candice nguyen. nbc bay area. we investigate. thank you. candice. now, you should know that candice has spent years uncovering stories of abuse by catholic priests across the bay area, including revelations about priests in the oakland diocese. you can watch all of her previous reports on our website, nbcbayarea.com. slash investigations. up next, sanctuary in the south bay with san jose leaders are doing to reaffirm that their city is a safe haven for immigrants and declaring fentanyl a state of emergency in san francisco. the board of supervisors approving mayor lowry's ordinance, the money and the services and locks in the city's fight against that potentially deadly drug and tracking that rain. latest timeline and what's going to be happening i'm not happy with the way that pg&e handled the wildfires. yeah. yeah. i totally, totally understand. we're adding a ton of sensors. asoon as something comes in contact with the power line, it'll turn off so that there's not a risk that it's gonna fall to the ground and start a fire. okay. and i want you t

candice nguyen, nbc bay area. we investigate. thank you. candice. one person is dead after a fire broke out in an oakland warehouse this morning. we want to show you video from nbc bay area. sky ranger taken of the scene. the two alarm fire broke out around six this morning on russet street. more than 40 firefighters battled the flames and prevented it from spreading to nearby buildings. crews did put it out within an hour, but during the search of the building, firefighters found one person dead. the cause of this fire remains under investigation. well, are there bad chemicals in our water supply? santa clara county is suing more than a dozen companies for exposing people to so-called toxic forever chemicals. lawyers claim the companies have sparked an environmental and health crisis. here's nbc's ian cull. santa clara county joins a growing list of groups suing the makers of pfos, highly toxic environmental contaminants it says are circulating in county water supplies. they're known as forever chemicals because they don't degrade. they're found in

investigative reporter candice nguyen is with us.f all, let's just start with how many immigrants here in the bay area? i'm one of them, by the way. and how many are undocumented? yeah, i spent the day looking at studies, talking to different research groups. more than 30% of the bay area population is made up of immigrants, meaning people who were not originally born in the u.s. and the migration policy institute tells me they estimate about 471,000 of those people are undocumented as of 2022. you can see the breakdown here in the bay area. and then when you look at just santa clara county alone, that number actually increases a great deal. so 40% of the population in santa clara county are immigrants. yeah. that's big. so just to be clear, 470 undocumented. what was the overall immigration population of immigrants? about 30% of the bay area total is immigrants. and about a half a million are undocumented, is what you're saying? those are big numbers. big numbers. how does this compare to the bay area compared with other parts of th

candice. thanks, vianey.eshape school curriculum. shortly after taking office, president trump signed executive orders that would prioritize what he calls patriotic education. those orders also demand schools to remove so-called gender ideology. today, state attorney general rob bonta says he is committed to ensuring schools in california remain a welcoming, safe, inclusive space for all students. he says new federal policies will not determine what's taught in california schools. our laws prevent schools from censoring inclusive and diverse perspectives. they also outline requirements for comprehensive and inclusive sexual education and ethnic studies courses. these laws protect against bias, against bigotry, and against discrimination in the classroom. now, this all comes as the trump administration is attempting to get rid of the department of education. that would give states a larger say on what is taught in classrooms. san francisco is working to fight its fentanyl crisis, and mayor danielle lurie says

i'm candice nguyen. there is a battle brewing in the bay area over artificial turf at schools, parks, and playgrounds. it's about whether the plastic fields might be dangerous to your kids health. now, the fight also includes allegations of mismanagement of a high school's old turf. concerned parents found huge rolls of it just left in an empty field during her sophomore year at saratoga high school, nicole lee was studying for finals when suddenly her mind went from her books to the field. my school announced that they were going to replace the artificial turf on our fields with new artificial turf. but after diving into emerging research, she became worried the turf might actually be dangerous to the environment and possibly her as well. i was part of my school color guard. the individual blades would get stuck like all over my clothes, so obviously it was going down drains and polluting waterways. after finding out more about the chemicals and pfas that are contained in the turf, then i got a lot more

. ♪ far-xi-ga ♪ (♪♪) on nbc news daily, i'm candice nguyen.. they're all part of a day without an immigrarant demonstrations happening across the country. this protest here took place in fruitvale in oakland. our sky ranger caught video of it less than a half an hour ago. and meanwhile, your favorite local business might be closed or understaffed today. and that's because immigration activists are urging their community to stay away from work and school, to show the power of the immigrant community. nbc bay area's kris sanchez explains. we're not just talking students and workers. in some cases, entire businesses are closing their doors in solidarity. and the immigrant community asking all of us to not spend any money today. this is a sign one livermore restaurant put up for customers saying they will be closed today so that workers can take part in a day without immigrants. the protest has been organizing on sial media to push back against mass deportations and the trump administration's rollback of protections for immigrants. same kind of no

raisi candice holdsworth. >> oh.ying to sing the american national anthem. >> to be fair, they did cheer her when initially. i mean, i think i think goodness knows what was what it felt like for her. but terrible. but the story says that they were cheering before and after, so hopefully she understood that it wasn't her. but it's pretty serious, isn't it? when two nations that ought to be family are like. but it's very serious what trump's doing with tariffs, what he says he's trying to achieve with canada is to get them to do more police action to prevent fentanyl coming in, to prevent illegal migration. >> where is this fentanyl coming from? >> well, they say it's mexican drug labs in canada. >> right. and it's coming in illegally. >> that's what he said. well, fentanyl. sure. yeah. but yeah. so it's that's what he says in his white house press release that the problem is fentanyl and people coming illegally across the canadian border. so he wants more enforcement. but trump's a really brutal power politician. he w

and it's not just that he abandoned us, david and i i'm sorry to say this candice, but david and i have been basically political spouses for almost 30 years. we we we were in law school together although i got the better end of that bargain because his classmate was ted cruz. and my classmate was catanese brown jackson. so and then we both made our way out to california as baby lawyers. i was in private practice. he was at the lawyers committee for civil rights and we co-counsel as baby attorneys a really tragic case of a lawful immigrant who was developmentally disabled and who was illegally deported by the federal government. and so we filed a lawsuit on his behalf and got him a bunch of compensation for that horrific situation. but that wasn't it. we then i then got elected to the democratic county central committee and became chair and we had a vacancy. and i appointed david chu to fill that vacancy and that was during george w bush. we as terrible as things are now, we forgot that this wasn't the first really bad presidency . there are other ones as well. and we fought the good fig