more prominent as we head into the afternoon hours. you look at the exploritorium and it is cloudy so temperatures are running a couple of degrees warmer than this time yesterday. probably not noticeable. dry cold front brings us breezy conditions and mixes out the

lower clouds so high clouds and sunshine. per starts tomorrow morning and we have mostly sunny and seasonal temperatures. >> the low clouds at 7:00 this morning, ask watch the cold front come law and develop the northern gradeent that tends to take away the clouds, and we will have afternoon clearing but for high clouds over the top of the we cold front. 92 in gilroy to 85 in milpitas. 76 in san mateo and everyone else is 80 to 82 on the peninsula. mid-60's along the coast and low 70's downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and low-to-mid 80's through the north bay and 788 in santa rosa and napa for the warm spot and mid-70's to low 80's along the east bay shore with oakland at 78 and upper 80's to low 90's and close to air conditioning weather in the east bay valley. at the game, 68 at 7:00 at first patch and 62 at the end, warmer

than yesterday. we will lose two or four degrees former and you can see we are steady with morning clouds and afternoon sunshine through next tuesday. we go back to the bay bridge are we have repaving and construction work in the eastbound direction so not affecting the commute westbound but look at the red sensors moving from san francisco over to oakland they are supposed to have this picked up bring 5:00 and the reason it is so slow we had two early accidents in the eastbound direction and now they are cleared. look at that. a few more minutes for the paving project and in san jose we have a big convention happening there at 7:00, the american communications network is expecting 14,000 people to attend this and add that to the morning commute and you can find slow traffic. right new, you can see highway 87 beyond the sap center, it is light with in delays. we will watch it this morning so give yourself plenty of center

time. thank you, sue, coming up, the ugliest dog in the worlds will be crowned and we will show you the dogs leading the pack to votes. >> the shirt that is taking the internet by storm.

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a look at the eastern span of the bay bridge and eastbound, you can seat head lit going to the left of the screen and you can see a backup that is still existing but is heavy for this time of morning caused by paving work that is supposed to be picked up in a few minutes. sue is monitor this and she will give you the latestness -- latest information. >> at six flags, pebbles was born june 9 and is growing

stronger each day. officials say the mother cuddles with the you it born and making sure other residents keep their distance. officials are pretty sure the father is sergeant nevis would had lengthy rehabilitation at the mammal center in sausalito after he was found shot and let for dead in 2009. the pup is too cute. happening today, the world's ugliest dog contest will get under way at the fair groups. here are the contenders, pee nut, don't let the teeth scare you, he is smiling. and quasimodo and sweepy rambo leading the pack in voting which is just for fun, the official winner is not announced until today. east will be voted by a select panel judges at sonoma county

fair and the top prize is $,500 and a 4' trophy. >> i think i saw peanut in a science fiction movie once. >> don't add water to that dog... >> gremlin? >> be nice. >> all dogs beautiful. >> good morning, everyone, 11 o'clock this morning, 80 and 88 at 3:00, and 78 and breezy at 7:00, and 63 at 11 o'clock. now to the ugly and scary dogs, in petaluma, we will have 80 at noon and 78 at 4:00, and 62 at 8:00 and 54 at midnight when it is all over, credence clearwater revisited tone. mid-90's to low 100's through the central valley and 101 through palm springs and 78 in

lake tahoe. sue has traffic. >> we go out toward the dublin/pleasanton area and we have road work west 580 and the big news this morning is eastbound on the bay bridge the repaving construction project will be picked up at 5:00 and hopefully in a few more minutes you can see the red sensors. off of the toll plaza you can see the traffic is improving so they have picked it up with the headlights headed eastbound and tail lights headed into san francisco. we will watch it this morning. thank you. a love of swimming and eagerness to shed a few pounds have drawn 22-time olympic medalist back to the pool where he will compete in santa clara. he retired after the 2012 london olympic games but decided on a comeback and says he is the

happiest he has ever been and loves that he is doing it on his own terms. >> i do it because i enjoy it. whatever you take, whatever you -- the american public says it will or will not do, that doesn't bother me. i am doing this because i enjoy being in the water. i'm enjoying competing. that is the only reason why i am here. >> the meet is his final tune-up for nationals in early august. >> he really looks overweight. >> fathers can get defensive about little girls when they grow up and now this father's rule for dating is viral. the man in new jersey was spotted wearing a shirt that says "i don't make the rules, you don't make the rules, she makes the rules, her body, her rules, signed feminist father." it has been shared 200,000 times >> next at 5:00 a.m., nascar fans are ready if a big weekend if sonoma but drivers are moving

were more slowly on the roads. >> more troops are headed to iraq and silt not --

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning, so glad you are with us at 5:00 a.m. on friday. i am katie marzullo here for kristen sze. >> we will get a check on the forecast for friday and the week. mike? >> we will start with what is go on this morning the we have cloud cover you can see it is dry on live doppler 7 hd and low clouds loan the coast and high