think it has anything to do with it they have no suspects. there are no arrests. there is no known motive. there is evidence that is fire happened but the cars have been towed. >> students are planning to protest at the university of california board of regents meeting in san francisco. hundreds rallied to profit the fee hike. a similar protest was held on cal campus with the board voting today to raise tuition by 5 percent each year for five years. governor brown and lt. governor are planning to attend. >> oakland unified school district will unveil the plan for improve the schools the next

half dozen years. we got a preview of the plan. by 2020 the goal is to raise graduatation from 67 to 85 percent and increase percentage of third graders reading at grade level from 38 to 85 percent. he wants to best pay for teachers and make sure they feel appreciated to stay and grow their careers in oakland. he became the new superintendent in july. a san jose pastor is recovering after being attacked outside his home in san jose. the pastor donald fareed was attacked when he and his wife returned home. many come to the area to use the stares -- stairs but you not allowed at night. the couple saw a car the "no parking," and said you

might want to move so you do not get a ticket. he came after me and he mit me with a pipe if his 50. >> you saw the injuries. the 52-year-old suffered a black eye and brossed -- the pastor and his wife were then to the ground. the attackers and the four friends then drove away. >> a driver is in custody after leashing the c.h.p. on a high speed chase in the east bay. the car moves through traffic in 80 with speeds up to 100 miles per hour. officers say they initially tried to stop the driver for speeding and the chase continued on the 580 before ending at 73rd and look wood in east oakland. >> highway patrol is trying to determine why a driver lost control of an s.u.v. causing a deadly three-car crash on interstate 680. it happened near martinez

yesterday. you can see the overturned s.u.v. and the backup resulting. a 66-year-old passenger died. the driver tried to change lanes when the accident happened. lanes were closed for two hours backing up traffic for miles. >> a laboratory technician is recovering from a chemical few after a bucket of ly. fell over and spilled. the lye burned through the floor into a laboratory below and dripped on the deck in addition's hands. she was taken to the hospital and the building was evacuated. >> this is great news, so great i could pinch you. >> really? >> crab lovers, come and get it. the season just opened and it is a bumper crop. >> the catch is so good there is a battle neck of boats waiting to unload. here are the details. >> since the beginning of the

commercial crab season on saturday an estimated 400 boats were delivering a steady stream of crashes at pier 45. >> we are not getting much sleep. >> many boats are parked waiting to deliver. crews are pumping in oxygen to keep the cash -- catch alive. >> we do not have facilities to unload anymore. >> what are you doing? >> keep them alive until the market can take them. >> doesn't look like there is much crab in crescent or eureka so everyone and their brother came down for this. >> the skipper kelly from fort bragg hauled in 30,000 pounds in they days which is plenty of overtime for juan who scraps rubber bands around the they get $3 a pound and when they are shipped and cracked and

boiled the price $10.99. >> a lot of good crashes crabs and they are bigger. >> right now, lovers of crab are encouraged to "come and get it." >> it is 4:35. the san jose city council is taking a step to help low-and-middle class workers afford rent in silicon valley voting last night to put a new fee on developers for new rental buildings and the $17 per square foot fee applies to projects built after june of 2016 less than other bay area cities. the money will build cheap are housing and is expected to generate $24 million. a year. >> officials in santa clara want to know why their county was the slow of the to report election results. the board has requested a report by january explaining why santa

clara was the last of the nine counties to finish counting all the votes from the november 4 election. among the problems was a glitch that preventing people from see updated results until 9:30 with the complete tally not in until the next morning and a manager resigned the day before correction. >> there could be a slowing of the project that was to begin tonight to fix the span of the bridge for six day as week until february with joints replaced that were installed in 1936. >> we just beat the brain -- rain this morning. >> little bit of sprinkles

just enough to get the windshield wipers turned on. >> we are going to be wet, all of us, by 7:00. the showers trillion through noon until 4:00. the temperatures are barely out of the 60 at times and out of the 60's and by 7:00 it should be dry. now we have the day planner. we will talk about what will happen the next few minutes by looking at live doppler hd you can see a light to moderate shower along 380 up 280 and 101 and daly city and san francisco. across the golden gate bridge we have light rate. we have a light to moderate shower from sonoma to 37 toward vallejo or american canyon. this is heading toward slay let and american condition wherein and napa and the storm we are seeing in san francisco will

head across the bay bridge soon and what is moving into the marine head lands will hit the bridge in next 20 minutes as the water is just now hitting our commute. >> after it hand rained for a while the oil buildup is making it slick. a nasty cocktail to get you in an accident. be careful. >> good morning, everyone, as we look at walnut creek southbound 680 rounding your way to highway 24 traffic is clear. i see flashing lights. i am not sure why. we will make a call and see what is happening, maybe a spinout or other possibility, a stalled vehicle, something of that nature. this is a bay area in john we are looking at clear conditions but you can see the green is an indication of where rain could affect your commute and the cells of yellow indicating a heavy are rain.

580 westbound tracy to dublin is 25 minutes and highway 4 westbound antioch to concord is 14 minutes and we have wet weather coming down in san rafael to san francisco at unanimous minutes. secret surveillance: the uc police officers who claim their boss eavesdropped on them. even in the bathroom. >> barbie is venturing into computer engineers sending girls the wrong message. >> a look outside right now...there we go, san francisco international airport has rain coming in. the clouds could make things late at sfo the check in with your carrier this morning. we will leave up the pictures we will leave up the pictures during the commercial so you ar

>> covering santa rosa, berkeley , san jose and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> here comes the rain. a look at the embarcadero in san francisco the raindrops are coming down. how quickly things change with the system. >> meteorologist mike nicco will tell you what is going on in a few minutes. >> you can see on live doppler hd what is going on with the weather app free on apple app and google play. we have more information at abc7news.com/app. >> in the news, security is tight outside a synagogue in jerusalem the site of a deadly terrorist attack. worshippers are praying in the same rooms where four has been -- rabbis were shocked and hacked to death the three were americans and another was a british rabbi who emigrated. a police officer died of the

wounds. one shell ripped through a beneficial. the attackers were killed in a shoot out with police. israel officials promise add harsh response to the attack. >> a new lawsuit claims that the uc campus police department installed a surveillance video to chronicle officer's private diagnoses at irvine with reporting devices put in office and halls and bathrooms and power will enough to pick up connections through walls and recorded everything you would expect to discuss in a work environment including finances, regularships and work conditions. the lawsuit seeks unspecified damage. >> a barbie book is causing controversy showing barbie venturing into computer engineers. >> a few pages in she needs technical expert from her male friends. here is the reaction. >> barbie wanted to be a

computer engineer. in this book she powers up the laptop hoping to create a video game but admits she needs her friends, steven and brian, to milk it happen. she get as virus and the gays come to the rescue. >> we showed the back to parent not impressed. >> barbie is behind the times so to this case that could be happening. >> she said it is taught book she would let either of her children leave. >> a girl can probably fix her computer by herself. what do you think? >> pretty sexist. >> it is fast are if brian and i help. are you kidding me? >> the filmmaker says software engineering is a male-dominated world and the documentary "code debugging the gender gap," seeks to. power women but adds the book does not help. >> they are trying to fit in

with current issues but they are reaffirming a stereotype that a girl cannot do it on her own. it is wrong. >> it sells if $4.99 on amazon and has negative compensates like "please, please, please do not buy this book." we reached out to the makers of barbie for comment but there has been no response. big changes are coming to the busiest corridor in san francisco, transportation leaders aproved a long await bus rapid transit project along van ness avenue which calls for converting one of the streets let lanes to bus only in both directions from mission to lombard. when the project is completed there are no longer left turns along the two mile stretch of van ness and the plan will eliminate 100 packing spaces. construction on the three-year project is underway next year with the goal to reduce bus travel time by a third. today, san francisco's glide

memorial church gets a special delivery in time for thanksgiving and donating a drunk load of fresh organic produce to glide as part of the holiday season of giving. fores say the vegetables are grown using compost from the green program. their dough nation is part of the effort to reduce waste and encourage a farm to table practice bringing fresh and healthy food to those in need. >> abc 8 and disany will give $75,000 to local feeding america food bags but they need more help. one in six friends and neighbors in the bay area are hungry each month and tomorrow spencer christian is in santa rosa at the redwood empire food bank. we hope you will give where you live. you do not have to leave the house you can make a donation by texting "feed," to the number on your screen >> i was at trader gentleman's

in san mateo where though are trying to break the record of collecting food and they just beat the rain. >> how did they do? >> great, they are on track to >> great, they are on track to beating the record. >> it is still dry in san mateo curing to matt but the rain line is north of that in san bruno and north into san francisco where we have moderate rain moving through bay shore and brisbane and the bayview district back to richmond and sunset to north beach and across the golden gate bridge. heading north you can see golden gate bridge is getting wet. so is mill valley and sausalito and the leading edge is right up into san rafael and heading into novato. the richmond-san rafael bridge will be wet soon if not already. in emeryville to piedmont and oakland to alameda,

light-to-moderate rain is going to head through piedmont to lafayette and orinda so watch out, 24 will get wet. big picture, the showers are moving law and light-to-moderate and more showers offshore. that is the story today it will look like this at times. the spray is kicking up from the north bay. you can see the graphs in the embarcadero already looking like creeks. the waves of showers and cooler today but a brief break before a faster rain hits us tomorrow and wet on saturday but dry outdoor. temperatures are upper 50's and the north bay is low-to-mid 60's for the rest of the us. tonight, it will be milder but mostly cloudy upper 40's to mid-50's. three storms with high pressure

no longer undercutting system. you can see with the cold front we are going do have waves of showers through the afternoon hours and next system is fast moving for thursday and we will get heavier rain but it will come if a short are timeframe and saturday's system is longer with, hopefully, more rain. it will rain on saturday. we may as well get a lot if it is ruining the saturday. 7:00 this morning, scattered showers through noon. through 5:00. it tapers overnight through tomorrow. tomorrow morning rush hour is easier than this morning. 9:00 rain moving through person dough send and by 5:00 it is stay per asking by 7:00 tomorrow the rain is over. we will get .1" and up to three quarters in the north bay and we will double that on saturday. friday is slightly warmer after

tomorrow being the coolest. saturday is cooler with the rain. monday and tuesday we have increasing sun and warmer weather. >> it is looking damp as the richmond san rafael toll plaza with cars coming in and the road is looking wet. so for we have not had problems here. as we move further to the east we have this accident. it is causing delays away great highway 4. westbound 80 you do have an accident with everything on the shoulder. people are slow down to pass by. the area shaded in green is where we are showing the commute affected westbound or southbound. in san jose it is dry. we have a construction project southbound 101 to the northbound 280 connection closed until 5 o'clock. another ten minutes there will

be detours. facebook is releasing a new app for groups. >> do you think you are a fast texter? you can see who set the record for the fastest text message. >> facebook has released a new stand alone app that allows users to conduct with various communities without going through the main facebook app. >> whatsapp has discovery with introduction of end to end encryption and some droid users are seeing the rollout that could take several months to complete. star public and at&t offering wireless phone charging at 200 san francisco bay area stores which will, expand to other areas of the country. brazil teen has a new record for the fastest text message. >> it took 17 seconds to type this. 26 word text that landed him in the book of world records.

you probably cannot read it in 17 seconds. >> impressive skill. >> kids these days... think before you pump, a warning message drivers may see at berkeley gas stations. airlines are known for their fees but this takes it to a new level with sky-high charges a passenger is facing. on this rainy morning this is the golden gate bridge all wet. you can keep tabs on the rain and traffic through the entire and traffic through the entire commercial [

>> the city of berkeley is considering global warming labels on gasoline pumps throughout the city warning people that burning fuel contributes to global warming part of a plan to reduce emissions in the city by 33

percent in the next six years. advocates say the labels could make a difference in reducing carbon footprint. opponents say they violate the first amendment. san francisco is drafting a similar ordinance. the warriors are celebrating the holiday with 200 underprivileged family and children when they were to take back a bus during rush hour so they decided to ride bark to oakland, the whole team. pictures were posted on social media posing with other teammate on the train with a bunch of stunned but thrilled passengers. can you imagine that? they stuck and they have to take pictures and sign autographs. true. mike has where the rain is. >> san rafael is black and white showing the rain on 101 southbound toward the golden gate bridge or northbound dope -- deeper into marin.

at sfo it was raining and we will have delays. they will let us know in an hour. cold front is to the west and the rain will move through three quarters of the state through fresno and santa barbara with snow in lake tahoe. my lake tahoe seven-day forecast: rain, light snow at 1-3" tomorrow and then rain on saturday. >> this is the richmond-san rafael toll plaza looking more dry than now. the drops forming on lens and the streets are saturated. be careful. >> drive time traffic shows 80 albany to the maze is only four minutes. 880 fremont to san jose is 14 minutes. 280 northbound from 101 to cupertino is 11 minutes.

it is 4:56. the national security administration is free to collect your 15 records. thanks to congress. the senate block add bill to end the collections of americans known numbers the signature effort of president obama rein in domestic surveillance video which will they have been storing since shortly after 9/11. a man from canada had a bill for a flight skyrocketed after he was slammed with an unexpected fee. unexpected fee. >> it is a charge of $ jeremy racked up this for wi-fi on a singapore airlines might. he is seen in a youtube video saying he bought a plan

for $29 and visited 155 when pages and downloaded a power point presentation and he felt asleep for the rest of flight. the wi-fi provider says it shows passengers how were data they have used. he says he still has to pay up. >> don't fall asleep with the wi-fi on. >> i see a go fund me page starting up. >> how bay area police are gearing up for protests when a grand square reaches the decision in the controversial police shooting death of a missouri teen. a year's worth of snow in a matter of showers and the misery facing people in an east coast city and the basketball team tweeting while being trapped in the because on a snowed in freeway. >> here we have rain. that is making the drive more difficult. we leave you now with abc7 now and this is, of course, the

oakland maze headed to the bay bridge and traffic is slow bridge and traffic is slow because of slippery roads.