50s by 9 00. By noon, blue skies, sunny, warm, this afternoon, some temperatures climbing into the low 80s and then it will still be pleasant and clear if you have evening plans, temperatures still hovering near 70 degrees, so today sa cool day, chris. Head to the beach as well if you make it there. Chris. Frances, thank you. Developing news now, an amber alert has been issued for two young girls who were abducted by a woman t. Girls are of asian dissent. On the left is a finyearold described as 4 feet, 6 inches tall and 60 pounds, in the middle is a 14yearold they believe the abductor is a white woman. They were taken from greenville in Plymouth County nearly three hours north of sacramento. She was driving a 2016 plaque toyota prius with the license plate 7uhhoo 3. Out of antioch the chbp is investigating how a car slammed into the back of a fire truck cumming the driver of this white car. It happened on highway 4 near the sum the firefighters and the ladder of the truck had minor injuries. It is unclear whether alcohol or drug were involved. In oakland, safety violations have been uncovered at a building where four people died in a fire monday morning. One fire fighter says the Apartment Building was dangerous. Sky captured the terrifying scene. News reporter spoke with oaklands mayor and has the details. Reporter Carl Weathersby and cynthia green lost their father in the fire on monday. He saved his country. He loved oakland. Reporter 64yearold ed and wereson and three others died. Weve learned firefighters wanted the densely populated building shut down months ago. You find out there were so many steps that could have been done to rid this fire. Reporter in an email dated january 8th, a fire captain noticed a fire escape was padlocked. He recommended the Fire Marshalls Office close it immediately due to the danger to life safety. An email sent if february says the building is dangerous it noted unmaintained smoke detectors. The oakland Mayors Office released the documents after a reporter requested earlier this week brought the alarming emails to light. The email that suggests that we consider shutting down the building is one that disturbs me greatly. Reporter the mayor announced today six more fire inspectors problem hired. Additional training will take place. Changes in the works since 36 people died in the fire. When asked who is responsible for not heeding fire fighter warnings. We are continuing to investigate all of the actions, decisions and communications around this building. Reporter theyll keep allowing this kind of stuff to happen. A candle sparked the deadly fire. More than 100 people are now displaced. In oakland, abc 7 news. 5 04 is our time. Authorities are still looking for a gunman armed with a shotgun in santa chara. They say he shot oa woman in a room just before 8 00 last night t. Victim is being treated for serious injuries. Police believe only the two men were inside the room. No one else was hurt. Witnesses did not report a fight before the shooting. First there were protests, but now both healing, after a racially charged incident on social media at an east bay high school. Abc 7 news was at Albany High School for a unity rally yesterday afternoon. It came after some students were charged by raciallyfilled posts on instagram. About 100 students and teachers came towing to sing and comfort one another, even some that werent from the school. Its my lifes work to bring Children Together and to teach them how to get along and to help me the students who created the Instagram Account has been suspended. This morning, parents will meet with School Officials on campus. Embattled california congressman devin nunes returned to his Central Valley district as he faces calls to step aside from the intel investigation into russias influence over the president ial election. Nunes represents the 22nd congressional district, which includes parts of fresno and our sister station spoke to nunes and has the story from fresno. Reporter hundreds of protesters lined the street outside the banquet hall where songman nunes was with lepdzers him many see him as trying to protect prurp from scrutiny over alleged russian influence. Devin nunes behavior is not working for the people. He is working for the president. That itself not his job. Hes here for us. And i feel hes police it. I feel hes police it in whats going down. Reporter what many feel is going down is an attempt to cover up President Trumps russian connections, something nunes denies. There is no evidence of collusion with the president of the United States and the russians. Reporter there seems to be a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to it. Thats why we have this investigations and a matter people want to know. That is correct. We will continue to investigate that. Reporter when will you get back to business . We havent stopped. That is not a true statement we had investigators working every single day on this issue. Reporter you a chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, nunes cancelled meetings and the calls from most of these protesters is nunes should remove himself or recuse himself from the proceedings. Yes, i do, i do. Its a fallacy that he thinks he can be impartial for his committee. Hes already shown that he has ties to the white house. Reporter the congressmans meeting with the Banking Group is closed to the public. Those who attended said he talked about the situation if washington and the valleys water issues. Very wellspoken. Reporter millions of protesters on the street said they wished nunes would hold a town hall meeting and talk to them. Again, that was jean hagenson reporting. Nuno was criticized for receiving reports from the white house 11 days ago but in the sharing them with fellow Committee Members t. Top democrat on the Committee Received the same materials yesterday. Shoppers at a walmart had a scary moment last night. Take a look at this, under surveillance photos show a man in a mask armed with a gun. He pulled the weapon during a robbery and took off running north before police arrived. Security evacuated the store for a short time. No one was hurt. Its an april fools joke, a tax hike is now in effect for several bay area cities. Evoters if san who sea and Pleasant Hill and martness and newark and East Palo Alto agreed last year. There are county wide up creases in sandy clara. Abc 7 News Reporter has this story. The sales tax increases were approved by voters in november. Yes, okay. It passed. Reporter Brenda Bailey lives in newark, she says shes retiring and leaving california, because its too expensive and getting more expensive every day. Its the straw that broke the camels back, now im convinced. Reporter susan woodstock is the Administrative Services director in urk into. She says the projected 3. 5 a year new sales tax revenue will may pay for a new city hall. The Police Department alone, its way too small for them to do Community Policing t. Library is a huge well used and its small. You just cant accommodate a lot. Reporter newarks top percent hike brings the sales tax there to 9. 5 . In campbell from 8. 75 to the president of the silicon Association Says the higher taxes dont make sense. The politicians come to investigators and say, okay, we want to increase transportation, or we want to help with the homeless or went to help repair the potholes, our problem is, is that if that is a priority for the politicians, how come its not in the current budget . Reporter across california, voters in 66 cities and counties approved sales tax incareer, some as high as a full percentage point. Starting today, californias new tobacco tax is in effect. They say it may motivate thousands of smokers to quit. The spark now up there were 2 for a total tax of 2. 87. Voters approved the tax last no. Its expected to generate 2 million. Most of that will go to medical. This is the first time they had a tobacco tax increase in 18 years. Frances, were kick off april with a warmer than average temperatures. Definitely warmer than average by five to 15 degrees. We got clear skies over San Francisco much of the bay wear. But i also have some rain to tell you about in the sevenday forecast. Thats coming up. See you soon, thank you. Up next, San Franciscos lbgtq community is in mourning the guy that first pitched the iconic rainbow flag. America h you feel every mountain weve ever conquered. In our sports cars, you feel every podium weve ever climbed. And now, theyve come together to create something youve never felt before. Introducing the glc coupe. Part suv. Part sports car. All mercedesbenz. Bounty is more absorbent,mom per roll so the roll can last 50 longer than the leading ordinary brand. So you get more life per roll. Bounty, the quicker picker upper from daylight to dark, the iconic rainbow flag comes to symbolize the lbgtq community proudly over San Franciscos castro district. Thats where hundreds of people gathered last night to mourn the man who created that flag. Gilbert baker passed away yesterday at his home in new york. Abc 7 News Reporter was at the memorial and has the story. Reporter in honor of Gilbert Baker, the man who created the gay pride flag, a huge of marchers carried the banner down the street. In 1978, baker was commissioned by former San Francisco supervisors harvey milk to create the flag. Gay right actistists shared those memories. Gilbert helped build the fabric of the first flags. Reporter when he talked to my colleagues before the premier of npcs when we rise mini series. She shared some of the memories. Oh my god. Reporter Gilbert Baker was 65yearsold, a part of a generation that pulled the Gay Community out of the closet and swooved the aids crisis. We managed to complete lives. So gilbert was a part of that. And the flag became this iconic symbol that was identifiable anywhere. Reporter the colors of the rainbow were intended to be a symbol of hope and unity. During a memorial the famous castro flag was honore in bakers honor and replaced with a new one, a lasting icon of his legacy. Nbc 7 news. Three people are accused of starting a major fire under interstate 85 in atlanta. Police arrested them for thursdays fire that burned so hot, it caused a bridge to collapse. Officials havent said how it started. One man is still in jail. Part of i85 will be closed for months. Crews will have to replace nearly 250 feet of highway. 10 million in federal fund willing help to go to fix it. Now to a potentially lifethreatening recall t. Makers of the epipen and epipen, jr. , 13 lots made between december of 2015 and judgment of 2016 may not work in an emergency. For all the details go to our website abc 7 news. Com or our mobile app. Consumers should seek emergency medical help right away if their pen doesnt work. Californias Great America has announced plans to expand the south bay theme park has bit projects in the works, including this new line, which opposite to the public at 10 00 a. M. Today. Officials are planning to build an area similar to Downtown Disney. Abc 7 reporter explains. Reporter Great Americas newest thrill ride is the first roller coaster. The ride patriot welcomed members of the military to be its first riders. Thats crazy they hit us with fireworks as soon as we came around. So it was quite an experience. Reporter Great America says this is just the beginning. The city of santa clara approved expansion plans in rezoning the park. One of the biggest projects will be a commercial and entertainment in front of the park, similar to Downtown Disney the public will access it without going inside the park. W really lacking ine ear entertainment, restaurants, lever annual, all this type of activities for families and people that live and work in santa clara, so this is going to be a destination point for us. The park operator plans to add 20 rides and attractions in the next two decades. The city also approved rides up to 250 feet tall. Right now the tallest one tops out at 110 feet. Now its going to allow us to take this park to a new level. We will be able to build and bring the latest technologies, add a marketplace concept and enhance the overall experience of Great America. Reporter another major project called city place, which includes a hotel, retail, restaurants and housing is across the street from Great America. Its expected to be built in the next four years, right around the time new attractions will be ready at the theme park. Its going to stimulate our local economy by the taxes and filming up our hotels. A boost to the city looking to make its mark by entertaining the crowd. Now showing us quiet conditions with the satellite image. We look towards the bay bridge, temperatures are on the cool side the coolest numbers just before sunrise, San Francisco 55, mountain view, 52. Check out gilroy, 42 degrees. This time the east bay towards San Francisco. We have some cool numbers as well in parts of the north bay, napa is only 48 degrees right now. Check out how mild it is in fairfield, 58 degrees. What you will notice today is the winds have died down from this live shot. Can we see the flags . Not blowing as hard as they were yesterday. They allowed them to climb up sunny and warmer. Patchy fog, though, tomorrow morning. That leads to slightly cooler conditions on sunday. Then possible showers by the end of next week. Thats not an april fools joke. I will show you that in a bit. Winds are not as bad. The north bay, we see a northerly breeze. In napa, gusts could reach 35 miles an hour, then things die down late morning, then into the afternoon. A little breeze at the coast. Highs today range and quite warm as well, 60s at the coast, 67 half moon bay, 72 in San Francisco. We will see low 80s in parts of the north bay like santa rosa and napa, fairfield and the east bays, upper 70s in concord and livermore, san jose 78. If you are headed to the bay bridge game, series game today at the coliseum, you will need sunglasses and sunscreen, because temperatures will be warm starting off in the upper 60s and then it will be hitting the low 70s by the afternoon. 73 degrees. You want to head to the beach. Its a great day to go. A live shot of the beach. Its pretty quiet right now. But it will warm up to 76 degrees there this afternoon. A high uv index as well. If you need to cool down, you can dip your toes into the water. Tomorrow, here are the temperatures. Theyre going to be a little cooler. We will be dropping into to mid70s, around the bay and 60s at the coast, 65 in San Francisco. It still will be sunny and mild into sunday. Temperatures will continue to come down a little bit more. Then mild through midweek. But i wanted to talk about some rain. Here are the rain chances, so thursday night, we could see some light rain falling into friday. Better chance of rain and possibly even into next weekend. So enjoy sunny and warm day ahead. Because things are going to change by next weekend. We got a warmer day today with the accuweather forecast. A bit cooler for sunday, some patchy fog during the Morning Hours a. Piled pattern monday and still above average into tuesday and wednesday and then here comes the change. Thursday at night, we could get a chance of showers. Friday, looks more likely well get some april showers. This storm ranks one on our storm impact scale. So still will be pretty light. But it is looking like that storm will be picking up into next weekend, again, is it still far off . A week ahead, things can change. Enjoy the sun shine and warmer than average temperatures today. For today, im sure many people heading out to dloers park getting their tan on, wear that sunscreen. Yes, definitely. There are a lot of events around the area. Today is the day to wear sunscreen, sun glasses, be comfortable. Enjoy the nice weather, we certainly deserve a break. Thank you. Just ahead the chp rookie who helped recover 100,000 on its spring, and we cant wait to open our sheds and get working on our yards. Scotts and miraclegro are here to help. We make it easy to grow thick, healthy lawns, spectacular plants, and bountiful flowers. Because when spring starts right, the months that follow stay perfect. Load up your shed with scotts and miraclegro. Its time to get outside. Welcome back, everyone, after years of telling us the irs wont call it a payment like scammers do. They are hiring debt collectors to call and demand payment. How will you know which is real and which is a scam . 7 on your side showed us how to tell the difference. The reason of this call is to tell you that the calls came to millions of americans. Contract litigation department. Reporter Jerry Schumaker and Jeannette Jacoby . Pacifica. It would be unpleasant for three years. Reporter she believed it. She paid the crook 16,000. Believing police were after her and turned herself in before learning the truth. Reporter seeing the evolution of a phone scam is quite sinister and quite nasty. Reporter for years, the irs says if you get a call demanding back taxes and threatening jamie, its a scam. Well, guess what, now there will be people calling on behalf of the irs to collect taxes, which will be enormously confusing to the public. Consumer action says scammers know the names of collection agencies and might use that to fool victims. It opens the d