this is what drivers in the east bay were dealing with all morning long, a huge backup on i-820 in san leandro after a shooting closed the interstate for hours. thanks for joining us. i'm kristein sze. >> and i'm jessica castro. the backup has cleared, but police are still looking for a gunman. let's get right to abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield. amy? >> reporter: hi, jessica. the situation has improved significantly. the backup has cleared. they reopened all lanes at 8:45 this morning so this looks great compared to what drivers early this morning had to face.

monday morning commuters who use southbound 880 made a slow crawl to work today a freeway at luellen boulevard and san leandro was shut down because of a shooting that happened at 2:30 this morning. >> an hour late to work. >> reporter: how long have you been in this? >> like 45 minutes. i'll stiff got an hour to drive to south san francisco. my job is driving me crazy right now. >> reporter: investigators say the gunman pulled up in a white car next to another car full of people and started shooting. >> we had a call of some shots fired. all units arrived on scene. at the time we got here there was a vehicle located in the fast lane, the number one lane, with four occupants. one of them was critically injured. the other three were not. >> reporter: this is the 91st freeway shooting in the bay area in the last year and a half. the chp spokesperson says this morning's investigation led to a five-hour long highway closure because they are very motivated

to make arrests and bring an end to these shootings. >> it is frustrating. there is quite a few freeway shootings, and that's why we're taking such precaution at this point and we're trying to handle it this as thorough as we can. >> reporter: investigators are at the hospital right now waiting to see if the victim is going to be able to speak with them. he was shot in the head and is in critical condition. at this point they haven't made any arrests. live in san leandro, amy hollifield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. as amy mentioned, interstate 880 reopened two hours ago, and traffic is running much smoother now. >> abc 7 traffic reporter alexis smith has been tracking this all morning. >> reporter: things are looking a lot better, as would you imagine. it was a nightmare. we had five miles of the traffic that was not moving all morning. i heard from a lot of drivers that sounded like the guy who had been in that for 45 minutes, said it was just a nightmare. this is where we had the full closure at 880 at lewelling.

as you can see approaching that, we're back in the green. it did clear out fairly quickly once they got the lanes back open. 66 miles per hour. heavy traffic south of there at 238, typical delays heading into hayward and don't really node the alternate this morning. we're looking good for the midday. >> alexis, thank you. if you have the abc 7 news app, you were alerted at southbound 880 reopened this morning. we sent a push alert with the update. download the free app and enable push alerts to get breaking news updates any time. >> developing news, new details on a drive-by shooting that injured five people in san jose last night. witnesses describe a frightening scene where bullets flew during a vigil. abc 7 news reporter matt keller is live at police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. matt? >> reporter: kristen, police say about 20 people were at this vigil when five people were shot. the amazing thing about all of this, no one was killed.

daylight brings a whole new look to this memorial on vista glen drive in san jose. neighbors say for about a week and a half a large group of people gathered here to remember the victims of a car crash. last night some of the people game victims of a drive-by shooting. >> we heard gunshots when we were watching tv and then we thought they were fireworks after us so we went to my mom's room and we looked outside and heard people screaming. >> officers arrived and actually found five people that were shot. they were transported to a local hospital, and they are listed as having non-life-threatening injuries. >> reporter: officers investigated at the scene near the reed hill view airport for several hours. neighbors say this group of people had overstayed their welcome. >> we don't really know them or who they are, but, yeah. they have been coming and smoking pot and drinking, and we've been trying to get rid of them, but i guess as of today hopefully things go away. >> reporter: police are not releasing a description of the

suspect vehicles saying witness accounts can vary in situations like this. neighbors say they heard car tires screeching away at the scene. concern that something like this could happen again. >> i don't want myself or family to have to fear to walk out, oh, like what if this happens again? >> reporter: san jose police say no suspects have been identified yet, and no arrests have been made. reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> matt, thank you. new developments in that deadly attack on a crowd of peaceful protesters in charlottesville, virginia saturday. the president has just strongly condemned the attack but almost 48 hours after it occurred. >> yeah. he had been criticized for his initial response to the deadly incident. abc 7 news reporter elizabeth hur has the story from charlottesville. >> james alex fields jr. arraigned this morning on charges of second-degree murder and related offenses. police said the 20-year-old is responsible for ramming his car into a crowd of peaceful

demonstrators in charlottesville and killing 32-year-old heather heyer, a paralegal from virginia. it happened just before 2:00 saturday afternoon. just hours earlier he was seen earlier marching and chanting with a group of white supremacists. his former high schoolteacher not surprised. >> he would often say how, you know, hitler's views were right. what if hitler had won? >> reporter: abc news learning fields tried to join the army in 2015 but that attempt lasted only four months after failing to meet training standards. now, all eyes on president donald trump criticized after his initial response saturday for not naming white nationalists directly while condemning hatred. today this statement from the president who also confirmed a federal civil rights investigation is underway. >> those who cause violence in its names are criminal and thugs including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other

hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> reporter: and earlier the president wasted no time barbing merck ceo kenneth frazier who resigned this morning from a business council advising the president citing a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. president trump tweeting in response frazier will have more time to lower rip-off drug prices. as for the suspect charged with murder in this case so far, he's due back in court august 25 elizabeth hur, berkeley, california. >> top dog posted a sign with its views after a social media post suggests a man at the rally worked at the restaurant. a sign on the door says cole white no longer works at top dog. the actions of those in charlottesville are not supported by top dog.

several uc berkeley students stopped by the restaurant yesterday, many of them horrified by the violence. >> i feel like it's good that top dog is taking a stand. it's crazy. it's 2017 and we still have people are just so backwards, you know, like who just can't seem to wrap their head around inclusivity. >> top dog employees have no comment on their former co-worker. the fast food restaurant has been in berkeley for over 50 years. new this morning the state of california and the city of san francisco are suing the department of justice over president trump's sanctuary city restrictions. abc 7 news reporter leanne melendez is at the news conference and she tweeted out this picture showing city attorney dennis herrera making the announcement within just the last hour. the suit makes california the first state to challenge the administration on its sanctuary city policy of denying funds to cities that limit cooperation with enforcement of u.s. immigration laws. san francisco could lose $1.5 million because of the policy.

new developments involving ousted uber show travis kalanick and a pending lawsuit by him by a key investor. recode says kalanick's lawyers plan to file a motion to dismiss the case and formally move it to arbitration. benchmark capital owns 13% of the stock. they say kalanick is trying to pack the board with his allies and return as ceo. the lawsuit says that would harm shareholders and employees. kalanick resigned from the san francisco-based ride-hailing company back in june after a series of very public missteps. hey, good morning. check out this cool picture from live drone 7 or drone view 7, and you can see outside it tells the tale of what happens today. the coolest day this week. drone view 7 showing cloudiness and look at the flags on the explortorium moving to the east, along with the trees on the embarcadero. temperatures anywhere from 45 to 13 degrees below average.

we're in the 60s and 70s. kind of feels like fall out there in most neighborhoods. 60s and 70s through 4:00 and 60s and barely 60 at 8:00 and a warming trend is coming up in the accuweather forecast. i'll see you in a few minutes with that. kristen? >> thanks, mike. happening now, crews are working to clean up outside lands music festival. a much different scene in polo gate park. empty now after roughly 210,000 people attended the festival this weekend. organizers say this year's event went really well despite some minor hiccups. some fans hope to see a tribe called quest, but travel complications led the group to cancel their appearance. >> next this midday, scott peterson talking from san quinton prison about the murder of come on! >> this mom's about to get a big surprise. >> look at that. i mean, come on!

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scott peterson is talking from death row for the first time since his murder conviction. he was found guilty of killing his pregnant wife lacy and their unborn child in 2002. a new documentary premiers tomorrow. here's a preview. >> no idea. >> reporter: that's the voice of scott peterson in a brand new audio interview talking from death row about the moment he was found guilty of murdering his wife and unborn child. now an a & e series takes a look

at the case that gripped the country. laci peterson, eight months pregnant, disappeared in 2002 on christmas eve. >> hasn't spoken out about this since the conviction. what made him want to speak out now. >> his case is under appeal so it felt like a moment for him and his lawyer. >> want to talk about the verdict first? >> it's like a horrible physical reaction that i had. >> the series also examines the effect the media had on the case and evidence potentially overlooked like witnesses who claim to have seen laci after she went missing. >> i think when you listen to the witnesses who say they saw laci in the park, that would be kind of a surprise. >> i wasn't the last one to see laci that day. there are so many witnesses. >> that was abc's diane maceda reporting. more details on the deadly

drunk driving death livestreamed. the attorney of the 18-year-old driver is going public with a new theory of what called the crash. sanchez's lawyer says worn-out tires led to the blowout causing her to lose control. the crash killed sanchez's 14-year-old sister. prosecutors say sanchez was intoxicated and she was livestreaming during the crash. she is charged with six felonies. >> next this midday, longer maternity leave for new parents. the way, and you might want to call it, unusual way moms and dads are extending at home to bond with their newborns. >> and let's take a live look from drone view 7 flying over the

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welcome back, everyone. it's august, right in. >> drizzly. >> yes, yes. >> drab. >> summer. >> yeah, not really. feels like fall outside. >> yeah. >> that's going to change eventually, but not until we get a couple more days like this. crazy out there. a lot of kids starting school and they were wearing the wrong clothes this morning. let's take a look outside to show you what's going on outside. droneview7. you can see the transamerica building there on the right side. let's use this as a backdrop for accuweather highlights. clouds really stubborn and so are the cool breezes. one of the reasons why we're so cool. tonight, mostly cloudy and not quite as much drizzle and mist as we had this morning and bidding warmth through the extended. it will peak saturday and sunday. want to overlay the clouds on

top of the temperatures or underneath them so you get an idea of what it's doing. i mean, we're in the 50s and 60s. only san jose and brentwood have seen a little sliver of sunshine that made it to 70 and 72 it. the breezes are going to get even faster today. fast at the coast right now and they will continue to be that way until 3:00 tomorrow morning and then they will push through the golden gate and make the left turn at the bay bridge and head through san pablo bay into the delta from 2:00 to 9:00 this afternoon and evening so brisk there and a little choppy. we don't have much more warming to go in the south bay. 74 in san jose. santa cruz 69. look at milipitas and sunnyvale, 71 and 72. 70 to 74, really stretching it for the peninsula today. 69 in millbrae. we'll be around 60 to 67 along the peninsula coast to 63 in downtown san francisco. up in the north bay, a little more sunshine. temperature around 75 to 79. up around cloverdale and maybe like some mid-80s. mid to upper 60s.

richmond, oakley, a little more sunshine in fremont, about 71. tonight will feel like a fall classic. 63 and not a lot of sunshine when the game starts at 1:06. as far as lows tonight, east bay will be in the 72 to 79-degree range in our valleys. we should be in the upper wi80 accuweathe rn-veseda degrees tu wednesday and finally back to average thursday, friday and saturday. no 80s today and a few 90s possible friday and saturday. back to you, ladies. >> mike, thank you. now to a growing parenting trend. more moms and dads are using crowdfunding sites to raise money so they can spend more time with their babies without the stress of returning to work. abc 7 news reporter rebecca jarvis explains how much money families are asking for.

>> families ask for between and $10,000. on average people are asking for $2,000 to $3,000. >> reporter: the united states is the only advanced country where paid leave isn't government-sponsored. under the current federal law new mothers can take off 12 weeks, but only 13% of them will get any compensation. taylor and ross wanted that bonding time and started saving up early before they got their son aiden would be born nine weeks early. >> went to work going to a doctor's apartment and didn't come back for three months. >> taylor developed preeel clampsia and had to be induced and they turned to gofundme me. >> how can you make the decision to crowd fund the maternity leave? >> it was brought up an ross was a little hesitant about it. >> ross, what your your biggest reservations? >> intimate details of our lives

we were putting out there for family, friends, public consumption, so it occurred to me that my pride, our privacy don't outweigh taylor and aiden getting the chance that they need to spend time together at this most crucial part of our lives. >> that was rebecca jarvis reporting. both the trump administration and congressional democrats have appropriate salts on the table right now that could guarantee families some paid time off. that could begin as early as next year. >> big baby news right here within our own abc family. we'll reveal the surprise announcement. maybe you missed it this morning and "american idol" is coming to abc 7 this fall. the "american idol" bus will be in jack london square giving you a chance to be a star. >> but you don't have to wait until sunday. you can audition online now. we have a link to the application at abc7news.com and potential contestants need to be at least 15 years old. good luck.

third graders today. their new gogurt tubes are easy open. and p.e. consists of sitting around on mats. hippies. oh, mom, making them eat their favorite snack in the back seat. whatever happened to "eating at the table?" that's what cup holders are for.

coming up at 4:00, you've heard the dangers about laundry pods and kids eating then. now a new danger and it involves adults. tonight at 5:00, consumer advocates call it the largest criminal enterprise in the world. the effort to stop counterfeit

goods sold online from being used in crimes. >> right now baby fever is taking over the big apple. in case you missed it this morning, there was a big baby announcement on "good morning america." >> yeah. abc news chief meteorologist ginger zee is expecting her next child. >> the next five months this area here in the southwest, right about here, and then this area right about here are going to have a shadow from my belly because i'm pregnant. >> yes. >> zee is having a baby boy due in february. she and her husband already have a done turning 2. >> it scares me when zee is having a baby boy. i'm good. watch ginger and her growing belly right here at abc 7. of course, that's 7:00 a.m. after our morning news. >> yes. so big congratulations to her and her family. that's sweet. >> seems like she's handling the first one with so much aplomb, second one no problem. >> second one is always easier. >> you can bank on that one,

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