leeann learned she was pregnant with their second child.ick was delighted with the news and sent her a note. >> leann, i might not always tell you, but you mean the world to me. i love you so much, sweetheart. and girl or boy, so long as they are part of you, our children will all be beautiful. i love you, mick. >> that sunday night, the couple celebrated their good fortune with leann's parents. mick asked his in-laws if they would watch their granddaughter, hannah, the next day. >> and he said i wonder if you would baby-sit for about one hour. i said one hour? he said, yeah, we want to get to the firing range. >> mick believed in having a gun in the house for protection and he wanted leeann to learn how to use it. after visiting the firing range, mick and leann decided to return home to spend some quiet time together before picking up their daughter. just a few minutes after they arrived home, mick made a frantic call to police. >> i'm sorry, i can't understand. can you calm down, please? >> my wife shot herself. >> hazel park police found

>> reporter: in san francisco, leeann melendez. >>> the nike shoes made famous by tom hanks in his 1994 role of "forest gump" are making a come back. >> nike will sell the cortez running shoes around the world and online for $100 a pair. >> the shoes were invented by the co-founder of nike and they were made famous by the movie "forest gump." they may be a faxshion accessory now but they will be one of the best running shoes of all time. >>> nbc 7 news at 5:00 begins now with dan and cheryl. >> let's do more to help all women lead on. >> that could be a cry for her campaign. why some say she should clean up her own house first. >> why is my male colleague being paid more? >> to make sure women get paid equally across california.

leeann melendez explains. >> students at this san francisco school were making an effort to strike uponversation with anyone they didn't know. >> we are trying to figure out our next spirit day. what do you think it should be? >> the interaction happens here in the lunch room where kids sometimes eat by themselves. students made it a point to sit down with anyone who was alone. >> i learned that like i can go up to people and talk to them and see how they are and maybe meet a friend. >> almost everyone here knows how it feels to eat alone. >> it's really lonely and you wish someone would sit with you but you know it's likely not anybody will and that's not a good dealing feeling at all. >> the national no one eats alone day started three years ago in marin county. today schools in 38 states have joined in. excluding someone is a type of bullying. this type of isolation almost always has an effect on kids outside the classroom. laura created this initiative. >> when we can find kids who need better connections with each other during the lunchtime, we can prevent bullying from taking pl

leeann melendez explains. >> students at this san francisco school were making an effort to strike uponversation with anyone they didn't know. >> we are trying to figure out the next day. what do you think it should be? >> the interaction happens here in the lunch room where kids sometimes eat by themselves. students made it a point to sit down with anyone who was alone. >> i learned that like i can go up to people and talk to them and see how they are and maybe meet a friend. >> almost everyone here knows how it feels to eat alone. >> it's lonely and you wish someone would sit with you but you know it's likely not anybody will and that's not a good dealing feeling at all. >> the national don't eat alone day started three years ago in marin county. today schools in 38 states have joined in. excluding someone is a type of bullying. this type of isolation almost always has an effect on kids outside the classroom. laura created this initiative. >> when we can find kids who need better connection was each other during the lunchtime we can prevent bullying from taking place. >> engaging ot

leeann melendez, abc7 news. >> abc and disney are partnering with first book to share the magic of story telling by donating 5,000 books to the children's book project in san francisco. and you can help new books reach children. information on how to donate is also at abc7news.com. >>> nonstop flights to china will be taking off from the san francisco airport. the airline also operate the flight between santa fe and beijing five days a week on the boeing 787. it will bring new jobs and $105 million for the city. >> people are tired of sitting in traffic, waiting for fog delays. folks can get to beijing on a direct flight from san jose faster than going up 101. >> flights to beijing starts june 15th. this is the third foreign country served by san jose's airport. the other two are mexico and japan. >>> snack bars are an increasingly popular option. >> but can you get one that's healthy and tastes good? >> michael finney has a snack bar taste test. >> it's unbelievable. consumer reports sampled dozens of items to help you find the best. snack bars are handy grab and go foods. but there's a

leeann and her son josh view peanuts as poison. have you ever not been able to breathe? >> yes, when i was 2. >> reporter: that's when josh experienced a violent reaction after eating a bite out of his mother's peanut butter sandwich. >> in under 30 seconds, he couldn't breathe, he -- his blood pressure had dropped, you know clutching your throat you know it's almost like you're being strangled. >> reporter: but with today's new study, hope that other kids won't have to go through that. researchers fed peanut snack puffs to babies prone to allergies and found early exposure actually prevented most babies from developing the peanut allergies themselves. the conclusion? introducing peanuts to babies between 4 to 11 months reduced peanut allergies by 80%. encouraging news for parents and kids. linsey davis, abc news, livingston, new jersey. >> all right, linsey, thank you very much. dr. besser, you were in the newsroom today, saying, this was, in fact, a game-changer. so what do you tell patients tonight? >> reporter: well yeah this is a dramatic change. this is so differen

. >> reporter: in san francisco, leeann melendez. >>> the nike shoes made famous by tom hanks in his 1994 role of "forest gump" are making a come back. >> nike will sell the cortez running shoes around the world and online for $100 a pair. >> the shoes were invented by the co-founder of nike and they were made famous by the movie "forest gump." they may be a faxshion accessory now but they will be one of the best running shoes of all time. >>> nbc 7 news at 5:00 begins now with dan and cheryl. >> let's do more to help all women lead on. >> that could be a cry for her campaign. why some say she should clean up her own house first. >> why is my male colleague being paid more? >> to make sure women get paid equally across california. >> fields of shatters dreams. why some local baseball fields are locked tight as the season is getting underway. >> i'm sandy patel. the chill, when might you see the second sign? showers? i'll let you know coming up. >> hello? >> hillary clinton talks tech in the heart of silicon valley 622 days away from the next presidential election. i'm dan ashley. >>

. >> leeann, sputnik international news. just had a follow-up question on what you have raised about the oligarchical trend in u.s. politics. and i just would like to know what kind of impact that has on the united states as a world leader, so how this trend in the u.s. impacts economic justice worldwide? >> thank you. that's a great question. i mean, i will answer any couple of ways. first off the weight impacts american politics, and again i don't mean, everyone knows my political views, but if you were the republican party or any group of people, you would think he would put up the keystone pipeline as your first order of business? i'm against the keystone pipeline, thought it very hard. do you really think that a canadian pipeline which will provide 35 private jobs is the most important issue facing america's? you would make -- that's your first bill. what you think it may have something to do with the fact that the koch brothers are major donors of leases in that part of canada? i would -- how it impacts our foreign pol

. >> leeann, sputnik international news. just had a follow-up question on what you have raised about the oligarchical trend in u.s. politics. and i just would like to know what kind of impact that has on the united states as a world leader, so how this trend in the u.s. impacts economic justice worldwide? >> thank you. that's a great question. i will answer in a couple ways. first of all, the way it impacts american politics, and again everybody knows my political views. i don't need to be partisan here. if you were the republican party, or any group of people, do you really think you would put up the keystone pipeline as your first order of business? i am against the keystone eye blind, i fought it very hard. but do you really think that a canadian pipeline which will provide 35 private jobs is the most important issue facing america? you would make -- that's your first bill. do you think it may have some to do with the fact that the coke or others are major owners of leases in that part of canada? how it impacts our foreig

question -- >> leeann? >> leandra. >> i'm sorry. i could not hear you. i apologize. >> i'm with sputnik international news. russian press. so you've addressed the report and said you wouldn't comment. there was another report on the nsa gchq hacking encryption keys in sim card provider. can you respond to that? i mean, you have said that we need to have a discussion, a public discussion, so how would you get that started by addressing these allegations speak with the first comment -- >> i've heard these allegations are some period of time. i don't think they're unique. and again my challenge as an intelligence leader is even as we try to have this dialogue which i acknowledge we need, how do i try to strike the right balance between engaging in that broad dialogue and realizing that compromising the specifics of what we do and how we do it provides insights to those that we're trying to generate knowledge, who do harm to us as a nation. so as a general matter of policy i just said look, not in an public classified forms get into the specifics of the very