>> reporter: at uc berkeley, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> two years after the ghost ship fire in oakland, a newly retired judge h trial. the judge will handle the case on special assignment. the two each face 36 counts of invol lun tauntary manslaughter face life in prison if convicted. >>> tonight, the butte county sheriff announced just 11 people remain unaccounted for after the devastating camp fire. >> i think that's a remarkable number at this point, given all the work that's gone into it. >> we've also learned through dna analysis that the death toll has been revised. it's gone down from 88 to 85. later this week, more neighborhoodreopen areas of pair kradis paradise. right

a her that's why she is taking on the trump adminira cheryl hurd join us from children's hospital with the very latest on what's happening with this child. cheryl? >> reporter: congresswoman barbara here said she is stunned by this president's cruelty by not allowing a mother to be her with her dying son. the father has been here daily but doctors say time is running out. as word spreads, the doctors are only giving this 2-year-old days to live. one lawmaker is stepping up. bay area congresswoman barbara lee is calling president trump's travel ban unamerican, saying in a statement, i am committed to doing all i can to fight and it to restore decency and humanity to our nation's immigration laws. she has written the state department urging the administration to grant the toddler's mother a waiver so she can be reunited with her son. >> please help us bring my family together again. >> reporter: a plea from theds his son's hand while he's hooked up to a ventilator. he spent days whispering into his ear. >> saying your mother is not here with me. >> reporter: he suffers from a genetic bra

. >> cheryl hurd shows us. >> reporter: a man named bob started this as a hobby, and it grew and grew grew into this. at the end of december, the man known as santa bob is calling it quits. ♪ >> our biggest nights are coming up. >> reporter: just moments before the lights turn on, we found bob stanley making final preparations for bob's world 2018. >> it's time for to us step back a little and start enjoying the holidays. >> reporter: bob's been decorating his pleasanton home for over 30 years all by himself. at 72, this will be the last time. >> i used to make the things myself out of wood. >> reporter: now his decorations are made out of wire frames and lights, lots of lights, everywhere. >> i love this kind of thing. >> reporter: he doesn't do it for himself. he does it for the kids. >> i like the swing in this. >> reporter: gigi cooley has enjoyed this for 20 years. >> the community just comes together and we see neighbors once a year that we don't see otherwise, so it's magical. >> reporter: and it's been this way for many generations. >> i think it's an amazing place and it's a

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is live along 680 in alamo with that idea that's being discussed. interesting, cheryl. >> very interesting. buses driving on shoulders like the one you see here behind me is happening successfully in minnesota. and a pilot program is just wrapping up in san diego. but what about here in the bay area? a pilot program could be coming to contra costa countytty dangerous. >> reporter: dangerous or a great idea to battle bumper to bumper traffic on bay area highways? >> what if somebody's pulled over on the side of the road? eople about buses zooming along on the shoulder. >> in that lane there's not enough room for them to drive a bus there. >> reporter: contra costa transportation authority executive director randall awasaki says there are solutions to keep everyone safe. >> they've got technology embedded in the vehicle to make sure they can see ahead of them. >> reporter: iwasaki has been working with the california transportation association along with the valley transportation authority to bring what is called the bus on shoulder concept to the bay

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in oakland for us with the story getting international headlines as it relates to president trump. cheryl? >> reporter: raj, that young mother is here at this hospital tonight with her little boy. she has been fighting to get here for months, and tonight she got her wish. >> we're going to set up. >> reporter: when shaima swileh arrived she stayed close to her husband, not saying a word. she let her husband do the talking. >> this is a difficult time for our family, but we are blessed to be together. i ask you to respect our privacy as we go to be with our son again. >> reporter: this son is at ucsf benioff children's hospital in oakland, suffering from a rare brain disorder, and he's on life support. >> she's been through a lot. even as when we imagine it, it hurts. we can't even finish imagining the situation when she know that her son is sick. >> reporter: she and her husband, who is a u.s. citizen, started applying for a visa last year because of her son's health. they had to make that appeal because of president trump's travel ban against several cou

cheryl hurd has more. >> reporter: at word spreads, the doctors here at benihoff hospital in oakland are only giving 2-year-old abdullah hassan days to live. congresswoman barbara lee is calling president trump's travel ban un-american saying in a statement "i'm committed to doing all i can to fight it and restore decency and humanity to our immigration laws." she's written the state department urging the administration to grant the toddler's mother a waiver so she can be reunited with her son. >> please help us, get my family together again. >> reporter: a plea from the 2-year-old's father, ali hassan, who holds his son's hand, while he's hooked up to a ventilator. hassan spends days whispering into his ear. >> tell him your mother's not here with me. it's brain condition. bothathe are u.s. citizens. the boy's mother is from warn torn yemen and is now living in egypt. >> for months, if not years, they've been trying to acquire a visa, obtain a visa for her. >> reporter: when the young boy's health took a turn for the worse, ali could no longer wait for his wife's visa to go through,

reporting live, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> more californians headed to the poll than they havecades. 64% of registered voters, highest since 1982, 69%. today was deadline for counties to finish counting all the ballots. ♪ >> you may have seen videos on your facebook feed. local police departments doing lip sync so popular songs. this one, pretty good, done well too, from the concord police department. good as it is, critics saying it was pricey, $34,000 to produce. takes a closer look. >> reporter: it's not often someone asks the workers and volunteers of this nonprofit family resource center in concord to be backup dancers in a video. >> for being cops, really good dancers though. >> reporter: there they are shimmying with concord police officers and lip syncing in song to julio iglesias song. >> to send a message of hope, camaraderie and respect takes a lot of work. >> reporter: and lot of money. fees for video crew and officers' time totaled $34,000. >> my goodness. >> more than i thought but professionally done. >> reporter: where did it come from? >> we seized money from d

cheryl hurd joins us live with the story new at 11:00. >> reporter: well, you would think that everyone would be against a tax on texting. but i did find one person who was for it. but that person might be in the minority. >> to have them try something else is just dumb. >> reporter: some may think it's done, but some regulators think it's necessary. the public utilities commission is floating the idea of taxing texting. >> it's a very complicated and complex proposal they have put forward. there's a lot of questions. and one of them is the legality of retro activity taxing texts going back five years. >> reporter: one question this proposal raises, according to rufus jeffers. he along with several other business groups are against it. >> the tax presumably would support services that the state provides to low income residents, low income consumers. but the fund that they have for that is already flush. >> reporter: state regulators say the program is not flush, but instead breaking the bank. they say its budget has increased over $300 million in six years. >> i think it's very unfair,

cheryl hurd joins us with the very latest. what do we know? >> well, we know that a passenger left oakland this morning for a quick turn-around trip. she didn't think, she knew she would receive a little rain but she had no idea that her plane would slide off the runway. >> it's nice to come back to oakland in a nice smooth landing. >> karen williams with quite a story to tell. f it was raining when we got there. when we were skidding on the runway, it was like water in a boat. that was water coming up toward the window. >> she said surprisingly people were calm in the moments after the southwest flight from oakland slid off the run fwha burbank. as you can see in this cell phone video, firefighters were checking on confused passengers. she remembers everything in detail. especially with a the pilot said before the landing. >> did he say because it was so wet, that the brakes might have some problems sticking. but we didn't know it would be that rough. >> rough and scary for 112 passengers and five crew members who were on board the plane that

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd has the details. this is such a heart breaking story. >> reporter: it is. it has been so emotional for this family. the father is upstairs right now with his son along with his support system. they are all waiting for the little boy's mother to arrive here tomorrow night. ali is in the hospital lobby after taking a dinner break from his place upstairs which isch has been at the bed side of his 2-year-old son abdullah hasan who is clinging to life on a vent lator. if all goes as planned, the boy's mother will arrive tomorrow night with visa in hand granted by the u.s. state department. >> it was the best day ever. i'm glad my wife got her visa. >> reporter: getting that visa has been a fight because his wife is from yemen. one of seven countries under president trump's travel ban. the congressman has been working the family for a month to get her here. he along with barbara lee and another representative from california sent this letter to secretary of state michael pompeo, urging him to give the mothe

. >> reporter: at uc berkeley, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> two years after the ghost ship firen oakland, a newly retired judge h trial. the judge will handle the case on special assignment. the two each face 36 counts of invol lun tauntary manslaughter face life in prison if convicted. >>> tonight, the butte county sheriff announced just 11 people remain unaccounted for after the devastating camp fire. >> i think that's a remarkable number at this point, given all the work that's gone into it. >> we've also learned through dna analysis that the death toll has been revised. it's gone down from 88 to 85. later this week, more neighborhoodreopen areas of pair kradis paradise. right escort to take care of any critical needs they have. >>> it's back to school in december. hundreds of students who lost their homes in that fire weretot it's not the same classroom. here's jodi hernandez. >> it's great to be back at school. >> reporter: that's how 6-year-old macy and her brother are feeling about returning to school. the ratliff children lost their house and pets in the camp fire. getti