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thousands of acres of california on fire. tonight. we are tracking multiple active fires from northern to southern california. one of the most challenging fire fights going on in the north bay, where there's a recent and tragic history of

devastating wildfires. the point fire in sonoma county broke out just this afternoon, growing to more than 1000 acres over the last few hours. standing at just 15% contained, cal fire says structures have been destroyed and evacuation orders are in place, so are evacuation warnings. a spare the air alert now in effect for a growing part of the bay area. nbc bay area's thom jensen live in healdsburg, where many are evacuated as strong winds pushed the flames towards more populated areas. tom terry. yeah, a lot of people evacuating two healdsburg here, filling up some of the hotels. i just talked to a guy in the parking lot here in the safeway parking lot who came up to us and was asking us if the fire was moving towards healdsburg. healdsburg where he lives. and he was concerned because of that history here in the north bay with these fires moving into populated areas. so fast in the night with the night winds and you can't really see the winds right here where we are, but

they're a lot heavier, closer to where the fire is. and this fire did grow quickly. we started tracking just after 1230, about 100 acres, then 500 acres. and now tonight more than a thousand acres. and they're trying to stop this before it really does burn out of control. once again here in the north bay. hundreds of firefighters from across the region are now attacking the point fire outside healdsburg, some from the air, and a lot more from the ground. hopefully with all of our resources that we have right now, air and ground, hopefully we're able to contain this fire sooner rather than later. engine crews are working around houses in the evacuation zones and have saved hundreds of structures already. but the point fire claimed two homes and many more are still threatened. the operator of a horse riding ranch above lake sonoma called off planned rides today when the fire started just after 1230 in the afternoon. she's hoping it continues to

move away from her property. as it stands, we're not in the evacuation zone because the fire's going the opposite direction, but, if they do evacuate us, then we'll be ready to go tonight. she's concerned about friends and neighbors in the dry creek area under evacuation orders, but staying home despite the warnings, at least for now. some are doing their own work to protect their homes. they're just waiting and they're watching their farmers, you know? yeah a lot of ranches down there, a lot of ranches and farmers, cal fire hopes everyone evacuates in those mandatory zones because the wind and terrain make the fire unpredictable. and the steep hillsides are covered in manzanita, madrone and oak trees. those are highly combustible plant species. and here in healdsburg, well outside the evacuation zones, everyone is paying close attention to what's happening. knowing entire neighborhoods here could be ordered to evacuate. if this fire blows up tonight, they'd been through this before. it's still pretty far away from most things, so we're hoping. but i

mean, i have stuff that i still have packed from the last fires. yeah, they've got us almost trained with it. i don't know if you can hear right now. that's a truck noise coming right now. but we've heard the helicopters a lot tonight. and this firefight from the air even tonight, not just the ground into the night is being fought. cal fire ordered three night capable fire helicopters on this fire on the point fire. so they are attacking it tonight from the air, trying to keep it, at bay before it does blow out of control, especially in these difficult conditions. terry. tom, let me ask you. you talked about the winds, the evacuees we're seeing. the winds are so much stronger, closer to the fire. but where you are there in healdsburg, how bad is the smoke? can you really get a strong sense of that? you know, i can. i can feel it. my lungs. i can feel it in my contact lenses. my eyes are burning, but it is a lot heavier and the

winds are carrying it that way. a more towards rohnert park and santa rosa and that area. and you can see that as we were coming in those areas, even coming up the highway, if you didn't have the settings right on your car, if you were bringing the air from the outside in, you're bringing smoke and quickly, in my new car, i was trying to find the recirculate inside. so those areas are heavy in smoke and, people are concerned about that tonight. as far as health conditions and the fire possibly moving in those directions because the wind is blowing that way, and, you know, those areas have been run over by fire before. terry. absolutely. tom. good advice on the vent control in your vehicle. thanks very much for the update from up there. and as tom was talking about cal fire is fighting the point. fire from the air and on the ground. this is video of the sonoma air attack base at the sonoma county airport in santa rosa, throughout the evening, several different aircraft have been seen fueling up, taking off to attack the flames and tom was talking about it. three night capable helicopters is a red

flag warning, in effect, not exactly what firefighters don't want to hear on the ground or in the air. let's bring in meteorologist rob mayeda with the details on that. rob. well, terry, right now we're looking at a window of opportunity for those fire crews, especially the night equipped air crews that are looking at a fire right now with temperatures in the 50s and humidity levels that actually have gone up, closer to 49% still got those. northwest winds up to 22mph. but from now to about 5 a.m, these will be the coolest temperatures and the highest humidity levels. but for the wind likely increases again as we head towards tomorrow morning. now, the current state of the point fire making a run around bradford mountain, approaching mountain view ranch road for a time today that was due to the west northwest wind pushing that fire. and as tom mentioned, a lot of the smoke down to the south and east through healdsburg and down towards santa rosa. now, with the air pollution issues ongoing, spare the air alerts issued for the next two days. this is for the north bay and

the interior east bay out towards solano county and contra costa counties. these are the locations you can see, as tom mentioned in red down through santa rosa, kenwood into napa, and the wind direction as we head towards tomorrow morning, will likely take that smoke across the east bay. but watch what happens at 9 a.m. smoke starts to drop south down through marin county, coinciding with a wind shift. and this is a concern as we head towards tomorrow. as those winds begin to change, lowering humidity levels after 5 a.m. tomorrow morning as the north winds develop, look at those humidity levels. it's like mid-afternoon at 9 a.m. across those north bay hills and those dry conditions continue into the afternoon. the peak of this red flag warning late morning to mid-afternoon tomorrow. humidity levels, widespread areas in the north bay hills and the inland east bay below 20. those areas under the red flag warning through the day on monday, red flag warning now extended to tuesday morning out towards solano county. we'll have a closer look at the wind

speeds and when we see improving fire weather conditions in our 7-day forecast coming up in about ten minutes. rob, thanks very much. well, a number of pg&e customers are without power tonight near the point fire area and the evacuation zone. this is the latest pg&e outage map. hundreds of customers in the dark right now. at last check. there is no estimated time for restoration for them. we're going to continue following this fire. we'll bring you more updates tonight at 1130. and we're always following the latest online point, your smartphone camera at the qr code on your screen. to download our free nbc bay area news app, we'll send news alerts straight to your phone. there are other fires burning across california tonight. this is southern california. the post fire has shut down southbound lanes of the grapevine. that fire burning near gorman, about 70 miles north of los angeles. it's burned nearly 1500 acres. it's only 2% contained. 1200 people have been evacuated. we're told a number of homes and structures have been destroyed. again, the chp has closed the southbound

lanes on interstate five as a precaution. the northbound lanes still open tonight. southbound traffic being diverted onto 138 or the 14 freeway in sacramento tonight. evacuation orders are in effect for the excelsior fire started around four this afternoon on jackson road, south of mather. it's burned nearly 900 acres and there is no containment on that fire. back at home in the south bay, fire crews quickly put out a vegetation fire in san jose. this one started about three this afternoon near 101 at oakland road. burned about four acres before it was knocked down. no word on how that one started. well, new at 11. shocking new video out of san jose. and tonight police are looking for the people responsible for attacking a patrol car during a sideshow near santana row. an officer in that car. at the time of the attack, one onlooker and an officer were injured. here's nbc bay area's alyssa goard with the disturbing video and reaction from the department. shocking

videos spread widely on social media, showing what appears to be a number of people wearing masks, jumping on and hitting a san jose police patrol car saturday, just before 7 p.m, the department got reports of a sideshow going on just outside the santana row shopping center, where someone watching was hit by a car involved san jose police says a reserve officer went to help the injured person but couldn't because his patrol car was overrun with sideshow spectators. the vehicle was severely damaged and the officer had minor injuries. the individuals involved in this are looking at a series of very serious charges, including felony vandalism, felony assault on a police officer and other potential charges, including delaying officers in the enforcement of their duties. former prosecutor stephen clark thinks the san jose police department will take this very seriously, trying to identify not only the people who damaged

the car, but also those egging them on, acting san jose police chief paul joseph says he will work with the district attorney to ensure that once arrested, these suspects are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. people who work at the restaurants nearby here say the sideshow happened during peak dinner hours, so all their customers saw it and they say this intersection here at oakland and winchester was packed with bystanders watching it happen. so i just came outside and i and then like hella smoke, like hella people just everywhere. and then just like people drifting their cars, people in the shopping center said it was shocking for them to see this happen in daylight, when many families and pedestrians are usually around. it's really unfortunate and frustrating, for somebody like myself who likes to walk a lot and not feel comfortable, knowing that these kind of things are starting to happen, even during the day. if you have any video or information about this sideshow, san jose police want you to contact them in san jose. alyssa goard, nbc, bay

area news. we're following developing news out of fremont after a carjacking led to an officer involved shooting police say the carjacking happened on osgood road about nine this morning. the suspect was armed with a knife, stole a van. officers were able to track the man down near the overpass of auto mall parkway. prior to police arrival. the suspect fled the scene on foot. at that time, he was armed with a knife. shortly thereafter, uniformed patrol officers made contact with the individual on osgood road, at that time, during the contact, one of the officers on scene did discharge his service weapon one time, striking the suspect. man was taken to the hospital. he is in stable condition tonight. investigators say they're reviewing in-car cameras and body cameras. i'm going to have more information in the coming days. we do know no officers were injured in that incident. hundreds of students walked out of their graduation

ceremony at stanford today. got some video here posted by stanford students for justice in palestine. students left the commencement ceremony at the beginning of a speech by outgoing university president richard saller. this is just the latest pro-palestinian protest at the university. demonstrators are calling for the university to divest from israel over its war with hamas. now during the ceremony. philanthropist melinda gates addressed some of the struggles the class of 2024 has faced during their time at stanford. yes you are graduating into a broken world, but it is community that rebuilds things. you've already started building that community here and together is how you'll make the broken things whole again. yeah. the group called stanford against apartheid and palestine organized an alternative graduation after the official one. group says that the off campus event was held to support

the students, who were banned from the graduation after they were arrested at previous protests. stanford has not commented on today's walkout. south bay u.s. representative ro khanna says he will not attend benjamin netanyahu's address to congress next month. israel's prime minister was invited to speak before a joint session of congress. that's going to be on july 24th. and it comes with the israel-hamas war still raging. peace talks stalled a growing humanitarian crisis in gaza. now, speaking on meet the press this morning, khanna characterized the speech as a one way lecture that will do nothing to further peace in the region. i will not attend. i said that if he wants to come to speak to members of congress about how to end the war and release hostages, i would be fine doing that. but i'm not going to sit in a one way lecture. the kind of went on to add that he thinks lawmakers should be polite and use decorum , rather than stage disruptive protests. vermont senator bernie sanders also plans to boycott the speech. he calls netanyahu a

war criminal and does not think he should have been invited to speak in the first place. so ahead, after multiple attempts to save their business, a palo alto favorite is moving out. we'll tell you who's moving in and forced to halt her education during world war two. how a 100 year old made her way across stamford stage to graduate today. 84 years late and we're watching the latest on the red flag warning for tomorrow and the impact on our air quality from the point fire. look at that hour by hour a thend a slow network is no network for business. that's why more choose comcast business. and now, we're introducing ultimate speed for business —our fastest plans yet. we're up to 12 times faster than verizon, at&t, and t-mobile.

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june 1st, a man was seen setting fire to dry grass on the north side of the east asian library. also, june 1st man set a uc police vehicle on fire on barrow lane. ucpd is urging anyone with information about those crimes to please come forward. a popular restaurant on the peninsula is closing for good after a 30 year run. mike's diner bar in palo alto is considered a neighborhood jewel by customers. the italian american restaurant has been a fixture for three decades, weathering everything from the pandemic to employee embezzlement, even a near eviction after paying rent one day late. we did that story. customers say the food is great, the service enjoyable, and the memories plentiful. the owner says this is a bittersweet decision. after struggling to keep the business in the black. we have a opportunity to pull back and do some consulting, which i love to do and just relax a little. it's been seven

seven days a week for 30 years, so, very grateful to all the customers who have kept us in business and all the staff who have worked here. space won't be empty for long. kirk's steak burgers is opening up in that very same location. well, when virginia hislop says she's waited a long time to accept her master's in education from stanford, she's not exaggerating . my goodness. i've waited a long time. you have? yes. she did. 84 years. the 105 year old from yakima, washington, was just one paper away from getting her master's back in 1940, when, on the eve of world war two, her husband in the military was transferred to oklahoma. hislop went on to a lifetime of working in education, never really missing the degree. but when a family member recently learned of the story, he contacted stanford. they thought it was high time hislop got what she has so long deserved. well, i

was pleased to have what i've done an education acknowledged, and i do think i made a difference in our community. hislop was surrounded by her grand and great grandchildren at today's ceremony. our garvin thomas was with her as well, and is going to have the whole story of her delayed degree in his bay area, proud segment that's coming up tuesday at 5:00 rob mayeda. joining us now and boy, you got your hands full with the forecast and what's going on tonight within the fire zone. yeah the wind really the big story here. inland wind dry low humidity. but even on the coast we've had some very gusty winds closer to san francisco and sfo during the day. gusts above 50mph. right now, wind speeds starting to come down a bit, but it is still gusting up to about 35mph. to the south, san francisco 55 degrees humidity looking pretty good because

that's a wind coming in off the ocean or across the bay. no major issues with fire danger when you're down near the water's edge, but things change as you move a bit farther inland. san jose, right now 63 degrees, 52. the current humidity. and as we take you over towards the tri-valley, right now, pretty good humidity recovery there at 53% 62 watching the wind right now, it's a west southwest wind into the tri-valley. but by tomorrow morning as you wake up, it will be a dry north wind increasing, leading us to another day of red flag warnings up for the interior. north bay out towards solano county at sonoma, napa, lake and solano counties elevated fire danger as well near the diablo range. speaking of the tri-valley in those east bay hills. as humidity levels drop off during the afternoon. so here's the red flag footprint, which now includes portions of sonoma county, eastern napa county, the central and southern end of lake county and solano county, and national weather service. sacramento extended the red flag warning for solano county inland through

8 a.m. on tuesday morning, so stay tuned to see if those get extended here. as well into the north bay. but here is where the smoke has been moving away from the point fire. and notice how the unhealthy air spiked mid afternoon right there. you see it in santa rosa coming down a little bit now within the last hour or so. what we'll see overnight is potentially a little more of the smoke dropping south around 9 a.m. tomorrow. right around the time the winds begin to change direction. you see it there 9 a.m. more of a north to south movement on that smoke. then switching back to a west northwest wind during the afternoon. it's that change in wind that's going to drive down the humidity levels right around an hour or two after sunrise. look at how dry things get up around the north bay by mid afternoon. peak fire danger here. temperatures not too warm, 70s and 80s, but those wind speeds 10 to 25mph. bone dry humidity levels that will take us into monday afternoon and monday evening. so clear skies, 50 to start the morning watching

those red flag conditions across the north bay hills and the interior east bay as well. dry and breezy, but it's really not a heat story here. it's dry wind, the direction of the wind, and those gusts on the hilltops near 70 in san francisco tomorrow, upper 70s in san jose, low 80s inland moving forward, though, the other part of the story later this week could be the return of some hotter temperatures thursday. numbers starting to rebound into the mid 80s inland. watch the trend here closely. friday into saturday 90s and mid 90s could be in reach by next weekend as high pressure builds in, we'll lose for at least a couple of days. those dry north winds, but then we'll have to watch the heat as the storms stay off to the north. that will open the door for warmer temperatures moving forward into next weekend. you see san francisco dry warm to start the week, a bit of a midweek cooldown, then temperatures rebound for next weekend. but we'll be watching closely after the fire danger we're having now and tomorrow. the thing we haven't really seen much of is heat. in addition to

potentially breezy conditions, we'll watch that closely with a warm up for the end of the forecast heading towards next weekend. all right rob, thanks very much. and a big boost for theaters. the records being broken by pixar's latest release. that story is coming up

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riders suspended upside down for half an hour. eight people were left stranded in the air friday when the ride at oaks amusem*nt park in portland. it just stopped, just lasted about 30 minutes. first responders arrived. the ride was eventually lowered for guests to get off safely. they were all evacuated and released. i was terrified. i

didn't think i was going to live to see right now. i mean upside down hundreds of feet in the air. like the only thing i could think is like, i'm never going to hug my dad and my brother again. whoa. that's some serious thoughts there. the ride will remain closed until further notice. oaks park says it will work with the manufacturer and state inspectors to identify what caused that ride to malfunction. well, after a weak start, summer box office numbers are rebounding with a big win for theaters this weekend. you can't just bottle us up. we are suppressed. emotions are suppressed. emotions disney and pixar's inside out to hit $155 million for its u.s. debut. that is the second highest opening for an animated film ever. it's also the first movie to top 100 million. during his debut since barbie. that's been a while inside out two is expected to haul in close to 300 million worldwide for the weekend. san francisco giants mascot lucille

wished fans a happy father's day today. he posted this on x, posing with his own mascot, dad. a moment of fun at oracle, where the giants came out with the win. when followers asked who the dapper seal on the left was, lou wrote fans could call him either lucille senior or papa seal. papa seal has a good ring to it. it does. i like that papa seal and you've got the. the giants came out with a win there and it was a heck of a win. yeah, maybe lucille had something to do with it. you know, i think he was inducted into the mascot hall of fame. yes so a lot to celebrate. and especially the giants. is their offensive slump over? maybe what they did against the angels. that hasn't happened in more than a decade. head to ground sports is next norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? -but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better!

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dechambeau. he is known for just absolutely crushing the ball off the tee. the pride of the central valley is one of the longest hitters in golf, but today his short game is the reason he is a two time us open champion. final round at pinehurst number two in north carolina, after missing a 2.5ft par putt on 16, rory mcilroy with heartbreak on 18 misses. another short putt falls out of the tie for the lead with dechambeau then bryson from the bunker on 18, needs to get up and down for par to win it. the toughest shot in golf is a 55 yard sand shot. and look at that. that is sensational for par in the wind. he drops it.

the pride of clovis east high school with the par putt for the victory. what an up and down. he wins the us open by one shot over mcilroy at six under par. it's his second us open title. that bunker shot was the shot of my life. i was a little lucky rory didn't make a couple of putts that he could have coming in. i had an amazing up and down in the last. i don't know what else to say. it's a dream come true. wow what a finish. all right. to baseball and what a difference a day makes. today the giants had their most productive single inning at home in 16 years. this after yesterday when they needed help from uber because they struggled to drive home their teammates. the giants avoiding the sweep today against the angels. bottom four jorge soler strokes the deep three. the homer highlights a nine run inning for the giants. that's the most they've scored in one inning at oracle park since they dropped ten back in 2008. then in the seventh,

austin slater jacks a solo home run. the giants clobbered the angels 13 to 6. what a great bounce back after saturday's dismal performance at the plate. you don't see a nine spot very often in some big hits, and you know when you come off a loss like that, when you're left a lot of guys on base and just, you know, the at bats weren't great, you know, and especially the situation with bats, it's good to see him come out and have a game like that because it tests your mettle a little bit. the a's and the twin cities for a doubleheader minnesota won game 162. then in game two, jj bleday flexes on the twins. that's a solo home run to tie the game at five five. then, with the score tied in the eighth, jose miranda shifts into park. it's a solo shot. the twins sweep the doubleheader. they win game two 8 to 7. get this the a's have lost nine in a row on the pitch. tough night for bay fc taking on utah. the

other expansion team. the royals, break up a scoreless tie with a goal in the 89th minute. it's their first score since mid-may. the royals win it one nil. bay fc falls to four and nine on the season. that's a look at sports terry back to you. you can celebrate though right? the giants got to got some mojo back as they head to chicago. got the mojo back. and before we forget happy father's day anthony. thank you very much. same to you. all right. still ahead, an update on that fire burning in sonoma county as we brace for a red flag warning in just a few ♪ hey, come on, come on ♪ ♪ do what you want ♪ get into an audi and go your own way. find your way to exceptional offers during the summer of audi sales event at you local audi dealer.

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this afternoon in the north bay. it is called the point fire. it's in sonoma county. it's grown to more than 1000 acres. the fear is the wind will cause it to rapidly gain ground. tonight, hundreds of firefighters are on the fire line working to make sure that doesn't happen. cal fire says two homes have been destroyed so far. the evacuation orders are in place in nearby healdsburg. people are ready to pack up if the evacuation area expands. we were here for the other evacuations. we've evacuated twice, don't love it. it's kind of like a ptsd moment, but it's also pretty far away. and our fire crews are pretty awesome. yeah, there they are, in action. the point fire, currently listed as 15% contained. let's bring in rob for a quick update. how are those winds and air quality looking tonight? rob yeah, right now we're watching the wind closely. more favorable conditions right now along the fire where earlier today strong winds pushed this fire down away from the southeast side of lake sonoma, down towards bradford mountain. but the wind speeds

have backed off a little bit. temperatures have cooled, and the humidity levels have come up between now and probably about 5 a.m. this is about as good as it's going to get in terms of humidity and those cooler temperatures. moving forward, we'll begin to see more impacts as those north winds develop and drier conditions head into tomorrow. next two days spare the air alert due to smoke from the point. fire you've been noticing this throughout sonoma county, napa county and to the east bay as well. the short term outlook continues to bring more of that smoke across those same areas. but watch what happens by 9 a.m. tomorrow. now the smoke is moving southward. around the same time, the change in wind direction occurs. it will be right around after sunrise to 9 a.m. could bring some smoke for a time into marin county, then back with the west northwest winds heading into the afternoon. but the driver of the fire danger is the wind, and look what it does to the humidity by mid-morning. really dropping off across those north bay hills and by mid-afternoon dropping off even more, leading us to the red flag warning up through the day on monday, portions of sonoma county, lake

county, eastern napa county and solano county. that red flag warning now extended to tuesday at 8 a.m. we'll have a closer look at all the impacts from the wind and the low humidity levels in the hour by hour outlook coming up in about 12 minutes. sounds good rob. thank you. our team at today in the bay is going to keep tracking this fire of course, throughout the night. tune in to today in the bay. starts at 5 a.m. speaking of fire, ten people have been displaced after a duplex fire in gilroy happened around 830 this morning on fairview drive, close to gilroy high school. firefighters say nine people were inside one of the apartments when that fire started. all of them got out, but sadly, two dogs and a rabbit died. the cause of the fire not known tonight, but firefighters say both apartments were destroyed. the red cross now helping those that are without a home tonight we have a follow up to a bullying scandal in the east bay. it's a story that we exposed earlier this year about a school administrator who is accused of bullying his colleagues. our investigative

unit has obtained the results of an investigation by the antioch school district. now, we asked the district for more details, but officials refused our request. since taxpayers are paying for the review. nbc's candice nguyen got the answers anyway. in a letter, the school district's hr office says it determined the desk incident was a prank to, quote, lighten the mood. and the supervisor, ken turnage, did not bully or humiliate his employee. that employee and another worker who, ironically, was in on the so-called prank say that investigation was a sham. they didn't do an investigation. in a may 14th letter, antioch schools chief human resources officer robert martinez told maintenance worker jim kessler he investigated kessler's original complaint. kessler reported to hr that in january 2023, district facilities and maintenance director ken turnage

harassed, bullied, intimidated and humiliated him. when turnage told several employees to move his desk onto a roof. the public display included a ladder with a sign that read kessler's access. ken rules by bullying and by intimidating people and he was waiting for the opportunity to get back at me to send a message to everyone else while i wasn't there. kessler says he and turnage had been arguing about his job duties. this was retaliation, he says, but hr disagreed. hr determined turnage's motivation was to lighten the mood and make people laugh, and that he did not act with ill intent and it was not a violation of either board policy or law. i disagree, did you find it funny, jim? nope nope. kessler and three other employees tell nbc bay area they

are not surprised by the findings. they also filed a bullying complaints against turnage in our report last april . they said they believe turnage is getting special treatment from the district because he's close personal friends with superintendent stephanie anello and her husband antioch's former police chief. the district, they say, turned a blind eye until nbc bay area started asking questions. eventually, at a public school board meeting after superintendent anello refused to answer our calls and emails, he is accused of putting one of his employees desks on a roof using district resources. what was your reaction to that? his letter to kessler says the district hired an outside law firm, dennis wolaver kelly, to review the district's process regarding the investigation. that review found the investigation was correct. if every complaint gets denied, where do you go? where do you

go? if you are an employee and you have a complaint that you're supposed to go to hr? we reached out to the law firm. they told us the issue is confidential. we contacted anello and her husband again. anello emailed us saying dennis woliver and kelly is a well respected firm that works with school districts throughout the state. she went on to say school employees have several administrative remedies. she did not comment on any specific allegation and speaking publicly for the first time, antioch unified welder tom sellers, who recently retired. he admits he gave the green light to this so-called desk prank. he was the chief union steward at the time and ended up getting disciplined by the union for his involvement . i apologize to jim. i told him i was sorry, why did you think that would be funny and why did you think jim would find that funny? why did i think it was funny? boy, i sure don't think it was funny. now i think the investigation was very narrow. i don't think enough people were

interviewed. it's like a double standard. he's allowed to do what he wants and say what he wants. but if we were to do that, we'd be called on the carpet, disciplined or fired. superintendent anello has been on medical leave since our first report. hr director martinez is now acting superintendent and told us in a statement that while it may appear to some complaining parties that their complaints have not been effectively addressed, those employees are not made aware of any specific consequences or discipline which may be imposed on other employees. kessler says he's frustrated by this vagueness because he's asked for follow up information. i spoke to four different people in hr and each one says, well, we're not going to go backwards in time. let's just focus on this and if you want to file an official complaint, why would i file another official complaint? the biggest complaint, the most glaring one, is sitting right in front of you and it's denied. at a recent public meeting, school

board members agreed to discuss a wider investigation into how the district handles employee concerns. another outside attorney from sacramento has been hired to investigate two other complaints against turnage. he's been placed on administrative leave during that process, which is standard with the investigative unit. i'm candace. when nbc bay area news. if you have a story for our investigative unit, give us a call 888 996 tips or visit our website, nbcbayarea.com. slash investigations. an alarming tragedy for a family vacationing in mexico. that family now filing a wrongful death lawsuit after a man was killed by an electric current in a hot tub. this happened last tuesday, and the resort town of puerto penasco, about an hour south of the texas border. the couples from el paso vacationing at the sonoran sea resort with family. they went down to the hot tub to watch the sunset. the 43 year old man dipped his toe in and was immediately electrocuted and

started to drown. his wife jumped in to save him. she was also electrocuted. chaotic cell phone footage showing the moments other family and guests tried to get them out of the water. they say they were also shocked as they tried to use poles and objects to get ahold of him and pull them out of that hot tub. unfortunately the man died. his wife was flown to a hospital in phoenix. she was released on friday. now, attorneys for the family announcing this weekend they are now suing the arizona based vacation rental company chicago international for wrongful death and negligence. we did reach out to casargo for a statement on the lawsuit. we have not heard back. authorities in mexico say they are investigating the electrical failure. still ahead. ac transit ready to start handing out parking tickets where you'll now face a fine for parking

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in a bus lane. starting today, ac transit is using automated enforcement to issue citations to drivers who blocked bus lanes along the temp corridor that runs from oakland to san leandro. busses are now equipped with cameras that can detect if a car is in the lane. those cameras will take a picture and send that picture to transit law enforcement to write a ticket. each ticket can cost more than 100 bucks. anyone can be fined, including taxis, rideshare drivers, and even delivery trucks. taking a look at sfo tonight, the harvey milk

terminal is going to be officially completed tomorrow. it's a $2.5 billion terminal named in honor of the lgbtq leader. the final section opens tomorrow, including a new ticket counter area, a new security checkpoint, two new gates and a gallery honoring harvey milk, and also has a new connecting walkway linking every sfo terminal. post-security rob mayeda here now, and we've got our eyes on the wind. and those firefighters up in sonoma county. yeah, inland wind has been dry through the day. we're seeing humidity levels start to come up now, but the change in the wind north winds picking up by tomorrow morning will likely unfortunately bring down the humidity levels and bring up fire danger across the interior portions of the north bay and the east bay. moving forward into that monday forecast, let's show you some of the wind right now. starting off near san francisco international airport, we've had sustained winds 20 to 30mph, gusting close to 50 earlier. but it is comfortably cool at least at 56 degrees. you can see 64 san rafael humidity

49. not too bad. right now we obviously don't have a lot of north wind yet around the region. so 53% humidity in dublin at 62 degrees and into san jose also in the low 60. currently with that northwest wind at ten miles per hour. so tomorrow morning we start off in the 50s. however if you have those north winds around the north bay hills could be waking up to the mid 60s tomorrow morning and you'll see hour by hour, our temperatures climbing through the 70s and some 80s inland tomorrow. so the fire danger story really isn't about heat. it's the dry north wind and those lowering humidity levels. san francisco tomorrow near 71 degrees 78, in oakland and san jose, mid 80s inland across the tri valley. red flag warnings up for the north bay hills, sonoma county, lake county over to eastern napa county, and all of solano county. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on monday. and what we'll also have to deal with is the smoke pollution. you may notice this, especially tomorrow morning as more the smoke starts to move south out of the north bay. and

here's how things should go in terms of the smoke pollution. by the morning, as the north wind picks up for a time, may drop into marin county and san francisco as the winds make that north turn right around mid-morning and then towards the afternoon, the smoke probably starts to head back in the same direction it was today. as west northwest winds start to kick in towards the evening. now for the rest of the bay area. peak winds should be around the mid afternoon hours along with temperatures in the 70s and 80s, so we've got the low humidity, gusty conditions and a bit of that north wind which is likely the peak of fire danger in this episode, including the red flag warnings that will be active tomorrow. notice the impact of that north wind as early as 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. tomorrow. things starting to dry out in the north bay hills, out towards the diablo range and hitting their driest levels mid afternoon to early evening as the north wind switches back, eventually to a sea breeze which will lead to a bit of a cooldown right there in the midweek forecast. you see at the bottom of the screen, though , the second half of the week is

trending hotter and we should be after all. summer begins thursday, 150 in the afternoon. then watch the trend as we head into friday and into next weekend. unlike this weekend where we had cool, mild temperatures, but those dry winds looks like a real taste of summer heat could be around the corner. tri-valley possibly in the mid 90s for next weekend, so san francisco kind of a warm start, seeing temperatures close to 70 degrees cooler. the low clouds come back, fire danger for a time will go down as we get more of that marine air influence farther inland tuesday night into wednesday. but stay tuned. right now. could see heat advisories back on the map for next weekend. the first official weekend of summer. that's right. yeah. rob thanks very much. among lots of personal turmoil, why rapper diddy is returning his key to new york city. stories on the way

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city did. he was presented with the key to the city by mayor adams in october of last year. but after video surfaced of the entertainer assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a hotel in 2016, adams sent a letter to diddy condemning the abuse, requesting the key be returned and the letter was sent june 4th. six days later, the rapper returned that key. combs is facing a civil lawsuit related to the incident, and sources have told nbc news he is also now the subject of a federal investigation. all right, much lighter news now. the 77th annual tony awards handed out tonight in new york city for best musical. the tony award goes to the outsiders. yeah. best musical. the outsiders, a show based on a book about two rival gangs in the 60s. daniel radcliffe and angelina jolie, were also among those who took home trophies. radcliffe was especially thrilled to be recognized for something other

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