the excitement droou a big crowd and wayne friedman is there to bring us the story. wayne. >> reporter: cheryl, it's all over, large drama on a small stage. a community and a commuter railroad feeling pretty good about themselves and a tree with a great chance of living for many years to come. it was almost too painful, too dramatic to watch. a transplant operation in public in broad daylight. >> you're always afraid something is going to go wrong. >> reporter: wrong? what can go wrong? people transplant trees all the time. but this one is 50 feet tall, weighs 45 tons and has earned a special place in the heart of the city. >> i didn't know it until i read it in the paper. >> no, it's not just a tree, it's a very rare albino redwood. one of very few in the world. >> reporter: translated -- >> it's got male and female, both on the same tree. >> reporter: that's right. >> it's the same tree with two different sets of genetic programming. >> reporter: if it were a human, would it be confused? >> absolutely. >> reporter: although the confusion started only after the futur

from concordia park in oakland, wayne friedman, abc7 news. >>> and they had a lot of fun doing it it looks like it will take another week before the playground is open. a lot of playgrounds open across the bay area today, what will it be like for them? >> the weekend and the first part of the upcoming work week, a little cooler than average. we'll save the warmer weather for the second half of the work week. more interesting fen phenomenon as we go through the next cull of days, another area of low pressure visits us and we'll include a sprinkles and possibility of lightning strikes as we get in to the second half of the weekend. so live doppler 7 hd looking at just the fog situated along the shoreline. but we want to get you up to date on a cell where you still can see some very heavy rain, parts of islands, they picked up about a foot of rain on the big island. some areas downed trees, power outages and they'll have a chance to clean up. so more rain here as the cell continues to weaken. and all eyes are on julio, which will miss the hawaiian islands. that's the good news. so we'll

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in marin county, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >>> santa colllara county offics say this is the worst year for west nile virus. there were only two reported cases in santa clara county last year. county officials say half of all the infected birds in california were in santa clara county. all patients are more than 50 years old. county officials aren't 100% sure what's behind this year's, but said the drought could be a factor. >>> school starts in san francisco on monday, believe it or not, and the year begins with far for of a challenge than teachers and students deserve. thieves struck glen park school this week and stole a bunch of stuff. lillian kim is live with what exactly was taken. lillian? >>> dan, it's the week before ì(lc% pammit their guard was down. some left their classrooms unattended and unlocked. security cameras mounted inside glen park school in san francisco caught images of the thieves. there were four total but two walked away with one teacher's prized possession, 18 ipads gifted to her by an outgoing teacher. >> someone spread joy and love to us and then someone too

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in marin county, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >>> santa colllara county offics say this is the worst yearile virus. there were only two reported cases in santa clara county last year. county officials say half of all the infected birds in california were in santa clara county.

in san francisco, wayne friedman abc 7 news. >> now if would you like to help children like him go to site we have a link to the make a wish foundation which you know very well does some beautiful and wonderful work around the bay area and all around the country. he and bat kid and so many others. all right one last check on the weather. spencer is here. mild out there. >> it is mild and we have a little bit of cloud out there and once again threat of some spotty drizzle. here's live doppler 7hd some cloud offshor offshore. a little evidence of clouds beginning to push out over the bay but not very dense or thick clouds at the moment. let's look at some of today high pressure compare it with the average high for this date. you can see that most of the bay area quite a bit cooler than average. high of 75 in santa rosa. nip degree below the average high for this date. san rafael high of 74. 6 agree below the average exploratorium right dead on the average high for this date. 68 degrees and mountain view one degree warmer than average. here's how things will look state wide tomorrow. mai

wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> it's crazy to see. >>> it's going to be an exciting day here tomorrow. we're teaming up with our parent company, disney and a national nonprofit and the local residents of oakland to willed a new playground. this is footage from yesterday of the volunteers unloading all the play equipment that will be installed at concordia park. the big build takes place tomorrow. it will take about six hours. >> and that's the speed you and i are going to be moving at tomorrow as we build that thing. >> we'll be all over that, larry. >> here's where the new playground will be opened. right by frick middle school. it's going to be fun. everybody will be out there, including, i imagine, spencer christian. >> absolutely, are you kidding? even if i can't work at that speed, i'll talk at that speed. we're going to get it done and have fun as well. here's a look at live doppler 7 hd. sunny skies, a few clouds around and most of the clouds are near the coastline right now, as you can see. that cloudiness will increase during the overnight hours and spread locally out over the

live in marin county, wayne friedm friedman, abc 7 news. >>> our coverage continues from the mrs.oubt firehouse in san francisco. >> 2640 steiner street. that is of course where "mrs. doubtfire" was filmed. as you can imagine, it's been nonstop fans all day. we noticed a lot of vacationers from all over the world stop by here as well. of course, a lot of local people. this house has, if you will, become sort of a shrine to the memory of robin williams. the floral memorial just keeps getting bigger and bigger. this home is now on the other hand by douglas. he is no hurry to remove this extemporaneous tribute. >> i'm not about to change anything. it's all deserved, isn't it? >> reporter: and they're coming from all over the world. >> the only mistake i didn't make is to put a bucket out front with a nickel for every picture. i would have retired years ago instead of this friday. >> reporter: to many of his fans, this home will forever inextricably be linked to robin williams. >> i felt i needed to come by here. "mrs. doubtfire was a big movie for me. it was my childhood. >> it's coo