the secretary of state is traveling to moscow. we are joined live now from washington. good morning, maggie. >> the white house has found itself right in the middle of this high stakes showdown. now the secretary of state is trying to mend the tense relationship between the two superpowe superpowers. >> overnight, rex tillerson is making his way to moscow as the u.s. and russia find themselves add odds. the military commander is defending the assad regime in syria saying the united states crossed red lines by attacking syria, and threatening to retaliate against any future military actions, adding russia and iran will not allow the united states to be the only superpower in the world. the united states is still investigating whether the russians were involved in the chemical attack last week that killed more than 80 syrian

civilians. but ahead of his trip, secretary tillerson says he has seen no hard evidence suggesting a russian connection and insists the plan in syria remains the same, defeat isis. >> in that regard we are hopeful we can work with russia and use their influence to achieve areas of stabilization throughout syria. >> but nikki haley suggested another priority while on cnn. >> we don't see a peaceful syria with assad in there. >> and ambassador haley is about this. >> that should be a strong message to assad and to his sponsors, who are enabling his campaign of mass murder against his own civilians. >> secretary tillerson is expected in russia tomorrow night where he plans to meet with the russian foreign minister. this trip will be his most high profile yet as secretary of state. in washington, abc7 news.

>> maggie, thank you. developing news in egypt precipitation country's president has declared a three-month state of emergency after two bombings at churches. funerals are being held this morning for the first victims. at least 49 were killed. isis claimed responsibility for the bombings. you see a suicide bomber detonating his bomb outside a church in alexandria, and that came after a earlier attack. troops have now been deployed to help police secure vital security. and then the coptic christians have been targeted for violence throughout history and recent political up heave annuals have made that situation worst. now a live desk update from abc7 mornings.

>> sweden's leading a moment of silence outside stockholm city hall. a stolen truck plowed into a crowded street and the police are still look into the suspect, and authorities said he was denied asylum and told to leave the country back in december and he is known to sympathize with terror groups. happening today neil gorsuch will be sworn in as the newest supreme court judge. the senate confirmed him on friday after republicans invoked the nuclear option sidestepping strong opposition by democrats by reducing the number needed. this restores the court's conservative voting majority. gorsuch will be sworn in in a private ceremony at 6:00

our time and then later at the white house. according to the media partner, the media news, the alan rock school district paid $329,000 to a southern california company for new construction, and no work has been done. and they are lacking things like heating and prommed a request for an audit. and then two sexual assau s assaults, a man approached them from behind and groped them and both men described their attacker as short and bald. and then friends of a former nasa scientist are marking one year since his murder. brian bowl was walking home when somebody shot and killed him. last week police released pictures of two cars they are looking for, a silver honda accord and a white chevy malibu

and a reward for up to $30,000 for information leading to an arrest. and then speed and alcohol blamed for a crash that killed an innocent driver on 280. the lexus slammed into the back of a car and that hit the back of a third car forcing it into the guardrail. a third car flipped over and caught fire and the driver died trapped inside of the burning car. >> many people did go to the driver of the honda and try to get him out of the vehicle. unfortunately their attempts were unsuccessful. >> and police booked the lexus driver with dui. and a driver faces drunk drivers and other charges after crash into a sheriff's office suv.

they say he hit the suv head on after coming around a curve and losing control of his vehicle. the deputy went to the hospital with minor injuries and satterfield was later released on bail. trying to determine if a fire was deliberately set. neighbors heard large booms coming from a car early yesterday, and flames spread to another car and then a house. everybody got out safely. firefighters believe the blasts were caused by exploding car parts. if you live in contra costa county. a system is testing its capacity and capability and will call cell phones. start times will be staggered every hour starting at 5:30 this evening starting in pittsburg and antioch. happening today, time to buy the peanuts and cracker jacks. the giants open their 60th

season in san francisco at park today. they went 2-5 to start. the giants take on the arizona diamondbacks. the first 40,000 fans will get an opening day calendar. the first pitch at 1:35 this afternoon. let's talk about what to expect as you head out to at&t park on this monday. it's going to be 57 degrees, partly sunny and make sure you have the shades and some sun screen. i was out in the yard for a couple hours yesterday and forgot it, and a little red on the arms so i don't want you to do the same thing. 60 at about 4:00 when we win the home opener against the diamondbacks. and then 49 to 45 in west portal and out at ocean beach. check out the temperatures. not as cool as yesterday but pretty darn close. santa clara and pleasanton, and richmond is one of the warm

spots at 48 right now. high clouds and sunshine and a little below average, and 60 in san francisco. 60 to 65 around the bay. and 63 to about 68 degrees inland. here's a look at 280. high start. high amounts of tree pollen, and if you are smooting today good mass tranit, and on the water going to be good but a few light breezes. tonight temperatures around 50 under mostly cloudy conditions. sue? >> we are going back to the golden gate bridge where there is a crash but the car moved on and there's guardrail damage so they will need to repair that, so just a heads up for later this morning. right now traffic is looking great. green good on the road sensors. and not too bad for this hour at 4:38. we do have a vehicle versus a deer in green bray, southbound

101 before st. francis drake boulevard. debris there, and heads up for a traffic break there. we will come back and look at your morning mass transit in just a few minutes. arm wrestling contest could be trouble for players, and why the league is now investigating the contest. >> doing that well is really amazing. >> an all female high school robotics team headed to a national competition, and they national competition, and they do need your

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4:42. welcome back. the coast guard says a barge that sank at the bridge stopped leaking diesel fuel, and drivers were able to plug the leaking fuel. wildlife officers are monitoring the shoreline from emeryville to alameda. so far there does not seem to be a major impact and they are working on a plan to salvage and raise the ship. >> and the u.s. and mexico and canada are expected to officially unveil a joint bid for the 2026 world cup. united states last hosted the world cup in 1994, a lot of it here in the bay area, and that tournament holds the all-time attention record, and

going to field 28 teams. and it's not clear which country will get to host the final this time around. and kreubgets and 49ers players in trouble, along with two dozen other players facing discipline from the league. bowman joined players at this weekend's competition at the mgm grand in vegas, and other players were raiders punter, and marshawn lynch as well, and they are looking at whether the players violated the gambling policy. they are not allowed to appear at casinos. and then increasing on time performance and losing fewer bags. 81.4% of flights arrived on time or close to on time last year,

and that's up from 2015. the rate of bags being lost or stolen or delayed fell to 17%. young women in san francisco are making waves in a field that is typically dominated by men, robot kwreubgic robotics. for the last several weeks a team of engineers, coders and builders have been assembly a robot, and they are the misfits. they had a strong performance at a robotics competition earlier this month. >> some of the teams at that competition had been around for 20 years, so being a first-year team and doing that well is amazing. >> jensen is the founder of the misfits and their home has been the workshop. >> they took over the entire garage and the first floor of our house. >> building the robot has pushed

these young women to learn an array of skills. >> i take ap computer science at school but it's a completely different kind of frame of mind when you are working with actual code and can you see the results in a fully functioning robot. >> i love math and science and all this stuff, and it's a place where it's more creative, and it's like, practical. >> i am not going to be in a classroom using a power drill or ban saw. >> they are going to houston for the world championships, and the misfits will be one of a few all female teams there, and they launched ago fund me campaign to help with expenses and they are hoping the robot will have the strong showing. >> we are not the fastest but a very detpepbtable robot. >> as a rookie team, they will be the underdogs, and who doesn't like cheering on the underdogs? >> we are rooting for them.

the team shipped the robot to houston over the weekend and they will physically leave next weekend, and if you want to help we have pasted a link to the go fund me page. the north bay is looking quiet. up here we have sprinkles reaching the ground around mark west springs and charles m shoals airport. you can see this all moving off to the due east and going to hit the northern part of napa county and clear lake and it's going to be out of here in a couple hours, but it may make it a little slick up in the north bay. the rest of us looking like up in walnut creek. it's rather quiet. so we will put that light rain as the number one highlight for today. partly sunny everywhere this afternoon, and wet weather get ready for it. tuesday, wednesday and thursday, and that's going to keep us at a cooler than average pattern through at least next week.

our storm impact scale for tomorrow, scattered showers, and rain potential, about a tenth of an inch in the south bay. doesn't look like there will be any damage out of it, and that's why it's a one, light. and rain in the same area where it's right now and that's where it's going to stay through the lunch hour, and then scattered showers in the evening commute and overnight hours and then to wednesday morning. wednesday morning it starts to clear up a little bit. by the afternoon and into the evening hours it will look at the north bay and that's the staupbger part of the storm. we will wake up on thursday morning. that will probably be the toughest morning commute because of the wet weather during the overnight hours. notice those temperatures, only one day possibly at 70 and that would be late into saturday. we will take a look at your bay bridge drive. right now no delays on the upper

deck getting into san francisco. no metering lights yet for your ride in, and the cones will be picked up in a little over an hour from now. to the san mateo bridge, a little drive to foster city. high-rise no issues, and as you make your way over towards the peninsula. let's check in with your mass transit. b.a.r.t. has 37 trains running on time. and your ace transit buses running nice and on schedule this morning. we will check back in with cal trains running this morning. steph curry getting grief on social media, not for his performance on the court but because of this, and take a look at the latest sneakers barie his name. his chef curry shoes were called dad shoes. and they are a pt cruiser, and

another said it looked like oldsmobile. >> people are not kind on social media. >> social media is a dark place. lesson number one. >> i wear dad shoes. >> something to be said about that. democrats are gearing up for next year's critical mid-term election, and volunteers are already immobilizing to get out the vote. and then a popular video game show, and the personal information that could be in the hands of hackers this morning. duck hreupbgs get into a sticky situation in the east bay, and the heroes that came to the rescue to get these little guys reunited with their very worried mother. first, today's tech bites. >> and then the company calls it the police responder and says it averages 38 miles per hour. >> it's supposed to save departments $34,000 a year on gas. >> ford also has come up with this, a crib that simulates on

car ride to lull their little one back to speed. >> it has lights that turn on and off like passing under streetlights. >> do they make it for adults though that work the overnight shift? >> completely. and then an suv like no other at next week's auto show. >> it goes from zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds and is being called the world's most power suv. get this, the 770 horsepower get this, the 770 horsepower beas

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because even one attack is one too many. > . these are real life peeps, right? right? a group of themselves in trouble stuck in a storm drain yesterday and the mama was so worried about her babies there, and firefighters came to the rescue and moved the ducklings to a nearby creek -- oh, wow, that's quite a fall but we are told they safely made it down and were reunited with mom and dad. and if you did shopping at game stop keep an eye on your credit cards. hackers may have taken credit card information from the retailers website, and that includes names and addresses and

credit card numbers and expiration dates and the three-digit credit code. they were stolen between last september and this february. game stop said it received notification of a potential grief from a third party and game stop hired a top security firm to investigate. the push is on to get more people registered for next year's election. year's election. abc news was when california voters will elect a new governor. >> we want to have an affect and have more and more people participate in the elections and participate in choosing the people that represent them and the policies that they -- that are important to them. >> three groups including orchard city and duh visible and swing left sponsored yesterday's

event. abc7 news was in san francisco for the grand reopening celebration at the lgbt on market street. yesterday marked the center's 15th anniversary of serving the bay area which welcomes thousands to its stores every year. >> this is such an important institution for the lgbt community in san francisco in the bay area and we are making it more sustainable for the long term. ♪ ♪ >> the center leaders tell us the improvements will allow them to expand their programs and rent more space to non-profits. let's take a look outside from mount tam. it looks pretty out there, other than high clouds looking south we have sprinkles up around santa rosa this morning. temperatures today, we are still getting the spring break from warm temperatures, going anywhere from two to six degrees below average. as we look at the rain at 5:00

tomorrow evening, i would say in the north bay, you may have to deal with slick streets. as we head towards wednesday morning it looks like more will have to deal with wet weather and the heaviest of rains will come in as we head towards wednesday night and thursday morning, and you can see a quarter of an inch in a lot of areas to half inch up in the north bay. will remain cool this week also. how about the commute this morning that seems drive everywhere, sue. >> we don't have any problem spots, but we watched the zipper truck change the lane configuration on the golden gate bridge to two southbound and two northbound direction, and things looking good there. we had an earlier accident past the toll plaza that has been cooled out. 880, traffic moving at the limit this hour. something you should be aware of if you travel cal train, they are experiencing several service changes this morning at the peninsula corridor electrification project gets under way, and we listed quite a

number of them on our website at abc7news.com, and so you can see if it affects your train. we will be back with your south bay drive in a few minutes. and then canoeing around a san francisco landmark this weekend. san francisco's recreation park department partnered with canoe day. many enjoyed nature for free. >> our motto is anyone, anytime, anywhere, and if you had no experience in canoes we give you a prepare talk ahead of time and you have other people in the canoe who have more experience that can help you get around. >> the canoe mobile plans to hold more community days around the bay area. and the san jose flood victims have to leave the shelter today. what the city plans to do next. and then a massive tree came down taking out power to a home.

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in fremont. a man is dead after an officer-involved shooting, and we are live at fremont and duh coat yo road. >> fremont police say officers were called after east bay regional police made a traffic stop involving a firearm, and a man took off running and police are not saying if the suspect fired at officers. we will have a live update coming up at 5:30