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you can definitely do it with an act of congress. but now they're saying i can do it with an executive order. >> president trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship for babies born to noncitizens and immigrants, good afternoon. i'm dan ashley. i'm jessica castro. >> over his assertion that he can end birthright citizenship. a claim he made on axios. >> we're the only country in the world where the person comes in, has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years with all of those benefits. it's ridiculous. >> it's guaranteed in about 30 countries according to -- all by fiji are in the western hemisphere. >> it's a constitutional right. the 14th amendment states babies born on u.s. soil are citizens

despite the immigration status of their parents. the president can end all of that with an congress and ratification by three fourths of the state. >> in a statement the aclu calls president trump's proposal a blatantly unconstitutional attempt to so division and fan the flames of anti-immigrant hatred in the days ahead of the midterms. so what do you think about this? should birthright citizenship remain in the u.s. or should it end? >> go to abc7news.com/vote to weigh in and see the results in real-time. coming up in just a few minutes, what the legal ramifications could be. >> a 3-year-old oakland boy in critical condition after being shot at his home last night. it happened in so brant park. his fa rushed him tomi the hospital. the shooting happened inside the home where there was a, quote,

unsecured firearm inside. she says the 3-year-old boy is hanging on to his life. a man has been taken into custody after he sat on van wav replica pellet handgun. sky 7 was over interstate the 66th avenue off ramp in oakland where it happened this morning. chp stopped traffic in both directions as they responded. the suspect was taken into custody without further incid t incident. it's the end of october. traditionally the end of fire season. not anymore. >> this droneview shows you tinder dry conditions. a red flag warning remains in effect. that's prompting state lawmakers to explore ways to protect californians. >> reporter wayne freedman joins us live from napa with the story. >> if there was a meeting today, over my shoulder, the fire started last year. it is warm and dry. the wind is blowing. inside a meeting today, it was hot as well.

>> in a meeting room almost overflowing with people, the emotions at times overshadowed them. >> my wife and i are refugees in the north bay. >> for fire victims like him, joint hearing by the state's senate and assembly insurance committees provided a rare opportunity to vent against insurance companies and to be heard. >> they underinsure on purpose. they do not want to pay out. i asked the question why do they want to insure. they don't want to pay out. >> in santa rosa, he trusted his insurance agent that he had enough coverage in case of a fire. now estimates he's a million dollars short. rex frazier spoke on behalf of the insurance industry. >> i think most people think the market value of their home is what they should insure to. really, you should insure how much would it take to rebuild their home. >> rebuilding and -- continue to mount more than a year after the fires. the committee heard how the state and insurance companies should prepare to deal with disasters so large that they now

create their own economic climates. >> it's on the assumption of losing one home. we lost 3,000. >> material cost is you and the volume of work waiting to be done. the committee heard that limiting policyholders to 18 months for rebuilding may not be enough >> many are feeling as though it's being used as leverage to get them to take a lowball settlement for contents and the home's reconstruction. >> some homeowners have sued, scott weiss among them against farmers. >> they can't do anything until they figure out what they have to work with. so we're all on hold. >> reporter: that is a familiar refrain. in santa row rosa, for example. 2/3 of people who lost homes were underinsured to an average of $300,000. in napa county, wayne freed man, abc 7 news. thanks, wayne.

officials in contra costa county are preparing for red flag conditions. the fire protection district is staffing extra firefighters, equipment and dispatchers through at least tomorrow morning. the additional resources were being strategically positioed in high fire danger areas. >> we have firefighting resources on the ground, central lilo indicated in the county to respond to a fire to keep it a small fire and not a disaster. >> the district says all the extra staffing will be reimbursed by the state's office of emergency services. what we really need, of course, in these tinder dry conditions is rain. >> let's check in with spencer christian. >> okay, jessica and dan. no rain in sight over the next seven days. perhaps longer. more sunny skies, dry, warm and windy. you can see how warm it is in the north bay where you saw wayne freedman. temperature readings between 75 and 80 degrees. atlas peak, at 22

hour. mt. diablo. the mountains getting gusty and gustier. the red flag warning is in effect until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we may see gusts in the north bay mountains and hills up to 55 miles per hour. around the community, it will be very low, between 9 and 19% under the conditions. fires can spread rapidly. going into the late night and overnight hours, we can see strong gusts in the early morning hours. maybe wind will taper off after 6:00 tomorrow morning. after that red flag warning expires. that's the way things look right now. dan? >> spencer, thanks very much. halloween is supposed to be fun. but a new study says it can be scary for research published in the journal of the american medical association shows a 43% higher risk of pedestrian death on halloween night compared to a typical fall evening. the study was based on four decades of u.s. traffic data,

weens.ing 608 pedestrian deaths kids aged 4 to 8 face the highest risk. there were 55 halloween deaths in this age range compared with just 11 on other days. new developments, google's driverless car spinoff is getting the green late. waymo is the first company approved to test cars with no backup driver. the dmv announced today that they had granted waymo a permit. the cars will be allowed only in certain parts of silicon valley, including mountain view and palo alto. it's unclear when they'll hit the road. waymo has been testing driverless cars in arizona since last year. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, marc benioff here at abc 7 news to talk to us about the measure on san francisco's ballot, proposition c. it would tax mpaesoom in the ci >> he's here in the studio with us. >> a terrifying ride for east

bay commuters. a man with a chainsaw roaming a train and this was not a halloween costume. you'll hear from the rider who caught him on camera. are ahose attendants in b.a.r.t. elevators working? what b.a.r.t. is saying today about it. first the new iphones, now apple heads to the

as part of our effort to build a better bay area, we're looking at the homeless problem in san francisco which is enormous. one is proposition c on the november 6th ballot next eus

marc benioff. a big proponent of prop c. he's her proposition. glad you're here. >> i'm thrilled to be here. thanks for having me. >> you're a fourth generation san franciscan. on both sides omy parachute into town with big business. you've been here and seen the problems firsthand. >> that's right. who hasn't seen the problems firsthand. everybody has a story. >> they do. more and more people have more stories about the homeless problems. people talk about it every single day now. >> they bring people out of -- >> what's the first thing they say to you? >> saying he won't come back. it's indtimidatinintimidating. >> we'll talk about the problem and then proposition c. >> it's gotten worse? >> the worst it's ever been. >> it's a different kind of homelessness. it's not just peoe on drugs an

offer the years? >> first of all, you have families. with kids. 12 homeless families with children and weur forests in sa francisco with a nine-year-old child without shoes. it's shocking in our city with incredible wealth that we have this disparity. it's a crisis of inequaty >> it is crisis of crisis that more and more money being spent on the problem keeps getting worse. we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars and it keeps getting worse. >> e're spending a lot of money on the homelessness problem and in relation to the problem, we aren't spending more money. you can look at that as an example like what i gave you, which is homeless families. we know after running programs in the city for seven years now, you can get a homeless family off the streets, so we've created a series of shelters in

the city for women-led families and through those shelters, we've moved hundreds of families off the streets. but it costs about 35 to $50,000 per homeless family to get them off the street or 30 to $40 million. that's why we raised that privately. that's called heading home and it's run by hamilton families in san francisco. that's a targeted program that's outside of the money that you're mentioning. that's really our example, our motivation that there's specific things you can do now to directly businesses in the city. about 400 businesses or so that make millions in revenue. >> big businesslike mine. i'm the biggest employer in san francisco. sales force. we have a new building called sales force tower. >> we've all seen that building. >> you've all seen it, right? big business pays consumers don't pay. the top companies in the city who have created hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization, our company is

loan is worth $100 billion. you look at the wealth created on the backs of san francisco, they haven't given a lot of money. haven't given money to public schools or hospitals or homeless. this is going to be new for them. proposition c means the people who made the most money in san francisco are going to pay the most. >> you say made the money on the back of san francisco. they've contributed in terms of employment, job creation, taxes paid. it's not entirely on the back of san francisco. >> that's one way to look at it. another way to look at it, san francisco is an amazing city. not just phenomenal natural resourc resources, beautiful vistas, but the best people, incredible people and human resources. that's why the tech companies are coming. they're not coming here for health and well-being. they're coming here to get our people. they've taken those people and created hundreds of balances of dollars. so now, they have the opportunity to give back at scale and that's why i kind of

think prop c, the c stands for charity. it means that they're going to have to pay one half of 1%. it's immaterial to my company. it's $11 million a year. it's immaterial to our finances and their finances as well. >> for most companies making over $50 million, that's not a lot of money for them? >> absolutely. this is a very small amount of money. by the way, this is the money we need if we're going o get those homeless off the streets. there is no other plan. those big businesses will pay. but consumers will not pay. >> let's talk about where the there's not a deaf nifinite pla where the money is spent? >> oh, yes there is. there will be shelters built. there will be rent assistance for people about to become homeless and there's a sophisticated plan to go with prop c. >> who will administer all that the city? >> the mayor approves and has accountability of every spend.

the mayor is approving every spend associated with prop c. yes, it's a big amount of money created by companies like mine. but it's going to get spent on the people in the city who need it the most. we know who they are. >> does the mayor support your plan? >> well, nancy pelosi supports our plan. dianne feinstein supports our plan. not every politician. >> come on. that's no, st fair. the most tenured politicians in the state. sales force is not the only big business to support prop c. cisco systems, cisco and sales force represent a trillion dollars in market -- we strongly believe as the largest employers in the bay area, we need to get prop c done. we see it with our employees. i was talking to our employees today and they have trouble navigate to go the b.a.r.t. station. i'm sure you know the story.

>> absolutely. >> we go to the warriors game and come back on b.a.r.t., we're navigating this homeless crisis. it's like this. it's a crisis of homelessness. it's a crisis of cleanliness. you've seen the national stories. >> sure. >> about our city. it's embarrassing. is this turning into a crisis of inaction or indifference? in our city that's unprecedented. we're a city of compassion built on st. francis said in giving that we receive, that's why we're prop c. >> let me play devil's advocate with you on this, marc. as you've acknowledged the homeless problem is worse than it's ever been. different than you've seen it. you've been here a long time. i've been here a quarter century. yet, we're spending more money than we ever had. what is to say is throwing more money at this problem will do anything to solve it? >> we've seen a couple of great pieces of evidence and the case for optimism. number one, i told you about heading home where we're getting

every homeless child off the streets. you know about home ward bound. did you know the city has gone to 10,000 homeless individuals over a decade and said, do you want to go home? be reconnected with your family? did you know that 10,000 people said yes? >> i do. >> do you know what percentage stayed home with their families once they -- >> 90%. >> isn't that amazing. that's another example. >> other examples of programs where we've seen tremendous effectiveness. it's the power of our ngos. we have amazing ngos, like hamilton families, larkin street, clyde. we know the organizations. catholic charities. they need more money to scale. if you can do that, like you can see hamilton families has gone, has 15 people worki with the homeless. we can have a dramatic impact. that's why i'm supporting proposition c. >> before we wrap up here, marc, you organized an op-ed piece in

the times about what you believe the role of business to be beyond just business. there are a lot of people who are your counterparts in this city who oppose prop c who think, look, we're doing our part. creating jobs. it's not fair to tax us specifically. you believe business should have a bigger role than just making money. >> i certainly do. i'll tell you, that's an idea that i learned here in san francisco. i learned it from the founders of wells fargo. i learned it from the founders of levi strauss, the founders of the gap. all who are friends of mine at some point where i learned from them and they said the business of business is not just business. the business of business is improving the state of city in san francisco. you can see that in the history of our city and the huge contributions that those businesses made to our city. you could ask yourself a question, do you only manage for your shareholders or are you managing for your stakeholders. when i say stakeholders, i mean your customers, partners and yeah the homeless are also a stakeholder. you want to know why? because when our employees are

out on the streets and coming to work, that's part of our community. are we separate from our city? am i separate from san francisco? you and i know we're deeply connected, we're all one as part of this city. >> we certainly face it and deal with it and see it every day. >> absolutely. that's why prop c is so important and why i'm supporting it. >> you're a great advocate for prop c. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. >> i should point out we've reached out to the people opposing proposition c and have them in on in the next few days to get their perspective. >> terrific. >>e tjeo come onch. abc news atnood today. abc news atnood today. later this hour, we'll take you california's public schools rank 44th in the nation. 44th. i'm marshall tuck, i'm a public-school parent, and i know we can do better. in the public schools i led,

we got more funding into our classrooms, supported our teachers, and we raised graduation rates by 60%. that's why president obama's education secretary endorses me. we've done it before. now, let's do it for every public-school student in california. i'm marshall tuck. i'm running for state superintendent.

san francisco man pulled out

two chainsaws on a b.a.r.t. train and was arrested yesterday afternoon for making criminal threats. >> the rider who shot a video of the man on her cell phone shared that video with abc 7 news. patrick allen bingeman is in custody. leslie brinkley is live at the b.a.r.t. station. leslie, that's terrifying. >> reporter: yeah, dan, it is. this is the where the man was arrested about this time yesterday afternoon. what stunned a lot of the riders that i spoke to it how he walked into this b.a.r.t. station, not with the chainsaws concealed in a bag but out in the open swinging them around in full view. homeromhe richmee an armed the open by the door. >> that's when he starts joking with everybody, it's halloween.

it's halloween. and then he says the whole texas chainsaw massacre, b.a.r.t. massacre. he said that joke. i could see people, like, concerned and scared at this point. i'm like let me record this. >> she tweeted b.a.r.t. for help. she says they replied right away. >> the thing to do is snap a picture and send it to dispatch via b.a.r.t. watch app. >> blue ford watched him in horror for more than 15 minutes clicking the red saw. then on unboxing a new battery powered chainsaw and trying to start it. as he exited at the lake merit station, he was arrested. >> he was looking surprised like he doesn't know why he's being arrested. you could see the relief. everybody is like, okay, we made it. >> b.a.r.t. police released a statement saying they arrested the man. 47 years old from san francisco. for making criminal threats and for other outstanding warrants. riders today reacted.

>> on the b.a.r.t. every day. don't a chainsaw. >> b.a.r.t. police are here ney everyone i talked to is how with all the cameras and security, a man holding two chainsaws made it through the fare gates on to the platform and on to a train undetected? i'm leslie brinkley. abc 7 news. that is just unbelievable. leslie, thanks very much. one more note about b.a.r.t. b.a.r.t. says the elevator attendant pilot program at two stations is a success. b.a.r.t. began the pilot at the civic center last april in an effort to stop people from using drugs and urinating in the elevators. the agency says the stations and the elevators are now cleaner, maybe you've noticed this. the program is slated to run until november of next year. we are learning more today about the man who sent bombs in the mail to top democrats.

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the order would change the 14th amendment of the constitution, which states all persons born or naturalized in the u.s. are american citizens. the first of 11 funerals have taken place to bury the victims of this weekend's synagogue shooting in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. president trump and the first lady have arrived a short time ago to comfort the community. abc news reporter maggie rulli is there with the latest. maggie? >> reporter: jessica, only a few hours ago that president trump and his family were in the synagogue behind me. it was a completely different scene, a very tense scene with not only the entire area filled with secret service and police and protesters, many of the neighbors came out chanting things against president trump. but for the neighborhood here, what they really wanted the focus to be about, not this political show, they wanted to remain their focus on the grief and the victims. pnt andirst la visiting pittsburgh as the first

of many funerals begin. >> i can't make any sense of it at all. >> today, brother cecil and david rosenthal were laid to rest, both with special needs. >> this community will really mourn their loss because they were such special people. >> their sister used to work for the pittsburgh steelers. in a show of city strength, quarterback ben roethlisberger and other team members came to pay respects. also, buried today, jerry ray bin wits. >> his kindness, loving, goodness. his generosity. a spirit. i mean, he was all of that. a city still in shock. the president and first lady say they are here to grieve with the pittsburgh community. in the synagogue, witnessing the site of the hate-filled massacre firsthand. welcomed by some in pittsburgh, others protested the president'. let the families grieve. this is our neighborhood. you are not welcome here.

>> congressional leaders from both parties also declined to join the president in pittsburgh. in an open letter, leaders of a progressive jewish organization, says the president is not welcome until he condemns a national -- the president has condemned the attacks. >> behind me the streets opened back up. a large crowd gathered once again in front of the synagogue. there's a makeshift memorial over there with 11 stars of david. people paying their respects. they say they're still in shock and numb. but the grieve grief started to settle in. maggie rulli, abc 7 news. jessica. >> maggie, thank you. there will be an interfaith vigil tonight at 5:00 outside san jose city hall. the organization set up a donation fund for the victims in pittsburgh. the federation says they've been wrking with south bay police agency to increase patrols of their events.

we are honoring this on the abc 7 news facebook page. that is where you can share this badge listing all 11 of the lives lost during saturday's attack. >> new details about the man accused of mailing explosives to prominent elected officials and news organizations. fbi investigators found that cesar sayoc performed an internet search using the term uc berkeley library. berkeley police say there's no reason to believe any explosives have been sent to the school. uc has had explosive dogs checking the mail since last week. they're making extra checks of the library to be extra safe. now to more about president trump aes plan to sign an executive order to end birthright citizenship. >> legal experts say this will set off a constitutional standoff. >> david louie has the story. >> the president's proposal to

upend the 14th amendment of the constitution isetha getting shae of services immigrants rise and education network in san jose. >> this is nothing short of a political move that trump is trying to do to basically -- >> she believes the strategy will backfire and prompt immigrant voters to professor is an expert on constitutional and immigration law. he expects any order to get challenged and struck down. >> there's no doubt when this gets in front of a federal trial court, it will immediately be declared unconstitutional. it will go to a federal appeals court and they will quickly as find this unconstitutional. >> the wildcard is what the supreme court might do with its conservative majority after justices neil gorsuch and brett

kavanaugh were confirmed. the state's republican and john cox? >> i think the president is trying to force a debate. it should be decided by the people. not the executive order. >> gavin newsom. >> we have a president that is sending 5,000 troops to the border with a caravan that's 1,000 miles away, moving 20 miles each day. you do the math. >> now, an interesting bay area connection to the birthright issue. the concept was the subject or focus of a landmark supreme court decision 120 years ago involving a young chinese person from san francisco. the supreme court decided that he was indeed a u.s. citizen because he was born in san francisco even though his parents were none-citizens because of restrictive laws tat. >> so this is a person, a chinese man born in san francisco and he -- his parents

at that time were -- they were immigrants to the united states underneath treaties that the united states had with china. his parents were unable to naturalize as citizens of the united states because at that time there was explicit racial bars on who could naturalize as citizens. and his claim was that despite whatever problems my parents might have or restrictions, i was born in the united states and the 14th amendment protects my citizenship as a birthright citizen. that case came before the supreme court. the united states opposed him claiming citizenship. and the court was very clear. the 14th amendment's rule is a simple one. it means that anybody born on the territory of the united states, regardless of what their parents' status is, regardless of any other concerns you might have, they are citizens of the united states. that is the rule of the 14th amendment. that is the interpretation that the supreme court has

consistently stood by for 120 >> reporter: he reminded that a decision has withstood the test of time. while it involved a kchinese, it's shifted to latinos. david louie, abc 7 news. david, thanks so much. let's take a look at our poll results on abc7news.com/vote. the question, should the u.s. keep birthright citizenship? >> we really want to hear from you. about 2/3, 64% say keep it. the rest say abolish it. we'd love to hear from you on this question. apple unveils newest products in a pretty appropriate location ith>> why t?came to th. it's about rubber duck is and project owl. i'm michael finney. money up for grabs. how do you get your we a pencd

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ibm held its first-ever call for code ceremony last night in san francisco. the winner took home a big prize. you're going to hear about that. joining me today, willie at that

hat a, ibm general manager and chief developer advocate and nick foyer, the call for code winning developer. guys, thanks for being here. great to have you. >> thanks for having us. >> willie, tell us about this call for codey vent. >> when you think about the news and when we talk about technology in the valley, it's often around profits and business problems. call for code was a global initiative, one of the largest, if not the largest. we called upon the 22 million world developers and instead of applying the developer powers towards business problems, how can they deal with the most pressing societal issues. we partnered with the u.n., the red cross and nea venture to create this competition for what they would do building solutions to reduce human suffering related to natural disasters. >> that's fantastic. this is worldwide, the call. what kind of -- give me an idea

of what kind of -- not the solutions but what form they take. they outline a proava natur disaster dyou ndin thow d u water or first aid out. we had them work with technologists to tell the folks, figure out how best to design solutions for the first responders. >> excellent. i might come up with good ideas but never win this contest if coding is required. nick is the winner of call for the code. your project was called project owl, nick. tell me what it is and what inspired you to come up with it? >> so we were inspired by the situation in puerto rico after hurricane maria. on the news, we're hearing we don't know what's going on in puerto rico, everything is

completely dark. family members don't know if their loved ones are okay. when we heard about the call for code, we thought that we could come up with a solution. this is an opportu a solution t bring back communications and make the relief process be a lot more effective. >> what was your solution, nick, in a nutshell? >> in a nutshell, project owl is incident management system paired with our cluster duck network. what the network does, mesh network, we can deploy, to allow civilians to communicate with first responders when everything is down, electricity or cell connectivity. >> let me interject. it allows ordinary people to interact with first responders on their networks that are up and running? >> no. this is our own network. >> the network that you created? >> the network that we created by deploying duck links where we

drop these down and allow civilians to connect with their phone or laptop using a wi-fi connection and be able to send messages out to first responders, i need food, i need water, we need medical supplies, can you tell my family that i'm okay. >> all right. nick, what did you win for coming up with this great idea? what was the prize? >> the prize was $200,000. >> wow. >> but also along with that, we are getting the support from ibm and linux foundation to continue this project forward and actually bring it to life. >> excellent. congratulations, nick. before we go, quickly, how is it important to engage people in the tech world in this way? >> number one, how can we use the technology and ai and if it saves one life, it's worth doing. ibm is behind this project. $30 million. essentially, 300 hacks, 50

cities, 156 countries submitted. nick and project owl ended up winning. >> harnessing a lot of brains. the ibm general manager and nick, congratulations. great idea. guys, we ap

we'll start with live doppler 7. across the bay area, high cloudiness. we have this red flag warning for high fire danger for the higher elevations until 6:00 tomorrow morning. we could see gusts in the higher elevations up to 55 miles per hour overnight. bear that in mind. it's going to be windy overnight with clear skies. low temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 40s inland. low 50s around the bay shoreline. of course, tomorrow is halloween. here's the halloween day planner. clear skies throughout the day. we got quite warm in the inland areas in the afternoon. might be a good idea for young kids who are trick-or-treating to take advantage of the daylight. later in the evening. clear skies for the larger trick-or-treaters. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. it will be warm, warmer than average by far into the weekend. we fall back to standard time

this weekend and there's still no rain in sight. still lookin unbelievable. >> nice weather. well, apple announced changes to the ipads and mac models a at an event in brooklyn today. the new ipads won't have a home button -- will not have a home button. the ipad pro will use facial recognition like the iphone xs. ceo tim cook also showed off a completely redesigned mac book air as well as an update to mac os mohave. >> great care has been taken to refine the look and feel and add more capability, about preserving its legendary ease of auto use. >> thefeature. something disliked when it was introduced. they unveiled a mac mini as well. >> you could be in for a cut of

billions of dollars in unclaimed property. there's a new push to make sure you get it. >> michael finney is here with that. michael? >> how about trick-or-treating from -- >> that's the idea here. we talked about this. betty yee has more than 48 million fun-sized, full-sized and king-sized unclaimed property worth more than $9 billion. the loot includes 1500 properties together valued at about $1.5 billion. all that money is just waiting for you to check. so i've posted a link on our website ataster than ev before. of this year's holiday shopping season. starting on thursday, walmart says skip the checkout entirely in some of the busiest sections of its stores. have employees standing there in the aisles to take credit card payments and send choppers on the way. walmart says in the next couple

of weeks, the app will be able to guide shoppers right to specific items in its stores showing you where it is on shelf. candy corn, almond joy, tootsie roll, no matter what candy you get you don't like, reese's has come up with a clever way to help you change it. you can trade it in for peanut buttercups. i love this idea. starting wednesday afternoon in new york city, a reese's candy converter is going to be set up on fifth avenue. the machine will take your unwanted candy and swap it for reese's peanut buttercups much that's worth a trip back east for me. >> are the different candies different exchanges? >> i'll check in tomorrow. come back with that. >> sure. >> good question. >> just checking. it appears americans are all in on halloween again. the spending to reach $9 billion. about the same as the record

amount sold last year. the federation's annual survey shows $2.7 billion goes towards decorations. $2.6 billion on candy and more than $3 billion on costumes. the top ranked costumes for children were a princess and a superhero. the classics. >> those are classics. stay with us. inside a bar rumored to be one of the most hawned places in america. -- haunted places in america. scary thing just happened. >> i've heard this place is haunted. >> the sights and sounds that make the place so scary. dion is here with what's coming up. >> privacy concerns about a newly approved plant in san jose. new at 5:00, the $6.3 million system that will scan license plates in city-owned parking lots. following up on a story we brought you a couple weeks ago. 84 drug arrests in seven days. most of the suspects are now out of jail. those stories a

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abc has a new brand called localish sharing things you may not know about. we take you inside the most haunted bar. >> everybody knows it's haunted. >> some scary things have happened. >> people want to know about the ghost. >> yes, it's haunted. >> i'm carolyn wing letter and i'm the owner of la carafe.

i've heard this place is haunted. very old bar has a lot of history with it. >> it has a lot of history behind it. >> when you come to la carafe, you're never alone. there's always presences around. >> a lot of people told me stories and even some people see ghosts right here in the room when i'm here. about a year ago, a guy was downstairs and he says what did the lady die of? i said who are we talking about? he said the woman upstairs. i said how do you know there's a woman upstairs? because she keeps coming down the stairs and stops at the landing staring at me. >> one time a guy went to the men's room. got a tap on the shoulder. and he turned around to look. there's nobody there. so he took off. he left the building. quickly. so i kind of heard everything happens on the second floor.

>> what i've heard about the second floor, ghosts may not bee as friendly down here as -- >> when they left they told me five. mostly we hear there's two. a man and a woman. then the woman is alleged to have pushed other women down the stairs. >> i've heard people shoved down the stairs as a woman singing. >> a little boy bouncing a ball around on the floor. running after the ball and what have you. >> definitely, i believe in ghosts. it's dark and spooky. just i don't feel like we have places like this in houston. it's very unique. >> an old girlfriend of mine says there's a guy in front of the mirror over there. he says he's always there. dead serious, yeah. >> everything happens here. >> it was built in 1837. rebuilt in 1860 after a fire in 1859. >> originally was a bakery primarily. also a stagecoach stop, trading

post, general store. >> it became a bar in the mid-50s. >> a bartender said he saw a deceased bartender sitting at the table by the window. carl. exactly. we're in guidebooks. >> people like to do seances here. tarot card readings. >> we're old school. we only take cash. the old cash register still working. still hand cranking it. >> back in time. pictures on the wall. it feels like everyone is staring at you from behind. looks like there's always someone looking at you. >> i heard it was haunted. so i was excited about the tour here. >> got real charm and character that really is its very own. >> you've got all your friends and then some other ones. >> and you can check out abc's new brand at local-ish.com.

thanks for joining us for the news at 4:00. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. tremendous sadness. tremendous loss. >> tough day at a marin county school after a beloved second grate teacher is killed while riding her bike. a man pulled out two chainsaws on b.a.r.t. new details about h a video was posted. driverless cars could be on a street near you. who is getting the first permit tore testing on public roads? >> live where you live. it's definitely a shock. it's hard. it's hard for our community. >> the school in mourning. teache teachers, students and parents at dixie school are coping with the death of a second grade teacher. she was killed while riding her bike. >> she was hit by a car last night. the driver is under arrest for

dui. >> today, students were told about her death. abc 7 news reporter leeian melendez is live for us at the school and how the community is handling this. >> reporter: pretty much every parent in this area knew he the dixie community is very small. there was no hiding the news of the tragic death of one of the school's favorite teachers. debra dibenedetto. >> allison morris shared this picture of her son and the 63-year-old teacher. >> she loved nature and hiking and she loved doing restoration with the kids and gardening. so it's a very sad day for everybody. >> reporter: investigators say she was riding her bicycle on sir