starting right now, the freeway will close at 11:00 p.m. all of this started when a driver crashed into utility pole cutting power to thousands of people. here's pictures of the down power lines. besides throwing people into the dark the crash also started a fire that threatened homes in the oakland hills. quite intense for some time. here's a map of the freeway closure. 5 80 eastbound is shutting down the seminary. westbound at golf link road and highway 13 shutting down at carson. we have temperature coverage on all of this for you tonight. thomas is live with the fire itself but we begin with amma live with the freeway closure. amma? >>reporter: yes dan. we took 5 80 east an got off at the edwards exit. that's where we are. we went up the hill where the fire was. and it provides us great vantage point over 5 80 and again sky 7 we have up as well so sky 7 hd can give you a live look at the entire stretch that's going to be shut down. it was supposed to happen at 9:00 o'clock but they have pushed it back 2 hours. pg&e made the call since they are waiting for more equipment. here's what happens as soon as she shut the freeway down. >> work is expected to take between half hour to an hour. what will be happening is our folks will be walking across the freeway with two deenergy lines and they will then cinch it up and set it into place. so that business is all back to normal. >>reporter: i asked how dangerous that job was. she says that's what the workers are trained to do most dangerous part getting across the freeway which of course is why chp closing it down at 1 11:00. 5 80 between seminary and gulf link at highway 13 at carson.so do keep that in mind if planning to head out on the stretch of 5 80 tonight. this is 7 news. >> thanks very much. now again all of this began with fire above the oakland hills. started with a car crash. you can see how close the fire got to houses for a time. happened on mountain boulevard near keller avenue. the crash that hit the power pole. and the map that shows you exactly where this happened. 7 news reporter thomas is live near that spot tonight. thomas. >> this afternoon crash and fair knocked out power to about 6700 pg&e customers and burned up about 2 acres of hillside. pg&e says that all the customers power has been restored and the chp says as you related that all this began when a woman lost control of her car and hit a power pole on mountain boulevard at about 40 miles an hour. this car started series of events that led to 3 alarm fire response and mutual aid. woman driver smashed into this power pole on mountain boulevard a little before 1:40 p.m. the car broke the pole in half. severed a street light. portion smashed through the windshield steering wheel and stopped inches from her chest. gary field and another man pulled the woman to safety and away from the power lines. >> helped her grabbed the purse and set her down. >>reporter: she's still in the passenger seat. field then saw the car had started a fire. >> at the time the fire was already raging. going very fast. up the hill and spreading. >>reporter: fire soared up the hill. third alarm threatened 3 homes above mountain boulevard. 81-year-old chambers was one of 20 people evacuated as the flames came near. >> they knocked on the door. they were knocking for me to whoever was in the thousands come on out. when i opened the door all could i see was white smoke everywhere. it was so scary. all around me. >>reporter: fire came inches from 3 homes before the more than 100 firefighters on hand knocked it down. >> obviously in the oakland hills fire storms streets didn't stop. today the fire we had l gully at the bottom. street at the top and street on the right. so we didn't have a natural break for the fire which we were able to figure out where the fire was going. >>reporter: now as you can see behind me pg&e crew still working on restoring power and also repairing that utility pole. oakland police tell us the woman in the car who they have not identified at high land hospital with cuts and bruises but otherwise in stable condition. fire officials warn people that this weekend fire danger will be high in the oakland hills. reporting live in oakland, abc 7 news. l talk a little bit about the fire danger that we are facing this weekend. spencer is following that of course very closely for us. spencer. >> we have a combination of wind getting stronger and humidity getting lower combination raises the risk of fire. current wind gust, gusty at sfo at 43 miles per hour. gust at half moon bay up to 25 miles per hour. 30 miles per hour gust right now at fairfield an up north at santa rosa. so breezy to wind all around the bay area all day long. we have a wind advisory in effect tomorrow from 8:00 o'clock in the morning to continue the okay at night and straight in delta and good portion of the central valley. winds out of the north northwest gust to go 45 miles per hour and the result is that we have red flag warning in effect for high fire danger from sacramento valley to northern san joaquin valley and delta and portion of central sierra including lake tahoe area. this morning in effect 11:00 o'clock tomorrow morning and 10:00 o'clock tomorrow night for fire conditions. humidity 10 to 15 percent which is very, very low. fortunately we don't have a heat wave coming our way but it is warming up. i'll give you a lack at the 7 day forecast in just a few minutes. >> okay spencer thank you. see you shortly. we were overhead after a fire late today in hayward broke out at business that makes lift um battery. fire contained to the lab at the battery company. chemical called tl caught fire in a bucket. all employee evacuation ateed. nobody was hurt. >> moving on to other matters. tonight messerly lost a bid to get his record cleared. state appeals court upheld messerly involuntary manslaughter conviction in the shooting death of oscar grant in 2009. bart police officer at the time messerly shot unarmed grant claiming he accidentally used revolver instead of the taser. messerly serveed about a year of 2 year sentence. he wanted to clear his record to get another job in law enforcement. but state appeal court denied. that. >> judge in los angeles rules that there is enough evidence to try 2 men for the attack object giants fan brian stowe after last year season opener outside dodger stadium. carlos was in court for the judge's decision. >>reporter: sanchez sat in the courtroom and wouldn't look at his sister as he testified against him. >> i don't believe that marvin was drunk. i believe my brother was. >>reporter: she was initially booked for being an accessory to the crime since she drove the car from dodger stadium. she agreed to crop rate with police and not being charged. after she received today she cried outside the courtroom. >> last two days has been is difficult and emotional situation for her being called to testify fwm 2 people she loves. >>reporter: the defense claims that numerous witness couldn't really identify these suspects as the ones who beat brian stowe. they say there were a number of incidents that day at the stadium. >> a bunch of giants fans and dodger fans yelling profanity at each other. getting into scuffle. getting into altercation. and the question is ultimately l is it this particular group. >>reporter: pros cawtor earlier brought up a reported jail house conversation between the 2 suspects. many sf sap chez is accused oven hansment alleging he caused great bodily injury to stowe but the judge dropped that against norwood mrichlt norwood started out as being the ultimate peace maker in this matter. i think things got out of hand. he probably lost control mr. sanchez but remains that ultimately he took part maybe less culpable in the actual attack. >>reporter: brian stow family post add note on facebook saying thank you and they trust the justice system will prevail in the end. he faces 11 years in prison. norwood faces nine years in prison but if brian stowe dies then the 2 suspects could be charged with second degree murder. reporting from los angeles, abc 7 news. there is a lot more to get to for you this friday night. one man takes on an entire 62. up next. dedicated grandfather with a campaign to free dozens of students. >> also ahead. north bay mansion. teenager party and missing picasso. marin county caper that sounds like a movie. >> and really some amazing pichblingts how to stop everyone in their track. stay with us. 7 news at 9:00 >> novato police have multi-layer mystery on their hands. on the surface it appears to be a typical break-in but it combine the element of outrageous mansion, former head of state, partying teenagers and missing art treasure. all of this at this house in novato. wayne has more. >>reporter: if you are a teen and you knew this huge house was empty but furnished wouldn't you want to party inside? is. >> well, you know i drove past it and i saw like a bunch of cars, a bunch of like kid cars and skaw a bunch of kids hopping over the fence and stuff. >>reporter: like a lot of people in the hills danny knew all about the house with the 6 pools, 7 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, place where ed murphy lived while filming in san francisco. and then there's the present owner. former ukraine prime minister who remains in federal prison convicted of hiding tens of millions of stolen dollars in american banks. tonight he is a victim, too. >> as far as burglary go it's not that l unique or bizarre. >>reporter: except that when police raided the illegal party on may 27, more than 100 kids scattered in the hills in the open space but some of them did not leave empty handed. they took items from the house. includingal lift graph by picasso. estimated value some 30,000 dollars. estimated because police don't have a good description of it yet. >> it's a missing by cast of the don't know what size look like or anything. >>reporter: certainly he must necessity but the home caretaker didn't inform police. >> officers did contact some people away from the residence who denied any involvement. >>reporter: he should get out of prison this november and return to big house and two million dollars in bills for back taxes and at this rate at least one wall that is missing a picasso. >> somebody does come across something that they suspect picasso or has picasso painted on there, give us a call. >>reporter: we did reach out to speak to the caretaker of the home today. he declined any comment. in novato, wayne friedman 7 news. >> what a story. driver was trapped for almost 2 hours inside a water truck in remote napa county canyon this mornin morning. happened near ross road and state road 128 south of saint helena 8:30 in the morning. construction worker called emergency services when he heard the driver yelling for help. he suffered moderate injuries. in san francisco crew rescued a man who fell and got trapped under a muni streetcar. accident happened on market at 7th street. witnesses say the man may have gone over or may through a railing to catch the streetcar then fell. officials say his injuries are not life threatening. then this. driver who led police on chase through contra costa county is in custody. pursuit began after officers spotted the truck that they believe was stolen last night. driver eventually ran over a spike strip. officers laid out on interstate 6 80 puncturing the tires. that's why you saw all the sparks. all right. >> go back and talk to spencer. talk about the fir danger we are under this weekend. it's warming up a bit. >> it is. of course we have the strong gusty winds that are with us through the weekend and humidity is getting lower now. so you have this is factors together it raises the risk. live view from oakland. camera with amma few minutes ago and we are looking back across the bay to san francisco under a clear sky. still very breezy conditions but a lovely evening around the bay area. here's our live doppler 7 hd. no precipitation in the area. we are happy to see that because we love our sunny weekend but we are concerned about fire risk. right now temperatures are moderately cool. we have 50's writ around the bay. few low 60's inland and of course we still have strong gusty breezes strong gusty winds. clear breezy tonight. warm interall areas this weekend and of course fire danger is increasing. satellite radar composite image shows alignment low pressure and high pressure that proud the breezy conditions throughout the day that the evening hours and not much is going to change in terms of wind strength following forecast animation but we'll see repositioning of the center pressure such that we have an offshore flow of wind by sunday morning and that means warmer conditions much warmer with high pressure on sunday in our inland locations getting up above the 90 degree mark. overnight tonight on the mild side with low temperature mainly in the low 50's. despite the breeze it won't cool down a lot. then tomorrow we have assign and mild day warming up in the south bay we see high right around the 80 degree mark. 80 in san jose. 81 at campbell. 79 at santa clara. peninsula look for high of 74 at san mateo o. 76 red wad city. 76 palo alto. on the coast pretty mild pacifica 65 at half moon bay and downtown san francisco 70 degrees tomorrow. 65 in the sun set district. up in the north bay it's getting warmer as well with high mainly in the mid 80's. 85 at calistoga. 83 at sonoma. napa and petaluma. nearest bay high will be all around 75 at berkeley. 77 at oakland and hayward 79 at fremont. inland east bay is warming up as well. low to mid 80's look for 83 at concord and dublin 84 at pleasanton and monterey bay 77 santa cruz 76 watsonville. mid 80's inlistened and morgan hill gilroy. here's accu-weather 7 day forecast sunday monday tuesday we see high pressure inland in the low to mid 90's. mid 80's around the bay and low 70's on the coast for sunday and monday. then a graduate cool down wednesday into thursday by the end of next week by friday we see quite a cool down with high pressure inland back in the 70's again but there's going to be a nice little string of warm day there from sunday through wednesday so enjoy that. >> we will indeed. very moderate not too hot. >> that's true. >> not the case back east. real strange violent weather. graduation ceremony get interrupted by a massive funnel cloud. look at that. we have the story. >> cup cake may hold the key to nasa future. why the agency is holding a bake sale. stay with holding a bake sale. stay with us. 7 news at 9 [ male announcer ] u.s. olympian gwen jorgensen is going for aluminum. cullen jones is in it for water-resistant thermoplastic. and amanda mcgrory? she's competing for carbon fiber. they're not just going for gold, they're joining with citi to give back to the programs that helped them along the way with bikes, kickboards. and racing chairs. join the movement at citi.com/everystep and help 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[ bell ringing ringing]. >>reporter: all morning just off heritage high school grounds he has been a one man demonstration against the mass suspension. he says his grand-daughter is among those dismissed for last week prank. >> i offered my services for the damage for whatever they did i'm going to repair it but the school just wouldn't listen to me. >>reporter: red paint spelling out seniors and lamb shack toll campus post couple example of the accident seniors went last week in what some parents say is a tradition that went too far. >> parents drove their kids here. parents planned with their kids on what they were going to do. you don't know whether it's water base paint, water soluble paint surface may not come out. >>reporter: her son is under class man and not part of this year prank. she says students caught should suffer the consequences of not being able to walk the graduation line with the fellow classmates. but they should not have their academic career derailed. >> whether or not they bring them all in at one time and hold it in one area for 4 hours on one day, yes. kids need to be able to finish academically. >>reporter: this is cell phone video of yesterday graduation practice. same went on today. outside parents lake jose were called to school for last minute consultation with administrators to see if their children would graduate. . he says the students have been chastised and they helped clean up the mess. the sign lists 51 suspended students. but there's a possibility there may be more. yes some of the students who have been suspended told me today there's actually an alternate graduation ceremony planned tomorrow to parallel the one here at the school. organized by parents of those suspended. students house is undisclosed. i understand there were more than 80 students involved in last week prank. not yet mostly clear today if there were more students who have been added to the 51 suspension and the reason why it's not clear is because the principal and superintendent today were not available for our question questions. in brentwood, abc 7 news. on the east coast a different kind of graduation stress. funnel cloud interrupt add high school graduation in new jersey. some people stood and shock and awe. didn't know what to make of it. others run for cover. despite the scare there are no reports of the funnel cloud actually touching down. pretty remarkable picture. >> could cup cake be enough to send americans back to the moon? nasa facing a 300 million dollar budget cut so tomorrow more than a dozen different groups are holding bake sales to raise money and awareness. scientist are trading tell scopes for apron selling milky way cup cake, saturn cake and chocolate cake opportunity coo cookies. cost cutting axed a major mars deal with europe and sent the space shuttle fleet into history and just this week the enterprise was lifted on to the new home at the intrepid sea airspace museum in new yor york. the institute in mountain view participating in a tomorrow budget protest. carter former director will talk about the need for the next generation of astronauts, engineers and manned missions to space. when 7 news at 9 continues tonight. president obama backtrack and republican pounc pounce. comment that tripped up the president and saddled up the g.o.p. >> plus the president takes on romney record as governor of massachusetts but the claims are only partially true. coming up. 7 news fact check. >> and chaos in syria. amid the violence once again. message and plea directed at the first family. another half hour of news begins here in hour of news begins here in just a moment look at you guys with your fancy-schmancy u-verse high speed internet. you know, in my day you couldn't just start streaming six ways to sunday. you'd get knocked off. and sometimes, it took a minute to download a song. that's sixty seconds, for crying out loud. we know how long a minute is! sitting, waiting for an album to download. i still have back problems. you're only 14 and a half. he doesn't have back problems. you kids have got it too good if you ask me. 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