mr. alvarez on the spot.so that's after they've been created that even though they are the communities responsibility to maintain, we will often work with the community on these cleanup days and sometimes through the neighborhood beautification day as well. great thank you. and i'll just add, do you have the staff capacity to not adopt the program? that's not too strong a word. but when a community organization or neighborhood does reach out to you, as you said, but they need help with funding. they need guidance, and you provide that, as you've described. and is there do you follow up? do you take them under your wing? do you do you do you help them? you know, do you just i mean, obviously, you have to separate out just one person that may flake out. they had a good idea one day. you never hear from them again. but if it's a if it's a real a real project, legitimate, do we have the ability to check in with them three months later? how's it going? how's did you put that funding application in? is there anythi

mr. alvarez. it doesn't eliminate what has happened. we can't ever erase history but it does signal some accountability that i think is long past due. >> we reached out to benitez's attorney for comment but never heard back. benitez faces one year probation and has to go through anger management and lgbtq accepts sensitivity training. >> hilda, thank you. if you have a story for our investigative unit to look into, just call 888-996-tips or visit our website, nbcbayarea.com/investigation. >>> a mystery illness is sickening dogs across the country. vets are urging dog owners to take precautions here. while california hasn't had any documented cases yet, vets say it's just a matter of time. jodi hernandez shows us what to look for. >> i have two children and three furry children. they're part of our family. >> reporter: a mystery illness has dog owners like lena a bit on edge. >> i do have anxiety about different things. we want our pets to be healthy. >> coughing, potentially a hundredy nose. >> reporter: the symptoms, experts are workin

alvarez, cnn, traveling with the president. >>>, our cnn reporter harry enten, the biggest problem mr. is facing as he tries to win re-election. >> reporter: his age, voters think he's too old, just too old to be an effective president. 70% of likely voters across the six battleground states say that joe biden is too old to be an effective president. donald trump, that number is 39%. if you look back at the 2020 numbers, joe biden's numbers didn't come anywhere close to approaching them. this, to me, is the big problem. i'm not particularly sure how you solve that problem if jury joe biden. perhaps you go out and show you can campaign. perhaps you try to bring donald trump's numbers up a little bit. >> trump's only three years younger. >> reporter: yeah, he's only three years younger. it's not a great difference. the fact is it's all abouter is ception, jim, it's not about the numbers, it's about perception, and perception is that voters believe that joe biden is too old. >>> the u.s. secretary of state is on a whirlwind tour as we were discussing earlier. we'll have details on the sur

alvarez. a protester identified herself and interrupted president biden and called for a cease-fire. >> mr. president? i need you to call for a cease-fire. >> what's interesting is the president even though she was being told to leave, he did stand and answer a couple questions. the president said he you wanted the emotion and called for a pause. had he was careful not to say cease-fire. when you look at what he said, what does he mean? >> reporter: this moment really captured the dell indicate nature of the conflict and the heightened emotions of the white house is trying to navigate. the president did acknowledge the remarks saying, quote, i think we need a pause, a pause means give time to get the prisoners out. that referring to the hostages held by hamas. so the president really extending what u.s. officials have already said, which is that they would like to see israel engage in a humanitarian pause to get aid into gaza and to get the hostages out of gaza. but they have always been very, very careful about using the term cease-fire, saying cease-fire, and even implying at all that the

mr. netanyahu told president biden that the possibility of extending the truce with hamas would be welcome in return for the further release of ten hostages per day from gaza according to a statement. cnn's priscilla alvarezore from the white house. >> reporter: president biden on sunday celebrated the release of abigail idan, 4-year-old american hostage held by hamas and released as part of the deal between israel and hamas. she'd been held in captivity for seven weeks and both of her parents were killed in the october 7 terror attacks. the president calling what she went through a terrible trauma and also calling the experience, quote, unthinkable. the president did speak with her family on sunday, though he did not have details on her condition when speaking to reporters earlier in the day. the president making it clear in those remarks it's not just about the release of hostages but getting additional human taken aid into gaza. and expressing some hope there could be more pauses in fighting in the days to come to again get more hostages released. >> critically needed, going in and hostages going on. this structure can be extended to keep building on these results. that's our goal, that's our goal, to