They did not drop the knife after being shot with a nonlethal bean bag weapon. Thats when the shooting had to occur. Were getting more details and our helicopter is heading to the scene. This is 19th street between van ness and folsom. Both are open but watch the area of 19th and avoid that twoblock area. Were tracking it. For now back to you. We have pete headed to the area as well and well check in with him as soon as he gets there. Happening now, major talks under way on how to deal with a very serious housing crisis throughout the bay area. Dhuchuck, tell us the latest reporter the bay area is very good at job growth but not housing growth. The mayors of san jose, oakland and San Francisco along with by area congressional representatives joined Julian Castro to find answers to the bay areas housing crisis. You are going to be hearing stories, mr. Secretary, about 97yearold women who are being evicted from homes they have lived in for 60 years. I have the pleasure of having more than six of my city mayors from San Mateo County here this morning because the crisis is so grave. Reporter one suggestion, the bay area no longer needs to lure companies to relocate here, but instead find ways to help those companies that have already started here. We have an affordability crisis in the bay area, and thats not just about the ability of our residents to afford housing, but also the cost of living. And those are the two sides of the problem that we have got to attack. Reporter oaklands mayor vows her city will add 17,000 Housing Units within the next eight years but said other communities need to do their share to add housing as they add jobs. One area being discussed is that the Companies Need to factor Housing Needs when they add jobs or move here as well as the communities that work so hard to attract businesses in the first place. Im chuck coppola, nbc bay area news. A live look right now at at t park. We are bringing you all things giants ahead of todays home opener against the rival dodgers. Game time 1 35 at at t park. So what will the weather be like . Im going to guess perfect for baseball, anthony. Hey, good morning. Yeah, in fact were waking up with temperatures that have been pretty cool all day long and now here we are at lunchtime, 11 02 and were watching the giants and they are opening up and practicing right now, doing a few throws, did some stretches earlier, and its beautiful weather out here. Were talking temperatures right around game time in the upper 60s. 68 degrees expected by then. The temperatures will be falling through the low 60s with more cloud cover than we actually saw yesterday. The good news is that temperatures arent going to be as hot today. Nothing like we saw yesterday. No 80s and 90s. Across most of the bay area were talking temperatures in the mid70s for our inland locations, so thats great news. First pitch, 68 degrees. As i mentioned, winds will be gusting out of the westsouthwest at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Now, right now im joined by a big, big man, big shot man, larry. Larry, good to see you. You are the ceo, correct, of the giants . Yes. And spectacular weather were having today. Well, its great. Look, opening day is just we try to make it a city holiday. We havent quite gotten that done but thats the way it feels. Its a festive day of rejuvenation. The ballpark is all decorated. Everybody comes in orange and black and its one of the great days of the year. It is a great day. The weather really held out as well. With all the new technology, the ipads and the Virtual Reality, how do you actually keep the fans attention here with all of the new things on the phone app . Well, the great thing about baseball is its the kind of sport that there are a lot of games and it has a pace that you can do things between pitches, between innings that help stimulate your enjoyment of the game. For instance, weve introduced Virtual Reality now. We have Virtual Reality goggles where fans can actually put them on and see the game a different way. I think thats a very cool thing and something well be talking about a lot this year. Ultimately fans and maybe even players will use vr in new and exciting ways. Were a Silicon Valley team, lets be in the forefront. My final question here is with all the employees here, i was coming in through the back and saw so many employees. How many people does it take to put Something Like this together . You know, its interesting. At the back of house i just spoke to the day of game employees. Over the course of a year theres 1500 plus, 2,000 plus different people to put our concessionaires and the people that take you to your seat, the people greeting you as you walk through the gates. Its a big operation but an operation were very proud of. These are people that love the giants and as much as they love the giants, they love giants fans. Customer service is probably our most important business and we focus on that a lot. Youre doing an excellent job. Were standing here watching the giants get ready, were all excited, and the weather couldnt have been better. A gorgeous day. Its better at 70 degrees than 90 degrees like yesterday, so were good to go. Lets do it. T it wouldnt be right for San Francisco to have a hot day. We have to be moderate and a little breeze in the afternoon. Thats exactly what were getting, larry baer, thank you for joining us. All right, sending it back to you, were waiting on game time, 1 35, well be tracking it all along. Lucky you. You can stay with nbc bay area all day long for complete coverage of todays home opener. Well have highlights and the pomp and the circumstance all tonight at 5 00 and 6 00. Well, the search is on for a hitandrun driver who caused a deadly crash on the peninsula. A toyota siena minivan clipped a scion. It lost control, rolled over and crashed into the Center Divide and that driver was killed. The driver of the van never stopped. Officers believe the hitandrun driver was in a light brown 2000 toyota siena similar to this one. Call the chp if you have any information. Another deadly accident this time in San Francisco on 101. A motorcycle crashed just north of eastbound interstate 80. This happened last night. And the motorcyclist died at the scene. So far no word on a cause. Authorities have released new video of the socalled man in white behind the Brussels Airport bombing. They are pleading for the publics help in tracing his escape from the scene of the attack. Earlier video of the suspect show him walking through the airport with two accomplices. Those two men blew themselves up in the attack. Back here at home now, the warriors have been making history this entire season. They sure have and they are doing it once again. For the first time ever, an nba game featuring the warriors will be shown live in an imax theater. Happening tonight at new park mall in newark. Damian trujillo is there. Damian, people really excited because thats a tough ticket to get to go to the stadium. Reporter absolutely. And theyre putting the finishing touches on what should be an awesome experience at new park mall. They have a surprise guest that will be here for the game presentation. Again, it starts at 6 30 tonight in newark. The imax theater seats about 250 people. The game is exclusive to American Express card members and believe it or not it sold out in five hours. The two best teams in the nba face off at oracle arena tonight. The warriors are still chasing the nba record for most wins in a season but they have to win all four remaining games to get there. Tonights game could be a preview of the big matchups during the playoffs. Theyre calling this the firstever Live Streaming sporting event at an imax theater in the united states. Organizers are calling this a viewing Party Tonight here at new park mall and admission comes with free concessions tonight. There will be a Party Outside the amc 12 as well. Tonights game against the spurs will be nationally televised. So tonight will be a test to see if the dubs are tired from the grueling season or if they still have fuel left in the tank to take on a premiere tank like the spurs. Tonight jason richardson, former warrior, will be here tonight for the presentation. This imax theater is pretty impressive. They built it to revitalize the mall here at new park and it should give them a huge shot in the arm. Im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Speaking of movies, only the magic that hollywood can make, the Wizarding World of harry potter at Universal Studios opened today. Its an immersive experience five years in the making, hogwarts castle is the focal point of the world where people have been reading about harry potter for years. The food is inspired by the series as well. Bangers and mash and beer including hogs head brew and dragons ale. Up next at 11 00, the deal has been made but what does Sir Richard Branson think about Alaska Airlines buying Virgin America . Plus president obamas stance when it comes to limiting encryption on smartphones. Sct cstalg ns o ofhe i welcome back. Its been a rougher day today on the markets. The dow industrials down better than 200 points. Lower oil prices, that always drives the markets crazy. Startling news out of the white house this morning. Reuters reports the president will not support a bill going through congress that would limit encryption in phones and other technology. This goes to the heart of the fbiapple squabble. The proposed bill is called burrfeinstein. The sudden change by the white house will be a big surprise to california senator, dianne feinstein. Startling news from tesla as well. Tesla says 325,000 cars have been put on reserve at 1,000 a pop. This is due out in 2017. As we pointed out in the past, making that many cars will be difficult for the company. It currently only makes 50,000 cars a year. Over the next year, we do expect Alaska Airlines will absorb Virgin America, assuming it gets governmental approval. Virgin america was our hometown airline. It was a big giants supporter, flying the world series trophy around, even painting that beard on the front of one of its planes. But new this morning, the founder of the virgin brand, Richard Branson, told travel magazine he would consider starting a new airline in the u. S. With the vuirgin brand. This article came out as Virgin America was named the best airline in the united states. So he wants to start a new airline. Why doesnt he just keep the airline that he has . I dont understand. He said that he could not vote against the merger, he didnt have the power. All right. Well, speaking of Virgin America, is it true nbc bay area . Sam brock has todays reality check. After taking off in 2007 as a stylish alternative to americas otherwise hohum world of commercial flying, Virgin America is now in the midst of a takeover. Well say price was the primary thing here. Reporter the companys ceo, david cush, talking on cnbc about a 2. 6 billion deal with Alaska Airlines that immediately jolted virgins stock price. Founder Sir Richard Branson told the airlines Loyal Customer pace the deal saddened him. On his blog branson wrote, quote, because im not american, the u. S. Department of transportation stipulated i take some of my shares in Virgin America as nonvoting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing i could do to stop it. Is that true . The fact is correct. Reporter Ronald Gilson is an expert in corporate and Securities Law at stanford, who backs up bransons claim over the fine print. U. S. Transportation code requires, quote, at least 75 of the voting interest in a company to be owned or controlled by persons that are citizens of the united states. But its also true branson made a lot of money on this sale. Close to 800 million. And millions more for his investors. And gilson says even if branson put together his own group to make a competitive bid, that deal would not have been this sweet. Could he put together a private equity group that could match alaskas price. And its hard to see how Virgin America is worth anything close to the price alaska paid to anybody but alaska. Reporter and gilson said Alaska Airlines paid an 83 premium on virgin shares based on where the market had it priced. This merger was about business and the fact that airlines really cant survive on their own today. Consider this, when Richard Branson founded Virgin America back in 07, there were nine major airlines. Today there are four. This transaction was kind of inevitable. For reality check, im sam brock. Back to you. And we want to have more on that breaking news out of San Francisco that we have been following. Were going to get to that in just a moment as we gather details, but we want to go back out to meteorologist anthony slaughter. You said earlier, perfect weather, if you do say so yourself. Yes, i would say so. This is beautiful. Were talking about winds that are light, theres a nice breeze out here. Youve got some sunshine, youve got some clouds and youve got the giants, come on, it doesnt get any better than this. They have been doing some practice warmup, some pitching, some stretching. About an arms length between me and angel pagan. The allimportant home opener. Were looking at temperatures that will be nice and comfortable, upper 60s where we should be for this time of year. So yes, perfect baseball weather. As we round out the game we are talking about mostly cloudy skies. Winds will be kicking later on this evening as that fog starts to return out of the westsouthwest at 20 miles per hour. So we may have a few foul balls on the dodgers side but i dont think well have to worry about that for the giants. Well be looking at temperatures in the mid to upper 70s today for our inland locations. At the coastline it still will be cool, talking mid60s there. But the north bay, east bay and even the trivalley will see temperatures in the mid70s. As we move ahead to the next few days, we do have some changes in store. As we round out the day today, well be mostly cloudy and we have showers in the forecast as soon as tonight across parts of the bay area. I think tomorrow morning well wake up to some light rain but its not going to be anything heavy. Some light showers are possible through the day on friday and they will continue on saturday. Your threeday outlook does expect some rain tomorrow but by the end of the day well see clouds roll on in. For the weekend its going to stay cool with showers ending by saturday. Ike if youre trying to get outside and enjoy some dry time, sunday is the day to do so. So back out here live, i do want to show you the sight and let you hear some of the sounds. They have got the music cranking and you can see the giants behind me getting ready, all abuzz here, folks trickling into the stadium. You just couldnt ask for a better day. If we had to have this ball game yesterday in San Francisco up to 90 degrees yesterday, i dont think we would have had too many happy faces out here. But today its just spectacular. You can smell the food is cooking and im telling you, they have got some Amazing Things for fans out here. The Virtual Reality booth as you heard larry talking earlier, the ceo of giants. Even right now they have got some of the giants throwing the balls out to some of the kids out in the stands, so really just exciting. You couldnt ask for better weather. You couldnt ask for better fans either. So youve still got time to get on down here, 1 30 first pitch and things are starting to get crowded. Remember the sunscreen and remember to drink water. Guys, back on over to you. All right, anthony, you enjoy. And now we want to take you back out to San Francisco for that breaking news that we started with at the top of the hour. This is video from our chopper, which is overhead. Our newsroom confirmed an officer shot and killed a man in the citys mission district. This happened at 19th and south van ness avenue. To clarify as mike inouye said this is 19th street and not 19th avenue. The suspect was carrying a gun, which police say he refused to drop after repeated attempts rather, he was carrying a knife which he then refused to drop after repeated requests. We do have a reporter there on the scene trying to gather more details there on the ground. Pete will bring us more details as we get them. You can also follow him on twitter. He is bringing updates there as well. But again, a San FranciscoPolice Officer has shot and killed a man in the mission district. We will continue to cover that. Up next as we have been mentioning, the home opener less than two hours away. Fans sitting behind home plate will notice something very different. Well show you what that is coming up after the break. First, happening now, California Republicans seem to like donald trump. In the latest field poll he leads ted cruz by seven points, but nbc bay area political analysts say that lead isnt as significant as youd expect. We have more information on nbcbayarea. Com. Brandon crawford wants the season home opener to be a citywide holiday. Well have that story on our home page as well. Well be back with more news. You recognize that song . That is come on get higher my Matt Nathanson who will perform the National Anthem at the giants home opener this afternoon. The giants are encouraging all fans to be in their seats by 12 45 for the pregame ceremony. There will be special tributes to giants greats Jim Davenport and hall of famer monte irving, both of whom passed away in the offseason. In the meantime, safety first. Fans sitting in the lower deck between home plate and dugouts will no longer have a perfectly clear line of sight because the giants installed new netting. For the fans it might be a nuisance but for the team it is all about protection. Today in the bays bob redell explains. Back in the seats in a hurry. Reporter the 2015 baseball season wasnt always kind to ballpark goers. Foul balls walloped fans in the stands. So theres a fan, shes okay. They will take her out of the ballpark now. Reporter hospitalizing some, permanently injuring others. Its so important to create fan safety. Reporter while no one has been gravely injured by a foul ball at at t park, Major League Baseball strongly recommended all teams better protect fans. The giants have now extended the protective netting behind the batter to the home plate edge of each dugout and raised the nets from 20 to 25 feet. A lot of kids just in thai o their onesies and the ball comes shooting back and you have little ones, that could be dangerous. We think the net will work as a protective shield for people but also not really be intrusive at all in terms of the viewing of the game. Reporter Team President and ceo larry baer says the new configuration has allowed the team to remove several of the support walls and horizontalal cross bar, leaving in their place support cables that are much less intrusive. Its kind of a clear netting so everybodys look is good. Jake peavy will take the hill for the giants squaring off against the dodgers alex wood. Well get that going at 1 35. I was out at the stadium today. I didnt even notice the nets. I guess i hadnt noticed they didnt have them so i think its great theyre putting them in. They have so much wifi there, 1600 hot spots so people are doing this. So probably a good idea that we have the nets. Probably is. Up next at 11 00, a happy end to a very sad story. The thieves who stole a very special scooter among other things from the Makeawish Foundation are behind bars. Coming up, well show you what happened to that scooter. Saf ra scwe foowi homes are not onedimensional. Why use traditional aerosols that are . New air wick room mist with life scents is a multilayered fragrance, just like scents in real life. Finally, a truetolife fragrance, for your lively home. Air wick. Home is in the air. We return with breaking news. We have more information that were following. Our newsroom confirming there has been a shooting. An officer has shot and killed a man in the citys mission district. This is at 19th and south van ness avenue. The suspect carrying a knife that police say he refused to drop. We have a crew headed to the scene, but of course this comes during a lot of controversy over the Police Department and officerinvolved shootings. The hunter pence scooter now in the hands of the Rightful Owner this morning. San Francisco Police returned it to the Makeawish Foundation which then handed it over to the woman whose family bid on it. Officers say three men stole that scooter along with ipads and computer equipment from the charitys building on saturday and they were caught on Surveillance Video which was key in tracking those suspects down. They are now behind bars. And in about 30 minutes, San Francisco leaders will debate a plan to tighten the screws on sanctuary policies. The ordinance could bar all officers to notify customs agents about individuals released from custody except under limited circumstances. That plan being debated by supervisors would go beyond the citys current sanctuary law. The law is under fire following last years deadly shooting of kate steinle. I. C. E. Agents wanted to deport that suspect but the Sheriffs Department chose not to notify the federal government when they released lopez sanchez. Theres a glimmer of hope that a strike by Cal State University teachers can be avoided. Teachers plan to walk off the job next wednesday in the first of five days of strikes, but yesterday the university and unions representing all 23 campuses entered into a closeddoor, 48hour high level negotiating period. There is hope a deal can be reached by tomorrow. San francisco says city workers may not travel to mississippi on city business. This after the passage of a controversial antigay law there. Mayor ed lee says San Francisco taxpayers will not subsi size legally sangsed hate and bigotry against any person or group. San francisco is joining dozens of other states, cities and businesses banning nonessential travel to mississippi and to the state of North Carolina which also passed a controversial law. Hundreds have gathered at Mississippi State capitol in protest of their new law which allows businesses to discriminate. Another east bay city is hoping to crack down on sugary drinks. Oakland wants voters to decide whether the city should tax some highcalorie drinks. That measure will be heard in committee today. If it passes there, it goes before the entire city council. If approved, voters would then be able to make their decision in november. Berkeley residents approved the first local soda fee in 2014. And around the clock security is now under way at San Jose City hall because there has been a surge in graffiti at city hall and nearby businesses downtown. Taggers hit city hall four times over the last month. Just last week the city said it was not going to reinstate security officers, but then the graffiti problem got so bad the city changed its stance. The extra security will help the entire community. And an emotional homecoming for the family of a prisoner of war. His flagdraped casket was carried off a plane at sfo last night. The korean war veteran, a native San Francisco an, was declared missing in action 65 years ago. His relatives were there to greet the casket as it was carefully taken off that plane. This is the day the bay area family dreamed of. Cheryl hurd was there. To bring him home and to have closure for our family is just very emotional. Reporter that emotion showed as Corporal Robert grahams casket was walked toward his family and placed in the waiting hearse. Its something that my aunts and uncles and my mother had always dreamed about, having this closure. Reporter closure the family thought would never happen when corporal graham, a 21yearold member of the u. S. Army, was sent to fight in the korean war and never returned. So the official report was that in 1953 is that he did pass away in a p. O. W. Camp. Reporter he was declared missing in action two years prior to that when his unit came under attack. Its a day that i always hoped for. Reporter Nicole Venturelli only knew about her uncle through her late father. The military asked us many years ago to submit some dna. Reporter james george along with his cousin submitted their dna. Last fall they found out there was a match after testing comingled remains for dozens of veterans. Tonight he had the honor of escorting his uncle from hawaii to sfo, his final journey home. We still have 5800 soldiers, sailors, marines that are still missing from the korean war. 4800 of them are in north korea. And those families wont have the closure that i have. Reporter cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. Donald trump, ted cruz are fighting for new york. Thats the next big state the republican president ial candidates need to get in their race for the white house. After showing signs of weakness in wisconsin, donald trump is now enjoying the home court advantage. Nbcs Peter Alexander has the latest. Reporter like a night at Madison Square garden, donald trump basking in the new york spotlight. Its great to be home. This is home. Its great to be home. Reporter in front of 10,000 supporters on new yorks long island, the republican frontrunner interrupted far more often by cheering fans than angry protesters. I love these people. These are my people. Reporter taunting his rival. You know, lyin ted cruz came today. He couldnt draw a hundred people. Do you remember during the debate when he started lecturing me on new york values, like were no good, like were no good. Reporter earlier ted cruz trying to clarify those comments, insisting trumps a new york liberal. The people of new york know exactly what those values are. Theyre the values of liberal democratic politicians like andrew cuomo, like anthony weiner, like eliot spitzer. Reporter and firing back at trump for accusing cruz and party bosses of trying to steal the nomination. Donald can always be counted on to take the high road and to demonstrate class. Reporter but bronx protesters told cruz to hit the road at a campaign stop. This is an immigrant community an immigrant community we love you, cruz. God bless you. Get out of the bronx. Reporter getting more of a bronx jeer than cheer over his immigration platform. Despite his wisconsin loss, the empire state is embracing trump. 52 of republicans behind him. Still, trumps path to the nomination is hardly a sure thing. To reach the magic number of delegates to avoid a contested convention in cleveland, trump must win 58 of the 822 remaining delegates. His top aides huddling with the new Campaign Coordinator wednesday. The billionaire getting a boost from ivanka introducing just nine days after giving birth to her son, theodore. I will tell you, it was not easy to leave him for so much as a minute to be here, but it was incredibly important to me that i did. Up next at 11 00, a new treat for giants trying to well show you the beer coming up. Retn otheian. Thes moment welcome back. Its not just the businesses that are hoping to boom with the return of the giants, theres a move to boost the most vulnerable. The kids that are in and out of trouble and feeling lost. Well show you how its happening on a field all of its own. Reporter after three world championships, you could say the field of dreams in the bay area is at t park. Now others have built another field, hoping more people will come. Just look across the street. Theres the 9yearold San Francisco girl with the learning challenge. I have a little struggle like reading. Reporter and the Young Oakland man who was sleeping on the streets at 17. I was in and out of jail a lot and addicted to drugs. Reporter but they found their solace on the soccer field, thanks to street soccer usa. Its mission is to build more fields in cities like San Francisco. Theres kids out there depending on stuff like this. Reporter people like philip jones who said hed still be homeless without this. And kids like anicole frazier. It really made me bring out myself. Reporter the cofounder says the new field just yards from the home of the giants is a giant win. His group rents out the space to tech and other companies that pay for their time on the field. Its money that will fund play time for kids who cant afford it, kids who practice in the big city every chance they get. Kids who are living in low Income Housing developments, living below the poverty line. Reporter and were trying to work on making more soccer fields in San Francisco. Reporter street soccer usa has spread to 16 cities with more than 1100 trained volunteers who mostly help coach the players. It was important to have role models and mentors. And the coaches on my soccer team are both of that. Reporter thats not the only influence these guys are striving for. This is where worlds collide. Those paying to play and those playing for so much more. When you are playing alongside someone and everyone is wearing a uniform and striving for the same thing, it kind of reframes your thought process on kind of who the other is in society and it brings us closer together. Reporter a bridge to a path of real understanding and to new futures. Ill be a year sober next month and im a College Student and im working. Reporter just wait and see. My goal is to be on the u. S. Girls soccer team. Reporter in San Francisco at the yard, stephanie chuang, nbc bay area news. A Beautiful Day for soccer. Lets take a look at the forecast one last time with meteorologist anthony slaughter. I heard you saying earlier youre about to peel off your fleece, its getting warm out there . Yeah, it is starting to warm up. In fact im probably going to lose this police pretty soon because temperatures are warming up. Weve got some sunshine and the fans are excited, let me tell you. Every time you get one of the giants run back into the dugout, youve got fans over here yelling for autographs. And the giants are so just considerate. I mean here they are practicing for their home opener. Youve got fans wanting their autograph. They could say, no, ive got something to do, ive got a big day, but they stop and sign autographs. Let me tell you, the line is long for autographs. There are lots of folks here already before the game is even just starting. Youve got the chopper overhead, youve got fans filtering in. Yeah, you can hear theyre excited. So lets talk some weather, shall we . At first pitch we are expecting to see temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. How about 68 degrees. We may even be about 70 now that were starting to see more sunshine. We are expecting clouds to roll on in as we head into the evening hours. Along with those clouds it will be a little breezy toward the evening as well and thats the marine layer that will be with us for tomorrow morning. Also keep in mind there is some rain in the forecast for tomorrow, but for today its still pretty nice. Our inland locations will look at temperatures in the mid70s. 78 for san jose, cool at the coastline, 60s today replaced by 80s and 90s we saw just yesterday. The trivalley, the east bay and the north bay will be looking at temperatures again much cooler but much more tolerable as well. Mid to upper 70s across most of our inland locations. Now, tonight we do have more clouds that will be rolling in ahead of a system that will slide up the southern coastline. Thats going to bring the chance for some rain as we head towards tomorrow morning. Nothing really heavy but we are expecting light showers for that morning commute. By saturday those showers will start to taper off. If youre trying to make any outdoor plans, id say saturday afternoon and sunday are your days to go ahead and try to get outside because friday i do think its going to be kind of gray and cool. Youll notice that threeday outlook does show temperatures will stay cool ove the course of the weekend, so nothing, absolutely nothing like what we saw just yesterday. That was once in a lifetime deal. But we are expecting to move closer to summer. Just hang on, well get to august in the meantime. But it is still april. Our average highs for this time of year are still in the upper 60s. So right where we should be. Here back out live and you can see we are talking giants home opener. Orange and black really starting to flood into the stadium right now. The giants just got off the field. They were practicing, warming up, hitting some home runs out over the outer wall there. Now the l. A. Dodgers are taking the field, so im going to go ahead and send it back to you. Youll stay nice as cool as the dodgers just keep whiffing. Thats a good one. Beer is one of the best things about at ts ballpark, of course. This year there is a new brew in the mix. Its orange. They teamed up to create giants orange splash lager. Its brewed yogz all the usual natural techniques but specialty malt to give it a orange hue. Because we brewed it with orange peels and orange juice in the brew, you can smell orange zest and taste the orangeyness. Well, orange splash will also be in stores in Northern California and nevada. This marks the first collaboration between a Brewing Company and a Major League Team ever. The giants are very good at spreading their brand. Yeah, they really are. We saw some interesting things in the gift shop as well. They have a levis jacket with giants on the back and levis only partnering with a couple of mlb teams. Well, thats interesting. Yeah. Im glad its just a lager and not an ipa. Dont like those. A battle over bmi. How one teens stand on body images triggered a new debate over a health statistic. L s igent she welcome back. An indiana teen refused to do a school assignment. She was supposed to calculate her bmi. But instead, her refusal ended in a fearless and persuasive letter to her school. As nbcs hoda kotb reports, the girls action is prompting a conversation in being body positive. Reporter star eighth grade softball player tessa embree is swinging for the fences both on and off the field. I just just beginning to love my body like i should and im not going to let some outdated calculator and a middle school gym teacher tell me i am obese because im not. Reporter in this essay she slammed a homework assignment asking her to calculate her body mass index, or bmi, as a measure of her health. My body and my bmi are perfect and beautiful, just the way they are. Well, the response from an eighth grade girl from indiana that she gave to a class assignment has now gone viral. Reporter tessa hit a nerve as supporters cheered her on, saying i wish i had her confidence and bravo. Some girls in my class had been labeled obese and overweight when they really werent, including me. And i knew i wasnt obese. I just felt like she shouldnt be letting us feel that way about ourselves when its totally inaccurate. Reporter tessa argued that body mass index doesnt distinguish between muscle, fat and bone so even athletes in perfect shape could be labeled obese. Health experts say she has a point. Bmi is just one small imperfect factor that you use when you assess someones Current Health status and their risk for disease. And it can be wrong in either direction when calculating someones obesity. However, its good that bmi is being talked about by the school, because its bringing attention to health and wellness. Reporter in a statement to nbc news, the school says all of our students are taught Healthy Habits in an effort to provide a foundation for a healthy lifestyle. And that the question regarding bmi was part of a larger assignment. The school praised tessa for starting a positive conversation. Like some teenage girls, tessa is outspoken about her struggle with body image. I was really proud of her for standing up for what she believes in. I could stand to lose a couple pounds, but im not necessarily obese. I make very healthy choices. You shouldnt necessarily let one number define you. Conversation is always a good thing. Yes, it is. A first of its kind set of standards for the modeling industry in california now taking its first small steps down the political runway. 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