That is why we called a second alarm to keep the fire contained. No other homes were damaged. Firefighters were told a middle age manned live in the back of the home. They cannot confirm identity. We waiting for the coroner. We are told that a person was taken to the hospital. They say it was a medical emergency not related to the fire. Firefighters are on the scene to make sure there are no flareups in the house. Public Health Researchers are urge. Ly trying to understand a mystery illness, five bay area children are paralyzed showing symptoms similar to polio. The number of Sick Children in california could be up to 25. One of the children has come down with the illness the past 18 months is four. She is paralyzed in her left arm and doctor say she will probably never regain the use of it. Officials say some of the other children ages two to 16, are paralyzed in more than one limb. Prognosis is not good. Most of the children have not recovered use of their arm or leg. We suspect it is a virus. Researchers say tests confirm this is not polio. They explain they first she symptoms of a cold and say this is extremely rare and no need to panic. A warning to pet owning in San Francisco after more meatballs believed poison have turned up in another neighbor. First in twin peaks and now in richmond. Abc7 News ReporterCornell Bernard has the detailed. Mark miller and cleo are for a walk in Richmond District where four raw meatballs were found lined up on the sidewalk sunday night. It is not the news hen whatted to hear. Some folks do not like animals but you dont injure or kill them. Young children could find them and indulge and that would be worse. Animal control do not know if the meat bulls are poisoned and they found this large piece of raw meat. He will stick his head in a bush and come out with a chicken bone. The discovery is day after 32 meatballs suspected to be tainted were found near twin peaks signs wanting the public can be seep everywhere. It is the same spot where hundreds of poison meatballs were found last summer. One dog died. Others were sickened the lynn did linda adopted to dogs yesterday. This is this watching to pet owners. If youring do picks something up and starts to consume it i would take the dog directly to the veterinarian. They have sent the meatballs out for testing. A napa mother and her boyfriend accused of kill are her threeyearold daughter are scheduled to appear in court. They are facing charges in the death of Kayleigh Slusher who was found february 1. She was dead and stored in a suitcase and freezer for several difficulties. The go could face the death penalty. A teen counselor in the south bay is accused of luring two girls into prostitution. You will see this story only on abc7 news, justin was a counselor for minors and young adults. He used his position to gain their trust of the 15 and 17yearold victims. He worked for Santa Clara ValleyMental Health department. Calls have not been returns from the department. Another man faces charges. We get a report card on the safety and other aspects of the new bay bridge. A committee will give an update on the latest raw testing results and water leakage issues on the new eastern span. Officials will talk about the next step, the dismantling of the morning span, and construction progress on the bicycle and pedestrian path. Investigators are back at the scene of a fire that destroyed a maintenance garage for a cab company. You can see the fire sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky to be seen across the bay. You can see smoke and flames coming from the building because of hazardous materials. The fire destroyed several cars. No one was hurt. The firefighters say the bidding is a total loss. Richmond city council will discuss rolling out the welcome map for googles mystery bench at barge at treasure island. The five story barge could be docked in richmond. They say peoples would be needed at their port, and google wants the barge to be a space where people can learn about new technology. Officials from two bay area counties are expected to scat public to voluntarily cut back on their water use. The Water District board will meet tenth. Last month the board asked if a 10 percent reduction in water use but says the drought is getting worse and is expected to approve 20 percent cut become. Sonoma county board will consider 20 percent voluntary reduction in water use. We are about to get rain but, mike, how much of a difference will that make . Minimal. Look at the numbers. This is how much we are down since the rainfall season began july 1 and the lowest number is livermore which is 7. 75, more than 8 in san jose and 10. 5 in oakland. More than 1 11 if San Francisco. Nearly 18 in santa rosa. We need more rain. We will get to shots of it. That is tomorrow. Today is a transition today. We are mild. There are more clouds. We will watch the fog. The thickest fog is in the north bay and the coast. Midtoupper 40s during the commute. We see a transition to high clouds in the morning. The bright of the part of the day is at noon with upper 50s to mid60s from the coast inland and then partly sunny by 4 00, and mild and dry evening with mid50s to around 60. Moving forward, tomorrow there will be a chance of drizzle. Otherwise we wait until the afternoon for the heavy showers to roll in. There will be breezy conditions. Scatter thunderstorms. Lingering showers on thursday. The second punch comes friday with more wind and rain. Leyla gulen . We have an accident in livermore, eastbound 580 at 1st. It is causing a delay. It is involving a tractor trailer. It is slowandgo traffic over the Altamont Pass. 580 tracy to dublin is 26 minutes. Not teach of a problem. Highway four is clear at 14 minutes, antioch to concord and 101 southbound from san rafael to San Francisco is 17 minutes. We have plenty of fog from petaluma to san rafael so watch out for the areas of reduced visibility. Slow down and use the low beams. Miley cyrus brings concert tour to the bay area but some parents are boycotting the concerts. Apple steps in over an arizona bill targeting gays and lesbians. Hollywood spruces up for the Academy Award with the work underway this covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all bay area. The issue of samesex marriage will take place in 90 minutes with two nurses challenging the ban. Michigan voters approve add constitutional amendment 10 years ago recognizing marriage as being between a man and a woman. The nurses argue that violates the federal constitutions equal protection clause. Recently, the judges in utah, oklahoma, and virginia have struck down bans on gay marriage. Apple is urging the Arizona Governor to veto a bill that allows religious owners to refuse business to gays saying it would have a bad effect. The c. E. O. Of American Airlines said tourism would suffer. Miley cyrus is in the bay area for her provocative new tour performing in san jose tonight after sold out show at the arena lat night. We see who attended. Several fans were dressed like the pop star who is raising eyebrows with the provocative concert. Doesnt sound like Hannah Montana. He just heard about the explicit performance after paying 500 for tickets. Are you willing to expose them to this . I will be the pad bad guy. Many admire her for pushing the limits of sexuality. She is pretty bad. She goes out and does what she does, no matter what. I admire that. She is trying to change it from Hannah Montana to miley cyrus. Man madonna did the same. What she was doing was inappropriate if children. I would not have come if i knew. Fans were young girl who started at happen hand montana fans and now graduated to a sold out show. The California Supreme Court has ruled minors charging admission to parties without alcohol can be liable if a drunk underage guest hurts or kills someone. The decision is expected to Impact College dom and high School Parties that charge admission and only affects underage hosts, a cover charge to a party where liquor is sold new qualifies as the sale of alcoholic beverages. A referendum to overturn the transgender law will not be on the november ballot. It didnt get enough verified signature and took effect on january 1 and guaranteed students the right to use the School Bathrooms and participate in gender specific activities at their choosing. The measures backers needed 5,000 signatures and the officers ruled only 488,000 of the submitted signatures were valid. People looking to buy Health Insurance can do it through cover california, the Health Insurance exchange. Customer could not enroll in the plan since last wednesday afternoon until early yesterday morning. They were able to look at and compare the different plans. Engineers suspect a Software Glitch knocked it off line. The timing was not the best because people in california must have Health Insurance by march 3 or face financial fees. Now, mike . Two storms, one giving a soaking and one, not so much, but another area needs it could get the soaking with the second storm. We will get going. It is 4 45. Live doppler 7 hd is tracking the cloud cover this morning and it is more widespread as we talked about with a lot of low clouds along the coast and that is starting to filter in around the bay and fog is forming. We will take a look at what is going on and here is emeryville, you can see the clouds are not sitting on this part of the bridge but they are up and down the shoreline. Less sunshine. Still mild today. Heavy rain likely. Thunder tomorrow especially in the afternoon and evening. Heavy rain is possible with the next storm but the bulk of the storm is going to head further to the south and it will be the north bay that could get the least amount of rain from the second storm. Fairfield and antioch and live more the most likely areas it see 70 the rest of us in the midtoupper 60s until the cost where well hang around sector 61, so a delightful day temperature wise but not so bright as yesterday the tonight is milder and upper 40s to mid50s and patchy drizzle is possible overnight and mostly, though, we will get away with a dry commute tomorrow morning. Here is a look at the area of low pressure, storm one is looking very impressive with the comma shaped nature with moisture and brief heavy rain so there will be urban flooding including streets and parking lot. As we get deeper into the system on wednesday night, and thunderstorms and quick flooding, mostly treats. Second storm will have the same effect to the south. At 7 00 in the morning, it is dry other than scattered drizzle. The only is the best chance of steady rain. You can see around 2 00 or 3 00 the heavy rain started to move in, moderate to heavy so we will have hazardous driving conditions tomorrow in the evening. It turns over to light rain on thursday night to scattered showers headed to thursday afternoon to nothing by thursday evening. Look at the rainfall totals half an inch to an inch in most neighborhoods and Higher Elevations are 1. 5 to 3 in the north bay and 1 to 2 in the south bay. That is just the first storm. The sevenday forecast show as break on thursday and maybe clean up a little bit and find the gutters that were flooding or the storm drains and get them cleaned because the next system rolls in friday through saturday and sunday will be the dry day of the two this weekend. Leyla gulen . Good morning, much, hope you are off to a great start. We have an accident in livermore but first, the antioch bridge is completely closed down in both directions with construction work, all cones picked up by 5 00 and they starting to pick this up as we speak. You can see cars rolling through but wait until 5 00 passes and you can cross over better than going around about. At the Altamont Pass at livermore, the slowing is building because of an accident involving a truck facing the wrong way, westbound 580. We have bumpertobumper traffic from before vasco road and now a slow down. 580 tracy to Castro Valley is 43 minutes and taking on a few minutes to the commute. From highway 85 to the san jose airport is 11 minutes. Eric and kristen . The oscars are not for another five days but hollywood is preparing not biggest night. Crews are hard at work transforming hollywood boulevard into the red carpet runway for the 86th annual ceremony with streets closed. Crews have put up bleachers, tentses and still a lot of work to go before the starstudded broadcast which on sunday is only on abc7 for the first time you can watch on the smartphone or tablet with the watch abc app and back stage to see the red carpet moments thatten will be talking about. You can get more information on how to download 9 watch abc app on friday, Katie Marzullo will be in los angeles covering the oscars right here. Group selfies are the rage but why you may not want to get too close when you snap the photos. Regarded as the safest drugs for pregnant women to take and now a Study Suggests a popular pain reliever may expose unborn babies to future health risk. How to behave on bart [dad] [u [boy] mom ughs] [mom] yes . [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom and dad] [laughing] [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom] youve got two left feet,boo. Good Tuesday Morning at 4 52. That remains for joining us on the morning news. The camera shows the Ferry Building and the bay bridge with a couple of rain impulses out there coming down on the pay area. Mike will tell us more of when they will get here. A terrifying moment for an indiana family. The diagnosis deck they were standing on collapseed, two dozen fell 15 crashes on the cement below. It happened last year. Three people were seriously injured. The family now is suing the deck builder. We are hosting a job fair with our pans at the job journal, with the ever sent from noon to 4 00 at hilton hotel on diamond boulevard in concord. There are more than 600 Jobs Available at the event and we have detail on the web site at abc7news. Com under see it on tv. Bart will get 141 million from the federal government for the next phase of the extension to san jose. The project will add to more stop on the fremont line. The grant from the federal Transit Administration will pay no 40 new cars, power substations, communications systems, and parking facilities. Before boarding form two lines. Bart has produced a video intended to get riders to learn mass transit etiquette called crowded car survival guide. They explain the key points to get through the rush hour commute politely and safely and includes a scene of people trying to force their way on to the train by jamming open a door which is a big nono and not safe. Not safe or polite. Here is mike with the forecast. Find a way to stay dry tomorrow, friday and saturday. We wake up tomorrow morning and the gusts are along the coast with Higher Elevations around San Francisco, oakland and Half Moon Bay and notice with the surge of heavy rain coming in during the later part of the afternoon and early evening, the winds will kick up with the heavy rain and we gusting 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour. When the heavy rain moves off the winds will taper to thursday morning and continue to taper to ten or 20 Miles Per Hour in the afternoon. We have a Winter Weather advisory with 8 to 12 of snow above 7,000. Midtoupper 60s around san diego and los angeles with that marine layer. There is an accident that pushed over a Center Divider in livermore causing slowing from the Altamont Pass. We have areas of construction. Crews are trying to pick up cones if you are leaving alameda headed to the maze you should not see any closures. Now, san jose is looking clear with top speed on all freeways, 101, 280 and highway 85 and a look outside at the san mateo bridge away from hayward to foster city you can so a few cars making it over the waters into the Peninsula Area and that will take you nine minutes. First lady is kicking off the fifth year of lets move by going after Unhealthy Foods in school with new rules limiting the marketing of foods considered unhealthy and phase out advertiser for junk food during the school year. Billboards on sports fields and vending machines and even year books could all be eliminated. Momstobe, could taking tylenol lead to adhd in kids years later . A study finds women who took this while pregnant are 13 percent more like throw have children with a d adhd our child medical editor will have more on Good Morning America at 7 00 this morning. An expert is wanting that cases of head lice are rising and selfies could be to blame. There has been a spike in the number of head lice cases among teens. She says it is because of the head to head contact when groups of people take selfies which usually are with a cell phone are the rage with the word selfie, as the word of the year. That connection i did not expect. Medical mystery what kind of illness is paralyzing bay area children. We have a warning for parents. A big change could be coming for san jose firefighters and there could be a shift in the Fire Department priorities. Google glass is a hot new technical gadget but it made a woman a crime victim. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning, on tuesday, at 5 00. Back in the studio. Get the umbrella ready. Outside, it will be interesting. Here is mike. You have 30 hours before the rain starts coming. We have another day of getting ready. It will come down hard when it comes down, it will not be gradual. We could have run off and flooding. As far as this morning, with the low clouds more prevalent, we still have patchy fog and it is missing most of our reporting stations. We were down less than a mile in novato so you have an idea how thick it is. The first trust is warm again by february standards midtoupper 60s around the bay, and mid60s to 70