lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> firefighters are calling for aircraft to help them battle a wildfire growing in western marin county. you can see where it's burning. so far it's burned at least 25 ache over grass. crews believe it could go even more, reaching up to 30, maybe 40 acres even. firefighters from both marin county. >>> they're getting look as extensive damage. right now 2,800 acres have burned. now they're searching for hot spots. chris nguyen is showing you the aftermath. >> me and my neighbor ran down the hill as fast as we could. >> reporter: residents saw their neighbor's home burning to the ground. >> i saw the flames shooting 20 feet in the air. the first thing i was thinking, how am i going to get the hell out of her alive. >> when you have a lot of veg taegs, it really is dangerous. >> reporter: david carlson said he was the first to call for help. and then it instantly exploded. as i saw it going toward the house, my first concern was getting people out. >> reporter: sky7 shows it from overhead. the fire spread to nearby allen rock park which will remain closed fo

lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >>> thank you for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm ama daetz.:00 starts now. >>> we continue with breaking news. sky 7 zooms in on a small plane that crashed in sonoma county. one person is dead. we're live at the scene. >>> in santa clara county, somebody shot some kind of bb gun at motorists. a little girl was hurt. plus -- >> you have that discretion whether or not to release the video. >> b.a.r.t.'s top cop defends not releasing crime surveillance video. he's facing some disagreement. and -- >> propane tanks. >> it was a huge boom. >> and a huge fire in lafayette. drone view 7 shows you what's left behind. business owners vow to rebuild. >> we've just got to move on and find somewhere else. >>> breaking news is in sonoma county where that small plane with four people on board crashes with deadly results. one person was killed, three others, including two children, were hurt. thanks for joining us, i'm kristen sze. >> i'm larry beil in for dan ashley. the plane crashed south of sonoma not far from the sonoma sky park airport. abc 7 news repor

. >> lyanne melendez has the story. >> reporter: in paris, researchers heard promising news in the fight to suppress the hiv virus. a 9-year-old south african girl was diagnosed when she was only 30 days old. a newborn. treatment began at 8 1/2 weeks. then continued for a total of 40 weeks. >> then treatment was interrupted after 40 weeks and the child has had undeticketable viral alert until now. >> reporter: the child was part of a clinical trial to see the effects of treating hiv positive babies in the first weeks of life. today, it raises the possibility that treating babies early could prevent them from taking hiv drugs their entire lives. >> it doesn't have specific relevance to infants in san francisco. but throughout the world, there are many, many millions of infants who have become infected. >> reporter: researchers say other factors may have contributed to the child's remission. >> the challenges to try to pin down exactly what were the things that lead to this child, and what is it that is special about this case. >> reporter: this is the third case of a child in remission us

. >> lyanne melendez has the story. >> reporter: in paris, researchers heard promising news in the fight to suppress the hiv virus. a 9-year-old south african girl was diagnosed when she was only 30 days old. a newborn. treatment began at 8 1/2 weeks. then continued for a total of 40 weeks. >> then treatment was interrupted after 40 weeks and the child has had undeticketable viral alert until now. >> reporter: the child was part of a clinical trial to see the effects of treating hiv positive babies in the first weeks of life. today, it raises the possibility that treating babies early could prevent them from taking hiv drugs their entire lives. >> it doesn't have specific relevance to infants in san francisco. but throughout the world, there are many, many millions of infants who have become infected. >> reporter: researchers say other factors may have contributed to the child's remission. >> the challenges to try to pin down exactly what were the things that lead to this child, and what is it that is special about this case. >> reporter: this is the third case of a child in remission us

lyanne melendez was in court today. >>a ma. it's been a long five years for the families. because juan was not able to understand what he had done. he was not competent to stand trial. it took years of medication and treatment to help him fully acknowledge his actions. >> hopefully, he'll be able to get forgiveness from his god. >> this man lost his wife doris. as other family members left the courthouse many felt the sentencing did little to lessen their pain. holding an ipad with pictures of her mother judith, she was in the courtroom as the judge imposed seven life sentences on this man seen here shortly after the school massacre. family members of the seven victims were allowed to address the court. michael howey called him a coward and said "you deserve everything coming to you and i hope you rot in prison." >> i'm not going to tell him to rot in jail. i go to church. i ask god for forgiveness. i think i should be able to forgive myself. >> in order to -- he pleaded no contest to all charges. he told police that he had gone to ikos to confront an administrator. he ins

lyanne melendez was in court today. >>a ma. it's been a long five years for the families. because juan was not able to understand what he had done. he was not competent to stand trial. it took years of medication and treatment to help him fully acknowledge his actions. >> hopefully, he'll be able to get forgiveness from his god. >> this man lost his wife doris. as other family members left the courthouse many felt the sentencing did little to lessen their pain. holding an ipad with pictures of her mother judith, she was in the courtroom as the judge imposed seven life sentences on this man seen here shortly after the school massacre. family members of the seven victims were allowed to address the court. michael howey called him a coward and said "you deserve everything coming to you and i hope you rot in prison." >> i'm not going to tell him to rot in jail. i go to church. i ask god for forgiveness. i think i should be able to forgive myself. >> in order to -- he pleaded no contest to all charges. he told police that he had gone to ikos to confront an administrator. he ins

abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez is live at city hall. lyanne? >> reporter: long, long overdue is how supervisors are describing this new legislation. the last time it was updated was back in 2002. in the meantime, we have lost thousands of people, families because they couldn't afford to live in san francisco. >>> when you talk about housing in san francisco, it's the same sound bite over and over again. >> too high to live out here. $2,000, $3,000 for an apartment with one bedroom, who can afford that? >> reporter: this afternoon the board of supervisors voted to expand who qualifies for inclusionary housing. these are low income and affordable rental units mixed into private buildings. >> it can't just be market rate housing and extremely low income housing. >> reporter: until now a single person making little more than $44,000 a year and a couple earning more than 50,000 would qualify to live in one of these rental units. now that income will go up to 121,000 for a single individual and 138,000 for two people. this will make it easier to keep

lyanne melendez is live in oakland with more on this disparity. >> reporter: here's the disparity. the number of smartphone robberies in san francisco has been cut in half in the past three years. on b.a.r.t., not so much. last night, b.a.r.t. police reporting yet another case. 225 cases in this area on b.a.r.t. from january to june. >> people were getting viciously assaulted for their smartphones. >> reporter: that was before the d.a.'s office passed a law in 2014 demanding that the wireless industry install a software commonly known as a kill switch. >> the majority of consumers have this technology enabled after their turn on their own. >> reporter: when the phone is stolen, the thief is unable to put it on a new carrier, because only you have the user name and password. as a result, san francisco has seen the number of smartphone thefts reduced by 50% since 2013 at the height of this crime spree. >> reporter: modern technology is almost your friend when it comes to lost items. they make it where you can mind your items, even though you lost it. >> reporter: despite this knowled

lyanne melendez is live in oakland with more on this disparity. >> reporter: here's the disparity. the number of smartphone robberies in san francisco has been cut in half in the past three years. on b.a.r.t., not so much. last night, b.a.r.t. police reporting yet another case. 225 cases in this area on b.a.r.t. from january to june. >> people were getting viciously assaulted for their smartphones. >> reporter: that was before the d.a.'s office passed a law in 2014 demanding that the wireless industry install a software commonly known as a kill switch. >> the majority of consumers have this technology enabled after their turn on their own. >> reporter: when the phone is stolen, the thief is unable to put it on a new carrier, because only you have the user name and password. as a result, san francisco has seen the number of smartphone thefts reduced by 50% since 2013 at the height of this crime spree. >> reporter: modern technology is almost your friend when it comes to lost items. they make it where you can mind your items, even though you lost it. >> reporter: despite this knowled