happen today. an open bridge. it happened ahead of schedule. they were planning to open at 5:00 this morning and you can see it is open westbound lanes opened at 3:50 and eastbound behind the westbound lanes but not too much. they opened at there will not be problems this morning but the weekend was jammed. last night still jammed up and backed up at 11 o'clock with the bridge closing at 10:00 on friday night and created problems all weekend. long, long delays. we saw them on the bay bridge and other at routes with a joints game. >> crews resurfaced a bridge and applied a protective coat. the work went well with no problems. they did not get egg finished in

a weekend. they will need another week memorial day weekend it will close again. everything you saw this weekend spent it again and whatever alternate plans you made you need to do them again. another weekend of this but it is open this morning so commuters, that is good >> if your commute involves caltrain this are more seats available on selected trains during rush hour. our reporter is at the caltrain station in san jose. matt? >> yes, with silicon valley, it is booming and so is the ridership on caltrain. the good news for riders they will get extra room on some of the trains. here is why. from caltrain's facebook, you can see pictures of the new cars adding an extra car to all trains now in operation for an

extra 150 seats and increased standing room. the 16 used rail cars were purchased and four were put in service immediately. they are being added to the busy schedules. in have been four years of consecutive monthly ridership averaging 61,000 weekday rider during the heist season. for southbound trains in santa clara riders near the locomotive have to walk to next car to exit the train. of course, for many passengers this is just a bump in the road. they will be happy to get extra breathing room if their commute to and from work this morning and from here on out. >> officials in the east bay today will close two fire stations permanently although this could be a bad fire season. this station in the community will close along with another in

brentwood. the fire protection district does not have the money to keep them going. now, just 27 firemen at three stations are responsible for a 249 square mile area. voters turned down an effort to raise money through a general assessment tax. >> bad news after three wildfires erupted in the bay area yesterday. 90 firefighters sent to battle a 12 acre blaze in south san francisco. in hayward a brushfire burned half an acre near foothill boulevard and in marin county four acres burned in a grove 100' of the sure line. firefighters say while the weather was in their favor the conditions on the ground were not. >> the fire was driven by the heavy logs and branches in the field. they were not exposed to moisture over the winter so they are drying and they produce a lost intensity. >> firefighters believe it is a sign of things to come and they

anticipate a busy fire season. >> investigators will be back to the scene of a fire that spread to two homes with the call after 2:00 a.m. yesterday on south 2nd street near interstate 280. a home was in flames and the fire coming from the attic of the neighboring husband. first crews called for additional help. eight people in the homes got out. the red cross is helping them out. >> a 74-year-old woman is recovering after a fall on mount diabolo. the c.h.p. shared video showing the helicopter pulling her 50 of the rugged area yesterday afternoon. an officer first came down to give her first aid and then got her on a gurney. the 74-year-old victim went to the hospital with a leg injury, three officers helping in the rescue. >> in arkansas a possible tornado killed two at a mobile home park a baby inside one of the homes though survived. and in texas rescuers are searching for survivors of a

tornado that roar through a small town. it rip into the city of vann southeast of dallas-ft. worth injuring two dozen and destroying hopes. texas has been hit hard including a severe weather system that blasted the midwest and the plains. one south dakota town was ever van witnessed because of a tornado and another part of state was hit with more than 2' of snow. >> look at this video from lake city iowa, a man taking pictures of a tornado caught the roof of a high school being blown away. the mayor said there were people inside the school attending an awards ceremony but everyone was evacuated when the tornado sirens sounded. there were no reports of injuries but classes are canceled at the high school. dramatic video from texas a pregnant woman holding a neighbor's baby was airlift frommed home after a creek overflowed after heavy rain. the national guard flew to another house and airlifted the grandmother to safety. 6' deep water forced many

rescues with homes and cars severely damaged. >> four were it is appear in court for the first time today after the murders of two police officers in mississippi. community members clergy and the officers co-workers gathered for a vigil in hattiesburg, last night. another memorial service take place later open today of the both officers died after a absolute out erupted during a traffic stop on chart evening. one of officers graduated from the police academy just last summer. two of the suspects face murder charges much the two others are charged with less are crimes. >> police are look at surveillance video to find a thief who slam add vehicle into a drugstore going through the front window of the pharmacy on mountain boulevard before the store opened yesterday morning at 5:00 am. you can see boarded up windows. police say it appears the plug particulars did not hit the pharmacy. investigators say they not have been after the a.t.m. inside. >> they are not at the brink but they are closer the warriors

will try to bounce back after two playoff losses in a row. they now trail the grizzlies 2-1 in best of seven western conference semifinals and spent yesterday watching video of saturday's 99-789 loss in memphis trying to come up with answers. the warriors win tonight would tie the series and a loss pushes them to the brink of elimination starting at 6:30 pacific time. >> we want to sea your warriors fan with photos on air and at abc7news.com using harn - #dubson7. >> abc 7 is your home for the nba finals with all of exciting action on june 4. we know the warriors will get there. >> they will bounce back. >> not a problem at all. >> and how is the weather looking? >> we will start in san francisco where we have 48 in

west portal for the cool spot and skit cooler tonight. we have 50 in mission sunny side bayview downtown, crissy field is june and 52 in the ferry building in the outhigher of course; glen park at 54. we have the same thing in richmond, san leandro at 55 and belmont is 53 and union city is 52 and pittsburg at 48. santa clara is 47 and 4 right new in petaluma. 49 in pacifica. we do not see any clouds on the deck of the golden gate bridge but that could be a mobility toward the end of the morning. the cloud deck is making a run to the east right now. by the afternoon hours inland, we will have high clouds and sunshine, and 67 in the north bay to 76 in the east by and along the coast, we have 54 so we will squeeze out a 60 in downtown san francisco because of a little more sunshine and around the bay, the frees keep

the temperatures anywhere from five to eight degrees below average. showers come into the forecast soon. that is ahead. >> morning everyone, hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day and a terrific weekend. that is the san mateo bridge with cars on it. it look like it has re-opened and supposed to re-open fully by 5:00 a.m. we see traffic flowing nicely with no jamups. this is just the first of two closures and the next is memorial day weekend. it caused quite a lot of damage as you her from the report earlier so plan ahead and make sure you take advantage of the mass transit we have. clear conditions headed between hayward and foster city. >> before you get this traveling on the nimitz southbound 880 from marina boulevard to 238 we have one lane taken away until 5:00 a.m. drive time traffic shows everything is green on the map

580 and 104 in the north bay. >> california's growing neat of driverless cars hit a bump in the road and you may want to wait before hopping in. >> thieves take a new approach to stealing your personal information. what you need to do to protect your money. stay tuned.

>> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> welcome back at 4:42. the highly anticipated health driving cars in california are getting into trouble on the road. the nearly 2350 self driving cars have been involved in accidents, four of them. two happened while the car was

in control and the other when the person was drive behind the wheel and three involved cars developed by google. they say the accidents were all minor involving speeds of less than ten miles per hour. >> there are new environmental concerns this morning after a fire at a nuclear power plant 40 miles not of new york city. crews have placed booms in the hudson river to contain thousands of gallons of oil that leaked from a burning transformer at the indian point energy center, a nuclear reactor shut down after the transformer fire broke out on saturday night. officials say the nuclear reactor is safe. >> a consumer alert involving your credit card, identity thieves are trying to con you out of the security code. scammers call you on the phone pretending to be from the credit card company, and say there is fraudulent activity on your card and they are opening an investigation but they need to know you are in possess of the card and ask for the security code on the back.

when they get the information they can sell it on-line. >> it is easy to being a says with greater supply of the cards and the number of data breaches going on so there is a flood of the cards available on the black market. >> investigators say you should never get or your security code to someone who has called and check your statements. fraud tolls $11 billion last year. >> if an hour and 15 minutes, a 6th grader from cupertino will try to be the top geography whiz. we caught up with him before he left for washington, dc to compete in the bee. the student has to has to know which country has the largest oil reserves or which state has the best climate for growing citrus and is competing for $50,000 scholarship and a free trip to the galapagos

>> now we will check weather forecast. >> we will show you what is going on. morning, everyone, we have fresh strawberries from california right now and they are delicious. double digit wind speed at sfo at 18, half moon bay and concord at 14 and fairfield 18 and they are blowing on shore so the cooling trend we saw on mother's day is going to continue today. we are looking at partly cloudy sky over san jose right now and cooling breezes continue today and we will see mainly sunny conditions to partly cloudy away from the coast where it will be cloudy for most of the day. clearing will roll in tonight as the dry cold front infuses the

dry air so get ready for low 40s tomorrow morning with showers possible later this week. well look at today and you can see a few patches of drizzle possible in the higher elevates or right along the coast, and by the time we get to noon most of the cloud cover is right through the coast and the lower cloud cover and high clouds filter in in the afternoon and notice the 50s, sick and a few 70s handing on inland and i do not see any in the south bay. los gatos and gilroy are close and morgan hill at 69 and san jose at 68. but milpitas is 66 degrees. mid-to-upper 60s on the peninsula, look at cloud deck keeping you in the mid-50s. what a brisk day you are going do have. we are lucky a little bit of sunshine around downtown south san francisco and we could crack 60 degrees 62 in sauce let and 66 at san rafael and upper 60s to low 70s through the north bay and santa rosa and

calistoga and cloverdale possible in the mid-70s and a brick day long the north bay coast at 51 at berkeley which is as warm as it gets and 64 in castro valley and upper 60s in the san ramon valley and low-to-mid 70s elsewhere. now, the temperatures tonight are showing everyone in the 40's with some of our deepest valleys possibly in the lower 40s inland. my seven-day outlook shows the cooling will hit the inland hardest tomorrow, with a little bit of a rebound on wednesday and then another area of low pressure like last week but this is over the ocean and we will slide down the coat bringing a chance of showers thursday and friday and saturday. leyla? >> if you are waking up the san mateo bridge has re-opened and all lanes in both directions between hayward and foster city have re-opened and remark is taking it well and moving nicely. we not have problems this

morning. the golden gate bridge is showing the traffic is nice and other parts of the bay area are speedy from marin to san francisco you are not going to find any delays and as you can see green on the map every where, traveling in the east by along 680 through the san ramon valley 580 so far, clear coming from tracy to dublin through castro valley and dumbarton bridge in delays and drive time traffic, southbound 680, from walnut creek to dublin is 15 minutes. and southbound 101 from santa rosa to san francisco is 52 minutes. and through the santa cruz mountains into leg leg on highway 17, it is 25 minutes. >> nintendo games are coming to the smartphone. >> here are the tech bytes major news for video game fans. nintendo will release the first mobile game bit end of the year with more detroits to follow. until now they have resisted dining any games for smart phones or tablets.

>> google wants to get your take out order faster. they have team up with six food ordering we services to allow users to place orders right from google's main results page. >> check out the microcar of the future. >> the smart connecting car is a two seater vehicle that can change its shape by turning sideways to fit and tight spaces and can go 40 miles per hour and travel 44 miles on a single charge. >> pretty cool. >> if you can put the top down, i am in. >> would need as security alarm with bonnie on the job? the cat burglar whoment his match in a feline crime fighter. >> the family photo and the sharp mom that ended up saving this little guy's life. >> and now a look from our

rooftop camera toward the ferry building. stay tuned.

>> the tour of california will kickoff day two in a few hours transferring from nevada city. the bicycle ride through the state began on sunday morning at the state capital in sacramento with thousands watching 143 top riders from all over the world. this is the largest and most press stagous bicycling race in the united states. tomorrow the bicyclist ride through san jose to livermore and become to san jose. >> you have heard of cat burglars how about cat security guards. a family said their cat helped stop a burglar. a family in san rafael woke up when they heard a flower pot break after 10:00 on saturday

night. then bonnie, the cat hissed and the burglar got in through an unlocked window. the owner knew a stranger was in house because she hissed at people she does not know. the homeowner confronted the man and he ran away. >> it is the first time in 31 years of a career i heard a cat who let them know something was going on at the house. >> police searched the area but did not find the burglar maybe they should have taken bonnie with them. >> cat detective. >> and show could pick him out of a lineup. >> that is what i call "purr-fect" pet. >> added bonus. >> let me ask you a's fans the panda is coming back in a best uniform. do you clear or boo hi

now we will chill the socks when they are here and now what is going on across the stays we have thunderstorms around mount shasta continuing to head off to the northeast and chico will be clear at 78 with sunny-to-partly cloudy and 63 at lake tahoe to 58 in monterey to low-to-mid 70s around vague oh and los loss -- around san diego and los angeles. >> all lanes have re-opened in both directions after the closure of the san mateo. this is the first of two closures. they caused quite the jam over the weekend. maybe we will have take two and improve upon our.. now, this morning, the second closure is going do happen over memorial day weekend and southbound 680 is clear from highway 4 to pleasant hill to the 24 junction and pass transit

has if delays on bart or muni or ace train. >> thanks for the heads up. it is 4:54. jimmy carter cut short an election health observation visit shoulder after not "feeling well." they will not say what is wrong. the election is today and it would have been jimmy carter's 39 trip to observe an international vote. >> illinois mother saved the life of her infant son and she has her smartphone camera to thank. the mother thought something was off when she noticed a white spot on her son's left eye when she took a photo of him with the iphone. she was curious so she googled and became worried when a result was "cancer." she took another photo. [ inaudible ] >> sure enough i took picture of

all three boys. >> she did fought want to take the picture and had a bad feeling in the put of her stomach but it was cancer and 75 percent of the eye was covered in tumors and had to be removed. doctors believe it would have spread to his britain. -- brain. they believe he is cancer free because of the eagle-eyed mom. >> spotting a whale in the water is usually a sign for people to get away. >> however a young man from florida decided to embrace his encounter with a whale shark. cody noticed a whale shark floating and he jumped in the water and grabbed the shark's tail and went on a ride to remember. they are the biggest of all weighing up to 20,000 tons and featuring up to 350 rows of

teeth in his mouth. despite the numbers, they are not a let to humans, something cody was glad to find out. >> there is a first time for everything...i would stay away. >> we would not have a first time with that whale. shark. >> it is a shark. >> five people sleeping at the home catches fire and the neros who put their live on the line to get them to safety. >> major upgrade to make san francisco muni trains more reliable. stay tuned.

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. as we head become do work on monday morning, i am eric thomas. >> i am kristen sze. >> hope you had a great mother's day and i know leyla called her mom. >> right now we call mike and how is the weather forecast? >> it was sunny away from the coast yesterday where we saw sunshine yesterday. we will see barely any this morning but it will increase as we head into the afternoon hours. live doppler hd shows fog around santa rosa and otherwise here is the big story flags on the ferry blowing are blowing to the east and the sea breeze will keep us cooler-than-average on the 12-hour day planner with 40 to 52. 54 at the coast. 64 inland. and 58 and 68 and notice at 7:00 up to 60