moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. really gave me a huge sense of relief to know that he's behind bars. i'm very glad that he is. he's behind bars and that he's facing the consequences. tonight four months after the first case was reported san jose police have arrested a man accused of shooting seven women with a pellet gun. good evening. i'm amidates and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us tonight. we're hearing from two of the victims as they react to news of this arrest abc 7 news reporter. dustin dorsey has the details and a story you will see only on seven. these two south bay residents don't know each other have never met and don't even live in the same city, but they share a

near-death experience that happened just two days apart gianna vitarelli and ramona hockett were both shot in the back with an air-powered rifle the pellet causing serious damage to the women coming within in inches millimeters from their hearts moving forward any way any time i go outside my guard is gonna be up because nowhere is really safe. i've been you know dealing with a lot of ptsd since the shooting and feeling very unsafe. just walking down the street because i know that he's just out there targeting people but yesterday both veterelli and hockettler news that return some sort of peace and relief back to their lives police have confirmed to us that a suspect connected to at least seven shootings has been arrested this man 38 year old campbell resident nicholas. montoya is charged with seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon and is now behind cars are detectives work extensively on this case. what was really interesting and challenging for them that all of these incidents?

there was no physical evidence left behind. it really was a textbook who done it. so very glad to get this individual off our streets san jose police. tell us all seven victims in the case. where women in west san jose and campbell a nine-year-old and 15 year old vitarella among those shot montoya appeared in court for the first time today as the motives behind the shootings are still investigated now as vitarelli and hawk. cover physically and mentally they say they are thankful. this shooter cannot hurt anyone anymore brought a lot of relief knowing that he is behind bars and can't hurt anyone else because he's already hurt way too many people. i'm just really glad the guy was caught. i think i feel a lot safer now police are asking for any additional victims of the shootings to come forward as they continue their investigation in san jose and dorsey abc 7 news. and breaking news in san francisco a person has now died in a shooting. beauty bus it happened about 320 this afternoon near santos street and velasco avenue. this is the in the southern part of the city near geneva avenue

and the cow palace another victim was also shot but is expected to survive police say the second deadly shooting in this neighborhood this week a 17 year old was killed on nearby brookdale avenue on monday evening now to a developing story out of the east bay. let's take a live look from sky 7. we're a protesters. are just beginning to gather at sproul plaza on the uc berkeley campus and march to people's park. that's where early this morning the university began construction of new student housing police and riot gear were sent in to clear a small homeless encampment and to put up fencing to block off the historic park and that's when the clash began with protesters abc 7 news reporter unser hudson has details. people's park in berkeley has a history of resistance. even on the first day of construction to tear down the historic park, we as a climate change activists. it's really painful to see to

see a park prefer the built by the community for the community being torn down but that resistance was met by police force officers summon right here. pushback protesters trying to keep them from getting into the fenced off area. but if you like uc berkeley student bryce smith broke through to go back to like the 60s or something. the people in berkeley went in stand for this i feel that culture is still here. that's the whole point these trees were there during that time. these trees are older than me. they're older than a lot of other people. i feel like they they're rooted in the energy that just kind of comes with berkeley. we want this dorm to be open and ready to roll two years from now that is height construction schedule for a building of this size. so as soon as we got the green light from the court we were going to be ready to roll the university attempted to begin construction wednesday morning on a new student housing project, but almost three acre project was approved last year, but delayed by an environmental

lawsuit despite the small group of protesters. the university says it has strong support from the city and students to build on people's park. we conducted two random sample surveys of the student population and by a two to one margins students at uc berkeley support the construction project here at peoples park ansar hassan abc 7 news a richmond police officer is off the job permanently fired for his excessive use of force and an incident captured on camera. let me warn you before going any further that some of the images in this story. you may find disturbing body cam footage shows the confrontation evolving richmond police officer eric smith jr. back on april 9th after tazing the suspect smith hits the man with his taser more than 30 times smith was trying to take the man into custody after he fled a traffic. earlier in the night the officer located the suspect a second time and a brief foot chase led to this confrontation today richmond's police chief offered an apology.

i want to apologize to the individual. that was involved in this incident as well as the community at large. officer smith's actions are unacceptable. what happened was also recorded by security cameras at a nearby business smith had been on administrative leave since the incident. san francisco's new district attorney is taking action that she says will hold drug dealers accountable today da brooke jenkins announced she's rescinding more than 30 plea deals with people accused of selling fentanyl jenkins believes the deals granted by former. dhsa boudin were too lenient. the action is part of a slate of new policies. she's instituting to battle the drug epidemic in the city, especially the tenderloin abc 7 news reporter liam melendez has reaction to the decision tonight at 6 o'clock and at the same time. bill allowing the establishment of safe injection sites for drug users is headed to governor newsom's desk, but there is a sharp divide about whether or not this plan will actually help build a better bay area abc 7

news reporter loose pena is in the newsroom with reaction from both sides of this issue loose. yes, dan, if governor newsom signs sb-57 safe injection sites will be allowed for a five-year period these sites would include staff that can revive people who overdose but the mom you're about to meet from the group mothers against drug deaths is pleading for the governor not to sign it. it's a controversial bill that would legalize a pilot program for safe injection sites to open in san francisco oakland and los angeles senator. scott weiner is behind it use there. so it's not in front of other people. they can be offered treatment and recovery services sp57 highlights one of the most urgent public health crises in the country fentanyl overdoses, according to the cdc nationwide overdose deaths have increased 30% in a one-year per in san francisco according to the leaders medical examiner's data over 200 people have died from a

drug overdose this year the majority from fentanyl senator wiener believes opening a space where drugs can be used at a supervised facility will prevent overdoses. it's a model that's been in effect for 30 years around the world in europe, canada, australia. they've had very positive results, but for jackie berlin a safe injection site is a mistake her son. corey is homeless in san francisco and addicted to fentanyl jackie is the co-founder of mothers against drug deaths. it's really frustrating me because i feel like we're normalizing drug use they're building this community of it's okay to use all the time, and i'm not trying to stigmatize anybody but the drugs that are on the streets today are so deadly. shouldn't be okay. jackie wants to state to focus on resources to help addicts recover instead of enabling more drug use even if it's supervised

gary mccoy with helpwright 360 says more rehab centers are necessary, but they're sure staffed he views sb-57 as a path to treatment sp57 will definitely benefit the city and county of san francisco. not only in lives lost to overdose giving us another tool to prevent overdose deaths but so in savings and savings to the healthcare system that's already impacted currently under staffed. now this bill has been introduced multiple times in california. it actually passed in 2018 in a previous form and then it was rejected by then governor jerry brown. so now we'll have to wait and see if governor newsom signs it if approved it would go into effect january 1st of next year in the newsroom loose peña abc 7 news. all right louis. thank you and happening now. we're expecting an update at any moment from napa county health officials on an outbreak of legionnaires disease that has turned deadly since july 11 12 people have gotten sick in napa

in calistoga. all of them had to be hospitalized and one person died legionnaire's disease is a type of pneumonia caused by a bacteria that grows in warm water public health officials are testing water samples to identify the origin of the outbreak and prevent further transmission. now, you can only get legionnaires disease from breathing in water vapor containing the bacteria. we will stream the update from napa county on our website to abc 7 news.com ahead here a 355-mile trek is now underway from the central valley to the state capitol. we'll tell you why hundreds of farm workers are marching plus securing access to reproductive health care services will tell you about the executive action taken by president biden today abc 7 news at 5 will be right back.

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leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us. today by president biden is

intended to help women travel out of state to receive abortion services. the president says the order helps women travel out of state to receive abortions and ensures health care providers comply with federal law. i believe rogue got it, right. has been the law for close to 50 years my commit to the american people and we're doing everything on our power safeguard access to healthcare including the right to choose that women had underobi wade, which was ripped ripped away by this extreme court. the order allows states to provide care for out-of-state patients seeking abortions through a medicaid waiver and permits states to wave certain state-based requirements to provide care and help cover certain costs. today governor newsom endorsed legislation extending california's film and television tax credit program, but he wants something in return the governor's campaign for re-election took out a full page ad in variety calling on the tv and film industry to stay away from states that have imposed

new restrictions on abortion in the wake of the decision to overturn roe v wade, according to variety the bill endorsed by governor newsom today would provide 330 million dollars a year in financial support for content creators through 2030. in the central valley hundreds of farm workers began a 350 mile march today to sacramento. they are banding together to try to convince governor newsom to sign a bill making it easier to unionize abc 7 news reporter tara campbell has details. hundreds of farm workers are on the move marching to make it easier to unionize. i hope i can do it all the way making the 355-mile trek from delano to sacramento putting pressure on governor newsom to sign a bill protecting them from voter intimidation. we want to be able to vote and not be intimidated by ranchers supervisors or contractors in our workplaces the current way the farm workers vote for

presentation is at the employer's premises. and it's intimidating. it does not promote participation assembly build 2183 called the labor relations voting choice act gives farm workers more options on when where and how they can vote when you have the option to do it in person by mail asking somebody to deliver it for you or help promote participation. i'm going to march from here to sacramento because we need to have rights and i want the governor to see we are united but the bill isn't being well received by dozens of local chambers of commerce the california chamber of commerce calling it a quote job killer in a statement adding in part. this bill seeks to eliminate an agricultural employees democratic right to cast an independent vote in a secret ballot election regarding whether to unionize making them susceptible to coercion and

misinformation a similar bill landed on the governor's in september only to be vetoed one day into the march or doing it again. we're marching again these a pilgrimage to share with consumers how difficult these work is and it is time that far more workers have the same right that other workers have and this time around this march might not be upended governor newsom's office tells me they've been working with the bills authors since march come up with language. they can all agree on tara campbell abc 7 news. still ahead as students start to head back to class. we're looking at the incredible strides. they made rebounding from distance learning and the work that still needs to be done.

for years, california's non-gaming tribes have been left in the dust. wealthy tribes with big casinos make billions, while small tribes struggle in poverty. prop 27 is a game changer. 27 taxes and regulates online sports betting to fund permanent solution to homelessness. while helping every tribe in california. so who's attacking prop 27? wealthy casino tribes who want all the money for themselves support small tribes, address homelessness.

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of our youngest learners did their first year back in the classroom after distance learning. how were their reading skills was their learning loss. did they catch up? i turned to superteacher susan to get some answers. when we first met union school district susan lavalle the teacher on special assignment was teaching kids to read over zoom early in the pandemic. now that distance learning is starting to feel like a distant memory and kids have had a full school year back on campus. how did they do? so how were the young readers when they came back for this first year back in class were they were they should be or a little bit behind? some were doing just fine and a lot of them weren't 20% of our student. regulation at my particular school needed reading intervention to happen right away. most were first graders. susan says the rate of first graders coming in needing reading support was three times greater than in any other grade level. we had a lot of first graders coming in with no lettering sound recognition. and so we were doing a full

kindergarten year and then jumping right into what they needed to know in first grade most of these children susan explains were english language learners that were all so kids. missed 20 30 40 days of school some had been in four or five different schools before second grade and there were also behavioral issues that gotten the way of learning really seems like the ones who are struggling the most are the ones who are maybe hit hardest by the pandemic absolutely children trying to learn english children whose families had to move a lot children who didn't have the ability to get on campus at all last year. that's where we're we're seeing the biggest struggles. so did we get caught up. we got 48% of them caught up which given what we were faced with was pretty remarkable on average. each of our readers made a year and a half of reading growth. what do we do for the next year? well, we've got a lot of kids in summer school right now. those kids are getting four weeks of daily support. so they're ready to go for this

upcoming school year and even though the first year back in class was challenging susan points out every student grew we had a little first grade came in with just a few letters and sounds and by the end of the year, he was reading at a beginning of the year third grade level. whoa. amazing amazing. and so we we have a lot to celebrate. and we still have a lot of work left to do. and that work is coming up soon first day back for union, august 17th. that's two weeks from today teachers of course are pretty much back to work already working hard getting the classrooms ready for their students dan. yeah. it's all going to move so fast now yeah good stuff. all right, let's turn our attention to the weather forecast pretty warm out there. oh, yeah abc 7 news media girls. just sandia patel is here with the heat santana. that's right. it's summertime and we are feeling it especially inland where we got up into the 90s dean and alma. i want to show you live doppler 7 right now because if you recall there were a few drops

that made their way across parts of the northern end of our viewing area didn't really amount to much but this was that lingering chance of a shower. we're pretty much done with any possibility of the wet weather thunderstorms are focused across parts of northern california and the sierra, nevada as you take a look at the lightning strikes a hundred and eighty three lightning strikes in the last few hours. so definitely active weather. the good thing is they are seeing wedding reign up there, which is what we want to see there are flood watches and flash flood warnings in effect for parts of the sierra through tonight and going into tomorrow night as excessive rainfall is possible. so monsoon flow continues in the sierra thanks to that area of high pressure. we are seeing just remnants of what was once a tropical storm and a hurricane-frank. we just continue to see some of those clouds headed in our direction and that's that's why the dew points as you take look are still a little elevated 60 in napa 61 and half moon bay. so it is still humid to muggy 61

in palo alto. you may be noticing it from our east bay hills camera blue skies. looking towards mount diablo 67 in the city. it is 70 in oakland really nice day in san jose santa clara low 80s live view from our sutro tower camera and the typical summer fog rolling in over san francisco upper 80s around santa rosa upper 90s in fairfield. that's the area where hottest conditions are where expected. and that's where we got it 95 concord 92 in livermore. and here's the marine layer. it's about 1200 feet deep from our emeryville camera fog along the coast and bay patchy morning. drizzle. we're looking at hot inland and mild at the beaches and in the afternoon and the heat eases on friday continues, really pretty much within a few degrees for the weekend tonight. that fog will move over the bay as we head into tomorrow morning. there will be some -- spots due to the drizzle. typical sierra thunderstorms will continue but as long as there's rain, we're good. we don't. you any more new fires obviously with dry lightning 50s 60s on those temperatures a little bit of drizzle certainly some fog that you'll need to watch out

for afternoon highs in the south bay 90 in morgan hill 86 degrees in san jose. so a warm day on the peninsula 83 in redwood city 65 half moon bay breezy along the coast just like it is right now 68 downtown san francisco north bay numbers 88, san rafael 90 in santa rosa 83 in napa in the east bay 75 oakland really comfortable day 80 degrees in work 81 castro valley mix of sun high clouds 92 concord 93 in livermore, so it's definitely going to be hot inland accuweather seven day forecast. we will continue to see leftovers of that former tropical storm giving us a little bit of the mugginess tomorrow and increasing monsoon flow on friday, but certainly cooler bay and inland brighter skies expected for the weekend. it's going to be pretty much close to average 60s to 90 saturday 60s to 80s sunday seasonal pattern continuing into early and middle part of next week as long as we don't have extreme heat. i think we're good. and yeah, i think you're right. thank you, sandia. we'll be right back

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tonight, america's battle over abortion rights now at the center of the midterm elections. voters in kansas soumeurth haveheonn he soy restate. the first indication of where voters stand following the supreme court decision overturning roe versus wade. president biden is calling the vote a decisive victory. how one state's vote could reshape the midterms. rachel scott standing by. also tonight, 100 million americans under heat alerts tonight. extreme temperatures from texas to maine. in flood-ravaged kentucky, where thousands are without water or power, the heat index hit triple digits today. rob marciano tracking it all. the courtroom showdown between conspiracy theorist alex jones and the parents of a sandy

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