against what they say are the company's ties to israeli military projects. nbc marianne favro is in mountain view with a closer look at what that is. holding a sign saying stop fueling genocide. more than 100 people protested outside google's i o conference at shoreline amphitheater today. at one point, the protesters chained themselves together to block the public entrance to the conference. so what did attendees think? i understand what they're trying to do, and i understand they have the freedom to speak and protest where i have a little problem is when it comes to impacting others, right ? if you interrupt this event, affected attendees were ushered to another entrance. former google employee ariel corin says she was pushed out of the company in 2022 for speaking out against project nimbus, a cloud tool demonstrators say is being used by the israeli government and military. as we speak.

google's cloud infrastructure, google's tools, google's technology are being used to fuel a genocide. last month, google fired 28 employees for protesting the company's work on nimbus and its impact on palestinians. this is being used to help the israeli military do things like facial recognition of people in gaza, of innocent civilians and landing many of them in detention. torture or death free palestine. by 11 this morning, the protesters left the entrance, with many vowing to return to let others know. the tech giant's connection to israel's military effort. we reached out to google for a response, but have not yet received one so far. there are no reports of arrests during the protests in mountain view. marianne favro nbc bay area news. okay. thank you, marianne.

now, within a matter of hours, we will know exactly when voters will decide if alameda county district attorney pamela price should stay in office. weeks ago, the alameda registrar of voters announced that the da's opponents have gathered enough signatures to force a recall vote. now, the board of supervisors must decide tonight whether to set a special election or add the issue to the existing upcoming november election ballot days opponents are pushing for an immediate special election, saying any delay puts public safety at risk. but critics of the recall effort say if a recall vote is going to happen, it should not happen until november. calling it the cheapest option for taxpayers. a standalone special election is estimated to cost some 15 to $20 million. our polina jones is inside the hearing tonight. she'll have updates for us coming up at 6:00. well a disturbing case in the south bay. san jose. police say they're looking for a homeless man accused of sexually assaulting a minor. as she was walking home from school. this happened back in april. police

say they now have identified the suspect, juan salvador martinez. police say martinez sexually assaulted a girl under the 280 overpass and south 11th street. as jpd says martinez is usually seen around the neighborhood of east williams and south 10th, not far from where that assault happened or around the creek area off keys and center road. if you recognize that man and see him, you are being urged to call 911. an ominous warning from the fbi this week, just as communities across the country are gearing up for lgbtq pride month, federal law enforcement agencies are warning that isis may be looking to target pride events. they're asking local law enforcement agencies to be on alert. here's nbc bay area's sérgio quintana in san francisco with what the warning is and is not saying. san francisco's pride festivities are among the most attended such events in the country, and the organizers of this year's annual san francisco pride celebration say, even though there is no specific

threat to this celebration, they are taking the warning seriously and coordinating with law enforcement agencies. in a statement today, the san francisco police department didn't directly address the fbi advisory, but did say all sfpd officers will be vigilant for illegal or unsafe activity during pride. the fbi advisory does not mention any specific threats to any particular targets, but it does come after several arrests around the world of alleged isis operatives. since march, law enforcement and intelligence agencies in at least eight cities have arrested high ranking members of the terrorist organization or so-called sympathizers, who were accused of planning attacks on the group's behalf. among those arrested, 18 year old alexander mercurio in coeur d'alene, idaho, federal authorities believe he was planning a gruesome knife attack at a church. they claim he was motivated by the deadly and well-organized isis attack on a russian concert hall in march, which killed more than 130 people. the fbi warning also

comes eight years after the deadly pulse nightclub attack in florida, which killed 49 people. isis claimed responsibility for that massacre. it's something bay area residents say they still vividly remember, but people we talked with say that attack and the fbi advisory won't stop them from celebrating. it's changed. probably. it hasn't been the same since the pulse nightclub shooting, but it's like, you know what? there's not a lot of opportunity for us to be gay and just be happy. and that's what i'm going to do. come hell or high water, i'm going to pride. would that deter you from going to a pride celebration? no, no, i don't think it's that realistic. the advisory asks law enforcement to be aware of unusual people taking pictures of security equipment, or repeatedly trying to get past security measures at certain buildings or events. it does not, however, say there is any knowledge of a specific attack or target in san francisco, sergio quintana nbc bay area news, there is a new survey out of the european union that finds that violence against members of the lgbtq community is on the rise. that survey, conducted

every three years, it involves 100,000 participants across the european union. 36% of the respondents reported feeling discriminated against at least once in the past year. that's down from 42% in the previous survey, but 14% reported experiencing a physical or sexual attack because of their identity, marking a 3% increase from three years ago. governor gavin newsom was back in the bay area today, giving an update on how the state is trying to solve california's homeless crisis. in redwood city, newsom joined san mateo county leaders to announce the first round of prop one funding. you may remember, voters passed prop one on a razor thin margin in march, approving more than $6 billion to build more mental health facilities and treatment beds. $3 billion will be available by july so newsom called on counties to start applying. he also called out counties that haven't adopted the new care court program meant to compel people into treatment. the

counties now have the tool under conservatorship form, but the vast majority of counties refuse to implement it. you asked for these reforms. we've provided them. now it's time to deliver. the state has also launched a new website called mental health.gov, which tracks mental health progress across the state. another day of fireworks and former president trump's hush money trial in new york. trump's former fixer michael cohen back on the stand. he doubled down, saying that mr. trump did direct him to buy a star. silence and he did it because he believed the affair went public. it would be a disaster for the 2016 campaign. here's nbc's alice barr. get some sleep. last night, the prosecutor on star witness michael cohen put to the test. under blistering cross-examination, former president trump's onetime fixer and personal lawyer sticking to his guns and rejecting the trump defense team's efforts to paint him as a lying, convicted criminal with an ax to grind. cohen's testimony ties together past witness accounts and

documents outlining payments right before the 2016 election to keep x star stormy daniels quiet about an alleged one night stand, all of which mr. trump denies. during questioning by the prosecution, cohen said he paid daniels $130,000, quote, to ensure that the story would not come out, would not affect mr. trump's chances of becoming president of the united states. asked at whose direction he paid daniels, cohen replied trump's. the fixer turned foe testified mr. trump repaid him with monthly checks that were falsely labeled as legal expenses. the true purpose cohen explained, quote, the reimbursement of hush money. cohen expressed regret and said he ultimately, quote, made a decision based on conversation with my family. i would not lie for president trump any longer. the former president complaining that he can't publicly respond because of a judge's order protecting witnesses. the gag order has to

come off. allies can speak on mr. trump's behalf. they have him tied up here in this ridiculous prosecution that is not about justice. it's all about politics. house speaker mike johnson joining the stream of republican lawmakers coming to court to back their party's presidential candidate. it was a remarkable moment within an historic trial to see the speaker of the house take time to visit the courtroom, along with defending former president trump. he had harsh words for michael cohen, who was convicted of campaign finance violations and lying to congress and served time for federal charges related to the stormy daniels payments. in washington. alice barr nbc news president biden has a new strategy to protect american jobs. he's pushing back on chinese imports. the biden administration set steep tariffs today on goods coming from china. this includes electric vehicles, batteries, computer chips and medical products. the tariffs will apply to about $18

billion in imports. meanwhile, china vowed to retaliate, saying it would take measures to protect its interests. the administration says the tariffs will help fight unfair trade practices and protect manufacturing jobs in the u.s. the fact is, american workers are. i can't outwork and outcompete anyone as long as the competition is fair. but for too long it hasn't been fair. last month, the biden administration tripled tariffs on chinese steel and aluminum. white house officials say they don't think these tariffs will escalate tensions with china. the new job losses. to tell you about this time at the job search website. indeed, company says it plans to cut the jobs of 87 employees at its office in foster city. indeed says it's going to eliminate those jobs in sales and computer science. the goal, they say, to earn more revenue. those layoffs will go into effect in july. still ahead providing answers to a troublesome delay, the details from bart over a recent stoppage that left a lot of riders upset.

also, it might be easy to take some things for granted, like a pair of shoes for one man is on a mission to repair hundreds of shoes to donate to those in need. his determination will make you very proud. and right now in walnut creek, temperatures running a little bit warmer than the same time yesterday, tomorrow should see more 80s in our inland east bay valleys. how long that warm up will last, and a l

cable that was damaged that caused the problem. it was discovered just north of macarthur station, heading into the richmond direction. bart says the problem impacted all communication necessary to run service between those stations, but the service has been resumed for 25 years. dennis brown gave back to his community in a way that he loved coaching youth sports, but when he retired from that, dennis was looking for a new way to help. he found it using an old skill. the skill

dennis brown relies on these days to do good, he once did to make a living. and it's just the pre-clean. yeah, restoring damaged shoes. we were a fire and water restoration company, so we get everything that we can salvage and including shoes. so i happen to be in the shoe section. so now that was many years ago, and for just a few years before dennis found his true calling. being a youth football and baseball coach to his kids and thousands of others 25 years straight didn't miss a year. dennis viewed coaching as his way to give back to his community and something after retiring, he was maybe missing in his life. or at least he was on one cold day last winter driving down fremont boulevard. i see this guy every day with, you know, he's pushing the cart. shoes are really bad and had to be free. it was freezing. so i

know his feet was freezing and then yes, this. so dennis went home and using those old skills, fixed up some old worn shoes of his. when i handed him the shoes and seeing how happy he was and he said, oh man, these are really nice. and thank you and he appreciate it. i said, i got to do more of this. i got to do more of this and do more of it. dennis has a lot more. you should have seen these. these were outside for over five years. they were in a cat kennel. he spread word through social media that he was taking in donations of old shoes. he then spends countless hours bringing them back to nearly new. some kid will be happy to get these and then handing them out to people who could use a pair. you have like some kids that never had jordans, never had, you know, expensive shoes. and so these shoes are expensive shoes, maybe. but they're really beat up. but if i can bring them back, just to see the smile on

the kid's face, like, oh, man, these are jordans, and we're just lining them up on the tables. just this week, dennis showed up at hayward's community resources for independent living to provide shoes to adults with developmental disabilities. he needs shoes right there. he got tape, looks. he got tape for his feet. okay, well, you here to fix that? yeah. let's see. seven. the way dennis puts it, every shoe he works with tells a story. and his newfound passion is giving every one of those stories a second chance at a happy ending. these are. these are nice. okay. thank you. them nice. thank you. you're welcome. you're welcome. it's a shoe sequel. it's a shoe sequel. very good. and i think we all have shoes like that lying around the house that we think are beyond repair. it's like, no, we don't donate them because we think nobody would want them. but in his hands and the work he does, it's remarkable. they come out looking like new. and he talked about, you know, these are shoes

that kids maybe would never afford. 150, $160 pair of air jordans. but they get it. it looks like new and it's fantastic. and what a way to read the room and know what the community needs. you know, like for a kid, it's so important that you still want to look stylish, right? so to be able to show up and you got your jordans, i mean, that's really meaningful. and the amount of time he puts into each shoe, you could tell he said average half an hour to an hour, but some way longer. oh, i thought it was going to be like, i can't believe he can do it in that amount of time. they look so good. he's good. he works hard. yeah, we're going to need a tutorial. well, you want to get outside, enjoy those shoes. do some running. get outside. it's gorgeous. got like summer, like weather around the bay area, which means if you like 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, we really do have you covered around the bay area. and we're going to trend a little bit warmer over the next couple of afternoons. so let's take you outside right now. san jose, pretty pleasant a little bit warmer, just two degrees difference. probably can't notice that, but you got partly cloudy skies, 73 degrees, a bit

warmer out towards walnut creek, 78 to the south. danville about 82 degrees today. so a bit warmer in contra costa county and back over to san francisco international airport. that west wind up to 21mph keeping things cool at 62 degrees. and here's a look at your 50s around the bay area. 57 degrees in san francisco and the low clouds about to move back in. so the map behind me is that rainbow appearance of the temperature gradient you're seeing here in the bay area typical of a summer microclimate pattern of 50s and 60s here on the coast, 70s and 80s inland. even though it's may, we will continue to see more of these summer like temperatures and the trend that started today. bit warmer inland is going to continue as we get into wednesday and thursday. but notice the wind pretty strong right now through oakland and fairfield. that onshore breeze will bring in more low clouds, which means the morning start off with some drizzle and low clouds, and you get the afternoon sunshine for the second day of a row. areas south of lake tahoe dealing with those thunderstorms, especially out towards yosemite. you can see it there on the satellite radar

loop. no impact for us here other than just some high clouds as that moisture drifts off to the west overnight during the day. tomorrow doesn't look like we're going to see as much in the way of thunderstorms. so a bit of a midweek reprieve for those severe thunderstorm chances. i do think they're going to come back, though, as we head towards next weekend, along with some cooler changes here by next saturday and sunday. so let's take you into the morning forecast. low clouds surge inland once again all the way through the carquinez strait and the altamont pass, which means some drizzle to start even around the inner bay for the morning, and then more sunshine for the afternoon, but still sucked in by the low clouds there on the coast. so morning temperatures start in the 50s, where the clouds really don't clear out here on the coastline. those temperatures aren't going to change a whole lot, mostly 50s to mid 60s, from half moon bay to san francisco. but now you're starting to see a few more 80s showing up around san jose and los gatos. the east bay hills try valley included if you want to find 90 that's on the map to look at clear lake and ukiah climbing close to 90 tomorrow, thursday, another day of 80s around the santa clara

valley and tri-valley. so tomorrow and thursday, likely the warmest days of the week. then, as you move forward towards friday, numbers starting to cool down a little bit and we'll see more cooling likely as we head through the weekend. high pressure, giving up some ground. moving off to the west. it's this area of low pressure which will drop down late saturday into sunday, and there you see a chance of see a thundershowers at times for the weekend. but for the bay area, this will likely set us up in a bit of a cooling trend, which you see right there in the 7-day forecast. but in terms of rain chances, looks like most of that will be over the sierra where the weekend plans are concerned. bay area locations the only measurable rain likely to be some of that drizzle that we'll see again as we move forward into tomorrow morning. so look at your 7-day forecast shows tomorrow and thursday likely to be the warmest, but you're probably not going to notice much along the coast with the fog sticking around. it's the valleys that will warm up a little bit more. could have some mid to upper 80s as we get into thursday, then trending cooler. a little more wind as we wrap up this upcoming weekend. but another weekend without rain.

true. yeah. rob, thank you very much. all right. inflation still high. couple of items are coming down. we're going to share those with you. we're going to tell you where you can see a drop in your bills coming up. and if you know of someone who has done something kind, generous or compassionate for others, i'd love to hear about them so i can showcase what they did in our bay area proud series. to let me know, just send me an email to

the interest rate on the federal direct undergraduate loans will be 6.53. that's up from 5.5 last year. it's the highest rate in

about a decade. experts say the rise could complicate the biden administration efforts to get the student loan crisis under control. the government is the one that sets the interest rates on its education loans and they do it once a year. but there is a silver lining today for consumers that have been seeing months of paying more for just about everything because of inflation. food prices have flattened out and the prices of many other goods are falling. food and energy prices grew by a little over 2% in march. that's essentially in line with the federal reserve's goal. gas prices have also been holding mostly steady, with an overall increase of around 1% now, in spite of that, the overall consumer mood remains negative. many note prices are still well above pre-pandemic levels, and the cost of rent continues to climb markets up today as investors brace for key inflation data. this week, the dow jones added 135 points. the nasdaq finished with up 121 and the s&p slid into the green with 23 points. now it's a big surge for gamestop. also, the shares

soared 56. by the way, the inflation report comes out tomorrow. the biggest bay area festival is coming back this summer. but it's not just about the music, it is about the food. after a break, a peek atutside lands o

always buzz about the performers, but not the only thing that gets people excited about outside lands. that's right, the festival, held in golden gate park, just released its menu. now get this. it features 100 different restaurants. organizers say the food lineup is not only the festival's biggest, but it is also the most diverse. several restaurants from last year are returning, with 16 new ones added to the list. saigon sandwich is making its debut at the festival. it will offer a bon me or vegan sandwich. you can also get a taste of kapaa taqueria and gumbo social will serve louisiana style gumbos. the three day festival kicks off august 9th through the 12th. everybody loves it, but you have to listen to the music and then you have to eat. you have to listen to the music and then you have to eat all the things i

like. sounds like a fun day, i know. all right. don't forget, you can watch our newscast 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. raj and audrey join us coming up at 530. we'll have two of those. yes, of all of it. whatever those are, we'll have to. yeah. thank you guys. right now, here's what we're working on. a step closer to finding a new police chief. the public has commented. now it's up to the city. the next step for san jose. also, check your water bills. if you're in the south bay, expect an increase. the reason you're going to see a spike, plus a call for help. hundreds of starving pelicans popping up in the bay area. the mystery of why they're struggling, and the rescuers trying to save them. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm audrey asistio and i'm raj mathai. phase one is now over. and san jose's search for its next police chief. the list of candidates is expected to be strong, both from within and outside the department. but what are city and community leaders looking for in the next chief? nbc bay area's damian