into howe road. and i asked what it means for residents that need to get up and head off to work or school, and they say they don't know if there is a plan for that, and the officer said he didn't want to interrupt the radio traffic right now, and that's how intense the negotiation is right now, and those people in those neighborhoods are in that his line of fire so they are handling this as carefully as they can, and live in phaemarti amy hollyfield, abc7 news. the victims of a $100 million scam. according to fortune magazine, the two targets, and the justice department said the 48-year-old tricked facebook into paying for computer supplies. the suspect is facing extradition to lithuania denies

the allegations. and all centering around ann coulter saying she was forced to cancel a speaking event. coulter never appears. this is how this was different from other recent violent clashes. >> this movement was h here befe april 3rd, and it's going to be here after ann coulter. >> that's why police from several jurisdictions flooded the city of berkeley. they wanted to be prepared just in case. >> the past 18 years i have been here i have not seen this amount of officers deployed for an event. >> police called for mutual aid, and police set up barricades and blocked buildings and were on high alert and made to arrests, two sides with two very different viewpoints stood on

opposite sides of the street. they were separated by this very long and very well armed police line, a strong police presence was noticed and actually appreciated by members of both groups, many expected major problems. were you attacked? >> no, not today. the police did a really good job of keeping everybody separate. >> i am glad the police decided to step in between, which is great, especially since we are outnumbered. >> police reported no injuries and no property damage. in berkeley, lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. big question this morning coming into our live desk this morning after another execution in arkansas, some questioning if the execution was botched. the state uses a three-drug cocktail to put inmates to

death, and some are asking if the arkansas was hoping to execute eight inmates before one of the drugs exspires on monday. a planned vote on the republican health care plan is on hold this morning. house majority leader says there still is not enough support for president trump's proposed replacement of obamacare. the vote probably won't happen until next week and the house is set to approve a short-term spending bill that will alert a government shut down at midnight. president trump will be speaking at the national rifle association. they endorsed him after he promised to appoint judges that supported the gun rights. mr. trump will be the first president to address the group

since ronald reagan 34 years ago. police reviewing department procedures about how it handled a mass grave of dead dogs. a woman discovered a dozen dogs in february and the dogs were of different sized and breeds next to dirty garden tools, and they left a message on an off-duty officers phone to dispose of the remains. a month later the woman followed up by contacting a animal rescue group and it got animal control to dispose of the remains. and this man was supposed to fly to orlando to meet his wife and there is no evidence that he got on that flight. investigators say it's unusual for him to take off without

telling everybody. a special school board meeting will be held in alameda to update parents about the possibility their children's elementary school could be closing by the end of the year. and tests determined the soil under the school is not seismically safe. parents were told this week about the problem. >> very shocking, but i know that they are going to take care of it and deal with it okay. i think as a community we want to know that every possibility was looked at. >> the school says it's looking at other options including retrofitting or building another school. and then keeping a report into the orville dam a secret right now. it's sealed from the public. according to the "sacramento bee" s, this is the fourth

report sealed or heavily redacted due to national security, and city and state leaders are de pmanding more information after threats prompted the evacuation of almost 200,000 people in february. let's talk temperatures. how should you dress or how warmly would be the key question? east bay, it's 46 in castro valley. 51 in san leandro, to alameda and richmond. 50 right now in san carlos. san jose, 51 along with juan cord. novato, 54. antioch, brentwood, 57. it's a little breezy outside. remember the breezes we talked about, they are out there, mainly in the hills and along the coast. san mateo bridge looking dry and will be all day today on the roads. mass transit, cool this morning

and warm this afternoon, and breezing around the bay in the afternoon hours. bay hills camera is bouncing around because of the breezes. uv index will be very high. you want to get outside and enjoy the warm weather and put sun screen on. livermore, morgan hill, 48, and low to mid-50s and breezy in the hills. again tonight and along the coast, which alexis says, may be causing problems. >> we have sanned blowing across the lanes there, so they had to close those around 2:00, and if you are traveling great highway along shroet boulevard, sloat, i will pass the information along, and sounds like san francisco preponderanpd on the scene is there. we will see if we are going to

have any slow spots coming 4:50. to infinity and beyond. >> a surging sea. see how the bay area would look if an alarming doomsday prediction about climate change prediction about climate change comes

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i am tracking new tkredevelopmes into a threat involved in an american airlines flight from los angeles to phoenix, and the threat was not credible according to the airline. but police did search the entire plane just in case. there were 153 passengers onboard and six crew members and passengers had to stay on the plane for an hour and a half to get the check over with and once they landed in phoenix, a long night for them. >> i am sure they were relieved. the giants and other sports teams are sick of people running on the field and now they have a state senator on the side that wants to increase the punishment. the crime could be a misdemeanor. it will be punishable by 10 days in jail and a $2,500

the giants say this is a safety concern for their players and the rest of their staff. they have about 12 to 15 people run on to the field every year. a big effort is under way to get young people into career and science and tech, and employees took that mission seriously on take your child to workday. >> and already showing another standing of drag, resistance and aerodynamics in rockets. she chose this blue rocket to launch. >> it's narrow and smooth ridges on the ends here. >> her father, will, a mechanical engineer, brought her to work, one of 1,000 daughters and sons that visited. 220 volunteers were stationed at 45 different activity sites. >> what i am hoping kids get out

of here is seeing how much fun rocketree is, and there's a lot of math but a lot of time to learn that math. >> marlena is glad she rejected this rocket. >> it has a heavy thing on the end so it might not go as far, and i thought this would go far but it went, like, ten feet. >> and then assessing drone navigational skills. >> to showcase this to young kids and to aspiring engineers, and it's amazing and i couldn't be happier to support this event and host it. >> now an aeronautical engineer, he hopes some of these young people will be similarly inspired. abc7 news. the ninth circuit court in

san francisco says employers can legally pay women less than men and the ruling came in a lawsuit by a teacher hired in fresno county. the county said it was basing her starting salary on her previous pay. the court cited a the worst case scenario for uncontrolled climate change would put a lot of bay area underwater. previously they estimated an extreme sea level rise of eight extreme sea level rise of eight feet by most of the east bay would also be underwater including oakland airport. most of alameda and along the peninsula and south bay, it's just as bad. the scenario would put all of

foster city and red shores too underwater. >> caitlyn jenner is remaining quiet about a visit to the white house. jenner voted for president trump, but she has not been seen with him since a inauguration party. >>. people spotted a mountain lion in the tree at a shopping center. the department official of wildlife was called in and two schools were briefly locked down and people nearby were asked to shelter in place, and according to our media partner, the "mercury news," the animal was given a gps collar so they could track the movements once its released. sun is out, guns out, i have

not made it to the gym. >> i will keep my suit on for the rest of the morning. that's all i am saying. there's going to be a lot of farmer's tans this weekend, and it may get warm enough next week when those people work outside, it's a quick transition from the 60s to the 90s, and we have to be careful on the serious side of it. san jose, mostly clear this morning. you start off cloudy. it's going to be brighter for all of us today. clear, breezy in the hills and the coast again, one more night, and our warmest day, looks like wednesday, we will get near 90 inland. here's a look at the jet stream. %-p. let's go through the microclimates. downtown san francisco, 69 degrees today. even the sunset will be around 65. eastbound, 72 in oakland. richmond, 70. and down in the south bay, 74,

spring sunshine, and san jose, and los gatos and santa clara at 74. climbing high, lever more. on the peninsula today, mild and breezy at san mateo. only 62 in pacifica. spring in santa rosa, 77, and here's a look at my accuweather 7-day forecast, wednesday and tuesday possibly 90, and don't discount the weekend, going to be warm then, too. >> that sounds good. taking a look at the roads this morning, we don't have much going on. wide open here on southbound 680 through the walnut creek area and no major incidents to talk about all across the bay area this morning. drive times reflecting that. tracy to dublin under a half an hour still at 29 minutes, and hour still at 29 minutes, and antioch to concord in the

a california leaders approved a project to place quarter-sized devices on roads. those devices convert mechanical force into electricity. a former state assembly member that proposed the technology six years ago says he is glad it's getting a test run. >> people don't know they are there, but the road vibrates a little bit as cars and trucks drive over it and these things harvest energy that is caused. if you are about to buy a new ford f-150, check on the inspection sticker. that's mark zuckerberg. he signed the inspection sticker on one of the f-150s he worked on, quote, unquote. the visit was part of his new

year's resolution to connect with more americans. >> he did screw on antennas and worked on the assembly line. >> that's more than i can do. a recall on thousands of child carriers. some of the nation's smartest students find satisfaction in pushing a building off of a building. but why? 49ers hit the streets to tackle a serious problem. first, this morning's tech bytes. >> in today's tech bytes a college student credits his apple watch for saving his life. he knew by pressing the side button for six seconds it would dial 911. apple says it's just glad he's okay. nintendo announced its new handheld gaming system and it's called the 2dsxl.

it hits stores in late july. 150 bucks. new research shows songs and music music musicals are getting shorter.

high school students in oakland can get a free prom dress this weekend. giving away prom tkesz for 30 years. this year's dress by west is set tomorrow at oakland high school, and any current high school student in oakland is eligible to get a dress. to get a dress. you just have to register in the website. and the recall here affects 82,000 carriers made by osprey pabgts. the company says at least four children have slipped through the openings and one of them suffered a cracked skull. osprey will send owners a seat pad to fix the problem. toyota is recalling 228,000 tacoma trucks over a problem that could cause drivers to lose control of the cars.

the recall applies to 2016 and 2017 models. toyota will not say whether there have been any injuries or crashes lyinked to the defect. and then a good purpose to this. >> abc7 news was in the bay district as they teamed up for a walk along third street yesterday. they asked business owners to keep an eye out for kids skipping school. one does whatever it takes including home students to make sure they get their diplomas. >> easton, he worked with me and made sure that i got my ged and moved forward after that. >> in nine years the program has >> in nine years the program has helped more than 400 chronic

tr trueants graduate from high school. maybe we can make up grounds by taking a sweep of the dodgers. mostly sunny and cool there. not as breezy as normal. march for babies. guess who is going to be in san francisco doing it at ft. mason? alexis will be. i will be out at the alameda fair grounds. 61 when it's time to march. sun screen and keep hydrated because we will be about 76. here's alexis. >> yeah, looks like a gorgeous morning for walks tomorrow. starting off a little cool this morning but looking good for your commute. wide open across golden gate bridge. you will have a little more room on the southbound side there. we did just get word about a b.a.r.t. delay at lake merritt station, and a disabled in the area so a slight delay at the

pleasanton and warm springs directions. i will update you as soon as we have details. we have a crash in the peninsula and we will have an update on that at 5:00. and then the closest look ever at saturn and its rings. the gap between the rings and the top of saturn's atmosphere is about 1,500 miles. it's going to make more than a dozen dives between saturn and its rings and then it's going to plunge into the planet's atmosphere in september and destroy itself. yeah, this piano needed a little help destroeying itself. students pushed the piano off

the roof and this tradition helps to bring the campus community together. >> that is the dorkiest thing. i feel like i went to a dorky school, but mit, you got us on that one. mom gets kicked out of a nordstrom bathroom because she was breast-feeding and what the store is saying about that. a local acai upl seeker gets emotional after returning home to san jose, and he spent more than a month in detainment. three officers were hurt in a crash overnight. i am gathering details on what happened and we will have that coming up at 5:00. flash mob robberies. flash mob robberies. b.a.r.t. is dealing with a

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this is "abc7 mornings." >> b.a.r.t. trains, a familiar sound to bay area residents, but something is happening with the transit agency we have not seen in years. >> something we have not seen in months? clear weather with sunshine and warm temperatures. what? now the question we all want to know, how hot is it actually going to get? >> i thought you were going to ask when it was going to rain again. >> not at all on my mind, mike nicco. mike does have the answer for you. we are not talking about rain this morning. >> no, we are talking about winds. we were talking about the transition to the warmer weather. we will talk about how hot it's going to get today and beyond.