good afternoon. i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm dan ashley. we'll begin with a major break in this weekend's bombings in new york and new jersey. >> the man accused in those bombings shot and injured in a dramatic shootout with police. >> now, abc 7 reporter eliz bert hur is live in linden, new jersey with the very latest. >> reporter: that shootout happened just behind me here and the suspect was taken here to the hospital injured and awake and alert. we're told two officers were also hurt, but they will be okay. the manhunt for the suspect ending in a shootout injuring 28-year-old ahmad khan rahami and two police officers. >> one of the officers was

actually sit until his police vehicle when he was shot at. i'm told the round went through the windshield and actually glanced off his forehead area. >> reporter: the takedown following a 911 call from a new jersey bar owner who told police there was a man sleeping in the hallway of his business. >> when the police officer arrived and to wake the individual and within a matter of seconds the suspect fired on him, he had his vest on, and he was hit in his vest so that -- that saved him. >> reporter: investigators now revealing they identified rahami as their suspect using a cell phone, found attached to a pressure cooker undetonated on 27th street in manhattan. >> right now we're not actively seeking anyone. >> i have no indication that there is a cell operating in the city. the investigation is ongoing. >> reporter: that's one of four bombs discovered in new york and new jersey over the weekend. the latest in elizabeth new jersey, not far from where rahami lived. >> vigilance is called for, and it's very, very important if

people see anything unusual, particularly an unattended package, that they report is immediately. >> reporter: and abc news learned today that the suspect is arrested here this morning is not cooperating. he's not giving his name or any -- answering any questions, and so investigators say they are now in the process of using dna and other forensic evidence to try to positively link him to the explosions. reporting from linden, new jersey, i'm elizabeth hur for abc news. >> elizabeth, thanks very much. we're also seeing increased police presence in san francisco including in and around oracle openworld conference that kicked off today. >> that's right. amy hollyfield has a look at safety precautions being taken now. >> bomb-sniffing dogs swept through oracle yorld this morning to prepare for the 60,000 people expected to attend this week. we also saw chp officers and private security teams guarding the perimeter, but attendees of oracle yorld tell us security is

not on their minds this week. >> it feels pretty safe here. i come last year also. it's pretty safe. >> reporter: san francisco police have added uniformed officers all over the city in response to the explosions on east coast. many told us they admire security here in the u.s. and feel very safe. >> i'm sure you've taken the necessary precautions, and we have all the confidence in the country, and we have been looking at u.s. as a role model for developing countries like us. >> i don't think you can live your life like that and be worried about it and coming from london we're fairly used to those kind of things so it's -- you just have to get on with things really. >> san francisco police say they hope people will think about security and help them look for anything unusual. >> what they are counting on is the public not being aware of what they are doing and just simply ignoring them. that's why we really emphasize if you see something, say something because we want the

public just to be a little extra vigilant. >> reporter: people here attending the conference say they are willing to say something if they see something but admit it's easier said than done. they tell us they are not really sure who or what they are looking for. in san francisco, amy halliefield, abc 7 nuts. federal investigators don't believe there are any links between the bombs in new york and a stab will rampage at a mall in minnesota. the islamic state claims 22-year-old-ir adan heeded its calls to attack countries like the u.s. be a off-duty police officer shot and killed adan after he allegedly stabbed nine people saturday night. witnesses say adan wore a security guard's uniform when he entered the mall. the somali immigrant had worked in the past as a guard for a store in the mall. we've sent important updates on the terror investigations. be sure to download our free abc 7 news app and enable push alerts to get the latest breaking news any time. now we have breaking news in the sexual scandal that involves law enforcement all over the bay

area. three more officers have been charged just moments ago. the alameda county announced a felony obstruction of justice charge for former oakland officer brian buntin. opd officer giovanni laverde and former contra costa deputy perez faced nell any oral copulation with a minor charges. that is punishable by up to three years involved. the case involves jasmine abullsin who has worked as a proust tuite since she was a minor. so far five officers have been charged. kranz believes a piece of metal from one of its trucks may have killed an elderly man friday in palo alto. the metal object about the size of a baseball shot through his window on highway 101 is with deadly results. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow joins us now. >> reporter: a bizarre and tragic accident according to chp and kranz and people who knew

82-year-old louis schaffer best say he was full of life. investigators with california highway patrol reveals this end cap is from a kranz water truck. it's the size of a baseball and approximately two to three pounds. it pierced the windshield of 822-year-old louis shafer's vehicle friday on northbound 101 hitting him in the neck and killed him. >> came as a total shock to him. >> reporter: kathy was married to him for seven years and remained friends with him after the death. >> he had many friends and was deeply spiritual. he was a wonderful father and family man. >> reporter: a statement offers gratitude to the drivers who pulled over, the coroner's office and chp for their compassion and professionalism. >> very unusual and trajic. >> reporter: chp investigators that realized a kranz water truck was pulled over on southbound 101 around the time

of the accident. >> we were advised that one of the tires blew out than that's why they were stepped on the side of the freeway. >> an isolated event that happened around we're working with chp to learn how that device came from the kranz truck. >> reporter: kranz offered its condolences to schaaf ear's family and friends. richmond police are searching for a gunman that shot and killed a man. officers found the victim behind the wheel of his car at carlson boulevard and south 47th street. sky 7 shows his white convertible half in the street there. he had several gunshot wounds. first responders could not save him. splice no information on a possible suspect. more tributes flowed today for san francisco political icon rose pak. pak died sunday at her home in chinatown. she spent decades advocating for the people of chinatown as serving as one of the city's most influential voices.

mayor ed lee spoke for the first time since the death of his longtime friend. >> she was one of the first people i met when i was a young attorney in chinatown and actually a law student trying to figure out how to represent people in chinatown. you can't always be 100% in agreement with rose, but you can certainly know exactly where she's coming from. >> pak's family plans to hold a wake for her on friday evening and the funeral will take place at old st. mary's cathedral on saturday. for the first time ever bay area quality officials issued a last-minute spare the air alert on the day of. that is look earlier from our camera. marin county very hazy out there. usually the alerts are called a day in advance. this is the 22nd spare the air alert for smog in 2016. well, you can pretty much see why they issued the spare

the air. look how dirty the bay area is. spare the air alert up now. moderate air quality for the rest of the bay area. take a look at the wind and the reason why they issued it day of is the sea breeze didn't come as expected to clean out our air. you can see the winds are still pretty light right now. highs so far, it is cooking again inland. mid-90s to low 100s for the hot spots along the coastline. it's warm as well. 70s and 80s around the region and many 90s showing up right around the bay. live doppler 7 hd showing you the fog is nowhere in sight but it's coming. you take a look here and it is right near monterrey and it will work its way up but until it arrives still a warm one as you look at the hourly temperatures for concord. 90 degrees and dropping down slowly by midnight and barely making it to the upper 60s. cooler weather in the forecast and i'll let you know when it will arrive and when you'll feel the difference and trust me, you will.

>> oh, we do. >> thank you very much. a wildfire keeps spreading through dry brush and debris. the fire forced the delay of last night's schedule launch of the alliance atlas 5 rocket carrying a satellite into orbit. so far the flames have burned more than 45 acres and the fire has knocked how the power to parts of the base. fire crews say the fire is zero percent contained. >> the milbury teacher charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old student was arraigned today on the peninsula. >> the case became even more complicated when abc 7 learned that the sheriff's office had dropped the ball in the investigation. >> abc 7 news reporter vic lee is live in the newsroom with the story. >> reporter: san mateo county district attorney steve wagstaf calls this a case where a teacher 25 years older than the student took advantage of her and what's more abc 7 news learned that sheriff's investigators in milbury knew about this relationship as far back as last fall but did

nothing about it and that's also now the subject of the sheriff's investigate. >> milledbury middle schoolteacher heather butts pled not guilt, among them committing a lewd act with a child. >> it's complicated. it's a very complicated situation and a very complicated case. >> reporter: abc 7 news is not naming the girl who has since graduated from taylor middle school where butts teaches. butts was arrested last month after police found her with a 15-year-old girl in a parked car here on santa helena avenue in san bruno. also disturbing, abc 7 news learned that a parent went to milbury police as far bar as last october and filed a police report after he heard about the illicit relationship, but sheriff's office would staff the milbury police department and apparently failed to investigate and then in february that same parent went to the high schokoc

where the victim now attends and told the administrator the same story. the school district called the sheriff's office but, again, they failed to act. san mateo county's sheriff has launch an internal investigation. >> clearly we believe a breakdown did occur. it is not the type of service that we try to provide to our residents, and we're very sorry about that. >> reporter: the milbury school district has suspended butts while it conducts its own investigation. vic lee, abc 7 news. marin county sheriff's deputies will be hitting the streets tomorrow with a tool aimed at improving transparency. 85 deputies will be outfitted with body cameras like these used by san francisco police. in june the board of supervisors october purchase of the cameras at a price of just over $200,000. >> coming up here on abc 7 in the news at 4:00," the community coming together after a fire destroys a landmark mom and pop country store. vegas officials may be gung-ho about a raider stadium but it appears to be a different

story for sin city residents. plus -- >> we've created the first marijuana breathalyzer. >> dealing with stoned drivers. police believe the problem is only going to get worse. later a bay area company and its attempt to keep our str

a popular grocery store and deli in pescadero burned to the ground early sunday. it's downtown a few blocks from highway 101 and a popular spot for people visiting the state beach. the owners want to rebuild, and they are finding a lot of support in the community. abc 7 news reporter wayne

freedman is live in downtown pescadero. wayne? >> reporter: says a lot about this place as people have been coming far and wide from across the country, and this was not just a country store. this was a local landmark. spent enough time here. it might seem like if he stayed here for 100 years the whole world might pass by, and they hope the world comes by again when they rebuild it. follow these signs on the san mateo county coast today and they flo no longer lead to a local landmark. instead the charred and twisted remains of one. >> to see it burn. that would have been hard. i mean, it's hard to see it anyway. >> reporter: if you know pescadero then you know cindy simms, her husband steve and you may have pleasant memories of the goodies and the friendly atmosphere in the pescadero family store. while cindy and steve vacationed up north the place burned hot and fast. cause unknown. >> it looked like the entire town was up in flames when i first pulled in.

>> reporter: janice owns a business across the street and like many people here in pescadero she mourns the loss of an historic building and even more they will miss the atmosphere they created inside of it. >> it was a gathering place, community hall. >> it's community that makes it live. >> she hopes her heart and her doors to everyone. >> reporter: even today with insurance adjustors and fire inspectors and countless curiosity-seekers, cindy worried not so much for herself as she did for 19 employees. >> they are first on the list because they are the ones that i have a lot of employees who really can't afford to be unploild. >> reporter: that's the way they are in pescadero, a town defined by the lone stoplight on one side and a xwraf yard on the other. when tragedy hits a small town like this, it affects everyone, and everyone digs in. >> so now it's our turn to step up. >> reporter: wayne freedman, abc 7 news. members of a las vegas committee may support a plan to build a new stadium for the

raiders, but nevada voters don't like it, apparently. a rasmussen poll finds 800 likely voters found that 52% opposed raising hotel room taxes to build this $1.9 billion. 32% favor it and 14% are undecided at this point. last week the southern nevada infrastructure tourism committee sent its recommendation to the stadium for nevada's governor. he must decide whether to most issue on to the state legislature. meantime, a top nfl executive is in oakland today meeting city and county leaders about the prospects for a new stadium there. it comes a day after commissioner rogger goodell told reporters that he thinks a new home for the raiders can be built in oakland. a group led by this man, nfl hall of famer ronnie lott is working quitely behind the scenes on a stadium project for the coliseum site. we'll keep you updated, of course. >> so interesting, sandhya, how we had the last-minute somair the air but when you look

outside you see why. >> reporter: you have the fire in monterrey county that's been burning and the wind that's drifting some of that smoke up in this direction and also because of the fact that that sea breeze, our natural ac did not work today. >> right. when is it going to work? >> tomorrow. a worm to hot one and some differences. pacifica low 80s and today low 70s so the cooling hats started. you may not feel it yet but you will, as we head into tomorrow. live doppler 7 hd right now showing you clear skies and as you take a look from our golden gate bridge camera, the flag is barely blowing there, we do have the sun and the sea breeze was really yet to kick n.currently 93 degrees in san jose so it's still pretty warm. half moon bay 70 degrees. sfo cameras bright sunny skies and temperatures mid-90s in santa rosa to nevada. concord and livermore, upper 90s to low 100s and a live look from

our camera, cooler temperatures and dramatic drop in temps wednesday and thursday. your hour-by-hour evening temperature, mild to hot, temperatures in the low 90s. emperatures go down but don't fall much, still a mild one and fog comes back at midnight and going into tomorro morning's commute. patchy fog and temperatures will look like this. mostly in the 509s. a few low to mid-650s so a comfortable to mild start tomorrow morning and there will be some nothing to start off your day. breezy tomorrow afternoon. it is still going to be warm inland but we're expecting those temperatures to come down. today we've had some 90s and 1 is hundreds, tomorrow, upper 80s for the warmest inland valleys. temperatures right along the coast in the 60s so today we've had the kind of heat where it's uncomfortable, especially when you don't have the ac in some of these homes here in san francisco on the peninsula, but as the wind shifts and the wind

really kicks in off the ocean you're going to start to feel the difference. wednesday afternoon in particular it gets windy near the coastline 20, 30, 35-mile-an-hour winds and 36 gusting at 6:00 p.m. wednesday evening. you'll notice that the winds are going into thursday morning will be strongest along the coast as well and into thursday afternoon. that will bring about the changes. you'll want to track those changes with our nbc 7 news app. wednesday sharply cooler and we'll see the 70s to barely making it to 80. saturday it's a warm weekend. just fast forward together weekend because we're going to skip over the cooler period now and notice that it really is warm. 90s there inland and 70s at our beaches and sunday we'll have the autumn heat. indian areas will be close 100 degrees. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. temperatures coming down tomorrow. low 60s to upper 80s. you don't like the 80s. no problem. wednesday, thursday, mid to upper 70s for our warmest spots. a good 20 to 25-degree drop from today. low 60s coast side and autumn

starts thursday morning at 1:21 and just in time for fall. we'll bump the temperatures up, low 90s inland and low 70s at our beaches. sunday if you have outdoor plans, upper 90s inland and mid-70s coast, and we'll keep that warmth going for the start of next week, dan and kristen. >> indian summer. >> that's right. >> thank you. so how did jimmy do? coming up, we're going to recap last night's emmy awards and we'll show you how kimmel's perform sans comparing with other recent hosts. and later, something is cooking with ayesha curry and why you better not call hear basketball wife.

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did you see it? abc late night talk show half jimmy kimmel is giving kudos for his relaxed style while hosting last night eat 68th annual primetime emmy awards. >> a lot of you haven't eaten since labor day, so i have a little surprise for everyone. my mother made 7,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

is anyone hungry right now? >> funny. kimmel fed the star-studded stars with mom-made pb & j and sprinkled in good natured jabs at donald trump and hollywood smugness with diversitdiversity >> he was ranked third best host in decades. actress jane lynch snagged the number one spot and "snl" alum andy sandberg takes number two for his gig last year and more now with this year's big winners. >> "game of thrones." >> reporter: the hbo dark fantasy "game of thrones" not only again earned the best drama series emmy award, it's now the most honored primetime series ever with a cumulative 38 emmy awards, one more than "frazier." it won 12 in all and three of them during sunday night's telecast. >> a great director can make you look a lot better and great actors even bet sneer on the

comedy side of thing "veep" repeated as best comedy series and julia louis-dreyfus won a record sixth actress as best comedy actress and jeffrey tambor's emmy was his second one and along with his win for best peopled series, "the people versus o.j. simpson" saw three actors take home emmys." backstage she said she's been rehearsing acceptance speeches for most of her life. >> i was 7 when i would do all that in a mere ore, prell commercials and toothbrushes and things and the real thing is much better than what i imagined. >> i think i floated out of my body, and like looked at everybody down on the crowd and lookeded a myself and i'm like brown, you got to get up and you've only got 45 seconds. >> as i said to my children, win, lose or draw, i've already won, so if it happens for me, wufshlgs and if it doesn't happen for me, it's all good.

we come home and celebrate one way or another. >> reporter: regina king won her second emmy in a row for "american crime." >> i'm happy to be able to stand with this in my hand for the team. happen they what is no one from "peerm versus o.j." in my category. >> reporter: best actress in a drama city went to tatiana massl ha ni and rami malek was overwhelmed after he earned his first ever emmy award. >> as soon as i went backstage i think the emotion just poured out of me and i was hugging jimmy kimmel and crying at the same time and just trying not to get anything on his suit. >> reporter: some of the night's other winner, ben mendelson, maggie smith, john oliver and "the voice." in los angeles, george

for abc news. all right. coming up next on "abc 7 news at 4:00, the political fallout of the new york/new jersey bombings and why hillary clinton is accusing donald trump of putting our national security at risk. >> and later, a homeowner captures a burglar in action on his home surveillance camera and says when he called police they weren't interested. we're finding out why. ♪ ♪ hush my darling... ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪ the lion sleeps tonight. [snoring.] ♪ hush my darling... [snoring.] ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪ the lion sleeps tonight. [snoring.] take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number store.

here's what's making headlines at 4:30. a man accused of setting off a bomb that injured 29 people in new york city over the weekend is now charged with five counts of attempted murder of law enforcement officers. ahmad rahami here is in hospital after a shootout with police. two officers were wounded. police say are a hammy is not cooperating with investigators or answering any questions. coming up at 5:00, abc 7 news will have insight from an east bay congressman who is on the house intelligence committee and put out the tweet. cell phone video put out an alert on the manhunt for the suspect. at 6:00 abc 7 reporter jonathan bloom with a look at the first emergency wireless alerts and in the race for president hillary clinton and donald trump are talking about the bombings in new jersey and new york on the campaign trail. abc news reporter stephanie

ramos has the story. >> reporter: after the bombings in new york and new jersey hillary clinton and donald trump are both on the trail and talking terror. >> this is a fast moving situation and a sobering reminder that we need steady leadership in a dangerous world. >> reporter: clinton in philadelphia slamming donald trump while trying to reach out to millenials. >> we're facing a candidate with a long history of racial discrimination in his businesses, who re-tweets white supreme sifts, who led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president and is still lying about it today. >> reporter: clinton reiterated her plan to combat isis in the wake of the latest attacks. >> we're going after the bad guys and we're going to get them, but we're not going to go after an entire religion. >> reporter: trump taking to twitter praising law enforcement and renewing his calls for racial profiling, writing once

against someone we were told is okay turns out to be a terrorist who wants to destroy our country and its people. how did he get through the system? trump at a campaign event in florida had to this say. >> these attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system. >> reporter: it's too early to tell if the nation's concerns over terrorism will give either candidate an edge, but in a recent poll 49% say clinton would do a better job at keeping the country safe from terrorism while 47% say trump would. and just one week from today trump and clinton will get to address terrorism and many other topics in their very first much anticipated presidential debate. stephanie ramos, abc news, washington. the global refugee crisis tops the agenda at this week's annual united nations general assembly in new york. more than 140 heads of state and governments are taking part in the high-level summit to address the large movement of refugees

and migrants, especially from war-torn syria. the u.n. refugee agency reports during the last 12 months 11 men and women and children have died every day across europe, 11 a day. in the uk where london's parliament square has been turned into a graveyard of life jackets, the 2,500 life jackets belonged to refugees who died by crossing the mediterranean from turkey to the greek island. 625 belong to children. hundreds of migrants are still making tra treacherous journey trying to get to a better place. the life jackets have been placed here to keep the migrant crisis at the forefront and for governments to rethink policies for those seeking asylum. u.s. health officials have lifted their strongest warning to pregnant women to stay out of miami's wynwood arts district. no new cases of mosquito bjorn zika illness have been reported there since early suggest.

officials are crediting aerial sprig of pesticides that target adult mosquitos and laugherary. however in miami beach the mosque foe transmission zone has grown three miles after a cluster of new zika cases were reported last week. samsung reported two noam fires in china had nothing do with overheating batteries and a series of fires has forced samsung to recall its galaxy note 7 phones and officials believe the fires in china were not sparked by overheating batteries. tests show that heat came from outside the phone. china's biggest cellular providers continue to sell the galaxy note 7, but some of the local ourlt let's have stopped. another report suggests samsung tried to beat apple to the punch and rush the galaxy note 7 to the market. bloomberg also reports samsung executives felt confident the note 7 would dzle custome apple's claims that samsung was a copycat. they even believe the newest

iphone wouldn't have any eye-popping features. apple recently unveiled the iphone 7, its newest smartphone. >> likely voters in north carolina don't like the so-called bathroom bill and feel like it's hurting the state. nearly 50% of those surveyed opposed hb2 compared to almost 40% who support it. close to 60% say the law has damaged north carolina eats reputation compared to 11% who believe the law has improved it. the law requires people to use school and government bathrooms of the sex on their birth certificate. it's prompted entertainers and sports associations to cancel events in that state. just ahead here on "abc 7 news at 4:00," a look at what colin kaepernick's national anthem protests compelled one high school football team do over the weekend. >> i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel, if you're sweltering in the summer heat. don't you worry as we get ready to change seasons. we'll see a major change in our weather. i'll have details coming up. and let's take a look at

this. we are celebrating hispanic heritage month with posts to our instagram feed. today we recognize one of san francisco's many famed mission murals. this one entitled "la llorona's sacred waters" depicting a mexican water goddess. >> more details on our instagram

in seattle an entire high school football team followed the model of the 49ers. quarterback colin kaepernick and refused to stand during the national anthem. the coach told some of his players have encountered police brutality and racial profiling and some other players joined the protest. kaepernick started his protest in the preseason and other nfl players have now followed suit. a mom fighting cancer breaks into tears as her special needs son scores a touchdown. robbie heil, number 24, usually helps his teammates on the sidelines passing out water bottles and towels and heil's teammates helped surprise his mother who is undergoing cancer treatments and always watching from the sideline. heil scored a touchdown making his dream and his mom's come true. >> it really takes a village to raise my son and this village has really been outstanding.

>> the oppose team was also in on the surprise gifting robbie a number 1 jersey. >> sweet story. a look at live doppler 7 hd right now, and question to have clear skies across the bay area. that's going to change and we'll start to see some higher clouds moving in tomorrow afternoon and even a little bit of patchy fog. breezing tomorrow afternoon and 62 in half moon bay and 66 in downtown san francisco. 70 in oakland and nice and mild and 48 in walnut creek. still warm and 88 degrees for your tuesday. highs for your tuesday for the rest of the bay area, you'll notice just how nice i is going to be. not so hot. 80 degrees in san jose and 82 in napa so definitely pleasant weather. the air quality right now not looking good from the mt. tam cam. first column is the high so far and the second column is where

we're going in terms of our temperatures tomorrow, so oakland airport, you're going to see a 20-degree drop in temperatures, down 17 in san francisco. you'll feel the difference. san jose 14 degrees cooler than today, and you look at the livermore temperature trend. average high is 84 degrees and tomorrow you're still a little bit above normal and sharp drop in the temperature wednesday and thursday and a little bit of a recovery friday and then get ready for more heat. as we head into the weekend the temperatures will soar again on saturday, sunday, monday. you're going to be back up into the 90s so seasons change on thursday as autumn arrives and we cool it off for you for a few days, and then as you know if you have lived here for any length of time in the bay area autumn means warm to hot weather, kristen and dan, so we'll bring it back. >> still ahead on abc 7 "news at 4:00," what the ama is telling pediatricians not to prescribe when it comes to treating children in pain. >> plus, the bay area company that's one step

kohl's plans to hire 69,000 additional workers for the upcoming holiday season to meet demand at 1,100 stores across

the country. the department stores operators say it started hiring in august for the holiday season and expects most jobs to be filled by the middle of november. they are moving quickly. several other retailers and businesses have already started ramping up hiring for the key holiday shopping season. nationwide ups will hire about 95,000 people, target about 70,000. the american academy of pediatrics is now urging doctors not to prescribe the pain medication codeine to children. the association says codeine can be ineffective, and the risk of side effects is too large. codeine is commonly used in over-the-counter cough syrups, but the problem is some people metabolize codeine too quickly, potentially resulting in breathing problems or sometimes even death. >> if your child is ever prescribed an opiod or narcotic, ask is there anything else that we can use that has the effect and if you do that you may get a drug that's safer. >> health and medical experts say codeine should not be prescribed to children who are younger than 12 years old.

you are soon going to vote on whether to legalize marijuana in california. the police are worried that if the proposition passes in november, it could affect all of us in terms of our safety out on the roads. but as abc 7 news anchor ama daetz reports, this will also help with drunk drivers. >> reporter: police look for driver's licenses and make sure people aren't driving drunk. >> marijuana has become as strong or stronger a problem as driving with alcohol. >> reporter: san francisco police sergeant estimates one in four drivers they stop for driving under the influence is driving high on pot. he wore's it will only get worse if proposition 64 passes. that's the statewide ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in k. >> 30% of our fatal accidents, the driver has some sort of an

impairment from either alcohol or drugs. >> reporter: oakland-based houndlabs may have the tool police need. >> we are a marijuana breathalyzer company. >> reporter: company invented a device that measures thc, the psychoactive ingreedient in cannabis that makes people high. determining whether someone is too stoned to drive is a huge challenge for law enforcement. >> i you can tell the burned marijuana inside of a characters they could have bloodshot watery eyes and droopy eyelids. >> reporter: if they suspect someone is stoned specially trained officers perform a more advanced field sobriety test. if the suspect is arrested a blood test will confirm just how much of a drug is in a suspect's system. the process is time-consuming. >> we've created a first marijuana breathalyzer first used on the roadside on actual impaired driver. >> reporter: the ceo and co-founder of hound labs and also an e.r. doctor and reserve

police officer. he says drivers can breathe into his device, and it will tell you just how much thc someone has smoked or eaten. >> it only picks up people who have smoked in the last two, maybe three hours, so can you smoke all day long, all week long and if you haven't smoked for a few hours it won't be in your breath anymore and you're probably not impaired at that point. >> reporter: police say such a device would help them tremendously. since colorado legalized marijuana in 20 testify the state has seen an increase in the number of people driving stoned. marijuana was a contributing factor in 59 traffic fatalities in colorado in 2015. every day without a device like this marijuana breathalyzer can prove to be fatal. ama daetz, nbc 7 news. >> after. >> jane king has today's wellness report. >> insulin can cause some

families more than a mortgage payment. this is even for people with insurance who also get a discount. now diabetes drugs according to the business insider have risen in price by 300% over the past decade. why the hike? a spokesperson for eli lilly who makes one of the drugs says the company spent billions on eight facilities that produce and package the drugs. attention deficit disorder is the most common medical diagnosis of children under 12 who die by suicide. the nationwide study found about a third of young people who took their own lives had a known mental problem, and it was most likely a.d.d., with or but the hyperactivity. general smiles trying to revive its yogurt sales. shoppers are switching to thicker greek-style yogurt. the plan could include yogurt poichz for older kids and

smoothies and after states passed law allowing medical marijuana drivers in those states become less likely to test positive for opiates after a car accident and states that had medical marijuana laws saw fewer car crashes in opiates and the biggest drop was in those aged 20 to 40. >> ayesha curry is in the spotlight again and appeared on "good morning america" to talk about how her love of cooking has turned her into one of the food network's newest culinary stars. ayesha also explained why she doesn't like to be called a basketball wife. >> i like to say i'm just a young woman who happened to marry somebody that ended up playing basketball, and for him i don't think he would identify himself as a basketball player. he's a young man of god placed in a great position doing what

he loves playing basketball. >> remarkable couple. >> on game day she makes steph some kind of soup or a pasta that is filled with carbs to get ready north game. if you hear your mates talking about plundering and pillaging, don't shiver your timbers, oh, i'm going to mess this up. it's international talk like a pirate day. >> shiver me timbers, mate. >> shiver me timbers. >> wow, they are all so good. >> not bad. >> reporter: parody holiday began more a couple decades ago and facebook and google are in on the action. you can change your log to a captain's log and you can scour for scallywags. >> that's fun stuff. up next, a suspected burglar caught on a home surveillance camera and why did local cops blow off the home owner when he called for help and coming up at

5:00. >> the half-cent sales tax for transportation projects that has some talking about dirty tricks in a local ballot measure. >> plus, bikes on b.a.r.t. if you think u-locks make your bikes safe, you may want to think again. >> and the state challenge the governor is comparing to noah's ark.

many people belong to the online neighborhood community group called next door. >> one san francisco resident even took footage of a crime in progress and post it had, but he complains that he was ignored by

police. >> here's abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez. >> reporter: a week ago peter caught a man trying to steal some tools from his san francisco garage. the man ran off but the man had the evidence. his surveillance camera showed the thief perfectly clear backing up to the driveway and later leaving for goods and then stops to look inside the man's car. he thought police would have him arrested in no time. >> i showed them the pictures, and i told them i had the copies and they were not interested in the video copies. they said just file the report. >> reporter: he made flyers with the man's face to distribute around the neighborhood and then uploaded them to the online neighborhood community group next door. dozens of people responded. for many it was an outlet. they knew someone who had been victimized by a criminal. >> my father-in-law was on his way to work at 5:30 in the morning at 30th and church and got held up at gunpoint.

>> reporter: when jeremy ambers found how the what happened to his father-in-law hi wrote an e-mail to the ingleside police department and this is the response he later received. >> no place in this world is completely safe. law enforcement can only do so much to ennorse rules and patrol areas. please exercise caution and be aware of your surroundings. >> we had need more man mother and need more people come join the police norse. we would love to have an increase in staffing. >> reporter: some neighbors on this thread blame proposition 47, the 2014 ballot initiative making pretty theft a misdemeanor. a report by the public policy institute of california recently found that prop 47 has led to a decline in the number of these types of arrests. >> basically if they get caught it's like a ticket, so they are shopping in our neighborhood essentially. >> reporter: police realize people are frustrated. they say with an increase in homelessness, drug addictions and mental health cases, there is only so much they can tackle. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news.

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