handgun found the day after the shooting was a gun like this, glock semi-automate police believe francisco sanchez used in the shooting death of kate steinle. he was rested for the murder and they believe it belongs to an agent. the public defender's office represent sanchez. >> shocking when abc7 revealed that this gun belonged to a federal agent, we said what? >> reporter: the gun was stolen from the car of the ranger from the bureau of land management. the agency said it happened june 27th in downtown san francisco. the question is did sanchez steal it? in a jailhouse interview with abc7 news sunday sanchez says he found it under a bench on the pier wrapped in a t-shirt and it went off accidentally. >> i hear the boom boom three times. >> he has no theft convections so we have no reason to believe he was responsible for taking this gun. >> reporter: he believes it's a

growing problem. the number of guns lost or stolen from federal agents. he points to the atf, alcohol tokyo and firearms agency. >> their agents lost something like 500 guns over a five or six year period gunses that were reported as either lost or stolen. >> reporter: he says the underlying problem here is a proliferation of guns like this one, on the streets of san francisco. dick lee abc7 news. >> sanchez' legal status and history of deportations sparked quite a debate. today, san francisco mayor ed lee jumped into the middle of it. caroline is live at city hall with that part of our story tonight. >> reporter: earlier this week mayor ed lee released a written statement. today, he left city hall and went in front of the cameras to talk about this debacle. he says there is a level of local responsibility. in his first press appearance since the pier 14 murder san

francisco mayor ed lee did not mince words. >> do i need to educate somebody how to pick up a phone? >> reporter: the mayor says the sheriff should have called federal authorities when alleged killer fromfrom -- francisco sanchez wound up in his custody and give giving a heads-up about the man would not have violated the city sanctuary laws like the one he and the board of supervisors signed in signed. >> there is a strong provision that says nothing shall prohibit communications. >> reporter: bustt this supervisor disagrees saying he believes the sheriff was following policy. >> holding somebody beyond their release date are the things that the ordinance barred the sheriff from doing. >> reporter: the case has put the city in the spotlight with politicians from san francisco

drink senator dianne feinstein to republican presidential candidate, donald trump, raiseing questions. mayor lee says he has his own for federal officials. >> why the fed is in the first place didn't deport this person again. >> reporter: in the middle of the controversy, one community group started a peat drive asking for change -- a petiontion drive asking for changes in the law laws. >> i do believe in our sanctuary law but when something like this happens happens you have to take time out and look again. >> reporter: that's apparently what the mayor now plans to do. in san francisco, carolyn tyler abc7 news. >> you heard how the gun in this shooting was stolen coming up at 5:30, a look at how many guns are ripped off from federal agencies. we are seeing drizzle and gray skyies out there as we enter the second week of july.

how long will that last? sandy patel has the forecast. >> we are looking at this continueing on into tomorrow. a breeze going through and a few sprinkles a few seconds ago. let's look at live doppler 7 hd. you will see there are very strong thunderstorms right around the lake county area upper lake and clear lake. some of that activity will be moving down in the next hour. keep that in mind. some of those thunderstorms may produce hail and accompanyied by heavy rain. down to our south on twitter, i had one person tell me there were quite a few sprinkles in santa clara and not surpriseing some moisture has been moving through. what can you expect? the next couple of hours with drizzle making for a slow going commute in spots. we even have the possibility of showers in the forecast as we head towards tomorrow. i will be back with a detailed look at that and your weekend coming up. >> thank you so much. police in latest have called

off a search for a man who allegedly assaulted a police officer today. the officers approached two people in a suspicious vehicle around 9:30 this morning. officers were able to arrest one of them but got into an altercation with the other who then ran away. officers and canine units search searched the area for three hours before calling off that search. today a judge sentenced a woman to 30 years to life in prison for killing a couple in october of 2013. prosecutors say she got behind the wheel after a day of heavy drinking and veered off the street hitting this couple who were walking their dog. she was on probation for a du icon conviction at the time of the collision. there has been another mountain lion sighting in san francisco. this time near sea cliff. live tonight from inspiration point with the story. wayne. >> reporter: dan this is an area we should note mountain

lions have been roaming before humans were even alive. they probably never left just very good at hideing. it was busy for a wednesday and san francisco's town may be busier than they expected. now that a co-cities steps has begun. >> reporter: i'll be cautious but i'm not frightened. >> reporter: showing on a video one of five recent sightings. >> are we in danger? >> not at all. >> reporter: sarah studies the large cats as part of the preservation fund and have 138 south and east of san francisco and this picture of two nuzzling says their true nature. >> reporter: it's the real side the real story one of the things that we hope to tell by share inging the lion's story, which is how do they spend their

nights, days, lives. >> reporter: there is no escape escaping the fact mountain lions are predators but humans are not on their menu. they are excellent at hideing but if you were to see one of these large cats, its reaction might surprise you. >> reporter: probably yawn and walk the other way. >> reporter: we're seeing them because cityies are expanding into their range land these cats looking for real estate to seek a claim certainly neither the first nor the last nor a major cause for concern. in the presidio, wayne freedman abc7 news. >> stunning video. that fabulous light show that brightened up the bay bridge for two years took a step back. nbc was in oakland today as the bay area agreed to pay phillips electric 2$2 million over 10 years to inspect and maintain the lights when they're rein reinstalled on the bridge. these bay lights are very low maintenance, in the second part of the 10 years, there may be some replacement bulbs or

repairs based on weather conditions and so forth. >> a private group raised 4 million dollars to replace the 25 thows,000 left light display and will be switched back on just before the 2016 super bowl. a reminder of a closure at the north and south ends of the bridge that will be closed. abc got an up close tour of this twin tunnels high and low viaducts and lanes for the golden gate bridge database-or to the golden gate bridge for navigateing closure and you can nav gate on your smartphone and join apple's app store or google play, it works extremely well. one man caused california taxpayers millions of dollars. the mastermind behind a phone scam brought to justice next. today's big glitch on the

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this is abc7 news. >> that sound couldn't come soon enough. what a day on the stock market. the dow shed nearly 1.5%. the dow fell even more than that. all of this after the new york stock exchange halted training for nearly four hours. one graphic showing what it looked like the moment the markets stopped.

trades dropped sharply and put puttered for a few minutes. what happened and what does all this mean for the average investor. david louie is live in san jose with an explanation. david. >> reporter: if you absolutely had to buy or sell stocks today, you could have done so on another u.s. market such as inside or nasdaq or overseas. >> it became apparent some stock orders were not being processed. it became clear that some were due to a software upgrade and the all electronic system was malfunctioning. david lewis is vice president of raymond james brokerage. >> in interest of fairness people closer to it have an advantage and rather than worry about that they shut everything down so it's equal. >> reporter: the suspension of tradeing went past two hours.

the system was finally fixed after close to four hours. the halt came on a day when markets around the world are continuing to worry about the debt crisis in greece and major sell-off in chinese stock markets. it's not likely the average investor got hurt today according to finance and investment professor at santa clara university. >> most people are not aware of the tradeing and certainly not trying to trade. the only situation if you're closeing on a house and had to sell stocks today and that would be a real problem but not for very many people. >> reporter: the federal monitor monitors monitored the situation but took no abc news after being assured -- took no action after being assured it wasn't a cyber attack. >> we were told there was no malicious action in the technology issues. >> it makes me nervous like something isn't working so i am

concerned. >> reporter: in san jose, david louie, abc7 news. >> there were more computer problems, this time with united airlines. a company spokesperson says a network connectivity problem specifically with issue with a router grounded flights for two hours causeing major delays across the system and across the country flights are slowly returning to normal. frustrated travelers at sfo says the situation was a nightmare. >> when we came in we could barely get in the door because the lines were so long. >> reporter:passengers at the airport said they did not receive any information while they waited and it impact data to the planes on the ground and planes in the air were not in any danger. "wall street journal" also experienced technical problems this morning, the error message people saw when they went to log onto wjs.com and so far there is no evidence any of these glitch glitches is connected.

telling congress they want greater access to encrypted data. technology built into smart smartphones is making it harder to monitor and intercept message messages from criminal. the fbi director says it goes beyond that and cited an example how longed cell phones could affect family. >> one of your kids disappeared and their phone is left behind and it's locked we cannot tell you who they were texting with. i have five kids that is a big problem. >> not so much internet government as the fact you have to start imposeing requirements on the apps the american people were allowed to have access to. >> silicon valley companies are against greater access for data. they say it protects their communications and protects them from hackers. a leader in an irs scam who bilked 20$20 million from taxpayers here and across the country was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

he pleaded guilty to running a call center in india where workers impersonate irs and fbi agents and threaten americans with arrest and financial penalties if they didn't send money. the biggest targets were getting tricked out of 3.8$3.8 million. a bill that would have regulated electronic cigarettes has been dropped by its sponsor. state senator leno. they amended the bill and it could not face the same restrictions as cigarettes. leno said the change made the bill dangerous and something he no longer believed in and he pulled his support saying he was acting on behalf of the next generation of californians who have become addicted to nicotine as a result of your vote. a state lawmaker used a surpriseing visual aid to win support for his medical marijuana cultivation bill. assemblyman brought a full sized pot plan into the room and said

it would reduce the impact on water quality and fish and wildlife and said the problem is even more acute because of our severe conditions. >> i'm really concerned about the water and concerned about the wastewater coming off of there and i'm concerned about the pesticide use. >> wood's argument and visual aid seemed to help his cause. members of the senate government and finance committee anonymous anonymously approvedanonymous ly -- unanimously approved the legislation. >> an advisory is in effect tomorrow for these counties. wind gusts can raise dust in areas where soil is so dry from this drought. officials say exposure to the pollution can trigger asthma attacks and bronchitis. >> in lake tahoe wind wasn't the problem, it was hail. it looked like snow in the

second week of july. >> here we are entering the second week of july. >> sandy patel joins us to tell us what's headed our way. >> we may be seeing showers and cloud cover. july is typically one of our dry driest months in the bay area. we do get drizzle. the shower possibilities could get interesting. let's check out live doppler 7 hd. i will show you where there is unsettled weather up towards the lake county area and thunderstorms developing and reports of flooding up there and some of that activity moving towards hopland and cloverdale and the best chances are men do mendocino and lake countys going into tonight. sierra nevada, over 1,000 lightning strikes at last check across the state of california. the good news is they are producing rain. this time of year we are concern concerned about fire danger and lightning. we've seen flash flooding and

reports of hail and thunderstorm and wind damage across the tahoe area. this was sent to twitter, tweeted to me of lightning and say says, hey, we're getting a lot of this in the sierra nevada. please send your pictures if you get any weather pictures between today and tomorrow. here's a live picture in the tahoe area and cloud cover and we will keep it going into tomorrow. san francisco oakland mid-60s san jose 69 and 61 in half moon bay. our view from the kgo roof layer drizzle and the high so far, low 60s to upper 70s below normal for this time of year and those temperatures did come down a few degrees today. just zooming out here to give you a better perspective, a little peek of blue up above. chance of showers tomorrow and

looking at a dry pattern for the upcoming weekend. satellite area showing you why this area of low pressure is slowly moving inland as it does it's setting off the thundershowers. and as it does, it's squeezeing out the drizzle and chance of showers as we head to tomorrow morning's commute. it will be very spotty but you likely need your wipers in spots. tomorrow evening, we have to keep in the possibility, as you are commuting, keep that in mind, friday morning could be more drizzle but not so much because of that low pressure system, just our typical july drizzle. as far as the lake area is concerned, our animation storms expected near clear lake again, for tomorrow afternoon. remember, when thunderstorms do develop, you want to head inside and some may produce hail and heavy rain. tomorrow morning damp road for start of the commute, mid 50s to low 60s as we head towards tomorrow afternoon, you will

notice quite a bit of cloud cover and thunderstorms around the cloud area, around 80 clear lake and chance of showers. 75 in livermore, 60 in oakland and 64 in san francisco. cooler than average continueing for your thursday with the possibility of showers. then we go with a drier forecast as we head towards the weekend, mid-60s to mid-80s a little bit warmer. we really start to warm it back up closer to july levels early to middle martpart of next week seeing those upper 80s and low 90s returning and until then we will take a break from the hot weather for a while. >> thank you. protecting yourself from the sun is obviously important. should you spend money on special clotheing? some answers. melting the fat away ground breaking new technology that can slim your chin. how it works and wh

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skin cancer is among the most common of all cancers and exposure to the sun is the primary cause. >> is protective clotheing a good idea? >> let's find out. >> planning some fun in this sun this summer? it's important to protect yourself from the sun's harmful rays with both sunscreen and protective clotheing. but do you really need to spend money on special u prkspf clotheing? >> some clotheing claims to have upf or ultraviolet protection factor sort of like sunscreen. we wanted to see if they really work and if they do do they work better than regular clothes? >> this 32$32 outfit is embedded with dioxide and promised to re rebe 1rebe where less than 150 of uv penetration can penetrate.

it did deliver measureing more than three time this protection it promised. >> it sounds really impressive. it's less remarkable when you consider the other two shirts we tested which didn't claim any uv protection did very well, too. >> reporter: for just about half the price east bay compression crew made from the same polyester spandex blend delivered a upf of more than 400, more than twice that of this shirt and this thicker than a regular t-shirt delivered a upf of 115. >> covering up when you're in the sun is important. basically, we found it's really not necessary to buy a special shirt. >> reporter: which means you can get effective protection without getting burned at the register. >> "consumer reports" also ran tests when the shirts were wet and judged all three to have respectable levels of protection. but this was the only one to deliver increased protection

when wet. all testing was done on new clothes yet to be washed or exposed to elements like color chlorine or saltwater over time might affect the protection factor. 7 on your side. just ahead pitching in from bald dudes and dudettes sdudettes. >> and how san francisco giants are showing they have champions on and off the field.

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coming up tonight on abc7 news at 6 looking for answers after a young woman was shot and killed while driveing down the street in vallejo. only on abc7 news you will hear from her family the first time. >> high-tech goes deep to pro- protect california's drought and how farmers say it could be a lifeline for the state. the changeing tech industry in silicon valley, are we on the verge of another bubble about to burst? at 6:00. veteran actress frances mcdormand is headed to the bay area to star in the theater. >> she was recently seen in a show but the most famous is "fargo." >> i was just wondering- -- >> like i told you, we haven't had any vehicles go missing. >> okay. are you sure? >> she will play lady mcbeth in february. >> a great actress.

the san francisco giants are making a pitch to their fans to register as organdonors. >> they invited recipients to the game and encouraged the donors to have it on their license. >> this 10-year-old got a life saving kidney when he was 6. >> happy because i wouldn't be here right now. i'm glad i got a kidney for my mom. >> thanks to that kidney juan pablo doesn't just watch games, he pitches for his baseball team. more than 10,000 are currently waiting for organ donations in california. this morning team went to giants game. check this out. the 4-1 loss to the new york mets today. but they had fun anyway. >> thy certainly did. >> world news is next.

>> we'll see you again at 6:00. we appreciate your t tonight, the major meltdown at airports coast to coast, thousands of passengers' flights cancelled, from l.a. to denver, houston to new york. the airline blaming computers. then the new york stock exchange paralyzed for hours. again the blame, computers. also at this hour, a fast moving storm for the commute home, the rig flipped, vehicles swept away. the sweeping radar tonight from texas to the northeast. breaking news, baltimore's mayor late today firing the police commissioner, saying it was not easy. tonight, her explanation. the disturbing twist, the california woman killed allegedly by an undocumented immigrant. now we learn the gun belonged to a federal agent. are you fed up with those robocalls? tonight the woman who fought back and is now getting $1,500 for every unwanted call.