>> reporter: another stop at the lake merritt bart station. riders pour out some in immediate of a pit stop but no luck here. >> no restroom available. i had to get to the school too bad it over there. >> reporter: these used to be the answer when nature called but not anymore. don't be fooled by the vacant sign on the door. the restrooms at the 10 underground bart stations have not been in use for 14 years. >> one time i had an emergency. i came over i was like, not open. like i'm supposed to go stop over? come on now. that ain't right. >> reporter: bart seems to agree. >> if we can design them in a way that it's more open and it's not so blocked off you can lock yourself in for hours at a time, then possibly if the board wanted to move in that direction we could do that. >> reporter: it wouldn't come cheap. each new bathroom could be over $500,000 to install. in addition to a $1 million yearly price tag to keep them spic & span. but for other riders, they are more than happy to hold it until they get home. >> if i can avoid using bart

the restrooms at the 10 underground bart stations have not been in use for 14 years. >> one time i had an emergency. i came over i was like, not open. like i'm supposed to go stop over? come on now. that ain't right. >> reporter: bart seems to agree. >> if we can design them in a way that it's more open and it's not so blocked off you can lock yourself in for hours at a time, then possibly if the board wanted to move in that direction we could do that. >> reporter: it wouldn't come cheap. each new bathroom could be over $500,000 to install. in addition to a $1 million yearly price tag to keep them spic & span. but for other riders, they are more than happy to hold it until they get home. >> if i can avoid using bart restrooms, i will do that. >> reporter: the board is still divided on this restroom issue so what's going to happen now is they are going to be working on a pilot program at two of their underground stations powell street station in san francisco and 19th street station in oakland and after that, hopefully that will give the board a little clearer idea of how this will all

after a power line crashed down at the walnut creek bart station. it shutdown service in both directions between lafayette and concord for several hours. kron-4's jeff bush joins us now from lafayette. where people were stranded, while they waited for bart to get back on track. jeff? >> jeff :it was a rough day for writers were stuff here at the lafayette station in the summer heat. the heat only added to the misery. there was a wall of people at least four deepwaiting on the sidewalk outside the lafayette bart station. the problems started at six. everyone was told to get off the trainstranded and crankythe only thing they could do is waitand waitand wait. many were complaining about the lack of communication and the lack of bus bridges and how long it was taking to get things back to normalit was not a good day to depend on bart. when the buses finally did show up, it was a mad rush to get on boardas you can imagine, the inconvience of the day took it's toll on people's moods. >>:i've been out here waiting in the hot weather. there's nobody who has

other underground stations closed shortly after 9/11. now, bart is revisiting this after 14 years and riders say it is about time. another stop at the lake merritt station. some pour out in need of a pit stop. but you are out of luck here. >> any restroom available? no. so i have to get to the school and do it there. >> reporter: this used to be the answer when nature called but not anymore. don't be fooled by the vacant sign on the door. the restrooms at the 10 underground bart stations have not been in use 14 years. >> one time i had an emergency. i came over, i was like, it is not open. i'm supposed to go a stop over? come on now. that ain't right. >> reporter: bart seems to agree. >> if we can design them in a way that it is more open, and it is not so blocked off you can lock yourself in for hours at a time, then possibly, if the board wanted to move in that direction, we could do that. >> reporter: it wouldn't come cheap. each new bathroom could cost $500,000 to install in addition to a $1 million yearly price tag to keep them all clean. but

the child is safe and the accused abductor was caught at the fremont bart station. it all started at the milpitas library where police say the child was taken. abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen is live in milpitas how team work led to the 3-year-old being found. chris? >> ama and larry that boy is back with his mom this afternoon. they union happened here at the police department just a few hours ago. police telling us it was the quick thinking of a bus driver that made all the difference. here is a picture of the suspect. this is 23-year-old alfonso david eddington of pittsburgh. police telling us it does not appear the suspect knew the victim. as we take a look at video from sky 7 hd and this was the scene at the fremont bart station just before noon as the police took the suspect into custody. milpitas who was at the public library on north main street with his mom. police tell us the abduction happened at 10:30 this morning. police notified regional law enforcement agencies as well as public transit officials. a bus driver recognized the suspect and the victim th

they clocked in with record numbers of passengers with all those folks taking to bart stations and bart trains to make their way over to oakland. these are pictures from earlier today at the 12th street station where it was literally elbow-to-elbow as folks waited for tickets and waited on trains. there was some confusion early in the day as bart periodically shut down service to lake merritt and to 12th street all part of crowd control. they just did it for a couple of the lines but for the most part of the lake merritt station was open today. at this hour, bart is on time. they are offering full service still and they just continued the morning rush throughout the day with longer trains. they did report no major delays and no major glitches on the system. just of course lots of crowds as we were expecting. now, heading for san francisco, we have the presidential visit. and the city hall centennial event. both of those things are expected to cause big delays. already we're looking at major street closures throughout san francisco around union square and downtown and expect those rollin

. >> also the west dublin pleasanton bart station just re-opened after being closed for several hourss over the scene when a person was found under a train. trains were system tracked through the station without stopping causing big delays during the morning commute. the west dublin pleasanton bart station people, is open. >> benicia police are searching for a driver who lit a pedestrian early sunday morning and took off. that pedestrian is a young man who is clinging to life. eric thomas is at the scene. eric? >> the young victim is all of 23 years old. early sunday morning about 2:30 he was coming from this bar in benicia and as he crossed the street he was hit. he suffered severe head injuries and currently is in intensive care at john muir trauma center at walnut creek and in an induced coma. the driver left the scene not stopping to even see how bad off torres was and this is not the kind of intersection where these things happen. investigators are asking for the public's help. here is what they are looking for. >> it is an early 2000 model silver or grave nissan ultima missing t

and bart and city college and back no amenity or services provided along did ocean avenueably bart station for that matter and laughing u allowing this kind of zoning change potential adds services there are none now without disrupting the residential characteristic of the upper floors or the other buildings for that matter? not required with the pertaining to go through this we were inspired by the model of what's happening on 18th street in the castro some very nice ground floor spaces are created whereas it a mix ground floors still have the garages some that none but a nice combination of the old and the new and it's a nice combination of different ways of approaching expanding retail districts i'll be happy to answer any questions if you have thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon my name is godfrey i'm here on behalf of my family to ask the committee to pass the rezoning we own 4 properties but the buildings is listed as a i too occupancy hfa as a adult care home since 1990 we've closed it and time to convert that back to a 3 third-story it prohibits us from the zone it is rh2 ou

crews will replace track at the west oakland bart station. the bart system is 43 years old. >>> time is 5:05. new video from oakland now giving us a new perspective on a deadly police shooting. a woman and her camera captured the intersection between officers and a man inside of a parked car moments before that man was shot. >> reporter: cell phone video captures the ordeal between oakland police officers and unresponsive man with a loaded gun inside a silver bmw. their commands coming through a loud speaker. this video belongs from susan who says officers did everything they could to get the man out of his car peacefully on saturday morning. >> i feel so sad for them. that is hard for anybody when they know it's going to come to a climax. >> susan was inside recording video. she watched officers for more than an hour trying to get the man to surrender. >> they tried. they tried to get the man out. they gave him the benefit of the doubt. he did fight to not get out. dug of war. it took a couple police officers to get them out of the vehicle. >

area this evening with an update of breaking news brought to involving bart trains are not stopping at the downtown berkeley stationf that power outage and bart just letting us know moments ago the generators are now being brought into trying a downtown berkeley station back on-line threat the city of berkeley a lot of intersections without traffic lights officials are warning people to be cautious as the you try to navigate to downtown berkeley big impacts for commuters people try to get around no trains are stopping at the downtown berkeley bart station and continue to keep you posted as the heat is causing power problems throughout the bay area when evans was one decisive play john and another angry parents be set but the vallejo's school system and steve kerr as poetry gets ready for game 3 team usa also rolling at the women's world cup. has highlights of the opener next. so for >> pam: some ways parents sounding alarms a lot of control violence in various campus video of one such incident both parents in but many school do something to keep the peace to and other parent tells restored kron 4 has eked. "pressur

now let's go to brian flores who is near the 12th street bart station. what does it look like where you are? >> reporter: boy a lot of smiling faces out. we are here at broadway. one of the fans jumping on top. a lot of warriors fans out here. we're having a lot of fun. you mentioned if you see the floats or duck boats, that you know going to the water that is one of them right there. you see a lot of the floats. yeah there it is. see it? >> thank you. >> yeah very nice. very cool. the floats getting lined up here along 11th street again near broadway and a lot of the fans have set up here. take a look at this 37 this is pretty impressive already for about 6:00 in the morning. and if you take bart, a lot of people -- a lot of the fans have taken bart. bart is expecting a record ridership half a million people expected to take bart today. must use the 12th street or 19th street bart stations when they leave. and passengers boarding the trains must use the lake merit station. northbound san francisco will not stop at the lake merit station. but a bart spok

chuck coppola is at the millpitas bart station. people like the sound of that. >> reporter: the super structure you see behind me is at the corner of capital and montague expressway. it will be the new bart station linking vta passengers with bart. that's one aspect of this. extending bart to downtown san jose that may be another matter entirely. the vta says it may cost another sales tax increase to do so. they are hoping you, i, everybody will be willing to pay for it. >> this summer santa clara county transit is polling voters to finish the job of bringing bart to downtown san jose within 10 years. >> we will have all the priorities that people want to see in the sales tax measure. and then we go to our board. we talk about what the priorities look like how much funding we could get from the potential numbers of a half cent or quarter cent sales tax. >> the super structure that will become the milpitas bart station is taking shape about until recently, all most people saw was a big trench being dug for the train. santa clara vta

this is the powell street bart station where the idea may be given a test run. another station the 19th street station in oakland. those steel doors that you see would be replaced with semi opaque doors with gaps at the top and bottom and the toilets are inside. the sinks would be out here in the open. the design came about in order to discourage things like drug use, vandalism and other suspicious behavior because that, as you may recall, bart closed all of the bathrooms after 9/11 because of potential terrorist threats. most of the restrooms have reopened expect for the ones at the ten underground stations. most passengers we talked to say they approve of the idea because they think it might spruce up bart stations overall. > >> in the elevators, they are always constantly have like a urine smell. i could only imagine what the bathrooms would be like. if they maintained it and kept it well kept up, it would seem like it would be a lot of work. i am not sure. >> reporter: probably less work than escalators, right? >> definitely. >> reporter: bart says it receive

abc7 news was at the station as police detained the suspect who will undergo a psych evaluation. bart re-opened the station after an hour. >>> new details tonight. we now know the name of a man killed in a shooting along highway 4 in bay point yesterday. he is 20-year-old tomas mendez of pittsburg. hi dodge crashed into the center divider after he was shot. detectives believe the shooter fire from another car possibly a honda. they are asking anyone who might know about the shooting to call them. >>> the south carolina church where nine people were shot and killed last week re-opened its doors today. the emanuel ame church in charleston had a special service with a message of love and healing. churches across the nation held solidarity services. abc7 news cornell bernard is live in san francisco where there was a prayer vigil today. >> in fact one of the prayer vigils was held here in the last hour katie, at the third baptist church, for most of the day there was a police presence inch the east bay there were prayers of strength. songs of praise at oakland's first ame church on this s

a new $1.50 at hayward and $2 at richmond and south hayward station and $3 at bay fair and south san francisco. 26 of the bart's 33 stations have the maximum $3 daily parking charge and will raise fees at six stations mostly in the east bay in late >> how about more of riley curry. >> we are celebrating a new champion even fans are flying in to check out the light at san francisco international airport tweeting out this picture of the blue and gold lights after the game with terminals decked out with "go warriors." it was worth waiting for. here it is. starting with the scurry family -- with the curry family having fund with the trophy. a picture of steph curry and their adorable daughter, making funny faces with a little bit fund after the game. the same gear that everyone will be going after. >> cute shot of iguodala on one side and steph curry on the other both kissing it. >> the other players have kids too? really? >> it was on tv! >> they have great chemistry and you can see the gun in their faces. that was great. >> good weather for us and not for some parts of the united states. in houston and dallas we

abc7 news was at the station as police detained the suspect who wi undergo a psychvaluation. bart re-opened the station after an hour. >>> newdetails tonight. we now know the name of a man killed in a shooting along highway 4 inay point yesterday. he is 20-year-old tomas mendez of pittsburg. hi dodge crashed into the center divider after he was shot. detectives believe the shooter fire from another car possibly a honda. they are asking anyone who might know about the shooting toall them. >>> the south carolina church where nine people were shot and killed last week re-opened its doors today. the emanuel ame church in charleston had a speal service with a message of love and healing. churches across the nation held solidarity service abc7 news cornell bernard is live in san francisco where there was a prayer vigil today. >> in fact one of the prayer vigils was held he in the last hour katie, at the third baptist church, f most of the day there was a police presence in the east bay there were prers of strength. songs of praise at oakland's first ame chur on this sunday morning. ther

crews will replace track at the west bart station. the bart is 43 years old. they budgeted 23 million to replace the aging track. >>> this morning new video is providing new prospect sieve of a deadly police shooting. a woman captured an interaction between officers and a man inside a parked car fox 2 reporter reports what she saw and heard. >>reporter: cell phone video captures the or deal between a police officer and an unresponsive man. this video belongs to mcmac. she said offices did everything they could to get him out peacefully. >> that's hard for anybody. >>reporter: suzanne was inside this salon recording video with her cell phone. she watched officer spend more than an hour to get the man to surrender. >> they tried. they tried to get the man out. he tug of warred. it took a few police officers to get him out of his video. >>reporter: after breaking his window and getting into a confrontation. one used a taser and the other used a firearm. >> we are actively reviewing the officers involved. we are also reviewing the video from the cameras they were

. >>> it's been almost 14 years since bart closed all the bath rooms at bart station. some bath rooms have reopened. and now bart is considering reopening the rest. ktvu's fox two tara more yard say in san francisco. bart is going to do more than unlock the doors. tara? >> reporter: these new bath rooms, they would have a lot more open design, and they would be designed basically to discourage drug use, vandalism, and other suspicious behavior. behind me you can see these are what they currently look like. under the new plan, they would be semi opaque doors with gaps at the top and bottom. the toilet -- the sink would be outside of the toilet, monitored by surveillance. it's a plan that's going to be discussed ant tonight's board meeting in oakland. the test-run bath rooms would be here and at the 19th street station in oakland. as you may recall, bart closed all of its bath rooms after 9/11 for security reasons. most of them have reopened except for the ones that the ten underground stations. some people say it's been a long time, but children and people with disabilit

tables are set up at the san jose station and the transit center from 7:30 to 9:00 with bart holding a selfie special and will select three winners with "dutch the pump," prices. >> muni riders can enjoy a streetcar ride from the wharf to the caltrain station with five his torque streetcars put in service on saturdays and sundays starting july 25. until now the line has been used only on special occasions. muni said a seven day a week service is coming in 2016. >> part of united states currency is getting a facelift. the treasury department announced hamilton will have to make room for a woman on the ten dollar bill. katie marzullo has the story. >> move over letter hamilton. >> i am very excited. it is wonderful. funny we are only thinking about it now but it is a great idea. >> the idea for the new ten dollar comes from united states treasury secretary jack lew the first time in more than 100 years a woman will appear on paper united states currency. >> finally. it has been a long-term ago that should have happened. we have contributed so much to america. >> for history buffs in the

a secure measure put if place after 9/11 may be reversed at bart station. first the city of berkeley backtracking. what it plans to do regarding the balkany collapse that killed six people. >>> it is thursday, june 25th. friday eve. >> i'm pam cook. 4:30 is the time. and steve here's here. we love our job, love what we do. we're tired by the end of the day. >> it's early. >>> there's people up. >> there are so many people awake. more and more people. >> probably pretty warm inside your house. usually when i open up the sliding door in the morning, cool down the house, it barely went below 70. probably not going to stay there for long. there's not any fog. if there's, it's very little. already in the 60s for many. so it won't take long. the breeze has approach

less take bart with three bart stations servicing the par road in the -- parade in the area of lake merrittns are getting included. the area is get crowded. there are street closures in the area. bart is running 53 trains. they are all open time right now. the bay link ferry has 20-25-minute delays into oakland and alameda area. we will follow that. action a.c. transit the westbound accident has new been cleared but the damage has been caused and it is slow out of 205 and north lynn also, is clear. >> we have seven things to know before you goes but first, weather and traffic during the break and a backed up bay bridge toll >> whether you are just joining us or headed out the door, number one a look from oakland where people are lined up in droves this morning for the warriors victory parade and rally at the convention convention. fans have been laning up along the parade route near 11th and broadway. >> the floats for the victory parade have made their way into oakland and sky 7 was overhead as the float made their way across the bay bridge from san francisco early today. you can catch cov

bart's board of directors is meeting in oakland. to to talk about restrooms. the board is considering re- opening and remodeling. the closed restrooms in the underground stations. >> pam: all of the bart restrooms were locked up. after the 9-some have reopened over time -- but the underground facilities have not. >> pam: getting them back into shape and in operation. would reportedly cost about a million dollars a year. >> pam: bart will consider testing new designs at the powell street station in san francisco. and the 19th street station in oakland. >> pam: kron 4 will keep you updated on the latest developments from the bart board meeting. >> pam: coming up at 8. a local man trying to make a statement. decides to take down his confederate flag. what made him change his mind. but foster farms simply raised chicken is 100 percent natural with no antibiotics. well you're an herbalist. help us to be natural. will those herbs do it? those? one grows hair, the other increases energy. gasp! do i look natural herb man? can i call you herb man? i'm trying to look natural. call me natural. you look like a steve. can i call you steve? hi steve. i'm natural. say someth

if you're headed to a bart station near you, you'll find 58 in dublin. 59 in hayward. 57 at sfo. current wind conditions pretty calm, i would say. calm in most places. 10 miles per hour, a westerly breeze at sfo. mountain view and san jose with those calmer conditions that bodes well for the fire danger and those possibility of thunderstorms. lelgts take a look at traffic on the e roadways. as e we move over to the tolls, traffic is still light. it's quiet there as you head over to the north bay. five minutes will get you across the water. we have a stall here. this is as you come up on the bridge toll plaza. so as you move over the water, you'll still see top speeds as you make it drive time, 680 southbound from highway 4 to walnut creek. 6 minutes. dublin westbound side of 580 is a 50-minute commute. >>> it's 5:38 now. space x and the faa are conducting an investigation into why a rocket bound for the international space station blew up two minutes after takeoff. the unmanned rocket carrying food supplies and research projects dissint grated sunday morning. this is the third su

we elissa harrington is at the bart station. >> ten underground bart stations have had bathrooms off the 9/11 attacks. bart officials will discuss possibly re-opening them at a meeting. here is video from 2003 after the attacks that show some of the changes riders were met with. closed scenes on bathroom doors and caution tape and elevator access was shut down. other security measures were taken to prevent any sort of terrorist attack or illegal activity in general. bart removed garbage cans and added security cameras and if the board does decide to reinstall the underground bath rooms it is not as simple as unlocking the doors. they would have to be cleaned and converted to uni sex bathrooms and others remodels with different doors and lay out that is easier to monitor. the estimated cost to my table the bathrooms is $1 million a year. the goal is to provide a place where people could get relief but, also maintain safety at the same time. >> bart isen watching riders to plan ahead for two upcoming weekend closures of the tube the first weekend in august and again, labor day weekend s

elissa harrington is at the station. >> bathroom at ten bart stations have been closed for 14 years closed after the 2001 terrorist attack. this is what a lot of bart riders are used to seeing when nature calls signs like these that say things like "restroom closed." this is video from 2003. another sign reads "due to heightened security contact station agent for elevator access," to make things more safe in the underground stations following the terrorist attack. bart ramped up security installing more cameras and removing bash agency cans. according to an article officials now are considering re-opening the bath almosts. there is a board of directors meeting and it will be discussed. re-opening the restrooms would cost $1 million a year and not just be able to unlock them. they would have to clean them and redesign the bathrooms to enhance safety measures change doors and things like that to discourage illegal activity. >> thank you. bart is warping riders to plan ahead for two upcoming weekend closures of the tube, the first weekend in august and, again labor day weekend so crews can do

bart says riders made it clear they want better on time performance and cleaner stations. it includes adding maintenance shifts to get cars back in the service. it will put 30 cars back in the service long enough for three trains. >> that's going to be huge because during the busiest time during the morning commute you can really not get on. it is even busy like at 10:00 at night. >> the budget will add more clean up crews for the trains and bart stations. it provides for eight more police officers and five community service officers. >> puts it up and knocks it in. head coach started his small line up and it paid off big time with a 103-82 win. james needed stitches to close a cut after he collided with a camera in the first half. it didn't effect his playing time. he scored 20 points and none in the first quarter. >> make them take tough shots. make them work as hard as possible. you look at his strengths, weaknesses, which way he prefers to play and take him out of his cortisone. >> you pick up momentum and you get a big win. >> the warriors regained home court advantag

. >> they wan better on time performance and more train cars and want the bart stations cleaner. that includes adding maintenance shifts during the over night and the weekend hours to get the cars back into service. and this will put 30 cars back in service. that is enough for three long trips. >> that is going to be huge. because during the busiest time in the morning commute, like you really cannot get on. and then there is even it's even busy at 10:00 at night. >> now this new budget would add more clean up crews to the trains and for the bart stations. and it provides for eight more police officers as well as five community service officers. >>> world cup fever heat heating up today. that is a not basketball. we do have warrior fever as well. but there is also soccer being played. later today team usa faces sweed nobody a key matchup and ktvu fox 2 reporter alex savidge is in san francisco at the field. a lot of fun going on out there i see. >> yeah. we're having some fun out here. i'm brushing up on my soccer skills. yeah. later today civic center plaza it will be filled wit

23-year-old alfonso davideding ton from pittsburgh began to get off with the boy at the fremont bart station, but police were waiting. >> i opened my door once slowly giving him time to get prepped and ready to go. i opened door twro and he walked out calm, cool and collected and they take him down on the spot. >> there was an emotional reunion and that's when it began to sink in. >> and then that's when my own kids came to mind and i broke down. i couldn't even hold myself. i had to go inside the bus and reflect. >> police say the suspect had no connections to the family. now they want to know his intentions when he snatched the boy from the children's section of the library. abc7 news. >>> crews are battling a fire in alameda and san juaquin counties. the fire started around 8:30 east of livermore near site 300. it has burned about 200 acres and it is 5% contained. the fire was caused by a power line knocked down by high winds. >>> to a freak accident now at the oakland a's game at boston. a woman suffered life threat thig injuries after an oakland player's bat shattered and went into the

$500,000 plus this will be to fund a pilot to address peak overcrowding in the embarcadero and bart station to continue to encourage travelers rider to avoid the station in the crowded period for people to get awards to take others alternatives the idea if we can change the peak of the peak off we can expand and continue to build capacity going forward. >> in terms of the regional transportation this is an an opportunity the project deadline is july 15th the rest of the regional we invite the public for major investments and need to seek federal and state funding through july 17th and members of the public can submit their ideas in spanish or chinese and other languages our 41513665 or our website another piece of good news the mtc has the federal fund that are distributed by mtc at the regional level they'll further regard communities that are cvs housing for the community program is suggested to increase to our share to about 14.4 percent from the last round we were able to gain 12 percent of the regional funds for the benefit of the housing plans we're moving forward locally it is positi

before 3:00 saturday afternoon on highway 4 near bailey road, not far from the pittsburgh bay point bart station. the victim was identified at 21- year-old thomas mendez from pittsburgh. he was in a car when someone in another car opened fire. mendez later died. >>> well today is the last day of the muni challenge. that is the 22-day event that has san francisco mayor, ed lee, and most of the board of supervisors, using muni every day. having them use it would help them make informed decisions on transit. >>> time to look at traffic this morning. if you are headed out the door right now, let me give you a look at some of the bridges. bay bridge toll plaza traffic moving along. checking in on the san mateo bridge. let's head over to the golden gate bridge to see if it looks possibly a little foggy. steve's our expert, so he'll let us know, but looks like the camera is blurry, for some reason. dirty camera, mist, fog? what is going on out there? >> more low clouds than fog. it was skewed. >> that's a great word. >>> you know sonni gray, the a's pitcher? >> yes. >> we look alike. salvadore flores s

like at 10:00 at night. >> this new budget will add more clean up crews to the trains and the bart stations and provides for eight more police officers as well as five community service officers. >>> the u.s. women's soccer team can qualify for the next stage of the world cup if they win this evening after beating australia on monday they will take on sweden today. the u.s. is favored to win. the game will be played in winnipeg starting at 5:00 this evening our time. former sanford star says she is looking for the matchup. >> on the world cup we expect that. we expect to play against the best and we've been preparing for a long time for these matches and every game we get under our belt we are trying to grow. >> an intriguing element of tonight's matchup is that the former coach of the u.s. is now the head coach of sweden. in our next hour we'll have a big preview of that world cup watch party in san francisco it will be fun out there. the u.s. verses sweden 5:00 tonight and the viewing party will be at the civic center plaza. a lot of activity for families starting at 4:00. ktvu own frank

and police say a man kidnapped the 3-year-old boy, then boarded a bus headed to the freemont bart stationd this bus driver a father himself and noticed something wasn't right. >> reporter: call it fatherly instinct. everyone did a great job from the bus driver and local law enforcement. he was reunited with his parents here at police headquarters. >> you will not sleep wondering where your child is at night. >> reporter: he is being called a hero after finding a child reported missing earlier today. nbc was on the ground as the suspected kidnapper of pittsburgh was taken into police custody after getting off the bus with a toddler. >> what pictured in my mind was all the parents in front of cameras asking for their child to be brought back home. that was in my mind these parents were going to be in front of cameras. >> reporter: the parents too are breathing a sigh of relief. >> we so many examples across the country playing out so differently. >> reporter: the nightmare began around 10:30 this morning at the lapidas library. and mother turned around for a second and the son disappeared.

23-year-old alfonso davideding ton from pittsburgh began to get off with the boy at the fremont bart station, but police were waiting. >> i open my door once slowly giving him time to get prepped and rea to go. i opened door twro and he walked out calm, cool and collectednd they take him down on the spot. >> there was an emotional reunion and that's when it ben to sink in. >> and then that's when my own kids came to mind and i broke down. i coul't even hold myself. i had to go inside the bus and reflect. >> police say the suspect had no connections to the family. now they want to know his intentions when he snatch the boy from the children's section of the library. abc7 news. >>> crews are battling a fire inlameda and san juaquin counties. e fire started around 8:30 east of livermore near site 300. it has burned about 200 acres and it is 5% contained. the fire was caused by a power line knocked downy high winds. >>> to a freak accident now at the oakland a's game at boston. a woman sufred life threat thig injuries after an oakland player's bat shattered and went into the stands in boston. >>

for more time because of the mission 2020 this is the second largest commission in the community bart station what relationship will this project have to 2020 a i can answer that. >> we've been working with the economic agency with the 2020 plan the goal of the plan to develop the strategy over the next 5 to 10 years to stabilize the mission in terms of maintaining the income levels of the community the 60 percent so 60 percent to moderate the idea and as stated by many members of the public stableizing the loss of jobs so the idea of that strategy is primarily to look at how weevictions inquiry the new housing units and for the affordable housing looking at sites and funding strategies it's looking at the rage of strategies to stabilize the existing housing and add affordable housing to the neighborhood so you know and so how we get to those and trying to agree on a series of numbers how we get to those numbers we're working on we're broadening our work to include other organizations at the request of the mayor's office so we're talking to more members of the communities our discussions are

it's far back as 96 is in a plan to the watering at a bart stations and put it into aws has. wrap the docs which i think that connected which is very simple into pages, very small recycled water plant on the backend of the southside treatment plant. from tertiary water until fire for fire fighting. and irrigation should very small plan and injected into the bottom of the aws s system, right next to a sewage plants that without 72,000,000 gallons a year. it supplies essentially what leaks. a lot of the prior reports with debt the sewage treatment plants and piping all the way up to the tanks. has a huge infrastructure costs. i table this. i'm talking to other boards and the fire department board fairly shortly. members as big as 17,000,000 gallons a year stomach very large machine but in fact that's about a 3 inch pipe coming out that just operating continuously. the issue waters control water quality control which are familiar with, are very interesting if not difficult to manage but it's mostly easy to manage at a sewage treatment plant were all the facilities for testing an

and if you're coming down here i could tell you they're already filling up by having the fremont bart station. >>darya: of the drama and used to live up and as of black t- shirts that is my navy blue. >>darya: it is one to be crazy over there have you seen the pattern as already heading over we've seen is wrong direction. >>anny hong: as a given to the letter morning our and also this afternoon is a little cloudy we see people have swatters on and they have the hats but they're probably kill off later led on to the most the conditions in the pocket will be cloudy to battista in the mid-50s it will be warmer compared to yes in the upper 80s from livermore 87 and antioch 73 in san mateo and the coast this stay cloudy a high of 64 and half moon bay and mid- 60's in san francisco is a cool day in the city with some preconditions the time not as 706 my come back we'll talk more about your east of a forecast. >>mark: you cannot have a parade without the floats and hear with the full solid this one is very getting ready to cross the bridge from the san francisco waterfront up. (this was happening ar

he says the new bart station is bringing new housing developments. upwards of 7,000 new homes. average rent, $2,000 to $3,000 a month. >> it looks like we are building enough, but it's not yet enough. that's why the demand is so very high and the supply is not enough. >> he says like other cities, losing redevelopment agency funds cut affordable housing out of the picture. hoping a new study will provide alsos on either making developers pay a housing impact fee or set aside a percentage of affordable homes all to help low income families. martinez wants the city to do something, saying she'll keep fighting to live in milpitas. >> i want to stay in milpitas. that's my city. i feel at home there. >> reporter: she'll be taking her fight to city hall tonight airing out her concerns and on the agenda, the city council will look at ways to legally enforce affordable housing requirements for those houses that are being built now and in the pipeline. frank. >> let's just hope she finds something. azna smith reporting. we are learning new details how caitlin jenner chose her new name.

school on a daily basis basis i pass by the liquor store and take muni when i'm boarding those at bart station or coming home at night it is a place that is scary to walk but i'm happy a that true 345shg will be improving the uses on market street design of this project is also exciting and keeping with the scale of market street and of the hayes valley neighborhood hayes valley neighborhoods are in support of project and i hope the commissioners approve that project today thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning commissioners i'm long ranging the counter president of the hayes valley association and i'm also a resident of hayes valley and fairly close to 1554 market true market urban made presentations to the transportation and planning committee since october the 13 of october 2013 and also in november of 2014 over the course of those meetings the transportation and planning committee requested a variety of changes to the proposed development and true market urban i'll add my voice has been pro-active with the transportation and planning committee guatemala us in changes based

>> if bart decides to reopen the bathrooms it would start a pilot program first at two stations. >>> centers for disease control confirmed urine was the cause to children who got sick at antioch water park. the sicknesses at the water park included sore throats, coughing and vomiting. 17 children were taken to the hospital to be treated. >>> technology giant apple is the latest company to jump into the debate over the confederate flag announcing it is removing apps that use the confederate flag in offensive or mean spirited ways. apple says it is not removing apps that show the flag for educational or historical use. >>> the latest model of google self driving cars hit the street today built to move at the touch of a button. a person will be riding inside to take control just in case of emergencies. google released its monthly accident report saying the driverless cars were involved in 13 fender benders none caused by the google car. >>> the interior minister says uber's low cost car service has to be closed the announcement moved today after minister met with taxi drivers in france.

received frequently was do not build i enjoy the stadium don't want the traffic and no parking the bart station didn't go in that direction more people will be driving in number one the concern is to definitely avoid the traffic congestion one employee said when they say droifz out of a parking lot it takes him 30 minutes to drive one block and two or two half an hour to get out of the area to catch the freeway the infrastructure is not suited for a stadium not suited to bring in 18 thousand fans into this area a nurse mentions her concerns which are how are the emergency vehicles going to access in and out of the area there's no plan and if there is it's not been communicated that's the problem and the latest i want to talk about what responsible development looks like in san francisco not just the problem with the stadium but in san francisco in general what does it look like for the councilmember brooks traffic is a problem and the quality of life for all of san francisco thank you. >> thank you. >> hello commissioners. i'm kirk the executive director of rock real option for kids and in visi

23-year-old alfonso davideding ton from pittsburgh began to get off with the boy at the fremont bart station, but police were waiting. >> i opened my door once slowly giving him time to get prepped and ready to go. i opened door twro and he walked out calm, cool and collected and they take him down on the spot. >> there was an emotional reunion and that's when it began to sink in. >> and then that's when my own kids came to mind and i broke down. i couldn't even hold myself. i had to go inside the bus and reflect. >> police say the suspect had no connections to the family. now they want to know his intentions when he snatched the boy from the children's section of the library. abc7 news. >>> crews are battling a fire in alameda and san juaquin counties. the fire started around 8:30 east of livermore near site 300. it has burned about 200 acres and it is 5% contained. the fire was caused by a power line knocked down by high winds. >>> to a freak accident now at the oakland a's game at boston. a woman suffered life threat thig injuries after an oakland player's bat shattered and went into the