also breaking news in the other part of san francisco this morning this is in stern grove where firefighters had to move quickly to knock down flames that broke out before 2:00 this morning. the fire burned near a hem lows encampment, firefighters managed to keep it to one acre keeping flames on the ground out of the trees. katie marzullo is at the scene. she has more information she will bring us a live update coming up. >>> this morning police in two bay area communities investigating officer involved shootings in east palo alto san mateo county task force agent said a man tried to ram them with a car. the suspect ran from the scene police arrested him a short time later he's being charged with assault with a deadly weapon. >> sky 7 was over an antioch neighborhood yesterday after police tried to after arrest warrant for a man wanted for child abuse and parole violation. one officer opened fire and wounded the suspect after police say he pulled a gun. he's expected to survive. antioch police and contra costa county d.a.'s office are investigating. >>> a few hours from now defense attorneys

. >>> san francisco firefighters are look into what caused a fire that broke out in stern grove 2:00 this morning, flames raced along the ground crews were able to keep the fire to one acre by keeping it out of the eucalyptus trees it starred in a canyon area, nobody was hurt, -- fire is not expected to expect the stern grove festival kicking off its 75th season this sunday the fire did not cause structural damage to the stage or festival areas. >>> new legal setback for the man charged with assaulting a priest he claims molested him and his brother as children. this follows yesterday's bombshell in the trial of william lynch accused of beating the priest gerald lindner. amy hollyfield is live at the court in san jose. >> reporter: good morning. the defense asked for a mistrial today it was denied. the parents of the defendants let out a sigh when the decision was an . i didn't hear the sigh i was three rows behind them. but the bailiff did and scolded them for reacting in court. here's video of the defendant and his defense attorney heading into court this is before the announcement

. >>> san francisco firefighters are look into what caused a fire that broke out in stern grove 2:00 this morning, flames raced along the ground crews were able to keep the fire to one acre by keeping it out of the eucalyptus trees it starred in a canyon area, nobody was hurt, -- fire is not expected to expect the stern grove festival kicking off its 75th season this sunday the fire did not cause structural damage to the stage or festival areas. >>> new legal setback for the man charged with assaulting a priest he claims molested him and his brother as children. this follows yesterday's bombshell in the trial of william lynch accused of beating the priest gerald lindner. amy hollyfield is live at the court in san jose. >> reporter: good morning. the defense asked for a mistrial today it was denied. the parents of the defendants let out a sigh when the decision was an . i didn't hear the sigh i was three rows behind them. but the bailiff did and scolded them for reacting in court. here's video of the defendant and his defense attorney heading into court this is before the announcement

take a look at this, last week stern grove launched its free outdoor summer concert series that just kicked off, celebrating 75 years they have a lot of performances in the outdoor ampitheater. 14,000 people typically show up for those events. that is something that was kicked off last sunday. moving forward this sunday as well, not impacted by this fire this morning. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> right now the coast guard is searching san francisco bay for a person mo fell into the water at pier 32. -- amy hollyfield is live in san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: they got the call a little before 11:00 last night. the coast guard has been searching all night. i'm hoping we have video to show you. they launched two coast guard boats overnight and the san francisco fire boat was out there as part of the search. no sign of this man. the man's friend told police he saw his friend at the end of pier 32, he was leaving himself, the man looked away. when he looked back he says his friend was again. no one saw him in the water but the report came in that it is believed that he fell

for 75 years the stern grove festival has offered free con seventies in this outdoor amphitheater.pack 14,000 people in here. it goes from classical to pop. ♪ >> anita baker opens the program on sunday. and because it's admission free, we don't have to program to sell tickets. so we can take a little bit -- we can be a little more adventurous with the programming. >> what makes this place such an attractive venue is the redesign they did six years ago. right now the landscape architect created this look with terraces, stones, grass. >> as it fills up you can go up to the hillside where the hillside holds thousands of people, and yes, as with concert in nature listen to the beautiful performances and sit on a log. >> don't worry the logs are bolted to the ground. you won't end up in the front row. the stern family is related to the levi stauss family. mrs. straus gave it to them for art. >> when they developed this area in the 30s, mrs. strauss had an opera singer to come out and walk around to determine the best place for the sound. stage would go here. six years when they came aro

the fire started after 2:00 this morning at stern grove. it burned less than an acre away. >> it was a challenge. it was nighttime. the visibility is low, steep hill, so we were able to put the fire out. >> stern grove is the scene of many popular outdoor festivals but the fire did not burn the concert stage or cause any other structural damage. >>> 7:0. in overnight news, arson investigators have been called to three fires. these thomas broke out within minutes of each other on spin na kerr, coy. tara moriarty is there now with the latest on what investigators are saying. tara? >> reporter: you know, neighbors have been working by here all morning long, shaking their heads -- shaking their heads. you can see the char marks up the side of the building and then below you can see the garbage cans that are completely melted. neighbors say it's aspish -- it's suspicious. we are waiting for a call back from the fire department to let us know if this fire and another fire set within the area were set by the same person. this fire sent nearly a do

far 75 years the stern grove festival has offered free con seventies in this outdoor amphitheater. they pack 14,000 people in here. it goes from classical to pop. >> anita baker opens the program on sunday. and because it's admission free, we don't have to program to sell tickets. so we can take a little bit -- we can be a little more adventurous with the programming. >> what makes this place such an attractive venue is the redesign they did six years ago. right now the landscape architect created this look with terraces, stones, grass. >> as it fills up you can go up to the hillside where the hillside holes thousands of people, and yes, as with concert in nature listen to the beautiful performances and sit on a log. >> don't worry the logs are bolted to the ground. you won't end up in the front row. the stern family is related to the levi straws family. mrs. straus gave it to them for art. >> she had an opera singer to come out and walk around to determine the best place for the sound. stage would go here. six years when they came around audio engineers came around with sophistica

. >>> another fire, from san francisco's stern grove firefighters had to move quickly to knock down flames before 2:00 this morning this fire burned near a homeless encampment, fire kept to one acre keeping flames on the ground out of the trees. >>> :04. a few hours from now, defense attorneys for a man accused of beating a priest will be making a request for a mistrial william lynch is on trial for the 2010 beating of father gerald lindner. lynch says lindner repeatedly raped him when he was a child a judge denied a request for a mistrial yesterday. the father refused to answer any more questions the judge struck all of lindner's previous testimony after the defense argued it would be unfair to allow it to stand if they couldn't cross-examine father lindner. the statute of limitations has run out on the alleged rape but he could be charged with perjury for denying the know low s on stan. >>> police -- sunday night investigators say two 27-year-old men were walking with friends when they got nikon front with a group of people -- they got into a confrontation with a group of people. suspect

>> reporter: san francisco ballet is a regular at the stern grove festival.cisco opera and symphony opera. for 75 years they have presented free concerts for ten sundays in outdoor amply theater. and it goes from classical to pop. ♪ >> anita baker is on sunday, pete escovedo will come later. >> because admission is free we don't to have program to sell tickets. so we can be a little more adventurous. >> what makes it attractive is redesign they did six years ago. they created the look with stones and as. >> as it fills up the hillside holds thousands of people. in contact with nature and listen and sit on a log. >> don't worry the logs are bolted total ground. they are related to the levi strauss family. they were developing this property, mrs. stern had a singer come out and determine the best spotted for the sound. stage would go right here. six years ago when they were renovating this space, audio engineers came out with equipment to determine the best place for the stage and it was -- you got it -- right here. >> as they prepare for the next 75 years, if

. >> san francisco ballet a regular at the stern grove festival. ♪ so too the san francisco opera.symphony orchestra. for 75 years the stern grove festival has presented 43 concert for 10 summer sunday in this out door amphitheater. they pack 14,000 people in here. the programming is quite eclectic from classical to pop. l anita baker is at the program on sunday. this family will come along later. >> because it's admission free we don't have to program to sell tickets. so we can take a little bit we can be a little more adventurous with the programming. >>reporter: the redesign they did 6 years ago. landscape architect created this look with terrace. stone. grass. >> as it fills up you go up to the hillside where it holds thousands of people and yes as we say in concert with nature listen to the beautiful performance and sit on the lawn. >>reporter: don't worry the log are bolted to the ground. none in the front row. stern family is related to the levi family. she gave this to the city in the 30's as show case for art and culture. opera sing her came out and walked around to determ

that's stern grove behind it. they are using wheel barrels. for this reason, many projects were well built. there are no cw a plot. this was one in berkeley placed there and the tennis court at coat niecis park. i was showing a montessory class there. this is an amphitheatre. it's a wonderful amphitheatre. there was from the sidewalks and they just reused it to create other things. down in menlow park. they built into a caretakers house. the wpa is must more famous. it came after the cw a. it did everything. they put eight and a half million people to work. they built roads. they sewed clothes. they built roads is in san francisco. this one, i have seen them on sidewalks in san francisco. this is on a retains wall in crocket. they are very seldom markers. cw a doesn't. pw a, almost never. not nearly commiserate with what they were doing. that's one of the restrooms in golden gate park. that's a plaque, carefully hidden. the gardeners prune the vine so you can have a chance of finding it. here's one at park and mont clar. they are using a facil

this is stern grove. this is a little known park above candle stick. here's my friend jake, standing by a wall. this was rosy play ground. they turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. i believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. and here's the murals inside the mother's building. the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we wouldn't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. they employed many people. this is excellent to show the work. the visual arts project. it was especially important in san francisco because of dieggo rivera and radicalizing it. this is the coit towers. this was done under cw a. 1934. the wpa wa

and speaking of the warm up, it's coming just in time for stern grove, it's 75th season of free outdoor concerts. this is a san francisco institution in an unrivalled set lg. there is don sanchez. >> the ballet is a regular at the festival. so, too is san francisco opera it's presented free concerts for 10 summer sundays in this amphitheater packing 14,000 people here. and programming is from classical to pop. anita baker opened sunday. and. >> this is admission free. we don't have to program to sell tickets, we can be more add convenient twus trus with programming >> what makes it so attractive is a design six years ago. now this, architect created this look. >> this builds up, you can go up to the hillside and yes, as we can see, listen to beautiful performances. >> still worried they're bolted to the ground. and the family is related to the eleven eye strauss family. mr. stern gave the grief to the city. in the 30s he had an opera singer come out and walk around determining the best area for the sound. the stage would go here, six years ago, engineers determined best place for the st

the fire started at 2:00 this morning at stern grove. it burned less than an acre near the homeless camp. investigators believe someone in the camp may have started the fire. no one was hurt but the fire produced some challenges for the dozens of firefighters who battled the flames. >>> sheriff deputies are questioning two suspects in a reported kidnapping in san pablo. >> deputies are talking to the woman believed to be the kidnapping victim. but in case may be tied to an earlier incident in berkeley where a man with a hammer was spotted forcing a woman into a car. a man carrying a legal concealed gun, stopped a robbery at a subway restaurant in vallejo. police say the suspect entered the store ordered a sandwich, then pulled the knife and demanded cash. >>> officers -- officers say the accident at 10:30 happened near the goodyear. police are called and rightived -- and arrived and then the attacker was gone. >>> the bucket acts may not have to cut as money jobs as first feared at san francisco schools. the unified school district is ex

we also have opera at the golden gate park, and we help free concert at stern grove, free concerts' with our training program. so please think of all the work and all the good that we are doing for the arts and for our students. please do not cut our programs. we do a lot to earn this money. when our people come here, they stay in hotels and eat in restaurants. thank you for your consideration. supervisor chu: thank you. >> my name is a alexander. i am a native san francisco born and raised in the sunset. i am here to share my story of being a part of san francisco valley school. as a child, i was extremely hyper, bouncing off walls, driving my parents knots. my parents wanted to find an outlet for my energy and enrolled me at the ages 6 into world folks can classes, which i enjoyed. by the age of 9, the dance class as i was taking exposed me to valley for the first time. by the age of 14, i had a major life decision to fully dedicate myself to valley training. at the age of 17, i auditioned for the san francisco ballet school. i was nervous if i would be excepted or offered a scholarshi

we have the tragedy at stern grove and last year, two times within a month that a tree just topple over. no one was injured or killed. this is a huge capital need of the department and i am glad to see that we are prioritizing it. >> thank you, supervisor. with a limited staffing resources we have come to our forestry crews is almost entirely focused on being reactive and responding to complaints and emergencies that come across their desks and that are called in. what these funds allow is to take a more pro-active approach towards managing our urban forests and making sure it is safe and also continues to be healthy. so the next program is our trails program. another $4 million. we focus on capital improvements in this program to trails, particularly erosion control and public access. there was a process that identified three criteria to guide the selection of trails that would be funded by the 2008 bond and we wanted to continue the use of those criteria which are excess, conservation, and safety. -- action, conservation, and safety. this program was hugely popular. there was only $5

stern grove is very popular, however the fire did not cass any other structural damage and right now nobody was hurt. >>> and in the area of pair 32, allie rasmus is will there with a search for thes missing man. they think he was getting ready in peer 32 which is where we are now and that is where san francisco well are, they got here about 45 minutes ago. ten minutes ago i asked the sergeant what will happen when they continue to search and they say there is not much they can tell us, and we are trying to get more information. he was not sure if the dove guard is coming out. the parking lot appears to be where this man had fallen into the water last night. an avid kaiaker heard about the search and decided to come and help out. >> i kind of knew where the tide was going so i knew all of the obstructions he might have gotten caught on. so i thought i would come out and hopefully save a high of. underneath some of the peers, people can climb up and again you are looking at san francisco police cars and this is near bryant street where the search tips for a man. her still huging for i

. >> and that fire in stern grove snot expected to have an affect on the music festival. the fire started around 2:00 a.m. off 19th avenue and smoke boulevard in the southern part of the city. firefighters kept the flames to just one acre by managing to keep them out of the eucalyptus trees. nobody was hurt. the fire did not cause damage to the stage or festival areas. the music festival kicked off it's 75th season of free outdoor concerts this past sunday. >> and time for a first check of the forecast now. it's warming up out there. spencer is here. >> and there is a lovely day and clear skies today z tonight our skies will remain clear. no marine layer banking up against the coast tonight. it will be cool in spots. and there are temperatures into early evening hours from mid-50s to upper 60s and early in the morning, bright sunshine in coolest locations we'll see temperatures into mid to upper 40s. low 50s over the remainder of the bay area. and there is sunny skies and warming continuing mid-60s at the coast tomorrow, mid-80s inland. thursday will be warmer. i'll give

there are your current conditions, the stern grove festival starts today featuring anita baker. lots is going on around the area today. enjoy your lovely sunday. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

this morning crews quickly contained a brush fire near a homeless encampment its san francisco stern grove park it began about 2 this morning and was confined to a single acre. the concert and europe venue at the park was not damaged. 636 now attorneys will request a mistrial today in the case of a man beating a priest is a charge to the attacking bothered the lid therefore milk allegedly molesting when is the young boy he returned to the witness stand yesterday refused it answer more questions he says that is his rights of the judge struck as that earlier testimony because he could not be cross-examined. the essence of the judicial system is cross- examination that's all we have chosen to get to the truth that is what the five founding father chose is the best way and we've now been denied that how is that fair? and judges already rejected to a mistrial request about two hours from now the judge will meet with the lawyers over the latest issue. the santa clara city council will hold a closed-door session tonight to discuss the next step in a battle over funds for the 49ers football stadiu

. >> reporter: the fire did not burn the concert stage at stern grove, and organizers say the free sundayseries at the park will continue as planned. >>> tomorrow is the deadline for the governor to sign california's budget and even in these final hours, the budget battle between lawmakers at the state capital is not ramping down. ktvu's ken pritchett live in sa kra -- sacramento where changing could mean cuts to k- 12 education. >> reporter: right now lawmakers are inside the capital airing out the final details and the changes they are looking at appear aimed in one direction and that's to help the governor's tax plan to pass in november. it was a quiet day at the capital from the outside, but inside they were busy. >> they're reordering the ballot, who's ever heard about that. >> reporter: the first thing voters will see is the governor's tax initiative at the top of the page. some say it looks like politics at play. >> yes it does. yes it does, and you know what, there's a lot at stake here. >> reporter: senate president steinburg acknowledges it will help the governor's tax plan. >>