Our first time the local officers have been killed. It is tell. I am here to pay respects and it is good thing that people will come down here and support the local Police Officers. Public viewing sites are here to view the memorial. Kaiser permanente will open at 10 00 a. M. Showing the service rise and parking at depot park will be freed. Santa cruz Fire Departments will be staging their hookandladder trucks along all overpasses between santa cruz and san jose. Mostly on highway 17 and on highway 85. It should be a moving sight. Cornell, thank you. The Memorial Service will be hell at h. P. Pavilion in san jose because of a large crowd of people expected to attend. This is a live look outside the pavilion where they were preparing for the service. Several dignitaries will attend including governor brown, state attorney general harris and former defense attorney panetta. They depart from santa cruz to the h. P. Pavilion at 8 45 arriving between 10 30 and 11 00. Guests are scheduled to arrive between 11 00 and 12 00. Hundreds. Take part in the motor indicate with vehicles from fire, police, and Emergency Responders and criminal justice agencies of obvious county. The procession begins at 8 45 at 3rd street and run north on riverside and over to ocean street and it will follow ocean up to highway 17. Through the Santa Cruz Mountains to san jose, the procession will then travel along highway 85 east to 87 north and it will exit and head over to automatic street and finally into h. P. Pavilion. If you plan to attend, you are advised to car pool or use public transportation. The city of santa cruz is offering free metro bus vouchers for the highway 17 express bus. They are available to those with no other way to the service. Caltrain is offering free service to the memorial for all members of Law Enforcement. There is a caltrain stop across the street from h. P. Pavilion. Well carry the service live from h. P. Pavilion on abc7 news today starting at midday at 11 00 on our news. We will stream it at abc7news. Com. Memorial bracelets are available to the public in honor of the fallen officers. Each bracelet has a tag with an engraving of sergeant i baker and detective butlers badge numbers at 15 each. A portion of the proceeds are coe natured to the memorial fund. Go to our website to purchase a bracelet. Click on oh sigh it on tv i. This morning, investigators are working to find out why a lion killed an intern at an Exotic Animal park and why the young woman was even in the big catsen closure. Kira klapper has new information from the newsroom. We learned the victim, 24yearold, was just two months into an internship at the sanctuary. She was mailed by a lion yesterday. We have part of the 911 call that followed the death of the intern and the lion. Animal is contained to the enclosure. The lion has been taken care of. Police say around 12 30 she was attacked by the fouryearold african lion. Another park worker tried to distract the cat as it mauled her but nothing worked. Responding Sheriff Deputies found her severely injured and they had to shoot the animal in order to reach the woman. But she died at the scene. Her father spoke with use over the phone and wonder idea his daughter was in the end closure in the first place, something investigators want to know, as well. How she ever got inside the cage or why she was inside the cage, she made it clear they dont let anyone in the cage. Her father told abc7 news he feared getting a call like there but he says it was his daughters dream to work with big cats and this internship was a step toward getting a full time job at a bigger zoo. The zoo is closed to the public and officials will try to determine what may have caused the brutal attack. In the newsroom for abc7 news. A local pet food company is doubling the reward to catch the person who poisoned a k9 member of the Richmond Police department. Period foot express headquartered in east oakland, is matching the 10,000 reward offered by two police unions. The police dog was poisoned at the home of the officer he partners with. Guns were stolen from the home, as well, and the officers family dog died after it was also poisoned. Ought man charged with stealing a lux i didnt rate and running it aground is preparing his defense from the San Mateo County jail. The other two were arrested and they is been released. The 63yearold has pleaded not guilty to grand theft, receiving stolen property, and vandalism accused of stealing the 82 yacht and damage it on the shoreline. The others taken off the boat, a 56yearold woman and a 54yearold man did not know the yacht was stolen. Our investigation convinced us they were unwitting and they understood him to have inherited the boat and they are witnesses at this point. The prosecution will hold the suspect liable for damages to the yacht which are estimated at 500,000 as well as the cost of the we coast guard recovery effort. The motorcade procession for the two officers and that starts at 8 45 but it could be around time when we start to have the chances of rain. Mike . Most of us will be dry but we will have the rain to the north. We will get the rain in the south bay during the afternoon hours. Hopefully everyone can get there okay but getting back home, that is when you could get wet. Sevenday outlook shows the northwest corner of sonoma where we have a few radar runs, with some drizzle and maybe a bit of light rain and you can see a wall of waterworking toward the north bay so if we see any showers in the morning commute this is the best area, and the rest of us are going to be dry. We have fog out there to con conditioned with and novato at three quarters of a mile. Ize lated showers in the north bay through the morning. Showers build in the rest of our neighborhoods headed to lunch. Our best chance of showers is in the afternoon and early evening. Temperatures will hang out in the upper 40s at the coast and lowtomid 50s for the rest of us. Tomorrow, the system pulls out with dry air and sunshine rolling in. Then the temperatures are back to arrange on saturday and warmerthanaverage away from the coast on sunday. Mike . To the san mateo bridge if you go from hayward to foster city you are looking at a nice drive with tail lights on the flat section to the highrise over to san mateo area, everything is moving at the limit at 14minute drive from hayward across the bay. We still have an accident partly blocking the offramp, this is southbound 880 at 98th and oakland they are waiting for a tow truck. Now the commute from the Central Valley you will find slow traffic from 205 to the Altamont Pass and it picks up through the livermore area. To the south bay this is road work at south 880, 237, to the great mall parkway until 7 00 a. M. Kristen and katie . Next, college students, they are all gearing up for spring break but there are uninvited guests in one state. Hearing in washington that could have an nfl team searching for a new novato, oakland, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. Welcome back at 5 14. The head of venezuela develops president ial guard says chavez died of a massive heart attack of the tens of thousands marched through the streets of the capital alongside the casket yesterday. He is lying in state until the funeral tomorrow. The general was with him when the 58yearold leader died on tuesday. The general says the final words were please dont let me die. Bay area residents can express their sympathies over his death at the venezuelan consulate in San Francisco. Any are making a book available for the public to sign through tomorrow. 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The wall street journal reports after the markets closed today the fed will release data from what are known as the dodge frank test and show how the industry and banks look in stressful situations with more tests next week but the banks have argued the two part release could make it more volatile. I had to grab my coffee, i was desperate. We understand. Everyone at home, it is early. Now, mike will talk about the rain and when the shower could reappear. Right now there are a few showers out there. In the north bay, a few scattered showers this morning, and you can see as the wall of water is near the coast it is running into sinking air with a possibility of light rain. In San Francisco, dress for 47 degrees. Oakland at 44. San jose, down in the south bay, 41. On the peninsula, palo alto, at 40. The north bay, mill valley, has 42 degrees. Here is what will happen with the forecast cycle, more cloud cover than yesterday, and darker clouds, too, because they will have more moisture, and showers are on the increase during the afternoon and evening hours. Dry air arrives tomorrow and another extended period of warm, dry weather and i dont see another chance of rain, possibly seven or eight or nine days out with temperatures above average for several days. Our last low will rotate through this low pressure and the big bowl of cold air sitting over us so the last round pushing through today. Here is the timeframe. 7 00 this morning, again, look at the coast. Kind of quiet. But, still, moving offshore, some showers there, possibly a few stray showers in the north bay, and that is the case through the better part of the morning hours. Then the showers develop, especially the closer you are to the coast, and down in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the south by, the slows will come right along the coast and take a little bit of a lesshand turn into the monterey bay and that is why there is a better chance of heavy rain to the south and pulling arm overnight. We will wake up friday morning to fog and mainly dry and a small chance of a shower and the winds will come from the east and bumping up against the mountains in the north bay. Very isolated chance up this. It is dry and we are off to the races with warmer weather tomorrow and the weekend. The Santa Cruz Mountains will have up to three quarters of acknowledge inch of an inch. As you look at saturday, can you see we have the clock up there, spring forward, set your clock ahead an hour as we lose an hour of sleep with daylight savings begin. Check the snow detector and Carbon Monoxide detector for new battery and look at all the warmth next week. The east shore commute from richmond and vallejo and into emeryville and macarthur maze it is looking good, and punched up at 580 merging at golden gate field but otherwise it is moving nicely. The commute from the antioch area, with some slow traffic along the stretch when you get to leverage, the traffic picks up in the pittsburgh and concord area. The funeral procession we have been talking about, the fallen officers, at santa cruz at 8 45 and rolling closures and north 87 to h. P. Pavilion where the Service Begins at noon. Katie and kristen . Coming up on 5 20. This is a tuna recall in Bloomberg Business report coming up. It took the world by storm, now an artist is our ocean spray are made with sweet cherries and the crisp, clean taste of our cranberries. I cannot tell a lie tis tasty. Okay, george washington, did you take my truck out last night . tis tasty. There is a u. F. O. Sighting by Russell Crowe in australia. According to the actor the footage shows a u. F. O. 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Time to get another check of the weather. Dryer than yesterday. We hope it will stay that way until the morning commute. Mike . I think so. We will be okay, possibly until noon but the rain is very close to the coast so at any time, maybe the coast gets drizzle with light rain and the Higher Elevations. We will take you down to the mountains south of monterey we have Winter Weather advisory at 2 00 this afternoon through 3 00 tomorrow morning at 2 to 5 of snow possible above 3,000. In tahoe we have snow showers possible into the afternoon which will not hamper your travels like we had yesterday where we had white out conditions. Best chance of rain is right along the coast to san diego but eureka is seeing a clearing trend. 35 in tahoe, los angeles and san diego in the low 60s. Now the traffic. Thanks, mike, and happy thursday to everyone. A minor delay here for cashpaying folks and otherwise traffic is slowing nicely into San Francisco with no metering lights and everything is looking good. Going back out of antioch we are fining slow traffic as you make your way to railroad avenue and it picks up after that in the concord area. Now, a look at the Central Valley commute, it is slow and jamming up to 2305 and it picks it over the Altamont Pass. The cardinals continue to meet at the vatican this week to prepare for the conclave that will choose the new pope. Some bluff we could have a new pontiff next week. Jimmy kimmel shows us the top choices. You can bet. The favorite is turkson from ghana at 114 and then after that, is the stallion archbishop, with the odds 31. Being pope is good, you get a big house, a butler, a car named after you, it is a lot like being batman. It airs weeknights here on abc7 news following abc7 news at 11 and then nightline. 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From the live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news, good morning, everyone, i am Katie Marzullo here for eric thomas. I am kristen sze. We have full coverage on the Santa Cruz Police officers memorial but right now we will get you started with the weather forecast. Mike . There are showers offshore but the key is they are offshore. Here is live doppler 7 hd, we will see how far they are, 50 miles from san rafael and 35 miles from petaluma, rather, 50 minutes from san rafael, and, say, 30 miles from guerneville. As we put this if motion they are coming up and they are falling apart. Stray shower is possible this morning. The closer you are to the north bay coast, otherwise, it will be a dry commute. Today is the opposite of yesterday. We are starting off dry with the showers building in the afternoon hours unlike yesterday when they tapered. Showers the be around the bay, lowtomid 50s and the least likely area to see showers and the east amount of rain is inland, especially the east bay, midtoupper 50s with the most showers along the coast and lowtomid 50s. In san jose north 87, this is going to be a lot busier this morning and this afternoon with the fallen officers funeral with rolling closures from santa cruz north 17 on 85 southbound, on north 87 along this stretch, as well, as they move toward the h. P. Pavilion for the service at noon. Elsewhere right now we have an accident cleared in oakland that is now gone and road work southbound 680, that will be picked up shortly. Kristen and katie . Thank you. A somber morning in the bay area as the Santa Cruz PoliceDepartment Prepares to lay to rest two of their own. The officers were shot and killed last week, the first lost in the departments history. Cornell bernard is live in santa cruz where the procession will begin. They are ready to honor and say goodbye to two Fallen Heroes today in