Responsibility is to the students entrusted to our care. I know youre smirking at me but with all due respect, im really concerned about these kids. Reporter more coup expelled and in a parallel investigation, the napa d. A. s office is weighing whether to charge 14 students and a coach with felonies after a hazing incident in church Junior Varsity players are accused of restraining a clothed freshman player as they touched him inappropriately. The hoet football coach and other coaches resigned wednesday. Whats wrong about this is the destruction of students lives based on facts that the district either trumped up or made up through a concerning investigation. Reporter the superintendent told abc7 news that not all the coaches received a revised Athletic Handbook and didnt know all the procedures. I think when all is said and done, well see that some good kids made mistakes. Reporter angry parents, though, are circulating a petition to remove the superintendent and school board members. In napa, im leslie brinkley, abc7 news. Its 4 32 now. We have new details coming out overnight in a massive fire that engulfed an apartment complex in raleigh, north carolina. The flames consumed this entire complex which sat in downtown raleigh. Started last night and has burned for hours now. 130 firefighters battled the blaze. I heard a bunch of sirens. I didnt have any alarms go off. I saw that everything was orange. That womans building and many other adjacent were quickly evacuated. Two people were hurt by falling glass but will survive. This morning, firefighters say theyve brought the fire under control. They do expect it to smolder and theyre watching for any hot spots now. No word yet on what caused it. B. A. R. T. Is hoping the morning commute will go smoothly after major delays caused by equipment problems. Last night, a ceiling fixture fell on to a train. That happened just before 6 00 at the height of the evening rush at a station in oakland. The piece is resting on top of a fremontbound train. B. A. R. T. Employee noticed sparks and smoke above that train. All passengers had to get off while b. A. R. T. Made sure there was no danger of anything else following. Falling. Happening today, state officials are expected to reopen the damaged spillway at the oroville dam. The plan is release water to reduce the amount of water in the reservoir behind the dam because work hasnt started to repair the dam, the water will be released down to channel created by the emergency release of water earlier this year. Todays water is released is expected to cause the Feather River to rise 10 to 15 feet by the afternoon. Napa, san mateo, and santa cruz counties will be getting federal funds to help repair damage suffered in the storms. This is just some of what napa county had to deal with just a few weeks ago. President trump declared yesterday that a major disaster exists in california and ordered federal help. Officials say the money will go towards fixing bridges, roads and highways that sustained damage. Californias high speed rail wa project will be the focus of an investigation. Transdep, which is antirail, will be in superior court. A hearing will be held on their challenge to a plan by the air Resources Board that the Organization Claims will increase rather than decrease construction emissions. The man who kidnapped a woman from her vallejo home will spend up to 40 years in federal prison. Denise huskins fought back tears as she described her ordeal in court yesterday. She said, quote, you treated me like an object, a toy, an animal. I still have nightmares every night, unquote. Mullen tied up and drugged huskins boyfriend before breaking into the house in 2015. Emotionally exhausting. Thats and i had no idea how bad it was for denise. Family hopes that theres some degree of closure by a sentence in what occurred today. Huskins and quinn say they wanted muller to be sentenced to life in prison. Vallejo police initially wrongly called that kidnapping a hoax. The department has since apologized. Huskins is suing the city and two Police Officers for defamation and inflicting emotional distress. We have learned that a teenage girl shot and killed by police in hayward was pregnant. 16yearold elena moernd dooied after a confrontation. Police suspected a vehicle had been stolen. When that vehicle drove towards them and injured them, they opened fire at the driver. They ended up just hitting mondragon and the car. Hayward police captured a man after tracking him to San Francisco. Mondragons family says hes her boyfriend. One of the worst commutes of the bay area has gotten a little better and relief is coming this summer. Express lanes on 580 opened a year ago. A new report by caltrans calls them a success. Congestion pricing is driving the system with transponder sensors and cameras tracking over 30,000 tracks a day along that corridor. The average driver pays 2 to 3 but many are getting a free ride. You have to have a fast track flex if you want to travel toll free as a car pool on the system. Fast track flex allows drivers to tell the system how many people are in the car. Drivers in those express lanes are averaging speeds about 10 miles an hour faster. Caltrans says the next stretch of the express lanes should open sometime this summer on the 680 corridor between 580 and highway 24. Happening today, professional soccer is returning to San Francisco. The citys recreation and Parks Department will hold a free meet and greet event with players from the San Francisco deltas. There will also be soccer clinics for kids hosted by players and team swag. The fun starts at 3 30 p. M. Tomorrow, the deltas will host an exhibition match against the Sacramento Republic fc at 7 00 p. M. The teams regular season starts on march 25. Lets take a look at your neighborhood and see how much cooler it is this morning from about 1 in antioch to half moon bay, 14 degrees cooler. So dress accordingly when you step outside. Just know its going to be significantly warmer this afternoon. Were going from our coolest morning moving forward to our warmest afternoon moving forward. Temperatures are going to definitely homogenize as we head deeper into the forecast. Ocean beach, its 49 there, everybody else in San Francisco about 50 to 53 degrees. Weve got 50 in richmond, san leandro 51, daly city 50, the rest of us in the mid to upper 40s. All right, so, whats that mean for your accumulacommute this m . Cool to warm if youre taking mass transit. Dry all day and our last calm day if you want to go out on the water. Heres a look at your temperatures today. Upper 60s in the coast, 70 to 75 around the bay and about 72 to nearly 80 inland. 61 to 67 tomorrow so the cooling begins and about 61 to 69 for sunday. Tonights temperatures, upper 40s to mid 50s. Got a couple of chances of rain coming up. Ill tell you about them after this. Dry pavement this morning, mike and a really quiet start to our commute here. Heres a look at westbound 92 for folks heading across the san mateo bridge, wide open and that is basically what all the Traffic Cameras look like at this point. Drive times totally in the green even westbound 580, tracy to dublin. If we were going to have delays at this early hour, it would be here but thats just 27 minutes. Southbound 680, about 15 and then northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino, also in the green at just 16 minutes. We do have some weekend work with b. A. R. T. That could slow you down. Ill talk more about that coming up next. Theres more doubt being cast on President Trumps wiretapping accusations. How the white house is doubling down on that claim coming up next. And police in the east bay recovered dozens of pieces of stolen mail. What led officers to the suspects. It is 4 39 in the morning. Were headed to break right now but keep it right here, a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza certainly this is the silverado special edition. This is one gorgeous truck. Oh, did i say theres only one special edition . Because, actually theres five. Ooohh aaaahh uh hooooly mackerel. Wow. Nice. Strength and style. Its truck month. Get 0 financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get 5500 on select Chevy Silverado pickups when you finance with gm financial. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Welcome back. 4 42 now. For the third day, sicilys mt. Etna is spewing lava high into the air. The volcano yesterday unleashed a powerful explosion. Tourists, reporters and scientists watching the volcano. They had to run to escape the barrage. No one seriously hurt, fortunately. Officials have ordered people to stay away from the riskier areas of mount etna. A bipartisan push on capitol hill to call President Trumps wiretapping claim against president obama false. Can t white house not backing down at all. Reporter on this st. Patricks day i really love ireland. Reporter President Trump may need the luck of the irish to defend his unsubstantiated claim that president Obama Wiretapped him. Ive been reading about things. Reporter but not from the cia, the fbi or any other Intelligence Agency at the president s did posal. I read a New York Times article where they were talking about wiretapping. Reporter the New York Times never reported president obama ordered wiretapping of trump tower. The president now says wiretapping meant surveillance. Does the president he stands by it but youre mischaracterizing what happened today. Reporter what happened was the top democrat and republican members of the Senate Intelligence committee declared, we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of any surveillance by the United States government either before or after election day 2016. The Committee Leaders say they were briefed by the appropriate authorities. Even House Speaker paul ryan chimed in. No such wiretap existed. Heavy cleared that up. Weve seen no evidence of that. Reporter white house Spokesman Sean Spicer not backing down, spending nearly 8 minutes reading conservative reports and commentary. One report alleged president obama used british spies to gather information on plen president elect trump. The uk response, these allegations are complete and utter nonsense. Monday will be a big day on capitol hill. The Justice Department has to hand over any evidence on the president s wiretapping claims and the fbi director is set to testify in front of the House Intel Committee on the russia investigation. Kenneth moton, abc news washington. Martinez Police Believe theyve stopped a pair of suspected mail thieves. Youre looking at a picture of Officers Holding stolen mail look with a homemade key. Officers captured a man and a woman after getting a call someone trying to pry open a mailbox yesterday afternoon. They uncovered evidence of mail theft inside the suspects car. Thieves had targeted mailboxes near star flower a surge in mosquitos is prompting an investigation. This map shows the area crews are focusing on. The avenue, if you live in the area, you could see trucks rolling through your neighborhood for the next couple of hours. They are hoping to be done spraying by 6 30 this morning. March madness spreading in moraga. Last night, st. Marys won. Bcu made a run in the second half, shrinking st. Marys lead to two but the galz held on 8577 to advance to the second round for the first time in four years. Trying to ride the wave. Its so fun. Were just not ready to be done yet. So kind of joke around after this game, they cant get rid of us yet. St. Marys, they cant get rid of us yet. There are not many teams that st. Marys have got wins in the tournament so its an awesome feeling. The gales take on secondseeded arizona tomorrow about 4 45 p. M. In the round of 32. The winner advancing to the sweet 16 at the s. A. P. Center in san jose. Very nice and well be watching. All right, lets turn to mike nicco now. We are all watching the weather. What are we seeing . Not major fog right now. No, its very clear out there. Probably like reggies mind this morning after northwestern won. He found out they had a Basketball Team and they made the tournament for the first time and they won their first game. Were hard on him. Reggie, i wish he was here to defend himself because you know hed do a good job. Uc davis, kansas, today, 3 50. Heres a look at whats going on. Notice our storm heading more to the north than it was towards the east and thats because we have a surge of warm weather coming in today, our warmest day throughout the accuweather 7 day forecast. Lets jump ahead to tomorrow morning. You can see some of that moisture moving into the north bay in the form of some sprinkles, maybe even a little light shower activity. Its going to fall apart for the most part during the day but theres still a slight chance out there. You see the scattered nature of the green but its mainly along the coast and our Higher Elevations of the north bay. Throughout the overnight hours into sunday morning, mainly cloudy, temperatures in the 50s and then sunday afternoon, looks pretty quiet unless youre up around clear lake and then as we head into sunday evening, thats when the storm door really starts to open. So heres a look at our rain totals. Hardly anything tomorrow by tomorrow morning. Same thing by sunday morning and then boom thats it. Lets talk about monday. Its a 1. Tuesdays a 1. Wednesdays a 1. Strongest storm is going to be thursday, 2, moderate, look for heavy rain then. Mike is already promising i can hide in the Weather Office with him today about 9 15 when my wolverines are on. Bring food. Ill bring snacks too. Heres a live look at golden gate. We were totally socked in. We had that mist, that drizzle, created slick conditions. Today, total opposite. We are wide open. I think a lot of folks may be playing hooky with the ncaa tournament, its a holiday, its a friday, not a lot of folks heading to work right now. We do have b. A. R. T. Work this weekend. 7 30 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. , be on the lookout for this, a 15 this to 20 minute delay, scanning work for their mapping system so that could slow you down a bit. That is this sunday only. Well take a look at the Central Valley coming up next. We are very excited to introduce a new way to watch abc7 news stories and videos on television whenever you want. This is very cool. Abc7 news anchor kristen sze shows us how it works approximate. Reporter abc7 news is now available on amazon fire, a streaming media player that hooks directly into your television set. You can use amazon fire to connect instantly with abc7 news any time of the day or night. Check out our to be stories. Use your remote to move from video to video and find what interests you. I get goose bumps just thinking about the potential of programs like this. The goats just Keep Streaming down that small hillside. Reporter click on most recent to get abc7 news videos as soon as theyre posted. No place for this water to. 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But first, this mornings tech bytes. In todays tech bytes, phasing out stars at netflix in the ratings. Starting next month, the streaming service will be getting rid of the rating system. It will be replaced by a simple thumbs up or thumbs down. Netflix calls star ratings oldfashioned. Get ready for a little more character space on twitter. It will soon stop counting links as well as photos toward that 140 character limit. Bloomberg says the change could come in the next few beak wooeks. And todays Google Doodle celebrates st. Patricks day. Features two shamrocks high fiving each other as they pass on a small island. That scene based on a Remote Island off the irish coast. Its gotten lots of attention since appearing in star wars the force awakens. The force awakens. Its expected to be in the next livestreat the airport. E sport binge dvrd shows while painting your toes. On demand laughs during long bubble baths. Tv everywhere is awesome. The allnew Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity. The future of awesome. When you recognize something isnt right, make the call to the Veterans Crisis line at 18002738255 and press 1. Take a look at this. A Convenience Store clerk in georgia narrowly avoids getting crushed when an suv comes crashing through the window. This happened yesterday in cobb county. The driver apparently began to put the car in park. She went to stop it and hit the wrong pedal. Both the driver and the clerk, were happy to say, are okay. Amazing. Yeah. 4 54 now and this morning, San Francisco can boast having the tallest building west of chicago. The Sales Force Tower took the title yesterday. Building in l. A. Has a spire that will be taller but at 1070 feet, the Sales Force Tower will actually have the tallest occupiable floor so its all in the details, right . If you need an excuse to hit the Snooze Button one more time, and do you ever, weve got one for you because today the world sleep day. Its a day to recognize the importance of getting enough zs. It was founded by the association of sleep medicine ten years ago. The goal is to raise awareness about the benefits of sleep and draw attention to the Health Issues by not getting enough rest. National sleep foundation recommends most people get at least 7 hours of sleep. Is that 7 over a week . Each night. You want to see what the lack of sleep does. You guys could write a book about that, right . Yes. Terrible. We wont harp on it too much. We kind of pat ourselves on the back too much about that, dont we . We had seven days in a row without wet weather until we had that measurable drizzle yesterday and today were going to start at least a oneday chance. So the spring outlook is in from the National Weather service. Specifically you cant talk when you dont get enough sleeb dr the Climate Prediction Center says we have an equal chance of being above or below temperaturewise and we have equal chances of precipitation. Wow. That really narrows it down, doesnt it, alexis . Thank you, mike. That was great. We are wide open so far this morning through the bay bridge toll plaza. Normally we flip those on about 5 30 but well see today. Its been extremely light so maybe it will be a few minutes later than that as we get further into the commute and the only spot were really starting to fill in here, its not too bad yet, but 28 miles an hour, westbound 580 as you leave the tracy area, about 43 as you get closer to Altamont Pass but no significant blocking issues there. Thats just starting to fill in. We have one new minor issue thats popped up in san mateo. You got to see this. We have cool video from tasmania. This looks like something commuter animated or out of disneys fan today sha, even. People break the surface of the waufr at a beach near jourjtogen and it turns that ethereal glowing blue. Its caused by billions of single cel plankton called sea sparkle. The plankton flash blue as a defense against predators. Thats amazing. Speaking of sparking, a pastor in west africa just found one of the Worlds Largest uncut diamonds. 706 carats. The precious gem is the largest one found in sierra leon. Hes not keeping it. He turned it over to the countrys president , saying he hopes it will boost recent development in his impoverished nation. The government plans to auction it off. That really architecture use. School leaders in palo alto will reconsider naming two middle schools today. Next at 5 00 a. M. , why its drawing strong opposition from some parnlts. Dental deception, police say a man was posing as a dentist inside a Bay Area Office building. Thats not the only crime hes accused of either. The visit by secretary of the visit by secretary of state Rex Tillerson that a hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate. Good morning. Thank you for being there on this friday, march 17. Im natasha, reggie and jessica are off but look whos here. Im cornell barnard. Are you sure its friday . Arent you usually in here on the weekend . We just wanted to pull him in a little bit earlier. Normally working nights. Last time we worked together was saturday or sunday. You remember that. Sort