a mystery. police say he committed the murder but they have said they do not know why. we do have a beautiful picture of the victim to show you 32-year-old kate steinle remembered as a compassion at person who had a last energy. there are flowers at pier 14 to remember her. this is where she was killed right next to the ferry building in san francisco. she was shot to death while sightseeing with her father. she was kind and who set up fundraisers without being asked and help her friends always. >> they did things like that. she: the world is a worse place now she is not here anymore. >> 45-year-old francisco sanchez was arrested and charged with her murder open probation from texas but miss have not gone into any detail.

police boat searched the waters next to pier 14 and a diver did find a gun. they were looking for the gun used in the murder and they need to do ballistic toasting on the gun to find out if it was the one used. san francisco police say they do not remember such a violent crime loan this part of the embarcadero in years. the shooting has shocked people would live and work in the area. >> i always walk here. >> this neighborhood is reasonable one of the safest spots in san francisco so we cannot make heads or tails of it so it is super unfortunate. >> people who walk along the embarcadero say the shooting will not keep them from the area. >> stay with abc7 for continuing coverage of the pier shooting. our reporting continues on

twitter, twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> investigators are trying to figure what sparked a grass fire off highway 4 in antioch before 8:00 on sunset drive last night. it started in a backyard and charred heavy brush around railroad tracks and it burned both cars and a pile of debris the firefighters contained it 15 minutes later and officials say it my have started in a homeless encampment. >> the cam public utilities commission is expected to vote on proposals to raise electricity rates for many people. the proposals restructure residential cuss -- customer rates, eliminating the more you use the more you pay replacing it with not. pg&e said low energy users cost the out estimate money because they do not consume enough to pay for delivery. your bill will rise about ten bucks. >> opponents of laws to boost vaccination rates are landing to hold a roast in san francisco.

supporters of the no vaccine mandate rally at unanimous in the south parking lot of the golden gate bridge to demand repeal. the governor signed it this week requiring all schoolchildren in california to be vaccinated next year unless a doctor gives them a medical exemption. >> eight families are in their farms after given 60 days to vacate their apartment on clinton street but they are pleading their case to city hall. with tears and questions this hand tenants were counting on a man, a city council member. >> i lived in farms building my parents were renters and i understand the challenges this group is facing. >> tuesday was 60 days since the owner notified tenants they have to go because the building will

be remodels. thecy does not have legal authority over the owner. one family is one cannot afford anywhere else to live but said the city council member made him feel better about the future. >> we move out of this, if we stay in the city, we still have the hope there will be rent control. >> long term we need to continue to build housing at all helpfuls particularly below market rate. that is going to take money from the developers building in the city already that will go into a fund we can use to subsidize that housing. they are pleading the tenants' case. >> the man who became the poster child for wealthy google employees moving to san francisco's mission district and evicting tenants died after buying property last year using the ellis act to evervict

people. a friend said he would donate the money to the lgbt community but that could not be confirmed. according to the newspaper he lost a short but difficult battle with cancer. he was 46. >> expect busy roads if you are headed out of town for fourth of july a record number of americans are expected to travel over the holiday weekend. this is the san francisco skyway with plenty of people on the road this. aaa estimates 85 percent of travelers are driving to and from their destinations because of the improved economy and cheaper gas. more palm will be mying to their destinations, as well, and t.s.a. said an the nation, they are screening 300,000 more people a day this week than usual. >> organizers are a fundraisingest to build korean war membership at the presidio in san francisco are expected to announce they have raised enough unto build it with group breaking at the site on july 11, with $3.5 million needed to will

the memorial. local marines hope to depict the fierce battle they faced when necessity planned in south korea september 15 of 1950. >> a lost parades are taking place tomorrow in the east bay including dan villains constituting new rules for that are parade. you cannot stake out a seat loan the route until 6:00 p.m. they are not allowed to tape off their spays because in the past after the parade businesses were allowed to power wash sidewalks and now that is prohibited because of the drought. >> authorities will be out in force as you hit the roads this holiday weekend, c.h.p. is conducting their independence day maximum enforcement period from tonight until midnight open sunday with center officers making sure we enjoy a safe and sober holiday weekend. in 2014, 32 person were killed in california over the fourth of july with more than 1,300 arrested for d.u.i. >> now it is sometime to check

withdrew and a look at the weather forecast. the holiday weekend will be nice? >> really nice. we are talking about sunshine this afternoon and right now outside on the mild side upper 50s to 60s. oakland is 60. 61 in hayward. 63 in san jose and downtown san francisco is at 68. antioch and livermore at 66. a look from the golden gate bridge camera you are dealing with fog in spots, and low clouds and the day planner reflects that, early on by 7:00, mainly clouds across the bay area by the lunch time hour coastal clouds and by the afternoon, everyone is seeing sunshine and we will top out in the mid-60s along the coast and lower 80s at the bay and 90s inland. the roads or the rails or skies for traveling, we are looking good across california into southern california a lot of sunshine hot in palm springs 109, and 78 in los angeles, and high clouds in northern california and a few showers at

eureka and yosemite is topping out at 99 degrees. that is the forecast. now the traffic. >> good morning drew. good morning everyone. happy preindependence day. as we look at san francisco south san francisco san bruno we have a brand new crash. this is reported northbound highway 101 making the connection to westbound 380 sounds like a solo crash that is involved. we do see a little bit of slowing pulling away from 101 and that is perhaps where it s the rest of the drive 101 from sfo if you have a flight to catch from san francisco not going to see delays, northbound track and the city looking clear, and 5 credit westbound tracy to dublin is 25 minutes, and 680, dublin to mission boulevard south, 16 minutes and highway 85 northbound from 101 to cupertino is five minutes. >> next, the unlikely visitor to wage country that is drawing a

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>> covering cupertino, concord wine country and all the bay. >> three two one to flight speed, maximum thrust and lift off. >> a russian rocket is on the way to the international space station and the up manned ship blasted off carrying 6,sun pounds of food and supplies. last sunday spacex falcon rocket broke apart shortly after lift off and the soyuz is scheduled to dock on sunday morning. >> martins beach is open to the

public again. for a while. billionaire has opened the private road to allow access to the public beach for the next two or three months according to our media participate the bay area news group. the co-funder of sun microsystems closed the gate to the road and weapon people out. a judge order him to allow people to get to the beach in exchange for collecting a park fee. he is fighting the judge's order. >> signs warning people of smashes off the santa cruz coast will remain up until at least sunday following more sightings. you can see them in this video shot on tuesday using a drone at sea cliff state bench. several great whites were spotted yesterday forcing organizers to cancel a junior lifeguard competition. the beach will be open for the holiday weekend but rangers have posted signs asurprising swimmers to stay out of the water. >> in florida a fisherman in a kayak is pulled and circled by a

shark that swallowed the bait and the shark came back under the kayak and tipped it over. the map said he swam to a support boat faster than he ever had. he got back into the kayak and caught the shark. >> visitors to napa enjoy the wine and the views but they have something new and very unusual to see now: a harbor porpoise has been entertaining the tourists in the napa river. alan wang has the story. >> by 9:00, tourists in downtown napa watched it pop out of the river near the third street bridge. >> i seen it! >> it will pop up two times and then go back under and then pop up two more times and be gone ten minutes and did the same over and over. >> he is not brown but a little guy. >> the marine biologists are

convinced this is a harbor porpoise that may have followed a food source. >> i notice the dorsal fin shows it is not a sea lion. >> the porpoise was spotted on friday ten miles south of downtown napa. >> i know the water is salty now and with in rain so it is like, well not surprised something would come up here that usually is not here. >> marine scientists say it is rare but another was seen last summer in the river. this appears to be in good health and will likely swim back to the bay. >> of course, the porpoise jump. >> if you dip your toes into the water it is only up to 68. rather chilly. >> we are talking about warm weather on the way with a lot of

sunshine on the way. we are starting off with cloud cover. live doppler hd shows we had light moisture move through overnight, a race amount, pushing to the north and dry air filtering in from the south. looking outside our golden gate bridge camera showing areas of fog to contend with early this morning and lows. the forecast calls for clouds and coastal fog with dry air arriving from the south this afternoon. we are look fine for the fourth of july over the weekend. right new, antioch is 66. 61 in oakland. 62 in los gatos and 6 in san francisco and 60 in napa and fremont is at 62. live doppler hd showing along with satellite we will show you the moisture that moved through overnight a trace amount of rain and look to the south, dry and clear air, that will filter in over the afternoon and sunshine on the way. highs for friday, starting in south bay sunny skies, 85 in sunnyvale, 87 in cupertino the peninsula is 79 in san mateo and

downtown san francisco is 68. 62 for daly city. the north bay is 85 in calistoga. 63 from bodega bay. oakland and the east bay, and 91 fairfield and 93 in pleasanton. this evening at the cove, the a's on the marineers and we have fireworkses as the gape wraps under the fireworks go off with a temperature around 65. at lows tomorrow, we see 50s along the coast and a magazine of upper 50s to lower 60s is what we fall to overnight setting the stage for a nice fourth of july. the seven-day outlook shows we are partly cloudy with more sunshine later today and saturday is just fine for the fourth of july with fireworks protection in a few moments and we sunday it is average and typical july-like weather for the second half of the seven-day forecast. now how is the traffic?

>> 28 bart trains are running on time, with no delays reported on muni, ace train is currently running but i want to give you heads up regarding this weekend's fourth of july mass transit kenneling. bart is going to be running regular service today and sunday is for saturday and muni is running a weekday service on friday sunday holiday schedule on saturday. golden gate transit is changed and caltrain and a.c. transit, all of those check in with them because they are going to have altered service for the festivities this sunday. now, as we look at the drive in san jose, moving along 87 in the northbound direction, and southbound traffic is not too much going on at all. i do have some construction, however, and this is only going to last in 5:00 the san mateo bridge away from foster city

boulevard is looking good. >> 4:48, a blunt warning from the federal government of the fate of the polar bear the fish and wildlife said unless humans reverse global warming it is unlikely the polar bear will survive as a species. the agency points to the depleting amount of summer sea ice in the arc tick their has been at this time to feed and mate and give birth. they were listed as threatened in 2008. next time you search on yahoo the rules could come from google with result being tested from several search engines. the yahoo deal with microsoft was revised so they can work with other partners. >> a credit card company is using selfies to fight fraud. here is the tech bytes. >> paying with a selfie? in the future to verify your identity for a credit car purchase you may have to take a

picture with your smartphone that compares the new photo to what is on file. >> creative. want more "lives," for facebook? timing is everything, a message posted on tuesday and wednesday debt more "likes." those in the middle of the night when your friends are asleep do not do well. most shares and comments are posted two hours of the original message. >> a study suggests the internet and smartphones are ruining our memories we are suffering from din tall amnesia because we expect our devices to score information for us or find it for us. half of us cannot remember our partner's phone number. >> those are the tech bytes. >> 4:49. a southern california city dumps 500,000 gallons of water and the outrage it is sparking and why city leaders say they have no choice. >> the best way to improve

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>> a look at lady liberty in the harbor in new york it is almost independence day is we look to her for inspiration and guidance as we have for a century. stand tall. >> a serial stowaway who has been caught sneaking on to numerous planes is out of jail this morning. this video of marilyn hartman walking out of cook county jail in chicago. police arrested her last in for trespassing at midway and o'hare airports. authorities say she loitered in the restricted area near the ticket counters. >> i would not want to encourage that behavior because i am as concerned about security as everyone else.

>> last august hartman sneaked past security and made it on a flight from san jose to los angeles and has been arrested numerous types spending only a few days in jail each time. >> that san diego county, this has been public outrage over the decision to dump 500,000 commons of water sitting in a tank into a canyon. the mayor said that the residents conserved so much water by 45 percent in may the water just saturday in the local reservoir and the heat got the water in a tank creating a chemical imbalance of a chemical so it was not safe to drink. they could not send it to the pipes for irrigation because this is a chance someone could drink it. >> 20,000 fans are at at&t park tonight although the giants are thousands of miles away in washington dc. a free live simultaneous of the marriage of figarro will be show on the scoreboard. the san francisco opera is performing the classic at the

war memorial opera house and fans can sit on the field or in the stamps for the performance which begins at 7:30 p.m. >> in honor of that tonight, drew joins us to sing the weather forecast. >> no no, no no no. >> take it away, drew. >> you do not want to hear me sing. tomorrow, the fire woulds trust around the bay area for the fourth of july we have coastal flog clear inland and temperature wise we are mainly in the fits and the sick. now, a few locations include berkeley, 61 degrees and sunset is 8:35, and napa is 68, and san jose is 69 and santa rosa at 65 and redwood city and comfortable with mostly clear skies and temperature of 67 degrees. that is weather. now a check of traffic. i know someone better at that. >> drew, we hear you doing your vocal exercises each morning in

the weather studio. looking at the golden gate bridge it is mushy. quite foggy coming in between marin and van. the low beams are going to be employed this morning in the northbound direction. traffic is light. we have an accident however and this is in the east bay, eastbound highway 4, we do have slowing as a result. as you travel eastbound away from hercules you tap on the brakes 680 southbound walnut creek to dublin is 15 minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to san francisco is 51 minutes and quick through the santa cruz mountains. >> the ride-sharing company lift is rewarding the frequent passengers with a trip to a v.i.p. club, the friend company is rolling out lyft nation the top 10 percent of the passengers qualify for exclusive partnerships partnerships and secret parties with uber rolling an uber v.i.p. service into effect the last several months.

>> ford is recalling 433,000 vehicles because of cost wear glitch keeping the engines running on the focus and escape vehicles even if the ignition is off, the key is removed or the "stop," button is hit. >> people with diabetes could be able to throw away needles and end insulin because a huge study is underway to discover if insulin in pill form can prevent the disease. the study newspapered by the national institutes of health is focusing on type one diabetes when the body rows no insulin at all and is the kind that is usually diagnosed in childhood. >> republickers in -- researchers in israel have found something to do with scents but people with autism do not react the same to bad or good smells.

this could become an additional tool for testing for autism. the study is the "journal of current biology." >> there is evidence that a catnap at work is good for you. here is ammunition to take to the boss, a study from the university of minute said that naps can better criminal your emotion. studies have then a link between sleep deprivation and impulsive behavior. they link it to memory and cancer and alzheimer's d >> i forgot what i was supposed to do ready, set, hit the road. at 5:00 a.m., the extra patience you will have to pa if you travel on fourth of july. >> high anxiety over terror alert on fourth of july and why we should all be on guard this weekend.

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♪ ♪ live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning, everyone, at 5:00 a.m. hope it is magical friday for you. i am eric thomas. >> i am matt keller. we will see if people are floating on air, on the roads which would be nice to avoid the traffic. >> mike is off. >> we talking about nice weather this weekend for the holidays. >> in weather issues. we will see a l