laura anthony has more on the effort to catch his killer and a vigil held to remember the victim lastight. >> first there were just a few. then many more people gathered on oakland's bancroft avenue until the crowd spilled into the street. they came to pay their respects to 13-year-old javan clark gunned down here 24 hours earlier. many were classmates of javan at the middle school. >> why him? he was minding his business. >> i know him. >> i just heard gunfire. >> this woman told us she heard five or six gunshots and then the sound of footsteps running from where the boy's body lay on the sidewalk. >> people are just actually walking the streets shooting people. >> a star track athlete, javan was supposed to begin his freshman year next monday. on wednesday he would have turned 14. >> he was a cool kid. like he really didn't get nothing bad. he always got good grades and stuff like that. >> to see something like this happen, happen to a young man that was so energetic, you know, that was so full of energy. it's heartbreaking. >> hard times out here, that's all. just gotta watch over

laura anthony reports from walnut creek. >>> it's hard to see how a swim club could be a fire danger.rees and brush around it, walnut creek sunny hills aquatic club is just that this time of year. >> we have a large tree overstory here and fuel from the spinning. a lot of things need attending to. >> it's an expensive job in that they have 30 members raising the money to pay for the creation of defensible space is a huge challenge. now from a supplemental grant, sunny hills can afford to do the work. the club is just six safety projects recently approved for funding from the nonprofit. >> they will do tree removal but they have no way to dispose of it so they use our dollars for chipping. >> even with the grant money, making the property here at sunny hills fire safe is no simple task. for one thing there's at least six variety of trees here. >> just because you want to eliminate a tree doesn't mean you can do it. there's a permit process. >> gary is just uphill from sunny hills. he's relieved the swim club is going to clean up its property. >> the fire danger is a real issue that has

in martinez, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> merchants in oakland chinatown are installing surveillance cameras and some will be hiring private security guards following the layoffs of 80 police officers last month. many store owners already have secured cameras inside their stores. now the chinatown chamber of commerce is asking business owners to install cameras outside facing the street to capture potential criminals. >> the camera will be pointing on the street. because it has been successfully helping us deter crime. and also it actually help us to capture the people who are committing crime and being prosecuted. so it's working very well for chinatown. >> the oakland police department says it welcomes the security cameras installed by store owners if they feel it will make them and their customers safer. a watsonville man reached a product liability with a taser. he suffered permanent brain damage after being tasered by a watsonville cop when he refused to get off a bus. he was drunk and on psychiatric medication at the time. under the settlement taser international admitted no li

laura anthony has advice in case you should cross paths with a rattler. >> all of a sudden i heard a>> santa rosa's bob pitchler knew it as soon as he heard it. the netting with the backyard tomato plants with a rattlesnake. >> i did consider grabbing scissors and cutting it free. once i had a closer look, it was really caught up. >> they called the sonoma county reptile rescue service. she videotaped what wolf did next, meticulously free the snake without having the nervous animal turn on him. it's dangerous work. wolf has been bitten 11 times in 21 years. >> here's the one caught in the netting today. >> the snake was one of nine wolf rescued today. he went into a holding pen with three dozen more taken in this week. >> once this warm weather hit rattle snakes are on the move. >> the marin society had their share of rattler calls. the best advice for anyone who finds a rattlesnake, keep your distance and call an expert. after a short stay here, these snakes will be set free far away from anyone's backyard. >> you make sure they have a good rocky hillside, good watery stream, a lot

here's laura anthony with more. >> i'm happy to tell you today that sheriff office detectives have maden arrest in that case. >> an arrest in one rape and two sa tempted rapes in the park regency apartment at walnut creek. he's 22 year sold antonio muton from berkley. police arrested him tools from the pittsburgh bart station but only named him a suspect in the walnut creek cases after dna testing was completed. >> we're confident the dna we recovered has come from mr. muton. >> the break in the case came from a citizen tip. >> we received a break in this case when a citizen provided a tip to one of our patrol deputies and. our sheriffs office investigators were able to develop that tip into a probable cause arrest warrant. >> the three attacks all occurred inside apartments at the park regency. the most recent this past tuesday when a 25-year-old woman awoke to find a man with his hand over her mouth. she fought off her attacker with pepper spray. july 6th a 23-year-old woman was raped by a man who entered her unlocked apartment. june 30th a man knocked on an apartment door and asked f

laura anthony reports from walnut creek. >>> it's hard to see how a swim club could be a fire danger.ound it, walnut creek sunny hills aquatic club is just that this time of year. >> we have a large overstory here as well as things that need attending to. >> it's an expensive job given that sunny hills only has 30 members, raising the money to pay for the creation of defensible space is a huge challenge. but now thanks to a $5,000 supplemental grant from the fire safe council, sunny hills can afford to do the work. the club is one of six fire safety projects recently approved for funding for the nonprofit. >> neighborhood groups will do tree removal but they have no way to dispose of it so they use our dollars for chipping. several projects go in and do more fuel removal. >> even with the grant money, making the property fire safe is no simple task. there's six varieties of trees here. >> just because you want to limb a tree or take out a tree doesn't mean that you can do it. there's a permit process. >> gary vanness lives just uphill. he's relieved the swim club is going to clean its

as abc 7's laura anthony reports, many of the companies are in the bay area and include some familiar names. >> reporter: what do an east beta co- bell, a pittsburgh car dealership and a san francisco cement company all have in common? they're all on a notorious state list of the top 250 businesses that have failed to pay their sales taxes. >> there is about $322 million outstanding now. >> reporter: of the top 250, 42 are bay area businesses that collectively owe $80 million. they include san francisco's pacific cement company, $3.1 million. san ramon wells interior, $2.4 million. and san jose south bay auto, $2 million. also among those who failed to pay the former owners of this lafayette taco bell who owe $836,000. that debt dates back to 2002 and like most of them, the state hasn't been able to collect. >> get craftier and aggressive and we need to do the same. >> reporter: implicating the collection efforts of the state, most of the companies on this list like the furniture store that used to occupy this building in san ramon, are no longer in business. by far, the most common o

laura anthony has some advice in case you should cross paths with a rattler. >> all of a sudden i heard -- >> he knew it as soon as he heard it. tangled in had the netting around parking lot backyard tomato plants was a rattlesnake. >> i did consider actually grabbing some scissors and trying to cut it free. but once i got a closer look it was really caught up. >> they called the rescue service and out came al wolf. this videotaped what wolf did next, meticulously free the snake without having the nervous animal turn on him. wolf has been bitten 11 times in 21 years. >> here's the one that was caught in the netting. >> one of nine he rescued today. it went into a holding pen with three dozen more taken in this week. >> once this warm weather hits, rattle snakes are on the move. >> the humane society had their share of rattler calls. the best advice, do what they did, keep your distance and call an expert. >> after a short stay here, these snakes will be set free far away from anyone's backyard. >> you make sure you have a good rocky hillside, good watery stream, a lot of lizards, a lot

laura anthony has the story from pleasanton. >>reporter: in the second court appearance christine still did not enter a plea to the 67 felony count against her. her attorney told the judge he needed more time to rehave you all the evidence against his client. >> so i am going to wait until i get all of that and then i'll form an opinion as to how we'll proceed on the case. >>reporter: 42-year-old hub is accused of having sexual relation with two teenager boys and liaison dating back to december of 2008. >> no comment now. our lawyer is taking care of all that because of all the evidence and stuff. >>reporter: the husband and friend of the family were in court to show their support for the mother of 3. >> how is the family doing. >> we are doing okay. we are just taking it one day at a time. my kids are hanging tough. just telling you that? a according to prosecutors chris taken communicated with the boy by text message on the cell phone which she also used to send nude photo of herself. police say the sex would occur in hub blac

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abc 7's laura anthony is live tonight to explain what these standards mean. laura?> well, i can show you. bats that are less lively, possibly head gear, face gear for pitchers and fielders. baseball in california going to look different next spring. >> this is cf 4. >> until today, this $400 cf 4 bat was the hottest seller at all out baseball. for high school players looking to get that extra pop at the plate. >> anywhere in there you're going get a base hit. >> now, california interscholastic federation banned it at the high school level n their place, bats measured by a new standard called bb core, batted coal co-efficient of restitution. >> standard is reduction of 15% to 20%. has to do with not only exit speed which is old standard but the speed of the pitch coming n how the bat reacts once the ball is hit. you know, hits the bat, then exit speed. >> new standard is seven months after severe brain injury to a pitcher gunner sandberg hit by a ball off a bat. >> when the ball hits the bat, the bat bends, then snaps like a trample yeen. this is making it difficult

in fairfield, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> thank you. and still ahead tonight on abc 7 news disappearance after i 5-year-old boy last year and grass-roots efforts to put the case back on the front burner. >>> a corner of san francisco home to the homeless. why a plan to tut putt a court here is coming under fire. >> i'm spencer christian. there is a winter-like storm moving into northern california bringing snow to mount shasta. when will it feel like summer where we are is in the answer is in the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> and annual march of the pengiuns at san francisco zoo. aren't they cute? why this year has special significance. back in a moment. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> if you've done banking with wells fargo you might have money coming your way. today in san francisco a judge ruled the bank's overdraft charges were excessive and therefore ordered to it pay restitution to past, and current customers, estimating payments around $203 million. existing customers will get a credit and for

in walnut creek, laura anthony, abc7 news. >> and if you are interested in learning more about the defensible space grants you will find the information at abc7news.com. just look under see it on tv. >>> there may be a major break in the killing of a german tourist near union square. george gascone says he believeses strongly -- his words, strongly that the suspect has been identified. shore was shot to death on august 8th when two groups of young men opened fire on each other. she was caught in the cross fire. an 18-year-old san francisco man was ared, but prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence to charge him. police later served a service warrant on the home without making an arrest. but there is word that the police chief believes they have identified the suspects. >>> california approved large rate increases for nearly a million people who buy health coverage from anthem blue cross and blue shield. the california department of insurance says blue shield customers face an increase in 18 and a half percent. anthem blue cross face an average boost of 13.4 percent. anthem want race

laura anthony, abc7 news. >> and at least four rattlers have been spotted at the college of marin indian campus in novato over the past week or so. campus police arounded everyone to be on alert and stay on paved pathways and out of the woods. >>> there is triple digit heat in southern california where a major wildfire threatened homes. the fire is burning in the hills along interstate 5 in the cajon pass about 60 miles northwest of los angeles. it broke out just after noon and grew to 1100 acres quickly. residents of 200 homes were ordered to evacuate. the order was lifted a few hours ago. cal fire called in one of the biggest guns the dc10 firefighting jet. >> have been watching them drop fire retardant. i think we will be okay. >> crews will work through the night. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> and a wildfire in ashland oregon has destroyed 1100 homes and damaged two others. they believe the fast moving fire started as a grass fire and then spread to home. more than 75 firefighters responded. residents were evacuated. no one was hurt. >>> san francisco police have

laura, take it away. i was going to give you a full introduction. you have the man with you. >> right. i have one of the backup running back anthonyon joining us. you got your name called right away, you got out on the first play. how was with it the first team offense? >> it felt good to get that experience and get more comfortable in the offense. i was happy with that. >> you knew you were going to get a lot of opportunities, ride see what you could do against some of the better defenses. >> coach kind of told me i was going to be starting. i was trying to focus on my technique and put out a good performance. >> how would you assess your performance? >> it was okay but it was inconsistent at times. sometimes i didn't take what they gave me. i wanted to make a big play. got to learn sometimes you got to take three, four get the big one. >> when you look at the running back situation here you have frank gore then brian westbrook. where do you see yourself? >> right in the middle beside all of them. they have some great seasons. with all them guys be a sponge and listen and learn. they been there where i'm wanting to go. i listen w