they are legal here in dublin but officials in other areas worry people will buy them here and bring them to their neighborhoods where they not allowed. here is video of what it looked like over oak hand with a lot of fire work bursting in the sky. they are illegal in oakland. there are only 15 cities in the bay area and in santa cruz county where they allowed sale of safe and sane fireworks. officials in oakland and san jose say they will have extra patrols tonight looking for people shooting off fire works. >> to have the high visibility and let the community know we are out this taking a serious approach to the fireworks. firefighters are very concern about the dry brush that is out there and we have had a record year for lack of rain. they worry that one spark from a file works could start a fire

that will spread quickly. they are encouraging people not to put on their own show but to go out tonight and watch one. leave it to the professionals. >> officials in oakland urging residents to be careful fourth of july weekend and look out for celebration gunfire and will benefit up patrols for those with the highest amount of gunshot and fire work activity. police will arrest anyone caught discharging a firearm and those caught will face a fine ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. or possible imprisonment. doctors expect an 11-year-old boy to five after being shot while playing in antioch around 11 o'clock a.m. at an apartment complex. the bullet him the boy in the chest. he was shot with a .22 caliber

handgun and the boy says a friend shot him. the shooter is not identified. if you have chicken products in the freezer, foster farms has issued the first recall linked to a 16 month long salmonella outbreak that affects 170 chicken products covering chicken labels with "use or freeze" march 21 to march 29 with codes p-6137-t-617 (a). foster farms is the largest poultry producer and up to 600 people are gotten sick from the antibiotic resistant strain of salmonella and a person would became ill is linked to foster farms chicken with the recall information open our website at abc7news.com. this morning, hurricane arthur is moving away from north carolina and offshore after slashing into the bay area islands overnight.

officials say 22,000 people are without power across the carolinas and strengthed to category two storm with winds up to 100 miles per hour in the evening before passing over the southern end of the outer beens. the storm has dampened the east coast with fire work shows in new jersey, maine and new hampshire postponed. >> this is hurricane arthur from space, the astronaut tweeted this photo from the international space station. you can see how huge the storm is. on the ground, the butts canyon fire is burning but firefighters are making progress. it has burned 4,300 acres and now 45 percent contained. better weather conditions helped firefighters make progress yesterday and right now, there are 2,000 firefighters and support staff assigned to this fire but rough terrain is making it hard for firefighters to get to some firelines. a wide-range of emotions as all

evacuated residents returned home. flames spared homes in lake berryessa but leveled a home above butts valley road. >> i build this house with my dad, me and my brothers and dad in 1962. a lot of memories. they are all gone. >> the andersons are one of two homes and seven outbuildings destroyed. >> in san diego county, firefighters remain on the scene near the town of julian with a fire in the cleveland national forest destroying to homes and threatening hundreds. 150 acres are burned. containment is 15 percent. the fire forced cancellation of the gold mining town popular fourth of july parade and celebration. >> outrage and heartbreak after a palestinian teen was murdered

outside of jerusalem, the 15-year-old mohamed abukhdeir and his family in the south bay is speaking out. >> mohamed abukhdeir is glued to her facebook page and phone as she waits for more information about the death of her nephew, mohamed abukhdeir, the 15-year-old kid named on tuesday morning. [ inaudible ] >> since mohammed moment's murder, the city is in chaos. violence is escalating with more kidnappings and relatives visiting the region from the united states have been targeted and arrested. >> we paying the price for something they didn't do. revenge. revenge. that is it. >> many believe moment's murder was in retaliation for the deaths of three israeli teens. that is what is re-ignited tensions there and those in this

family think are reaching a boiling point and plans to visit have been canceled. >> to think we were supposed to be there is scary. the family wish things were different. another cousin who lives in sacramento went to east jerusalem last year and this picture was taken with mohamed abukhdeir during that trip. >> why was he the victim? because he is the wrong place at the wrong time. he was vulnerable. a child. >> there will be a vigil in mohammed moment's honor later today at the corner here from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30. new details, caltrain says northbound 280 in san francisco will re-open in time for monday's commute. 280 is closed between 101 and the northern end of the freeway at king street near at&t park. this video shows crews working

to replace a hinge on the bridge which allows the elevated freeway to bend and flex. if you are coming into the city to see fireworks, you are urged to take public transportation. >> it is 4:37 and we need to know what the weather is like coming into the city. >> exactly. looking right now at our temperatures we are looking at 56 to get us going in concord and 61 in pittsburg and 56 in dublin/pleasanton and across the bay, 55 in san francisco and 52 degrees in daly city. we are turning warmer today with a ridge of high pressure on its way and it will warm things up over the weekend but what you need to know the next 12 hours we are looking at decent start to the morning and we will have coast ad fog and that will burn off and it will leave us with 78-degree temperatures inland by noon and 64 degrees around bay and 68 along the coast and by 4:00 p.m. it will be pretty warm inland and mostly sunshine for

us everywhere by the time evening comes, there are clouds and fog and it will be mostly clear for our fourth of july festivities. we have more on that in a few minutes but we will switch gears and talk about the 280 closing, again, northbound 280 away from 101 headed into san francisco, shut down this will mohammed at 5:00 a.m. for hinge replacement work that caused a terrible jam yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon. avoid the area and i recommended taking mass transit. as we head over to fremont, southbound 880, we have an accident and northbound traffic is moving fine and if you are making up to the sunol grid 680 is not getting us any problem. drive time traffic is 580 westbound address to dublin at 26 minutes and dublin/pleasanton to mission boulevard 6 minutes and highway 85 northbound from 101 to cupertino is five minutes. we are going to look at the drive coming across the wall street away from marin that is the golden gate bridge and you

can see not enveloped in fog just yet. i will keep you posted. >> a bay area man is injured in iraq and now he is fighting so other warriors is a place to go when they return from the battlefield. that story is ahead. >> special honor president obama will bestow on a group men and women who have served our country on the frontlines. >> strike up the ban, the pay area community preparing for one of the largest fourth of july parades in the

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♪ ♪ get your taste of the season, at raley's, bel air, and nob hill. san francisco is ready for the big fourth of july show. there will be 10,000 fireworks above the bay for the largest show in northern california. the fireworks will launch from two barges, one off pier 37 and the other near the municipal bistarting at 9:30. >> visit us at abc7news.com for

a complete guide to fourth of july activities including parades and all the other fireworks shows. we have information on the events where you can see members of our news team. happening today, president obama will preside over a citizenship ceremony the at white house as a way of making a pitch for immigration overhaul. the president seen here at an event has been blaming house republicans for delaying action on immigration. as a result he has said he will ignore congress and make non-legislative reform proposals. >> 25 members of the military representing 15 countries will take the oath this morning signing up to serve there they were not citizens. the fourth of july is a great time to salute the men and women in the military who serve our country and one of them is a local iraq war veteran who shows us why he is so grateful for his opportunity to serve and helping over veterans succeed despite injuries he received.

here is that story. >> sergeant has several pictures to go along with his many combat steps. the picture of me in full come ball uniform. >> he has the hell it that savedly life after being severely injured by an i.e.d. blast while serving in iraq. >> this still has the natural blood. you can tell they did not clean it out. >> the captain seen in this picture lost a leg. >> that was -- i lost my right eye. i fractured my femur. >> he is able to walk thanks to a rod. this san jose native says he has no regrets about enlisting in the army at age of 26. before that he had a career in marketing and it was during a gathering with friends that he says he felt something was missing. >> someone asked if you died

today who do you think people with say and much has something to say and i didn't feel like i had accomplished anything. >> a short time later he was in iraq as an infantry man helping in construction while also on patrol on the frontline. it was a new world for him, one that he will always carry with him. >> it gave me a purpose, it gave me a life, it gave me meaning. those gives are great. >> he still keeps with many of them. he took that experience and started a construction with 50 employees. three of them are war veterans. >> after opening the business, he made a commitment to other veterans and to himself. >> goal is to have the number be half. it is a process. >> he is balancing his career with his new role as a dad. he has a 20-month-old son.

>> i tell everyone i used to be a sergeant and now i am just the president -- he is the general. >> this is possible because he was given a second chance to find out who he really should be. tesla made a commitment to hire veterans, the peel -- palo alto-based company made the commitment to get more veterans on board. many leadership highly technical skills and are a perfect fit. >> a lot more teslas on the road. >> beautiful cars. >> they are beautiful. by no matter what you are driving you ain't going nowhere. >> we do have changes in mass transit so stay tuned. happy fourth of july, everyone, as we lock from emeryville camera to the eastern span of the bay bridge we have coastal

clouds. the fog is dissipating that we have seen, and that is because of this ridge of high pressure coming over california the next few days. but live doppler 7 hd shows we do pickup the areas of fog so there is reduced visibility at half moon bay, at four miles. from the exploritorium camera to coit towers it is clear and current temperatures in san francisco are 55 degrees and mid-50's if oakland and 59 in san jose and still cooler at half moon bay at 54 degrees. the ridge of high pressure is building offer the next few days and that is coming in over the four corners and the central desert and the heat will spread. it is mostly going to be confined to the inland areas where you will see the warmest conditions but for fourth of july festivities, are you going to be able to see the fireworks? yes, indead, especially in the south bay along the peninsula, inland areas, parts of the east bay in oakland and berkeley and north by we have a little bit of

a chance of fog but it should be decent fourth of july evening, 58 degrees expected in berkeley and 66 in san jose and 64 in redwood city. we will look at our high an the bay area it will be 83 and warmer than yesterday in san jose and 87 in morgan hill and along the peninsula it is 75 in san mateo and 66 degrees in downtown san francisco and under is partly sunny skies and 79 in petaluma and 85 in calistoga and east bay is 73 degrees in hercules and 75 in castro valley and 76 in fremont and walnut creek is 85 degrees and antioch is at 91 degrees and 92 in brentwood. lows you cannot expect to see mid-to-upper 50's and 62 degrees in antioch. my seven-day forecast shows we will have a warm-up this weekend, and we can see 100 degrees and possibly inland, and we cool things down when we hit tuesday into wednesday back to seasonal averages.

now, traffic and what is happening here, we will keep you posted on northbound 280 shut down between 101 and downtown san francisco. you are highly advised to use mass transit and we will have more on mass transit in a bit but northbound we to northbound 280 we have construction project there and mass transit, muni, all running on time. bart is on a sunday schedule today. ace rain has no service for fourth of july holiday. one of the largest fourth of july parades in the bay area takes place in alameda this morning. the parade kicks off at 10:00 at lincoln avenue and park street near the civic center in alameda and is one of the longest in the nation at three miles. driver should expect a lot of street closings. the parade will feature more than 170 threats and 2,500 people participating and michael finney is the grand marshall. >> there are quarter final

matches on the world cup on espn and espn2. at 9:00 a.m., it is france and germany on espn2. at 11:00 o'clock p.m., brazil and column why square -- colombia square off on espn and tomorrow, netherlands take on costa rica on espn. >> to watch the game on the big screen surrounded by people, san jose is the place to go, st. james park is the location. san francisco will not have a viewing for the quarter finals but civic center plaza will have world couple screening for july 9 semi finals. >> the reported sexual assault that has police on uc berkeley campus on alert. donald sterling is blocking the forced sale of his team with a legal maneuver. >> we are four hours away from the nathan hotdog eating contest

and a new bay area challenger ready to

people in boston enjoyed a magnificent fireworks show for a while. it was held yesterday rather than today because of the arrival of hurricane arthur. a severe thunderstorm caused miss to evacuate the show after a few hours. arthur is expected to make closest pass to to new england tone. we are only a couple of hours away from a fourth of july tradition. >> the ceremony took place yesterday for the hotdog eating contest on coney island. a san jose resident set a new resident, 9 hotdogs in ten

minutes. the goal this year? 72 hotdogs. >> and chest not will have competition from another san jose resident, matt stony. if a video showing himself seat heeding, he is only 30 pounds and chestnut was weighing in at 205 and this is at 11 o'clock a.m. opposition step network espn two. >> we have seen in the eating contests big senior not necessarily better. >> yikes! >> usually food in the morning make me hungry but that does not make me hungry. >> the grossest part is, the dunking in the water, the soggy burns. temperatures in the san francisco are in the mid-50's can possibly lower temperature closer to the coast but the rest of us in the mid-to-upper 50's and 61 in pittsburg for three days, then, a warm-up. it will look nice and sunny for

most of us and especially inland and hot for saturday. headed into sunday, 98, and 68 along the coast and it will be white the wide-spread inland and coastal temperatures and remaining warm on monday with a cool off on tuesday. we will head out to the roads where it will be holiday lite because this is in track so far. we have construction projects possibly causing a slow down but all in all it is looking clear. right now, we will see what is happening, our picture coming across the san mateo bridge headed out of hayward into foster city to make it into the peninsula we have very light conditions. eric and katie? >> uc berkeley police are wanting students of a groping incident on campus, a man sexually assaulted a woman while she brushed her teach in a a

he robbed his body against her inrepresently and there is no description of the man. >> lawyers for donald sterling tons want to make the lawsuit a federal case, a probate court trial next week will determine whether donald sterling hud be declared mentally incapacitated so his wife can sell the team. his lawyers say the airing of the medical information in the probate case violates federal privacy laws. donald sterling is forced out of the league because of racist commends he made that were recorded by his girlfriend. >> pentagon's expensive war many is officially grounded while evening nears investigate a mysterious fire in a high-tech jet. all 97 air force and navy f-35 lightning firefighter bombers are taken out of service after one burst into flames during take off in florida juan -- june

23. the investigation centers on the plane's single jet engine from what the and whitney at $125 million plus, it is the most expensive weapon systems in united states military history. another day, more regets from people involved with facebook secret emotional experiment. the second journal that published the study regrets how it was handled. the proceeding of the national academy of science say the project may have violated principles of academic research. they pointed out, too, as a for profit company, facebook had in obligation to adhere to those scientific principles. they have come under fire for manipulate the news feeds of users to study emotional reaction to posts. >> washington, dc, is ready for a big fourth of july concert at the capitol as long as one visitor doesn't show. that is hurricane arthur.

this was as close as you could get to the capitol rehearsal that was closed because of weather concerns. storms rolled through early in the day firsting the capitol police to evacuate the area. still, the show is expected to go on as landed if the current forecast doesn't hold up, officials say the show will be postponed until tomorrow night. >> so far, so good, as crews work around-the-clock to replace the hinge on interstate 280 with a traffic headache drives are warned to expect headed into san francisco. >> the big stress test facing v.t.a. as they handle game day traffic for the new levi stadium north carolina is getting splattered by hurricane arthur with a report

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. 5:00 a.m. it is friday. the fourth of july. what more could you ask for? >> i am kristen katie marzullo r kristen sze. here is leyla gulen. hello, everyone, we will start with radar satellite. if you are waking up with us at 5:00 a.m. we are waking up to patchy fog along the coast and it will remain confined to the coast because we have a ridge of high pressure that is going to be warming things up the next few days. can you see how clear it is at the airport. you can expect the morning fog to be