coogan says one of her first projects was in bethlehem. >> we had three faiths working together there and also an israeli, a miner and a palestinian. and together they detonated those anti tank mines,

anti-personnel land mines where eight children had died. >> roots of peace will receive a $250,000 award from the world food prize. an airbnb host says it will take thousands of dollars to repair damage after guest's accidental accidentally flooded the bathroom and then just checked out the clock is ticking for her to get help. >> and on top of all of it all, the owner is pregnant and due any day now. abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn is in the newsroom with this story. suzanne so, karina, julian, the airbnb host, says this has been a nightmare. a toilet clogged by baby wipes led to sewer water overflowing, damaging the airbnb unit and the unit downstairs where the host lived. now, for the past six months, the host and her family have had to find somewhere else to live. no repairs have been made and the damages and the costs have not been resolved. >> so this is the toilet that caused the damage. you can still

see the baby wipe. >> it's hard to believe that a clogged and broken toilet could have caused so much damage. >> it was the toilet that had been broken and running over for 15 plus hours. >> erica gimsa and her husband, who are expecting their first child any day now, were forced to move out of their home in the mission district six months ago. their house is still unfixed. >> there was no kitchen, no bathrooms that could be usable. >> gemser is an airbnb host, a march 15th for guests signed on to stay at her upstairs unit in the mission district for a month. >> they had actually left the evening of april 13th, presumably right before or right after this clog started. >> gemser lived in the unit directly downstairs. she didn't see any red flags until it was too late. >> water coming from every crevice, opening, every light fixture. >> gensler immediately called airbnb, who then told her to get a full estimate and receipts for the repairs to her home. she says the extent of the damage made it impact possible. to get a quick assessment.

>> i tried to explain this to airbnb like this is not a this is not a broken door. this isn't furniture. >> gemser says it took weeks for airbnb's investigative plumber to arrive and determine the cause of the clogged toilet. >> three of those things happening. it's the feces. it's the baby wipes that they probably use. the entire 30 days that they were there. and the trying to relieve the clog by messing with the tank. >> gemser estimates that the damages and the losses add up to about $300,000. she says she's disappointed by airbnb's coverage policy for hosts. >> they advertise it as the $3 million host protection guarantee. so the idea is, as a host, we've got you covered top to bottom with $3 million of coverage. so don't worry. we got you. turns out 90% of that is not covered. so they've given me an offer of around $31,000. >> gemser believes she was fully covered between airbnb host coverage and her own homeowner's insurance. >> turns out that's not the

case. so for people who are thinking about being hosts, look into all the different insurance you can buy, buy all of it, buy all of it. >> we reached out to airbnb and are still waiting to hear back. in the meantime, gemser says she is not accepting that $31,000 offer by airbnb. she says homeowners insurance has been a big help, but it doesn't cover everything like the loss of income. the family will be out of their unit for a year. they can't have tenants and they can't have rental income, live in the newsroom, suzanne phon, abc seven news. >> okay. thank you so much, suzanne. a tentative agreement today between teachers at the san francisco unified school district will avert a possible strike. the two sides have been negotiating since march. abc7 news reporter luis pena has a closer look at the deal after more than 12 hours, san francisco teachers and the school district reached. >> we have a deal. >> a tentative deal. but to get here, both sides began bargaining sessions at 5 p.m. thursday that extended all the

way into friday morning. geoffrey finger, a math teacher at balboa high school, was part of the bargaining committee when we met him. he had only gotten 30 minutes of sleep. >> we're proud of what we were able to accomplish with this tentative agreement. we're hoping that the union rallies around it. >> among the proposal was an economic package that includes a $9,000 salary increase for teachers in the 2023 to 2024 school year. teachers will also receive an additional 5% raise for the 2024, 2025 school year, which will be in full effect by january of 2025. initially the united educators of san francisco were asking for more. >> we came in initially asking for $12,000 for the first year and 8. and again, that those might sound like large numbers, but those numbers are very much in par with, frankly, what has been 20% inflation over the last three years. >> the tentative agreement includes worker protections and higher compensation for paramedics, doctors.

>> they have been paid historic low amounts in some in many cases, amounts that that would frankly lead them to go to other other jobs. this raised the floor from $18 an hour for them all the way up to $30 an hour. now, what's next? >> well, there will be several town halls where teachers will get to ask questions. and in about two weeks or so, teachers will be asked to vote. >> after that, the board will actually take action and vote on the final agreement. >> this agreement was vital to prevent the possibility of san francisco's first teacher strike since 1979. >> the big joy for me is that we were able to avoid a strike and we were able to kind of find a middle ground that really prioritized student learning and student outcomes, as well as what our educators need. >> according to the sfusd board president, this agreement will also likely help a proposed $1 billion school bond. it just allows for our whole school community to come together and be focused on what it will take

to make sure we're able to successfully get the funds to improve our schools in san francisco, luis pena, abc seven news. a hayward family left in shock after their five year old son with special needs wandered off his school campus. >> it's unbelievable. is this really happening? >> the boy was found in the street by a driver. three blocks from his school. abc seven news i-team reporter melanie woodrow has the story. you'll see only on abc7 news. >> do spider-man. spider-man show her captain america. how about hulk? >> hulk? >> five year old jojo loves superheroes monday. the kindergartner had an adventure of his own after he wandered from del rey elementary school in san lorenzo during recess. after asking to go to the restroom, person on the line told me they were from the school and that jojo was missing . >> i said, what do you mean missing? we can't find him. and she asked me, does he like to

hide? i go, did you call the police? she said, no, not yet. >> jojo's dad rushed to the school and he called me and said, yeah, they found him. >> he was on bachmann, and a citizen had stopped and called the sheriff's department and waited with him. >> that citizen was angie williams, who was driving with her six year old daughter, faith, when she spotted jojo. >> so i turned this corner and i see him run right here and he's still running, but i'm waiting to see if there was a parent. no one came. so i turned around in the middle of the street attempting to block jojo. >> the thing is, the school is on this side, so he had already crossed the street, so he's ran all the way down here, ran through the stop sign and was going towards the stoplight. he was all the way down the end of bachmann, all the way down there . and he's running the whole time. ran the whole time? >> yeah, approximately a third of a mile. >> i was like, someone's going to hit him and nobody's stopping. once she and another driver stopped, they called 911. when alameda county sheriff's deputies arrived and she posted this picture to the what's happening? san lorenzo, facebook group. >> this this little boy look

familiar to you? >> the alameda county sheriff's office tells the i-team the little boy walked away from the school just before 10 a.m. around 10:15 a.m. del rey elementary school called them to report he was missing. a spokesperson for the school district tells abc7 news the district is investing, waiting what occurred and that student safety is always its highest priority. but jojo's mom tina questions why staff allowed her son, who is nonverbal, out of their sight. >> i'm just pretty shocked because he's only five and he has special needs. i wouldn't imagine they would let him go on his own to the bathroom. the district spokesperson tells the i-team. >> jojo's class includes a teacher and two other adults for nine students. also that an adult supervises individual students as they enter and exit the restroom. >> the principal called me at the end of the day saying proper bathroom protocol was not followed. so they let him go and they kept a long eye on him, is what they how they put it. they kept a long eye on him. >> the school has not said how jojo got out. >> i mean, it could have been so much worse. he could have been hit by a car. someone could have

taken him. >> i know that they should be doing a lot more of keeping the kids safe while they're here. >> and it begs the question to me, if they can get out, can people get in? i mean, they're supposed to be locked down and how safe are the schools according to the district spokesperson, school doors can be open from the inside in accordance with building and fire codes, but they are locked to entry from the outside. >> the school has an intercom system to monitor the front door area and allow approved visitors to enter. >> did you go in the street? huh did you get to ride in a police car? go >> tina isn't sure how much her son understood about what happened. she's mostly relieved he's okay. >> thank you, angie, for being a kind person, being a kind citizen and stopping and doing the right thing. i would do it for anybody's kid after jojo was found, tina says the school did not contact her. >> she reached out to them the least i could expected was, i'm so sorry that happened. >> and is he okay? >> she took jojo out of his class and is figuring out what's next. >> frankly, i don't even know if i want him in this district. i'm contemplating that now. what do i want to do? the school

district turned down our request for an on camera interview in the newsroom for the i-team. >> melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> a good outcome for jojo there to get in touch with melanie or any of our abc seven news i-team. you can call the number on your screen eight, eight, 840 i-team or just go to abc7, news.com slash i-team protecting postal workers. the big reward to catch thieves targeting your mail. the trouble with plastic those heavy duty bags that aren't just filled with groceries, they're filled with empty promises and halloween hotspots from. food to scents to a house that's more than just haunted. i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. noticeably cooler today. >> and next up is showers. i'll let you know exactly when they'll arrive this weekend. coming up when abc7 news at ...thanks to dupixent. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma.

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26th street and san jose avenue. another robbery happened yesterday at 23rd and hampshire streets. abc seven news reporter lena howland has details about the new reward and. the screams of a mail carrier after being attacked in the mission district. >> it happened around 330 in the

afternoon on tuesday. while you can't see the attack, you can see a gray colored car speeding away from the scene, which investigators believe had the suspects inside. it's a menace to letter carriers across the bay area right now. >> and think you can hear in that video how how upsetting this is for a person just just trying to do their job which is already mentally and physically demanding. >> but it doesn't end there. us postal inspectors shared these photos with us of what they believe to be the suspect's getaway car in another mail carrier attack like this one happened two days later, around the same time, just six minutes away from the first attack. but this time the worker was robbed of their mail keys. the key itself is the object of the robbery. >> in almost every one of these instances is whether it's here in the bay area or across the country. there's only one reason to have that key, and it's to commit another crime. >> matthew norfleet, a us postal inspector, says illegally possessing one of these mail keys is a federal crime. just last week, the us attorney's office indicted ten people from

the bay area for crimes related to possessing these keys. some of those suspects are now facing decades in prison, but also they're being assaulted. >> they're having weapons pointed at them. they're being hit and shoved and beaten to get something really that's not even theirs. >> postal inspection says they are trying to catch more offenders to help with that. they are raising the reward for reporting mail crimes from. 50,000 to $150,000. >> letter carriers don't wake up in the morning wondering if someone's going to stick a gun in their face. so they are being hunted. and these criminals need to be held accountable. >> folks are being asked to pick up their mail as soon as possible. and don't leave it in your mailbox overnight because that's when they say the thefts are more likely to happen. another option, you can also have your mail held at the post office in san francisco. lena howland, abc seven news. >> we have good news to share about a taco truck that was stolen in oakland this weekend.

police found the taco truck last night in east oakland. owner enya sandoval shared this video of her peeking inside the truck with our reporter j.r. stone, who first covered the story. sandoval credits and abc7 news viewer with recovering the truck. all right, shout out to the abc7 news viewers that helped out there. >> well, work is underway to repair a small mural that was vandalized in san francisco. mission district volunteers peeled paint off this utility box that was used to cover up a colorful depiction of drag icon juanita moore. the artist who did the original painting recorded video of a man painting over the mural. the artist is now preparing to repaint the mural on that utility box on 22nd and valencia streets. >> i think the represents of a drag queen is really important because of what it does. it challenges gender roles and like all these other like normal normative behaviors in society. pienta moore herself was even there to help out moore

organizers, one of the most well known pride parties every year in the bay area and was recently featured on a show by the san francisco arts commission in love. >> seeing the community coming out to help their friend. >> it's great, right? okay, you know what else is great? the heat is gone. we finally have some cooler weather. >> it's feeling like fall finally. but with that, we're also talking about the chance of rain. we check in now with abc7 meteorologist sandhya patel. hey, sandhya. >> hi there. yeah. can you believe it? we're going to be seeing some wet weather this weekend but definitely is feeling like fall without a doubt. and julian and karina, let's take a look at the temperature change. 25 degrees cooler there in napa down 20in oakland 713 degrees cooler from san jose to san francisco, down 24. santa rosa, 50 seen in livermore. yeah, the marine layer has rapidly deepened and we have certainly seen a big change in our pattern. still some fog lingering along the coast in parts of the bay. we also have the higher clouds filtering the sunshine. we do

have a system that's out here and it is just going to reinforce the cooling and then eventually on sunday, we're going to see some showers. so here's a live view from our san rafael camera. there's a nice breeze blowing right now. 65 in the city, 67 in oakland. big difference in san jose, 74 degrees after the 90s of yesterday. palo alto, 69 degrees. and here's a live view from our oakland airport camera where we are seeing a mix of the sun and the clouds as we look back towards the city. low 70s santa rosa, petaluma, 69 and napa right now, our warmest spot is fairfield at 80 degrees. 76 in concord and 77 in livermore. a lovely view from our santa cruz camera, but if you'll notice, the ocean is still pretty active. so definitely be careful out there. cooling trend this weekend. showers arrive on sunday and it is going to be a dry and warmer start early next week. beach hazards statement up until 2 a.m. tomorrow, even though the wave heights are slowly coming down, there's still an increased risk of rip currents. so if you're at the

beach today, just be careful. temperatures first thing tomorrow morning in the 50s, we're going to see a combination of fog and higher clouds. we'll call it mostly cloudy tomorrow afternoon. you're looking at mid 60s to mid 70s. it's a breezy one with the cloud cover increasing. then sunday, a light level one system comes in with scattered showers, slippery roadways, breezy conditions, and there's a slight possibility of an isolated thunderstorm timing this all out for you. very scattered in nature. 8 a.m. sunday, you will notice at 4:00 pm some light to moderate showers moving through 6 p.m. they continue. and late sunday night, still a few more showers trailing through here when all is said and done, rainfall estimates will range from a couple hundredths of an inch in the southern part of our viewing area to about a third of an inch there in napa. could see some isolated higher totals. accuweather seven day forecast will feature a dry saturday, a level one on sunday with the wet weather. but notice those temperatures only in the low to mid 70s in our warmest spots low to mid 60s coast side and then a

warmer day on monday, tuesday is still going to be pretty mild and then we'll cool it off for you below average as we head towards the middle and latter part of the week. >> okay. thank you so much, cynthia. we'll get ready for another road closure in the south bay tonight. the southbound lanes of highway 87 between 280 and 85 in san jose will be closed starting tonight at nine and through the out the weekend. caltrans will be making pavement repairs. you can expect the road to reopen monday at 5 a.m. a bay area halloween superstar and the halloween house. that's about much more than just great decorations and turf wars. >> the fight over artificial turf now in the hands of local government hi, my name is damion clark. if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plans available in your area, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible

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her cookie talents earned her a spot in the food network's halloween cookie challenge. abc seven news south bay reporter lauren martinez sat down with her for a sneak peek. >> so for halloween, i'll do a 3d printed cookie cutter. this is just a black cat. >> cristina ledesma has a talent for decorating cookies. the fremont baker posts her creations under the name the retro cookie lady on instagram. >> i like to channel my inner child by creating edible pieces of cartoon because it just makes me happy. >> on monday, ledesma will be competing against the nation's top cookie makers in food

network's halloween cookie challenge. >> i just took it all in and just everything about it was so exciting. >> ledesma can't share details of the episode they filmed in the spring. it was back in march when a food network casting producer discovered her edible artistry through her instagram page. >> it was a three step interview and during that third interview, i actually had to do a time demonstration for them. >> ledesma thought she bombed one of the final interview questions when they asked her what do you love about halloween? she immediately thought of her mom. she was a single mom. >> and so for every halloween, she would always come to our schools to dress up, dress us up in costumes and take us trick or treating. so as an adult, i could see now that she has sacrificed so much to be there for us at that time. >> ledesma bakes as a hobby. she's a mom of five and is currently a student at san jose state, majoring in psychology. she as a young mom, ledesma focused on her children and work now she's focusing on her

education and the creative outlet that allows her to balance it all. >> no matter where you come from, no matter how difficult your life is, you could still go after your dreams that everybody goes through challenges in their life. but my takeaway from this is that our past doesn't define who we are. >> in fremont, lauren martinez, abc seven news. >> a lot of talent there. oh, my gosh. >> so talented. be on the food network. that's serious business . good for her. >> well, there's a ban on plastic bags. it was supposed to help the environment. then the pandemic hit. >> and we know that changed a lot of things at the grocery store. the impact on the environment and those grocery bags just ahead. >> leanne melendez puts those heavy duty reusable plastic bags to the test. >> you can still use it. it's reusable. oh oh, it just broke at 125

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helping the environment is one part of our effort to build a better bay area. the goal to minimize our dependency on plastic bags was thrown off course during the pandemic. >> so of course, during covid, those reusable bags from home, they were discussing out of fear of spreading the virus and people opted for those heavy duty plastic bags instead. abc7 news reporter leanne melendez is here with why people just cannot let go of those plastic bags. well remember during covid you would bring in your bags from home and then you were told you can't bag them inside. >> you got to do it outside and you would bag it for fear of contamination. so some people decided it wasn't worth it. they left their bags at home and

opted for the heavy duty plastic bags at the store instead. now, because we are creatures of habit, people still can't say no to those plastic bags. san francisco was the first city in the nation to get rid of single use plastic bags in 2007. in 2014, the rest of the state would also ban the so called urban tumbleweed. >> overnight, like at our recycling facility, pier 96, it's like plastic bags just went away and they were no longer a problem. >> people began embracing the concept of bring your own reusable bag to the market. the law did allow for stores to offer paper or heavy duty plastic bags, but only if they were considered reusable. but then, because of the fear of spreading the coronavirus for a short period of time, any bags brought from home were not allowed. >> so during the pandemic, we stopped bringing our own reusable bags to the store, and that was important to protect public health. both ourselves as

shoppers, but also to the workers at the stores. >> the problem now is that some people are having a hard time giving up those heavy duty plastic bags is a good thing or not so much so that they don't mind paying extra to use, in some cases, lots of them. >> lots of them do you? okay. >> so why not bring your bag? >> i'll try. i'll try to remember that. >> so. so are these how much did you have to pay for these bags? >> i'm not sure. i don't know. >> $0.10. right here. >> oh, really? >> i think so. the plastic industry claims these heavy duty plastic bags can be reused up to 125 times. that's how, by law, they are allowed to be called reusable. they're not necessarily being used as much as the industry claims that they can be, and they are ending up in our landfills. what do you do with those bags after you're

done with them? >> actually, i got a stack of them at the house sometime. i use them just different things like do you ever throw them away ? >> yes, once in a while you'll find people who say they do use them over and over again. would you say that you use it? 125 times? >> yes. yes, i do. >> so here's how they are allowed. despite the ban on plastic bags, number one, they have to be at least 40% post-consumer material and can be reused. 125 times is not it 100? not 150, but 125 times? i have no idea how they came up with that number. each bag must be able to carry 22 pounds at a distance of 175ft or 125 times. so for the purpose of this experiment, i'm going to go from point a to point b. 125 times

how many? here you go, 20 to go tot. >> that s it. >> you can still use it. >> it's reusable. >> oh, it just broke at 125 of oh. i'm the one who was not reusable at the moment. >> i do think california needs to take a look at that law and make adjustments and do what it was intended to do, which was to do away with all plastic bags kind of thick and or thin. >> but there is little incentive to do so coming from supermarket

sits and pharmacies because they are allowed to keep the proceeds from the sale of each bag in 2020. san francisco new charge $0.10 wasn't enough to keep people from buying them. so the city increased the fee to $0.25 per bag. does it bother you that it's $0.25 per bag? i have we're in san francisco and we're in california for. >> so it just used to it i just i don't think about it because it's about convenience. >> now, the oakland city council is considering an ordinance that goes beyond plastic bags. it would ban every kind of single use plastic such as plastic forks, knives, spoons that are typically used with takeout orders, don't ask me if i did it 125 times because you know. you know the answer. of course i did it. >> and the bag lasted exactly 125. you couldn't plan for that? >> no way. predicted that. >> yeah, you did that on the hottest day. yeah. this week. yeah. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for that

experiment. >> stand up of the year right there. ladies and gentlemen, liam melendez. we appreciate it. thank you. all right. well, the flavors of fall and the costumes striking actors are being warned not to wear the

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government workers to say. sarah huckabee sanders signed an executive order yesterday saying enough of trying to erase women and girls. >> they're using nonsense words to erase women and girls and more importantly, to erase our voices and our experiences. today say we're taking a stand against woke nonsense. >> the banner phrases include pregnant person, human milk, birthing person and alternate spellings of the word woman. okay, well, thankfully, we have several ladies as part of this. fought for this sit this one out, julie, and you can weigh in, too. but your thoughts on this? >> well, i mean, she really knows how to stir the pot, right? i mean, she banned latinx two and you knew there would be a ton of pushback like the aclu is saying it's divisive. and, you know, not just, you, not just for our women girls, but also just erasing marginalized other marginalized groups. so i

mean, isn't it i don't know anybody really surprised hearing this from there. i don't. i'm not. >> but yes. sandhya, your thoughts? you know, i mean, human milk, like, what else would you feed your kids? i mean, it's breast milk. i don't know. i mean, it doesn't i don't hear it here. obviously, it's happening in arkansas. but yeah, it's kind of crazy. and for her just to ban it and it's only with the government workers, but still, you know, she could just say these are things i prefer you not to say, but to make it an overall whole thing. you know, if somebody says it out loud, do they get fired? you know? yeah, no, i agree with you. prefer would have probably been the better way. >> and to hold a press conference to announce that. yeah. like is this really what the taxpayer dollars you know want to be doing and the questions were how much was it being used and how many instances and was it really necessary? >> three. >> exactly. okay well, thankfully we are here in the beautiful state of california

instead. don't even think about dressing up as barbie or even deadpool this halloween at least if you're a member of sag-aftra. well, the union recommends actors wear generic characters in order not to give studios publicity while they're on strike. actor ryan reynolds, who played deadpool, jokingly responded, i look forward to screaming scab at my eight year old all night. she's not in the union, but she needs to learn an obviously the ongoing strike continues when it comes to the actors with sag-aftra and their quite the stalemate. wait, so what do you all think about this? not to wear any of those kind of iconic costumes from movies. >> i mean, it makes sense. i it's something i didn't even consider, though. it didn't even cross my mind. but you know, i can see where they're coming from right? >> it's just making another point. and they're getting publicity just by, you know, ryan reynolds talking about it. you know, and us talking about it right now for the negotiations that are still going on. so you know, but i'm sure there's going to be a lot

of barbies out there this year right? >> barb bornheimer, too. right. a combination. yeah. >> okay. here's a question for you guys. start thinking about this. what is the best pop song of all time? what comes to your mind? well, according to billboards, it's whitney houston's i want to dance with somebody. great song. the list was compiled as part of billboard's 65th anniversary. three abba's dancing queen is second, followed by my girl, by the temptations. i want it that way by the backstreet boys is number four. since you've been gone by kelly clarkson rounds out the top five. are there any on here that you think are missing? >> i'm really confused about four and five. >> okay. can i talk about number four for a second? i saw number four and i said back street boys before in sync. so i started scrolling and i kept scrolling and i kept scrolling. it wasn't until 57 that i got to in sync.

bye bye bye. i was pretty salty over that. obviously, you know, when i see whitney houston, obviously great song. i'm not sure if it's if nothing stands out to me as like the number one of all time. i think it would have been really hard. some of the songs on there, i thought, i don't even know if i consider that pop, but okay, it was nice to see tupac is number nine was in there too. >> so yeah, that's good. yeah, i agree. that's interesting. i would think bye bye bye would be above the backstreet boys song. a sandy anyone's down there that surprised you or i'm with julianne karina i mean those last two i don't know. i mean but in sync like alma said should have been a lot higher. i mean, it was way lower. or britney spears, like, right. >> hit me. yeah. she was like in the teens, i think it was like 12 or something. >> alma, i only ask you this because it seems like you studied the list. michael jackson like wasn't in the top five. >> yeah, but he was. he was in the top ten. in which song was it? i can't remember off the top of my head, but i was like, okay, you know, michael

jackson's there. i mean, there are a lot of good songs. some of them i was like, is that pop? or is that rap? is that soul? is it, you know, sitting on the dock of the bay? i don't know. just oh, it was billie jean. >> thank you, billie jean. okay. was in the top ten. >> there's just so many good songs. >> but at least whitney was number one. i can agree with that. that's a good song. >> and who doesn't love that song, right? yeah. okay. well, we are officially in fall here. so what's your favorite fall scent when it comes to candles? apparently it is all about food. so here is the top five apple cinnamon one. yeah, that's at the top with a 440% increase in sales since summer. yeah. who wants to burn a apple cinnamon candle in july, right. this is all according to bright data. a study of candle sales on amazon pumpkin is second, followed by cinnamon apple strudel and spice are four and five. >> i would think pumpkin would be at the top of the list. >> me too. right, pumpkin? >> pumpkin spice. >> julian, are you mad that like a sweet potato scent isn't on

there? >> that's what i'm talking about . >> come on. you know me and the candied yams. but i do like i do like pumpkin, but vanilla is pretty popular. i was going to say vanilla, too, right? >> you could do like, a vanilla apple. vanilla cinnamon. i think that i'm surprised that one's not on there. but sometimes those scents are so overpowering . yeah, right. you can only burn a little bit of a candle at a time because it can just take over the whole house and then you want the real thing and then you're hungry. >> i was going to say, can we all can we turn it all just into food and have something to eat? >> i like the way you think. yeah, that'll running is awesome. but her moderate to severe eczema would make her skin so uncomfortable. i was always so itchy especially when i was hot. now my skin doesn't itch as much. now we're staying ahead of her eczema. there's a power inside all of us to live our passion. and dupixent works on the inside

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california state senator ben allen. reporter anabel munoz from our sister station in los angeles has a look at what's behind the bill. >> soccer player stephen flores says before today he wasn't aware that artificial grass, which he sometimes plays on, is the source of environmental and health concerns. >> to be honest, i just enjoy playing so whether it's on turf or street or whatever. >> governor gavin newsom just signed a bill that allows local governments to ban synthetic grass in residential areas. this reverses part of a 2015 bill that stripped them of that power. >> we made a decision at a time when the drought was so acute and i think we just i think it was a rash decision by frankly, i understand why we did it at the root of some of these concerns are some chemicals often found in this turf, like so-called forever chemicals or p-fas. so one of the things we have found is that there are some really dangerous carcinogens that are often found in synthetic turf. i mean, the

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one of the most beloved haunted halloween displays in the south bay is back. it was created by a local mom to delight her terminally ill son. abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes has a look at that display and its impact. >> danger haunted forest, a turn back, but neighbors have ignored that sign year after year. and the creator of the san jose haunted forest on vernon avenue is thrilled that they do. >> the outpouring of love and support that we receive every year, it really means so much to us. >> from the creepy rat man to the startling witch named lily. each spooky detail of the display was created for shelley jimenez's son, christopher. he and his twin sister were born prematurely. christopher has terminal lung disease and other complications. the last several months has been really difficult . >> he no longer leaves the house . he no longer comes outside. he

is in a pretty much like a state of dementia or becoming homebound several years ago, kept christopher from going out and seeing holiday lights, something he always loved. >> so in 2018, his mom brought the lights to him. the next year, 2019, i went a little bit bigger and that's how it snowballed. neighbors can't go past the house without stopping many touched by the significance of the display part of our community to do it. >> so i'm so glad that she's doing this. this is amazing. >> the display, though, isn't just attracting people from around the block. >> people come from fresno, san diego, way, way up north, jimenez says. >> it's that community support that inspires her to continue the display, even as things have become more challenging for her family. >> i was not going to do it this year because, like i said, he he's not doing well. but i. i could not let the community down because they they enjoy it so much. and it's actually a gift

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