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: decision 2022. santa clara voters can turn in their ballot starting monday. we have the five people vying for a key city council seat. creative way one teen is helping those impacted by the russian invasion of ukraine. : who gets the see your private pay stubs? more people than you might think. bay area looking to lock down
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your salary info. the private information might be going places you don't expect and your bosses know it. >> we have a look at the underbelly of the payroll department and some bay area start-ups who want to flip it so workers like you have a say. >> these companies are quietly waging war. the fine tiny numbers your pay are their ammunition. let's look at why pay stubs are being scooped up in bulk. our photos, music and movies. all those files are in the cloud these days. what else? payroll files. millions of pay stubs are streaming to the cloud daily. some see a storm brewing up there. >> it's the sale of our own
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personal data. that needs to be questioned and protected. >> reporter: you'd aplay for car loan or mortgage and have to fork over paper. then the bank would call your boss to verify your income. payroll and data companies automated the steps online. all your boss has to do is share. every workers pay stub every pay period. millions do. >> this is all a very hidden process that's not been talked about. >> reporter: what is this invisible exchange mean for you? look at me. i haven't applied for a loan in years. ef two weeks my pay stub gets up loaded to a third party server where i have no control to opt out or delete my data. some bay area companies are challenging the pay stub cloud. it's concerned about identity theft. >> the reason for that is because the individual is not in the loop. >> reporter: the biggest payday
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service is called the work number. the owner, the credit report company. only people like loan officers are supposed to look at your pay data. it also lets debt collectors in. equifax says it does audits to catch imposters. the solution is gefing you control. >> et should be issued to you correctly. >> reporter: certree is reinventing the pay stub cloud. it puts the pay info into a personal vault. >> like a bank safety deposit bok. the bank has a key. you have the other key and without your key the bank can't open a lock box. >> reporter: it give you total control. the user agreement lets you opt out and delete your pay stubs from the cloud. equifax that has pay data on more than half the u.s. work force does offer some control. you can view your file online and see whose accessed you pay
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stubs. it will not opt you out. some companies are switching away. >> we partnered with certree to provide the extra layer of prek for our employees. manpower used to share data but the info goes into the safety deposit style vaults. >> private data is so critical these days. that was the primary underlying reasons. >> reporter: other start uchs with different ideas to give pay stub control have enrolled tens thouf sands of other companies mp millions more are sharing paystubs in bulk. workers like you must speak up. >> this is something they should and can be vocal about. let your ceo know, let your hr organization know.
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>> reporter: we made a how to video showing you how to see the information equifax has on you and who has been looking at it. you can see that video and our installments on our website, streaming channels and youtube page. look for the how to play list. i look to my family every day. i know what's going on. it's hard to imagine ha terrible
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things are going on. >> she's giving all proceeds from the shirts to bay area non-profit which provides humanitarian needs. turning to decision 2022 now. half of san jose city council seats are up for grabs including district 5 which many see as the city's most culturally rich communities. >> it's among its most vulnerable. >> reporter: more than 65,000 people live or work in east san jose. this is district 5 and this year, five candidates are vying for the right to represent it. >> i represent a community that has been left out of our local political discourse. >> peter ortiz is the current president for the santa clara board of education.
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>> i'm running to prioritize a people package that will fully invest in the preservation and production of affordable housing. >> it's my home. a political science professor. >> i have a decade of experience already working for people on san jose. we have been able to take the district in a very difficult position. we reformed the district.
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>> we cannot move the district forward with the same old policies. >> she stands for making the valley strong and hopes voters will see the importance of her experience supporting small business and working along side government officials. >> i like to see the best side of san jose. >> reporter: she will institute a family appreciation holiday.
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>> my plan is to make sure they have a place to sleep and not on the streets. >> reporter: a former san jose council member who is running again with plan to move this community forward. >> policies that support the working class community so they can support their families. >> reporter: she says blight, public safety and homelessness are the city's biggest issues. >> when i served on the city council, we were the safest city in america. now when you look at numbers, we have lost 207 police officers since 2010 when i left. people want experience. experience matters. i also think character matters. >> reporter: the current council member is terming out. each of these five believe they've got what it takes and ask you to vote for them in the june 7th election.
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no more cars. the roadway in san francisco that you can no longer drive on . this weather system and a cold one at that could bring showers. we'll have a closer look, coming up. the outrage over the leaked supreme court decision spilling into protests nationwide. don't miss an all new meet the press with chuck todd tomorrow at a special time, 6:00 a.m. right here on nbc bay area. fanduel and draftkings, two out of state corporations making big promises to californians. what's the real math behind their ballot measure for online sports betting? 90% of profits go to the out of state corporations permanently. only eight and a half cents is left for the homeless. and in virginia, arizona,
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and other states, fanduel and draftkings use loopholes to pay far less than was promised. sound familiar? it should. it's another bad scheme for california. ♪♪ at usaa we've been called too exclusive because we were created for officers. but as we've evolved with the military we've grown to serve all, who've honorably served. no matter their rank or when they were in. a marine just out of boot camp or a petty officer from '73 and even his kids and their kids.
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usaa is made for all who've honorably served and their eligible family members. are we still exclusive? absolutely. and that's exactly - why, you should join. it was a party in san francisco golden gate park today. as you can see a lot of folks turned out to show their appreciation. there's been a lot of heated
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debate over this issue, as you might know. jfk drive went car free during the pandemic to give people more space to walk, run, bike or skate without having to worry about traffic. advocates have been pushing to make it car free for much longer than that. mayor london breed made it car free for good said it's the right thing to do. she said jfk drive was her happy place during the pandemic. >> people with their babies in strollers, i was seeing folks in wheelchair, people on their bikes. i would see kids roller skating, on their scooters. the thing i saw more than anything else was not all the folks using this area but i love seeing the smiles on people's faces.
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so much to worry about these days. you can now add poisonous books to that list. >> it has nothing to do with the text of the books but has everything to do with the covers. >> reporter: these two women are trying to save the world one very old green book at a time. >> the color is that really bright, vivid green. not like a dark forest green. >> reporter: while repairing an old book a couple of years ago, they discovered the books published in england and the u.s. from 1840s and 1860 that had green cloth cover, the green color came from dye made of
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arsenic, seriously poisonous stuff right there on the book cover. >> eve been working on it. i've been poking it with tools. looking at it really closely under the microscope. that was a little scary. it's the pigment that makes them bright green that contains arsenic. >> reporter: she had a bunch of them in the open. >> they could come in there and pull one off the shelf, check it out, take it home because we didn't know. >> reporter: the green books from that era are kept in sealed bags and giving online talks to spread the word about the possible dangers of handling the books. there could be thousands of books like these all over the globe. >> iceland, australia, taiwan. we are getting the word out. >> reporter: they sent out the book marks with a qr code that leads to more information about the books and the dye.
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also a you should do. don't just throw them many the trash can. >> bag them up. you'd want to wear gloves, nitrile gloves. the kind of thing you see doctors and nurses wearing. >> reporter: books are generally good things but these and other green ones like them need to be taken out of circulation. >> that was tim furlong reporting. there's new video out of kansas of an ef3 tornado last week. the tornado lit about half the building. turned over by the strong winds. school will be closed for the rest of the year as a result of this damage. more than a thousands buildings were affected by the storm. amazingly no one was killed. >> remember the video of that twister tearing through town.
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the wide shot of the huge twister. it's got to be terrifying. rob. severe weather happening to our east. we have wind. not on that scale, thank goodness. it will be a cooler breeze. right now 66 degrees in san jose. that 58 will be a common theme to high temperatures, bay area wide tomorrow as cool air and a chance of seeing some showers showing up right around midday around the bay area as we wrap up the weekend tomorrow. notice the wind speed. seeing wind speeds 20 to 35 miles an hour. this going to be ongoing through the day tomorrow but i think you'll note it more add the air turns a bit more chilly to wrap up the weekend. wind around for the morning. i think around this time, 7:00 a.m., we'll see showers in the north bay.
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by noon the showers will approach the south bay. not a will the of 60s. no 70s in the forecast. areas out by concord and fairfield, low 60s. increasing wind and the chilly breeze. the source of our showers is coming out of the gulf of alaska and have reenforcing chillier air dropping down out of canada which to be honest, it's more of january style pattern you're about to see coming up with the snow estimates for the sierra. here comes the bands of showers right there approaching the golden gate by around noon. now passing san francisco. mom day plan in the north bay probably will get a bit of a midday break. south bay you might have to wait until 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon. shower chances start to decrease. rain totals, there's not a lot to that future cast.
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there's opportunity monday and tuesday. these are locations that could pick up more substantial rain totals. areas here in green from the knot bay hills about a third of an inch of rain. for the sierra, good news. cold air and snow. at times down to about 4,000 feet or lower in may. look at the totals. could see about a foot there. as we go through the week, clearing sky, high pressure. temperatures climbing back up. chilly, unsettled to start the week. near 70 in san francisco as we head towards next weekend. 50s and 60s to 80s possible next weekend. if you like winter, spring, summer, got it all covered there. a little chilly and breezy.
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out-of-state corporations wrote an online sports betting plan they call "solutions for the homeless". really? the corporations take 90 percent of the profits. and using loopholes they wrote, they'd take even more. the corporations' own promotional costs, like free bets, taken from the homeless funds. and they'd get a refund on their $100 million license fee, taken from homeless funds, too. these guys didn't write a plan for the homeless. they wrote it for themselves.
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new technology may be able to predict who will experience heart trouble and when it will happen. >> it's all done using artificial intelligence. >> aum these technologies with medical practice. this is what we live for. >> reporter: sometimes modern medicine isn't enough to keep us healthy. researchers say artificial intelligence can help to accurately predict if and when someone's heart will stop beating years in advance. >> it uses learning on images to predict the patient's risk of sudden death over period of ten
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revolutionize the way clinical decisions are made. protecting those who may be sent home from the hospital without knowing they are at high risk. >> some of them might die in the prime of their life because they're not protected. the predictions were more accurate than nose of doctors. st hope it is could help tailor treatment for patients based on their own unique risk. >> this is our goal. >> researchers have expanded their research and working to
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build alalgorithms. >> heart disease remains the number one killer in the u.s. and sudden cardiac death account for as many as 20% of all deaths worldwide. all right. former arizona sheriff deputy faces charges of crashing multiple wedding venues and stealing items. police say they managed to track this man down after he stole a box of gifts from a bride and groom. security footage shows h imstealing a card box and just walking out of the venue. the alleged victims are now speaking out. >> it was beautiful but at the end of the night when i did find out, i was devastated. >> it was a gut punch. you have the most perfect, magical wedding, everything you dreamed up and the night is simply shocked. >> the alleged wedding crasher is also accused of hitting venues across four other arizona cities. >> of all the criminals we have
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