live where you live, this is abc 7 news. looking like a winter wonderland in oakland this morning, but that was not snow. it was hail. crazy weather in the bay area. thank you for joining us. i'm jessica castro, and kristin has the day off. let's go to where the worst of the storm was concentrated this morning. heavy hail fell at 7:30 in the morning in redwood road, and we have team coverage of today's storm, and we begin with lisa, people are stunned by this hailstorm. >> reporter: that's right, jessica, and there's more to come. we have sunshine, cold air in place, you can see that the speckling of the clouds and

lightning strikes offshore. with a little sunshine in place after the sun came up, we had that heavy downpour, and right now, you can see by crow canyon road in the east bay and north of castro valley, there's a cell in san ramone. watch for the hail and snow piling up in mt. hamilton. interesting morning in the south bay, 280, wet weather, but highway 35, there is so much cold air in place, and with the sun, that allows for enough lift that we do have this dynamic weather with the thunderstorm activity, so snow there. we have snow mixing in with rain around stenson beach. more ice and tricky roads by lakeport and highway 1 in cloverdale. when the sun sets, things settle down. we'll track the forecast including warmer, sunnier weather just ahead. >> thank you.

check in with you shortly. a look behind me at the white streets covered in hail. a bizarre sight never seen before in the east bay. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live in oakland now. >> reporter: so much of it, jessica, it's still accumulated here, although the sun is out. you really do have to take a double take. it looks like we could be in tahoe, not oakland and shocked the residents here. it hit right when they were trying to get to work and school dropoff, and they just were not sure how to handle it. there were concerns about car damage and how to drive in it, especially here in the hills where it made things a bit slick. >> my daughter goes to that preschool, so driving up the driveway, covered in snow, we were sliding. it was like tahoe. crazy. absolutely covered. making hail snowmen. >> thought it was raining really hard, and then when you looked

outside, it was, like, big little chunks of rocks just coming down. i had to check my car, like, twice because it's, like, it was everywhere, and, like, okay, maybe i hope it doesn't break my windshield because it was coming down really hard. >> reporter: people we talked to say they couldn't believe how much hail fell and the size of it. they had trouble keeping their kids out of it because they wanted to play in it, and they couldn't believe what it did to traffic. it felt like this storm really just turned monday morning upside down for a lot of people in the east bay. it's a winter wonderland. it's strange in april. abc 7 news. >> thank you. a bus funnll of kids in skyline high school got stuck. this is the scene at 8:30 this morning. abc 7 news reporters talked to students about their strange

morning. katie? >> reporter: jessica, well, it is not a full snow day despite what students heard. here, skyline classes started an hour half later than usual. it's small hail, but there's been reports of marble sized hail. this is the size of bbs. it's substantial the amount that accumulated, and we spoke to the students who were stuck on the bus as it slid down the hill. oakland public works crews say this is the first time they've ever been called to clear hail and drop sand. a wild morning for anybody caught up in the mess when those crews arrived on redwood road, conditions they say, were treacherous. an ac transit bus driving this route to take students to skyline high school was stuck, one slipped and slid. the hail on the steep hill made it nearly impossible to get up the hill, and we encountered students stuck at safeway at the

bottom of the hill after the bus lost traction and started sliding. >> well, it was scary at first because i didn't know if we had traction or not, but then it just kept sliding, but we stopped eventually. >> reporter: students are excited, they said they had never seen hail and snow in oakland so this was a treat. in skyline high school, classes were delayed, not cancelled. many couldn't make it to campus this morning, and they say tardies and absences will be excused because of the bizarre circumstances. the district had to do something similar to this in the north bay wildfires when skyline was hit with smoke from the fires. that's the most recent they remember having a sort of snow day half day like this. out here live, there's large chunks on the ground, but at this time, the roadways are mostly cleared, just really wet and a little bit slick still. live in oakland, abc 7 news.

okay, katie, thank you. speaking of the roadways, some problems on the roads this morning because of the hail. we want to get over to alexis smith. i thought it would melt. it's not. >> it's getting there and improving. between 8:30 and 9:00 this morning, this is video from sky7. look at the safeway. this is off redwood road and highway 13. you can see that parking lot just totally covered with hail. this is redwood road around skyline, and then there was a lot of issues on campus drive as well near the oakland hills tennis club and monk elementary. that vehicle lost control and slid wideways. folks just got out of the cars to wait it out as crews shovelled the hail away and put salt down. i do want to come back live to sky 7 back up in the area for us this morning, and you can see we do have some hail left on rooftops. a lot of patios and decks with quite a bit of hail left there, but if we look at the road surface and using skymap 7, that

is redwood road at old redwood road. really improving. it is a hilly area. traction was tough. i've been looking at sensors on traffic maps, and it looks better. it's thinned out and side roads are reopened. it's safe to venture out. >> vast improvement, thank you. viewers snapped pictures or videos. let's go now to abc 7 news reporter with the flurry of reaction on social media. >> reporter: jess, we got a huge reaction on social media. people are posting incredible pictures and videos using the #abc7now. this is one of my favorite of the morning. watch this. a man snowboards down his oakland hill. you see the road is just covered in hail and ice. other viewers have been sharing pictures from their neighborhoods like david who writes, oh, hail no.

and sue who shared this picture of hail piling up on her porch steps and on her barbecue. the oakland police department shared this picture showing an icy road writing, "opd requests drivers to slow down and use caution in hill areas. wait in the home until conditions clear up due to icy road conditions." keep your pictures coming using the #abc7now. thank you. don't forget, you can watch the weather and doppler 7 any time through the abc 7 news app. download it now. it is free. we have versions for apple and android devices. you can customize the forecast for wherever you live. new at 11:00, you may have felt shaking if you live in the south bay, a 3.9 magnitude quake hit allen rock at 9:39 this morning, and one abc 7 viewer was on the corner of jackson

avenue and felt it. no reports of injuries or damage. also new at 11:00, abc 7 news learned a plane was hit by lightning. officials tell us the falcon 2,000 was approaching san jose international airport when struck by lightning at 9:30 this morning. all eight passengers aboard the private jet were not hurt. we will continue to monitor this developing news and bring you more information as soon as we get it. and now on to developing news involving a missing southern california family. the family was on a road trip from oregon to san jose when their suv plunged into the eel river in northern california. authorities now say they have recovered the suv along with two bodies inside. the father and his 9-year-old daughter. just last week, the mother's body was recovered. the sheriff says they were found four to six feet beneath the water and search continues now

for the body of the family's 12-year-old boy. developing news in san francisco. inspectors are checking the structural integrity of a home after a car crashed into it early this morning. it happened at 2:15 this morning on 37th avenue near sloped boulevard in the outer sunset. police say the driver left the scene. a woman who was a passenger in the car was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. police are investigating what led up to the crash. president trump has now formally asked a federal judge to allow his legal team to review the materials the fbi seized from his personal attorney michael cohen, and that comes as cohen makes a court appearance. we are in new york with details. >> reporter: citing vital interest in attorney-client privilege, president trump's lawyers demanding to review evidence that the fbi seized from trump's personal attorney michael cohen before the

investigato investigators. why do you think they raided your office in the hotel room? >> reporter: cohen is due to appear in court this afternoon. according to documents, cohen has been under investigation for months with federal investigators looking into possible secret deals cohen may have made including that $130,000 paid adult film actress stormy daniels just before the 2016 election to stay silent about her alleged affair with trump in 2006. the president has denied the alleged affair, this as daniels attorney tells cnn daniels will also be in court today, even though she is not a party to the hearing. >> is that intended in any way to provoke him and get into his head? >> not at all. >> reporter: for president trump, stakes are high and outrage by the fbi raid on his lawyer, the president recently twi tweeted, attorney-client privilege, a thing of the past. i have many lawyers probably

wondering when their offices and homes will be raided. this afternoon, the judge will ask cohen and his attorneys to hand over a list of clients, and, so far, abc news confirmed president trump is one of three known clients of cohen from last year. abc news, new york. the starbucks' controversy heats up following the arrest of two black men, and after the break, hear reaction from both protesters and the company's ceo. plus, the action president trump is expected to take today against syria follo

welcome back. this midday, former first lady barbara bush is resting comfortably with family members in her houston, texas home. they announced yesterday the 9 it 2-year-old decided not to seek additional treatment and is focusing on comfort care. mrs. bush, wife of former president george hw bush, has been treated for grades disease, a thyroid condition and from pulminary disease. starbucks confirms the manager who called the police on two black men in philadelphia no longer work for the company. protesters continue to demonstrate at the store. video of the arrest last thursday went viral. the store manager called police on the men who were sitting in the coffee shop without placing

an order. they said they were waiting for a a friend but were arrested for trespassing, and today on "good morning america," they called the arrest reprehenceble and plans to meet with the men in person. >> i want to have a dialogue with them to ensure that we have the opportunity to really understand the situation and show some compassion and empathy for the experience they went through. >> johnson says the incident will be reviewed and more training will be done to ensure it does not happen again. the trump administration is expected to announce more sap sanctions against russia for enabling the syria government to use chemical weapons. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. insists they sent a strong message and russia is feeling effects of previously placed sanctions with more on the way. the sanctions would specifically target companies that make chemical weapons or do business

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here's live doppler 7. you see more showers offshore. in closer to where the snow has been piling up in mt. hamilton, and we had rain/snow mix. a lot of the hills in the bay. close egg into mountain view, east of sunniville, highway 1, mission college boulevard, good moderate rain cell there, and further north around san ramon and danville, there's wet weather and a limit of icy precipitation over the hills. back westward off the coast, all this rotates in. we got really low snow levels, some sunshine, and a system moving through the area that provides lift. we had some downpours from stenson beach and panoramic highway looking at icy conditions, so it's slick out there. the temperatures are cool. right where our sweep is on mt. st.helena, you can see the rain. winter weather advisory until

11:00, and 4-7 inches of snow below 7,000 feet. winds shift southwest to the west today. blustery. 51 in the city as well as mountain view, not much of a warmup out there today, just a couple more degrees. it's going to be an awfully chilly day, 48 in fairfield. this is the view from the east bay hills camera. you see all the clouds out there making for a pretty day, but very unstable. look how cold it is compared to yesterday. 25 degrees cooler, and it was not that warm yesterday. all the clouds, 9-12 degrees cooler in the north bay. highlights are cooler, breezy conditions, isolated thunderstorms, rain, sunny, and warmer by the end of the week. look at the computer animation falls apart after the 2:00, 3:00 hour as we lose heating from the sun and things settle down. there's still a few showers around, but your evening commute looks better than your morning

commute. now, amounts .10 to .20 inch. this is through 8:00 tonight. downpours could come down heavy. isolated downpours, but you see the numbers, low to mid-50s today. the forecast is a cold start tomorrow with the skies clearing, but then it's sunny. download our accuweather app to track live doppler 7 to stay up to date, but it's not smooth sailing with another system much weaker, though, for the middle of the week. >> a roller coaster, but warming up eventually. felt like winter today. >> i know. >> lisa, thank you. we have breaking news right now that we are following from m morin county. it's an armed burglarly suspect. they took him into custody at the rock quarry in san rafael. the sheriff's office said firearms have been secured. abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman is on scene. we'll have much more on this

story later today on our app as well as abc7news.com. happening now, a ceremony underway at sfo's terminal 1. it will be renamed after the first openly gay politician when elected to the board of supervisors back in 1977. he and the mayor were assassinated at city hall in 1978. he's been honored for fighting discrimination that targeted the lgbt community. does a mayor have a secret talent? after the break, video of the mayor that may make you flip over.

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welcome back, san jose mayor may have found his new calling. look at the video on facebook yesterday at the opening of a new bike park in the city, and there he goes, that's him doing the flip you saw there. we want to show you one more time. the crowd goes wild when he nails it. the mayor wrote #lookmanohands. this is part of the 10 acre sports action park complex. cool to see, right? >> wonder what your mayor could do? >> i know. >> crazy.

>> do a mayor talent show. >> yeah. >> lisa, chance of hail today? >> yes. more hail, certainly some thunderstorms, also, some sun, but, boy, it's chilly. bundle up. >> take a coat. have a great day, everyone, and enjoy the sunshine while you have it.

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