these shootings happen so quickly, they often don't get much information. reporting live in martinez, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. that shooting caused rush hour chaos late into the night. sky7 showing you the backup here that stretched on for miles, drivers going nowhere, some more several hours and detours just wntd wrorking. >> tried rerouting a couple times but it's bad. >> reporter: how long were you sitting in traffic? >> we are sitting like two hours. >> just terrible. interstate 80 reopened around 9:00 lasts night after being closed for five hours. we sent out a push alert when 80 finally reopened. you can be the first to know when breaking news happens where you live, just download the abc7 news app and enable push alerts. developing news from santa clara where an investigation is underway this morning. officers responded to a call at a home near debra and drive. police found a man but say he

took off. they tased him but officers say it escalated and the man was shot under the scott boulevard overpass. neighbors told abc7 news he lived with his parents and comes from a nice family. >> he was very nice. every morning when i saw a couple times, morning. i never hear he was not with bad guys. i never saw that. i don't understand what happened. >> armed. the officer who shot him has been -- >> this lake county mother is accused of abandoning her 2-year-old son in the street while she was high on meth. a police sergeant in lake port spotted the boy. police searched the neighborhood and found the boy's mom. she is in jail on drug and felony child endangerment charges. the fbi trying to find the person who e-mailed a bomb threat to a jewish community center in los gatos. the threat came to the approximate penzac center just before noon yesterday.

police evacuated everyone to a nearby church. bomb sniffing dogs swept the building and did not find anything. everyone was allowed to return a few hours later. jewish centers across the county have received threats over the last few months. questions on capitol hill, the director of the fbi summoned to discuss a number of national security issues from russian interference to the president's claims of wiretapping by the previous administration. >> reporter: lawmakers were tight lipped as they rushed into a classified briefing with fbi director james comey and comey has no comment either. sources tell abc7 news the fbi director has unsuccessfully employed the justice department to refute president trump's unsubstantiated claims about president obama as democratic and republican lawmakers are demanding proof of those explosive allegations. >> i think that the president of the united states, who has stated, categorically, that

tufrp tower was wiretapped, that he should come forward with the information that led him to that conclusion. >> reporter: two senators sending a letter to the justice department demanding the fbi produce any evidence that might exist, but following the closed door briefing with comey, senator mark warner said, i've seen no evidence. the intelligence community is awash in a wave of investigations. the hunt is on for the person who leaked cia secrets to wikileaks. its founder blamed the cia for being vulnerable. >> this is a historic act of devastating incomp tseng. >> reporter: he promised more to come but this time assange says he plans to give tech companies advance notice of their vulnerabilities. >> so that fixes can be developed and pushed out so people can be secured. >> reporter: all of this as ongoing questions about nefarious activities by the russians continue to plague the trump administration. the president named a former

critic, john huntsman, as his ambassador to the kremlin. tech companies might want to consult with their lawyers. the white house issuing a warning yesterday that accepting classified information may also be against the law. abc news washington. more states are joining hawaii's challenge of president trump's revised travel ban. new york, massachusetts, oregon, and washington state all joining the call for the courts to stop the executive order before it goes into effect next thursday. they say it's unconstitutional and violates federal law. the revised ban bars new visas from people from six predominantly muslim countries and also temporarily shuts down the u.s. refugee program. that breaking news out of south korea where all night long, people have been protesting and it has turned deadly. two people have died. this all comes after south korean lawmakers voted to impeach the president, park

geun-hye. her supporters clashed with police overnight and why is this notable? park is south korea's first democratically elected leader to be taken out of office since the country adopted democracy back in the 1980s. they will now have to hold an election in the next two months to replace park. uc berkeley police have a new batch of photos they want you to see from the protest against milo yiannopoulos. a group of rogue protesters set fires and smashed windows last month. their actions forced the university to cancel the conservative nuews editor's speech on campus. police have released 31 photos of people they want to talk to about the violence and vandalism in february. you can get a closer look at the photos on our abc7 news app and on abc7news.com. federal investigators have new information about the pilot of a small plane bound for san jose that crashed in riverside last week. it turns out it had engine trouble before taking off.

the crash killed three people on impact. 46-year-old stacey pierce of san jose was one of two survivors, then she died tuesday night from her injuries. the initial report says her pilot, her stepfather, made several attempts to start the plane's left engine before it began running. investigators don't say yet if that engine was the cause of the crash. they're expected to issue another report in a week or so. the san francisco d.a.'s office is investigating uber's use of a high-tech tool used to evade local authorities. the tool is called gray ball. it's an app used to identify undercover regulators who try to track and clamp down on any illegal uber practices. city officials have called the use an obstruction of justice. uber says it will ban employees from using it. let's talk temperatures. you can see behind me a lot of yellow and some orange and that means warmer weather when you step outside this morning.

up to 7 degrees warmer. so where does that put us. start in san francisco where we've got 52, glen park, looks like ocean beach for the cool spot, 55 in the financial, 54 in the marina, show you some of the rest of our neighborhoods, 55 in richmond right now, 50s everywhere, even a 59 in pittsburg, santa clara and saratoga at 50. this is the way it looks from mount tamalpais and what you're going to see today, a little pollen hanging in the air. tree, once again. uv index a little bit lower because we're going to be under the cloud cover for most of the day but then we'll see sunshine late this afternoon. that will push us into the mid 60s. 70 around the bay and low to mid 70s inland and look at this. tomorrow, not much of a change, neither sunday so looking like a good stretch of warm weather. our first spring fling for a weekend. good if you're on the road, good if you're on the bay, good for mass transit. alexis? still looking pretty good on the roads this morning as well.

of course, we are hoping for a friday light commute and nice and light so far through the bay bridge toll plaza. no metering lights yet. we should have almost an hour until they flip those on although this week has little bit earlier than 5:30. drive times looking good. northbound 85, between 101 and cupertino, you are wide open there. just 16 minutes. i do have a few new details for that rollover crash on the peninsula. talk about that coming up next. dirt bikers on attack and it's caught on camera. we're learning new information about what the man was doing when he was targeted on a bay area freeway. and tuesday, lawmakers have a plan involving hard liquor to make diapers and feminine hygiene products a little bit less expensive. we'll explain. also jessica working now at the live desk on new video the live desk on new video coming in of a big

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year, and now, well, we got this brand-new video about two and a half months later. the country is actually holding its national pyre tech nicks fair and this new video shows how musical fireworks are being used today to commemorate those victims. two lawmakers from southern california want to raise the state's tax on hard liquor to pay for tax-free diapers and feminine hygiene products. assembly woman fletcher and garcia have revised a measure that was vetoed by governor brown last year. this new bill would make feminine health products exempt from sales tax and it would do that by raising the liquor tax on distributors by $1.20 per gallon. in a brutal road rage attack in san francisco and it was caught on video. >> up to 15 bikers attacked a driver in the middle of rush hour traffic on highway 101 on

wednesday. "the chronicle" identifies the victim as an uber driver who lives in modesto but comes into the city for work. >> a family member says he just had a baby boy. as abc7 news reporter melanie explains, this isn't the first time these dirt bikers have been spotted. >> reporter: this cell phone video starts with a side show on southbound 101 then escalates with one bike colliding with this car. suddenly, the other bikers speed up and at the exit, a red car, presumably with the bikers, appears to box in the driver of the white car. the person who took this video asked to remain anonymous. >> they approached the vehicle and they started punching in the panels on the vehicle and hitting the windows, breaking the windows and another vehicle impeded my view so i couldn't see if the man was pulled from the vehicle or if he got out on his own. four to five men were hitting him, kicking him, even when he was down. very clearly they broke his leg. >> reporter: the man who took this video says he got out of

his car when the bikers left. >> he had a broken leg, as i said. he had a bloody face. he had road rash. he was in pretty rough shape. so we called 911. >> reporter: the former new yorker says it was reminiscent of this henry hudson parkway incident where he used to live that prompted him to begin recording. >> these are the types of incidents that really need to get attention and that need to get prosecuted. >> reporter: chp says the m.o. is similar to other incidents in san francisco. >> doing signs, no plates, of course they remove their plates, no helmets most of the time. >> reporter: if you see something like this, chp says don't get out of your vehicle. >> they're already mad at you, you get out, good things are not going to happen. >> reporter: instead, call 911. in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. that video. berkeley police looking for this man who they say is suspected in a sexual battery at berkeley city college. it happened on february 20, two and a half weeks ago.

police say the suspect is known to frequent local campuses. he's had several encounters with berkeley police. he's not coming back to "the apprentice." could former governor arnold schwarzenegger make a political comeback? schwarzenegger spokesman didn't rule it out. he said the former governor is focused on redistricting reform and is keeping his options open on how to accomplish that. the new deputy county executive in santa clara county is a familiar one to san francisco. former two-term county supervisor dave campos will assume his position next week. he spear headed legislation on homelessness, lgbt rights and health care. happening today the nation's first ever big foot conference kicking off in san francisco. it's being held in the balboa theater. that is a big foot sighting

video, supposedly. >> not just a guy running? >> well, you're not a believer, natasha. obviously i would suggest you don't go to this conference. you don't want these big foot people coming after you. so there's going to be big foot hunters and enthusiasts from all over the country and it includes the host of animal planet's reality show "finding big foot. kwlts. >> i watch it every week on my dvr. >> they're going to come for you and you're going to be sorry. i wonder if there's going to be a lot of jerky at this. that commercial where they the sas watquatch. >> you watch a lot of tv, mike. >> i really do. >> we were out of the drought but more of the state is out of the drought. only 4% of us in severe. moderate joel and just abnormally dry in the lighter yellow. 74% of the entire state drought

free now. here's a look from mount tamalpais. lot of visibility out there even with the high clouds. we'll see some clearing late and spring warmth. we'll feel that again and there's a slight chance of rain wednesday. here's a look at a long shield of clouds sitting on top of us today and a weak cold front that's going to bring us that weak clearing later but not going to change the temperatures much. 72 to about 74, that's our temperature in our inland neighborhoods. you can open the winds because there's the least amount of dust in the air but there is a lot of pollen. up in the north bay, 75 in santa rosa, novato, 72, napa at about 73. low temperatures tonight. again, mid 40s to low 50s a little more fog than this morning because of the clearing we'll have. temperatures are still going to spike sunday into monday and tuesday and then slightly cooler with that chance of rain rolling in wednesday. hey, alexis. good morning. i've got a few more details for this issue on the peninsula. it's northbound 101, right around marsh. we've got a rollover crash, and that was in the left lane. it sounds like a few of those

emergency crews are starting to leave but what makes it a little unusual is the driver of that flipped vehicle ran, jumped the center divide, then jumped a fence. however, chp is saying they found a wallet of that person so i don't think they're really going to get away for too long. here's a look at golden gate bridge, wide open here this morning, could see a little bit of patchy fog in the north bay again today but overall we are dry and friday light. san francisco getting a group of mini-libraries thanks to some elbow greece from sales force employees. abc7 news was at rincon center as sales force workers spent part of yesterday building these library boxes. they're going to be placed in parks and filled with box. sales force is celebrating its 18th anniversary by paying workers to volunteer all week long. >> it's a good way to do team building and get involved in different nonprofits that you might not necessarily have a chance to work with. >> workers also made blankets for hand on bay area, a nonprofit that connects people

with organizations. the big reason busby is missing from boxes of cheerios. we are all about to lose an hour of sleep when we switch to daylight saving time this weekend. the big impact it might have on your kids and what you can do to help them out. and a reminder, tomorrow, "7 on your side's" michael finney will anchor our live coverage of the st. patrick's day parade. we'll be streaming the parade on the abc7 news app and online at abc7news.com. now this morning's "tech bytes." in today's "tech bytes," facebook's new feature that looks a lot like snapchat. >> facebook's messenger day lets you share video diaries with select contacts. there are thousands of frames, filters and stickers to choose from and the videos automatically delete after 24 hours. >> amazon will be offering spanish on its website and app. this is the first time that amazon site in america will have

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it is 4:52. take a look at this. a crowd of onlookers and tourists on hollywood boulevard racing to the scene where a stolen car suspect was being chased by police, all taking photos with their cell phones. that slow speed chase ended up right in front of man's chinese theater on the hollywood walk of fame. both of course major tourist

attractions. police boxed in the car. general mills raising awareness of pollinators on select boxes of cheerios. there will be a blank space where buzzbee would normally be. it's part of general mills bring back the bees campaign. 30% of the ingredients in gm products rely on pollination and bee colonies have been vanishing. general mills is asking customers to plant 100 million wild flowers this year and is offering free seeds on the website. a pet food company is expanding its recall. the recall began last month after a euthanasia drug was detected in some cans of eadvantager's dog food. five dogs got sick. they immediately recalled 12 ounce cans of hunk of beef. the fda later detected the drug in another batch. now evanger's has added two more

varieties. 12-ounce cans of braised beef chunks and against the green pulled beef. pet owners can return the cans for a full refund. don't forget you're going to lose an hour of sleep this weekend, sorry to say. daylight saving time begins sunday at 2:00 a.m. for most of us, it's not the biggest deal. most clocks and smartphones will automatically adjust but listen to this. researchers say it takes a child's internal clock up to ten days to fully reset from this. experts recommend shifting their bedtime 15 minutes earlier for four days leading up to the but good to know if you remember next year. once daylight saving goes into effect, researchers say you should give children as much natural light as possible in the morning but turning on lights and opening up the blinds and that helps signal their body clock that it's time to start the day it have it's going to be rough. that's the bottom line. what are we supposed to do? >> suffer. >> that's right. like we always do, mike. we suffer for the people. >> we do, we do.

that's why we get up so early, right? good morning, everybody. i want to talk about march. right now, we have had more dry days than wet days and those dry days are going to continue through at least wednesday. all right, let's take a look at what's going on. all that wet weather caused a flood to continue. clear lake below flood stage now. flood warning continues until 11:00 in the morning. st. patrick's day parade, michael o'finney is going to be out there. enjoy the green festivities. alexi alexis. i was going to say, even your map of the parade route was green. live look outside, we are in the green for all of our traffic flows this morning. southbound 680 through walnut creek looking great and a quick check of drive times as well. southbound 680 as i showed you there, highway 4 to walnut creek, 6 minutes, westbound 24, walnut creek to highway 13, just another 9, slowly filling in, so far we're friday light out of the central valley. westbound 580 tracy to dublin,

you are also in the green at just 31 minutes. we do have a rollover crash and sort of some strange circumstances on the peninsula in morning. update at 5:00. this is pretty interesting. what do you think the number one drink is in the u.s.? it's not soda. it's actually now bottled water. the beverage marketing corporation says bottled water has been growing for years while soda sales have been going down. research shows americans drank 39 gallons of bottled water on average last year compared to 38.5 gallons of soda. so it's close. but this doesn't, of course, include tap water which would make that gap phenomenally huge. how would you like to have steph curry as your roommate. >> that's the new theme for a commercial for brita water filters. ♪ ♪ what if steph curry was my roommate ♪ ♪ my quality of life would be

super great ♪ >> i don't know why, but anything steph curry does is cool. >> it has that cool factor. all he has to do is sit there and point. >> that's it. man, i wish i could point like that. the whole 2.5 minute commercial is a music video with internet star king batch? >> i'm suddenly all i want is a br ti a filter. >> i know who steph curry is. king batch? you're a big fan of him. >> from his early days. tomorrow night, you can watch the warriors and the spurs only on abc7. the two teams battling for the top seed in the western conference. golden state leads san antonio by two games with just 18 games left in fact regular season. it tips off at 5:30 p.m. next at 5:00, organizations are breaking down the proposed health care bill, the aarp is very concerned about what it could mean for seniors. and have you seen this man? police searching for the suspect accused of targeting women in santa clara county. and at the live desk, i'm tracking something happening in germany right now. we may be thousands of miles away, but find out why it could

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now at 5:00 a.m., demanding answers. san jose residents want to know why they weren't warned about the chance of major flooding. what the city says it's going to do differently next time. and preparing for an earthquake. officials working to seismically strengthen the golden gate bridge. what they want from washington, d.c.. and then this. best friends forever. the bond in san mateo county that we think is going to start your friday off right. good morning to you on this march 10. it reminds me of, like, what was that disney cartoon?