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been inside that building, which is two units. it's a top unit. and then the middle unit there. they have been going through both of those floors collecting evidence. they've also been talking to neighbors, collecting other evidence like video. and those investigators are very much aware of the history of this address getting racist packages. as soon as fire crews arrived on scene, they quickly attended to two people who were inside the three story building on fillmore street and got them to the hospital. both are the parents of terry williams. he's pretty rattled by this. this don't feel good right now. you know, because i'm like, i'm the only son. so i feel like i should have been here, you know? i mean, i could have stopped, prevented anything. you know? but the fire isn't the only thing williams and his family have been dealing with lately. over the last several months, he's received a number of packages with items so offensive we've had to blur them out. they're black dolls with nooses
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around their heads and racist messages attached. williams is a well known dog walker in the neighborhood, so this fire is not just a shock. it's deeply upsetting to be targeted this way and now to be burned out of his house. i can't imagine what he's going through. i mean, on top of just living with racism on a daily basis. and now to have this, you know, in our neighborhood, neighbors organized a weekend rally recently to support him because of the racist mail. and as today's fire was raging, they moved quickly to take his three rottweiler dogs to a garage nearby to keep them safe. fire investigators are still trying to figure out how this blaze started, and they are fully aware of the prior history here. san francisco fire department is aware of the criminal investigation that is attached to this address. at this time, the fire department investigators will take that information as context for their investigation. san francisco police have been looking into the racist mail, but no one has
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been arrested. williams says he was at city hall when the fire started. the board of supervisors was taking up a resolution denouncing the racist mail supervisor dean preston represents this district. it's absolutely shocking. i mean, this is a site where we've had the most explicit, outrageous racist threats against a family in a formerly black neighborhood with a black family that, despite the odds for, for, for years, for decades, has able been able to stay in this community. and now, because of the fire that family is displaced. and for the last half hour or so, we've been watching some members of that family going in and out of the building , trying to recover some items. the fire department tells us that this fire has displaced seven family members, and within just the last hour or so, the san francisco department of building inspection just put a red tag on that building. it is
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uninhabitable. reporting live in san francisco. i'm sergio quintana, nbc, bay area news. okay. thank you, seth hill. police have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl while she was walking home from school. this happened back on april 9th as the girl was under the 280 overpass at south 11th street in san jose. that man was initially identified last week as julian salvador martinez. today, police announced he's been taken into custody thanks to a tip from a community member. our community members continue to be our eyes and ears and it's like partnerships like these that really make it possible for us to make sure that these suspects are arrested and held accountable. martinez was arrested for multiple crimes, including sexual assault. bart service is back to normal after a major delay this morning because of a person stuck underneath a bart train. it started just before 11 this morning at the walnut creek bart station. bart says a person was on the tracks for an unknown reason, and may have been hit by an oncoming train. service was stopped between pleasant hill
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and lafayette, while emergency responders removed that person from the tracks. their condition tonight is unknown. regular service resumed shortly after noon. it was a terrifying flight. singapore airlines tonight offering condolences and an apology after one of its planes experienced severe turbulence. that flight so violent, one man died and several others were hurt. now, some analysts are saying that turbulence during flights is likely to increase in the future because of climate change. nbc bay area's scott budman joins us now. you've been tracking this story all day, and the video from inside is startling. yeah, jessica, these always are. and this one is no exception. those two follow the airline industry say they deal with turbulence every day, conditions that often surprise even pilots. so they say to passengers, be careful and stay belted when you fly. sudden extreme turn is being blamed for dozens of injuries and one passenger death, believed to be from a heart
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attack after a singapore airlines flight from london to singapore hit strong turbulence. once, at 29,000ft tall, you have the maximum level of winds flowing around the tops of those mountains and that air is rising and falling and twisting, and if you're downwind from those mountains, you're going to get turbulence. retired pilot doug rice says he sees more reports of turbulence these days. some blame it on climate change, making conditions in the sky even more unpredictable. all we're dealing with varying things that impact our atmosphere winds, storms, jet stream and mountains can all affect flights, and sometimes it can hit without warning undetected by radar because you don't know when you're going to hit, especially what's called clear air turbulence. cat and they can't be seen. you just drop. and it's a it's
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disheartening. certainly it's a scary experience, an experience common enough. frequent fliers say their advice is to stay strapped in. it's not unusual. that's why the pilots tell you to keep your seat belts on at all times. singapore safety investigation bureau says it will deploy investigators to look more deeply into what happened. jessica. okay. thank you scott. she calls it a scheme. alameda county district attorney is suing insurance companies, she says on behalf of homeowners, da pamela price has filed a lawsuit against farmers insurance and mid century insurance. the suit claims those companies defrauded homeowners by undervaluing their homes when charging them premiums for their coverage. she says the insurance does not adequately cover their homes, so if there is a disaster, the owner is left with not enough money to rebuild. it's a lawsuit, aims to ensure that homeowners receive fair and information and the necessary information to adequately
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protect their homes, which is most of us understand and know. this is the major asset of every family. farmers insurance tells the san francisco chronicle that the allegations in the complaint are simply incorrect. company goes on to say it looks forward to addressing the concerns and defending its position. close allies are at odds today. it's over. the decision by the international criminal court to seek arrest warrants for israel's prime minister and leaders of hamas, the u.s. and uk both reject this move against israel, while france and belgium are defending the court's independence. nbc's alice barr has the latest from washington dc. growing fallout today over the international criminal court seeking arrest warrants for israel's prime minister and defense minister on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including allegations of deliberately starving the people of gaza and intentionally targeting civilians as part of a
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widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of gaza. the icc also seeking to arrest top hamas leaders over allegations they deny of murder, rape, torture and hostage taking during the brutal october 7th attack that started the israel-hamas war. hostages must be released immediately. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu outraged in a new interview with msnbc, stephanie ruhle, is equating israel's democratically elected leaders with the terrorist tyrants of hamas. that's like saying, well, i'm issuing arrest warrants for after nine over 11, i'm issuing arrest warrants for george bush. but also for osama bin laden. president biden refuted the court's allegations against israel. what's happening is not genocide. we reject that. the blood of 40,000 palestinians is on your hands. protesters interrupting secretary of state antony blinken on capitol hill today, where he told a senate committee that targeting israeli
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officials for arrest jeopardizes ceasefire negotiations. that only complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement. the british prime minister, under scored that point as the uk also rejected the icc moving against israel, while france and belgium are among the countries defending the independence of the international criminal court. close allies at odds as the war in gaza rages on. part of the objection here is that the u.s. and israel do not recognize the international criminal court's jurisdiction over the war in gaza, but the warrants do put israeli officials at risk of arrest if they travel to other countries, and it puts them on the same footing as russian president vladimir putin, who faces icc arrest warrants over actions in ukraine. in washington. alice barr, nbc news. all right. thank you, alice. the andersons site both sides have now rested their case and donald trump's hush money trial. former president is
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accused of falsifying business records related to a payment to adult film star stormy daniels. yesterday, the prosecution finished questioning michael cohen. he's a former lawyer of donald trump. cohen testified that mr. trump signed off on the hush money payment this morning. the defense finished with its last witness. mr. trump declined to take the stand despite previously saying he'd be willing to testify. closing arguments are scheduled for next week and then jury deliberations begin soon after on the subject of mr. trump, he's facing backlash for a post on his platform, truth social. this is the video posted yesterday which addresses the question, what happens when donald trump wins? you can see some newspaper headlines, some are slightly blurry. one uses the phrase unified reich. it's considered to be associated with hitler's germany, also known as the third reich. today, president joe biden and other democrats criticized the post. it has been taken down. but today, a spokesperson for trump says the video was shared by a staffer
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who did not notice the use of that word before posting. still ahead, some progress in the fight against metastatic breast cancer, how you can fight back against mutations of that disease, and already making a mark before graduating from college. how iberia woman helps her fellow students and community while earning a degree. it's our bay area proud segment. next i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. what a warm day out there right now. 81, in livermore. we'll talk more about the temperatures ahead for tomorrow and what's coming our way. this wee
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form of the disease. oftentimes it can grow and spread regardless of treatment. that's because over time, treatment can stop working due to mutations in that cancer. but doctors say the key to getting the right treatment could be to test for the mutations early on. the key is to test for these mutations, because for some patients you can have detectable esr1 mutations, for others they might
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not be seen. but the key is to do a blood test to test for esr1 mutations, because if they are seen, that could have implications for treatments. health experts say it's important for patients to have open discussions with their doctors to get the right treatment plan. well, even in a region as wealthy as the bay area, there are always people without enough food to eat. no place is immune, not even an elite four year university in san francisco, but a student there has been stepping up to help. garvin thomas joins us now with her story in tonight's bay area. proud janelle jessica. when malia busansky came to the university of san francisco from her home in hawaii, she knew that helping the environment was something she wanted to learn more about. it was there, though, that she could do that. she learned she could do that, but also help others at the same time. one of the traditions of graduation weekend is students showing their family the places that have influenced and
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inspired them over the past few years. usf is proud of the graduate for graduate maria busansky, though that was going to mean taking her parents off the university of san francisco campus to just outside the 16th and mission bart station. thanks, dad. you're getting into it. it's here. for the past three years, malia has been coming every thursday evening to share food. there you go. with those who could use some. we'd love to have it with everyone. the meals malia normally serves on these evenings are made up of excess food gathered from usf dining halls and the san francisco food market. it is part of malia's effort to bridge the gap between those who have too much food, with those who don't have enough. this is what i'm passionate about. this is what i'm interested in. if i see a problem and i know, like, awesome, this is this lines up with everything i stand for. like i will 100% go for it. and then you go down the stairs. but it's not just out in the community that malia has made her mark. it's right on campus,
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too. when malia started with the food recovery network at usf, its food pantry for students was not the easiest to find. it was housed in the basement of the school library. it was right in this room was the in a closet original food pantry. it definitely was something it felt like we wanted to keep it hidden. we maybe didn't want to talk about bread. sometimes these days, though, it has found a much more spacious home. the food recovery network's weekly food giveaways now in the library's main lobby and featuring much fresher food, will regularly draw in 100 students. bigger malia helped make it the less stigma there was among students about using it, which is just what she wanted to happen. yeah, it's awesome and it's grown into something that's people will come and hand out cookies or make coffee. it's a very like it's something that students are super excited to get involved with. to come to usf as the end of a college career is typically a time when students look
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forward to all the change they're going to make in the world, malia estella hopes. of course, there will always be those who don't want to wait until graduation to get started. obviously not only doing good, but a good student. i heard from the head of the environmental studies department. he said she won practically every award there was to win in environmental studies department this year. and if you're thinking, well, she's graduating, what's going to happen to the food recovery network? it's in good hands. her younger brother is going to be a junior there. he's going to take it over. he's going to take it over for her. i'm starting to suspect that this is a family pattern and that this started a long time ago. time ago, probably when she was little, too. thanks, guys. i'm graduating. i can't wait to see what she does next. okay. thanks, garvin. very cool. all right, jeff, our last day of before it starts to chill down, right? yeah. we had some summerlike weather today, and then gradually we're going to see those temperatures drop, where eventually this weekend some spots are going to go as much as 20 degrees colder. so a lot coming our way. let's take
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you to that microclimate forecast right now. we'll get you outside to some of this warm air and just beautiful outside right now. livermore at 81, santa rosa 85. you go near the coastline. it was cooler there with a little bit of that foggy breeze, 57.5 moon bay. so huge difference there from the coastline to the inland valleys and san francisco right now at 73. so let's take you out here to concord and show you how the temperatures are really going to be dipping through tonight. we're going to hang on to some 80s here all the way through 7:00, some 70s by eight and nine. and then eventually we get some 60s in here later on tonight. now, as we head into tomorrow's forecast, i'm still seeing plenty of warm and sunny weather with us from this area of high pressure. but the other thing i'm watching is this smaller system just off to the north. it's going to produce some rainfall in washington and oregon, but it's moving a little bit closer here to us. so that's going to help temperatures to drop a little bit for tomorrow. also get some fog back going at the coastline on. so here it is through tomorrow morning. we'll see the best chance of fog right
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at the immediate coastline from san francisco down to about half moon bay. also, some of these low clouds for parts of the east bay. and a little bit of a patchy fog chance here for gilroy. then as we roll through the afternoon, sunshine is back. for most of us, except for the beaches right around half moon bay. likely will hang on to some of that fog. so morning temperatures going to begin with. plenty of 50s across the bay area. not too many differences tomorrow morning in those temperatures. low 50s south bay peninsula, tri valley, very similar weather here over the east bay with 53 and the north bay 51 now daytime highs. because of that system off to the north are going to begin to drop a few degrees down here in the south bay it will be four to about six degrees cooler. we're going to be back down to 78 in san jose. so still a perfect day outside. 77 in cupertino, just not as hot. and really, you know, mid to upper 80s this time of the year kind of a little bit too hot too soon. so i think tomorrow is going to line up really nice with what you want. 77 in vallejo, 80 in walnut creek, 71 in hayward. we remain
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cold at the beaches, 59 at half moon bay, over to redwood city, 71, san francisco 65. in the outer sunset, and for downtown 68 and for the north bay, a pretty substantial drop drop here in sonoma, down to 79 and mill valley 72. so numbers begin to slowly fade out tomorrow, and then we're going to see some larger changes by this weekend. we've got this cold front that's going to be dropping in right now. i don't see any rainfall with it, but look at the temperature difference from those 80s today down to 68 on saturday. now a warm up. we'll get a good day here on sunday 75 and monday 77. we're just going to start that weekend off on the chilly side. one other thing we're watching is the severe weather tomorrow, another round of it coming our way from dallas to little rock right up towards saint louis, louisville, nashville, even columbus, ohio. thunderstorms and the chance of tornadoes right here on san francisco's forecast 50s coming in this upcoming weekend. and
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for memorial day, we're going to top it out at 77. so we got that big dip coming on the way. but at least it's not going to be lasting all week long. we get a little little blast of that and then we're done with it. it's like a refresher i like that. yeah. refresher cool and refresher. yes. thank you. yeah. well, coming up, some good news for shoppers, specifically target shoppers. why prices are dropping and why president
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for free. microsoft and the khan academy, which is based in mountain view, have partnered to make it happen. the academy is now offering its ai assistant conmigo for teachers free of
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charge. program takes some of the workload off teachers by helping to prepare lessons, plan assignments, analyze student performance. it also gives feedback to teachers to help enhance their own learning. target is lowering prices on thousands of items, and president biden says he deserves credit for making it happen. we reported yesterday that target is cutting prices on roughly 5000 items, including bread, veggies, milk, meat. and today, president biden says he's somewhat responsible for the move for years, his administration has been putting pressure on corporations to lower their prices. it says companies are keeping prices high despite lower production costs. the administration says it's now seeing the effects wendy's and mcdonald's have also lowered their prices. stocks ended high today in the green. dow climbed 66 points. the nasdaq rose 37. the s&p grew 30 points, 13 points. meantime, investors are eager to hear the earnings report from santa clara based chipmaker nvidia that's set to come out tomorrow.
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analysts are expecting it to post another strong batch of results. well, a hollywood star is about to be honored at a bay ea graduation. we're garoi
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it's actually an honorary doctorate degree, but that was a long time star in nbc's long running drama law and order. but he's san francisco native who graduated from san francisco unified school district. he's going to received his doctorate at the school's commencement on friday, along with brat. sf state will give a degree to civil rights activist lawyer walter riley. he's represented many black lives matter protesters. another recipient is psychologist joseph white. he got his master's from san francisco state and is known as the godfather of black psychology. now, he died in 2017, so his daughter will receive the honor for him. don't forget, you can watch our newscast 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. raj mathai joins us now with what's coming up next at 530. it's a busy tuesday. it's hard to watch hear this story. a deadly crash in fremont. we have the surveillance footage which shows who responded first to this fiery scene in the east bay.
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also, a federal investigation is now underway into that crash that killed a family of four in pleasanton. why the electric car that they were driving is being looked into. and are you willing to sign up for a program where you're charged roughly $0.03 for every mile you drive? what's in it for you? welcome back, everyone. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. it was a fiery and deadly crash. this is on a notorious stretch of road in fremont. according to neighbors, we have surveillance video that we're going to freeze right at the point of impact. we want to warn you, it might be disturbing to watch. let's bring in nbc's ian cull. the car smashed into this tree in fremont at 1230 this morning. we obtained surveillance video that shows how it happened. you'll see the car coming from top left, driving fast and smashing into the tree

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