Reporter investigators released Surveillance Video of the suspect car. Its an older suv with a black or missing gas cap. The suspects appear to be in their early 20s. The damage from this spring of vandalism has totaled more than 60,000. In san leandro, elissa harrington, abc 7 news. A palo alto man faces felony charges for allegedly pulling a knife and firing a pellet gun at construction workers last friday. 25yearold wesley ramsly was arrested at an apartment complex. Investigators say he was upset by loud construction noise. Hes been charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon and criminal threats. Peta is offering a 15,000 reward to help nab the person who killed five animals near the Berkeley Marina last month. The animals included a cat, opossum and three raccoons. B. B. Pellets inside several of the bodies were present. An oakland woman whose brother died in Police Custody wants officers be put on trial even though she settled with the city. In july 2013, ana called police to her home on east 21st street. She said it sounded like someone was in the house. She shared with her 51yearold brother, hernan. Officers didnt find an intruder but handcuffed the brother which led to a struggle. Police body camera video obtained by the east bay times shows the whole incident. As officers held him down, he can be heard saying, i cant breathe. And youre killing me over and over until he loses consciousness. Ana saw the video before the settlement but said her siblings in colombia did not see it until after they agreed to the settlement. It was too painful for them. I see the video before. We never agreed to do the ana also said there was a miscommunication using skype and said the agreement should be nullified. A toxicology report shows her brother had a heart condition and cocaine in his system. The system has requested any motion for trial be denied. A scare today at Santa Clara High School where a fire broke out on campus. See the billowing smoke coming up from the schools snack shack near the football field. Students posted video and pictures on social media. This happened just after 1 00 this afternoon and forced the evacuation of the entire campus. No word yet on what caused the fire. Right now, police are searching for the person who booked e abandoned this truck in the san leandro creek. Offices are gathering evidence. Theyre not sure if it was stolen. The truck was on fire. Its now charred as you can see and severely damaged. A towing crew will have to pull it out. Alameda county fire tweeted pictures during the response. See smoke pouring out of the trees. Firefighters said flames spread from the truck to vegetation near several homes. They were able to get it under control in time. Thank goodness. Sonoma county, something you dont see every day, a sea lion trying to cross a freeway. It happened this morning on highway 37. Corralling it, however, was not easy. Stubborn animal. Abc 7 News ReporterCornell Barnard was on the scene of this dramatic rescue. Reporter dan, we are learning more about the wayward sea lion pup. His name is schooldaze. Daze. Hes got a name because hes been rescued before by the Marine Mammal centers. Vets there trying to determine at is causing him to show up at odd locations like this one, highway 37 near sonoma raceway. And today it was quite a sight. Sky 7 hd was overhead as a rescue mission unfolded. The goal, trying to keep a curious sea lion pup out of traffic. But it wasnt easisy. A long game of cat and mouse. The male pup in and out of the water determined to cross highway 37. We just kept an eye on him as he swam through the tried to c onto the bank and approach the freeway, we distracted him and kept him back into the water. Reporter wardens and chp officers used boards to to rcor the pup into a temporary dog crate. The sea lion pup was finally safe inside. These animals, its not that uncommon for them. California sea lions are kind of crafty, go where they want to. Reporter this guy certainly did. Last december, a 500 pound elephant sale hopped out of San Pablo Bay and tried to cross the very same highway until she could be coaxed back into the water. Why here . No one really knows. We havent had many get stranded in this area so fingers crossed we dont have more any time soon. Reporter in sonoma county, Cornell Barnard, abc 7 news. The owner of a chihuahua known as the bay bridge dog has yet to come toward. The dog nicknamed ponch is in good health. Workers tweeted the video of the little chihuahua getting lots of attention and affection. The little dog led chp officers on this chase over the western span of the bay bridge yesterday morning. Look at it go. Right . Stopping traffic along the way. An officer captured the entire incident on video. The uversity of california systems says it offered admission to significantly more instate students for next fall than last year. Officials say offers to instate graduating seniors increased by 15 this year to more than 66,000. Offers went out to more latino and africanamerican students as well. The uc system has come under fire for admitting large numbers of applicants from other states and countries who pay higher tuition. Just last week, a state audit urged a cap on the number of nonresidents admitted to the uc system. Well a historic day in california. Governor brown signing the states new minimum wage law, one that will give lowpaid workers a raise. Year after year until it hits 15 an hour. In the south bay, some are saying thats not fast enough, however. While others are saying not so fast. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie is live from a cherry stand in sun snyvale with the story. Reporter the argument can be made that 10. 30 an hour, minimum wage right now in sunnyvale and san jose, just doesnt cut it. However, some shopkeepers are saying 15 is too much, too fast. Small businessowners Deborah Olson opposes efforts to get to a 15 minimum wage in just 2 years. Her familyowned cherry stand believed to be the last one in the valley where orchards once stood is already reeling from dealing with a 10. 30 wage. Ive seen a 10 increase in my labor from last year and i am now, everybodys working harder, im hiring less people, theyre not getting hours they used to. Reporter sunnyvale and san jose this month are both considering a 15 wage by 2018. Which could put pressure on surrounds cities. Right now theres a Patchwork Quilt of wage laws. Mountain view, palo alto, and santa kplclara at 11 currently. San jose, sunnyvale, 10. 30. The remaining cities at 10. The big increase can be justified according to san jose states scott myers lipton. We had an increase of rent of 50 in that same time period. So in that type of situation, the increase, asking for the 15 sooner is obviously, think, a powerful argument. Reporter adjustments in the wage law are tied to the National Cost of living index which puts workers here at a s disadvanta disadvantage. You see fuel costs going down, but whats not factored in there is the high cost of living for Northern California or the bay area. Reporter she hopes all ten south bay cities will adopt the same wage formula for uniform y uniformity. In sunnyvale, david louie, abc 7 news. You know why kristen is grinning from ear to ear all day today . Baseball is back. Thats right. Everybodys excited about opening day. Its almost an unofficial american holiday. It really is. That means getting the field in shape. And tailgating, dont forget that part, dan. Were live in oakland for the as opening day. Also ahead, why some wells fargo customers may have money coming their way. And the step to bring highspeed rail to the bay. And the vice we need to be ready for my names Scott Strenfel and r im a meteorologist at pg e. We make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. So every single day were monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. During storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. Learn how you can be prepared at pge. Com beprepared. Together, were building a better california. Swing, and a high drive to right. It is out of here and a threerun home run for denard span. The giants came out swinging on opening day against the milwaukee brewers. Literally. Denard span, joe panik, buster posey. The three went back to back to back hitting three consecutive home runs in the eighth inning. Its the first time the giants have done that since july 20th, 2006. The giants, as you might imagine, won 123 today. That was the big hoop you heard from the newsroom when i saw that. It was exciting. For baseball fans the long winter is over. And today, oakland as fans celebrating the end of the seemingly endless spring and beginning of the regular season. Yeah, abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman live at the Oakland Coliseum from the as open their season this evening. Reporter what a sight here today. As soon as the gates opened early this afternoon, in came the car, out went the tents, up went the tent, out game the barbecues then came the food then came the eating. Theyve been at it since 1 00, 2 00 this afternoon. Its been pandemonium down there. Relatively calm on the field, though. After a long winter, time to marvel at baseball green both inside and outside the coliseum. Nothing like it. First game of the season. Cant beat it. Reporter much to relief of as fans, the oakland as have not changed their venue this year but the name of the place is in flux. O. Co is gone. Did not pick up its 1 million option this year leaving management in a sales frame of mind for this facility. This is going to be the only one left in the United States that currently both has an nfl franchise and Major League Baseball franchise. Reporter at least for now. As fans, raider fans and warrior fans. Yeah. Its going to be hard. Reporter not so much today. Hard to stop eating maybe. Garlic, salt, pepper, and just let them simmer here in the fire. Are. Reporter is this a cooking show . It sounds like it, doesnt it . Reporter opening day has so many interpretations. On the field a clean slate, for fans, continuation. Ive been coming here ever since i was probably, like, 3 years old. Reporter so said david reyes as he played catch with his son, brother, michael, too, and father. Thats three generations with memories of this day in this place. No matter what you call it. Still Oakland Coliseum. Reporter the oakland colise coliseum to you is . Its home. Reporter from the oakland co coliseum, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. What fin. This will be a businesy area tomorrow night. The as host the Chicago White sox at 7 05 and warriors take on the minnesota timber wolves at 7 30. If youre going to any game, really arrive early or take b. A. R. T. Yeah. Todays edition of the oakland tribune may be a collectors item. Starting tomorrow the newspaper will have a new name the east bay times. San jose mercury news is also changing, be known simply as the mercury news. Both are merging with smaller Bay Area News Group newspapers. San jose is a step closer to getting a high speed rail stop. The city received about 600,000 to help add highspeed rail service at the duridon station. The plan featured a mixeduse development that will serve as a regional hub of housing, jobs, transportation and entertainment. Highspeed rail is expected to run there in 2025. The demand for palo altos new tesla 3 keeps growing. The model 3. Ceo elon musk announced worldwide orders hit 276,000 over the weekend. He tweeted that even he was surprised by the high demand. Musk said he was anticipating reservations to be quarter to half of what they turned out to be. Two doctors from ucsf will play a key role in Vice President bidens cure for cancer. Mitch burger, neurological surgery, and provost jeff lustone part of a Blue Ribbon Panel that will advise the National Institutes of health on Cancer Research. Biden, whose son died of brain cancer, is leading the administrationse esffort for a cure. This summer, the most promising Cancer Research that is available. Listen up, wells fargo customers, you could be getting cash back. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is here with this story. Were all ears. Longtime Wells Fargo Bank debit card holders may have money coming their way. Ten years ago the bank lost a Class Action Lawsuit that acc e accused it its misleading debit card holders, accused of sub trakting the highest charges first on the debit card followed by lower charges. It had the effect of multiplying the number of overdrafts each of which carried a 25 to 35 fee. For about a decade now, the bank has been fighting the ruling. They lost. And today the Supreme Court let stand a 203 million verdict. Ill keep track of this and report when a payment plan is finalized. Automakers enjoyed another solid month of new vehicle sales in march, but there are concerns about rising discounts and slowing sales. Auto Companies Sold more than 1. 5 car million cars last month. Ford sales topped the list with more than a quarter million vehicles sold. General motors came in behind ford but sold more than 250,000 cars and trucks. Now, these nearrecord sales mean more used cars will be available and right now, prices are down about 3 . Theyre expected to drop to 4 . For the fourth year in a row, Virgin America is at the top of the list for airline quality. Thats according to the 26th annual National Airline quality rating report. It was released today just as action Alaska Airlines announced it will buy Virgin America for a 4 billion deal in a 4 billion deal i should say. Jetblue finished second followed by delta air lines, Hawaiian Airlines placed fourth and Alaska Airlines rounded out the top five. Ticking off passengers this year are ticket change fees and lackluster airline amenities. Wichita state universitys Business School and college of aviation put out a survey each year. And it causes gnashing of the teeth for the industry. Theyre using the alaska name, not the Virgin America name. You dont want to fly anywhere right now because the weather is spectacular right where we are. Right where we are. With baseball back, Spencer Christian with the latest details from accuweathers forecast. Its nice. It is nice, christkristen an youre right. Its going to get hot by midweek. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd under blue skies. You can see on the radar image just how clear bay area skies are at this moment. Check out the 24 hour temperature change. It is 7 degrees warmer right now in San Francisco, napa, and palo alto than this hour yesterday. 6 degrees warmer over at oakland. 5 degrees warmer at concord. You get the picture. All around the bay area. You can see evidence of this warmup. Heres the view looking out over San Francisco, under blue skies. Currently 64 here in the city. 67 across the bay in oakland. 69 at Mountain View and san jose. Morgan hill, 71. Cool 57, kehltirelatively cool f moon bay. This is the view from emeryville, the golden gate. 74 at santa rosa and concord. Fairfield 73. Livermore 71. Check out beautiful sky over the golden gate as you look at our forecast features. Much warmer tomorrow than today. And hot in some spots on wednesday. Record highs possible on wednesday. It will be much cooler again on thursday with a chance of showers friday night into sat day. Tonight, clear skies with temperatures mainly in the upper 40s to low 50s. Only mid 40s up by the north bay valleys. Tomorrows highs in the south bay look for low to mid 80s. About 83 at san jose. 82 santa clara. 80 redwood city. 82 Mountain View. Upper 60s to near 70 on the coast. High of 74 expected in downtown San Francisco tomorrow. Up in the north bay, well see upper 60s on the coast. Mid 80s from santa rosa to calistoga to napa. The east bay, look for highs tomorrow of 81 in oak larnd. 82 castro valley. 80 san leandro. Inland east bay, mid 80s everywhere. 85 walnut creek. 86 at abo 86 about knontioch. Wednesday, an offshore flow will contribute to the warmup. Weve posted highs for that day. Notice how much warmer it will be than average. More than 20 degrees warmer in oakland and san jose than average. Look for highs in the low to mid 90s inland on wednesday. A cooling trend begins on thursday after that one day spike in temperatures. Then by friday, its going to be downright cool with highs only in the 60s inland. And around the bay. And a chance of evening showers friday. So this approaching system that will bring us rain late friday into saturday ranks 1 on the storm impact scale. Storm of light intensity which will produce light rain. Heres the forecast animation starting 10 00 friday night during the overnight hours. Well see showers developing around the bay area and continuing through the day on saturday but rainfall totals will probably not get any higher than about a quarter of an inch in the wettest locations by the end of the day saturday. Here is our accuweather sevenday forecast. Hot weather wednesday. Sharply cooler on thursday. Chance of rain late friday into saturday. And a chance of rain or showers throughout the day saturday. Then well see a slight chance of lingering showers sunday morning, clearing out again on monday. Its going to be a week of many, many changes in our weather. Dan and kristen . Okay. Dan and ama. Dan and kristen, yes. Musical chairs. All right. Up next, the worlds brightest xray laser gets an upgrade and berkeley scientists help boost its power. Then on 5 30 on world news with david muir. Deadly spring storm, snow, ice across several states tonight. Pictures coming in. Cars flipped along the highway. Also two planes collide as one takes off, flames shooting into the air. A manhunt. Two convicts who escaped a van. A lot to get to on a monday right here on abc 7 news. David, thanks very much. Tonight at 6 00, fixing your aching back. Were going to check on a new procedure that claims to offer faster Recovery Time than traditional surgery. That story and a lot more at high Speed Internet from at t. With 99. 9 reliability you can, keep calm, your internets on. laughing theres nothing like making their day. Except making sure their tomorrow is taken care of too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Some incredible video out of mexico. Its the eruption of a volcano that exploded yesterday spewing incandescent rocks and ash into the sky. Mexicos National DisasterPrevention Center says the plume was over a mile high. Pretty spectacular to watch, though. The volcano is about 50 miles southeast of mexico city. And is one of the countrys most active volcanos. Thats stunning to see. Californians did a pretty good job of saving water last month. Residents used 24 less water in february which is just about shy of the states mandated 25 conservation market. Not shabby at all. State Water Resources board says californiaens rose to the occasion to save pressure water. In the bay area most residents are saving more than teir citys conservation requirement. A major upgrade began today to boost the power of the worlds brightest xray laser. It is right here in the bay area. A stanfordrun federal lab in menlo park teamed up with four others including the Lawrence Berkeley national lab in annest to take xray science to the next level. The project will add a second xray laser beam thats 10,000 times brighter than the current run and fires 8,000 times faster. It would be used for the experiments to improve our understanding of how things work on the atomic level. All right. In case you didnt know it, today is square root day. See the date is 4 4 16. Take note both the day and the month are the square root of the last six digits of the year, 16. There are nine of these days in history. The next in 2025. It was founded by ron gordon. He keeps up his website about the day. Gordon suggests today is a good day to get things squared away. Or go square dancing. Why not . Right . Yeah. A ducklings day out was not what it was quacked up to be. Oh no, you didnt. Coming up, the when it happens where you live. We know many of you are frustrated with the persisting b. A. R. T. Issues in the east bay. The abc 7 news team covers your neighborhood. San francisco. Morgan hill. Live in oaland. Sfo. Your story. 7 on your side is changing the way these guys do business. I know this is a scam. Choose the news that matters where you live. Ill kind of share what weve got right in our backyard. Choose the team that works for you. Live in berkeley. Choose abc 7 news. Im ama daetz in the abc 7 newsroom. Coming up new at 6 00, former inmates fight back against local sheriffs deputies. Tonight new video of what jailers allegedly call yard counseling. Also the proposed sale of Virgin America to Alaska Airlines. The aspect of this deal that has some local fliers worried. Remember your first real job . At 6 00, see what grad students about to enter the job market are looking for. Salary isnt their number one priority. Its all coming up on abc 7 news at 6 can. Thanks, ama, see you then. Trapped inside the grill of a toyota prius, a great mallard. Yeah. The driver had collided with the duck and the duck got stuck in there. Wildlife rescuers pulled it free and the guy found no signs of injury and let the duck go. It just waddled off to a nearby pond. It took a big effort today to rescue at least ten ducklings that fell into a storm train in novato. Fire, police and marin humane officers helped reunite the babies with their mother. Placed them into a box, walked over to the creek behind the Shopping Center right here, and we shook the box to make the ducklings make their little peeping sound and then mother stuck her head up in the grass and had three others so she had a total of 13 ducklings. And we just released them and they went running back to mom. He says these calls about ducklings are very common in the spring. We ask who foots the bill for the rescue . It will be too cliche so i wont say it. Alls well that ends well. Of course. World news with david muir is coming up next. Im dan ashley. For Spencer Christian, michael finn finney, all of us, we appreciate your time. See you in a half hour. Feel free to call me out when im tonight, the commuter nightmare. The deadly spring storm, snow, ice across several states. The pictures coming in now. Cars and trucks off the highway. A bus carrying three dozen students, flipping. Investigators coming before the cameras moments ago. The deadly amtrak collision. What caused it . While inside the train, a doctor jumping into action. The runway collision. A passenger jet taking off, crashing into another plane. Flames shooting into the air, seconds from disaster. Tonight, what a loss in wisconsin would mean for donald trump, as his exwife, ivana trump, causes a controversy. And megyn kelly asking ted cruz, have you committed adultery . And your money tonight. Home prices on the rise. And three simple things you can do right now to substantially increase the value of your home