It was an amazing moment. For me it was like a dream come true to take them to the most holy place. Then everything changed. We heard the bombs. That is so close that it was. We heard the bombs. Would you feel them . You can feel it. Yes. But it increased to more and more. And explosions . Explosions. She says growing up in jerusalem she knew how to react to attacks and quickly herded her family and other hotel guests to safely. Come on. Dressup no time to talk. Take your parents. We are going to the bunker now. The family spent five hours in the bunker before heading to the airport to catch a scheduled flight back to the bay area. They canceled the flight. I spent six hours yelling and going crazy because i knew that they were not if they were not coming back we might stop in israel for a long time. She says now she cannot stop worrying about her family and israel but added she is in regular communication and they are safe and in good spirits for now. Made her feel better until hamas made the declaration of the date of jihad on friday. They just ask to slaughter us over the world. In one hand i am super scared, but i am also a very Firm Believer in god. It is a faith that she and probably many others are leaning on as the world they knew changes all around them. Robert handa, nbc bay area news. Is really miller tulare Israeli Military increasing launching likely ground offensive and got up gaza. More than 300,000 soldiers are shifting from reserve to active duty. There is concern that tanks and Armored Vehicles entering the gaza strip, hostages, some of the people of gaza and Israeli Soldiers will be endangered. Hamas says it welcomes the invasion and says it is ready for the ground offensive. And of course we will continue our coverage of the war between israel and hamas later in the newscast are coming up at 5 30, how washington is reacting today. We also show you how israels iron dome works. It is a defense line that is vital in this growing war. They went above and beyond the call of duty. That is how an eye witness described Security Guards working inside of the chinese consulate in San Francisco when a knife wielding driver crashed a car inside. Today he spoke with nbc bay area about what happened and how the guards kept them at bay until Police Arrived. Reporter this is video shared by nick. A facetime call he made to a friend moment after honda fit in crashed into the visa office of the chinese consulate on monday. If you watch the video, i am not too concerned. He said that he quickly got concerned when he saw the man get out of the car with a knife. This is video that was shared with us by another witness. You can see people running out of the consulate as two private guards tried to disarm the man picnic says he took the photo from the door and saw the guards continuing to struggle with the man. Select the guy was trying to get to the seat and the Security Guard was amazing trying to stop him from grabbing whatever weapon he had in the back selected you see what he pulled out . He didnt pull out anything. Later on i realized it was cross bullet he tells us the two private guards with amada security deserve a lot of credit for preventing the man from seriously hurting anyone. Polonsky was back at the consulate today to pick up a travel visa and says one of the guards is already back out on post. I asked if you would like to talk with me, but he said he had no comment. A manager at armada security tells me by phone that one of their guards was injured in the incident on monday. He suffered minor cuts to his hand. Im just happy they were there and able to act quickly going above and beyond the call of duty to protect the consulate and everybody inside of it. I think it is amazing what they were able to do. He said he is still shocked at the whole situation and would like to know why the man crashed into the consulate. He was a chinese national. He identified that im not here to hurt you guys. But he also had two knives. Reporter nbc bay area news has confirmed are two sources that are part of the investigation that the man was armed with knives and at least one crossbow but about the gators have not released any further information including the identity of the knife wielding driver who was fatally shot by police and they arrived on scene. And several cisco, nbc bay area news. In hours long standoff San Jose Police said it started after 7 00 last night south 19 e. San antonio street. Investigate her sam an armed of the rifle was threatening his roommates. When Police Arrived the man barricaded himself inside of the home. Negotiators worked for hours to get him to come out and they eventually did manage to get them out if they arrested him around to 30 this morning. No shots fired and no one was hurt. Struck a Police Pursuit through the east bay ends in a foot chase and an intense search along the streets of oakland. Mostly cloudy camera by the end beget seat sky area ranger pick the suspect might be connected to a recent shooting. Nbc bay area melina jones has more. Like helicopters please officers and crime scene tape tape please search for multiple suspects who ran from police after a car chase ended on highway 24. It makes me nervous. Nervous neighbors stood by and watched as police scoured the neighborhood filled with homes and businesses. Please say the che started on fresno street. Sky ranger so the suspects car speeding through the streets of oakland and into contra costa county. At one point the driver slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a person on a city street pushing a stroller. Only to take off again. Police say the car is wanted in connection to a recent shooting. This is crazy. The driver eventually lost control and hit the Center Divider on highway 24. That is when three people jumped out and started running. One was a mealy caught but two others made a dangerous jump over the freeway while following several feet onto the street below. It is not unusual in oakland that things are happening. It seems to be happening more often, which is unfortunate because i love the area. But it is reality now. The faster they can get them, the better. Reporter after intense search of the neighborhood the Police Caught the other suspects. One was taken away on a stretcher. Neighbors who live nearby say they believe our focus needs to be put on giving area kids alternatives to crime. Try to take school more seriously. That is how i feel about it. Wasting everybodys time. I am a youth. Am 18 years old. I just want them to do better. That was struck republican lawmakers have picked a candidate for speaker of the house. Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise. This comes more than a week after gop members ousted Kevin Mccarthy in a historic no confidence vote. Steve scalise defeated Judiciary Committee chair jim jordan in a secret ballot. He now faces a full vote on the house floor it is not clear what the vote will happen. It is going to need the support of 270 lawmakers to security speakership. We have a lot of work to do. And not just in the house for the people of this country, but we see how dangerous of a world that it is and how things can change so quickly. We need to make sure we are sending a message to people throughout the world that the house is open and doing the peoples illness. Steve scalise is battling blood cancer. You remember he also survived a shooting at a congressional baseball game practice back in 2017. Thousands of San Francisco teachers and educators deciding whether or not to strike. What they are upset about and how close they are to actually walking off of the job. Different parts of School Getting different attention in the city. We take you inside and lgbtq bar that will soon teach the fundamentals of drag. Fundamentals of drag. I am chief meteorologist thousands of women with Metastatic Breast Cancer, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for adults with hr her2 Metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole. Ibrance may cause low white blood cell counts that may lead to serious infections. Ibrance may cause severe inflammation of the lungs. Both of these can lead to death. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening chest pain, cough, or trouble breathing. Before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding. For more information about side effects talk to your doctor. Be in your moment. Ask your doctor about ibrance. San francisco is facing another walkout. Thousands of teachers and School Staff Members are at risk of going on strike for the Union Presents over 6500 School Workers voting on whether to authorize the strike. They say some of the biggest sticking points in contract talks have been working conditions, payroll errors and pay raises for new teachers. The vote does not educate the date upon which we will strike. It does not indicate that we will walk out tomorrow. Instead it is a show of how many folks are really behind the conditions and the proposals that we have put forward as solutions. Even though the city doesnt fund public education, maryland breed has offered to help with mediation as necessary. We did reach out to sf unified for comments about the strike, but we have not heard back. Amazon workers say today is prime day for activism. Today amazon workers in missouri join striking autoworkers and formally striking nurses in a oneday demonstration. They are protesting poor working conditions on one of amazons busiest days of the year. Prime day. Amazon workers say during prime date they are pushed to the brink to try to fulfill all of the orders. They say the stress leads to more workplace injuries. Members from all three groups started demanding safer workplaces across each of their respective industries. There is a new School Coming to sever the scope of the classroom will be inside of the citys oldest lgbtq bar. As Christie Smith shows us, there making plans to create telefonicas first ever school of drag. The school be dedicated to the art of drag performances. The study, the citys oldest lgbtq bar formed a nonprofit open what it has dubbed the stud school of drag. It is being done in partnership with both and Arts Organization organizers say the goal is to tap into several ciscos rich history with drag as the stud is one of the oldest drag venues. Honey mahogany will be the first headmistress. It was so important that we preserve some of San Franciscos direct legacy. Honey mahogany says you do not have to look far to find several ciscos long and rich drug history. People who when he damar and glamour more and so many other really important figures who helped shaped several ciscos drag. We wanted to honor that. On her several ciscos drag legacy and create a formal school so that people can get a sense of the unique history. The school offer curriculum centered around both the performance and drag tradition. there is a lot that goes into drag. You know that we make it look easy, but it is not. Everything from painting your face, meeting putting on makeup and transforming yourself into a character or a persona. To apply to the school, you have to be over 21 and classes may include a history of drag, ancient and modern along with drag marketing and promotion. Teaching people how to do all of that because it is not easy to learn. I think that most people usually rely on youtube or historically it has been passed on in an informal way from drag mother to drag daughter. We want to formalize that process a little bit so we can preserve the rich legacy. Select the school make a formal call for applications after the bart reopens in its new spot the next year. In San Francisco, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. A new greenhouse will help feed hundreds of and housed people in marin county. The greenhouse is nearly homeward bound of marin. Organizers say was a gift from bank of america. After the banks employees volunteers at the garden. The building one out volunteer to plant more than 1500 seeds a season hoping to feed her people than before. What you can create from a seed is a much more food than what you can create from a pack of plans. If you buy a pack of seeds, you have hundreds of plans. The idea of feeding so many more people out of the space is really good. Officials say produce from the garden will help save an estimated 300 per week on food cost for homeward bound. A lot of money. Jeff joines is now with what we can expect. We are midway through the week and it looks really nice outside. It is gorgeous and we will heat up a little bit tomorrow, but it will not get to that uncomfortable range like we had last week. That is stephanie great news. Let what you are going to see is the wind gusts that we had today were certainly very strong across the bay area. We did get 41 Miles Per Hour san jose we will have more on the weather coming up in just a bit. Thank you very much. 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Well our companion fare is just 99 with the Alaska Airlines visa card, so your friend can come along with you next time youre the legs we care a lot it sounded like jeff was trying to communicate with you in morse code. We were having a microphone problem. We are back. This is all good to go and we will get you into the microclimate forecast and already here for some nice weather tomorrow. It will heat up but it will not get too hot. The other thing we want to start off with is a look at the wind gusts. Was pretty gusty up towards mount st. Helena. The wind 41 Miles Per Hour. 28 san jose 25 several cisco coming in at 23. A lot of the window really has calmed down and i expect even through tonight, not that dusty. 10 to 17 Miles Per Hour. Although he really wanted to show you was up in the mountains around marin, napa and sonoma counties. Especially around napa. We could get isolated gusts in the mountains. You can see the red color of 20 to about 40. A quick burst of wind early tomorrow morning and then it would just be breezy tomorrow afternoon 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour otherwise, we head through tomorrows forecast with High Pressure back for a oneday event. This will just heat us up really quickly for tomorrow a few degrees. It also send the storm track to the north so that will keep us with dry weather. As we roll through tomorrow morning so forecast, we started off on the chilly side. Make sure to have a jacket. We are going to the low 50s for a lot of the bay area. 50 in the trivalley. The south bay at 52 under mostly sunny skies. Besides the chill, there really isnt anything else that will slow you down tomorrow and look at that. The north bay right there at 49. As we roll through the forecast with the numbers heating up, it is going to put a few of us back into the 80s like in the south bay, milpitas, san Jose Morgan Hill the low 80s right here for the east bay. 81 concord. 80 in dental over to hayward, 77. The peninsula with the afternoon sunshine evony 60 redwood city making it just about perfect. Some of the best weather from redwood city to palo alto. Semper cisco 69 downtown. 70 and for the north bay, 70 in napa down towards mill valley, 73. We are dry through tomorrow but we are looking at shower chances ahead. This is nothing big i am seeing right now. The way the forecast models are playing out. Just a spotty chance friday night that will increase the cloud cover and that will likely linger into saturday morning and then the Second Chance we have been following heading into early next week on monday, the bulk of that is heading off to the north. Much lower chances heading into next monday. You know that a lot of you are out there thinking about the Solar Eclipse already and are saying, what is this going to mean for the forecast. Here it is. Partial Solar Eclipse for the bay area. 75 of the sun will be blocked by the moon during the Solar Eclipse. When it comes to this, it will start start at 9 13 in the morning on saturday at the sun, the moon, and the earth aligned. It was last for 2. 5 hours. The Weather Forecast will be pretty mixed. We are partly to mostly cloudy across the bay area and the chance of an early shower. We still may be able to see something and even if there are clouds where you are at, especially at the coastline, overall we should notice some of the sky darkening. Really neat, nonetheless and just because we can do, i want to show you where i am seeing the best forecast for the partial eclipse. Midland, and texas. They will be in the 90 zone where the sun is obscured 90 and they will have mostly clear skies. Midland, texas the best of you. Right here on the sevenday forecast, just a few spotty showers heading into friday night and saturday morning pick only a 50 chance now and next monday and not too hot for the next seven days. Restate in the 70s and 80s. We will learn more about the saturday morning forecast over the next 48 hours. Right now it looks like a mix for the partial Solar Eclipse. But exciting either way. Weibel taking the rowboat taxis in los angeles starting today the users of the service can order the cars in Santa Santa Monica and venice beach. Eventually to Mountain View based Company Hopes to bring the service to downtown la area. The cars face a new challenge down south while San Francisco streets can be narrow and hilly come of the car ai will have to figure out las notorious free freeway traffic. It has been mapping and testing on freeways for years the company also has cars in phoenix. Taking a trip there history. The memo Fire Protection district has a new fire the parent over the weekend. Of our department is giving tours and giving the visitors to check out historic gear and old vehicles practice includes the department antique fire engine. The Fire District formed in 1916 and has seen plenty of changes since then. Inc. It is a wonderful exhibit. A Little Museum to honor all of the men and women that paved the way to make firefighting what it is today. Retired fire chief harold with a guided tour. The museum is actually named after him in honor of his 40 year Career Service to the fire service and the museum will be open again on friday and saturday. A rich data Pinkett Smith is clearing things up about her relationship with will smith. She said they are actually separated they have been separated for years. The two tied the knot 26 years ago and have been through a lot of ups and downs including the infamous slap that will smith delivered in defense of data during the oscars. Data said that she and will are separated and have been apart for seven years. She said they are still legally married but they are not together romantically. She also said she thought of getting a diverse, illegal divorce, but they have never been able to go through it. You can watch the newscast 24 7 on roku and other streaming platforms. Raj mathai joins us now with what is coming up. New information as we continue coverage of the war between israel and hamas. President biden promising full support to israel but congress has to act first. How republicans are closing in on a new speaker of the house will get the ball rolling. Is one of israels main line of defense. It is called the iron dome. How does it work . We will show you this sophisticated system aimed at keeping the area safe. It is raising bail for repeat offenders. The solution to keeping criminals off of the streets. Law enforcement agencies in the south bay say yes while critics strongly disagree. Welcome back to the news at 5 30 starting out. Thank you so much for joining us. Im janelle wang. From visitors to students and people doing business there, Many Americans are in the crisis zone. Of the 24 americans are dead and dozens more are still missing as the fighting intensifies between israel and hamas militants in gaza. Today, President Biden reaffirming the u. S. Support for israel as House Republicans take a big step towards electing a new speaker. Here is jay gray. And what is by washington standards a surprisingly fast move, House Republicans have agreed, for now that louisiana representative Steve Scalise will forward as a candidate for speaker. We have the have a very important vote. It is really important that that congress get back to work. We select a speaker, go to the house floor and get to 218 and get the house working again. Spoke with the full house in session, he needs a simple majority to be elected leader. In a secret ballot behind closed doors today, he reportedly had the support of 113 of his republican peers, which means the legislative tug of war is still far from over. And adding pressure to the politics for the fifth day, rockets filled the air between gaza and israel. With israeli tank battalion gathering along the border and more than 300,000 soldiers shifting from reserve to active duty