. >> i'm raj mathai. this has been unfolding for the past 90 minutes. lot of officers and tactical vehicles have flooded this neighborhood. this is happening right off of lincoln avenue. this is close to downtown willio glen. joins us now from there with what we know. jean. >> reporter: raj, there is a large police presence in willow glen. about half an hour ago we heard a gun shot. sources tell us a gunman has shot himself after shooting two people inside an apartment. we do know the s.w.a.t. team was called to negotiate with a man who was barricaded inside aen apartment after shooting two people. this incident is happening around the corner on laura vill lane. they tell us the was a child in the apartment and in danger. sources say that child got out of danger. we don't yet know the details of how the child got to safety. they heard police using a loud speaker saying come out with your hands up. >> but unsafe because something's happening. yeah very safe there's lot of people protecting us but not safe that there's someone that could be a shooting. >>

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i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. he just turned nine. this little boy shot in the stomach while walking to the store with his family on his birthday of all days. his shooting not far from his home. how is he doing, cheryl? >> reporter: well, that 9-year-old boy is in stable condition here at the hospital. he is strong enough to react to the shooting and the community by saying thank you. >> hello i'm here -- >> reporter: with his pastorer by his side, the 9-year-old sent out this message. on sunday just before 11:00 p.m., he was walking his puppy along with his family in the 2700 block of fruit veil avenue. his family headed to the store following his birthday celebration. hearing a loud boom thinking it was a fire cracker but it was a gun. >> he took a few stems. >> reporter: police say thiare desperate for the leads. >> investigators at this point believe that the 9-year-old was not the intended target. >> his family set up this gofund me page. >> this is one of those thomoments where it'ssumer i78 portent as a team that we help each o

. >> and i'm raj mathai. seemingly every day and every night there is ace crisis. it's a memo and a letter. here's the new information. let's start with the letter to the fbi from the chairman of the house oversight committee. this republican member of congress is demanding to see all documents from president trump's white house meeting with james comey. this demand comes with a deadline. nbc bay area's ian cole is with us. where do we stand now? >> reporter: something we haven't seen on capitol hill since comey was fired. both parties now demanding to know from comey himself what went on behind closed doors. tonight congressman jason chaffetz of utah giving the fbi a deadline, asking for all memos and recordings relating to comey's communications with the president by next wednesday. also tweeting, i have my subpoena pen ready. this comes as new reports claim president trump urged former fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into michael flynn who lost his job as national security advisor for lying about his ties to russia. >> he said general flynn wa

raj day, jeremy bash. appreciate it, again, after a long day. >>> matthew miller joins our conversation from washington. he was here with us last night. former chief spokesman for the justice department, also an msnbc justice and security analyst. matthew, same question i just asked raj. when you think of james comey what are your first thoughts? >> more than anything else, you think of independence. and sometimes with somebody who is independent you don't agree with what they are doing. i disagree very much with the way he handled the clinton investigation, with how he ended it and with the letter that he sent in the fall. but more than anything else, you knew that he was making the decisions and was willing to stand up for what he believed was right. and i think you know, if you go back and look at the reason the white house said they fired him i don't think believes that. let's grant he did violate department of justice rules last year. what the white house said today though was that they were casting a

>> reporter: raj, today the lead prosecutor told jurors that garcia torres was unaccounted for for five hours the day sierra disappeared. he said that was plenty of time to hide the body. today in court prosecutors played an emotional recording of the 911 sierra lamar's mother made when her daughter vanished. now garcia torres could face the death penalty if he is convicted. during closing arguments this around prosecutor david boyd reminded jurors about sierra's hair found on a rope in the carve garcia torres. >> and it's very hard to come up with an innocent explanation as to why her hair is found on rope in mr. garcia's car. >> the prosecution also poked holes in a key defense theory,

==raj/vo== coming up -- outcry over a fruit vendor )s arrest -- leads to a deeper you. >> and as raj mentioned we have that mixed bag out here and check it out in san jose. this is a beautiful shot of that fog kind of creeping over the santa cruz mountains, the main reason why temperatures wroo cooler today just 66 degrees right now in san jose. or drop down to 50s once we hit 9:00. also notice the clouds on the increase through 10:00 and 11:00 tonight. we think we're good for the low clouds returning to the santa clair valley just due to the fact the fog is so thick he at the immediate coastline. winds 10 to 25-mile-per-hour. it's going to help to drag that fog in not only to the south bay but also back here to the east bay and the north bay as well. so for tomorrow morning everyone starts off with overcast skies not needing the sunglasses morning commute. i want to you watch out for drizzle near the peninsula and 5 a. also mist and drizzle swell for san francisco and 53. eventually we'll get sunshine in here. but you're going to have to wait. as you'll see the gray sky at 7:00 a.m.

. >> i'm raj matthai. those snakes do come out in the warm weather. hikers are being told to stay alert. for one hiker it was too laid. a casual hike in the hills ended up here at washington hospital in freemont. nbc bay area cheryl shurd at the hospital in freemont with us with the latest. >>> >> reporter: that man is lucky. this trail is located just a two-minute helicopter ride from washington hospital, one of the very few hospitals that have an anti-venom medicine to help snake-bite victims. a san jose man and his family dealing with a life and death emergency. hiking up mission peak, they encountered a rattle snake. >> he was a 47-year-old male from san jose who went to sit down after hiking on the peak. and he put his hand down and was bitten by a rattle snake. >> reporter: his family called 911. a chp pilot patrolling the area was able to locate the man. he told us by phone the bite was so severe that he had to transport the victim by air to washington hospital. >> once we found out that the hospital had the proper medication for him they were

matthew, same question i just asked raj. when you think of james comey, what are your first thoughts? >> more than anything else, you think of independence. sometimes with somebody who is independent, you don't agree with what they're doing. i disagreed very much with the way he handled the clinton investigation, with how he ended it and with his letter that he sent in the fall. but more than anything else, you knew that he was making the decisions and was willing to stand up for what he believed was right. and i think, you know, if you go back and look at the reason the white house said they fired him, i don't think even believes that. but let's just grant that he did violate department of justice rules last year. what the white house said today, though, was that they're casting aside the most important rule that governs the department of justice. and if you've worked there, as i have, as raj has, you know that the thing that people treasure most is their independence from the white house, that they pursue criminal investig

cheryl hurd has more. >> reporter: raj, the game just ended. people are making their way into the parking lots. the lines were unusually long when people were going inside the stadium. that's because guards were paying close attention to what people were bringing inside. a's season ticket holder ami and chris come to almost every a's game. tonight they noticed a change at the gate. >>> soon the effort of the security. now the line seems to be longer. >> reporter: that's because security is tighter. >> we decided to add more of the oakland police officer presence here tonight. >> reporter: looking around, you can see a big law enforcement presence. guards paying close attention to contents inside bags we even caught one guard sorting through every key on a chain. >> you have to adapt to what's going on in society. you have just got to do as much as you can to make the place safe. >> reporter: safety on the minds of almost everyone after monday's terror attack in manchester, england. just like the arena there, the coliseum has a bridge connecting

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>> reporter: raj they're calling it self-defense. a 34-year-old woman as you say was dropping her 4-year-old off when another woman drove buy and swied swiped her car the women who is car that's her sitting on the curb waiting for police. the other woman a 41-year-old inside the ambulance being treated for a cut from a scalpel. this woman told us what happened after her car was struck. >> a we pulled aside and basically i was tellinger you kind of hit my car. >> she gram out aggressive and violently. >> she said she tried to did he fuse the conference but. >> she started cussing and yelling my child was in there i will doefd myself if you don't back off. >> she says the woman kept coming. and that's when she pulled the kal. er her mother gave her for protection. >> she was trying to swipg at me when i defended myself i blocked her hand and she backed up. >> well witnesses backed up her version of what had happened. they called it self-defense. and they sent everybody away except the woman who was stapd she went to the hospital with n

. >> reporter: raj, the hill top exit here along interstate 81 of the 13 locations identified today as a shooting hot spot. we've seen a number of shootings take place on east bay freeways a number of taking place in the middle of the skmut hours. well now a plan is in the works to stop it. >> the reign of terror on the frooway is over. >> driving on the freeways about to get safer and the move to put the brakes on the shooting contra costa d. a. and law enforcement mapped out 13 crime hot spots this morning. where state if you had funded÷p anybody else. >> investigators say 35 freeway shootings have taken place in the county in the past year and a half. this fully automatic ak-47 was used in a gun battle on highway 4 last may in the middle of the afternoon. >> every time a shooting happens, it feels to us -- et cetera just a matter of time before stray bullets hit innocent commuters. >> reporter: now wsh kal transtells me the state plans to spend anywhere from a half million dollars to about $$19.5 million to put all the equipment in process. they hope to install the cameras by the en

===raj/live=== plus: a playoff game -- tonight -- at the oracle. but the warriors ) landlord is more concerned about next season. ===next close=== we )ll explain -- next. >>> from england tonight a video that touched millions of people around the world today, including us. it shows a young girl arriving at her school with something new and the heart warming response from her classmates. here is nbc's bill neely. >> reporter: she's 7 years old and anu has something to show off. is that your new pink leg one friend asks? after the wows, the hugs. anu had her right leg amputated after birth, and she's worn a prosthetic leg ever since but this one is something else, not just pink, it's a specialized sports blade. and boy, can she run. and march. and also she says makes me do my street dancing faster. her father is thrilled. >> we actually broke into tears. it was such an emotional moment. when you see your kid is being well-accepted by her friends, what else you can expect for? >> the video has gone viral. we adults can learn from these kids. love this

. >> raj mathai. other stop story this evening a grizzly discovery this morning and tonight a lot of concerned neighbors. sf public defender is scrambling for answers but they say it was not a random attack. a man found dead at vernal heights park. kristi smith is at the park with the latest on the search for the suspect. >> reporter: raj, neighbors are understandably concerned. the body was found in a popular area where you see a bend in the path. there are homes nearby. police say the victim was stabbed by one source says that there was a more brutal aspect to it. we checked in with police about what they're doing and what neighbors should know. a jogger found the body, also the path in the park and word spread quickly among neighbors. >> when i knew how close it was,

good evening thanks for joining us raj. >> nbc bay area. mounen view in the latest breaking details. >> look this is a fire broke out a little more than an hour ago or so. what we understand from the fire department there were three people injureled let's go to video from sky ranger just to give you an idea of where this all happened as you mentioned this is going on at the google conference that's going on at the shoreline amphitheater. we were able to talk with a few people inside at the conference who tell us the fire itself actually happened in kind of a excluded kitchen area. so it wasn't in the middle of where everyone was for this conference. what we understand from the fire department is that there were three people injured. two taken to the hospital with not very seriousing injuries. unfortunately one person did suffer life threatening injuries. that person rushed to a local hospital. we are told by some people nnlds at the conference that they could see so many of the commotion going on. but they were not cleared out and the confe

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===raj/take vo=== plus: the bay area )s highgest paid cop: the reason he may make than any other officer in the state. ===next close=== the news is next. ==raj/vo== right now at 6: a barrage of bullets in a quiet san francisco >>> finally tonight, this weekend marked the 42nd anniversary of the fall of saigon. the shadow still cast by the vietnam war. our tom brokaw has spent years chronicling the stories of the world war ii veterans. tonight's inspiring america report. >> reporter: at first tony marshall and jack tremble look like any other pilots. refreshing their skills at randolph air force base in san antonio. maybe just a bit more senior. in the waning days of war in vietnam, they ended up as two of the last fires to be shot down. now the two former weapons systems officers will soar once again, thanks to the air force's freedom flyer program which ensuresed flights that ended in their capture will not be their last. over the last 44 years, the 560th flying training squadron has returned almost 200 former pows to the skies. marshall has vivid memories of the moments after he was co

thom. >> reporter: raj with it was pretty emotional in the courtroom today as she talked. she seemed nervous describing graphically as you said the sexual uncontenter and also conversations that he had with them. at times she was really fidget wg the micron and trembling when she talked about it. the officer stared straight ahead the entire time showing no eyakem. >> thises the first time this woman has testified since she told investigators last year she had sex with as many as 30 bay area plofrz some when she was still a minor. formerly oakland p. d. officer listened for more than two hours today as she described how the two met at a hotel and had oral sex last year. afterwards she said the bundt warned her about a prostitution sting. she caught up with the officers's attorney who said he is not surprised it's going to trial. >> a preliminary hearing is probable cause hearing a strong spish isn't all that's required to hold someone to answer. it is 98% of the time the fact a you are held to aenz. >> om of the evidence came as she read from text messaging describing how h

. >> raj this whole thing blew up last wednesday the initial report went to the santa -- sand rafael police department and within hours they had turned it over to the santa rosa police department. within a day the -- harris -- the suspect rather darrell harris was arrested in eureka, california 46-year-old darrell hair sis in jail with bail set at $750,000. he is in marchen's chief deputy coroner reporting directly to the county sheriff because of the ties to law enforcement the d. a. and sand rafael police turned the investigation over to santa rosa police department to avoid any appearance of a conflict. in court today, harris son nicholas and his wife jennifer harris ace arraignment on charges of on going molestation of a girl under the age of 14 has been postponed until next week. >> the unanimous reaction is shock and no one believers it to be true. mr. harris's family does not believe it to be true. the wife and son were hered >> douglas horn grad says he was convinced after meeting with his client hiswau client is innocen the prosecutors say the charges span 8 year period from

good evening and thanks for being with us, i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. san francisco police are now saying that there is a person of interest in the case of a missing uber driver. but talking to that person may prove difficult, since now he's missing too. nbc bay area's christie smith joins us live in san francisco. christie, a new and potentially revealing twist in this story. >> reporter: that's right, and san francisco police just released this information to us. they're saying the person of interest in this case is a man named bob tang who is an acquaintance of p.s. chai. i wanted to show you a picture of 48-year-old bob tang. they're telling us he was supposed to meet with chai on mother's day and they believe he may have been the last person he had contact with. the 48-year-old father of two is an uber driver and family says he was going to to see a friend that day when he vanished. his car was found stripped. investigators say they believe it may have been moved. last night they served three search warrants, two in san francisco, one in antioch. t

raj mathai. jessica aguirre.e've been tracking are the breaking story on oir aaron online here is what we know. a father was supposed to drop his infant son back off with mom last night but the father never showed up. ton there is concern he may harm himself and the boy. now police believe he is headed south on i-5 perhaps towards los angeles. kristi smith is live in san francisco with the breaking details. what have we learned? >> reporter: as you said the district attorney's office here in san francisco says they have information that the spungt suspected abductor may be heading down i-5 to southern krall california. they say he has been acting erratically and the amber alert was issued for the entire bay area and includes southern california. all to bring 20 monthland -- 21 month old makai back home. the mother and father have joint custody. the father is 30-year-old jason lam and when he didn't return the boy the mom got new custodyual status and filed the police report. we were told he was driving a tan toyo

>> reporter: raj, that one soldier that was singled out was 21-year-old cesar of santa rosa.e was deployed to iraq, killed in 2006 when his humvee was blown up by a roadside bomb. >> he's one of the last soldiers to be incurred in this cemetery. >> reporter: carl ikenberry says he wanted to tell the personal story of the soldier. >> he did his best to schedule his two week r&r for april of 2006, the start of the abalone diving season. >> reporter: the young private wrote that the two weeks of ab diving with his dad would be the best two weeks of his life. but within days, he was dead. >> may god bless cesar and his parents and may god bless the united states of america. >> reporter: sitting in the front row, his parents. >> we know he wanted to do something he could be proud of. and he was very proud. happy to be with the 101st airborne and we're proud of him as well. >> to have words spoken by people who have served and served in country and then just to have the citizens here to honor, it's meaningful. >> reporter: he had his picture and a wreath and an ambassador and retir

>> reporter: raj, protesters have been out here for the past hour or so outside the federal building. they are outraged over the firing of the fbi director. they say the president's bold move was absolutely unacceptable. >> there are boundaries in this country. there are principles that you don't violate. >> reporter: congressman eric swalwell believes president trump's firing of fbi director james comey crossed the line. the east bay congressman says comey's investigation into possible russian ties to trump's presidential campaign may have been making the president a little too nervous. >> most people will see this as director comey and his investigation may have been getting too close to the president and his family and his campaign. >> reporter: the president's move is sparking outrage among many democrats and even a few republicans. a protest outside the federal building in oakland is one of several taking place today. >> i think it was an effort to obstruct justice, and this is part of -- again, it's power grab by the trump regime to prevent anyone from dissenting. >> reporter: b

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>> reporter: good evening, raj. things outside this mexican restaurant are slowly thinning out for the most part things have been quite festive. however, san jose police is out in full force tonight. in fact we have seen them arrest a man near king and story road. his truck had to be towed away. officers are on the lookout for drunk drivers tonight. some local business owners say they have a plan in place if things get quite rowdy. >> myself, bartenders, servers, bussers, security, managers are all trained to observe customers, look at them. if some have drank too much, then we call an uber, get them a taxi and we help them get into a safe way home. >> reporter: now this goes way beyond the streets of san jose. in fact, chp says they are going to be closely monitoring highway 101 because that's where they say most of the arrests are made on cinco de mayo. live in san jose, david gonzalez, nbc bay area news. >>> new at 11:00 tonight more controversy for the raiders. this time it has nothing to do with their move to l

great weekend ahead just watch out for the wind. >> good martha forecast. >> good idea raj thank you. still to come. a preschool ransacked by a vandal. the tearful plea from the founder. nobody told me to expect it. intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. it's not likely to go away on its own. it took my most honest friend to help me do something about it. she told me premarin vaginal cream can help. it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin vaginal cream treats vaginal changes due to menopause and moderate-to-severe painful intercourse caused by these changes. don't use it if you've had unusual vaginal bleeding, breast or uterine cancer, blood clots, liver problems, stroke or heart attack, are allergic to any of its ingredients or think you're pregnant. side effects may include headache, pelvic pain, breast pain, vaginal bleeding and vaginitis. estrogens may increase your chances of getting cancer of the uterus, strokes, blood clots, or dementia so use it for the shortest time based on goals and risks. estrogens

thanks for joining us jessica aguirre. >> raj mathai. when the sun goes down could the arsonist strike again? so far five cars torched across the east bay. tonight getting the first look at the person of interest in this case. at the top of the surveillance video you can make it out. you can see a man leaving the scene of one of these car fires. nbc bay area rick boone joins from us pleasant hill where we got an update. >> reporter: yeah they talked a lot about that tape, the viewers just kmekd out there. we're showing that to you. that person of interest they want to you look very closely. because that was the person they say was caught on surveillance tape just moments -- just moments before the recent fire. you can hardly see the person at the top of your screen but they may play a roll in now a brentwood car caught fire. >> i was thinking about how terrifying that kids must have been for the kids to hearing the banging on the door, shack shaken out of sleep. >> we learned the fires this week in lafayette walnut creek and brentwood, t

. >> reporter: they are here right now, raj. i want to get out of the way and show you about 2,000 marchers just now arriving here at san antonio park. in oakland. they have spent the last few hours marching steadily through the streets talking about issues, largely ranging from labor to politics. . the beat of marchers were heard for several blocks as thousands of elbowed residents spend the afternoon marching through the streets. earlier today others chained themselves to the alameda county government building, four people arrested peacefully here as they asked for changes in local government. >> to break away from relines on militarized policing, break away from ties with i.c.e., and also to stop the expansion of cages. >> the marchers told us this may day comes with a different mood because of what's going on in washington. >> it definitely feels different than last year. i think last year it was just more to like you know promote the workers rights but right now it's promote to like everybody's rights, the current. >> the c

===raj/take vo=== plus: a different kind of fire season.fighters are gearing up for something they )re not used to. ===next close=== the news is next. nat nats of screaming. runs :03 ==raj/take vo== right now at 6: >>> the old city of jerusalem where the president visited >>> the old city of jerusalem where the president visited today has sacred meeting for jews, muslims and christians including the church he visited that sits on the spot where many christians believe jesus was rest recollected. resurrected. the history is forged by conflict, wars leaving it divided and disputed even as inhabits show fifth. >> welcome to jerusalem. welcome to israel. >> reporter: for a president following the path of his predecessors in search of middle east peace, jerusalem may be a good place to start. a crossroads of faith and sometimes violent flash point. >> jerusalem is the center of conflict. it has been the shortest spot on earth to have it. it cannot be all. >> reporter: israel's control of east jerusalem which it seized and occupied during the 196

. >> i'm raj matthai. the family friend is on the run. and foul play is suspected. the wife, desperate for news about her missing husband, and their kids heart broken. but sfpd is working swiftly. investigators found the friend's car at the airport today. why did he leave town? and what's he hiding? nbc bay area's jean elle is at sfo with the new details. >> reporter: raj, police came here at sfo tonight looking for his car and they founld it. they believe he fled to cambodia after he agreed to meet with police and answer questions about the disappearance of piseth chhay. tonight his wife says she is stunned that a longtime family friend may have something to do with her husband's dispapers. >> recorded my son getting his certificate. i tried to tell him you know what, mommy going to take this video and when daddy comes home we can show him. >> reporter: she is recording her son's milestones alone while police search for her missing husband, piseth chhay. the 49-year-old uber driver hasn't been seen for 11 days. >> i am wondering where he is. >> reporter: police sus

==raj/vo== we )re also following some breaking news on capitol hill. within the past hour -- congress announced that fired fbi director james comey has agreed to testify in front of the sentate intelligence committee. the hearing is will be after congress ) memorial day recess. comey is expected to testify about his involvment in the investigation into potential ties between the trump campaign and russia. today, the new york times reported that mr. trump made controversial remark about comey -- after he fired him. we )ll have those details... plus another notable development from the white house... in just a few minutes. =janelle/cu= terrified shoppers after a bold smash and grab robbery and gunfire at an east bay costco =vo= here )s a look at the scene from nbc bay area )s skyranger. as you can see, police blocked off access to the store. comey as seen from nbc bay area sky ranger as you can see yellow stap police blocked off access to the warehouse. it at afternoon in the cost coin danville. this is the second smash and grab robbery at this location

>> reporter: good evening, jessica and raj.serena williams telling a closed door meteorologist here at surveymonkey the employees, she said, will be focusing on minority improvement, a big issue in silicon valley. as someone who has run companies on her own in the past, you can also expect growth to be on the agenda. as serena williams left the surveymonkey headquarters, she left an impression on the online survey company's employees. >> i'm really excited, like to be official in silicon valley. >> reporter: just like she leaves an impression on her massive social media following. an immensely successful athlete who is now looking to shake up the tech world. >> i think this is a great move for both serena and surveymonkey. >> reporter: the tennis superstar is joining the board of directors here in san mateo. goal number one, increase diversity. >> the valley has a diversity challenge in leadership ranks and around boardrooms. >> reporter: surveymonkey says williams will help it plan for the future in terms of both diversity and

bigad. >> raj and jessica wle it comes to treating transgender kids even the brightest medical minds at odds parents are torn but the kids themselves seem convinced about who they are. >> i'm kind of terrified but most excited i've been my entire life in dl this 12-year-old was born a girl named sophia today taking a major step towards becoming a boy named jack. >> i'm going to be right there. >> okay. >> the sixth grated isser about of to a tiny medical device many planned in the left arm jack's dad and mom are at his side. >> oh gees i'm really terrified. >> the implant stops female puberty and keep him from growing breasts. it was last year when sophia cut off all her hair and decided she was really a he. >> what would you say to people who think kids are just too young to make this kind of decision? >> sure. i'm a kid. but doesn't take a genius to realize i'm not a girl. >> an estimated 1.4 million adults in the u.s. identify as trans. 150,000 teens for figures more younger children are largely unknown here in the bay area there are at least six clinics for transkids that current

. >> and i'm raj mathai. a race against time. can they catch the arsonist before another car is torched? tonight we're getting a look at the person of interest in this case. look carefully here at the top of this surveillance video. you can see a man leaving the scene of one of the five recent car fires. there is one in martinez on monday, then in walnut creek and lafayette yesterday and two more in brentwood early this morning. nbc bay area cheryl hurd is in pleasant hill with an update from investigators. cheryl. >> reporter: well, investigators know more than what they're telling us tonight. they want to keep all information close to the vest. they really want to catch this person because the patterns in this case are getting dangerous. william cutting his vacation short, coming home to this. his car set on fire in his driveway inches from his home. >> that could have spread, and especially with people in there, you're talking lives and that's sad. you can't -- this guy has to be caught. >> reporter: investigators believe the

. >> i'm raj matthai. a lot happening tonight as this holiday weekend comes to an en. let's start with the developing story in freemont. witnesses say a man was walking around the parking lot of a shopping center with a pipe. this is right off maori avenue. an officer then opened fire as plenty of people saw this violence. terry mcsweeney is on the scene with the cell phone video. >> reporter: police wrapped up their investigation out here about ten minutes ago. the man was shot right in front of where that truck was parked. police say it started when a patrol officer was flagged down by shoppers maybe 100 yards away and they told him they had been threatened by a man with a pipe. tonight, crews clean clean away the blood from the exact spot of a shooting where a unanimous and a police officer face odd. >> the officer was chasing the young black man and he was telling him to stop, drop it, stop, drop it. >> reporter: the witness says she took this video moments after the officer opened fire. freemont police say it all began when a patrol officer was flagged down by peo

=raj/topvo= new video surfaces in the manchester bombing case.in the manchester bombing case. british police have released >>> take a look. new video surfaced in the manchester bombing case. british police released this footage of the suicide bomber salman abedi. it shows him shopping at a store close to his apartment, of course, before the attacks, obviously. as this investigation widens, we are joined by nbc's lucy cavanaugh in manchester. >> reporter: police raided numerous properties across manchester this morning making the arrest of a 23-year-old detained in suspicion of committing terrorist activities, bringing the total number to 14. police combed nearly 13,000 hours of closed circuit television footage searching for clues. they have obtained about 630 pieces of evidence as they try to close in on the suspected network behind salman abedi, the 22-year-old manchester attacker. new reports are circulating suggesting mi-5 had been tipped off with warnings about abedi in the past. we are now learning that mi-5 is launching its own internal re

=raj/2shot= >>> okay not the sharks versus the ducks.> still hockey going on. >>> yes. >> the myren league affiliates are squaring off in the second right now of playoffs. hockey is still happening at the shark tank. nbc bay area colin resch from the ice. >>> the sharks bowed out of the stanley cup two weeks ago. but some players still experiencing playoff hockey. as members of the shark's top myren league team the bar a cueda. >> it's unfortunate the sharks got knocked out. but bar a cueda a unbelievable team and we have a lot of work to do. and i feel like we're going to be make a lot of noise in the playoff run. >>> american hockey league coach of the year royce sommer agrees he is thinking championship. >> i think we're the team to beat. >> the coach quick to acknowledge he didn't foresee this team being this kid. >> we started to 12, 14 khakis to accomplish everything these guys accomplished so far has been pretty miraclous. >> it's a bittersweet scenario. the sharks exit from the stanley cup makes the bar a cueda a stronger team in

delia, we saw this largent raj accompany president trump in this audience with the pope. is that customary? generally what is the size of crowd that accompanies a head of state when they meet the pope. >> oh, no, that's perfectly standard. they bring their families, and then they bring their administration people. i think there's about nine people in the president's administrative entourage, plus his family. that's usually quite standard for a head of state visiting, that he brings his main deputies his main secretaries to meet with the pope. and as we said, to meet with the other vatican officials because that's where the relationships really happen is between those people. so that's perfectly standard that he would bring nine or ten people in his entourage to meet with the pope and vatican officials. >> that's some important context that we needed there. as our own dave jakobsson alludes to goodness knows what. >> to be fair, there is a very big entourage traveling with donald trump on this first foreign trip. i mean there are a lot of people crammed into air force one

. >> reporter: raj, for the majority of the people being detained right now for immigration violations, in new development means there is at least some hope that they'll be able to remain in the u.s. an estimated 60% of the people picked up by the border patrol or immigration are being held without access to lawyer. in immigration court, there is no right to a lawyer if you can't afford one. >> immigration court is like traffic court with death penalty consequences. >> public defender is quoting there the president of the president of the national association of immigration judges. >> you can be deported to a country where you might be jailed or killed you have the right to a lawyer. >> three lawyers from the office are going to be lining up from the immigration court to represent nerch who can't afford counsel. saying the chances of a detainee being allowed to remain in the u.s. goes up 70% if they have a lawyer. >> we have a planned program of mass deportation larger number of arrests, larger number of detensions larger number of attempted remove willing we're here to stop that. >> a

==raj/animation/cu== happening now: ==reveal== on our facebook page country music star loretta lynn expects to make a full recovery after having a stroke. >>> happening now on facebook payment country music car lor eta lynn expects to make a full recovery after suffering a stroke. she checked into a hospital yesterday but back home now. on the website video of a possible meet your shower in southern california. the deshz from haily a comet fell last night. back in a moment. a san jose pre-school trashed so badly, it had to shutdown ti >>> okay it's not your order vandalism case the san jose preschool trashed so badly it had to shut down until next week leaving families about a hundred of them scrambling for care. our janelle wang joins with us more on the possible culprit for this. >> jessica the owner of the school was able to snap a photo of suspect given it to police but so far no arrests. . the vandal did quite a tum any montessori school in willow glen neighborhood. windows broken rooms ransacked the owner says it was like a hurricane kit. >> windows broken, floors are destroyed, every

. >> raj mathai. other stop story this evening a grizzly discovery this morning and tonight a lot of concerned neighbors. sf public defender is scrambling for answers but they say it was not a random attack. a man found dead at vernal heights park. kristi smith is at the park with the latest on the search for the suspect. >> reporter: raj, neighbors are understandably concerned. the body was found in a popular area where you see a bend in the path. there are homes nearby. police say the victim was stabbed by one source says that there was a more brutal aspect to it. we checked in with police about what they're doing and what neighbors should know. a jogger found the body, also the path in the park and word spread quickly among neighbors. >> when i knew how close it was, that's scarey, because this has been a very quiet neighborhood, especially since high-end real estate has come to this area. >> juanita regularry brings her dog here. >> very nervous in and out. >> the police were called for a person d

. >>> raj this is the picture someone walked by and snapped this photo we want to give you a closer lookows a deputy handcuffing a man selling fruit. well the reaction was scathing prompting the alameda sheriff office to write a long explanation and post the fischer page this is what it said in part the person detained at this photo is in handcuffs for a reason .deputy approached this man to advise him it was illegal for him to sell produce on the corner when the deputy asked the man for identification he became resistest and tried to flee. our intention here was thought to arrest him or get in a confrontation with him we learned the man is on federal probation expected to follow all laws we expected that intersection today did not see the food surrender but we did find a neighbor saw the whole thing happens and believes law enforcement had better things to do. >> i have seen a lot of drug dealers here. and i have them riding bicycles and handing over drugs to other people. and it still goes on on a daily basis. but i never see the sheriff talking to any of those people. >> similar react

raj. caller: hey. host: what do you want to talk about today? i am very frustrated at he budget that trump just released and you cannot just cut that much from the poor, the the sick and ren, simultaneously give like a defense budget increase and then say, oh, we're going to use the rest of money for cutting taxes the rich. is that is just wrong in so many ways and i know like the budget up by the house and september, but even if this then i am very afraid for this country because hen that means a lot of the resources will be diverted away from the people who actually and government will not work for me because i'm the majority. for whoever the whoever the ower or hell happens to be rich or get fortunate enough in this country, rather than like out for the oking less fortunate or people who help.lly need and i think it is unethical, opinion.nethical in my host: okay. and during joint news conference british foreign secretary in london, secretary state rex a question swered bout relations with that intelligence leak. let's take a look. >> with re

==jan/2-shot== and i )m janelle wang -- in for raj mathai. does the punishment fit the crime? ==jan/rail== a newreport finds the high price for speeding and running red lights ... too steep for many in the bay area, and now there )s a fight to change it. n-b-c bay area )s michelle roberts joins us live from san jose with more. michelle, it could even lead to jail time. jess/hset denials tonight from the trump white house--which is

all right, raj has played his phantom warlord card, and i am going to back him up with my stranglinges. choke on that, sucka. okay, well, then i'll just cut your vines with my ruby sword. that's right, i did it. i cut 'em. um... i have a question. warlord beats troll, troll beats elf, elf beats water sprite, and basically everything beats enchanted bunny. unless you have the carrot of power. okay, i've got another question. when does this get fun? are we going to talk or are we going to play "mystic warriors of ka-ah"? just play a potion card. which one? it doesn't matter. you can't possibly win. sheldon, don't ruin the game. how could he ruin the game?

there's more to life than sex, raj."leonard flames out with penny in less than 24 hours"? i did. nothing flamed out. we don't have to have sex every night, you know. you don't have to, but it's highly recommended. yeah, take advantage of that window of opportunity before it slams shut on your little dinky. it's not a matter of opportunity. we're getting to know each other. there's a learning curve. what's there to learn?

. >> raj, jessica, we found 94 different public water systems carrying the chemical 1 tp. they have determined a lifetime exposure raises your risk of developing cancer. so far there's no legal standard anywhere and people are drinking it in their water. >> one, two, three tcp was once used as a solvent and degreaser. it was also part of a pesticide manufactured by dou chemical and shell. 1 tp was taken off the market but washed into ground water where it remains until this day. todd robens is an attorney that focuses on safe water drinking issues. >> there's no uger contaminant as dangerous to other people as dioxins. >> it seems almost outrages that people are drinking water. >> that state as prosperous as california has so many water quality problems. >> reporter: we found 94 different public water systems that scientists say are unsafe, three in san mateo countsy, one in santa cruz all showed these high levels. 64 other public water systemals in the public valley had it in their water. there's no direct effect on humans, scientists in 2009 determined effect on lab anim