In a private service in have a hey low. Reporting live in richmond, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. New details on the search for a man seen in this video. Hes a suspect in a string of sexual assaults near the uc berkeley campus. Tonight police are increasing patrols and spreading the word hoping one recognizes him. Were in berkeley where she spoke with police about this case. Reporter weve seen Berkeley Police on foot, on bikes, trying to increase safety but also trying to see if they spot this man back in the neighborhood. They think their best bet may be that video and its already been viewed thousands of times. Its scary especially since there are three that have happened. Reporter word spread quickly at uc berkeley after Police Issued an alert about three sexual assaults. For me im always definitely aware of my surroundings and just being aware of who is around. Theres concern that he could escalate in his behaviors. Reporter Berkeley Police say the suspect appears to be targeting asian women. They released this video of a man who may be linked to the attacks. In one case he walked past the woman first, but not always. Hes come up from behind and grabbed the victim somewhere to like a bear hug. In one case he knocked one victim down and in another he didnt. He is using force and violence to commit these assaults. Reporter the first occurred on haste street on february 11th, the second february 16th around 11 00 p. M. Then a third 20 minutes later on bienvenue. Theyre sharing information with uc police. Were trying to see if they have similar cases. Reporter Campus Police are messaging students and staff to make them aware. I see its getting that dangerous around here. Reporter now, we spoke with a number of young women today including students who say that they are doing their part to try and share the information. Reporting live in berkeley, christie smith, nbc bay area news. New at 5 00, a health scare on the peninsula this evening. 170 veterans are being screened for tuberculosis. An employee at the Veterans Medical Center was diagnosed with the disease but continued to work there for months. A state senator claims the employee tested positive for tb back in october but management didnt find out until last month. So far more than 60 of the veterans who could have been exposed have tested negative. Its getting uglier. Today the feds asked a judge to force apple to unlock an iphone used by the San Bernardino shooters. Apple rejected an order to help the fbi. They blasted the Cupertino Company for not assisting because of, quote, concerns for its business model. Apple has till next friday to make its next legal move. We learned late today that apple supporters plan a rally on tuesday in front of apples downtown San Francisco store. Now to a followup on a bay area man accused of links to terrorism. You may remember Police Arrested adam shafi back in july. Tonight were learning hes in whats called administrative isolation at the Alameda County jail. This is shafi, hes from fremont. Prosecutors accuse him of supporting a terror group. They dont detail what the guards found. They claim it included terrorist information. Shafis attorneys say the notes were privileged information that should never have been seized. Theyre demanding he be released. Shafi was denied bail in december with a judge ruling him as a flight risk. Its a Mental Health crisis usually associated with veterans returning from war. But we uncover the same Mental Health crisis on the streets of the bay area. A crisis linked to gun violence. Many say theres no end in sight. Steven stock is with us this evening. Youve been working on this story for months. What do you have tonight . Reporter thats right, raj, weve been on the story for six months. We broke down the numbers, then met the people behind those numbers on the streets to get a closer look at the often unseen result of the constant gun violence in oakland, especially east oakland. We spent weeks walking the streets and meeting those people directly affected by these numbers. Numbers that most of us have only seen in the headlines on the news. We discovered that in addition to the People Killed or injured by guns, theres another little reported Health Crisis taking place there. Residents, especially children, who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, ptsd, more severe than that suffered by soldiers returning home from war. Its absolutely true that people have ptsd, but its not the same as a soldier. A soldier goes to war and they come home and theyve left the battlefield. We work with young people who get shot, go to the hospital, get their treatment, come back to the same community, maybe the same home where they were shot in front of. Maybe theres bullet holes in the door. Tonight at 11 00 we take you behind the scenes to the streets where we investigate what happened after the police clean up and leave. Thats tonight. Hear their stories like youve rarely heard them before at 11 00 on nbc bay area news. Very good, stephen. Well see you tonight. If you have a tip for Stephen Stock or anyone else in our Investigative Unit call 888996tips or send us an email directly to the unit nbcbayarea. Com. A transparency law proposed today by a lawmaker. Recent polls have shown that cell phone video of high profile confrontations like this have undermined the Publics Trust in state Law Enforcement. It would give the public more access to records related to serious use of force and misconduct charges. More than 25 other states have more open access to Law Enforcement records than california, and no other state is moving in our direction. The aclu supports lenos proposed law. It says current state law blocks Public Access to investigations that could lead to disciplinary action against a police officer. No longer a sleepy suburb, a lot of politics and a lot of controversial issues in santa clara. Tonight the citys new mayor shares with us her game plan, a plan that impacts the 49ers and a lot of south bay soccer teams. Nbc bay areas Michelle Roberts joins us from the soccer fields next door to levis stadium. The new mayor inherited a messy fight. Whats her first move . Reporter as far as the field goes, theres not much she can do. The field is on loan to the nfl following the super bowl and its not in great shape. The Soccer League said it will drop the suit against the city and the nfl but only if the field is returned this spring in good shape. Started a new era here in santa clara. Reporter santa clara mayor lisa gilmore said she grew up running around the city hall chambers. A lot has changed in the city since then. Gillmor says the voters always value transparency. Not something that happens in the back room, something that happens out here. Reporter she plans to ask for an independent audit to answer questions about measure j, that states that no general fund money should be spent on levis stadium operations. The new mayor has publicly criticized the 49ers calling for alcohol sales to end at half time and objected to how the team handled negotiations with the youth Soccer League. We need to get that park back to the community. Reporter earlier this year the youth Soccer League filed a lawsuit against the city and the nfl. The League President said if the city had been more open, the situation likely would have been resolved. Even though we still would have been displaced, we would have had a clear indication as to how long, we would have had a clear indication as to how many fields we were going to need. Reporter mayor gillmor says shell fight for santa clara. Its not over yet. Hopefully it will be when the fields are returned back to the youth of our community. Reporter city council has decided what to do with her open city council seat. Either theyll accept applications and appoint someone or wait until the november ballot. Im Michelle Roberts, nbc bay area news. Thousands of people came out today to pay their respects to late u. S. Supreme Court Justice antonin scalia. Scalias body is lying in repose inside the great hall at the u. S. Supreme court. Fellow justices including close friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid her respects along the president obama and the first lady. Justice scalia died last weekend of Natural Causes at the age of 79. Its the final pitch. A pivotal night for the republican president ial candidates. As we speak theyre crisscrossing South Carolina fighting for those last votes. Tomorrow the state holds its primary elections. Trump, cruz, rubio, sanders, bush and kasich, only a few will succeed tomorrow. Donald trump is still leading in the polls. Now, the democrats are in nevada. Nevada holds its caucuses tomorrow. Hillary clinton leads Bernie Sanders in the nevada polls. Coming up tonight on nightly news more jabs on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump taking heat for calling president george w. Bush a liar. Also clinton and sanders turning up their attacks against each other. Lester holt joins us from South Carolina at 5 30. Its on again, then its off again. Rain made a brief appearance in some parts of the bay area this afternoon. The lens of our San Francisco camera covered in raindrops. Thats right, janelle. Were tracking the rainfall totals across San Francisco. It varies no matter where you were, you did get something, mira loma park 0. 27 and the presidio 0. 15. Spotty showers throughout the region. Well be tracking whats headed our way this weekend as this area of High Pressure builds in, in about ten minutes. Silicon valley is potentially a hotbed of new ideas, of innovation and we need to harness that. Nasa backs a startup that could boost space travel. Im scott budman live as nasa aims at moffett field. Live in the south bay where san jose severs ties with youth football. League has invested time and money into south bay sports progms for years the Police Athletic league has invested time and money into the south bay sports programs to help keep kids off the streets of san jose. Well, something has changed. The group known as p. A. L. Has halted its ties to the Softball Program and the Football League is worried it could come next. Damian trujillo with more and damian this program so vital to so many kids in san jose. Reporter it really is. This is the home of the terrori twisters, Youth Softball League for girls. But recently p. A. L. Did sever ties with this Sports League and now another program worries they might be next. He spent decades walking and running on this same football field. He grew up a p. A. L. Athlete and now is Athletic Director for the evergreen youth Football League. He says a meeting this week with the p. A. L. Leadership left a sour taste in his mouth. We come in here on wednesday and they said its been suspended. Reporter it being football. He said his league and three others cant survive without p. A. L. Now we dont have a season. We dont have an umbrella to play under. Reporter on the phone they said that the Football Program has not been canceled, but they do expect a proposal on wednesday on how to make operations run smoother with minimum Police Staffing level at p. A. L. Events. They expect the same fate as the east valley softball league. Theres a little bit of sadness and we feel like a little bit like a lost child. Reporter until recently p. A. L. Provided background checks for coaches with the league and paid for the leagues mandatory insurance. That has now stopped and so has the ability to call this a Police Activities league event. Losing that name sort of was like taking away a staple, and so im sort of sad about losing the name p. A. L. Reporter p. A. L. Says its split with soft ball was mutual. On the football side League President s have called for a meeting on tuesday so they can prepare for their fight to keep the p. A. L. Name. They said they fully expect there to be a football season this year but they do want the leagues to work more closely with them this coming year because there were four Police Officers and one sergeant running the Police Activities league, now theyre down to one sergeant and one police officer. Were live at east san jose, im damian trujillo. A construction boom thats out of this world, literally. A Silicon Valley startup is developing robots that can build equipment and tools while floating through outer space. No kidding. Our business and tech reporter scott budman joins us from nasa ames and does this get us to mars . Reporter it might a little faster, raj, giving us a boost on the ground by boosting what robots and sthatellites can do in space up till now if you wanted something in space, you have to launch it first. But a Silicon Valley startup backed by nasa wants to change that. Fittingly called made in space, the company aims to use 3d printing and robotics to build things while in space using tools that look like this. This device can, you know, can potentially build and integrate like a reflector for Telecommunications Satellite to beam signals back and forth. It might add structures to a future human space flight vehicle like a mars transit vehicle. Reporter with nasa aiming for mars in the not too distant future, those who run the space agency say supporting made in space, which is headquartered on the ames campus, makes sense. But also the new startups and the new ideas that are generated particularly here in Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley is potentially a hot bed of new ideas, of innovation and we need to harness that. Reporter by moving fast and developing 3d printers that can work in zero gravity, made in space is working on a way to build whatever astronauts need even if theyre already in space. Nasa says the goal here is to make Space Tourism not only more efficient but cheaper because they say its less expensive to make tools up in space than it is here on the ground. Reporting live at moffat field, scott budman. He gets the cool assignments. He does. We saw scott with a nice jacket there. I know. Hes bundled up with all the cloud cover above him. Some parts saw rain today, jeff. Yeah, quick brief shower moving in throughout the north bay and San Francisco and a lot of the other parts of the region did see spotty showers. Were continuing to see a little bit of drizzle right now in San Francisco also for the east bay, peninsula at 54 and the south bay checking in at 61 degrees. The biggest change today was again that cloud cover coming on back. As we head through tomorrow mornings forecast, what youll find is a partly sunny sky and 44 for the south bay, 40 in the east bay and temperatures going down as colds a 38 degrees in the north bay. So lets go ahead and fast forward it right into that saturday forecast. You can see by the afternoon not a totally sunny day. Well have areas of high clouds passing on by, but as we continue into sundays forecast, High Pressure builds in off shore and that should be good enough to give us a mostly sunny day on sunday and dry weather. Look, id love to get more rainfall in here, but theres no way thats going to be possible with High Pressure off shore. In fact, that area of High Pressure looks like its going to stay in place all the way through next week. That does mean the return of 70s monday, tuesday and wednesday back across contra costa county, up at walnut creek at 74 on tuesday and by wednesday, 73 degrees. Youll be able to see that we do have the chance of rain once we hit next friday. Lets take to you the micro climate forecast as we head throughout saturday. You can see a partly sunny sky for San Francisco, 62 degrees across the marina, 60 in the mission. For the peninsula, 65 in palo alto. And for the south bay well be at 65 in san Jose Cupertino at 67, north bay and east bay and the trivalley, most sunshine tomorrow right here across the trivalley. 64 expected in danville, pleasanton at 66. Great day for the east bay, free mont at 65, heading up to wine country were looking good at 64 in napa, back towards mill valley, 63. Lets go ahead and round up the next 15 days. This area of High Pressure looks to stay in place at least through next thursday. So if you suffer from allergies, the good news at least throughout this weekend is that most recent rain weve had is now keeping the pollen at moderate levels. I think its going to raise up as we head throughout next week with warmer weather, but at least this weekend it wont be superbad. Then once we hit february 27th into march 4th, we are looking at a potential wetter weather pattern. Were going to get some rainfall, we just have to wait before it gets here. Thanks, jeff. Still ahead, is this the key to public space travel . Virgin galactic unveils its new spaceship two rocket more than a year after a catastrophic crash. An Armed Robbery in a local walgreens. But the suspect wasnt after cash. scal good day, mlady i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com child. D, including a 9 yearold happening now, late breaking details on that deadly shooting in vallejo. We are updating the story by the minuted on nbcbayarea. Com. Plus yahoo percentaurges. The company is selling some of its business. Raj live will this help the the new 5 express laneareh tra finally open. Will this help the sluggish traffic in the trivalley . The new 580 express lanes are finally open. Heres a live look in dublin where the lanes are getting their first test. As you can expect, the friday evening getaway traffic, actually it is moving slowly but it is moving. The express lanes run east through livermore, dublin and pleasanton. The westbound lanes open monday morning. Solo drivers pay to drive but buses, motorcyclists can take them for free. A brazen robbery at a San Francisco walgreens. This happened wednesday at the walgreens on franklin in San Francisco. Police say around 6 30 p. M. The suspect threatened the pharmacist with a gun and demanded drugs like oxycodone and xanax. The suspect ran off with nearly 2,000 worth of prescription drugs. Be careful with those hoverboards. From the top of the santa list to banishment from store shelves. Today the Consumer Product Safety Commission declared these hoverboards unsafe. Its asking many manufacturers to voluntarily stop making them until the product can be certified as safe. If those companies balk, there will be mandatory recalls. 52 hoverboards have burst into flames. Sir Richard Branson introducing his new space plane today. Big fanfare at the mojave air and space port in southern california. The aircraft will eventually take people out to space and back. Ticket price, 250,000. The space plane now goes into the testing phase. This is Virgin Galactics second space plane. The first one crashed in 2014 killing one pilot and seriously wounding the other. Up next here at 5 00, how facebooks messenger app just got a face lift. Announcer through sunday at sleep trains president s day sale, save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic, get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic, plus sameday delivery. Hurry sleep trains president s day sale ends sunday. News j topvo is is new video just in the newsroom of thshooting invallej. Want to give you an update on the breaking news we had at the top of the newscast. This is new video just in of the shooting in vallejo. One man is dead another in critical condition. A 9yearold child and a woman were also hit but theyre expected to be okay. This happened about 90 minutes ago in vallejo. Well have a live report on the hunt for the shooter coming up at 6 00. Finally tonight with some social media news. Facebook residesigned its messenger app to make it easier for users. It will allow several people to use it even if its on one device. The new feature is perfect for people who share smartphones and tablets with family and friends but dont want to relinquish their privacy. It is only available on android devices. Before we break for the weekend, jeff ranieri will give us a taste of whats happening. Yeah, will we get the graphics up . More coming up at 6 00. Developing news tonight. Mad dash. Hours before the vote in two critical states, trump under fire over what he has said about the iraq war. And Hillary Clinton fighting to hold off Bernie Sanders. Slamming apple. The feds fire back in a fiery battle over cracking the San Bernardino killers iphone and trump calling for a boycott. Hoverboard crackdown after dozens of fires, some burning homes to the ground. The government says enough. A major new warning that could lead to an outright ban. Walking free. After four decades locked in solitary confinement, a stunning twist in one of the most infamous cases in modern american history. And harper lee dies at 89. 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