finally on the job. the city has been without a chief for more than a year. so what's it going to take to unify the department and tackle a rise in crime? also, more worries over the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows spreading to humans. why? the warning now includes a particular type of milk. once upon a time in a world not too different from ours. impressive and yet a bit scary, openai

unveils its latest artificial intelligence creation. what it can do and the big question will it cost jobs? good evening. this is nbc bay area news. tonight. i'm jessica aguirre. we're going to start with some of the headlines we're following tonight. the fbi is warning communities at pride celebrations could be targets for terror. this comes just weeks ahead of pride month, which is june. bureau says foreign terrorist organizations and supporters may be planning to commit or inspire violence at pride events or venues next month. now, the alert doesn't name any specific state, city or celebration, but it does, however, name isis as the specific terror group. the fbi says it has seen isis promoting anti-gay rhetoric over the past few years. the alert urges local law enforcement to be on the lookout for threats that could come online, in person or by mail to stay alert for anyone

who shows an unusual interest in security measures at events, or anyone seen taking pictures of access points to those events. now, we did reach out to san francisco pride. they sent us a statement that says in part, quote, as always, we take any potential threat seriously and are working closely with all the appropriate law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety and security of our events. the well-being of our community is our top priority. as in previous years, we will monitor any potential risk and plan accordingly to ensure secure and enjoyable experience for everyone who joins us to celebrate pride, a confrontation on a freeway overpass caught on camera and tonight, the chp is investigating after two pro-palestinian demonstrators say they were attacked while holding a banner over 101. today, the council on american islamic relations or care released this video of the confrontation when it happened may 5th on the menlo park overpass, kerr says the man tore down two banners critical of the

war in gaza, then attempted to throw them onto the freeway. they also say the man threw one of the protesters personal stuff onto the freeway. the group believes this does rise to the level of a hate crime. it's important that chp and other local law enforcement investigate and move quickly. that is, in fact, how our community will feel safer. chp tells us officers responded and interviewed everyone. no arrests were made today. they'll only say that the investigation is ongoing. the pleasanton man accused of killing, dismembering and then dumping the body of his girlfriend is now facing life in prison. today, a jury found 42 year old joseph roberts guilty of murdering his fiancee, 27 year old rachel elizabeth imani buckner. buckner's body was found dismembered and wrapped in plastic near the farm island last july. bay area, bay farm island pardon me, district attorney pamela price says, among other clues, robert's dna

was found on the duct tape the body was wrapped in tonight. rachel's family says the verdict puts an end to years of trauma that the family experienced, and that they experienced during the couple's relationship as well. well, today's verdict means for me is that i don't have to look over my shoulder for right now. i've lived in trauma in terror for the last four years in dealing with the perpetrator, and today means that i can breathe a little bit easier. roberts now faces 15 years to life in prison. he is expected to be sentenced next month. well, after more than a year of uncertainty, many are hoping that today marks the start of stability at the oakland police department. the city's new police chief, floyd mitchell, is officially on the job as of today. mitchell spent the day shaking hands, meeting with other leaders at opd headquarters. he also met with

uniformed officers, civilian workers, the next class of oakland's police cadets as well. now, oakland had been without a permanent chief since former chief lauren armstrong was fired in february of last year. mitchell served as chief in lubbock, texas, and he was hired by oakland's mayor about six weeks ago. since then, he's been settling in, working with the interim chief to get up to speed . i'm looking forward to working with you and with the members of the community to make oakland safer. i've spent the last few days attending some lineups to meet my officers. i'm going to spend the rest of this week attending different meetings to get brought up to speed on several different things going on within the oakland police department and within this community. okay, so the question is, what's next for the new chief? joining me now is a woman who knows that job very well, former oakland chief anne kirkpatrick. she's also the current police chief in new orleans. all right, anne, thanks for being here with us. let's start with what the next few

weeks will look like. and if you were back on the job, what would be the first order of business? so i think that chief mitchell is doing the right things on day one, which is establishing relationships with as many different people that he can internally, externally and day one, he needs to establish that he's going to be credible and that he's going to be stable. let's talk about the relationship with the mayor. and also, you know, with with city government, it has been so shaky. the last couple, as you well know, the last couple of chiefs are that have been here. what are the pitfalls and how much how much anxiety do you think this chief has taking this job, knowing what happened in the past? well, i'm sure he's calculated understanding the history. history is the best predictor of future performance. and so i'm sure that he realizes that it could be a short term, lifespan, but maybe not, the

most important challenge he's going to have is he's got a lot of different masters. he's got a lot of different bosses who do not always see eye to eye. so he's got to figure out which direction he's going to go, and he's got to find his own true north. wow. that is a complicated scenario to be put in when you have that many masters and you're learning a new city and a new department as well. let's talk about the oversight issue, because, oakland has been opd has been under federal oversight for two decades now, and it was actually on the way to leaving oversight before armstrong got fired. so what are the first goals to end that? and how complicated is that for a new police chief? well, also, i've inherited a consent decree here in new orleans and we are just about to go into our sustainment period. i think that oakland, around the country, everyone looks at oakland as what it shouldn't be. and that's unfortunate. and

that's not going to be the chief's fault. but, everybody is always so close to coming to bringing it to an end. and then something like the chief gets fired, and then you're going to start all over, or at least another couple of years under oversight. so i think that he's going to have to understand he's going to be in it for at least another year, would be my guess. all right. and here's a big question. as as the chief of a department like that, how do you bring the people together in a department like opd when they have been through the wringer of , we're going in this direction, we're going in this direction? 12 chiefs in 11 years, how do you unify that many people and reinvigorate them, which i think is almost as important. yeah, i think that a lot of people are going to think that it's not going to be stable. however i will say that in human nature, even the monitor, the judge, everybody is probably tired.

they're probably tired of this cycle after 21 years. so there is a my estimate, could be hopeful that it might just stop and everybody gets sick and tired of being sick and tired and start pulling together. chief kirkpatrick, your insight is always so valuable. thank you so much for giving us your time. i wish you all well, and particularly chief. chief mitchell, thank you very much. okay. also tonight, some are calling it a warning to humans. the machines are sounding a lot smarter. thanks to artificial intelligence. san francisco based openai unveiled the latest version of its popular chatgpt. listen, mike, you makedo seal beach belen potessero parlare cosa ci ribeiro? mike. she wonders if whales could talk. what would they tell us? what would they tell us? that's a good question. but this version not only chats with you, it translates foreign languages in

real time. it can also handle complex math problems when you point your camera at them and it can pretend to be your friend when you need someone to talk to. tech watchers are calling it impressive. and yes, a little scary. the tutors jobs will be at risk. you know, you can talk about that. jobs are really going to be at translators will be at risk at the same time, these things comes with a price. all right. joining me now is our business and tech reporter scott budman. i have to say, ai is the friend. that part is kind of creepy. sounds like that movie. her. i don't think i want that. okay, but you did see the demo. yeah. what were your impressions? you know, very much like what they said. this was really interesting. you can see why so much investment in ai is happening because it really is cool. technology but you're right. do we want to be friends with our phones and our gadgets? do we want them to answer questions that quickly and be able to converse like that? it

is a little scary when you look into the future, because ai is still relatively new in terms of the whole tech thing, and these machines just getting smarter and smarter the more they learn, which for language translation is fantastic. unless you're a translator for a living, right? that's true. but they do get better at that and they can do a better job. but do they need to be better at being our friends? that i just don't quite. yeah, i think there's a lot of areas where people would say, i'm super comfortable with that, like cybersecurity, you know, technological things that work in medicine and everything. i know the protesters were out there today a lot of them, because there are the other areas that make us uncomfortable . so the protesters want guidelines, security measures. what is it that they're asking for, exactly? those things. they're literally called pause ai. that's the group. and they're saying, hey, technology is great. we work in it. we live in it. it's the reason that silicon valley exists, but this might be getting a little bit ahead of ourselves, and we don't quite know what ai is capable of

. one thing we do know, jessica, is that it's capable of making mistakes and making us humans look bad and being wrong in court, or wrong for ourselves. very much so. exactly, exactly. and as we're putting these in cars and gadgets and everything else, are we ready to take both the good and the bad? i'm not sure yet. and these machines are learning a whole lot in a very short period of time. and by the way, a lot of content creators from media and book writers and things like that are saying, wait a minute, they're learning from us and we're not being compensated for that. so that's another thing. it's another thorny issue. yeah. all right. thank you very much, scott. let's keep each other as real friends. you're on. okay. that sounds good. thank you. you bet. all right. up next, a new warning about drinking raw milk. this time it's over. the outbreak of bird flu. now, in dairy cows, we're going to talk to an expert about what you should be doing and what does it take to live comfortably in the bay area, a lot. a new report tells us just how much you need to make. you're watching nbc b

now that outbreak is affecting thousands of herds in nine states, including colorado, idaho and texas. so far only been one confirmed case of bird flu in humans. in this particular round, a dairy farm worker in texas. but several other workers are also being monitored for potential symptoms. so what about regular

milk? the standard milk traces of the bird flu, also known as h5n1, have been found in pasteurized milk. it doesn't appear to be enough to make anyone sick, but scientists say raw milk, which hasn't been pasteurized, could contain a lot more of the virus. and that, in turn could be dangerous. joining me now is doctor krutika kuppalli. she's an infectious disease expert and epidemiologist, most recently with the w.h.o. oh, so not our first obviously round with the bird flu. we saw it in the 1990s, but now we're seeing it different because it's with the dairy cows and we're seeing it moving to a lot more mammals. and now there's this issue of milk. raw milk, explain for us, i guess let's start with i don't think everybody really understands what the difference is between just having raw milk, why it's so popular, and the difference with pasteurized milk. sure. so thanks for having me. i think, first of all, the difference between raw milk and

what you normally get in the grocery store is the milk you get in the grocery store is pasteurized. so there's a process that goes to kill viruses and other bacterial pathogens. and and that makes sure that people don't get sick from it. okay. all right. so if i'm drinking raw milk, i wouldn't get at the grocery store and what is it? the raw milk hasn't been treated. so why so the avian bird flu. there are some issues that it might be in the raw milk at a higher concentration. who shouldn't be drinking that then? well, really, nobody should be drinking raw milk, right? so this is not a new recommendation from the fda. the fda has come out before and said people should not consume raw milk because there's risks of other infections. so it's not just this, it's other infections too. exactly. and so the concern is, is that from the dairy cows, they've found that, large amounts of the virus in the milk . and if it doesn't go through the process to pasteurize it to kill it, that could increase the risk of somebody getting avian flu from drinking it. okay. and can you get would there also be

a danger obviously, that could make you what would be some of the sickness that you'd see if you had the raw milk that you'd be alerted to? well so for avian flu in the worker that was identified in texas, that person had infection in his eyes. and it's thought that he got that. it's not exactly clear. but given the close proximity of work that he had to the cows, somebody ingests it. i don't think we yet know what those symptoms would be, but they would, you know, they would feel not feel well. right okay. and especially children, i mean, i mean, as adults we don't drink that much milk usually, but children. so they would be most at risk children and also immune compromised people who maybe can't control the virus. okay. so what, so your recommendation then would be because there's a lot of people that are big advocates of raw milk, they say, oh, it doesn't have chemicals or it doesn't have processes. it's better for the body at this particular moment in time. so my recommendation would be to avoid raw dairy, i think, again, because of not just the risk of h5n1, but also the other infectious diseases, there

really hasn't been any data that definitively shows that raw milk is better for you than pasteurized milk. all right. and what is the risk of more human contamination of the or catching the, the bird flu? we saw the dairy worker he may have ingested into his eyes. there were some studies saying that maybe some cats had it and they died. so what is the danger for us even being around dairy cows? so that many of us are around dairy cows? but. right. so if you're in close proximity to dairy cows, your risk is going to be higher. and for that reason, the us government has recommended some measures to try and help protect farmers, like wearing ppe, getting tested, things like that, you're right, there has been other detections in cats, cats who actually ingested raw milk from sick cows, in texas, 40 or so, 24 of the cats ended up quite sick and half of them died. and what about the transmission from animal to human? and also, i

mean, we have such a great our california is an agricultural state in many ways. the impact that that could have on the state and also on farm workers. yeah. so i think that's really important. so the us government just released $200 million on friday to try and help support the farm workers. but if they find avian flu in cows and it spreads, that could really have a significant impact to the agricultural industry. doctor, so much for thank you so much for being with us. i'm going to go with your recommendation. all right. thank you. all right. let's take you outside, give you a live look at sfo meteorologist rob mayeda w

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no, actually. how much you need to earn to live comfortably is the answer. more than six figures in most of the bay area. yeah. that's insane. consumer affairs did the calculations and released them in a new report, living comfortably means spending less than 30% of your income on rent. the report found that you need 131 grand a year in san francisco, 134 grand in san jose, and jt under $100,000 in oakland. in case you're wondering, most of the people we talked to today around the bay area said those numbers seem low, that you kind of need more. okay. as you see, raja's in here, i am subbing for good reason. that's because raj is in

sacramento being honored for his work. aapi legislative caucus took a moment to honor those who have made contributions to the asian american pacific islander community in california. the state assembly member, ash kalra, nominated our own raj mathai for that honor. he told us he wanted to recognize raj as a trailblazer in the community, and because raj has become a role model for south asian people, all across california, we didn't always see people that look like us or that represented us telling us about the news, telling us, telling us about what was happening in the community. so to have someone that represents our community and is so gifted in his craft really is not just a source of pride, but for young people that have an interest in going into mass media or communications or going into tv news, they have someone they can look to and say, look, this is not only possible, but you can excel at it. if you work really hard. yes you can. assembly member kalra continued to tell us how proud he is of raj and his work, and

we have to say we are super proud of raj as well. so congratulate us my friend. rob, do you think when he comes back tomorrow and he's back here with you, we're going to have to like , you know, genuflect or we have to go around telling him how wonderful he is, you know, and he does so much for the community. we love him so much. but yes, you might like a few of those reminders. perhaps we'll have to see tomorrow. tune in right now. he got some sunshine around san jose and almost a spread of summer like microclimates around the bay area. right now, let's take you to them as we take you over to the sierra to start things off. look at all those thunderstorms. this is something we typically get just before summer. you got again those showers firing up for the afternoon. notice how they're drifting to the west but weakening on approach. so it will likely get out of it is just some high clouds at times with the bigger story. here was what's happening at the lower levels. that's the low clouds and fog that will push inland tonight, leading to some drizzle around the peninsula and the coast for the morning. pretty nice setup temperature wise. tomorrow we begin in the 50s,

then climb through the 60s and 70s around lunchtime and a little bit warmer tomorrow, mid 60s near san francisco, near 70 in oakland, 79 in san jose. and from here temperatures do warm up as we head through wednesday and thursday back into the mid 80s inland. then a few extra clouds trending a little bit cooler next weekend, which is exactly like the weekend we just enjoyed. so if you liked last weekend, next weekend looks about the same. that 7-day forecast. all right, that sounds good. thank you. all right. as we wrap up mario lopez is just getting started with access hollywood. here's what's coming up next. well we're here in new york city all week. but tonight's big news comes out of paris as taylor swift resumes her tour with a dancing bradley cooper, who is really getting down alongside his girlfriend gigi hadid and taylor's guy travis, where he learned how to move like that. we're going to show you. we've also got two great stories from john krasinski and ryan reynolds about taylor's impact on their kids. add to that harry and meghan have wrapped up their trip to nigeria, where meghan not only saluted harry's mom diana, but also their children

archie and lilibet too. and let's keep it all in the family while we're at it with our vegas exclusive with the irwins as they gather to pay tribute to the memory of steve. it's all just moments away on access hollywood. back to you. okay. thanks, mario. here's what's coming up tonight. nbc prime time, starting at 8:00. the voice deal or no deal island starts at ten. and then, of course, we hope that you will join us here on nbc bay area news at 11. that's going to do it for us here at seven. i'll see you tonight at 11. raj, will be back tomorrow. honored.

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