following the drive-by shooting death of a 3-year-old boy. abc7's amy hollyfield is live at the shooting scene. what is happening? >> this is what everybody wants to prevent, memorials like this one. this is what the community created where a 3-year-old boy is shot to death. this is the location that advocates have chosen for the press conference this morning and they're saying that the gang injunkses are not the way to prevent violence. city council member de la fuentes said he will call for more gang injunction in oakland and said this at the funeral of carlos nava. the argument is if the gang members had been listed on a gang injunction they wouldn't have been able to hang out together and maybe the shooting would haven't happened. opponents say that is a stretch. but the councilmember wants to try it. >> i think from the mayor to the city council we have to not just come to the event

and mourn people but we have to enact real tools for the police to do their job. >> we want councilmember and harry reid to look at needs of the community. they haven't spoken to the family or the community. they are pushing an agenda that does not work. these gang injunctions produce gentrification, racial profiling. a lot of young men in jail. when the young men go to jail, that means one more house without a farther. >> there is a gang injunction in place. it's against 15 people. but the city council attorney says they have not committed a crime. the city attorney office thinks it's been effective. the opponents say the money used to implement the gang injunks is better spent in other ways. services for young people, well the police department and i checked in with them about the controversy. they told me that the chief

thinks it's controversial in oakland. they want to use it as a tool if they agree this is the way to go. carlos's death has people talk about the need to bring an tauped violence. now the issue is getting everyone to agree on how to do that. reporting live in oakland, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> thank you. in sacramento right now, a state senator is presenting a bill to change california law to make it harder for some prisoners to get paroled. the new proposal was triggered by the investigation in kidnapping of jaycee dugard. she was 11 years old when she disappeared in south lake tahoe in 1991. the kidnapper phillip garrido was on por role for -- parole for rain. they held her captive for 18 years. garrido is serving a life sentence. ted gains' bill would allow the parole board to consider type and severity of an offender's crime defending whether to grant parole.

right now they can only consider inmate's behavior as prisoner. a san francisco lawyer accused of sex crimes against victims he found on craigslist appeared in court today. michael hoffman is accused in the sexual assault of four women, possibly from a craigslist singles site. it happened in march, june and july. a teenager stabbed in the parking lot of a downtown san jose mcdonald's is suing the restaurant owners. 17-year-old jonathan paredis was attacked in the mcdonald's parking lot walking home from a downtown music event on june 9. he tells the media partner mcdonald's was partially liable because they failed to have adequate staffing. five teens were stabbed, two critically. the restaurant declined to comment on the lawsuit. >> this morning, two bart directors calling for a public discussion to set policy on when the agency should cut off cell phone

service to the station. last week, they cut it at the civil center station to help protesters from organizing. in a protest on monday, bart did keep the phone system on as the protesters shut down four downtown san francisco stations. the board directors say the cell phone black-out was an overreaction. the protest began after a bart police shot and killed a man they say lunged at them with a knife. . city of sonoma is considering banning pit bulls. councilwoman says she will introduce a proposal to ban pit bulls and other aggressive breeds in the city. she is motivated by last week's pit bull attack that killed a pregnant woman. sonoma county has a law requiring spaying and neutering of certain breeds and registration and insurance requirements and fines for violations. governor brown is set to sign to law requiring skiers and snowboarders under 189

to -- under age of 18 to wear helmets. this would allow local authorities to fine parents up to $25 if they ride without a helmet. it aims to reduce injuries at ski resorts. high-tech safety sensors are installed on the bay bridge to listen for sounds of metal cracking on key parts of the bridge. it will prevent bridge closures we saw a couple years ago for repairs. terry mcsweeney joins us with more. >> reporter: 640 of the sensors are installed on the bay bridge. the work started last night and will go on for two months. the first information about cracks on the bridge should be available in the next couple of weeks. as you mentioned, the same cracks that shut down the bridge twice a couple of years ago. 640 devices just like this one are installed in the bay bridge near about 400 eye bars. the devices known as a.e. or

acoustic emission detoke fors are look -- detectors are looking, make it listening for trouble. terry developed the a.e. system shows us how the standard picked up several feet away. >> they are looking for the tracking of like a railroad track. >> in september of 2009, the bridge had to be shut down when crack on eye bar was found in routine inspection. it led to stop in construction. the a.e. sensor should protect against a reoccurrence. >> we can tell if caltrans many months or maybe years ahead of time before the cracks become inches. we are looking for small grain boundary in the material.

micro cracking. >> it's sents to fiber cable in the bridge and caltrans close to real-time find out what is wrong and where. it's popular in the wine country. >> we sold to cornell university to listen for drought status when you break a leaf off of a plant you can hear a cavataiton going on. you can put it on a grapevine to tell when it needs to be watered. >> reporter: this is a $3.4 million deal and will hopefully take the old bridge 2014 when the new bay bridge comes online. at that point it will taken off the old bridge and used to other bridges in the bay area. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> thank you. president obama says politics is the only thing holding americans back from a stronger economic recovery. the president was at a town hall meeting at family owned

agriculture plant in rural, illinois. he announced speech to help america's poor and middle class. he says the regular americans need to make their voices heard. >> i need you to send a message. send a message to folks in washington, stop drawing lines in the stand and engaging in rhetoric instead of getting things done. time to put country ahead of party. time to worry more about the next generation than the next election. >> spokesman for republican house speaker john boehner says the president should scrap the speech and hand over the plan. >> still ahead, what parents want to make sure they don't have at the dinner table. >> one way to exit a building. bizarre rescue attempt behind the amazing video. >> returning to school months after one of the worst tornados in decade.

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breaking news in san rafael, marin county. highway patrol schult down the richmond-san rafael bridge because of police action off interstate 580. both lanes are closed at the bridge. the c.h.p. is not saying exactly what is happening there. we do know it's not related

to anything at san quentin prison which is not far there the scene. wave more information as soon as it's available. meantime, take a look at this picture. my goodness. sanitation truck in queens, new york, crashed through the second story wall of an industrial building and was left dangling from that building. the driver hung on for dear life as the rescue workers tried to stabilize the vehicle. they used a cherry picker to rescue the driver who is said in serious but stable condition. four cars parked below were damaged by falling bricks and debris. officials don't know how they lost control of the vehicle. >> a teenager is in custody after what police call catastrophic attack at the high school. they say 17-year-old threatened to plant explosive devices and discharge them on the first day of school next tuesday. police arrested him last night after getting a tip.

>> there were two individual faculty members that were specific tar get. he mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. >> police believe revenge was the motive for the plot. >> students and teachers at joplin, missouri, headed back to class after the deadliest tornado in six decade. it destroyed hundreds of buildings, including six schools. one of them joplin high school. today, high schoolers will attend class in an empty strip mall remodelled to look like a school building. they have 122 students who will each get a new laptop. there is more. abc david muir has a look at

more. >> i made this outfid for your first day of school. i love you, carroll from texas. lone star love. >> what goes around comes around. if it's somebody else's turn we'll be there for them. >> other locations include a middle school and industrial park and district office in former state transportation department. >> here kids are going back to school this week as well and it will feel fall like soon. >> a cooling trend on the way. until then, we have warm weather inland today and tomorrow. the clouds are breaking up over san francisco. no flight arrival delays but we'll see how far the temperatures will drop. >> the government with the first drug to treat deadliest form of skin cancer. >> abercrombie & fitch makes an unusual offer to get reality stars to stop wearing the label. >> the misconduct by a

sky7-hd over the scene of a breaking news story in san rafael. you can see traffic is jammed right there at 580. rich monday san rafael bridge, where both directions are closed right now. drivers are stuck there because of police action. the highway patrol shutting

the bridge down because of a gunman that has been reported anyhow at the extended stay deluxe hotel or motel i should say in san rafael on francisco boulevard. that came in at 10:30 this morning. because of what they're doing there, they've got both eastbound and westbound of the bridge shut down. marin county c.h.p. mentioned there is no estimated time to reopen 580. in san rafael. so you should expect major delays there. and also plan on alternate routes. again, we are following the breaking news. we'll get you more throughout the day. abc7news.com. food and drug administration approved the first of its kind drug to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer. the pill is targeting a specific gene in skin cancer tumor. melanoma is the fastest growing cancer in new diagnosis. the american cancer society says 68,000 people in the u.s. diagnosed last year. nearly 9,000 died. doctors say melanoma has

long been considered one of the toughest cancers to treat with few drug options. >> in san francisco we're watchedering how -- wondering how much we have to wait. >> a few more hours. let's look outside to see what is going on. south beach toward oakland. you see the breaking of the clouds on the right of the screen. we'll take a look at one more area. and show you sunshine. down in san jose. definitely one of the first spots to see the sunshine today. that's the case for the next couple of days. take a look from the top down at the satellite. you can see the clouds quickly racing from most of the neighborhoods. still tough around the monterey bay and around san francisco. again, an hour or so. we'll see nine here. also, the temperatures are responding to the sun. look where we are in the 70s already. east bay valley and south bay. los gatos. still in the 60s around the bay shore and up to the north bay valleys. still 55 in san francisco. 59 at half moon bay. upper 50s around santa cruz

and monterey. sunshine around watsonville. salinas, mid-60s. already 73 degrees with sunshine in gilroy. highlights, three things for this forecast. sunshine, warmer temperatures today. away from the coast. warm inland again tomorrow and cooler weather spread from inland across the bay as we head through frida saturday and sunday. for today, the santa rosa the same. concord, san francisco. san jose, fremont and oakland, all one to three degrees warmer than yesterday afternoon. compared to afternoon, close in a lot of areas. san francisco and redwood city, two degrees cooler than average. sun sets at 8:00 this evening. east bay valley, warmer weather here. upper 80s. danville, pleasanton. low to mid-90s for everyone else. richmond at 70. fremont, 80. coldest spot is the south

bay. 80 at sunnyvale and milpitas. 84 in campbell. 86 in los gatos. mid-to-upper 70s along the peninsula. san mateo is 76. that is as warm as it get ace long the coast. everyone else below that. upper 60s downtown south san francisco. low to mid-80s through the north bay valleys. 68 at monterey. near 90 in morgan hill. day game at the coliseum. 12:35 first pitch. sunny. temperature is 69. warming up to 74 by the time the game ends. the accuweather seven-day forecast -- more of the same for tomorrow. then you can see theal cooing trend. faster sea breeze that will drop temperatures four to six degrees by sunday. >> thank you. french actor gerard depardieu is accused of shocking conduct on a commercial flight. fellow passenger on a paris to dublin flight last night

says the oscar-nominated actor urinated on the plane. she says depardieu looked drunk and announced he needed to go. the cabin crew told him to be seated for take-off when he allegedly urinated on the ground. the crew then took him off the flight. spokeman confirmed the incident happened but wouldn't name the passenger. tens of thousands of table-top feeding chairs for babies and toddlers are recalled. the me-too clip on chairs can unexpectedly detach from the table. that could send the chair and possibly the child plummeting to the ground. there have been 19 reports of the chair falling that is. and five of them involve injuries, they're sold at target and toys "r" us. if you have one, stop using it right away. and contact the company to receive a free repair kit. the number is on the website, abc7news.com. >> abercrombie & fitch is

offering to pay the cast of "jersey shore" to stop wearing the brand on the show. they say it's concerned people on the reality show could cause significant damage to their image. they offered undisclosed money for the cash. apparently abercrombie & fitch doesn't care for the party image. no word if anyone will change the style. >> back to the breaking news story. sky7-hd is live over the richmond-san rafael bridge, which is shut down right now. because of a possible gunman. we are told they are investigating a situation. we're going to continue to follow this. one shot reportedly has been fired. we have this on abc7news.com. we'll bring you more

back live now to the breaking news story in san rafael. both directions are closed on richmond-san rafael bridge as a result of police action. officers reportedly looking for a gunman at the extended stay hotel on east francisco just off the freeway. the c.h.p. is warning to stay away from the area because it can last some time. ? we'll continue to follow this on abc7news.com. for all of us here, thank you for joining us. >> bye-bye.

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