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Indigo girls everybody i want to thank jay weinberg and the 8g band. Thanks for watching. We love you everybody. [ cheers and applause ] many people want her out, but shes keeping her job. A late night decision from the Antioch School board. This is a story our Investigative Unit exposed weeks ago. Now a major development. The Antioch School board voted to keep its superintendent despite claims shes ignored accusations of bullying by a District Supervisor because theyre friends. Nbc bay areas pete cerritos was at tonights meeting, which got heated and a vote tonight by the Antioch School board to remove the superintendent was unsuccessful. And that vote is not sitting well with residents who feel that the superintendent isnt being held accountable. What do we want . When do we want it . Now a majority of the crowd at tonights Antioch School Board Meeting expressing frustration with the School Boards vote to not remove superintendent stephanie anello. The vote was two three and the motion did not pass. This isnt the first time this board, our Investigative Unit uncovering bullying claims by Antioch Unified School District Supervisor kenneth turnage. Our investigation confirming several employee complaints about turnage, including an incident where he directed workers to move an employees desk to a rooftop to publicly humiliate him and those making the claims believe turnages close relationship with the superintendent and her husband, former Antioch Police chief alan cantando, is why he wasnt disciplined sooner, with a board member confirming that he was not put on administrative leave until three days after our report. A very disappointed and nervous. I mean, i feel like our district is in chaos right now. Kim atkinson spoke at tonights meeting and was one of the district employees who came forward with bullying claims. In our investigation, she feels the board is sending the wrong message to the community by keeping the superintendent in her position. There is no value in in the staff, the community or the students. Board president Antonio Hernandez agrees, and was one of the two members who voted to remove anello. I think our board needs to understand that the community is angry, that we need to rebuild trust, that this district is not moving in the right direction. Board member gary haake is one of the three trustees who voted against removing the superintendent. He says he doesnt know the details of the bullying claims and based his decision on his working relationship with anello. She told me, become a better board member and also as a teacher, and she was the principal way back when i first met her. She i think, is a professional. Anello was not. At tonights meeting. We reached out to her and the School District for comment, but have yet to hear back in antioch. Pete serratos nbc bay area news. Well tomorrows a big day around here. President biden will arrive in the bay area for two big money and high profile fundraisers. His visit comes amid rising tensions over the israelhamas war and those protests that continue on our College Campuses. Nbcs Jocelyn Moran will be there for the president s arrival at Moffett Field tomorrow, and joins us tonight with more details. Jocelyn. Yeah, raj, one of those events is planned for palo alto and not too far from there at Stanford University is a propalestinian encampment. Students there are paying close attention to bidens decisions. President joe biden and First Lady Jill Biden are in town this week. Joe biden is set to land in the bay area thursday for fundraising events in San Francisco and palo alto through friday. Meanwhile, the first lady will touch down at sfo. She will be speaking at an event in marin county thursday evening. This comes as the Biden Administration continues to face fierce criticism at College Campuses throughout the country, where propalestinian encampments have been set up, including here in the bay area at uc berkeleys San Francisco state and Stanford University. I think, quite frankly, that its immensely disrespectful that in a in that in an election year, he is coming not to our campus to meet the popular body of his constituency, but rather going to a private donor event three blocks off of stanford. The Palo Alto Police Department Says its working with other Law Enforcement agencies to prepare and plan for the president s visit tonight, in a move that would mark a shift in u. S. Policy toward the war, biden says the u. S. Will not supply israel with certain weapons if its military invades rafah. If they go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, Senior Administration officials confirmed the white house last week halted a shipment of offensive weapons that included 2,000 pound bombs. Israeli troops already moved in. At the rafah Border Crossing with egypt earlier this week, closing that critical lifeline for humanitarian aid. This man saying they said this was a safe area. There is no safe place in gaza. The Biden Administration continues to push for a cease fire deal. And as biden prepares for his visit to the bay area Palo Alto Police also adds they are having to call in extra personnel to ensure they have adequate staffing. We reached out to the San Francisco Police Department about their plans. We did not immediately hear back. Janelle. Thank you. Jocelyn new at 11 a bold break in fremont. Police releasing new pictures of a car theft at a car dealership on cushing boulevard parkway last month. Two men stealing a couple of high end porsches from that dealership. Investigators say the thieves broke into the business, then drove both porsches off the showroom floor and through the glass windows. The cars are reportedly worth more than a half 1 million. Officers did find one of the stolen vehicles hours later. Milpitas detectives found the second one the next day in hayward. And thats where they arrested a 22 year old suspect after tracking him in one of the cars. Police also found rifles, money, a Police Scanner and other stolen goods inside his home. Investigators say they hope a tip will lead to the arrest of a second car thief behind bars. Tonight. A walnut creek man has been arrested for Sexual Assault, and investigators believe there may be more victims. Kevin osborne, pictured here, was arrested last tuesday and charged with two counts of Sexual Assault of a child younger than ten and 13 counts of lewd acts upon a child. The crime happened 15 to 20 years ago. If you have any information, youre urged to contact walnut creek police. Happening tomorrow, california regulators will vote on a proposal that could save some people money on their monthly pg and e bills. They include low income earners and owners of electric cars. But under this plan, other customers could end up paying more. The new system is aimed at reducing costs for people impacted by extreme weather, like heat waves and those who charge their electric cars at home. The proposal has two parts it would lower the usage rate by 5 to 0. 07 per kilowatt hour, with rates dropping nearly 10 during peak hours. Under the flat rate, customers would pay about 24 a month, with discounts of up to 12 bucks for those with lower incomes. A lot of people ask, is there a way to just get rid of pg and e . Our rates have nearly doubled since 2019, which has many people frustrated and angry. Now the city of richmond wants california to be able to opt out. City leaders want to replace pg and e with the not for profit utility. Is that even possible . Heres nbcs Terry Mcsweeney. Motion passes with Council Members appear absent. The Richmond City Council Voted unanimously last night to ask the state to replace pg and e, which has doubled its rate since 2019 with golden state energy, a nonprofit Public Benefit utility. We want the needs of the people put first safety, reliability, affordability, health and climate issues come first for communities and not profits. Pg and e issuing a statement in response saying this type of ownership framework would not benefit customers. Taxpayers local communities, the state or californias economy. Pg and going on to say it would cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars in long term debt, increased taxpayer liability in case of wildfires, and lacks critical federal and state oversight that people are looking for rate relief. Now, the switch from pg and e could cost lots of time and money, according to mark toney, the executive director of the Utility Reform Network or turn, he thinks its unlikely the Richmond City councils resolution will snowball statewide. You have to buy out the investors. You have to pay for the wires, for the poles, for the whole infrastructure for. And thats a years long process. Toney says when the sacramento municipal utility district took over pg and e, it cost billions of dollars and it took decades. He says its a faster and cheaper way to do things, and its in the hands of state lawmakers right now. We need to hold shareholders responsible for paying 50 of all cost overruns, instead of ratepayers paying 100. Hes calling for a law capping rate hikes and for pg and e to choose the least expensive solution to wildfires, for example, insulating wires instead of burying them, and the pg and e spending ratepayer money for Television Commercials for self promotion. Weve seen Something Like this before. San francisco attempted to cut ties with pg and e in 2019, and offered a 2 billion buyout, the utility said no. In San Francisco, Terry Mcsweeney nbc, bay area news. Some other headlines tonight. Two students were taken to the hospital after a Carbon Dioxide exposure in a classroom. It happened at Sunrise Middle School in san jose. San jose fire got calls about an odor that was making students and a teacher in a classroom feel sick. Dozens of people were having difficulty breathing, but later on in the school day, they were fine. Two students, though, were taken to the hospital for evaluation at the request of their parents, not just antisemitism. On campus tonight , a complaint urging an investigation into islamophobia at the berkeley unified School District, the council on American Islamic relations, or cair, and the americanarab anti discrimination committee, filed this complaint. It outlines instances of discrimination, harassment and intimidation against students since the october 7th attack on israel. It says slurs have been directed at palestinian, arab and muslim students, and the complaint says teachers who have supported these students have also been harassed. Its asking the department of education, office of civil rights to launch an investigation and also asking berkeley unified to stop this behavior on campus. Berkeleys superintendent was actually called to capitol hill to address accusations of antisemitism in her School District. Anika ford, michelle was one of the several educators testifying in front of congress today. The hearing comes weeks after a group of parents filed a lawsuit against the School District, saying it had become unsafe for jewish students. A federal civil rights complaint was also filed and is being investigated today. The superintendent was quick to fire back at republican criticism that berkeley unified and other districts are allowing antisemitism to fester among students and faculty. Since october 7th, the district has had formal complaints alleging antisemitism arising from nine incidents within our jurisdiction. However, antisemitic ism is not pervasive in berkeley unified School District. When investigations show that an antisemitic event has occurred, we take action to teach, correct and redirect our students. The superintendent also added. They dont publicly share what actions are taken because student information and Personnel Matters are private and protected under law and by union contracts. Well, tomorrow is the big vote. Will oakland rename its airport . Last month, the port of oakland board of commissioners approved a plan to rename Oakland International to the San Francisco bay Oakland International airport. A few days later, San Francisco filed a lawsuit to stop infringement on sfos trademark. Today San Francisco City Attorney david chu sent a letter to the oakland port commissioners. He wants both cities San Francisco and oakland, to come up with alternative names. Tomorrow, the port commissioners will have their final vote on the possible name change. Were back in 60s. Just ahead, the controversial ipad commercial. Why apples new ad is leaving a sour taste in some peoples mouths trending upward. Bedbugs. An east bay family learned a hard lesson on vacation. Im consumer investigator chris chmura well help them get their money back and will help you avoid this six legged nuisance. Next im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, heating up. Look at this. Santa rosa today, 83. Well above the average of 73. How hot it goes for tomorrow one east bay family needed help from our Response Team to correct a costly insect issue that detoured their trip. Yeah this is no good. Lets bring in our consumer investigator chris kamara. Chris theres stuff crawling all over them nathan gaithers recent trip might leave you scratching your head, arms and legs. I went to kentucky. Thats where i went to school. And my High School Best Friend from pleasanton was actually getting married out there. His photo album includes friends, family and bedbugs. In an airbnb. All it took was pulling back the covers and looking just at the line of the mattress and they were kind of all over the place. The gaithers learned the hard way that the bedbug population is bouncing back. There is more of a risk. Thats orkin entomologist ben hottel, he says. Bedbugs are hitchhikers, and covid slowed them down. We saw really drastic reduction in bedbugs because people werent traveling as much, but now people are traveling again. So the bedbug population is growing again. It is not as common as it used to be, but once again, its been increasing more and more hottel suggests we all check for bedbugs on vacation immediately inspect the bed and box spring close looks around there and the cracks and crevices thats usually where theyre going to be hiding at. Next, turn your attention to the headboard. Bang on the headboard a little bit, to see if theyll scatter from behind. Theyre all clear, rest assured, but play it safe anyway. Keep your suitcase away from the bed. Dont like . Open it up and leave it on on top of the bed because thats usually where the bedbugs are at. When you get home, fire up the washer and dryer. Hoddle says high heat should kill any six legged souvenirs and any hopes they have of infesting your home. That is some strong incentive to do the laundry as soon as you get home . Right . Yeah, exactly. If you if you dont, who knows whats in them . So where are you most likely to encounter bedbugs . Orkin recently compiled this 50 worst us cities list. Chicago, new york and philadelphia sit at the top. San francisco ranked 41st. And thats just based off of what weve what weve seen with our business, louisville, where nathan encountered bedbugs, ranked 49th, just behind San Francisco. So what happened after finding these fiends, his family hightailed it to a hotel that last minute booking cost them 1,200 extra. Nathan expected airbnb to cover the bill, but airbnb was kind of shutting us down. I was paying the entire marriott stay out of pocket completely. He was frustrated and contacted us. I watch nbc bay area all the time and i see your program, nbc responds. We contacted airbnb immediately. I was like, red carpet service. Airbnb didnt share any details, but nathan says it covered the cost of the Emergency Hotel and refunded his airbnb booking. It was a giant chunk of change. Yeah, i think it was almost 2,000. It was. It was quite a lot. Yeah, thank you for helping us out. Orkin says hotels especially big chains, have generally adopted a pest control routine to prevent bedbug outbreaks. Well, what about vacation rentals, mom and pops . Well ask them up front before you spend any money. What are you doing about bedbugs . And what are you going to do if we find him . We have the full 50 city bedbug list on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Com slash response. While youre there, you can contact us. Just like the Gaither Family did. Snap this qr code to fill out our Consumer Complaint form online kris. Thank you. Theres people watching in bed right now going, oh honey, do we check the bed boards . Oh, boards shake up. I mean, i guess some good tips. Do i just checked to they kind of thrive between 70 to 90 degrees. So where we are. Yeah. So when temperatures start to warm up they do tend to get active. So you know lets all do that check. Great story there chris. We are looking at some hotter weather moving in as we head through tomorrow with this area of high pressure. And check this out. Warmest stretch of weather weve seen all year long. Speaking of which, only five weekends this year with back to back sunshine and 2024, were going to be able to add to that and in a big way for this upcoming weekend. Only thing we got to get over here is a little bit of wind for tomorrow. Let me show you more details right now in that microclimate forecast. And as we head into tomorrow morning right here at 7 00, i do see some gusty winds, 20 to about 40mph with that focus of wind across marin, napa, sonoma counties, santa rosa, 27, napa 29. But once again, in some of the mountain peaks, we could get up to about 40. Then as we head through tomorrow night, that wind will begin to calm on down. Now, because that wind is going to be drying and coming out of the north and the east. Its also going to warm up morning temperatures. So pretty nice here to start for tomorrow morning. On the mild side were down to 59 in the trivalley south bay. At 58 were dipping it down to 59 there in the north bay and San Francisco right here at 56. As we roll through tomorrow afternoon, were going to warm up another 4 to 8 degrees. So this is going to be so enjoyable on our thursday forecast. Look at this. Down in the south bay we are back up to 83. In los gatos 84 in san jose gets even hotter for parts of the east bay. Check it out. Out towards antioch we are close to 90 degrees with my forecast at 88. Concord 87 and talk about another warm day for you in oakland 84 degrees. Maybe you have the day off. Want to head to the beaches . Look at this. Were going to 70 and Half Moon Bay 78 daly city down here to redwood city 83. And yes, we are doing it. San francisco downtown in the mission in the low 80s up towards the marina. Were at 70 and for the north bay 86 in napa, even out towards bodega bay looking at 77. So we have the calm weather sunshine here, but it is the opposite story through the central and eastern part of the us. I did want to bring you the Severe Weather. Weve been tracking tonight, and some tornado activity in tennessee, and alabama right now. Tornado watches extend from arkansas through parts of kentucky, tennessee and south carolina. And the Severe Weather tomorrow stretches from dallas to atlanta, where tornadoes and strong storms with large hail will be possible. So be careful if youre headed that way. On my 7day forecast, were keeping in the 70s in San Francisco through saturday. Drop it off a little bit on sunday, but still good for all the moms out there. And then for the inland valleys. Were in the 80s all the way through the next seven days. This is very beautiful, enjoyable for sure. Were going to enjoy it. Thanks, jeff. Thanks, jeff. Yeah. Just ahead, the top pick in the nhl draft is coming to san jose. The presumed top pick. Well tell you why. The warriors not just the sharks. While the warriors are also thrilled about this. And we have jimmy. Hey everyone. Whoopi goldberg is my guest tonight. Plus Gracie Abrams i which is west of sacramento, according to his attorney. Often described as a liberal republican, mccloskey opposed the vietnam war and ran on an antiwar platform term to try to unseat president nixon in 1972. He served in congress from 1967 to 1983, winning reelection seven times and representing parts of the peninsula and south bay. He championed environmental causes, coauthored the 1973 endangered species act, and helped launch the first earth day. Pete mccloskey was 96. Apple is famous for its clever ads, but a new one for the new ultrathin ipad pro is not sitting well with a lot of people. Sometimes when im down and all alone, this is it. Ceo tim cook tweeted it out this morning. It didnt take long before criticism started pouring in on social media, especially from artists and marketers who were surprised that apple would literally crush objects used to create art. You dont have to lug around a paint can or, you know, a bunch of pencils or the piano or whatever. Like you can do all these things on the ipad, but the proper way to send that message is not by destroying all these tools. Apple did not respond to our requests for comment. Okay, up next, a history making day for one of the members button. But hold on, dont panic. Quite. Give it some time. The strength of this team is pitching, and at some point, hopefully soon, the pitching will come through. Tonight in denver. Forget pitching. Its all about offense. When youre playing the rockies in colorado. Well pick it up in the second inning. A huge second inning for the giants. Michael conforto with the home run. No doubt about it, that was gone. Later in the second inning, jungwoo lee with the rbi double off the wall almost gone, but it stays in the park. Run comes around to score. Giants outslug the rockies 8 to 6. Your final score this friday. The giants kick off a three game series against the reds. Theyre coming back home here to oracle park. You can watch all the action right here on nbc. Bay area the giants on nbc orange friday. Our coverage begins at 7 p. M. All right, at the coliseum this afternoon. As and rangers, perfect weather for grilling. You cant do that in vegas, Shea Langeliers had a monster day. Eight rbis in this doubleheader. Eight breaks the record for rbis in a double header for the as set by Reggie Jackson in 1969. The as beat the rangers 9 to 4 in game one and then lose 12 to 11. In g