>> in the commute takes you along this busy stretch of blossom hill, you can breathe easier. since may someone has been shooting at people inside of cars in this area and now police say they have someone under arrest. it was the san jose police department's response unit that arrested this man, 30-year-old michael lewis of san jose. he will be booked on four counts attempted murder. police arrested lewis august 14 on unrelated charges and got a warrant and searched his house. police say they found a handgun. they said that gun and shell casings were sent to the laboratory and the bullets in four of the blossom hill shootings were fired on the gun found at his house. a total of ten shootings hand between may 4 and august 5 on blossom hill road between poughkeepsie and monterey. they took place between midnight and 3:30 in the morning.

no word in police believe someone else was involved or a different gun was used. he is going to be booked on a separate unrelated charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. >> right now pg&e is investigating the cause of an underground electrical vault explosion that left nearly 9,000 people without power in the east bay. we choked and 350 people are in the dark. no one was hurt. the alameda county fire department tweeted out this manhole cover that blew off during the blast at 10 5:00 in castro sale. the next picture shows the smoke coming from the manhole on center street in grove way. crews are still working on the scene. >> four oakland police officers are out of a job in their involvement in a sex scandal centered around a teen girl. the punishment does not end

this. >> a dozen oakland police officers are implicated in a sexual abuse scandaled centered around celeste guap exploited said the moisture. >> we will hold our officers, nothing but the highest standards of professional e and integrity. >> she issued letters of discipline to 12 and four are fired. some my have already left the department. the findings will be placed in their permanent personnel files. >> investigators say each committed one or more offenses, attempted sexual assault, lewd conduct, assisting in the claim of prostitution, accessing law enforcement database for personal gain and failing to report crime and other misconduct. >> all of the decisions will now be subject to due process and grievance roars. >> seven officers are placed on unpaid eleven. one is being ordered to counseling and training. investigators interviewed celeste guap for a total of 20

hours and poured over an enormous amount of digital evidence. >> the team examined approximately 80,000 pages of social media documents and 28,000 text messages. >> i'm hopeful they are criminally charged because she should be prosecuted. men who are police officers having sex with a minor. all the president of the oakland police officers association expressed frustration the marry's office did not give them a heads up. >> new this morning a revealing interview with the retired pope benedict talking about his papacy and successor. >> the lengthy interview is new this morning and retired pope person ticket said that governing the church wasn't his strong suit. he also is talking about something called the gay lobby which is raising eyebrows. he said he was able to breakup

the gay lobby and claims it was one of his successes and goes on to say he was a bit surprised by the election of the current pope francis but realized immediate hit importance of elected a latin american pope. the interview was done with an italian newspaper. pope benedict was the first pope in 600 years to resign and now is 89. >> back to you. >> happening today antioch mayor harper will hold a news conference to talk of a hate crime that targeted a family. we brought you the story at 11:00 yesterday morning. police are looking for an arsonist who scrawled hate speech and was taxes on a home and set fire. the mayor issue add call to stand in support of the williams family. the house was on fire when they woke up and a swastika and racial slur was spray painted on

the home with minor damage. >> an eight-year-old concord boy is expected to be okay after a frightening encounter in the backyard when he was bitten by a rattlesnake in the yard. emergency responders say the baby rattler the child twice on leg. he was taken to the hospital. snags more active in warmer weather near vegetation. >> fires are investigating how a four-alarm fire started at a recycling center. it sparked after 8:30 last night at the shoreway environmental center. multiple agencies were working the fire. >> man is suing the owners of mall after security guard pulled a gun on him. buchanan captured this video claiming it happened after he ran over traffic con to go around a stalled car. the video shows another man he claims the guard's supervisor

attempting to break his car owner. the owners will not comment. >> more than 15,000 at&t workers will strike this morning involving employees in the wire division of technicians and call center employees. union leaders say the remain lowees are working under an expired contract claiming at&t illegally violated the national labor relations act. this is in california, and nevada and arizona. at&t is not responding for comment. >> verizon wireless back to normal after problems across the bay area. they said the issue is why customers could not send or receive calls. reports of issues came in from peninsula, san francisco and north through sonoma. some customers said their phones starting working after turning airplane mode on and off. >> the twitter board will meet about selling the company. according to the blog the company will discuss the fate as

a stand alone company and the possibility of more layoffs. twitter has 300 million active users and made a deal with the nfl to stream games live. analysts say in twitter decides to sell, the deal would reach $18 billion. >> a water provider in san jose is flushing the system to get rid of discoloring of the water. there are issues at willow glen. san jose water company told abc7 a screen fells causing natural clay and sand to get in the system. the company shut down the well to clean and flush it out and the discolored water not harmful to drink even in it does look gross. >> it was yellowy with, after the water ran there was dirt in the shower, silt. the flushing will continue today. if you have cloudy water let it run until it becomes clear.

>> the water enters into the south bay lake and there are high levels of the toxic blue green algae at the lake. both lake are closed until levels improve but the park trends open. the algae can cause skin air station in humans and deadly for dogs. >> now back to our sig-alert and our traffic alert this morning for the bay bridge. you can see a lot of activity by police and san francisco police officers out here with some activity sense about midnight last night. we have the three left lanes blocked on the lower deck the eastbound side and the upper deck can you not see but we have a far right lane blocked for the same situation, with flashing lights in the bay so they have some boats out there. i want to give you an update on fremont, southbound 680 another serious crash here that is cleared in 15 minutes but we have residual delays and someone has serious injuries with that. an update on both of these and

then drive times in less than ten minutes and i will check with meteorologist mike nicco. it is breezy in some spots. >> exactly. i had to hold on to the steering wheel crossing the bridge. in the south bay the weather window is open on 280 and 17 and it is clears in shows at 60 close to where we were yesterday. most of us are the same in not warmer, but we are not ending that way this afternoon. 56 right new in glen park a cool spot along with lake merced around san francisco. everyone else is 58 degrees. including downtown. we are 60 in union city and we are 64 in walnut creek and petaluma at 55. now, in livermore an area that almost hit 100 yesterday, 8:00 we are going to be 63 and the lunch time temperature is a delightful sunny comfortable 78 degrees and we will hang out in the mid-80s in the afternoon and back to 67 by 8:00.

here is a look at what will happen today, up to 15 degrees cooler. especially san francisco at 65. we are 82 yesterday. we are going to see minor cooling tomorrow and a comfortable welcome is setting up on saturday. the rest of the forecast is. coming up next. back to you. >> you may notice a last message vehicles and police from several communities con singling on pleasanton starting tomorrow. >> swat tombs and other specialized responders will take part in this at alameda county fairgrounds. this is video from last night. the sheriff organizes urban shield as a way to shippen skills which will run until early monday morning. >> coming up, desperate house hunters go after areas homes not even on the market. >> new fine bart faces

and here is our reporter. on this street in west menlo park residents get letters from realtors that say things like my client is willing to pay cash up to $5 million. carol has lived on the block to for two years. >> thou take them seriously? >> because we just moved in and have plans to stay in the area, no. but it is always fun and interesting to read them.

>> in the fall when listings are more robust agents do not take it for granted, door knocks have become common and so is making offers to builders as spec during construction. a realtor said that such methods have worked for her. >> they do not want the hassle of open houses and putting it on tours and in someone showed up with the right price for the "make me move price," they will find a place to go. >> that was the case for a couple who sold the redwood city home, thinking of moving but did not have to after someone made an offer. steve and his wife now live on the central coast. >> [ inaudible ] all things considered, we came out of it feeling very good. behind the scenes deal which is much more common through the silicon valley. >> and ryan lochte's robbery scandal is leading to a den month suspension and he cannot

participate in the world championship meet. ryan lochte and three others claim they have been robbed while returning from a party and it turned out they lied. three other swimmers involved in the episode face suspensions but not as long as ryan lochte. the next major competition ryan lochte is eligible for will not happen until 2019. >> before the incident ryan lochte signed up to be on "dancing with the stars" and the series premiere was on monday at a special time at 5:00 p.m. right here on abc7. >> dancing is on early because the 49ers play the first regular season game here on abc7 at 7:00. espn monday night football kicks off on monday right here. >> happening today antioch high school teacher is at the white house to receive a presidential award for excellence. all the teacher is named one of the best math teachers in the nation teacher of the year before and today she will attend a ceremony in washington to receive her prize which includes $10,000. she is one of 213 teachers

around the nation to earn the award this year. >> congratulations. she said before she believed in walking among her students not just standing at the front by the board. that is great. >> eleven market better that way. >> now a check with meteorologist mike nicco and see what is were coming up in the weather department. >> yes, new math. we are going to drop our temperatures a little bit up to 50 degrees compared to yesterday. in san rafael it is mild this morning, at 63 degree and cleaner air, cooler highs today, more clouds and drizzle tonight and cool highs most of next week. we may not see the 80s. the winds in fairfield are 22 miles per hour, so the sea breeze is back and look at cloud cover increase as we head through the day along the coast but it will pull back as we head spat afternoon hours and even pockets of sunshine develop. otherwise, it will be a quiet day. we will look at my seven-day forecast and after looking at highs in the south bay you can see we are going to have upper

70s to mid-80s. from 78 in milpitas to 88 and tomorrow it will be a little bit cooler but not a dramatic drop as we had today with a minor rebound on saturday as temperatures come back to today's level and the cooling will resume on sunday and back to average and below average on monday and our cool of the day is tuesday and wednesday. we will even have thunderstorms in the mountains. alexis how about an update? >> we will get you back to traffic on the bay bridge. if you look you can see a lot of flashing lights. especially on lower deck, we still have the three left lanes blocked on the eastbound side and the westbound side we only have the far right lane blocked due to police activity. they are negotiating with a man. still in state on when we will get the lanes open. this have been beginning on since midnight last night how long we have had lanes blocked and a sig-alert a long-standing

situation. southbound 680, recovering from an early problem in the fremont area at washington boulevard. we actually had all lanes closed at one point and now the lanes are back open and the shoulder blocked. drive times, tracy to dublin is starting to increase and up to 33 minutes. >> california is teaing -- taking the lead in fighting climate change with two major bills the governor is set to sign in law. move over sweet and salt and sour and salty a new baste taste behind our taste for pizza and by, first, the techbytes. >> today, apple said hit the road jack, confirming the iphone 7 will not have a headphone jack. the new iphones have a second camera, more memory and come in two shades of black. the iphone 7 and the apple watch are water resistant.

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>> sunday is the 15th anniversary of the september 11th and the art society of new york is preparing a tribute in light installation placed next to the site of world trade center to create two columns of height in remembrance of those who died, first lit in man of 2002, six months after the attack. >> today, governor brown is expanding the landmark climate change law and is expected to sign the law calling for reduces greenhouse gas emission by 4% below 1990 level by 2030. the governor said california is on track to meet the occurrent target cutting emissions to the level of 1990 by the year 2020. >> the human tongue can figure

out five tastes and now this is ath, a study published in a journal suggests people can taste starch although it is considered tasteless. 100 adults detected it when the sweet was blocked. a chemical sense doctor said it is more likely to become a assertion of sweet and not a 6th. >> we are getting catfish by catfish. one out of five are mislabeled. it was found mislabeled in every food in every area of the seafood supply chain including retail distribution and package. beside misleading consumers the mistake causes areas of the ocean to be overfished. this report is before the ocean conference in washington, dc, next week, where leaders will discuss the issue. >> happening today in santa clara, the 49ers unveil the first ever rooftop barn. all the 4,000 square for the

farm will grow vegetables and herbs to prepare food served to the fans at the stadium. today the ceremony is at 11 a.m. >> the accweather forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. >> i am sitting here to finish up what i am working on and i wanted to show you it is something that matt talked about. how many days from the last time, 133? >> 113 days sense we last had a temperature of 82 degrees in san francisco! it was may 17. our agency high is 71. we will be cooler than that today. you can see a few clouds developing. we will drop 17 degrees in san francisco. from 82 to 65 from 10-16 degrees cooler across our neighborhoods. walnut creek and i wanted to show you the extremes from bodega bay at 61 to brentwood at 92. >> alexis? >> a traffic alert for the bay

bridge and a last police activity and flashlights on the lower deck if you travel on the inbound side to san francisco, we only have one lane blocked on the upper deck but the lower deck eastbound we have the three last lanes blocked do you to police activity so they are negotiating with someone right now. at the moment, though, we are not seeing major delays, but, stilling all green on the traffic at this hour and had this is lasting until the commute and we will see delays. we will look at the central valley commute after action. >> samsung recalled millions of phones because of a slight chance they can catch fire while they are challenging. over the recall -- however, the recall is not done in connection with the safety recall commission. the f.a.a. is considering whether to begin their own process to prohibit the phones. you can still take your note 7 on a plane although there is a risk. all the san francisco's transit center is going to look familiar to anyone who crosses the bay bridge.

look at this, it will feature a minuteture copy of the bridge's new eastern span. we were on howard street where construction on the bridge is well underway and you can see the signature tour above the overpass. the bridge will connect the new transbay terminal to the bay bridge and used primarily for buses. >> the yosemite national park is expanding the first expansion in decades adding-acres of meadows and forest. that is smaller than treasure island and in the meadow along the when side of pack. it will serve as wildlife habitat and a nonprofit group bought the land and donated it to yosemite. >> road to the white house is bringing hillary clinton back to the bay area. the star power she is bringing. >> serial arsonist accuse of causing a devastated while fire in lake county and the new blaze as investigators being added to the federal he set. >> beautiful shot of the city at

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>> good morning, east bay are let's get going. >> 5:00 a.m., it is thursday, september 8. i am natasha zouves. >> i am matt keller here with reggie aqui and jessica castro is here with alexis smith but, first, election we will have trouble? >> we have been following the traffic alert since after midnight when they shut down the lanes for police activity. they are negotiating with someone. in you are coming in to san francisco we only have the far right lane block on the upper deck. if you head to the east bay the lower