Country cannot arrest itself out of the epidemic. Instead of prosecuting abuser, they are encouraged to call police and the officers will get them into rehab. If an addict comes to the Police Station with their drugs or paraphernalia and asks for help, we do not arrest them. We facilitate them into treatment. Reporter the Gloucester Police chief says the Police Department is a safe haven and his approach appears to be working. We think its been successful. Weve had 150 people placed into treatment in the last 95 days. Ernie linda, we know its a huge problem. Tell us about gloucester. How is that working . Reporter its going really well for them. We were talking about as far as relapsing. Because many times many users end up relapsing. The police chief says if they relapse, they come back to the Police Department. They get them back into rehab. His philosophy is this. The drug dealers, theyre there. We can always arrest them. If you dont deal with the users and get them off the stuff, the demand will always be there. Ernie treat them. Reporter treater them and the demand goes away. Ernie joining me is my special guest, maria ulmer. You were watching the story. We talked about this. You deal with this all the time. This is what you do. Its a huge problem. It affects people, they dont realize its in their home. Yes. This epidemic does not discriminate race, gender, and its important to understand its in your backyard. This could be your neighbor. This could be your postmaster, your doctor. Its important that we look at what the reality is instead of acknowledging the miss misnome misnomers. Were seeing the young Adult Population heavily hit by the epidemic, starting with prescription pain medications and going to heroin as its more accessible. Its 5 a bag. We can snort, shoot, smoke. Its just now crossing all boundaries. Ernie when youre taking a prescription drug, you know what it is. You take heroin, you dont know. You dont know what youre dealing with. You dont know. Theres no fda stamp on it or no one monitoring. It could be laced with fentanyl, play with. Ernie we like to deal with the problem, the solution. How do we solve the problem . How do we get to the source of why people are doing this . Right now is the time to take action. We want to educate. We want to provide training to law enforcement, to first responders, to families. We have narcan this is offering the opportunity that if someone could be potentially in a fatal overdose, if they are injected or nasally ingesting, they can be saved. What are other options to help them, treatment. Ernie the coping skills they need to have to be able to handle this problem. Were ignoring the underlying issues if we think this is a law community. This is something that each individual is struggling with something, underlying mental health, emotional distress, family relationship. Ernie thats where you get to it. Key. If we help to identify what some of the stressors are and how to overcome it, it helps us take a different step moving forward, not doing the same thing and getting the same result. Ernie an emotional problem. It creates a lot of issues for an individual and for family. Everybody has to get involved, as you said. The whole community. Ernie the whole community. And government and schools and everybody has to pitch in to get to the source of the problem. Absolutely. If we can band together, educating and providing training and resources and the Treatment Options that are available and accessible for individuals with or without insurance. Ernie lets make it happen. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. In other stories to cover for you today, for the first time, there isnt a single neighborhood in any of the five boroughs that a minimum wage worker can afford. A street easy. Com study says no one can afford the median rent anywhere, making 8. 75 an hour. To be able to live in manhattan, you need to make at least 44 an hour. Former professional tennis player james blake was mistakenly mistakenly detained by police. Officers mistook him for an Identity Theft suspect. According to the daily news, he was slammed to the ground and handcuffed. Police say he was pointed out by several witnesses. They had him in handcuffs. I didnt see them put him down. No need to be aggressive. They had him. I didnt know if he robbed a bank or what. The way they was around him like he robbed a bank or something. Ernie the 35yearold suffered cuts and bruises to his leg and elbow. He was in town for the u. S. Open. The city board of health approved a new warning label for menus at fast food and chain restaurants. A salt shaker symbol will indicate which items contain more than daily recommended amounts of sodium. New york is the first city in the nation to approve the rule which goes into effect december 1st. Thats whats happening now. Joining me is nick. Weve got some rain on the way. Weve had some beautiful weather. Nick we have and we need the rain. Were falling way behind average where we should be. This will be a big help. Its going to help lower the temperatures as well. We had another 90degree day. Ernie this is tonight and going into tomorrow . Nick thats correct. Weve had a few showers this evening, some good downpours. The bulk of this will be tomorrow. Some of the areas of rain showers and thunderstorms that come through may produce locally heavy rainfall, particularly as we get into the afternoon and evening. Keep it in mind for your travel plans tomorrow. There it is. 90 degrees in new york city today. This is it. I dont see 90 coming back. Maybe this is it for the season. 76 the low this morning. Notice the average high is 78 and the average low 63. Well be close to that the next couple of days. 94 and 48 in the records. Now 82. Humidity is high. Dew point temps in the upper 60s to 70 thanks to the south wind. We have some clouds in the sky. 29. 81 the pressure and holding steady. The rain that poured on staten island, almost to parts of Lower Manhattan and brooklyn, thats moved briefly to the south. 90plus new york city north into poughkeepsie. 94 there. 80s across long island. 91. Everyone else has cooled down. Weve seen clouds come in and a the area. Not a great deal. More coming in tonight and tomorrow. Look at the dew point numbers. Upper 60s to the lower 70s. Feeling very uncomfortable and humid. I think today has been the most uncomfortable day of the week if youve been outside. You probably share that feeling. Wind out of the south, southwest, 5, 10 miles an hour. It will shift to the west and to the north tomorrow. Theres the cluster of rain along the south shore here. Its getting up to robert moses. We have some scattered showers and storms central connecticut. The wide view on fox 5 sky guardian 3d shows this cluster developing southward, getting rain along the garden state parkway. The wide view shows a line of showers and storms Northern New England towards kentucky. Thats the cold front thats coming our way. Youll see that moving in our direction as the southwesterly flow will get replaced with the northerly flow, helping to cool things down. Well be in the 70s tomorrow. Showers will be around. Heavier downpours, a couple of thunderstorms, 78. The heaviest rain is tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening. Youll see thats our futurecast. Therell be a wave of low pressure falling. That brings in the rain. Showers on friday and improvement for the rest of the day. Showers and storms tonight. 74 in the city. 60s to 70 in the suburbs. Tomorrow, more showers and thunderstorms. The heavy rainfall threat is there. It is cooler. Still humid in the upper 70s. Early showers friday. Sun at 80. Not a washout sunday. 78. Monday, tuesday, wednesday, nice days. Upper 70s to 80. 60s at nice. Ernie as you said, we need the rain. Nick we do. Ernie thank you. Coming up for you tonight, more on new yorks homeless problem. Well share some very important stories for you. Our liz dahlem talks about the personal struggles of a homeless issues. Tomorrow at 6 00, local Community Banks have always played an Important Role in helping Small Businesses and homeowners. Now theyre just disappearing. Tomorrow well take a look at why its happening and todays new way of banking. Break. So everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios well, fios is a 100 network to the home, Fastest Internet and inhome wifi available. And fios gives you big capacity too. So everyone in the house can get online. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. Ultimately, thats why. Get 50 meg fios internet, tv phone starting at 79. 99 a month. Plus get 300 back. Hurry, offer ends september 19th. Get out of the past. Get fios. Hands off the homeless. Ernie advocates protested in harlem saying the nypd is going too far and manhandling people. Yesterday we took a look at the homeless problem and efforts to find a solution. Right now there are many people who arent getting the help they need, especially when they suffer with mental problems. Liz dahlem continues with an inside look at these problems. Its hard. Its extraordinarily hard because i was constantly stressing about where i was going to sleep at night, how i was going to eat. Reporter lisa was homeless for years. In an effort to find structure, she joined the navy after serving her time, she moved back to new york, but not long after, her mother died. Her passing was too much to bear. Lisa found herself back on the streets, struggling with anxiety, depression and Substance Abuse. Stuff. I was angry at the death of my mom, hurt on active duty. I just wanted to get away from the pain. The only way i knew how to do that was drugs and alcohol. Reporter a rough night led to a cocaine binge, which landed lisa in the hospital. She decided it was time for rehab and learned about the jericho project. Tory is the executive director. Its a housing model. Its a simple idea that a lot of Homeless People arent just homeless because they dont have a place to live, that theres reasons they became homeless. We try to address the root causes of homelessness and help them get on with their lives. They may be dealing with a trauma or Substance Abuse disorder. Reporter lisa lives in the veterans residence in the bronx, home to 56 homeless and lower income vets. Residents pay 30 percent of their income and have their own apartment. They can close the door and lock it. They have their own key. They can come and go. Reporter this is more than a place to live. What happens here . We have our on site staff that certain the veterans. We have social workers, a career counselor, a veteran mentor. Any need that a veteran has we can help them address. If we cant, we have referral sources. This is the heart of the building. Its where the services happen. Its where we help people get their lives back. They have a staff. I have a case manager that i can talk to. Even if i cant talk to him, i can grab somebody else. Reporter now lisa is going to college to become a Substance Abuse counselor and creating a new life for herself. This is something that me and my mom used to do when i was a teenager because i used to play basketball in school. So when i wasnt on the courts, me and my mom would do arts and crafts like this and stuff. Reporter this makes you feel i really feel connected to her and everything when i do this because i have good memories of her and me doing artwork. I love it. Reporter the jericho project has been around 30 years and continues to do great work. The nonprofit just broke ground on its eighth Supportive Housing residence in the bronx which will help. We work with people to help them get jobs and have careers so one day they wont need this housing and they can move out. Reporter a longterm solution to a growing problem, chance. Jericho has helped me a lot. Its gave me the stepping stone to pick myself up and do what i need to do. Ernie thank you, liz. Thank us on friday for the backlash against smartphones. Why some younger people are rebelling against a hyper connected world by ditching their phones. Is this a trend that will last . Well talk about it with a live guest friday at 6 00. When we come back today, are you heading to the movies . What kind of movie would you like to see . Tell me. What do you prefer, a scary movie or a movie with a happy ending . Do you like a good scare or not . See what people said in just a hold on. Russ will be here. How about those mets . How about those mets. It took Serena Williams years to master the two handed backhand. But only one shot to master the chase mobile app. Technology designed for you. The way you bank. And berries peaches, pumpkin seeds, and cherries i say to the bowl are you trying to temp me . The bowl says come on down to the land of plenti. Yoplait plenti, with oats, flax, and pumpkin seeds. Greek yogurt, packed full of goodness. Ernie yesterday we talked about whether matt harvey would struggle. He did, but his teammates came to the rescue. Russ he learned a valuable lesson. Team. Ernie they were great. Russ no i in team. It wasnt about matt harvey. He did not have it last night, as you mentioned. He just you know, we were talking yesterday was he going to be was all this going to affect him. Ernie too much stress. Russ its too you have to get inside his head to figure it out. I think it had to affect him some. He knew the world was watching. He eats up being on the stage. He put himself under the microscope. But he had a lousy effort. Did youre down 71. Ernie i couldnt believe that. What a comeback. Russ we are in the Sports Department watching the tennis. 71. This is over with. Even Terry Collins said maybe ill put in my subs and give the guys a rest. They dont quit. Ernie amazing. They are. Russ its how about this. If the mets win tonight, if the mets win tonights game, they could go 12 and 11 the remainder of the season and the nationals would have to go 20 and 3. Aint happening. Ernie theyve got to win the division title. Russ they are going to win the division. Ernie should we talk about football . The season is about to open. You got amazing numbers about gambling, which is a hot topic. Russ how much would you guesstimate . Ernie a big number. I know. Russ illegal gambling in this country, 95 its on mostly the nfl and College Football 95 billion. Ernie it incredible. Russ 95 billion dollars. Ernie its amazing. Russ that is why we are seeing, you know, a lot of these fantasy teams and leagues getting involved. This Company Called gambling compliance, the Global Research firm, they project that a fully developed legal gambling system, legal in the united states, would bring in about 121 2 billion dollars in refuse venue revenue. Ernie astronomical numbers. You only see the winners. Russ thats the hypocrisy of all this. You see how we see the smoking commercials about people you shouldnt smoke . Youll see people broke and lost their family and their jobs and everything else. This is a very slippery slope. Ernie it is. Thank you very much. Halloween is coming up, which means horror movies will be invading theatres. Do you like them or do you prefer a happy movie . Well have your ans oh, stay on that one. [changes channel] sometimes its hard to catch all your favorite shows. Youre killing me, dad. Give me that, please. With time warner cables enhanced dvr, you can. 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I cant handle scary movies. I saw the exorcist in college three times and three times i had my jacket over my head. I like both. Ernie you like the variety . I do. Ernie what do you like about a scary movie . I like being excited about not knowing whats going on. Ernie keeps you moving in the seat. Yeah. Ernie you like happy movies. Not scary movies . No. Ernie you dont go to the movies together . No. Ernie enjoy your happy movie. Thank you. Ernie enjoy the scary ones. Have a good time. Bye ill get the popcorn. Thats it for now. Thank you very much for joining us. Im ernie anastos. From all of us in studio 5 and our control room, thanks for being a part of our broadcast. Have a wonderful night. Well see you tomorrow. Russ what are you going to see . Ernie you were talking about chick flicks. A wave of gameday excitement is rolling into dunkin. Taste the new tailgater breakfast sandwich, stacked with smoked sausage, and onions. America runs on dunkin. 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