It had engine problems shortly after take off. It sent out a mayday call shortly after crash landing on the 405 freeway. Abc News Reporter has more. Reporter it came in like a missile. Skimming right abv multiple cars, it bursts into a fire ball. Motorists driving a pilot and passenger out of the mangled and wreckage. You can see them running to the plane. They are bloodied, stunned but miraculously alive. I seen them literally come around the corner. Reporter somehow the plane only clipping a single vehicle. Rear ended my truck, spun around. Had a passenger. Saw flames all around us. Reporter putting out the fire ball. The potential for great loss of looif and injury exists. Reporter this is one of the busieiz roads in the whole coun and imagine crashing on one of the most trafficked days of the entire year. Others run towards the flames. The problems beginning just 43 seconds after the pilot was cleared for take off. We got a mayday. We got a mayday. Want to make it back to the airport. Were still trying to get a little altitude. Reporter the pilot then saying he did lose that engine. We buy twin engine airplanes like this so if you lose an engine for any reason, you got one to take you home or to an Emergency Air field. Why that didnt work here is the question. Were hearing from an off du duty officer. It was probably due to the wife who was the pasfger. I seen her head pop up from the passenger side. I made my way next to the plane. I was able to get the wife back to the median and help the husband dragged him out of the plane. And captain john is one of several people who saw the plane crash. The 17year veteran says hes amazed by all the good samari n samaritans who stopped to help. In fremont one person died in a two vehicle crash. It happened just after 2 15. They say the 24yearold man driving this orange truck lost control and hit another car. He died at the scene. The 54yearold woman was taken to the hospital and expected to survive. Theyre investigating whether driver impairment was a factor in this crash. Cars were hauling crude oil. Officials say there were no injuries. A preliminary report says one car was leaking. They initiated an Emergency Response plan and sent a hazmat team to that scene. As we head to the long fourth of july weekend, lets get a check on the weather from meteorologist. And right now live doppler 7 showing you the fog. Its back in the picture along the coast pushing towards the bay. Highs for your saturday. 60 degrees. Well be up in the upper 80s. A nice sunny one away from the coast and you just have to hit the coast line. A lot of you have plans, including the fireworks forecast coming up. Thank you. Well, thousands of pounds and dollars worth of illegal fireworks have been found in the east bay, sending three people to jail for the holiday weekend. Melanie woodrow shows us a sample of what was found. Reporter this shipping container nearly filled with 3,000 pounds from one bust alone in san leandro. A lot of gun powder in this package. Reporter fireworks also seized in hayward. Some estimated this to be worth 30, 40, 50,000. It hits someone and explodes. It hits a child, its going to be really bad. Assisting a gang Investigations Unit where investigators found an Assault Rifle along with all these illegal fireworks at a mechanics shop we bring the fireworks. Investigators finding what appears to be a fireworks laboratory. Theyre more explosive than what they usually hand. Which is why theyre at the shipping container in a remote location. Once its full the fire marshal will come through to get rid of them safely. Abc 7 news. Well, San FranciscoFire Department is trying to get the word out that all fireworks are banned in the city. Even possessing fireworks like bottle rockets and roman candles can lead to a fine or jail time and they burn at 1800 degrees. Thats hot enough to melt gold. Fireworks including safe and sane cause injuries, fires and they have caused deaths. The Fire Department says if you see someone using illegal fireworks, dont call 911, instead call the Nonemergency Police number. Well, the safest way to watch fireworks on the fourth is at a sponsored event in the city where you live. Head to the website for a full list of festivals, parades and fireworks shows. Well, a number of grass f e fires have burned this week and each time planes were called in to help. Abc 7 News Reporter was there when firefighters got the call. Reporter when they gathered for the Daily Briefing at air attack base this morning rising temperatures outside pretty much guaranteed the lunch they might have time to eat might be the first smoke they see today. Thats the hardest part of the job is to see and wait. Time to go to work. Reporter and another day of unpredictable, predictability fire under to motion. They fired them as part of an elite air force that can reach anywhere in the state in 20 minutes. This is the only one im urwear of. If you see number 86 on the tail, thats him with, the one with 16,997 fire drops in his log book. When the bell rings, we have about three to five minutes to be in the air. Reporter planes went out, came back, refuelled. Ground crews can load pounds of retardant in minutes. The actual flying is quite te technic technical. Above all they follow one basic rule. You need to avoid the smoke. Because . You die. So said the season pro now at 16,999 drops and counting. Wayne freedman, abc 7 news. A warning for voters on the bay to be extra careful around visiting marine life. This after a voter collided with a whale near the golden gate bridge. They wound up warning several boats about a pod of whales. Theres a tug boat just ahead of us. We can raise them, let them know theres a pot of whales ahead of them, that they can take action and there was a small fishing boat coming in and similar to the one from yesterdays incident. Theyre warning to avoid cutting in front of him and theyre trying to locate the boater to speak with him. It is a federal crime to deliberately harass a marine animal. A new clue found on a beach. More than a month after their son and his car disappeared along the san mateo coast. Also. On the hunt for coyotes in San Francisco we see the tracking program for the first time. Its back in the vegetation, way back in there. And a group of new evidence has washed ashore and brought with it new hope for a man who disappeared before memorial day. His family could soon have the answers theyre waiting for. Jonathan bloom. Staff will be here one day thats not the next day. And that may be what led to the first discovery in weeks of richard moss after he vanished without a trace. A local resident found his triple a card washed up on the beach. We can start to search for a more specific area. Reporter volunteers gathered on the beach. Thanks for showing up. Reporter combing the sand to sort out whats trash. Shirts, underwear, socks. Reporter and what could be a clue. Shoes are a little more ominous. Reporter according to those who have seen this video, he appeared to order the same breakfast he got every morning, then he got right back on the road. They say he was head to a jobs site where he was working as an electricians apprentice. When the same line of cars drove by a mile 1 2 later, his was missing. How can Somebody Just disappear like that . I dont get it. Reporter now theyre looking for car parts. They say its unlikely theyll find him aliecve but theyre determined to fly him. Fathers moving heavv earth find his kid. Blue green algaes been found and now linked to the deaths of two dogs. Warning signs are now posted in the area. Blue green algae poisoning is most common in pets but children and adults can also experience kidney and liver kidney injuries if they swallow in water. Theyre narrowing down a list of people who may have been exposed to tuberculosis. They say an infected person went to the gym on sonoma boulevard. County Health Officials notified the gym weeks ago but gym members werent told until yesterday. Just making sure that the message is correct, that weve correctly identified all the individuals that actually need to be contacted. Theres no risk of in hneckf at the gym now. Encounters between coyotes and dogs were on the rise but now wildlife experts say theyre working to keep pets and people safe in the park. Here in presidio with a look for the first time at how the coyote tracking program works. Reporter never before seen footage of coyotes captured in the presidio. All part of a new Monitoring ProgramJonathan Young has been using to track the parks population for about a year. Trying to understand these animals, their movements. Their use of the park. How many are here. Reporter a big reason for the program, increased concern about dog and coyote interactions. Theyve had several dozen reports of encounters. Hes a big dog and he was chased just last month actually. Reporter she and her clients frequently see coyotes in the presidio. Kit oat pupping seizen are a time when theyre extra protective seen here in motion sensor cameras captured. The protective behavior overrides the fear of trying to scare the coyote away. Young is using gps monitoring to find out where theyre spending time. This allows them to close parts of the presidio near areas where coyotes frequent which close to dogs earlier this month. That created a buffer from where the pups were, to where the it dogs were and conflict subsided. Reporter it actually shows many leave the presidio, like this oneyearold killed on 280 last year. In San Francisco, kate larson, abc 7 news. Abc 7 news meteorologist is here with our forecast. Hi. And the forecast looks fabulous for the fourth of july. I do want to show you the temperature trend. Average high is 84 degrees. Youre going to be about average at 85 and cooler as we head to the weekend early next week and the temperatures will bounce back towards the end of the work week. So temperatures are going to be within a few degrees each day. Up a few, down a few. You check out live doppler seven. Its the marine layer along the coastline and it will be pushing towards the bay towards tomorrow morning. Beautiful after glow from our east hills camera. Oakland, Mountain View and a live picture from our emoryville camera. We have haze in the air. 66 in santa rosa. Currently in the mid60s in fair field and concord. You almost can see the marine layer as you look back towards San Francisco here. It is breezy outside and that is going to be a factor in our forecast tomorrow. Youre looking at cool to warm days this weekend. Temperatures will drop slightly on the fourth of july. In case youre heading to the beach tomorrow, mainly sunny in santa cruz. There will be some fogs hanging around at some of our other beaches. Half moon bay 60 degrees tomorrow afternoon. A nice day to get out and about. Heres a look at the hour by hour forecast. Yes, there will be some fog around during the Early Morning hours towards 7 00 a. M. And fog starts to peal away. This is typical for this time of year, so 3 00 p. M. Saturday well hang on to fog along the coastline. Low to upper 50s. There will be spotty drizzle like the last couple of mornings and then pulling away for the afternoon. In the south bay its sun screen weather. 83 in gilroy on the peninsula. Palo alto, mid70s. Along the coastline, breezy and 59 in pacifica. Downtown San Francisco, sgourb. The as you look at the north bay, temperatures from the 50s to the low 90s and above our area. 83 in santa rosa and the east bay. 73 union city. Head inland and its going to be a warm sunny day. 85 in liver more, 88 in fair field. Heres a look at your fireworks forecast. 10 00 a. M. , yes, there will be fog around. 2 00. Sunny for most of you. Clear skies inland in the evening. Certainly will be fog around the time fireworks are wrapping up. Heres a look at your accuweather sevenday forecast. Upper 70s to the upper 80s. Little warmer sunday and then well hold you about the low 60s to low 90s for monday and the fourth of july, in case youre wondering. Mild around the bay and inland. Along the coastline, a little bit on the cool side. This is normal for isthis time of year. Warmer weather expectedly nexed week. Well, 17 cats in crates near well, 17 cats in crates near a north bay have to travel from its source to the bottle . A hundred miles . A thousand miles . How about less than a mile and a half . Crystal geyser always bottled at the mountain source. How fafrom its sourcelpine spring to the bottle . Travel how about less than a mile and a half . Crystal geyser is the only major us spring water bottled at the mountain source. Couple of days ago we showed you penelope the porcupine and we asked you what song you thought she was rocking out to. They chose cant stop the feeling, i want to dance came in second. Well, the Humane Society of the north bay and vallejo is facing a feline frenzy. They found several large animal carriers all packed with adult katsz. 17 of them in fact. Most of them are more than 10 years old and thin and sickly to obese. Theyre worried theyll have trouble finding homes for all of the cats. We have a link to the Humane Society of the north bay. Next a deadly hospital ram bpag of new york. How other doctors stayed behind to help the wounded. Also the father who planned an elaborate sting operation to help a predator going after his daughter. A tv host firin live where you live. This is abc 7 news. We begin this half hour with a deadly shooting ram page inside a New York Hospital pap opening fire this afternoon, kilting a female doctor and wounding several people before taking his life. Somer of the medical staff refused to leave, insisting on treating victims inside the hospital. Reporter new yorks bronx lebanon hospital was put on lock down. A gunman opening fire inside. Wounding at least six others and killing one doctor. I saw a doctor. He a gun shot wound to his hand. Reporter police identifying the gunman as a former employee and said he smuggled a rifle into the hospital under a lab coat. As patients and employees scrambled to take cover. You just got a bed and barricaded the door and reporter some doctors and emts stayed behind the help the wounded, even as the gunman is on the loose. He shot in the stomach. We immediately attended to him. Theyre amazing. They helped us carry him all the way down. Dozens of officers going floor to floor, searching for the gunman. They discovered he had also tried to start a fire. Police say dr. Bello resigned from the hospital two years ago amid Sexual Harassment allegations. It appears to be a work place related matter but that makes it no less tragic or horrible. Reporter they described the scene as chaotic and terrifying. Doctors and nurses staying behind to care for the wound and patients helping one another. Maggie ruly, abc news, the bronx new york. Now to the explosive fallout. The co hosts of morning joe accused them of making personal threats reveal a continued mistreatment of women. Heres senior white house correspondent, sesealia, vega. Reporter theicide the oval office today a crush of International Reporters in a skrum that nearly knocked a lamp off the table. President trump intervening. Fellas, easy. Wow. You guys are getting worse. Reporter the white house hoped a visit from south koreas new leader might shift focus. Instead once again his own tweets created a distraction. Fierce bipartisan back lash after he attacked cable host mika and claiming she was quote bleeding badly from a face lift during a gathering at maralago. The president s tweets, whether theyre personally aimed at me or aimed at me in some way, it does worry me about the country. He appears to have a fragile, impetuous, childlike ego that weve seen over and over again, especially with women. Its like he cant take it. Reporter the hosts also dropped a bomb shell of their own. We got a call that the National Inquirer is going to run a negative story. Reporter a white house aid said they could make the story go away. The tabloids publisher are friends. They said if you call the president up and apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. Reporter susillia, vega. States are out right refusing to hand over voter data. Commission vice chair sent a letter to every state asking for voters names, birth days and Social Security numbers. California was the first to deny the request. She sesz its not widespread. And mississippi secretary of state a republican, also declined the commissions request. He told the commission to jump in the gulf of mexico. To oklahoma and the father who created an elaborate sting to catch a sexual predator targeting his daughter. The family was ready and waiting. Clayton san del. Reporter when this 33yearold man walked into this oklahoma backyard, what he got wasnt what he was expecting. Tackled by a 15yearold girl he was coming to meet. He had planned everything with her. Her father says he was tipped off to the elicit rendezvous using an app that monitored the teens phone. They said they couldnt help until they decidesed to dosomething. The father took it upon himself to say are you still coming tonight . And he said he was. Reporter but it wasnt the teen waiting in the tent, it was the step mom. The moment he entered my yard, at that point in time i had to do what was right as a father. Reporter according to police the man says he was just coming over to talk. As a parent i dont blame them. Its their right to do whatever they need to do so. Reporter police say they dont condone vigil ante justice but not considering any charges against the girls family. Were remembering a familiar face to many longtime. Frnch for a generation he was the face of abc news. David louie looks back at van ambergs work. The bay areas most wanted Television News team. The Channel Seven news gang. Reporter fred van amberg started in the early 1970s. He went only by his last name, van amberg for most of his career. He wasnt just an anchor. He was an institution. Leading each news cast with his trademark opening. He was who people turned to when news broke. For nearly two decades he repo