at the scene gathering the details with a report at the top of the hour. a scandal at the san francisco zoo. the employees union is holding a news conference today after zookeepers discovered management may have been listening in on private conversations. our reporter is at the zoo with more details. good morning. a union representative said that employee radios were used to eavesdrop on workers. the radios belonged to the zoo executive director and the vice president of operations. they include a microphone feature that allows them to pick up the private conversations, a union representative for the zookeepers is calling for a thorough express. he said it was a non-union member of management. >> one of our union stewards said i ever heard the director of operations and a couple of buddies listening in on the conversation of another manager making fun of him.

>> the zoo's executive director is denying they ever spied on employees with the radios. instead, that feature was there to assist with emergencies. she said that it was disabled anyway. the union is holding a news conference later today and if any laws were broken they will seek legal action. >> we will cover that. developing news in hair a woman and her baby are in critical condition after they were hit by an s.u.v. the c.h.p. said the woman pushing her one-year-old in a stroller was struck in a crosswalk by a white i at 7:00 last night the she was trying for cross the northbound on-ramp and the vehicles speed up to get on freeway there. they were rubbed for the hospital with major head injuries. >> speed at this time is under investigation and we are looking for additional witnesses may have been in the area and we

will put those together with the driver's statement. >> the cause is under investigation but the streetlights that shines over the crosswalk was out and it may have been a tripping factor. c.h.p. said the driver of the s.u.v. and cooperating and they ruled out drugs or alcohol as factors. >> the five-year-old girl is in the hospital with life threat being injuries afterening -- after being hit by an s.u.v. in san francisco. the girl and her mother were in the crosswalk and the mother is expected to be okay. the 86-year-old s.u.v. driver is cooperating with politician. >> one of the three suspects charged with murdering an oakland mother during a shoot out has a three hearing. police say the 19-year-old anthony simms admitted to being involved in a march 19 gun battle that killed a 30-year-old who just packed her car on chestnut and walking her kids hope. she died while shielding her two

children. two other suspects were arraign on tuesday on homicide charges. police chief is expected to attend a community meeting tonight to discuss safety concerns in the wake of the shooting. it will be at the willie keys recreation center on williams street. the san francisco supervisor is holding a hearing with the fire department and building inspectors to discuss recent fires in the mission district after three huge fires over seven months, buildings have been checked. "san francisco chronicle" reports the inspectors are asking the city to take legal action against three landlords if trouble for violations including nonworking smoke detectors and blocked fire escapes. the meeting is at 2:00 p.m. at city hall. >> safety officials from cal investigate an accident at construction site of the new apple complex in cupertino. the tire department said it happened after 3:00 yesterday afternoon. a worker was trapped beneath a large building block and no word on the extent of the worker's

injuries. the site will be the new headquarters for apple opening in late 2016. a new report fines santa clara county pace of job growth is the strongest in at least 14 years. according to data released by the employment development department total jobs are growing at 5.2 percent and officials say the yearly job growth rate nor santa clara county is the best since john of -- january of 2011 when they were added at 5.4 percent rate. >> new plans on developing a privately owned golf course in martinez with the city approval letting voters decide what to do with the old pine meadows golf course next year in the general election. voters decide whether to allow 100 homes to be the on the 27-acre property approved by january or reverse the zoning and turn it into open space. a group called "friends of pine meadows," gathered 3000 signatures for a referendum. last night both sides made

their case for putting the issue to the voters. >> our open space and parks are essential to our quality of life and we want to ask this city council to preserve our open space and not turn it into housing. >> do i believe in open space? you bet. but i sure as heck don't want it to get to the point that the government or the people can come in and take my property, tell me what i can and what i cannot did. >> the owners say they cannot hold on until next year's general election and will likely close the course by month's end. >> governor brown will announce $1 billion emergency plan to deal with the state's drought. this will mark the 2nd consecutive year which the legislature has had to act on emergency drought relief. in 2014 he signed $687 drought package that offered paid to communities with severe shortages and food and house assistance to those harmed by the drought.

according to the legislation it includes money for upgrading farm equipment, water supply projects and emergency food for farm workers out of work because of the drought. >> it is 4:36 and yesterday turned out to be mild. what about today? >> it will be warmer. we are starting off mild in san francisco. whether you are park presidio at june or ocean beach bay vow at 52 portrero hill, sunny side, downtown at 53 owe through the ferry building at 55 degrees. the rest of other neighbors show 50 in belmont and union city and walnut creek and fairfield at 51 and richmond is 52 and pittsburg and 59 and everyone else is in the mid-to-upper 40s and san leandro and pleasanton and american can wherein. now, what will happen today from the east bay cameras, you can see the dear conditions over the bay right now. we will have a passing high should or two. that is about it. otherwise, a very bright day. at the coast we start off with

fog and headed toward the afternoon hours you will see increasing sunshine. 60 to 62 for you and inland, 72 in petaluma to young if brentwood and around the bay, 68 to 75 degrees. moving forward through the weekend we are going to see increasing clouds and temperatures that will be about 2-6 degrees cooler but steady and low-to-mid 70s away from the coast and low-to-mid 60 and a stray shower possible on friday night and the rest of us on sunday evening. that is ahead in the seven-day outlook. sue? >> happy thursday everyone. we look at the bay bridge toll plaza and it is light heading into san francisco with no delays. love to see that, no metering lights and it happened 5:45 or so and we will check in an hour. 101 in san jose headlights are headed in the northbound direction and this is the 880 overcrossing and traffic is looking good and fairly light for thursday drive. we have road work still in the lanes until 5:00 this morning northbound and southbound 880

san leandro between marina and davis and the park presidio they are working this morning when i came through at 3:30 near the pam last of fine arts picking it up in a few minutes. east bay antioch woman got a surprise when she came home to find a dog on her roof. >> he is trap on the roof of a home. firemen try to put a leash to get him down and the homeowner said she has in idea how the dog got on the roof or who the dog belongs to. >> i have no doubt it is possible there could have been one of my dogs because they are mischievous and they like to get out so i thought it could be but when i saw the picture of the dog...that was not my dog.

>> maybe he was chasing a cat. she said she is glad the firefighters got the dog down before he got hurt. >> stealing from a church, even a preschool. next the sneaky way police say this woman did it. >> look up in the sky: the giant s' mascot and other celebrities will bounce off a san francisco high-rise today. >> we are keeping weather and traffic up through the entire commercial break is are in the know as you b the volkswagen jetta is really fun-to-drive. go for it. okay. wow... woohoo! i'm dreaming... pinch me. no, not while you're driving. and, right now, you can get a one-thousand-dollar volkswagen credit bonus on jetta models. seriously, pinch me. it's not a dream.

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>> covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> stay vigilant is the message from an antioch resident would called police and filmed his neighbor's home after seeing two suspicious men go inside with empty bags. watch. the officer waits with gun drawn and runs after the two coming out of the house hands full of

loot. one drops to the ground and is arrested and the other take off through the fence. >> officials are reminding the public to be vigilant deeding with a spike in buck laters. according to the sheriff the city sauer 42 burglaries in the move john and february of this year compared to less than 20 during the same time last year. officials say the formation of a burglary suppression unit allowed authorities to make a number of arrests and solve 20 burglary and theft cases. >> you may not thing of 70s-year-old when looking for a chief but that is what palo alto police found in a woman who surprised everyone by stealing from a church a preschool and many more. >> like a church is our last sacred police. thank you did not stop the 70-year-old from stealing from trinity lutheran church not once but twice.

>> numbers noticed some discrepancies in the counting of the offerings. >> they set up surveillace cameras that caught hayes in the act, palo alto police say hayes set off the alarm during the latest burglary an hour later she was arrested in downtown palo alto. during a search, hayes was if under to have stolen documents from a los altos preschool. they had no idea it happened until the police called. >> a search hayes home we vealed -- revealed more evidence. >> there were plastic bags full of keys. >> police think she had 80 keys that allowed her to get into various businesses without anyone knowing. >> a lot of the armies she is going to are buildings that are social service agencies. >> two days after hay posted bail she was at it again found defying to pawn two guitars in san francisco. police posted the pictures on the facebook payment and hopes of finding the owners.

>> an unusual case. >> it is not clear how hayes obligated all of the keys. the f.b.i. is telling police departments to search for links to robert further in their cold cases which include a woman who disappeared from the bay area in 1997 and her father wants her case re-opened. robert further lived in san francisco at the time but police have no evidence linking him to her disappearance. >> however, police in eureka think he may be connected to this disappearance of a teen in 1997. there is a sketch of the suspect in that case and at the time police considered robert durst a suspect. the police chief said he wants to talk with investigators on the current case against robert durst. >> we are certainly interested in any information that may or anyway not come out of interviews with mr. further. >> he now is on suicide watch. he will be extradicted to california to face charges of murdering former bay area

resident susan berman in los angeles 15 years ago. >> target has reached a possible settlement in the 2013 credit car data breach that compromised more than 40 million customers' personal information. documents reveal the chain has agreed do put $10 million into a settlement fund each customer is eligible for up to $10,000. the settlement was submitted today for a federal judge to approve. >> today and tomorrow you will see a scene reminiscent of spiderman at the hyatt hotel in downtown san francisco. aought second annual outward bound city skyline challenge video from last year shows giants mascot lucill mascot will join the city officials and others in rappeling down the historic building in a fundraising to get low income students involved in outdoor learning activities. they raised $1,600 and it starts at 1:00 o'clock p.m. today.

with a link to the video, go to abc7news.com. >> you never know who will be in the as mascot cost dew . >> you never know. >> there is a playoff. >> we have nothing too out of control and we have high pressure and on live doppler hd you can see there is not a cloud to be found but for at the coast where we have a little bit of fog around santa rosa. look at the winds less than five miles per hour until you get to fairfield at nine miles per hour so it will be a gorgeous day and our warmest day this week, although it is the last day of winter. you can see the plagues on the ferry building -- well you cannot because they are not moving. we are in the still of night as

we head through 4:46. warm and sunny this last winter day and cooler air and more clouds tomorrow through sunday with a chance of showers friday might and a better chance for all of us on sunday but it will be light less than .1" if you get anything. the big player again is too much tree pollen, mulberry and oak and pine and sycamore which is way you could be sneezing. we will start in the santa clara valley and we. get nearly 80 in gill road and mid-to-upper 70s and santa cruz is 74 again and san jose about 75 degrees. on the peninsula, we will go from 75 in los altos and redwood city to nearly seven in millbrae at 69 and it will turn sunny this afternoon at the coast with low-to-mid 60s and upper 60 around downtown and south san francisco and extent in sausalito. and santa rosa is warmest at 78 and the east bay sure everyone is in the low-to-mid 70s like

fremont and castro valley and hercules at 75 degrees. we will have mid- and low clouds along the coast mid-40's to low 50s. the cold front was stationery yesterday because of high pressure which is over us. we will reflect all the storms to the north one on friday night is the least likely to cause us any chance of precipitation and the one on monday will come further to the south and it will bring us our cooler weeks ago, low-to-upper 60. sue? >> good morning, everyone, off to a great start this thursday morning and walnut creek, south 680 making the turn to the 24 junction, no delays here, and the drive all the way to the dublin/pleasanton interchange is looking good. the zipper truck is moving the movable barrier on the golden gate bridge as we speak so you will have four lanes in the

southbound, two in the northbound direction and fog free and a good ride off the waldo grain westbound is bumping up out of tracy and road work northbound 280 in the san jose area between lawrence expressway and the boulevard will be picked up shortly. thinking of joining the electric car crowd? the special incentive pg&e wants it offer you. >> drink up scientists are working to make wine more healthy and get rid of hangovers at the same time. >> you can watch live weather and traffic through the entire commercial break.

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florida. >> we want to be there. >> exactly. wish you were here, and wish we were there. >> the last day of winter, enjoy it. >> more news, a close call for a family in washington state after a boiler exploded through a wall into a playroom. and a nanny camera caught the explosion that threw nails and superment glue across the playroom. a man and his son were in there minutes before but no one was hurt. experts say that boilers and hot water heaters are prone to explosion if pressure is too high. the valves need to be checked each day. >> a big win for tesla, the emergency golf has signed a measure to allow the direct sale of tesla and other cars in the state. new law comes a year after new jersey issued regulations requiring cars to be sold through dealerships and tesla markets the cars directly to consumers and the tesla c.e.o.

protests the new jersey regulations last year, and we will require companies to sell director to consumers to have a service facility. >> if you own an electric car you could have another rebate coming your way with one time rebates to customers with electric vehicles. that will mean a lot of happy people in the bay area because me percent of the america's electric car sales are here in california. if the estate approves the rebate it could go out as soon as next year. the amount has yet-to-be-determined. another reason for us to be jealous. i am envious of their parking spaces right, in the parking lots, with the charger... >> now you get some money back. a if deal. a lot of people are looking at the miami live picture but people are jealous of our weather. >> 84 there but they have mo

humidity. we don't. >> at sfo it is clear. we do not have the fog at the cost pushing through the san bruno gap. keep your fingers crosses of the san francisco is 69 and six degrees warmer-than-average and the rest of us are 8 to 10 degrees above where we should be and we could have a record high today of 64 at lake tahoe, and 80's through the central valley and 64 in monterey and low-to-mid 70s around san diego and los angeles. safe travels. >> a beautiful morning and beautiful ride so far so good. here is a look at the bay bridge, the upper deck, the new eastern span from emeryville camera across the bay and the tail lights are headed into san francisco and boy, it looks beautiful this morning, no delays here or at the tom toll and if you have a commute in now is a great time. we have light traffic through san rafael as you make color way from novato to israel san rafael and everyone is at the limit and road work in the lanes and petaluma is ongoing widening

project. >> ohio woman with prosthetic leg got a road note over a handicap parking spot. ashley lost her leg in an accident and the apartment complex created a handicap parking spot for her and two days after getting the spot, someone was packed there with no sign. she left a float and got a nasty note. >> never place your hands on my car again. second if you harm my i will be there. >> she posted a picture of note on face book that has been shared. she filed a grievance with police. management of the apartment complex say they have yet decide on a course of action. >> president obama is floating the idea of making it mandatory to vote. he said mandatory voting will counter act the influence of money in politics. he said everyone voted in the united states it would completely change the political

map. less than 37 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterm election in november. >> prince charles and camilla are ready for another packed day in washington, dc. today the royal couple will meet with rebound at the white house before attending a number of other events. they had a busy decor touring the capitol. den years ago prince charles and camilla tied the knot and visited the united states together as newlyweds. >> imagine a wine into for your health and cuts your chances of a hangover. >> that is what researchers at university of illinois are work on engineering a year to boost the chemical in red wine that lowers cholesterol and lowers the toxins that cause the hang years. scientists say they are still perfecting the process. >> the cause could be the cure? something like that? >> hair of the dog.

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broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good thursday morning. thanks for joining us. i am meteorologist mike nicco here -- i am matt keller here for eric thomas. >> i am kristen sze and sue hall is here as well. >> great day to watch the tournament or go outside and watch the sun. >> good morning, everyone a little bit of fog along the coast and otherwise we are off to a clear start and cool again. a little bit of haze out there too, with 46 to 56 and dress for the same type of temperatures you had yesterday during the commute. by noon we are looking at high clouds and sunshine 62 do 72 inland and consistent at 78 inland by 4:00, and it will be dry this evening at 56 at coast and a quick cooling, but, still 70s inland in the evening hours. >> a tournament is going open? really? >> would knew? >> a little madness. >> how is the madness on the road? >> not bad. if you have