begin with vinita vandari who owns this school and eight others. >> we had no reason to believe anything until that day he was arrested and the following day the authorities told us the charges were child molestation. >> what was your reaction to that? >> very shocked, but the relieving thing is that none of the schoolchildren are in danger or at risk. >> the this afternoon after that interview, pleasanton police confirmed that the alleged molestation did happen on campus late last year. the victim a former student who had attended the stool when it was known as busy bees and under previous ownership. police did not say why she returned to the school. they would only say the victim was less than 14 years old and that it appears to have been an isolated incident. at this point in the investigation we have no evidence to believe that there are any additional victims except the one that came forward. >> what kind of evidence do you

have? >> i can't speak to the specifics of the evidence, but there was enough evidence to convince the d.a. that there was a solid case and they brought charges. >> until this i would have said he is a very very liked respected and awesome teacher. he was very loved and parents are very shocked and disappointed, too, and they all want to bring him back. >> that's pretty much everything we know since the story broke just a few hours ago. parents have been filing into the school for about 45 minutes. we will presume that this meeting has begun. we asked police who will be there what they'll be telling the parents. the key message they said is that your children are safe. in pleasanton wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> all right, wayne. thank you. >> san jose's evergreen elementary school district began today. this is to determine weather administrators ignored sexual

abuse. in 2013, a teacher convicted craig chandler for molesting students at whale elementary school. they ignored warning signs and looked the other way. >> a man accused of holding two people hostage at an antioch gas station last week appeared in court. horatio gutierrez entered 16 charges and his bail was set at nearly $5 million on friday, but it was reduced to $2.8 million today. investigators said gutierrez carjacked a driver led officers on a chase and then held two people hostage at an arco gas station. after releasing the hostages he gave himself up to police. in the midst of what is a historic drought, sanford university is letting the water flow. the school turned off its fountain ahead of graduation. those fountains will require 60,000 gallons of water.

it will recycle that water later this summer. >> today marks the beginning of water cutbacks across the state. david louie is always a challenge to save water. >> it is a 3% some people around here are wishing their lava in their lungs but some are taking dantadvantage of it entirely. residents are flooding the water district for applications for turf removal rebates. they get 2% back if they follow the prescribed rules which can cover as much as a third to a half of a typical home. >> we have stacks of paperwork as you can see. it is increasing the amount of time that it takes to process each one of these individually. >> 760 rebates have been issued so far this year. 800 more are in process.

>> two years ago 160,000 square feet of turf was convicted. it topped 1 million square feet last year and the same amount has been converted so far this year putting 2015 on track to reach $2 million square feet. >> while individuals can limit waterious or on a city wide basis can plan or two. >> they'll be reducing experts statistic tomorrow and just a changed behavior. you can't do it in a day and it takes time and the good news is each next month we'll see some returns from the cumulative education we've given people. >> drought-resistant yards have become a matter of pride in loss altos. it's 32% mandatory cutback is one of the highest in the bay area, but there is a community spirit here that everyone will do their part. >> people are very supportive of what needs to happen and i'm watching people take out lawns and put in bark and we're all

quite aware of what needs to happen. so we want to make it happen. >> in los altos, david louie abc 7 news. >> do not forget if you think you see water being wasted where you live email us at abc 7 listens at kgo-tv.com and we will check out your complaints. ellen powell will appeal her verdict in the closely watched discrimination lawsuit. she lost against her former employer. pal wants to overturn a verdict. powell sued venture capital from kleiner perkins accusing the company of passing her over for a promotion and firing her because of her gender. turning to the forecast now. parts of the bay area saw just a few sprinkles this morning as people were driving to work. >> we are still hoping. >> we wanted more sandhya. >> you may be seeing more cheryl and larry. right now it's bright and sunny out here. let me show you live doppler 7 hd and we'll talk about what happened earlier today and right

now some cloud cover and up to the north is where the system is that brought us a few drops around here and very light showers or drizzle earlier today and from the golden gate bridge camera you can see clouds moving back in. .16 of an inch and richmond had 500 and pet looma 0.54 of an inch. we have spotty drizzle in the forecast and maybe even some showers, believe it or not. i'll let you know exactly when coming right up. >> cheryl? larry? >> thank you. >> the warriors return to practice today with all eyes on klay thompson and abc 7 news was at the practice facility in oakland where he was a full participant after suffering a concussion in game 5 of the western conference finals. >> the guard has not yet been cleared to play and he'll take part of the nba finals on thursday. >> the first couple of days after and the last game and

since then i've been running and getting shocked up and i had a great practice and i got a good sweat. the next few days will be really important. >> thompson still needs to receive final clearance from doctors to play against cleveland and that could happen tomorrow morning and warriors coach, steve ker, and saying basketball's coach randy bennett has his own song on the cavaliers. aka deli is the all-time leader in scoring and assists and they have the intangibles that make him a terrific leader. >> really high basketball i.q. and lebron is their leader, but i have to believe behind the scenes matt is helping there, too, with just their leadership core. >> some have called de la vedova a dirty player and he does get involved in dust ups and

skirmishes. he's a gritty player with a lot of intensity on the court and he's going 100% all of the time. we're going 110% in fact. the only day you can see the warriors take on the cavaliers and the tip-off 6:00 p.m. at oracle arena and game two also at oracle on sunday and games three and four will take place next tuesday and thursday at quicken loans arena in cleveland. >> always take us on your phone, too. we have the app for you. >> san francisco drag queens staged a big protest at menlo park today over having an identity and that policy puts them at risk of being bullied. sergio quintana joins us with more. sergio? >> reporter: this was a protest led by drag queens and they say they're doing this for members of the lgbt community and the larger community who will not use their real names on their facebook profiles either for work reasons or for their own safety.

protesters gave a thumbs down in front of the social media giants's huge rainbow-colored thumbs up sign at the company's headquarters. this protest is about facebook's real name policy organizers say some facebook users are targeting members of their community. >> people are using to maliciously target and bully the lgbt community because they find us objectionable just because of the way we look or because of what they think we represent. >> reporter: in october she said they had reached an agreement with facebook over users' identity and some people say the process of proving themselves to the social media company is typical. >> it took me three months to get my name back. >> she was born male and is now legally a female. her worry is for people who live in countries for being gay and transgendered is punishable by prifsh or death. >> if the government finds out you're living this life they

don't approve of and a good way to retaliate is to have people down on criminals like they do all of the time. >> a spokesperson for facebook was not available on camera, and i was available on the blog post explaining the real life policy. they write in part having people use their authentic names and helps promote our community from dangerous interactions. >> see perhaps -- i want the lgbt and again 69 the san francisco gay pride parade later this month. >> reporter: the board recently voted to allow facebook's lgbt group to march in this year's gay pride parade. we've been outside the board's market street offices this afternoon waiting for a comment on that decision. so far, no response. reporting live in san francisco, i'm sergio quintana, abc 7 news.

>> thank you. a car thief makes a getaway from the bmw dealership by driving it through a window, what witnesses who saw the brazenburg largy have to say tonight. >> keep an eye on your car while on your treadmill. more thefts going on at south bay gyms. >> beautiful and absolutely gorgeous. >> call her caitlyn. former olympian bruce ginner reveals her transformation to the worl people wanna know, why has my high efficiency washer been saying 7 more minutes for 25 minutes? the problem may not be with your machine but with your he detergent. all he detergents are not created equally. look. this detergent says it's made for high efficiency washers but look at all these suds that your machine needs to rinse! that means more time. fact is the wrong detergent can add up to 25 minutes to your wash cycle. it can waste water too. up to 10 extra gallons. so, what's the answer? introducing new tide he turbo

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applaud the move calling it a moment of tremendous freedom. lyanne mel endes joins us from the newsroom? this is sort of an introduction to jenner's television series life as a transgender woman which she started shooting in may, but let me tell you, today's announcement spread throughout the internet. in four hours she reached 1 million followers on twitter. she tweeted another jenner world record and at 65, who would have thought? >> it is destined to be onest most iconic magazine covers of the century, shot by annie leibovitz. the transition from bruce jen tore caitlyn was made public just two months after speaking to abc's diane sawyer. >> are you a woman? >> yes. for all intents and purposes i am a woman. >> reporter: the 65-year-old jenner appeared today on twitter with a new handle. i'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. welcome to the world caitlyn. can't wait for you to get to

know her/me. the physique of the olympic gold medalist seems now just a memory. jenner has been slowly evolving before her public. many in the local transgender community praised jenner's announcement. >> to have somebody to look up to somebody that's notable. >> you're bringing it out of the dark and bringing the visibility and that's powerful. we know nothing -- nothing is as powerful as the media visibility. >> reporter: glad the lgbt media advocacy organization says by sharing her journey with the world, caitlyn jenner is accelerating acceptance of transgender people everywhere. >> we're going to make a difference in the world with what we're doing. >> reporter: only time will tell if she will accomplish that mission. lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> lyanne, thank you. call me caitlyn has been trending all day long. i just checked, 1.15 million.

a lot of people tweeting their support for her for jenner. >> emmy rossum calls caitlyn beautiful. how to get away with murder actor matt lagory says congrats on an amazing show of bravery and may you inspire others to love themselves, as well. >> maria shriver said the empowerment got a brave new voice. >> an auto theft scheme apparently went on for weeks. the thieves would sneak into gym locker rooms and steal car keys while people were working out. they spotted two men acting suspiciously before a vehicle was stolen and they helped police identify suspects using surveillance. today police announced three men have been taken into kufrt dee and five cars stolen from gyms have been recovered. another not smash and grab. this is a crash and grab in san francisco and this time at a bmw leadership. the loot was a $75,000 car and

the suspected thief did not get very far. vic lee joins us live at the scene right now. vic? >> well, this is where the accused car thief, 37-year-old peter deroone crashed a stolen bmw on mason street near union square. the car ended up against the wall. you can still see the marks of the collision and before that the car smashed boo ainto a parked suv and he is lucky to be alive tonight. >> omg, the m stands for the bmw m seary, but today it stood for oh, my god. how do you drive a bmw off a showroom floor and go down three feet into a sidewalk? >> that's what happened after 5:00 a.m. this morning at the bmw dealership on howard street. the thief broke into the building, found the box with car keys and tried to steal a bmw

but it didn't fit through the showroom window, so he took another one that did and he drove on to howard street narrowly missing this chevy parked at the meter. it was john's rental car. >> i don't have to pay the deductible on the car because it wasn't hit, but i got a parking ticket. >> a parking violation for $66. he couldn't move the car for hours because it was in a crime scene. the bmw then traveled at high speeds to gary and mason and turned abruptly going the wrong way on mason a one-way street. it jumped a sidewalk and smashed with the limo driver asleep in the car. it stopped when it hit a building wall. >> the first thing i remember is feeling a big impact and a loutd sound of a crash. next thing i know my door is up against the tree. the thief ran all of the way to the 200 block of seventh street where he was arrested.

police would say only that they were responding to a domestic dispute that involved the thief. vic lee, abc 7 news. what a story. san francisco city supervisors are looking to ban soda ads on all publicly-owned property. supervisor cohen and scott weiner introduced a bill today that they compared to the decades-long war of cigarette ads and they want to ban on spending city money on soda and sugary drinks. op bonents say the policy would step on people's freedoms. >> the government's role is to protect the public's health of the community and we did that with cigarettes, with taxes and health warnings and we've done it with mandatory seat belt laws and motorcycle helmet laws and when people get diabeteses from these drinks we all pay for that. >> vintage ads and the coke bottle slide at the ballpark at at&t would still be okay. >> let's get a check of the forecast now and it started out with a little damp and dreary in

some parts and sandhya patel joining us live with the forecast. >> hi there. it brightened up in many parts of the bay area like it is right now and cloud cover lingering as we take a look at live doppler 7 hd and we'll talk about the potential for more drizzle for your morning commute. right now we're watching those clouds just hanging around parts of the bay and coast and as you look at those winds a little gusty to 28 miles an hour out of the west and 22 in vacaville and still out of the west. despite the fact that we have the onshore breeze and you'll notice that the water temperatures are running a little bit above normal. check out monterey bay, five degrees above the average of 55 degrees. so we are noticing probably along the coastline that it's feeling muggy because of the warmer than normal water temperatures. san jose camera showing you sunshine in the south bay and here is a look at your temperature. 63 in san francisco and 69 in

oakland and san carlos not far behind and 73 in san jossy and as you look at this live picture from the exploratorium camera, just a beautiful view and this is what i'm looking at from my vantage point and mid-70s around napa and livermore and 78 degrees in vacaville and from the emoriville camera you'll be seeing more of the low cloudiness pushing in in the overnight hours and spotty drizzle returns tonight and cooler patterns continue and it shows up this upcoming weekend. here is a low that produced the drizzle and light showers earlier today. it's lifting out and we're pretty much going to continue with the steady onshore pattern. it extends all of the way across the ocean and so the wind is going to continue to flow in off the ocean water and then work its way across the inland areas. as we take a look at the pacific, it's really heating up and the tropics there, tropical storm blanca newly formed off the west coast of mexico and hurricane andres is a powerful

category 3. andres is going to fall apart. meanwhile, blankal strengthen, paralleling the mexico coast. so keep this in mind if you are traveling to mexico. what we're really keeping an eye on is what will be left of andres. some of the that moisture could make its way across southern california on saturday producing rain and some of it may trail up toward our area and we'll have to wait and see. this upcoming weekend we do have a slight chance for showers particularly on sunday lingering into monday morning. as you take a look at the overnight temperatures, low to mid 50s for most of you and drizzly for the morning commute and you will need the extra time if it is slick in spots you might slow down there. tomorrow afternoon 64 in san francisco and 71 degrees for you in oakland. 74 in san jose and up to 83 in antioch and 79 in santa rosa. accuweather seven-day forecast and the temperatures low 60s to low 80s range. over the weekend we'll be watching for the slight chance of showers on sunday and going

into your early monday morning. cheryl? larry? >> sandhya thank you. the city of oakland getting ready for its first nba finals in 40 years. how businesses are putting out the welcome mat for excited fans. plus a 105-year-old warriors super fan will get to see the game in style on thursday night. the gracious gesture from the team next. >> and coming up later on world news -- >> cheryl larry, the severe storms hitting at this hour and 45 million americans will affect travel from east to west and also the american tourist killed on safari and the attack right through the car window and the 12-ton drop. stunning new video coming in and behind the scenes tonight. bruce jenner leaving behind the name, her new name and n

its warriors colors today. volunteers handed out special playoff cheer cards to workers

in downtown oakland. the marriott on broadway is getting into the spirit. the employees are wearing yellow warriors t-shirts and the lobby has big team banners up. the warriors practice facility is next to the mariotte and it hosts the mvp press convince. the 105-year-old warriors super fan will get to go to thursday's game in style. we first introduced you to sweetie last week. she is the matriarch of dub nation. the team plans to give sweetie vip treatment at game one and she'll get to watch from a corporate suite in oracle arena. she is about to turn 106 on june 12th and she's hoping to celebrate with a warriors championship. wow! the excitement is building for the warriors as they face the cavs in the finals and we want to see your team pride when you post fan pictures to social media and use the #dubs on 7 and we'll feature it on air and online on abc 7 news.com. it's been three days since we told you about the woman who

dropped off a vintage apple 1 computer at a recycling plant and she has still not come forward. the woman donated boxes to a recycling center in milpitas. one of them contained one of the first apple computers ever made. the company sold it for $200,000 to a private collector. their policy is to give her half of the proceeds that is if she ever comes forward. >> i hope she does. a swiss pilot set a world record today by flying more than days straight without fuel. the pilot of silver impulse 2 touched down in japan this morning after a 1700-mile flight. that is the longest solo flight ever reported. he'd been trying to make it all of the way to hawaii, but severe weather forced him to land in japan. ese on a 22,000 mile around the world journey and it started in march in dubai and will end in abu dhabi later this year. >> that's a long way. a shopping spree for young

giants fans and it was the best

coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00, the i-team confronts a man who claims to be one of world war ii's most decorated veterans. tonight, his reaction when dan mois explores this case of stolen valor. >> the objects designed by local kids that may soon be reproduced on the space station thanks to the 3d printer that's now onboard. that's all coming up in half an hour on abc 7 news at 6:00. some young baseball players enjoyed a generous shopping spree. >> they enjoyed tips given by major leaguers past and present and we were at san francisco as former giants star jeffrey leonard chatted with players from the willy mace boy ey mayes boys and girls club. taught by justin maxwell and

matt duffy. >> great time. >> thanks for joining us. i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm larry beil in for dan tonight, 45 million under watches and warnings at this hour. drivers losing control on the highway. from atlanta to d.c. and philly, from new york up to boston. lightning hitting the new world trade center. the alligator-infested waters. abc news breaks the story. the massive security failure at american airports. undercover, sneaking potential weapons and bombs. 70 tests. agents failing 67 of them. you've seen the close calls. >> ah! >> tonight, turning deadly. the american tourist killed. the lion attack right through the car window. the mystery fire. this evening, the funeral. and new developments. the suspect, the video, the pizza. now, the attorney who says police have the wrong man. and for the first time, leaving bruce jenner behind. the new name, the new look. we'll take you inside the room.