. >> are the unused pills in your cabinet contributing to america's drug problem? >> coming up next what you can do about that, this weekend. stay with us. the black widow spider's severe bite can cause coma and even death. the african black mamba can kill a man with one bite. but there's an even deadlier predator cigarettes, produced by big tobacco, which take a life every six point five seconds. don't be big tobacco's next victim. man: we need a sofa. something i can stretch out on! woman: ooh... that will go with those lamps my mother gave us. or we could get some new lamps. or we could get no sofa. negotiating, eh? you got it! how about a nice home for our tv? how about doors to hide that drive-in theater? how about a cowhide rug? yee-haw! and the snacks? get their own place. let the marathon begin! >>> so what do you do with unused drugs have you in the medicine cabinet. >> now, drug enforcement administration is urging you not to keep them around the house. >> yeah. michael finney is here to tell us why. >> this is a cool new program is what we're highlightin

police and drug agents say unused medicine is on the streets where it's used or sold.rs just today in fair first nationwide day to take back your unused prescriptions. the details now from 7 on your side's michael finney. >> pills, pills and more pills. we use $250 billion worth every year. most americans have been prescribed at least some kind of medication and often they don't take every pill in the bottle. >> i still have a lot of it that i'm holding on to in case i need it one day. (laughter) >> one of the reasons people hold on to that stuff is that -- i'm not sure people actually believe that the sell by date on that stuff. >> muscle relaxers. just pain medication, you know, from a surgery. >> some painkiller that i got to the dentist that was two years old. but i put it in the garbage. that was probably wrong, right? >> drugs that are not properly disposed of may wind up in our water supply or landfill. however, law enforcement officials say leaving them in your home is not a good idea either. >> three-quarters of the prescription medications that are abused in

. >> and are the unused pills in the medicine cabinet contributing to america's drug problem.you can do about it this weekend. 7 news at 9:00 continues people! look at u! but yore still banking like pilgrims! it's time r new school banking, bubbie. interest plus savings at capitalone.com. why earn bupkis, when yousavings can earn three times the national avege!! three mes the national average!!! new school banking at capital one bank. with interest us savings, go to capitane.com!!!!! what's in your wallet? somebody help me down. úp p@ >> good evening once again. here's a look at the headlines we are following for you this friday night. federal judge has cleared the way for california's first execution since 2006 after the state revise the its lethal injection procedures. correction officials scheduled he execution of albert greenwood brown for next wednesday. >> cell phone video of the fake arrest of teenager in san jose. family of the 15-year-old boy took the video and gave it to our media partner san jose mercury news saying they wanted people to see how a san jose police of

they are opening their doors today in the first ever nationwide to take back your unused prescriptionsills and more pills, we use 250 billion dollars worth every year. most americans have been prescribed some kind of medication and often they don't take every pill in the bottle. >> i still have a lot of it in case i need it one day. >> one of the reasons people hold on to it, i'm not sure people actually believe sell by date. >> muscle relaxer, this pain medication. >> painkiller i got from the dentist. i put it in the garbage. that was probably wrong, right? >> drugs that are not properly disposed of, they wind up in our water supply or landfills. law enforcement officials say leaving them in your home is not a good idea either. >> three-quarters of the prescription medications that are abused come from family and friends. >> police sergeant says most prescription drug abusers today are obtaining the pills from family members or friends who leave unused medicines in their cabinets. >> we're talking about vike oh incident or oxycontin. >> some wind up being sold on the streets. teenage

. >>> tough an expired or unused prescription? -- do you have an expired or unused prescription? tomorrow the dea will partner with pharmacies and agencies for national prescription drug take back day. it starts at 10 and goes to 1:00. they have more than 3400 sites across the country. if you want to find the location nearest you, go to the news tab, then health and we have a link to the dea web site. that will give you the information that you need to know. >>> an apartment complex is putting the brakes on pains. it is home to the largest auto park. all you do, watch this. drive if and get out of the car and swipe the card, and let technology do the rest. and it moves your vehicle on to a platform and into a space for you. >>> today the baltimore book festival is under way and 200 authors will be on a hand to talk about their books. expect to see what will drop. and sherry shephard and and the festival will host authors and children's book authors, the best part is the book festival is free. and there is all sorts of information and you can get the schedule at www.abc2news.com.

and that may come because of unused telephone books. rainbow has offered these coupons good for 20% off on any item. prompting some residents to search for unused telephone books. >> it's switched to the middle of week, because we had the coupon going. suddenly we had lines here. >> more people come in, the profit is reduced but it's compensated for the increase in sales. >> reporter: the promotion brings a line of customers waiting to come inside. but now it's coming to a close. the 250 workers here voted to phase the program out at the end of september. >> rainbow, is trying to figure out the way to reach as many people and also reduce waste. and i think seeing a lot of phone books for a lot of us seeing phone books scattered on the sidewalk seem to defeat the purpose of reducing waste. >> we would like to get the 20% off if we can get it. anything helps these days. >> reporter: the co-op is looking for better ways for th promotion. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> capital avenue in freemont i

there are seven beats for inactive owners. 25 beats for retired owners, and the remaining are unused. commissioner dejesus: how many are there? >> i know there is a discrepancy of 66 and 64. i have a map in the office, and i physically counted them. >> you said there are 10 beats -- force >> 10 are unused. >> is there anything in our rule that pribblets certain people 23r getting a certain number of beats? >> it is supposed to be free. however there were beat owners that were allowed to purchase or to be transferred additional beats, and i believe the reasoning was that some of the beats were not as condenced either with businesses or residents. some of the deats were combined, and therefore you can call it more beats. however the geographical area was smaller. the bulk of the beats are on the east end of the city. commissioner dejesus: i appreciate that. i think i got it. commissioner chan: in general, when you look at the toe talt of the city -- totality of the city, and you have 818,000 people in your total population, and you think of the number businesses in the city, the securit

the dea national take back get unused and some cases dangerous drugs out of the house and disposed of in a safe and secure manner. the dea state and local law enforcement are participating in the prescription drug take back from 10 in the morning until 2:00 in the afternoon. to get more information on the unused prescriptions you can log on to our website at abc2news.com and click on the state news tab. >> a child sex abuse case in columbia set is a new legal precedent in the state and the country. a 38-year-old columbia man was found guilty for abusing a third grader by writing her dozens of explicit love letters but he never touched her. ruled that paul walker junior that worked as a teacher sexually exploited the 8-year- old girl. a sentencing date has not been set. >>> more charges against the preppy burglar. after posting a $15,000 bail 30- year-old jeremy hall of silver spring was arrested in their jurisdiction. surveillance video showed hall break into a house and stealing a sonny boom box. he was reliced on a $7500 bail. >>> students, faculty, and staff at the west virginia us

those unused properties, i think that the board of supervisors should seriously consider letting community people use those two vacant properties, even though they may not be able to pay very much rent. i think having the community use those two big properties is a lot better than having them sit empty, especially the new one coming on board. not only does it need to be closely scrutinized, but i think if there is going to be any empty space there, it should be used for the community, even though the city or the developers may not be getting any ranch. thank you. chair maxwell: all right, next speaker, please. if anyone else would like to speak, please line up so we can go fast. >> i am on behalf of the avalon bay communities, the developer of 1150 ocean avenue. we want to come to an agreement so we can provide on-site inclusionary units, consistent with city policy to do as much as we can. the reason it needs to be a resolution coming before you, until the amendments are enacted by this board in a month or two, the planning director does not yet have the authority for this agreement. this

this is an opportunity for all of us to clean out our medicine cabinets and turn in unused or retiredription drugs, no questions asked at three sites throughout our community. >> the drug enforcement agency will then incinerate the drugs. as andrea mckaren reports, that simple act could save a life. >> i was out here when i heard screams upstairs, ran upstairs to find out what was going on. >> reporter: phil bauer fold his wife's screams to their son's bedroom. mark wasn't moving. >> he looked like he is asleep. he just wasn't responding. >> reporter: mark had no pulse, and he wasn't breathing. >> i can't tell anyone what it's like to try to revive your lifeless child. >> reporter: paramedics raced mark to iraq hospital. it was too late. >> someone came in and told us mark had died. you know, life for us ended that day. >> reporter: what came next was another shock for the bower, the toxicology report, revealing how mark died and what was in his system. >> i asked, were there any illegal drugs or alcohol in his system. when he said no, i felt a sense of relief. >> in mark's room, his

another misnomer is that it's okay to flush unused drugs down the toilet or toss them into the trash, that is not okay according to the dea. we had a garbage issue earlier on the peninsula. now the question is, who's going to pay for it. the recent garbage strike won't cost customers a penny. ail lied waste says it will pick up the tab for last month's two-day garbage workers' strike. the strike cost san mateo county $200,000. garbage collectors worked saturday and sunday to clean up the mess left by the two-day strike last month. it was staged in support of some female employees who were reportedly not given the same wages and benefits as their male counterparts. >>> depending on your viewpoint, different polls can mean many things. the new poll has found that the americans split over president obama's health care plan isn't as simple as it appears at first glance. four out of ten adults think the law doesn't go far enough to change the health care system. four in five say they oppose the law. over all, about 30% favored the legislation, about 40% opposed it, and 30% remain neutral.

people can drop off older and unused pills around the country. the dea will dispose of them safely. they are hoping to fight prescription drug abuse. >>> w let's fast forward to that weather. >> 97 degrees out there. plenty of sunshine. a very hot day and a record breaking day as well. we're going to cool off tonight down to aut 70 by the time you wake up tomorrow morning. winchester around 65. your forecast tomorrow, temperature in the mid 80 84 in annapolis. if you're thinking about going out this week, it is looking fantastic. no matter what it is, the 17 street festival, octoberfest and the national harbor, even a taste of fendship heights. you can find it all on nbcwashington.com. the full forecast coming up in a minute. >> ank you, doug. what will happen with d.c. school's chancellor michelle rhee? that's the question she is facing and a lot of official in the district are facing right now. >> while the movie that she recently started in paints rhee as a modern savior for urban education, her future with d.c. school is still very much unclear. tracee wilkins has more on the st

site, they had to keep the building that was there, but as "compensation," they could sell their unused development potential. we're very concerned that requiring those proceeds to be used for maintenance undercuts the rationale for the t.d.r. scheme and i think will inhibit the continued workability of the t.d.r. scheme. that provision is not needed to take care of st. mary's, though the preservation mandate applies to those 450 buildings that were protected by the downtown plan. obviously, that goes far beyond what is needed to take care of old st. mary's. so i would urge you to adopt the legislation, but strike the provision requiring that any net pro seeds from the sale of t.d.r. from tfer lots, again, transfer lots of some 450, that that provision be strin. thank you. -- stricken. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is charles coleman. up until two months ago, i was pastor of old st. mary's cathedral and got transferred from my religious community in austin, texas. i'm glad to be with you this afternoon. i worked on this project for the last eight years prior to that in terms of

. >>> leftover prescription drugs can be dangerous but what do you do with those unused pills? we've got a solution and we'll tell you about it next. right now it is 11 minutes after 9:00. oweanyo atcha doing little bite™? trying to be big like you, dad. you're so good at keeping everyone full... and focused with your fiber. [ laughs ] but you already are great at doing that. really? sure. you're made with fiber, just like me. but best of all, you're the perfect size for smaller kids. [ female announcer ] give your little ones kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats little bites™ cereal in chocolate and now original flavor. they're an excellent source of fiber packed in a smaller size. [ doorbell rings ] oh, it's original little bite™. we're off to practice keeping 'em full and focused. yeah! we've got big shoes to fill! >>> unused prescription drugs can be harmful to pets, kids and the environment if they are not disposed of properly. health organizations across the country are part nearing for the largest-ever prescription drug take-back day. ava cooper davis is here, and marcus jones

in cities across the country, dea set up collection points where people could turn in unused drugs.e was overwhelming. >>> he went to sleep and never woke up. >> reporter: april is one of many who have lost a child to prescription drugs. >> they need to be treated as loaded weapons. >> reporter: much like the popular gun buy back program they are sponsoring this one day prescription drug take back program at police precincts across the country a relief for many like candace fitzgerald in oakland who has been trying for some time to safely does postof this bag of drugs. >> how do you get rid of them? hazardous household waste told me to grind them up and mix them with kitty litter and put them in the trash. >> reporter: it may not be a great option but grinding up unused drugs is one of the best options for keeping them out of the hands of teens. complicated, yes that is precisely the reason who i john martin of the dea is sponsoring today's event. >> trying to get those out of the medicine cabinet so they don't potentially get on the street. >> reporter: studies show most people who

why the feds want you to turn in your expired and unused prescription drugs this weekend.n michael steele says he's done with the political back biting and nitpicking. he's not talking about the democrats. this is msnbc. my name is vonetta, and i suffer from allergies. [ male announcer ] we asked zyrtec® users what they love about their allergy relief, and what it lets them do. the thing i love most about zyrtec® is that it allows me to be outside. [ male announcer ] we bet you'll love zyrtec®, too -- or it's free. [ vonetta ] it is countdown to marshmallow time. [ woman laughs ] >>> welcome back. prescription drug abuse has surged by 400% in the last decade. now the nation's drug enforcement agency is asking the public to take a step that could save lives. the dea is setting up more than 4,000 locations across the country tomorrow for people to drop off their unused and expired prescriptions. nbc's pete williams is live in washington, d.c. pete, it is stunning how many young people especially are abusing prescription drugs they're finding in the parents' medicine cabinet

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a surprising amount of unused medicine winds up on the streets where it's used or sold.ds. that was certified by an international organization that verifies aviation records. pretty cool! >> very cool! very warm out there. temperatures warmer than yesterday. 84 in san francisco. 88 in oakland. mid-90s in our east bay valleys. 93 los altos, 95 morgan hill. warmest day should be monday then gradual, gradual cooling. >> all right. thanks, lisa. thanks, everyone, for joining us on the saturday morning news. next newscast at 8 p.m.. i'm theresa garcia. have a great weekend. it will be warm! force force captionononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono

they are all the unused air waves between channels. they are used as a busch fer -- buffer zone. now with digital tv, less space is needed. so that space is being licensed for a new internet service. current internet speeds maximums at 54 meg bites. the new stuff is at least theoretically going to be in the white space running at 80 to 800 -- it's many times faster. it's being opened up for these new services. it's very good at going through walls. it's like television because it's in the same radio frequency area. so television gets through walls and things pretty well. gets through trees, you will have the same kind of good, very flexible coverage. >> smart phones and internet radio are taxing the current wireless net works. how we will get this new service is still not known. but companies are bidding to be the developers. it will generate billion of dollars in economic activity. this will no longer be your parents' internet. >>> finding the -- two bay area hospitals is as easy as sending a text message. good samaritan hospital and -- say they are the first hospitals to give p

people arrived at the police station to drop off old and unused prescription drugs. walter wanted to get rid of his medicine, but the hospital wouldn't take it back. >> that's good stuff for you. but it's terrible tasting. >> reporter: the dea will take liquid medicines and pills, but needles are out. and during the take back period, agents have a no questions asked policy. >> we realize now the biggest source of prescription drugs in the household is the medicine cabinet. >> reporter: the agent says criminals steal prescription drugs any way they can, and especially if it leads to a profit. but the takeback blocks that. >> you've heard the term dumpster diving. they'll do it, because they'll use it, or take the pills and sell them on the street. >> reporter: while police say the main purpose is to get as many prescription drugs off the street. they say another reason is to keep the drugs out of the hands of young people. >> in a recent survey a lot of teenagers say they get the drugs at home in mom and dad's medicine cabinet. >> reporter: now all these drugs are hea

. >> having unused drugs in their house, even prescription drugs can be a very big safety concerns fortheir children. >> reporter: prescription vicadin, oxycotin are the new drugs of choice for young people. >> it's easier than alcohol. 100 times easier. >> reporter: some say even more destructive. >> have the same goal in mind each day was to get loaded every day on something. >> age 12 to 15 the first drug that a lot of these kids take is the pain pills from their parents medicine cabinet. >> i have a whole cabinet full of left over prescription drugs that are expired. so i don't know what i'm going to do with them. >> if you drop them out of the bottle in the trash can, people go through them, they don't know what they are, they might take them. >>reporter: flushing medicines pollute water. tomorrow police will take up pills no questions asked. at many police stations. >> don't keep these prescription bottles longer than you need them. >> reporter: go to our website ktvu.com, click on web links for a drop off location near you. reporting live in oakland, health and science editor, j

the value of those unused tickets will be transferred on to the electronic card. ac transit will stop selling paper tickets on october 31st and after december 31st they will not be accepted. >> sal we have got things going on don't we? >> we do have that problem we talked about earlier in san jose the expressway is closed for one city block there as they investigate a crash. let's take a look at the rest of the morning commute. westbound bay bridge traffic is getting busier although right now you can still jump ahead of the crowd getting into san francisco. there are no major problems. looking at 880, that traffic looks good, northbound and southbound in frost of the coliseum. this morning if you are driving into the valley 280 a little bit of -- well it is crowded but not stop and go. around the corner approaching highway 17 seeing more crowding there. 6:07 here is steve. >> the headline today is cooler, take that into tomorrow as well. then, then it looks like high pressure wants to come backs for some additional sunshine and warmer weather as we get towards fri

sometimes someone we didn't know would put something under the mattress, making the cot unusable for several days. someone would come by and take the hardware away in a shopping bag and that would be it for a week or so. there was often a black photographer who would come to the shop with an empty shopping bag. when he left, he with leave in a zigzag and eventually get on a bus going south. >> i wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of trees and flowers grew. the trees bending down gently flinging branches. our orchard grew like a crown on the sun

there are more than 4,000 sites where you can drop off expired, unused or unwanted prescription drugsere are plenty around the district. go to deadergz.usdoj.gov. >>> stay with us. news 4 continues at 5:00 a.m.

parents can come to thousands of locations across the country to drop off their unused medication. it happens in arlington, and montgomery county. >>> stephen colbert is on capitol hill this afternoon. he wrapped up his testimony before the judiciary committee on the subject of march -- migrant farmworkers. he testified in character about what he calls his vast knowledge of the subject. >> congresswomen lofgren asked me to share my vast experience, spending one day as a migrant farm worker. i'm happy to use my celebrity to draw attention to this complicated issue. i hope that my star power can't bump this hearing all the way up to cspan-1. >>> he recently spent a day picking vegetables on a farm in new york. >>> global leaders including president obama made in new york city for the united nations general assembly. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is making most of the headlines incurring the wrath of western nations. he has said the u.s. should release eight iranian prisoners being held here much like american hiker who was released last week from iran. >> i don't work with th

. >>> people across the bay area dropped off thousands of outdated or unused prescription drugs, part of the d.e.a.'s effort to keep those drugs off the street. >> reporter: people are cleaning out their medicine cabinets today. and bringing their extra or expired prescriptions to police departments all over the country. 25 dropoff sites were here in the bay area. in san francisco's tenderloin district, police want prescription drugs to come here instead of ending up out here. insure. >> traditionally street drug sales have been around crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, some marijuana sales. what we're now seeing is a real increase in the sale of pharmaceutical pills on the street. >> vicodin, oxycontin and morphine are the prescription drugs of choice on what's known as pill hill in tenderloin. >> selling morphine. >> reporter: police stopped would people. another two got away. these men didn't have any pills on them. but one was still taken away for a prohibition violation. a sergeant told me, more pill-pushers will be back in a matter of minutes. >> just from this morning. >>

the tenderloin certainly has plenty of unused and obis the plenty of problems.ing the level of reporting? police have come up after the fact, and you have not done anything about it, is that the case? >> even if it is across districts, i believe the districts that are heavy with entertainment, it we have a level of detail, and there are requests for us to use tools in our toolbox. i would be surprised and big to differ with anything that is said. we have asked repeatedly to do something. i do not believe that is the case. it has not been for some time. as time and tools allow, -- commissioner meko: i think you are developing a great model. >> just come before the go on, with officer mathias, is it a sit down with sutra and the other, or do you want to sit down with them? >> commissioner meko, i will bring up another thing that we just did this last week. explaining what my actual responsibility czar, we have brought all of our permit officers together. will we also did, i think, moving in this new direction is the others attended this meeting, and i wanted them

>>> for the first time in several years, the federal trade communication is opening up air waves unused in a battle to make high-speed wireless broadband access more widely available. >>> back on the street, the battle for thrifty car rental continues just a week before shareholders were to vote on an approved $1.4 billion bid from hertz. avis has upped its offer to $1.5 billion. >>> keep an eye on nike today, up 1.5% after the bell thanks to better than expected earnings. >>> finally, talk about adding insult to injury. residents in the mexican state of veracruz cleaning up after heavy flooding brought on by hurricane karl are warned that at least 280 crocodiles are on the loose in the area after escaping during the storm. >>> it's not a-okay for cc. an interception and major league milestones. >>> plus, major action off the field as one toronto fan goes too far trying to catch a foul ball. your early morning sports headlines are just ahead. >>> and we have big changes coming this weekend as cool, fall air rushes across the country. your weekend forecast is coming up. >>> you're watchi

the dea set up collection points where people could turn in unused drugs. julie watts on the turn out. >> reporter: he went to sleep and just never woke up. >> reporter: april is just one of many who lost a child to prescription drugs. >> they need it be treated as weapons. >> reporter: the dea agrees. much like the popular gun buy back program they are sponsoring this one day take back program at police precinct across the company. a relief for many like candace who has been trying to safely get rid of a bag full of drugs. >> how do you get rid of them? i was told to grind them up and mix them with kitty litter throw them away. doesn't seem like a great option. >> reporter: it may not be a great one but grinding them up is one of the best opposites for keeping them away from kids. complicated that's why john martin of the dea said they are responsoring the event. >> we are trying to get them out of the medicine cabinet and so they don't possibly get on to the street and are abused. >> reporter: studies show most people who abuse prescription drugs like the

expensive and innovative and they are uh-huhs all over the city where people have alleys that are unused space in san francisco that attract crime. they want a creative stewardship in a city that will not be building more parks. perhaps overwhelming you kind of see, i hope or hear from his presentation that there really was an a huh that happened in the neighborhood. this idea that supporting ideas came from unsuspected places that's what we see in this grant program. these activate communities. a lot of people are grateful for that. a lot are waiting for the right thing to get them involved. that's a powerful thing to have in your neighborhood. the focus of this workshop not the workshop the summit today is tow repeatedly hit us over the head with hurricane katrina when the compliment to that which is an earthquake the stronger neighborhoods will survive and the ones that are capable will dealing with a variety of issues and used to talking to one another a buddy system of a variety of levels. because i heard alarming things about the new orleans neighborhoods that in neighborhoods in n