Evening will be fairly clear for most of the bay area viewing and hot days inland this weekend and the full sevenday outlook is ahead but we will talk about traffic. So far, i have to say it is holiday lite and maybe some folks are going to take the day off. But northbound 280 is shut down until monday morning at 5 00 a. M. When it is expected to reopen and there is another project getting done while the closure is in place but it could impact the commute if you come in to the city for the only drive and the afternoon, as well, but northbound 101 at windsor river road an accident looks to be a stalled car. Highway four westbound from antioch to hercules is 30 minutes and northbound 87 from 85 to the san jose airport is under ten minutes. Caltran is on schedule they say to reopen northbound i280 in San Francisco for monday morning commute. Nick is near the freeway with more on the upgrade work going on aroundtheclock. Nick . I am not an engineer but if they say they are going to be on schedule i have to believe them because we can see them working right now. Look over my shoulder they have been at this continuously and not stopped. We were here wednesday to let you know of the northbound i280 closing and the likelihood of backups is happening. Officials started the planned five day closure on a stretch of northbound i280 on wednesday night can the closing between highway 101 and i280 interchange in downtown San Francisco will last through the fourth of july weekend until 5 00 a. M. Monday. This closure is for work between Caesar Chavez and 24th. It was bumper to bumper. Five Miles Per Hour. Really bad. Tons of people. Horrible. The new hinges are floor owe four times as long. When the work is finished you will only see a black line on the road. Caltran is using the closure to change light bulbs and trim trees. Can you see the crews are working a dozen or so guys, now, according to caltran the hinge is one of three scheduled to be replaced allowing the bridge to expand and contract during Strong Movement like earthquakes. We seeing the big cut out section and that is where we will see the black strike and we will be here the rest of the morning to keep an cry on things and letting you know how the commute shakes out although most are taking vacation. We are here to stay all week, eric. The Valley Transportation Authority is providing extra Service Today for two reasons to ferry people to san jose fire works show and also as a test run for game days at levi stadium. The v. T. A. Ors with the 49ers to put up barricades and signs with a dry run and the extra service is to pick sure everything goes spottily when the season begins. They on schedule to complete a 14 million extra track to the stadium by midaugust. Concerns this morning by bay area residents over the fire danger posed by illegal fire works, firefighters say with low humidity there is still an increased risk for fire with hundreds of commercial grade fireworks exploding overhead. Police and fire official say they plan to be out in force to crack down on illegal fireworks and Amy Hollyfield will have more on the crackdown and the potential fire danger coming up in a report in 30 minutes. Six people need a new place to live after an Apartment Fire in oakland. A news crew heard an explosion after 8 00 near mcarthur boulevard. It is believed a propane tank exploded during the fire blowing the window off the house. Crews kept major damage contained to the one building and no one was hurts. Oakland police are asking for the publics help to identify a man involved in a home burglary nearly two months ago. Police released the Surveillance Video photo and they hope someone will recognize this man. Police say a resident was home but was not hurt when he broke into the case. The jury in the bryan stow civil case have gone home for the weekend. He suffered severe brain damage when attacked in the parking lot after the opening day game in 2011. The jury have for decide if dodgers are liable for the injuries and future care of bryan stow. The lawyers have asked for 37 million for injuries and twice that for pain and suffering. Now what crippled the santa Clara Communications system for several hours. The power breakers support the uninterrupted power supply tripped on wednesday night and the resulting power outage went the Communications Center lost the 911 phone system, Radio Communication and computerbased dispatch system. Fund sunday calls were rerouted to other centers and county dispatch used paper maps and radios to ming sure the calls were answered. Ten calls were affected. Hurricane arthur came ashore overnight and pounded the North Carolina coast winds of more than 100 Miles Per Hour and pouring rain. This morning, power out aims are widespread and expected to get worst. The rest of the east coast is adjusting for the summers biggest holiday. Here is the latest from nags head, North Carolina. The worst of the storm now is passed. We are still dealing with intense wind. Arthur is still churning up the ocean as it moved north. Hurricane arthur lashing North Carolina coastline making landfall overnight near cape lookout as category two with 100 Miles Per Hour wind. The storm bringing flooding, widespread power outage and reports of tornadoes. I got my kids in the living room and took them to the bathroom and we were headed to the bathroom and the ceiling was collapsing. Arthur moved north up the coast and more than 400 miles wide taking aim on the outer budgets. Evacuations were mandatory an one island and other vacationers visiting for the fourth of july week end decided to head out before the Severe Weather moved in. It messes up the holiday for everyone. A bad situation. Nothing else you can do. Backing up to head to safer grounds and hope they call us back. No heading back to the bone as arthur pummels the shoreline. Now that we have daylight people are headed out to assess the damage but i am here on the beach and, boy, you can believe in the extreme wind most of the people are out here because they want to, taking a watch with a couple of kids building a sand castle and trying to enjoy the fourth of july holiday even if it is lessthanideal conditions. Back to you, eric and katie, back to you. It looks dramatic. Nothing like that here, very mild conditions and we are going to experience a warmup. For the next 12 hours, waking up to coastal fog, so it is not going to reach inland too far and we are look at clear skies inland. By noon, 78 degrees inland and 64 degrees around the bay and 58 along the coast and plenty of sunshine for the bay area with temperatures up to 90 degrees inland and 80 degrees around the bay and 62 along the coast. With more fog coming if overnight, the fourth of july plans inland and south bay are okay. The peninsula will be clear but there will be fog that is. Coming in over friend and might even plead over to berkeley, oakland, and the north bay are as well. However, we do have mild conditions and you may want do bring a light sweater or jacket. 50s are expected. Berkeley is 58 and napa is 64 and in the mid60s for san jose and santa resolution and redwood city is 64 degrees. New traffic and the holiday lite. If you are one of those who do need to work today we have a couple of issues to get to. If you are headed westbound along 580, everything is starting to build up over the pass but if you are traveling eastbound direction we did have an accident. It does not appear to be slowing things down. San jose moving along without a hitch and top speeds along 101 away from the 280 680 split by san jose airports and 280 has no issues. Highway 85 is clear and bart is running on a sunday schedule with no ace train Service Today and muni, all on time and it is going to be this drive coming in from san rafael, up to 580, tail lights headed in the southbound direction, quiet out there, and not too much traffic. Eric katie . Kauai set good. New details emerge of when g. M. Knew of the ignition switch problem. Mechanics money report is next. State Legislature Takes a summer break and critical water measure that lawmakers left undone. Talk about hitting the right note, local High School Musicians about to go on tour. Wait until you hear where they are headed. One of the biggest weekend fireworks shows started with a bang last night. The show lights up the skies in texas with thousands of individually hand made fireworks used for the show. Officials say they will land for fourth of july 2015 in the next week. Develop us online at abc7news. Com for a complete guide to fourth of july activities in the pay area including parades and the big fireworks shows and we also have information on the events where you can see and meet members of our news team. Some tips this morning if you have pets as we celebrate the fourth of july. Dogs can cats can become frightened bit sound of fireworks and he warn that tomorrow, july 5th is usually the busiest day of the week for shelters because of an increase in lost pets so keep your pets need while the fireworks are happening and all pets should wear identification and officials encourage pet owners to try and lessen the sound of fire works by leaving on a tv or radio. If your animal is mission the aspca wants to help you find your lost pet and there is a new app showing what to do if the animal is missing and has vital medical records and offers tips in case of natural disasters. You can download it for free through it tunes or google play. The state legislature has aeuropeaned for the summer. Without meeting the priority of overhauling the 11 billion water bond scheduled to go before the voters in the fall. Most have agreed the existing measure is too large to win voter approval but they have struggled to find a compromise. Delta restoring and the delta tunnel project are part of the legislation. New Economic News is give us another reason to celebrate to holiday week end. Here is americas money report. Good morning, topping americas money, good Economic News for the holiday, the Dow Jones Industrial average closed at a new high after betterthanexpected unemployment report but it could also lead to higher interest rates. The problems with General Motors ignition switch go further than admitted with complaints 17 years ago well before the chevrolet and small cars were introduced and costing 19 cents a gallon for than a year ago with the highest level this time of year since 2008 and they not changed much last month and could come down now that tensions are easing in iraq. Americans are spending the most ever on barbecue, with ground beef at 1 percent more expensive than last year and tomatoes, too. We are grilling more this year. That is americas money. Hillary clintons book is on track to be one of the years top nonfiction books despite another slip in sales. She visited San Francisco last week for a book signing at the ferry willing and according to the experts it sold 26,000 copies during the third week of publication about her years as set of state sold more than 80,000 the first week and nearly 50,000 the second week and that does not include ebook seems. A bay areay band is embarking on a major tour of europe. This is the High School Jazz group during the last practice before heading off to germany on monday. The next two weeks they will perform at jazz festivals in holland and switzerland and italy. A large majority of kids that have bought into the idea of making music and doing it together and it is not about them but everyone. Our chemistry is strong and that helps to be better when we work with great people. I didnt know you had to study chemistry to play jazz. The group will have a total eight performances during the european tour. Well rounded. They sound amazing. They do maybe we should go to new york. An extra chaperone. We will look from our camera toward embarcadero and the bay bridge and you can see mostly clear skies and we have a legal bit of a stratus that is going to burn off early today and as we look at live doppler 7 hd the satellite shows a flow but it is going to be replaced with a ridge of High Pressure and glad keeping our skies clear. Visibility is mostly unlimited but four miles at Half Moon Bay and eight miles in santa rosa and elsewhere we are looking clear. Right now current temperatures at bart are in the mid50s and 61 in pittsburg and 58 in hayward and 55 in San Francisco is 56 at sfo. There is the ridge of High Pressure over the four corner states and it will be spreading across california and warming up everyone and that is going to last until monday and tuesday we will start to see the slide from the aboveaverage temperatures and our highs across california if you are traveling for the fourth of july holiday, 107 in palm springs, and 61, cool, in eureka and 64 in monterey and 106 in fresno. Highs today across the bay area will expense mid60s around San Francisco and cooling at the coast and 75 degrees in san mateo and 86 in concord and 91 in antioch so still going to be warm. Lows are in the midtoupper 50s and 62 degrees in antioch and 55 in cloverdale. We dry for the fourth of july holiday today. We will have Clear Conditions for fourth of July Fireworks viewing party. Saturday and sunday going to be warmer with the cool down tuesday into wednesday. It is holiday lite for travelers if you need to go to work today, we are looking at Clear Conditions and the closure northbound 280 from 101 two downtown San Francisco closed until 5 00 a. M. Monday morning and if you are coming into the city, plan ahead, try to take mass transit. Here is the drive coming across the Golden Gate Bridge and you can see Clear Conditions as you make it arrest from marin so no delays out there, certainly, and not seeing a single car. Seven things to know as you start your day. A very special graduation ceremony, the new officers introduced to the bay area and one very young honorary graduate. A tour of facebook campus take as romantic turn for a special young whether you are just joining us or headed out the door here are seven things to know. The fire concerns for the fourth of july holiday and firefighters say there is an increased risk of fire because of the use of illegal fireworks. Our reporter will have details in a report coming up. Two, caltrain is confidence interstate 280 in San Francisco will be reopened by monday morning. Crews closed down a stretch of the freeway on wednesday night in order to remesa bridge hinge. The closure led to epic traffic jams. Hurricane arthur is moving away from the North Carolina shore after battering the region overnight. Arthur strengthened to a category two storm yesterday. Cities across the east coast have postponed the fire works show because of the storm. V. T. A. Will have have a service including a test run for 49ers game and they want to make sure they can move a lot of people quickly to and from the levi stadium. Spectacular fire work show in massachusetts was cut short by high wind and rain. It was held on the third rather than the 4th because hurricane arthur is coming but the weather did the fire works in, anyway. Police were forced to evacuate people from the show when the storm moved in. We will have clear skies for our fireworks viewing parties as we look at the first forecast with much pas of fog in san jose and current temperature is 59 and expecting sunny conditions for the rest of the day and overnight and we will see more fog but, then, we will be warm inland for the week end. 15, it is holiday lit. Look at this, not too many folks are making it in from the toll plaza but we have couple citizens but keep an eye on mass transit with altered schedule for ace rain and bart. More ahead. 34 recruits from the oakland miss asked me is graduated along with honorary graduate. The chief put an honorary badge on the 8yearold yesterday. He suffers from a grave illness but that doesnt stop him from dreaming up of growing were to be an Oakland Police officer. Why do you want to be a Police Officer . I love it. What do you want to do . This is oaklands 169th academy and 9 department is eager to get the new officers out in the community. 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Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Welcome back, everyone. Good morning, happy fourth of july. We are coming up on 5 3