Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this. Is abc7 news. A grassfire comes dangerously close to homes. The windwhipped flames raising fear of a bad fire season as we close in on summer. Good evening, everyone. The fire began behind Eastridge Mall and the east capitol expressway. Abc7 News Reporter lilian kim is live in san jose with the latest. Lilian . Katie the fire started across the street. It is a known spot for the homeless and theiren comp meant their encampment is where the fire started. The flames went from one of the empty lots to the other in a matter of seconds. The smoke was so thick residents did their best to get away from it. We have to keep going back. You. It was pretty bad. The fire was started behind these trees along east capitol expressway. The witnesses say from there the fire just took off. Thats when we seen the trees on fire. And then we walked a little more and we jumped to the palm trees and they incinerated fast. They were so dry. And then from there it just you could see how far it spread out. The firefighters say the wind was challenging with gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour. And it kept changing direction. We could fight a fire in the same direction and knock it out, it is good. It made it tough. Firefighters used east capitol expressway as a staging area. The grassfire didnt spread throughout their home. They were worried about flying embers. I have seen a lot of ashes fly. It is worrisome. And with summer almost here, the worrying wont be going away anytime soon. With this being another drought year firefighters are prepared for a busy fire season. Lilian kim abc7 news. Francis is here with a look at those south bay winds. Francis . It was quite windy around the bay area today. Ill show you Current Conditions right now as we head toward the san jose area. It has been improving a lot. The temperatures have dropped down to 56 degrees. Relative humidity has come up to 79 . The winds right now from the northwest at about 7 Miles Per Hour. But they were easily between 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour and gusting to almost 30 Miles Per Hour as you just heard. Now tomorrow is another breezy day. I will have your complete memorial day forecast coming up. A little bit of a cool down but then a big wrm up as well. Katie . Francis, thank you. New at 11 00 a scare at the nations capitol. It was found in a suspicious vehicle left near the building. Officers spotted the car. The owner of the car was found and arrested. New at 11 00 police are looking for a suspect in the stabbing of the bart station. It happened on a walkway outside the paved area of the station. The victim is expected to survive. Police have not released any information about a possible motive. The statue of jesus stolen from an east bay church. It was connected to a large crews fix outside the transfiguration. Sergio is live with more. Sergio . Katie, when you walk right up to that cross you will notice that that figure of christ was attached with steel bolts. They have either been cutoff and parishioners think the statue might have been forcefully pulled off and then stolen. Parishioners first noticed the bronze statue of christ was missing on wednesday morning. Somebody said what happened to the figure on the cross. This is a picture of the lifesized sculpture on the cross. This shot was taken a few weeks ago on easter. Church members figure it was stolen on tuesday night. One sent messages to the scrap metal businesses to keep an eye out. I cant even comprehend walking in with that over their shoulder saying yeah i want to sell this to you. This has been a shock to some church members. But there is an interesting perspective to the culprit. We will pray for him or her. Maybe they needed it more than we did. There is a reward for anyone with information that may lead to an arrest. But there is a chance the theft may be for given. What if somebody says sorry sph. . That would be awesome. Leave it on the front porch. In case it is not found soon there is an effort to replace the statue. It is a custom piece installed nine years ago. The church will have to track down the vendor to see if they have the mold. Abc7 news. In downtown oakland we are getting word that police have arrested more protesters in the second straight night of demonstrations. They have defined a new crackdown on nighttime street protests requiring the protesters to stay on the sidewalks. No word at this time on the number of people arrested. Police arrested five people and cited nearly 50 in last nights protest. More than 100 demonstrators marched peacefully until they were blocked by a row of police officers. The mayor has no right to keep them off the streets. I actually think anden curling the people of oakland to come every night. We should have rolling protests to show her that we are not going to tolerate this kind of behavior. She has been in office five months. She ran to govern a town that celebrates protests and celebrates social justice. She doesnt get to come in and squish it. The vow to fight the enforcement calling it unlawful. A new san mateo bridge will be open to traffic in the morning. Workers are putting the time touch the final touches on the resurfacing work. The bridge has been closed all weekend so cal trans could lay down fresh pavement. Pavement they developed cold polliester concrete. It acts as a sealant. It fights corrosion. The san mateo bridge is scheduled to open at 5 00 in the morning. Leyla will have the latest on the abc7 morning news at 4 30. Here is a look at traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. No traffic to streak of. The cars are moving freely there. Same at the golden gate bridge. You can see the cars on the road there, but no slow down to speak of. Bart service will resume tomorrow between the fruit veil and coliseum airport stations. A bus bridge between the two stations was in effect as part of an on going Rail Replacement project. The next closure will happen june 5th through june 7th. Four dead whales have washed up on the bay area beaches in the past few weeks. They found the latest on saturday morning on Portuguese Beach in sonoma county. It is a 28foot young gray whale. Officials plan to let the tide carry it out to sea. Last week dead whales washed ashore in pacifica and half moon bay. New details tonight. A domestic cat may not have been attacked by a Mountain Lion as once suspected it. This cat is expected to fully recover after suffering severe wounds on the back of his neck. The bengals doctor calls him lucky. He has been in a lot of scraps with domestic cats. Th is something more severe than that. The wounds are suggestive of probably a bobcat attack, something bigger than a domestic cat. Probably not as big as a Mountain Lion or coyote. The bengal will head home and the vets suggest the bengal should stay indoors from now on. An East Bay Park will be closed for several days because of toxins in the water. The Recreational Area is closed for swimming through at least wednesday. Park Officials Say it is because of a toxic blue green algae bloom that can cause skin irritations. Other parts of the park will still be open. Still to come on abc7 news at 11 00 the very special milestone for a world war ii veteran and the memorial day tribute for vietnam vet n rays. Veterans. And volunteers who are racing to rescue animals caught in the oil spill near santa barbara. And remember dancing man . He was bullied on social media, but his day in the sun has arrived. The people who rallied around him and the b crews are cleaning up the Disastrous Oil Spill on the central coast. As many as 105,000 gallons leaked from a pipeline on tuesday. They are racing against the croc to save animals like this. The oilcoated pelican. Abc News Reporter with the latest. Protestors in santa barbara. Angry over an environmental disaster now rippling far beyond this shoreline turned oil slick. Animals are showing up up and down the california coast. We are keeping teens out in the environment as long as we have to. An intense rescue is now underway to save the birds and animals coated in oil. Over the weekend this sea lion died. They are working to klein up the allamerican pipeline. They are still trying to find out exactly where it failed. We are sorry this accident this accidental release happened. And we are bringing in all of the resources at our disposal. The area of the closure knocks out a huge chunk of area until they can determine whether seafood is safe or not. Miles of beaches are still closed and with the summer tourist season around the corner, clean up is far from over. Clayton sandal, abc news, los angeles. A special milestone this memorial day weekend for a local world war ii veteran. Abc7 news was in Castro Valley for the celebration of john zabraskys 100th birthday. He joined the navy in 1934. His career took him to the pacific during the war against japan. He explained why the military explained to him as a teenager. It was a depression. There was no work, no jobs no nothing. So if you didnt grow your food you went hungry. You had no money to buy. So the boys as they got old enough would join the service. He and his wife were married more more than 75 years. Mary died at age 99 last year. Gene l. Vietnam veterans took turns reading the names of fellow Service Members killed in action or missing after the conflict in southeast asia. Todays ceremony took place at the Vietnam Veterans memorial in sacramento. The memorial contains the names of more than 5800 californians. One of the hottest debates in Womens Health is how often they need mammograms. Thousand local researchers want to see if women can be screened for Breast Cancer in a different way. We want to test is it just as safe to screen people in a more riskbased approach . Coming up tomorrow at 11 00, a closer look at this new, more personal approach. The warriors are just one win away from advancing to the finals. We want to see your playoff pride as the team prepares to sweep the rockets if game four. We are featuring fan photos on air and at abc7news. Com. Just use dubso7 when you post your picture. Game four is tomorrow night with the tipoff at 6 00 p. M. Game five if needed would be at oracle arena on wednesday. Catch the action on our Sister Network espn. Abc7 is your home for the nba finals. You can catch the finals here beginning on june 4th. These are definitely exciting times. We want to get a check of the forecast now. Exciting for sports and weather. Different. Interesting. Viewers missed mike shumann dancing in the background. That was fun. Live doppler 7hd is showing you some clouds spilling in all over the bay right now. It was really gusty. We saw a lot of winds, 20 to 30 miles an hour. Right now it is calming down especially in san jose. Check out fair teeld at 37 mile per hour fairfield at 37 mile per hour gusts. Here is a live shot. This time we are looking from our roof camera. San francisco is currently at 54 and boy was it a cooled day. Our high was 56. Not much changed from the high. Oakland 54. San carlos 55. So we got a lot of 50s allaround the bay area right now with the extended low clouds live shot this time looking out toward the trans america building secretary drizzle overnight and into tomorrow morning. We are still below average. Then we will be warming up by the end of the workweek, and ill show you why. We have this water vapor image that shows moisture in the at atmosphere. Notice we have a dryer air slot coming through and it allowed the temperatures to warm up into the 70s. For tomorrow we have a similar pattern and therefore similar temperatures as well. Overnight lows will be in the 50s. Look for low 50sin santa rosa and napa and mid50s around the bay. Pief 5 in oakland as 55 in oakland and even drizzle is possible. Here is the forecast animation that shows the cloud cover spreading all the way inland into the Early Morning hours and then areas of green show pockets of drizzle throughout. Then by lunchtime we will see sunshine in the inland areas. Check out the coast. It will be cloudy all day. We will stick around from the north bay to the peninsula where the temperatures will only be in the 50s. Well see 60s around the bay. Your high for tomorrow memorial day, the warmest spot will be in antioch at 74 and livermore as well. Brentwood did get up to 80 today. San francisco though is a little milder at 62. San jose is at 73. Of course you will see the clouds along santa cruz as well at 67 degrees. If you are heading to the as game tomorrow at 1 05 you will need your sunscreen. It will be partly sunny. You will also need a sweater because it will be breezy and definitely bring your sunglasses as well. The temperatures will be in the low 60s. Basically we are below average in san jose and above average by the end of the workweek. That pattern is evident in the sevenday forecast. Inland areas will be warming into the 80s. Thursday friday saturday and sunday. Notice at the coast it will stay steady pretty much all week with the clouds lingering throughout the week. Taking a dive. Coming up the boat race that didnt go quite grilled sourdough, fresh tomato and crispy bacon bring the flavor. And srirachamarinated chicken brings the heat. Lucky for this guy this swiss cheese doubles as a fire blanket. New sriracha spicy super chickn. Dennys. Welcome to americas diner. Sean obrian you may know him better as dancing man busted a few moves in hollywood this weekend. The london native took social media by storm after a cyberbully made fun of photos of him on the dance floor. Two women found him online and organized a party in his honor. Some of the people was monica lewinski. The message is there are so many people nice people than sad people. Dancing man took center stage on the baseball diamond throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at dodger stadium. Good hope he had a great day. 37 cheerleaders were cheered on. You can see not all of them are holding up well when they hit the water. Prizes were awarded to the fastest boats and the dreaded sinker award recognizing the least sea worthy vessel. Do you like that . Thats pretty much all of them. Duct tape and plywood. Not gonna do it. Abc would love to have lebron james and the cavs faceoff against steph curry and the warriors. It was a 30 series lead, nd the Eastern Conference Finals. He is getting a rep as a physical border line dirty player. He knocked out corver with this aggressive play for the ball. Matthews continuation caused him to fall on his knee. He drops an elbow and he gets ejected a huge loss for the hawks. Game went to ot. Down one and a minute to play. Hawks up two. Lebron on a bum ankle hits a corner three. A tripledouble. 37 points and 18 boards boards and 13 assists. Cavs take a 30 series lead. 114111 your final. Do you think he went at you . I did. I did think he went at me. I should have handled it better. Shouldnt have got caught up in that. It is something that i will definitely learn from. He made History Today against orlando city as the earthquakes took the pitch at levi stadium. The 67th minute and draws the foul in the box. Quakes trailing it have a chance to tie it on the penalty quick. Gets the call. 100th career goal and the 9th player to reach that mark in mls history. He is keeping that ball. They draw it 11. As in tampa facing the rays. For the First Time Since april 13th they won two consecutive games. A bases loaded walk. Today the first pitch of the game is out of here. His first career homerun. So excited. Someone needs to tell him to slow down as he roars around the bases. Now 5 and 2 and pitched five innings and strk out four struck out four. Said he is okay. Threerun bomb and his 6th of the year. The as went two in a row for only the second time this year. 72 your final. Giants in colorado. The gmen designated him for assignment. Mcgee has 10 days to be traded or go to triplea. He replaced tim hudson. He slaps one silly. Rockies hand the giants their second Straight Loss 112 your final. Greatest spectacle in racing. The 99th running of the brickyard with the usual ebb and flow. Driving the pace car before driving to charlotte for the cocacola 600. Leaving the pits and was bumped. He hits two crew members. One was taken to the hospital with an ankle injury. Hawkworth and they mix it up scary at 200 miles an hour. And Juan Pablo Montoya drops to 30th. Carl edwards won the cocacola 600. Stick around. A great story with colin and jason terry of the rockets reliving their high school glory days as come competitors. Youre gonna want to see it. Thanks srks hu. Flooding spreads across the plain states. A look at the hardest hit areas. And 33 Million People on the road this holiday weekend. You can avoid the this is abc7 news. Good evening. In tonights headlines there is major damage to a home in san pablo after the driver of this van lost control and crashed. Abc7 news was at humboldt street and mcbride avenue after it happened. This was 8 30. The driver and a passenger were hurt. Everyone in the home is okay. A windwhipped grassfire near Eastridge Mall in san jose is under control. Investigators think it started in a homeless camp. It spread quickly but fire crews were able to keep it away from home. The san mateo bridge will open to traffic. It has been closed for resurfacing. The new pavement is supposed to help the bridge itself last longer. We will have the latest on the abc7 morning news at 4 30. A busy weekend on the nations highways. An estimated 33 Million People are on the road. But there are ways to keep from getting stuck in a massive back up. Driving apps give you routes realtime from millions of people. If you are heading somewhere tomorrow rush hour will likely be in the middle of the day. Some good news, nationwide gas is almost a dollar cheaper than this time last year. It is a lot more expensive in california. 3. 76 a gallon right now. Tornado warnings are in affect across the midwest. Severe weather has resulted in record rainfall. It wreaked havoc causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds. At least two deaths are blamed on the water. Abc News Reporter has seen some of the hardest hit areas. This oklahoma farmland became an inland sea as sprawling floodwaters turned homes and barnes into islands. In texas, the blanco river surged 35 feet over the banks destroying the concrete bridge. A helicopter rescuing two men from the raging waters. Hannahs father was one of them. He is like, i dont know if i will make it but hes like i love you. With minutes to spare the blackhawk helicopter saving both men from a watery grave. The door busted open and this is what was happening. We were inside the house and trying to stay calm. They bashed their way into shelly greens home outside of austin. The flooding forced hundreds from their homes setting off a White Knuckle wait for deliverance. We saw what we thought was a rescue boat coming down the river. And we did a cheer and then realized it was a car. Evacuees packed shelters. This man was stranded and separated from his 91yearold mother. She might be at the Cypress Creek church. I cant get across it. The flash floods tore this tree from its roots and smashed homes to pieces. More Severe Weather is forecast. Heavy rain through memorial day means flash flood watches in tks text, oklahoma arkansas and missouri. Abc news, texas. Many obstacles exist as police try to solve a murder mystery in washington, d. C. They believe there are more suspects at large in the killing of a family and their housekeeper. This man darrin wint is the only person charged in the case. They held the victims captive. They had four people who were arrested with wint on thursday. This week we could learn if the man accused of being the socalled gypsy hill serial killer is fit to stand trial. He is charged with killing two women in pacifica and millbrae in 1976. He is suspected it in the murders of three others. Sphie sadness after sadness after Nobel Prize Winner john nash and his wife died in a car accident in new jersey. Nash sat down with the weather anchor Spencer Christian in 2002. That interview followed the movie a Beautiful Mind detailing nashs life long struggle with schizophrenia. He earned the nobel prize for economics in 1994. The entertainment world is mourning the death of an actress and comedian. Anne mira. Mira and her husband performed as a duo for decades. They were married for 61 years and have two children including actor ben stiller. Mira was 85. A bicycle is stolen every three hours in the bay area. The eye team went undercover to find out where the bikes go. Well introduce you to the ringleader of one of the busiest chop shops around. And we have extensive cloud cover right now. I will have your memorial day forecast as well as where you in San Francisco bicycles are being stolen at a rate of one every three hours. Most are never recovered. Tonight abc7 News Eye Team reporter dan noyes goes undercover into one of the citys most notorious bicycle chop shops to find out why. You are watching a crime in progress. A bike thief casing a bike. He cuts the lock and then takes off. I kept checking and eke whiching. It was gone. I probably had 2500 into that bike. His bike is one of the thousands stolen every year in San Francisco. Roger dawson has a good idea where they go. It was here. This was the scene of the crime. He was in his car when a thief stole a bike next to him. And he put the cut lock and his wire cutters and the helmet in one hand and road away. They happened all over the city. He is the citys top cop in bike thefts. They just top back up. People from all over the city come to the chop shops and they exchange stolen bikes for drugs or money or money to buy drugs. We wanted to find out what happens inside the chop shops. It was under highway 101. In broad daylight there was a constant stream of people coming and going with bikes hidden under tarps and dozens of bikes. Eight to 10 bikes were stolen. We watched as people took bikes apart and mixed the pieces to build new bikes, painting them so they cant be easily identified by the owners. Serial numbers are scratched off. There is a different wheel set on there now. They also attract other types of crime. We watched as people fumbled with piles of cell phones and bought and sold drugs. Doing them right out in the open. We wanted to know how easy it was to get a bike from one of these camps. We took our hidden cameras there. The eye team went looking for a deal. Within minutes we get an offer. We take it for a spin and the guy tries to close the deal we pay and walk away with a bike worth about 500. It took five minutes. The bike was likely stolen. We tried to track down the owner, but like many stolen bikes this one was not reported to police. The estimates 4. 5 million of bikes are stolen each year. They posted a list of some of the most notorious bike thieves on the park station website. Among them a man who runs one of the most popular chop shops. We saw people shop his curbside store and paying cash for parts. He has been arrested for a number of things including possession of stolen property, burglary Domestic Violence assault. The list goes on and on. Police arrested him again last month. Charging him with possession of stolen goods and conspiracy to commit a crime. He agreed to speak with us inside the county jail and admitted running a chop shop. We are homeless and trying to make it on the streets. He tells us he turns 15 bikes a day and will sell a 200 wheel for 40. He knows most of the bikes he buys and sells are stolen. They will come and arrest me. He offers some advice to anyone who has had their bike stolen. I will get it back next time. Thats little comfort for eric stall. It is a huge problem. His bike still hasnt turned up and probably wont. I suspect my bike was taken apart quickly. If it was at this chop shop, it wasnt there longer. We called police to tell them what we found and the city put up a fence and cleared the chop shop. It didnt go far though. It just moved across the street. Dan noyes, abc7 news. We posted picture of the bike we bought at abc7news. Com and on our facebook page. If nobody claims it within a month, well give it to a charity. Dancers brought the culture of latin america and the caribbean to life during the carnival parade in San Francisco. The parade is part of the 37th annual carnival festival. Looks like a good time but a little chilly maybe for some of those parade goers. As francis pointed out not all were in warm, winter coats, lets just say. Thats right. They were moving so they stayed warm. Definitely cool and cloudy at the coast and in San Francisco where the high was only 56 degrees. Also if you are traveling around the nation tomorrow look out for airport delays especially through the midwest where we could see flooding and thunderstorms again through texas and oklahoma and arkansas as well. Fork though 84 and partly sunny there. Also we could see some showers through colorado and around the state. The showers may pop up. 63 your high tomorrow. Warm at 81 in sacramento. 89 in fresno. Check out palm springs 94 degrees. Los angeles is 73. Partly cloudy there. Tomorrow our highs will be similar to what you saw today. Thats cool at the coast. 58 in half moon bay. San francisco is a bit milder though at 62. 73 in san jose and the warmest spots are through antioch and also livermore the accuweather sevenday forecast shows cool weather or under normal and then midweek things change and then wow we are above normal thursday into next weekend for the inland areas and around the bay. Got it. Thank you francis. Shu has been promising for hours something special. Thats right. We have a warriors preview from houston and he relives his gluer we days. Great story. The warriors can close out the rockets with a victory and advance to the nba finals for the First Time Since 1975. Colin rush has the preview. They came to houston needing two wins to get to the nba finals. Now just one away they can taste it but they know there is a lot of work to be done. We have to bring it. It is tied 00 and it is all in our mindset. It is human nature to say we will get the one coming back home to oracle. You dont want to leave that up to chance. We have come too far to play that way. The biggest motivation is the fans back home that you can get to the nba finals. The fan base in oakland has been waiting for this for a longtime. They have been great since way before i was even born. Were thankful for our fan base. They get us going on the home games and they always have our back. This is definitely for oakland and the bay area. The warriors held shoot around at rice university. Steph curry offering similar sentiments. He know theres is still five games from the ultimate dwoal and thats all the motivation they need for game four. It is easy for us to stay hungry. None of us have really experienced this before or accomplished anything. That can all change for the warriors tomorrow night. As for the rockets jason terry said this was all about pride. Speaking of terry we go back some two decades. I had one shot at him. His franklin quakers won the state title. We placed eighth. Here is our trip down memory lane. Look at this. Does this look familiar to you . Yes sir. It brings back old memories, brother, 20 years ago. Look at this. Pull this out. Notice the assist and look at those two names. Wow. Do you see that second one . Colin my man. Then you go to the next page. We were point guards . Yes. Top two guards in the state tournament. Always one step ahead of resh. Just one step. And thats what it is in life sometimes. Somebody is always one step ahead. Now you are still playing in the nba and i am here. But you are here, one step away. Look at your body. You are still in shape. I am in decent shape. Doing okay. Looking good. It is the water. In seattle it rains a lot and we have the best water in america. What are the chances that life goes full circle. Can we see colins picture again . Look at that haircut. This is how the kids are wearing it today. Buzzed on the sides and long on top. I feel like he had a couple of choices. Pro basketball, broadcast or boy band. Boy band . Thats true. High looks like a boy band. There was an obvious connection between the two. You never forget your High School Days no matter how far you go as an athlete. Look at that. He hasnt changed a bit. He looks good. Looks good. If he doesnt say so himself. Exactly. Thats a great great story. What are the canses they meet up again 20 years later. Great stuff from colin. 6 00 p. M. Game three on espn. Warriors can close it out. Stanley cup playoffs and Eastern Conference Finals in new york. Rangers and lightning tied at two games apiece. He scores his third of the playoffs. They take a 32 series lead. Final round of the crown plaza invitational. Jordan spieth and a birdie putt at 11 under. He needs a sevenfoot par on 18 to win the tournament and he got it. Making his two sons proud. Over hand winner. Overhead i should say. Federer won it in straight sets. 63, 63, 64. A scary moment after the match. A teenager ran on to the court to try to take a sell fee with with s le fie with federer. Rogers looking at security like are you gonna get this guy . Not happy after the match but moved to the second round. Will you bron and steph lebron and steph are close to facing off. He said he will take that program back. Jason terry, he had to sneak him away from practice to get the story done. You never forget your glory days in high school. I bet you were both cheerleaders . No. Athletes . No. What were you up to in high school . I cant talk about that. Great job from colin. We will hear from him tomorrow. Thanks, shu. Thats it for tonight. Abc7 news continues tomorrow morning at 4 30. For shu and francis thanks very much for joining us and have a good memorial day tomorrow. music throughout sfx smash sfx roar sfx roar sfx engine roars k whirs and beeps door creaks chair scrapes floor our daughters been asking about you. I wish i could say they were innocent questions such as trying to find out what lullabies you sang or what cookies you made when she was sad. Theyre not. So tomorrow night when america is sleeping im putting you on a plane and taking you out of the country. It is not a vacation or even a change of scenery. The room youll be occupying