Right now at 11 00, it seemed to just slide right off, the moment a plane lost one of its titers after taking off at sfo. The questions being raised about safe and a closeup look at the damage that it did on the ground. But first. The new america is coming back, it is because of you our future is bright tonight we can probably say the state of our union is strong and getting stronger. President biden at the state of vienna, the message he wanted america to hear and the praise he is getting from political pundits tonight. It was fiery, it was combative, but was it enough . President biden delivering his third state of Union Address before congress. This one, coming at a pivotal time, an Election Year, and the stakes couldnt be higher. Jocelyn moran joins us in studio with the speech. Reporter President Biden talked on a number of issues, he vowed to fight for reproductive rights. He called out the gop when it came to the border, and he talked about the israelhamas war. Experts say it was important for biden to show that he may be 81 that he still has the energy to be in this. And they think he did just that. President joe biden state of the union came at a Pivotal Moment for him. An Election Year for the rematch between him and donald trump. Determined to get us through one of the toughest periods of the nations history. We have. Reporter members of the democratic womens caucus wore white to signal support for abortion and womens rights. Biden tonight vowed to fight for reproductive rights. American people, send me a congress with the right to choose, i promise you i will restore roe v wade as the law of the land again. Reporter biden also called at the gops failure to pass a border bill, another issue front and center, the israel hamas war. During his feet, biden says families of hostages held by hamas were present he vowed to bring their loved ones home. He also recognizes that more than 30,000 palestinians have died in this war. Also has a fundamental responsibility to protect innocent civilians in gaza. I am directing the u. S. Military to lead in an Emergency Mission to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza. Large shipments, caring food, water, medicine, temporary shelter. Reporter he didnt mention trumps name but referred to him as his predecessor. Him other people my age see it that way. The american story, of resentment, revenge and retribution. That is not me. Reporter dr. Melinda jackson says this was an important moment for biden to reintroduce himself to the American People and to address concerns about his age. Is he up for the challenge of another four years at his age . And i think he did as good of a job as he could have tonight. God bless you all and may god protect our troops another couple of things dr. Melinda jackson mentioned, he was optimistic, engaged in back and forth during his speech, he drew the contest between him and trump and she thought that was effective. Katie burt delivered the gops response. She slammed the president , saying he is out of touch and does not understand the issues facing american families. We have the worst inflation in 40 years and the highest Credit Card Debt in our nations history. Let that sink in. Hardworking families are struggling to make ends meet today and with soaring Mortgage Rates and skyhigh childcare costs. They are also struggling to have a plan for tomorrow. The youngest republican woman to ever be elected to the u. S. Senate, she is 42. A rising star in republican politics. Five new gop freshmen senators to join the chamber in 2023. Their class is expected to carry the Republican Party back to the majority but their thin margin in the 2020 2022 midterms. Our coverage continues online at nbc bay area. Com. We have an entire section dedicated to the state of the union. Just click on the link in the trending bar. There you can read the full text of the president s speech. Okay, luckily this is not something you see every day are other top story. A wheel on a united plane goes flying off the plane just seconds after takeoff at sfo. That left a trail of destruction, damaging vehicles in a parking lot. Thankfully no one was hurt. Gia vang is live at sfo with the federal probe now underway. Were talking about a wheel that weighs over 200 pounds. It does damage when it hit the ground. Reporter pretty big damage, too. As you saw at that video, we will show you some more of that, jessica. This investigation will now be taken up by the faa and ntsb just as to what went wrong. But it is also important to know, jessica, as you mentioned, aviation experts say this is rare, what happened on that International Flight here. Watching the moment a wheel comes off a United Airlines plane, leaving sfo bound for osaka, japan. Take a closer look, the landing gear was retracted when the wheel flies off and on the ground, it caused destruction for two unlucky vehicles in the employee parking lot. An airport worker breathing a sigh of relief. He said he parked right next to the vehicle damaged. I parked right here. Lucky, huh . [ laughter ] reporter other employees say they were fortunately held up moments after the wheel came crashing down, nobody was hurt. Is somebody where there, somebody would have got hurt. Reporter the wheels knocked down one part of a fence, damaging a tesla before it finally stopped in a nearby lot. The plan diverted to l. A. X. And landed safely. Records show the aircraft was delivered from boeing to united 22 years ago, so whos issue is this . United or boeing . If you bought a chevy two or three years ago and the wheel came off who is maintaining your car for you at that time . I think they are really focused on United Maintenance procedures and see where things happened. If they. 2 a structural problem, then you are going to get involved as far as the aircraft. Reporter an employee took photos of the representative said it is grateful for the pilots and Flight Attendant for their professionalism and the crew who assisted on the ground. The passengers on that united flight were put onto a new aircraft. They are in their air right now on their way to japan, they parted from l. A. X. Around 7 30. Thank you very much. Not the news warriors fans wanted to hear. Steph curry rolled his right ankle during tonights game against. Happened just under four minutes left on the clock. Curry limped off the court into the locker room to be evaluated. At this. , we havent heard how serious the injury is. Coming up in sports, we will hear from coach kerr plus we will show you the highlights from tonights game. Traffic are flowing again in san leandro after a police chase ended on the freeway. Sky ranger was overhead earlier and triggered a full closure and traffic around noon. Eastbound lanes reopened about an hour later. The other two are being closed for several hours. Around noon, we headed towards hayward and we end up having to get off way back at benedict and it has been like this ever since. A much bigger story than just the traffic backup. It started just after 11 00 this morning. A woman was shot and killed inside a pleasanton apartment building. Neighbors told police they saw a black license plate. Spotted the lexus triggering a chase. The car stopped out on 580 near the piermont drive exit. Attempted to push the driver but after more than an hour, police finally approached the car and discovered the driver had shot himself. Angry families are demanding answers after a dangerous situation unfolded during a southbay. Police arrested marcus back on suspicion of dui after a crash officers found a loaded handgun and an ar 15 rifle in that car. That triggered a search. Police say he tried to trap that explode. Neighboring homes but near by elementary on lockdown then parents found out School Called police on back two days earlier for loitering. Elliott is always scared to find out that Something Like this could happen in your own neighborhood. But this, they need to tell us the truth, they as much as they can for now is in custody without bail and is expected in court next month. Pg e customers can ask her to see an increase in their monthly bill. The Public Utilities commission approving another rate hike that will begin next month. Comes as many customers are still feeling sticker shock from the last increase just a few months ago. Pete surratt is has the details. Reporter another rate hike is on the way for pg e customers who already feel like their monthly bills are getting out of hand. The last bill that i got was 200 something dollars. And there is one explanation as to why it would increase drastically. Reporter her bill continues to go up, even with the discount from pg es care program. Please it was literally 500. 500 and without the discount it was 700. Reporter the new rate hike was approved today. About five dollars to your monthly pg e bill. In a statement, a spokesperson says the decision authorizes a temporary read change to start recouping a portion of the money that was spent for wildfire mitigation and compliance and moderator. This comes after a rate hike in january, raiding the average bill by about 34. That increase being used to pay for underground powerlines in areas with high fire risk. Why did pg e get another rate increase when they reported profits of over 2 billion from last year . Reporter tony is the executive director of the rapier advocacy program. His biggest concern is there arent pg e when it comes to requesting more rate hikes. We want facts on top of each other and it is just please already paying hundreds of dollars monthly on their pg e bills. I cant afford. Com my groceries alone, i am going Grocery Shopping right now and i groceries, the inflation right now is insane. In concord, pete surratt is, nbc bay area news. The longawaited construction for the san jose. As soon as next month. Lets show you a map that shows you the extension. East capitol expressway, it will take East San Jose commuters to alan rock which then connects. That is where riders will then connect to b. A. R. T. Voted to approve a contractor for the 650 Million Dollar project. We are back in 60 seconds, just ahead, he drove right into a temple and started feeling tonight, the bold break and that across the bay area and what prosecutors say the thief was after. Problems with vehicle sitting idle for years. Tonight, the agency said it took action faster this time we investigate what it is doing to be smarter with your money. Looks like it will be a dry finish to the work week but the weekend ahead, a bit of a different story as we are taking outside live to San Francisco. That is where mayor london we took a victory lap as she delivered her state of the city address today. She quickly turned her to the key ballot measures. It will loosen restrictions on police pursuits, screen welfare participant for drugs and build housing for homeless. Housing students, innovation, that is our future. Tearing out the bike lanes on market street, going backwards, will not move us forward and it wont magically revive downtown. Reporter mayor breed also outlined other priorities for 2024. Expanding the recovery, early childcare and education and further reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions in the city. Speaking of the city, it is the end of an era for a brand founded in the north beach neighborhood. Outdoor apparel store, the north face at union square will close at the end of the month. The company did not get a present for the closures. A handful of stores will remain open including palo alto. It is the latest in one of the many high profile exits from union square. Macys announced it is closing its Flagship Store next year. The company is calling it a purely economic decision with it being one of 150 macys stores on the chopping block nationwide. No problems with vta vehicle sitting idle but we are not talking about those 95 neglected creases and vans we reported on earlier. After that store, investigator candace learned about a fleet of buses also just parked four years. Similar to the premises and vans, the staffing shortages caused delays in auctioning off these old buses but unlike the cars, the agency says the buses were neglected and it took quick action. This is new drone video of the Santa Clara Valley transportation authority, or vtas division lot in san jose. They are overtired. Just a handful of the dozens of buses the agency to auction off earlier. Was in the process of seeking out. And when the pend, kick, had to retrofit other buses with barriers, hand sanitizers, and mask dispensers. Recent Satellite Photos show some of the old buses have been sitting idle since 2019. For more than two months, our Investigative Unit has been asking to talk with staff about how the agency is trying to recoup some of the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars it spent on it now retired vehicles. The agency turned us down again. But told us in an email, it is already auctioned off most of the buses, with roughly 18 still in the yard rated to be processed. Certainly were not leaning in the regular years. Reporter a transfers patient studies professor. He says the pandemic hit transit agencies hard, especially back end operations including reselling old vehicles. There has been big issues with the pandemic and all the changes in the market. It has disrupted the process. Reporter vta does expect to get much at auction, brandnew they cost about a half Million Dollars each and will likely sell for less than 1000 there is just a little the demand for old, retired buses, the agency says. It could be a very different story with the decommissioned fleet of 95 priuses and vans are Investigative Unit showed you in january. Vta Board Chairperson cindy chavis told us rather than leaving all of those cars parked out on a lot for more than four years, staff should have tried to auction them off much earlier. She says the agency has an obligation to get as much money back as i can because it involves public dollars. I worry that we missed a really important opportunity. As you will recall, during covid, there was a big strain on some supply chains and there was a high level of interest to be able to buy used automobiles. Reporter after our first reports, vta started the process to auction off those cars. And an important step to get back on track, postpandemic. Which is no easy task. Public agencies are called to difficult jobs in providing services and also doing responsible use of public funding. Reporter these old buses were definitely used, they each have about 1 million miles on them after being driven for 15 to 20 years. Even when we are not in a pandemic. Vta says it could take months to auction them off because you need permits, storage space, and staff who arent juggling a number of other responsibilities. With the Investigative Unit, i am candace when, nbc bay area news. Joins us now with a look at the forecast. As long as you extended out 10 days, it looks pretty good. The big picture looks warmer. Before we get there we got some rain chances coming our way. Not for tomorrow but at times, through the weekend. We will take a look at that hour by hour in a moment but right now a clear view in a mirrorlike reflection. Looking at the bay bridge which means we dont have a lot of wind across the bay right now. Weve got light winds, 51 degrees in San Francisco. We take you to our microclimate. Cities around the bay area, we got 40 is now showing up in mind. The sign of some chilly temperatures tonight. Clear skies will allow for some spots in the east bay likely to drop into the upper 30s by tomorrow morning. Right now 48 degrees in walnut creek and in dublin they have cooled off to 45 degrees. Not as quite as cold in san jose at 51. But again, you will notice here that our temperatures have dropped into the low 40s around santa rosa. A couple of locations tomorrow morning that could see a little bit of patchy frost before afternoon temperatures climb through the 60s. We have had a lot of clouds this week, thunderstorms yesterday. Friday is shaping up to be the sunniest and the warmest day of the week so far this, despite the morning ritual will be quite cold so dress in layers. The upper 30s to low 40s around places like san jose for the morning. As early as noon tomorrow, climbing through the mid 60s. In fact, south of san jose tomorrow, a chance of upper 60s in the forecast for your friday afternoon. 61 in San Francisco and oakland. So the two rain chances we will see for your weekend. Right now, saturday from about 8 00 a. M. To lunchtime, essentially, is the best chance for the showers to pass through the bay area. By 3 00 and 4 00 on saturday afternoon, looks decent for some outdoor plans. So the timing right now looks like a midday rain chance on saturday. Sunday, the morning starts off relatively drive. And then as you move forward into the afternoon you will see the rain dropping out. Also some wind on sunday. A bit stronger that second system, for as we wrap up the weekend. You can see the two day rain totals, about a 10th of an inch not much around san jose into Sonoma County as we get into sunday evening. A third weather system, the last chance of rain for a wild tuesday, High Pressure builds in behind, that will keep the storms off to the north and allow finally for some more temperatures. The reason you are seeing 70s and that sevenday forecast in the bottom of the screen and as you are about to say now, that will be something we havent seen in a while. Stronger highpressure building and so the middle of x week, one the showers move out on tuesday might be close to 70 in San Francisco and towards the 10 day forecast towards the end of next week we should see somebodys returning after some weekend rain chances. A tuesday rain chance. 70s sound nice, thanks, rob. How is stefan doing . We will check in with coh a suspect that the real is in jail tonight. Is accused of breaking into churches and stealing collection boxes. The head priest at the sunnyvale temple says that back in may, a white suv parked there, rammed through glass doors. There it is, and the burglar took off with five collection boxes, all of them stuffed with cash. It is big glass. A really bad person does Something Like this. A person that targets religious institutions and steals money that people are donating to their churches or temples is a really bad person. Reporter forest is being held on a milliondollar bail. If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison. Going from gas to election electric. The cpuc introduces the california clean mouth program which will help Transportation Companies pay for those new vehicles. Drivers Assistance Program to help rideshare drivers switch to electric cars. The money for the program will be given to the Rideshare Companies like lift and over to distribute to qualified drivers. Help california cut down on greenhouse emissions. Okay. This is the scenario. Warriors were flying high after last nights emotional victory over the milwaukee bucks, and then. A dark cloud over the chase center as star guard, steph curry, is injured. Hurt himself at tonights game against the chicago bulls. Earlier on the warriors, started fast with an 11. Lead , klay smith threepoint basket. The bulls came back strong in the second quarter, outscoring the warriors by 10 points, taking a four. Halftime lead. Lets go to the fourth quarter, watch what happens, steph cutting to the basket, seems to turn his ankle. He hobbled off the court before heading to the locker room. He did not return. Warriors coach steve kerr says currys that is is unknown. Yeah, has got his foot in a bucket of ice right now. I havent talked to the Training Staff yet. By the way, the warriors lost the game. The next game is saturday night against san antonio. Meanwhile, s. A. P. Center, the sharks lost 72