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, im 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 53yearold San Francisco resident anthony marine owe. He is facing four counts of indecent exposure. The two incidents happened in march. A 12yearold 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. Dont take the bait, fly a. Bo the hate. Laura anthony is at Civic Center Park. Laura . Reporter dan, im actually at all stan way. The Berkeley Police officers are lining the street. On the lefthand 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 weve seen here today has been pretty much peaceful. Usa, usa. Reporter the speeches went on without interruption at berkeleys 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 were going to go anyway. Were going to hold our own speech. Were 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 didnt 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, im 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. Were 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 lets give you another look now from sky 7, like laura said, its 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 weve said, there are protesters both on and off the u. C. Berkeley campus. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne 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. Were 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 coulters no show, all wind up and no pitch. Shes 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. Lets have a meaningful dialogue. He doesnt 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 dont. If it gets stuff done, im happy to share the open space as long it us didnt 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 munis 54 felton line. A police say the bus was near the intersection of revere avenue and jennings street when a man approached a 28yearold man and a 19yearold 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. Thats how muni director john haley described it to employees. Now, the District Attorneys Office told me that there could be a discrepancy of tens of thousands of dollars going back four to five years. This muni employee, 55yearold david reyes, caught the attention of Police Following a december audit done by the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency of its cable car system. We noticed that the numbers werent 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 61yearold 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 its a violation of public trust. Reporter the District Attorneys 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 dont 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 highend purchases. Today the mayor said the agency has to get out of the cash business. When you are handling a lot of cash, youre going to probably find some officials that dont know how to handle that properly. Reporter haley says the cable car system is a 30 million a year cash business. Youre 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 youll 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, its 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. Im abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. Mild today, were turning up the heat for your weekend. Well 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. Thats 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. Its very shocking but i know that theyre going to take care of it. I know that theyre 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. Lets 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 leftover pills are far from harmless. Taking them incorrectly or accidentally could be deadly or land a child in the e. R. Reporter especially if youre 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 hadnt 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 leftover 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 didnt . Dont worry, we have even warmer weather coming. Take a look at the temperature, average high for san jose 73 degrees. Tomorrow youre 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 were going to start to see some low 90s around here. Live doppler 7 right now giving you an indication as to whats ahead. And we just have a few high clouds passing through so no rain to speak of and were 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 youre 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 its not real popular today, but thats 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 te