. >>> i'm marianne favro. fremont city council will make a major decision on surveillance cameras throughout the city. are they a crime-fighting tool or an invasion of privacy? i'll take a look at that story coming up. what are you up to? just playing hide the cheddar. can i play? it's more of a one person kind of game. i won. tillamook cheese slices, tastes better because it's made better. >>> new at 6:30, who's watching you? tonight one east bay city is considering a new plan to use technology to track people driving in and out of town. some call the plan a great way to cut crime. others, though, say it's a huge invasion of privacy. tonight the fremont city council will decide whether to he shell out $300,000 for surveillance cameras and license plate readers. marianne favro is at fremont city hall with more on this camera controversy. >> reporter: in just about a half hour the city council will meet to decide whether or not to give the $300,000 to the police department to put up these 12 surveillance camera

. >>> i'm marianne favro. coming up, why firefighters want you to watch the fireworks here and what they're doing to crackdown on people who set off their own. >>> and we're seeing sunshine right now in san jose, but a very different story in san francisco where we've been watching light rain and drizzle, flying some rare june rain. we'll let you know how long it's going to stick around, coming up. >>> new details now. a veteran oakland firefighter is breathing on his own tonight after he was critically hurt during a training exercise. now investigators are trying to figure out why that huge, heavy rig overturned yesterday. nbc bay area's derek shore is outside the hospital with the support he is getting tonight. >> reporter: we've seen a number of friends, family and co-workers, those being firefighters past and present all wanting to be right next to his side, and his prognosis has got and lot better. >> it could have been a lot worse. >> reporter: battalion chief cory justice incredibly relieved that hayes

marianne favro is in gilroy with the latest on the search. i know this family is desperate to find her. >> reporter: they certainly are. they've been out all day in the hot sun looking for her along with some of their friends. i'm here with gilroy pd, and police are asking for your hem tonight in finding mimi. they say she left her sister's house last sunday around 7:30 in the morning and has not been seen since. the 49-year-old left walking, and she didn't bring her cell phone or purse. take a good look at this photo. she is described as 5'5", about 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. she was last seen wearing a tan baseball cap, sunglasses, tan capri pants and a dark blue jacket. today her family and friends combed gilroy going door to door many christmas hill park, looking for her. and her brother made this plea directly to his sister. >> mimi, if -- if you're able to hear this, we are trying everything we can to find you, and we will. just know that we love you and we miss you. >> reporter: my her family says she is battling depres

marianne favro is live downtown. surely a blow to the community. >> reporter: a new play was set to open next thursday. now ticket goeres are not going to get a chance to enjoy that show because tonight the rep is closed. and there will be no encore. the electronic bill board may encourage you to buy tickets, but the final curtain has already come down on san jose's repertory theater. a final act brought to you by years of financial struggles. >> it provided such a great asset to the community here. >> reporter: after 34 years of dramas and comedy, the non-profit theater company closed its doors, laid off 51 employees and plans to file for bankrupt bankruptcy. that means san jose, which issued a $2 million line of credit to the rep will become a creditor. >> we're concerned that in addition to being exposed to a financial loss as a creditor, we're really losing a significant asset, a significant contributor to our downtown community. >> reporter: season ticket holders will have to get in line behind other creditors.

marianne favro has more. >> reporter: whether you call it football or soccer, doesn't really matter.more than 50,000 people packed into stanford stadium for the love of the game. they watched as the earthquakes took on long standing rival, the l.a. galaxy. >> a much bigger crowd fueled by world cup fever. jesse cortez is hooked. he hasn't missed a game. >> something about the world cup brings everyone together and makes the crowd better. >> and if you didn't get enough between brazil and chile, the flavor of brazil came alive on the field during halftime. everything from giant parrots to carnival dancers. >> people can't go to brazil so they come here and try to watch some football. >> beyond the extra attractions, the true star is the most popular sport in the world, the game that inspired this boy to get braces in the color of his favorite team, the earthquakes. the sport that has exploded in pap larty in the bay area. marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> meanwhile in brazil, team usa spent the day preparing for the showdown against belgium. many predicted an early exist for team

nbc's marianne favro is live. what exactly went wrong here? >> reporter: according to the families, a lot went wrong. the plan was for the children with autism to be tethered to the service dogs, and the dog would conceivably prevent the children from darting into a busy street like you see behind me. but that didn't happen. the families say the dogs actually pulled their kids and dragged them. 5-year-old jackson has autism. his mom, elaine, worried he may dart into traffic and get hurt. so she raised more than $9,000 to buy idaho, an autism service dog. the idea was jackson would be tethered to idaho and the dog would keep him from running off. that didn't quite work. >> idaho was tethered with jackson, and i was up ahead. and idaho bolted toward me. and jackson fell down and started to cry. and it was pretty much dragged through the mall. >> reporter: idaho is a service dog from yuma county. while the black lab is sweet, he pays no attention to her son. and even though he's supposed to be scent trained to find jackson, when her son ran off,

nbc bay area's marianne favro in the newsroom with more on robert guerrero who left boxing for more than a year. >> reporter: that's right. robert guerrero took 13 months off from boxing to help his wife battle leukemia. she eventually received a bone marrow transplant and recently received a clean bill of health, which is why guerrero is back in the ring tonight. guerrero is a welterweight champion. casey adams says he'll be joining hundreds of others to cheer him on, who's seen as a role model. >> he does a lot for the town. a lot of youth look up to him. the challenges he went through personally. he's just a good role model. >> reporter: today, a local salon was buzzing with excitement about the fight tonight. casey adams says guerrero runs a football program for kids in gilroy and routinely mentors kids and is known for walking down the streets of gilroy and getting high-fives from strangers and signing autographs for kids. guerrero and his wife have a son and daughter and a lot of fans who will be cheering them on tonight. >> i can imagine that is the case. thank you so much, marian

marianne favro is now setting themselves apart. >> reporter: right. how they plan to tackle crime in san jose. two men, which will come to city hall and be the next mayor of san jose. the balance of power is changing in san jose, the city with more than 1 million people will soon have a new mayor. this week voters narrowed the voice choiss to two candidates, sam liccardo and dave for tasy. both agree on one thing. they want san jose to reclaim its title as the safest big city in the nation. the question is how. >> it's not just about cops. we'll restore police officers. we'll restore safety. but we're going to be innovative, not just by spending money. >> reporter: liccardo says he wants the city to rely on community policing and crowd sourcing video cameras. >> we could put a police officer on every corner and it wouldn't change dmess tick violence inside the homes of so many families where children are terr terrorized. >> >> reporter: dave kortezi wants more to join the force. >> there's no 140 funded positions. they're ready to go. we need morale b

marianne favro with why this south bay native has so many fans. >> reporter: especially in gilroy where despite winning the welterweight championship, friends say he's still very modest and still hangs out in his hometown. guerrero put his career on hold to help his wife fight leukemia. she recently received a clean bill of health which is why tonight guerrero is back in the ring. casey adams says he'll be joining others to cheer for the native who has proven himself a role model both in and out of the ring. >> he's a good guy with good character. in today's sports world, a lot of guys out there are doing stuff we don't particularly want our kids to be imitating. but he's a guy of good character, good morals. >> reporter: he says guerrero runs a football program for kids in gilroy and routinely mentors kids and gives back to the community. guerrero and his wife have two children. and tonight they have a lot of fans who are going to be cheering on the ghost. back to you. >> thanks very much. >>> coming up, desperate efforts to rescue six people. >>> and as the situation escalates in iraq

marian marianne favro joins us. a loss for the entire bay area theater community. >> reporter: it certainly is, raj. this was one of the major theater companies throughout the south bay, and now that it's closed, ticket holders are going to have to get in line with the other creditors during bankruptcy proceedings to try to get their money back. one of those creditors is the city of san jose who gave the rep a $2 million line of credit. a theater spokesman says years of financial troubles, coupled with the recession forced the rep to close. theatergoers are shocked. >> i've been there several times, and it's always been a -- i mean, an enjoyable experience. i just found out it closed, and i'm in awe because as a student, it served a great introduction to the arts. >> reporter: 51 theater employees have lost their jobs. nearby business owners are also concerned that without a steady stream of theatergoers they will lose money. san jose owns the building that you see here behind me, and the city says they do plan to k

in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> let's bring in rob mayeda tracking the dry conditions and telling us about maybe a little relief. >> a little bit of relief in parts of the bay area. the backdrop for the fourth of july, the driest on any start to summer on record for the east bay. now, for san jose, you have to go back to the start of april to have the last time we had a quarter inch of rain. now, today, when we got sunshine in san jose, but san francisco a little bit of a different story. the low clouds coming in, drizzle at times. we've seen rare june rain today. around half moon bay, .10 of an inch of rain. we have the system coming in for now. which may temporarily bring fire danger down for parts of the state. but the question is, how long will this pattern stick around. and other changes ahead in your forecast. really starting to bring in heat in the bay area. back to you. >> thanks, rob. >>> new details tonight on the feature of the oakland a's. the team has agreed to play for another ten years at this coliseum. an occasional lighting outage have plagued the stad

in staen santa clara, marianne favro, nbc news. >> start with your yard. let's bring in our chief meteorologist tracking our conditions him we see a lot of red behind you. >> that's right t. latest drought monitor did come in today. we want you to know there has not been a change. it remains very dire. rain deficit 14e7b to 20 inches, 77% of california remains in an extreme to exceptional drought that. worst level, the exceptional level of drought is included here for alameda, all of santa clara counties, santa cruz, san mateo and san francisco. >> that is where conditions remain the driest w. that said, our new drought data shows us from october through may, we now rank the fifth driest in over 100 years of recordkeeping. that's not only for the bye area, that's for the entire state. we will have details on fire concerns in that 6:00 show in a bit. a new campaign is on the way to stop residents from setting off fireworks. >> every year, thousands of people often teens are introducing all kind of fee. >> that is a public service announcement from the san j

nbc's marianne favro is live. what exactly went wrong here? >> reporter: according to the families, a lot went wrong. the plan was for the children with autism to be tethered to the service dogs, and the dog would conceivably prevent the children from darting into a busy street like you see behind me. but that didn't happen. the families say the dogs actually pulled their kids and dragged them. 5-year-old jackson has autism. his mom, elaine, worried he may dart into traffic and get hurt. so she raised more than $9,000 to buy idaho, an autism service dog. the idea was jackson would be tethered to idaho and the dog would keep him from running off. that didn't quite work. >> idaho was tethered with jackson, and i was up ahead. and idaho bolted toward me. and jackson fell down and started to cry. and it was pretty much dragged through the mall. >> reporter: idaho is a service dog from yuma

reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> usa and gerny on thursday, i believe it is. check that out. >>> if state lawmakers won't do it, we will. that's a message from east bay leaders to the assembly ahead of the crucial vote on the kill switch measure. the bill would require a mechanism on smartphones sold in california allowing users to disable the devices remotely when they're lost or they're stolen. the state senate and assembly committee passed the bill. now it goes to a second committee for tomorrow. that's where it's facing an uphill battle. local leelders are urging assembly members to follow the senate's lead where they'll pass ordinances of their own. >> we're about to start the process of passing a local ordinance. other local jurisdictions will follow suit. we've heard rumors that san francisco is looking to do the same thing. >> supporters say the bill will help reduce robberies. critics, though, say mandating such technology will stifle innovation. >> coming up next, we have a new clue in the search for a missing california firefighter who has be

reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >> see you at 6:00. >>> he not only had a bomb, but also poison. that's what prosecutors revealed today about the political consultant and social media expert who was the focus of an fbi man hunt. today, it was ruled chamberlain should stay in custody. a pact of castor beans, which could be made into ricin, also the ied chamberlain was working on. the 42-year-old pleaded not guilty today. >>> today, the payoff, an engineering milestone as san francisco celebrates the completion of two tunnels, the twin tunnels, they are the city's first new subway tunnels in 30 years. massive round boring machines spent a year chewing through the earth to create the mile and a half long tunnels. they are the centerpiece of the central subway project and part of the city's renewed investment in transportation. >> without that and housing and the business relationships that we make, we won't see a very positive future. all these things have to be working together. >> the subway will link the soma, union square, and chinatown neighborhoods whe

marianne favro is standing by to tell us why other schools in the state are planning to invest in thesearning systems. >> reporter: even the state office of emergency services was keeping a close eye on this. a few hours ago, students got to go through a drill to find out what it would be like to have a five-second warning before the ground began shaking. students quickly went from reading to reacting. while some weren't sure what to do, most made it under their desks in seconds. if a quake hits the south bay, this school will likely know about it first. they use quake guard, a system used to sound the alarm of a magnitude 5 or higher before the ground starts shaking. seismic warning systems in scots valley developed the technology. >> we measure the primary waves. it is moving about one second for every five miles. >> reporter: they hope to give students 4 to 14 seconds warningle. >> we don't know what time the quake is going to hit. and with this special system we can know and protect ourselves from an earthquake. >> please evacuate the building. >> reporter: while no public schools i

marianne favro is live at the scene and some neighbors are calling this a dang earn zone. >> reporter: they certainly are. and they're calling it that because of the two fatalities but also because there have been several near misses recently, and too many people are simply ignoring these safety arms and warning lightsing including the man who died here last night. michael was walking his neighbor's maltese terrier mix last night. but when she took off across the tracks, the 51-year-old was hit and killed running after her. >> i cried. it's sad. >> reporter: she said she can't believe a second neighbor was killed by a light rail train this year. in january, danica garcia was hit and killed while riding her bike to school. both accidents happened at southwest expressway and stokes street. two pedestrians had near misses with train just a few blocks away last august. san jose police are investigating the latest death, so is bta. >> after an accident like this, we take the operator for drug testing. we also impound the train for the police investigation. and then we will test the signals

reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nba bay area news. >>> just into our newsroom as well, officials identified the pilot killed when his plane went down in the east bay yesterday. 63-year-old jerry park from livermore was killed when he jumped out of the plane that was just about to crash. the plane took off from livermore municipal airport just before 5:00 on saturday. witnesses say a few minutes later that plane caught fire and went down. the crash sparked a brush fire just knot of the 580 and scorched 1 1/2 acres before firefighters were able to put it out. the federal aviation administration and the national transportation safety board are now investigating the crash. >>> now to a developing story in iraq. >> appears to be no end in sight for the growing violence. over the weekend the sunni militant group isis captured more territory on iraq's border with syria. its troops are making their way toward baghdad where hundreds are leaving the city. secretary of state john kerry landed in jordan tonight. he's expected to travel to iraq soon where the u.s. is sending 300 military advi