News. Michaels family has been in the business since 19 06. Selling shark fin to restaurant for shark fin soup. As he left court this morning he didnt want to discuss the criminal case against him. Michael what is the source of the shark fip . Can you tell me the source of the shark fin. He pleaded not guilty. His lawyers tell me they will challenge the cons stooult substitution at of the shark fip ban. They found 2000 one 38 pound of shark fin at the warehouse in january. Full 6 months after the ban took effect. Its a law he knows very well. Im michael quon fourth generation in my family involved in shark fin business. Reporter one of the law most vocal opponent appearing at hearings in sacramento and at News Conference sponsored by state senator yee. Not Cost Effective just to go catch shark but when they do catch a shark they are going to use it. Reporter now he becomes the first major test of the new la law. Charged with 4 misdemeanor for possession or sale of frozen processed shark fin. Raw shark tail. Dry shark fin and dried shark fin for display purposes. If you knew what the law was why have all the shark fin there. Reporter maximum penalty for each count i,000 dollars and 6 month in jail. Not nearly enough for some activis activist. We dont think this is right. We think this is grossly under done. Nor cal coordinator for sea shepherd cease it as cost of doing business. Shaw estimates thousands office shark died for quon to have more than a ton of shark fip in the warehouse. We believe perhaps one per animal. One per animal more equitable situation. We are talking about thousands of animal and heres a guy who is going to get a slap on the wrist for having something illegal. I completely understand their concern. San Francisco District Attorney Office defends the charging decision. You have to look at the legislative intent and legislative intent is pretty clear make it a misdemeanor offense. No way to elevate the puptive end of it to felony. Its working. Its working like we intended to it work. Reporter san jose assemblyman fong wrote the ban and in addition to the possible criminal penalty he lost his supply of shark fin worth 1 Million Dollars or more operate black market. Im satisfied with that because the whole intention of the shark fin ban was to bring awareness of the shark plight and the need for shark in our ocean ecosystem. Latest research from the marin policy says 100 million shark die each year for shark fin soup. Craw lop off the fin and dump the shark back in the ocean to bleed to defendant or drown. As a result several species of shark are on the verge of etivrngs. Shark are vitally important. In every ocean. Top predator keep the ocean healthy if weless them have all kind of problem for other species down the line frichlt San Francisco office peter knight of wild aid waging a campaign to cut the demand in china for shark fin soup with basketball star ming. If you could see how each year up to 70 million shark are killed to end up in soup would you still eat it . Knight tells me its workin working. Now in china a 50 to 70 reduction in shark fin lit relevant millions of shark tens of millions of shark. Knight tells me the Chinese Government has provided spots on prime time tv to run the ads and ban shark fin soup from all dinners. Think about this. In the time it took to you watch the story another 6 60 shark died. 275,000 a day. All for soup. For the iteam, abc 7 news. Well, you probably saw it. Rare pitter patter of light showers that fell on parts of the bay area for this time of year. Looking outside the moment it is clear thats going to change a little bit. Sandy is here with live doppler 7 hd. Sandhya. Yes. This is the time of career normally one of the dr driest months. But we do get drizzle around this time and thats what we saw this morning but we also had some light showers develop around ukiah. Live doppler 7 hd tracking few clouds and i show you the showers that developed early this afternoon. Drifting northward that is all in association with monsoon moisture. We did have measurable drizzle this morning 100 inch in San Francisco. 2 hundredths in pacifica. Look at another round of drizzle tomorrow morning and we may tracking isolated showers as you look at the water vapor imagery. Area of low pressure to the north. Another system developing to our south and more moisture headed our way. Tomorrow morning commute may another slick one. Ill be back with a detailed look in a a few minutes. Thanks very much. Emotional day in sock ton as family of woman taken hostage during a bank robbery saw the man accused responsible for her death. 19 year old about ramos made the First Court Appearance today. He faces 35 charges including 3 for murder and 22 for attempted murder of police officers. Family of zing was at the hearing. She was a Bank Customer who was one of 3 women held hospital stachbility Authorities Say ramos used her as human shield during a somewhat out with police. Her family of course just devastated. Fight living one day at a time but living one minute at a time. Ramos may not have directly killed zing California Law allows murder charges against anyone involved in crimes in which someone is killed. Pros cawtors add a gang enhancement charge against ramos making eligible for life in prison without parole. If Police Announce today that 10,000 dollar reward is being offered for help in finding the driver of dark buick sedan. Police believe the driver dropped off the 3 bank robbers at the bank of the west where the violence all started. Vallejo girl spoke with 7 news this evening about the moment when she was shot during a Birthday Party at a park. Girl took a bullet in the arm saturday evening at lowell park in west oakland. 7 News Reporter has more now from vallejo where the girl is home and recovering. I was scared and it was stinging a lot. 10yearold lisa shows us her sling decorated with sticker and get well wishes. Covering a gunshot wound. She got when she was hit by a stray bullet at west oakland lowell park. You wont see her face because her family is scared. Her shooter is still out there. Worst thing ever to happen. Ill stashingts i would never want anybody to good through what i went through. If how any child gets shot just crazy. She was celebrating her cuss i hope first Birthday Party saturday when 2 groups started shooting at each other. So you knowed like loud loud fireworks. Lisa was hit. We ran pichlts scared i didnt know what to do. So i just ran with all the other people ran to. Police say the kid were playing on the grass near 14 street when bullet started flying from the other end of the park inter12th and fillber fillbert. They are investigating the possibility of driveby. We need and want to have our children safe in our community and when they become a victim of a Violent Crime such as a shooting, thats not okay. Today the park was empty. No kids on a warm summer day. Police have made no arrest and hope Surveillance Video from the neighborhood will lead them to who is responsible. Lisa says shes still in some pain but wont let it ruin her summer vacation. The in vallejo, abc 7 news. The new safety rules today and they come with very strong warning. Starting today you will no longer be allowed to sleep lie down or sit with your leg extended at a bart station. Transit agency said police a legal obligation to rapidly evacuate a station in an emergency. That means within 4 so 6 minutes and bart wants everyone to be able to rae respond quickly in emergencies. Those who dont comply will get a verbal warning on the first occasion. Citation on the second and possibly face arrest, fine or incarceration on the third. Mosquitos fogging set for San Mateo County between 11 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. And a half mile radius of zip code 9 4 001 and 02 8. The control district says mosquitos infected with west nile virus found in the areas last week. Stay rate hear. Coming up. California attorney general demanded it and now chevron ready to comply. Just ahead. Upgrade the oil industry giant is now agreeing to to make its refinery in the east bay. Also. East bay apartment complex without water for three days now. Still no water. Why it takes so long to get it turned become on. New law that allow students under the age of 21 to sit from a glass of hey pal . You ready . Can you pick me up at 6 30 . Ah. boy im here im here cop too late. I was gone for five minutes ugh move it. Youre killing me. You know what, dad . Im good. dad it may be quite a while before hes ready, but our Subaru Legacy will be waiting for him. vo the longestlasting midsize sedan in its class. Introducing the allnew Subaru Legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. Tonight chevron says it will agree to a stricter set of emission control at its richmond refinery. We were the first to report this Big Development on abc 7 news at 5 today. Moderate everyone work at the facility was stopped in 2009 because of concerns about the Environmental Impact of the project. Now chevron hopes the city council will approve its revised plan tomorrow now that the company has made the concession. 7 News ReporterLaura Anthony is on the story. They will say anything to get out of spending money. Nearly two week after they got an earful from the public in rich machined Planning Commission chevron announced it will comply with stricter environmental proposal. Known as alternative 11. The company much delay rae finery modern project. The superior alternative does couple things. First it limits the amount of production at the refinery and sets a cap on Green House Gas emission associated with our operation. Reporter proposed 1 billion dollar modernization the Company Claims will bring 1,000 new construction jobs to the city. Critic say it also would allow the plant to process potentially higher polluting crude oil. Stricter stand arrested were requested by attorney general harris would asked the new project effectively reduce Green House Gas and other emission. Not just hold the line on them. We are glad to see that they are willing to move a little bit. Reporter hes with community for better environment which had been pushing for stricter standard. He says his group is pleased with chevron announcement. Like to see the company go even further. Alternative 11 stand alone disnot achieve the health and safety the reduction n. E. Mission and particular at matter we want to see in richmond that ensure the health of the community. Reporter the e p. R. Was approved with conditions. Goes before the Richmond City council for public hearing tuesday night n. Richmond, abc 7 news. Residents of up scale apartment complex in Alameda County have had no Water Service for three days. Imagine this at your place. Hundreds of people live at the spring house apartment complex where the water stopped running on friday. Folk say they couldnt do dishes shower or even flush the toilet all weekend. Port a potty brought in today. Note on the office door blames failure in the mane water pipe but Property Management still doesnt know when it will get fixed. We are all at a loss. What do we do. Get a hotel room. Do we sit it out . Do we washington do we do . Reporter city of pleasanton says the problem is so bad they have emergency construction on the pipe without work permit. Just get the job done. And the Fir Department has been called in because no water means no Sprinkler System of course if a fire should break out. Property manager says the outage may fixed but 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Tesla is getting closer to beginning production of the first suv. Today the electric car maker shut down the free mont manufacturing plant for the next two weeks during the time. Workers will recon figure the Main Assembly line to increase production the model and make room for highly anticipated model crossover suv. Tesla 3500 plant employee will be paid for training for maintenance during the shut down. They get the compensation. Governor signed a bill today that changes high school football. Specifically it limits full contact football practice to 90 minutes twice a week and bans 2 a day practice on consecutive day. Bill also calls for player who suffers a concussion to be automatically side lined for a week until he or she is medically cleared. Governor signed a law that allow College Students under the age of 21 to drink alcohol in class as long as they dont swallow. Socalled sip and spit law was designed for if different schools if where students are exposed to learn the taste but really couldnt until now because they werent really allowed to touch the alcohol under 21. New law also applies to Students Learning to make beer. Students must be at least 18 however and tasting is done under the supervision of an instructor. Sip and they have to spit it out. What good is that . Sort of partial experience. Sandhya is in for spencer. Is in to have you here. Muggy out there today. It is. Uncomfortable feeling but you are used to it. I was on the east coast it was muggy. This is just making you feel at home. Welcome back dan. We hang on to this sticky conditions her for another day. Show you live doppler 7hd. Talk about where the stick iness is coming from twofold. We have had the sub tropical most during date that brought up the high humidity and now with the north west wind flow cut off what we normally see around this time of year upwelling the cold water thats not happening with the south wind most of the day its keeping the water really warm. We track a few clouds right no now. But we did see the sprinkle early today. Check out the water temperature. These are sea surface temperature low to mid 70s. Here we are at 9 18 p. Average temperature low to upper 50s. Some areas are actually approaching at or nearly record level for sea surface temperature this time of year. So this is really unusual. Theres not enough Historical Data to keep track of the buoy temperature. So well keep you posted should we get any other information from the National Weather service from the Golden Gate Bridge camera here. Couple clouds around but not the typical foggy scene. Mixed out late this afternoon early evening. Still very mild in San Francisco 63 and 65 oaklan oakland. 67 in san jose. Gilroy. 59 in half machine bay. Heres view from the sfo camera. We have just patchy clouds out there. Temperatures in the 60s from santa rosa to no vat o. 68 fairfield. 65 degrees currently in livermore one other live picture from our emeryville camera and we look towards sutro tower actually visible here. Heres a look at the forecast. Isolated shower or drizzle going into the Tuesday Morning mostly sunny muggy tomorrow afternoon. We get hot late in the week but good thing is we actually get rid of the humidity. Brought humidity sub tropical moisture early today. Sprinkle are lifting northward. Out of our area but we have another batch of moisture coming our way and there is a low just off the coast and another low to our north. We have to keep a close eye on this as we head into tomorrow morning there may be an isolated thunderstorm that develops. Right now we watch that carefully for you. 3 00 a. M. Certainly 80s of drizzle and light showers and possibility and we at any with the drizzle or lit shower going in the morning commute. Pretty much what we are going to machinetor. 9 00 a. M. Still some slick roadway so give yourself plenty of time for the morning commute by the afternoon we pretty much see the cloud dissipate and mostly sunny skies around. Humid mild. Unusually mild tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the low mid 60s but we do have the extra moisture off the water there because of those temperatures being so high to provide with us some drizzle and spring el again. Tomorrow afternoon south bay 79 in san jose. 80 cup teen o. Humid. Sunny. 77 milpitas. Mount view on the peninsula. 79 red wad city. 66 in pacifica. Downtown San Francisco 70 degrees and north bay mid 70s santa rosa no have the 0. Keeping it sticky in the east bay mild 73 in oakland. Inland spots warm but in the as warm as he should be. 81 livermore. 81 in san ramone. Accuweather 7 day forecast of actually start to heat it up for you thursday through the weekend. Mid 90s inland. Low 70s at the beaches. So its a warm to hot forecast coming up. Good thing like i mention dan by wednesday afternoon we ax the humid. Lose it. Its so uncomfortable. Make people miserable. I know thanks very much. You may have gotten a glimpse of hollywood today in San Francisco coming up next. Star power. Major movie shoot that is happening in the city and a list actor from the bay area who has a lead role. And some grit news from organizers of yesterday San Francisco aids walk golden gate park. We had a fun day. 20,000 walkers including these from sheer sf raise 2. 3 Million Dollars for aids and hiv research and services. 7 is a proud sponsor of that annual walk. We have a Photo Gallery posted at abc 7 news. Com. Bulldog its true i am a bundle of talent but my friends are learning skills that can change a life. Thats why mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train dogs like suzie to engage students in schools and special education classes. While ginger visits folks in the hospital offering quiet comfort