i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv.ow with one of the most important events for every community, especially for asian americans, pacific islanders, and immigrants. we're talking about the 2020 census and trying to make sure every person is counted and in turn help the community in just about every way you can think of. then we celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of san francisco taiko dojo. we look at the dazzling group and talk about their artistic and cultural performance to the bay area and the world. then we wrap up with our traditional artistic and cultural performance with mosaic silicon valley's strings and bow, a multicultural collaboration of american artists playing western and eastern music.

robert handa: hello and welcome to "asian pacific america." i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv. we start our show with one of the most important events for every community, especially for asian americans, pacific islanders, and immigrants. we're talking about the 2020 census and trying to make sure every person is counted and in turn help the community in just about every way you can think of. then we celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of san francisco taiko dojo. we look at the dazzling group and talk about their artistic and cultural performance to the bay area and the world. then we wrap up with our traditional artistic and cultural performance with mosaic silicon valley's strings and bow, a multicultural collaboration of american artists playing western and eastern music. there'll be here with a piece reflecting the vibrant mosaic of different cultures all on our show today. i believe most of the public knows what the census is about, trying to make an accurate count of the population, including

i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv.ay, we help join the fight against hunger. today's show focuses on the annual food drive as nbc bay area kntv and telemundo 48 ksts team up with safeway's "feed the need" food drive for a campaign to end hunger, a drive which started yesterday, november 17th, and will continue all the way through christmas day. last year, the food drive collected more than 350,000 bags at safeway stores across the bay area, amounting to more than 4 million pounds of food for those in need. starting now and through december 25th, anyone can go visit one of the 170 participating safeway stores

i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv.oday, we help join the fight against hunger. today's show focuses on the annual food drive as nbc bay area kntv and telemundo 48 ksts team up with safeway's "feed the need" food drive for a campaign to end hunger, a drive which started yesterday, november 17th, and will continue all the way through christmas day. last year, the food drive collected more than 350,000 bags at safeway stores across the bay area, amounting to more than 4 million pounds of food for those in need. starting now and through december 25th, anyone can go visit one of the 170 participating safeway stores to donate $1, $5, or $10 that will go toward a bag of food donated to the local food banks at each store. shoppers can remove a flyer in the display area and take it to a register to donate each bag, which will contain pasta and sauce, canned vegetable, soup, and important protein items such as canned chicken breast. joining me first from the second harvest food bank is thuy le, partnership manager for the second

live in santa clara, robert handa. >>> thank you. this could have been much worse of steph curry's car crash last friday. this was posted tmz. curry's black porsche and another car out of the calde cot tunnel. a few minutes later, curry's car was hit again, thankfully he was not inside the car. he was standing waiting for the chp officers. >>> someone spent the holiday weekend vandalizing cars with hate speech. this is downtown antioch. and now more than 20 buildings defaced including a church where swastikas were painted on. the antioch pd is looking for that man. >>> the suspect in the center of decades old cold case. arraigned for the murder of 21-year-old palo alto woman found straggled in 1973, where she had just graduated before. dna matched gave investigators the break they had been looking for in 45 years. today the victim's sister read a letter in court. she also thanked investigators for not giving up on the case. >>> golden gate ferry operating normal schedule today. on friday a ferry crashed into the dock of the ferry bui

>> you can't help but look around and you can't help but se see the impact. >> reporter: robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> as that fire just rolls on, we look at how much of paradise has been demolished. drone video shows entire neighborhoods leveled. it's eerily reminiscent of the drone video we saw ach lafter l year's north bay fires in coffey park. president trump will be in california on saturday. we do noeknow he'll visit with victims of the fire. he has visited california only once since taking office, and that was to review border wall prote prototypes. >> all of this started exactly one week ago. we are directly linked to this fire. right now that news conference is taking place in butte county. here are the latest numbers. 140,000 acres burned, 40% containment. nearly 9,000 homes have been destroyed as the fire reaches this one-week point. the death toll stands at 56, but the number of missing persons has jumped to 300. that's the big change. the death toll could be rising. we'll find out probably in the next 15 minutes from the sheriff of butte county. >>> in the meantime,

nbc bay area's robert handa is in san jose with the last minute preparation for the record turnout. >> reporter: we have seen a steady stream of turnout here at the registrar's office. and the ballot box is still set up for people to drop off their ballots tonight. they have set a record for registered voters with almost 900,000. they're trying to make it as easy as possible to get the votes in and counted. >> the voters came in bunches, and many dropped off ballots in bunches. so far, santa clara county has had more than 887,000 people register to vote, an all-time high with well more than 228,000 already voting early, a 26% turnout. jessie villarreal is not surprised. she said look around. >> it's really bad right now. to where i'm seeing it. it's really bad. and obviously, we know that nothing is going to change unless we get out. >> reporter: whether people seek change or look to present the status quo, in first election since donald trump took office, the registrar of voters is thrilled with the response. >> we are anticipating a 60% to 70% turnout in this election. >> reporter:

nbc bay area robert handa. >> reporter: sheriff's investigators say dna technology was the turning point along with persistent. there isn't much left at the crime scene where much of the 1973 murder investigation took place of 21-year-old leslie per love. they found her body strangled under a tree nearby. but the killer never found. >> it is extremely difficult to revive and pursue a cold case. there are people who are no longer to be interviewed or spoken with. >> reporter: what was left of the crime scene was the killer's dna investigators. 74-year-old john arnold. >> we actually are now able to look at the family to try to identify the suspect. >> when i spoke with the family members, you know, they were relieved that we finally found somebody that was involved in this case that was satisfying for me. >> reporter: now, investigators are still trying to determine if or how the suspect knew the victim. previous rape and murder convictions, he is expected to be in court on monday. >> thank you, robert. >>> oakland catholic diocese. today the church moved the release date to next january

robert handa joins us live with a look at how the president and house leader addressed that issue in duelling news conferences. pelosi is firm but took a tempered tone. >> reporter: that's right and you know there was a feeling of relief at the santa clara county democratic party headquarters, especially when democrats regain the control of the house but acknowledge checks and balances lead to conflicts. even though nancy pelosi led the democrats celebration, she was cautious about gloating. >> we have a responsibility to honor our oversight responsibilities and the path we will go down. >> reporter: the president adopted a mostly diplomatic tone tweeting pelosi deserves to be speaker of the house. >> i really respected what nancy said last night about bipartisan and getting together and uniting. >> pelosi is the right person to lead telling us by phone, she's tough and focussed. >> she doesn't have to like the people she works with, but she does have to keep her eye on the ball, which she always does. >> reporter: bill james, chair of the santa clara county democratic party says the

live in santa clara, robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> okay. thank you, robert. >>> a verdict and at last some vindication for his widow. new details tonight in the murder trial involving a paramedic shot and killed in the oakland hills. christian burton has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 shooting death of off-duty paramedic quinn boyer. the retrial jury found burton was responsible for quinn's death but it wasn't convinced he pulled the trigger. 34-year-old boyer was killed during an attempted carjacking. two other teens have already been convicted in the case and are in prison. now, boyer's family told me just minutes ago that the verdict is bittersweet for them. they are relieved that it is finally over but disappointed that no one was convicted of actually pulling the trigger. >>> it's like a scene out of that movie "free willie" but there's no special effects or trained animals here. a fisherman is caught on camera jumping on a humpback whale that's tangled by a rope. now, the man managed to cut the whale free. that's

robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> robert, thank you. i do need a tv, time to get shopping. plenty of deals to be had online by 10:00 a.m. today. this morning, before you even had turkey, consumers had already spent more than $400 million online. this number is up nearly 25% from last year. but with the convenience of online shopping, also comes risk. amazon alerted some shoppers that its website exposed personal e-mail addresses as a result of a glitch. they say the problem has been fixed. >>> developing news in alabama, reports of a possible shooting at a mall just south of birmingham. this is the scene at the galleria mall in the town of hoover. the mall was packed with shoppers. witnesses tell police they heard gunshots near the jcpenneys then saw people running for cover. we'll bring you updates as we get them in. >>> in our headlines tonight, a bittersweet and difficult thanksgiving for survivors, firefighters, and rescue teams in butte county. crews are combing the rubble for human remains. they say the weather made the tough search miserable. chef guy fieri helped se

robert handa joins us live with a look at how the president and house leader addressed that issue in duelling news conferences. pelosi is firm but took a tempered tone. >> reporter: that's right and you know there was a feeling of relief at the santa clara county democratic party headquarters, especially when democrats regain the control of the house but acknowledge checks and balances lead to conflicts. even though nancy pelosi led the democrats celebration, she was cautious about gloating. >> we have a responsibility to honor our oversight responsibilities and the path we will go down. >> reporter: the president adopted a mostly

live in oakland, robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> okay. thank you, robert. >>> poor air quality is blamed for low turnout at some veterans services. mark matthews joins us live from san francisco, and mark, a lot of people were even thinking maybe they shouldn't have held them. but a lot of these vets say no, they had to be there. >> reporter: as you know, memorial day is a very big deal here at the presidio. but on this veteran's holiday, the korean war veterans were actually encouraged by the presidio trust to cancel their event. the korean war veterans association says they were told that the air was too smoky today to put out foiledilding chairs flags, so veteran danny weissberger stood up. >> one of my guys was missing. i went back up the hill to get him. he'd been badly wounded. put him on my back to carry him down the hill. >> reporter: he describes mortar fire chasing him as he ran. >> one went off between my feet. blew me down the hill a ways, killed my partner. long story short, they sent me home with one leg and retired me out of

robert handa joins us in morgan hill. firefighters were among those who felt the earth shake today as well. robert? >> reporter: i was too. in fact, the initial earthquake woke me up in morgan hill and got me going and a lot of other people too, including the crews at cal fire as well as anybody else indoors when things started shaking. >> this is the face of someone who is feeling an earthquake but isn't sure how to respond to the jarring movement and noise. a jackhammer was rattling businesses near downtown hollister. when they felt the earthquakes and aftershocks this morning, she says she knew the difference. this is security camera footage when the 4.1 quake along the san andreas fault hit before 6:00 a.m. it rocked the counter when the vibration started. they immediately head outside and one customer smiling nervously balances himself as he tremors. >> we tried to run out. noisy a little. >> the customers were probably more scared than you. >> they were. >> don't cause damage, it's a great warning that we all live in

robert handa is following this will have more from investigators tonight at 6:00. you, presidentfor ers. oil talkingorld about lower prices. that's good news for drivers, tg butre some say it is bad for america's standing in the worldd community. scott mcgrew breaks it down for us. dealid millions will be flying today. delays people might have as they head in and out of san francisco. a live loor doppler radar. >>> back to that microclimate weather alert. a live look out at palo alto and our doppler radar. as you can see right there, a lot of work going on right now as you can see the storms moving into the bay area. kari hall has been tracking this for us. and i know there have actually been some flight delays. >> sfo this morning had flight delays almost two hours, okay? i have some good news if you're getting ready to head out. it's down to an hour. >> okay, that's better. >> some might be coming in on time, i think. >> yeah, it's mostly the departures that have had issues because of the winds. and elsewhere things are looking pretty good as far as those travel