Its important that this not just be in the castro or in the soma, that it be in the marina and Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights and Pacific Heights and for people who need to be woke can read it and see that this is okay. Reporter the woman in the video has been identified as lisa alexander, the ceo of a Skin Care Company called laface. At least one company, birch box, which had been associated with her brand, has already denounced her actions, writing in a tweet in part, we have not worked with laface for several years. And as a result of the ceos actions today, have officially cut ties with them. Ive actually tried contacting lisa a couple different times, a few different times actually today and have not had any return phone calls from her. Reporting live in San Francisco, im sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Thanks, sergio. Protests continue in the bay area today. This one here in San Francisco organized by Mission High School students. People marched all the way from the high skpochool down to city hall, demanding the city Defund Police and that justice is served for the victims of Police Shootings. In vallejo, a demonstration as people demand justice for a young man shot and killed by police last week. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith joins us live from the Vallejo Police department where civil rights attorney burris is expected to speak about the death of sean monterrosa. Reporter there are a lot of calls in this crowd for Vallejo Police to quickly release that body cam video after the Police Shooting of sean monterrosa. But i want to step aside so you can see what the crowd is like here. Very large crowd carrying signs, many of them justice for sean, as well as signs with other names of people who have died at the hands of police. First they gathered at city hall and then marched over near the Police Department. Thats where we are. Many with signs like black lives matter and of course that of george floyd. There are speakers right now talking with the crowd, denouncing racism. One Organizer Says he wants to support the families that need justice and also theyre calling for reducing Police Funding and putting more into social programs and having community oversight. They say they want to empower people and also keep the momentum going. We want to demand change in vallejo. Were going to have our demands given out at the Police Department of what we want to see. We want people to use this as a day where you can learn and then learn what you can do after. Reporter monterrosa was shot by Vallejo Police when they responded to reports of looting. According to the police chief, an officer fired through his windshield five times thinking that he saw the butt of a handgun. Well, that turned out to actually be a hammer. An attorney today says he thinks that sean was going on his knees and putting his hands up at the time when the officer fired. And according to him, that there was not an immediate danger. The department was also criticized for the length of time it took to announce that he had died. Now, the chief said in a recent video that the department has made advancements towards what he called 21st Century Policing since he took over. The chief did say he would release that footage as soon as he can. He believes in transparency. Of course they have 45 days to do so. Were told that back here live, some of the folks who are here plan to, after this is over, head over to the walgreens where the Police Shooting happened and hold a vigil over there. But at this point, this is still going strong. Reporting live in vallejo, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. Christie, thanks very much. Over to oakland we go now where protesters spread their message loud and cl started abo0 this morning. People marching from t ridge b. A. R. T. Station to sproul plaza in berkeley. New at 6 00, hundreds took to the streets of downtown san jose today. Demonstrators marched to city hall this afternoon. Theyre demanding sweeping changes to address systemic racism. Many carried signs calling for justice and to Defund Police. The demonstration lasted for hours, tied up some traffic along the way. We will continue to follow and update you on marches and rallies across the bay area. For the most up to date information, even when were not on the air, our web page is a great resource. Just head over to nbcbayarea. Com. Click the live block link for rallies and marches. It is a new era in bay area transportation. Today passengers jumped on the first train leaving the brandnew berryessa b. A. R. T. Station in san jose. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro live in san jose with a closer look. Marianne, this has been a long time coming. Reporter it really has, terry. Many people today say theyve been waiting two decades for this day. They even got up early so they could be the first passengers on the trains leaving this station. And they also wanted to be part of history. Now, just before 8 00 this morning, the first b. A. R. T. Train pulled out of the pristine new berryessa b. A. R. T. Station. Some people brought their kids and took photos. Other passengers cheered and applauded. Gil takamori hopes the new b. A. R. T. Line will also help south bay motorists. Well, its going to take some congestion off the road here. We already know the other b. A. R. T. Stations are struggling for parking, so this is just going to help ease some of that congestion. Reporter this tenmile extension to san jose cost 2. 3 billion. What makes todays trip so significant is that its the first time b. A. R. T. Has gone all the way to san jose. Of course now that we ridership is down more than 90 , it could take a while before we see the ridership b. A. R. T. Was originally expecting on this line. And passengers today did have to wear masks. Reporting live in san jose, Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. Marianne, thanks very much. As we mentioned, this station is two decades in the making. Lets walk you through what it took to get passengers aboard this train today. This extension has been in the works since the 80s. Thats when early studies for the extension began. Santa clara county voters approved the funding 20 years ago. That was 12 years before vta broke ground in 2012. After years of delays, service was supposed to begin on new years day. It was pushed until today. This is just the first phase of this south bay extension. Keep that in mind. The next phase will extend b. A. R. T. Into san jose and then santa clara, but that is years away. Lets take a look at covid19 cases now here in the bay area. Bay area now with just more than 17,000 cases. Santa clara county overnight reported 40 new cases. Contra costa county, 44 new cases. Napa county, 15. And that county now has a total of 183. Well, berkeley is opening streets, making them safer for the public. The city calls this berkeley healthy streets. Its to allow for walking, bicycling, exercising, while still social distancing. You can see the streets right here. Ninth street between hurst and dwight and addison between sacramento and grant. Cars will be able to drive through those streets but they are driving really slow. So bicyclists and everyone else is safe. Today, making sure dentists are safe and have personal protective equipment. Alameda county Emergency Medical Services are giving thousands of ppe to the countys dental society. Efforts like this are happening more and more as the economy continues to reopen. We need personal protective equipment to not only take care of our patients safely, but we also need to make sure that the dentists and their staff are totally protected. The donation includes six tons of ppe materials including 10,000 of those things right there, face shields. All of this will be distributed to dentists in alameda, oakland, and emeryville. Be sure to join lester holt tonight. He anchors the playbook. Its a dateline nbc indepth and comprehensive special look at whether the coronavirus pandemic that is still tearing through the u. S. Could have been contained or slowed had Government Agencies responded differently. Thats tonight at 8 00 right here on nbc bay area. Were back in 60 seconds with a string of fires in the north bay. The person authorities now have in custody in connection with that arson and the close call for some home openers. Plus a celebration perhaps more important now than ever. How a south bay city found a way to celebrate juneteenth despite the limitations of the pandemic. And were seeing some increasing clouds as we move through the evening, which could lead to some light rain or drizzle very early tomorrow morning. Well take a look at some of those changes when we come right back. Police say someone started six brush fires overnight in the north bay, and this evening investigators think they may have the man who set them in custody. The fires burned in cor ta madera and larks spur late last night and again this morning. Video here for you. You can see crews at the scene where some of the fires were, some of which were very close to homes in that area. Firefighters got there, knocked down the fire. Police have arrested a 61yearold man in connection with these fires after someone saw him near one of them. Police have him on a probation violation. They dont have him for arson. No one hurt. No homes damaged. Fire season is off to a fast calt in northern california. Fire is seeing increased activity and d this fire season, there is the added danger of covid19 to teams battling the flames. Cal fire monitoring the health of its firefighters through temperature checks and symptom screenings on large incidents. Fires agencies across the state are on their toes. Absolutely concerns us to have to deal with what could be a very busy fire season and coupled with a pandemic. Those are two very challenging things, but we are ready to meet that challenge. Crews are also being told to maintain social distance when possible on the fire line. Weve seen it in washington, d. C. , oakland. Weve seen it in San Francisco. Now richmond has its very own black lives matter mural painted right there on the street in bright yellow. This is out in front of the richmond civic center. From down at street level, you cant be sure what it says, but you get up above and look down, and there you go. Black lives matter. They started painting about 9 00 this morning. As you can see, i do believe by this evening they have wrapped up. Well, like many large events during this covid19 crisis, san joses Juneteenth Celebration went virtual this year, and our very own Marcus Washington was the emcee. Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening. I dont know where you are, but you all are out there in the world today, and we want to thank you for joining us for the 39th annual juneteenth in the park virtual festival. Get online. Youre going worldwide, marcus. You know that. Juneteenth recognizes when slavery ended 157 years ago. Now, this year as the black lives Matter Movement continues to gain momentum, there are heightened and mixed emotions about the state of Race Relations in america. Those sentiments were recognized today in the opening ceremony. And still for all of us that always look at those clips of films and say, gosh, if i was there, i would have you are living it now. And so what you can do or what you would have done then is what youre doing today. But take it in with pride. Dont let this thing wear you down. It is okay to cry. But as soon as you dry those tears, chin up. Embrace it with monumental dignity. San joses juneteenth is put on by the Africanamerican Community Service Agency and nbc bay area is a proud sponsor. Santa Clara University held its virtual graduation today for undergrads with a pretty notable guest, you could say. The University Says its looking forward to somehow celebrating the class of 2020 in person, but for now, virtual commencement is what they could do. The ceremony came with one very well known speaker, governor gavin newsom. Yes, the santa clara alum delivering congratulations and some advice. So please exercise your leadership, your moral authority. Meet this moment, not just the moment that marks your graduations, graduates of santa Clara University, but this moment in our history to be more and do better. Seniors were encouraged to share their stories in the schools magazine or through social media. Lets get out to rob mayeda right now, and this has been a really crazy several months of weather. I mean i guess you could start with february with no rain. Then we got the rain in june. Whats going on, rob . As we look at some of the wind speeds were seeing right now, the winds actually helping to keep our temperatures below average here this weekend. We should see highs closer to 80 inland, but that strong sea breeze, winds up to 20 Miles Per Hour kind of making that pretty difficult right now. Speaking of the wind, really interesting not just at ground level but higher up, you can see the view here looking off towards county. Sometimes those little pancakes, saucerlike clouds, those form when the upper level winds start to increase, kind of like were seeing right now. San francisco despite the sunshine, its a little chilly out there. 62 degrees. Highs today, earlier 68. As the clouds start to thicken up as we head through the evening right now in walnut creek, 71. A high of only 74 degrees, so comfortably cool in and around walnut creek and into san jose. Currently 70 degrees. High of 73. One good thing about the wind is the air quality, which well get to in a moment. Livermore, 68 degrees after a high of 71. Heres another location that you usually see highs closer to about 80 degrees. So in terms of the air quality, as we go back to that, the wind is helping to keep our skies mostly clear and good air quality for all your outdoor plans on sunday though you may need an umbrella early in the day. You can see whats happening here on the satellite and radar view. A few showers up along the north coast and the higher hills in northwestern sonoma county. More low clouds across the bay heading into tonight, which we do think will be enough lift to some of that measure to measure up in the form of a little bit of rain showing up, especially around the peninsula and the coast and inland for the morning. Very likely we start the day with a lot of cloud cover. You can see showers start to show up later tonight and along the coast into tomorrow. Then right around midmorning, everything changes here. Look how the skies start to clear. Winds start to pick up a little bit out of the westnorthwest, which will help to lead to that inland clearing. Still some clouds on the coast and overall a bit of a warmer finish to your sunday afternoon compared to the highs you just said. Morning temperatures in the 50s thanks to clouds and drizzle at times. As we head through the afternoon, notice the temperatures do start to climb up, closer to 80 degrees tomorrow in san jose. Think of sunday as more typical in terms of your afternoon temperatures with some low 80s around the trivalley. Low to mid70s closer to oakland. Peninsula temperatures generally in the 70s as you head from san mateo down into palo alto. 60s coast side. San francisco briefly near 70 degrees during the afternoon and north bay temperatures should climb into the mid80s for tomorrow around santa rosa and about 78 degrees in mill valley. So just like it seems like this is the fourth week in a row weve had a midweek warmup, there you go. Wednesday into thursday, High Pressure strengthens so you get a little taste of summer, which is appropriate considering next saturday is officially the summer solstice. So well have temperatures starting to say fairly summerlike and warm as we move through next weekend. So for San Francisco, that means some 70s in reach. Midweek into next weekend and valleys, which today were in the low 70s, low 80s next couple of days, and likely by midweek into next weekend. As summer officially arrives, numbers in the upper 80s to low 90s. So behaving a bit more perhaps like the calendar says for a change. Terry, back to you. That is a change, rob. Thanks very much. Well, still ahead, atlantas top cop stepping down after a controversy that broke in the department within the past 24 hours. Motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Atlantas police chief has resigned less than 24 hours after a controversial Police Shooting there. The mayor announced today she had accepted the resignation of police chief erika shields, shields a 20 year veteran of the force. She is stepping down after an officer shot and killed rayshard brooks, a 27yearold black man. Video shows brooks struggling with officers right there as they tried to arrest him on suspicion of drunk driving. He overwhelms the police, gets away. It appears he takes one of their tasers. He was shot after a brief chase. The mayor says she does not believe the shooting is justified. Chief shields has offered to immediately step aside as police chief so that the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities. The mayor is also calling for the immediate termination of the officer who opened fire on brooks. President trump made a trip to west point today to deliver a unique commencement ceremony. The speech came as the president continues threatening to use activeduty military to help with unrest in cities across the country. Cadets sat in chairs spaced six feet apart while families watched the cadets from home. There are the cadets. This premier military academy produces only the best of the best, the strongest of the strong, and the bravest of the brave. West point is a universal symbol of american gallantry, loyalty, devotion, discipline, and great skill. He did not cancel this appearance. Earlier this week President Trump did bow to political pressure and cancel his first scheduled Campaign Rally in months. It was originally scheduled to happen in tulsa on june 13th, which is juneteenth. We talked about it earlier, the commemoration of the end of slavery in the united states. Anthony flores joining us now. I got to tell you, are we going to have baseball . Are we not going to have baseball . That is the question, anthony. Well, terry, ill tell you what, it is another swing and a miss for major league baseball. How the players responded to the owners latest proposal. Stick around. Sports is next. Welcome back. Im anthony flores. Will there be baseball this summer . That is the Million Dollar make that billion dollar question. Now, the commissioner says yes, but players and owners, theyre striking out when it comes to money. Okay. Here is the latest now. The players just rejected the owners 72game season proposal. They said they will have no counteroffer. In a statement, the Players Union said, quote, its time to get back to work. Tell us when and where. Now, the commissioner has the power to mandate a schedule somewhere between 48 and 55 take a pay cut off their already prorated salaries for games lost because of covid19. Now, the owners say they will lose billions this season if games are played without fans. The players response is, show us the books. We want to see the numbers. Oh, by the way, baseball just closed on a billion dollar deal with turner network. Well, the nbas return to the court might be in jeopardy. In a call last night with 100 players, nets guard kyrie irving made a plea for them to make a stand and sit out the restart next month in orlando. Now, players voiced concerns about the lack of freedom in the proposed bubble in orlando. The risks of sickness and injury and the climate in the u. S. On issues of Police Brutality and racial inequality. Now, the nba said players will not be punished if they choose not to play. Guess what . Golf is back. The pga returning to the course after its longest layoff since world war ii. The colonial hosting the pgas first competitive action in 91 days. Now, this is classic. Justin thomas makes a birdie to get to 12 under. Then he waves to the imaginary crowd. Remember, no fans at this event. Now, former cal bear colin more i khama is in the hunt. Hes at 12 under par one shot behind xander schauffele, who lives in bakersfield. He leads the way at 13 under. He has a oneshot lead over six other players heading into sundays final round. To the track. Dale earnhardt jr. Leaving the nbc sports broadcast booth for his only race of the season in the xfinity series. Woe finish fifth, two laps to go. 19yearold harrison burden makes a move on the restart. He only led two laps today, including the most important one, the last one. He goes on to win it. Thats a look at sports. More news after the break. Its another bb special courtesy of tiktok. Sabrina ionescu and natalia bryant, the oldest daughter of the late kobe bryant making a dance video. 3yearold Bianca Bryant makes a cameo, sending them into laughter. Have a wonderful saturday night. See you at 11 00. Garvin thomas hey, everybody. Im garvin thomas. For the past eight years through the bay area proud series, ive been sharing stories of the good things people do each and every day. Weve chronicled more than 600 of them since we started, and we thought now, when we could all use a bit of good news in our day, it would be a great time to share some of our favorites. Every bay area proud story is, of course, different but at their heart there is one thing they all have in common someone doing something nice for someone else. At times it can be a grand gesture but more often than not, its just lending a hand. Like what happened one day at the end of a fremont culdesac. Garvin it was a great day on murphy court, all thanks to a bad view. David perez you can see the above the garage and all garvin that view was out david perezs living room window of his neighbors home, two doors down
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