asbestos was found in the building and weeds took over. >> i wish they could start tomorrow on the vision for the community. >> a vision that is perhaps years off but it could turn night this, 960 homes and a retail shopping area. in oakland, cecilia vega, "abc 7 news." >> animal control officers say their shelters are packed with good dog that has need homes but one particular type of dog stays the longest. dan ashley reports. >> aural she wants is love. >> when it comes to pit bulls, most people love them or hate them. >> there are a dog that no one wants. >> reporter: the animal care coordinator at animal care services, pure bred pit bulls get homes fast. >> people that come in, they think about adopting a pit bull but they don't want a crossbreed. they want the real thing. they want something, does that dog have pit bull in it? >> if the answer is yes, then they don't want to i adopt it. they have been neglected and abused and probably not placed in a home safely but they get sweet pit bulls. so this the staff is trying to get the word out a that part hits pits can be good pets. >> i had a thing about pit bulls. >> that is until she met bob, part pit, part something else. >> you get that with the combination of the pit bull. >> bob is so mellow, he lies gently while the pet bunny jumped around. a rescue group called bad rap found him a home. savannah another pit mix knows it very well. >> people come in for retriever or lab or she has another breed in her. >> they are tested for safety before being adopted for adoption. >> the staff and volunteers do the best they can to exercise and play with the dogs while they wait for homes. but sometimes it's a long wait. this home video shows lucy who was here for a year. lucy was especially smart with an exceptional ability. volunteers sent a video of her all over the country trying to place her on a search and rescue team. but none of them would take a pit mix. so lucy, now renamed caspar finally got a home in nevada where she is a champion dock diver. >> a happy ending for her, but and who knows, this three-month-old pit mix puppy could be destined for greatness, too, but he would be happy to get a little training and a nice home. and remember them, they say they'll never adopt any other kind of dog except for pit mixes. the department of motor vehicles, it refused to renew a driver's license for a bay area woman. so 7 on your side michael finney took out a good pair of scissors >> yahoo! i it. >> nicky is pretty excited. >> i can drive! >> for her the day marks the return to freedom after a frustrating ordeal at the department of motor vehicles. an ordeal that begin with a speeding ticket in nevada. >> i said to the policeman when he stopped me, thank you for stopping me. >> she was driving alone for a family gathering when she was stopped in the middle. night just outside of reno. the officer said she was going 97 miles per hour. >> that's a lot. that is way too fast. >> she paid the fine and the ticket was cleared, or so she thought. recently she found out differently. >> i went over to the dmv at 7:30 a duplicate. >> after her license went missing and she applied for a new one, she found out she was still wanted in nevada for that speeding ticket or at least that is what the computer said. nicky told the clerk it was a mistake and she produced these documents proving the citation was clear. the dmv said it would take 30 days to investigate all this. until then, nicky couldn't drive. she also couldn't do plenty of other things that requires a driver's license, like cashing a check or even going to her doctor. >> i'm still without a license, a valid license. that is the problem. so much of our life requires a driver's license. >> so nicky contacted 7 on your side and we took her case to the dmv. it turns out the nevada courts had placed a hold on nicky's license that was never cleared from a national database. so the dmv cannot issue a new license. however, after we got involved, they took action, they contacted 9 courts that corrected the database which brings us back here. nicky is going into the office her license and a few minutes later, here she is. >> yahoo! i got it! thanks to 7 or your side! >> yep, she finally got her license back and she couldn't wait to tell the world. >> 7 on your side got my license for me! look at that. thank you. >> the dmv says you may wind up in the national database of problem drivers if you don't clear your citations up right away. so keep your paperwork once you do clear the ticket. if you still have a problem, let me know about it. go to "abc 7 news." -- or www.abc7.com. >> when we continue, environmental groups and farm workers sue for the stop of the use of a pesticide. they say it could cause cancer. >> and a space mystery at stanford, it involves something no bigger than a grain of sand. [ female announcer ] toet fresh-baked rich, indulgent chocolaty brownies you don't have to open your oven... just the refrigerator. ready-to-eat pillsbury sweet moments. find them in the refrigerated section of your store. with cinnabon cinnamon have such a sweet and delicious aroma that my family can't wait to get their hands on them. enjoy cinnabon cinnamon... now in all pillsbury cinnamon rolls. a legal showdown is shaping up between environmental groups and strawberry growers in the watsonville and salinas area. david louie has the story. >> newly approved pesticide methyl iodide, state regulators approved it. environmental groups and farm union and two individual field hands have filed a lawsuit to prevent its use. it is injected into the soil to kill insects, weeds prior to planting. sara jackson is the public policy associate for an oakland based earth justice. >> it can cause, vomiting, burning eyes and nose, in the long term it can cause irreverse a i believe central nervous damage. >> it is expected to be used mostly by strawberry growers but it can be used for other crops. 47 other states allow its use. the risk it could pose to fieldworkers. but strawberry commission says agricultural commission would determine where it can be applied. >> they have to looks at the land and the permit process and you have a regulator locally with the local environment. >> watsonville and lasinas are the biggest growing areas in california with nearly 14,000 acres. 1100 acres are organic. there is no indication how many growers are going to switch over to the pesticide. it's a $2 billion industry. opponents are hoping that governor brown will agree with them and overturn the use. >> the earliest that methyl iodide could be used is sometime this summer but the lawsuit is seeking an injunction to stop it from happening. fascinating research that could billions of dollars in space. it's not just what they are doing but how. here is wayne freedman. >> it's one of those under reported mysteries. a rocket delivers a pay load into orbit, all appears fine. >> unfortunately we still have no two-way communication or data of any kind from the spacecraft. >> it happens all to regularly. >> there is a mystery. satellites are failing. we're not quite sure what is happening. >> but at stanford, a doctor and m.d. candidate have been thinking about it. >> i think i know why but we're well on our way. >> one theory is why the satellites are failing, is need resides. in space they move fast, as fast as 60 kilometers per second. they tend to evenize and leave -- ionize and leave behind an electrical charge. >> they hope to see what happens. >> what we're trying to do with this, is increase the area of a small satellite. >> nobody is going to pay for this until they know it works. so hence they worked in zero gravity. >> it's kind of like floating in water but the big difference you can't swim. >> through the cycles, he released versions of the umbrella with 15 seconds to see how they would ununfolded fold. ultimately they want something fast and reloo liable and capable of recording impacts but try gathering data in these conditions. >> i mean, you are not moving. >> the good news, no nausea but just progress. now if some aerospace company would write a check. >> about a million dollars? >> how much would be long term? >> billions. there have been many billion dollar failures and we don't know what happened. >> what a price to solve a mystery. wayne freedman, "abc 7 news." >> still ahead, feelings with humor. a local hospital where laughing is the best medicine. and specialized devices used to treat horse injuries have a new use. how to help breast cancer >> right can tough for children to be stay optimistic when they are staying in the hospital with a serious illness or injury. janelle wang reports that a new program at ucsf is distracting children with pain one snierl smile at a time. >> just by looking at their feet this is no ordinary doctor. it's dan griffith and another doctor. at the children's hospital they are better known as snoop and bumble or clown zero. >> our program is nonprofit and we're dedicated to bettering the lives of children and family through humanitarian clowning and performing arts. >> ready? one, two, go, go. >> the clowns visit the children's hospital twice a week and visit dozens of kids. like nibbling can i who just had surgery in his jaw and mouth after an infection. >> we got a smile there. it was a long time for him not smiling like that. >> and oftentimes the smiles turn into pure happiness, all the pain the suffering the discomforted forgotten at least for a moment. -- the discomfort is forgotten for a moment. >> that is one the main reasons that they incorporated the program, michael town sew the manager at the children's hospital. >> we have seen that it brings humor and joy whenever the children are here. they are very popular and the teachers, we don't want to compete -- >> they may be popular but they think they have the best job in the world. and children of all ages are thankful for their vi at ucsf in san francisco, janelle wang, "abc 7 news." >> an unusual technique used to treat sports injuries is helping breast survivors. >> that is where the red comes from, it increases blood flow. >> terry is working to loosen the hardened tissue of a breast cancer survivor. >> a lot of time with breast cancer patients, where the surgery has been, they get a lot of scar tissue. she is using a set of tools we first reported on last year. they are pat of a system known as the grafton technique. they vibrate as they travel over tissue. >> i do short strokes to use that to break that up. >> julie runs pro-active therapy in san francisco. they are increasingly used to treat woman who have had surgeries. the side effects by the body's reactions to implants after the surgery. >> the implant is going to look like this. this is not moving at all. so at this point, we need to work on loosening the implant in all different directions to breaking the scar tissue. >> other types of breast cancer surgery can produce scar tissue that limits mobility. dr. shelly woening is chief of breast surgery at breast care center. >> by breaking up those fibers you can have increased mobility and increase of function. >> therapies such as grafton can be painful and it may take a couple of sessions to produce results. but it can make a significant improvement for quality of life for breast cancer survivors. >> we release the scar tissue, it allowing them to be able to stand up better with better posture and move their arm better and decrease pain. >> as you might expect the side effects include bruising. insurance coverage is hundred percent although the procedure is covered as part of post surgical techniques. >> up ahead san francisco is home to the nation's first gay-lesbian by sexual and transgender museum. it is in the heart of castro district. don sanchez takes us inside. >> it's the kitchen table where harvey m planned to run for office. it's the real thing. it's collected for the past 25 years, the history museum is an i illuminate niet nate go life ofople gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the bay area. >> straight people learn about their history in school or from their families. gay people's families don't have gay histories to them them. >> they are donated to the museum, a drag queen gown with the jewelry. there is men in dresses. match books from many gay and lesbian bars. it's about life changing events. he wore these clothes when they were san francisco's first gay married couple.uple. and people remember it again. >> i often say that we are the community like grandma's attic where i can find traces of your ancestors. >> struggles, failures and triumphs. >> it's how people saw themselves. their ideals and fantasies. of the gay liberation of the 60s to 60s to the 70s and the tragedy of aids in the 80s. >> it was tragedy and when violence flared. they have 3,000 periodicals and 27,000 t-shirts. they validate the need for a permanent museum. >> a real san francisco story, it's about san francisco how we love all of our communities and portray ourselves in all our diverse. >> it's if you would like more information on our stories, go to our website at www.abc7.com and look under the news links on the left side for assignment 7. >> that is all for this edition of assignment 7. i'm eric thomas. thanks for joining us. thanks for joining us. >> alan: the search for two east bay teen yaidges on a raft adventure. >> why a bomb squad was called into action, and the remnants of a week's worth of winter [ female announcer ] it's monday, some people will stick with their old way of getting vitamins and minerals. others will try total raisin bran with 100% of the daily value of 11 essential vitamins and minerals, and thluscious taste of plump juicy raisins ancrunchy whole grain flakes. ♪ guess it's all about what kind of crunch you like. ♪ how are you getting 100%? ♪ >> alan: a sad inning e ending to a risky rafting adventure. contra costa county authorities confirmed they found the bodies of two walnut creek teenagers. they took off down the creek during the storm, and today the remains of their raft and the body of both teens were discovered in concord. we're in concord where the sheriff's department just wrapped up a pres conference. >> reporter: one of those boys' bodies was found on the other side of the trees. the boys were identified by the sheriff's department as 16-year-old matthew miller, and his friend, gavin powell. the boys' parents say they had no idea the boys planned the rafting trip. you remember yesterday's weather and you can only imagine how dangerous the waters were. this is the rain-swollen section of creek where the two boys began their journey edafternoon. there are signs warning against going in the dangerous waters, but the teens told their friends they were going rafting. they called a friend to meet them upstream. they were never seen alive again. >> the parents didn't find out about this until later on when the son ist