happened between the tiburon peninsula and angel island. they call that the raccoon strait. don ford with the quick thinking fisherman who wasn't afraid to help. >> reporter: just after 2 p.m. yesterday, this 45-foot motor yacht caught fire. in minutes smoke filled the boat. heidi and cathy were onboard. >> then boom, felt an explosion under my seat and then realized it was extremely serious. >> reporter: on fire between tiburon and angel island and the raccoon strait. the fire may have started in the engine compartment. there were seven people onboard. everyone started putting on lifejackets. nearby justin and jimmy nguyen were heading out to check their crab pots. >> we heard the captain screaming mayday, mayday. >> reporter: while other boat stood by, they moved in. >> smoke was billowing out of the cabin. right away our options were really limited. it was either the passengers on that boat either going to have to be in the water or they're going to get on our boat. >> reporter: as soon as the small boat pulled up, everyone got off except the cabin. he was still onboard.

the victim is if stable condition. >> survivors of a boat fire near angel island credit two fishermening their lives a story you see only here. smoke was pouring from the yacht yesterday and two crash fishermen raced over to height. it took firefighters two hours to put out the fire. >> dozens are gathering for a rally against racism in oak after a video showed members of the sigma alpha epsilon fraternity on a because chanting racial slurs against black students and the sigma alpha epsilon has been shut down. >> six patients have new kidneys because of six donors and surgeons in san francisco. a woman walked out of the medical center three daze after donating a kidney and is credited with kicking off the we largest donation chain in the history of the hospital. >> watching the watch, apple is expected to reveal details of the highly anticipated new watch in san francisco this morning happening at 10:00 a. and we will tweet live. follow us at twitter@abc7newsbayarea with the detail on the news at midday it look like june with marine layer clouds in most neighborhoods and half moon hal

our other top story tonight a boat fire near angel island forced seven people to abandon ship and tonight those survivors credit two fishermen for coming to their rescue. it happened in raccoon straight. abc7 news reporter lilian kim is live with the story. >> katie, the boat is being stored here at the army corp of engineers, and because of two men the seven people on board lived to tell their story. >> what started out as a beautiful day on the bay quickly turned to a nightmare. smoke started pouring out of the 43-foot motor yacht and it appears that the passengers were the last to know. heidi was among the seven people on board. >> and people were waiving and dad was waiving back, but not realizing that they were telling me there was smoke and coming on board. we looked and very, very quickly put on our life jackets. >> fortunately two cousins fishing for crab were nearby but at first they didn't think the smoke was a big deal. >> we thought it was a barbecue. we didn't think anything of it. we were out by the golden gate bridge and hear the distress call. >> they turned around immedia

right now on angel island they are hosting a listening session. the primary focus for this meeting is about social and cultural heritage. we just had our social and cultural heritage asset meeting this afternoon. i will try get as much information from that listening session as i can. there may be meetings. i have an opportunity to participate and i will report back to you if anything comes out of that committee. they will be presenting their reports at that meeting tomorrow morning. that concludes my comments unless you have any questions. >> mr. frye, i have one question, announcement. i was coming home late last night from the hockey game and one of the facades on pine came down. they that had whole area cordoned off. >> no, there's a high speed chase. so it had nothing to do with the building. this brings up the question. do we make them rebuild it? >> that's a good question. there are ceqa implications and policy implications to figure out what is the best course of action. i will say that somewhat related now that we have a compliance staff

you can see smoke pouring out of that 45-foot yacht yesterday between tiburon and angel island. two good samaritans heard the mayday call nearby, sprang into action, pulled all seven people into their smaller boat. >> smoke was billowing out a contain. right away our options -- a cabin. right away our options were really limited. it was either the passengers were going to be in the water or get on our boat. >> the coastguard is looking into what will wrong. >>> only on kpix5 we discover -- went wrong. >>> only on kpix5 we discover black market bars popping up all over the bay area selling alcoholic drinks like these. tonight we're there as federal agents move in. >> saving this raccoon just cost a bay area contractor his job. tonight hing its us why his boss fired him -- he tells us why his boss fired him. >> califo >>> tonight the college frat boys linked to a racist chant could be expelled from university of oklahoma. the cell phone video has gone viral. it shows members of the sigma alpha else lon fraternity singing about lynchings. today the university president closed the f

it happened sunday between tiburon and angel island. two good samaritans heard the may day and sprang into action pulling all seven people into their smaller boat. >> smoke billowing out of the cabin and right away, you know, our options were limited. it was either the passengers on that boat either going to have to be in the water or they were going to get on our boat. >> the coast guard is investigating the cause of the fire. >>> 4:57. it's amazing how much trouble a raccoon can cause. in the next half-hour, how one mammal cost a bay area man his job. >> reporter: i'm kiet do live in san jose where the manhunt is still on for that suspected child molester who escaped last week. and now, a motorcycle "group" is guarding his >>> linda macdonald is captioning for you in real time. >>> taking a look out at the bay bridge toll plaza there, you can see cars are moving along pretty well, so far still kind of early and it is foggy out there so you certainly want to be careful. >> fog everywhere. coming from orinda you get through that caldeco

a couple of cousins fishing raced to the rescue to help 7 people trapped on a burning yacht at angel islandas in the engine compartment. justin and jimmy heard the may day call. >> smoke was billowing out. right away our options were limited. it was either theyville to be in the water or get on your boat. >> they took all the people from that yacht before rescue agents could help. the yacht is waiting while they determine the cause. >>> brian webb on the crash that killed a girl's mother and how they got the child out alive. >> the frigid waters of the spanish fork river. >> you could see an arm. >> they found the young mother dead in the driver's seat and spotted a baby girl upside down strapped in a car seat. they flipped the car over. >> raised the head out of the water. >> 25-year-old lin jen jennifer's car launched into the river. the impact likely killed her but her 18 month old survived all alone for 12 hours. >> the car seat could have been out of the water. >> several rescuers were treated for hypothermia. >> she was just a very compassionate and caring person. she loved lily. >> s

there some of the moderate rain, and this stretches all the way back to mill valley sausalito angel islandolden gate bridge and, also toward ocean beach and parts of san francisco the closer you are to the bay the more likely you will get wet. in the south bay, starting to taper as it heads down center boulevard moving from evergreen to coyote and into morgan hill, monterey road and butter field boulevard, and cochra until. you can see another batch trying to develop hitting the mountains and falling apart in northern sonoma and after this morning still a chance of rain with energy moving through the atmosphere. you can see 101 and 8980 the rain has stopped but there is plenty of water. the south bay is going to be wet for the commute. unsettled today and tomorrow scattered light showers and sun and we got real warm weather coming at us. scattered showers tapering by noon and sun opened up through the clouds and sun breathes down on us, unstable and stray shower or two possible of the tonight better chance of showers across the north bay and they also fizzle out with tomorrow the clouds ar

. >> survivors of a fire near angel island are crediting two fishermen for saving their lives.oke was pouring from the 43' area yesterday and fishermen heard the distress call. >> the 18-month-old baby would survived 14 hours submerged in a frigid utah river is recovering after hanging upside down strapped in the car seat after the mother's car plunged into the cold mother. the mother did not survive. >>> actor harrison ford is "on the mend," after crashing a plane on a golf course last week. he thanked the fans for 13 concern and said his father has the best care possible. the injuries are considered non-life threatening. >> apple is expected to reveal more of the highly anticipated launch at the yerba buena center for the arts in san francisco at 10:00. our reporter will have a report with more at the top of the hour. >>> temperatures are 3-9 degrees above average with the warmest weather inland as you see the sunshine first and we have scattered light showers on the way and warmer weather in the seven-day forecast. it is back-to-work commute and looking clear at the richmond

this is catalina island. 27 miles off the coast of los angeles. place known for it's beauty both above and below the ocean that surrounds it. most of the dish that call these waters home go relatively unnoticed. but one spice species is impossible to miss. leopard sharks. hundredses of them. >> if you are the director of the shark lab and you are trying to revolutionize the way sharks had studded studied it's not a bad way to set up shop. chris lowe is the director of callcal state long beach's shark lab. getting to know him and his work is getting your feet wet. obviously here a day at the office is a differ different attire and a different look at the world. >> it takes a few moments under the water to understand chris' passion for the other ocean and the sharks he study:when : >> when i caught my first shark there was something about it. it looked so different from all of the other fish i caught and it looked so streamline and sleek. it didn't match all of the fish i caught. >> what about it from the sharks threat that interested you in a scien

angeles river. she apparently was stranded on an island in the flood control chapel under a bridge. crews attached a harness then lifted her up and taken from the scene by an ambulance. >>> a dog who had fallen through thin ice on a pond was struggling to get out when two kansas city firefighters came to her rescue wearing watertight suits and latched together they swam out to her and managed to lasso the dog and you will athree were pulled to shore. the dog was suffering from hypothermia and wrapped her in a heating blanket and she will be okay. >>> police are trying to figure out what caused a white honda to crash through the front door of an animal clinic. thankfully nobody was hurt. human or animal. you're seeing the shot there. they suspect speed may have played a factor. everybody is okay after this crash. >>> well a lifelong new york yankees fan can look forward to walking another 15 miles or so today. richard albera received team gear by the yankees manager. then he started walking. his plan is to walk from the yanks spring training stadium in tampa all the what i to yanks s

when you look at all the places it's occurring, not only in los angeles, not only on staten island fergusonalso in patient with antonio zambrano montez where he is running away with his hands up. you can't say what you said in ferguson with his case that oh, we don't know if he had his hands up or not. you see it yet nothing has happened to those police officers. >> there is video evidence. so i want to talk to you about the tamir rice case. the police shot this 12-year-old boy, he was killed last november. he was playing with a toy gun. as you see in really disturbing video, a police officer actually opened fire on him within two seconds of responding to a 911 call about someone wielding a gun in a park. his family filed suit against the city. this weekend, the city issued its response and its response was to blame the 12-year-old for his own death. the response says tamir's fatal injuries were quote, directly and proximately caused by the failure of plaintiff's decedent to exercise due care to avoid injury. you represent his mom. what was her reaction to this? >> his mother and father fam

angeles. >>> overseas a somber anniversary marked on a tiny island of iwo jima. more than 30 u.s. military veterans and their families were flown in to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of world war ii. it was an emotional for veterans now in their 90s. that battle in 1945 killed nearly 7,000 marines and wounded 20,000 others. >>> in italy pope francis stretched the arms of the catholic church to people usually left in its shadow. during a visit to a prison in naples, he had lunch with a group that included gay, hiv positive and transgender inmates. does that signal softening of the stance on sexuality? here's david wright. >> reporter: today in naples, pope francis went to prison. this stop at the giuseppe salvia detention center, a late addition to the schedule. but the pope reportedly insisted on it. dining with inmates, some of whom are gay, transgender or h.i.v. positive. a remarkable statement, from the head of the roman catholic church. but from the beginning, pope francis has sought to make the church more accepting of people who hav

island chain in the south pacific. villages are wiped out. dozens are feared dead. a sexual assault investigation rocks a los angeles high school.oys suspected the targeting two teenaged girls and posting photos on social media. a texas ice cream institution issues its first recall in a century after three people died. the rescue of miracle baby lily. now police footage shows how she was saved. >> come on, baby. >> axelrod: and a homeless man find purpose and brightens his neighborhood with a roadway garden. captioning sponsored by cbs

angeles and 50 in seattle. >>> turn to france now. shall we? thousands of people flocking to an island off the northern coast for what is called the super tide. the water was almost four stories tall, surrounding an ancient abby. it was brought on by a combination of the solar eclipse in europe and a supermoon. it is called the tide of the century. it actually happens every 18 years. >> so it is not the tide of the century. >> sounds more dramatic like that. >>> southern california candy shop is claiming the sweet smell of success. >> it believes they have created the world's largest peanut butter cup. it weighs 440 pounds topping the old record by nearly 200 pounds the confectioners couldn't find a bowl big enough so they used a kiddie pool as the mold. that's pretty cool. this verifies the record. the giant peanut butter cup will be cut in to one pound pieces and sold to benefit charity. >> that's cool. the nutritional information, anyone have that? >> no. it's not good for you. >> 700 million calories for that one peanut butter cup. >> what? >> 7 million. sorry. my eyes got bigger.

island chain in the south pacific. villages are wiped out. dozens are feared dead. a sexual assault investigation rocks a los angeles high school. four teen boys suspected the targeting two teenaged girls and posting photos on social media. a texas ice cream institution issues its first recall in a century after three people died. the rescue of miracle baby lily. now police footage shows how she was saved. >> come on, baby. >> axelrod: and a homeless man find purpose and brightens his neighborhood with a roadway garden. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." .>> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight on the other side of the world with a natural disaster. a chine of islands in the south pacific that makes up a countrycalled vanuatu has taken a direct hit from a powerful cyclone with wind close to 170 miles per hour. neighbor you haven't heard of vou before but you may very well have seen it. this group of islands was one of the locations where the long-running reality show "survivor" was shot. today, the president of vanuatu says many of his people have no running water or communications an

angeles. >> yes that was an to a slam dunk. >> now a look at moving to treasure island traveling in the eastboundcones blocking the lanes for a few more minutes and they are getting picked up. traveling out of san francisco southbound 280 we have construction causing delays the cones are being picked up. >> and the mush rooms is what that sounded like. >> new guidelines from the world health organization say people should slash daily intake of sugar to 6-12 teaspoons a day less than in one can of soda. the guidelines do not apply to natural sugars like those in fruits and vegetables because that will comes with nutrients. >> check this out, tourists in africa got a laugh from this little guy acting all grown up protecting the herd. the baby elephant charges the vehicle, flares his ears and jumps on his hind legs and turns back to his group. all they could do was laugh and call it "adorable." >> bachelor fans would cannot get enough of "dancing with the stars" you are in for a treatment. >> the bachelor farmer is going to be the celebrity on new "dancing with the stars" season partnering with whit

angel soft. >>> leading the news in "new york times", president said must start anew after cyclone. relief workers called the situation in the south pacific islandtion has been cut off and the full extent of the disaster is still not known yet. nearly 1 million brazilians protest. they're demanding the president's impeachment and speaking out against what they call government-sponsored corruption. >>> now to some other stories we're following for you. a quick update on the story we told you about earlier in the show just a few minutes ago russian president vladimir putin and before cameras with president from kyrgyzstan. he said it would be boring without gossip. so now we know he wasn't abducted by aliens. >> i love that show. today we say good-bye to gong show legend gene gene dancing machine. remember him? >> yes. >> said the 82-year-old died after a long battle with diabetes. he rose to fame as a stagehand that would occasionally bust a move. >> nothing on tv now. >> chuck berry was so awesome. i loved him too. >>> one woman proves you're never too old to cross off the bucket list. skydiving for charity. her jump raised money for south afric

island nation in the south pacific. so far 11 people are confirmed dead and entire cities were almost completely wiped out. >>> infamous real estate heir aren't durst is awaiting extradition to los angeless. yesterday prosecutors charged durst with killing his friends sue sac berman 15 years ago. a documentary crew recorded durst mumbling boat -- killed them all. of course. and that could become key evidence at trial. >>> and voters in the east bay will choose a new state senator today in a special election. four democrats are running to replace mark desaulnier in district seven a republican will be on the ballot but already withdrawn from the race. the top two will advance to a runoff in may. >>> the 49ers' top returning tackler has suddenly announced his retirement. chris borland has serious concerns about long-term health problems due to concussions. the 24-year-old was expected to replace patrick willis after willis announced his retirement last week. >>> today the state will issue new mandatory water restrictions and it will impact all of us. today at 9:00 a.m., in sacramento, the state water board is set to vote on mandatory restrictions. here are some of the ideas. you can only w

angeles. >> number one. >> san francisco. >> honolulu. >> that throws me for a loop, honolulu. >> i was in honolulu once, the the traffic is horrific. if you go to the other island maui you can get stuck in major traffic jams because is there only one road that goes all the way around the the island. it is just two lanes. >> for traffic reporter over there, in honolulu. >> yes. >> yes. >> put in for a transfer. >> yeah. >> well, new york was on there but seattle is another one. it seems so pleasant in seattle. >> pleasant and rainy. >> yeah. >> but you think roosevelt boulevard would get us in the top ten. >> the boulevard, the schuylkill, i-95, all of the construction going on. >> yes, it is only number 20. >> we have to pick it up a notch here. >> you know i'm going to get each of you notes so you don't to have mow your lawn ever again. rent a goat to the folks at amazon. i want to tell you how you can do this and feel some fulfillment. with your goat. >>> all right. talking bit all morning apparently you can rent a goat. if there is anybody i necessity in my life, who would know how to rent a goat, it would be lauren simonetti with the fox business network. >

island. flooding downpours in the south. rapidly dropping temperatures in the middle of the country where record lows are expected tomorrow. >> 70s in phoenix and los angelesin denver and kansas. 20s in memphis and new york. teens from minneapolis to detroit. >>> well, supreme court justices have heard arguments over president obama's health care law. at issue whether tax credits, given to millions of americans to help them afford health care premiums are fair and constitutional. here's abc's jim avila. >> it is an effort to kill obamacare, leaving 7.5 million americans without health insurance, a lawsuit brought by four people who didn't want to be forced to buy it and designed by a conservative think tank. all based on four words buried in the 900-page law -- "established by the state." the affordable care act's marketplaces with were designed to be administered by state governments, but only 16 signed on to do so. that's when the federal government stepped in, making insurance available and paying subsidies nationwide. the plaintiffs before the supreme court arguing that is illegal because of those four words, "established by the state." but the obama a