>> reporter: this is a problem the east bay has been dealing with for more than a year. there have been about 80 highway shootings in the bay area in the last year and a half, most of those happening in the east bay. as far as this shooting goes, the victim did survive. he was taken to the hospital. they have not released his condition and they have not said whether this was a targeted or random shooting. reporting live in san jose, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. two napa high school students have been expelled after an investigation into hazing among football players. that means three football players have now been expelled and at least six others could face expulsion in the hazing scandal. abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley has the latest. >> i move for the expulsion of student b. >> reporter: napa board members voted to expel two more students in a closed door session and parents confirmed that was two more football players accused of hazing. >> the punishment does not fit the crime. and it was mishandled from the beginning. >> the district's most important

responsibility is to the students entrusted to our care. >> i know you're smirking at me but with all due respect, i'm really concerned about these kids. >> reporter: more coup expelled and in a parallel investigation, the napa d.a.'s office is weighing whether to charge 14 students and a coach with felonies after a hazing incident in church junior varsity players are accused of restraining a clothed freshman player as they touched him inappropriately. the hoet football coach and other coaches resigned wednesday. >> what's wrong about this is the destruction of students' lives based on facts that the district either trumped up or made up through a concerning investigation. >> reporter: the superintendent told abc7 news that not all the coaches received a revised athletic handbook and didn't know all the procedures. >> i think when all is said and done, we'll see that some good

kids made mistakes. >> reporter: angry parents, though, are circulating a petition to remove the superintendent and school board members. in napa, i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. it's 4:32 now. we have new details coming out overnight in a massive fire that engulfed an apartment complex in raleigh, north carolina. the flames consumed this entire complex which sat in downtown raleigh. started last night and has burned for hours now. 130 firefighters battled the blaze. >> i heard a bunch of sirens. i didn't have any alarms go off. i saw that everything was orange. >> that woman's building and many other adjacent were quickly evacuated. two people were hurt by falling glass but will survive. this morning, firefighters say they've brought the fire under control. they do expect it to smolder and they're watching for any hot spots now. no word yet on what caused it.

b.a.r.t. is hoping the morning commute will go smoothly after major delays caused by equipment problems. last night, a ceiling fixture fell on to a train. that happened just before 6:00 at the height of the evening rush at a station in oakland. the piece is resting on top of a fremont-bound train. b.a.r.t. employee noticed sparks and smoke above that train. all passengers had to get off while b.a.r.t. made sure there was no danger of anything else following. falling. happening today, state officials are expected to reopen the damaged spillway at the oroville dam. the plan is release water to reduce the amount of water in the reservoir behind the dam because work hasn't started to repair the dam, the water will be released down to channel created by the emergency release of water earlier this year. today's water is released is expected to cause the feather river to rise 10 to 15 feet by the afternoon. napa, san mateo, and santa cruz counties will be getting

federal funds to help repair damage suffered in the storms. this is just some of what napa county had to deal with just a few weeks ago. president trump declared yesterday that a major disaster exists in california and ordered federal help. officials say the money will go towards fixing bridges, roads and highways that sustained damage. california's high speed rail wa project will be the focus of an investigation. transdep, which is anti-rail, will be in superior court. a hearing will be held on their challenge to a plan by the air resources board that the organization claims will increase rather than decrease construction emissions. the man who kidnapped a woman from her vallejo home will spend up to 40 years in federal prison. denise huskins fought back tears as she described her ordeal in court yesterday. she said, quote, you treated me

like an object, a toy, an animal. i still have nightmares every night, unquote. mullen tied up and drugged huskins' boyfriend before breaking into the house in 2015. >> emotionally exhausting. that's -- and i had no idea how bad it was for denise. >> family hopes that there's some degree of closure by a sentence in what occurred today. >> huskins and quinn say they wanted muller to be sentenced to life in prison. vallejo police initially wrongly called that kidnapping a hoax. the department has since apologized. huskins is suing the city and two police officers for defamation and inflicting emotional distress. we have learned that a teenage girl shot and killed by police in hayward was pregnant. 16-year-old elena moernd dooied after a confrontation. police suspected a vehicle had been stolen. when that vehicle drove towards

them and injured them, they opened fire at the driver. they ended up just hitting mondragon and the car. hayward police captured a man after tracking him to san francisco. mondragon's family says he's her boyfriend. one of the worst commutes of the bay area has gotten a little better and relief is coming this summer. express lanes on 580 opened a year ago. a new report by caltrans calls them a success. congestion pricing is driving the system with transponder sensors and cameras tracking over 30,000 tracks a day along that corridor. the average driver pays $2 to $3 but many are getting a free ride. >> you have to have a fast track flex if you want to travel toll free as a car pool on the system. >> fast track flex allows drivers to tell the system how many people are in the car. drivers in those express lanes are averaging speeds about 10

miles an hour faster. caltrans says the next stretch of the express lanes should open sometime this summer on the 680 corridor between 580 and highway 24. happening today, professional soccer is returning to san francisco. the city's recreation and parks department will hold a free meet and greet event with players from the san francisco deltas. there will also be soccer clinics for kids hosted by players and team swag. the fun starts at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, the deltas will host an exhibition match against the sacramento republic fc at 7:00 p.m. the team's regular season starts on march 25. let's take a look at your neighborhood and see how much cooler it is this morning from about 1 in antioch to half moon bay, 14 degrees cooler. so dress accordingly when you step outside. just know it's going to be significantly warmer this afternoon. we're going from our coolest morning moving forward to our warmest afternoon moving forward. temperatures are going to

definitely homogenize as we head deeper into the forecast. ocean beach, it's 49 there, everybody else in san francisco about 50 to 53 degrees. we've got 50 in richmond, san leandro 51, daly city 50, the rest of us in the mid to upper 40s. all right, so, what's that mean for your accumulacommute this m? cool to warm if you're taking mass transit. dry all day and our last calm day if you want to go out on the water. here's a look at your temperatures today. upper 60s in the coast, 70 to 75 around the bay and about 72 to nearly 80 inland. 61 to 67 tomorrow so the cooling begins and about 61 to 69 for sunday. tonight's temperatures, upper 40s to mid 50s. got a couple of chances of rain coming up. i'll tell you about them after this. dry pavement this morning, mike and a really quiet start to our commute here. here's a look at westbound 92 for folks heading across the san mateo bridge, wide open and that is basically what all the

traffic cameras look like at this point. drive times totally in the green even westbound 580, tracy to dublin. if we were going to have delays at this early hour, it would be here but that's just 27 minutes. southbound 680, about 15 and then northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino, also in the green at just 16 minutes. we do have some weekend work with b.a.r.t. that could slow you down. i'll talk more about that coming up next. there's more doubt being cast on president trump's wiretapping accusations. how the white house is doubling down on that claim coming up next. and police in the east bay recovered dozens of pieces of stolen mail. what led officers to the suspects. it is 4:39 in the morning. we're headed to break right now but keep it right here, a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza certainly this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. it's truck month.

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welcome back. 4:42 now. for the third day, sicily's mt. etna is spewing lava high into the air. the volcano yesterday unleashed a powerful explosion. tourists, reporters and scientists watching the volcano. they had to run to escape the barrage. no one seriously hurt, fortunately. officials have ordered people to stay away from the riskier areas of mount etna. a bipartisan push on capitol hill to call president trump's wiretapping claim against president obama false. can t white house not backing

down at all. >> reporter: on this st. patrick's day -- >> i really love ireland. >> reporter: president trump may need the luck of the irish to defend his unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped him. >> i've been reading about things. >> reporter: but not from the cia, the fbi or any other intelligence agency at the president's did posal. >> i read a "new york times" article where they were talking about wiretapping. >> reporter: "the new york times" never reported president obama ordered wiretapping of trump tower. the president now says wiretapping meant surveillance. >> does the president -- >> he stands by it but you're mischaracterizing what happened today. >> reporter: what happened was the top democrat and republican members of the senate intelligence committee declared, we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of any surveillance by the united states government either before or after election day 2016. the committee leaders say they were briefed by the appropriate authorities. even house speaker paul ryan chimed in. >> no such wiretap existed.

heavy cleared that up. we've seen no evidence of that. >> reporter: white house spokesman sean spicer not backing down, spending nearly 8 minutes reading conservative reports and commentary. one report alleged president obama used british spies to gather information on plen president-elect trump. the uk response, these allegations are complete and utter nonsense. monday will be a big day on capitol hill. the justice department has to hand over any evidence on the president's wiretapping claims and the fbi director is set to testify in front of the house intel committee on the russia investigation. kenneth moton, abc news washington. martinez police believe they've stopped a pair of suspected mail thieves. you're looking at a picture of officers holding stolen mail look with a homemade key. officers captured a man and a woman after getting a call someone trying to pry open a mailbox yesterday afternoon. they uncovered evidence of mail theft inside the suspects' car. thieves had targeted mailboxes

near star flower a surge in mosquitos is prompting an investigation. this map shows the area crews are focusing on. the avenue, if you live in the area, you could see trucks rolling through your neighborhood for the next couple of hours. they are hoping to be done spraying by 6:30 this morning. march madness spreading in moraga. last night, st. mary's won. >> bcu made a run in the second half, shrinking st. mary's lead to two but the galz held on 85-77 to advance to the second round for the first time in four years. >> trying to ride the wave. it's so fun. we're just not ready to be done yet. so kind of joke around after this game, they can't get rid of

us yet. st. mary's, they can't get rid of us yet. >> there are not many teams that st. mary's have got wins in the tournament so it's an awesome feeling. >> the gales take on second-seeded arizona tomorrow about 4:45 p.m. in the round of 32. the winner advancing to the sweet 16 at the s. a.p. center in san jose. >> very nice and we'll be watching. all right, let's turn to mike nicco now. we are all watching the weather. what are we seeing? not major fog right now. >> no, it's very clear out there. probably like reggie's mind this morning after northwestern won. he found out they had a basketball team and they made the tournament for the first time and they won their first game. >> we're hard on him. >> reggie, i wish he was here to defend himself because you know he'd do a good job. uc davis, kansas, today, 3:50. here's a look at what's going on. notice our storm heading more to the north than it was towards the east and that's because we have a surge of warm weather coming in today, our warmest day

throughout the accuweather 7 day forecast. let's jump ahead to tomorrow morning. you can see some of that moisture moving into the north bay in the form of some sprinkles, maybe even a little light shower activity. it's going to fall apart for the most part during the day but there's still a slight chance out there. you see the scattered nature of the green but it's mainly along the coast and our higher elevations of the north bay. throughout the overnight hours into sunday morning, mainly cloudy, temperatures in the 50s and then sunday afternoon, looks pretty quiet unless you're up around clear lake and then as we head into sunday evening, that's when the storm door really starts to open. so here's a look at our rain totals. hardly anything tomorrow by tomorrow morning. same thing by sunday morning and then boom that's it. let's talk about monday. it's a 1. tuesday's a 1. wednesday's a 1. strongest storm is going to be thursday, 2, moderate, look for heavy rain then. mike is already promising i can hide in the weather office

with him today about 9:15 when my wolverines are on. >> bring food. >> i'll bring snacks too. here's a live look at golden gate. we were totally socked in. we had that mist, that drizzle, created slick conditions. today, total opposite. we are wide open. i think a lot of folks may be playing hooky with the ncaa tournament, it's a holiday, it's a friday, not a lot of folks heading to work right now. we do have b.a.r.t. work this weekend. 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., be on the lookout for this, a 15 this to 20 minute delay, scanning work for their mapping system so that could slow you down a bit. that is this sunday only. we'll take a look at the central valley coming up next. we are very excited to introduce a new way to watch abc7 news stories and videos on television whenever you want. >> this is very cool. abc7 news anchor kristen sze shows us how it works approximate. >> reporter: abc7 news is now available on amazon fire, a streaming media player that hooks directly into your

television set. you can use amazon fire to connect instantly with abc7 news any time of the day or night. check out our to be stories. use your remote to move from video to video and find what interests you. i get goose bumps just thinking about the potential of programs like this. >> the goats just keep streaming down that small hillside. >> reporter: click on most recent to get abc7 news videos as soon as they're posted. >> no place for this water to. o >> finally it came into >> reporter: the weather tab takes you to a quick seven-day forecast or get a more up to the minute forecast from our abc weather team and if you're looking for a pick me up, click on the feel good section. videos to make you smile. suitable for all members of the

household. so cute, right? if you have an amazon echo, be sure you turn on flash briefings from abc7 news. that way, you'll get your headlines and breaking alexa, what's the news? >> good samaritans rescue man from water. >> reporter: another way that abc7 news is right at your fingertips. >> very, very cool. thank you, kristen. the sales force tower beginning to dominate san francisco's skyline, the new milestone that's just hit that makes it stand a little tall they are morning. caught on video, a sales clerk's narrow escape from serious injury that led to a very dramatic moment. and this amazing sight is drawing hundreds of people to a beach in australia. what's causing the water to glow this amazing blue. but first, this morning's "tech bytes." in today's "tech bytes," phasing out stars at netflix in the ratings. >> starting next month, the streaming service will be getting rid of the rating system. it will be replaced by a simple

thumbs up or thumbs down. netflix calls star ratings old-fashioned. >> get ready for a little more character space on twitter. it will soon stop counting links as well as photos toward that 140 character limit. >> bloomberg says the change could come in the next few beak wooeks. and today's google doodle celebrates st. patrick's day. >> features two shamrocks high fiving each other as they pass on a small island. that scene based on a remote island off the irish coast. >> it's gotten lots of attention since appearing in "star wars" the force awakens. the force awakens. it's expected to be in the next

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make the call to the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. take a look at this. a convenience store clerk in georgia narrowly avoids getting crushed when an suv comes crashing through the window. this happened yesterday in cobb county. the driver apparently began to put the car in park. she went to stop it and hit the wrong pedal. both the driver and the clerk, we're happy to say, are okay. amazing. >> yeah. 4:54 now and this morning, san francisco can boast having the tallest building west of chicago. the sales force tower took the title yesterday. building in l.a. has a spire that will be taller but at 1070 feet, the sales force tower will actually have the tallest

occupiable floor so it's all in the details, right? if you need an excuse to hit the snooze button one more time, and do you ever, we've got one for you because today the world sleep day. >> it's a day to recognize the importance of getting enough zs. it was founded by the association of sleep medicine ten years ago. the goal is to raise awareness about the benefits of sleep and draw attention to the health issues by not getting enough rest. national sleep foundation recommends most people get at least 7 hours of sleep. >> is that 7 over a week? >> each night. >> you want to see what the lack of sleep does. >> you guys could write a book about that, right? >> yes. terrible. we won't harp on it too much. we kind of pat ourselves on the back too much about that, don't we? we had seven days in a row without wet weather until we had that measurable drizzle yesterday and today we're going to start at least a one-day chance. so the spring outlook is in from the national weather service.

specifically -- you can't talk when you don't get enough sleeb dr the climate prediction center says we have an equal chance of being above or below temperature-wise and we have equal chances of precipitation. wow. that really narrows it down, doesn't it, alexis? >> thank you, mike. that was great. we are wide open so far this morning through the bay bridge toll plaza. normally we flip those on about 5:30 but we'll see today. it's been extremely light so maybe it will be a few minutes later than that as we get further into the commute and the only spot we're really starting to fill in here, it's not too bad yet, but 28 miles an hour, westbound 580 as you leave the tracy area, about 43 as you get closer to altamont pass but no significant blocking issues there. that's just starting to fill in. we have one new minor issue that's popped up in san mateo. you got to see this. we have cool video from tasmania. this looks like something commuter animated or out of disney's fan today sha, even. people break the surface of the

waufr at a beach near jourjtogen and it turns that ethereal glowing blue. it's caused by billions of single cel plankton called sea sparkle. the plankton flash blue as a defense against predators. >> that's amazing. speaking of sparking, a pastor in west africa just found one of the world's largest uncut diamonds. 706 carats. the precious gem is the largest one found in sierra leon. he's not keeping it. he turned it over to the country's president, saying he hopes it will boost recent development in his impoverished nation. the government plans to auction it off. >> that really architecture use. school leaders in palo alto will reconsider naming two middle schools today. next at 5:00 a.m., why it's drawing strong opposition from

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good morning. thank you for being there on this friday, march 17. i'm natasha, reggie and jessica are off but look who's here. >> i'm cornell barnard. >> are you sure it's friday? aren't you usually in here on the weekend? >> we just wanted to pull him in a little bit earlier. >> normally working nights. >> last time we worked together was saturday or sunday. >> you remember that. >> sort