The countrys top law enforcer now off the case. I have recused myself. Reporter attorney general Jeff Sessions is stepping back from any investigation into russian interference in the election. The move comes after the Justice Department confirms that sessions met with the Russian Ambassador twice during the campaign but sessions says he did nothing wrong. Recusal is not an admission of any wrong doing. Reporter he said his meetings were a perfectly reasonable thing to do. The big issue is that sessions did not disclose these meetings when questioned by congress. I did not have communications with the russians and im unable to comment on it. Reporter for democrats on capitol hill, thats enough to warrant his resignation. The attorney general, the top cop in our country, lied under oath to the American People is grounds for him to resign. Reporter but even members of his own party say at the very least, sessions can no longer work the case. I do think hes going to need to recuse himself at this point. Reporter President Trump says sessions could have responded more accurately at his confirmation hearings but says he fully supports his attorney general. Mr. President , do you still have confidence in the attorney general . Total. Reporter the president continues on to say that he had no idea about the meetings and calls the accusations a political witch hunt. We are getting breaking news into the live desk right now. Crews in new jersey tackling a major fire. This is happening right now. A huge fire in new jersey. These are live images coming in. Three buildings have already burned down. Our abc station in the area says those buildings appear to be a closed hotel but the good news is they are getting a handle on it. I want to show you a video of what it looked like just a few minutes ago. The fire has spread to nearby condominiums, at least two homes as well. It is a threealarm fire. There are several ladder trucks there and as i just showed you, crews continue to battle the flames right now. So far, no injuries. Shell refinery officials in the east bay are monitoring their systems this morning in case an odor returns. Shell says the smell was caused when an additive was offloaded at the martinez plant yesterday. Crews cleaned it up but shell said it received reports from people in the area who could still smell it hours later so theyre keeping an eye on the issue this morning. Shell says there is not a leak and theres no impact on public health. Happening today, an Alameda County sheriffs deputy killed in a tragic accident will be laid to rest. Deputy Michael Foley was hit by a prison bus in the parking lot behind the santa rita jail in dublin last week. Happened around 6 00 a. M. And deputy driving the bus says that he didnt see foley in the morning darkness. Foley died from his head injuries a day after the accident. He worked in Law Enforcement for 37 years. Law enforcement officers from across the state are expected to attend todays service. It is set to begin at 11 00 this morning at the concord pavilion. An administrator of a youth center in santa clara faces child pornography charges this morning. Police are trying to figure out if david lang victimized any children. Katie marzullo police are asking for the publics help. Reporter david lang has been charged with possession of child pornography. Its where he works that has them worried. This person, you know, we feel is in a area where, you know, he overlaps with children. Reporter lang is the chief Financial Officer at the bill Wilson Center, which specializes in helping at risk children and young families. Lang did not work directly with kids. All employees, regardless of their position, do go through a fingerprint clearance. Nothing came up on that fingerprint clearance. Reporter lang has been cfo for five years. Police say hes been associated with the center since 2004. Also, that he volunteered as an assistant scout master for a sunnyvale Boy Scout Troop in the 1970s. So far, investigators have not identified any victims in this case. But theyre asking anyone who might know anything to come forward. Its a disturbing case and again our desire to take this information public immediately was to protect the public as well as to solicit any information that anyone out there may have. Reporter the bill Wilson Center is fully cooperating with the investigation. We do whatever we can to protect our young people. Reporter lang has been suspended without pay. In santa clara, katie marzullo, abc7 news. San franciscos Public Defenders Office is set to become just the third in the nation to start defending immigrants in danger of deportation. The city gave the green light for public defender to hire three new Immigration Attorneys and one paralegal. Now that money comes from a Budget Surplus in its department and it only pays for those salaries through june. That is hardly what adachi was asking for. He wanted four times the number of new staff than he actually received. There are about 1500 immigrants who are currently detained in the city without representation. Mayor ed lee is going to have the final word to approve these new positions. Two strangers are sharing a friendship after teaming up to save a man. This historic rescue caught on cell phone video. Witnesses say a distraught man jumped into the water at pier 23. Two Good Samaritans were wearing tshirts at the time but they could not ignore what was happening in the water. One of them happened to be a former life guard. The other one was just having lunch at pier 23. He started calling for his dad, delirious. And he started going underneath and the water going into his mouth and he really looked like he was going to go under and not come up. All of a sudden, his head kind of dropped below the water and i was i knew it was time to kind of hop in. Thank goodness for those two. Medics rushed the victim to the hospital and he is recovering. Okay. We are starting off very busy in the Traffic Department here this morning. I want to step out of the way. This is our live shot from matt keller whos on the scene of this bigtime problem in palo alto. This is southbound 101 at embarcadero road and may not look like too much right now, but we had a huge mess overnight. A dump truck with the bed raised hit that overpass at full speed, clearly that driver was not aware that they had the bed up and it clipped it. You can see that damage to the overpass right now. So heres a look at caltrans workers. Theyve cleaned up most of the mess so obviously weve got the truck remove there had and theyre waiting for the Structural Engineer to come all the way from sacramento to check that out so this is going to be a longterm situation. Right now, though, as you can see, those two right lanes are open. I want to talk about a major b. A. R. T. Delay here. Trains stuck at hayward station so the problem starting at fremont in that richmond direction and this is due to a switching problem so if you can get a little bit closer to san leandro, youll still be able to move in the richmond direction but anything south of hayward, youre not moving right now. So hopefully ill have an update in a few. Lets check in with meteorologist mike nicco. Sounds like we have one more day to enjoy the sunshine. Exactly. Yesterday was our warmest day. Today is our last dry day. Lets talk temperatures. Right now, look how mild it is in the financial district, its 50, west portal, 51, most of us around 47 to 48. Ocean beach neighborhoods are the coolest. Weve got 40s all around the bay until you get to santa clara at 38. Pleasanton is 37, tracy 42, richmond 46 and upper 30s throughout the north bay. Lets take a look at our temperatures today. The dimming of the sunshine and the fact that the warmest part of the air mass is moving off to the east means well drop compared to yesterday but still pretty comfortable. Upper 50s along the coast, the rest of us around 60 to 64 degrees. If youre going to be out and about, mass transit is milder this morning. On the roads, going to be a quiet day weatherwise and how about getting out on the water, some light breezes. As far as the pollen goes, we have trees, going to be high once again, mainly pine but theres also ash, cedar, and juniper, temperatures tonight with the cloud cover, mid 40s to low 50s, milder this morning. You want to know when the weathers going to get to your neighborhood tomorrow, ill have that rain forecast next. Uber changes course with its selfdriving cars, what its willing to do now to get them back on the streets of San Francisco. Police make an arrest after an off duty officer is targeted on interstate 880 and he is not the first. The hightech camera system aimed at reassuring drivers and catching the bad guys. Catching the bad guys. It is 4 3 on this hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman hey [bicycle bell rings] turn here. There. Excuse me. Uh. Uh. [indistinct announcement on p. A. System] so, same time next week . Well, of course. Announcer put away a few bucks. Feel like a million bucks. For free tips to help you save, go to feed the pig forged out of bravery, sacrifice, and duty. From all corners of the country, a family for life. But whether they served in lands far away or communities close to home, some of these men and women may face difficult times or even crisis. But sometimes reaching out for help can be the most challenging and worthwhile mission of all. Thankfully, friends, family, and communities are standing by their Service Members and veterans now more than ever. Were all in this together. When you recognize something isnt right, make the call to the Veterans Crisis line or military crisis line. During times of crisis, reach out and call. Dial 18002738255 and press 1. Welcome back. And this just coming in. New video as i watch it with you here for the first time of a small fire at the Trump International hotel in manhattan overnight. Finally out now, one person did have minor injuries, though, with this. Fire trucks, you see there on scene, came rushing in. They had to climb up to the 47th floor. The fire appears to have started in one of the apartments on that level. The building did not have to be evacuated. But again, this new video just in. In Contra Costa County, authorities are warning residents about a string of home burglaries. Three houses were hit on tuesday night in the southern Burton Valley area of lafayette where the residents were at home. These burglaries follow four others in orinda last week. Police say in all the cases, the thieves got in through an unlocked door or window. Keep your doors and windows locked, even while at ohome and install alarm systems or security cameras and report suspicious activity. Take a look at what Fremont Police found after they arrested two people suspect ofd stealing mail. Officers confiscated hundreds of pieces of mail stuffed into two pillow cases. Fremont police tweet these photos. They havent released any details about where the mail was stolen from or where they found it. They say detectives are still actively investigating that case. And two people are in custody this morning. The officer wasnt hurt. In recent months, though, dozens of drivers across the east bay have had similar scares. Abc7 News ReporterLeslie Brinkley shows us whats being done now to keep everybody safe. There are three arrests, two associated with this particular shooting, one unrelated. Im very grateful that our officer is okay. Reporter at 11 40 wednesday night, an off Duty Oakland Police officer was fired at on southbound interstate 880 at 16th avenue. His car was struck, but he was not injured. Police tried to make a traffic stop but the suspect vehicle escaped into an east oakland neighborhood. Here are the tire tracks from where the car was abandoned in this yard. It was just last saturday night that a 28yearold man was gunned down and killed on highway 4 in antioch. Last year, there were dozens of freeway shootings throughout the east bay. Chp is already investigating at least nine more incidents in 2017. Its difficult for you to investigate these freeway shootings. Very difficult, yes, because of the size and the scope and the cars that are out there, the fact that everythings in play as far as cars are moving. Reporter San Pablo Police just activated three new freeway cameras on interstate 80 as a supplement to their city surveillance. We had two shootings on the freeway and there was a lack of witnesses and a lack of witnesses that were able to recall accurately what had happened. Reporter pittsburg also put up 14 freeway cameras to catch crime in progress. The Contra Costa County d. A. s office hopes to add a vast network of wireless cameras all along interstate 80 and highway 4, a hot bed, they says, of gang violence. The cameras would be triggered by shot spotters to turn in the direction of gunfire. Im Leslie Brinkley, abc7 news. Uber is changing its tune when it comes to following state rules regarding selfdriving cars. Uber will apply for a state permit now to test its selfdriving vehicles on public roads. The decision comes weeks after the dmv shut down ubers Autonomous Vehicle program because it didnt have the proper permits. Uber officials claimed they didnt need them. Since then, it has brought five of its Autonomous Cars back to San Francisco. The selfdriving systems are disabled and only being used for mapping. The search for a missing child in concord ended happily just a few feet from the parents front door. Concord Police Posted this photo of the boy after he was found safe. It all started earlier in the day when the boys parents couldnt find him. They last saw him playing in the front yard so officers coordinated a search but then they found him safe hiding in some bushes in the front yard. Good ending to that story. Absolutely. Lets talk about the traffic right now. We do have an incident that is going to be a mess for some of you this morning. This is going to a mess likely well into the midday here and if youre just joining us, it happened overnight around 11 00 p. M. In palo alto. Southbound 101 at embarcadero road, were still seeing green traveling conditions approaching this, i think this is going to change as we get further into the commute, though. A dump truck that had recently dropped off its load continued on southbound 101. It still had the bed of the truck raised and it hit an overpass at full speed so weve got the truck cleared but we still have the two left lanes blocked. Theyre checking that for damage. Obviously weve got a pretty big chunk taken out of that overpass and matt keller is on the scene this morning. He is reporting that engineer is on the way from sacramento. So not even on the scene yet. We do have two lanes down and two lanes are still open. Also have an update to our commuter alert. The fremont line, weve got things moving once again but we still have a 20 minute delay. We had an earlier switching problem so all trains were stopped at hayward. Theyre on the move now but a 20 minute residual delay as they start to recover from that. Lets check in with mike nicco. Hi, everybody. Its going to be a wet weekend forecast. Look at live doppler 7. I overlaid the cloud cover on it so you can see the encroachment of our next system about 850 miles away so its going to take a while to get there. Until then, heres a beautiful picture of a dry bay bridge as you come into San Francisco. High clouds and sunshine today not as warm but mild outside, periods of rain tomorrow all the way through monday and then spring warmth, some 70s are building into the back half of the accuweather 7 day forecast. Lets focus in on the weekend. A 1, light to moderate rain but a fastmoving storm that will bring us the rain but not in such buckets that we should have any flooding. Lightning is possible sunday and a snow level down to about 2500 feet. But thats also when the more showery nature and hit and miss type of showers are going to hit. 5 00 tomorrow morning, you can see showers out there for all of us with the steady rain really up in the north bay at noon and then you can see some yellows in there starting to move into the heart of the bay at 5 00. But already by 10 00, thats gone. Thats how fast that cold front is moving. Snow up in the north bay and the transition over to showers as we head towards sunday morning and into the afternoon hours. Rainfall amounts still going to be pretty impressive. Were still going to get about 1 4 to possibly 1 2 inch of rain and thats not enough to cause any flooding. Heres a look at my accuweather 7 day forecast. We should see some snow in our mountains sunday and into monday morning and then increasing sunshine and look at those 70s by wednesday and thursday. I like this story. A navy pilot in Washington State may be father of the year. You have to check out his backyard project that he made for his 3yearold son. Whoa scott was just going to make any old tree house in his backyard for his son, but then he decided to go bigger to build this complex roller coaster instead after they went to disneyland. He spent three months designing and building this ride and he had the help of a retired boeing engineer who had published books about building backyard roler costers. It cost him about 1,000 to build. The tracks are made with pvc pipe and 2 x 4s. It looks so good. A warning this morning. Also, success too much of a good thing for a tack ri yeah boasting the best tacos in the bay area. Age is nothing but a number. Meet the great granny who proves your never too old to shake it on the dance floor or just in the doorway. But first, this mornings tech bytes. In todays tech bytes, the next big thing in gaming is here. Its the nintendo switch. Gamers waited in long lines for days to get their hands on the console. The switchs skroer major selling point is that games can be played at home or taken with you. Those gamers are probably not taking part in this. Its national day of unplugging. Everybody encouraged to put down their Electronic Devices and reduce screen time. A study found americans spend three hours per day on smart phones, tablets or computers. That sounds very moderate to me. I feel like im on my computers and phones much longer. Pizza hut is out with a new sneaker that can actually order a pizza. Press on the shoes tongue. The Bluetooth Technology will get the pizza to your location. The bad news, only 64 pairs will be made available in the future promotion. And i like the pizza. And i like the pizza. It looks nearly 700,000 baby rattles are being recalled because they can break. Three kids so far have reportedly choked on the beads inside. The rattles are made by oball and the recall affects several colors of the rattles green, blue, pink or orange with model number 81031 on the inside. The rattles were sold at several retailers. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission says people should stop using them and contact oball for a refund. Who wants a burrito . Get in line. The owner of a San Francisco taqueria has an enviable problem. Lines can get really long. Last year, the burrito at the taqueria was named an american classic and the owner said enough is enough. So hes now closing on monday so his workers can get some rest. The lines being all the way down to the corner. And it puts a lot of pressure on these guys and my kids work really hard so i want to give them a little break. Miguel has owned la taqueria since 1973. In may, hes going to be in chicago to claim that james beard award, considered the oscars of the restaurant business. Congratulations to him. All right. Burrito definitely sounds good right now. Big traffic mess does not but unfortunately thats what weve got to start off the friday morning drive. Doesnt look like a whole lot happening right here. This is in palo alto this morning. But it was very busy overnight. A dump truck with the lift raised that, bed raised hit the overpass here and you can see where those chunks have been taken out. The truck is removed but we have two left lanes down. Southbound 101 at embarcadero road, it looks like theyre zooming in so we can get a little better look at that damage there. It doesnt look terrible but there is a crack so theyve got to bring a Structural Engineer in and hes coming from sacramento so we have matt keller on the scene and well talk to him. They have to make sure thats safe to drive on. Well have another look at that coming up. Everyone else off to a pretty quiet start and our earlier b. A. R. T. Issue has resolved itself. Lot of information there. Let me give you some about the flood warning. Its been pushed back again to sunday for lake port here on clear lake. It is dropping down to 9. 68. Flood stage is 9 but the rain over the weekend may stop that letting out of water. Look at this Drought Monitor came out yesterday after we had talked so i wanted to show you, no exceptional, no extreme, only 4 severe across the state. Were 74 of the state is drought free. Heres the way it looked last year compared to what it looks like this year. Notice the lack of color out there. There. Things are getting much get on the good foot. This california granny has the moves. Videos posted on facebook and instagram but her grandchildren and grandchildren have been watched nearly 1 million times already. This is from her 100th Birthday Party last weekend. 100 years old and she still can get down. Look at her. Shes doing little kicks there. Oh my goodness. She has the hip action going on. I like how shes using the door frame as her prop. That was great. 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And no way to high fructose corn syrup. In every honey nut o. Every lucky charms spoonful. And every cinnamon toast crunch square. You can feel good about General Mills big g cereals. That breaking news, a big mess on highway 101, a truck carrying asphalt crashes into an overpass in palo alto. This happened on southbound 101, the embarcadero road overpass there, and that overpass is now damaged. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller live for us on the scene this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning, reggie and natasha. Heres the good news this morning. Traffic is moving well on highway 101 through palo alto in