eric breaking news where officials say they have keernd mountain line. >> a major intersection. sequoia hospital and there are homes there, as well. redwood city police believe that the big cat is trapped in a resident's backyard. >> stay with "abc 7 news" and abc7news.com. we'll bring you the latest updates as we get them. >> kristen: another major story. an explosion and fire at a refinery. sky 7 was over the scene.

the accident resulted in spilled acid and injured worker and smoke billowing into the air. amy hollyfield is live in newark at evergreen oil facility. >> the plant is shut down and refinery officials are meeting now with representatives from osha and the bay area quality air management district. they are trying to figure out how it started. >> the two-alarm fire woke up the neighborhood across the street. it was 5:30 in the morning. residents were groggy and nervous. >> i heard a big boom and i asked my grandmother, did you hear that. and they said yeah, came outside go back in your house because we might have to evacuate. >> there were 20 people working inside the plant. two men were performing a routine task he using a heat exchanger when the equipment failed. one worker hurt his arm but is

expected okay. >> we had an expected release. for some reason it came out. right now we don't understand why that is. >> a worker inside the plant tells "abc 7 news" the flames were huge and the situation was scary. heat from the fire melted a tank containing acid that then spilled. two hazmat teams came in. >> that acid is contained and hazmat teams are in the process of cleaning it up. >> they the tested the water and determined no chemicals leaked out the plant. a crew spent the morning vacuuming the foam used to fight the fire. this is the second fire at this refinery in less than a year. last may it took firefighters about two hours to contain a fire that started at 12:45 in the morning. no one was hurt. this history of problems have residents on edge. >> it's like roaming around in

the air. you know what i moon. there was crowd of 60 people earlier. everyone was really concerned about the issue. >> i'm scared. i don't know. >> my focus is today's incident on getting to the bottom of today's incident on verifying the condition of our injured employee. i'm not prepared to speak about the other incidents in the past. >> reporter: osha has fine this had refinery once before and osha was responding to a complaint and found 19 violations. osha is a part of the investigation into this morning's fire. >> eric: thank you very much. >> kristen: cruise in hercules are bringing in supplies to try to stop a hill from sliding. >> four more homes were yellow-tagged and city officials say the hillside slipped about

ten feet following last weekend's storm and moved another six inches overnight. muddy water from the saturated hill forced residents from four other homes to move out completely. the city council meets tonight in a special session to declare a local emergency. neighbors are petitioning the city stepping in to pay to shore up the hillside. >> three homeowners are frustrated. they believe the city should be doing more to help them. the landslide was reported last thursday. city has issued an emergency declaration hoping to get state and federal funds to stabilize the hillside. they are promising to hold a meeting tomorrow night to update the situation. >> eric: dozens of residents are trapped in a west morgan hill neighborhood after a landslide made the only road assessing their homes impassable. the slide happened early sunday morning.

there are less than 20 residents living there. the slide happened after a series of storms drenched the area with more than 6 inches of rain. there is an alternative back road but they have to be escorted by fire officials. >> barry bonds trial watchers are waiting for them to stake the stand today. a trainer will reveal what he knows. terry mcsweeney is live in san francisco. >> reporter: we are waiting for former oakland a's superstar jason giambi and gt waiting for sam conti to take the stand. what we have so far this morning is two men who were tied to the lab that did the testing on barry bonds that determined he was positive for steroids. take a look at him arriving at the courthouse in san francisco. first step today, was a doctor

sample. he talked about how major league baseball was testing players in may of 2003 with the understanding, with the players union that there will be no discipline for players that tested positive. that was before the feds seized the samples and bonds' sample tested positive. another witness talked about the collection of bonds' urine. take a look at jason giambi. big star of oakland, most valuable player in 2000. then he went on to the yankees. he has admitted of taking steroids. he has apologized to fans. his testimony expected to be that he bought steroids from greg anderson, barry bonds's personal trainer. he is refusing to testify

against long time friend barry bonds but the most damning test will be samconti. prosecutors say that he will testify that barry bonds knew he had taken steroids but was prepared to lie to a grand jury. and that could be very damaging testimony. consti is now employed by los angeles dodgers. we are waiting for the star power to show up. giambi and his brother and former giants as well and then mr. conti. we'll see how it shakes out today. teachers in the mount diablo school district voted on a contract proposal that would shorten the school year by three days because it includes three furlough days. it's help to balance the budget.

results are expected by the end of the week. today the state legislature is expected to take up the governor's proposal for a special election. it's whether democrats can get enough republican support to approve a june special election and to extend taxes to help balance the deficit. talks bogged down when republicans said they would only support the tax initiative if democrats accepted their policy demands. >> overseas, government tanks and rockets pounded rebels in into a panic sole retreat after a battle. in london, hillary clinton and international leaders device add plan for any post gadhafi government. >> we must continued to pursue the broader goal of a libya that

belongs not to a dictator but to the libyan people. >> today on "good morning america" the ambassador to the united nations refuted reports that gadhafi is about to step down but she didn't rule out he could receive ui muint and go into ix cycle. -- immunity and go into exile. diane sawyer will have a one-on-one interview tonight on world news. it airs at 5:30. now, the latest from japan. the prime minister says the situation at the fukushima daiichi plant remains unpredict abld and the country remains in maximum alert. the spread of radiation raising concerns about how to stabilize the plant. toxic plutonium was found outside the facility but so far amounts are too small.

a tsunami triggered by a 9.0 earthquake destroyed the power systems needed to control the nuclear fuel rods in the plant. official death toll from the quake has topped 11,000. >> still ahead, we're following breaking news in redwood city where a mountain lion has been cornered at a home near a business intersection. >> and women versus walmart. the biggest job discrimination case ever. >> and serious felony charges the government is considering in the

>> eric: right now the supreme court are hearing arguments about a major discrimination case against walmart. whether they can move forward on a class action suit. they accuse the largest retailer of favoring men and women over pay and promotions. justices were troubled by a lower court's rulings allowing the class action to proceed. the retailer wants the high court to force each plaintiff to file separate suits. >> we don't say the cases are too big but the claims of three people who are acting on behalf of millions are aberrational.

>> walmart denies discriminating against women. >> dozens of woman rallied in favor of the suit. if the court rules in favor of plaintiffs this would be the largest class action suit in history. they expected to hand down the decision by late june. >> breaking news in redwood city where sky7hd which is live over a yard where they believe they have cornered a mountain lion. this is a busy intersection where homes and sequoia hospital is located. it's happening one block east of whipple avenue. they have confirm the sighting and they believed the big cat is contained to one residence backyard. officials say phone calls went out to neighbors this morning and right now, all residents are

either safely in their homes are not at home. stay with us and we'll bring you the latest updates as we get them. >> meantime, the justice department is considering manslaughter and perjury charges for managers responsible for the explosion on the deepwater horizon oil rig. they are examining testimony by an executive to determine in statements were untruthful. that the spill was caused by time saving and money saving decisions we bp, halliburton and transocean that created an unacceptable risk. 11 people were killed when the deepwater horizon rig last april. >> mike is here with the forecast. at least we see some sun out there.

>> look what is going on. as we look from mount sutro. a little bit of haze, that will be the case the next few days. chance of rain in the forecast and cooler weather as we head toward the weekend. and now that william bachelor's party is done, prince harry is off on a new adventure. >> and a little less bang for your buck, why your dollar isn't going as far when you buy canned goods and packages at the grocery store. 

>> kristen: you can put your stamp of approval on the royal wedding. postal service is celebrating their wedding with a new set of stamps. commemorative stamps can be ordered on april 7. wedding will be on april 29 at westminister abby. the stamps have been approved by the prince himself. meantime, prince harry is planning a bachelor is's party. he was in afghanistan himself. he will be joining them in

expedition to the north pole. he travels to norway for three days of training and then five days of trucking on a trip organized by a british charity. the group includes four soldiers who were seriously wounded while on duty including 2:00 a.m. few tees. charity hopes to raise more than $3 million. >> eric: mike is happy because people are saying nice things to him -- the sun is out. >> everything is a lot quieter weather-wise and it will be for a while. watch for things to bloom now that the sun is out and so much moisture. did i also mention we have the possibility of record high temperatures the next few days. that is big weather headline also. let's talk about what we see here from mount tam this morning a little haze and few high clouds from the storm system to our north. as we look eastbound, look how

calm the bay is. >> let's talk temperatures, running to the mid to upper 50s just about everywhere. let's head down further to the south, 50 in salinas. everyone around the monterey bay mid to upper 50s. highlights, partially cloudy and north bay there may be a few sprinkles but no organized rain. near record warmth tomorrow and thursday but the wind is looking less likely this weekend. let's talk about today's temperatures and how we're back to average. livermore, oakland and san jose, just about on. >> temperatures in the south bay 70 in campbell and everybody in the upper 50s. mid to upper 50s on the coast. say low 50s around downtown san francisco. mid to upper 50s at your beaches

also. low to mid-60s throughout the east bay shore, fremont 66. that would be the cool spot in the east bay valleys, and walnut creek and dublin in the upper 60s. mid to upper 50s for the rest of the bay and even 70 in gilroy. 73 in fresno and look at that 80 in palm springs. got a game tonight, giants and a's, 62 dropping down to about 57 degrees. we'll keep falling into the upper 40s to low 50s tonight so not nearly as cool. one area of disturbed weather and another one is coming by and that will keep the clouds and stray sprinkle chance in the north bay. otherwise the storm track moving to the north and it's going to stay that way. because of that we're going to see temperatures once the winds

switch to offshore, hitting record levels low 80s thursday and upper 60s along the coast. cool weather will return on friday but temperatures still above average. system on saturday, more likely going to hit the sierra than us but slight chance of a shower and then you can see sun and monday and we dry out once again. >> thanks, mike. >> eric: does it seem you are getting less for your money when you buy food in a bag or a can? companies have been reducing size of thater products in order to hide price increases. the price of boxes have gone from 16 to 13 houston, baby wipes from 80 to 72 sheets and sugar now comes in four instead of five pound bags. marketing experts consumers are more sensitive to changes in price than in quantity. >> kristen: talk show veteran

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