for those who doubt him, tunde keeps a picture of his grades and his s.a.t.cores scortored his smartphone. i'm now a believer. one night his brother invited him to a party but tunde skipped it because he had to write an essay. >> so i had finished that and he asked me around 6:00. and then 9:00 i got a call. he had got shot and four others. >> reporter: both his parents work in oakland. his mother is the principal at piedmont avenue elementary. tunde's mother says the one thing she wants everyone to know about her son is how humble he is. >> i asked him, when are you getting your scores? he said, i got it back. i said, how did you do? he's like, well, now i have a 2100. i was like, when were you going to tell me? >> reporter: not only is he academically smart, he plays three instruments and is an outstanding baseball player. >> he wasn't taking a step down as far as baseball was concerned. >> reporter: yale is talking to him about joining the baseball team. he'll either pick yale or brown, premed or pre-law. this very focused teen is for the first time in his

. >> that is the kind of drive and determination that has been the key to tunde ahmad's successand, it paid off. tunde has been accepted to more than a dozen universitiesmany of them are considered to be some of the best schools in the country. yale, columbia, brown, usc, ucla, uc san diego, cal poly, howard, northwestern, university of arizona, cal state east bay, chapman, i don't know if i got them all but it's all i can remember. >> and he did it all on his own. no tudors, no private school. straight a's at oakland tech high school. >> i feel like this school gets a bad wrap some time and oakland in general gets a bad wrap for not having good public education so for me i just felt like anybody can do it so i felt like going to public school and do it from there. >> tunde says he is narrowing down his choices and will probably pick a school on the east coastpreferably one with a good baseball program. as far as his major is concernedhe is up in the air on that oneeither pre law or pre med. i'm jeff bush in oakland, kron four news. >> in a city known as tree city u-s-a.it's no surpris

highs on tund, very nice. concord, 79. san jose, 76 and san francisco, a beautiful 71. it's already warm in san francisco. i know china basin is 59. if you are in the city, it's mild, it is. mid-80s. doesn't take long. clearlake, antioch. this time of year. clear skies, sunshine, vacaville. sunny for all. coast, bay, inland. everything in on it. 74 today. officially 55. there are other areas about 57, 58. some locations in the 40s. half moon bay at 46. 10 warmer at sfo. there's that 55 in san francisco. mountain view is in there. low 50s. fairfield, walnut creek. nationally, the severe season has kicked in in a big way. warm coming out ahead of it. you would expect severe weather. you can see the severe line of thunderstorms racing through there. tornado activity likely and wrapping back around around st. louis, cincinnati and indiana as well. severe conditions there. for us, severe clear. high pressure is here. this could give us a cooldown on tuesday. inland temperatures will still be well above average. today is the warmest day. it will be nice, coast, bay, inland. m

emergency transponder had been turned on more than twice, triggering this hi jacking scare which of course tund to be the case. virgin australia putting out a statement saying at no point during the flight was the safety of the 137 passengers on board in question. now, by coincidence cnn producer was there at the airport. the time of the incident. she said that the plane was brought to a far runway, four to five control cars responded. we understand the passenger was brought into custody and was not armed. some of the flights at the airport were delayed as a result of this incident, but as of now everybody back to normal. kate? >> thank you for that update. >>> now let's turn to the search for flight 370. it is going to get bigger with the bluefin-21 at under water drone about to finish its under water scan. officials are saying that f. they don't find anything there, they're going to expand the search zone. and in a tv exclusive malaysia's prime minister sat down with richard quest to talk about the plane's disappearance and everything that has happened since. aviation analyst richard quest is