first at 4:00 live doppler 7 hd is tracking this spring storm bringing us lightning, hail and much-needed rain all hitting the bay area right now. good afternoon and thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm larry beil. rain has indeed returned to the bay area. we've got a live look from our east pay hills tower camera. that is rather dark and ominous. you can see the clouds in the sky. >> take a look at this. hail in the north bay. you can see the rain and hail moving through novato earlier this afternoon. this is near highway 101. >> and in the east bay rain near concord created trouble for drivers navigating slick streets. along with the rain there have been a bunch of lightning strikes. spencer christian happy to be indoors with us.

>> indeed i am. here's a look at live doppler 7 hd. we have a wide area of stormy weather mainly in the east bay but the intensity of the storms has diminished significantly in the last hour. we had numerous lightning strikes and a patch of showers earlier but now just have locally heavy downpours. here's a little cell moving between santa clara and milpitas producing wet weather over 101 87 and 880. not exactly what afternoon and evening commuters want to see. up in the north bay it has become more widely scattered. here is a little cell in the central part of napa county. let me pull back and give you the bigger picture. notice how the lightning strikes have disappeared moving up in the antioch area but still quite an expansive area of showers and this will be the pattern going into the evening hours. we'll see the intensity continuing to diminish as storms move from south to north. here's a great view of dark clouds over the bay from our east bay hills camera. some of the areas that received

the most rainfall today penn grove in the last 24 hours. 0.94 of an inch. petaluma over 0.4 sunnyvale over 0.6. rainfall totals generally have been very light. those areas of course that i just showed you received lots of rain. notice oakland, san francisco, san rafael, half moon bay, measuring 0. no measurable rainfall at all but these totals will likely change as we have not seen the end of these storms yet. >> thank you, spencer. rain arrived in the south bay just in the last hour or so. let's continue our coverage with abc 7 news reporter kris nguyen. >> he's live in san jose. >> reporter: we knew there was a chance for rain today but many people still didn't plan for it. who can blame them? it's the month of may, it's been pretty dry. if you take a look behind me you can see the evidence of the rainfall. it's been coming down the past couple of hours. a sprinkling now. a quick look at some video shows a very wet, yet quiet afternoon

in downtown san jose. we typically see more people out and about but that definitely wasn't the case earlier. the weather really affecting downtown businesses, especially restaurants and bars that are used to seeing a late lunch crowd. now, in terms of those who decided to head outside, some of them had their jackets on but we saw a good amount running around without an umbrella trying to meet mother nature at her own game. >> traffic might be a little worse today than normal so hopefully get home quickly. but take it easy on the roads. nobody is used to the rain anymore. >> reporter: fingers crossed and that san jose resident probably made a good call to leave work when she did. when it rains, it definitely affects the south bay commute. back here live we're taking a live look at west julian street on the approach to highway 87. no problems right now. but you can keep track of the problem spots by downloading the waze app and join the abc 7 news group.

i'm kris nguyen, abc 7 news. it turned into a dreary and wet afternoon on the peninsula as well. we want to thank river r for sending this picture from redwood citio our facebook page. if you see weather where you live, take a photo or video and use the #abc7now. a lockdown has ended after a shooting near a vallejo high school. a young man was shot and killed early this morning. that shooting was not on campus but the victim may have been a student there. the school was locked down as a precaution as police searched for the shooter who remains on the loose. the lockdown ended just before 2:00 after police determined the suspect was no longer in that area. a cruise ship docked in san francisco is dealing with an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness. sky 7 hd shows the star princess at pier 27. it arrived this morning. the ship left san francisco on april 29th on a 14-day cruise to hawaii and baja. passengers told abc 7 news

people began getting sick just four days into the voyage. altogether 135 passengers reported being ill during the trip. the ship is now being cleaned before it departs for another voyage to vancouver this evening. today in sacramento, the state senate approved a controversial vaccine bill aimed at making it harder for parents to opt out of getting their children vaccinated. >> laura anthony is gathering reaction this afternoon from the state capitol. laura. >> reporter: well, this bill faced opposition here at the state capitol all along the way. it cleared a major hurdle today. supporters of sb-277 can expect more of the same as it heads off to the assembly. >> ayes 25 nos 10 that measure passes. >> reporter: it wasn't even close as the california senate voted 25-10 to pass a controversial vaccine bill that now moves on to the state assembly. >> it will halt the continuing spread and rise growth in numbers of unvaccinated children

and people in their communities. >> reporter: senate bill 277 would eliminate both a personal belief and religious vaccine exemptions for all california schoolchildren. some opponents say they support vaccines but not this bill. >> it comes down to what do we as a society, what do we as a legislature trade when we mandate that somebody has to do this to protect somebody else. >> reporter: as they have throughout the process parents opposed to sb-277 showed up wearing red and vowing not to give up the fight to keep the bill from becoming law. >> once we are going down the road that the government can tell you what you're going to put in your body we are in a lot of trouble. >> reporter: sb-277 grew out of a measles outbreak in california earlier this year. debate could begin in assembly committees this summer. in sacramento, laura anthony abc 7 news. also in sacramento today governor brown presented his

revised may budget. it's a record spending plan that sends billions more to public schools. brown had said the strong economy has brought in an extra $6 billion to the state's coffers. >> the finances of california have stabilized. we're balancing our budget. and just since january 7 billion dollars have come into the state treasury. most of that is going to go to education. >> the governor is now proposing $380 million go to an earned income tax credit for california's poor. brown also wants to freeze in-state undergraduate tuition at uc schools for at least two years, but much of the surplus must be set aside in a rainy day savings fund to help the state weather the next financial downturn under a voter approved measure. turning now to the amtrak derailment in philadelphia, new video into the abc 7 newsroom this afternoon shows work crews continuing to clear the crash site two days after that derailment. earlier today the death toll climbed to eight.

all passengers are now accounted for as of this afternoon. >> meanwhile, we're learning details about the bay area ties one of the eight victims had abid gilani was in wells fargo for a year serving as senior vice president of its hospitality finance group. caltrain is confirming the engineer of the train brandon bostian, ran some of their trains before 2011. he still worked for amtrak but caltrain contracted out train engineers at that time. new in the last hour, the ntsb says bostian has agreed to be interviewed by investigators. >> abc news reporter karen travers picks up our coverage now live from philadelphia. >> reporter: good afternoon. the focus of this investigation is on that train engineer, brandon bostian. his lawyer told abc news that bostian is really banged up. he has a concussion, but is fully cooperating with the police. we learned just a few moments ago that he will sit down with

federal investigators. the ntsb said that will happen in the next couple of days. the official said today, here's one thing, they're not going to make this like a serious formal interview. they want to sit bostian down and give him essentially a blank piece of paper and say tell us what happened. the death toll from tuesday night's amtrak derailment now stands at eight. >> the dog hit on a couple of spots, and we were able to find one other passenger in the wreckage. >> reporter: 43 people remain in the hospital but this morning mayor michael nutter announced all 243 passengers have been accounted for. the ntsb said today the train's speed increased for about a minute before the derailment. investigators have good quality video from a forward-facing camera at the front of the train. >> mere seconds into the turn we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right. and then the recording went

blank. >> a system called positive train control can limit a train's speed. it's used on some rail lines. today the ceo said that will change. >> that will happen on the northeast corridor by the end of this year. >> reporter: bostian's attorney told abc news the engineer fully cooperated with police but sustained a concussion in the accident. >> he remembers coming into the curve. he remembers attempting to reduce speed. >> reporter: bostian's lawyer said he was not using his cell phone or using drugs or alcohol. the eight victims have been identified, including rachel jacobs, a tech ceo and mother of a 2-year-old and dr. derrick griffith, an academic from new york. only the two most damaged rail lines still remain at the accident site and they were being laser scanned in order to make a 3-d image. amtrak officials now have full

control over the accident scene. it was turned over to them from the ntsb. they say that they hope to get service up and running sometime in the early part of next week. reporting live from philadelphia karen travers abc 7 news. >> karen, thank you. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00 tom brady fighting back. the move from the patriots quarterback in response to the nfl's four-game suspension. think you can't ride to work in your work clothes? think again. we met people today who did it. they say you can do it too. you'll hear from them, coming up next. and new at 4:30, the safety measures caltrain is taking here in the bay area to prevent an amtrak disaster like that one in philadelphia. >> at 4:11, a live look at the afternoon commute. this is 101 in san jose. southbound is really backed up as it always is and even slower this afternoon because of the rain. roads are slick, so i guess this would be your proverbial traffic

patriots quarterback tom brady has appealed his four-game suspension for his role in the nfl deflategate scandal and he has the pull backing of his team. the san mateo native is accused of using deflated footballs. abc reporter elizabeth hurr has the latest from botch. >> reporter: the nfl's conclusions are incomplete and lack context. the report found it is more probable than not that tom brady is generally aware of the

release of air from patriots game balls. brady's agent also on the attack calling the findings biased. >> i think it is wrong to criticize my independence just because you disagree with my findings. >> reporter: ted wells, the man behind the 243-page investigation is standing by his report which resulted in the nfl issuing sanctions, including a four-game suspension for brady and a $1 million fine for the patriots. and fans, well they're backing the league. a new espn/abc news poll showing 54% of all fans and skype69% of avid fans think brady cheated. >> if one of your biggest stars is doing this kind of thing and people think that he's cheated, that reverberates i think throughout the league longer than just this year. >> reporter: in the meantime, experts say expect a legal showdown between brady and the nfl. brady reportedly hiring big-time football lawyer jeffrey kessler who just last year helped reinstate both ray rice and

adrian peterson after their suspensions. >> a lot of athletes do appeal and occasionally these things are overturned. >> reporter: according to experts in these situations, a lot of athletes do appeal. and in brady's case they say one possibility is that he gets the four-game suspension reduced to just two games. let's go from deflate to elation. the warriors just one win away from playing in their western finals in 40 years. league mvp steph curry looking pretty casual right there along with his teammates boarded a plane bound for memphis. they hope to wrap up the best of seven series tomorrow night in game six. steve kerr and his players fully expect the usual hostile crowd in the arena known as the grind house but they say the grizzlies fans are actually no match for dubs nation. >> the crowd is great, like we stated before, best in the nba.

it's just the best time of the year when you play in the playoffs on home court. >> curry led the impressive 20-point victory last night giving them a 3-2 lead in the series. in the process becoming the fastest player to reach 100 playoff 3-pointers. harrison barnes did a nasty spill doing the splits. you take a look and think that could be catastrophic. that was in the second quarter. that is why you stretch before games. he is very flexible. perhaps more so now. he played fine in the second half. you'd be taking me to the hospital if that was me right after that. abc 7 will be in memphis for game six tomorrow night. we have live team coverage from both memphis and the bay area. you can watch that game on our sister network, espn, at 6:30 p.m. if necessary, game seven back at oracle sunday at 12:30 right here on abc 7. tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, an i-team investigation into a battle between a bay area

landlord and tenant. it's another part of the housing crisis you haven't seen. a tenant yelling racial slurs at his landlord and it's all caught on camera. >> it's just not worth it anymore being landlords in san francisco. we just want to live peacefully in our building. >> have tenant rights gone too far? the i-team investigates tonight at 11:00. today a lot of people celebrated the 21st annual bike to work day in the bay area. >> some rode short distances, some were a little more ambitious ambitious. amy hollyfield has the story. >> reporter: if you've looked at these people out your car window and thought this wasn't for you that your commute wasn't too far for a boik rideike ride, consider this group. these people biked from san francisco to silicon valley. >> heading out from 24th and mission going basically right next to the san jose airport. it's kind of a mixture of on the roads and on the day trail. >> reporter: he says the ride takes about four hours. a huge group made that trip as

part of bike to work day. we saw mostly speerchsexperienced riders participating today but the idea is to show people that don't usually commute on their bike that they can do it too. jennifer gave it a try this morning for the first time. she had to get from the excelsior district to the waterfront. >> i was a little intimidated by the distance so it was nice to be with some experienced cyclists who actually knew some routes and had some suggestions for me. >> reporter: even mayor ed lee rode his bike today. he said he's proud of the 443 miles of bike infrastructure. >> we're getting the best advice on safe routes and how to make them safer. >> reporter: they're counting heads and hope to see an uptick. >> do you think you'll do it again? >> definitely. >> sweet. >> start 'em young. >> seedhe had her helmet on and everything. spencer is here.

not necessarily the best day for biking. >> we had all kinds of berth today with heavy downpours hail stones lightning strikes and thunderstorms. it's winding down a little bit now, losing intensity but it's still here. you can see a wide area of stormy weather concentrated mainly in the east bay and some portions of the south bay right now. let's close in and take a look at some of the activity. there's a little cell moving between mountain view and milpitas north of san jose. wet spots along the highway. a long expanse of highway 237 is going to be not good for commuters, parts of 101, 880 and 680 experiencing downpours and wet pavement as well. so it's all moving from south to north through -- mainly through the east bay right now. livermore getting a good dose of wet weather. here's a live view from our east pay hills camera. dramatic view of dark clouds and raindrops hitting the camera lens. showers will taper off overnight and be partly cloudy and dry this weekend. we'll see milder weather developing around the middle of next week. let's look at the satellite/radar composite image. here's our wave of stormy

weather pushing through the bay area but let's pull back and look at the second wave which is moving inland to our south. so southern california will get a pretty good dose of stormy weather tomorrow. but this evening starting to forecast animation 7:00, we'll see clouds lingering, maybe a couple of isolated showers but the big storms will just diminish and dissipate as we get into the early morning hours tomorrow. we'll have a spot or two of light showers but not very widespread. tomorrow down south from san diego to palm springs we'll see areas of showers, thundershowers, heavy downpours and we have a winter storm warning in effect for the sierra until 5:00 friday afternoon. we expect another 3 to 6 inches of rain there above 6,000 feet. chain requirements are possible. back to the bay area, cloudy tonight and spotty showers are possible, but the heavy downpours and widespread showers are not likely. they'll taper off. overnight lows will be generally in the low 50s. and then tomorrow look for partly cloudy skies. we'll see some nice breaks of sun. way up to our north there could

be some buildups of clouds and showers late tomorrow, but most of the bay area will be dry tomorrow. we'll see high temperatures generally in the mid to upper 50s on the coast lower to mid-60s around the bay and mid-60s inland. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. we finally get quieter weather over the weekend. mainly sunny days saturday and sunday. but not much of a warm-up until the middle of next week when you see high temperatures climbing back into the mid-70s inland and low 70s around the bay. right now we're still dealing with pockets of showers and heavy downpours, so it could complicate the afternoon and evening commute just a bit. >> thanks spencer. up next the colorful san francisco tradition happening this weekend. plus other events where you live. new after 4:30 a bay area college student confronting former florida governor jeb bush. the heated exchange that is now gaining national attention. and at 4:22, taking a live look at our 680 traffic through

walnut creek, it's pretty jammed up, especially on the right-hand side. that's your southbound traffic, which usually is okay right about this time. northbound on your right, 680

one of san francisco's most colorful traditions takes place this weekend. >> leyla gulen has more on how you can explore where you live. >> new in ballet comes undone at the yerba buena center for the arts tonight with "unlaced." a mix of innovative work set to music. they will then take its show to mountain view and walnut creek later this month. beta breakers may be on sunday but a 5k in santa rosa on saturday. color me red will have you sweating rainbows by the time you hit the finish line. loosely based on the hindu

festival color me holy. legendary king of cults john waters and his pencil thin stash are coming in the bay area. waters will be sitting down for q & a at san francisco's north theater next week. best known for cutting edge films "pink flamingo" and "polyester" he'll be talking about his new book about hitchhiking thousands of miles from his hometown in baltimore to san francisco. for more information about these and other events where you live go to our website at abc7news.com. leyla gulen, abc 7 news. abc 7 news at 4:00 continues now. a bay area school district that's doing its part to help save water and how students are stepping up in san jose to help conserve. plus a mistake that has "good morning america" anchor george stephanopolous apologizing to viewers this afternoon. first live doppler 7 hd tracking the spring storm. we've had hail lightning and

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and now for the headlines where you live at 4:30. a much-needed storm is hitting the bay area right now. hail came down this afternoon in novato and we've had reports of numerous lightning strikes in the south and east bays. here's a live look from our east bay hills camera. you can see all the moisture on

the lens there. spencer christian has been following the band of storms all day and he joins us now with more on who's seeing the rain right now. spencer. >> here's live doppler 7 hd and most of the rain is concentrated over in the east bay and the south bay. it's generally areas of showers with locally heavy downpours especially between antioch and livermore. down into the south bay as i mentioned, just north and east i should say of sunnyvale and heading east out towards milpitas, we've got some wet pavement on highways 101 and 280. it's really wet down in the south bay. cupertino getting a nice dose, a nice drenching with highway 85 and 280. as we give you a view of the movement of this storm system, you can see it's moving generally from south to north. as we project ahead the next three hours we'll see storms losing their intensity weakening, but still areas of showered scattered throughout the bay area throughout the evening and that means a slow commute for those out there on the roads. larry. we have a great picture of hail falling on a sidewalk in

santa clara sent to us by one of our viewers pam via twitter. thank you, pam. we invite all of you if you see weather where you live take a photo or video, share it with us using the #abc7now and we'll show it on the error at abc7news.com. the amtrak accident in pennsylvania could have been prevented by technology designed to override the engineer to avoid a crash. such systems are already in place on some rail lines and caltrain will go online with one before the end of this year. wayne friedman is joining us live from san mateo where he got a look at that project today. hi wayne. >> reporter: good afternoon. the problem with that train in philadelphia was excessive speed. there was no way for amtrak to know it was going fast, no way it could override the engineer. there is a system country mandated that will allow a central control for railroads to take over when a train runs loose. if you've ridden caltrain lately, you may have seen more

than a few extra safety vests along the tracks. they're not your normal maintenance guys. instead, they're installers of an entirely new safety system. >> positive train control has been in development for decades. >> reporter: that's chuck harvey of caltrain talking about the next revolution in american railroad safety, one that most likely would have prevented this week's amtrak disaster in philadelphia. when that train derailed it had been going almost twice the speed limit. positive safety control would not have allowed such an apparent error. >> basically what it does is it can override the engineer. >> reporter: the system relies on sensors radio frequencies and gps to coordinate computers on the train with a central control system. it sets speed limits for every section of track. it monitors engineers running tracks which interact with the system along a given route. >> if the engineer is not paying attention, he won't be able to go through the signals. the system will read that, give him a notification.

if he doesn't react within a certain aunt missouri of time, the system will slow the train down or stop the train. >> reporter: congress has mandated to have these systems in place by the end of the year but that's not so easily done when railroads like amtrak do not own most of the rail lines on which they operate. caltrain says it will get the project finished on time. >> we're lucky here in that we control and own our railroad. many railroads are tenants on other people's property and they reside in areas where the communication systems are much more difficult to do. >> reporter: translated the best way to run a railroad is to not borrow it. wayne friedman abc 7 news. san francisco mayor ed lee says he is shocked one of his former campaign consultants is accused of having nearly 5,000 images of child pornography. enrique pierce faces five counts. prosecutors say some video and pictures actually show an infant being sexually assaulted and young children tied up. they say they also found images

on pierce's cell phone taken outside city hall of young boys who don't appear to know they're being photographed. >> i'm very disappointed. if those charges are true, he must be prosecuted. we just continue to be shocked that he was charged with that. none of us ever had any indication that was happening. >> investigators say another man tipped them off after pierce send him an online message. more charges could be filed against deputies in a major misconduct and corruption case involving inmate abuse at the los angeles county jail. former undersheriff paul tenaca turned himself in. they're accused of covering up beatings. the scandal has rocked the department several years. investigators say the cover-up went so far the men transferred an inmate who was an fbi informant out of their jail. >> cover-ups, diversionary tactics, retribution and a culture which is generally

reserved for a hollywood script. >> seven lower level deputies have already been convicted and the sheriff has stepped down. investigators would not comment on a possible indictment against him. federal officials say a man is in custody for trying to launch a drone outside the white house fence. take a look this photograph shows officers pinning the man to the ground moments after the incident. a federal law enforcement official told the associated press it's unclear if the man intended to fly the aircraft toward the executive mansion or was just trying to take aerial photos of d.c. the incident comes nearly four months after a quad copter drone piloted pie an off duty intelligence employee landed on the white house lawn. jurors did not reach a decision today on whether boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev will get the death penalty. today was the first full day of jury deliberations. this was the same panel which found the 21-year-old guilty on all counts for his role in the april bombings. throughout the trial the defense tried to paint the 21-year-old as a lost young boy who was

strongly influenced by his older brother. the jury must unanimously agree to the death penalty or tsarnaev will get life in prison. a college student from sonoma county pulled no punches when talking about former florida governor jeb bush in reno yesterday. [ inaudible ] >> my question is why are you saying -- >> because by the time -- >> young men who die for the idea of american -- then why are you -- [ inaudible ] >> we respectfully disagree. >> windsor native is a member of her university's young democrats club. now today the possible 2016 republican presidential candidate back tracked on whether or not he would have sent troops to iraq. >> if we're all supposed to answer hypothetical questions

knowing what we know now what would you have done, i would have not engaged -- i would not have gone into iraq. >> mr. bush did call the invasion beneficial saying the world is safer without saddam hussein still in power. he has yet to officially announce his intentions for the 2016 presidential election. >> abc news anchor george stephanopolous is apologizing for not disclosing donations he made to the clinton foundation. stephanopolous said he's given $75,000 to the foundation in recent years. before he was a news anchor stephanopolous was a senior member of bill clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and spent four years in the white house as a clinton advisor. in a statement on his blog stephanopolous apologized, saying i made charitable donations to the foundation in support of the work they're doing on global aids prevention and deforestation, causes i care about deeply. abc news calls it an honest

mistake. the latest retailer to be hit by a security breach. what went wrong minutes after takeoff. >> i'm spencer christian. from our emeryville camera we see dark clouds moving over the bay and still storms around. i'll show you how long we can expect them to last in my accuweather forecast coming up. at 4:38 another live look at the afternoon commute. this is the skyway in downtown san francisco. it doesn't appear to be raining there. it also doesn't appear that anybody is going anywhere quickly, because it is jammed up in both directions. back with more on (music) hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! (music) introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle.

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in southern california a flight from los angeles to st. louis didn't go as planned today for 132 passengers aboard an american airlines jet. the airbus 319 had to return to l.a.x. shortly after it took off at 6:25 when one of the pilots reported a possible bird strike. the plane landed safely a few minutes later. the crew says it did so out of an abundance of caution. ground crews inspected the plane but there's been no report of whether they found any actual damage. we've been waiting and waiting and waiting for rain. we finally got rain and lightning and hail. >> a whole lot of stuff at once. spencer christian is here about our accuweather update. >> we got a bit more than we bargained for. we still have areas of stormy weather here in the immediate bay area but the intensity of the storms diminishing. over in the east bay it's quite wet from antioch to livermore and lafayette. down to the south bay we have a

couple of cells between los altos, sunnyvale across the bay over towards milpitas and down around cupertino we have wet weather as well. so this is certainly complicating the late afternoon and evening commute. but as the storms continue to travel from south to north they are weakening a witbit and that's good news. we've got our rainfall now, that's enough. tomorrow it's going to be thunderstormy up in the northern plains, down the mississippi valley and in southern california across the state of california tomorrow we'll have more active weather. but the most intense weather will be to our south from l.a. to san diego and eastward over towards palm springs into southern nevada. we'll have snow in the central sierra, sort of a variety pack of weather continuing outside the bay area. here tomorrow we'll have partly to mostly cloudy skies, some flashes of sunshine. look for high temperatures to reach from the mid to upper 50s on the coast to lower 60s around the bay. there's still a possibility as you see that grown upeen up north, a possibility parts of the north

bay will be isolated showers but generally looking at dry conditions across the bay area tomorrow. >> thank you, spencer. up next a fashion entrepreneur accuses target of stealing her design. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, the retailer responds. and in today's health and wellness report why a firm handshake could mean a healthy heart. i'm 7 on your side's michael finney. up next, why you should be wary female announcer: when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight. because they went to sleep train's

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in health news this afternoon, what does a firm handshake really mean? >> could it mean a healthy heart? and a just released study is finding out what it may take to get a smoker to quit. jane king has that and more. >> reporter: offering incentives to people to quit smoking was far more effective. researchers found requiring a $150 deposit that will be lost if the person failed to stay off cigarettes for six months nearly doubled the chance of success. now, the study if replicated may change how wellness programs are

structured. the navy making big changes in its fitness and maternity policies. it will double maternity leave in an effort to convince women to stay in the navy longer. it will also require twice-a-year pass/fail fitness tests and adopt more spot checks for health. the feds are taking issue wl pills claiming to prevent and reverse graying hair. they say those claims are not backed by science. getaway gray and goaway gray have agreed to settle charges that they made false or unsubstantiated claims about their products. and a firm handshake could del you tell you a lot about your health. grip strength could be an easy and inexpensive test for the risk of heart disease. hand grip could predict early death better than blood pressure. i'm jane king. here's to your health. a hair and beauty store is dealing with a data breach. sally beauty says the breach affected fewer than 25000 credit cards.

the company says customers will not be responsible for any fraudulent charges that are promptly reported. a similar breach happened in march of last year. sally beauty supply runs 4900 stores across the globe, including more than 15 in the bay area. well thieves are stealing money from customers by first tapping into their starbucks mobile app. yikes! >> 7 on your side's michael finney has the story. >> these guys just find one place after another, don't they? >> well the crooks are crafty. >> they are. they have got all day to do it, i guess. this could make you wary about putting your bank information into a smartphone app. the starbucks mobile app lets users buy coffee with a smartphone. you can also load money onto a gift card and that's a key. now thieves are going online breaking into individual accounts. then they load money from the customers' credit, debit or paypal account onto a starbucks gift card. starbucks said hackers are getting into personal accounts not company data. it would not say how many were

hacked. starbucks suggests using strong unique passwords to help slow the hackers. more recalls connected to faulty air bags from the manufacturer tecata. honda recalled five million vehicles made from 2002 to 2008. just this week toyota and nissan recalled 6 million cars for the exact same reason. in all, tens of millions of cars have been recalled over fear the air bags can explode sending shrapnel flying and causing death or injury. honda alone has issued ten separate recalls blamed on the air bags. at least five deaths have been reported. check this out you may soon be able to purchase an item online just by looking at it. no clicking needed. it's part of an iris recognition system and a new smartphone calls the fujitsu arrows nx boast. once the device recognizes your eyes it unlocks itself and

allows you to buy stuff. just don't let your eyes wander that could prove costly. >> so if i look at the ferrari $250,000. very dangerous. thank you, michael. >> sure. trending now our attention span is now worse than a gold fish. >> how sad is that? >> pretty sad. >> i'm not surprised, actually. a recent study by microsoft in canada found a person's average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to 8 seconds. i think it's taken 8 seconds to read this so you probably have already drifted off back to the tweeter. congratulations if you're still paying attention. >> the average goldfish can focus for 9 seconds. the findings held true for all ages. 37% of those surveyed said their inability to use time well forces them to work late or on the weekends. no, don't do that! >> think about what a really smart goldfish would be able to do, like better than average. maybe blow us all away. target has decided to remove

a controversial shirt after the designer's copycat claim went viral. >> the retail giant says it's contacted the oregon designer who accused it of copying her #america shirt design. the designer says it's been one of her best-selling shirts. >> abc world news profiled her a few days ago. at the time she said her t-shirt battle was like david versus goliath and she was counting on target to do the right thing. making it to 102 isn't easy. check out what happens at one great grandmother's birthday. >> blow it out. >> whoa, wow. poor louise bonito blew her dentures out when she went to blow the candles out on her birthday cake. she didn't feel like using her denture glue that day. you know you're 102, you do whatever you want, right? unfortunately somebody happened to capture this with a camera, but she's laughing about it. >> take it in stride.

>> you just go whatever. >> abc 7 news at 4:00 does continue. up next, the school science project resulting in big water savings at the south bay's largest school district. now here's cheryl with what's ahead at 5:00. thank you so much. coming up next, are internet connected smart appliances putting your privacy at risk? michael finney returns with a look. plus -- >> to create that beautiful masterpiece. >> today's big reveal. how students are leaving a permanent beauty mark in the city of oakland. that's next when

in honor of asian pacific american heritage month we're using our instagram feed to highlight the organizations making a difference where you live. at that we're recognizing api equality of nowhere california which is currently working on a multi generational oil history project. we have more information on our abc 7 news bay area instagram feed. a science class project to save water has turned out to be

so successful that the south bay's largest school district is thinking about deploying it to all of its other schools. >> david louie is live at willow glen high school in san jose with the story. hi, david. >> reporter: hi. you can see how much grass there is here on the four-acre campus of willow glen high school. outdoor watering is one of the targets of conservation but the students here have come up with an ideal solution. this is how it started with a demonstration garden at willow glen high school. students planted california native plants as a lesson in justin bush's science class. that led to another guard enand another as the water savings grew obvious. >> we're now going to dramatically reduce watering to once a month and a lot of it is off the natural rainfall. >> reporter: they are trying to spread drought-tolerant gardens to all schools in the district to replace thirty lawns and plants. the schools are under the same mandate to reduce usage by 30%. at the same time, students are

learning lessons they can take home to save water. john and alicia say they enjoyed getting their hands in the dirt. >> it's not something you normally do. not a lot of people have gardens around here. we do so we've had some experience with that but it was cool seeing other people help. >> and the insurance teacher considers it an ideal learning experience. >> i think they feel empowered and feel like they can really do something about the drought. they don't have to be spectators and they can actually have a hand in the solution. >> of course they have learned that young native plants can be casualties of foot traffic. >> at first people didn't realize what was here. some of the smaller plants kind of got stepped on. but once they took off, it was very successful. >> reporter: the district's hal football fields already have been converted to synthetic turf. the urinals are flush-free. in san jose david louie, abc 7 news. >> that will do it for this edition of abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm ama daetz.

>> i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 begins right now with cheryl and dan. >> thunder, hail downpours even some minor flooding. the bay area is seeing some crazy weather today. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. i'll led you know how long live doppler 7 hd will be tracking the spring storm coming up. you have a right to steal my soul. >> emotions running high in sacramento as a controversial bill aimed at children gets a shot in the arm. and we are now learning that one of the victims in the amtrak train derailment has ties to the bay area. >> oh, he was -- he was very sweet. exactly what the bay area needs arrives with some drama. this was in palo alto. >> check that out, hail in the north bay. the downpours in novato

certainly made driving an adventure. >> in the east bay, rain poured down in north concord after thunder and several lightning strikes. >> an abc 7 viewer took this picture in san jose of what looks a lot like a tornado starting to develop, but never did, thankfully. thanks for joining us, i'm cheryl jennings. >> and i'm dan ashley. lets get straight to abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel for what's happening out there right now. >> yes dan. really it's been an active scene. we'll take a look at live doppler 7 hd and take you in a little bit closer to the east bay where they have been getting drenched between antioch and livermore. right now some of the strongest returns are showing up in the east bay here. as we take you down to street level around newark, east caribbean drive, warm springs boulevard in fremont area and sunol is also getting its share. livermore lighter rain along with the concord, antioch area. as we look to the north some lightning strikes near our radar

site just to the northwest near hopland. watching a few showers developing and then the stuff is just moving from south to north. some of this is quieting down. so far more than 300 lightning strikes around the state. san jose cam showing you a very wet scene down in the south bay right now. wettest spots have received anywhere between half an inch to almost an inch of rain in penn grove. 0.53 in byron, allen rock 0.6 of an inch. look at the rain totals in the south pay. san jose 0.42 livermore along with mt. st. helena almost a third of an inch of rain. you'll see rain totals on the side of 0.0. >> you talk about all the changes, take a look at all of this. the storm is definitely hitting the sierra. caltrans sent out this picture of snow falling along highway 50 from twin bridges to echo summit. >> here's a look at the dark skies and showers in novato this