abc 7 news reporter katie utehs arrived on the scene as the lockdown was still going on inside. she's joining us now outside balboa high with the latest developments. katie? >> reporter: police have detained three students, one student was transported with non-life threatening injuries, unclear if that's related to the actual gunfire or not. i spoke with a student who was in study hall when the gunfire went off. he said he saw a bullet on the ground, and a hole through a chair. he says the student involved simply walked out of the room and the lockdown followed. >> i thought it was a firecracker. i just thought it was a firecracker. it was just loud. >> reporter: san francisco police detained three balboa high school students seen in this sky 7 video following reports of gunshots within the school. the gunfire sent the school into lockdown. a student sent us this video of a lockdown classroom, you can see them on their phones looking for updates, panicked parents did the same trying to reach students. >> i'm amongst the ranks of parents who have stood outside police tape outside

katie utehs has more on the close call in the wine country. >> no! that's stupid. >> a day of wine tasting in sonoma county turned sour when a tour bus driver drove drunk, says chp officer kimberly lemons. >> they head back to the van and find him asleep, essentially passed out between the wheel. >> the driver took off southbound down 101 with eight people on board friday evening. >> he was having trouble maintaining his vehicle within the lane, and at one point he almost hit a big rig. >> the tourists from minnesota and iowa forced him off the freeway at old redwood highway. >> i'd be very disappointed in the company i had paid to keep me safe. >> chp says the company is napa valley wine country tours, and the driver, 60-year-old eugene cremen. investigators are looking into his role with the company. abc 7 reached out for comment but has nod heard back. i spoke with another tour bus driver who works for a different company. he tells me that drivers must have their cdl permit and they're subject to random drug testing. prior duis varies company to c

live in castro valley, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >>> coming up on abc 7 news, a push to keep you safe on b.a.r.t. why one group is pushing the agency to ask for help and why b.a.r.t. says it can't do that. >>> then, scam warning. 7 on your side's michael finney shows you the social media post that you should not trust. >>> a new commuting experience. what bus service will look like when the new (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪ ♪ you know when you're at ross and that cute dress gets even cuter? yes. or when you can say yes... to both? sure. or when you find that brand at that price? are you kidding me? yeah. that's yes for less. and that's what ross always has in store. whoa. (sighs) yes... oh, yeah. get your yes for less at the newest ross store in south santa rosa. (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) >>> in the midst of b.a.r.t.'s effort to fight violent crime -- >> why not declare mutual aid and ask for help. abc 7 news reporter vic lee is live near the embarcader

katie utehs, abc 7 news. >>> steph curry is taking a stand in support of closing the pay gap between men and women. in an article published yesterday women's equality day he said the issue has become more personal now that he has two daughters. studies show women make less on average than men for the same job. curry said, quote, i want them to grow up believing they can dream big and strive for careers where they will be treated fairly >>> hundreds opened their hearts and wallets to celebrate the mission of the taylor foundation. >> we enjoyed music, great food and drinks and live auctions to make the day in the park fundraiser another success. i had those. they are really good. >> they look good. >> the foundation sends kids with chronic illnesses and life-threatening conditions to camp arroyo in livermore. several members of our abc 7 family joined including sheryl jennings and mike nicco and tlifs. abc 7 is a proud sponsor of day in the park. as mike knows yesterday it was the perfect temperature and that is usually not the case in august in livermore. last year i think it was mor

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs has more on the organic approach. >> reporter: these small faces are huge motivation for novato's mayor josh fryday. >> a saying you put your money behind your values and in our community we value the environment, we value protecting our children. >> reporter: the city will no longer use the weed killer roundup or products containing the chemical glyphosate. >> the world health organization did declare roundup carcinogenic quite a while ago. >> reporter: it's a victory for groups like sustainable novato that have advocated against potentially dangerous chemicals for years. >> the truth is you can't put a price tag on your children's health and the health of your pets and loved ones. >> reporter: a jury did put a price tag on one man's terminal cancer, awarding a former benicia groundskeeper $289.2 million. dewayne lee johnson sprayed the weed killer in bulk 30 times a year. 2.5 years into the job a diagnosis of non-hodgkin's lymphoma. >> way bigger than me. hopefully this thing will start to get the attention that it needs to get right so folks can mak

abc 7 reporter katie utehs has more on the winning teen. >> [ inaudible ] thank ou. >> reporter: the voicemail from a teenage boy who has just won a car. >> he was spoked. >> reporter: this chrysler 300 will be parked in brandon suh's driveway but belongs to a group group of six friends. >> we're all going to share it, we're always together hanging out, so there's not really a difference of who has a car. >> reporter: they won the wheels in a treasure hunt built by christian williams. >> i played a treasure hunt when i was in high school. >> reporter: he designed the four hidden keys game and opened the website to san leandro high school students. >> the world is huge and there's so many things do and i can't just spend all my time writing software. >> reporter: the green key was hidden at washington manor park here on thelay equipment had tohis interactive tool to unlock the clue. >> they were actually very difficult, which is like why i don't think like by ourselves we would have been able to like solve it, especially as quickly as we did. >> reporter: in the span of a weekend, the

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs is live at balboa high school with the information we have just confirmed. katie? >> reporter: dion, within the last hour we've learned the student that was injured today is going to be okay. she was not shot. we've also learned more about the student who brought that gun to school. he's said to be a 14-year-old freshman, and that the gun may have accidentally discharged from his backpack. >> we hear a loud bang, look over, there's a whole in a chair, something on the ground, then the teacher gets up, comes over. she then calls security and everyone comes in, and then we just go into our next class tlockdown. >> reporter: per police sources, the student ran out of the classroom, showing him handing something over to students. police detained those students and they're the ones seen in sky 7 and ground video from outside the school. they then handed the gun over to police. the student who brought the gun to school managed the run away from campus. sources say his mother took him to the bay view station this afternoon to turn himself in. the lockdown lasted l

katie utehs with more on the mystery artist at work. >> reporter: it says your mom loves you.ay. it matters. messages scrolled in chalk on the sidewalks. >> every half block or so, there is a message about something very positive and very nice. >> reporter: words of kindness. >> so inspirational, just great. >> reporter: unsigned by the author. so who is behind the sentiments? >> yeah, very much wondering. >> reporter: the secret is known at salon 1500. >> i thought to myself, what did you do? so i came on out and i read the quote which is a beautiful quote. >> reporter: justin is the chalk artist hairstylist. >> she is a mom of three beautiful children, great wife. and she just wants to devote herself. >> reporter: but the secret is safe. >> don't use her name. >> i know they want to remain anonymous, but thank you. >> reporter: so far she's written around 60 messages. many are around schools. >> you are going to have the best year. plus you you get new crayons. that is absolutely awesome. >> reporter: just like a good haircut can britghten your day, so too can a sweet senten

katie utehs spoke with witnesses and has more details. >> celebrations in the park, children's birthday parties, al >> they heard a lot of shots and everybody was frantic and scared and running for their lives. >> one victim in the back. >> witnesses say three men were shot in an apparent drive-by. two men hit in the stomach, one with a grazed wound to his hand. >> it's pretty disconcerting. >> police markers fill the streets. one family was celebrating a birthday when the shooting happened around 5:30. >> there were a lot of children. my sister-in-law gave a birthday party for her grandson. so we had a lot of family out here. >> witnesses tell us the gunshots came from the street striking two men in this area of the park. it interrupted what was a 40-year anniversary of friendship party, people ran leaving behind their party barbecue. berkeley police released few details. the crime shook people in the park. >> i love you guys. >> neighbors say a shooting in the same area occurred back in may. >> needs to stop. >> police say one victim is this critical condition, the other is stable. in

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs has the details. >> it don't make no sense. i think it's because of people using drugs. >> reporter: why someone would attack a san jose state student trying to go home for the weekend is anyone's guess. the young man says as he tried to transfer trains around 10:00 saturday morning, someone attacked him from behind at the richmond station. >> you don't know what can happen at any time, you know what i mean? you've got to just be careful. >> reporter: the attacker ran off and the victim called police. paramedics transferred the young man a short distance here to kaiser hospital where according to his family, he was treated for broken teeth, possibly a broken jaw, and a concussion. b.a.r.t. police are investigating the incident and looking for surveillance images. in another case cameras captured shots of this man, 27-year-old solomon espinosa. b.a.r.t. police say he attacked two men with a box cutter friday night. the stabbing happened on a richmond-bound train as it reached the macarthur b.a.r.t. station. both men will be okay

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs spoke with witnesses. ilen's birthday parties.s. all terrorized by a shooting at berkeley san pedro park. >> everybody was frantic and scared and running for their lives. >> a victim in their stomach and back. >> reporter: three men were shot in an apparent drive-by, say witnesses. two men hit in the stomach. one man with a graze wound to his hand. >> the fact that this would happen in broad daylight, it's pretty disconcerting. >> reporter: police evidence markers fill russell street near mabel street. pastor lankford's family was celebrating a birthday when the shooting happened around 5:30. >> there were a lot of children around here. my sister-in-law gave a birthday party for her grandson. so we had a lot of our grandchildren, nieces and nephews that were here, and there were other events as well. >> reporter: witnesses tell us the gunshots came from the street, striking two men in this area of the park. it interrupted what was a 40-year anniversary, a friendship party. people ran, leaving behind their party barbecue. berkeley po

katie utehs has the details. >> the food court at sun valley mall looks new and it's busy, but last week, a different scene. >> last week there was actually yellow caution tape all around this whole entire area. >> jcpenney employee dolores bennett had no idea why. >> we had no knowledge of a rat infestation. >> contra cockroach infestations. >> this is very unusual to have this many facilities in a mall affected at roughly the same time. >> that concerns me a lot, actually, because a lot of my coworkers do come here to the food court every day for lurch and that's just not very -- it's not healthy and not safe. >> the first closures happened in may and the most recent, last week when an inspector actually saw a live rat while investigating a complaint. in addition to other evidence, a rodent contamination. >> there's obviously systemic problems and not just individual restaurants. it's involving the mall itself. >> reporter: mall management shared this statement, tenants are response imfor complying with all health department regulations. upon learning of the situation, our management t

katie utehs spoke with very shocked neighbors. >> the grand houses are gated and the scenery picturesque. >> it's very scary, and it's frightening to think that, you know, people have been in this area doing, committing violent crimes. julia's daughter stables her horse at the westwind community barn. >> we've always felt safe here. >> so did neighbor, they tied up the 83-year-old home owner and ransacked the home. the woman's gardener heard the cries for help and called 911. >> reporter: police ask anyone with information to come forward. the victim did describe the robbers to deputies as three men, two wearing masks and one hispanic man in his 20s. >> that must have been so frightening for her. i can't imagine having three men come in and, you know, tie me up. >> neighbors were too shaken to go on camera, but say the elderly woman is petite, likely less than 100 pounds in weight. her husband was not home at the time of the break-in. medics treated her injuries on scene. she's said to be bruised from the assault. in los altos, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >>> an e evacuation order for a ber

. >> katie utehs with more on the winning team. >> thank you. >> reporter: voicemail from a teenage boyt won a car. >> he was stoked. >> chrysler 300 will be parked in brandon su's driveway but belong to group of friends. >> always together, hanging out. not a difference who has the car. >> reporter: won in treasure hunt built by christian williams. >> played a treasure hunt in high school. >> designed four hidden keys game and opened website to san leandro high school students. >> world is huge, so many things to do, can't just spend all my time writing software. >> reporter: hidden here on play equipment, had to go back to the website to use interactive tool to unlock the clue. >> they were difficult. i don't think by ourselves would be able to solve it, especially as quickly as we did. >> reporter: in span of weekend found and solved four puzzles. >> he does random things all the time, always hanging out with same boys. okay sure, just be safe. >> probably coolest thing haze happened in to me in a long time, watching them find the clue. >> christian signed over the car to the parents

katie utehs is live in oakland. katie? courthouse when the judge dismissed a previously brokered plea deal involving defendants derick almena and max harris. now it appears that the da and at least harris's defense attorney are welcoming a trial. district attorney nancy o'malley is making her own plea to the court on behalf of the victims of the deadly ghost ship fire. the letter, seen here, has been published by our partners at the east bay times. o'malley writes, the people stand ready to try this case against both defendants. >> what's unusual here is first the da was willing to make a deal, and now the da is not. >> o'malley's change of course follows the presiding judge's. last week he dismissed a brokered plea deal for the defendants. almena and harris admitted to their involvement in the fire that killed 36 people. the judge's move followed a damaging letter written b

katie utehs spoke with some very shocked neighbors. >> on altamont road in los altos hill, the houses are gated and the scenery picturesque. >> it's very scary and it's frightening to think that you know, people have been in this area doing -- committing violent crimes. >> reporter: julie's daughter stables her horse at the westwind community barn. >> we've always felt safe around here. >> so did the neighbors until three men broke into a home thursday morning around 11:00. they tied up the 83-year-old homeowner and ransacked the home. the woman's gardener heard the woman's call for help and called 911. >> santa clara county's sheriff's investigates asks anyone with information to come forward. the victim did describe the robbers to deputies as three men, two wearing masks and one hispanic man in his 20s. >> that must have been so frightening for her. i can't imagine having three men come in and, you know, tie me up. >> neighbors were too shaken to be on camera, but say the elderly woman is petite, likely less than 100 pounds in weight. her husband was not home at the time of the brea

katie utehs, abc 7 news. >>> an evacuation order from a berkeley neighborhood is still in place as work continues to remove trees in danger of falling. crews were able to remove one of the six redwoods deemed unsafe. >> two on the corner of the university and e avenue. it will start up at 8:00 this morning. after being closed for two months for construction. the tunnel provides subway service between castro and westportal station. the project has not been without fault. a worker died on the job. the mayor cited the accident in a scathing letter questioning muni's leadership earlier this week. bart is reminding passengers this weekend trains will not be running between the west oakland and lake merit and west oakland and 19th street stations. that means to get to san francisco from the east bay you'll have to ride the free bus bridge to link up between those stations. this is part of an ongoing maintenance on the system. bart will close these stations again labor day weekend. time now 6 time 10 on this saturday morning and meteorologist lisa argen is here tracking the accuweather forecas

in concord, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >> our time is 8:05. the suspect in a fatal hit and run in the tenderloin neighborhood has been charged with murder. 41-year-old michael smith was in court yesterday and the charges stem from a tuesday night accident that killed 65-year-old gregory blackman. court documents allege smith's wife warned him not to drive while thinking in oakland and he continued to drink on the drive to san francisco. >> tense moments in san mateo county when the car was left teetering on the edge of the cliff. sky 7 was teetering over the cliff in half moon bay. the driver of the mini cooper veered off the road after being cut off by a white mustang. good samaritans stopped to pull the occupants out and there are no injuries to report. >>> a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a santa rosa senior home in the wildfires. 17 elderly residents and family members sued oakmont senior living of not taking adequate precautions to eradicate the facility. the case was about to go to trial and terms were not made public b

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs spoke with witnesses. >> reporter: celebrations in the park. children's birthday parties. all terrorized by a shooting at berkeley san pablo park. >> they heard a lot of shots and everybody was frantic and scared and running for their lives. >> one victim in the stomach and back. >> reporter: three men were shot in the apparent drive-by. two were hit in the stomach. one man with a grazed wound to his hand. >> the fact this would happen in broad daylight is -- you know, pretty disconcerting. >> reporter: police markers fill the street. langford's family was celebrating a birthday when the shooting happened around 5:30. >> there were a lot of children out there. my sister-in-law had a birthday party for her grandson so we had a lot of our grandchildren, nieces and nephews over here. >> reporter: witnesses tell us the gunshots came from the street, striking two men in this area of the park. it interrupted a 40 year anniversary, a friendship party. people ran behind and left behind the party barbecue. the berkeley police collected evidence but rele

. >> it's a prefabricated unit, built in china and then shipped to the bay area, katie utehs got a tour project along with the developer. katie? >> reporter: the build time on this project is only four months, whereas regular construction would take a full year. so that is a plus for developers. but i'll let you decide if you'd be willing to live in 310 square feet. >> this unit right here, right? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: developer patrick kennedy is eager to modernize the construction industry. >> this is our second modular project and we're trying to find a way to bring down the cost of building housing. >> reporter: a potential solution, modular units, like shipping containers, kennedy's photos show the units being stacked in a matter of four days. built in china and then shipped to the port of oakland. >> prefab really only works if you're close to the ports because your trucking costs kill you if you go far. >> reporter: it costs more to truck them from oakland to berkeley than it did to cross the ocean. >> the stairwells and the hallways get finished on site, but the units proper

katie utehs has more on the winning team. >> reporter: the voice mail for a teenage boy who's just won300 will be parked in brandon's driveway, but it belongs to a group of six friends. >> we're all going to share it. we're always together, every day, every weekend, hanging out. so there's not a big difference of who has the car. >> they won the wheels in a treasure hunt built by christian williams. >> he designed the four hidden keys game and opened the website to san le and row high school students. >> the world is huge and there's so many things to do. i can't spend all my time writing software. >> the key was hidden at washington manor park here on the play equipment and they had to go back to the website to use this interactive tool to unlock the clue. >> they were actually very difficult, which is like why i don't think like by ourselves we would have been able to like solve it. especially as quickly as we did. >> in the span of a weekend, they found and solved four puzzles. >> he does random things all the time. he's always hanging out with the same boys, okay, sure, just be saf

katie utehs is live at the county courthouse are more on these revelations about these recordings while these young people were in custody. >> reporter: we spoke with the d.a. late this afternoon. she dismissed the case upon hearing about it and she expects her criminal case into this recording issue to be plightcom in the coming weeks. and her office is combing through dozens of other juvenile cases making sure that this has happened because those cases could potentially be dismissed. and the public defend are says he needs to make sure this isn't happening on a wider scale. >> first reaction is this is illegal. >> reporter: the public defender brendan woods says this body camera footage from a sheriff sergeant shocked him. back in march, the sergeant admits to recording an in-custody juvenile while he was with his attorney. ⌞> we've had these recordings, we have not yet listened to any of them with what they said to the attorney. >> there is a system of trust and that cannot be violated. and it is a felony for someone to record that conversation. it is against the law. >> reporter: se

live in oakland, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >> much preeshtappreciated, kat thanks. >>> they've arrested an uber driver, facing charges of sexually assaulting a woman who rode in his car. detectives arrested him on tuesday. police believe barillas picked the woman up on july 14th and assaulted her after he drove her to union city. >>> crews stopped the spread of a fire. flames broke out around 2:30 west of madrona manor. cal fire is asking everyone who does not need to be in that area to stay away. these are photos of the fire from mill creek vineyards and winery, the winery tells us they were not asked to evacuate. >>> the city of oakland is cracking down on illegal dumping by hosting what it calls bulky block parties. the city will have food trucks, music and a festive atmosphere for residents to get rid of large items for free. the first one is august 25th. two others are planned. we have the dates and locations posted on our website, abc7news.com. >>> a possible chill in the housing market. home sales are starting to fall by double digit percentage points. david louie has been crunch

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs arrived on the scene as the lockdown was still going on inside. us now outside balboa high with the latest developments. katie? >> reporter: police have detained three students, one student was transported with non-life threatening injuries, unclear if that's related to the actual gunfire or not. i spoke with a student who was in study hall when the gunfire went off. he said he saw a bullet on the ground, and a hole through a chair. he says the student involved simply walked out of the room and the lockdown followed. >> i thought it was a firecracker. i just thought it was a firecracker. it was just loud. >> reporter: san francisco police detained three balboa high school students seen in this sky 7 video following reports of gunshots within the school. the gunfire sent

abc 7 news reporter katie utehs spoke to parents and students. >> we hear a loud bang, look over a holesomething on the ground. then the teacher gets up, comes over. she then calls the security, everyone comes in. they -- and then we go to our next class and they called a lockdown. >> reporter: per police sources the student ran out, handing something over to three other students. police detained those students and they are the ones seen in sky 7 and ground video from outside the school. they then handed the gun over to police. the student who brought the gun to school managed to run away fromis mkto t bayview station ts afted for less than two hours. during that time, police scoured the area and parents urgently texted and called students for updates. >> they've been silent. she can't move across the class room to sit next to her best friend. she's stuck in the corner. >> reporter: by 1:00 in the afternoon police gave the all clear and students were reunited with their parents. a middle and elementary school were put on lockdown during the search. >>> we told yesterday about two touris

in it oakland, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >>> a lot more to come on a very busy day. we're in the midst of back to school season, triggering both aspirations and anxieties. >>> a sexual assault in stanford as students prepare to go back to class. >>> coming up at 6:30, multiple guilty verdicts against trump campaign chairman paul manafort. but the case isn't over yet. >>> i'm spencer christian. low clouds and fog will make a strong push overnight. we'll have the accuweather forecast you could generate yourat home.rgy, or to save energy, unplug unused appliances. do your thing, with energy upgrade california. ♪ ♪ >>> with classes resuming at stanford next month, concerns about safety are being raised after a woman says she was raped on campus. an alert has gone out to the stanford community now. abc 7 news reporter david louie looks at the issue of sexual assaults at stanford. >> reporter: the rape victim says she was assaulted on the main campus, although the exact location has not been released. stanford is still on summer break. however, with classes resuming late n

katie utehs abc 7 news. >>> the suspect in a hit and run in the tenderloin neighborhood has been charged with murder. michael smith was in court yesterday. the charges stem from a tuesday night accident that killed 35-year-old gregory placplac his wife warned him not to drink. 5:06 is the time. >>> tense moments when a car was left teetering on the edge of a cliff. sky 7 was on the scene of san gregorio state beach south of half moon bay. >> the driver of the mini cooper veerd off the road after being cut off by a white mustang. good samaritans pulled occupants out and no injuries to report. >>> a settlement has been reached in the santaa rosa north bay home during the wildfires. 17 elderly residents and family members sued oakmont senior living accusing staff at villa capri of not taking adequate precautions to evacuate the facility when flames swept through the complex. terms of not made public because the settlement has yet to be signed. >>> the trial for the ghost ship fire defendants is likely to begin nextiary. der derek derek almena and derek harris were charged with manslaughter.