arrested in the south bay, accused of some unnerving behavior for part of it caught on camera. we're going to show you what happened. plus california is starting to see an uptick in covid cases. what's driving the summer spike? why are some people. tonight we're getting some insight from an expert. and then the summer

olympics are now just 60 days away, which means athletes are in the final weeks of training. coaches also feeling the pressure to coach this group of guys, with this coaching staff in the olympics in paris, it's incredible opportunity. we are talking to steve kerr about managing a star studded roster. plus we'll be joined in studio by three time olympian runner san francisco native shannon rowbury. good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight. i'm jessica aguirre. we want to start you up with some of the headlines that we are watching tonight. a mail carrier in the south bay is facing charges, accused of threatening people and injuring a police dog. this video we're going to show you right now was recorded last wednesday by a couple who said they witnessed some really bizarre behavior. police say the mail carrier was making his rounds in sunnyvale when he suddenly walked into the middle of the street talking loudly,

gesturing wildly. a couple who filmed the video didn't want to show their faces on camera, but they tell us they were driving down the street but stopped when they couldn't get around that mail carrier. i was on the phone with the 911 dispatch, and i was trying to stand away from him as much as possible near my husband's vehicle and making sure that my son was okay and that he was safe. what was he actually saying? are you saying basically that i don't belong here saying that he's going to shoot me? they go back to my country, go collect welfare for, you know, and whatnot. just crazy remarks. sunnyvale police tell us the mail carrier made similar threats to police officers. they say he had used pepper spray on a k-9 officer before being arrested. police aren't releasing the mail carrier's name because he's been put on a psychiatric hold, but they do say he faces several charges, including felony, for making criminal threats. we did reach out to the u.s. postal service, but we did not get a response. another headline.

we're watching dozens of seniors out of their home for a second night in a row. they had to be evacuated after a clogged pipe sent sewage overflowing into parts of an apartment building in oakley, impacting the elevator's electrical controls. nbc bay area's emma gaugh spoke to residents who say they are anxious to get back home. she joins us from oakley. we've seen sewage treatment specialists come and go from the apartment complex here on carol lane earlier today. for now, residents are staying at nearby hotels, and we spoke to some of them who came back to their apartments today to try and pick up some necessities. he fixed it where i could go in and get my medication this morning, where yesterday they were saying, no, no, no, no, no. they did their job yesterday they went out of their way and they were just over apologetic for the situation. i have. i had a knee total knee replacement and i have problems with my hip and partially side. well, i went home earlier, just not too long ago, to redo i

because i got my chair. i didn't have my chair, i had my basket with the stuff in it. a spokesperson for the apartments said in a statement that 44 households have been displaced and are being put up in three nearby hotels fully covered by apartment management, who have been delivering meals, water and snacks to all seniors. management said they've also delivered $300 gift cards to each household to cover the cost of potentially spoiled food. senior residents will receive a partial credit on their june rent. meanwhile the city's mayor and vice mayor are coordinating donations and assisting displaced seniors in oakley. emma goss, nbc bay area news. okay, thank you, emma. honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice. the bay area gathered to today honor our fallen heroes. annual hillsborough memorial day parade returned to the peninsula. mounted police escorted the parade through the city, which ended with a carnaval and a music festival. they also held an observance ceremony honoring those who gave their lives to our country. in san jose, generations of

veterans and their families gathered at oak hill cemetery for an emotional tribute to service and sacrifice. during that ceremony, wreaths were laid , representing the lives lost fighting our country. for many americans, this last monday in may marks the unofficial start of summer. today, i hope that you will take a moment, a simple and intimate moment of silence with your loved ones and cherish them. there are many who all that they have left. is the last letter home a picture in a frame, or a special moment or keepsake to remind them of a loved one they can no longer hold. san francisco marked memorial day at the historic presidio cemetery, the oldest national cemetery on the west coast, and house speaker nancy pelosi addressed the crowd, giving a special acknowledgment to world war two veterans also in attendance. family members who came to honor their loved ones who they lost in the war, a debt of honor that we owe all of

them. all right, let's change subjects here. do you know someone with covid right now? you might cases are on the rise again. new variants of the virus are circulating all over the bay area. california health department says they're seeing an increase of covid detected in wastewater. they're also seeing a rise in positive covid test. the numbers have been steadily increasing since the beginning of may, typically, covid cases don't tend to spike until a little bit later in the summer. now, since the memorial day weekend is typically the unofficial start to summer travel, we thought we'd check in with one of our covid experts, doctor peter chin-hong from ucsf. all right. thank you for being with us. let's talk about what you're seeing at the hospital right now. you're seeing more covid patients. we're seeing a steady number of sick people in the hospital. covid. it was a little bit up last week, but today when i checked it's about seven. so i mean a far cry from where we were, you know, back in the winter when we were about 50 or

40 a day. and these are people sick with covid. but again, what we see, as you said, jess, is that the cases rise. and then you'll see a little bit of uptick. i don't expect a lot compared to last year. i don't expect a lot compared to winter, but there will be people who will get sick in the upcoming weeks and during the summer. doctor peter, tell me a little bit about these new variants and how they differ from what we saw in the past. yeah, so they are called the fluid variants. there are about three of them. you might have heard names like kp one or kp two, they are about two, mutations different from jan one. and what it means is just that it's a little bit more transmissible. we've heard this story before, they're comprised more than 50% of the cases now in the united states. okay. so i was surprised to see a statistic, doctor peter, that says only 36% of people that are 65 and older actually have received an updated booster that came out in september. it really puzzled me, because isn't that the group that's most at risk?

exactly, jess? and, you know, in the people in the hospital, these are people who are generally older and 75 and 100% of the patients that i saw in the last few weeks did not get a booster in the last year, but they got a lot in the beginning of the pandemic. so i think that really tells us where we are and that particularly for some groups, you can't really rest assured it's not necessarily going to be just a cold or like allergies. okay. yeah, this is exactly. and that's actually what i've what younger people seem to be dismissing vaccines as because they say, oh, it's just like the flu or it's just like another cold. but now we're getting some information and evidence that repeated cases of covid could lead to long covid, and that it's really we're seeing it a lot more in younger people. yeah. that's true, you know, it's like playing covid roulette, the chance of getting long covid is lower over time, but the more times you get it,

you're just increasing the likelihood that you may get chronic symptoms and it may not be chronic symptoms. for more than a year. it may be for a few months. but for the people i spoke to, it really changes your life. yeah it really, really does. so let's talk about vaccinations. there are updated boosters out who should be getting those vaccinations. i would say the lowest hanging fruit is for people who never got a vaccine. since the new one came out in the fall of 2023. but for those who are older than 65, it is permissible for that group to get another vaccine if it's been four months or more since the last one, we will have a new one in the fall. but again, you might want to time that so that you can get it in time for the winter. and are you giving any precautions? as we were all out partying now in the summer, anything that we should be looking for, you know, are you still occasionally see people out with masks? are there some people that should be masking? because most people are like, yeah, i'm not putting that mask back on again. i think as

the numbers go up and again, we're kind of at still at a low point ticking up. now it may make sense for people who are going on vacation who are going to that family reunion, who live with older people or with people who are immune compromised to be careful because, as you know, it's going to be a slow burn that will be a swell. so i would encourage people to watch the numbers and, you know, carry your masks around when you travel and put it in your first aid kit with some, test kits as well. yeah. okay. very good advice. thank you. doctor peter. we'll see you soon. thanks so much, jess. thanks all right. 60 days from now, some of the most iconic spots in paris will be transformed. the city is reimagining landmarks around the city for the paris 2024 summer olympics. 10 million visitors expected to descend on the city of light. excitement also building for the athletes and their coaches. warriors head coach steve kerr is preparing to lead a star studded team, and our raj mathai recently sat down with coach kerr at chase center.

he told raj that he doesn't plan to coach the us men's basketball team past these games in paris, but his final olympic squad will be stacked with the best players in the league. and for the first time, that includes none other than steph curry. do you deal with any in this situation? is anyone lobbying for playing time or is there any egos involved? or because it's team usa? because it's such an important platform? is that kind of out the door? yeah, i think one of the cool things about team usa is these guys get away from their normal nba environment where, you know, they are, the leaders of their teams get to usa basketball and the 12 guys carry that torch together. and in a lot of ways they bond because of the individual responsibilities they all share with their own teams, a lot of ways, i think playing for usa basketball is a relief. it's a chance for them to just be part

of a group and not have to be the man. team usa is going to meet in vegas july 5th for the first time for practice and some exhibition games before heading overseas. all right. a famous face has become the biggest hype man for team usa's women's water polo teams. we're talking about legendary rap artist flavor flav. he started with a post from three time olympic gold medalist and bay area native maggie steffens. the post was about the team's challenges raising money despite their olympic pedigree as the best women's water polo team. so the rapper sought reached out, offering to be the official team hype man and vowing to help sponsor the team. our scott budman spoke to flavor flav or flav, as he likes to call him about how the post caught his attention. how did this whole thing happen? was it because you saw something from maggie on instagram? i mean, did it just sort of take off from there? well, let me well, let me put it

like this. you know, you know, my manager, you know, she's always into everything. she knows. she finds out everything thing. and she came across this, i was like, you know what? that's a great idea because nobody's really sponsoring women's sports in the first place. you know, a lot of women's sports are being underlooked, and i just want to help people achieve their goals. just like i achieved a lot, a lot of minds, you know what i mean? so i know what it feels like to want to have a chance. true dat as the kids say, okay, our olympic coverage isn't over. what does it take to prepare for olympic track and field athletes in these final weeks before the games? we're joined by a three time olympian, shannon rowbury. how do the athletes keep their head in the game as the pressure mounts? she's goi to tell us.ng

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60 days from the start of the paris 2024 games. it is crunch time for the athletes. some already know they'll be competing for team usa, but in some sports like gymnastics and track and field, the teams won't be finalized for another month. joining me now is our own local pride athlete that knows exactly that anticipation and pressure. three time olympian in track and field shannon rowbury is here. i'm fan girling on the fact that you're here. this is so exciting and i love all your you're all decked out in red, white and blue and you got all your olympic bling. let's talk about this moment in time. because you

know, we're doing the whole hype thing. oh 60 days, 60 days. what is 60 days out for a person like you in track and field? yeah. well, the athletes that are trying to make the olympic trials have two more weeks to get a qualifying time. but our olympic hope or our olympic medalist hopefuls are about nine weeks out. and a lot of them are just opening up their season. so we saw sha'carri richardson this weekend. she ran a really fast time in the 100. we saw sydney mclaughlin, la llorona run a really fast 200m to gear up for the 400 meter hurdles. these are the athletes that are starting their eight week peak. really aiming for a medal at paris. and what's the headspace like as you're. because i mean i've got to i've got to understand that qualifying there's so much on the line. there's got to be anticipation, fear, all these kind of things. how do you keep your head together when the athletes arrive at the olympic trials, which will be hosted at university of oregon, there's these billboards that say the world's hardest team to make. and truly, the us olympic team is the world's hardest team to

make. we have so many hundreds of athletes vying for a spot, and in order to make the olympic team as an american in track and field, you have to have a qualifying time and you have to place top three at the trials. and so all of our athletes, even olympic champions who are returning, still have to get through that trials and they still have to be in those top three spots to make sure they get to go. who who are you focused on? who should we be watching? oh my gosh. well, sha'carri as i said, ran amazing. sydney mclaughlin lavonne looking awesome, you know, the men's mile really deep. we have your news coming up. and a personal favorite, elie saint-pierre. she just opened up with a really fast five-k last weekend. she indoor world champion in the three k has her eyes set on some of these american records, i'm excited to see how she does with those. and this is all knowledge right now that you impart on us that you're going to be on imparting on the viewer as well, because you're going to be part of the olympics, not actually there, but as our specialist, our broadcaster. tell me more

about that. i have the opportunity to become part of the nbc family, i'll be the distance analyst for the morning session, my first time getting to be part of the olympic coverage. on the other side, and really the opportunity to try to translate what these athletes are going through for our fans at home so that they can get behind their performances and really cheer on the world's best team. american track and field is the world's best team and la, we come home in 2028. so really exciting momentum. so when the athletes arrive in paris, there's a lot of things that they're going to have to deal with. that is unique because it's a summer game we keep talking about. there could be a heat wave in paris. what kind of impact does that have on an athlete? and then one of the things that france has done to make it sustainable is that there's no air conditioning in the olympic athlete village. is that something that could impact a track and field runner? yeah. you know, the olympics are the second half of or the track and field is the second half of the olympics. and when you're trying to get through the rounds, especially, you know, our track and field athletes, they don't

just have one final except for maybe the 10-k, the marathon, all the other events have semifinals as well as qualifying rounds. so they're trying to race recover and do it all again in order to be in the final ready to go and if you're used to different conditions, if you're used to being able to have ac, some of those athletes are going to be going out trying to figure out how to make that comfortable for themselves wherever they're sleeping. i've seen athletes get their own mattresses, get their own ac to take matters into their own hands when needed. because this is your shot. yeah that really is. i want to talk a little bit about some of the stuff that you do here locally, because i know that you're involved with kids here and really, you know, this passion of track and field. i think that's an important thing. tell me a little bit about the work that you've been doing. i have a nonprofit. my husband and i started. pablo salazar is my husband, and we started imagining more in 2012. famous runner, by the way, mexican national record holder. he's amazing. and we started our nonprofit to empower kids through sport to create role models in the way that we didn't have. and we host camps. we have

one coming up this summer, and the idea is really teaching both physical skills, you know, drills and running tips, but also about the process foundationally, how do you navigate the college recruiting process? how do you fuel your body for success with good nutrition? how do you have a good mental approach to the work that you do? and really trying to pay it forward in the way that others did for me? yeah, because so much of success on the field is really about about success in the brain and how you see that. i know you've done a lot of work in the mommy space, which i'm going to have you come back. we're going to talk about that some more because we're out of time. but i know you're a big proponent of demystify, saying that women athletes can also be mothers, right? absolutely and that woman, elle saint-pierre, she's a mom. watch for her. watch for others. you know, i think this generation of athletes who's had the opportunity to compete for long careers, also want to show that motherhood is just a part of the process. if we really create a foundation for success, that sounds fantastic. i can't wait

to watch you on tv. i'm going to be getting all my tips from you as i'm in paris. yeah, if i sound strangely familiar to you, you'll know why. thank you so much for being here with us. thank you. jess. all right. okay, so 60 days, make sure you're with us because you're going to be able to watch opening ceremonies right here on nbc bay area. as you know, as i've been reminding you over and over again, i will be in paris. all right. golden gate bridge turns 87. she looks pretty good. chief meteorologist jeff rierian

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and painting a giant mural in downtown san jose and san pedro square. mural is going to take up to 12,000ft■!s span across a section of san pedro street, which is only open to pedestrians. mural designed by san jose artists called jimi paints. i hope that this can be a landmark for san jose. you know, something that is unique to the area. and i hope that also visitors of san jose to can come here and experience something that that they haven't seen before. you know, obviously the opportunity for photographs and just to make memories for themselves. thousands of volunteers will help paint the mural over the course of the week. let's bring in jeff to talk about this. so is it going to be good painting, whether it's really going to line up with some perfect weather out here across the bay area as we head through this week, look at temperatures today on memorial day. we know a lot of you had

stuff going on right near average in santa rosa with 77 concord the warmest 81, san jose 75. let me show you how things will shake out for the rest of the week in your microclimate forecast. and as we head through tomorrow, high pressure out here is going to keep that storm track to the north. it will allow some warm air to also build in from the south. only difference is some fog to start for tomorrow morning. we'll see that here at the coastline. also through the inland valleys and then lots of sunshine through the afternoon. so with some fog here for the morning. temps start off in the 50s, then by the afternoon numbers pretty similar to today 75 here in san jose, 77. concord 78. napa 50s and 60s at the coastline. all right. other thing we're tracking is more severe weather tomorrow. right there over texas. we could see some very strong thunderstorms, maybe even some tornadoes. so if you have a connecting flight going through dallas, expect some delays. on the 7-day forecast. we will get up to 90 on thursday inland. drop it a little bit this weekend, but still some warm

nice weather. maybe if you are headed out to san jose to see all of that new artwork, all right. thank you very much, jeff. all right. here's what's coming up in prime time. starting at eight american ninja warrior, then a specl veterans edition of the weakest link is on at ten. one veteran is competing from the bay area, so you'll want to catch that and then, of course, i hope you'll be back with me at 11:00 for our newscasts. that's going to do it for us here at 7:00. enjoy your evening. have a nice dinner, and enjoy the rest of your memorial day. i'll see you at 11.

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