Rancho feeding corporation recalled more than 8 Million Pounds of beef. At that time there were allegations that the plant had improperly processed cows that had eye cancer. According to the indictment released today, one of the owners ordered employees to carve usdacondemned stamps out of the cattles carcasses. The animals that failed inspection were then processed and distributed for human consumption. In addition the heads from cancereyed cows were chopped up, thrown away, and employees placed the heads from apparently healthy cows next to the cancer eye cow carcasses. The indictment says the switch and slaughter of uninspected cancereyed cows occurred during the inspectors lunch breaks when the plant was supposed to be shut down. The indicted are eveners jesse bay amerol jr. And will be better singleton of petaluma. Employees Felix Sandoval cabrera of santa rosa and gene core cara of petaluma. The indictment states the meat from 101 condition demmed cows and 79 cancereyed cows were processed and distributing. Maximum penalty if convicted could compete 20 years in prison. The recall that started on february the 8th affected Food Processors across the nation including nestles hot pockets. What put investigators on to the alleged scheme is when meat inspectors found two cattle heads that were infected with cancer, but there were no carcasses to go with those heads. Today jesse amara and eugene corda were in court to plead not guilty. One is out on bond, the other sp spent the afternoon here at the courthouse trying to raise the money for his release. The owners have yet to make their initial appearances here in federal court. It is a complex story with a lot of details. Read the entire indictment on our website, front page at nbcbayarea. Com. Happening now, a big traffic mess. A major east bay roadway is still closed tonight after a truck crashed. What made everything so complicated was that the truck slammed into a power pole on concord boulevard. The force flipped the truck, splintered the pole, dropping power lines down to the street. 17 hub homes loss electricity. The truck driver, a contractor with pg e, was not hurt. Drivers are being detoured around the area. The roadway is not expected to open for four hours. A scary scene inside one of the most popular churches in the bay area. A man was stabbed at glide memorial this morning at the San Francisco church in the tenderloin. Police say a staff member was stabbed in the shoulder and is expected to survive. The attacker took off and jumped onto a muni bus. Sfpd officers arrested him. No word yet what sparked this attack. Following up on the 49ers game at levis stadium, police say a few celebrations did get out of hand and they made a few arrests. In all 12 people were arrested, most of those for public intoxication. Police arrested one person for threatening a Police Officer. Investigators gave no further details about what may have happened or what charges that suspect may now be facing. Perhaps a slight bit of good news when it comes to californias historic drought. Its not getting any worse. A live look right now. Pretty dry for the middle of the summer. The latest measurements indicate that Drought Conditions across the state have leveled off. At the same time, nearly 100 of the state is still experiencing severe Drought Conditions. More than 80 of the state is under extreme Drought Conditions. Jeff ranieri has a first look at the microclimate forecast. Looks like well have a slight chance of a few raindrops in that extended forecast. As we look here at the drought monitor, the other astonishing thing is 58 of california remains in the exceptional drought. That is the worst category that is available. Zoom in, get a closer look. 98 of the bay area in that exceptional level of drought. The only location in the extreme level right now is marin county. That will likely get worse throughout the next 24 to 36 days. The biggest threat were under with this drought most immediately is wildfire threat. According to the National Fire agency, there is an aboveaverage possibility of significant wildfires that may develop. So with any rainfall on the horizon, that of course could help our drought situation and fire danger, at least intermead i cant tell. Were tracking two tropical systems. Ill let you know our chance of getting rainfall from this in our forecast in a few minutes. Speed and alcohol are being blamed in a crash that closed a major san hee expressway for hours. Police say a driver in a mercedes ran a red light on ocala avenue and capital expressway last night, plowed into a van, and rolled causing a Chain Reaction with six other cars. The driver of that mercedes took off running leaving three of his friends trapped inside of his burning car. Some San Jose Police officers swung into action and got everyone out safely. They were doing the job that the public expects them to do and theyll go out and do it again tonight. Officers caught that driver after a short chase. A total of ten people were taken to local hospitals. Some with very serious injuries. The search on not only for a hitandrun driver but witnesses to the deadly accident. San jose police want to hear from anyone who may have been in this area of center road near balford drive around 10 00 last night. These near the golf course. Investigators say a driver hit and killed a 53yearold man. They say san juan winn was riding or walking his bike across the street. Someone driving a black or darkcolored car hit and killed him, then took off. Police have no suspects in this case. The protests in ferguson, missouri, are not letting up. Take a look at these pictures that show another night of violent rioting. All this after a Police Officer shot and killed an unarmed teenager nine days ago. Sarah dulles is there have. The governor, move he made trying to keep the peace, the question is will it work . Reporter that is the question. We will find out tonight. The National Guard is here on the ground and their role tonight is to protect the Police CommandCenter Located here behind me so that Law Enforcement may be in the thick of the demonstrations. Starting this afternoon, a show of greater force as National Guard troops move into place following another night of violent protests. Overnight the governor ordered the increased security to help quell the escalating violence and protect the Police Command center. With the presence of the National Guard the governor has lifted a midnight curfew hoping there will not be a repeat of last nights violence. Tonight we will ensure the safety of the citizens of ferguson. Reporter back in washington, president obama announced he is sending attorney general eric holder to ferguson on wednesday. I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the december of Michael Brown. Giving in to that anger by looting or carrying guns and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. It undermines rather than advances justice. Reporter the clashes that erupted sunday night are a familiar scene in ferguson. Police moving in with riot gear and tear gas as angry crowds challenge their authority. Further heightening tensions, the results of a preliminary autopsy report commissioned by the family shows Michael Bruin was shot multiple times. The fatal blow to the top of the head. At least six. At least six shots. Could be more. But at least six. Reporter the st. Louis county medical Examiners Office has not released its reports but confirmed to nbc news that brown was shot more than once in the head and chest. We believe that given these kind of facts this officer should have been arrested. Reporter the case is expected to go before a grand jury as early as wednesday. To determine if the Police Officer who killed Michael Brown will be charged. Normally it would take a day to present to the grand jury but with a case as complex and controversial as this, we are told it will likely take longer. One of the biggest names in the tech world is taking an active role in all of this. Twitters cofounder jack dorsey was in missouri over the weekend phone in hand to take pictures and take part in these protests. According to his twitter feed dorsey arrived friday and tweeted, it feels good to be home, ill be standing with everyone in ferguson all weekend. These are pictures and videos from his twitter page. Dorsey grew up. Ten mays from where all the violent protests have been taking place. Our coverage continues with brian williams. Brian is in st. Louis county and takes us on an indepth look at the violence on the streets and new revelations about how Michael Brown died. Thats coming up at 5 30, about 20 minutes from now, on nightly news. Spinning doughnuts and popping wheelies. Plenty of that action took place on two bay area freeways last night during daylight hours. In oakland, chp says those weekend sideshows took a deadly turn. Standing to honor a fallen legend. A tribute that brought people to their feet nationwide all for Robin Williams. Good afternoon. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. A day of microclimate extremes across the bay area. Blue sky in san jose, fogged in in San Francisco. Your forecast for tuesday and well let you know if clouds will move out of sf in a few minutes. Ten years ago the world changed forever. Now on the eve of googles big anniversary we look at hue the search giant changed the Silicon Valley at 6 00. Its one of the most blatant cases of sideshow activity the bay area has seen for some time. Two east bay freeways were closed down completely by drivers intent on pulling off wheelspinning thrills. This happened in oakland. Jodi hernandez is live at chp headquarters in oakland. This is such a dangerous activity, jodi. It really is and the sideshow action took place all over this city. From the port of oakland all the way to the toll plaza, including sections of interstate 580 behind me. The chp says it had deadly cons consequences. Youre looking at cell phone video taken in east oakland last night. One of multiple locations in the city where sideshows went down at the same time. Two of them on the freeway. The side show did close down the entire freeway. The participants about, in essence, their own traffic break, stopped traffic and began spinning doughnuts and popping wheelies. Reporter secs of i580 and 880 came too a stop as 150 cars and motorcycles took part. Chp said when officers arrived, one of the motorcycles took off for Castro Valley at 100 miles an hour with headlights off. Officers say he crashed into a car and died at the scene. I dont think they go out that evening thinking thats whats going to happen. But in the end, when youre going to drive at 100 miles an hour with no lights on and have ill regard for others, tragedies like this are going to occur. Reporter investigators are poring through video posted on social media to try to identify those involved. So far, no arrests. Many of the cars covered their license plates. Investigators are hoping the public will help. Were encouraging people to be good witnesses. If you see a sideshow, stay away from it, its dangerous. Contact the authorities. Were looking for license plate numbers, descriptions of vehicles. Reporter were back here live where the traffic is moving now but that was not the case at about 5 30 last night when this all went down. It lasted until about 8 00 last evening. The Oakland Police department say theyve seen a recent uptick in sideshow activity, including a very similar sideshow that took place last weekend on interstate 880. Tonight at 6 00, what investigators are doing to turn this dangerous trend around. For the second time this year someone has died along the same popular east bay hiking trail. Uc Berkeley Police say a 60yearold man died last night after falling from a Lookout Point on grisly peak boulevard. The man is identified as Donald Odwyer of berkeley. Witnesses say he slipped before he fell dune the hill. He was pronounced dead at the scene. In may you might recall a 22yearold man fell along the same road just a short distance away. We have a followup on a deadly shooting of a mentally ill teenager by a peninsula sheriffs deputy. The District Attorney says the deputy will not face criminal charge. June 3rd a family in Half Moon Bay called for help when an 18yearold girl refused to take her medicine for schizophrenia. Instead of the paramedics they requested a deputy arrived. The d. A. Says the girl grabbed a knife and chased him, refusing his orders to drop the weapon. The d. A. Condition concluded if the officer hadnt fired, he might have been killed by the girl. The sheriffs deputy Sheriffs Office offered condolences to the family. Pg e in court today pleading not guilty to criminal charges filed in a new indictment. The utility faces 28 federal charges for its role in the deadly 2010 san bruno pipeline fire. They clue obstruction of justice for lying to federal investigators and 27 counts of violating the National Gas Pipeline safety act. Pg e had no comments but city of san brawn know did. We believe its high time pg e cleaned up its act, that it understood and took responsibility, took full responsibility for the negligence, for the inappropriate operations and frankly for its malfeasance. If the utility is found guilty the city wants some of the fines to pay for insuring future pipeline safety. A sigh of relief for homeowners and firefighters in the santa cruz mountains. An abandoned motor home caught fire and it spread to surrounding brush around 10 00 this morning. Thankfully firefighters were able to quickly tackle this fire which burned less than an acre. Good news there. That is good news. Everything is just so tinder dry. Just a little spark. Jeff ranieri . We continue did track that drought over the past several months. You can see today the other thing thats helping out our fire danger is the fact that the included cover at the immediate coastline is super thick. So for the peninsula, the immediate coastline, relative humidities are up at this hour. Check out how cloudy it is now in woodside. Likely some drizzle there tonight. Also up against the coast. The rest of the bay area, at least 50 of the bay remains under this overcast sky. That includes the peninsula, the east shore, San Francisco averaging 64, and also for the north bay. There is still some sun up in parts of the north bay. As we look south toward San Francisco you can see its clouded in. By far the best weather right now is across the south bay from the observatory, blue sky the Santa Clara Valley right now. The biggest difference we had today is the fact that temperatures were between 5 to 11 degrees colder outside. One of the key things that helped spark that off for these colder westerly winds that moved in across the bay, the second thing that not only brought us the cooler air but included cover as little disturbance in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Its not a big storm system. Just a bit of a ripple up at about 25,000 feet. Good enough to keep this fog layer going at the coast. Also some areas of drizzle as we head throughout tomorrow morning. As we take you in at 5 00, 6 00, 7 00, you can see there it is, its not much. Any time this computer model shows you any kind of green it is the possibility for some raindrops. Very sporadic and not a big storm surge, expecting drizzle there to be spotty for the morning hours. By the afternoon for tomorrow, were starting to see things clear out with some sunny skies expected from santa rosa down toward san jose. Morning clouds, clear out to sun by the afternoon in san jose. Partly cloudy skies. 82 degrees for morgan hill. Also staying more on the warm side for this time of the year, 83. Cloudy in pacifica, 65. Palo alto, rays of sun tomorrow at 82. Well stay cool along the coastline in San Francisco with typical 60s. Well take you to the north bay, east bay, trivalley, napa 81. The trivalley, no 90s, no low 100s. 85 tomorrow in pleasanton. 86 also in live mere. The thing were tracking later this week by thursday and friday are two tropical systems way off to the south. No landfall for these storms for california. But some of that tropical moisture may make it here by thursday, friday. 25 chance of maybe some isolated showers. Highest risk would be the south bay and also the east bay. Remember, you can get more on that weekend forecast any time at nbcbayarea. Com. So far, so good. Looks like more chamber of commerce with they are weekend. All the kids going back to school, exciting for everyone as well. Still ahead, rewarding, challenging, and expensive. The new numbers that show just how much it costs to raise a child. Thank you, robin a special tribute to Robin Williams. The message this group wants to send to the world coming up next. Challenging morning for oakland firefighters. A bare house in east oakland caught fire around 5 00 a. M. A broken gas line and fallen power lines made things worse for the firefighters who took nearly five hours to finally put this out. They say it started in a camper parked nearby and quickly spread to this abandoned warehouse and two other buildings. Dirty tricks or sour grapes if you ask a company that collects trash in oakland. They claim city leaders are playing dirty politics. Waste management is viewing claiming oakland awarded its billiondollar waste contract too a Different Company under illegal circumstances. Waste management says the contract winner did not comply with the citys rules. Last week oakland chose rival california waste solutions, saying the new companys rate was cheap forepeople who live in oakland. Waste management is asking the court did repeal the citys decision. If the legal battle does not stop it the contract will take effect next summer. Something else costing more these days would be children. The expense of raising a child is up nearly 2 from last year. The grand total from birth to adultho adulthood, 245,000. Transportation and housing make up about half of that cost, 108,000. Child care and education, expect to pay more than 44,000. 39,000 is the cost to feed your child for 18 years. Police note these numbers do not include college tuition. Robin williams got an unusual standing ovation today. Whoo Robin Williams honk for Robin Williams fans organized what they called a last curtain call at 1 00 this afternoon pacific time. Exactly 1 00 they stood up and clapped, cheered for the entertainer who touched so many people. This small ovation was at San Franciscos Civic Center Plaza but there were many more around the country. More than 35,000 people joined this events facebook page. I heard there was going to be standing ovation. I thought it was a really clever idea. My original idea was to do it wherever i was, then i realized i wanted to be somewhere there were other people. So i decided to take a couple of hours and come down. All sorts of formal and informal tributes happening. This wont be the last standing ovation. The producers of next weeks emmy awards are working on a tribute worthy of williams legacy. One bay area city wants to be more bird friendly. Heres what were working on. If you enjoy latenight shopping target announcing new store hours for night owls. Well have the timing details at 6 00. Finally at 5 00, one bay area citys plan to protect birds as they start their fall migration. Take a look at San Francisco, a city that does already have birdfriendly requirements for commercial buildings. You cant see much because of fog. The city hoping that this will make their homes birdfriendly as well. The citys Planning Department is asking became to report dead birds at their homes. Theyll track the most dangerous areas for birds and find ways to prevent their deaths. Most birds die flying into windows. Participants can qualify for raffle prizes and a decal that certificates them birdfriendly resident. Brian Williams Joins outside nightly news from ferguson, missouri. You can find us online at nbcbayarea. Com. And on facebook and twitter. On our broadcast tonight, were in ferguson, missouri, as the National Guard now moves in to position following some of the worst violence here so far. And new revelations about the shooting that started it all, specifically how Michael Brown died. Tonight, fears here in ferguson about what nightfall will bring once again. Also, a Critical Mission today in iraq. U. S. Air strikes drive back isis. Theres been a Major Development in the fight. And health news, the images a lot of people were talking about today having to do with your skin versus the sun and the damage we cant always see. Nightly news from ferguson, missouri, tonight begins now