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frustrations on him and other nurses verbally and sometimes physically. >> i've been assaulted most of the time, all the time. >> reporter: even though the county and nurses union already reached a tentative agreement to address safety and workplace violence weeks ago, he sees chronic understaffing as an underlying issue. >> because if you have over 40 people sitting in the lobby in the emergency room, they get frustrated because they've been waiting for hours on end, you can reasonably see why some might be agitated. >> reporter: the county and nurses union are also said to be at an impasse over wage increases and staffing distribution, but do agree on one thing. the $20 million the county spent to pay for fill-in nursing staff this week could have gone to better use. >> unfortunately we've now had to take money and put it towards this essential coverage and that's money we then don't have as a system. >> they had only put that towards us, we may have been able to prevent all this. >> reporter: are you going back to the bargaining table? >> we are hoping to be able to,
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but if they continue to not do the right thing and just waste time, there's no sense in negotiating with them if we're just going around in circles. >> reporter: the strike will be over by friday morning and both sides say they're hopeful they can reach an agreement back at the bargaining table in. san jose, emma goss, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. in oakland a suspect wanted on an outstanding warrant managed to hide from police in a neighborhood more than an hour before police finally arrested him. nbc bay area skyranger shows the scene on stanley avenue near 580 after 11:30 this morning. investigators say when they tried taking the man into custody, he ran and hid behind a house. officers found him eventually, no word yet on the charges. elon musk appointed two new employees to oversee safety policies on x. the hope is the new employees will help rebuild relationships with advertisers, trust among users, too. this move comes after a rocky 18 months since musk bought
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twitter and changed it to x. most of the previous employees in charge of safety resigned and musk eliminated many other employees' jobs who worked on content moderation. as a result, many advertisers discontinued ad spending on the platform. x says the new employees will help insure a safer experience for users and advertisers on the app. the world central kitchen disaster relief charity has paused critical humanitarian operations in gaza, this after an israeli strike killed seven of its workers, including an american. prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledged israeli force its carried out the unintended strike. the white house is calling the incident heartbreaking and troubling while urging israel to investigate what exactly happened. nbc's alice barr is in washington with the story. >> reporter: in the gaza strip today tragedy, global outrage, and growing demands for answers after an israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from the u.s.-based charity world central kitchen as they were leaving a food warehouse in
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clearly marked vehicles. secretary of state antony blinken honoring the victims who include a dual u.s.- canadian citizen. >> they show the best of what humanity has to offer when the going really gets tough. they have to be protected. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledging his country's forces had unintentionally hit innocent people. he's promising a full review. among the dead, british, polish, and palestinian citizens and an experienced australian aid worker who spoke on msnbc last year about world central kitchen's mission. >> we are overcoming every obstacle. >> reporter: world central kitchen founder chef jose andres called the victims angels adding, "the israeli government with needs to stop this indiscriminate killing, stop using food as a weapon," his organization the first to bring desperately needed food into gaza by sea, now forced to
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pause its operations. a spiraling crisis putting pressure on the biden administration. >> and the united states cannot continue to be complicit in the horror that is taking place there. >> reporter: as the white house plays defense over its support for israel. >> that doesn't mean that it's a free pass, that we look the other way when something like this happens. >> reporter: promising to hold the israeli government accountable for protecting aid workers and allowing supplies in to civilians on the verge of famine. the white house is also calling for the results of israel's investigation into that airstrike to be released publicly while noting that president biden had called chef jose andres to convey his grief and thanks for the organization's tremendous contributions. in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >> thank you, alice. tonight president biden is holding a dramatically downsized gathering to celebrate ramadan after invitations were reportedly
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declined by several muslim american community leaders. mr. biden held a small closed door meeting with some muslin community members today and after hosted a meal with vice president harris and some senior muslim administration officials. the scaled back celebration comes amid deepening criticism from muslim and arab american communities over the biden administration's support for israel's military campaign in gaza. trying to manage the strained u.s. relationship with china, president biden held a two-hour phone call this morning with chinese president xi jinping. biden and xi last talked during san francisco's apec summit late last year holding a bilateral meeting. the white house described today's call as a way for the two leaders to "check in." during the call biden raised a host of u.s. concerns, including his ongoing security concerns over tiktok, china's trade policies and said he would continue to take necessary actions to block china's access to u.s. technology if it poses a
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national security risk. xi said that u.s. trade restrictions are creating risks for the countries' relationship. san francisco is rolling out a new solution to a longstanding problem. it started accepting applications today for the city's newest affordable housing development and for the next few weeks only teachers and staff at san francisco public schools could even apply. the goal is to help those employees closer to their schools and the kids they teach. >> reporter: at 43rd avenue near judah in the city's outer sunset district, a massive new development is almost complete called shirley chisholm village named after the country's first black congresswoman and she was also a public housing advocate. this will be the first of its kind in san francisco specifically aimed at usfd educators and it's been years in the making. it's scheduled to open this
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fall, but this process started in 2016 when the city decided to prioritize affordable housing for teachers and first responders. it's a process that hasn't been easy. >> it's unfortunate that it's taken this long because we've had to do a lot of rezoning and some of those laws we need to just remove and get out of the way. >> reporter: to get the development done, city hall and the san francisco unified school district had to team up. >> the school district donated the land to the city to build affordable housing for educators. it was primarily used for storage for about 30 years or so, had some other uses, but it was a very underutilized lot. >> reporter: for sfusd the new property helped solve a major challenge in h retaining teachers. >> this lets them focus their time and energy on the class rooming and teaching and learning. >> reporter: superintendent dr. matt wayne said they're eyeing two other properties that could be used for similar
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developments. shirley chisholm village will have 135 homes available, including one and two-bedroom units. applications are now open for sfusd teachers and employees only. at the end of the initial three- week application process, if there are still units available, the city will open them up for other applicants. in san francisco, sergio quintana. last night james durgan was arrested in san francisco again. he has been in and out of jail more than 100 times in the city, which is one of the reasons we've profiled him in our streaming series "saving san francisco" which chronicles serious problems in the city and solutions how to fix them. durkin was once a well respected private schoolteacher and fitness coach but has spent much of the past two decades struggling with drugs and homelessness. over the years he's been convicted of a range of crimes related to violence and drug use in. our series we showed you why durkin has been accused of
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terrorizing neighbors in the presidio and has been caught on camera repeatedly violating a woman's restraining order showing up at her home at all hours, one time even when naked. the court has ordered him to enter rehab or traditional housing. he's often walked out, many times within hours of checking in and violating his probation. that's what made him a wanted man last month. now that he's been caught, he's set to face federal charges. the presidio is on federal land. so the feds also want him for vandalism. security videos recorded him writing cryptic love notes on people's front doors late last year in. that same presidio neighborhood where he was spotted naked. you can watch all six episodes of saving san francisco right now on our website or you can stream it on peacock, roku and more. you probably know about or have seen the video of kate middleton revealing her cancer diagnosis. we're now learning she didn't want to do it.
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the daily mail columnist is reporting kate did not feel compelled to share that news but wanted to squash all the conspiracy theories regarding her whereabouts, no word who leaked the diagnosis. the video ended up garnering kate widespread acclaim for her grace, poise, and courage. still ahead, three people wounded at a safeway gas station in the north bay after a shootout, arrests made, how the community is shaken tonight. also moving forward with a plan to make san francisco streets safer, the move today to put speed cameras up throughout the city. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, lots of sunshine and 70s today, 75 in san jose. we'll show you how much colder it gets tomorrow and the ra
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argument and ended with three people wounded. here's nbc's jodi hernandez. >> he said the bullets were whizzing and skipping everywhere. >> reporter: dave christianson describes what his son experienced while gassing up his motorcycle at american canyon yesterday. >> he got off the bike and dove because he said it was just two machine guns going off at once. >> reporter: police say three people were wounded when an altercation at the safeway gas station in american canyon escalated into gunfire around 4:30 monday afternoon. this morning they announced they've arrested two people, 18- year-old christian evans and a juvenile, both from vallejo. >> it's got to be gang-related. i mean this is a very quiet town. we don't have things like this happen here. this just doesn't happen here. it happens down the road in vallejo but not here. >> i'm appalled and numb at the same time. it's a weird combination of
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outrage and numbness. >> reporter: gas station customers say they're rattled by the violence in what's normally a pretty quiet community. >> feel a little strange being on the ground where some tragedy took place. it's kind of a strange feeling. >> reporter: this man delivered pizzas to police to thank them for responding so quickly. he says seeing crime spill over into american canyon is really troubling. >> we're trying to be as protective of our community as possible, but then always, you know, you can't really separate us from the rest of what's happening in the real world and this is real world stuff. >> so he jumped up, got back on the bike, started it right quick and burned out of here. >> reporter: christianson says luckily his son was able to drive to safety, but the close call has left him shaken. >> seemed like a targeted, you know, hit right in front of him. i'm happy he made it home. >> reporter: police say all
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three victims remain hospitalized. in american canyon, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. san francisco's supervisors are moving forward with a plan to put up more speed cameras in the city. governor gavin newsom signed a bill last year allowing san francisco, oakland and san jose and three more cities to have them installed in. all there, will be 33 cameras installed by early next year in the busiest areas in san francisco. tonight experts say affordability is getting farther away from most people. it's a new analysis by redfin which is a real estate brokerage site that finds would- be homebuyers need to earn $113,000 a year to be able to afford a typical house in the u.s. obviously that doesn't apply here in the bay area. that's 35% more than what a typical household earns annually. turns out february of 2021 was
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the last month when the typical household earned more money than it needed to afford the median home. redfin also found only 13 metro areas where buyers might afford the typical home without earning six figures and you know it, none of those are in california. >> just when you were thinking of moving? >> and none of those especially in the bay area. it's terrible. one of the reasons people want to live here is days like this and it was just a perfect spring day. >> it was. if you got a convertible, maybe you had that open. >> i used to have a convertible. >> sun roof open. it's some good weather for that across the bay area. i hope you enjoyed every second of it because we do have some much colder temperatures and also the rainfall coming back. let's take it outside now. let's get you into that blue sky and we'll show you a view out here towards walnut creek and those 70s, right now 75 degrees, a lot of locations in
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the inland valleys to the upper 70s today it. we'll stay with 70s through 6:00 and dip down to 50s and 60s through the next couple hours. the thing that will be different about our forecast for tomorrow is the area of high pressure that brought the sunshine and warm temperatures is starting to move more off to the east. unfortunately not going to be nearly as warm tomorrow and that's going to begin to make way for this storm system to move closer. tomorrow's going to look and feel different here for us with some cloud cover increasing and that fog coming back for the morning. let's get a look at this. here it is, 7:00 in the morning, low clouds across all of the bay area. as we head through the day, the fog would clear back, but we'll see high clouds filtering across helping temperatures drop. morning temperatures tomorrow, we'll start back down into the 40s, going to feel more like winter than spring, 49 through the peninsula. over to the east bay, 48 and
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some low 50s in san francisco. look at these numbers across the south bay. we're coming in with 65 in cupertino, 67 in san jose, right across the east bay no more mid-70s in concord, 67, 63 in hayward, might need the jacket all day long in peninsula, redwood city 63, 61 in the mission, across the north bay, 62 in ukiah, 66 in sonoma. thursday the storm system drops across the bay area. it's going to cool temperatures another 10 to 15 degrees. we're going back to december and january kind of weather, not only rainfall, but some thunderstorm chances. i don't see any flooding, but we could get into heavy downpours with any thunderstorms that develop. this would start to arrive at 5:00 in the morning thursday, then on and off scattered rain chances through thursday
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night's forecast. overall totals thursday, about a 1/4 inch for most of the bay area. by friday's forecast things start to taper off, only trace amounts to about a 0.1-inch for most of us, although the coastline, parts of the peninsula could get about a 1/4 to 1/2-inch around redwood city. back into the 70s starting next monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, and saturday, another nice payoff next week. on the seven-day forecast we can't call it totally dry this weekend, but only a 20% chance of a shower saturday, a 50% chance sunday and for that eclipse monday, maybe you've heard about this, starts at 10:14 a.m. it's only a partial eclipse for us. we'll see the sun obscured by about 35%. our weather looks good to be able to see that. on the inland forecast 55
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thursday to that 72 on monday. that's going to be hard, but, you know, it is what it is. get in the car, head out, put the top down, sun roof open, got another hour or so left of that. >> 85% of the weekends so far in 2024 we've had rain. >> we have it a lot. >> bad timing. it will straighten out. coming up, trying to protect their life's work, stevie wonder, billie eilish and more than 200 artists teaming up to push back against artificial intelligence, what they're asking from tech companies and de
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slump in its car deliveries. tesla says it delivered over 386,000 cars in the first three months of the year, but that's down almost 9% from last year. now it is known that tesla is working through global supply issues still, but the numbers are worse than the low end of the estimates. the last time tesla had a drop like this was when the pandemic started in 2020. it's been a rough year for tesla stock. the company has lost about a third of its value since january. stocks were down across the board again at the closing bell. the dow jones posted the biggest loss dropping nearly 400 points. the nasdaq was down 156. the s&p 500 dropped about 38 points. wall street off to a rough start this quarter over inflation data. traders were anxious over whether the fed will cut interest rates in june or not. some say artificial intelligence can replace the biggest stars in music. more than 200 artists are hoping they are wrong. today a joint letter was published by these musicians. they're arguing digital platforms and tech companies are using a.i.
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to steal their voices and images. the letter includes big names, such as billie eilish, stevie wonder and the families of late icons of bob marley and frank sinatra. the letter raises concerns a.i. can totally replace artists if left unchecks and stop them from being fairly paid for their work. right now only tennessee has a law designed to protect the industry from a.i. san francisco symphony's music director laureate has a music director laureate has a new job, wha with the freestyle libre 3 system... know your glucose levels no fingersticks needed. all with the world's smallest and thinnest sensor. manage your diabetes with more confidence and lower your a1c. try it for free at freestylelibre.us.
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this will be music to the ears of orchestra students throughout the bay area. >> yes, it will. san francisco conservatory of music named michael tilson thomas a distinguished professor of music. tilson thomas is the music director laureate of the san francisco symphony. in his new role he'll work one on one with selected conducting students and participate in readings to the orchestra and lead master classes. the conservatory is releasing a collection of recordings of tilson thomas' collections called grace. in 2022 he was diagnosed with a form of brain cancer. proceeds from the sales of the new recording will go to the
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brain tumor center at ucsf where tilson thomas has been treated. what a treat for students. >> absolutely. you can watch our newscast 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. janelle and raj join us now with what's coming up at 5:30. >> nearly $400,000 worth of items stolen from south bay storage units, how san jose police arrested four people and what you're urged to do if you've gotten something stolen. also trying to hold those accountable for breaking into cars, the legislation moving forward aimed at making it easier on victims and tougher on thieves. and a special celebration to mark the reopening of two hotels in the tenderloin, the long history the two buildings have played in the city's drug and homelessness crisis. welcome to the news at 5:30. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang. >> i'm raj mathai. they broke in and swiped hundreds of thousands of
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dollars worth of stuff from storage units in san jose. >> police are trying to reunite the stolen items with their rightful owners. nbc bay area scott budman has the details. >> reporter: the san jose police department says west coast self-storage on lincoln avenue was robbed twice earlier this year, once in january, again in february. >> there was probably almost $400,000 worth of stolen items. >> reporter: officers say they tracked and have now arrested four suspects in connection with the crimes. the good news, about $60,000 worth of merchandise has already been returned to its owners. >> they did find musical equipment, guitars, other property belonging to those two victims. >> reporter: but lots of items are still inside the pd waiting to be claimed. >> we are asking any folks that feel like they have been a victim of storage unit burglaries, have had any burglaries that involved collectibles in storage units to please come forward to detectives so we can try to put these puzzle piece
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