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bay area checking in accident- free. so hopefully it stays "friday light." >> yes. we're hoping. thank you. an oakland man and his two small children missing in the sierra for two days have been found safe. they were on a camping trip in down anyville a remote part of the sierra. an air national guard helicopter crew found them last night. at about 8 p.m., the crews spotted 41-year-old nicholas vlahos and his 5-year-old and 3- year-old children. later they appeared to be okay in the back of an ambulance. a deputy sheriff says the father was driving a pickup when it slipped off an embankment in mud. he tried to get it back on the road unsuccessfully. but they had food and water. >> they don't need to go to the hospital. they have been checked out by paramedics so it's good news. they are alive and well. >> vlahos and his children were supposed to return to the bay area on tuesday night. eventually other families members called the sheriff's office and said they were overdue. the search is on for a man who took his daughters in a possible case of abduction. police say 45-year-old everett dean reef picked up the girls from an after-school program on tuesday. a judge had awarded him temporary custody unaware that the man's ex-wife had a restraining order against him. an oregon state trooper stopped him wednesday night near eugene but let him continue northbound. a 13-year-old girl is talking about the man who followed her home and attacked her. it was all captured by a surveillance camera in her west san jose home. the girl managed to fight off the man who then ran away. but police hope surveillance images will generate leads and eventually lead to his arrest. san jose police warn west side businesses to keep an eye out for the man whom they describe as a sexual predator. two other images show him at an nearby subway sandwich shop 15 minutes before the girl was stopped while walking home from school. that led to this incident in the teen's home on tuesday afternoon. and the girl spoke with kpix 5 about the frightening ordeal. >> i trade to slam the door on -- i tried to slam the door on him and i couldn't. he gets in side and tries to grab me. i push him back. i try to get him off of me. >> well, she says she then slammed her hand into his face and police believe the same man tried to sexually assault a young woman last month in a restroom at mitsua market on saratoga avenue. the police are following leads but no arrests. a new round of severe weather could produce more tornadoes today and tomorrow in southern plains states. some drone video here showing some of the damage in oklahoma city after tornadoes on wednesday night. that was a hotel that had it its roof ripped off. cars were overturned, homes flattened. governor of oklahoma declared a state of emergency for a dozen counties. wild weather in the bay area yesterday. one of the rarest sightings up north. a kpix 5 weather watcher spotted this funnel cloud in sebastopol. another unusual sight especially in may. hail! check it out. pea sized ice chunks on the ground in fremont yesterday at 8 a.m. because of a low pressure system in the upper level of the atmosphere combined with unstable air. that's what roberta told us to say. [ laughter ] yesterday morning kathy munch a weather watcher sent us photographs and all of a sudden the whole world wanted them. the whole world wanted those photographs because funnel clouds are rare in the bay area. what is it? it's a tornado that doesn't touch down. once it touches down it officially becomes a tornado. if it's spotted over the water it's a waterspout. >> calmer today perhaps? >> lots calmer. we have low pressure to the south of the bay area and could see showers around monterey county, otherwise we'll have some sunshine. right now, it is calm as frank was saying. check that out right there. we do have temperatures at 8 a.m. in the 50s under partly cloudy skies. today's highs average 60s at the coast with clearing, 73 san jose. east of the bay west winds 10 to 20 miles per hour in the 70s. 77 the outside number in brentwood today. otherwise 50s in stinson beach in the upper 60s in petaluma, topping off in the low 70s in sonoma, and nearly 80 in cloverdale. the mother's day forecast is coming up. here's gianna. checking the roads right now, let's go live to the san mateo bridge off to a good start this morning. no accidents to report. we had some morning roadwork both directions of the san mateo bridge that's been cleared and you can see traffic is free-flowing of course that closure begins tonight. it's a full weekend closure. the bridge will re-open on monday morning. elsewhere, so far, so good along the eastshore freeway. west 24 to 580 left lane closed for roadwork. no metering lights on the bay bridge toll plaza. if you want to skip the freeways, mass transit is on time. 19 trains running right now for bart. that's a look at your "kcbs traffic." back to you. >> all right, gianna. thanks. peninsula and east bay drivers, take note. san mateo bridge will be closed later tonight and it will stay shut until monday at 5 a.m. in time for the morning commute. it starts at 10 p.m. tonight enabling caltrans to resurface the road. crews were out last night getting ready. the first of two closures. the second shutdown is set for the memorial day weekend. oakland police are looking for the driver of a dollar rammed into a police cruiser during a chase. officers swarmed this white bmw at an apartment complex in the diamond district last night and eventually broke the tenant window. the driver wasn't inside the car. they even pried open the trunk but there was no side of them there either. relatives of a woman and her young daughter struck by a car and killed in livermore are quickly becoming advocates against drunk driving. esperanza morales-rodriguez and her daughter julie who were visiting from monterey county were killed outside an apartment complex last weekend. police say the driver, 35-year- old brian jones, had been drinking and was speeding when he lost control of his corvette. rodriguez's brother is upset that jones is free on bail. >> it was 80 miles an hour plus alcohol. that's not a accident. >> the family plans to be at the scene tomorrow joined by members of the livermore police department and mothers against drunk driving. dozens of criminal cases in san francisco have been compromised and thrown out compromised by racist text messages linked to police officers. as joe vazquez reports, thousands of other cases could be in jeopardy, too. >> monkeys can't even spell. all they do is sell drugs to put out their music. everybody we drove by like this monkey right here, yeah, monkeys have nothing to live for. >> if there were people that were wrongfully convicted or that were wrongfully arrested, we have both the legal and a moral obligation to address it. >> reporter: it's that sort of prejudice that has district attorney george gascon expanding his blue ribbon panel looking into racism in the san francisco police department. in an era of rising tensions between cops and communities of color across the country, three retired judges with expertise in civil rights will help review thousands of cases here. >> 3,000 cases potentially we think it's even more. >> you think it's how many? >> we think it's going to be closer to 10,000 cases over the course of 10 years. we don't even have the names of all the officers yet. >> reporter: he says he welcomes the d.a.'s new panel of judges but hopes they do more than just look at paperwork. he wants to make sure they actually interview his clients. he says a lot of charges have already been dropped. >> to date, we have counted 119 cases that have not been filed by the d.a. or have been dismissed because of the 14 police officers involved in the texting scandal. but this is just the tip of the iceberg. >> reporter: joe vazquez, kpix 5. later this morning the federal department of justice will announce it is opening an investigation into the baltimore police department. it comes in response to a request from the mayor of baltimore. investigators will look for evidence of systemic discrimination or excessive force. attorney general loretta lynch briefed congress yesterday. >> although the city has made significant sides in their reform efforts i have not ruled out the possibility that more may need to be done. >> the results of the investigation could lead to the appointment of a federal monitor. the feds are already looking at whether freddie gray's civil rights were violated by the police officers charged in his death. 4:40 now on a friday. the future of a controversial spy program now hangs in the balance. a federal appeals court ruled yesterday the nsas collection of american phones records is illegal and said the patriot act never authorized the data collection so lawmakers may eliminate or scale it back. this all follows revelations by former nsa contractor edward snowden two years ago. time now 4:40. sexual harassment in the halls of a bay area high school. why students feel the school district is doing little to stop it. >> and what is cool about your school? email your nominations to [email protected]. we may come and feature your school on the show. we'll be right back. you've tried to forget your hepatitis c. but you shouldn't forget this. hep c is a serious disease. left untreated it can lead to liver damage and potentially liver cancer. but you haven't been forgotten. there's never been a better time to rethink your hep c because people like you may benefit from scientific advances that could help cure your hep c. visit hepchope.com or call a hep c educator to help prepare you for a conversation with your hep c specialist. a train derailment in texas. railcars have crumpled on to one another. the engine is laying alongside the tracks. quite a mess. no word on how it happened or if anybody was hurt. students in berkeley say their high school has become a hostile learning environment. and they claim administrators are not doing anything about it. as da lin reports, the federal agency is now getting involved but even that may not help. help. >> sexual harassment is all over the school. nice booty girl. unwanted people, like, slapping, like, girls butts in the hallway. reporter: they say the harassment isn't just a berkeley high problem it's a districtwide problem. >> i was sexual assaulted by several boys on the school campus. >> reporter: this freshman says that happened at a berkeley middle school. and she feels berkeley unified has done little to stop and prevent sexual harassment. in fact, back in october, some boys at berkeley high were caught using instagram to harass female students. >> there was what's called a slut page where they would post photos of girls, you know, drunk at parties looking unflattering and would write really offensive things about the girls' sexual habits even if they were not true. >> reporter: after getting complaints from parents, the office wore civil rights came to berkeley high last week to investigate the district's harassment policies. but many people claim the district stopped investigators from talking to the students. they say the district told federal investigators students would need parental consent and it would interfere with learning. >> to, like, accurately investigate them they need to be able to talk to all the people who are affected by it. >> how do i feel? i feel heartbroken. i feel -- i feel devastated. i feel devastated for the girls who had the experiences over and over and over again. >> reporter: parents and students hope the feds will force the district to do more in preventing sexual harassment on campus. >> to make it so that students are supporting women reporting so that students and teachers get education around what sexual harassment is and how to prevent it. >> reporter: da lin, kpix 5. >> this is the second time in five years the federal government has done a sexual harassment investigation at berkeley high. today a rally planned at san francisco city hall to call attention to the city's affordable housing crisis. hundreds are expected to turn out to call on lawmakers to place a moratorium on evictions and luxury priced development in the mission. housing rights activists also want the funding to buil more affordable housing. some people in san jose say they have had enough of a homeless camp set up just outside their backyards. this is happening in a neighborhood just southeast of the capital auto mall. neighbors are upset about the trash and debris and the resulting odor. >> a lot of noise. they have pets back there dogs are barking. sometimes they argue. just, you know, like the smell. >> the city of san jose can't do much about the homeless camp because it's on state owned property. but caltrans has told the neighbors it plans to evict the homeless sometime next week. east bay m.u.d. is telling customers there's no need to worry if your tap water tastes strange. the water district has made some adjustments because of the drought including getting water that's closer to the surface of a reservoir that can sometimes be covered with algae. the organisms are filtered out but there's a bad tasting after taste. >> i smelled it the last time around when we had this issue. do you remember that? >> that was a while ago. >> no, couple of weeks ago i guess. >> oh, okay. >> i could smell the water as i turned it on but nevertheless it's water a precious commodity. good morning, everyone. we had rain yesterday today not so much. outside it's our live weather camera looking towards the bay waters where it's calm now. later as the westerlies increase 10 to 20 miles per hour, we'll see a small craft advisory go into effect. this is upper level disturbance right here. it is now located pretty much over southern california. can you see it drifting south? we could see a chance of a residual shower. my best guess would be more like over monterey county. mostly everybody has cleared out at lunchtime except the immediate seashore. we'll have partial clearing there before that bank of low clouds and fog pushes back onshore for the late evening hours and early saturday. over the weekend the abundance of sunshine. 78 degrees today in sacramento. we had had a few flurries early this morning in the greater lake tahoe area. that should subside within the next couple of hours. 63 in monterey bay and mid-60s in mendocino. there you have your sunset and tomorrow's sun-up. otherwise your extended forecast calls for temperatures today 50s, 60s 70s across the board. that onshore flow west 10 to 20 miles per hour. 73 degrees in concord backing through clayton. dry weather and pretty close to seasonal temperatures each day especially for mother's day. this weekend spicy unlimited food festival at justin herman plaza. michelle, this has you and me written all over it. >> let's go. >> gianna, how about you >> i'm in. i love spicy food. that looks delicious. looking at the drive along 580/680 connector there in dublin so far, so good traffic fine. westbound extra volume typical for this time of the morning. but not seeing any brake lights just east of there through the altamont pass. in fact, here's a map of the area. we're clocking in nice speeds westbound 580. 62 in some spots, 53 in others. looking good out of tracy this morning. antioch no brakes yesterday lots green so far on our sensor. a nice ride coming off the antioch bridge. no disease as you work your way westbound towards the eastshore freeway. if you plan on taking 80 this morning. bay bridge so far, so good traffic very light towards the toll plaza. metering lights are off. clear into san francisco. no delays coming off the eastshore freeway. roadwork around 24 and 580 has been cleared. early-morning roadwork along the golden gate bridge but you can see traffic is just fine no delays. 14 minutes from 580 to the golden gate bridge toll plaza and the san mateo bridge looks good right now both directions. don't forget that will change. both directions shut down over the weekend for roadwork. back to you guys. gas prices are now the highest they have been all year just as we approach the summer travel season. here are the average prices by metro area for a gallon of regular unleaded. this is according to gasbuddy. $3.70 in san jose. $3.66 in oakland. $3.82 in san francisco. these prices are at least 50 cents higher than they were just a month ago. passengers on a delta flight had a scare after their plane made an emergency landing. smoke filling the cabin on a plane headed from florida up to new york. there were 89 passengers on board. >> yeah. it was a little nerve-racking. they told all of to us put our heads down on our -- in our laps because the air would be fresher. >> crew members later told passengers there was a problem with one of the engines. the plane landed safely in south carolina. the airplane gave them pizza and drinks at the airport. so there's a bonus for you. [ laughter ] >> i'm not sure that's enough. all right. coming up, tom brady speaking out for the first time since the nfl released its findings h very close to -- forecast across the bay area, very close to the 50s, lots of sunshine around the peninsula. and the santa clara valley in the 60s and low 70s. west winds 10 to 20 picking up late day at east of the bay with temperatures in the 70s. good morning, brentwood, at 75 degrees. north bay numbers stacking up from the 50s through the 60s. it will top off today in the low to mid-70s from novato through sonoma into napa. santa rosa today with the high of 73 which is pretty close to average. meanwhile upstream we go to napa and lake counties where highs today will top off in the mid-70s slightly warmer for the weekend. and checking the roads if you are skipping the roads and taking mass transit so far, so good. bart ferries caltrain ace all on time. don't forget a bart closure this weekend no trains running saturday and sunday for maintenance between fruitvale and the coliseum. bus bridges will be in place. fire broke out in north san jose last night at a pipe and welding training center. it happened on commercial street near 101/880 interchange. no injuries, cause of the fire under investigation. lightning strike believed to have caused a gas well explosion nea dallas, texas. severe weather including strong winds, lightning and heavy rains have recently hit that area. economists are expecting an improvement in the nation's jobs picture when the april jobs report is released today. the march gain was the weakest in 15 months. economists predict nearly 100,000 jobs were added last month. they have also forecast a drop in the unemployment rates from 5.5% in march to 5.4% in april. today president obama is in oregon to promote his trade agenda. he is making his pitch at nike to win support for a massive asia-pacific trade deal. but critics point out that nike outsources most manufacturing jobs. >> and they say such offshore work exemplifies the u.s. job losses that free trade agreements would cause. the 12-nation trade agreement could promote more manufacturing jobs at home rather than shipping those jobs overseas. patriots quarterback tom brady had very little to say about "deflate-gate" except that it has not detracted from their big super bowl win this past february. he spoke publicly for the first time yesterday at salem state college following the release of a 200-plus page nfl report. the league said brady likely knew deflated footballs were used in the championship game against the colts. >> how are you handling this controversy? is it bothering you? >> um, you know what? i have dealt with a lot of things in the past. i dealt with this three months ago before the super bowl. i dealt with adversity over my career and life and i'm very fortunate to have so many people that love me and support me. >> yeah! [ applause and cheers ] >> thank you. thank you. >> you know, life so much is about, um, ups and downs. and certainly, i accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and, um, i think a lot of it you take the good with the bad. >> a partisan crowd there at salem state. the nfl is weighing his potential punishment though. "miami herald" reports he could be suspended for up to one year. i'm ryan takeo live in alameda. the oakland father and his kids missing in the sierra for days now found safe overnight. we have new details about what happened. >> i'm kiet do live at the san mateo bridge. this bridge will be shut down this weekend. we have all the details coming let's check the bay bridge toll plaza. look at that. usually about this time, it's a little backed up in the cash lanes. but it's friday! >> it's friday! >> maybe "friday light." >> it's mother's day weekend. >> there we go. >> good morning, it is friday. may 8. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 5:00 on your friday. a barber from oakland and his two kids have turned up safe after they were missing in the sierra for two days. they have been camping in downeyville and an air national guard helicopter crew spotted them last night. brought them to safety. ryan takeo is in alameda outside a barbershop who is now found safe with his two children and dog. reporter: there's a lot of concern over the last couple of days from coworkers and customer here at this barbershop who knew the he could other than. that father and -- co-owner. that father and his two children were supposed to be back from camping tuesday night. but instead, they got stuck in the sierra for two days until that helicopter found them last night in a remote part of the sierra. at about 8 p.m., the crew spotted 41-year-old nicholas vlahos his 5-year-old son and 3- year-old daughter attempting to hike out of the wilderness. later they appeared to be okay in the back of an ambulance. overnight a deputy told us what happened when the family was off roading. >> the conditions were pretty muddy so they slid off the embankment a little ways and then the father had a winch on his truck to get that to get the truck back on the