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willis says so many people are dying from prescription drug overdoses in the county it s become an epidemic. he says doctors are prescribing pain meds at an unprecedented rate. we re realizing that the medicines we thought were helpful in some cases are actually causing more harm than good. reporter: willis has sent out a public health advisory to every doctor in the county with new guidelines for prescribing narcotics. he s urging them to explain the risks, consider alternatives, and encourage patients to discard drugs they no longer need in special drop boxes across the county. there s plenty of other options before we would reach for a really powerful drug that could create harm. these prescription narcotics, they will kill you. and they are killing our kids. reporter: kim hopes doctors and parents heed the warnings. she s tattooed her son s image on her arm to keep his memory close. the pain of losing him is something that s designed to take pain away can ....
contact with someone who did. with two confirmed cases in their county marin county school officials are gearing up for a possible outbreak. i think there s a heightened concern now out in the community. reporter: to address that concern, marin county public health officer, dr. matt willis, released this statement. the children have been exposed outside of marin as part of the disneyland outbreak and were not in contact with any of the children at their school. for that reason the county is not ordering unvaccinated children to stay home from school for the required 21 days. but county education officials are urging parents who have not vaccinated their kids to do it now. marin county has about 6.5% of children who are not immunized. are you urging parents who did not get their children immunized to go ahead now? our messages had always been is that if it is medically safe we would urge families to do that. that is their choice to immunize or not. the state de ....
exclusive surveillance video. man lugging a suitcase past a restaurant. he was wearing the same clothes as the person of interest. new here s where the suitcase was found on 11th street wed tonight. medical examiner said today the victim was light skin male. there was no head found. so investigators will have to use kna evidence to help determine who it was. as we said sergio was at the scene as the person of interest was apprehended. he will have a live report coming up on 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7 and our coverage of course continues on twitter at 7 news bay area. good evening. dan is on assignment. other top story tonight. happened again. someone jumped the fence at san jose international airport and entered an area that is off limits to the public. you can see the airport perimeter in the joyed from sky 7 hd. police refused to reveal exactly where this suspect the trees patser claimed the fence. security guard spotted the man called police. officers cited ....
clocking folks at 50, 55 even 60. it s a speed limit widely ignored. headed out of the city out of marin. the center lane is driving at the speed limit 45. no one else seems to be. the speed limit is lower than anybody goes. i feel like if i m trying to go the speed limit i m going slow. reporter: the addition of a safety barrier seems to have pushed the pedal to the metal. speeds seem to be going up dramatically. reporter: too many speeders in lanes even more narrower. reporter: people are feeling for secure. the bridge is safer. sometime, i cannot lie to you. sometimes. reporter: how much faster do you go? 50, 50 not likely to win a ticket not when so many are going much faster. chp is stepping up enforcement on the bridge and its approaches. they re noticing those who race across the span tend to barrel through the toll plaza too. 25-miles-an-hour, hardly. i speed all the time. but so, no. reporter: this driver calls his car a chp magnet but admit ....
and coming neighborhood at 11th and market. reporter: there s a lot of chatter about this gruesome discovery made about half way down this block in front of the goodwill docks. and it s chilling because police haven t said if it s a man or woman, age or race. it s obviously horrific. i mean i hope they figure out what happened. reporter: the mid-market area. home to twitter and the up and coming. to work around this area is, it s frightful sometimes. reporter: but also home to the city s trouble. the downed and out. i don t want the other reporter: everyone talking about what the police found. if it s going to happen it s going to happen right here. reporter: a report of a suspicious package on the sidewalk and stuffed inside a headless torso. an immediate search found other body parts. i was sitting here. he was looking in the garbage can and i was like, what did you seen there, what did you find there. he said you don t want to know. reporter ....