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thanks for watching, we love you. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ right now, at 11:00, we are following breaking news in mexico. you can see this video almost doesn't look real. a stage collapses as though strong winds whipped the area. people running for their lives. this happened during a campaign rally in the wealthy enclave of san pedro garza garcia. this is near the city of monterrey, mexico. a mexican presidential candidate, jorge alvarez martinez, was on the stage when this happened. he is now in the hospital and says he's okay, but many others are not. at least four people are dead, 15 others injured are the

top story. tonight, a vta bus watched that video, by a passenger with a machete, and the bus driver tells us it felt like forever until help arrived when he pressed his panic button right there on the bus. the call first went to vta dispatchers and then to the sheriff's department. the driver says the delay could have cost him his life. investigative reporter candice nguyen found agencies across the bay area have not been able to solve this problem. look and listen closely. the interaction is quiet. this is surveillance video of vta operator carlos zarate's bus being by a passenger with a 17 inch blade machete. i really can't make this trend, he told me, make this u-turn or else you're going to start bleeding. when you saw that machete, what was going through your mind, zarate is speaking publicly for

the first time about this may 2022 incident, sharing this part of the story not shown in the video, the young san jose father had a six month old baby girl at home. that was my biggest thing. either getting hit with a machete and not my baby, being embarrassed of me later on, or or just not being here for her anymore. and at that point, it's when i hit the panic button. vta says its operations control center, or oc, data, shows zarate pressed his emergency alert button at 5:05 a.m, activating the bus microphone so dispatchers could listen in. a minute later, at 5:06 a.m, oc contacted the sheriff's office twice, i have an emergency alarm on one of our coaches. the dispatcher at the time doesn't appear to realize zarate's life is in danger for this here

conversation. nothing. just a loud conversation. that's all i'm hearing. at 516, you hear the siren of the first sheriff's unit arrive. both vta and the santa clara county sheriff's office say they're proud of their individual response times. vta says it responded in one minute at 5:06 a.m. when its dispatcher called the sheriff's office with a two minute gap that's unaccounted for. the sheriff's office said its call for service started at 508, and its deputy only took eight minutes to get on scene. but no one we found was considering how long zarate was actually waiting for help. a total of 11 minutes every second of that nightmare mattered, zarate says, when both he and the public were at risk. the person had told me to hit a car and i told them i couldn't, that i wasn't going to do it. and i told you to hit a car.

yeah on the 880 overpass, zarate managed to keep the suspect calm and walked off the bus without a scratch. but he says his injuries weren't physical. right now, being treated for ptsd and anxiety, a lot of mood swings. it sucks because i don't feel safe at home. zarate is far from the only driver impacted by what he feels was an inefficient and delayed response. bus drivers tell us when they're not safe, passengers aren't safe. we reported on the same issues with ac transit back in 2018. it's like scary to go to work. ac transit bus driver celestino gonzalez says the agency hasn't fixed the problem. these hospital photos and her incident report show she was attacked last summer. she says it took 15 to 20 minutes for deputies to get to her. it just took forever for them to answer and i'm like, what are you guys doing? ac

transit refuses to confirm their response time, citing privacy policies. the agency spokesperson said when it comes to emergency responders, their system is engineered so that there is no requirement for a direct conversation with the bus operator. but for years, bus drivers have told nbc bay area when their life or a passenger's life is at risk, they need a direct line to police. some of these issues are not unique to any particular transit agency. aston green is vta's chief of system safety and security with transit dispatch in oc, keeping track of their response times and the sheriff's office keeping track of its own response times. who's adding those times together so that board members and the public can get a sense of the total time it takes for that bus driver to wait for help? yeah. so there are two different systems, right? like the sheriff's department is contracted with us. if there is

a request specifically, we tend to do the analysis. don't you think that's much more of an accurate reflection of how long that bus driver is actually waiting? no, i mean, our principle is for first responders to get there as soon as possible, right. and so there are several ways that that communication can take place, like a passenger calling 911 or a driver using the radio. we asked green, what about tracking entire response times to report to vta's board of directors, which oversees vta? are you also reporting response times both occ and sheriff's response times to the board? no. our response is a report on the contract, scope of work with law enforcement, particularly their crime stats. green says everyone is trying to make transit safer. everybody. societal issues are spilling onto systems, he says, and operators like zarate are heroes. i think his actions were heroic. i think what he did was

in the best interest of the public. but what about the driver safety? zarate wonders where public figures to and if we need help. i hope they could get to us. we don't have anything to protect ourselves. zarate's attacker was prosecuted and is currently serving a prison sentence. we reached out to several vta board members, and we're waiting to hear back with the investigative unit. i'm candice nguyen, nbc, bay area news. thank you. candice, if you have a story for our investigative unit or cam candice, you can call 888996 tips or you can visit our website nbcbayarea.com. slash investigations. you might have seen all the smoke. you might have smelled it all as well. a fire on the peninsula. look at this prompted concerns all the way down into the south bay. this fire was at a scrap metal yard in redwood city, and it triggered alerts from several agencies. people told to close their windows and stay indoors. nbc's jocelyn moran joins us in redwood city this evening, right

along 101 with the very latest, jocelyn. well, firefighters put out the blaze a few hours ago, but it was definitely a scary situation for people who live and work nearby, especially after seeing how big it got and then smelling the smoke. a fire that started at sims metal in redwood city sent plumes of smoke into the air, visible for residents and workers throughout the city. manuel michael works next door and took this video. the smoke was about, i'd say, 100 100ft up to 70 to 100ft up in the air. and, flames as high as 30ft, he says. there will sometimes be small fires at the scrap metal yard, but nothing crazy. they get put out. but this one got his attention, as well as residents nearby. by the time the fire department department came there, there were flames or orange glow, about 40ft by 40ft by 40ft tall. it was amazing. john slater was on a bike ride when he noticed the fire. he stayed and watched. i've been here for three hours.

i'm not willing to ride past that stuff and inhale that stuff. it's really bad for you. i'd rather stay here for three hours and wait for the air to be cleaned. agencies, including the bay area air quality management district, santa clara fire, the sunnyvale department of public safety, and mountain view fire posted messages on x notifying people the smoke was moving south and recommending people who could be affected by the smoke to remain indoors. well, it's a little scary because of the smoke. and, you know, i thought, oh, this redwood city woman called her husband immediately and i told him to close all the windows. do you have them open? he said yes. so close them all because he's got asthma. really bad. in a statement, sims metal tonight says in part, quote, while still too early to confirm the cause of the incident, we are working with the redwood city fire department and local authorities to investigate. now, we did see the bay area air quality management district out here. at one point. they said they expected air quality to be back

to normal by this time. in redwood city, jocelyn moran an nbc bay area news. jocelyn, thank you. developing at this hour in the east bay, a power outage has left a big portion of the uc berkeley campus in the dark. it happened just before 630 this evening. the university says 47 buildings are without power as of right now. what you're seeing are the backup lights that kicked in when the power went out. crews said it could be several more hours until the power is restored. summer school began on monday, so there are plenty of students, teachers and staff members in and around campus. the university is asking them to be careful when walking in these dark areas. also tonight, a search and rescue effort underway for an oakland woman believed to be missing in mendocino county sheriff's office says 70 year old elizabeth schneck was visiting brule point yesterday, which is west of highway one, when she disappeared while on a walk. now her last known location was near brule point road, which is about 20 minutes north of fort bragg.

the man who reported her missing says schenk called him around 930 yesterday morning, saying she was lost and she was asking for directions as search and rescue crews searched overnight today, she still hasn't been found. if you know anything about her location, you are asked to call mendocino sheriff's county police. new at 11. the search is on for a woman accused of stabbing someone at a chick fil a in emeryville. it happened yesterday afternoon on 40th street. police say the woman you see right here on your screen walked up to a person, then cut their neck. both took off before police arrived. now, based on the surveillance video, the woman who was stabbed is expected to be okay. investigators say the attack appears to be random chaos on campus tonight, a south bay high school student is recovering after being stabbed in the locker room. this happened just before noon at gilroy's christopher high. investigators say a male student stabbed another boy that victim was taken to a local hospital and is

expected to be okay. now, we did talk to a student who says they were in that locker room when that stabbing took place. until you just hear a, like, commotion, like, oh, he's got a knife, he's got a knife, and everybody's just freaking out. everyone's like, just freaked out. the coaches, they're there like. like they just saw a ghost. like now. luckily no one was hurt. but the school was placed on lockdown for about an hour while officers investigated . the teen stabbing suspect was arrested at the school and taken to juvenile hall. we're back in 60s. up next, what is next for the oakland coliseum? the big announcement late today about the plan to redevelop the site once the a's leave town. also paper or plastic? maybe not for long. the big changes that may be coming to your neighborhood grocery store. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we're in for a monumental change when it comes to weather from 80 degrees in concord tomorrow, down to 60 by the time we get to

saturday. more details on these temperatures, plus whenrizzle could

cisco in the 90s. the band shared this photo on social media. colin is the one on the left. he was the basis for the group's first three albums, including drops of jupiter. his family says that colin died after he slipped and fell in the shower while house sitting for a

friend in belgium. colin was 58 years old. as the bitter divorce continues between the a's and the city of oakland, there's a major sticking point that's still unresolved. what's going to happen with the coliseum? here's a live look at the coliseum right there. this is that prized piece of real estate, which is in limbo today. some progress. oakland agreed to sell its half of the coliseum site to a black led investor group. but what about the a's half of the coliseum? here's nbc's gia vang. it is my privilege to say that the african american sports and entertainment group has agreed to the terms to purchase the city of oakland's share of the oakland coliseum. yes that's 50% for a minimum of $105 million for the 112 acre property. the mayor says the potential sale to the african american sports entertainment group, or acg, will also help fill the city's budget shortfall. but she says, more importantly, the future of the coliseum complex, as

envisioned, will include the development of thousands of much needed new affordable units and market rate housing, increased curated outdoor green spaces, commercial and retail spaces. construction on that won't be able to start for an estimated 2 to 3 years, according to acg, and that's if all goes as planned. the city council must approve the sale. that should happen in a couple of weeks, and ayetsg says it's working on making the deal whole, meaning negotiations are happening with the athletics, who purchased the other half from alameda county in 2019, and even that could fall through pending a court case in september still. but ultimately, we believe that we're on track to be able to have this site consolidated. so what can acg do after this announcement? it can start planning since oakland has land use rights and the group is with different versions of plans already in the works and with the understanding the site became a profitable venue for other entertainment when the professional teams left. we know that people want to come to the site to be entertained because that's evident in more disney on

ice, more celine dion and more anita baker concerts. so we've been having a lot of those. so the site is there in every iteration of the site. the arena would stay, saying they plan to keep it a home for sports two, perhaps for professional soccer, as ayetsg also has a cooperation agreement with the roots soccer club. however, everyone underscored today any plans will ultimately be community driven. it's going to be developed to bring entertainment to anchor culture, to bring life and to let us thrive here in east oakland. in oakland, gia vang nbc, bay area news. the federal bureau of prisons will go to trial next year over claims it allowed an environment where guards sexually abused female prisoners at fci dublin, the women's prison was shut down last month. since 2021, eight prison employees have been charged with sexual abuse, including a former warden. two of the employees have been convicted. five others pled guilty. fci dublin inmates filed a lawsuit last august alleging the agency had failed to root

out sexual abuse honoring fallen officers. today, the san jose police department held a ceremony to remember every san jose police officer who has died in the line of duty, the department says. since it was founded nearly 175 years ago, 13 cops have lost their lives on the job. each of their names was read during a bell ceremony. police also held a department wide moment of silence across all police radios. families of the fallen officers were guests of honor. today, mayor matt mahan was among the leaders who spoke. check this out. a ship with a famed history is sinking in the san joaquin river delta. it's called aurora. it's a 293 foot ocean liner made in 1955, and it was actually the inspiration for the love boat. sheriff's office says the ship has a hole and it's causing it to take on water. right now, it's not clear what caused the hole. state environmental agencies are at the scene because the ship is also leaking diesel into the delta. the

biggest priority is containing that leak. we want to make sure that there's no wildlife that gets injured during this. so far, we haven't found any wildlife that has been affected by this leak. but then also the delta waterway is its recreation . we have boaters out here, we have swimmers out here, and we want to make sure that they're not affected by this. now, they don't know how much fuel has been released, but the u.s. coast guard is expected to have the spill cleaned up in the next 4 or 5 days. all right. let's turn our attention to our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. this is when the week before a holiday weekend, it always seems to go so slow. but what we're getting there we are. it's thursday is just around the corner here. and eventually that weekend is going to get here. and we are already starting to see some big changes out here in the pacific right now. what we're seeing happening is that hot area, high pressure is moving more out towards pacific because of this system that's dropping down. so with that moving closer tomorrow, temperatures drop a few degrees and we still keep that sunshine. but again larger changes by this weekend. let me show you more

details right now on that microclimate forecast. and let's begin with tomorrow morning. we have low 50s. just a chance of a little bit of cloud cover near the coastline. and also the bay. all in all, pretty easy start as you get going on that thursday morning forecast sounds good, right? thursday 52 here in the east bay over to the north bay. you're coming in at 50. might need a little bit of a light jacket. temperatures for tomorrow even though we're going to drop it off 4 to 6 degrees. we're staying in such an enjoyable range here. just a nice day to be outside 79 up towards napa, 66 in san francisco, 58.5 moon bay. from that cooler ocean breeze back out to concord 80 degrees and san jose a have you at 76. so tomorrow we can totally handle that. but you're going to feel it. you're going to notice it. and in a big way here. once we hit friday and saturday, a cold rush of air coming in with this cold front dropping on down, it's speeding up a little bit. so we do think at this point, our temperatures on friday are

going to be a little bit cooler than expected. along with that, some cloud cover, even the chance here of some drizzle. and we are looking at on and off wind gusts here 15 to 45 on friday and saturday. let me show you the hourly forecast. and when we could get some drizzle. i don't think it's going to impact your plans this weekend because a lot of it's happening overnight. so 4 a.m. saturday into about 7 a.m. on saturday. might see some spotty drizzle. then by saturday afternoon into sunday and monday, lots of sun on the way. look at these temperatures down to 68 in concord by saturday. and then a comfortable week headed our way next week. now, when it comes to our national weather, we've been following this for weeks. more severe weather tomorrow. highest risk of tornadoes in nebraska, but a large section of the eastern half of the u.s. will have the possibility of strong storms right here in the 7-day forecast. wind picks up friday. a slight chance of that drizzle early saturday morning. and then look, we've got some nice weather on sunday 75 monday 77 there on memorial day. did you

say thursday's tomorrow and 78 your favorite i know. yes it is thursday tomorrow. thank you. we're getting there. thanks, jeff. up next, need to renew your license or some other issues at the dmv. things are changing. we'll explain why lines might be getting shorter. and we have jimmy. hey, everyone. we're playing egg roulette with jeremy renner. plus, we have jay pharoah and a performanc

this is more than just a theme park. this here is a vacation where youll explore a universe found nowhere else because here new adventures await at every turn. and so does relaxation. sun soaked cabana? heck yeah. its where everyone will feel the winning feeling of doing new things like you only imagined. oh yeah. universal orlando resort. single use plastic bags. the thinner ones are already banned here in california, but the proposed bills would only allow stores to offer paper bags or bags made of recycled materials for a ten cent fee. supporters of the bill say that not enough is being done to curb plastic

pollution in the state. opponents say the bills would actually increase plastic use and cost families more money. both bills now have to be passed by the senate and assembly before becoming a law. okay, we all know that going to the dmv is usually a dreaded experience, but now we could see shorter wait times. dmv says starting june 3rd is going to start requiring that certain transactions be done online. that said, it's also more than doubling the services available online. in addition to having some self-serve kiosks at various grocery stores, state officials say expanding online services will reduce dmv office visits up to 200,000 people a month. now the dmv office at gilroy is closing for a few months to get a makeover. office on auto mall parkway will be closed from june 5th through september 3rd for renovations. the hollister dmv is going to be the closest alternative. it's about 15 miles away from that one. you can also access most dmv services, as we've been telling you online, or visit the santa teresa, salinas and san jose offices. okay, one of the

giants big stars is back in the lineup. we'll show

pitcher blake snell, $62 million to help resurrect the team. so far, blake snell has yet to make an impact, but there are signs of life tonight in pittsburgh. snell came off the 15 day injured list and pitched into the fourth inning. he wasn't great, charged with four runs, but it is progress. how about a giants comeback? ninth inning late night lamont the clutch rbi single. this tied the game 5 to 5. we go to the 10th inning. the giants explode for four runs. patrick bailey with the rbi single to get the party started. giants beat the bucs final score tonight, 9 to 5. all right. at the coliseum, the announced attendance for the a's game 3617. we keep saying got to feel

bad for the players caught in the middle of this mess between the a's and oakland a's and rockies tonight. top of the 12th inning. that's colorado's ryan mcmahon with the two run homer. rockies win 4 to 3. the a's have lost 11 of their