I am eric thomas. We will check with mike for the first day of spring forecast. 9 57 we bring in the, the clouds will insulate us this morning but not as cold as it was yesterday. They will dim the sunshine a little bit with a slighter offshore breeze to almost nothing with temperatures cooler today but, still, above average, 69 to 76 around the bay and inland 72 to 76 and breezy along the coast. Lowtomid 60s for you along the coast. Our map shows plenty green. That means we are at top speed. We have a bit of slowing over the Altamont Pass which is the usual congestion away from tracy and 205 and over the pass that things out choser to vasco road. I have drive times and you can see how nice it is on friday eve. Through san jose it is wide open with top speeds and from tracy to castro valley, 36 minutes westbound on 580 and northbound 101 from highway 85 to the san jose airport 11 minutes. 280 northbound into San Francisco under ten minutes. At the toll plaza we have a few extra cars with traffic moving along fine. Students could be in need of a few night sleep after a fire outside their building this morning at uc berkeley. Nick . They were not expecting to wake up to the sound of fire alarms and the smell of smoke. One resident described it as an electrical smell. This is video from early four engines responded to an Apartment Fire on University Avenue near san pablo boulevard. The exterior fire started in the ally between two buildings and the personal effects from a former tenant caught fire when residents of an add joining building tossed cigarette butts out the window causing a fire triggering alarm and forcing 100 residents to pour on to University Avenue while crews tries to put out the fire. One resident described what she saw. I saw white smoke. I ran out the other way. They tried to force us from above and they evacuated. This is video taken by Ashley Griffin with dozens outside and several fire trucks. Assistant chief says this is a nonsmoking building and even if it werent, it is illegal and irresponsible to toss a lit cigarette from a window with little or no regard to where it lands. There were no serious injuries but one person was treated at the scene but not transported. Everyone has been allowed to return to the building. More breaking news with Contra Costa County firefighters responding to a fire in pleasant hill. Flames were shooting from the house and trailer on slater avenue with no injuries. The seen was cheered by 3 00 a. M. And the cause is under investigation. Authorities are investigating the shooting of a mendocino sheriff deputy would was killed when the suspect turned his rifle on him that started with a carjacking in oregon yesterday morning. It ended north of fort bragg. Authorities say the 32yearold suspect from oregon sprayed deputys patrol car with bullets and then a Fort Bragg Police officer exchanged gunfire who ran into the woods. His body was later found after dying from multiple wounds suffer during the gun battle. The patrol core came nose to northeast with the dmw and the brave deputy could not get out of the car but was ambushed. A big heart. Known for helping people out. Last night a procession escorted the body of the deputy away he grew up in napa and a football and wrestling star in the early 1980s. Deputy began his career with the Mendocino County sheriff in 1988. He spent ten years with the Fort Bragg Police and then in 2000 returned to the sheriff sherifff department. He coached the wrestling team at the high school. We express our condolences to friends and family and colleagues. Spay i dont police are looking for the robber who tied up a woman for a day while stealing her money from an a. T. M. There is a Surveillance Video from the police. Matt . [ inaudible ] this was frightening for the woman. She was tie up at her home and the burglar came out here and stole money from her account. Check out this imam of the suspect at the a. T. M. At 3rd. This man is described as hispanic and 30 years old and 5 10 itch and medium build and clean shaven. The 66yearold woman returned home to find a burglar. For a day the suspect had the victim restrained in her residence and was using the victims a. T. M. Card to access cash at various banks. The police say the woman was tied up and fought able to free her sell until the tax day. Officers sent an email to the neighbors to let them know what happened. This is believe isolated and they say residents should call first if they come home and find anything suspicious. Breaking news in the search for the missing malaysian flight, two objects that could be related to the missing flight were spotted by satellite off australia. We are in washington, dc, with the latest developments. Good morning, officials think they have spotted giant objects in the deep indian ocean. It is not clear what they are. Australians thing they spotted something with two objects picked up on satellite. Hightech planes searched the location and did not find anything. This is a lead, probably the best lead we have right if you but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them, to though whether it is meaningful or not. The objects were spotted 1,500 miles southwest of australia. One object is huge, 78 but this pay not be the missing plane. We have been in this business of searchandrescue operations and they do not always turnout to be related to the search. A Navy Submarine is involved in the search and have been assisting ma deleteed data taken from the captains home, that he may have practiced the turns that were reprogrammed at the cockpit computers. The family of the 239 people open board, they have anguish that has turned to anger. One thing we want most, they want most, is the information we dont have the location of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. It is possible since the satellite images were taken a couple of days ago the objects moved. Officials desperately want to find them. Thank you very much. Mike is check out spring arriving in a few hours. High pressure. It is calm. And the explore former has the art work and it is rolling. There is a lot of tree pollen. Weed. Grass. Mold. All moderate amounts. U. V. Index is moderate. Temperatures the next 12 hours, less sunshine or dimmer because of the high clouds. They are keeping us up to 52 and high clouds. 60 at coast at 4 00, and 70 inland and delightful at 56 at the coast but you are breezy at 68 inland. The next three days, we drop down a couple more degrees tomorrow with low clouds joining the high clouds in the morning and we have low clouds at the coast but high sunshine elsewhere with temperatures one to two degrees warmer on saturday and a couple degrees warmer on sunday but not as warm as last weekend but above average. Enjoy. We have a problem in marin county if you are traveling interest sausalito southbound 101 the car hit a deer and we could still have a lane blocked but not causing any slowing as you head closer to the waldo tunnel to the Golden Gate Bridge. Eastbound 580 there is a project in place until 7 00 this morning between greenville road and north flynn. A few lanes blocked off and intermittent. Slow down for the cone zone as always and if you are traveling in the westbound direction we can see all the red so take the extra cup of coffee because it is building up quickly up to greenville it things out at vasco. In is san jose northbound 280 away from 17, it is quiet. Not irs is looking for you, it could be a good thing. The money report is next. Is your teen looking for a summer job . We will tell you who is looking for hundreds of workers. The Bay Area Strip Club bombing that set off a major explosive covering cupertino, wine country and all the bay area this is abc7 news. Welcome back at 5 14. We are learning more of what led San Francisco investigators to seize a massive amount of explosives. Security camera video show as powerful blast at a strip club on broadway if San Francisco several months back and that started the police investigation. Officers say the man spotted in the video setting up the device is an employee at a nightclub. He said he bought the explosives from two suspects who were arrested march 6. They found a huge amount of employees is at the people in pacifica. It could have helpfulled the house and taken out neighbors houses. We had miscellaneous commercialgrade fire works and 1,300 pounds seized. Police seized 400 pounds of explosive powder and rockets and 700 barrel bombs and a negative reaction to the comments by janet yellen. Oprah is joining forces with starbucks. Enjoy the low spirit Interest Rate while you can, held down for another year and then they will rise sending the stops lower and they could fall today. The i. R. S. May have money for you, they owe renewspapers to a million taxpayers who did not file a return for 2010 which is more than 760 million but you have to file by april 15 or the government gets to keep it. Fewer of us are paying for cage, satellite with the first full year decline last year. But we are watching as much viewing on the internet. And starbucks is teaming up with oprah with new teas for charity. San jose officials gave approval for the biggest construction project seen in the Silicon Valley but they will not say which tech company will lease the buildings, with our media pan, the San Jose Mercury news reports that the developers have a company committed to leasing the office space and the 400 million roth is located on 31 acres near San Jose International airport san and cd be the last prime location in the area. Jamba juice is on a hiring spree hiring 3,000 young people for the summer with dozens of Stores Across the bay area will hold job interviews today. This is the third year that they have held the natural hiring day with all fors accepting applications but only some will be holding job interviews. We posted those locations on our website at abc7news. Com under see it on tv. Have had quote a few smoothies, everyone cool because it is so warm. Yes, stay hydrateed. Here is what is going on where we say welcome to spring at 9 57. 10 miles visibility at Half Moon Bay and unlimited elsewhere with high clouds and our temperatures start if San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge at 52 at crissy field and upper market is 56 right now for the warm spot and coming in through the Ferry Building we are 55 and headed to downtown it is 54 and 54 in richmond and belmont and 51 in san leandro and 52 in union city and saratoga at 51 and 54 in pittsburg and everyone else is midtoupper 40s so cooler this morning. From emeryville you can see the clouds hanging around and not too much in the way of low clouds this morning but that will be the difference moving forward tomorrow. We will track the low clouds and cooler weather, spring starts today and above average temperatures even if we do not reach yesterdays level. We will have a remain whatting trend this weekend and the first spring storm is looking more impressive on the latest models. High pressure is governing the weather trying to submit the areas of High Pressure but it is stopping the wind and we have high clouds streaming in so that is why we will be just a couple of degrees cooler today than yesterday. Here are numbers you can see upper 60 at Half Moon Bay at 68, and trap is 69 and 65 in bodega bay and lowtomid 70s elsewhere. Tone, we will be cooler than to morning with lowtomid 40s and around santa rosa and napa midtoupper 40s the rest of our inland valley and upper 40s to low 50s an the bay shore and to the coast and the low clouds are developing along the coast tomorrow morning. On tuesday, here is our cold front, the area of low pressure is why i am keying on and if that low stays together, the core of the system, if that comes over the top of us, we could see it enhance our rainfall amounts next week. This will then, have you started the spring her system . Mine has a leak. Does yours . Check it out with what we are having. Get to get that fixed. We have temperatures warming up through sunday and a slight pull back on monday and considerably cooler with chance of rain on tuesday and wednesday. Have a great day the we eastbound and westbound you can see the the top speed into vallejo is clear and over the cartinez over to hercules, looking good and over to berkeley, still wide open spaces. If you headed in the westbound direction across 37 it is a top speed of 58. Highway 121 is clear over to 101 680 southbound from walnut creek to dublin is 14 minutes and 101 southbound is 51 minutes and through the Santa Cruz Mountains is 23 minutes and this is the drive through walnut creek at nine minutes from highway 4 to the 24 junction which is accident free. Seven things to know as you start color day. If t rex was looking for a snack this could be just the thing. Plus, flipper fitness, a local workout that has the 49ers head coach taking so i was basically uninsurable. Now that ive got coverage, my doctor is a phone call or an email away. Im in. [ female announcer ] everyone deserves health insurance. Are you in . Find free, confidential, local help at coveredca. Com. Are you in . Are you in . Your education is built to help move your career forward. Heres how we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. 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Mendocino county authorities are investigating the shooting of a sheriff deupty killed by a suspect with an Assault Rifle. The 32yearold suspect strayed the patrol car with bullets and a Fort Bragg Police officer exchanged gunfire with cheney who was found dead. Veilian australian Officials Say two large objects spotted in the water could be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 which is 1,500 miles southwest of perth, australia. Stunning number from the university of california a fourth of students and employees in the system have been intimidated or felt excluded on campus according for a system systemwide climate study. A teen is facing trespassing charges after climbing to the top of a World Trade Center in the middle of night. The 16yearold was reportedly dressed as a construction worker and took the elevator to the 8 88th floor and climbed to the very top. Six, high clouds is what we have right now on live doppler 7 hd and a little bit of a cooling trend for the first day of spring with warmer weather on the way through the weekend and a better chance of rain starting to look likely next week. With the bay bridge toll plaza you can see the cashpaying lanes are loaded up and more traffic from emeryville but it is friday lite but we have a brand new accident to report in the east bay with more on that will set coming up. It is culled the chicken from hell, sign sifts say a bird like dinosaur roomed the western United States 66 million or 68 million years ago 7 tall and weighed 500 pounds. In pittsburgh a copy is on display. That is in pennsylvania. It is chicken from hell. There is no evidence it clucked and this is no way to know if it tasted like chicken. The walrus that gained fame during a pushup challenge with 49ers coach jim harbaugh is showing off again. Check out the walrus demonstrating her sit up routine. This is from six flags discovery kingdom if vallejo. Despite weighing 1,750 sounds, the walrus is limber and has great ab muscles. Great. Impressive. Jim harbaugh has fun at six flags this the walrus who watched the coach pushup for pushup and was posted on youtube and aired on Good Morning America as well and here is proof it was friendly. The walrus gave coach harbaugh a big kiss. No word on whether he kissed back. No photo. Only news continues at 5 30 with the top story including the warning ucsf is sending to thousands with Sensitive Information at risk. Struggling bay area homeowners can get free help to manage thei from the kgo Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Thanks for joining us. We are a few hours away from the start of spring, the official start. Mike . Ready to show off that spring body . Crickets. Everywhere. Giving leyla gulen a hard time about the walrus getting in bikini shape. Good morning, everyone. This is the first day of spring starting at 9 57 with high clouds and sun and cooler than yesterday, but, still, warmer than it should be and a beautiful view from the east bay hills this morning. Inland, at 72 to 76 and 69 to 76 where you will notice the biggest change at the coast and breezy and money 60s for you. Have a good day. She makes it look so easy with her situps. We have an new along 880 at the onramp at washington we have a fender bender on the shoulder. 238 have a few extra clouds northbound. Drive time tra