Take a couple of hours and the lawrence expressway offramp from northbound 101 is closed. C. H. P. Says they hope to have this open by 7 00 this morning. We will check back but. It is 4 31. Developing in the Malaysian Airline plane shot down over ukraine the u. S. Government is stepping into the investigation. Katie marzullo is in the newsroom with the latest. An official says that f. B. I. And ntsb officials are headed to ukraine in an advisory role but not sure if they are going to the crash site or elsewhere. We are learning more about 298 people on the plane. Not every passengers nationality has been determined, there is no identification of americans. The majority of the passengers, 173, were from the netherlands. Ukraine official says 181 bodies have been elected at the site. Malaysian Government Official gave a News Conference a few hours ago and the transport minister answered a lot of questions why the plane was flying over the turbulent area. The flight path taken was approve by the International Organization aviation and the countries which the route passed through. The f. A. A. Expaded existing restrictions over this area and adjacent areas. All United States flights are prohibited over Eastern Ukraine until further notice. Official say the working theories of being shot down by a surfacetoair missile are being determined to see who launched it. And from where. A memorial is growing in ukraine outside the Dutch Embassy with flowers and candles covering the steps in memory of 298 victims killed. One of the people on board was a pie neither in aids research one of many headed to an aids conference in australia to begin on sunday. The professor from ucfs spoke to us on way to the conference. This is going do have a huge impact on those who worked closely with him and on society as a whole. It is an incredible loss. We are praising ourselves to arrive and find out who else may have been on the flight. It is unbelievable. It is not real yet. Also, confirmed dead is World Health Organization spokesman Glenn Raymond thomas. We will follow the developing story on air and online with coverage on abc7news. Com and twitter at twitter abc7newsbayarea. A woman is recovering from severe head wounds when her attack was shot dead by police on 15 8th avenue before 5 00 p. M. , the spokesman was smashing the womans head violently against a car and called 911. A bicyclist officer was first to arrive and he had to shoot the suspect to protect himself and the woman. Investigators are looking into reports that he was trying to hit the officer and the woman with his car. The suspect had a history of domestic violence. Police in corte madera say a Family Doctor had no right to shoot another man who fold him home and drove the car into the doctors garage. The 71yearold dr. Simon and the other man had an altercation and simon drove home and the other man pulled in behind him not letting him close the garage. Simon got out of the car, retrieve add. 357 and fired a warning into the ground and then shot the victim. Twice. There was a moment in time where simon was safer in his house, secure, with access to cell phone and telephone to call 1991 and he was armed with a handgun and no one was attempting to enter at that time. In a statement to abc7 his Attorney Says this is a clear case of selfdefense. You can read the entire statement open our website at abc7news. Com. A griefstricken Community Mourns the loss of a woman used as a human shield after a tock ton bank robbery. Misty holtsingh was killed on wednesday after throw men robbed a bank of the west branch and led police own an hour long chase. Here is more from stockton with the growing memorial. They placed flowers and notes and candles outside the bank where the horror started where more than only money was exchanged, tellers remember customers here, and where stockton permanently changed. [ inaudible ] what happened was fast and violent. Three men robbed the bank and took three women hostage. Two employees and a customer. Misty holtsingh was the customer. After a choice three were dead, two suspects and the 41yearold mother of two. It makes me angry. That could have been my wife, anyones wife, anyones mother. It hit close to home. The family was understandably too upset to talk but the police chief had a lot to say about the rampage and the surviving suspect. Investigators believe the only reason he was unharmed is because he used misty holtsingh as a humid human shield. Because of the fear of the continued killing, attempted killing of Police Officers and others wherever they were driving. No officers were hurt. Ramos charged with homicide, kidnapping and robbery. Happening today in the south bay, sweeping new restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries are in effect. Starting today, cannabis clubs are not allowed to do business in residential areas or schools. Sellers are required to grown their own marijuana with security. The regulations are too tough say the shop owners and are trying to work with the family to find ways to stay open and want to soften the law. There are 78 cooperatives in san jose. Opponents would want to split california into six states are fighting to keep the measure off the ballots saying they lied to people to get signatures to support the veteran venture capitalist idea to split the golden state into six. Supporters submitted 1. 3 million signatures to put it on the ballot in 2016. County registrars are working to determine the validity of the signatures. Former state Assembly Speaker is going ahead with a recount despite picking up only a handful of votes in the first few,s and called for the recount after fishing 481 votes behind in the june primary and picked up only seven. Votes in two counties. The state Democratic Party is throw support behind betty ye and donated 50,000. The recount could cost perez ten of thousands of dollars. Leyla gulen is here for mike and the windshield wiper were working because of the drizzle. There were a couple of drizzles and we have microclimates here. The forecast is coming up in a few minutes but as we look at the eastern span of the bay bridge you can see how clear it is. However, as you push toward San Francisco you will experience. More drizzle, more moisture across our coastal communities and in San Francisco right now we are at 60 degree and 64 in oakland and 63 in san carlos, san jose, gilroy, vine at Half Moon Bay. What you need to know the next 12 hours, from the roof camera, a clear view and a breeze, as well, so wake up with the drizzle and it starts to clear out, however, we have mostly cloud layers so low clouds are coming in over noon and 74 degrees inland and 68 around the bay and 64 along the coast and when we get to the afternoon hours partly cloudy for most of us and a lot of sunshine inland but we will see the increasing cloud cover again and temperatures are going to remain consistent for the week end. Right now we are going to talk about traffic and we have a high wind advisory for benicia bridge if you are traveling along this area, 680, you will find it and a fatality in san jose and matt keller is on the scene and he has information on that along 101 at the lawrence expressway so you will see emergency crews. You can see light conditions and in San Francisco, but all in all moving along at top speeds. Temperature ceasefire gives way to intense new fighting in the gaza strip and next, the military move israel says is the original way to end the attacks by hamas. Special deliveries land a shipping giant in hot water fedex has strong words for the feds. The 49ers new home is good to go and the until top man would like the team to share it. Is the iphone about to get a camera upgrade . Apples next generation smartphone will fewture a spend sensor. Facebook launch add new app users will know when a post mentioned their maim so it is easy to respond and only available to those with verified celebrity account. Directv making nfl sunday ticket available without a satellite subscription for 200 with Live Streaming to computer, tablet or smartphone. But it is only offered in select areas around the country. How did you like a selfie with the Morning Coffee . New custom toasters will imarent your favorite selfie when you insert a slice of d youe born from 1945 through 1965 have the highest rates of hepatitis c, but most dont know theyre infected . People can live for decades without symptoms, but over time hepatitis c can cause Serious Health problems. If you were born during these years, the cdc now recommends that you get a blood test for hepatitis c. So talk to your doctor and find out if you have hepatitis c. It could save your life. Know more. Toxic chemicals and carcinogens are leaching into the environment. Its happening right where we live, work and play. Everywhere. Cigarette butts are toxic waste. Lets stop the toxic litter. Learn more at rethinkbutts. Org covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Israeli military is preparing for a significant expansion of the ground operations against gaza militants. This is a quote from Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu who say the troops must deliver a blow to the hamas tunnel network. A negotiating session involving israeli and hamas officials led nowhere and israel moved tanks can troops into gaza after 10 days of airstrikes that fail to stop hamas rocket fire on israeli cities. More than 240 palestinians have been killed isnt the fighting began. A body was discovered in the area of the fire burning in shasta county, Officials Say the remains are found on wednesday near a home where the 11,000 wildfire started on friday. Officials say the victim was trying to flee when he died. The 37yearold sparked the fire while driving a truck through dry grass headed to an illegal pot grow the he was arrested a few hours later. It is now 51 percent contained. In washington state, the county sheriff issued high it evacuation notice for one town along the Columbia River because of 18,000 acre wildfire. The Three Rivers Hospital has also been evacuated and the town of brass step is on stand by for evacuation and 35 homes have burned sip lightning ignited four separate fires on wednesday which have merged into one massive fire. A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted fedex for knowingly shipping prescription drugs from illegal online pharmacies. The indictment accuses fedex of ignoring government warnings for a decade. They said they cannot check every package it ships. Fedex tells abc that we have no interest in violating the privacy of our customers and are ready and willing to assist Law Enforcement but we cannot do the job of Law Enforcement ourselves. 49ers new stadium is officially open but there is work left to do before the First Official event in two weeks. The ribboncutting ceremony was held and 819 days after construction began 49er c. E. O. And san far clear mayor and nfl commissioner all spoke at invitation only event. Levi stadium will host super bowl 50 in 2016 and the the pac 12 championship games but the commissioner wants the raiders to consider playing in santa clara. We believe a new stadium is appropriate if the raiders but they we have to make that determination whether they are in a new stadium in oakland or whether it is best to join this stadium. That is a decision they will have to make. The San Jose Earthquakes will play the Seattle Sounders august 2nd in the first event. 49er fans have to wait for preseason or september home opener against the bears to see the 49ers take the field. We have aids walk if San Francisco on sunday. Will it be drizzle like this morning . It will be muggy. Pack the layers. If you are headed to Golden Gate Bridge you can expect a chilly morning and then it is muggy. Right now from Golden Gate Bridge you can see the roadway is wet and moist conditions this morning and we are looking at increased humidity for today and that will last through sunday. Live doppler 7 hd shows returns with usually fog and patchy fog along the coast and as we look at the next few days you can expect to see increasing cloud cover and, also, the fog so we have a deepening marine layer that will persist keeping the temperatures seasonal. We have a game today, and it will be the as taking on the Baltimore Orioles and game starts at 7 05 and first pitch is 53. Under clouds. Then it will cool down to 58 degrees by end of the people. At home, pack sunscreen because it is going to be a high u. V. Index and temperatures are slightly cooler or slightly warmer in most areas across the bay area but 79 in san jose and clouds and 76 in milpitas and 77 in sunnyvale and cloud cough along the coast at Half Moon Bay and pacifica keeping the temperatures in the lower 60s and as we look in the north bay, 75 degrees in san rafael, in the lower 90s in clear lake and the upper 70s for areas like napa and sonoma and 75 in castro valley. Inland is warmer at 85 in brentwood and lower 80s for live more and pleasanton. The marine layer thickens, the fog comes back and we have increasing cloud cover and the sevenday forecast shows temperatures are going to stay in the upper 80s fore most of us inland and upper 70s to lower 80s an the bay and the mid60 elsewhere. We will look at traffic where we have a sigalert. It is a fatality, unfortunately, and matt is on the scene to bring us more details but it sounds like alcohol may have been an influence in this. Northbound 101 at lawrence expressway, there will be a lost activity there and another accident causing delays use hold through the altamont pass. Eric and kristen . This morning, the family house at oaklands Children Hospital prepares for a makeover. It is courtesy of ikea, the family house won the Fourth Annual ikea improvement coworker challenge giving ike arods and design expertise for makeover of 16 rooms at the family house and is a low cost home away from home for families who have children undergoing treatment at the hospital in oakland. A drivers camera catches an amazing sight in the night sky. A man threatens to harm himself on an over pass. We note dangers of smoking and making it tougher to light and making it tougher to light up could be saving lives in a at 15, i was addicted. By 40, ill have lung disease. At 50, ill die of a heart attack. Dr. Regina benjamin cigarette smoke causes immediate damage that leads to health problems, even death. Those who quit or die are being replaced by a new generation of smokers. Im dr. Regina benjamin, United States surgeon general. Go to cdc. Gov. Learn how to make our next generation tobaccofree. Police in seattle have released an extraordinary video of an officer catching a man trying to leap to his death. The video was posted to youtube at 11 oclock p. M. On tuesday when officers responded to reports of a suicidal man on an over pass. While officers were talking to the man he jumped over the railing. A Police Officer caught him and hauled the man to safety. It happened so quickly we will show you again in slowmotion. He was referred to a hospital for assessment. A meteor seen across five states was captured on a drivers dash camera. It is quick so well run it a few times. People reported seeing the tire ball in pennsylvania, new jersey, virginia, maryland and north carolina. The remain employee says because the on. Equity is so low on the horizon he believes it shows the meteor breaking up. A woman wrote she was so in hock and awe after viewing the meteor. I dont think that describes what is going on and here this morning, maybe drizzle. Drizzle. You could need a fan because it is muggy and it will be warmer today and at bart we will be in the lower 70s for concord and pittsburg and 63 in dublin pleasanton and 59 in fremont and 64 at sfo and 57 in daly city. We will pens more fog and drizzle loan the coastline and increasing clouds with many layer coming back in bringing humidity over the weekend and you can expect muggy conditions for the aids walk on monday and warmer and 86 degrees and 78 around the bay and 66 along the coast. The warmup is really starting next week. As we look we have construction on the bay bridge in the eastbound direction from the toll plaza and that will last until 6 00 this morning and westbound direction we are not seeing delays and as we look at 580 we are at top speed 27 minutes from tracy to dublin highway four antioch to concord, 14 minutes. Want out for slick conditions withing for headed through the north bay into San Francisco. It is 4 54. You know about leg between smoking and lung disease and cancer, now researchers are learning cigarettes to another lifethreatening issue suicide. Researchers analyzed suicide rates from 1990 to 2004 in states with aggressive antismoking policies and those with more relaxed policies. States that raised taxes on cigarette in limited places where you could light up had lower suicide rates than with more liberal laws. For every dollar increase in tobacco tacks there was a 10 percent decrease in suicide. The study is in journal of nicotine and tobacco research. Facebook is testing a new button and hoping shoppers will like it with ads with an add buy button so you can buy directly from small to medium businesses without leaving facebook. Facebook is trying to grow the advertising business and promises Credit Information will not be shared with others. The Oakland City Council name add new concession to revive the stables on skyline birthday. They will rehabilitation the facility, operate the stables and bring services for the general public including variety of programs to start in the spring. The city acquired stable from private ownership in 1994 and a local nonprofit managed them until 2004 when oakland terminated that concession pause the group could not maintain and safely operate the stables. Oakland is now home to a north American River order step named wyatt. The otter relocated to oakland from a zoo in texas to breed with his female counterparts, ginger and rose. Oakland does Officials Say they are very happy to have wyatt making oakland the leading zoo breeding otters in captivity. Their habit in the wild is shrinking. We are following breaking news in the south bay, a fatal accident shuts down a major highway offramp and we are on the scene with what we learning about the victims. New details emerge in shooting down of Malaysian Airline flight 17 and who is claiming do have control of the flight and critical evidence. A republican live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning on friday. It is 5 00. Thanks for