married in 1990. but when david fell into alcoholism, the two got divorced. and at one point, david was sitting on a lake dock and his wedding ring slipped off in 2023. david and lisa got back together, but they missed their ring, so they hired a team of divers to get it back. it took divers four days to find the ring. they say they used a metal detector and finally located it. and it's amazing. it's in great condition. quite the love story. 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. janelle. here's what we're working on a deadly memorial day in the south bay. we have new details. after an hours long standoff ends with an arrest and a homicide. transforming the biggest hangout in downtown san jose. volunteers put the finishing touches on a new mural at san pedro square. but first, a rude welcome to the east bay visitors getting their

purses snatched in broad daylight. welcome back. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. we have a wave of purse snatchings in berkeley. five cases in the past five days, including this morning. police say may be the same. two suspects targeting unsuspecting women. here's nbc's jodi hernandez. unfortunately, we have to be on our p's and qs all the time, and it sucks to have to live like that, but that's just the reality of the situation. sam boney says she's not at all surprised to hear there's been a wave of purse snatchings at berkeley gas stations and businesses over the past few days, including the gas station schiff frequents. it's definitely something that's always on my mind. berkeley police say suspects in a black sedan have struck five times in the past five days. surveillance video shows them pulling up to a car as the driver was pumping

gas, quietly opening the door and then taking off with the victim's belongings. in all of these cases, it's a vehicle that's been described as a black sedan with two suspects who are masked. three of the cases took place at gas stations. one at the outdoor seating area of a coffee shop. and just this morning in the parking lot of the berkeley bowl grocery store. the most impactful thing you can do is to remain alert and aware of your surroundings. definitely keep your items locked or out of view. if you have to leave them there briefly. my wife doesn't fill up gas anymore in this area. she goes over the hill to do it. greg witt says his wife and daughter now gas up in orinda or lafayette because it's gotten so scary. in berkeley and oakland, you have to lock the car. you have to not leave anything sitting where they can grab it, you literally have to have either everything on your person or shoved away somewhere because they'll come up right here and just reach in here and

take everything out of your car. i think i would definitely be more mindful just because if it's happened four times in the past week, then that just goes to show that it's been this is just kind of like the start of it. unfortunately, police say all five incidents took place in broad daylight and all five victims were women. gas station customers say they'll definitely be more aware. in berkeley. jodi hernandez, nbc, bay area news. the search is on for an inmate who escaped from a county jail in hollister, danielle lopez zavala escaped overnight while doing janitorial work. he was last seen running away from the san benito county jail. jail staff says they saw him jumping over a barbed wire fence. k-9 teams picked up zavala scent and discovered his pants discarded in an open field, and then the canines lost his scent at a nearby building. the san bernardino county sheriff's office says he's a known gang associate with an extensive criminal history. a late night standoff in the south bay last night has turned into a homicide investigation. today, one woman

is dead. two men taken to the hospital. nbc bay area's scott budman is here with the latest on the investigation. scott yeah. janelle. the san jose pd is not releasing any names. they say one man is in custody in connection with the city's 16 homicide of the year. the standoff started just after 6:00 monday night, after neighbors on the 300 block of north 20th street called police to report what sounded like gunshots. upon arrival, officers discovered an adult female victim suffering from extensive physical trauma. they also identify a male suspect, an adult male suspect who retreated into the residence and self barricaded. the suspect ultimately surrendered, and when officers entered the house, they say they also found a man who had been shot. he was briefly hospitalized and released. the suspect was taken to a local hospital with self-inflicted injuries. the woman died. the female victim suffered very extensive physical trauma, so

we're still trying to work with the coroner's office to identify and determine the extent of the injuries and what really was the official cause of death. those who live nearby say they're shaken up. i was trying to get to work, you know, if i see red tape, i'm going to go the other direction, but, you know, coming back this way, i'm just like, okay, this is kind of serious. jose had 11 homicides back to you. okay. thank you so much, scott. well, they know exactly where. and now they're looking for the how oakland firefighters are trying to determine what caused that lumber yard to go up in flames. it happened sunday night at the economy lumber yard on high street. crews remained on scene all day yesterday and say the fire started inside of a building at that lumber yard, but they haven't figured out the cause yet. the owner says damages could cost millions of dollars. any redesign of the building will include a sprinkler system, which was not in place during the fire. well, happening tonight, a heads up to

late night drivers caltrans will begin. road begin overnight road closures in san jose. the closures will start at 11 p.m. here's the map where caltrans will shut down the southbound 680 off ramp to alum rock avenue. the on ramp from alum rock avenue to 680 will also be closed. caltrans will be replacing the drains that pump stormwater. these ramps are scheduled to reopen tomorrow at 6 a.m. these overnight closures, though, will continue until december. san pedro square in san jose is getting a big makeover. community members started painting san pedro street yesterday. it runs through the square. it is shut off to cars now, so you'll be able to walk over it and enjoy it today. san jose mayor matt mahan showed up to help. we are the capital of silicon valley and we're starting to look the part bit by bit. foot by foot. we've created a space designed for people and today we're celebrating a big step

12,000ft■!s. in fact, where we stand today on a street we permanently closed earlier this year will soon be the largest mural in san jose. it is a quick project. the mural is expected to be finished by the end of this week. all right, here we go. the spelling bee is back, and all of our local spellers have advanced to round two. that's great news. 245 spellers from across the world are in maryland tonight competing for the national title. today was the opening round. 191 spellers are advancing to tomorrow's quarterfinals, including three bay area kids. it's pretty exciting, but it's also like kind of nerve wracking. it's really interesting once you, start like learning a lot of new words and like, you learn a lot of, like history about different places. there's all sorts of words that i don't even know how to pronounce that they're spelling correctly. she's joined by seventh grader aaron lee of

belmont and san jose, eighth grader shraddha amoretti, who placed third last year. the winners bring home a $50,000 cash prize and the official scripps cup trophy. you can watch the spelling bee live tomorrow night and thursday night on ion tv. well, up next summer's right around the corner, and that means it's heating up. and a new climate report shows us just how hot it'll be and for how long. we have a deeper look into the new normal. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. 75 right now in san jose and some comfortable 60s. later on tonight we'll talk more about the snowpack and also what's ahead for us next couple

have pummeled texas yet again. this is what it looked like in a suburb of dallas. look at that. the storms left more than a million businesses and homes

without power. the storms also tore off the roofing shingles at a community college and toppled trees right onto homes. it's expected to take crews days to fully restore power to the various areas. raj new research out today shows that over the last year, more than 75% of the world's population suffered through heat waves, amplified by climate change. and the new report reveals just how frequent and intense heat waves are becoming. here's nbc's national climate reporter chase cain. over the last 12 months, climate change added nearly a full month's worth of extremely hot days, 26 days if not for humans, burning coal, oil and gas. that's the big headline from this report, which did take into account things like what is hot in dallas or miami versus, say, what's hot in san francisco. i think it's very, very hard to ignore the fact that we now see heat waves basically every

summer in lots and lots of places. and while, of course, we are still burning fossil fuels, so global mean temperatures are still rising and rising quite fast. so we will see many heat records being broken next year. again. freddy otto with world weather attribution, is one of the lead scientists on this report. and zooming into the us, it's easy to see florida stands apart. with nearly two months 54 days worth of climate amplified heat, texas had an extra 23 days. california for 17 days. even massachusetts, new york, new jersey, maryland all feeling about three extra weeks of heat, which likely wouldn't have happened without climate change. for heat waves, we can make blanket statements that every heat wave that is occurring now globally has been made hotter and more frequent because of climate change. well, heat waves. climate change is an absolute game changer, and we see heat waves now that are so hot that reach temperatures that would have been impossible to reach without human induced climate change. looking ahead, noaa's climate prediction center

is already calling for one scorcher of a summer, especially in new england and in the southwest. and keep in mind that this report emphasizes that all heat waves are lasting longer and being made even hotter because of climate change. and summer is just beginning in los angeles, i'm national climate reporter chase kane chase. thank you. jeff ranieri is here now to talk about our heat up this week. as we get going. it's going to get hot, right? it is. and we're going to see some of the hottest weather we've seen in about seven months here across the bay area starting to slide into some 90s in that forecast. and i want to continue our climate coverage tonight and take a look at our snowpack and compare it to last year. and wow, last year it was record setting on so many fronts, not only the snow in the sierra, but of course the rain across the bay area, to date this time last year, we were still averaging 381% of normal across california . now this year we came in with

an above average season, but the snow melt has already started, so our numbers are quite a bit lower than last year. take a look. and we're at 82% for the northern sierra, central sierra 42 and southern sierra 32. so this is about average. this is where we should be. but again last year it was so record setting. those numbers were much, much higher. now the point i really want to underscore tonight is with that snow melt happening on target, it could leave us with a longer period. of drier weather in between. our storm system here, which would basically mean we may see the fire season increase out here across the sierra this year. that's what we're going to be looking for. we've had now three strong years of rainfall back to back. and also snowfall. so there's a lot of fuel out there to burn. so we're going to continue to monitor that. otherwise the side benefit of getting all of this snowfall is it's filtering down into the reservoirs. and our four largest state reservoirs are now reading

92% of capacity. so if you want to go out and enjoy the environment and the beauty of california and go to one of those reservoirs, we know there are such a popular recreation spot, they are doing pretty good and full here for much of the state. okay, let's take it back into our weather here throughout the bay area. high pressure is going to keep it dry. storm track away to the north. and this will allow that warm air to move in from the south. the difference tomorrow is we're going to see a lot less in the way of fog as we started off for the morning. so that's going to make it easier if you're traveling over any of the bridges or near the coastline. we're going to begin here with 54 over the south bay tri valley, 53 over to san francisco, 51. and right there for you in the east bay. sunny start and 53 temperatures tomorrow, warming up 4 to 8 degrees. you're going to notice it. we're back up into the 80s here. 86 in santa rosa, 83 martinez 80, in san jose. palo alto 79, even 70 in san francisco. and right there in half moon bay, 62, the other thing we're going to see is the

wind picking up. it's our typical afternoon sea breeze when we get that warm weather inland. and you got some cooler air at the coastline, it's going to pick up that afternoon breeze . we'll see that wind coming out of the north here. anywhere from 20 to about 30mph doesn't look damaging by any means. just wanted to give you a heads up on that right here in the 7-day forecast. we'll keep some low 70s in downtown san francisco next couple of days. drops off a little bit as we head into this upcoming weekend. and through the inland valleys. we'll reach that 90 on thursday, some low 80s this weekend, and then eventually it heats back up again. next week, we'll take a closer look at a ten day forecast with that heat coming up tonight at 6:00. i haven't seen 90 in a long time. it's been just over seven minutes, seven months. last october. wow. october the 19th. it's been a while. it has. hey, thanks, jeff. thanks, jeff. all right. up next. who's it going to be? we have an update on the sharks coaching search, including a familiar name that could be taking over this team. we'll explai

just had another kid. yeah, he was at bottle rock saturday. had a baby. his fourth baby on sunday. he's the warriors star. and what? he runs a nonprofit with his wife, aisha. but he's already thinking about his retirement. a lot of us are. but his retirement is another sport. steph curry wants to go pro in

golf. in a recent feature for golf digest, curry spoke about his love for the game. we know this and his plans to play professionally after his hall of fame nba career. the 36 year old hopes to join the pga champions tour, which is for the older dudes, 50 and over. last summer. you might recall, curry won the american century championship. that's kind of that celebrity championship at south lake tahoe this summer. not much golf, relatively speaking, because he'll be in paris for the olympics and team usa. all right. we have an update now with the sharks. they're reportedly getting close to hiring a new coach. candidates include sharks assistant coach ryan warsofsky, former red wings coach jeff blashill and former shark marco sturm, who's a minor league coach right now. that would be interesting. whoever the sharks pick as their head coach, that new coach will have maclean, celebrini, who the team plans to take first overall in next month's nhl draft. also part of that young core will

smith. today he officially signed a deal with the sharks. he was team teal's first round pick in last year's draft, but went to boston college for one season. at 19 years old, smith led college hockey in points while setting boston college's freshman scoring record. all right, we hope the sharks can resurrect that franchise. there some bad news now for the giants. let's take a live look from at oracle park. this is our exclusive center field camera. the giants getting ready to face the philadelphia phillies this evening. but the giants are going to be doing it without one of their best players. lamonte wade jr is out for about a month. the giants first baseman got an mri today, confirming he strained his hamstring after that kind of awkward slide right there into second base yesterday. watch it again lamonte wade jr is having an all star caliber season been so fun to watch. but he's out for about a month. with that said, the giants are just kind of shuffling their roster, pulling up several minor leaguers to make up the balance. the giants have been hit by some serious

injuries so far this season, but they are playing some great baseball. up next, a day of celebration turns into a nightmare. the scary drive to a graduation celebration that ends with an arrest. stay with us. norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? -but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better! now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go. plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. i gotta get this deal... i know... faster wifi and savings? ...i don't want to miss that. that's amazing doc. mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc?

preying on something we use every day. here's today in the bay's marcus washington to explain why. well, hackers are targeting our water utilities so much now that the federal government is urging our local water suppliers to take immediate action to protect this precious resource. the epa releasing this warning earlier this month. this is after it found about 70% of the utilities inspected over the past year violated the standard meant to prevent cyber attacks. a cybersecurity expert we spoke with says china, russia, syria and iran are the main culprits behind these breaches and intrusions. a part of the problem is most water systems now rely on digital technologies. they're no longer, you know, manual systems that used to be used a long time ago. so now that they're digital, if you think about a hacker, they can do things like change a parameter on the system, change the way the water is ingested,

change the chemicals that are used. so the impact can be everything from just shut the water down completely all the way to contaminate it. and that's not great for the people that actually rely on that water source. late last year, a group with links to iran forced a company providing water in pennsylvania to switch to manual operations, and earlier this year, a russian linked group tried to disrupt operations at several texas utilities. now the stories like this join me and the rest of the today in the bay team starting at 5 a.m. on air. you can also watch nbc bay area news whenever you want. we're on 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. i'm marcus washington. back to you. marcus. thank you. one of the largest teachers union in the united states comes to a reported agreement with governor newsom. we agree that we can't go back to where we were. tell lawmakers and governor newsom to pass a state budget that protects public schools for our students and communities. this is a big deal here. that was part of an

ad released by the california teachers association. it blasted what it described as billions of dollars in cuts to school spending. politico is now reporting the governor has reached a deal with the union. the previous plan would have lowered the amount of money guaranteed to schools by nearly $12 billion. the reported new deal includes a guaranteed $5.5 billion to schools in the future. the governor is trying to close a $38 billion budget shortfall. well, starbucks and the union that represents its stores are set to resume negotiations this week. and members of that union say they're optimistic about the talks. last month, starbucks and the workers union united union met for negotiations as workers united represents more than 400 different stores, with a dozen of those locations here in the bay area. the union is pushing for better pay, benefits and more staff. the ceo of starbucks admitted the chain is earning less money right now. he also said he knows the stores need improvements, so the union

believes this will give them momentum in the talks this week, you may have seen the buy now, pay later option while online shopping. it turns out a growing number of shoppers are clicking that box. the option allows you to pay a small amount to start and pay the rest in payments. a new survey by nerdwallet says 25% of shoppers have used this in the past year, and that's because, according to nerdwallet, many adults are struggling to pay for basic necessities like groceries. as prices remain high and it's pretty easy to use, there's no credit check or application process like credit cards have, and the loans don't appear on credit reports, so it's like a phantom debt that doesn't reflect the credit score. well, this could have been a whole lot worse. a florida bus driver is accused of driving a group of graduating seniors while he was under the influence. the students were heading to an end of the year field trip, but within seconds of hitting the road, things turned chaotic. parents on board say the driver started speeding and blowing through red lights, and multiple

demands for that driver to stop the bus were ignored. two parents in a separate car jumped into action, putting their own vehicles in the bus's path to get that driver to stop. he was arrested and no injuries on that bus. thankfully we have a lot more news ahead. audrey asistio joins us now with what's coming up next. janelle and raj, right now at six millions of square feet of office space left vacant in downtown san jose, we are tracking the real estate recovery as the city's commercial spaces struggle to make a comeback from the covid pandemic, and the uc workers strike is now getting bigger. the workers are walking off the job because of the university's handling of the pro-palestinian protests across various uc campuses. why? the president of the uc system is calling the strike illegal, and one of california's most dangerous train crossings is right here in the bay area. what the community wants to happen to prevent more tragedies. the news at six

starts right now. good evening. and thanks for being with us on this tuesday. i'm raj mathai and i'm audrey asistio o. the economic effects of covid are still rippling through storefronts and sky rises in silicon valley and retail space vacancies could be better, but office space is taking a real hit right now. entire buildings remain vacant. nbc bay area's damian trujillo is in downtown san jose with a look at how the problem could turn into an opportunity. well, across the valley, office space is taking a beating. projects halted, landlords trying to lure more tenants, and meanwhile the municipalities are losing that tax base. it's called the 200 park, the j. paul building rising several stories into the downtown skyline, 1,000,000ft■!s of office space. and it's empty. they are marketing that property really hard, not leased yet, bu