the test run was smooth. no word open when it will run for the public. we met a rider who is getting up 45 minutes earlier than usual to drive from brentwood to north concord. >> usually i get on at 4:15 now i get here earlier. i have to drive to north concord coming from brentwood. >> why not take the bus? >> i don't take buses. >> bart is providing buses from pittsburg to north concord for people would want a ride. there are no trains running between the two stations. we are expecting a progress report today from bart but as of right now they are saying continue to plan on shorter trains and the because bridge. president obama is waking up in cuba this morning becoming

the first united states president to visit the island nation in more than 90 years. the president and his family arrived in cuba yesterday with umbrellas up taking a stroll through hold havana and crowds of cubans were there to cheer them on. >> we are amateur hour, folks, amateur hour. honestly, obama should have turned the plane around and left. he should have. he should have turned it around and said, goodbye. >> that was criticism we will hear from obama later on. >> president obama will meet with raul castro today. he will not be meeting with his brother, fidel castro. >> cuban americans in the bay area are closely following the president's visit describing it as historic, symbolic and long overdue. for many it is also an emotional tug of war. >> a last us in the community were in the boat where we are

stuck between two worlds and now we are trying to come to terms what the change means. does it mean i have a future there? does it machine -- noon -- noon i have a future? >> cuban been christina is the. >> their of several novels and said half the family was for revolution and the other half against and the family that is still left if cuba is excited about president's visit and what it means for their future. >> at 8:00 a.m. abc will air a special report on the president's historic trip to cuba with up-to-the-minute updates on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. jump defending what went down when more violence erupted inside a rally. the clintons will come to the bay area. janet has the details. >> good morning, natasha. hillary clinton and chelsea will be here in the bay area this week to raise more money for the former secretary of state's presidential campaign. chelsea clinton will be at two

fundraisers for her mother, one in palo alto and one in san francisco. hillary clinton will be in atherton on wednesday. this morning, it is donald trump whose rally in tucson, airs is getting a last attention. a protester is escorted out and a trump supporter starts purposing him and kicking him on ground. the campaign manager is accused of getting physical. yet again. he grabs another protester by the collar. when asked about violence, donald trump said this. >> these people are very disruptive people. >> kicking a protester? >> he or the partner was wearing a kkk outfit an african-american man was inscienced that someone, a protester, would be wearing a kkk outfit. things are more calm on the bernie sanders campaign trail. he will be concentrating efforts

in arizona and washington state. arizona will hold the primary temperature and washington and alaska and hawaii homed the text caucus this saturday. apple fans are excited for today because it is unveiling new products this morning. they sent out invites but the message is under the crawl at the bottom there. among the products expected to be revealed a 4" iphone combining the size of a 5s with features from the 6 and 6s. the upgrades for the ipad and the apple watch could get new band colors and design. >> the first california inmate granted gender reassignment surgery in prison is out and will get the surgery this summer the "san francisco chronicle" is reported that the surgery is recovered bit state's low income health insurance program and could cost up to $100,000. >> she was convicted of second-degree murder in 1986

shot and killing a friend outside a southern california bar and was paroled last year. aif you live in marin county you could have to start paying for your recycling. the owner of the marin resource recycling said that they are having trouble selling recycled plastic material to china because of record oil prices because oil is used to make plastic. if rates do not rise many items is to be dumped into the land fill and residents have to pay to recycle the others. >> an enormous tree was removed outside a home, the 75' tree fell during the storm last weekend and narrowly missed the house and a car. that is how it looks now and that is what it used to look like when it was standing upright. hopefully we will not see scenes like that today. is it light rain today, mike? >> scattered light rain, we will be dealing with just mainly greens and that is what we are

going to deal with throughout the day and the winds are not all that strong, either, get up around 20 miles per hour. waking up around 50, and west portal is the cool spot and the ferry building at 56, and coming in to the financial district is 55 where other 50s. and, now be the 40s, palo alto and santa clara, and safer together, and american canyon and healdsburg in the upper 40s and the rest of us in the low-to-mid 50s. the activity planner is dangerous waves developing at our beaches, so surfing is not a great idea. walking the dog watch out for showers and if you are running stay on the pavement it is muddy. 101 and 880 you can see the shower overnight, because it is wet right now. temperatures are running in the low-to-mid 60s and, again tomorrow with more scattered showers and the sun is out and warming trend begins on wednesday. the hour by hour look at rain is coming up next. sue? >> bart with 21 trains run right new and we have ten minute

delays on the pittsburg/bay point line. golden gate buses southbound indefinite cancellation of the four and the 6:49 run. the 24 fairfax, 6:51 run and the the 24 fairfax, 6:51 run and the 54 out of novato at 6:36 at 7 ace train one is on time and we are busy east shore freeway beyond golden gate field to the macarthur maze. no stalls or accidents and no metering lights. so no delays at the bay bridge. we have the golden gate bridge looking good, waiting for the zipper truck to reconfigure the lanes for the commute. >> we have something to be aware of through san mateo in the next eight weeks. starting this morning, the bridge over the caltrain track is shut down one of four bridges

that is determined unsafe. caltrain is replacing each of them at a total cost of $38 million. traffic will be detoured around the area for two months. >> another trump family member targeted. the high power person now being threatened. >> budget taking footage taken from victoria falls as the brave from victoria falls as the brave jumpers take aha! oof! weee! slurp. mmmmmm. cinnamon. milk. cinna-milk. cinnamon toast crunch. crunch! crave those crazy squares. cinna-milk! when i have an asthma attack... i feel scared.

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>> senate majority leader mcconnell said there will be no confirmation hearings for president obama's choice for the supreme court this year. yesterday on this week, he cited press den as well as the need for the american people to weigh in. mcconnell said the senate will not move forward on confirmation for judge merrick garland until after the november election of the. >> republican presidential frontrunner donald trump said if elected he will release a list of up to ten judges that he would nominate to the supreme court. he said the list would mitigate any concerns that he might pick judges who are too liberal. police sister, a federal appeals court in philadelphia has received a threatening letter and the f.b.i. is working with the secret service and united states marshals in the investigation. last week his son receive add threat being letter warning that the family would be harmed if he did not pull out of the race. >> people in new england face a messy commute as a spring storm kicks off the work week. the winter storm warnings are in place for coastal storm

impacting massachusetts since yesterday. up to half a foot snow is expected in eastern massachusetts by mid-morning. snow also expected across new england and long island and maine and people are bundled up as the snow fell last night in times square. i am not jealous of that going of spring. >> we can look at it from an arm's length away. it is beautiful. >> good for you. >> a long way away. >> we will have a wet start. winter weather advisory offer the weekend. wet weather today. and less are extent tomorrow. here is live doppler 7 hd you can see it rolling around and giving you the latest radar returns as we have loiter showers across the higher elevation of the north bay moving from southwest to northeast. the entire line will sink south as we head through the day. enjoy the drive as we look southbound along 680 and walnut creek with waves of light shower today, fewer showers tomorrow, and dry and warmer as we head into the weekend. storm-impact scale with the storms, our storm-impact scale

scale is there, "1" is light and "5" is severe, and light today and tonight with less than .2" rain. at 5:00, it is quiet. as we head to 7:00 we see the cold front pushing in. a higher concentration of carterred showers -- of scattered showers. through the afternoon into early evening it moves through the rest of bay. headed into the evening it tapers. heading to 10:00 or 11:00 just isolated hours of the rainfall amount, at the love us less than .1" and up to .3" in santa rosa but barely .1" in san jose. my seven-day forecast shows a chance of showers keeping us cooler monday and tuesday. you can see the 70s away from the coast thursday through sunday. easter sunday. >> it looks sweet with the bunny

hopping. at 4:45 san rafael is looking good if the travels take you on 101 southbound from novato beyond the second center we have a sprinkle early this morning but roads are continuing to be slick. center caution. 21 minutes into san francisco from novato. no delay at the toll plaza. no metering lights. we will monitor that. our traffic map is if. slow traffic from tracy. and the central valley. that is typical. some speed of 45, maybe 44 miles per hour and it pigs up in livermore. south bay commute will be next report. >> a rare whale birth was caught on video in southern california. look at the bottom of screen on saturday along a whale watching birth. the bother has to push baby up to the surface to weapon it breathing. the birth happened after a pod of two whales swam up to the

boat false killer whales which are in warmer water. >> anyone afraid of heights? a remarkable leap of faith in africa. this shows daredevils attempting to jump 98' into the water. this is victoria falls yesterday. they traveled 53 miles per hour. if the slit of the thing went wrong they could be seriously injured. nothing happened. this is not something you should troy at home. both men had substantial experience in cliff dean -- diving. >> a boy scout troop has a lot to be proud of. four of the scouts graduated to eagle scout status after years of hard work. now they need financial help to keep the positive program going. cornell barnard has more. >> this honor to bestow on you,

kennedy watson. >> talk about a proud moment for parents especially richmond firefighter anthony crowell and his wife. their sons among four teens from oakland's allen temple baptist church who around eagle scout badges after years of hard work. >> they weathered the storm and made the jump any what they were looking for and i am proud of them. >> two sets of froms get the honors, clayton and cameron crowell and kennedy and brendan watson. this scout troop has produced 39 eagle scouts since 1989. all the motto is "be prepared." i learned being prepared in all facet of life, school, work, my parent, brother. >> clayton earned his status in six years but scam ran wanted to know. >> i did it in five years. it taught me about brotherhood because we are all brothers in

the troop. all the troop wants to keep scouting going but money is tight. equipment and uniforms are right y. they need help. the pains is not sure where her boys would be without troop 409. >> it involves trying to stay out of the streets and being able to help expand this troop and seek donations. >> on the news we see a lot of things that may not be going right but the boy scouts are an example of what is going right in east oakland. >> it is more than a badge it is an on, clearing the way for a bright future. all four are college-bound. >> that is great. now, the moment that "dancing with the stars" fans are waiting for. who takes home the my very ball trophy? top is the premiere and all new celebrity cast is ready. two weeks ago we learned who

would be on the show. marla maples, geraldo to name a few and ginger zee from "good morning america" starting tonight. right here. >> a disturbing admission from the accused mastermind of the paris terrorist attack and what he said about a future attack during interrogation. >> adele is facing criticism hackers have angered the grammy-award winning singer. >> ready for $2 gas again? we are driving up demand. the national average is $1.98, 127 cents higher than a month ago. >> the largest paint retailer is getting bigger, buying rival for about $9 billion. it will make them the biggest maker of paint. >> more use attorneyia for --

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run. he told interrogators he was planning another attack and ready to restart something from brussels. investigators say they found more than 30 people involved in the paris attacks and they are sure there are more. his lawyer said he plans to fight extradition to france. >> happening today, the hulk hogan sex tape continues despite being awarded $115. he sued gawker media for posting a media of him having sex with his former best friend's wife saying the posts violated his privacy. today the jury will consider punitive damages and when the jury is done there will be appeals. the appeals court often reduce large jury awards. >> acommercial is the latest celebrity to have private photos hacked and leaked online including an intimate selfie of her while pregnant and ultrasound from the checkup. she is furious about this breach which occurred when her

boyfriend's e-mail got hacked. >> the 27-year-ol singer has yet to respond and is then for being incredibly protective regarding her family. at 7:00 on "good morning america" they will look into the breach and how it is the latest in a string of attacks on celebrities. >> good morning, everyone, talk about the high surf we touch upon at 3:00 this afternoon, through 9:00 tomorrow. we can get wave up to 20' and large shore breaks and large wave run ups so be careful at the coast. the rain is making it to monterey by the evening. it will mix with snow headed to lake tahoe. we have winter weather advisory from 11:00 to 5:00 tomorrow morning. 4-10" above 4,500'. take the chains. it will be snow showers tomorrow. in my seven-day forecast forecast. average as are 49 and 23 on the high and low side. thursday through the weekend it

will possibly be up to 60. >> chain requirements, trucks are screen at apple gate and no restrictions on 50. that could change any time. 280 at 17/880 overcrossing to cupertino, light conditions. slick roads. heads up. 101 at 880 in san jose, looking good with seven minute drive from 880 toward the san jose area. overall look of the traffic map slowing from the central valley and highway 4 it is slow the bart bridge in place between point and north concord, it seems to be moving nicely. >> more puppies. on wednesday it is "national puppy day" and we are launching an event to adopt puppies this is a foster puppy.

he was just adopted into a permanent home. we are happy for that puppy. this is cute, a first hair cut. look at the babies...we went to see your puppies use # puppies #puppieson7. wednesday is the big event. right here. we will extreme our puppy camera s inside of the building, a bunch of puppies from area agencies that need new helps. we love for you to be part of this. perhaps take a puppy out of the event. that is wednesday. >> this is a lovable special moment to get the pond started right at the cincinnati zoo, a video of the five new cheetah cubs. born early this more in a care c-section. their immune systems are not fully developed so they will stay in the nursery for eight

evening woos. >> problems continue for many bart riders. what the agency is doing to get frustrated commuters rocking and rolling. >> what president obama plans to discuss with the cuban president today.

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. the weekend is over. by you are up and ready to attack a new week. >> i am reggie aqui. >> i am natasha zouves. >> monday, march 21. mike nicco? >> if you like rain, in the north bay i am show you at petaluma and around and headed to the northeast and maybe san rafael could be wet from an early shower but not raining south on 101. a lost last over moisture but the scattered showers are more numerous to lunch and through afternoon hours. they will keep temperatures down in the 12 hour day planner in the low 60s. is it affecting the