candice nguyen, nbc bay area news. >> thanks, candice. and as candice mentioned, she has been following this case for months now. to watch all of her investigations so far and what she has uncovered about a larger fentanyl crisis, go to nbcbayarea.com/fightingfentanyl. >>> okay. you probably noticed prices at the pump continue to drop. that's good news. and overall, inflation is beginning to cool off. just a bit. the national average for gas is now below 4 bucks a gallon for the first time since march. that's the national average. of course it's much higher here in the bay area. however, food prices did rise 13% last month. the housing market is slowing as mortgage rates rise. but buyers are still keeping home prices strong. the hot labor market also cooling off with more folks applying for unemployment benefits. but on the inflation front, prices a the consumer and producer level are beginning to back off. >> the news is getting better. we're not anywhere close to where we want to be, but we're going in the right direction. >> 8.5% infla

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candice nguyen, nbc bay area news. >>> coming up next, we find out if store brands taste different fromands. from name brands. that's next. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> we are dealing with high prices at the grocery store. it is changing many of us and the way we shop. some people are buying cheaper storebrand products to save money. >> but that is a controversial choice within many families, who are fighting over whether store brands taste as good as their name brand counterparts. >> reporter: up and down grocery store aisles, shoppers are looking to save money. with prices of groceries up 10% in the last year, more and more people are ditching brand names for storebrand products. sure, they are saving money, but at what price? we headed to a lab at ohio state university where professor kris simons runs taste tests for companies. >> companies are developing products, and we want to see how those products are preferred over potential competitors. >> reporter: we asked them to test four, and the researchers took part. the samples were prepared in a kitchen and then sent through a trap door to partici

candice nguyen spoke with him. watches tonight right after the game . >>> help is on the way for those suffering with depression and anxiety. the state superintendent tony thurman announced california will recruit 10,000 mental health clinicians over the next couple of years. they will offer a grant to those studying. in return, they must promise to work in the schools at least two years before the pandemic, california schools only had one- third of those needed to help students . >> we have seen children experience depression. there has been a rise in depression in many students with an increase in anxiety and a visit to an emergency room. >> the money would come from the 2022 state budget >>> near the california in oregon border, weather is helping out those trying to knock out the mckinney fire. containment has grown 10%. cal fire said there appears to have been little growth overnight the fire has burned 58,000 acres since it started and there has been four deaths. >>> tonight they are spraying santa clara coun

the investigative reporter with more, candice nguyen. >> reporter: throwing up the peace sign on his facebook page and holding a small child on a gofundme site, title, a family fighting for their livelihood, the transportation bus driver, now with a mug shot, facing misdemeanor charges of making criminal threats against other ppa employees. new details about those june 17th threats and another from as far back by 2018, now emerging, and newly released vta internal documents, obtained by the investigator units public records request. on june 17th, an employee wrote this email, saying, the operator came to the dispatch window and said, when i go to river oaks today, if i get fired, i'm going to be shooting something up. river oaks is the building headquarters, and it's unclear when he was initially headed there. according to the email, walks from said, he was hitting. a little while later, the person who reported him made a similar almond, saying, if i get fired today, you're going to see me on the news. santa clara county deputy's arrested lastrup that day, july 12, nearly a month aft

coming up at :00, candice nguyen lives into senior fa 1iciliies d how they're regulated. at :00 during nbc bay area news tonight. >>> yes learning more about the stabbing death of a san jose teenager. he was a standout wrestler. friends and loved ones continue to gather at the spot near east ridge bilateral he was stabbed over the weekend. nbc bay area's damian trujillos that new information. >> reporter: police have arrested a friend of the victim and are charging him with hochlts homicide. detectives are piecing to together how one friend turned on another as a community around east ridge maul comes to grips with this tragedy. >> reporter: angel felt compelled to come to the place where a 16-year-old lost his wife this weekend, draw some chalk art on the sidewalk, and reflect on the boy he knew. >> i was kind of blown oy way how i found out how it happened. >> reporter: the coroner is not identifying the victim yet, but family and friends say he was 16-year-old sunny sui, a kid they describe as a star wrestler at ever green school whoa carried a constant smile. >> i'm h

coming up at 7:00, candice nguyen looks into senior facilities and how they are regulated. what she uncovered may surprise you during nbc bay area news tonight. >>> i want to update you on the story of a 71-year-old woman violently robbed in vallejo two nights together. this happened after dinner. they were at a restaurant. the woman walking with her husband and friends back to the car at the parking lot when someone hit her on the back of the head, ran off with her purse. the woman's step-son says she is still in the hospital. she will be released when she is able to walk on her own. we're waiting to hear back from police if any cameras captured the attack. no arrests have been made so far. >>> a community outraged and demanding change after days of violence in oakland. now among the crimes a 12-year-old boy accused of shooting a 13-year-old student on campus. just minutes ago, oakland police revealed that the child shot was not the intended target. nbc bay area's velena jones is live. >> she heard the shot. >> reporter: anthony coleman's daughter told her dad as she was i

let's bring in our investigative reporter candice nguyen. what's the problem here? >> everyone watching you, might need one of these if you want to get paxlovid straight from your pharmacist. a fold other binder full of papers. before getting the medication which you need to take within the first five days of symptoms showing, you're going have to show all of this. you're going have to show proof of your positive covid test, an electronic or paper copy of your medical records, including blood work from the past 12 months, and a list of all the medication you're taking. it takes a minimum of 20 to 30 minutes for a pharmacist to fully evaluate a patient before they can prescribe the new covid antiviral drug paxlovid. and that's best case scenario says sanjay patel, who runs the pharmacy in fremont. >> with all the questions we need to ask, review the documentations, make sure the labs are in order. >> reporter: in july, the food and drug administration revised its emergency use authorization for paxlovid, allowing not just your doctor, but now your pharmacist to presc

let's bring in our investigative reporter candice nguyen. what's the problem here? >> everyone watching you, might need one of these if you want to get paxlovid straight from your pharmacist. a fold other binder full of papers. before getting the medication which you need to take within the first five days of symptoms showing, you're going have to show all of this. you're going have to show proof of your positive covid test, an electronic or paper copy of your medical records, including blood work from the past 12 months, and a list of all the medication you're taking.

i'm candice nguyen in for kira klapper. what do you have over there, vianey?have a little bit of a breeze going on to keep the temperatures on the 70s and the 80s versus the 90s and hotter. let's talk about why it is. we have a low, a upper level system to keep us cool, but the marine players to thank for the cloud cover we are seeing early on, and san francisco, and it is impacting pretty much all of the way from the north, and santa rosa down through vallejo, and out through the south, and i will have more in the forecast coming up. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a man is saying that the remains of his father have been found in lake mead. we have his story. >> my dad said why not, and took off his shirt, and jumped into the water. >> reporter: kyle earnedt was there when his dad took a group out there on a boat in lake mead. he was a jokester and the next thing we knew he was yelling for help. >> reporter: he remembers searching for his dad, but they never saw him again. and now, 31, tom has spent the last two decades holding out hope that his dad is alive.