chris chmura shows us how to apply. >> the feds don't usually make things easy. think about the hoops you have to jump through to file your taxes or get a passport. luckily uncle sam made the student loan forgiveness simple. education department says it takes five minutes, we did it, it checks out. let's do it together. first, find your tax return from 2021 or 2020. go to studentaid.gov. look carefully, scammers will try to fool you to get you to pay to apply. applying is free. i'll repeat that, applying is free. just start at studentaid.gov. this is what the home page looks like. a button to start the application is front and center. after you click, you'll see this screen. at the top, it summarizes who qualifies. right after that, type in basic information like your name, date of birth, social security number. next grab your tax form and scroll down. in this section it's asking you to confirm your tax status and income qualify. look for filing status, single, married, jointly, separately, at top of the 1040. then look at line 40 for adjusted gross income. cross

i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. in fact, nbc bay area does respond next. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. i'll let you the latest on some changes in our temperatures and your allergy forecast. some stuff floating around. ll show you what thati' i >>> tonight a woman's air conditioner failed when she needed it most, this past summer. >> we asked chris chmura to bring the heat for a replacement. >>> raise your hand if you used air conditioning this summer. >> we did. >> both hands up at the anchor desk and here, too. like this one here. paid $468. it wasn't even a year old, though, when it stopped pumping out cool air. this thing was still under warranty. she asked black & decker, the manufacturer, so we think, for a replacement. after two sweltering summer months of going back and forth, no swap. so colleen contacted us. we emailed black & decker. a rep then explained although the ac has a black & decker label on it, it's made by a different company that licenses the black & decker name. here is what they sa

chris chmura is laying out what you need to know.t head to our website. >>> berkeley police want you to take a look at the two men that are in this video right here. can you make it out? this is surveillance video showing the men walking into an apartment building stealing mail on le conte avenue. you can see one man casually walk up but it appears they have a key and then he and another man walk inside to the mailboxes. the building manager says the thieves took several items. >> they started opening up these boxes, they're just riffling through and one grabbed a package here and them just went on their way. >> the u.s. postal service has $10,000 reward. >>> looking into new water supply to help stop the water depleting from local reservoirs. the district will hold a public workshop to rate and compare the various options it is considering. the district is considering increasing reservoir storage, expanding recycled water distribution and perhaps new imported water from sonoma county. it will create several supply options each with

i'm consumer investigator chris chmura, we'll show you how to steer clear of a flooded car, next. >>> and reminder if you are looking to get in to that halloween spirit, be sure to check out our bay area halloween guide. many events are returning after being postponed during the pandemic. you can find the list of things do around the bay area online at nbcbayarea.com. >>> later today we're expecting an estimate of the number of cars that were flooded in hurricane ian. >> and it is expected to be about 360,000 cars in addition to the 400,000 cars that are floored already on the roadways. and they could make their way on to used car lots. so chris chmura is telling us how to go about finding a used car. >> first let's establish something. you do not want to buy a used car that was in a flood like hurricane ian. >> they are literally rotting from the inside out. >> that is emily voss from car fax. emily recommends used car buyers take a test drive, get a history report and an in-person inspection. >> a lot of people do one or two of those things, but you need to do all three. >> first sp

nbc bay area youtube channel, chris chmura has how to videos for a power outage. >>> this is becoming a story of national interest. mercedes was found buried behind a mansion in atherton. we know who owned the car, and his previous arrests for murder and fraud. tom has the latest on the story we broke yesterday. tom. >> reporter: investigators are still trying to answer the questions around the mystery, and the identity of the man who owned the car and the mansion makes it more intriguing. the nbc bay area investigation unit connected the house and vehicle back to johnny bocktune lou, who buried the car not long after he reported it stolen from the mall. >> is it an insurance scam? >> why is the car there? is there a body? what was the motive? what happened? >> that was the creepiest thing so we thought we'd walk by tomorrow to check it out. >> lew was implicated in the 1966 shooting death of a girlfriend in l.a. he died in washington state after a battle with lung cancer and about a year after he sold the mansion. was this just another insurance fraud claim? if so, why did he fill th

our chris chmura has made how-to videos. >> we're here through october 23rd, we haven't had too manyhese events. but unfortunately, as we see storm systems that miss the bay area, we see the winds picking up. san jose 59 degrees. northwest wind at 7 miles per hour. out toward the tri valley, 56 degrees. dublin and livermore, we may see temperatures trying to drop closer to the upper 30s by early morning. san rafael, 58 degrees. and if those winds stay ongoing overnight you will not be seeing 30 degree temperatures there, and we shouldn't see 30s around san francisco. closer to the inner bay, 57 degrees, should see upper 40s by tomorrow morning. the driest locations in the bay area. napa county and lake county. higher up above, a thousand feet, the winds are pretty blustery, that is a dry wind, and it helps to keep the temperatures in the 50s. we are expecting 30s and 40s overnight. that does involve the wind backing off. 11:00 tonight to 9:00 tomorrow, it includes the inner east bay valleys. provided the winds ease up. the clouds trap some of the heat coming off the ground. napa, san

i'm chris chmura.assaulted her husband in her san francisco home, house speaker nancy pelosi is responding publicly. in a letter to congress, the speaker said her husband paul's condition is improving and noted his attacker demanded to confront her specifically. threats against elected officials are escalating. the u.s. capitol police tell us they opened around 1800 threat cases in just the first three months of this year. many in law enforcement and politics tell us they fear this attack on paul pelosi signals a new tipping point. >> this is a crossing of the line. this is the speaker of house and she's a woman. i think that means something, you know, in terms of male violence towards women. he was not even targeting her husband. >> the sheriff's office says the suspected attacker is in the hospital. the district attorney will announce charges tomorrow. >>> we're continuing to keep a close eye on this investigation and paul pelosi's condition. our team is posting updates as we get them. you can read t

i'm chris chmura. after repeated reports of bizarre behavior by a man in san francisco, police have arrested a man and accused him of following him and sometimes grabbing women. this is a story we told you about a few weeks ago. a woman named sarah told us a man walked up behind her and started touching her and ran away. dozens of other women said they had unwanted encounters with the same guy. >> women were followed at night, some were grabbed on the street similar to what happened to me. one person he grabbed her outside safeway and kissed her. >> san francisco police have arrested bill hobs. they have linked him to 14 incidents so far. the district attorney is pushing to keep hobbs in jail as he awaits trial. >>> one of the largest homeless encampments is nearly gone. we're talking about the wood street encampment in oakland. here's a look at what the site used to look like. the video on the left shows wood street before the cleanup. the encampment spawned several city block. it used to home about 2

chris chmura shows us how to apply. >> reporter: the feds don't usually make things easy. luckily uncle sam made the student loan forgiveness application pretty simple. the education department says it only takes five minutes. we did it and that checks out. first, and this might be the hardest part, find your tax return from 2021 or 2020. next, go to studentaid.gov carefully this is what the real home page looks like, a button to start the application is front and center. after you click start the application, you'll see this screen. at the top it summarizes who qualifies. right after that you type in basic information like your name, date of birth, social security number. next, grab your tax form and scroll down. in this section it's asking you to confirm that your tax status and income qualify. cross reference those. find a scenario that matches. then you're ready to apply. just scroll down and time your name one more time. here you are basically signing it digitally. then check the box and click submit in the bottom right. done. so what happens next? the form says will

chris chmura said beware. >> first let's establish something.an. >> they rotting from the inside out. >> that is emily voss from carfax. she recommends that used car buyers take a test drive, a get a history report and an in-person inspection. >> a lot of people do one or two but you need to take a time to do all three. >> let's focus on the history and inspection. spend 10 to $40 to get the complete history and look for the words flood, salvage or rebuilt, a car should have been junked not resold. some sleazy car dealers would wash a car's title clean of the flood or salvage stamps so in person is essential. first sniff the interior. a musty odor is a red flag. so in on overly rosie smell. >> sometimes they put in a strong air freshener to dover the musty smell. >> next peel back the floor mats and carpet and look for moisture and mold and mildew. and when you pop the hood, looks for signs of rust and then if you're comfortable, look inside and the electrical connectors and better yet hire a mechanic to inspect a car for you. $100 is the going

i'm chris chmura in here for kira klapper on this sunday morning. thanks so much for joining us. meteorologist vianey arana is here this morning too with a look at your microclimate forecast. so fleet week's a big deal. carl stole the show yesterday. what do you think about today? >> that's one thing we've been monitoring, the timing of when they go up in the air, the blue jays and when the fog decides to make its exit. right now, we have that marine layer. and it is pretty deep. you can see the visibility, down to about a mile in santa rosa. down through half moon bay, three miles. but it's even managed to make its way down through portions of the south bay. take a look at san jose, six miles.

i'm chris chmura. meteorologist vianey arana is here with weather. trick-or-treating counting on you for tomorrow. >> it will be a little chilly, depending how late you'll be out and about and also, probably notice it's foggy and cloudy. feels spooky in downtown san jose. now, as far as temperatures go, we have more fog than yesterday. we have limited visibility down to a quarter of a mile in san to -- santa rosa. what does that mean for temperatures? right now, chilly spots in the 40s and 50s but because of the blanket of fog, we're running a few degrees warmer than yesterday. look at this, areas in san carlos nine degrees warmer, san jose ten degrees warmer. coming up in the forecast, i'll guide you through the important holiday forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you. >> we have breaking news from overnight. san jose police investigating two shootings, the first one on kaufman court. multiple people were shot before 11:30 last night. two people taken to the hospital there. then, about an hour later, one man shot on madeira avenue near a halloween

thanks for joining us, i'm chris chmura sitting in for kira klapper. meteorologist roy mayeda is in. >> low clouds in san francisco, a little bit of misty skies too. low clouds are going to stick around for the day. which means our temperatures later on will be only in the low 60s, closer to san francisco and to the south and san jose also waking up to the low cloud cover. should see temperatures climbing into the low 70s later on. thanks to the all day sea breeze and the low clouds which will eventually clear inland around lunchtime, highs low to mid-60s, bay side along the coast. inland temperatures today just the mid-70s. i think you're going to be surf praised by our temperatures as we -- surprised by our temperatures as they head to tomorrow. showers returning to the seven-day forecast. a closer look at that coming up in about 12 minutes. >> thanks very much. all eyes are on the warriors final preseason game, and not just focused on the scoreboard, we watched the dubs lose to the denver nuggets. we also saw draymond green and jordan pool share the

i'm chris chmura.e'll explain the historic money saving change for tens of millions of americans next. >>> i'll be the host and musical guest on "snl." >> it's going to be a real hot girl "snl." >> all right, heidi. how do you do that?