live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> welcome. good morning. i am kristen sze. we are in for wild weather. >> i am cheryl jennings. in the sierra look at this: a much needed dusting of snow this morning. enough snow that chains required on i-80 at donor. >> light showers in the bay area that could intensify into the afternoon commute. two areas have seen rain this morning include palo alto on 280. >> meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm including a funnel cloud in mike?

in sonoma county? >> yes, this morning active early morning. we were on top of it. look at live doppler hd at 5:54 this morning. we had the report of a funnel cloud and the storm probably initiated it was a little bit to the west right there. also a lot of reports of hail about parkway-sized hail or baby parkway sized and it came through fremont at 7:25 and you could sea a little bit of hail. the intense difficult has dropped. the low is still spinning. silt going to spin another bit of energy our way this afternoon. it will not be so strong as the one this morning but if we get sunshine today it will add enough energy for another round of scattered showers and storms. more on that ahead. >> rain is in the forecast. the chance of it impacting your commute is there. remember you can track the

showers any time on live doppler hd. just download the abc7 weather app that is free on the apple app and google play with more information at abc7news.com/app. >> san jose police are asking for everyone to use social media to help find the man in the video you are about to see in the next 48 hours. he is accused of chasing a 13-year-old girl into her home and attacking her. look at this surveillance video, on tuesday in her home. it was a terrifying scene. police say she was extremely brief and our reporter joins us from west san jose. unbelieve average, matt. >> yes it is unbelieve average. police are also calling this young girl a survivor. her attacker is still on the loose. they say he is bold committing the crimes in the middle of the day. now they want to stop him before he strikes again. may 5 was just like any other day for this 13-year-old girl walking from school to west h her west san jose home. this surveillance video shows

the danger following her, the middle school student first noticed the man when he approached her on the front porch, told her he was lost and asked her name and age. then started asking inappropriate questions. she tells us what happened next. >> i decided to run inside of the house because i had unlocked it and i tried to slam the door on him but i couldn't so he got inside. >> the next image from the home surveillance video show the man grabbed her while struggling and fights back slamming her hand into his face. he backed off and looks out the door and the middle schooler walks away from him obviously december filed and she said she tried to grab something harp or heavy to throw if he came at her again and he walked a few steps toward me and i thought he was going to grab me again but he just turns around and looked out the door and walks away. >> the young girl ran into her parents' closet, locked the door

and text her parents. her dad called 9-1-1 the police arrived and discovered the same man was a suspect in another attempted assault on april 2. he followed a 28-year-old woman into a restroom at a market at saratoga in west san jose. that woman also, fought off the attacker. for the 13-year-old victim and her family a new reality. life will not seem as safe anymore. >> they should be able to walk home from school. they should not be kept captive because of a sick person. >> i am happy i am safe. i am still...really scared and...low on trusting the outside world anymore. both attacks happened here in west san jose police do not know where he lives or works and are everyone in the bay area to keep an eye out for him.

>> crews are searching for a father and his two young kids who are missing after going catching in a remote area of the sierra. the 41-year-old dad and his wife-year-old son and three-year-old daughter were supposed to return by now last seen camping in lake tahoe national forest and are driving a 2015 health. they have plenty of food and water. happening today, one of the men convicted in the beating of san francisco giants fan bryan stow is hoping a judge will have mercy on him. sanchez will be in court this afternoon in los angeles. he wants a federal judge to spare him from another long prison sentence for an unrelated gun crime. sanchez is serving eight years for the 2011 attack outside dodgers stadium that left bryan stow with permanent brain damage. sanchez was reprimand by the judge for smirking during sentencing. now in a letter to the judge he writes and i quote

"unfortunately mr. stow got hurt and i extend my deepest sympathy." this unexpected event was an accident and i pray the court to show mercy. >> bart commuters encountered more delays this morning but nowhere near yesterday's problems caused by track problems. amy? >> they had to off load a drain because of problems this morning and during that mass chaos of people trying to get off the train, the station agent said that a woman here had a seizure. so they had to help and respond to that and this has the agencies and passengers wondering what is next? >> trouble struck bart again this morning. look at this picture of people evacuating the 24th street station in san francisco today. there was smoke coming from a train. officials asked everyone to get off of it until they could clear

the smoke. they got it rolling again but it caused an eight-minute delay. >> i didn't have a panicked reaction but you worry a little bit because you are on a train. >> the issue was a minor speed dump compared to yesterday. a 10" section of track broke and bart had to single track through san francisco for six hours. >> yesterday it was rough usually sit 55 minutes to get here and year it took about...maybe an hour and a half. >> as if the broken track wasn't enough a power outage hit three east bay stations and the giants played at home frustrated bart customers tried to find other ways hope but found long lines and huge crowds wherever they turned. >> muni was taking quite a while too. just that wait was long. i was getting impatient. >> bart is trying to figure how

to deal with an aging system. officials did fought want to comment this morning saying they do not know yet if the track broke because of age. while they investigate, their loyal passengers say though will adjust. >> it is public transportation. you have to be prepared. it is always better than being on the freeway. >> a spokesman hopes to have answers today why the track broke and is expecting to get briefed later today. >> thanks. for bart passengers this wreck this is no service between the fruitvale and coliseum stations all day on saturday and sunday. a rare replacement project would close the tracks between the two stations and a bus bridge is set up but they warn it will cause significant delays. >> the san mateo and hayward bridge will close down for maintenance tomorrow night at 10:00 until monday morning at

5:00 a.m. the traffic is moving along fine now but you can imagine what the weekday will be like. the trues will treat the decked structure, with a similar situation over memorial day weekend. >> an appeals court puts congress on-the-spot over the practice of checking your phone records. >> devastation in the midwest after a series of major twisters hits the region. hard. you will see the damage. >> stealing a kiss. from a prince. fans give a grandfather well to harry on the last day

>> federal afeels court ruled the government practice of collecting american phone records exceeds what congress allows. the panel handed down the decision a few hours ago. the case was brought by the american civil liberties union. a lower court sided with the government calling the data collection "legal." the appeals court sided with the aclu but declined to block the program saying congress should make that decision. >> the series of storms in the midwest killed a woman. the destruction is enormous. the governor of oklahoma has issued a state of emergency in 12 counties. our reporter joins us with new details. >> police say a 42-year-old woman drowned in her underground storm shelter. at least a dozen others were injured. today businesses are without power homes are flattened and the midwest is bracing for even

more extreme weather. >> here we go. >> sirens playered, drivers dodged debris. >> we have a roof that flew through the air. >> tornadod tear through the midwest. >> in oklahoma kansas nebraska and texas we could hear the sound of a train. our ears start the popping because of the air pressure. we went down do our locker room. >> the great plains also saw flooding and golfball sized hail. this is video from oklahoma city, one of the squares hit especially hard. 8" of rain fell prompting a flash flood emergency. south of the city, more than a dozen people were injured when a twister hit a mobile home park. >> we had a 17-year-old male victim trapped and we had to lit the rv off the gentleman. >> houses were destroyed. cars were overturned.

in daylight you get a closer look at the destruction. some buildings were reduced to a pile of rubble. >> the destruction in this specific area of the difficult is worst than expected. i watched the coverage last night when the tornado hit the area and i got here today...it is totally destroyed. >> emergency rescue groups like the red cross are helping storm victims fine temporary shelter. >> the national weather service we said more than 50 tornadoes were reported in the latest outbreak across the midwest. >> and meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast. expect some more snow. snow. later today. >> listen to this was it really a royal insult, the zoo in japan apologizing profusely for the name after who they named their new monkey. >> well, treat mom to a mother's day to remember with great

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>> covering benicia, san ramon san mateo and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. fans, a big reminder the warriors take on the grizzlies this weekend. game three is saturday at 5:00, right here on abc7: followed by the "after the game." join sports director and reporter mike shumann in memorial first live. >> prince harry wrap up the

month long tour of duty in australia. harry delivered sydney a farewell kiss before visiting an old army friend who is hospitalized and turned down a marriage proposal. okay...the royal has been stationed in australia as part of the service with the britain army. before he returns to the uc he. spend a week in new zealand visiting locals there and will arrive in britain may 17 where he will meet his newborn niece princess charlotte for the very first time. >> keep your options open. >> apparently not everyone wants an animal named after them. a zoo in japan is apologizing for naming the newborn monkey charlotte. what? this cutie shares the same name as the newest princess. shortly after officials announced the winner the zoo was flooded with angry phone calls and mails saying it was disrespectful to the morning family and now is considering a

new name. >> i am sure charlotte took no offense. >> and baby monkey is not upset. neither side. >> everyone will name everything charlotte from now on. >> all right, we will see how the weather is looking. >> a it is interesting. especially for may. i will show you what happened in fremont early this morning this is where our baby pea-sized hail came from. we appreciate this picture. i have other pictures of you bigger hail but not so info cuss. we had a little bit in san jose and that also is where we had a thunderstorm early this morning and right new we have it looks like light showers showing up on live doppler hd and if you are from antioch through the sunol grade and into san jose a lot of this is not quite reaching the ground but what is, it could make it slick in spots so be

careful. it will train over this same area for the next 45 minutes to half an hour or so. as the low continues to back its way toward us, we can see it on the visible satellite and notice that it opens up the clouds, and when the sunshine hits the ground the air is buoyant and more clouds start to develop and that is exactly what is going to happen. sonoma county and marin county is where the next bit of energy will come sliding down so any of us could get a scattered shower or thunderstorm this afternoon. here is a look at the snow in the sierra a little too late. but we will take it and it will keep everything wet for another week or so. from our east bay hills camera we do not quite have the vertical development we would like and we will not until we get more heat in the air. we go for scattered showers and storms and today and lesser extent tomorrow and could be thunder in the sierra so it could be heavy and mild weather for mother's day.

now, temperature-wise, we will hang out in the upper 60 to low 70s in the south bay and upper 60s to nearly 70s on the peninsula and nearly 60 loan the coast and mid-60s downtown and south san francisco and sausalito. and upper 60 near 70 along the east bay shore and low-to-mid 70s inland east bay. if you are going to the game tonight, i don't think the shower is going to be a big sure, 61 and dropping to develop. the marlins are in town to take on giants. notice how much quieter it is overnight with the low backing toward us that is the core of the unstable air and as long as it is close enough to us and rotates the bits of energy back to us, we have a chance of a scattered shower or thunderstorm with small hail and light rain. the best chance will be in the east bay and across the south bay but, again, it could happen anywhere. tomorrow our best chance is across the north because but it is a smaller chance than this afternoon.

on saturday we see more sunshine and temperatures the same as today and warmer for moms as we hit 60 at the coast and low-to-upper 70s elsewhere and a dry cold front drops us back a little bit monday and tuesday and wednesday next week. an interesting morning but not a tremendously active afternoon. >> tonight a snow may county man is accused of taking money to people who came to him from help calling himself a doctor and offers treatment services throughout the bay area. >> when he got my money it was, like, i didn't exist. he has no soul. he has no morals no nothing. this is all about money. >> the investigation of the doctor's background and the facilities being run is the report tonight at 11 o'clock. >> there are so many ways to treat moms to mother's day, right? >> yes and our reporter has some suggestions on how can explore whereou live.

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