by baiting homes. one police department on the peninsula is trying to see if it will work. and over there, as fast as i could, when i got there, the mother was climbing out of the vehicle through the top, plus a former marine being hailed a hero. he saved a three year old from a burning car moments before it exploded. we're going to show you the video. it's called the middle class tax refund, and it's our way of getting money back into your pockets to help with everyday expenses. tens of millions in inflation relief, money still sitting around unspent. how to find out if some of that is yours and you only have a couple of days to act and then coming

up later, why are so many asian american women at risk of getting cancer? the important work about to start at ucsf to try and figure it out. good evening. this is nbc bay area news. tonight, i'm jessica aguirre. we are going to start with some new information on developing stories that we have been following all day. a busy day for contra costa fire crews. three fires broke out across the county today and crews are still trying to fully contain two of them. now. crews have a handle on this fire that you're looking at right here. this is in the antioch marina. you can see where that fire actually burned. some of the brush behind the water. now, this is what the fire looked like about an hour ago. flames shooting up higher than the trees. fire burned a few acres, but contra costa fire says there are no reports of any injuries or damage to any of the buildings. we've been pretty busy. had basically three fires going on at the same time. this one here in the marina is approximately 2 to 3 acres. it

is currently being contained and we are pretty sure we got a pretty good line around it. we have the fire boat and we had some air support. another fire is burning off slaton ranch road close to highway four, and the antioch bart station cut across. the fire tells us it is burned approximately 20 acres of brush along the highway. you can see the fuel, the material that we're burning right now. there's no word on what started either of these fires. now, we don't have video of that third fire that we mentioned. it is contained. it was in concord. we've also been following a developing story out of san francisco, an officer involved shooting in the bayview neighborhood happened just after three this afternoon near jennings and carroll avenue. sfpd says no one was hit by gunfire during the shooting, but the suspect, an adult male, was taken to the hospital with injuries from non-lethal use of force. police are not being specific about what that use of force was. police did confirm a weapon was recovered on the scene. now this is still an active investigation. there will be a town hall meeting held

within ten days to give the community more information on. okay, some other headlines we're following tonight. a brentwood man being called a hero. he pulled a three year old girl from a burning car just moments before it exploded. that fire caught on camera. 40 year old troy white tells us he was driving his own daughter home from soccer practice when he saw the crash on highway four tuesday evening. former marine pulled over immediately, jumped into action, first, ran to the car to rescue the child, her mom panicking outside screaming for help. he then managed to release the child from a car seat, pull her out to safety and then moments later, that car exploded . she was just dangling and her foot was touching the ground through the broken window hole. she was saying, help me, help me, help me. three times. and then she said, i don't like this instincts. absolute adrenaline kicked in. i was i was all go, you know, it was go mode. and like i said, i'm a marine and we're trained to just, you know, react without thought. he was in

go mode. three year old paisley and her mom are still undergoing tests at the hospital. they don't appear to have any major injuries. paisley's mom told us off camera that words cannot express how grateful she and her family are to troy. she is calling him a true superhero and i am seconding that motion. also tonight to catch a thief. a new spin on an old tactic to catch criminals instead of using bait cars. police on the peninsula are using so-called bait houses. affluent town of atherton seeing a spike in home burglaries. so police have enlisted the help of dozens of volunteers, homeowners who turned their homes into bait houses. the bait is electronic tracking devices planted on items inside the home that officers will be able to track. if they are stolen. the idea behind it is once one of these items starts being moved, we will get a notification at the police department which is going to start our response, and then if the tracker is to leave the property, we will be able to track where that property goes, where it ends up. so the goal is apprehension okay. joining me

now is nbc bay area's robert honda, which followed this story today. okay robert, let's lay this out exactly how it works. the burglars have to actually break into the house and then they take something. and when they take that, if they take the right item, that's when the police can follow them in real time. that's right. in fact, it almost has to be real time because they want to apprehend them as they're making their getaway. so essentially what happens is that the tracker device gets triggered when the item or items are moved off the property. so that's when the police get notified, because that's when they know that the item is being moved, when it's not supposed to be, then the tracking device notifies the police. they launch a drone, and the drone monitors the vehicle from the air. and then they have about 50 license plate readers spread out around the town. and remember, the town is only about five square miles, and so they're able to then be able to not only detect where the vehicle is, but also get a description of the vehicle. so

even if it gets out of the area, local police agencies also know what vehicle to look for. so yes, it has to be in real time and it has to be done very pretty much in the moment. okay, we don't want to actually tip off the burglars as to what's being taken, but can you give us some more or less some types of things. i'm sure it's things like jewelry or or i mean, have they even telling you what kind of items they're putting the tracker on? they're not really telling us too much. i mean, having worked on some of these stories before and having talked a little about the principle of how this works, essentially it's important that the tracker be hidden so that it's not detected. and basically burglars want to come in and out really fast. they don't really dwell. so what you really want to do is make sure that the tracker is put in a place where they don't notice it right away. remember, they don't care whether they are going to detect it later or not. the idea is to catch them while they're escaping, so all they have to really focus on is making sure that the tracker

isn't spotted when they take the item. okay. and so and i think that basically the items you can figure are the ones that are the easiest to fence. and like you said, jewelry would be a good one. yeah. so are the homeowners. you know what's been are have they been good to volunteer about this? do they feel like they're in some sort of a, you know, robbery spy novel by being a part of this? i think in a way that actually might be part of the appeal of people being enthusiastic about joining this program. when you talk to some homeowners just generally about this, they like it. they like the idea of it. they're a little apprehensive about all the surveillance and things like that, just like in privacy concerns. but they think that this is really a good use of technology. the homeowners themselves have volunteered to do this again. they volunteered. they put this call out on february. they got more than 50 families right away that said that they would do this. and since then they've had more families approach them, saying that they'd be willing to also participate. so in the future, atherton police will probably be

rotating the houses that these items are in to kind of make sure that it's more of a guessing game. and to have more coverage for this program. okay, let's hope it works well. all right. thank you very much, robert. also tonight, more than a quarter billion dollars sitting unspent, some of that money might actually belong to you. now if you don't claim it soon, california lawmakers will get it instead, and they'll be able to spend it. however they want. it's called the middle class tax refund, and it's our way of getting money back into your pockets to help with everyday expenses. that is the governor announcing the money as part of an emergency relief program back in 2022, people who qualified could get up to a little bit more than $1,000 to help fight inflation. now, the state ended up spending millions of sending millions of people a debit card or deposited money directly into their bank accounts. but financial records we reviewed showed hundreds of millions of dollars are still just sitting there unspent. so

unless people start claiming that money soon, it's going to go back to lawmakers. and we're talking june first. joining me now is consumer investigator chris chmura. so why didn't some of these people get their money? multitude of reasons. some people got it in the mail, didn't know what it was, ignored it and thought maybe and then just throw it away. maybe. yeah. state auditor found that the state wasn't very good at answering the phone when people had problems. oh, that's a surprise. it's vendor ignored thousands, thousands upon thousands of calls for weeks and weeks and weeks. so there are lots of reasons. and yeah, there's no good reason now though to ignore it. there's money on the table and state lawmakers really don't have the best record spending our money. so you're better spending that money than state lawmakers. so grab it. so how do you know if you're one of the people that qualified for it? so the best way is to contact the franchise board. they're better answering the phone now because they got called on the carpet for it. we also have this qr code. you scan that right there, it'll take you to the franchise tax board website, and it'll help you figure out whether you actually

have any money on the table. this money goes right back to lawmakers next week. and why do they get to act fast? why do they get it? why do they get it back? they write the law and they wrote the law that said, oh, there's any money left over, we get it back. i know you're shocked, right? that's your shocked face. okay. there may be some people at home right now running. look to the part where you leave all the debit cards that you received to see if they've actually found this card. if you have the card that got sent to you, is it still active? can you still activate it and use it? maybe. yeah, a lot of yeses there. if you have one that you activated and spent some of the money on. here's good news coming up tonight at 11:00, we're going to tell you what happens with that. it's safe for now, though not permanently. but if you have any question about it, i say act now scan the qr code that we put up on this. yeah, we're going to show their hopefully we'll show it again. contact the franchise board. ask the franchise tax board. ask them, hey, do i have any money? did i not get this. did you not have my bank account information? is there a way to reapply for the money now or no

to get that? if you contact them? yeah, you've got time. you can until june 1st to get it moving. yeah. okay. let's show the qr code again one more time. let's bring that up so you can see it. snap it to contact the snake to see if you're owned, owed any money, a couple hundred bucks. that's real money. yeah, that is real money. that is real money. inflation's been pretty nasty but that can take a decent chunk i mean it's a couple gallons of gas these days right okay. and we'll see you tonight. all right. yes 811 okay. thank you chris welcome. see you up next searching for answers. the new cancer study at ucsf to better understand. stand the rising cancer rates among asian american women. plus cal is becoming an olympic rowing powerhouse. the athletes that are heading to the olympics this summer, you're watching

more susceptible to certain types of cancer. doctors are starting to notice some troubling trends, including women who've never smoked are more at risk of getting lung cancer. now there's surprisingly little research being done, but now ucsf is getting more than $12 million to lead the first long term study of cancer trends among asian americans. that money is coming from the national cancer institute. researchers at ucsf will be looking into what potential factors might be causing a higher risk of certain types of cancers, and why asian americans have become the first ethnic group for whom cancer is the leading cause of death. work on

the study starts in june. joining me now is doctor salma sharif marcos. she's an epidemiologist and one of the principal investigator of this study. thank you so much for being with us. doctor. can you tell me a little bit more about what kinds of cancers we're talking about here? sure. so here in this study, we'll be looking at all risk factors for all types of cancers. but as you may be aware and you alluded to in your introduction, asian americans face unique cancer burdens, including asian american females who have never smoked. having higher risk of lung cancer. we have also seen increasing trends in breast cancer, particularly among younger asian american females, and additionally, some asian ethnic groups also have higher rates of gastric cancer, cervical cancer, and liver cancer, and doctor, is this a phenomenon here in the us? i mean, do the cancer patterns here differ from those that you see in asian countries? for some cancers they don't and for others they do. so this large

study that we are going to be starting in june will help us start to answer what are the patterns of risk factors that are contributing to the burden of cancer in these communities? and do you have a base theory here? i mean, is it a lack of screenings? is it the data? is it environmental exposure, diet? i mean, are you coming in with some sort of a theory? so there's a focus in our study on looking at stress and environmental factors and their association on cancer risk. but you have highlighted many of the other factors that could also be contributing that we will be assessing in our study participants. so how is the study going to work? walk me through it. sure. so as you said, this is the first large national long standing study where we will be tracking people over time. so in our first wave, we're hoping to enroll 20,000 asian american adults across the country. and ultimately, we hope to have at least 50,000

participants in our study. we're asking participants to do is to complete several surveys, and for some, we might ask for biologic samples like saliva. and so over time, we'll be getting these repeated measures on our participants. and being able to follow them for incidence of cancer and understand how a variety of risk factors might be contributing to these, to the incidence of cancer in this population groups. well, you'd be doing recruitment here in the bay area. yes we will. okay. we'll be doing recruitment all across the country. now, given that asian americans are the fastest growing racial and ethnic group, why hasn't something like this and these trends have been happening? why hasn't something like this been looked at before? is it the funding? yes. so, there to date, there has not been a lot of funding to support cancer research on asian americans. part of it might be that there's been a perception that, cancer is not a problem in

asian american communities, part of it is a data problem as well, because for many, studies that have shown asian americans the data are really aggregated, not just for asian americans, but including asian americans, native hawaiians and pacific islanders. so it really makes it hard to understand which communities within that large group is experiencing higher rates of any particular cancer. and doctor sharif, when do you, marco sharif marco, when do you expect to have the conclusion of this study? well, this study that we're launching starting june 1st will be a five year study, and we will be collecting data, along the way and having different pieces of information that will be disseminating back out to our community along the way. all right. thank you very much. we're going to be following your study doctor sharif. marco, thank you for doing this. and thanks for being with us tonight and laying it out for us. okay. all right. we are counting down to the paris olympics, and cal's rowing team will have a big presence in

paris this summer. ten cal bears, current and former qualified last weekend in switzerland. that competition, often referred to as the last chance regatta, is the final opportunity to qualify for the olympics and the paralympics. current. cal's men's rowers gennaro di mauro and tim roth will be among those representing their countries at the olympics. they're going to join eight cal alums who will compete for their own countries, including the us, italy, switzerland, australia and new zealand and plenty of bay area representation as well on the us men's rowing team. in fact, there are seven oakland natives among the men competing. okay, a lot of bay area representation on the women's side. two cara kohler, also a cal alum and a contra costa county native, grew up in clayton, made her olympic debut in london. she's also competed in tokyo, where she won bronze in the quadruple sculls and it's not just about the bears in paris, aja chak sarkozy, a stanford alum, will also be in paris. she was named us rowing's under 23 female athlete of the

year. a live look at the golden gate bridge. jeff joins me with your forecast. a slow network is no network for business. that's why more choose comcast business. and now, we're introducing ultimate speed for business —our fastest plans yet. we're up to 12 times faster than verizon, at&t, and t-mobile. and existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds... at no additional cost. it's ultimate speed for ultimate business. don't miss out on our fastest speed plans yet! switch to comcast business and get started for $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. call today!

to talk about the hottest fashion trends this season. what's hot and what's not. lisa. so crochet is such a huge trend for this season. you'll see dresses, wraps, sweaters. it looks so fresh, so great. also denim reimagined. so imagine wider legs, cargo pockets, dresses not and not your average denim jacket, but just fresh and new silhouettes and then baby blue. think of like the ocean, the sky. beautiful shades of blue. it looks so fresh and so pretty for the color of the season. okay, noted. crochet denim and baby blue. check check check. awesome. thank you so much, lisa! make sure to check out siren boutique and watch califoia live weekdaysrn

games this summer. there they are. those are the olympic mascots. and this also the french paralympic athletes taking turns today posing for photos. it sits the podium sits in front of the eiffel tower. that's nice. you see it there. it's made out of recycled wood. part of the promise by the olympic committee to keep the games eco friendly and to slash carbon emissions. we're now just

64 days away from the paris games that kick off july 26th, and then the paralympic games follow. starting august 28th, and jeff will be starting his olympic forecast for me, certainly in july. so that i know what to wear. but in the meantime, i know that tomorrow what i need is a jacket. yeah, 60s are coming back here for us tomorrow, so it's going to be quite a bit chillier here across the bay area. we're looking at the storm system to the north, we're not looking at any kind of heavy rainfall from this, but it is going to bring down the chilly air, bring in some wind 15 to 45 mile per hour gusts on and off, out of the northwest, and also some drizzle for the morning. let me show you more details on that, plus a quick look at the national weather and more trouble spots on the way tomorrow. and as we begin tomorrow morning, we'll see some areas of fog and clouds near the coast east bay, south bay, slight chance of some spotty drizzle. we get into sunshine for the afternoon. we're in for a repeat performance here on saturday morning, the start of the long weekend. those clouds and some drizzle here with us. and then we'll see that clear

out to sunshine saturday afternoon and much better days ahead on sunday and memorial day there on monday. so tomorrow morning we're going to have 50s here to start with those fog and also clouds by the afternoon. look at these numbers after upper 80s this week we're going back down 67 here in martinez, 68 in livermore, 69 in san jose and 67 in palo alto. okay. let's move it out to the severe weather nationally here from chicago to dallas, we're looking at strong storms that could produce more tornadoes. and the other national story getting big headlines today is the hurricane season for the atlantic. they could see 17 to 25 storms this year. out of that 4 to 7 becoming major hurricanes. that's 111 mile per hour winds and or higher hurricane season peaks. if you got family or friends out that way. august and september. okay, back here on that 7-day forecast in the bay sunday and monday, upper 70s. going to be a lot better for the

back half of that three day weekend. for many of us. we'll get over those 60s and looks good. a three day weekend is good no matter what the weather. all right. thank you. you got it. you got it. okay, we're wrapping up. that means mario lopez is getting started with access hollywood. here's what's coming up next. so tonight jennifer lopez has been doing a lot of press for her new movie atlas. but no reporters have asked about the rumors of marriage trouble with ben until now. we're going to show you how jen answered the tough question and also what simu liu said to stick up for his costar. another star put on the spot, kansas city chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes. you're going to want to hear what he has to say about his teammate harrison butler's commencement speech. plus, the debut of the new season of bridgerton has been its biggest yet, probably due in part to a very steamy love scene, this one in a carriage. stars have a really funny story about an awkward misunderstanding during thoot. it's all just moments away on access hollywood. back to you. all right. thank you. mario, i just saw that episode of bridgerton. all right. tonighon nbc prime time. cheers to ten years. the red

nose day special at eight, then the wall at nine and law and order svu at ten. we hope then you'll join us for nbc bay area news at 11. jeff and i will be here. all right. that's going to do it for us at seven. have a nice dinner. i will see you later. bye bye.

tonight on "access hollywood" -- [ laughter ] >> j. lo did not see that one coming. so how did she handle the ben question? then celine dion opens up about her health battles. >> it's been a struggle. if i can't run, i'll walk. if i can't walk, i'll crawl. hi, "american idol," please choose me. >> our meghan trainor exclusive has her idol plea, and look who she is judging back stage at "access." >> i made