if that sounds like a contradiction maybe wayne friedman can shed some light on this. all yours. >> reporter: i don't know if i can shed some light on it, i'm having a hard time understanding it. it's not only raising eyeeyebro it's raising ire. do you know the license laplate number of your car? you're going to need it if you park in that structure over there. welcome toan francisco that sometimes teals like a giant no parking zone. >> ouch. >> reporter: a new layer of angst outside the garage. >> i'm so confused. >> you know your license plate in. >> no. >> reporter: as of yesterday this is the first parking lot in san francisco where you will need know your plate. >> i have stop and think. i don't know the first few digits but i don't know them all. >> reporter: barbara goes back up the stairs, took a picture of her license entered it into new machines in this garage. this san francisco metropolitan transportation agency now sells space based on transactions not time. in this garage, the shortest available is now one hour. license plate guarantee no cheating. >> if

. >>> in santa rosa today, abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman found someone who lives up to that andhumble about it too. >> reporter: in a world that feels smaller today, it can land almost anywhere. >> the way i look at it is everyone that sits in my chair is a canvass. >> reporter: on this day that would be david serving as a canvass for j.t. the barber. the buzz would be what he buzzes. jose is 23 with 82,000 follicle phrased followers on instagram. >> it's cool and humbling knowing that my work is known world wide. >> reporter: j.t. first came to west coast cuts as a teenage customer. little did the owner know the same kid would become a super star employee making radical styles and changing the business a few years later. >> it's a culture. a lot of people they are looking to be different these days. >> reporter: this isn't just a barbersh barbershop. it's bit of a competitive arena. you see the trophies, most of them belong to j.t. and a few others. ever hear of a barber battle. these are main events among war bers with thousands of people jammingo h in f fwing hlsal frenzies.

. >> reporter: in napa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >>> monday's eclipse may have caused thousands of nonnative salmon to break out of their pen in washington state. the pen has been around for about 30 years. state fish and wildlife officials believe it broke apart by high tides caused by the eclipse. up to 5,000 salmon are believed to have escaped. the main concern is they could harm the native pacific salmon and cause diseases in native fish. they are encouraged to catch and keep as many as they want to protect the quickly diminishing native species. >> to go out there and see that many fish and catch them is great. >> some are questioning whether the eclipse really did cause the pen to break apart because the tides were higher in july and nothing happened then. >>> a california company has created a pesticide spiked punch that lures mosquitos to their doom. it zeroes in on targets the insect hunger for nectar. field tests see a drop in mosquitos by two-thirds. it kill hundreds of thousand people each year. >>> whether you're headed into the woods or hanging out in the backyard, in

wayne friedman is live with more. >> reporter: after four heists at four stores in three months we did see increased security inside and outside this store. we reached out to the company hoping for a comment. costco never got back to us. they were not talking. some employees did speak with us unfshlly. they told us as this went down there was nothing they could do according to company policy. how often have you seen surveillance video like this, a smash, a grab. it's a shocker because this happened in a novato store that almost everyone knows. >> i don't know. i just don't think of something like that happening at costco. >> reporter: costco has. employees say they were warned of similar innocents in other stores that when this one came down, all they could do was watch and call >> i would describe it as being pretty bold. >> reporter: in looking over the video, police lieutenant did not see the work of amateurs. quite the opposite. suspects wearing masks and hoodies entered through the exit. they went directly to the jewelry section. took a few seconds to decide what they wanted. they

abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman has been asking about the launch date for months. he joins live now from the transit center. >> reporter: this is going to be good. this is the first time we'll have commuter service in marin county in 60 years. they announced the date service will begin. it will be a week from tomorrow and then that will be free. then until labor day. fares will be half priced. you'll pay full fares from $5.75 to $11.50. one way for the full trip. some would say it's been on a long trip already. >> august 25th at 12:56 p.m. it's railroad. we're perfect. >> reporter: when we shared that information with some residents this morning, they didn't quite believe it. >> i won't hold my breath. >> there complexity of this when it comes to public safety is enormous. it's not a quickie. this is not about quickie. >> reporter: it was 2002 when voters approved sales tax funded railroad stretching from cloverdale to larksburg. construction began in 2012 and testing more than a year ago on this transit system built from scratch for roughly half a billion tlars. i

. >> abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman is remembering clyde this way saying the man was ageless. rough on the outside, soft inside and a total pro. >> indeed. david called him inventive, creative. couldn't agree more. we'll miss him deeply. we'll have more at 5:00. >>> the deep freeze is coming to hollywood. studios are turning down the heat to save movies. >> reporter: the story may stand the test of time but it takes a lot of work to prevent some of hollywood's oldest movies from dispy disappearing. film decays if they are not septembkept properly. now there's way to put them in the deep freeze. a company called pro-tek has built the first frozen vault. the temperature inside a frigid 29 degrees. >> that's ideal to store film because the natural degradation of filling that takes place over its life gets stopped by freezing it. >> reporter: the company says it took about a year to build the vault. m managing the temperature inside is no easy task. many of the thousands of films were made in the 1950s. freezing enables producers to keep the film precisely as it was originally mad

wayne friedman has the story. >> reporter: in real estate, they like to say it's all about location.d in san francisco, an enclave of the rich, the famous, and after today, the furious. >> i was always under the impression that it's our street. >> reporter: presidio terrace is one of those rare private drives in san francisco. residents owe the city property taxes of $14 a year, but when after three decades that payment fails to arrive in the city treasury -- >> state law is very strict. if people fail to pay their property taxes for more than five years, we must offer the property for auction. >> reporter: that's what happened in 2015. real estate investor michael cheng and his partner won the street in a public auction with a bid of just more than $90,000. he spoke with us today while on vacation in boca raton, florida. >> at the moment, we are really looking to hold on to this. you know, property like this just don't come along often in san francisco. >> reporter: but it's not so simple. residents here say they never got a bill from the city. instead, they say the city was sending

. >>> wayne friedman tweeted one of san francisco's most exclusive streets has just been sold. ,000. wayne tells us what it means for the shocked homeowners who happen to live there, coming up at 5:00. >>> abc news tweeted incredible video from texas showing the exact moment a lightning bolt struck a house. it started a fire that forced a family out of that home. thankfully nobody was hurt. severe summer storms are making their way across the united states. flash flooding, tornadoes, dangerous winds affecting millions of people. abc news reporter shows us the damage done by those storms. >> reporter: in san antonio, texas, raging floodwater quickly engulfs this suv. forcing the driver to sit on top of it, until rescue crews are able to usher him to safety. the storm drenching kansas city, which got up to eight inches of rain. pounding down new orleans over the weekend. dropping near ten inches of rain there in just hours. stranding people in their homes and businesses. >> it's really crazy. you can't go out your front door. >> i can't even leave. i'm sopping wet and walking in k