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Also say the investigation is ongoing. In a statement about the collision, they reminded all drivers, human and robot, to yield to emergency vehicles with lights and sirens on. This wasnt the only crash involving a cruise selfdriving car. Last night someone crashed into a selfdriving cruise vehicle at 26 and mission streets. According to police, no one was in the car. The driver of the other car was treated on scene and released. Police determined the man driving the van was at fault. David chu filed a legal appeal calling on the California Public Utilities Commission to stay its recent decision to expand Robotaxi Service for waymo in the city. As this new powerful technology is being deployed that our city is safe. Reporter a San Francisco Fire Department testified its crew members have documented more than 50 incidents of selfdriving cars impeding emergency vehicles. A spokesman said the incident is still under investigation and referred us to the Police Department. Sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. New details of the San Jose Police officer answering a distress call. The accused gunman made his first appearance in court. The officer was responding to a report of a man assaulting a pregnant woman wednesday morning. She and her partner approach, police say 44yearold gabriel carreres opened fire. The officer was shot below her bulletproof vest. The bullet went through her lower stomach and hit her spine. The District Attorney laid out the charges. Attempted murder of a police officer, use of a firearm causing great bodily injury, assault with force, destruction of a phone during an emergency call, negligent discharge of a firearm and, of course, being a felon in possession of a firearm. The d. A. Said carreres was on parole for a felony gun charge. The officer remains in the hospital in critical condition. Still very few answers about the roundup and arrest of current and former Police Officers in the east bay. There are growing questions about what this means for Public Safety in the city of antioch. Im just happy for the fbi because if the fbi didnt investigate all these guys, i wouldnt have ever knew nothing. Reporter shirelle says the arrest of antioch and pittsburg Police Officers is precisely what shes been praying for. Trent allen was the target of some of the officers charged yesterday. He kicked my son in the head. Shot him with a 40. Took pictures of my son while he was in the hospital, and they sent Text Messages to each other bragging about it. Reporter antioch city leaders have been meeting behind closed doors trying to decide next steps including possibly terminating the officers who have been implicated. If the city has made the determination, i would certainly support that. Reporter Mike Barbanica is not involved in the discussions but says he is concerned about Current Police Staffing Levels in light of the scandal and the impact on Public Safety. The Police Department is holding a hiring workshop this weekend. But barbanica, a retired Pittsburg Police officer, says more needs to be done. By the time you look at an applicant and get them on the street working, its an extended period of time. Its my belief we need to bring in outside agencies to assist and back fill our officers. Reporter cobb says she hopes her sons case is dismissed. She says the city of antioch has a lot to do to repair the damage. I wish you would continue to get all these bad seeds out of here, let them take accountability for what they did. They need to be fired, no pensions, do jail time because they committed a crime. Reporter she says shes happy the fbi took action as soon is calling on antioch to take the steps needed to Win Back Public trust. In contra costa county, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Okay, here it goes. Southern california bracing for hurricane hilary. The storm could bring rain to the bay area as well. Right now hilary is a category 4 hurricane. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us. Jeff, category 4 hurricane, that is big. Will it cool off and slow down . I think we will see this dropoff in terms of intensity. Yes, a very powerful storm system we are looking at right now that stretches over 1,000 miles wide. Now the current stats has us at a very ferocious category 4, winds of 130 miles per hour. Central pressure also continuing to drop down to 948 millibars. The lower that number goes, the stronger the storm is getting. Its still showing signs of strengthening now. Look at the center of the hurricane, the eye of the hurricane, this is textbook example of what a hurricane should look like this size. By tomorrow down to 120 miles an hour. North of san diego by sunday night, winds of 50 miles an hour and it moves through Central California sunday night into monday. This is a better scenario because the path is moving more off to the east but still a worst Case Scenario in Southern California. We expect 2 to 4 inches of rain, maybe even higher in the mountains. Here is the rain line. Its still close to us. If we were to see that wobble more to the west, which is still possible with tropical systems, our rain forecast would look much different. The way things are trending, its all about Southern California and off to the east of us. This is all so unusual, check this out, the firstever Tropical Storm watch in california. You can see it here for los angeles, winds 40 to 60 miles an hour, gusts in the mountains could get up to 80. I have more looks coming up. That looks like a really wet storm. Thank you, jeff. Well follow hurricane hilarys track. Download our nbc bay area app. We send you breaking news alerts about the storm and any other breaking news. 111 people are confirmed dead in maui. Sadly there are many more victims. The community of lahaina came together to give a message to the governor. Activists had demands for governor josh green. The first was to give the city time to grieve. They asked not to rush rebuilding. Second, they wanted local people to be involved in the process. The governor should work with the community to develop a plan that meets the nepdz of the people. Fast track development cannot come at the cost of community control. A slight amendment to the proclamation. Activists want to ensure the states open meeting laws remain in full force. To canada now where it is facing its first ever wildfire season. Its spreading by the city of cologna. Nearly 2,500 properties are under an evacuation order. Nearly 1,000 wildfires burning across the country. Another one has led to Mass Evacuations happening in the city of yellowknife, a population of 20,000 people, are currently evacuating. Over 22 flights are ferrying people out today. President biden is heading west, set to land in reno in a couple of hours. Hes going to stay in glenn brook. On monday mr. Biden and first lady head to maui. The president hosted a historic meeting with the leaders of south korea and japan. Brie jackson has the latest from washington. Reporter President Biden welcoming the leaders of japan and south korea to camp david. This meeting is a dramatic improvement in relations between tokyo and seoul after years of strained relations. Americas commitment to both countries is ironclad. Reporter the three leaders announcing efforts to strengthen economic ties and bolster security which includes pledging to consult each other during the crisis. Well a hotline to share information and coordinate responses whenever there is a crisis in the region or affecting any one of our countries. Reporter north korea had provided munitions to russia in its war against ukraine and its believed a Ballistic Missile launched last month was likely the product of Technical Cooperation with russia. I think theres real concern here. Kim and putin have talked about deepening their military cooperation and kim announced this week that north korea will ramp up their missile production. Reporter even before the first trilateral began, it drew criticism from china. A Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson calling it a clique and saying the meeting will definitely spark vigilance and opposition. The white house stressing its focus is on strengthening ties not creating division. We believe that today is going to establish the kind of foundation that will make this Trilateral Partnership built to last. Reporter a historic event marking a new alliance to take on growing threats. In an effort to strengthen longterm ties between the three nations, the Biden Administration says its working to establish annual meetings to discuss issues including defense, diplomacy and technology. In washington, brie jackson, nbc news. Still ahead, a Burglar Alarm at a cannabis dispensary leads to a deadly shooting involving Martinez Police. The investigation now under way. And an unwelcome neighbor. The Mountain Lion that greeted some as they woke up and the search that quickly ensued. And ill have a look at the rain time line. Yo Martinez Police shot and killed a man today, and the feds are now investigating why. It started with a Burglar Alarm at a cannabis dispensary. Christie smith explains the department of justice is now involved because the Person Police shot was unarmed. I heard shooting. Reporter ferris says he was sleeping in his martinez home when gunfire rang out about 3 30 this morning. My wife woke me up, so i heard shooting. My wife was standing, the dog parking. Reporter he says he heard 10 to 15 shots in the distance and saw a lot of police activity. I would call 911 but the police were there. Reporter office responded to a video alarm. They confronted multiple people in two vehicles. During that confrontation were told four officers opened fire, one person was shot and killed, a second sustained some kind of injury, but its unclear how. The Department Also says one officer suffered minor injuries. Online velvet martinez posted a notice saying they would be closed this morning and their team was all safe. This is just surprising to me. Reporter davis hadnt heard about the shooting as he tried to visit the dispenary today. All he found was a road blocked by law enforcement. This is in a cool little area. I dont know why anybody would try to attempt to burglarize it. My experience here has been pretty cool. Reporter police say an officer suffered a minor injury and late today the state attorney general announced that the California Department of justice is investigating and would review the case based on a state law which requires them to be the lead investigator for Police Shootings that result in the death of an unarmed person. Christie smith, nbc bay area news. Some rattled nerves and an unsuccessful search after Police Called police about a Mountain Lion sighting on the peninsula. The big cat was spotted near vanessa drive and south grant in san mateo. Someone also reported seeing the lion in the backyard of a home on 16th avenue. Local schools were asked to shelter in place. Witnesses who said they saw the big cat also say it did not appear to be aggressive. The search turned up nothing but police are asking residents to give them a call if they see the cat again. Tomorrow marks the beginning of a special weekend as we team up with you to clear the shelters. Its your chance to add to your family by adopting a pet. This little feline named raj mathai. That sounds familiar. Yes. We had a raj mathai, the cat, on last night. No one has taken him yet. Someone go adopt raj. Visit the nbc bay area website. Our team will be at the San Francisco spca this saturday and the oakland zoo on sunday. We dont want the real raj mathai to find out no one has adopted him. If you go to the zoo, be careful which animal you come home with. Exactly. Good point. The smaller cat. I want that one. Whats the weekend going to shape up with . Were doing good so far. A chance of spotty thunderstorms in the mix for us and, of course, we are tracking hurricane hillary off to the south. Ill show you exactly what we are expecting with that storm system as we head into the weekend and early next week. In fact, here is a view of it if you missed our earlier update. Its now off the coastline of mexico and look at how massive it is stretching 1,216 miles wide. I have more details on whats buffering us and keeping us from getting some of that heaviest rainfall here in about a minute and a half. Lets move it into our weather right now, and we are tracking some thunderstorms over the sierra. Going pretty good and also some thunderstorms that are popping just to the north. Right now its dry in the bay area radar scan. A slight chance we could get a popup thunderstorm. Otherwise lets roll it into tomorrow mornings forecast. Some nice weather. Fog near the bay and the coast to start. Temperatures right here in the low 60s. Down to 62 in the peninsula. San francisco, i have you at 59 and some chilly upper 50s in the north bay. Fog to begin and then we should see that clear back in the afternoon for a really nice day and thankfully no 100s. We had that a few days ago. This is a nice break for us. Well get up to 92 in concord. Up to napa right into wine country. Some beautiful weather and mid80s. And then over to the coastline well be into the 60s. Well keep a slight chance of some popup thunderstorms as well. Into the weather pattern and hurricane hilary. I wanted to show you how things are setting up for us and whats keeping some of the strongest away from us. We have low pressure in the pacific, and its those two systems that are conveyor belting into Southern California. Now whats interesting about this is if this low pressure here was to develop a little bit more off towards the west, it could steer some of that tropical moisture to the bay area. None of the forecast models are showing that scenario. Theyre showing these systems will set up exactly like i have on the map and that, again, would bring in the worst weather to Southern California. This storm is massive. Look at the current winds right now at 130 miles an hour, category 4. The good news about this, it is expected to weaken. 75mileperhour winds near san felipe, and then north of san diego by sunday night, 50mileperhour winds. The track is more off towards the east today because of that lowpressure thats developing in the pacific. Again, pushing all of this more towards central and Southern California. A better scenario for us. Worst case down to Southern California. We really see things ramping up here by tomorrow night in Southern California and then getting into that heavier rainfall as we roll through sunday and also early monday. That is flash flooding in Southern California. Right here, 60s and 70s for highs and for the inland valleys plenty of 90s the next couple of days. I have more looks at the wind field of this hurricane. Ill have that coming up at 5 30. Its a fascinating thing how experts like you can see the path of a hurricane and the dynamics of what could change it. Coming up, restoring vision for those who damaged an eye. Eelowing people to s theres a new lifechanging treatment capable of restoring vision for some people. The new procedure is being done in boston in collaboration with the Dana Farber Cancer institute designed for people with eye injuries like burns to the eye. In the process doctors take stem cells from the healthy eye, grow them in a lab and put them back in the damaged eye. Early results are nothing short of miraculous. At what point did you realize it had worked . Not too long after the first surgery i was able to see, and i remember i face timed one of my friends, i was crying, i can see my blue comforter. Coming up on nightly news who else this procedure could one day help. A milestone birthday for former first Lady Rosalynn carter. She celebrated with her husband, former president jimmy carter, and other family members in their home in georgia. Were told mrs. Carter ate cupcakes and Peanut Butter ice cream. She also released butterflies in the garden. She is the second oldest first lady in u. S. History. Beth truman died at 97 in 1982, the year after the carters left the white house. Jimmy carter turns 99 in october. Getting engaged at an exotic location like a helipad . Well explain. There has to be a reason behind that. Our r flights about t to boa, wherees granandma . And dog . G . phohone buzzes s oh. Grandma, w where are y you . Alohoha, tanny alaskaka airliness dodoesnt t have changnge fe, alohoha, tanny so were in hahawaaaiii. Alohoha, tanny granandma, whereres ouour in . Sosorry, gottata run, grannynys gogot a wave t to c. Granandma, whereres ouour in . Wait, was s she on a s surfbo . She was . S . We care a a lot. Okay, its not a proposal on cloud nine, but you might say its pretty close. Two rhode island resident doctors who met while training are now engaged. Now check out this video of the proposal. Palmer says hes searching for the Perfect Place to propose, so he decided to do it on top of the helicopters helipad taking his fiancee completely off guard. She was in scrubs. The staff at the hospital were all onboard with the surprise. He booked his fiancee a nail appointment, even did a beach photo shoot. They plan to get married after they finish their residency. I wonder if theyll get married on the helipad, too. You can watch on roku and other streaming platforms. We have made it to friday. We are here. Theres a lot going on as well. More information about that stabbing at a san jose high school. Its not the first violent act on that campus. In fact, another recent one sent a teacher to the hospital. How teachers are responding on campus today. More changes to x, the platform formally known as twitter. Why youll no longer be able to block someone from your feed. And the popular Film Festival continues in the south bay and one film gaining attention focuses on the east bay. We talk with the films director about the upcoming career, and you recognize one of the stars, constance wu. The news at 5 30 starts right now. Ks