unusual for walnut creek. >> it is very unusual. this is a very safe city and we do not see these things happening in our city. >> [ inaudible ]? >> this is our first one. >> how many homicides do you usually have here? >> we have on average one every other year. >> reporter: the last homicide they had here in walnut creek was in august of last year, just to give you an idea of how unusual this is for not only walnut creek but the neighbors who are all wondering what happened. i actually just spoke to a young woman who says that around 1:30, so right after that shooting she heard a car speed down bunea vista and a minute later she saw police cars with their sirens going, following that cara round the corner here on lynvale. we know they have a helicopter overhead of course as well as their canine officers trying to figure out exactly what happened. and if there is a suspect in this neighborhood. live in walnut creek, i'm kate larson, abc 7 news, back to you. >> kate, thanks so much. daily city police have arrested a man in connection with two indecent exposure cases. this is a sketch police released of the suspect next to the booking photo of 53-year-old san francisco resident anthony marine owe. he is facing four counts of indecent exposure. the two incidents happened in march. a 12-year-old girl is one of the victims. marine owe is facing a felony charge of indecent exposure with a prior conviction. >> the police chief at sonoma state university is resigning a year after investigators said he fired a hand gun into a wall and stabbed his stepson with a power drill during a fight. nathan johnson has been on paid leave since june 1st. his salary is roughly $107,0070a year. he will leave his post in jump. >> protests happening at berkeley after the cancellation of ann coulter speech. >> in downtown berkeley, many consevatives are at civic center park while demonstrators are in front of berkeley high school. >> police right now are standing between them as you can see, keeping them separated. there was a lot of concern about violence. some people were seen taping their hands as if they were getting ready for a fight. >> it seems as if many people took the advice of a banner that flew above the demonstrators. don't take the bait, fly a. bo the hate. laura anthony is at civic center park. laura? >> reporter: dan, i'm actually at all stan way. the berkeley police officers are lining the street. on the left-hand side we have many of the folks that participated in the rally at the park. these would be the corn servetiserv -- conservative group. on the right is students from berkeley high school. they are just holding up signs. lie the main event which wrapped up about a half hour ago, everything we've seen here today has been pretty much peaceful. >> usa, usa. >> reporter: the speeches went on without interruption at berkeley's civic park. speakers that say they were taking the place of conservative commentator ann coulter and standing up for free speech. >> you do not have to hide from these no more. we will stand tall and the more they push back, the harder that we will push back. >> we came to see ann speak. unfortunately she was kind of cut off by a group and then by the school. so, we said we're going to go anyway. we're going to hold our own speech. we're going to defend it. >> usa! >> reporter: the police presence was initially large and visible. many of those who came to the rally wore helmets, masks and in some cases protective padding. >> if ann didn't show up today this is all that would happen, peace, complete peace and love, and just standing up for free speech calmly and quietly. >> reporter: others who showed up at the park did not agree with the message. but supported the method of free speech. >> i believe the people want to make fools of themselves in public, i'm all in favor of it. it saves the rest of us from having to expose them as fools. so, everybody wins. >> reporter: and this is a look, live look at the scene here on all ston way. we're showing you some folks lined up in front of berkeley high school. many of them students. school got out about 3:30 in afternoon. in between them, the police and on the other side some of the folks who have dispersed from that main event in civic park. we understand there have been a handful of arrests, but for the most part very peaceful. the arrests we heard about have been actually away from the park, but police were able to intercept some people perhaps counter demonstrators coming this way with shields, masks and perhaps devices that could be used as a weapon. live in berkeley, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> laura, thanks so much. and let's give you another look now from sky 7, like laura said, it's been peaceful so far. but you can see certainly the numbers are growing. the numbers of people on the two sides being separated by police in the middle and they are keeping a very close eye on the two separate groups of protesters. >> and as we've said, there are protesters both on and off the u.c. berkeley campus. >> abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman joins us from the plaza at cal. wayne? >> reporter: well, u.c. berkeley was not taking any chances today based on what happened with protests in the past. you want to see a police presence take a look at this. we're estimating roughly 200 police officers. not only u.c. berkeley police officers, berkeley police officers, oakland police officers, california highway patrol police officers. they even brought officers in from ucla to bolster security here on the campus. it would be shafe to say there may have been more police here than protesters. if this were a baseball diamond instead of a college campus for freedom of speech one might say prep ralgss for fall out of ann coulter's no show, all wind up and no pitch. >> she's not even here. >> reporter: which did not prevent u.c. berkeley from exerting its magnetism on anyone with an opinion. >> everyone around here should be sounding the alarm about this fascist regime in the white house. >> reporter: the only problem, making sure that their voice would be louder than that of the person next to them. >> let's have a meaningful dialogue. he doesn't have any intelligence. >> reporter: based on the overwhelming presence much berkeley police, anyone damaging or disruptive intentions would have been discouraged by riot gear and blockades and block to crucial buildings. at least to outsiders. do you like having your campus become a magnet? >> i don't. if it gets stuff done, i'm happy to share the open space as long it us didn't turn into complete violence. >> reporter: and looking back live at u.c. berkeley now on plaza, looks like a busy afternoon day on the u.c. berkeley campus except for all those police we talked about. we should mention there were two arrests today. one arrest of a person who was carrying a knife on the campus that was illegal today. a second person was arrested for not cooperating with police when they asked him some questions. he had a mask on and he was carrying a sign larger than 30 inches and that is the full extent of it up until now. no protest here, no violence here thus far. the worst has not come true. live on the u.c. berkeley campus, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> wayne, we saw a lot of that on your twitter feed. thanks so much. we sent out push alerts all day on the developments in berkeley on our abc 7 news app. you can download it for free and enable push alerts to get breaking updates as they happen where you live. >> three men who robbed a man and woman on a san francisco muni bus at gunpoint are still on the loose tonight. this happened yesterday afternoon on muni's 54 felton line. a police say the bus was near the intersection of revere avenue and jennings street when a man approached a 28-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman, pulled out a hand gun and began taking jewelry, a cell phone, a wallet and cash. the man ran away followed by two other men. the victims were not injured in the robbery, just scared of course. a veteran muni employee made an appearance in court. david reyes is the second cable car conductor accused of pocketing cash fares instead of turning them in. lyanne melendez is live with the story. lyanne? >> reporter: two bad apples. that's how muni director john haley described it to employees. now, the district attorney's office told me that there could be a discrepancy of tens of thousands of dollars going back four to five years. this muni employee, 55-year-old david reyes, caught the attention of police following a december audit done by the san francisco municipal transportation agency of its cable car system. >> we noticed that the numbers weren't what they should have been and gone to the police and the d.a. ultimately and so that got started. >> reporter: investigators were also keeping an eye on 61-year-old albert williams, another cable car conductor. he was finally arrested last week. the investigation revealed the monies reyes and williams were handing in was less than what was collected by some of the other cable car employees. it appears they were working separately. >> they were keeping the money for themselves and again as our chief said it's a violation of public trust. >> reporter: the district attorney's office revealed muni is now looking back at its numbers for the past four to five years. the agency believes tens of thousands of dollars could be missing. >> when you go back several years, if the accounts don't match the dollars that should be coming in, that can create some discrepancies. >> reporter: like a lot of money? >> yes. >> reporter: in williams' case, a search of his home found $32,000 in a safe along with several cars and receipts for high-end purchases. today the mayor said the agency has to get out of the cash business. >> when you are handling a lot of cash, you're going to probably find some officials that don't know how to handle that properly. >> reporter: haley says the cable car system is a $30 million a year cash business. >> you're looking at profound change. you know, some will come very quickly, others will come over a period of a few months perhaps. but i do think you'll see change in that regard. >> reyes was in court today. he faces charges of embezzlement of theft and public monies. in san francisco lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> unsafe and unfound. >> but yes, it's pretty sad. >> the closure of an elementary school has parents and students frustrated and also worried. >> and imagine this. a mountain lion in the middle of a santa cruz shopping center. it was caught hiding in a tree. >> i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. mild today, we're turning up the heat for your weekend. we'll take a look at the temperatures coming up. >> and there is a danger in your medicine cabinet, but the solution is as easy as a walk considering an extreme option of closing a neighborhood school and moving hundreds of students. they are concerned the soil underneath donald d.lum elementary school might amplify damage from an earthquake. abc news anchor eric thomas has more. >> reporter: for 500 students from prek through fifth grade, lum elementary school provides a solid education. it is the real foundation not up to earthquake standards and the soil around it is even worse. officials found that out when they tested the soil prior to a construction project. >> the initial test showed us that the soil under lum elementary school could be susceptible to significant lick which faction. >> reporter: this dirt is soil and fill. that's what poses a danger of it liquefying in a quake. it happened during the 1989 loeloma prieta quake and caused massive destruction. fearing something similar could happen here, officials are considering a range of options including closing the school at the end of the school year. they are also hoping that no major quake hits in the next five or six weeks. >> we have the capacity at our other elementary schools to take lum students and lum teachers. any time there is anything related to safety and children, there is a sense of panic. >> reporter: parents were notified this week of the problem at lum elementary. >> it's very shocking but i know that they're going to take care of it. i know that they're going to deal with it okay. >> we just, i think as a community want to know that every possibility was looked at. >> reporter: school officials say they are looking at other options including retrofit or building a new school, but both those would be expensive. and kids would have to be taught elsewhere in the meantime. they plan to further update parents at a school board meeting tomorrow. in alameda, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> a gay hiv positive san jose man who was held at an immigration detention center in florida for more than a month has finally been released. legal advocates for denniss confirmed he is expected to arrive back in the bay area in a few hours. he was detained on his way back for vacation. he has been seeking political asylum in the u.s. there is no word whether any charges against him have been dropped. >> a really wild sight in the beach. a mountain lion was found in a tree. he was tranquilized by the department of fish and wildlife. according to our media partner, the mercury news, workers from the pu am, a project evaluated the mountain lion. they fitted the animal with a gp sarks to track its movement once it is released back into the wild. two schools were briefly locked down and asked to shelter in place while he was brought out of the tree. an interesting sight. 7 on your side michael finney partnered to hear about the problem. >> let's hear about that, michael. >> a lot of people are involved in this. approximately 60,000 children are taken to the emergency room each year because they got into medication that was left within reach. an important step towards preventing these tragedies can be getting rid of your unused medications. your medicine cabinet can become a dumping ground for old drugs. but consumer reports best buy drugs says the risk for accidental poisoning for kids increase with every bottle of pills you keep. >> those left-over pills are far from harmless. taking them incorrectly or accidentally could be deadly or land a child in the e.r. >> reporter: especially if you're talking about left over narcotic painkillers such as oxycontin, percocet or vicodin. prescription to sleep aids like a. ambien is problematic. >> you want to make sure medication s are secure, locked away or hidden, out of kids' reach. >> over the counter medicines can also be an issue, particularly if things look and taste like candy. so, take care with what you keep on hand. a new nationally representative consumer report survey found 19% of people hadn't cleaned out their medicine cabinet in more than three years. national prescription drug take back day on april 29th is the perfect time to turn in left-over and expired medication for safe disposal. if you do throw them out, be sure to remove any personal information from the bottle first, and mixx the drugs with something unappealing, like coffee grounds or kitty litter before ceiling a plastic bag and tossing away. >> a consumer report says getting rid of any unused medications also removes the temptation of knowsy maybes or even teenagers who may come across the pills and take them. we talked about this in the past. these numbers are pretty -- >> eye opening. >> good tip, michael. thank you. >> the misuse and abuse of medications is a crisis in many bay area counties. to address the problem, the take back day this saturday, the dea is encouraging everyone to get rid of expired or unwanted prescription drugs. we have posted a link to locations throughout the bay area on our website, abc7news.com. >> announcer: now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. >> hi there, everyone. did you feel the warmth today? you didn't? don't worry, we have even warmer weather coming. take a look at the temperature, average high for san jose 73 degrees. tomorrow you're going to be really close to average, but the weekend will feature low 80s and look at these numbers. as we head into the middle of next week we're going to start to see some low 90s around here. live doppler 7 right now giving you an indication as to what's ahead. and we just have a few high clouds passing through so no rain to speak of and we're not expecting any over the next seven days. winds are gusting. right now at sfo, 33 miles an hour. it is pretty gusty around novato as well so hang onto the steering wheel if you are stepping out. from our mount tam cam you're seeing a milky sky here as we look back towards richardson bay, san francisco. 61 now in san francisco, 68 in oakland, san jose 67 degrees. a live look from our sutro tower camera. you can see more blue sky here which is what you will get tomorrow. we have low 70s from santa rosa to concord and one other live picture from our santa cruz camera. i know it's not real popular today, but that's going to change this weekend. sunny and warmer days ahead. breezy tomorrow at the coast and hills, and we are expecting 90 degree readings inland next week. really going to see those temperatures soar. hour by hour planner friday, sun will start off your day, temperatures in the mid 40s to low 50s. could see a few low 40s tomorrow as well. sunshine for the noontime hour, breezy near the coast and the sun goes down and temperatures will be in the 50tis and 60s que comfortable. temperatures 40s to low 50s on the coast. expect to layer up for the afternoon. you'll need the sun skrien temperatures in the low 60s to upper 70s in some of our north bay valleys. tm be windy to breezy along the coast line which is expected this time of year. as you know it's typical for spring. hour by hour forecast showing you the wind, 7:00 tomorrow night, about 37 miles an hour, point reyes still gusty tomorrow evening. the wind subsides friday morning, only to pickup again friday afternoon. and evening. downloading the abc 7 news app will help you keep track of all these changes that are ahead. and of course with the wind comes tree pollen and grass pollen running moderate so if you suffer from allergies probably going to be a rough day for you tomorrow. uv index will be running very high. the main cull prits for the tree pollen is oak, pine and juniper. here is a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. if you like milder weather, this is really your day tomorrow. low 60s to upper 70s. warming it up to the low 80s and low to mid 60s coast side. if it's not warm enough for you, look at the 90s -- yeah, look at 20 degrees above average. tuesday, wednesday, we'll bump you up in the inland communities. down right warm at the beaches, 70s so definitely beach weather coming your way, dan and kristen. >> thanks. >> well, an ingredient in crayons is being used to fuel a revolutionary project from nasa and stanford. >> we'll explain if you want to produce renewable energy, just keep driving on our state roads and highways. that easy. state officials have approved a project to place quarter size devices on roads. those devices convert mechanical force into electricity. similar to the generators used in watches. a former state assembly member whose bill suggested using the technology six years ago is glad it's getting a test run. >> it doesn't change the road feel, doesn't change miles per gallon. people don't even know they're there. but the road vibrates a bit as cars and trucks driefve over it and it harnesses the energy. >> it will be on a stretch of asphalt on the u.c. merced campus. >> get this. a fuel made from crayons and laughing gas that is strong enough to power a nasa rocket. no kidding. it's true, paraffin wax and nitrous oxide make a stronger nontoxic and cheaper alternative to regular rocket fuel. this rocket motor test took place at nasa's ames research center. paraffin fuel works great in a cold harsh environment. can you say hello mars, maybe? interesting. to commemorate the total solar eclipse coming in august, the postal service will issue a one of a kind stamp. the stamp turns into an image of the moon from the heat of your finger. the august 21st event will be the first total skoal ar eclipse visible in the united states main land since 19789. the path will run from the west to east from oregon to south carolina and include portions of 14 states. >> facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg spent the day assembling trucks. you heard that right. he posted these pictures of his time at a ford plant outside detroit. zuckerberg says he played a very small part in assembling some new ford f-150 trucks. he also signed the inspection sticker on one of them. the trip was part of zuckerberg's new year's resolution to connect with more americans. >> well, walk tall and carry a big football. >> former 49er players hit the streets of san francisco to tackle a chronic problem among some teens. that story is next. >> and tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, cars, rats and thousands of dollars in damage. the abc 7 news eye team is investigating what may be a new trend. whether organic materials now being used in car parts may be in a car you own are more app etizing to rats. >> first we want to thank sirius images for the san francisco sky line. cranes have never looked so beautiful. you can share your pictures with us on social media. use the #abc 7 news coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00, this weekend marks 25 years since the rodney king riots. two los angeles fire fighters talk about the dangers they faced. united airlines reaches a settlement with the passenger dragged off a plane, the changes they made after that incident. if you enjoy brewing your own beer, a company says it has a product that makes it even eads easier. 7 on your side michael finney puts it to the test. that is coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00. dan, kristen? >> thanks, see you then. >> this by a former san francisco 49ers had a real purpose to it. >> abc 7 news was in the bay view district as former players teamed up for a walk along third street. they asked business owners to keep an eye out for kids skipping school and direct them to a school reentry program. >> it's run by former 49er ram son who does whatever it takes including paying home visits to make sure kids get a diploma. >> they don't want to go to school but this was one of my last chances, one of my last stops. when i came i wasn't successful. but he worked with me to make sure i got my ged. i moved forward after that. >> and nine years the program has helped more than 400 chronic truants graduate from high school. >> what a wonderful effort to make. >> inspiration. >> excellent. >> world news tonight with david muir is next. >> we appreciate your time. we'll see you again at 6:00. >> bye-bye. tonight, breaking news. our reporter with president trump, asking the president how will he pay for what the white house claims will be the biggest tax cut in american history. how the president answers. also tonight, we now learn the pentagon is investigating fired national security adviser michael flynn. they want to know whether he asked permission to accept money from russia, from foreign governments. the deadly standoff. the gunman accused of killing a state trooper. today, the images coming in, as authorities blew up this home and the shootout that follows. major news on united tonight, after that passenger was dragged off the flight. after the ceo told us here that changes were coming. tonight, news of a major settlement. and what the airline might now pay you,

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