hearst rhonda thomas with some tips so you don't become a victim. >> reporter: skimming cards at atms is clearly illegal but lucrative. crooks have made off with $3 billion worldwide for atm skimmers because the use of 2015. it costing mary a lot of money. she found out when her debit card was rejected at a gas station. >> so i went home to check my account and realized money was missing from my account. >> reporter: a police detective showed us hardware thieves install -- a skimmer to copy the card, a tiny camera to record you typing in your pin. >> more commonly they use debit card to drain your account. >> reporter: covering pin pad is one way to thwart this team but thieves use another type of device that does not use a camera at all. it's a fake card reader that sits right over the real one. first it reads your card information and then when you type your pin -- >> your pin number is extracted and stored. >> this is usually attached so >> this is another type of skimmer you wouldn't be able to spot as it's deep inside a gas pump. some can't be detected from the outside but steal

. >> reporter rhonda thomas says unbuckled backseat passengers are a danger car. >>> 19-year-old tyler elsely and his best friend harrison were going for a short ride. they were in the backseat and no seat belts when the driver lost control and crashed. all were killed. it is a scene that is difficult for his mother to relive. >> tyler and harrison basically became projectiles. passengers in the back don't buckle up and that is more than front seats. young people are the worse offenders. >> people may think it is okay to be unbelted or skip the belt all together if it is a short trip but it is wrong. >> most fatal car crashes occur to within 25 miles at home and being unbuckled increases your risk of dying in a crash to 3 times what it would have been as you had your seat belt on. that's according to the governor's highway sa passengers in the back pose a danger to people buckled in front. >>> unbuckled passengers in the back can be thrown forward with tremendous force that they can injure or kill the people in the front. >> suzanne started cruise state dot org to educate kids not to d

thomas. here's video from downtown lower lake today. fire destroyed 189 homes. social service organizations are in operation to help people file insurance and health claims. rhonda refused to leave her home for the last four and a half days. she scanned the horizon wondering if she would suddenly have to run. she had a cat at home she didn't want to leave. >> we had a lot of looters. so even though we were under mandatory evacuation, we chased looters away from down here. >> we're not quitters. we'll rebuild. you know? that's what we're going to do. that's exactly what we're going to do. >> firefighters also stayed behind to help with the search. the fire has caused some air quality problems from right here in the bay area. can't see it right now but you can definitely make out the haze earlier today. right? >> the air quality has gradually been improving over the past 24 hours. you saw the haze today and you certainly saw that in the atmosphere. on friday we had multiple fires just to our south and the winds were coming from the east thus putting a lot of smoke in the bay area. a much clearer picture of that smoke is blowing to the east. still seeing issues to