They are working to identify the mystery substance by the laboratories in the bay. We just learned this morning from the wildlife Emergency Rescue that Environmental Protection agency will be out here doing a forensic investigation with the keg coast guard. Rescue workers are trying to sin as many birds as they can. We were toll tests on the substance were delayed because of the Holiday Weekend but the Officials Say it is not a threat to human health and safety. Experts say they have never seen anything so sticky and covering such a wide range of birds. We are putting the puzzles together and an interesting thing we are finding the shore birds with the long legs that do not go out into deep water, they are inland completely covered which says to me that whatever this is, has been pushed up into the weed into the marsh by the king tides we have had extremely large tide and push the substance inland and that is how it got on their feathers. They believe it is bad timing with the spill and the king tide at the same time. The birds were covered on friday and have been sea in hayward and alameda and san lenadro. The substance is likely man made substance but do not know know how it got to the by. Test on the substances started yesterday with in timeline on when it will be completed. It is better to be right than to be fast. Thanks matt. A major intersection near levi stadium is still closed six hours after a deadly accident shut it down. Sky 7 over the crash just before action this morning, Santa Clara Police say the driver of the sedan was traveling west when the s. U. V. Was going west on Great America parkway. The driver of the sedan died on the scene and the s. U. V. Driver was not hurt. They are hoping to have the intersection reopened by 11 30. A car hit a pedestrian in the Oakland Hills and sky 7 where it happened near the corner of park boulevard just before 8 00 a. M. And you could see the smashed windshield where the person was flipped on the hood. They were taken to the hospital. No word on their condition. In san jose all lanes of tully road are expected to be reopened by noon after a big gas leak led to the closing of the expire street. Sky 7 was over the busy road this morning. Eastbound lanes are still closed after crews had to cap a High Pressure gas line ruptured by a construction crew. Westbound lanes reopened last night. Happening today regents are meeting the first of two days with money and tuition topping the agenda this afternoon. Governor brown and uc president Janet Napolitano want fellow regents to film them the only members of a new committee to deal with the systems great financial challenges. Brown and napolitano were at odds. The governor says uc gets 3 billion a year from the state and needs to cut spending. Uc says they are underfunds and must race tuition unless they receive more from the state. A california lawmaker are considering right to die legislation after a mans wife was diagnosed with terminal rain cancer and she moved to oregon to end her life all the while arguing that she should have had the right to die in california. The new legislation would apply only to mentally competent patients with less than six months to live. Right new five states including oregon, allow terminally ill patients to take their lives. Berkeley police are trying to fine the person would left skinned animals boar heads, in front of two vegetarian restaurants there is shot and outrage in the community. We are at the restaurant at shattuck. Amy . The manager here points out that the boars head was left on a newspaper stand and the manager is hoping maybe the person who did this was making a statement against the newspaper. But it is hard to ignore what the two boars head locations have in common. Here is a picture of the skinned boar left in front of the restaurant in berkeley, a place that doesnt have any meat on its menu. It is disturbing. I am a vegetarian. It make me sad. The remains of found monday morning at shattuck and hayes. Afternoon hour later another veterannarian restaurant found a boars head in front of its restaurant and called the police department. It was definitely an unusual thing and nothing that i have seen or experienced in almost 20 areas i have been at the police department. I am not sure if there is some specific intent behind it. If someone was trying to prank someone. When Police Arrived the boar led was gone. And they figured that people what worked for the downtown ambassadors cleaned it in. They are ambassador for the city and it is definitelied something they went above call of duty. Police found one that was last at the other restaurant and fund it into animal control. They are trying to figure where the animals came from, who did it and why and looking nor helpful votes and cameras in the area. Berkeley residents think it is safe to go ahead and jump to conclusions about want. Offending the people that eat here. Trying to make fun of them because they dont eat meat . Some vegetarians think people who eat meat are the bad gays and it is like. They are keeping up with that reputation. I ask police what crime was committed and they say they are not sure they are looking into it. Possibly if they find this person or people they could be charged with violating a difficult litering statue statute. Concord police are asking the public to help look if a car believed to have been involved in a driveby shooting. Investigators say the gunman may have fired from a white Dodge Charger after midnight on westbound highway 4 at port chicago highway. The victim showed up at a walnut creek emergency room. Police believe this could be the victims bullet riddled car. They found it a few blocks away. The stretch of 24 was closed for three hours for the investigations and all lanes now are open. A day after delivering the state of the union address, president obama will be in the nations heart land selling his proposals to the american people. Last nights address was steeped in democratic principles tax hikes on the wealthy helping americans middle class and pledging to work with the Republicancontrolled Congress something that president obama has never faced. His priorities include paid sick leave for parents Free Community college for eligible American Students and child care help for the middle class all paid for by tax increases on the wealthiest americans. On Good Morning AmericaVice President biden deflected criticism calling it overblown. Republicans are now taking credit for the recovery so they must think something we did went pretty well. The president will take his state of the union theme to idaho and kansas today and the first stop is boise state repeating themes delivered yesterday. The veto threats and fantasy land proposals from the white house will not distract the peoples house from the peoples priorities. Congressional republicans though say they are not on board with the president s proposals. House Speaker Boehner called for changes in the tax code giving rid of obamacare the. President obamas address cuba in the state of the union last night and now today the United States and cuban officials are sitting doing if the most significant talks in half a century. The conversation today will center on immigration. Tomorrow diplomatic relations. This is video of the United States delegation arriving in havana on monday. Tomorrow the most senior United States official to visit cuba in half a century will join the group. A state Department Official who focused specifically on the western hemisphere. Making a move new developments of former 49er ray mcdonald and putting run ins with the law behind him. And helping to extend your budget with little known benefits. Looking to mt. Diablo from the east bay hills camera. Have you heard of the new dialing procedure for for the 415 and 628 area codes . No what is it . Starting february 21, 2015 if you have a 415 or 628 number youll need to dial. 1 plus the area code plus the phone number for all calls. Okay, but what if i have a 415 number, and im calling a 415 number . Youll still need to dial. 1 plus the area code plus the phone number. So when in doubt, dial it out from hayward, live over a house fire in the 2700 block of terell avenue. Fires had to evacuate people at an additional building while they were trying to get this under control. Fires were jumping from apartment for apartment but firefighters have opened the roof and spraying water into the home. No word on injuries at this point. We will bring you more on this as we learn about it. Former San Francisco 49er under investigation for Sexual Assault has sold his san jose home. This is the same home Police Responded to several times over the past year including last september for Sexual Assault and august for Domestic Violence against his then fiance. Charges were never filed. The property sold for more than 3 million. The 30yearold defensive tackle was cut from the team last in after what officials called a pattern of poor decision making. Just over a week and a half to go to the super bowl the new England Patriots are trying to weather the deflate gate. The nfl found 11 of the 12 balls used by the patriots offense were underinflated in the past 457 win over indianapolis making the grab easier to grab and throw to earn them a trip to the super bowl. The teams give the balls to the referees to inspect but steve young says a delfated ball is irrelevant. It doesnt matter. It will mean more to the legacy of what the patriots are trying to do. The League Investigation is expected to be wrapped up by the end of the week. If determined guilty they could be fined or lose their draft pick. New this morning the family of an actor and fitness model killed by a train is planning a public memorial in his honor. The Los Angeles Times reports that his family is planning a memorial on saturday in beverly hills. This past week he was hit by a train while shooting a commercial for a Nutritional Product in burbank and detectives say the video taken from the tonight train shows he was running between the rails ahead of the train. Metro link says that he did not have a permit to shoot on the track. We all want to make the most of our money but did you think of the perks that come with your credit card that piece of plastic that could entitle you to benefits you would not think of which can save you hundreds. Perk one . Guaranteed returns. If the retailer does not give your money back some cards could extend the return period. Two, cell phone replacement insurance if you used your card to buy your phone it comes with at least a 90 day warranty. Perk three rental Car Insurance most cars offer some type of coverage but just be sure, read the fine print in case there are exclusions on certain types of vehicles. And our meteorologist, drew is here. We are talking about the fog depart, the sunshine is out, and now i am tracking the potential for record highs or the next chance of rain. I will explain. Thank you, drew. Plus puppies tossed into the trash and now getting a Second Chance. How they were saved and what is next for these little cuties. A woman take as stand against leggings and why she is vowing to never wear them again and says other women and girls shouldnt tt2wut3nu d bt qv tt2wut3nu d a qfl tt2wut3nu d bm qm, tt4wut3nu d dztq covering walnut creek Burlingame Campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. The december cold snap that crippled california and arizona just before christmas is making your lettuce prices skyrocket. The annual growers report finds that because corners were under a layer of frost in the morning farmers could not harvest until the afternoon slashing production by up to 40 percent. Lettuce prices may come back down soon warmerthanaverage temperatures are predicted through april, so harvest could see a basketball we help we have enough water to grow the lettuce. That would be nice. Now a closer look at temperatures today as we check in with the meteorologist and the forecast. Temperatures in the next couple of daze will go the other way we are talking about the potential by the i weekend of record highs across the region. The story this morning was certainly the dense fog. Our cameras captured part of it in walnut creek early this morning pardons of the region under a dense fog advisory. Visibility at times dropping below quartermile. It is slow go in parts of the north bay and east bay. The east bay hills camera this morning had a view from a couple hundred feet above showing the morning fog evaporating and we got a north wind to kick in and get some of the fog out of here and now we are turning to sunshine across the entire bay area. Live doppler hd shows clear blue skies above and we are not finding any rainfall. Visibility is certainly improving just one lone spot concord, dense fog under a quartermile visibility but everyone else is seeing great visibility at this 11 oclock a. M. Hour. Now the king tide, we are in the final round this month high tide at Golden Gate Bridge at 11 36 at 6. 8. Outside, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge with presidio in the foreground and a Beautiful Day on way. The fog is departing north and east bay and tons of sunshine with good air quality today. That will change the next couple of days and we talked about the record highs are likely over the weekend. Satellite radar, shows a storm off the coast but all of this moisture is going well north, thanks to the storm blocking bridge we have, deflecting any moisture so temperatures are rising and air quality is on the decline. Good air quality today but as we head into the weekend, especially on saturday, you do see poor air quality in the north bay and along the coast. We will talk about the longrange forecast, any chance for showers that could be likely next tuesday a storm moving in from the south could bring us a few sprinkles. We will keep our eye on that. Highs today are dry, mild temperatures look in the lowtomid 60 and 62 in San Francisco 64 in san jose, 65 for oakland, and lows are 30s in the north bay and 40s around the bay and under a mix of stars and clouds and the fog cops comes back after midnight. Turning warm on friday and record highs are possible on sunday. It will be warm. Everyone is in the 70s. We will into track that chance for rain fall next tuesday. Right now, though it looks nice. Eric and kristen . Injury. Enjoy. An oregon woman vowing never to put on a pair of leggings is finding hour self at the center of a controversy say she takes issue with leggings because they are form fitting and can sexually entice men. Her source is her husband who admits it is hard not to look at women when they wear skintight pants. Show said she done with the form fitting fabric and thinks others should be too. Women today wearing leggings often can cause men to thing of them sexually. I do not know how a man be encouraged or enticed. Not everyone agrees. People are sounding off saying leggings are not a magic bullet that men will still look no matter what woke wear. Others are saying men are responsible for their actions and the story getting a lot of response on facebook. You can gin the conversation where you live by heading to Facebook Page at abc7 news and i am guessing you are not touching this story. Stirring the pot, so lets stir good morning. Fur secretly spending behind your husband or wifes back you not alone. A study says one in five americans have hidden a purchase of 500 or more from their significant other and that is according to the www. Www. Creditcarddom. Com. We are not responsible for arguments that may result at tonights dinner table. Neither of us look guilty. A Second Chance for some guru friends. The reason the puppies are safe after being bossed out with the crash and what is next. Next an rachel say new food trends. We lend what is hot in the world is filled with air. But for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. If you have copd, ask your doctor about oncedaily anoro ellipta. It helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. Anoro ellipta is the first fdaapproved product containing two longacting bronchodilators in one inhaler. Anoro is not for asthma. 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Water resistant takes on a new meaning with the revolutionary process that lets drop lets bounce right off. That is on abc7 at five. Three puppies left for dead could soon up up for adoption. Look at these little guys alive and well because of a couple walking their dog at Pleasant Hills park on monday. The australian shepherd started sniffing at a tied up bag and they found the young puppies inside they took them home to food and shelter them Animal Services is investigating who may have put the puppies in the bag but they seem to be doing great today. Soon they will head to the east bay an pal rescue and refuge and soon be available to a good home. If you have the room and the temperament maybe you would consider it. These puppies are like cats. They have nine lives. At least nine lives. For all of us thanks for joining us. Who wants to be a millionaire is next. And a look outside from Mount Tamalpais showing you the fog still engulfing bay area. Be careful. See you tomorrow morning. This is jim. A man who doesnt stand still. But jim has afib, Atrial Fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. That puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. For years, jims medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. But now, with onceaday xarelto®, jims on the move. Jims doctor recommended xarelto®. Like warfarin, xarelto® is proven effective to reduce afibrelated stroke risk. But xarelto® is the first and only onceaday prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem that doesnt require regular blood monitoring. So jims not tied to that monitoring routine. Gps proceed to the designated route. Not today. For patients currently well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. Xarelto® is just one pill a day taken with the evening meal. 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For information and savings options, download the xarelto® Patient Center app call 1888xarelto or visit goxarelto. Com. [dramatic music] yoho ho [cheers and applause] yeah uh, uh. Im terry crews, and im ready to make some people very, very happy today on millionaire. [cheers and applause] as a selfdefense teacher, our returning contestant knows how to handle stressful situations, and hes brought more killer mental moves to help him today. From timberlake, north carolina, please welcome abraham thornton. [cheers and applause] all right. Uh, how you doing . Excellent, man. Excellent. Good to see you. It is good to be back, terry. Wow, you are doing so well right now. But see, being that you know all your selfdefense moves, what should a woman learn