don't leave children unattended inside a running vehicle-even for a very short period of time don'tde an unattended vehicle-especially on hot days don't leave valuables inside your vehicle in plain sight or in an unlocked vehiclesot: evanthe lindenau, neighbor// "sot: ella sogomonian, @ellasogomoni an// "and the neighbor went on to say that other crimes seem to be on the rise in her neighborhood as well in cluding burglaries..so she's more compelled to invest in a surveillence camera system. in santa rosa ella sogomonian kron 4 news." (pam) in the east bay -- hundreds of bay -- in the east (pam) (pam) in the east bay -- hundreds of abandoned vehicles are being left on streets.(ken) it's been a growing problem in oakland. police recovered 15 stolen vehicles during the two abandoned vehicle sweeps.our grant lodes joins has the details on how police are tracking down these vehicles left on the streets. grant? (grant) if you are in oakland and you find one of these orange courtesy notices on your windshield...you have 72-hours to park it somewhere else or it will be towed. 350 vehicles

s >> somebody called them about an unattended child walking around the neighborhood for over an hour. she said her daughter,ho is eig eight, was only gone about five minutes. the person responsible for filing the report should face punishment. >> i felt they should have pursued charges against theho person filed two falsein compts. even if you're not 100% on board with your child walking around theblock, most people are onfident that a mom who stays at home with her kids has got good enough judgment to decide when her child is ready or not ready to do that. > she was cleared for any neglect but child protective services says they have to investigatell calls but it's been a talker this morning. >> a lot of talk on both sides of this. >>> all right. nice day for a walk. >> beautiful outside. >> it wasool when i came in. >> you needed a little jacket. >> i told my husband to come home early because you have to take me out a we need to be outside. >> everybody was out last night. it was late. i was like what night is it. >> i was in the bed. i think every out door table was full. another

and likewise, for 4-year-old sitting in a car unattended.es them that they would have the wherewithal to know that they're being manipulated to know that they shouldn't go. i think it's a little bit of both and take that into consideration. ainsley: erin is sitting behind you and she wrote a book called being there why prioritizing motherhood in the first three years matters. erica, my child is two and a half. i read that title. my child is two and a half. i only have a few more months. when we were bureauing up, our parents did. this they wrengt in the grocery store. mom, we don't want to go in. we want to do our homework. three kids. roll the windows down a little bit. lock the doors, don't open the door for strangers. we were all fine. i know things have changed. you wrote the book. what are the rules now? this mom said she was trying to avoid her child having what we are all very aware of, the meltdown. >> the problem we don't know the rules. we don't want to shame rules. most people don't know it's illegal to leave a child in a car unat

don't leave children unattended inside a running vehicle-even for a very short period of time don'timals inside an unattended vehicle-especially on hot days don't leave valuables inside yourehicle in plain sight or in an unlocked vehiclesot: evanthe lindenau, neighbor// "sot: ella sogomonian, @ellasogomoni an// "and the neighbor went on to say that other crimes seem to be on the rise in her neighborhood as well in cluding burglaries..so she's more compelled to invest in a surveillence camera system. in santa rosa ella sogomonian kron 4 news." (robin)still ahead... one east bay city dealing with abandoned vehicles piling up on city streets. where it's happening and how police are crakcing down on the problem. yesterday brought us a taste of some (robin) i'm tracking your entertainment headlines today. we have got the latest on two of hollywood's biggest film franchises. daniel with the hollywood minute. "it was extraordinary, and you don't get that very often in your career, you know."danny boyle says "bye bye bond!" the oscar-winning director known for "slumdog millionaire" and "tra

and she said, oh, okay, we had a report of an unattended 5-year-old. i said, well, that's not my daughter. she's 8 1/2 and that was that. >> reporter: from there, she says it got worse. two days after the police found nothing wrong, the state's department of family and children services contacted the family. cory believes the same anonymous neighbor was responsible. >> it was an obvious false report, and it was obviously not true that i was neglecting my kids. it's -- you can see it when you walk through our door. i really felt they should have pursued charges against the person who filed two false complaints. >> reporter: the widens' ordeal has sparked a debate. one user writing, when we were kids, we rode around for hours every night without any supervision. it was called playing. now it's against the law for a kid to walk her dog? insane. but others are opting for precaution, writing, good. she's too young to walk the dog alone. the question -- how young is too young? >> is there a magic age for when you can leave your kids alone? >> the main thing

. >> reporter: responding to a complaint about an unattended child, they decided nothing was wrong but days later the illinois department of family and children services launched their investigation. she took to social media and comments poured in. >> people saying it was ridiculous that it had had happened. >> reporter: in 2014 a south carolina mom was charged with a felony for letting her 9-year-old play at a park while she worked at a nearby mcdonald's. it took two years for charges to be dropped. the laws on leaving kids alone vary by state and can be vague. in illinois children under 14 can't be left without supervision for an unreasonable period of time. this summer there was a free range parenting law passed where well-cared for children can go to school, play on the playground or stay in the car alone if mature enough. >> the magic age to leave a child alone is when they are ready and for each child it's individual. >> reporter: illinois authorities found widen was not neglectful but say they investigate all calls and many are calling for more laws in support of parents. >> par

. >> it looked suspicious to us, because we normally don't encounter unattended boxes. it was making a mechanical noise. >> reporter: after scanning it from a safe distance, sergeant norton decided to destroy the suspicious devise. only then did he learn what it was. >> once i pulled it out of the tree, i saw that it was a weather balloon and then i realized all my buddies were going to give me a hard time. >> reporter: the balloon came from san jose state university researchers. they launched the equipment in order to measure the ozone layer. when the balloon pops, the equipment lands, hopefully protected by the styrofoam box. >> the ozone project has been going on for months. this is not just something that started and the first one fell out of the sky. >> reporter: what started as a science experiment turned into a lesson for all, clear labeling matters. >> here is my contact information, here is my e-mail information. we could have handled this in no time at all. >> i think we're going to put the labels more clearly on it and very official looking to emphasize that

her mother said she could order a barbie on amazon and when left unattended she ordered a lot more than just one. package after package wasle p off a delivery truck at her house in utah. obviously her parents were little shocked but you can see here caitlin wasust thrilled. and they decided to donate the $350 worth of toys to the childr's hospital where she stayed as a baby. >> caitlin is a shopping e. mach >> i bet that credit card number has been removed from the amazon site at that house. you got to be careful. >>> niceht out there tonight. >> it really is. still a little bit on the humid side. you can feel it. not all that bad. temperature right now in the city in the 80s. the suburbsooking aot better. right now, out there earlier today, 92 in the city. 91 annapolis. currently we're looking at partly cloudy skies. a nice night. ty.in the 82 right now at the airport. winds out of the west at 7 miles per hour. look at the rest of the area. 82 here. 72 martinsburg, 72 in culpeper. anothe great art. no rain to speak of. we won't see any chances of rain tonight or tomorrow. an isolated c

. >> reporter: responding to an anonymous complaint about an unattended child. but days later the illinois department of children and family services launched its ow. investigatio widen took to social media and comments poured in. >> people saying that it was ridiculous that it had happened. rg reporter: in 2014 a south carolina mom was c with a felony for letting her then 9-year-old play in a park wdle she wor at a nearby mcdonald's. it took two years for charges to dropped. the laws on leaving kids alone vary by state and can be vague. in illinois children under 14 can't be eft witho supervision for an unreasonable period of time. this summer utah became thers state to pass a so-called free range parenting law, where well-cared for children can go to school, theayound, or stay in the car alone if they're mature enough. >> the magic age for when to leave your children alone is when they're ready. and for each child it's inorvidual. >> rr: illinois authorities found widen wasn't neglectful. but say they invesgate all calls. now many are calling for more laws in

trapping young black men for the so-called bait truck which is packed with sportswear and then left unattendedand on law they say the office is a creating crime rather than preventing it from chicago john hendren to pull. back the truck at all oh yeah yeah as opposed to a truck. police pull over the bait truck on locked and loaded with boxes of nike shoes they look at on the side of the road in one of chicago's grittiest neighborhoods locals say sometimes the back is rolled up to reveal the one thousand shoes inside the yard chasing graham to drive a great drug crime then they wait for the young men of englewood to discover on these you tube video posted by crime activist charles mckenzie outraged residents call that entrapment. is the basis of the baby and probably want to be like the streets of chicago's south side are among the city's most violent but neighborhood activists say the bait truck preys on poor black children tempting them to steal what they wouldn't touch of police hadn't put if there are you probably want to see my truck make it mighty hot in the ghetto. in the ghetto this you

this is alone from school unattended. >> he is part of the youth enrichment program. >> they say we takey and are investigating to determine what steps need to be taken to ensure this has not happened again. >>> oak lanlands working. city leaders are proposing new rules that focus on safety and stop them from leaving their scooters in front of doors. scooter companies would have to pay a fee for every scooter. equal access is also key. they would have to put half in low income communities. >> our goal in this ordnance is to have responsible regulations so they are not in the way of people, they don't injure people but to require this be made available so it can benefit everyone in the community. i have been taken out by it. >> they vote on the final plan next month. >>> all new for you soon your trip around la may take your onto obama boulevard. >>> new nbc poll finds millennials may be less likely to vote than their parents this fall. those who do are most likely to vote for democrats. nearly 20% say they probably will not vote in the midterm elections. among those voting 46% are leanin

understand why her five-year-old son was allowed to walk two and a half miles home from his school alone unattended. >> five-year-old jackson is part of the youth enrichment program. it is run jointly by the school district. she says jackson was supposed to be escorted from his classroom to the after school program. she believes no one was there to escort him. so she says he decided to walk home. >>> a new nbc poll finds millennials may be less likely to vote than their parents this fall. those that do are more likely to vote democratic. nearly 20% say they will probably or definitely will not vote in the midterm elections. among those voting 46% are leading democratic. 27% are either undecided or they are backing another candidate. >>> 5:45 for you right now. one of the president's favorite candidates made history. they both won their nomination. she the democratic candidate. kind of coming out of nowhere beating the front runners. that is president trump's tip there in florida. now, the two will go head to head in november. florida very important presidential race. this governor's race will be fa

she said, 'ok because we got a call it was an unattended 5 year old.'she's 8-years old.'"widen says the officer said that was fine, and left, but that wasn't the end of the family's trouble.corey widen/mother: "so apparently whoever call the police didn't think the police were a good enough judge of what was ok and not ok. then they called dcfs. the police did not call dcfs."an investigation was launched and widen hired an attorney to clear her name.the matter was resolved in less than 2-weeks, but widen says she was left with many questions and felt mom-shamed.corey widen/mother: "you never know who did this to you, and it turns your life upside down like that. i'm a homeschool mom and i'm always with my kids. you can accuse me of a lot of things, not supervising them, is not one of them. my entire life revolves around them."as for who will walk marshmallow in the future...mai martinez/reporting: "do you plan to let her walk the dog alone anymore?"corey widen/mother: "absolutely. she still is walking the dog. it's her one and only chore. it's my decisi

understand why her 5-year-old son was allowed to walk two and a half miles home from school alone and unattendedjackson is part of the youth enrichment program located in the fairview elementary campus, it's run jointly by the hayward school district. jackson was supposed to be escorted from his classroom to the afterschool program but she believes no one was there to escort him. so he decided to walk home. >> i'm trying to stay calm because every time i think about it, and think about what could have happened, it just sent me into tears. >> the district released a statement saying in part, we take this incident very seriously and are investigating to determine what steps need to be taken to ensure this does not happen again. >> as many of you have heard by now, the death toll from hurricane maria, has grown tremendously. we are now hearing an estimated 2,975 people died in the five months after the hurricane devastated the island last september. that's much higher than the government official death toll count of 64. this morning the mayor of san juan is speaking out and she spoke out today on t

. >> we've run across a lot of unattended vehicles s >> reporter:ve always keeps this with him, his family he needs to be safehile he worksnd he knows you have loved ones. a family that helped change a tire recently sent him a letr weekslater. >> they were actually going to the hospital, their father was in the hospit, and they beforey made it there because i helpedm. that'shat i like. >> you just want to get it loosened up and get it ready. >> reporter: just be thankfu that steve has your back out here at well. out on road patrol. adam tuss. news 4. >> well, tonight at 5, you may t have seenm laying around the sidewalks all over the city. ext month the district is planning to unveil new n regulations w it comes to thoseockless bikes that we seend everywhere, a the electric scooters, too. vdot is extending the pilot program for these rentals through december according to wamu 88.5 fm which says operator will be required to provide a method for riders to lock those buys calls to racks or poles. now the city is also planning to define more rules for bikeoond r parking. it has been a little c

however, if you're camping don't leave your stove unattended.and could last a week. >>> a bear cub is recovering after being burned by the carr fire. and electric company employee in whiskeytown found the company laying inÃwith its paws burnt. he counteracted lake tahoe wild life officials and the bear was taken in for treatment. that's are using tilapia skins to help heal its burned paws. that treatment was effectively used last year on a pair of bears that suffered burns during the thomas fire. >>> the alum rock union elementary school district 2 south bay lawmakers asked for the audit. they want to investigate allegations of inappropriate spending bond monday -- money and mismanaged funds. there are questions if contracts signed last year are legal with belle terre to build bathrooms and heating and cooling systems. the audit is expected to be finished next year. >>> a new real estate survey shows that more people are being priced out for bay area homes . the california association of realtors released a report of home sales and found that ju

. >> it duz did look suspicious to us because we normally don't encounter unattended boxes on the side of the road. in addition to that, it was making a mechanical noise inside the box. >> after scanning it from a safe distance, sergeant norton decided to destroy the suspicious device. only then did he learn what it actually was. >> once i pulled it out of the tree, i saw that it was a weather balloon, and i realized that buddies were going to give me a hard time. >> the balloon came from san jose state university researcher, seen launching similar weather balloons in this video. they launched the equipment in order to measure the ozone lyer. when the balloon pops, the equipment lands, hopefully protected by the styrofoam box. >> the ozone project has been going on for months. so this is not something that just start and the first one fell out of the sky. >> what started as a science experiment turn bad is a lesson for all. clear labeling matters. >> here is my contact information. here is my e-mail address. we could have handled this in no time at all. >> i think that we're going to p

this is why we don't leave children unattended here. i mean really. guillermo! laughter ] i didn't say get in there. >> guillermo: i tried to get a pikachu and i got stuck. >> can you put an out of order sign on this thing? we can't fit anybody else in here. >> jimmy: i'm so sorry, kristen, we will do that, the fire department is on the way. all right, all right. anyone can get caught in a claw machine. the real challenge is to get caught in an air hockey table. that's what you want to do. kids love that kind of stuff. children love terrible places and terrible things. with that said it's time to shine a light on a children's playplace in the sunshine state in this week's edition of "this week in florida." >> the chuck e. cheese on north 58th street in st. pete had to close doors after inspectors found over 130 rodent droppings all over the kitchen. >> jimmy: oh, thank you, florida. it's a good thing their mascot isn't a horse. tonight on the show we have music from brett eldredge is with us. john david washington is here. be right back with kristen bell, god wi

. >> jesse: when i was younger, i would roam around for hours unattended. i turned out all right. a neighborhood in the suburbs, we did a little map of the sex offenders to find out if there were any perverts in the hood. times have changed. i've been marked on and have also narcs. i have called for loud noises. i have had people in the dark on me for being loud and obnoxious. i will like it. i will reserve the right tone narc when it affects my sleep. >> pam: you have tried to shut down parties, loud music? >> jesse: yeah. you know what, i need my beauty rest. >> greg: i think it is hard to be a parent now. it's just hard. your child can't be alone, only when they are playing video games. >> dana: you are afraid to do anything. you're afraid to let your kids take off. do you think dogs can't attack? they are the worst. >> greg: they are. all dogs think they are wolves. it's not like they know they have been changed. they don't know they have gone through the transition. are they still wolves in their head? like h allawi and a doberman still think they are part of the same group.

also, she found parents were dropping off their kids forur unattended, while they worked. so, dixon had to limit library time. she's not in favor of the four- day week. >> it's great for teachers. they love it, and why wouldn't they? but i see a lot of grandparents and relatives seemingly a little overwhelmed and rdened. >> reporter: new mexico ranks last in the nation for child well-being, according to the ll18 kidscount data book. >> sixth street e this side of the table. >> reporter: it's friday. volunteers are packing supplies for almost 300 kids to take home for the traditional rio-day weekend at a neighis schooltrict. john conway, wog runs the prm, says he worries about what kids with three-day weekends will t. >> we have a large percent of the population that are below the poverty level. they may be hungry and not getting enough to eat, particularly on the weekend. >> reporter: athletic events are now held on fridays. howie morales, the state senator, says he's seeing a domino effect, where larger, urban school districts also want to change to four-day weeks. orked

pregnancies, but i'm also told that many are simply having deliveries in their home, in their camp, unattendedmes with local mid-wives. >> reporter: meher gave birth alone in this small bamboo shack. she and her husband have now forged a bond with their new child in these most difficult of circumstances. >> translator: yes, i love her. my husband also loves her now, though he couldn't accept her at first. he adores the baby when she smiles and plays. >> reporter: but there is a stigma these children could face when they grow up. >> biggest concern of babies left behind is they could grow up with a stigma or a label attached to them which is a lasting legacy for these babies. >> reporter: for yasmin this could be one of the many challenges she'll face in the years ago as she learns to call this refugee camp home. alexandra field, cnn. >>> well, cnn asked myanmar's government for a response to this story. here's what a spokesperson said. "there is no evidence that myanmar soldiers committed any human rights violations in their response to the arsa terrorist attacks on 2017. we have recently form

so leaving them unattended because you project racial innocence on them is not helpful. so the progressives. [laughter] what do we say? we say things like this: oh, i work in a very diverse environment. i have people of color in my family. me? i'm not racist. i used to live in new york. [laughter] yeah. yeah. no. i could walk down the streets of new york, and i never lost my shit, so i guess -- [laughter] this one gets used interchangeably with i'm not racist, i'm from canada. [laughter] if you haven't heard these, you're not talking to enough white people about racism. i'm not racist, i'm from hawaii. oh, you know, it's the white people picked on in hawaii. i'm not racist, i'm from europe. [laughter] i can't tell you how many times i've heard that, and i'm just like, okay. [laughter] and i'm not racist, i was in the military. apparently there is no racism in those places. [laughter] i mean, it's -- sociologists actually have a name for this one. this is called the inoculation case. i've been near people of color, and it stripped me of my racism. [laughter] and i want yo

the lawsuit involving two un a -- unattended children when the flight was diverted to another city. > talk about a problem when we come back. >>> not too much of a change with our weather pattern. you see a layer of haze and slightly warmer temperatures coming up in our forecast. a few spots could approach 100 degrees. ♪ ♪ can world-renowned artist red hong yi use the chase mobile app® to pay practically anyone, at any bank? all while creating a masterpiece made of tea leaves? ♪ ♪ yes. but this isn't for just anyone. ♪ ♪ hong yi! it's for the strongest man in her life. ♪ ♪ life. lived red's way. chase. make more of what's yours. >>> search for 20-year-old molly mollie tibbetts shows the importance of technology. she was went jogging and disappeared. they used cell phone call and her social media to create a timeline. they had to file search warrants with tech companies to get some of that information. >> all of that is time sensitive, and the people that contacted her. unfortunately, i think the way that plays out is they separate the location data from the actual contact data. >> onc

the initial call was for an unattended 5-year-old and once they knew i didn't even have a 5-year-oldt think it should have made it past the hotline that a little girl walking her dog needs to be investigated. >> what do you hope people take away from the story? >> don't judge a book by its cover. you don't know every situation. you don't know every child and that when you do things like this, you overwhelm an already overwhelmed system with nuisance calls like this and kids and family who need help don't get it then. >> corey, dorothy, marshmallow, thank you. he was a very good dog during this. >> my pleasure. >> excellent dog. >>> coming up, we have the new tip the bill challenge. it's sweeping social media. how you can get in on the viral act of kindness. we'll be right back. >>> back now with the latest s. we'll be right back. get your groove on with one a day 50+. ♪ get ready for the wild life ♪ complete multivitamins with key nutrients that address 6 concerns of aging, including heart health, supported by b-vitamins. your one a day is showing. when you barely clip a tpassing car

unattended birth associated with psychotic denial. >> had you heard of that before?ily cases where somebody denies they're pregnant until it's too late and they haven't made any sort of arrangements. it's probably one of the reasons people get abandoned rather than legally adopted. >> denial of pregnancy is a recognized psychiatric or psychological condition. >> reporter: psychiatrist susan friedman has studied the disordernd surprisingly common. one in 400 women may suffer in some form. >> the woman may have some idea she's pregnant intellectually but she pushes it from her mind until she can no longer do so because she's suddenly giving birth. and suddenly a young woman's own experiences of abandonment could contribute to denial of pregnancy. >> reporter: possibly explaining cindy's odd behavior is a painful backstory according to heather. as a small child cindy and her sister were both given up for adoption. they were on a bus en route to an orphanage. >> and at the last minute their brother pulled her sister off the bus and left her. >> reporter: left cindy by he

and she said, oh, okay, we had a report of an unattended 5-year-old.. >> reporter: from there it got worse. two days after the police found nothing wrong, the state's department of family and children services contacted the family. cory believes the same anonymous neighbor was responsible. >> it was an obvious false report and obviously not true that i was neglecting my kids. it's -- you can see it when you walk through our door. i really felt they should have pursued charges against the person who filed two false complaints. >> reporter: the ordeal has sparked a debate. one user writing, when we were kids, we rode around for hours at night without any supervision. it was called playing. now it's against the law for a kid to walk her dog? insane. but others are opting for precaution, writing, good. she's too young to walk the dog alone. the question how young is too young? >> is there a magic age for when you can leave your kids alone? >> the main thing that we have to bear in mind is we are training our kids from early on to be independent adults. pic

and we have to engage in some dangerous parts of the world because some of those problems, if left unattend ultimately be more difficult to deal with when we have no choice so he was a realist with a foreign policy based on strength, an internationalist, but not in favor of getting involved, you know, everywhere >> talk about public service, senator. i can't imagine how proud you are of your twin boys that on saturday one enlisted in -- after going to harvard, both of them, one enlisted in the marines and the other in the army and susan, your wife, was able to attend this, but missed the graduation because she is faced with the same thing that senator mccain was faced with. heloblastoma can you comment on what you know about the disease .how things are going and hopefully prognosis is positive. >> well, you're very kind to mention that, joe. i'm very proud of my sons and the decision that they have made i think john mccain would be proud of them, too it's a tough disease the prognosis for most people who have it is not good. but we're fortunate that -- and my wife has been battling this now

and 20,000 of those applications are sitting there unattended waiting for bureaucrat in washington togive it a yea or a nay. dagen: and that's the swamp that's not getting cleaned up. we are throwing algae into it. maria: drain the swamp. dagen: i wish everybody had a fan boat. [laughter] maria: jon, good stuff from you, we will be watching the durable number, you were right to point it out. jon hilsenrath. bracing for worst, heavy rains slamming hawaii this morning, hurricane lane closer to the highland, taunting and you shall receive, the man seen in viral video has been sentence today jail. we have the details back in a minute. to most people, i look like... most people. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief from fibromyalgia pain... and improves function. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions.