abc 7 news starts right now with live breaking news. breaking news in the east bay. these ariels from a sky 7 hd over the police activity in oakland where they were facing a huge line of cash and fireworks from a home. one officer said that it was the biggest bust that she has seen. $50,000 in fireworks. go men worked with multiple felonies. praising the one of the departments special investigation and rook at all of this. the bomb squad is at the scene

to remove it. we have more later today on abc 7 and follow up on twitter for up to the minute updates on the bay area. >> thanks for joining us. our other top story today is a campbell mother has been reunited with a son that she last seen when 15 years ago. the noer and son flu back to the bay area and january p net join us us with the remarkable story. janet? >> reporter: yeah, this is from the joyous reunion where family and friends got to meet jonathan for the first time. ever since she connected with him on facebook in january, she has been in constant communication with him after months of waiting he is finally home. >> i was giving up hope before. >> 15 long years have gone by.

the one thing that's nost changed is the undying love for her children. >> the one thing that i remember is his eye. >> the two flew in this morning. he first went missing when he was 3 years old and been living in mexico with his father all these years. she had an abusive relationship with the father and someone that kidnapped him. >> his dad was going on vacation and had permission to take him. it was just a normal day. i did not know that he was never coming back. >> he is now trying to get over the panful past and focus on the future with her son. >> he said that he is happy because he is with me. >> they have so much to do as jonathan recalls memory playing with the favorite toys and remembering what he was like to be with his mom. >> it was our first kiss with

him. >> reporter: well tonight hope and jonathan hope to take a camping trip up next. it's a family vacation long over due. this family vacation is especially great because jonathan says that he will get to meet his older brother jacob face to face for the first time in a long time. reporting live with abc 7 news. >> janet, thank you very much. well a spectacular show early this morning as lightening and rain moved through in the bay area. this is what it looked like as the lighten skies lit up. we're live now with more on this brief storm. >> and eric the lightening along with the showers really helped to relieve the heat that we accumulated and live doppler will show you early this morning the numerous lighten strikes as they move to the west and encounter more stable air, so the lightening really fell apart. right now we only see one low

drizzle pocket and long the creek and 680 right now getting a little bit of wet weather. a live lookout side and showing you the clouds and we're on the way to a nice afternoon and a lot of folks are preparing for a long holiday weekend. we will detail that coming up. this morning's lightening may have started a brush fire. it was over the area this morning and the fire broke out around 440 and it's grown to 45 acres. four different crews are battling the blaze. o officials think that it started as two separate fires and then went into one. the latest on a shooting death of the ferry building. the police questioned a person of interest in the far from a poplar tourist area and they're looking for more evidence right now. amy joins us live now from pier 14, amy.

>> reporter: yeah, behind me you can see the police. they have been in the boat ka patrolling the area. they have been here for an hour or two and controlling the waters and looking for something and officials tell us that it's connected to last night's murder and they're looking for evidence possibly the epp. the woman was killed here on pier 14 and tourists and locals alike like coming here. we're nefrksxt to the ferry building. no one can believe that a murder happened here. witnesses say that the 31-year-old woman was here and taking on the sights when she was shot. witnesses saw the man run away from the scene and they were able to alert the police that did take someone in for questioning. this morning people are telling us that they could not believe that this would happen here. we're thinking it of pretty nice here and pretty upscale.

anything can happen. >> it's kind of scary because i come on a morning walk every morning and walk down the pier so kind of scary that it just happened randomly like that. >> looks like the police have wrapped up searching for this area and having a boat out here is stopping people in the tracks as they have been wondering and watching what they were doing out there and unnerving to see the police activity in the very populated and poplar area. police have not said that the motive was behind the murder. i did just check in with the medical examiner and they have not released the victim's identity and they will later this afternoon. stay with abc 7 news as this story continues to develop. reporting live amy with abc 7 news. >> thanks a lot amy. while recovering the shooting in pier 14, two stations were robbed off the gear or the crews were. an armed man approached a person

and pistol whip him. the robber took both of the cameras at gun point and jumped in with two inside. no one else was injured and a magazine from a handgun was found on the ground. police collected the magazine and took witness statements at the scene. today a judge denied a restraining order against the district attorney's office. it was filed where a balance ka nir collapsed two weeks ago. segway construction wants to keep investigators from examining without them being present. they are conducting a criminal investigation. liver moore police need help in finding three teens that

stole. liver more police posted this photo saying that the teen ran out of the store without paying on june 14th. here are the other two suspects captured by can camera on blooming dales at the outlets. the suspects got away with a late model four door car and a gray honda sick civic. there's a lock down and started by a reported gunfire. abc 7 keller explained that trigger a major police response. this happened less than two years after a violent incident that has herch on edge. >> it was not a drill. reported gunfire lead to the massive police response and lock down at the washington navy yard. employeeing were immediately told to shelter in place. >> we herd someone yelling get out of the building and after a few tense hours law enforcement said that a person inside the complex thought that she had

kbun shots and called 911. a strong reaction from numerous agencies comes less than two years after a military contractor that shot and killed two workers at the same navy yard. >> having spent a lot of time at the navy yard, it appears that all of the things that we tried coto correct from the last incident was very very well. >> this comes as the u.s. officials are warning for the terror attack and the fourth of july weekend. a bullet was sent to be on alert for isis inspired attacks. in the news room with abc 7 news. the university of california system has admitted more than 113,000 students for the fall. it's admitting more than 92,000 freshman and 21,000 community transfers at the ten campuses. u.s. burkely's class will total

more than 13,000 students. the number grew by seven percent by the year before. you won't be able to swim? a poplar swimming area because of a bloom. late this week it's closed until further notice. it can cause the rashes and vomiting and flu like symptoms. that forced the officials to close the lake. >> the city of fairfield is closing three parts for the holiday weekend for the potential for fire. the hills and regional parks and is service hills over the space will be closed from 8:00 until 6:00 monday morning. the clean up is under way this morning after a twist er in missouri. >> i got to it. >> it's the whole building. >> check that out. >> it just took the whole building. >> the scary moments caught on camera as it barrelled through a small town. plus a balloon accident caught on camera. the nervous moments d

i got it. check that out. it took the whole building. >> you're look at a video of a tornado. you can see the twist er last night lifted parts of sel roofs into the air downed trees and smashed cars and blue a transform er in the city of lees summit. there were no reports of injuries. a man in utah caught this

moments before a pig shaped air balloon crashed into a tree and caught fire and cutting the pilots face. this happened at the freedom balloon fest. some people jumped the fence to help that pilot. look at that crash. he was the only person in the basket and received only minor burns on his neck. take a close look. can you tell what person is a robot? >> wow. pretty amazing. that one. >> yeah i they you're right here. it was invailed in china and the company that produced this. >> yeah it covered the film and design to make natural facial expressions. good. it's not clear when it will hit the main stream market. think they that they need to be very worried. >> robot anchors. >> yeah but you will need human

meteorologist watching. yeah in for mike. >> we're talking about morning clouds giving way to afternoon shine. we finally wiped away and setting up for a nice holiday forecast. we will have the details ahead in accuweather. okay. do you rinse the plait before you put them in the dishwasher. there's an end to the great debate. plus. there's a lot more to fireworks to check out. the fourth of july events that you don't

:now a debate and how to load the dishwasher. it shows that half of the americans argue over the proper way to load a dishwasher. it's whether to prerinse or not. one stopped by this morning to deliver the answer. >> the number one thing is do not prerinse. that's because dishwashers now are more advanced. detergents are advanced and contain enzymes that watch on to the food and do the dirty work. >> unless it's an older dishwasher. >> they recommend putting the class on the top rack when it comes to utensils do not be afraid to mix it up with the knives and forks facing down. do not cut or stab yourself. >> yeah, and the pans go ton bottom rack and do not use the dishwasher for cast iron or nonstick cook ware. my wife says that it's best to wash those by hand.

>> she keeps on having to tell you that. meteorologist jim on the outside. do you want to weigh in on this at all? >> i guess that he is not. >> look at the lightening storm there. drew, are you there? >> you can you hear me. i am awful loading the dishwasher. there's going to be a lot of that eating over the weekend. we have hot dogs and burgers and it's going to be perfect kbril grilling weather out there. let's go to live doppler and what we're seeing right now is a lot of nothing. we're seeing a couple of isolated showers and once gain they have moved out of here and in the north bay and now all is quiet. it's in the south bay and the camera is showing you a high thin vail of cloud cover and the sun peeking out and the clouds are coming down and good news

not as hot in the afternoon and we're looking dry for the holiday weekend and comfortable. 64 in downtown and 62 in oakland. 75 in fremont coming in at 71. sunshine giving way this afternoon and 85 for the high in san jose. downtown san francisco is 67 later on this afternoon and 81 in the north bay and sunshine for the afternoon and 84 fremont and one final stop. no triple digit and 88 is the high and the a's are in town and taking on the mariners and it's 66 degrees by the first pitch. wrapping up at 10:00 and we will see a mixture of stars and clouds. over night to want there's a mixture of stars and clouds. not too bad tonight. it's in much of the bay area as we go into friday. if you're taking to the road and

rails the skies to travel for the holiday weekend tomorrow and we're looking good across the state. the only exception is in the dessert. if you're going for each and every day there's a chance for a thunder shower and no day is a wash out. you maybe dodging each and every afternoon. if you're staying locally in the bay area on friday anded sunday. no triple heat and a lot of sunshine. you're looking for fair the fourth and it's many the warmest locations and only tapping out. the cooling continues or friday and saturday the fourth of july in -- monday tuesday, wednesday we're not seeing any intense heat. some morning fog and afternoon

temperatures. >> okay. thank you. >> well, happy birthday america friends family and fireworks. we have some suggestions on how to explore where you live. what better waits to begin celebrating the nations birth with a good old fashion. the team of the county is fair is on with the show and through sunday it's going go and enjoy eight concerts and pablo cruise and have fun with the classics like rides food and firework. tomorrow the symphony is strumming the red white and blue and the star spangled banner and it can be and it will play the backdrop and in mountain view and the music is performed by the san francisco symphony at the shoreline amp theater. the sound of music is a

spectacular fireworks show. for more and those go to abc 7 news.com. the holiday is almost here and you're in the the only one getting ready. >> a tiny celebration to help you get int

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that. >> that was not a hamster. that was confetti. from all of us here thanks for joining us. >> whato wants to be a millionaire is coming up. >> have a great day.

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