say was a threat, forcing them to open fire themselves as. good afternoon. i'm audrey asistio

welcome to nbc bay area news at 4:30. san jose police investigators just gave an update on this case. we're going to, of course, give you the latest details. we're also tracking other stories on this monday, including sounding the alarm. fire chief in contra costa county says the community is in danger during an emergency. our jodi hernandez is looking into an ambulance shortage and possible solutions. also, more than $3 billion in federal funds. but is it enough to make it happen. our sergio quintana is looking into the long awaited transbay portal in san francisco and revolutionizing air travel. the changes in east bay congressman is pushing for. after a close call at sfo. but let's go ahead and begin with new information this afternoon about a police shooting in east san jose over the weekend. detectives just gave an update. within the past 90 minutes. they did release this video. you're looking at right now of what what led up to that shooting? the acting chief says that when officers

responded to calls of a man firing a gun near colmar drive yesterday, this is what they encountered. a man with a gun inside of a minivan. police say he later got out of that van and ran, but officers did find him. the suspect then pointed his firearm at one of the at one of the responding officers, while aggressively advancing towards him. this prompted a separate officer to discharge his firearm, striking the suspect. police say that the man who was shot is 41 year old ricardo villarreal of san jose. he is in the hospital right now in critical condition, and officers say they did find a gun at the scene. and this is the third officer involved shooting in san jose this year. now to a growing concern in contra costa county. the fire chief today is sounding the alarm about an ambulance shortage. it's an issue we've seen pop up in the south bay. right. and now it's actually reaching other parts of the bay area. so let's go ahead and bring in our jodi hernandez this afternoon. jodi, you have been

looking into this story for us. what are you learning? well, the contra costa county fire chief acknowledges that there is definitely a serious problem. and there are a number of factors. first of all, the number of 911 calls is up significantly. they transport 229 patients a day to the hospital. but even adding 18 ambulances last year hasn't helped out a ton. and even if they added more ambulances, he says, there's a severe shortage of paramedics. but what seems to be the biggest issue is not enough space at hospital emergency rooms. so often the ambulances get to the scene quickly, usually within minutes, then spent more than an hour outside the e.r. waiting to offload the patient. just this morning, the chief told us that that they responded to an elderly fall call and got to that scene within minutes, got the patient to the hospital, then spent an hour and 20 minutes outside of the hospital

waiting to offload the patient because there was no space in the hospital, and we went to a couple of emergency rooms here in the county, and definitely saw a number of ambulances just sitting outside the e.r. waiting. wow. so, so many factors playing into this issue there. jodi, i know you got a chance to speak with the county supervisor. what's that person telling you? any solutions? well, she's she's definitely very concerned. this is brought up last week at the county board of supervisors meeting. it's also going to be talked about tomorrow. she says she's going to be offering a number of possible solutions. but she and the chief believe that the biggest thing they can do right now is just to educate folks. they say two men, people are calling 911 for non-emergency. so those ambulances are should be for people having heart attacks, strokes, you know, access patients severe accidents, not just for routine, calls. and that's what a lot of people are using it for.

apparently so they want to really try to get an education effort out right now. the hospital also tells me, john muir, we're standing in front of right now, that they're working to speed up offload times. they acknowledge there is an issue, but say but they are also facing an unprecedented volume of patients coming in. so there's a lot of factors out there. and we're going to get more into that in our story. at 6:00. all right. thank you so much for that preview, jodi. appreciate it. we'll see your full story at six. we do have new details this afternoon on what may have sparked this fire. you're looking at in san jose, broke out late last night in a vacant building in japantown years ago. the building was home to a restaurant, but firefighters say the building may not have stayed empty after that restaurant closed. the owners told firefighters homeless people were living inside, and investigators are now looking into whether they started that fire. sj pd says. thankfully no one was hurt. now to an update on the trans bay portal in san

francisco. so last week we told you you might remember about the billions in federal funding coming to the bay area to help speed up that project. well, today we are getting a closer look at what is coming. and our sergio quintana was there for a special tour. sergio, what did you see today? we got to go under the transbay transit center and see the two levels under that center, which are massive cavernous chambers where the trains are eventually going to go into that transit center. let's go ahead and show you some of that tour we went down. there it is. there's two levels. there's a mezzanine level where you basically like the ticketing is, and then the lower level, which is where all the trains will eventually come in, if and when high speed rail is completed, as well as caltrans will come in to downtown san francisco. of course, this tour is part of something that was arranged because of speaker emerita nancy pelosi's help in trying to secure the $3.4 billion it's now been pledged by

the federal government in order to build out the rest of that lower level with the train tracks and the corresponding platforms, as well as dig the nearly two mile tunnel from the transit center to the existing caltrain station on king street. it's a pretty cool sneak peek. tour ceo, i know you also got a chance to go one on one with one of the project leaders. what's he telling you? well, obviously they're very happy about this pledge of money from the federal government. it's $3.4 billion, as i mentioned, and it's about half of what's needed to complete the project. they also have some other money that is that is secured from other sources. but he did say that there is still about a $2 billion gap in funding that they're still trying to find from local, regional and even state sources. so this is a process that is ongoing. however they are still pushing ahead to try to build that tunnel. so that they can start service. they do hope that construction

will begin on that tunnel in by next year or so. and they expect, if everything goes according to plan, that they may be able to start service for caltrain probably in about the next ten years or so. but it will, of course, have full details on this entire tour and everything attached to it. coming up on nbc, bay area news at 530. okay we'll see you at 530. thank you. meanwhile, major aviation safety improvements are in the works. the house actually passed the faa reauthorization act and east bay congressman mark desaulnier is behind that proposal. he actually took action following a near miss incident at sfo back in 2017. we did talk to the congressman earlier today about key changes that would come out of this new bill. he says some big changes aim to enhance the passenger experience. it's comprehensive to make sure that the public is not being misused. a lot of what's happened is there's more and more pressure for profits, like in a lot of industries, but

if management pushes that too much at the expense of the traveling safety, the safety of the traveling public and the comfort, and reliability of the system, then we have these other consequences. so the bill addresses that not just with the rebates, but much more reporting and accountability. other major changes include the creation of a task force on human factors in aviation safety, as well as cockpit voice recorders in extending their data flight storage. i am with meteorologist vianey arana now to take a look at our weather vna 80 right now in walnut creek, 80 degrees. so we've got some warmer temperatures inland. we did see some breezy winds at times. peak wind gusts there managed to reach 25 plus, but as you know our microclimates this is the current temperature right now if you are in oakland 65 degrees. so really depending on where you're at now, the peak gusts there today we saw some breezy winds as well. in san francisco. it's about 63 degrees right now. wind speeds at about 22 plus miles per hour. so yes we still

have a bit of a breeze, but mostly clear skies. take a look at satellite radar right now. things are looking good. now we are monitoring for the possibility, just percentage wise for the sierra to get some thunderstorm activity in the next couple of hours. you can see it right there on radar. overall though, once this pattern settles in through the remainder of the week, things will clear out. not only for the sierra, but also for us. we're going to remain warm into overnight early tomorrow morning. in fact, temperatures are going to be quite comfortable. this is at around 7 a.m. so we're talking about your early morning tomorrow. we're going to be in the 50s in san francisco, 5450s throughout. and let's talk about your noon hour. so we're talking lunchtime. now. notice we're going to warm up into the upper 60s, low 70s for san francisco. but we've still got some 80s on the map in inland areas. and then daytime highs tomorrow. look at this. 86 degrees in brentwood, 83 for san jose. and yes, you're going to be out and about in the city. we're talking warm 70s on the map. now i do want to show you what the climate prediction outlook looks like right now, may 24th through the 28th. so

even though we're seeing a warmer day tomorrow, the extended outlook right now over the stretch actually does show below average temperatures. so today is going to be probably one of the warmer days before we start to settle into more of a cooling pattern. and that's good news there because even though tomorrow we're going to see mid and upper 80s, it looks like the cooling and the breezy winds are going to continue just in time for that memorial day weekend. so make sure to join us once again at 5:00. chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is going to have a closer look at your extended forecast. audrey. sounds good. deanna. thank you. scientists are warning our coasts are eroding. so what's being done about it? vienna is going to be joining us once again to show us the technology being used to track the evolution of california's coastline. also a breast cancer survivor shares her journey to recovery. the reason she's urging women to get genetic testing. before we head to break, we want to know what. trending story would you like to see later on in this newscast? as usual, i have a pull up right now on my instagram. still have

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constantly changing and to keep track of those impacts. a group of scientists at scripps institution of oceanography is using advanced technology. so here to give us more insight is meteorologist vianey arana vianna. so we've obviously seen changes in our coastal area. some spots actually even collapsing. we've covered these stories. are those the areas that they're analyzing with this advanced technology. exactly. and you know we've seen it. everything from homes, you know, teetering off the mountaintops to one that we all know here. and that's big sur highway one. it's facing constant issues with sort of a troubling future ahead. and they're using technology like this to help us better understand the how and the why, and also the future planning so things can change as

we, you know, experience climate change. now they go out once a week and they use a laser mapping system called lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging. their goal is to understand how, when and where coastal bluffs fail. they are able to compare even the smallest changes at the beach from the week or even the year before. so this data really goes far back as well. researchers hope to use this information to build better models to help predict how our coastline is going to evolve. predicting when and where a landslide is going to occur is extremely difficult. it definitely. there are things that we can look for. you can tend to get repeated events in the same area over time. and so landslide can be active over a period of weeks or days or months. and big sur is a perfect example of that. now the recent el nino may be a glimpse into those changes, even though, as you see, we're transitioning out of the el nino pattern ocean levels rise slightly during an el nino year and combine that

with heavy rain, king tides, and a couple of days with huge waves this past winter. and it's certainly a recipe for erosion, which we have seen. you can see the images there if you want to learn more about this technology, we're going to post this story at nbcbayarea.com. just make sure to check out the climate in crisis tab. we have other stories just like this that talks about things like erosion and sea level rise, which as you know, the bay area is extremely prone to a lot of our coastal communities are directly impacted by this year after year. sure, it's amazing to see what advanced technology is allowing us to do now just to be better prepared. and we'll link the data available for that specific technology as well. okay, sounds good. vianey. thank you. all right. now go ahead and take a look at this rescue on the sonoma coast. that car you see right below there that went off a cliff yesterday morning near the jewel gulch. and myers grade area. that's on highway one north of jenner helicopter crew had to fly in for this rescue. first responders found the driver laying at the bottom of a tree. over 300ft down from

the wreck. he was flown to a hospital, is in critical, is in critical condition right now, but is expected to survive. all right. if you own a vacation home in tahoe, you may soon have to pay more in taxes. people who live in south lake tahoe are going to vote on a proposed vacancy tax come november, and if it is given the green light, it would require homeowners to report that they are indeed living in their homes. once a year. they would be subjected to a tax if they live there less than half the year, it would cost 3000 bucks. for the first year, the house sits empty, $6,000 for each year after that. some say this is just another tax for property owners, but the proposal supporters say it's a way to help boost the economy. if folks are only using their houses a couple of times a year, they're not in those local businesses supporting local businesses, paying the sales tax that funds our city services. and so there needs to be an economic offset, say, if you're not going to be here full time,

here's a way you can contribute to our economy. according to the 2022 census, 44% of homes in south lake tahoe sit vacant the majority of the year. the measure is receiving some pushback on social media, but if it passes the tax revenue could only be used for specific purposes, including housing, roads and transit. in the coming weeks, a lot of high school graduates might be asking themselves now what? luna duran of san francisco found herself asking that same exact question several years ago, because going to college wasn't an option for her financially. fast forward to today. she now works for bright horizons, a preschool and early child care center in south san francisco, which she says fully paid for her associate degree in early childhood education. and since getting her degree, luna has been able to move up the ranks from teacher to instructional coach, who oversees a team of educators starting a job in early childhood education. you're constantly caring for children

and constantly caring for others, and i think with this degree program was a good opportunity to give something back to myself. bright horizons tells us that they ask graduates to stay on with the company for two years afterwards, but there is no written agreement requiring them to do so. using new technology to fight a deadly disease. we're talking about genetic testing and breast cancer. here's today in the bay's marcus washington with one woman's personal push to make a difference. well, may is women's health month an advocates are highlighting the need for genetic testing as part of treatment plans. lindsey livingston she found out that she had cancer. breast cancer that is back in 2019 after a lumpectomy and six weeks of radiation. she was made aware of the history of that disease in her family. well, she took a genetic test testing positive for brca one gene mutation. she underwent a bilateral double mastectomy as a way to prevent breast cancer from reoccurring.

now, surgeons also removed her ovaries and fallopian tubes to reduce her risk of ovarian cancer. livingston now advocates for genetic testing for women as a preventative measure. but what i appreciate about genetic tests is that it helps you to understand your predisposition and your hereditary risk, and it's just really important, especially in the black community, that we are discussing our family history. we are discussing our risk. we are having these conversations. livingston is the founder of the nonprofit survive her. the organization seeks to promote breast cancer awareness and provide support as well as resources to women diagnosed with the disease. now, to get stories like this, make sure you join us monday through friday on today in the bay. we start at 5 a.m. on air. you can now watch nbc bay area news whenever you want. we are on 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. i'm marcus washington. back to you. all right, marcus, thanks. at the anchor desk now with our janelle wang who's working on

the 5:00 news for us. good monday, good monday. hi. well, just as the weather is warming up, dining al fresco may not be an option anymore for some restaurants in one east bay city, there are new rules that take effect. it is no longer free to have outdoor dining. the city of berkeley giving people three options. we will lay them out for you and a new covid variant is now the dominant strain across the u.s. it's called the flirt variant, and some fear it could lead to a summer wave of infections in the current vaccine doesn't appear to be as effective against it. a covid expert joins us live. it's all coming up at five. a lot going on for sure. all right janelle we'll see you in a few minutes. still to come. top trending stories voted by you on my instagram poll. also a cool new way to feed the world's tallest animals. the new feeding system in place at the oakland zoo. we'reack in two minute bs.

if inflation is taking a bite out of your wallet, target might have the reprieve you're looking for. retail giant is slashing prices on more than 5000 items, including grocery staples like paper towels and milk. target says the price cuts are meant to keep them competitive, as well as help customers who are financially struggling in today's economy save money. a lot of the cheaper items will come from target's two brands, good and gather and ever spring. as always, i will be posting links to the other stories you voted for on my instagram. now take a look at this. some giraffes at the oakland zoo are getting special treatment in the form of a new feeding system, so you can see it is attached to a pulley. so the feeder can now be raised up a tree. why is this a big deal? well, because it allows the giraffes to eat their treats and meals at their natural height, no longer have to bend over. zoo says several donors paid for this feeder. it actually costs 10,000 bucks. a campus upgrade school in piedmont is getting a new playground thanks to steph and ayesha curry. so here's a look

at that new playground at piedmont elementary school. you can see students right there. staff today took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony. playground was funded by the curry's foundation called eat, learn, play and some kids from the student council helped design that structure, principal says. now more kids than ever are using the playground at recess. there's something for everyone on this playground, whether it is basketball, foursquare or the play structures or reading a book in our new nature center. this playground is great for kids to just engage and enjoy their recess. so far, the eat, learn, play foundation and its partners have invested $50 million into the oakland unified school district. in total, the foundation will help remodel six new playgrounds across oakland schools, in addition to gyms and cafeterias, you can watch nbc bay area news whenever you want. nowe're streaming our newscast all the time on roku and other streaming platforms. that's where you can watch live

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why the store will have to pay more than $1 million for this fire started by a customer. also, university of california workers striking across the state. the reason their demands are tied to the recent demonstrations on uc campuses and restaurant owners in one east bay city will now have to pay up to keep their outdoor dining parklets. the new ordinance that went into effect. today. the news at five starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. good

monday everyone i'm janelle wang. this evening we are getting a better idea of what led up to a police shooting in east san jose over the weekend. nbc marianne favro has been covering this story since it happened yesterday and shows us what led up to it. police just released this video. they say it shows what officers encountered when they responded to a call of a man firing a gun near karma drive in east san jose yesterday, police say during the encounter, the suspect pointed a gun and fired directly at officers. a total of three officers fired at the suspect. he suffered life threatening injuries and is now hospitalized in critical condition. the swift response to the call for help by our officers likely saved the lives of many families in the apartment complex and surrounding neighborhood. the motivation and circumstances surrounding how and why a felon prohibited from possessing firearms obtained a weapon and went on a shooting spree will take some time to understand and investigate. police say they recovered a loaded, unregistered gun at the scene. no officers

were hurt acting chief paul joseph says the suspect is 41 year old ricardo villarreal of san jose, a felon who served a ten year sentence for assault on a police officer. san jose mayor matt mahan commended the officers for their bravery in this case. they kept an entire apartment complex safe from a suspect with a long record and a history of substance abuse and drug sales. this is the third officer involved shooting in san jose so far this year in san jose, marianne favro. nbc bay area news. uc academic workers across the state are on strike today. come on, that's uc santa cruz. you're looking at the union represents academic student employees, postdoctoral scholars, and academic researchers. they say they're striking because of the way the university has cracked down on pro-palestinian protests