Earlier today. That was the case across much of the bay area. People say they have seen it all from sun to storms to hail. In palo alto lightning was a problem. There is reports of one Lightning Strike on campus. A power outage around the red barn. I dont think anyone was expecting this weather. It was a bright sunny day, and then you look over there, and the weather is coming back. It was bad, it was bad, it rained hard it was hailing at one point. Several people we talked to expected the rain to cover overnight and this morning. They say they let their guard down and they were soaked. Any rain is a welcome sight right now. Officials say it wont do much to butt a dent in the drought and water restrictions are still in place. Live in san jose nbc bay area news. Thank you, lets bring in damien trujillo. Lightning, rain thunder, youre in the hot zone there in the east bay. Yeah a sprinkle right here. Were in byron and theyre expecting to get a downpour here in the next hour or so. Right now byron, part of it moving just a little lowerslower than normal here pl we have video of present brentwood. No major problems on the way. We have Lightning Strikes, and we go through the neighborhood and found no evidence of that. More of the same in livermore. There was lightning that we saw and heavy downpours along highway 580. But no major damage to report in the trivalley area. The folks are taking this all in stride. The rainfall right now is a light sprinkle. Theyre expecting a heavy downpour to be on the way. Live in byron, nbc keep your umbrella handy, it is coming your way. Were asking the questions. Also lake tahoe business resorts are asking if only we had this a few months ago. It looked like winter. All of the ski resorts are closed, but more than a fresh powder for many areas around the lakes. From your smart phone, nbc bay area wants to see for weather photos. You can send them to us. The at least is isee nbc bay area dotcom. We have realtime maps and radar you can keep track of on our free nbc bay area map. Major developments in the deadly train crash in fill. Late today, investigators revealed the train accelerated seconds before it crashed. It went from 50 Miles Per Hour to 100 Miles Per Hour as it went into the curve and derailed. The ntsb says the trains engineer finally agreed to speak with investigators. We also learned one of the victims who die had bay area ties. She used to call the bay area hem. He worked in new york as a wells fargo senior vice president. Our coverage continues on nightly news. The engineer as we first reported here on nbc bay area used to live in the bay area and work at cal trains. A mystery in the east bay, a 17yearold student was shot and killed at a Skateboard Park near his high school. They found the teenager boy suffering from a gunshot wound near a skatepark this morning. They ordered that Bethel High School and near by Elementary Schools lock down their campuses. The teenager died at the scene. Detectives are trying to determine where the shooting happened. No expectssuspects at this time. Kevin halpern has posted a video online saying he is the real creator of uber. Some investors stole his intellectual property. You look at the par that shows the car that can be selected. All of that is information that mr. Halpren created prior to uber and it is remarkably identical to what uber has. The lawsuit speaks of significant share of ubers value. They call the lawsuit completely baseless. We continue to dig and uncover more questionable actions by pg e. We obtained an internal memo of contradictions between what they said in front of our cameras and what is said behind closed doors. We are getting mixed messages here. Clearly without a doubt in is an internal communication they hoped you would not see. It t contradicts the message they tried to send following the sedly san bruno explosion. We spoke to stephanie douglas. She said pg e has security at critical substations, just 12 days later she wrote a memo to the president of pg e saying the company is years away from a healthiy security plan. They call the integrity of the memo into question. It clearly states they have not done, and has not had the resources to do what was necessary to provide the security of the infrastructure. It clearly says she did not tell us what the facts of the situation are. Now pg e declined our interview requests, and says they have hadded more staffing and security from last year. We investigate and we will show you is inside that internal memo and what senator hill has to say to the pg e insiders who wanted the information out. Thank you, the safety impacts all of us here. If you have a tip for tony regarding this story or any other story, give us a call at 888996 tips or send an email directly to the unit. A scare at the Nations Capital today. Secret Service Agents spotted a drone just outside of the white house. That drone soared above lafayette park. Agents called for a lock down for a brief time and they arrested the man suspected of flying that drone. It comes just one day after the f. A. A. Launched a no drone zone in washington dc. Coming up were continuing to track this spring storm hitting the bay area. Right now, tracking some of the heaviest rain impacting the evening commute now in fremont. 55 treedegrees and thundershowers moving in the valley. The latest is coming up. Tuition hikes at the university of california a peer to be on hold as the governor and the University Strike a deal. Where arent all students celebrating . Jennifer is still fighting. Jennifer will will around for finding a cure. A little girl loses her bat billion a rare type of cancer but a selfless act from her parents might save other lives. Part of our bay area proud series. Then at 6 00 a rescue 80 miles out at sea. I had to remain on scene. The super human things this guy did when the chopper ran low on fuel. That is new at 6 00. As they say, money talks. Thaws of usc students across the state say no tuition hikes. Jodi hernandez is live from the campus where students are breathing a sigh of relief. They say they feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of their shoulders as it appears the tuition hikes have been put on hold as the governor and the University Strike a deal. It is finals week at uc berkeley. Very very stressed. But amid the stress of their studies, students got comforting news. The governor says he struck a deal with the university of california. He will give them an infusion of money in exchange for a twoyear tuition freeze. They will hold tuition flat for another two years, so that is very good indeed. It comes after months of back and forth. And some intense closed door meetings between the color and uc president nopolitano. For so many years, we have been starved for funding over the recession, and we had to make cut backs. The Legislature Still needs to approve the nearly 1 billion boost, students like lucy lotte feel a huge sense of relief even in the face of finals. Political science. In an hour im a little worried about that but now we dont have to worry about money. Now not everyone in celebrating the tuition hike freeze. It only applied to instate under graduates. Out of state and International Students will see their with tuition increase by 8 . Journalism and nursing students will also see tuition go up quite a bit. A major hurdle clears for a controversial bill that was forced California School children to be vaccinated. Opponents of the measure told the state senates up stairs gallery to watch the heating discussion today. It removes the personal belief exemption. We are incredibly respectful of religion and of faith. And in many ways as i mentioned, i see this as an after fir ration of love for our human life and dignity. It moves on to the state assembly assembly. If it becomes law they join california and mississippi with the strictest vaccination requirements. The death of a 6yearold girl last graer a rare type of a brain tumor was devastating to say the least from her family. Because of their selfless act, they are helping fight the disease. Gar vin has a update. Libby and tony graciously allowed us into their home in the final days of their daughter jennifers life. They explained why they were making arrangements to donate her tumor after her death. I wanted to give others the hope they didnt have. Theyre starting to get their wish. It has been more than a year since a brain tumor called d. I. P. G. Took jennifers life. Make no mistake that just because she lost her battle to cancer doesnt mean she has stopped fighting it. In fact, you are watching her do it right now. These stem cells being worked on in a stanford lab are ones grown from her tumor. The tumor was offered up for donation in the hopes that it would one day prevent others from having to go through what they did. There is so much bad. And if you can help that with someone else you to do it. It is a promise they made. 14 months later, appear to be delivering on . The research the thing that might be going a professor at stanford says d. I. P. G. Has been notoriously difficult to study in the lan because cultures of it didnt exist. The stem cell line she and her team created from jennifers line is just one of 16 existing in the world. Each one is the result of an incredible donation from families facing one of the most difficult moments of their life. And it is using those lives that they have discovered an existing drug that appears in the lab to slow the group of d. I. P. G. Tumor giving the promise of extending a childs life by as much as six months. And while not a cure a step in the right direction thanks to those who gave and are still giving. Jennifer is still fighting. Jennifer will be around for finding a cure. He have be part of it. One of the most remarkable things to me about this story is we often think of medical research as being very anonymous. There are donations and research. We saw jennifer, we know what her donation directly has done. There is a direct line between her donation and the news that they came out with. It is remarkable how direct and close knit this all is and easy to see what you can do what one person what one family can do and the result from that. And i should say this is just one part of what they do. They have a whole Fundraising Campaign the money they raise goes to the research so the donations are helping in so many ways. Hopefully it will save lives in the future. Thank you. If you a story idea for garmin you can go to our website. Scroll down to the bay area proud section, and thats where you can find his contact information. Lets get back to our weather, what dont we have in the bay area right now . Were seeing everything. Yes, and well show you the hardest hit areas in a moment but first were going out live to jeff in woodside out there right now. Hosting for lifelines for youth and you a good look at the storms in the bay area. It sure does what a wild day out here with the hail and strong thunderstorms. Im here to emcee this event tonight for fresh lifelines for youth. We could not pass up a crew out here to show you a birdseye picture of what is happening. That is the Santa Clara Valley where we had heavy downpours this afternoon. And as we pan to the left we have stanford and palo alto seeing heavier rain. And as we go through the central bay, looks like a new thunderstorm developing and you see that rain shoft beginning to drop downright now and then were going to swing up to oakland and San Francisco and there is not too much happening there right now, but there is still a possibility of thunderstorm activity for tonight. As we get you to the radar, were not seeing much in the way of rainfall, at least right now. Most of the activity was centered across the south bay. As you get there on the doppler radar, you can see the worst of it is in the northern silicon valley. Our event here tonight for fresh lifelines for youth will go on rain or shine. Everyone will need to watch it tonight with the thunderstorms in the forecast. Great support for that event out there. Glad youre out there staying dry right now. You can see the rain came down heavy at times, your trivalley community down in fremont. There was more of a half inch of rain in san jose. You can see it down to the east of woodside. This looks to be the last real batch with active weather coming in. The focus for the next 24 hours turns to southern california. That system will scoot on towards the south. Look at the vastly different rainfall totals. Almost zero here. Look at pleasanton. You see towards san jose and the south bay. Needless to say the month of may we averaged four tenths of an inch of rain or less. So next 24 hours well see things calm down except around some of the hill tops in the north bay tomorrow. Still a chance of showers and for the sierra, the snow will keep flying. We have a warning through 5 00 tomorrow. If youre going to the high country, the snow is not stopping. High temperatures tomorrow cool numbers, mostly in the low 60s. Upper 50s closer to San Francisco. Watch out for soma and napa county. You will see showers rolling off of the hills and moving south. Into the weekend, the low starts to move out. You can see changes on your sevenday forecast. Here is a snapshot of your weekend forecast. Temperatures trying to get closer to 70 around the south bay on saturday. The real active part of this Weather Forecast is happening right now, hilltop showers for tomorrow and drier conditions and continued cool for the upcoming weekend. Right now the south bay and the trivalley. And it will be sunny soon enough. You bha surprised to find out which brands are not living up to the promise, well show you good and bad, next. San jose police have just confirmed to us that a second suspects that been arrested in connection with this home invasion. You see two men here break into this home in the evergreen neighborhood of san jose. They grabbed knives. When they realized the family was hat home they tried to kick through a door to get to that family. This video was shared thousands of times. Yesterday a 17yearold boy turned himself tonight. A 16yearold has been arrested. Well have more tonight on our 6 00 newscast. The highly contagious noro virus is back in the news. More than 100 passengered were quarantined into their rooms when they became ill with the virus. They sanitized the rooms. The staff was excellent. They came in with the hazmat suits. Theyre working to halt the spread of the virus. This is the ninth outbreak on a cruiseship this year. Summer is right around the corner and that means using sunscreen, but not all sunscreens are align. Onethird of all of the sunscreens tested did not meet their claims. Dermatologists recommend a sunscreen with an spf of at least 30. Among those that did meet their claims coppertone water baby is spf 50 and the equate spf 50. We have highlights from a luncheon today, next. Today we honor leaders, movers, and shakers. This coincides with Asian American heritage month. Robert honda and mike inoya was there. They shared their respective heritages with all of us here in the bay area. A lot of teachabilityle moments. Before we go a last look outside. The Evening Community around the south bay, showers heading into to palo alto. Take your time out there. Thank you for joining us here at 5 00. Lester holt joins us next. Hope to see you at 6 00. On this thursday night, on the tracks. Were right there with investigators on the day another victim is found in the amtrak wreckage. And tonight what the engineer at the controls is saying about what happened. Feeling the heat. As rivals pounce all around him, jeb bush tries again to put out a firestorm over how he answered a question about the iraq war. Dramatic drop. A spectacular new view of the water emergency in california. A critical source for millions vanishing before our eyes. And fighting skin cancer. A young womans strong warning about what too much tanning did to her skin. Her photos going viral. And tonight the little pill doctors say could reduce your risk. Nbc nightly news begins right now
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