Theyve been trying to negotiate with the man to surrounded for two hours. Residents in the area are told to stay where they are. Police believe he opened fire in walnut creek killing a woman in broad daylight. Officers arrived within minutes of being call bud the woman died at the scene. Moments later swat team members were called in carrying rifl rifles, shields and canine unit. We will bring you developing stories during this newscast and on our news app. And well have more on abc 7 news at 11 00 on channel 7. Now to the other big story. The april prix hengs over what would happen with ann coulter coming to cal. If you are for free speech, youre going to schedule something you better follow through. Speeches went on without interruption at berkeley civic park. Speakers say they were taking the place of conservative commentator of ann coulter and standing up for free speech. We may be Trump Supporters but defending all free speech, if youre liberal, democrat, republican, i dont care, left, right, center you have a right to free speech thats what im here depending. U. S. A. the Police Presence was large and advisable. Many who came to the rally wore helmets, masks and protecting padding. I will tell them when i think theyre fools but i really support their right and even their obligation to make themselves known to the rest of us. Some came here to help keep things calm. There was an empathy tent and a man Walking Around offering hugs. What felt like was missing was love. Im taking a leap of faith everybody deserves a hug, maybe it would insert a little bit of peace. Theres been a considerable Police Presence throughout the day. This has pretty much been their posture. Theyve been visible but pretty much standing down. We did see a few tense moments. For instance we saw two people on opposite sides of the politicpolitic political spectrum shouting at each other with a crowd around them and at end of the shouting match looked at each other, shook hands and walked away. In berkeley. Abc 7 news. Few hours ago ann coulter spoke about what she would have said if she was here. The theme was going to be searingly brilliant speech on immigration the main point was federal written law on the books developed by both democratic and republicans should be enforced. She confirmed she called off the thursday scheduled speech a mid i o threats of violent protests. Berkeley high School Across the street from the park dismissed as scheduled and didnt have to cancel any sport activities. The parents had to pick up students on the south side of the campus. Everything remained peaceful. Civic center park is less than a mile from the campus of uc berkeley. Demonstrators gathered at b bancroft and telegraph avenue so did police in large numbers. We continue our Team Coverage from the cal campus with a look at the activities there. Reporter if a person saw only the Police Presence how they marched, how they prepared, it might be easy to assume that the worst happened at uc berkeley today. Just one small complications. Shes not even here. Leaving us with the ann coulter noshow show. A big wind up on a campus racing for violent demonstrations didnt materialize. This is not a good use of police. Clearly nothing is happening. Unless it served as a deterrent in form of nonverbal communication. Officers for most of the day listened to large dose of political rhetoric in the home of free speech. Everyone around here should be sounding the alarm about this facist regime in the white house. The only problem is making sure their voice is louder than the person next door. On the Positive Side citizens in this nation enjoy the luxury of expressing, light on the theater, twist of existential and light on the dialogue. Its confusing, hard to understand, not really real arguments just a lot of absurdit is. This is a group of law students saying third student was arrested on campus, one for carry ag knife and one for carrying a mask, not cooperating with police and carrying a sign more than 30 inches across. Now a third student has been arrested, thats not confirmed yet, maybe well find out more live. Live at uc berkeley, abc 7 news. A small air plane flew a banner above the demonstrations that reads dont take the bait, fly a bofr the hate. Fly above the hate. Not clear who paid for that airplane but the message seemed to restonate. We sent out push alerts all day, enable your app today to get alerts where you live. Three wommen robbed a woman muni 54 felton line. The bus was near the intersection of revere avenue and jenning street approached a 28yearold man and 19yearold woman and pulled out a handgun and took jewelry, cellphone, and cash. The victims were not injured in the robbery. A veteran muni employee made a Court Appearance charged with stealing fares from cable car riders, hes the second accused of pocketing cash fares instead of turning them in at the end of the shift. Reporter this muni employee 55yearold david reyes caught the attention of the police after an audit of the cable car system. We noticed that the numbers werent what they should have been and gone to the police and d arka ultimately so that got started. Investigators were also keeping an eye on 61yearold Albert Williams another cable car conductor who was finally arrested last week. The money they were handing in was less than what was collect bid some of the original cable car employees, appears they were working separately. They were keeping the money for themselves, its a violation of public trust. Its revealed theyre looking back 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 could create some discrepanci discrepancies. Like a lot of money. Yes. A search of his home found 32,000 in the safer and several cars and receipts for highend purchases. Today the mayor says the agency has to get out of the cash business. When you are handling a lot of cash you will find officials that dont know how to handle it properly. He says the cable car system is a 30 million a year cash business. Youre looking at profound change. Some will come very quickly. Others come over a period of few months perhaps but i do think youll see change in that regard. Reyes was in court today facing charges of embezzlement and theft of public monies. Abc 7 news. A crazy site in santa cruz couple blocks from the beach, a Mountain Lion was found in a tree at a shopping center. Was tranquilizetranquilized. They tracked its movements whether its released into the wild. Two schools briefly locked down while the Mountain Lion was in the tree. Coming up next on abc 7 news at 9 00 you will get closer look at an Elementary School deemed not earthquake safe. And were here with the forecast. Get ready to hit the beach ill show you how warm it will get in the bay area this weekend coming up. And nothing to wear, the warriors are going to change warriors are going to change that for and let roomba help with your everyday messes. A full suite of sensors automatically guides roomba throughout your home. Cleaning under furniture, along edges, and in corners. And roombas patented 3stage cleaning system agitates, brushes and suctions dirt from your floors for up to 2 hours, recharging itself when it needs to. Which means your floors are always clean. You and roomba, from irobot. Better. Together. At crowne plaza we know Business Travel isnt just business. Theres this. a bit of this. Why not . Your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. Which is what we do. Crowne plaza. Were all business, mostly. The San Mateo CountySheriffs Office is looking for help to find a man, he hasnt been seen since last week on monday, the 33yearold was on a plane to meet his wife in orlando, no information ever confirmed he boarded a plane, he has a black 2005 hyundai accent. 6b 6bds345 license plate. Unusual for him to take off without telling anyone. Officials are trying to figure out if a sub Standard Foundation and loose soil could spell danger at lum Elementary School in the event of a powerful earth quake. The future is not bright for the school. One option is closing the school. The education at lum has always been solid. Its the Real Foundation not up to modern earthquake standards and the soil around it is worse, officials found it out testing the soil prior to a construction project. The initial tests showed that the soil under lum elementary could be susceptible to significant liquid faction. So far lum Elementary School in the area is the only with the potential liquid faction problem. It occurred in 1989 quake where loose soil amplified the earth quake, officials are considering closing the school at the end of the school year and moving 500 student and two dozen teachers. We have the capacity at other Elementary Schools to take lum students and teachers. Any time theres anything related to children and safety theres a sense of panic. Its very shocking but i know that theyre gooding to take care of it. I know theyre going to deal with it okay. We just as a Community Want to know that every possibility was looked at. School officials are looking at other options including retrofit or building a new school but both would be expensive and kids would have to be taught else where in the meantime and plan to further update parents tomorrow at a meeting. Abc 7 news. You can hear about the reports on our website abc 7 news. Com. California is one step closer to tracking the number of rape evidence kits. The state assembly passed a bill that would require agencies to report information for untested rape kits, the bill now goes to the state senate. Prop opponents say reporting requirements would be too burden some for the agencies. In 2004 we uncovered thousands of untested rape kits at Law Enforcement agencies across the bay area. Thousands in oakland can get a free prom dress, this lady giving away prom dresses in whatever city her husband is playing, this saturday is at Oakland High School any current student at oakland is eligible to get a distress and just have to register on the website, its linked to ours abc 7 news. Com. Were going to be seeing 90s in the not too distance future. Well be seeing dry conditions and warmer weather than we saw today. Walnut creek tomorrow 76 degrees. Low 80s this weekend. Tuesday and wednesday near 90 in walnut creek. Hard to believe. Well above average this time of year. Checking out live doppler 7 giving an indication whats to come. Thats no rain on the screen there. Were in for a dry seven days ahead. Its still blowing, gusting to 45 miles an hour. In Half Moon Bay out of the north west. 33 at sfo. Definitely have to hang on to your hats if youre stepping out. Heres the shaky view looking towards San Francisco. Those temperatures are held up by the wind. 50 right now. We are looking out towards the bay. Beautiful picture there. Temperatures upper 50s from santa rosa to napa. 61 in concord. And one other live picture. Sunny days along the coast and over the hills. Heres a look hour by hour. Tomorrow well start off clear, cool conditions. Mid 40s. Low 50s. Sun will be out earlier in the day. Noon to 4 00. It will be mild to warm. Still breezy along the coast. In the evening temperatures in the 50 sandeand 60s around the is setting. Tomorrow morning well notice the temperature dropping mostly 40s, 50s. Breezy on the coast. Will be clear. In afternoon not too hot not too cold in the south bay. On the peninsula upper 60s to mid 70s. Downtown San Francisco flirting with 70 degrees. In the north bay upper 70s. Napa, santa rosa, east bay, 72, inland highs will be in the mid 70s for pretty much all of you. 76 concord. Heres a look at the wind gusts starting tomorrow afternoon when winds begin to increase over 25 miles an hour on the coast topping 30 miles an hour in the evening and the winds will begin to die down late friday night into saturday and thats going to allow the temperatures to soar over the weekend. You can download the abc 7 news app and that will help you keep track of these temperature changes heres the accuweather forecast. Pumping you up to 80s and 60s on the coast still comfortable. Next week, low 90s, tuesday and wednesday, coast temperatures well above average for this time of year. Well cool it back down to mid 80s not much of a cool down. Going to be a long winter. Well the future upside to bay area traffic. Believe it or not there is one, our tomorrow night the abc 7 news iteam takes you deep into the Emerald Triangle to uncover a dark secret among the marijuana fields, where women have been sexually assaulted by growers and pot farm workers. Why these cases are so difficult to prosecute and what makes the female workers so vulnerable. Thats tomorrow on abc 7 news at 11 00. If you want to produce Renewable Energy keep driving on our state highways, devices convert mechanical force on electricity similar to generator use in botches. Suggested using the Technology Six years ago is glad its getting a test run. People dont even know they are there. The road vibrates when cars and trucks drive over it and these things harness the energy. The technology will be on a stretch of asphalt on uc campus. San francisco wants to charge peoples motivation to charge up motor vehicles. A new law today signed to requirea new laws to set aside 10 of Parking Spaces as charging spaces for electric vehicles the goal to take away biggest obstacles people face when considering purchasing an electric vehicle. It will be easier to own an ev. You can charge more easily. Will make it faster and easier to operate your vehicle. The law comes with a state wide push, 1. 5 million evs on the road within the next eight years. Up next on update on our top store ji. Thats right well have that story and also President Trumps tax plan how he will pay for the biggest tax trump in american history. You will hear from President Trump. After the passenger was dragged off by Airline Flight what you could be paid if you get bumped off your flight. Warning about the super bug in the United States for millions of baby boomers theres a serious virus out there thats been almost forgotten. Its hepatitis c. One in 30 boomers has hep c, yet most dont even know it. Because it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and its not tested for in routine blood work. The cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. If you have hep c, it can be cured. For us its time to get tested. Ask your Healthcare Provider for the simple blood test. Its the only way to know for sure. Announcer now from abc 7 news, live breaking news. Now at 9 30 we do want to return to you to our breaking news out of martinez. Where a man is accused of shooting and killing a woman in walnut creek having a stand off with police right now north of howel road. Theyre in negotiations with him right now, residents are being told to stay inside. Theres road closures in the area. Well have a full live report on abc 7 news at 11 00 on channel 7. Now to President Trump and his promise of the biggest tax cut in history. Promises tax cuts in the middle class and major cut for corporations from 35 to 15 . Some on capital hit is saying what about the deficit. In the rose garden President Trump making a surprise appearance in take your child to work day. Talked about turning his tax plan into reality a mid estimates tax cuts could balloon the deficit by trillions of dollars. Anything more specific about the tax plan. You will see the growth. How soon is that growth going to happen. Will happen quickly. The president says he will provide more details on the plan very soon. That single paged double spaced outline revealed yesterday about 200 words long, it is short on specifics. On gma the treasury secretary pressed repeatedly for answers. Can you guarantee no one in the middle class will be more. Thats our objective, absolutely. Is it a guarantee. I cant make any guarantees until it is done and on the president s desk but is our number one objective in this. No firm promise there so we asked again at the white house. Why can secretary mnuchin not assure, is there a guarantee from the white house . The position from the white house is that the goal of this president s tax plan is to provide them and lower income people with more money in their pocket in a tax cut,yes. Sean spicer concede theres a long way to go before this blue print becomes a reality. I think its moving in a very positive direction. Would reduce personal brackets from 7 to 3. Slash Corporate Tax in half. And eliminate all deductions except Home Mortgage and itable contributions a potential blow to Many Americans in high income and high tax states including several east coast blue states and california. Today even some republics raising concern. You feel this could hit your district harder . Sure when you tack about losing a deducks we want to make sure if theres a better way to achieve this tax cost im open to that. Thats the conversation were going to have. Abc 7 news washington. The new president will reach the 100 day mark on saturday. Today the white house defended itself into new investigation into First National security advisor michael flynn, a new investigation into the retired Lieutenant General who democratic say he was warned to get approval before taking foreign money. His clearance was last issued in 2016 with full knowledge o