tampa bay rays at 1:35.:0 matter what. >> tampa bay only comes once a year. our intent is to play the game. opening day is really the best day of the season for us. >> the gates open at the giants plan to keep fans updated about any possible rain delays on twitter. if you follow them on twitter, expect the updates. our jobina fortson live for us at oracle park this morning. we'll check in with her in just about 30 minutes. let's check in with our weather expert, lisa. what do you say? the rain will still be with us, not coming down particularly hard, but it is a cold front that's going to pass through the area. by 4:30 cloudy skies, 60

degrees. looks like the rain is going to start at about 10:00 this morning in the north bay. if you're planning the day, temperatures in the 50s to upper 50s. looking at partly cloudy skies by the evening hours. we're looking at lingering showers through your weekend. sue? a sig alert is the big story this morning. there is an overturned vehicle and apparently the drivers and passengers fled the scene, so there's police activity as well. two lanes are blocked and no estimated time of opening. it is so early. anotheci in row nert park. the president has abandoned

a threat to close america's southern border. abc news reporter serena washington, d.c., with more. serena? >> reporter: reggie, jessica, good morning. a week of whiplash with the president, will he shut down the border or won't he? the new threat includes tariffs. a new threat on the southern border. >> we're going to tariff the cars. the cars are very big f. that doesn't work, we're going to close the border. i don't play games. i'll do it. >> reporter: no longer is he saying he will shut down the border but instead a new time line. >> a year from now, drugs continue to pour in, we're going to put tariffs on. >> reporter: the about-face after he made this threat one week ago. >> there's a very good likelihood that i'll be closing the borr week. >>ep trump iss d they're at a breaking point. most families seeking asylum just in march. the highest level in a decade.b

even from within his own party. >> closing down the border would have potentially catastrophic economic impact on our country. we hope we would not be doing that sort of thing. >> reporter: the president heads to the border. the administration claims it's the president's wall. even putting up a plaque to commemorate it. however, that replacement fence was planned since 2009 by his predecessor, president obama. the aclu has filed a motion to stop any new construction of president trump's border wall as parmt of their ongoing lawsuit to declare a national emergency unconstitutional. live in washington, serena marshall. >> thank you. developing news out of the south bay thislinvestigating a gh avenuee n w the wreet

no .dhe ci's homicide mpar tsim ning ace t is mentally competent enough to stand trial for the stabbing death of a young woman on b.a.r.t. john cowell faces charges on the murder of nia wilson in oakland in july. a judge ruled in december that cowell was not competent to stand trial at that time. since then has undergone psychiatric treatment. in the east bay alameda county officials are trying to identify a body found in a fire. police are calling the deaths suspicious. a draw bridge operator saw smoke at veterans memorial park on bayfarm island in alameda around 2:00 yesterday. police then discovered the body. officers searched the park fors witnesses. the crime surprised many people

including a man who often fishes nearby. >> a quiet community. it's kind of rare to see something like that happen around here. >> some of the things we did think about were possible transient, possible suicide, possible body dump. but we're looking into everything.et who the person wasow the o f s catholi in june. parents blame church leadership for the demise of the 110-year-old institution. generations of richmond district residents attended star of the sea school. now the archdiocese of san francisco wants to suspend k-8 classes citing declining enrollment. parents we spoke to say families are leaving because of the actions of the pastor there, father joseph illo. >> father illo distributed pamphlets to a lot of kids throughout the school from

second grade all the way up to eighth grades, and those pamphlets were talking about things like sodomy, masturbation. >> officials with the archdiocese of san francisco declined our request for an interview. star of the sea's preschool will remain open. today is the first of two days of a health and fitness expo to get runners ready for sunday's rock 'n' roll half marathon in san francisco. it will feature the late nest running technology, sports apparel and health and nutritional information. you can still register for the race but you'll have to do it at the expo either today or tomorrow. it'll be held on pier 35 from 3:00 until 7:00 today. >> good morning, everyone. we're going to take a look at the time line of the rain and what you can expect. live doppler 7, showers offshore. the front is a quick mover. it's here and will take through the mid morning hours to the

afternoon to move on so it will dampen there.orng drizzlrandom . breezy winds for your ferry. as we look atbout t n couple of hours notice we see a few more showers lined up 9:00, and there's the front to the north of us in the north bay. by about 10:30 through the 1:30, 2:00 hour, here we are at 11:30 pushing through the bay area, it will be wet. it will be breezy. after about 2:00 we do get a break. we'll see partly cloudy skies. but there are more showers that are going to move in later on into the first portion of your weekend. so we are looking at not an all day event but wet weather for the game. check it out, we're only looking at about a tenth of an inch in san francisco throughout the day today and most of it will be falling in the north bay as it moves through early this morning. elsewhere, just a couple .01. plan on low 60s. midday to midafternoon scattered showers. overnight tonight another round of rain. so it bodes pretty well for the

game. i don't think it will be canceled. we've been talking about the rain all week. everyone knows it's here. >> i don't think it will bother. speaking of the game, a heads-up for travelers if you're planning on taking the larkspur ferry. they have giants boats that take you straight to oracle. that is canceled. no ferry for today's home opener for the giants because they have a boat out of service. so that larger boat is not available. so just a heads-up. they're suggesting you take a regularly scheduled ferry and just walk, it's about a mile, to oracle park. there you go, the sig alert in vallejo. two lanes blocked. police activity there. we'll be following that for you. no estimated time of opening. we have a car into the center divide. the guardrail at golf course drive. they are waiting for a tow truck. it's not really affecting your

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good morning to you am taking a look across the state, sohern li if you're heading to the mountains today, not a great day. we're looking at some rain and snow mix. slippery conditions. mostly cloudy tomorrow. dry. sunday looks good and then another weak system arrives on monday. in the mountains we do have a winter weather advisory. two feet at the highest peaks. jessica? >> thank you, lisa. abc 7 news is focused on building a better bay area, this week looking at the ride share business. we've heard from a lot of drivers it's getting much tougher to make good money. i rode along with a veteran driver to find out how he plays the game. >> hey, jessica. >> hi, how are you? >> good. jay is c a

mast ride share driver, and he's a survivor at a job that's reported to have heavy turnover. >> what happens often in life is you think it's easier than it is. you have to work and develop a school set to become good at it. >> jay has been driving for both uber and lyft for the past three and a half years, and he's given a lot of rides. >> 23,600 rides now. >> and so today we're 23,601. >> that's correct. >> jay is not just a driver, he's a game player searching for the winning strategy. it's been so successful he developed a side hustle with a popular website called the ride share guy and his own blog, ride share dojo. >> i've written 100 articles and made videos. i've broken down how can a driver make the most money possible? >> working at least 50 hours a week but he takes six weeks of vacation a year. >> my first three years i made

approximately $100,000 a year. after expenses it's about $80,000. >> $80,000 aar but uber and lyft are lowering rates so jay says the same hours won't be giving the same results. >> let's say at the lowt's $65,000 you clear after expenses. >> so it's more important than ever to drive smart. the smartest thing you can do is drive in san francisco. >> i don't like driving in san jose or oakland. the rates are lower than they are in san francisco. and the demand isn't as high so you don't stay as busy. >> but on weekend it's a different strategy if you start early. >> you can do a lot of long rides in the morning and there's no traffic. it's so great. i'm here and someone wants a ride over to oakland but there's no traffic. we'll be there in 15, 20 minutes. >> jay drove enough rides for lyft to qualify for $1,000 worth of stock when the company went public. now he's driving more for uber hoping to qualify for its stock. are you more satisfied being a driver for uber or a driver for

lyft? >> probably the number one question my passengers ask. so purely as a driver i prefer lyft. >> he says lyft pays a little more and the passengers seem friendlier. >> it's like cats and dogs. uber passengers are like cats, quieter, not as responsive, whereas the lyft passengers are more like the dogs. >> i don't know what that says about me because i only use lyft. >> that's good. they're friendlier, they're more open and it's kind of like we're part of a club. >> jay says the best tips come from being a good listener, driving carefully, and after someone leaves something in your car you return it. and, of course, we invite to you share your ideas and see what your neighbors think by joining our building a better bay area face brook group. amazon could be making a rival for apple's air pods. in today's "tech bytes" a possible air pod alternative. >> amazon is ready to offer

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>> if he played golf, this was her greens fees. >> there you go. i like it. >> whatever it takes. we have some rain headed our way, not as much as we were advertising earlier in the week which is good news but it's still going to be raining out there. we have a cold front, anemic that will be pushing through the bay area with much less rainfall and we expected. here is live doppler 7 with the rain offshore. it will sweep through, say 10:00. we'll get the timing on it. it's still a 1 on our storm impact scale. the rain will be moderate times and then scattered afternoon showers. it will be breezy. i don't think we're looking at a washout. 55 in redwood city. 56 in napa. a live look outside. dry pavement right now, the golden gate bridge. we'll see that change throughout the morning hours. look for rainy and windy conditions through the middle of th afternoon, mid-morning to 1:30, 2:00. and then the showers will sort of reinvigorate for saturday

morning. all of saturday is not a washout but sunday is the drier day. take a look at 5:00 as we go through the next few hours. the showers line up along the coast but continue to press through the bay area. just light through 9:00. here is the front still hanging back. the north bay through the city, there's 11:30 and then by 1:30 it's moving on out of here. amounts will be light. we're talking maybe a tenth of an inch. behind it there is more. let's take a look at the totals. quarter of an inch to a half inch. .07 in oakland with only .01 into the south bay. in the 60s today and overnight tonight the early morning rain

tomorrow. >> a comfortable way to sleep. a backup building. you can see about a half mile backup approaching the scene, two lanes blocked with an overturn and apparently the passengers and drivers of that vehicle fled the scene so there's police activity as well. they're working on clearing that out. give yourself extra time. up against the center divide, they are waiting for a tow truck to arrive. we'll come back and take a look at some of your drive times in a few minutes. thank you, sue. still ahead, a heads-up if you have tickets to see ozzy osbourne in mountain view. why you'll hus, you don't thee happy. one thing experts say make you feel even better. when you use your app to call for a ride, what else comes

along with it? more congestion? >> if you're driving downtown, seems every other car has an uber or lyft sticker on it. >> can the drivers really make a living at this? >> the money used to be decent. now it's hard to survive. >> what about safety? >> as a woman, my concern is i don't know who is getting in my car. >> abc 7 rides along to answer your questions and ours. is this building a better bay

good morning to you. it has been raining in the north bay overnight about a quarter of an inch along bodega bay. the front isweakening.showerafr. richmond district and you'll have those scattered showers. 64 in san leandro. the winds will make it a bit breezy. looking at low 60s in pacifica. lots going on today with this sig alert. we'll take a look this hour. they're looking at about a 15-minute delay. maybe a slight delay there. eastbound 80 at vallejo and we

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now at 5:00, a live look at oracle park as the giants get ready for their home opener. fans should be ready for a possible rain delay. bring your jackets and umbrellas. good morning. it is friday, april 5th. >> everyone has their fingers crossed. you're never more than seven minutes away from the forecast.

lisa argen to tell us is there going to be rain, lisa? there is, jessica. the rain will be increasing but the front is weakening. we're looking at the rain coming through county coaline rht but as this moves through we're going to see a brief burst of that moderate rain and amounts have scaled back. we're looking at scattered showers and then later on in the afternoon looks to be partly cloudy, 60 degrees. plan on mild temperatures in the 60s. bring the rain gear. look what happens at 11:00, 12:00 and then saturday to talk about in a few minimum. good morning, everyone. we do have a cancellation of the giants ferry.

the regular ferry boats are running out of larkspur and have you can take a regular boat and walk to oracle park. a solid line of a backup eastbound 80, the reverse commute after tennessee, two lanes blocked, lanes two and three from the left. apparently the drivers and passenger fled the scene. give yourself a little extra time. an earlier accident cleared out of lanes. there's damage at golf course drive so they will have a crew guys? anks, sue.