jacket required on the roof in the mid-to-upper 60's, and check out this beautiful picture from exploritorium camera, you can see how calm the bay water is right now. look at the temperatures compared to friday, our last day with wet weather and below average temperatures to what i am forecasting for highs today: 15 to 25 degrees warmer and we have gained about seven minutes of sunshine since then. check out san jose, hard to find clouds there with a lot blueness and temperatures today are nine degrees above average in san francisco and the rest of us flirting with 80 which is 12 to 14 degrees above average. energy, the sun sets at 7:38. here is a crime, a new one that will cost the owners of smart cars. we have incredible video of this vandalism in san francisco. amy hollyfield has that story. >> you have to see this video. this surprised the police. look at this smart car, on its side, tipped over, which would be something to see but it didn't just happen once overnight, then police got a call that another car had been tipped over on the same street and they went to respond to this only to

>> it is busy whether helicopters, streetcars going by or a lot of people going to the exploritoriumng the day, thursday, as a kay to learn more. it is nice to see the students. you can see it is hazy. that is okay. we have clean, fresh air today and through the forecast. no "spare the air" days on the way. says hang around san francisco and it will filter out. we will be somewhat hazy sunshine the day but you can see where the thicker clouds are along the coast where you will see the sunshine from time to time. temperatures are cooler than yesterday. we are 66 in los gatos and 65 in livermore and 63 in concord and san jose. 61 in santa rosa and 71 in fairfield. everyone else in the 50's. san rafael had thick fog this morning. emeryville to san francisco is hazy sunshine with mild at the coast and warm inland and clouds everywhere with thick fog in the north valley and throughout the extended forecast, general cooling trend and no rain. time to turn the sprinklers back on. through the east bay hills it is green. hope we get some more rain before the end of april. temperatures today a

from the exploritorium to the western span of the bay bridge, it is beautiful. nice and clear. turning warmer today if san francisco at 52 and oakland is 55 and 49 in redwood city and san jose is 52 and 46 at half moon bay. more sunshine later hours because of the area of high pressure over the pack and as it comes in toward california, it will bring a weak onshore and that is weeking our terms warmer. that is going to be replaced where the trough coming in over the pacific northwest cooling things down for the end of the week. tonight the giants take on the dodgers and it will be breezy this evening at 62 degrees is the starting temperature at 7:15 and well end at 58 and you will need to pack the light sweater. today our highs are going to be in the upper 70's to lower 80's for the bay area and along the peninsula you can expect to see 73 in san mateo and 66 in pacifica and 63 in downtown san francisco and sunny skies and 81 in napa and in the east bay, mild and 75 in oakland and toasty and antioch at 81 degrees and brentwood is 83 and lows tonight are in the lower 50's and my

from our exploritorium, temperatures are in the low-to-mid 50's from hose to san francisco and we are cooler in gilroy at 49 and half moon bay at 46 degrees and from emeryville this morning, it will be a nice afternoon, certainly not as warm as it has been because of the onshore winds but it will be above average at 45 in petaluma and 55 by the delta and 53 in livermore. you can see the visibility is not impacted at all so minor cooling today and tomorrow and temperatures rebound for easter inland and sharply cooler monday and we will bring in the possibility of showers monday and tuesday and we are looking at the possibility of scattered showers. high clouds around monterey because of this system but overall the fog will increase and the winds ahead of the system that will griz the northern california coast so as it does it will offer temperatures down today. in san jose, temperatures will come down with the passage of the front to the north and we back up for easter and the system will allow for cool temperatures into next welcome. sue is here and hopefully a quiet commute. >> so fa

the exploritorium rue over the solar panels, creating a ton of electricity today, and 24 hour temperaturechange is anywhere from two to nine degrees warmer than yesterday with thin hours and 44 minutes and 15 seconds of sunshine and we are using all of it. tree pollen, grass, and pollution are moderate, and weed and poll are low and the u.v. index is very high. we will take a look at some of the temperatures, upper 80's in sunnyvale and milpitas and santa cruz is 88 and the water is 56. we are in the mid-80's at millbrae and upper 80's to nearly 90 for the peninsula and we will top out in the low-to-mid 80's along the coast and money 80's around downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and low-to-mid 90's through the northern part beaches and richmond, hercules and castro valley and fremont 90. upper 90's elsewhere with oakland at 88. if you have the air conditioning on, you may be using it later today. we have a game, a note game, and thankfully if you do not like the heat it will be 76 at 7:15 drop down to 67 by the end of the game. temperatures tonight will be coolest along the c

from the exploritorium you can see high pressure take over.-profile vehicles no need to worry about the wind. inland, 81 to 90 and today is a big-time jump in the temperatures around the bay young to 86 and from the coast to san francisco 71 to 75. leyla gulen has the commute. >> good morning, everyone, at 4:29. we have construction and as we take you to the east bay and 80 eastbound and westbound we have lanes blocked until 5:00 from buchanan to willow and as we lock from emeryville camera to the eastern span of the bay bridge we have flashing lights action. in a few hours the nba commissioner will address the controversy swirling around clpers owner sterling following a racist rant. >> the news conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. and the commissioner will discuss the disbly marry actions against donald sterling who is believed the person heard in a recording with the former mistress making racist remarks. who could be fined $1 million but it is not clear how far the powers reach. the coach believes that a strong message is coming from the nb

. >>> sick near record high temperatures today and solar panels on the exploritorium working overnight3 inland and 83 to 91 around the bay and 76 to 81 along the coast. >>> glass is half full report: a busy commute from the emeryville area and 25 minutes to the bay bridge toll plaza but as we look at the map we have hotspots at 880 southbound because of an early accident and drive cross the altamont pass is going for take you 45 minutes. >>> we continue online and twitter and facebook. see you in 25 minutes. the world of fashion is split in two. you can either have high-end or low-price. or you can go to t.j.maxx and you can have it all for up to 50% off department store prices. t.j. maxx. m, creamy greek yogu new mixim, creamy greek yogurt. with two unique ingredients. to mix in however your heart desires. go on. spoon me. mixim - from the ehrmann family. it's love, your way. i must begin my journey, which will cause me to miss the end of the game. the x1 entertainment operating system lets your watch live tv anywhere. can i watch it in butterfly valley? sure. can i watch it in glimme

can you imagine this is a shot from the roof camera looking to the bay bridge and the exploritorium it is dark in san francisco under the cloud layer and it will start to remain what up and right now the temperature is 53 degrees in san francisco and 55 in on land and los gatos is 47. to get you out the door, a cool start to the morning and well want up by lunch and when we hit 4:00 p.m., mostly sunshine and in the 80's in the inland area and 60's along the coast and it will start to cool off overnight hours with more on that ahead. but, first, the traffic. what can you expect? you can expect clear conditions with a couple of hiccups on the road but, first, that is if san jose northbound 680 at capital expressway involving a couple of vehicles but it doesn't appear to be slowing traffic. along i 80 albany to the maze, five minutes and 280 northbound 101 to cupertino, is 11 minutes. >> it is 6:10. >> still ahead, twiters ravaged southwest and leave a trail of destruction and we will have incredible video as it towns down. >> a horrifying attack as bears drag a woman from the home and sh

index is high, and another beautiful picture from the exploritorium and you can talk about eight to 16 degrees cooler today than yesterday, and you want some warmth head to palm spring at 96, and fresno is 88 and 60 in lake tahoe. sue? >> we have problems in daly city causing damage to cars and they are off to the shoulder now, and caltran is en route to clean it up so expect delays with a lane closed. hit-and-run north 880 at the off-ramp with slow traffic in the yellow sensors and not on the freeway, but, lookers are slowing things. 580 has the damage done and it is grinned all the way into live more. it is 47 minutes from tracy to dublin. >> ahead, is mcdonald's losing the battle for the breakfast dollars? codeine and your kids, a warning for parents of the side effects of the drug. >> pg&e's day in court and what is expected if san francisco as the company faces criminal charges for the pipeline explosion. >>> covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >>> welcome back at 6:44 today, one of california's largest utilities will face its day i

under the clouds it will be a great start from our exploritorium camera to the bay and the bay bridge and we will start to see things melting away by the afternoon. the first forecast inland the temperatures are going to reach between 74 and 81 an the bay and lower 60's to lower 70's and upper 50's to lower 70's along the coast and in san francisco. first we will talk about traffic with major problems on the roadways. if you are traveling over 580 and the altamont pass, that is due to four accidents that have plagued the roadway as you make the drive from tracy at six miles per hour with a big rig on the shoulder but we are going to be on the brakes. we are two hours to get from tracy to dublin right now and highway 4 is loading up at 22 minutes from antioch to concord so busy conditions and a look at the bay bridge toll plaza with the metering lights turned on before 6:00 and this is room for extra cars. katie? >> still ahead, the search for the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 hit as snag. >> the potential explanation for why parts of the country have been hit so hard by winter

from the exploritorium camera, you can see a beautiful start to the morning with a little bit warmerhan the last couple of days. by noon the clouds are going do make way for plenty sunshine by 4:00 p.m. and it will be beautiful and 82 degrees inland and 63 along the coast. cooling down overnight but the seven-day outlook is ahead. we have major problems in traffic in san jose. we have a report of a bus caught fire on 101. it is in the southbound direction with most traffic northbound. we do not have details whether there are passengers or what caused the fire but we will keep our ears open and find out more information. it looks like the traffic along 680 is moving along fine northbound and southbound direction. >>> new this morning, san francisco's chinese community is dissing itself from state senator yee in the wake of the corruption scandal. the planning commission president and ds of other prominent leaders signed an open leader and community call to action yesterday the first public comment on the case. they wrote that the fallout has brought intense scrutiny on the chinese ame

from the roof camera on the exploritorium you can see how the flag is unfurled because we have gusts of around 20 miles per hour in san francisco and many areas around the bay. drying trend through 7:00 and a few clouds and a color will sunrise at 46 to 52 and breezy continues through noon and only from the mid-50 to mid-60's with all the sunshine at 4:00, and by 7:00 we are around 54 to 60 but when the sun sets it will be in the 50's by 9:00. dress accordingly. sue? >> we had wet roads in san francisco this morning so take extra care if you are driving. the roads could be slick. better news in san jose with an early brushfire off the freeway that was visible and crews got that out. this accident eastbound 80 before willow with a big rig and another truck that is all clear. now we have reports of an overturned vehicle westbound 80 at hilltop and it will affect the commute in the westbound direction and it looks like file has been called to the scene. westbound 80 at hilltop and hopefully it can be cleared. bart has 28 trains on time this morning with no other mass transit delays. it

beautiful sunrise is developing from the exploritorium camera and the bay is not so choppy as yesterday. we are in the 40's to low 50's and as we get to anyone we are in the upper 50's and low-to-mid 60 at noon with thick are high clouds and back to average at 4:00, mid-60's to 70 around the inland. dress for temperatures in the mid-50's at the coast and low 60's for the rest of us. >> a busy drive but not over the altamont pass, 35 minutes from tracy to dublin. in hayward, southbound 880 at highway 92 a multiple vehicle crash with injuries involved and we are down do 30 miles per hour so heavy solid backup around from 238 and this crash is finally cleared in petaluma southbound 101 but not before damaging the morning commute at six miles per hour is the top speed with backups extended all the way from petaluma boulevard and before that, so give yourself extra time, and the san mateo bridge cross the water to the peninsula is moving along and you have extra company out there. >>> we are continuing to follow reacting news in novato where firefighters are on the scene of a house four. amy

. >> here is a look outside from our exploritorium camera, looking over at treasure island and the sun, a gorgeous picture with the clouds in the sky and we will have traffic and weather next and talk about the windy conditions and the commute. marks. go! it's chaos out there. but the m-class sees in your blind spot, pulls you back into your lane, even brakes all by itself. it's almost like it couldn't crash... even if it tried. the 2014 m-class. >>> we are back at 6:40 and it will an breezy and cool night. 56 at 7:00, and dropping to 52. scattered snow showers, across lake tahoe and a few are falling now and they are showing up on radar. can you see they are starting to get more sporadic. 43 and breezy and 57 in yosemite and showers are lower and upper 60's to low 70's across the central valley and it will be breezy, and 59 in monterey, and mid-to-upper 60's around san diego and los angeles and warm spot in palm spring at 87. safe travels. >> update now on the 80 westbound accident with three separate accidents this morning and this just beyond highway four which now is cleared on the

will be around average for the week but temperatures have come down at our coast and here is the exploritorium camera where we have a clear start with a few patches of fog in the east bay and 54 in oakland and 50 in half moon bay and 54 over across the bay near castro valley and emeryville and nice and clear and petaluma in the upper 40's and schooling off through the overnight hours and the marine layer is mixed out and it is patchy with fog at half moon bay at five miles visibility but everyone else is looking fine and, in fact, 24 hours ago we were cooler and we are starting out warmer in the north bay and it is cool other to livermore and not a containing along the coast mountain view and san jose and a degree or two cooler. notice the fog from san mateo coast with temperatures cool and in the 60's and a few clouds around marin county and we will see numbers bump back up by the end of the weekend but we will go through the next several hours with a pair start so it will be nice add mid-60's and a couple of 70's by the afternoon around the bay and inland where we should be around average. a

this is how it looks from the exploritorium camera and you can see how calm the water is if you are taking a ferry, it will be a very, very nice commute with sun and high clouds. cooler at the coast, a little bit of a sea breeze uncutting the warm air at the coast and into san francisco. cooling spreads inland tomorrow and through saturday and it looks like we will have to wit at least a week and a half to two weeks before we get a single chance of rain. area high pressure over the ocean and over land and, again, in between big dome of high pressure and a warm dome of high pressure and throughed microclimates in the south bay, everyone is in the low-to-mid 80's and los gatos at 87 and the exception is santa cruz at 77 and on the peninsula we go from 75 in millbrae and nearly 70 along the coast and mid-70's downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and as far as the north bay, home 80's and as we head into the east bay shoreline, upper 70's to nearly 80 with 83 in castro valley the warm spot and as you go through the east you will have mid-80's in the east bay valley. >> expect more 50

from the exploritorium you can see the high clouds in the southeast and look how calm the water is, takecture of the sunrise it will be colorful and sanity to me at mike nicco and use that for twitter and for facebook. very colorful this morning, clouds, cooling sea breeze is the big story, and showers possible tonight through the commute tomorrow and a better chance of a widespread soaking hopefully on friday, and get it out of here in time for the week. mid-to-upper 70's to the south and low 70's for the rest of the south bay and to santa cruz, and only upper 50 to low 60's along the coast into downtown san francisco and south san francisco is 4, and 58 at bodega bay and nearly seven at the not bay and low-to-mid 70's into the east bay valley where some of our warmest weather will be. upper 40's to low 50's with scatter the lie showered moving in and a timetable on that shows today increasing clouds now through noon into the evening and at 10:00 the light rain moves in but it falls apart and becomes scattered through tomorrow morning and by noon the front is through and it becomes bree

look at exploritorium and how calm the bay is this morning.u take the ferry, it will be comfortable with light wind. a slight onshore breeze at the coast and low-to-mid 60's and the bay is 67 to 73 and inland is 72 to 76. that is 20 degrees cooler than what we will have in the seven-day forecast. leyla gulen? >> the accident i was telling you about is northbound along 101 in san francisco involving three vehicles and right now the number five lane is countrily blocked. northbound traffic could slow down approaching 280, and southbound is building as you leave san francisco away from the hospital curve to the 280 extension. 280 is building southbound but from daly city it is not going to be a problem so far. 580, tracy to dublin is 42 minutes and highway 4 westbound from antioch to concord is 17 minutes and to hercules, not seeing any delays and 101 southbound from san to san francisco is 17 minutes. the san jose commute 280 northbound a few extra cars and accident free and all in san jose. nice and quiet. >> an update on the breaking news ambe

from the exploritorium equal -- the terry remaining good but it is chilly in the 40's.l warm into the mid-50's and 60's interior, with high clouds and sunshine all afternoon. now the commute? >> the altamont pass is busy at bumper-to-bumper traffic up to north flynn. as we talk about what is happening on highway four westbound side at highway 242 there is a still big rig so you may not see it right away so be careful because it is blocking a slow train. along 242 to make it to 680 to concord and pleasant hill it is moving along fine. tonight, the mariners are at oakland a's at 7:00 when the game starts. expect to see heavy delays as you make your commute along 880 using bart. >>> speaking of commuting, new this morning, the car suspension and mechanic may disagree but california's roads are their best shape in more then a decade. that is the story from caltran and they sticking to it. nick is in the east bay with that story. really? really? >> yes because -- and i mentioned this study in the 4:30 news and we asked you viewers to respond on facebook. what this is about,

. >> good morning, everyone, as we look from our exploritorium camera to the bay bridge it is a ball sight. we are beginning to wake up to patchy fog and low clouds. they will burn off later. from live doppler 7 hd you can see the returns are not the heavy cloud layer. to get you out the door it will be cooler start to the only but it will warm up by noon. when we pass lunch by 4:00 p.m., it will be sun and warmer and 80's inland. almost 70's around the bay and 62, low 60's around the coast and it will cool off. the seven-day forecast is straight ahead. we head out and see how it is moving along. over the altamont pass, we will look at this, bumper-to-bumper traffic 27 miles per hour is the top speed long 205 to 580 and it will move along in there and if you are crossing the bridges from san francisco to the golden gate bridge it is nine minutes. and across the san mateo bridge it is 13 minutes. quiet start to the morning. we have a couple of incidents we will get to in a minute. leyla gulen? >> breaking news in redwood city where a pedestrian has been hit and killed by a car this mo

will be breezy, san francisco, the bay shoreline and on the left side of the screen that is the exploritoriumtree pollen is high and same for weed and grass pollen moderate and mold spores are low and u.v. index is high. that is the air quality to today. a few high clouds this morning, color will sunrise is possible and i will post them if you capture one. by were knew, more high clouds throughout the day, and mid-to-upper 50's at the coast and low-to-mid 60's around the bay and inland for the anyone time temperatures and 58 at coast at 7:00, and 66 around the bay and 70 inland and not so breezy and not so chilly with 56 at coast and low 60 for the the rest of us. >> we have one lane blocked southbound 101 at lakeville highway slowing things down as you can see the little bit of red showing through. watch out for that. hopefully c.h.p. can clear this to the shoulder. 101 across the golden gate bridge will take you ten minutes from the waldo to the city along the bay bridge away from the maze to san francisco, and across the san mateo bridge at it will minutes to make it over to the peninsula