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breaking news that touched so many lives for so many decades. san francisco community activist reverend cecil williams. he's passed away he is one of the most influential leaders in san francisco's history. after 60 years, the spiritual leader he stepped away from the church to focus on his family and his health. williams accepted the position as pastor back in 1963. he grew the congregation to 10,000 people and became a well- known activist from issues to rights, homelessness during the a.i.d.s. crisis we just spoke with former san francisco mayor billy brown. >> by then the tenderloin had become what it is today, which means church wouldn't work. cecil understood how to make the church work with that group

of people working within the church. >> he made that church work and he made the community work around that we will hear more from mayor willie brown about cecil williams, the legacy more that coming up on our 6:00 news. >> the unified school district our story of bullying we broke last week. to me truly independent.

the school board members calling for a third-party independent investigation into the district handling of the matter. one of his employees says he put his desk on a roof for punishment. he has been able to get away with that behavior these employees say, because of his close friendship with the superintendent and her husband the former police chief. >> i was horrified that the superintendent was still refusing to take -- the board president antonio hernandez called for a special meeting on friday to discuss disciplinary action. three out of the five board members declined to meet, prompting hernandez to resign. >> calling for an independent

investigation. why does that concern you? >> it's not an independent investigation. how can we have an independent investigation that -- >> an investigation? and happens. and needs to be done by the investigation. >> she and hernandez have another reason to believe it might not be in the pennant. they have been blocking their efforts to hold the superintendent accountable. >> of never been part of an evaluation and it has not been evaluated the entire time i've been on the board. every time we evaluate the superintendent there's been excuses related to issues that the pandemic. >> i'm not sure why there is a refusal to evaluate. is concerning for me. >> we reached out to the other three board members but have

not heard back we also reached out to her husband for any comment but haven't received a response. in the email today she said she looks forward to updating the board on the investigation's findings not specifying a timeline, who will be conducting the investigation. >> protecting people. failure to find accountability. harm our staff, our students and our community. >> this has been getting so much reaction. both telling me they want the board of trustees to lean in that investigation. >> if you have a story for kansas or anyone else, give us a call. nbc bay area.com/investigation.

accusing mr.trump of falsifying business records. he said he was innocent. testimony is expected over the last couple of weeks. he's accused of interfering in that election. coming up how is this for voters? >> it's a big deal. no former president or otherwise has ever gone to trial.

and some important as his election just six months away this is downright salacious. money and politics people are interested in this. they want to know what's going on. there is reason for everybody they want to know what's going on. >> how about this is about crime and how much is character? >> maybe a little bit of both. you can reassess and think twice about what they want there if he's acquitted you can take it the other way. a piece fit, if he's convicted 2-1. 57% 2-1 saying that he's not fit. of course democrats overwhelmingly saying no. republicans a quarter of them

this is a big thing. remember. this is a snapshot. we have a whole trial to go. on telling you something you will see opinions back and forth with every witness between the prosecution and the defense. >> it's interesting because at the end of each day in court he held a 1-2 minute news conference. that was the advantage of the former president. >> he certainly tried to. you got the game to himself the prosecution is not coming out every day saying what's on their mind. he saying what he wants to say every day he's in trouble doing that. the judge will talk to him tomorrow i just don't think it will be very nice. you can see what he's doing.

people are tuning in the same way every day. we don't know but there is plenty to talk about what goes on in that courtroom and we got a lot more of it tomorrow and the rest of the week. >> thank you for your input, have a good evening. and company called bright line broke ground on the $12 billion project 218 miles between the las vegas strip. the electric power trains are expected to cut the four hour trip across the desert down to a little more than two hours. expected tab thousands of new jobs. >> the work beginning today is expected to benefit 10,000 good paying union jobs in nevada and california. >> receiving more than $6 billion from the biden administration the goal is to have trained operating in time for the 2028 summer olympics in

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>> ss your leftovers. >> i have pizza that's two days old. it's earth week and we are continuing our coverage here on nbc bay area throughout the week so you can tune in. the best by date, you can save that for longer than anything. >> if the milk is chunky, it's time to go. >> use common sense pressure. >> we are doing beautiful out here we have sunshine, a little bit of fog rolling in at the coastline and eventually we will get into some rain chances later on this week let's take a look right now in our temperatures versus the averages certainly warmer than others. that's the average of 70. 82 degrees averages 73. it's starting to drop with the fog returning right there. a little more of 82 coming up

at 85 the average is 70. 15 degrees above average here for parts of the south bay. beginning to cool off with fall returning at the coastline we are down 17 degrees cooler compared to this time yesterday in santa rosa because of that cool breeze much more comfortable and that's going to keep the fog back at the coastline. the chance here some spotty temperatures sunshine here for most of us except the beach we will hang onto the fog with a chance of the afternoon. maybe a few pop-up showers and thunderstorms over the sierra just north of us right now it looks like we will be rain free throughout the bay area tomorrow we will cleave a coat close eye on that area. up and down 50 here. a light jacket will serve you well. coming over to north bay with

50. instead of 80s, we are back down to reality low 70s in the inland valley. 71 in san jose. coming up low 60s right here. beyond this we will start to see some changes in thursday. the thing about the storm it looks like it's developing over the land. as this drops down we see some rainfall thursday and friday. doesn't look like a whole lot. if we saw this develop more to the west, rainfall totals would be a lot higher. looks like a spotty chance tomorrow. there we go, some spotty rain chances. >> overall totals right now as we head into thursday and friday, trace amounts for some higher elevation getting in on

a quarter of an inch we will continue to monitor that forecast the bigger thing that will be impacting us as cooler temperatures with 60s remaining in san francisco. we will get a little bit -- we will get old -- we will get a little bit breezy tomorrow. we will go down to 68 on thursday. >> that's a huge change we go back to the upcoming weekend. >> it's going to be dry. >> what are they going to do to improve

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russian airstrike broadcast signals were disrupted in ukraine the second largest information -- the u.s. house of representatives closer to the infusion of firepower. creating some of the most significant games yet. lawmakers in sacramento trying to control regulations on autonomous vehicles with the transportation committee. it was authored by -- if enacted into law it will provide oversight for driverless cars allowing law enforcement to site traffic violations and require companies to set up a dedicated phone line to prevent them from entering areas like construction zones and road closures. if approved and signed into

law, the rules will go into effect in january. we are less than 100 days out from the olympics. arriving at city hall been decked out in the colors of the games from month. it's renovated to accommodate fencing and tae kwon do. at the end of the iconic day, crews are preparing the palace court hosting new events like skateboarding and breakdance and when they build it they weren't thinking about any of those things. the opening ceremony. making the wnba debut next season. just about a week ago she was drafted in the wnba first

overall she was invited to the u.s. training camp for a chance to get a spot on the team. she missed it because of the tournament. she is going to try out for the olympics in a different way. the first one in the wnba will serve for tryouts for a roster spot, that's just a hunch i think she will do well in the first few games. >> that's just a hunch. >> joining us with what's coming up next. >> the community activist and a legendary reverend cecil william has died at the age of 94. we are live with parishioners and community members for the work over the past six decades. >> damien went with new development tonight after san jose fire captain was arrested for sending lewd photos to a 13- year-old girl. the alarming video that shows the sting operation. >> one of the most important

times for the fbi on alert. the potential threat attention -- tensions remain high. the news at 6:00 thank you for being with us on this monday. >> we continue to follow breaking news tonight in the icon who touched so many lives for so many decades, has died. reverend cecil williams passed away today at the age of 94. williams spent 60 years leading the church giving a voice and support to marginalized people in the tenderloin he was a well- known activist on issues from -rights to homelessness and the a.i.d.s. epidemic. coming up tonight where leaders are remembering his life.

>> we are just inside the church getting the reactions from folks who are reacting to the passing of reverend cecil who died at the age of 94. you mentioned briefly his history here. for folks that know about this, know that they have the specific services for those in need. the home was around the city. that was around the thanksgiving event. thousands of people in the city it's quite a sight to see. and is a very popular church. a number of dignitaries have attended this church over the years we are talking former presidents as well as different celebrities. as he mentioned we were talking about reverend cecil williams over the decades becoming one of the more influential figures here in san francisco history with folks here at the church we will have more on the passing of reverend ceci