>> are you nikolaus jacob cruz? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: 19-year-old nikolaus cruz is facing 17 counts of premeditated >> mr. cruz, you're going to be held without bond until further order of the court. >> reporter: the gunman opened fire at the high school in parkland, florida. terrified students, hiding in classrooms, behind desks. >> i feel like i'm in a dream, like i don't believe this is real. there's no way to describe what happened. >> reporter: white ma . >> why male, burgundy shirt, he's wearing white pants or shorts. he mixed in with a group of students that were westbound. >> training kicked in, i pulled my vehicle over immediately, engaged the suspect.

>> reporter: authorities are now learning more about the suspect described as a loaner and crazy by neighbors and other students. >> he was always what he was. he was always weird, like violent and aggressive. >> we are looking into his social media posts, his movements, his conversations leading up to the shooting. >> reporter: some families left in absolute anguish, friends, strangers, all coming together to remember the victims of one of the deadliest school shooting in the u.s. >> where do we go, who do we go to? how do we cope? how do we find the strength? >> reporter: the suspect had ties to a white supremacist group, meanwhile the fbi is now looking into how they handled a tip they received last year about a threat the suspect posted on youtube. >> and let's give you a live look at the vigil in parkland,

florida. it is evening now, but all those lights, all those candles, thousands of people holding them in honor of those who died in the massacre. this is one of nearly a dozen vigils planned for the victims. >> those who died in the shooting included a footbal coach and a young spram. >> jamie told parents to hold their children twice. >> alex schacther was a sweetheart of a kid. >> joaquin oliver had naturalized. >> and a star swimmer, nicholas dwo r dworet. >> and one of the victims who's being identified as a hero. assistant football coach aron

feis jumped in front of a student to keep him from being shot. and the heart breaking number of people killed in this massacre would have been worse if not for the heroism of teachers and other school personnel, including a janitor, who directed students running away from the gun fire. >> the janitor said guys you can't go this way, go this way. they crowded us into the culinary classroom, and because of those actions, a split second decision, she saved my life and she saved easily 40 others there. >> as that student's account illustrates, every second, every decision was life and death. >> i went back to my classroom and opened the classroom door,

so for a minute or so, we just yelled at the students to get inside a classroom. some of my kids ended up in another room, and i took in a couple of kids that weren't mine because they were there and they needed a safe place to be. >> investigators say at 2:19 p.m. the suspect was dropped off at the school by an uber driver. the shooting started two minutes later. the suspect then left just before 2:30 p.m. as people ran from the school. he went to mcdonald's after stopping at walmart. the topic of gun control has been top of mind after yesterday's shooting. today we're hearing from bay area politicians about the ideas they want to try to deter gun violence. >> we shouldn't be responding, we should be preventing. >> reporter: this morning democratic minority leader nancy pelosi held a press conference

calling on congress to act now to create a select committee on gun violence, and pass expanded background check legislation. >> i had said over and over, i would rather pass gun safety legislation than win the election, because people die from this. >> reporter: president trump focused on the mental health of the shooter. >> we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure or schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. >> reporter: republican house speaker paul ryan says congress passed mental health legislation two years ago that is just now being implemented. >> we do have laws on the books that are designed to keep people who have mental health backgrounds as well as criminal backgrounds shouldn't have guns. >> i think a huge part of it is

it all comes down to mental health and everything, but i mean you see this all over the country, it's not just one specific area, so in general, we need to look at it from a broad picture. >> i'm sorry, my condolences, but i don't see any action. >> reporter: a gun control group called every town for gun safety reports there's been 290 school students since 2013, and with the shooting florida, 18 so far this year. a god fu fund me account ha been set up for the victims of the florida school shooting, funds will go directly to the victims and families, so far more than $429,000 right now has been raised toward the $500,000 goal. a hearing has been postponed until next month for the couple accused of killing a 19-year-old leaving her to die on tesla

road. 19-year-old daniel gross and that-year-old melissa leonardo went before a judge this morning. the couple is accused of killing lizette cuestra. she says her son worked with the victim and she blames her son's girlfriend for the murder. >> she was the mastermind, there were all types of things that were said and done and i didn't put two and two together. if i had, that girl would probably still be alive. >> gross says she hasn't been able to talk with her son, she says she found out about the murder on the news. okay, we have got a nice sunny and mild day out there today, here's a look at live doppler 7, you can see we have mostly sunny skies, it's a little bit breezy, gent ale gro

-breezes. 11 degrees warmer in santa rosa, five degrees warmer in san francisco. here's a few from the sutro hotel. it's 59 in san francisco, we have low to mid 60s in oakland, mountain view, san jose, gilroy and half moon bay. it is 67 in santa rosa, that's our warm spot, concord is also at 67, fairfield at 65, at 67. well, after so much back and forth over the affect ieffectiv this year's flu vaccine, the cdc has issued a report, there's no surprises. officials are still urging people to get vaccinated, it's not too late. >> reporter: for so many this flu season the battle to stay healthy has been a tough one. >> i had a fever, chills, i was

also having runny nose, my vision was also kind of blurry. >> reporter: according to the centers for disease control, this year's flu vaccine is only 25% effective. though some say that's a reason to not get vaccinated, officials are still urging you to get it. >> it stimulates your immune system and it certainly reduces your risk of death if you were to get it. >> reporter: doctor alexi wagner says there's been a decrease in people admitted to the emergency department with flu-like symptoms in the past month. but that doesn't mean we're in the clear yet. >> during the next month, we urge to take precautions. >> reporter: a total of 7 under the age of 65 have died since the season began. officials throughout the region are taking the matter seriously.

the san jose unified school district has extra cleaning crews on stand by when necessary. >> at night our custodians and operations people are diligently going from school to school to clean classrooms where children have symptoms. >> once you get the flu, you know, you're not able to function as well. so it's difficult. >> reporter: in the south bay, abc7 news. state public health officials will release an update on the number of flu-related deaths tomorrow. we'll pass that along. an italian-american group is taking back the holiday formerly known as columbus day. the coalition of italian americans unveiled a referendum today. it would lift the -- under the new proposal, the second october in november would be designated

italian heritage day. >> contributions of italians, they built the city hall, they built the opera plaza, and at this point in time we have no way to celebrate on the actions of what the supervisors did. >> they say they would prefer to negotiate a solution with the city before then. stay with us, more to come, our coverage of that deadly shooting in florida continues. >> nobody wants to talk about this. >> the warning signs in florida and what bay area schools are doing to keep an eye on student who is could become threats. it. plus, how to talk with your kids about tragic incidents such as this, and should you? i'm wayne freedman in the napa valley where growers are dealing with a phenomenon, the earliest bud break in decades, and the cold weather coming up, they're concerned. that's coming up.

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troubled students. >> reporter: ken oliver watched in horror as events unfolded in florida, yet another shooting on a school campus. he considers it his mission to keep somethig similar from happening on his campus. >> when you don't tell people what you want them to do when they're confronted with it, then they're paralyzed. >> reporter: last month we received an exclusive invitation to an active shooting drill at a college campus. >> we have done a lot on our campus, we have the intruder locks, we have a process that we use for evaluating potential students who might come to our attention. we call it behavior is a concern. >> reporter: the chief here at napa valley college says it's not enough to ask students and staff to see something and say something, it's

their office to doing something. >> i have followed them, i've been around certain classes at a certain time. escorted people to and from classes, that type of thing. and we do have to walk that line. >> reporter: anything and everything to make sure a troubled student doesn't become a violent one. in napa, laura anthony, abc7 news. >> the napa college chief says in most cases a troubled student is often one crying out for help, someone who may have underlying issues that therapy or maybe other services could help resolve. a mass shooting at a school is traumatic, not only for the student survivors, but kiss evekids everywhere. so how do you talk to your children about something like this? all of us need guidance when it comes to this. thank you for joining us.

>> th this really shakes us all to the core, as parents, but as kids, what emotions might we see in the days ahead? >> it will depend on their age, what developmental stage they are, and it depends on what kind of child they r they don't get triggered, they don't have any past trauma, but some kids are a little more sensitive, they rule nature and they're worriers. you need to as parents get advice but think about your child specifically. make sure you're not leading them in any way, that you really create a safe space for them to talk to you, you want to be authentic, if they say, are you worried? you can't say, no, i'm not worried. they're going to say, i can't trust you mom, i'm not going to talk to you. say i'm afraid, but come up with

really honest ways to reassure them. >> don't assume they want to talk about more than they want to. how do we decide how much detail is appropriate for that child. >> the first thing is you don't want to bombard them with detail they don't need, like keeping cable news on all the time. small children are going to watch it and think this is going on all the time. watch the local news and use a segment to open up a conversation saying, hey, are kids at school talking about this? what are you thinking, say are you worried you're going to get shot? if you don't know the answers, get the authentic information, if they say could this happen to us, you could say this child was so unusual, he has a background, you don't know anybody like that in school. >> sometimelesss, i

th honestly can scare them, this can happen in our community, our school, it might scare them. >> you have to complain how this is very unusual, and this has never happened in their community, and to point out, the more they're finding out about this teenager who did this, he is so rare, he had such a history of mental illness that stood out to anyone, so if you say, do you know anyone like that at your school? i don't think we have run into anybody like that. also you can reassure them by saying, there are going to be significant changes, there are questions being asked. the other thing is for parents again, is to make sure that you handle your anxiety somewhere else. i have a friend, a couple of friends who say i don't want to let my kids go to school tomorrow. you can't do that. that's your fear, you need to manage it somewhere else. >> what if my kid said i don't want to go to school tomorrow. i also want to ask you a lot more whether this was just a

one-time conversation or just a follow-up. what if you notice your kids still depressed. all those questions, we have run out of thoime on air, but on facebook live, time will be available to answer more questions so get out a your phone and join us on the facebook live feed on abc7 and of course keep it tuned here at the same time. >> excellent discussion, great information on how to talk with your kids about this terrible tragedy and anything else that is hard. let's focus on the weather forecast, another gorgeous day around the bay area, a little bit cool, but certainly lovely. spencer christian is tracking it all with the accuweather forecast. >> we take a look at our current temperature readings, it 59 degrees at half moon bay, and most locations around the bay line are in the lower 60s.

it's pretty mild and it's a pretty day. check out this view, from mt. tam, look out towards mt. diablo, and this is from east bay hills looking out towards mt. diablo, clear and child overnight, sunny and milder tomorrow and saturday, then we'll see lows in the inland valleys, mainly in the mid 30s, mid to upper 30s, so pretty chilly, but not so chilly as it was last night around the bay shoreline. we'll see some low and mid 40s around the bay shoreline. 68 in san jose, 69 in los gatos, on the peninsula, mid to upper 60s. low 60s on the coast. downtown san francisco will have a high of 63, petaluma, 65. 64 to 66 from berkeley all the

way down to freemont. and then in the inland east bay, maybe a degree or two milder, up to 69 in concord, 68 at livermore. now let's look a little bit ahead. i have shown you how mild it's going to be, spring like tomorrow. on saturday, even milder with inland highs in the low to mid 70s, 73 the expected high at concord on saturday. 72 at san jose. but it will turn sharply cooler on sunday, and that cooling will continue into next week. going to use san jose as our indicator of our high temperature trend certainly for our inland areas over the nec few days. a high of 72 on saturday, a sharp drop to only 59 degrees on sunday. and a high of only 57 on monday. so the entire bay area is going to have a pretty impressive cooldown going into next week, especially in the inland areas.

we have two very mild spring like days coming our way, then a big drop on sunday, also going to be breezy with that cooldown, certainly going to feel like winter on monday which is president it's day and below average temperatures for pretty much the remainder of the week, except for a sudden bounce back of temperatures on thursday next week. going shopping takes on a whole new meaning when you're on the international space station, today's supply run just ahead.

it is delivery day at the international space station. today astronauts received some supplies curtsy of the russian cargo spacecraft cargo 69. this shows it docked at the iss. the spacecraft delivered 2 tons of food and other equipment to resupply the station. technology will change the way the way astronauts

communicate. the relay communications system is being tested at the air flight center in maryland. this move will increase data rates and navigation accuracy 10 to 100 fold. the data that takes weeks or months to get back now using radio frequency communications will translate light will now take hours or days to get back. that change from radar wave -- >> we're dating ourselves. mcdonald's is making some big changes to its happy meals. the burger giant said that it will remove cheeseburgers from the happy meal menu in june. it's a way to cut down on

calories, saturated fat and sugar. they'll include chocolate milk in a kids meal if a customer asks for them. the chinese new year is tomorrow but for people who celebrate, festivities will bgin tonight. lots of people get together and eat foods that are are considered lucky. they are dump lings, because they resemble gold nuggets, holstein fish, so you always have something left over. longevity noodles. but don't cut the noodles, you don't want to cut your life. mandarin oranges and red foods, crab, shrimp or barbecue pork. stay here with us, our coverage of the deadly school shooting in florida continues. >> the difficult issue of mental health. >> what the government has done so far to prevent shootings from people with mental health

problems. plus a proposal

these are the latest developments on the mass shooting in florida. investigators today said the suspected shooter, 19-year-old nikolaus cruz methodically went

from classroom to classroom of the south florida high school to execute his victims. police say the suspect took an uber to the school and after the massacre, investigators say he went to a walmart, subway and mcdonald's before police arrested him. thousands have gathered at the amphitheater for a candle light vigil. the suspect nikolaus cruz made his first court appearance today in broward county, a judge denied him bail. he's charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. we're also learning be it the le arrest of cruz when the officer came in contact with him. he was stopped and arrested without inci inci inci inci what the trump administration sso

has done so far. >> reporter: the president said it isn't enough to feel like we're making a difference, we must actually make a difference. and i think people saw that as a positive sign. but the president hasn't been overly generous when it comes to mental health programs. >> we are working with state and local leaders to help secure or schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. >> reporter: the president gave no specifics on how he would confront the issue of mental health in the country. looking over his proposed 2019 budget, mr. trump has called for an additional so billion in discretionary funding to address the opiod epidemic and serious mental illness. but the president also wants lawmakers to cut entitlement programs like medicare and medicaid which would unavoidably affect access to mental health care. a ucsf psychiatrist has seen the

numbers. >> medicaid actually funds about a quarter of all mental health, over a quarter of mental health services in the u.s. and over half of public mental health services in the u.s. it's a major mental health funding. >> reporter: said u.s. attorney general jeff sessions also suggested spending money to study the intersection of mental health and criminality. >> but last year, president donald trump rescinded a social security administration rule, that agency no longer has to submit the names of the so-called beneficiaries to the national background check system. so today gun background checks on those who receive benefits are no longer done. now if you recall the president tried to make deep cuts to entitlement programs last year, but that was rejected by congress on a bipartisan basis.

we should also mention that the president made no mention of gun control today. in the nud we have put together pages of resources about teens, mental health and bullying, which can all be major issues on a school campus. it's all at abc7news.com on our front page. we are no closer to a fix for immigration and dreamers after the senate rejected two plans today. a bipartisan proposal that would have helped nearly 2 million dreamers while providing $25 million for a border wall came up six votes short. the president's own plan did even worse, it failed 21 votes short of passage. the need to take action tipped off -- >> invasion and incompetence, lack of will, lack of willingness to confront certain

special interests has not happened. >> anyone who has said that we have until the end of march doesn't understand the gravity of the situation. >> the president has given congress until march 5 to restore daca program scre dreamers are young people who were brought to the united states as children. the fourth u.s. circuit court of appeals in virginia ruled the ban on travel from six largely muslim countries is unconstitutionally tainted with animus toward islam. this is the second supreme court to rule against the ban. the ninth circuit court found that president trump exceeded his scope of authority with his latest ban. steve bannon met with special counsel robert mueller's team for 20 hours this week. this came when bannon testified

for the second time about russian meddling in the 2016 election. according to the committee's top democrat, bannon refused to answer any question beyond 25 that had been prescreened by the white house. a new warning today from amtrak's president richard anderson told a house committee that the railroad will consider suspending service on tracks that don't have speed controls in place by december 31st. the comments come in the wake of the crash of an amtrak train in south carolina. the systems are designed to automatically slow or stop trains that are going too fast. we told you in the past about amazon's big hiring events. now amazon wants some people to quit and they're offering some big bucks to do it. but there's a catch.

"7 on your side's" michael finney, mortgages are on the rise once again, we'll talk about how much you'll pay, coming up. i'm spencer christian, we're talking about sunny skies across the bay area, no surprise there, we have more coming our

amazon is encouraging unhappy employees to move on with cash.

>> reporter: here's an interesting question, would you walk away from your job if your job offered you a few thousand bucks to do so? hmm. that's what's happening at amazon right now. the company is offering some employees up to $5,000 to walk out the door. according to the e-commerce company is dangling this offer at customer service offers across the country. there's a catch. if these people take the money, they have to agree never to work for amazon again. people aren't spending as much money, at least not in the first three months of the year. >> "7 on your side's" michael finney is here with details to explain what's going on. >> we're holding on to our cash, americans cut back in january, holding off on purchasing cars, furniture and other big ticket items.

it pushed down retail sales by .3%. the drop comes off three months of robust spending which fueled the best holiday sales in a decade. mortgage rates jumped to the highest level in almost four years. freddie mac says the average rate on a fixed rate mortgage rose 4.38% this week. a fixed rate loan is going for an average of 3.84%. central bank concern about inflation is leading to the higher interest rates. according to a new study from life insurer mass mutual. a study of 10,000 americans who said that community involvement was important to them, also said that they are confident in their financial future. almost half of those surveyed said they believe the communities improve their finances.

i want to hear from you, the "7 on your side" hot line is open weekdays from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. my telephone number, 415-954-8151 and you can also reach me through my facebook page. okay, we'll start with live doppler 7, showing sunny skies all across the bay area right now. what a mild, spring-like day it has been. as we look ahead to the overnight conditions, cold and clear. we'll see lows dropping into the 30s, mid to upper 30s for the most part inland. and low to mid 40s right around the bay. tomorrow we'll see another sunny and milder day, low 60s on the coast, mid 60s right around the bay, mid to upper 60s approaching the 70 degrees mark. we expect to hit 70 and exceed it inland on saturday.

that's how things are shaping up. upper 60s around the bay on saturday, low 60s on the coast, ebut we are going to have a sharp downturn in temperatures on sunday, it's going to get much cooler very quickly in a 24-hour period and it will be breezy. and on presidents day, it will be cool finally where we will get winter like weather. >> it is still winter after all. >> that's what the calendar says. it is more than just a movie, the record breaking "black panther" and what the film means to the african-american community. and a man going to great

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and white, but they're relevant today. >> they realiknew how power of all it's citizens. >> "black panther" is expected to make up to $150 million just this week. >> so much hype about this film. an associate professor at cal state east bay, thanks for coming in. this term afro futurism has been around since the early '90s. but the ideas around it have been around for decades. talk about what afro futurism is. >> afro futurism is an academic and literary movement to kind of reframe what it means to be black, away from just a colonial

discourse to one that's about the black imagination. for so long it's been underestimated what that entails, but it began with spirituals to, as to how we as hyper innovators in the new world ignored many of our ancestral traditions and we had to innovate on that. >> it's a cross between technology and a future look at the world and cultural traditions? >> it's science fiction with a black lens. >> and this film takes place in a fictional country that never was colonized and has a different point of view. why is that so important for the african-american community? >> to see a space that hasn't been colonized is amazing. because it allows us to imagine what a black future can be that isn't oppressive, that includes all people, recognizes and

respects them and actually show what is think're capable of. we hear about the slave labor and how we were repressed, but we also hear,the scientists, the inventors and the writers and the poets. >> the stories of innovation and triumph that get pushed aside when people choose to tell the story about the history of slavery. >> exactly. >> this film is just the beginning, with the kind of hype this film is expected to generate, what do you anticipate coming forward with this movie? >> i think we're going to see more science fiction that is inclusive of black people. that shows black lives outside of the box. that shows them on different worlds, different planets, in more substantive science fiction. we see it happening in films like the expanse, or even in the 100 science fiction of that sort. but i think we're going to see

movies around all black casts. >> great for the african-american community and for african-american actors because these films will be made in greater frequency i suspect and does make a greater statement about where we are and where we could be? >> i'm part of a podcast called the afro futurist podcast and we're trying to create a talent distribution network of minority talent, companies want to know, where can we find the black imagine nation. >> you're going to see the movie in two hours at 9:00, do you have your popcorn? are you excited? >> actually, i'm just going to be unfettered here. i'm going to enjoy myself. you know? and i just need something to wear. >> you can't just wear a sweatshirt. i'm probably seeing it this

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if you have enjoyed the weather lately, there is a down side, and it has to do with more than the drought. >> yeah, many plants are blooming early, in the wine country, that includes the vines. >> here's wayne freedman with a look at the complications. >> reporter: 600 feet above the napa valley, there's a new normal emerging, it happened the first of february, a bud break no one expected. >> the earlieiest i've seen. >> reporter: martin runs vineyards and these plexities are enough to make any horticulturist -- it exposes these grapes to a longer risk of frost which could be coming next week. >> you could get a temperature difference that might affect some of the ripening and the characteristics of the grapes. >> reporter: the climate may be due to the unpredictable nature

of climate change, three of the last five crops have broken early. this the latest challenge in the year, filled with them. >> this whole big creek bed was on fire. >> reporter: that's tom davies showing how last october's fires licked to the edge of this vineyard. >> it was scary, flat out scary. >> reporter: and now this is scary, the reservoir that waters these hilly vineyards, is 1/31/3 full and no rain in site. >> sometimes it rains every day in march, so we could still get that. >> reporter: do you know any rain dances? >> i wish. >> reporter: they might help in a new normal. above the napa valley, wayne freedman, abc7 news. if this early bud break is a product of global warming it may have long-term consequences. >> yeah in the future replanting could be an expensive adjustment and might be only a few years

off in some cases. thank you for joining us for abc7 news at 4:00. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> no one wants to talk about this, it's not an easy business. >> keeping kids safe, the importance of after shooter training, how one college is active and passionate about dealing with troubled students. a huge candle light vigil, the victims of the school sho shooting are in everyone's thoughts. and san jose's ambitious new goal, how it plans to achieve an environmental first. therefore, mr. cruz, you're going to be held without bond until further order of the court. >> he's now facing 17 counts of premeditated murder. more details about yesterday's mass shooter in florida. what he did after the shooting and before being caught by a

police officer. >> training kicked in, i pulled my vehicle over immediately. engaged the suspect. >> good evening. >> thank you for joining us. investigators say revealed 19-year-old nikolaus cruz took an uber car to the high school before the shooting. authorities say cruz methodically went from classroom to classroom shooting his victims. >> the gun he used, an automatic rifle he bought legally. cruz had done paramilitary drills. after the massacre, police say cruz went to a wall senator, and went to a mcdonald's. a sea of candles lit up the parkland amphitheater tonight. thousands gathered for a candle light vigil to honor the victim. this is just one of