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carolyn johnson tells us how it works and effort to bring it to other hospitals and schools as well. ♪ >> reporter: childhood stroke has interrupted his speech but not his ability to express himself. ♪ >> he is starting the beat with the help a therapist at the children's hospital. the program introduces music to young patients helping them cope with the stress and discomfort of being hospitalized. >> so the way i was working but he was fully engaged in the drumming and nothing else matter hat at that point is a truly a therapeutic moment. >> reporter: foster for several hours, the sessions are a break from ongoing treatment. in steven's case, it's cystic fibrosis. >> one of your favorites? >> yes. ♪ ♪ >> it doesn't have to be intimidating. music can be a supportive vehicle to express emotions the story. >> music therapy program is cooperation between the ucsf and a nonprofit to get it in public service. it was started by a musician kip gallagher. the group now places what it calls musician corps fellows in schools and hospitals. >> health corps and green corps and why wouldn't you h

i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. there are no serious injuries, but for much of the day residents within a mile were asked to stay indoors. >> abc7's lisa amin gulezian is live. we will start with the fire itself. john has that. john, it took hours to put this thing out. >> yes, and finally dan and carolyn, firefighters stopped pouring water on one of the trouble spots. the fairfield fire marshal says this inferno was n -- was an accident caused by employees doing welding near the stacks and stacks of plastic bins behind this plant. even after the monster fire was put out, flare ups continued through the late afternoon and early evening. about five hours after the flames erupted behind macro plastics, investigators pointed the finger at workers. >> we've confirmed with the business owners and the employees on site that we did have employees working with some type of an open flame device. i don't have details, but probably a blowtorch or welding in that area. >> the first call came in about 1:00 p.m. as a tower of blac

i'm carolyn johnson. after a 24-hour delay, the house narrowly approved a debt ceiling plan only to have it rejected within minutes by the senate. and now it is the democrats' turn to keep the government from running out of money on tuesday. thomas roman is here now with how both sides are reacting after accomplishing essentially nothing. >> nothing. it was a day of angry scpim passioned rhetoric by both parties in washington. the republicans accuse the democrats of inaction while democrats respond by calling the republican debt plan bizarre. speaker john boehner vee meantly described what he called a debt ceiling plan that he says will save the economy. >> i stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an agreement with the president of the united states m, and it is time for the administration and -- time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table. tell us where you are. >> a short time later -- >> yas are 218 and the na are 2110 and the bill is passed. it raises the debt limit $900 billi

i'm carolyn johnson. >> and i'm dan ashley. the chp tells us, the 34e7b -- the men were being chased in connection with murder investigation. >> it went from union city and north on 880 to oakland and then to 580 through livermore to i-5 and ending in lathrop in the central valley. that's wherely leigh uh-huh mean goly -- thas where lisa amin gulezian is live. >> we are live where the chase ended. we are off i-5 north in lathrop. there was a very large police presence here. the highway patrol left us a few minutes ago. they stopped this silver mercedes and had the suspects pull over at the shell gas station. the high speed chase started before 8:00 tonight in union city. police originally believed the ones in the car were two men wanted out of east palo alto that involved four murders. armed robberies and burglaries. and we learned a few minutes ago that they are not involved in connection to any of those. but they originally thought they did because the car these two men were driving was registered to one of the murder suspect

i'm carolyn johnson. >> and i'm dan ashley. investigators are on the scene of a deadly shooting at a hayward gas station. >> the victim was found in a car at the union 76 station. that's where abc7's lisa amin gulezian is live for us. lisa? >> carolyn, this all happened around 5:30 p.m., but there is still a very large police presence here. hayward police, the investigations unit, csi, the coroner are all here and they are all giving us little information at this hour. i know the victim is an african-american man in his 20s and he was parked in the gold-colored cadillac you are looking at in the far end of the parking lot while the victim sat in his car and another person presumed to be a man in a black hoodie walked up shot him several times at close range and then ran away. there were several witnesses at that time and investigators say right now they still do not think this was gang-related, but they also think the victim was a targeted person. they say they will be here for several more hours trying to hash this whole thing

i'm carolyn johnson. >> and i'm dan ashley. that was the word for a young man pulled off a plane for refusing to pull up his pants. >> vic lee learned of the decision. john alston has more on the story. >> carolyn and dan, we were with marmon's mother earlier this evening and she said she got a call from her attorney informing her prosecutors would not prosecute the case against her son. the champagne is flowing after the family got word the d.a. would not file charges. >> justice for all. i am so pleased. i am so grateful, freedom. >> and from his room at the university of new mexico, the twenty-year-old football player was part of the celebration via skype. >> my first reaction i was ecstatic. it was unfortunate what happened in the past. once again i do want to apologize to the members of flight 488. >> marmon was arrested on a u.s. airways flight at sfo after an agent told him to pull up his pajama pants. he was jailed on suspicion of trespassing and resisting arrest. >> i don't think i was dressing offensively to anybody.

here's abc7's health and science editor, carolyn johnson, with the details. >> so i will ask you to close eyes. let that peaceful quality travel through all parts of you. >> only veterans is learning to imagine emotions haunting her more months. diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder after her return from iraq, she said back to normal life has been slow. >> sometimes i will be somewhere, let's say, for instance, in a mall or something, and then i'll see myself back in iraq. >> and then imagine wrapping all of that experience in something like a bubble or a balloon. >> this session isn't tapes place at the v. a. as you might expect, it's part of a program being organized by the institute for health and healing at california pacific medical center in san francisco. the counselor said the program speak greats a variety of alternative therapies, from this session known as guided imagery to massage and acupuncture treatments. >> and then we have a whole array of classes, yoga, and various types of movements. >> it helps me learn to pay attention to my breathing, and then pay attention to

here's abc7's health and science reporter, carolyn johnson, with the details. >> so i will ask you tolose your eyes. let that peaceful quality travel through all parts of you. >> only veterans is learning to imagine emotions haunting her more months. diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder after her return from iraq, she said back to normal life has been slow. >> sometimes i will be somewhere, let's say, for instance, in a mall or something, and then i'll see myself back in iraq. >> and then imagine wrapping all of that experience in something like a bubble or a balloon. >> this session isn't taking place at the v. a. as you might expect, it's part of a program being organized by the institute for health and healing at california pacific medical center in san francisco. the counselor said the program i would ntegrates a variety of alternative therapies, from this session known as guided imagery to massage and acupuncture treatments. >> and then we have a whole array of classes, yoga, and various types of movements. >> it helps me learn to pay attention to my breathing, and then p

>>reporter: pl carolyn johnson reporting.eplace rment typically covered by insurance and because the surgery less invasive doctors say cost can actually be lower than some older technology. quite promising. coming up. get fainted for driving and texting you know that but what about walking and text sning. >> they call it the nagging effect. just ahead exactly how men benefit from being married. stay with us. news at 9:00 men benefit from being married. stay with us. news at 9:00 continues saz sxz. >> see people doing it all the time these days walking and texting along. one city doing its best to keep pedestrians focus. philadelphia has new program that targets bad behavior on the city thoroughfare. that means they are going after distracted pedestrians and sidewalk cyclist. for now officials are handing out safety guides and warnings about citations. no finding yet but when the time comes, culprit have to pay 120 dollars for not paying attention. >>> people doing it all the time. every possible situation. let's go back up da

. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. it addresses dozens of incidents which they failed to monitor garrido. more on the specifics of that reported. >> a federal judge released the report that scrutiny and criticism would improve the system and standards are already high for supervising sex parole agents and if they had done their job she may not have suffered for to decades. >> next month will mark two full years of freedom for jaycee dugard. >> i remember shouting, they found her, my daughter. [ laughter ] >> i was crying and you know when you can't speak. >> reporter: now two days before her exclusive television appearance, a chief judge james ware of san francisco has released a confidential 45 page report detailing how federal parole officers botched the investigation. he had been on probably in which time she kidnapped dugard. even though garrido was a high risk sex offender, home contact by federal parole officers were rare. officers never verified if he registered as sex offender and failed to notify state and fed

. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. the chief came to hear about a deadly police shooting. >> but the public forum was a shouting match filled with anger and suspicion. lisa amin gulezian is in the newsroom with the story. lisa? >> the meeting got very heated very quickly. many called it unproductive while others called it a missed opportunity because of all of the anger in the room. >> san francisco police chief was met with out right hostility at this community meeting tonight. >> you are not a friend of hours. you are the enemy. >> this was supposed to be a night to answer questions about saturday's shooting in the bay view when san francisco police shot and killed kenneth harding after the 19-year-old ran away from them during a routine fare inspection at a muni light rail stop. police say this audio recording proved harding fired at them first, and they returned fire. tests show harding had gun residue on his right hand. >> we don't trust the police. we don't believe in the police. >> the focus quickly shifted away

. >> and i'm carolyn johnson. dozens are dead because of the homegrown terrorist. >> the investigation into today's twin attacks in norway are focused on a single man, 32-year-old unders bearing. the question is why? >> the explosions shattered the city. >> people are in the street and injured. >> the streets carpeted with broken glass. smoke rising from the center of town. >> you can smell the burning from the glass. >> it looks like a war zone. there were people running around with bloodz from the head. >> bystanders raced to help the injured. worst hit, a government building worst to the prime minister. luckily he was not there. also damaged, the headquarters of a tabloid newspaper as well as smaller papers nearby. in the buildings, the dead, and those too badly wounded to get out. it lasted into the night. while everyone in oslo was warned to stay away from the downtown area. then two hours later on an island less than an hour from a capital, a nightmare of a different kind. a man described as tall and blonde

. >> i'm carolyn johnson. the two-engine plane started sinking immediately, but thanks to quick work by the coast guard, both passengers were quickly plucked off the plane. thomas roman is live with more on how this all happened. >> just offshore here in richardson bay, there is a coast guard boat marking where this plane went down. police tell us the pilot is a 75-year-old local resident. he and his passenger are fine. now, as you can imagine just about everybody has a camera now a days, and this event got a lot of camera attention including a video. >>> this is video of a hydro -- >> this is video of the hydroplane. you could see it take off and then hitting a wake. it then flipped nose first into richardson bay. this man was siting in a restaurant when the plane went by. >> we were floating along, and it gunned its engine and took off and went right by the restaurant cruising along the water. it had a lot of speed and it looks like it got airborne and hit a wake from a boat. and it shot up and it went slamm

. >> i'm carolyn johnson. the families of the missing men called on politicians to keep the pressure on mexican authorities and that strategy appears to have worked. >> at the same time, family members are distri distributine posters featuring four of these missing men. >> the seven missing were onboard a fishing boat when it sank at 2:30 sunday morning in the sea of cortez. more than 40 people were onboard at the time. the navy and coast guard have searched 1100 square miles. coast guard c 130 aircraft is heading south from sacramento again tomorrow. >> the mexican embassy says there never was a decision to sus pend the search operation. though calling it off at 96 hours is standard operating procedure for the mexican navy. >> we are evaluating the situation regularly so so far the operation will continue. >> this morning, families of the missing men were devastated that the search might be called off and started contacting poll sixepolitician is for help. state senator yi says there is ample evidence of surv

. >> i'm carolyn johnson. golden gate ferry service cancelled for tomorrow because of threatened one day strike by the ticket seller union. we are live at the larkspur ferry terminal with what all this means for commuters. >>reporter: well, for those who know about it, it means they have to stay home. drive. or take a bus. for anyone who arrives at for ri terminal tomorrow morning unaware the district will be doing sweep, occasional sweep through the terminal and shuttling people to the golden gate bridge bus stop and from there they have to make their way. what it means for l commuters beyond that saturday sunday next week well that's a little unclear. 16 ticket agent at the larkspur ferry terminal embarcadero and on the sausolito ferry are due to be replaced with ticket machines we can from tomorrow. the union has been negotiating with the golden gate bridge district about the transition since november 2009. but now at the 11th hour the union says it had no choice but to threaten a one day striking. >> it wa

. >> i'm carolyn johnson. parolee from washington state was shot and killed in san francisco bay view on saturday. >> and from the moment it happened angry response by some who claim the man was unarmed. lillian is in the newsroom with evidence that lillian say police say proves otherwise. >>reporter: san francisco police presented video and audio clips they say corroborates their version of events. san francisco police went on the offensive today. two days after officers shot an killed a man in the bay view district. chief greg stir replayed joyed shot by a witness that show as gun on the ground believed to have belonged to the suspect. >> you can clearly see a gun right here. >>reporter: they released audio recording for the shot spotter system that pick up 10 shots fired in a 6 second period. they say bolster their account that the suspect shot at them first. about pl. >> there's a time of 1.9 seconds between the first shot and the second shot. it is that time period that we believe that the first shot was

i'm carolyn johnson. >> in a moment, the president will march into the east room of the white house,stalemate. he will point out republicans in the house of representatives are pursuing a course of action that will not pass the senate. and the democrats are proposing plan that's cannot pass the house. a week from tomorrow is when the government runs out of money, and time. >> so with that i

. >> i'm carolyn johnson.h for the northern california men missing from a cap sized boat is over. >> u.s. coast guard and mexican navy are both calling off the search. seven men are now presumed dead. and they went into the water a week ago saturday, nine days lost, at sea. we're live tonight where one of the missing men lives. alan? >> yeah. we're here at the home of don lee. he's one of the seven missing men. his wife said after the teleconference call with the state department she says the families of the missing men had gone from sad to frustrated, and n

i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley.s of people out of work and thousands inconvenienced by massive budget cuts. >> the presiding judge announced she's preparing to dismantle operations in the civil division of her court and warning that layoffs will be drastic. we are live with what is in store. vick? >> what is in store is plenty of pain. pain from the public, court workers who face layoffs. courtrooms will be closed. clerk's offices will be shuttered and hallways will be quiet.

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. >> i'm carolyn johnson.rancisco police say they've now recovered the gun killed a man they were chasing. >> it's the gun police say the dead man had on him him. he was running cops when the fatal shot was fired. vic lee is live in san francisco with this major development in the investigation. vick, it took two week buzz police claim they have it now. >> that is right this, is a crucial bit of evidence, police hope will dispel lingering doubts about this controversial case. investigators say they found a 380 semi automatic pistol, they say belonged to a 19-year-old kenneth harding. >> as of saturday, we received

i'm carolyn johnson. >> we're going to start in berkeley.kers in a steel plant are worried. >> and an immigration crack down is underway there. many workers are living in fear of what they call silent raids. today some spoke for the first time. abc 7 is live for us in berkeley with the story. >> it turns out pacific steel is far from the only place where these so called silent raids are taking place. they're happening around the country. and while the company says it's not knowingly hired undocumented workers, reality is that hundreds of people here at the third-largest steel foundry in the united states are in this country illegally.

carolyn johnson has more. >> reporter: like a lot of women jacqueline had her first mammogram at age 40. she wasn't swayed by a government task force that suggest women don't need breast screening until age 50. >> think they do it early because it's something that if there is anything wrong they catch. >> it a new study by california pacific medical center in san francisco has come down on her side but with a twist. >> we found that how often a woman should have a mammogram depends on her risk of getting breast cancer. there is an area of density, dense tissue. >> the doctor and his colleagues examined various risk factors including breast density. women with fatty tissue are at higher risk. >> the more tissue, the greater the chance some of the tissues will result in breast cancer. that is probably some of the reason that breast cancer is a strong risk. >>> the denser tissue is visible as more solid looking patches. radiologists can rate the dense it on a scale of one to four and four the highest. >> in order to interpret that kind of information the team issued a key recommendation

here is carolyn johnson with the details. [ siren ] >>> when cardiac arrest patients are being rushedemergency room the clock is ticking, not just for their heart but their brains that can be vulnerable. so along with restoring heartbeat. e.r. teams are targeting body temperature. >> to cool it down. >> she is the charge nurse at california pacific medical center. initial steps place ice packs and cooling blankets but her team employs a newer technology. a temperature controlled device used to inject a saline solution into the bloodstream. >> it cools everything down. it slows everything down. >> by cooling the brain you reduce the demand for both oxygen and glucose and prevents damage. >> the doctor heads up the department of emergency medicine. he says while the concept of cooling the body to protect the brain isn't new, the technology has become more effective. >> the goal is to reduce the core temperature which is normally at 37 degrees. you want to lower that to 32 degrees centigrade. the goal is to do that in first two or three hours. >> they are backing up the benefits of that

here is carolyn johnson with the details. >> all right, buddy, ready to run? let's go run. >> watching her dog bounding around the park is a challenge but when she thinks about what his life was three years ago. >> he started falling over. he was going to chase something and fall over. >> a deteriorated district was crushing in ios spine and they advised the nerve damage would spread to other parts of his body. >> we thought we had to put him down. >> but she found a veterinarian, adamo was conducting a treatment a technique that relatively new in humans. >> why don't we try it in dogs. it works so well in people. >> he and team of researchers devised this system for dogs. after removing the damaged disk they make a slotted with a device. they place the artificial disk that keeps the vertebrae sprayed allowing normal movement. >> there is mobility to the spine. >> the artificial disks avoid some of the side effects that can transfer stress to surrounding areas causing further damage. he expects the cost to $500 compared to $2,000 for a fusion. he says early re

carolyn johnson has more. >> like a lot of women, jacqueline had her first mammogram at age 40.sn't swayed by a recommendation that suggested most women don't need it until age 50. >> i would rather have it. i think it's great to do it early because if there is something wrong they catch it early on. >> now, a new study has come down on jacqueline's side but with a twist. >> we found how often a woman should have a mammogram depends on the risk of getting breast cancer. there is an area of density. >> he and his colleagues examined various risk factors, including density. with higher density is at higher risk. >> greater chance that some of the cells and tissues will result in breast cancer. that is probably the breast cancer is strong risk for breast cancer. >> the denser tissue is visible as more solid looking patches. raid yol jists can rate it on one to four, one being the lowest density and four the highest. >> but to get that information, the bay area research team issued a key recommendation that women should have a baseline mammogram at age 40. >> they can make a screeni

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here's health science reporter carolyn johnson. >> no matter how carefully a surgeon closes an incisionrring is inevitably part of the healing process. but now researchers at stanford say they have come up with a way to limit it. >> the original conception that was we would make bad scars good and good scars perfect. >>reporter: to achieve that d dr. jeffrey and his team at stanford began mapping the force that typically pulls on incision after the future your removed causing scar tissue to spread and began experiment with stretchable material with goal of immobilizing the incision area while it is healing. >> when the bandage removed it con stribingts. you can feel, you can sense that there is essentially like a soft tissue splint. >>reporter: result is a new kind of elastic bandage that stretched over the skin with adhesive. as it regains the original shape the bandage gently pull also the skin toward the incision line as it heals. while the difference in pressure is slight, the result in clinical trials are clearly visible. the left side of the incision was left to heal on its own wh

health and science reporter carolyn johnson has the details. >> if you are a newborn like lucas, youy traits. maybe your mother's eyes or your uncle's chin or just maybe your father's ears. >> mine are a little more pointy, like elf ears, but he definitely seems to have inherited pop's and grandpa's ears a little bit. >> in lucas straight it resulted in more of a flop. a condition that left the tops of his ears foaled over. not a huge problem, but still. >> so i asked my husband and he said, oh, when i was young all of my friends made fun of me. >> we see abnormalities of the ear cartilage when children are born. >> he was referred to a plastic surgeon at stanford. he recommended a new device called the ear well, which he said can correct abnormalities ranking from mild to severe. first customizable fittings are made in this housing, which is placed over the ear. >> what we're able to do, we are able to shape the cartilage and mold the cartilage to a much more normal appearance. >> he said the key is the device must be placed in the first few months of life, the stage when the cartil

here's health and science reporter carolyn johnson. >> so i will ask you to close your eyes.hat peaceful quality about travel through all parts of you. >> army veteran is learning to manage emotion that have haunted her for months. diagnosed with ptsd after her return from iraq she says the adjustment back to normal life has been slow. >> sometimes i'll be somewhere let's say say for instance in a mall or something and then i'll see myself back in iraq. >> then imagine wrapping all of that experience in something like a bubble or a balloon. >>reporter: the session isn't taking place at the va as you might expect. it's part of a program being organized by the institute for health and healing at california pacific francisco. counselor davenport says the institute integrates variety of alternative therap therapies from this session known as guided imagery to massage and acupuncture your treatment. >> then we have a whole array of classes including yoga, tai chi, chicago gong various kind of movement. >> help me learn to pay attention to my breathing. and then pay attention to wh