the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. his first 24 hours might be a roadmap to his first 100 days in office. a lot of proposed changes coming from the oval office. one of president trump's many executive orders is sparking some confusion when it comes to some passports. let's bring in nbc's scott budman with the details. scott, what do you have? well, raj, for about two years now, americans have been able to choose one of three options. when selecting sex on their passports. they could select male, female or x, but that executive order signed by the president yesterday will soon require passports to reflect the sex of the traveler as either male or female. suddenly, some travel plans are marked with uncertainty. if, like faye johnstone, your passport is marked with an x, i'm heading to europe in may. i do have an x on my passport. president trump's new executive

order about sex and gender identifiers will eliminate x as an option on passports and any other federal documents, starting 30 days from now. i've had negative experiences at airports before. i am now going expecting it to be much worse. i am going in knowing that there might be a risk that i'll be denied entry, and that i won't be able to make my flights. it's also making some passport services busy, especially since the order takes effect in 30 days and a basic passport change can take 6 to 8 weeks. renewals. right now, we can essentially process them without any proof of travel. so there we could do it pretty fast, and we have been doing it and assisting people who have just been wanting to change their gender marker recently, since it's been such a big thing since november. while they're working, fai is thinking about limiting her future travel. like many trans folks in america and around the world, i'm not going to like i'm not going to let a government stop me from living my life. meanwhile, the lgbt advocacy group glad calls the executive

order, quote, a direct attack on transgender americans. several other organizations say they're already consideriring legal challenges to the order, which could delay it from taking effect. janelle. scott. also on day one, president trump pardoned 1500 of his supporters in connection with the january 6th attack on the capitol. overnight, criminal defendants started walking o out of jails, including those convicted of assaulting police officers, now pardoned. participants are speaking out along with lawmakers on both sides. i think it's a good day for america that this is bringing all the wrongs are being undone. so none of these people should have been here in the first place. president trump didn't just pardon protesters. he pardoned some people convicted of assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy. it's a betrayal of the highest order of our capitol police officers. to me, i just can't agree. i'm about to file two bills that will increase the penalties up to and including the death penalty for the murder of a

police officer and increasing the penalties and creating federal crimes for assaulting a police officer. that should give you everything you need to know about my position. one of those former capitol officers is now seeking a protective order against five individuals who assaulted him that day, saying his family has been threatened and harassed. janelle, joining us now is our political analyst, larry gerston. first, just an overall umbrella question here. do we have so many executive orders from presidents past? i remind us here, the last few administrations, we've seen increasing numbers of executive orders. this time we had 78 going out the gate and another 100 or so coming very soon. so this is probably the most ever. but don't kid yourself. biden had quite a few before him. so there's this whole tension, you know, between the right and the left. and it manifests itself with these kind of executive orders, reversing what the last guys did. among the big ones, we just talked about the january 6th pardons here. is this just a political ploy? i mean, it's triggering a lot of emotions and

a lot of serious topics and issues that happened on that day. well, a political ploy is certainly part of it. look, these people were part of his, his supporters, these alt right hate groups really supported trump. we know that. we saw that in the debate where he said, proud boys stand back and stand by. so this is nothing new. and this is something of a payback. what's remarkable is that the president, the day after january 6th, 2021, said, these are terrible people. they should be punished for what they did. those those were his words. and four years later, like a lot of things with donald trump, right. all you know is what you see that day four years later, it's another story. he said he was going to do this. he did this. so people who voted for trump knew this was coming. in theory, yeah, they did. and that's the wonderful thing about donald trump. when he says it, he does it. that's just who he is. now the courts, of course, may have something to say beyond that, but not when it comes to the pardon. when it comes to the pardon, he has got the shot. that's it. he and other presidents. it's an incredible power. and in this case, i think

a lot of people are bewildered because these people literally tried to overturn the election. they tried to overturn. it is probably the most serious event regarding elections since since the civil war. so that has a lot of people in a tizzy. he seems that he's avoiding or not avoiding, just overstepping or sidestepping politicians and the courts and just going right to the people, what the people want in terms of a populist. a lot of that is true. he he tends to just go by his gut. look, most of his supporters said, please don't don't get rid of the most violent of these people. keep them in office, let the other guys go. and he basically said, i'm going to do what i think is right. whether the public will support this as seriously as we know they're supporting other issues like immigration, i'm not so sure. okay. the response here, politically speaking, from the left, from democrats or excuse me, from republicans is, okay, you're upset that donald trump did this. pardon the january 6th people, but what about president biden, the outgoing president who pardoned

several of his own family members and others? they have a point. they have a point. a number of people have said that president trump really abused his powers with this. and you can say the same thing about biden. the pardon is not necessarily used for these kinds of things. it's to rehabilitate people. it's to acknowledge that they've reformed. it's to it's to give them a second chance. if you really feel they deserve it. it's not to blanket things like this. and in biden's case, it's what we call a preemptive pardon. so we're going to pardon these people for things that they haven't done or won't be doing. i mean, it's really broad in both cases. these people have have really stretched the pardon beyond what we've ever seen ever before. and you kind of wonder whether that's a good thing. does that damage joe biden in terms of his legacy and how we remember him in office? i think it's going to have an impact. how big an impact? you know, we tend to view presidents when they leave in one way. and years later, another. look at jimmy carter. what happened to him, right. ranked near the bottom and now he's near the top. so

certainly in the he said biden, when he was coming into office, said he would never do what he did. sure. well, that's the kind of thing that trump did. it just seems like the political dna of our political leaders, at least in this day and age, it's tough. thank you. larry. janelle raj. the securities and exchange commission is forming a task force dedicated to cryptocurrency. it's aimed at developing a regulatory framework for crypto assets. the head of the tas force says it will solicit input from the industry, as well as hold public meetings. during the presidential campaign, president trump promised a crypto friendly administration for the nearly $4 trillion industry. new details tonight on a gunfire exchange involving the san jose police department. the police chief held a news conference today. he says around 1030 last night, two officers in street clothes were an in it were in an unmarked car in san jose when they came to a stop at the intersection of melbourne boulevard and mclaughlin avenue. two unknown suspects in a vehicle confronted

them. the suspects indicated they were armed, so the officers pulled over and called for backup. that's when police say a suspect suddenly started shooting at the officer's car. an officer returned fire. the officers were not hit and the suspects immediately took off. san jose police say the motive behind this attack is under investigation. overseas, a legal battle of royal proportions is underway in the uk. back in september, prince harry filed a lawst against rupert murdoch's news group newspapers. he accused those tabloids of hacking his cell phone to spy on him. the lawsuit also claims executives at the papers knew about the hacking, lied to police about it and deleted millions of emails to cover it up. today, prince harry entered a settlement and said his goal is not money but accountability there in settlement talks, the news group has already paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to victims of phone hacking. that includes harry's brother, prince william, who settled his

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year. we are working with an artist named eric bui, and eric created a logo that kind of resembles what his artwork is all about. it kind of gives it a west coast vibe with a lot of playful colors. you'll see that he created a lunar new year version of the sharks crest. and so he took the sharks teal. he took the traditional lunar new year colors of red and gold and incorporated them into into that logo. oh, that's kind of cool. it is very cool. it's cool. the san jose snakes will call him saturday night year. the snake. and our morning anchor, laura garcia, having some fun, took part in the ceremonial painting of the lion before it took the stage. now the sharks take on the panthers saturday night. game time 7 p.m. all the fans will receive a commemorative beanie. janelle, are you going to be there on the sharks ice? oh my gosh. okay, now we got to watch. we got to go. sharks! i'm so excited. sharks. panthers and janelle saturday night at the shark tank. i'm thrilled. i

already got a beanie and i'm going to wear it proudly. you got to bring it monday. we got to see this thing. we're like a teal red and gold outfit. it's going to be cold on the ice. it's going to be like tomorrow morning here in the bay area. chilly for sure. you're going to be all coordinated out. i can't wait to see. yes, we're going to get down near the freezing mark as we head through tomorrow morning's forecast. we're going to start it right off with what we can expect on those temperatures. let's take it into that microclimate weather. and here we go tomorrow morning. chilly it is back. 37 here in the tri-valley peninsula. 39 over here to the south bay. also some upper 30s. so along with the cold start, make sure to have the sunglasses. we're looking at wall to wall sunshine here across the bay area. that will also bring us down to 42 in san francisco and the east bay right here at 38. but as i've been saying, if you can just hang on through the morning once we get to about noon, man, the day is setting up. perfect. look at these numbers in the south bay. 66, los gatos, milpitas 69. you're out in the sun. it's going to feel like 7067 here in

morgan hill. and while it would be nice to get a really strong storm in here, if we can't get that right now, at least these temperatures are somewhere in between and we can enjoy it outside. 65 here in livermore, 66 vallejo out to oakland, mid 60s. the peninsula 62. in daly city down towards palo alto 66. san mateo 64, san francisco 63. in downtown and right here for the north bay. got you at 68, in napa, 64 in mill valley and ukiah, 70 degrees. okay, if you're doing any traveling, i did want to get you an update here on that unusual weather hitting the southeast. so any kind of flights tonight still could be delayed from this, the way this system is just hanging out. we had some of that unusual snowfall in new orleans. also houston. it's starting to clear out from there. still some snow in the panhandle of florida. also some snow showers near atlanta. and also a little bit of a rain snow mix at times there in jacksonville. snow totals. this is a once in a lifetime event for many spots.

they haven't seen any totals like this in decades. in other cases like lafayette, louisiana 9.5in the old record. 2.7in way back in 1963. new orleans coming in with eight inches beaumont, texas six. pensacola, florida five. and houston, texas right there at four. so as we move through tomorrow, that snowfall is exiting. but take note if you're doing any traveling, it is going to be downright cold, 20s and 30s from the northeast down to atlanta and pensacola. got you at 32 here in nashville, 30 in denver, and then those 60s and 70s here in california. so we're certainly one of the warmest spots on the map. as we head through wednesday's forecast, it generally tries to get a little warmer, but we're still cold for a lot of the map, and we stay with that chill here for much of the u.s. as we head into friday's forecast. so scarf, hat, gloves, everything you need it if you're headed out

of the bay area. now, when it comes back to our weather forecast, this area of high pressure, it's going to keep us dry through friday's forecast. but looks like that breakdown for some rain chances saturday and then into sunday would be for southern california. so right n now for us, trace amouns to about a 10th of an inch on saturday's forecast. and then we clear it out. sunny skies on sunday. so it's not the large storm we would like to see in here, but it's a little something coming our way on saturday. and man, that snow in the southeast just it's unbelievable. it's amazing to see that as a meteorologist i want to take a flight, go down there and stand in florida in the snow and get a photo. 's so strange. it's bizarre. thank you jeff. up next, the baseball hall of fame opening its doors to a bay area native. we'll tell you who's heading to

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of fame? yes. cc sabathia, who grew up in vallejo, was voted into the hall in his first year on the ballot. sabathia pitched for 19 years, i think, in the big leagues, mostly with the yankees and the indians. this class, the 2025 class, also includes closer billy wagner and outfielder ichiro suzuki. ichiro becomes the first asian player elected into the hall of fame. the three players will be inducted in july. okay. on sunday, we will know which teams are heading to the super bowl.

remember, last year was the 49ers on their way to the big game? now they're looking ahead to the draft. our 49ers insiders give us their pitch for why the niners should focus on the defensive line. even if you don't hit a home run with the defensive linemen, you're at least finding someone who can get in. be a rotational player, and make a contribution in a very specific role. that's the downside. the upside is you get a guy like nick bosa. you get a jared verse or you know, or some of the guys that the rams have in that group. yeah i think the rams kind of took a page out of the 49ers history since kyle shanahan and john lynch took over. they've gotten away or they need drafting drafting guys because you're threading a needle if you're going out and getting veteran guys because what's the what's the thing with veteran guys? they're going to be making more money. and so there's more risk involved with paying javon hargrave tons of

money and not, you know, either he didn't quite live up to what they were hoping. then he gets injured and now what's happening? he will be a free agent when the new league year starts. and you could say with all that money paid to him, dead cap space, that it's not as crucial or it's not as, you know, it doesn't hurt you as much if you draft a lineman and he doesn't quite pan out. but if you go out and you pay big money for a guy and he doesn't turn out, that sets the whole roster back. ooh, we got a lot of things coming this offseason. follow all the niners offseason moves by downloading the 49ers talk podcast. still to come, a popular airport could soon see its name dave's been very excited about saving big

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for people to cross the river from mexico into texas. the initial installation of the buoys in 2023 led to legal challenges from the justice department. those type of challenges are not likely from president trump's administration. governor abbott has promised to double the number of buoys already in the river. a new bill could rename tennessee's largest airport after donald trump. todd warner

is a tennessee representative, and on friday, he filed a bill to change the name of nashville airport to trump international airport. according to the filing, the bill would take effect next january if approved, and it would require the airport authority to set up a new signage, change, registered trademarks and revise all existing legal documents to reflect the new name. a possible break in the case after cincinnati bengals quarterback joe burrow home was broken into. burrows home in hamilton county, ohio, was burglarized back on december 9th. now, four chilean nationals have been arrested, accused of burglarizing multimillion dollar homes. the documents don't specifically name burrow, but they say the suspects were found with an lsu shirt and a bengals hat that were believed to be stolen december 9th in hamilton county. investigators say they also had tools to break windows and a cell phone that pinged to a tower near burrows home on the day of the break-in. a lot more

news ahead. jessica aguirre joins us now with what's coming up next. right now at six. janelle remembering a legendary san francisco schiff trailblazer charles fan dies after leaving a leaving a celebrated legacy here in the bay area. we're visiting his award winning restaurants and hearing from a close friend after his sudden passi. also, we get an up close look at how firefighters are working to protect one of the most high risk areas of the east bay. why? they're keeping the disaster in l.a. county top of mind. but first, new rules rolling out for immigration enforcement. the reason ice agents could start targeting people at schools and churches. the news at six starts right now. good evening, and thanks for being with us. i'm raj mathai. and i'm jessica aguirre. a change in course. ice officers will now be able to arrest people in schools and churches. after the department of homeland security lifted

those restrictions. the dhs released a statement today outlining changes to its arrest policy. now, previously, officers were not allowed to arrest anyone in what's known as a, quote, sensitive area like a school, a church or a daycare center. with this new policy, ice officers can make arrests anywhere, anytime. it also changes the humanitarian parole system to a case by case system. humanitarian parole allows someone without citizenship to temporarily remain in the u.s. for specific reasons, like attending a funeral for a family member. in a statement, the department said in part, quote, the biden-harris administration abused humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. this was all stopped on day one of the trump administration. this action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case by case basis. meanwhile, president trump continues to sign executive orders today focused on immigration and

america's southern border. among the most controversial. an order that eliminates so-called birthright citizenship for children born in the u.s. to undocumented immigrants. today, more than a dozen states, including california, sued the trump administration to stop that change. here's nbc bay area's damian trujillo. with the stroke of a pen on an executive order, president trump went after the heart of the 14th amendment, which grants citizenship to any child born on u.s. soil today. 18 states wasted no time suing to stop the president's plan, as he did today, with what is, frankly, an unamerican executive order. i have one message for president trump. i'll see you in court. we are filed. california attorney general rob bonta was flanked by san francisco city attorney david chu as he announced california's suit today. the story of birthright citizenship is as san francisco