They are called skittles parties but instead of candy, kids are passing around cold medications and pills. Ken wayne is live. Reporter it is no secret some people use medications to get high. Over the counter cough syrups are popular among teenagers but the socalled skittles parties are taking that practice to a whole new level. Within the last two weeks at least five High School Students suffered an overdose and were taken to the hospital. We were alerted by students that teachers were off. Reporter three students felt high at Mount Tamalpais high and two at francis drake. We heard one of the students may have ingested cough pilling. I have talked to a few people who have been to these skittle parties. Reporter a pill party is where a group of students get aheld of prescription drugs by raiding their parents medicine cabinet and putting them into a single bowl to randomly sample. Just taking random pills is an extremely dumb thing to do and incredibly dangerous. Reporter students say it has been going on at least a year. Some parent are just learning about it. It is like russian roulette. It is bad enough to take drugs when know what they are. It is crazy. Reporter 27 people died of drug poisoning deaths in 2013. Adding, this is an important reminder for us to have conversations with our children early and often about the potential harms of medications. It is one more piece of information that is important for parenting i would say. I had a conversation with my daughter. And, it was useful. Reporter the five students who overdosed this month are going to be okay. Jeff stewart is originally from the midwest and wondered how kids who lived in such beautiful surroundings could even consider drugs. Go to the beach. Go to the mountain. Go sailing. Just dont have a skittles party. I dont get talked into it but i do consider it. It is just instinct. The skittles thing is off the table for you . Yeah, no thank you. Reporter some over the counter cough syrups contain triple c. We found these products across the street from mount tam high. You do not have to be 18 years old to buy them and they are not locked. With the skittles party. I dont get it. Is the point to try the get high or is it kind of a dare as to who can take more pills . Reporter i havent heard anything about a dare. What i heard is a group of kids get together. Pour all of the drugs into a bowl and start popping them and wait to see what happens. Sometimes, the outcome is not very good. Yeah. All right. Ken wayne in marin county. Thank you. We have some sad news to tell you about for one bay area family. Ktvu fox 2 news news confirmed a u. S. Marine corp. Pilot killed today in a crash overseas was from the east bay. His name was taj sareen. He grew up in Castro Valley and went to the university of San Francisco where he graduated in 2004. He was stationed in san diego. He was at the controls of an f 18 hornet like this one. It crashed shortly after taking off from an air base in eastern england. It went down on farmland. One witness said it was fortunate it did not crash into any homes. He was flying with five other f18s on their way back to southern california. The other planes were diverted to another air base. British and american authorities are now investigating. Vice President Joe Biden says he is out of time and is not going to pursue a run for the white house. It could have dramatically changed the election and even the course of history. But after mourning the death of his son beau, he says his window of opportunity had closed. Ktvu fox 2 news Noelle Walker is here with the details. Reporter biden was basically dealing with two timetables. Mourning the death of his son to cancer which has no time limit, and deciding whether to make a run at the democratic nomination which does have time limits. Though biden is not in the race, he will influence as much as he can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation. Good morning folks. Reporter it took vice President Joe Biden just minutes to end months of speculation. Unfortunately, i believe we are out of time. The time necessary to mount a Winning Campaign for the nomination. Reporter the Vice President will not make a third run for the presidency. But while i will not be a candidate, i will not be silent. Reporter biden gave a sense of what his stump speech would sound like from partisan politics. It is mean spirited. Reporter to equity in america. It is about affording every person dignity. Reporter to the obama legacy. Democrats should not only defend this record, and protect this record, they should run on the record. It was a stunning announcement. Reporter Political Announcement brian soble says this open it is door for the Democratic Front runner whos poll numbers dropped with biden in the race. The biggest sigh of relief in the country came this morning from Hillary Clinton when she saw that announcement. Reporter it was not relief, Hillary Clinton tweeted, but gratitude saying he is a good friend and a great man that she is inspired by his optimism and commitment to change the world for the better. Donald trump expressed gratitude in his own way tweeting joe biden made correct decision for him and his family. I would rather run against hillary because her record is so bad. Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders chimed in too. He made a difficult decision based on the needs of his family and his view of his future and i respect the decision that he made. But im telling you. We can do so much more. Reporter biden says he will spend the next 15 month ins office trying to do just that. Thank you all very much. [ applause ] reporter and so much of what the Vice President said today was personal. Biden says when he was first elected to office decades ago, he was called and optimist and he says he is still very much an optimist today. We were talking during the break. When you spoke with brian, he says he actually doesnt think joe biden was out of time. Reporter no, he doesnt think he was out of time. He thinks he actually had a bit more time to try to get himself to the place where he needed to be. But maybe it was a thing of head versus heart. Whatever joe bidens personal timetable was. He wasnt able to get to the position he thought he needed to be here and here to be able to make a run. You are either all in or not in at all. Reporter maybe he was not all in at this moment. Maybe he could have been at some point. It sure changes the course of the race. There are some fresh indications tonight that republican congressman paul ryan seems to be the next speaker of the house. He got the tentative support of the freedom caucus. He told them he needed all House Republican to unify behind him. While the conservatives are now says they could support ryan, they also say their votes are far from unconditional. Are we there tonight yet . No . We have a little ways to go. But im willing to start the conversations because i trust paul. We will vote for him, but we are not agreeing, it was not a consensus. There is no consensus on any preconditions that he asked for. And it needs to include. Freedom caucus members wan to change the procedures to make it easier to remove a speaker from office. Ryan said that would make the job too difficult. House republicans are set to vote on the speakership next wednesday. There are new developments tonight in the highly contagious shigella outbreak linked to a san jose restaurant. County Health Officials now say nearly 100 people have contracted that bacterial disorder. Ktvu fox 2 news Azenith Smith says some of them are considering legal action. Reporter drained and exhausted is how alicia is feeling after three days in the hospital. It turned into one of the worst experiences of her life. Saturday afternoon came around. And, i could barely make it back to my room from the bathroom without feeling really faint. Reporter the day before ingram dined at the san juan restaurant and noticed stomach cramping and diarrhea. She was diagnosed with shigella. We are getting information but it looks like the majority of patients being cared for in the icu have improved. Reporter county Health Officials say there are 93 reported cases connected to this shigella outbreak. 24 confirmed cases. At one point, a dozen people were sent to the icu. The majority of them ate at the same restaurant. The law firm fletcher has been flooded with calls looking to sue the restaurant for medical expenses and lost earnings. Someone is pregnant in the hospital. Whole families have been affected. Reporter poor food handling practices, contaminated food and water are the ways it spreads. Alicia wants to know what a lot of people are asking. What happened and who or what was the source . It was negligence. Or, if it was like, some sort of malicious intent. Im just curious. It is such an odd, or unusual thing to have happen. Reporter she still suffers from severe diarrhea and stomach cramps and her doctors say she will have die jestive problems for the next two months. As for this restaurant, it still remains closed. In san jose, im Azenith Smith, ktvu fox 2 news. At least two lawsuits have now been filed against the restaurant. The attorney involved in both cases says his clients deserve to be compensated for medical expenses and lost wages and that more lawsuits could be coming. People deserve to be compensated. The medical bills for some of these folks in icu who have gone to the er, you know, are in the tens of thousands of dollars. And for some of these people, maybe hundreds of thousands in icu. The lawsuits claim the owner of the restaurant was negligent in making an selling the food and supervising the employees who prepare the food. A man flies through the air when he is hit by a speeding car. And it is not the first accident at this crosswalk. The upgrade pedestrians are now calling for. Tracking more fog tonight. Coming up, where the fog will be for the morning commute. Up next, a new ban on wood stoves in new homes in the bay area. Its the first of its kind ban in the country. This is the dawn of an old day. Because at t and directv are offering yesterdays technology, today. Tv from space. [whispered] space as long as its not too rainy. [whispered] rainy or windy. [whispered] windy or there isnt a branch in the way. [whispered] branchy welcome to the moment no ones been waiting for. The Fastest Internet and the best tv experience is already here with x1. Only from xfinity. New at 10 00, tough new rules for wood burning. The bay area quality district is banning wood stoves in new home. The ban is the first of its kind in the nation. The vote was unanimous and cracks down on some existing fireplaces. Jana katsuyama is live in san rafael with who is affected and when. Reporter julie, this would affect people throughout the district in all nine bay area counties. Some people say this will help make the bay areas air cleaner. Other people say it goes too far and it isnt fair. We have seen a big change. Reporter hearth and home are just not what they used to be when david and his family got into the fire burning business. He says new devices have come a long way. You can take that piece of wood, burn it for 11 hours and heat your home. 2,000 square feet. Reporter he spoke out at the bay area quality meeting and opposed the ban to wood burning devices and impose more restrictions on people using them. The people in the rural areas that do not have natural gas and they have to pay for propane, they still want to burn wood. And the Wood Burning Technology has increased to the point where they are almost as clean as gas. Reporter the district estimates some 19,000 bay area homes use wood for heat. It says wood fires account for nearly 40 of pollution during winter months. The districts ruling would ban even the new cleaner epa certified stoves that would improve air quality and peoples health. Trying to limit the pollutants that people breathe into their lungs and affects their health. Reporter hundreds of residents rely on wood as a primary source of heat. Still, some say the bay area needs to change with the times. My house is 100 years old. But new ones . Change happens. Reporter the changes are scheduled to take effect on november 1 of 2016. And the district plans to create a 3 million fund to provide incentive money for people who do depend on wood for heat to convert to cleaner technology. Reporting live in san rafael, jana katsuyama, ktvu fox 2 news. San Francisco Mayor ed lee unveiled a new plan making it more affordable for teachers to live in the city. It involves penning 44 million to build and preserve housing for 500 teachers by the year 2020 and proposes a rental Subsidy Program for teachers as well as down payment assistance. And it would offer eviction prevention services. Today, teachers voiced their frustration over being priced out of the San Francisco market. Ly probably be looking for a job outside the district. For the next school year. Because i simply cannot afford to live. Not even within San Francisco, but within commuting distance of San Francisco. That teacher is a member of the united educators of San Francisco. They approved aaron pescin and his pledge to work to help more teachers live in the city where they are employed. An emotional plea today in a south bay courtroom. It came from the driver of a big rig involved in a deadly pileup in the Santa Cruz Mountains more than a year ago. As Christina Rendon reports, this could affect other cases. There has been a terrible accident. Reporter the calls from multiple witnesses. A big rig piled up and took everything out. Reporter ten cars were hit. Seven people hurt. One man killed. It happened when the driver lost control of his tractor trailer. He told ktvu fox 2 news he slammed on the brakes but nothing happened. He apologized moments after. The person who lost his life. Im sorry to the person who died and the people injured. Reporter now more than a year later, he pled no contest to a vehicular manslaughter charge. A charge resulting from the death of Danny Mcguire from santa cruz. The Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorneys Office is satisfied with the plea. It occurred because some avoidable mistakes that were made by mr. Sing. That is why we feel that todays no contest plea is justice in this case. Reporter sing and the Trucking Company have two pending civil lawsuits against them filed by the family of mcguire and another victim hurt in the crash. It is not clear how his no contest plea will affect the cases. His Attorney Says sing is remorseful and wants to move on. He will be back in court for december for a sentencing hearing. Reporting in Santa Clara County, Christina Rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. And the weather today, a lot of sunshine. Pretty warm numbers once again. It has been a warm stretch out there. You can see the highs from this afternoon. A lot of 70s and 80s but tomorrow we will begin to cool things off. Temperatures come down a good two to eight degrees from today stahist. On the satellite, we have a weather system up here along the north coast. And we have the fog already regrouping. It was showing up dense near the coastline. Here is a live camera looking out toward the bay bridge. The bay bridge lights. You can see we have some patchy fog pushing back into the bay. It will be a factor for your thursday morning commute. The chance of some drizzle as well. Temperatures will start out your thursday morning in the upper 40s to the 50s. So here we go with our forecast model showing you some of the fog. Here we are at 7 00 tomorrow morning. The clouds clear back to the shoreline. With that system to the north, everybody cools off a few degrees. San francisco, we will put you in the upper 60s. We are going low to mid 80s for your thursday afternoon. Coming up, i am tracking a system that could produce a few sprinkles for part of the weekend and a stronger storm that could produce rainfall next week. More on that coming up in 20 minutes. Still to come here, a symbol of hope amid tragedy. Still ahead, the unveiling of a mural designed by children and now dedicated to a young artist who unfortunately was killed while working on the mural. And in two minutes, a change of heart between lamar odom and Chloe Kardashian. A few twist in their relationship. Police in San Francisco track down four suspects this afternoon who had run off during a traffic stop. One of the suspects is wanted in connection with a homicide case in oakland. The man hunt began around 3 30 and acescentserred near the mariposa onramp. The search shut down nearby street and affected traffic on the freeway. The word is Chloe Kardashian and lamar odom are calling off their divorce. Lawyers for the reality tv star and the former nba star asked the judge to withdraw their divorce papers. She has vowed to stay by his side after he was found unconscious at a nevada brothel over a week ago. He signed the documents to end the Divorce Proceedings from his hospital bed. Raider fans and 49er fans have not had a lot to cheer about, but it has been different for cal and stanford fans. Scott reese as they have had a real resurgence. Reporter exciting times in bay area football. Stanford is ranked 10th in the nation. That is where were re. Reporter cal is ranked 20th. Maybe the little numbers mean more to the fans than the teams. The one ranking that matters happens when everybody is done playing football. If we dont come out and take care of business, who knows where we will be. It is pretty fleeting. We have to keep remembering w