reporting live in concord, carlos salcedo, abc 7 news. >> all right. good fun. ank you so much, carlos. >>> well, san francisco's beloved flower mart is officially getting uprooted from its soma location. but lovers of their beautiful bouquets don't need to rush out just yet. corbett curbed sf, it won't happen until 2020. the temporary home will be on main street and potrero hill. the idea so make way for the central soma plan which hasn't been adopted yet by the city. once completed the flower mart plans to move back to its original location. >>> well, writing checks is slowly becoming a thing of the past as you know, as more of us do our banking online. >> an east bay woman says her bill pay accidentally drained her account in just the blink of an eye. >> scary. 7 on your side's michael finney helped her out >>he trade-off h not have to do that, and to push a button and have the money go. online bill pay is so convenient. but trying to reverse a mistake can be pretty much impossible. now, our viewer tried to pull her money back when a creditor was overpaid. she

abc 7 news reporter carlos salcedo has the details. >> reporter: a game abruptly cut short. parent, students and staff told to evacuate after shots rang out nearby. sky map 7 shows you where the shooting happened a block from the campus. they describe it as a gun battle. >> it appeared that the groups were shooting at each other. >> two teens shot. police quickly set up a perimeter looking for two suspects. one, they say, was seen running towards the school. >> any time we have this type of situation in our community it -- it causes fear for our staff and our students. >> reporter: the school placed on lockdown as heavily armed officers search the campus for one of the shooters. people told to take shelter inside the gymnasium. police say the shooter blended in with the crowd. >> the school staff was able to identify that the person we were looking for was, in fact, inside the gym with everybody. horrific moments for students and parents as they had to walk out with their hands up before being reunited. >> because of this incident, the varsity football game also had to be ca

in santa rosa, carlos salcedo, abc 7 news. >>> they're looking for one million retweets in the south bay, if san jose's mayor gets them, he'll get a san jose tattoo. it seems to reflect a growing sense of pride in the bay area's largest city and in a new logo. abc 7 news reporter david louie sas the biggest challenge might be where sam liccardo will put that tattoo. >> jake mccluskey attracts attention as he runs around town with this san jose tattoo. he even caught the attention of mayor sam liccardo, whose young staff coaxed him into doing a challenge, if his pledge gets one million retweets. >> i think it shows a real human side to the mayor and i'd love to see him get it. >> it has the mayor smiling. >> i'm a tattoo virgin. i have not yet been tattooed. but we look forward to the opportunity to find the site for this first tattoo. >> so far he has ruled out his forehead. he rolled up his sleeve to indicate other areas that won't work. >> we're look. but as you can tell, the sicilian hair has a tendency to obscure an awful lot of the skin. so we're going to have to figure this out

. >> abc 7 news reporter carlos salcedo was in court as the judge's decision was announced and has more >> what was supposed to be a sentencing outcome for defendants derick almena and max harris was not so. families happy with the judge's decision to reject the plea deal after taking their comments and the defendants' into consideration. judge james cramer heard from almena and harris as they expressed sorrow over what happened on december 2, 2016. speaking face-to-face with victims' families. 36 lives lost in that massive blaze. victims thought harris expressed a lot of remorse, but did not think almena accepted full responsibility for his role in the events that led to the inferno. >> definitely almena is not remorseful. >> and the judge agreed. cramer was okay with the plea agreement for harris, not for almena. but since this was a package deal, he had to accept it for both or neither. >> you see the victims' families are very adamant. and i empathize with their perspective, even though i think it's a little bit irrational. but they want 36 years. >> defense attorney tony sarah does

carlos salcedo got reaction from neighbors who are a bit worried. >> the sighting caught from multiplees is quick, but it clearly shows a large mountain lion, believed to be around 45 pounds, roaming through a san mateo resident's yard. >> the video captured in the backyard first, and then it went to the front. >> the homeowner was asleep when the midnight encounter happened. the motion triggered cameras sent an alert to his phone this morning. >> for me, it's the first time in my life i saw a mountain lion in the zoo, but not in your backyard. >> a mountain lion then exits towards the front of the property on to the street and disappears. >> 40 years, the first time i know a cat's been around here. >> long-time resident mike troy lives two houses down and thinks the lion was in his driveway, probably looking for food. he accidentally left fish bait out on his boat. >> i could hear something walking. and if i could hear something walking, it wasn't a raccoon. it had to be bigger than that. >> this is the third mountain lion sighinging in san mateo within weeks. last month nearby reside

abc 7 news reporter carlos salcedo has the details. >> a friday night jv football game in armijo high in fairfield abruptly cut short. students, staff and parents told to evacuate after shots rang out nearby. sky map 7 shows you where the shooting happened on washington and bell, a block from the campus. police describe the shooting as a gun battle. >> we do know there were appeared the groups were shooting at each other. >> reporter: two teens shot. police quickly set up a perimeter looking for two suspects. one, they say, was seen running towards the school. >> any time that we have this type of a situation in our community, it causes fear for our staff and our students. >> the school placed on lockdown as heavily armed officers searched the campus for one of the shooters. people told to take shelter inside the gymnasium. police say the shooter blended in with the crowd. >> the school staff was able to identify that the person we were looking for was in, in fact, with the gym with everybody. the suspect was arrested without incident and the other found in a nearby residence. horrifi

in san jose, carlos salcedo, abc 7 news. >> okay. so it's time to check out the poll.u won? 27% say yes, i love my job. 73% say no way, i'm out. can't you also love your job but still be on the way out? >> i think that's true. you could. you could. stay with us. ahead on abc 7 news at 6:00, california school resort >>> a southern california school is now resorting to a robot to help students show up to classes. >> that's right. reporter christina salvo from our sister station in los angeles has the story. >> summer melt. >> reporter: no, it doesn't have to do with our increasing temperatures, but rather this increasing sight. an empty campus. >> there are a lot of students who say they're coming and then don't show up. so they were accepted. we communicated with them. they clicked an intent to register, and then they're not here. >> cal state northridge says its summer melt rate is about 28%. not a huge problem, but one they would still like to correct. >> because you just don't feel like coming. and especially taking the bus is a three-hour ride sometimes. >> if they

in vacaville, carlos salcedo, abc 7 news. >>> all right.a story you'll see only on abc 7 news. the family of a vietnam war veteran who is dying from brain cancer dealt another blow when his wedding ring goes missing inside his hospital room. abc 7 news anchor dion lim went to the hospital to get some answers. >> the added stress that is adding to my mom and the family, it's unbelievable. >> pete halvorsen has been at kaiser hospital in redwood city every single day since he learned his father had glioblastoma, a rare form of breast cancer and has little time left. >> the doctor said day, possibly weeks. >> penny and bill halvorsen have been married 47 years. and even as a purple heart recipient serving in vietnam and later a firefighter, bill never took off his wedding ring. so you can imagine the confusion when saturday morning pete and his mom looked down to find the ring missing. >> if you look at this dent, if you look at that, you know that had to be pulled off. >> penny, who had been sleeping by her husband's bedside did notice someth

at sonoma state, carlos salcedo, abc 7 news. >> hundreds of marin county residents practiced evacuatingir homes in case a wildfire gets too close. abc 7 was in sleepy hollow after reverse 911 calls went out with messages to evacuate. text messages from alert marin urged people to follow escape routes. the exercise included tips on being prepared before a wildfire starts. >> i think it's very useful, because we all need these reminders of what we actually have to take the time to do. >> and we need to be prepared. so, our fire protection district is educating us on how to create defensible space around our homes, how to be ready to go if we need to go. >> sleepy hollow residents also saw images simulating how a wildfire would move if it broke out near their homes. >>> if you got a speeding ticket in south san francisco recently, you are not alone. police issued more than 70 citations yesterday. it's part of a crackdown that focused on streets where speeding has been a big problem. on average, ticketed drivers were going about 15 miles per hour above the posted speed limit. >>> take a loo

in fairfield, carlos salcedo,sac abc 7 news. >>> in developing news, hurricane lane, rain continues to fall. some areas have already seen more than 40 inches and more flooding is possible. several people including four tourists from los angeles have had to be rescued. on hand in honolulu to help with any rescues is a crew from the menlo park fire protection district. we received new pictures from their meetings with honolulu firefighters. meteorologist lisa argen is back with what we can expect. >> good morning, everyone. this has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but still several days of rainfall is anticipated with this, skirting the hawaiian island chain. so as i put this into motion, we get the current conditions right now with winds of about 60 meils an hour just crawling along three, and you'll notice by tomorrow it continues on its westward track, that left-hand turn, but boy, the wet part of the storm just drenching hilo with record amounts of rain. so that island really getting the worst of it with over 44.8 inches of rainfall. so that's an all-time record and the wettest